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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942 PAGE TWO if v. OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA Published daily except Mob da Obtcll Camfbixl Stltan lima UNIVERSITY OF Editor rxitmf nation reriods and the Than! giving; Christmas and Spring holi days. Entered aa aeeond class matter at the post See at Chapel HilL N. C-, coder act of March 3, 1379. 1941 Mrmbrr 1942 Pbsociaied CoUe&de Press National Advertising Service, Joe. CoUet "mblisben RfpnvmUtint 4 20 MJUHWN AVK. NKW YOMK, N.Y. William Schwaxtz Hexrt Zattoun Bucky Haswabd Managing Editor .Business Manager Acting Circulation Manager Associate Editor Subscription Rates L50 One Quarter $3.00 One Yeai AU signed articles and columns art opinions of the vmiers themselves, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Daily Tab Heel. For This Issue: News: BOB HOKE Sports: MARK GARNER Editorial Boaed: Mac Norwood, Henry Moll. Columnists: Marion Lippincott, Walter Damtoft, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad McCuen, Tom Hammond. News Editors: Bob Hoke, Paul Komisaruk, Haydea Carruth. - ' , Assistant News: A. D. Carrie, Walter Klein, Westy Fenhagen, Bob Levin. Reporters: Jimmy Wallace, Billy Webb, Larry Dale, Charles Kes&ler, Burke Shipley, Elton Edwards, Gene Smith, Morton Cantor, Nancy Smith, ule Phoenix, Janice Feitelberg, Jim Loeb, Lou Alice Taylor. Photographer: Hugh Morton. Assistant Photographers: Tyler Nourse, Bill Taylor. Sports Editor: Harry Hollingsworth. Night Sports Editors: Earle Hell en, Mark Garner, Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Stud Gleicher, Jean Beeks. Advertising Managers: Jack Dube, Bill Stanback, Ditzi Buice. Durham Representatives: Marvin Rosen, Bob Bettman. Local Advertising Staff: Jimmy N orris, Buddy Cummings, Richard Wiseberg, Charlie Weill, Betty Booker, Bill Collie, Jack Warner, Stan Legum, Dick Kerner. Office Staff: Bob Crews, Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann, Bob Covington. Typist: Ardis Kipp. . - Circulation Staff: Larry Goldrich, Rachel Dalton. Ike o Opinions DailvrTar r Columns o Letters JIB age Features Inefficiency Causes Student Loss Of $2,800 on Graham Memorial Grill CABBAGES AND KINGS By Bob Hoke Gross inefficiency, negligence and confusion has come to light in the records of the old Graham Memorial Grill which closed its popular doors at the end of the summer session last year thus end ing its unfortunate reign as a supposedly profit making agency of the Graham Memorial student union. The period in question is that since 1936. Accounts outstanding to students amounting to $2,881.50 were recorded at the time and when 3. Common Decency. The only recourse the Union has in recovering the tremendous debt is by appeals to the persons listed. This has the unavoidable result in embar rassing many students and alumni by accounts paid and not credited or not incurred at all. It is expected that students approached will have the character to answer and either agree to the ac- listed as assets sugar-coated the staggering debt count or disclaim it the Union has promised to of over $5,200. The student accounts, as shown regard any answer as fact, by exhibits, were handled in the worst possible - way. In an effort to clear the morass, Director O Bill Cochrane sent out form letters explaining the situation to the delinquent students and at- A second tender spot is that the Grill, when it tempting to collect. A total of 286 letters were closed down, owed $5,261.45 $2,800 of which sent out 100 of these to students now in school, was owed the University Business Office for corn Example of the inefficient bookkeeping is that modities bought from the UDH. Simon Legree 75 other debts were recorded without either first like, the Office refused to turn over the fees col- names or addresses of the students. The letters, or statements as you will, were sent out two weeks ago to date there have been six replies, all indignantly disclaiming indebted- lected from the students until the debt was paid. A dollar is collected from each student each quar ter for the maintenance of the Union. As a conse quence, the Union had to swap checks with the University. Under the economical and ingenious director- friday's child . . . Bj Marion Lippincott " The cracks people make about this column are beginning to give this columnist an inferiority complex. It was pretty bad we thought when that person said the reason he liked the column was because it meant that Friday was here. But when we watch ed the-fan mail, or mail anyway, pil ing up for the other columnists and not even a post card for us we got really little depressed. But the last crack is the final straw; quote the New Carolina Mag under Friday's Child picture . . . "Few DTH column ists delve in serious subjects, mostly play with humor gossip." In which category this column falls we really aren't sure. We read this a few minutes after having a chat with what we thought one of our more ardent fans, Dick Brooke, who plead ed with us, "Please make it funny again. You've gotten into one of those serious ruts like everybody up there." But then ho hoo it really doesn't mat ter. I'm quite convinced along with the rest of the campus that the Tar Heel just uses this column for filler and about its being funny again, don't think we don't appreciate the idea that it was ever funny because we do!" O Poem for early spring. .Lasjt night I sat upon a chair . : . A little chair that wasn't there. It wasn't there again today . . . But I couldn't sit down anyway. Poem for. later in the Spring Bees buzz Trees gruz I wonder why I wuz! O The SAE party for getting off probably was definitely fine. The boys were nifty, the food was nifty, the house was nifty . . . ain't Spring nifty? There's just one trouble with the whole thing (Spring that is) and that is (Love to say that is) that if the honor council is going to make all these rules it sure is going to confuse a lot of people who can't seem to remember the ones we've got already. And incidentally along with more of the same Lyon's column sure hit the nail on the nose. Very , ex cell ent. . . . ship of Worley and Cochrane this was made pos- ness as "there is some mistake . . . Fm glad to sible without seriously affecting the quality of contribute to the cause, but I've already paid service rendered the students. It was a tense per once ... it is rather provokiner to be asked to iod, because for years past the Business Office ilt And straighten out an affair that was taken care of some period back." These replies are substantially the same as those repeated over and over to "Fish" Worley in his attempts to Collect the staggering accounts. One student even named another stu dent who might have charged food in different names. "Negligence carried to the point of inefficiency is almost criminal" is the comment of assistant Dean of Students Roland B. Parker who is also executive secretary of the Board of Directors. Accusing fingers point to the Board as ultimate ly responsible for permitting the sore spot to fester in the basement of the Union building. Probably less so, the directors in office at the time were responsible as was Grill manager Sam Morton quiet, soft-spoken. Sam left Chapel Hill when the Grill closed to take a job as cafeteria manager at the armament works in Radford, Virginia. Clyde Shaw, student Activities Fund Auditor of two years past, was the first so far as inade quate records show, to sound a warning of the impending danger. In his audit of June, 1931, stu dent accounts receivable were listed at $1,468.07 and he wrjns that "current accounts receivable are much too large . . . greater care should be tak en ... a more satisfactory method of handling meal tickets should be worked out . . . credit should be extended only for a reasonable time." The warning was apparently heeded temporar ily for by August of the same year, the total stu dent accounts had been pared to $950 but it ap pears that all benefits of the summer's drive for payments was buried by the phenomena rise in credit which began at the opening of the '39 academic session. It reached $1,000 by Christmas, $1,600 by August, 1940, and a year later had reached its highest point, $2,881.50, at which time it closed. Throughout this time the Student Activities office was on its toes and served re peated warnings to Morton, to the Directors and to the Board that things were getting out of hand, yet no positive action was taken. " Legal action in forcing students to pay delin quent accounts is prevented now on three counts: 1. The original records are not checkable. 2. The Statute of Limitations. apparently has been itching to get its fingers on the Union and operate it "on a more business-like basis" by exacting fees and rents for the use of the offices, the multitudinous services, etc. There are still debts owed to merchants in Chapel Hill, in Durham, and out in the state exactly how much, exactly how many nobody knows or can tell for like the student accounts, the bills submitted were paid or recorded in the most slipshod manner imaginable. They are still coming in. Before payments can be made, the Di rector must check back through files and files of vouchers to guard against unscrupulous mer chants. Also, there is but $85 in the Grill account now. The Grill was reopened immediately after Christmas under a completely different setup by which the Union cannot lose. Arrangements, en tirely verbal, were made with the University to lease the heat, light and space formerly used by the Grill to the UDH system. For this the Union gets 5 per cent of the gross receipts and the Union now has no financial responsibility of the Grill so that any serious inefficiency can not adverse ly effect the Union. There is some nail-chewing It ain't what'cha say, it's the way how'cha say it. This was forcefully driven home to us by Czech foreign minister, Jan Masaryk, in his speech last Tuesday night. Speaking of the war, Masaryk said, "Prosperity is only for the free, and freedom is for those alone who have the courage to defend it." Somehow this didn't sound like the same old bellywash, the old bull that has been crammed down our throats for years. Since George Washington cut down the cherry-tree, American youth has been skeptical about these . compact slogans. Yet, somehow, this seemed different to us because it was said by one who knew not because he has read a book about it, but be cause he had lived it. It ain't what' cha say. ... The Emergency committee's work has back-fired on one of its foremost behind-the-scenes supporters. Dean Roland (Pete) Parker is being be sieged by campus politicians who are looking for advice on drawing up their platforms. o Peerers into the crystal ball have ;t that OSCD is sponsoring a black out in the near future. Such com- though over the agreement. Since no written con tract was drawn of the agreement the UDH uses petition is cutting into the hither-to the equipment of the Grill without paying any Grail monopolized field. rent or making any provision for their, ultimate purchase, despite assertions that the original agreement was otherwise. At the present rate of dual nomi nations, it won't be long now until we watch and eagerly speculate 6n7 the outcome of the legislature races. O Did anybody notice that Sunday's Tar Heel's two little boxes on the top of the front page were written in Spanish. Neither did we. Ain't life futile? O We were most impressed with last week's editorial on the Interf rat Council! Not that the editorial was any masterpiece, but the suggestion contained therein is so vital, that it is a miracle that neither the Council's brain-trusts nor Louis Harris hadn't It can't happen to the extent that it did and plugged the idea before. We would As we have said, the blame is distributed. The lack of continuous membership on the Board, made up as it is of the main campus offices, does not permit its members to gain any reasonable amount of working knowledge of the Union. The Directors in'of f ice at the time, Bob Magill and lat er Worley, didn't keep close enough check or take strong enough measures. Grill Manager Morton is responsiblevfor inefficiency in bookkeeping and the failure to institute a workable credit plan. UOfr A.T THE TA L-E JUST BOOSTS HIS .VWN we;cht. 8UTA NO& ON "THE RO t BOOSTS T4E ACCIDENT RA. c JYoXtoM Safety t ncil most of its ill effects have been absorbed and cased over by Cochrane and Worley. To lawyer entertainer Cochrane goes tremendous credit for tackling the situation and helping to clear it. Still, it's another blotch to Carolina self-government. very much like to see some action from the Council on the matter at this time. O Spring is here. The young man's fancy turns from "across the desk." in dubious battle ... By Jack Dube IDEOLOGY: In case anybody is still worried about the cleaning situ ation we've got a solution. Start a sloppy fad. You know . . . unpressed pants, unshined shoes, unclean col lars . . . after a while the coeds will get used to it (ed. note: they al ready have). ..... ON MY BAR LIST: Guys who hide their coats at the dances when the checking room receipts go to a worthy cause . . . ginks who get that last dance in with their coats on . . . its not smooth . . . just conspicuous . . . senior coeds who want to know what town you're from when you've danced with them at every dance for the last two years . . . "smoothies" who operate with a borrowed cigar ette and somebody else's coke at the Y period . . . the two guys who were throwing coke bottles in the jump ing pit down at the Tin Can. ... TARHEELIA: It seems unbeliev able but its true . . . Doug Conrad was stopped by a minion of the Durham police force for speeding. He had just about talked the officer out of it when he happened to notice a copy of the April Fool issue of the Tar Heel in his car. The cop immediately became a member of the watchful six teen and pulled Doug into the court house where he was almost arraigned as an enemy agent. ... HILL HIGHLIGHTS: "Dan" (what day would be complete without him) chased a cat up a tree in front of the Carolina Theatre and main tained a constant vigil for the entire showing of Mr. V. ... A tireless Mod el "T" went tearing down Franklin . . . tire conservation but hardly easy on the ears The Botany field trips have found more than flowers in their recent excursions into the deep Woods Jack Potter's middle name is Tuxworth ... no comment. ... It happened in Journalism 62 . . . the Navy looked in on the class, and speculatively smacked their lips at the"sight"of the nice comfortable seats we were in. Then they left. "Say," cried one scholar in indignation, Where are we going to go to class next year, anyway? "Fort Bragg" came back the universal reply. . . The war has really hit C. H.,, the Tar Heel need do no more exhorting . the realization came with the taste of the new innovation called "War-Time Cokes" at the Book Ex ' o OUT OF THE MOUTHS: Audrey Hamblen (at the S&F elections meet ing) "I don't think we have enough candidates. I want Alain Singer. We need a person with a lot of push." . . . Overheard in the University Cafe, Justin Lipman to Lee Arning, "You ain't tall, you're just high!-' Betty Booker: "And then I found myself playing casino with a pinochle deck . . . thud. . . . Wayne Kernodle (in Dr. Suskin's 8:30 Latin class which was excused a little early) "When I get up on Saturday morning for an 8:30, I'm gonna stay in the class for a full hour!". . . . Whether you're in an Army Uniform or a monogram sweater, you gotta be on your mettle . . : no doubt no doubt. . . . Aside to Jim Loeb : "Nobody is a 'Who,' nor ts there a Who's-who on this cam pus." ... , GAGEROO: Mrs. Skunk to Mr. Skunk: "How many times have I told ) you not to come near me when you've been eating onions." ... and the guy who sent in his income tax accom panied by a tuft of hair. ... on bended knee . . . By Ben McKinnon While looking through a book on journalism the other day, I happened to find a chapter devoted to columns and columnists. "The importance of the column as an integral part of modern American journalism," says Elmo Scott Watson, the writer, "is shown by the prominent position it is given on the front page, the editorial page, or the sports page and the de voted following which the various columnists have gained. Mr. Watson failed to mention whether the "de voted following which the columnist had gained" was following him with bouquets or brickbats! Mr. Watson also says that the column answers the need for a closer personal contact between the newspaper and the read er. Well, I guess this column must be doing its part to bring about per sonal contact with the reader be cause one fellow, who didn't like an item about him, punched the author in the nose. Personal contact can be all right in its place but sometimes it gets too darn personal ! Especially recommended for any persons who desire to acquire a large and varied vocabulary is English 95 taught by Ericson. Recommended for those who would like to know what the new vocabulary words mean is another quarter of this course or maybe two or three. The members of Professor Russell's creative writing class were having a big argument the other day con cerning which was most important to a story action or background. Hot words flew back and forth with the exponents of neither side reveal ing any indication of giving ground. Finally one of the "action" men de clared that action was the most im portant in any story, place, or event. "Not to me," retorted H. C. Cran ford, "I'm going to see George White's Scandals in Durham Satur day and what I want to see is back ground!" O The sugar situation, which is weighing heavy on the minds of many, has no adverse affects on Sal ly Emerson. Sally was invited out to a private home last week and while she was there, the hostess thought to pass around a few glasses of the common beverage which takes so much sucrose to sweeten. "Will you have sugar, my dear?" She asked Sally in a frankly warning tone. "No thank you," said Sally, "I always carry my own." And forthwith she drew out her own personal pouch of sugar and proceeded to sweeten the drink to her own taste with no fear of having an arm mutilated when reaching for a second spoonful. Will the villian who took the lamp from Mrs. Welch's information booth in South building please return it immediately and receive a reward of $10 in smiles. "I would like to have the lamp as soon as possible," says Mrs. Welch, "because my booth is darker than the interior of Dr. Har lan's Archaeology classroom!" These kids that skate in front of South building and the Book Ex are tough and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I walked through a crowd of them yesterday. Just as I passed, two of the kids started scuffling and the legs of one shot out from under him. Seeing him fall. I let out a loud guffaw. He looked at me and said, "You're not so good looking, your self." I tell you that they're rearing them rough in Chapel Hill now. Randall Brooks, going up the steps to one of his classes, saw Randy Me bane standing at the top. Randall noticed that Randy had on enough war paint to keep an Allegheny up rising going for two weeks and told her that she had on too much lipstick. "You need not worry 'about it, Bud," squelched Randy, "for youH never contact it!" There is that old phrase "personal contact" barging in again and, if I'm not mistaken, that '-is where I came in. Cut Roses EASTER Remember Your Girl With A Corsage We Have A Good Selection of . Pot Plants and Cut Flowers Chapel Hill Flower Shop OPPOSITE POST OFFICE PHONE 4851 NIGHT F-2156
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