Mississippi
Smoker's Hack
IRC
Deeb Speaks
Professors Leare
Houston Sells Novel
Serving1 Civilian and Military Students at UNC
VOLUME LIU SW
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1945
NUMBER SW 73
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ALCOTT
Alcott And Ness Will Join
Army University In Italy
Faculty Members
Help In Education;
Program For Troops
John V. Alcott, head of the Univer
sity of North Carolina Art Depart
ment, who has been on leave for the
last two years to do Navy educational
work in Washington, and Kenneth
. Ness, acting head of the Department,
have been selected by the War Depart
ment to serve on the faculty of the
University Study Center of the Army
Education Program for troops in the
Mediterranean theatre of operations,
it was announced here today by Chan
cellor and Vice-President Robert B
House.
. Ness . '
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wnue M.r. xsess is on leave to join
Mr. Alcott in Italy for a four-month
period of Army instruction, William
Meade Prince, artist-illustrator and
visiting lecturer in the University's
Art Department, will serve as acting
head and will direct art studio classes
until both Mr. Alcott and Mr. "Ness
return to Chapel Hill in December.
Mr.. Ness will leave -Chapel Hill to
- fly to Italy within the next week or so
to join Mr. Alcott in Florence where
they will serve as civilian education
specialists in the Study Center just
opened there with an enrollment of
1300.
Courses Offered
" In addition to . fine arts, courses be
ing offered include agriculture, busi
ness administration, education, jour
' nalism, science and liberal arts.. The
program is being presented for enlisted
personnel and officers not engaged in
full-time military duties who wish to
pursue a course of study in keeping
with their individual post war .plans.
Colonel William P. Scopey, Director
of the Theater Information arid Edu
cation Division, and Major Edwin H.
Miner, Theater Education Officer, head
the Army Education Program in the
Mediterranean area. The Study Cen
ter at Florence is under the command
of Brigadier General Tate.
Student Loan Office
Changes Location
The Student's Loan Fund Office, for
merly located in 209 South building,
has moved to 312 South.
The second floor office is now being
occupied by the vocational adviser for
women.
Spend your vacation money for War
Bonds and insure America of a real
vacation.
Mexico Hasn 't
Says Carolina
By Sam Summerlin
N Mexico is a land of contrasts: from
scorching deserts to snow-capped vol
canoes, from hot chili to tasteless tor
fiiiac from marble palaces to
wretched huts, from the rich' to the
poor, from gentleness to fierceness,
fiT.Tn nraver to pistol-packing. The
effects of war:; have assumed this
3 same pattern of striking contrast.
War has scarcely touched the lives
of rich Mexicans or the thousands of
wealthy refugees who have swarmed
like locusts to Mexico to devour its
beauty and its excitement. They live
like kings, driving Cadillacs drink
ing cocktails, eating steaks, going to
bullfights and horse races. Their only
inconvenience comes from high prices,
a comparatively small item in their
pleasure-seeking existence.
Poor Bear Brunt,
But war has struck Mexico, for in
the midst of such oppulence live the
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'Damn Good
Piano Truman
Tells Wilder
. One of Carolina's alumni was with
President Truman when he viewed the
American occupation troops in Frank
furt last week. The Durham Herald,
July 27, 1945, carried the following
paragraph:
"After playing the piano at Boiling's
mess, Truman turned to Lt. Roy E.
Wilder, Jr., of Spring Hope, N. C,
and declared, "Damn good piano."
Wilder was an undergraduate in the
department of journalism here about
1935 and worked for the News Bureau.
Leaving before he got his degree, he
worked on a; Duplin paper two years
and on the Sanf or d Herald two years.
He worked for a short time on the
Greensboro Daily, News, the Wallace
Enterprise, and tne World Telegram,
New York. He had been working on
the Herald Tribune, New York, a year
when he went into service during the
early phase of the war. He got his
basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas,
and in the fall of 1943 was stationed
in Nashville, Tennessee, a. lieutenant
in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment. In the
fall of 1944 he was with the 1st Army
in the capacity of a public relations
joh after having visited England, Nor
mandy, Rennes, Brussels, Holland,
Germany, and Paris, which he en
tered with the first American troops
who reached it.
In a letter dated October 17, 1944,
to Professor Phillips Russell of the
journalism staff, Wilder described
Paris as "The most wonderful city I've
ever visited. I loved everything about
it the kisses on both cheeks; the old
women who smiled and asked: 'May
I kiss you?'; the sidewalk cafes and
the pretty prostitutes hipping past the
Cafe de la Pais; the people who in
vited you into their homes and un
corked champagne hidden for four
years;, the gay abandon with which
the girls rushed past on their bi
cycles, skirts flying, high-riding coif
feures held in- place by miracles; the
reckless fashion in which the French
drove their automobiles; the phantas
magoria of scents in perfume shops
jammed with GIs."
In a later paragraph of the same
letter Wilder evidenced that he was
a true Carolina man. "The trees in
the rolling hills of the Ardennes breed
See PIANO, page 4.
Changed Much Due To War
Student;Poor Suffer, However
pobres (poor people) who have borne
the brunt of soaring prices. vThere is
no OPA, and the consequences have
been terrible. While dur Nelson
Rockefeller throws a $1,000 banquet
in Mexico City at Ciro's night club
(obviously in the interests of the
"Good Neighbor Policy"), the pobres
find it increasingly difficult to merely
exist on a diet "of beans and'tortil
las. A little brown Mexican boy stand
ing naked in the hot sun, his stomach
bloated from a lack of decent food, is
just as much a war casualty as the
emaciated creatures that have emerged
from , the German concentration
camps. Mexico's hunger should also
sit at our peace table. We should not
always carry in our minds Holly
wood's eternally glorious, glamorous,
breathtaking conception of Mexico,
the Land of Dreams.
Russia, already realizing that Mex
ico is the gateway to Latin America,
Di Senate Will
Discuss Powers
Of Delegation
Scheduled For
Tomorrow Night
In New West ;
.Di Senators will take the floor to
morrow night, in a discussion of the
powers of the American delegate to
the Security Council of the UNO. This
question, which has been under heated
debate in the Senate of. the United
States, will appear before the Senate
at its regular weekly session on the
third floor pf New West building at
9:00 p.m. The Di not only welcomes,
but cordially invites visitors to its
discussions; visitors are accorded all
rights of Senators, including that of
participation in the debate. Senator
Jack Lackey is to present a factual re
port on the topic preceding the discus
sion. . .
Arthur Budlong, Chairman of the
Membership Committee, has an-,
nounced that the initiation of two new
members, Tom Corpening and Adrian
Carroll will take place previous to the
introduction of the question, and
Banks Mebane, Critic of the Senate,
announced that classes in parliamen
tary procedure will begin after the
debate. These classes will be conduct
ed by Mebane, and will be compulsory
for Di Senators. Anyone who wishes
to do so may attend these classes,
Mebane announced. - ,
It's
Flower
But Janitors Hands A re Tied
By Tom Corpening
"The time to pick the flower is
when it's in bloom," asserted Mr.
Adolphus Clark, a University janitor
for over a quarter of a century. To
Mr. Clark, the flower is the small
raise asked for by the janitors, and
the bloom is the surplus in the State
Treasury and the generally prosper
ous times in other fields of labor.
"If the sun is ever goig to shine
on this University, it is shining now,"
Clark said. He believes that the jani
tors have been as loyal and honest to
the University as any of the em
ployees, and that their good service
has not been duly rewarded. He
showed this reporter a clipping from
a Tar Heel, dating close to fall, 1932,
a period of grave financial crisis for
the University. On the clipping Dr.
Qraham was quoted as saying to the
janitors: "It is the spirit of men like
you," he said, "that cannot be defeat
ed. We are goin gto fight together,
everyone of us. We are going to carry
through and win." Dr. Graham spoke
after the janitors had voluntarily
promised to work harder, and to re
main loyal to the University.
Mr. Clark believes the janitors ful
filled their promise, and have con
tinued to render great service to the
See JANITORS, page U.
sent her most able ambassador there,
the late, great Constantine Ouman
sky. The British are also on the job
there, and they understand the com
plicated Latin temperament far bet
ter than we do. If we do not help Mex
ico to solve her problems, she will
turn to Europe for aid rather than to
her northern neighbor.
As An Ally
As far as being an ally in this war,
Mexico has far outdone the other
countries of Latin America, except
for Brazil. To most Americans a force
of some three hundred men would
seem insignificant, but Mexico is
proud of her Esquadron 201, com
posed of Mexican fliers trained in
Texas, which is now fighting in the
Pacific. Indeed, Mexico gave a mov
ing and solemn farewell to her war
riors when they went to war, and
General Mac Arthur, in a letter ad
See MEXICO, page 4-
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1000 Members
By Next Spring
Organization Is
Fastest Growing
On Campus
Carolina's newest organization, the
University Veterans Association, is
probably the fastest growing club on
the campus. The group will celebrate
its first birthday in September yet it
already has over fifty per cent of the
returnees on the campus taking an ac
tive interest in it.
As over 250 returnees are expected
at Chapel Hill by fall and over 1000
by spring, the future growth of the
association should be large.
The UVA was founded in Septem
ber, 1944, on the basis that the vet
erans of the present war, having
shared so many things in common while
in the service, should get together in
solving the mutual problems in the
return to civilian life.
' This, of course, does not mean that
the group has been businesslike in
outlooks. Picnics and receptions have
testified to the fact that the club has
a very definite social side.
One of the first problems which the
UVA, working in connection with Dr.
Perry's office solved, concerned the vet
erans and compulsory physical educa
tion. When a returnee would ask why
he had to take physical education the
administration would reply "to pre-
See UVA, page 4.
AUWO Closes
First Phase
Of Activity
The Chapel Hill Chapter of Ameri-
cans United for World Organization
has completed the first phase of its
activity. This spring and summer it
has been very active in bringing in
fluence to bear on congress in favor of
American participation in world or
ganization. They have also present
ed addresses on topics of .current in
ternational interest. Their speakers
include Dr. Hexner of the Political Sci
ence Department, Dean Wettach of
the Law School, Dr. Woosley of the
Economics Department, and J. M.
Broughton, former governor of North
Carolina.
In the aspect of utilizing public
opinion for international cooperation,
the Americans United has made its
major contribution. It has taken ac
tion to obtain legislative approval of
the United Nations Charter, the Bret
ton Woods Proposals, the extension of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreements, and
the Food and Agriculture Organiza
tion. All these vitally important
measures have been given legislative
approval except the F AO and its ap
proval is expected in the near future.
The present officers are: Acting
President, J. Brewster Snow, Secre
See AUWO, page 4.
Fuller And His Band
Play For Friday Night
Frolics In YMCA Court
Jimmy Fuller and his band, im
ported from Durham, will furnish mu
sic for the Friday Night Frolics, to
be held this week at the YMCA court
unless rain causes transference to the
Graham Memorial lounge.
Fuller's group played for the first
Frolics of the summer term three
weeks ago.
Also billed as week-end entertain
ment is the co-sponsorship by Graham
Memorial and the YMCA of Music
Under the Stars" scheduled for the
Forest theater.
Thursday night the weekly bridge
tournament will be held in the Graham
Memorial lounge with theatre tickets
the prize. . '
Plucking
Time
Peace Conference Delegate
Speaks At jGraham Memorial
. On Tuesday night the International Relations Club will present Goro Deeb,
secretary to Lebanese Delegation sat the 'Frisco Conference and international
student and traveler, in a speech to the student body and public on: "United
Nations Organization and the Near East." It will be held in Graham Memo
rial at 8 p. m.
Mr. Deeb, a candidate for a doctorate in Political Science, is a 'Syrian with
Alumni Office
Keeps Tab On
All Graduates
"We are proud to have two Caro
lina Alumni who have received the
Congressional Medal of Honor, one of
the nation's highest awards," said E
Carrington Getturs, speaking for the
General Alumni Association of the
University. He gave some figures
covering the number of alumni
service and their war records, and an
account of the action for which the
war heroes won the Congressional
Medal :
Major Raymond Harrel Wilkins of
the Army Air Force, who hailed from
Columbia, N. C, and Portsmouth, Vir
ginia, and who finished in the class
of '1.938, was killed on November 2,
1943 when he dived his plane into a
Jap gunboat near Rabaul, New Gui
nea. He was awarded the Medal of
Honor posthumously for destroying
two Jap vessels by bombing at the
sacrifice of his own life. . .
. Capt. Charles P. Murray, Jr., of
Wilmington, North Carolina, took part
in some action near Kayersburg,
France, on December 16," 1944. Mur
ray ordered his patrol to stay back
while he advanced alone on 200 SS
Troops. He fired 2,000 rounds of am
munition, routed the 200 Germans,
lulled 20, and captured 10 others, and
wounded many others. An eleventh
German pretended to surrender, but
threw a hand grenade at Murray
which wounded him in 8 places. He
stopped a counterattack, established
an advanced position against formid
able odds, and provided an inspiring
example for the men of his command.
Murray was a student 1939-42, leav
ing before graduation to enlist in the
Army. He was commissioned 2nd. Lt.
on April 21, 1943.
The Alumni Office) has been particu
larly diligent in keeping alumni war
records. In its files are recorded the
See ALUMNI, page 4.
Publisher Sees
And Buys Novel By Houston
By Jessie Gregory
Phillips Russell, Carolina professor
of journalism, sent Frank Taylor, the
publisher, to Noel Houston, ex-Russell
pupil who was writing a book.
Stating that he spent one and
half years finishing his book, Houston
came in from working on his vegetable
garden and" talked about his first novel,
The Lottery.
Acknowledging his admiration for
and debt to Phillips Russell, Houston
stated that Russell provided invalu
able help to writers by guiding them
individually and pointing out certain
sign posts to them. According to
Houston, Russell realizes that the de
sire to write is an individual thing
which no teacher can bring to life and
so leaves the writing pretty much up
to the individual.
"Along with a great many other
writers, I also owe much to Paul
Green; he's an inspiration to anyone,"
Houston stated. And he read a letter
of congratulations from Paul Green
in which Green stated that it was be
ing said that the forthcoming novel,
The Lottery, would make a good movie
also.
Before coming to Chapel Hill, Hous-.
ton worked as a reporter for the Okla
homa Daily covering murder trials and
writing movie features. Sent to Hol-
ywood to do a series of features, he
interviewed Bette Davis and other mo
vie celebrities. Houston first came to
Chapel Hill in 1937. to study under
aul Green, Frederick Koch, and Phil
ips Russell. After studying a year m
Chapel Hill, Houston was awarded a
Rockefeller fellowship in playwriting.
progressive ideas, who came to the
United States for the majority of , his
higher education. He is a member of
the University Faculty serving as In
structor of Political Science and Social
Science.
The speech will be especially per
tinent as it will deal primarily with
the manner in which the United Na
tions Organization will affect the
Near Eastern countries and what sort
of contribution these states will make
.to the Organization. His speech is
expected to include remarks on the
Franco-Syrian dispute, the Pan-Arab
League and its future, and the other
knotty international problems that
make the Near East a hot-bed of prob
lems which must be solved before in
ternational peace and security can be
maintained.
Native Syrian
Besides being a native Syrian and
having a personal knowledge of the
conditions which exist in the problems
on which he will speak he has done
academic research on these problems
and wrote his thesis, which was wide
ly praised, on "Syria Between the
Two Wars" dealing with the French
mandate and other aspects of the
subject. Mr. Deeb deals with the Near
Eastern problems from the interna
tional point of view rather than from
the narrow nationalistic viewpoint as
he has acquired a cosmopolitan phil
osophy by his travels throughout the
world and extensive inquiry into gov
ernmental and social dynamics.
He -was appointed secretary to the
Lebanese Delegation just before the
opening of the San Francisco Confer
ence when Lebanon had become of
ficially a member of the United Na
tions. He flew to the conference in
time to be there for the opening of
he Conference and stayed the entire
duration of the conference in his of
ficial capacity. He was mentioned in
Time Magazine during the conference.
Since he returned from the Confer
ence, he has addressed civic bodies
in Chapel Hill and surrounding com
munities and the soldiers at Camp
Butner. Of his speech at the local Ro-
See DEEB, page 4.
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HOUSTON
He spent a year with Paul Green as
assistant director of the "Lost Col
ony" production, and then returned in
1941 to make his home in Chapel.
While in Chapel Hill, Paul Green,
Eetty Smith, Paul Finch, Howard
Richardson, and Houston formed a
small group which met every Sunday
night at the Green's. Here they read
to each other their work and received
criticism from Paul Green and from
each other. Houston's praise of Betty
Smith and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
was mgn. "sne's a wonaenui gin,
end she's worked for and deserves ev
erything she's received. She is utter-
See PUBLISHER, page 4.