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EDITORIALS: Letters Leaders Listen, Students NEWS ITEMS: V-12 Cnt Fraternities Commencement Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC Business and Circulation: 8641 CHAPEL, HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1944 Editorial: F-S141. News: F-3146, F-3147 NUMBER kairp Slaslu May Cut MC Y4 TO Men ic ir i? ir -fir fTrT TTTVflT" T TT 2 Unit To 8 Navy Lists Plan For Returning Houses To Fraternities Move Is First Reconversion Step on Campus Homes of 7 Frats To Be Given Back By John Kerr Transformation of the Caro lina campus into its post-war ar rangement took its first step with the announcement this week by University officials that the Navy department had served notice of returning all but four fraternity houses to their own ers on November 1. The Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Phi Gamma Delta and St. Anthony houses will remain 'in Navy hands as long as the Navy college training pro gram continues at the University. St. Anthony hall will be retained as head quarters for the unit. Other houses remaining under Navy control will be used as dormitories and storage places. List Huoses to Be Returned Seven houses will be returned to the fraternities at the beginning of the next trimester. In this group are Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Chi, Phi Kappa Sigma and Beta Theta Pi. The Delta Sigma Pi house, now lodg ing V-12 trainees, has a separate lease with the University which does not ex pire until September 15. The property of the national board of trustees of Theta Chi fraternity, it hpused civil ians before the Navy moved in last year. Phi Delta Theta and Chi Phi houses will continue to hold med students and civilians respectively. Chi Psi has al ready returned to fraternity hands. Tri-Delt Lease Up The University has notified Alpha Tau Omega fraternity that it would not renew the lease for that house when it closes September 1. At present Delta Delta Delta sorority uses the building as a chapter house. Fraternity men have not yet made definite nlans following the notice served bjr the Navy Department. Some intend to return to the houses, while others, faced with high costs and few members, will rent their houses and share other houses. A meeting of the Interf raternity council Monday night will give a clear er picture of what action the various groups will take. The fraternity rep resentatives will report after having consulted with . advisers and legal agents. . . . Carolina Asks State For More Funds To Up.Salaries And Expand Library Budget Committee Tours University A panoramic view of the various ac tivities of" the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was presented here Wednesday at the advisory budget commission which is making a tour of state institutions preparatory to turn ing in its recommendations to the Gen eral Assembly. Administrative Dean Robert B. House presided at a luncheon session at the Carolina Inn when heads of the major divisions of the University de scribed briefly the functions of their departments and told of urgent needs for the next biennium. All department heads of the University were present. Prior to that the members of the committee made a tour of the Univer sity plant. Committee members pres ent were Senator James H. Clark of Elizabethtown,, chairman; Senator H. P. Taylor of Wadesboro; Senator Thomas O'Berry of Goldsboro; Rep. Fitzhugh' Wallace of Kinston; Rep. Clarence Stone of Stoneville, and Rep. Thomas J. Pearsall of Rocky Mount. Rep. Pearsall has just succeeded Sol Brower on the commission and joined the committee yesterday for the first time. Responding to the statements of the eitiors Plan , Commencement Montgomery Ward Assailed By Graham In CPU Speech Grail Sponsors Second Session Dance Tonight "The drums go bang, and the cym bals clang, and the hornsll blast away . ." all of this at nine tonight when the doors of Woollen gym open until twelve for the second Grail dance of the summer! x Freddy Johnson and his aggregation will furnish the music for the occasion. Coeds will receive late permission un til one o'clock. The organization has had as its pur pose in sponsoring these dances a bet ter coordination between the military and civilian groups on the campus. Proceeds from the Grail dances are spent for campus purposes and do not go into the treasury of the society. For Scholarships Tickets may be purchased in advance from members of the society for sixty cents, or later at the door for ninety cents. The money raised from this dance along with that of the July dance will be used in providing two scholarships to the university. Law School Faculty Shows Turnover Operating with a reduced summer session enrollment. Carolina's law school will temporarily lose Dean R. H. Wettach, who leaves in the near future for a vacation in Michigan. Another dent in the law school's fac ulty will be caused by the absence of M. S. Breckenridge, who is on leave from Carolina to teach at George Washington university. Lose Librarian The law school announced this week that the assistant law librarian, Louis A. Cherry, will become the librarian of the Institute of Government Sep tember 1. EWing C. Baskette, former reference librarian of the University of Georgia and the law librarian at Kentucky uni versity has been appointed to replace Cherry. division heads, Chairman Clark and other members of the Committee as sured the University representatives that the institution's requests would be given their serious consideration and conscientious study in the light of the overall picture of state's total needs and available expenditures. President Frank P. Graham stressed the urgent need of more funds for the library, for research, and for increas ing the scale of faculty salaries. He pointed out that, despite increases in living costs At had not been possible for the University to grant many increases in faculty salaries in recent years. Library Needs Urging the importance of making the University here a great library cen ter in cooperation with Duke Univer sity and other institutions, he said, "It would be a tragic waste if we miss the opportunity to build here the li brary we so urgently need." Thereat library need, he said, is for books. He said only $25,000 a year is now being spent by the University for books, a low figure in comparison with many other institutions of similar rank. "No institution has gone more all out for the war effort than this Uni versity." he told the committee. . Controller W. D. Carmichael,N Jr., presented a brief overall picture, and - USA's Policy Is War Necessity "With America in crisis on the home front in the midst o fWestern Euro pean invasion, the maintenance-of-membership provision is necessary for maximum production and minimum in flation," President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, a public member of the war labor board, said here Wednesday night. President Graham spoke at a pub lic meeting of University students, fac ulty and townspeople in Gerrard hall. The address was under the auspices of the Carolina Political union, non-par tisan student organization. Referring to the attitude of Mont gomery Ward in a recent decision of the war labor board, President Graham said: "Montgomery Ward is blasting at the foundations of maximum pro duction. Condemned Policies "Responsible leaders of American labor and of American business have condemned irresponsible defiance and obstruction of the war policies of the nation. "We bow our heads in prayer and sorrow, appreciation and hope, because of the. heroism and death of " our finest youth on the islands of the Pacific, the beachheads of France, the fields of Europe. "We bow our heads in shame and in dignation because of any profiteering, black market, wildcat strike or an ir responsible corporation's defiance of the war policies of the nation. The na tion is lifted up by heroism and sacri fice. The nation is let down by strikes or defiance." Befoe Pearl Harbor, but on the eve of America's entrance into the war, President Graham 1 pointed out, "The nation was shaken and production threatened by the bitter, stubborn struggle over the open and closed shop. . . . The answer was found in the pro vision for the maintenance of member ship. Out of the shock of Pearl Harbor was born the no-strike, no-lockout agreement of patriotic labor and pa triotic management to settle all dis putes by accepting the decisions of a tripartite war labor board. "It is the national policy made nec See GRAHAM, page 4 Graham Requests Research Money Dean Whatley W. Pierson said the Graduate School, despite great handi caps and loss of enrollment due to the war, had been able to preserve the core and quality of its work. , , : "Every department of the Univer sity, from art through zoology, has been doing a distinguished job, often under great handicaps," Dean House assured the Committee. Dean Cecil Johnson of the General College described the University's com prehensive guidance program for fresh men which begins even before the" new man comes to Chapel Hill. He pointed out that through a system of faculty advisers the parents of students are kept constantly informed of the prog ress of their sons and daughters. Medical School Dean W. R. Berryhill "of the med ical school told of the urgent need for more doctors and hospitals and a bet ter distribution of both! especially in the small towns and rural communities The University, he pointed out, has trained aDoroximately one-fourth of the practicing physicians of the state Director Russell M. Grumman told of the work of the extension division, See CAROLINA ASKS, page U Name Harvey White Class President x Exercises Planned For Summer Finals The , graduating class of August, 1944, met Wednesday afternoon in Gerrard hall, to discuss the possibility of holding commencement exercises at the end of this month. The group voted to recommend to the University that a graduation ceremony be held August 30 in the Forest Theater, the speaker being a member of the faculty. More definite plans will be made by a committee of the class officers cooperating with South build ing. Class omcers elected at Wednes day's meeting are: Harvey White, president; Turk Newsome, vice-presi dent; Barbara Swift, secretary; and Frances Withers, treasurer. The 31 students who will receive de grees this month constitute the fourth senior class to graduate in 1944. Of these, 29 are students of the College of Arts and Sciences while two are stu dents of the Commerce School. In ad dition there are ten students who com pleted nearly all their degree require ments in July and would have grad uated with the class of July, 1944, had they not b,e4ackipgLinjabs and term papers. It is expected that most of these students will participate in the August 30 ceremony and receive their degrees at that time. It was suggested that telegrams be sent to the other thirty-odd July grad uates, who had no commencement cere mony, inviting them to participate if they wish to. DiSees Communism As Threat to Security In its most heated debate in several months, the Dialectic senate Wednes day night passed, by the slim margin of only one vote, a resolution presag ing a future threat to American se curity if Europe goes communist in the post-war era. Discussion on the bill lasted for 50 minutes and, out of the 18 persons present, only five did not, at some time during the discussions, take the ros trum to express their viewpoints. Advocates of the bill maintained t that a post-war communist Europe, ex cluding Great Britain, would, because of its inherent economic difference with capitalism, constitute a commercial barrier to the widespread distribution of goods which will be necessary after this war. They also contended that, insofar as historical facts can ascer tain, communism and dictatorship are synonymous and that, subsequently, a totalitarian Europe would be detri mental to a continued peace. The opponents of the resolution ex pressed the belief that, instead of pre venting the free flow of world goods, a communist Europe would actually pro mote the acceleration of a wider distri bution of wealth through international trade. They likewise contended that, even though communism in Russia has been of an autocratic nature, its gradual evolution is toward the objec tive of a communist economy with a democratic politic. " , - Next week Senators Fran Defan dorf and Barbara Swift, both liberals and both graduating this term, bring a bill on the Di calendar. Announce ment of this resolution will be made in Tuesday's Tab Heel. Seniors Asked To File For Degrees All students in the College of Arts and Sciences who plan to be grad uated this month and have not filed an application for a degree should do so immediately in 203 South Building. Program Cooperation World Needr Hexner Says Professor Cites Economic Problems Pointing out that after the first World War the lack of political co operation among the Great Powers led to "economic warfare among the na tions," Dr. Ervin Hexner, political science professor in the University and official Czechoslovakian delegate to the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference, said in an address here Thursday night that "the participants in the Conference hope it will serve as a model for future procedure in interna tional economic discussions." Dr. Hexner said that if the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union had cooperated in establishing political cooperation and security after World War I economic friction might have been eliminated. "Anarchy in currency relations and the disintegra tion of international trade were the See COOPERATION, page 4 Army Closes Its Doors On Pre-Meds Picked by College By Dave Lilienthal The effects on service students in the medical school produced by a recent change in Army policy and the omis sion of allottments for personnel edu cation in the latest Army appropria tions bill were revealed today by Dr. A. T. Miller, assistant dean. He said that these changes will prevent civilian med students from transferring to Army medical training. When the latest Army appropria tions bill omitted allottments for edu cation of personnel, it meant that the Army medical training program in the colleges would end when the students now in the program have finished their courses, barring later revisions. The selection of Army med students has been done by the medical school staff so far, but in September 1945, when the new quota goes into effect, the men in Army , med will be selected by the Army, and sent here for train ing. This means that there will be a specified number of Army trainees in stead of the present indefinite num ber. Percentage This spring, the Army changed the percentage of men it planned to have of UNC medical classes from 55 per cent to 28 percent, according to Dr. Miller. The maximum Navy quota, which starts operation this September, See ARMY, page U Affable Charlie Vance Tops As Campus Bottle Musician Legislature Speaker Is Social Lion Also By Bob Pearce, USMCR Easy-going Charlie Vance, the nim-ble-tongued speaker of the student leg islature, collects whiskey bottles for a hobby. He ties the empty bottles to a board and by tapping them with a metal rod he produces sounds that might pos sibly be mistaken for music. He has played his so-called 'bottleodian" in band concerts, for conventions and dif ferent clubs and organizations that re quest his original form of "music." He can play any popular song and most any other form of music. This is just another way of draining pleasure from whiskey bottles. As the speaker of the legislature, Vance's main goal is to get more V 12ers interested in student government See VANCE, page 4 i Navy Program Over Country To Be Reduced Enrollment Increase Expected in NROTC The Navy V-12 program, now containing; men stationed at 232 colleges and universities through out the nation, will be cut 25 per cent on November 1, Navy offi cials announced this week. The Carolina unit will probably be re duced by 40 per cent. Small units, where only a few hun dred men are stationed, will not be abolished as it was formerly believed, but the present plan calls for cuts larger than 25 per cent in the colleges which have a great number of men. "This will probably mean," said Dean F. F. Bradshaw of the College of War Training, "that a V-12 unit such as the one on this campus will be reduced up to forty per cent in order to lower the total number in the nation by twenty five per cent." "Apparently," said Bradshaw, "the Marine unit here will be maintained." Present plans call for an increase in the NROTC of about 50 men. These will be chosen from V-12 students who have completed their second semester in the program, but they will not nec essarily be selected from those on the campus. Another gain in enrollment will be in the pre-supply corps which will prob ably be increased by 50 men. Upon completion of the program at Caro lina, these men will attend the Har vard Business School as a part of the Navy program there. The' bulk of the cut will be among the men who will leave in November for midshipman's school. Only a few replacements will begin the basic training program in November. Already a 90-day notice has been given to most of the fraternity houses in which V-12 students are now bar racked. According to an announcement yesterday from Captain Mallison, Com manding Officer of the post, fraternity houses which will not be returned are: St. Anthony, Iredell, King, and Hewes. Iredell, 'King, and Hewes are the for mer Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, and Plii Gamma Tlflfa Inmicoo TThoco ixjot-o retained by the V-12 because of then size and central location. At the present time, the University has no further plans regarding the dis position of the houses except return ing them to the fraternities. The V-12, however, will continue to occupy all the dormitories which are now under contract to it. '" . ' - "There is no reason to suspect now," said Bradshaw, "that this V-12 unit will receive another cut in March. Ex actly what effect the progress of the war will have upon continuation of the V-12 program is problematical." There are approximately 1200 V-12 students here now. 3? , CHARLIE VANCE
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