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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1946
PAGE TWO.
International Study
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The officf&l newspaper of the PuMie.tiotu Union of the Univerwly of JJ
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EOBERT MORRISON
WESTY FENHAGEN
CARROLL POPLIN and BILL WOESTENDIEK
BILL SELIG
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Editor
Managing Editor
Co-Sports Editors
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EDITORIAL STAFF: Dick Koral. Dick Stern. Dorothy Marshall. Gloria Gautier. Connne
Oasinsky.
NIGHT EDITORS: Jack Lackey, Roland Giduz, Eay Conner. r...
REPORTERS: Mary Hill Gaston, Gene Aenchbacher. Jo Pngh, Darley Lchii V Roland Gito.
Joan Blase. Fafi Halsey, Elaine Patton. Posey Emerson, John Giles. Bffl Ratledge. Lia
Barnes. Trudy Waltoji, Janet Johnson. Bill Jabine.
NIGHT SPORTS EDITORS: Bob Goldwater, Howard Merry.
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ADVERTISING MANAGER: Winky Andrews.
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FOR THIS ISSUE:
ROLAND GIDUZ
FRED JACOBSON
CARROLL POPLIN
Night Editor
Assistant Editor
Night Sports Editor
UNIVERSITY LAUNDRY WAGES LOW;
POOR SERVICE GIVEN STUDENTS
A reason for the poor and inefficient service offered by the
University Laundry Department was found by Martin A. Wat
kins, a veteran who has had a lot of experience with labor man
agement. In a letter to the editor, the labor authority wrote :
"The poor laundry service is explainable in part by the fact
that many University laundry workers receive less than thirty
five cents an hour.
"With no incentive to work carefully because of .their low
wages, and unable to work well because their low wages do not
allow an adequate diet, it is no wonder that the laundry service
is so bad.
"The solution to the poor laundry service lies in paying the
laundry workers, many of them heads of large families, a de
cent living wage.
"Students should call upon the University officials to pay their
laundry workers decent wages, thereby assuring good work, or
close the laundry. There are others in town willing to pay liv
ing wages and operate the laundry."
Students are not complaining about prices charged by the
laundry, even though these prices have been considerably in
creased during the last several years. Students are willing to
pay a little more in order to save money which is otherwise
spent to replace lost and damaged clothing.
The University compels its students to use the University
Laundry or pay what amounts to a twenty-five cents per week
fine. This would be all fair and agreeable if the University
Laundry could make prompt deliveries, offer a satisfactory re
pair service, and take measures to prevent loss and damage.
The University Laundry today, however, is placing a burden
of inconvenience upon the student body. The administration
should take action. R. M.
ill Affords Chance
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For Swiss Junior Year
Since the end of the war, undergraduates have in increasing
numbers shown interest in pursuing, in Europe, some of their
studies toward a bachelor's degree. This trend is especially notice
able among returning veterans who have come to realize that the
basis for international cooperation is a better understanding of
the culture of other peoples.- ,
The JUNIOR YEAR IN
ZURICH offers to qualified
American students a year of ac
credited academic work com
bined with the advantages of
spending a year in a foreign cul
tural center. The study of lan
guage, government, history and
the other branches takes on new
color and meaning when the stu
dent lives and travels along new,
and yet old, cultural paths.
The Junior year m Zurich has
been approved by the United
States Veterans Administration
so that "G. I. Juniors" will draw
all the benefits accruing to them
under the G. I. Bill of Rights.
Zurich affords an enviable
vantage point for obtaining an
intelligent insight into many of
Europe's problems. The Junior
year program offers an unusual
opportunity for "Foreign Area
Study" in the heart of post-war
Europe.
The program is conducted with
the cooperation of the officials
of the Swiss government, and in
arrangement with the institu
tions of higher learning in Zu
rich: The University of Zurich,
The (Federal Institute of Tech
nogoly, the Volkshochschule
(People's University), and the
Swiss Institute of International
Studies.
The Junior Year organization
functions as a service organiza
tion between the participating
American colleges and the co-
operating Swiss institutions. The
administration of the program
is entrusted to an American Di
rector. The enrollment for the Junior
Year in Zurich for the academic
year 1946-1947 exceeds, even
now, forty students. Admission
to he erouD is contingent on
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recommendations from the stu
dent's major professor and his
dean. Full chaperonage , and
health service are provided, and
the students are housed with
educated families. The Junior
Year Courses are regular Ameri
can college courses with attend
ance taken, quizzes, examina
tions and semester reports in ac
cordance with our best college
standards. When students take
some of the regular university
courses, tutors are provided to
help plan their work and to give
the necessary quizzes and exam
inations. A full year's credit is
given by our colleges.
Detailed information can be
obtained in Room 310, South
Building, M-F from 8 :45 to 9 :30,
and M-S from 11 :30 to 1 :00.
Information in regard to the
opportunities for studies in any
foreign country can be obtained
from the Institute of Interna
tional Education (Dr. Edgar J.
Fisher, Assistant Director, 2
West 45th Street, New York 19,
N. Y.) .
Sighting Liberty
To the Editor:
The bitter tears of Manny Margolis over the defeat of the Com
munists in France are understandable. Tears are flowing all over
the world, in accordance with the directions from Moscow. And
as soon as free elections are allowed to be conducted in those areas
under the control at the moment of the Soviet Republic, these
same people will have an opportunity to gnash their teeth while
they weep. This prophecy m
eludes the area known as Rus
sia, too. -
But my criticism of the ar
ticle centers mostly around Mar
golin implication that it is only
a matter of degree between our
system of government and that
of the Communists. Herein he
displays a lack of discernment
remarkable even in one of his
tendencies. His critical facul
ties need sharpening if he can
not distinguish Jthe difference be
tween our form of government
guaranteeing to us certain
rights, privileges, and immuni
ties, and the form of govern
ment that operates by means of
a drum-head court-martial and
has more political prisoners in
its camps than all the rest of the
world combined. This is no mat
ter of degree, but one of kind;
and it is fatal to those liberties
which we have under our common-law
jurisprudence and our
Constitution to consider them as
Behind the Flickers
Amber on Shelf Instead of Bed
In 4-Million Film Production
By Charlie Kauffman
Darryl F. Zanuck and Twentieth Century Fox are still unde
cided about every aspect of the filming of "Forever Amber."
Zanuck says : "We are sure of this much "Amber" is going to
cost Fox $4,000,000 to film, and because the studio is insistent.
that the finished product be not only a fine picture but a great
picture, plenty of time will be taken , in the filming. Miss Cum
mings is not definitely out, however we may decide in favor of
Gene Tierney or Linda Darnell
for the title role before shooting
is resumed in July."
only relatively different from no
liberties. The difference is as
wide as between something and
nothing.
These liberties are those for
which our forefathers pledged
their fortunes. They were will
ing to sacrifice the economic se
curity which was theirs, and
about which Margolis seems to
be so concerned. They thought
of economic security as nothing
in the scales to balance the im
munities they were determined
to see established here. When
we lose sight of this, we lose
sight of what is most important.
I am afraid Margolis has lost
his sight.
Miles McCormick
Golfballs
To the Editor:
As an added answer to the re
cent letter of Mr. I. Blumberg
in reference to the firecracker
incident, we would like to state
that with the University con
fronted by a housing shortage,
the nation by industrial strife,
and the world by a famine, a
firecracker thrown into Mr. 1.
Bluriiberg's lap is certainly the
"worst possible thing" that could
have happened.
P. S. It could have been a
golfball.
Murosen Denk
NlTRAM WABSCH
On Discovering the Greatest Humorist
By "Tookie" Hodgson
William Randolph Robert, the
little Caesar of the dominions of
the Daily Tar Heel, called me
into his throne room one fine day
last week and gave and gave me
what I considered to be, a very
distasteful assignment. It was
a royal command that I inter
view "Flookie" Flophouse, a bit
ter' rival of mine on the Tar
Heel staff, who deludes himself
into thinking he can write
humor.
As is well known by my intel
ligent, accurate, and serious ap
praisals of campus life and cam
pus characters, my superior
mind is not at all "sympatico"
with such foolish extroverts and
illiterates as "Flookie" Flop
house. However, believing like
my equally reknowned fellow
southerner the late General R.
E. Lee, that "duty is the sublim
est word in the English lan
guage," I prepared to carry out
William Randolph's edict.
Leaping astride "Kulo," my
Adriatic octupus, I crept up to
the Hie Haec Hoc frat house
where "Flookie" resided.
Dismounting from my un
usual, but efficient steed, I en
tered the frat house's portals
and clambering up the stairs,
found Mr. Flophouse in his room,
busily engaged in reading his
latest copy of the "Nudist
Monthly."
When he became aware of my
presence, he immediately began
turning handsprings in a comic
manner, mixing a beverage
which bore the meaningful ap
pelation of "French 75," and
thumbed hastily through a pock
et book of "Innocuous Sayings;
For Every Occasion" af the
same time.
After an hour or so of this
spirited exercise he calmed
down, and regarded me thought
fully with all three of his yellow
eyes.
"Hello, Hodgson," he mut
tered through his multi-colored
megaphone. "I knew you'd be
here to interview me sooner or
later. After all I AM the great
est humorist the world has ever
known, those fourflushers Mark
Twain and Charles Dickens to
the contrary."
"Well, Mr. Flophouse," T said,
dropping a King Cobra down
the back of his Lord Fauntleroy
shirt, "Such may be the case,
but I seriously doubt your abil
ity either in the field of humor
ous writing or your newest fadl
student politics. Just what is
your platform in your race for
a position in the all-important
P. U. Board?"
"Just this, friend," he an
swered, dropping a live hand
grenade in my pocket, "I don't
want you to get all torn up
about the matter, but I'm a sin
cere follower of both Willy E.
Clung and Seymore Sinkhole
XIV, the NEW head of the U. P
Just like those two famous
campus leaders, I take a firm
neutral stand on all controver
sial issues ; I believe in every
student voting for his choice,
just so it's my choice too, and
furthermore, all I want out of
politics is part of the gravy, not
the meat, understand, but just
part of the gravy. Now, ain't
that fair?"
"No, 'Flookie' Flophouse,"
wearily exclaimed, "It's not fair,
but it certainly is typical as
hell. But enough of politics. Tell
me, just how do you go about
composing that eneffable twad
dle which the Tar Heel prints ?
mat s easy, cnum, an
swered "Flookie," "I just read
over the entire works of Max
Shulman, H. Allen Smith, Sen.
Theodore S. Bilbo, as well as the
minutes of the Di and Phi Sen
ates and I get my inspiration.
Then, I drink seven bottles of
Budweiser, -followed by a glass
of epsom salts. Next I smoke a
ten-for-a-nickel cigar, and final
ly I play a game of checkers with
a pigeon-friend of mine on top
of the Bell Tower."
"After I do this I drink twelve
more botfles of beer, and taking
a pen in hand, sober up on
paper, so to speak"
"Aha" I cried, leaping down
the steps of the old Hie Haec
Hoc frat house, "Characters are
bom, not made."
Paulette Goddard and hubby
Burgess Meredith weren't kid
ding about that libel suit against
Time mag because of its refer
ence to Miss Goddard as requir
ing "falsies" to enhance her
charms. They're really burned
up to the extent of gathering
10 affidavits from wardrobe
workers testifying that Miss
Goddard is all you see on' the
screen.
Sights and Insights : Cheers !
Twentieth Century-Fox is again
the number one studio m the
country having edged out Metro
by a couple of million dollars for
total net profit during 1945. Both
studios crowded ninety millions.
. . . Dick Haymes and June Haver
starring in "Carnival in Costa
Rica." . . . Mrs. David Niven,
wife of the film star, died of in
juries sustained by a fall down
dimly lighted steps at the home
of the Tyrone Powers (Anna-
belle) in Hollywood on Sunday
(19) night Darryl F. Zanuck
announced last week that nis
studio, Fox, will discontinue the
nrndnction of "R movies after
this year. Although this move
will cut down the net profits of
individual studios, it will be a
great gain for quality. Other
studios would do well to follow
suit. ... In I960 all our movies
will be in the third dimension.
That is, it will seem to each per
son in the audience that he is an
invisible being in the middle of
the action of the picture. It will
seem to be on every side, rather
than in front of us. . . . Shirley
Temple will star with Guy Madi
son in "What Every Young
Bride Should Know" when she
completes "Bachelor and Bobby
soxer" co-starring Cary Grant,
See AMBER, page U
Atom Bomb Control
Subject of THIPA
ForumNextSunday
V By Jerry Davidoff
Sunday afternoon Joe Allan,
Jim Doddo and Dick Koral aired
their views on the current coal
situation under the moderation
of -Manny Margolis, on the Tar
Heel Institute of Public Affairs
student forum of the air.
Doddo, a member of the Dia
lectic senate held that the miners
had legitimate complaints in
their desire for a welfare fund,
as their profession was one of
the most dangerous in the field
of industry. Koral, a member of
the CPU, held that the govern
ment might well nationalize the
coal mines as they were, actual
ly, a public utility. Allan, also a
member of the CPU, thought
that the President should be
more firm in his handling of the
strike, and that John L. Lewis
was definitely hurting the cause
of American labor.
Next week the THIPA forum
will air the problem of inter
nationalizing control of the
atomic bomb. Dr. Rice of the
Chemistry Department, Dr.
Waller of the Commerce School,
Jerry Davidoff, Chairman of the
CPU, and Joe Morris, IRC Presi
dent will discuss the problem.
Manny Margolis will moderate
the program, as usual.
Next week's broadcast will be
the last in this spring's series of
forums. During the year David
Burnet, Joanna Keiser, and
'11 T-k ? T - rt "I
more recenuy, jjaviaon ana
Margolis, have been in charge of
producing and arranging these
broadcasts.
Sunday's debate may be heard
over station WBBB, Burlington.
Swimsuits
To the Editor:
Permit us to call the attention
of the proper authorities to the
disreputable condition of the
swim suits issued men students
by the gymnasium. We appre
ciate the difficulties encountered
by Mr. Durham and the staff in
attempting to obtain new ones,
and would suggest that men stu
dents be permitted to wear their
own suits, at least until the Uni
versity can procure the proper
equipment. It would appear that,
in as much as girls are permit
ted to wear their own bathing
suits in the pools, allowing men
students to do likewise would in
no way produce or intensify un
sanitary conditions.
We feel that we speak for the
great majority of men students
and would appreciate immediate
consideration to alleviate the
existing immodest condition.
John H. Frost ,
Robert L. Varwig
Reasons for OP A
Dear Bob,
The Student Body cooperated
well in the drive to save OPA.
We realize that our continued ex
istence on the Campus under the
G.I. bill depends on extension of
OPA.
But have we considered seri
ously the cause for the need of
this War time economic control
in peace time? The causes have
been (1) lack of production and
(2) inflated money. The lack of
production can be blamed direct
ly pn strikes. Our Unions refuse
to let industry reconvert. We are
farther from reconversion now
than when the War was on. The.
inflated money can be traced to
RAISES over high War time
wages and the inability to spend
this money on the legal market.
Thus flourishes the black mar
ket. It is all over the country.
See LETTERS, page four
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