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rr Editorials , Compromise Oversight? Only Five Weeks News School Building Frat Rashing Period Kil patrick Speaks t UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA- VOLUME L A Sabscription rates $.50 session $.75 summer CHAPEL HILL, N.-C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1942 Telephone 4351 206 Graham Memorial NUMBER 17 Kilpatrick Asks Spiritual Readjustment "The reconstruction that follows World War II must be a reconstruc tion of spiritual and mental outlook, if the peace is to be a successful one," Dr. William H. Kilpatrick asserted Tuesday night before a crowd which gathered in Graham Memorial to hear him speak on "Cultural Reconstruc tion in the Conquered Countries in the Post War World." "The big problem facing the vic torious nations after the war will be to help remake the attitude of the conquered nations from one of ag gressiveness to one of willingness to cooperate with the rest of the world on the basis of fair play and mutual respect," Kilpatrick said. "This will be an educative process." The job of the United States is to begin now to prepare men to go into the conquered countries after the peace has been signed, to advise and confer with the officials of those coun tries, and so lay the basis for a revo lution in the fundamental attitude of the people. "Re-education is the only way," Dr. Kilpatrick said. "Force wijl not be successful. It is impossible to force a people to give up its ideals." The officials from the victorious nations who undertake this mission will have to be thoroughly schooled in the language, culture, and customs of the conquered nations. Dr. Kilpatrick emphasized the necessity of beginning now to educate persons for the job, each person to be given a different course of study in accord ance with the country to which he is to be sent. He indicated the various University, study groups as a step in this direction. i Post-war conditions in the con quered countries will put the officials of the democratic nations in close touch with the conquered peoples themselves, Kilpatrick indicated. The ; starvation and disease wWchjwiU fol low the break-down of social processes will require the aid of the victorious countries in supplying medical facili ties and food. A second factor that will pave the way for mental recon See KILPATRICK, page 3 Wadden-Afilick Team Wins Mixed Doubles In Ping Pong Tourney The series of ping pong tourna ments, sponsored by the Student Union and directed by Tiny Hutton, were brought to a close Wednesday with the mixed doubles. ' Tom Wadden and Jeannie Afflick were the winners. Wadden and Afflick, seeded number two, arrived in the finals after close matches with Adrian Slaughter and Jean Welborn; Alec Parker and Bunny Turner; and Roger Mann and Martha Urquhart. Their opponents in the final round, Henry Garwes and Frances Ravenel, had previously defeated the teams of Byron Matthews and Anna Wood, El ton Edwards and Sara Leatherwood, and George Shipp and Betty Eagan. The finals were hard fought all the way. Wadden and Afflick dropped the third game 16-21, but took the other three 21-13, 21-16, and 22-20. Previous winners in the tourneys were Byron Matthews, men's singles, Sara Leatherwood, women's singles, Matthews and Hank Foreman, men s -doubles. Former King of La Gonave Serves with Navy School By Tiny Hutton Much has been said about the ath letic heroes of the Pre-Flight unit, but by far the most interesting of them all is a Marine Sergeant, Faus tin Wirkus by name, the gunnery in structor. For Sgt. Wirkus was once known as Faustin II of La Gonave, the white king who ruled over 12,000 native subjects on that tiny Carribean isle. The story goes back to July 1915 when Sgt. Wirkus, in charge of a marine landing detail, first set foot on Haitian soil. The U. S. govern ment had sent two gunboats down there to quiet a native insurrection. A short while later, the U. S. went to war, and the sergeant longed for orders to go overseas. However, a game leg side tracked him in the Indies. Tired of the routine job of acting aa Frat Rushing To Start September 27; Period Shortened Four Days Six-Day Period Moved Up Two Weeks; Silence Rules in Effect for New Students Reduced from a ten-day to a six-day period and placed two weeks closer to the opening of school the fraternity rush season for 1942 will open on September 27, Bucky Osborne, president of the Interfraternity council, announced yesterday. Crowded restaurants and long cafeteria lines, bringing with them the necessity of many boys' eating later than usual, have brought1 about later hours for rush week. Last year running from 7 until 10 o'clock during ' &the week, they now are from 7:30 Restaurants Vote Layoff Of One Day Labor Shortage Brings Agreement Franklin street restaurants will close one day a week to alleviate the labor shortage problem beginning Srn day, nine managers announced last night. At private meetings the merchants decided that all restaurants will close one day a week, but on various days to prevent an accommodation prob lem. Marley's will continue shutting its doors Monday, Campus cafe will close Monday, Caolina Coffee shop will close Tuesday, Marathon will close Tuesday, University cafe will close Wednesday, Harry's will close Thurs day, College Sandwich shop will close Sunday and Gooch's will close Sunday. Policy of the NC Cafeteria will be an nounced when it reopens in September. Managers of the eateries had not fol lowed a previous agreement to close at 12:30 Wednesday afternoons. The decisicifoltov'ed months, of labor headaches and inability to keep res taurants open until . definite night hours. Service has been under par as a result of a continual labor turnover and general shortage of employees. According to the merchants, this move, giving employees a full day's rest on a six and seven-day work schedule, will greatly aid in maintain ing better service and longer business hours. The agreement is effective per manently. Soda fountains and Uni versity dining facilities are not repre sented in the agreement. The one-day-a-week layoff will en able most restaurant proprietors to reshuffle their work schedule so that additional waiters and employees will be working at one time. Teachers Meeting Called on Tuesday The American Federation of Teach ers will sponsor a meeting on Thurs day, August 20, at 7:30 P. M., to talk over the problems facing the teachers trv at this time. Dr. W. Carson Ryan, chairman of the Depart ment of Education, will talk on "The Tpacher Organizations." It sounds dull, but there may be some thing worthwhile therein. The meeting will be held in Room 204. Peabody HalL Both faculty mem bers and students are welcome. After Dr. Ryan's talk, the floor will be open for questions and discussions. - island policeman, Wirkus went to court one morning to watch the trial of a large Negro woman, charged with selling the faith cure of voodooism. The sergeant interceded in her behalf and had her sentence suspended. On a fishing trip one day, Wirkus landed on the island of La Gonavo, a small spot just out of the harbor cf Port-au-Prince. When he learned that the island needed a sequestrator, someone to act as official, tax agent, etc., he volunteered for the job. lie met the large Negro woman on the street of the isle's largest city, Archaie, and learned that she was of ficially known as Ti Meminne, queen of the secret royalty there. She had learned that his name was Faustin, and, the first king of the island hav ing had the same name, believed that See KING, page 4 until 10:30. Following the customary plan, no rushing will be allowed from the time the freshmen arrive in Chapel Hill on September 17, until the opening of the rush season on September 27. Rumors concerning a plan for rush ing before the opening of school were killed by yesterday's announcement. The rules for the 1942 rush season are as follows: 1. There shall be no rushing of any kind from the time that the freshmen arrive in Chapel Hill until Sunday, September 27. In short, the first period of silence begins on Thursday, September 17, and runs to Sunday, September 27, at 2 P.M. 2. The period of rushing shall ex tend from Sunday, September 27, to 12 o'clock Friday, October 2, a period of six days. 3. There shall be a second period of silence extending from 12 o'clock Friday, October 2, to 2 o'clock Sun day, October 4. - 4. Rushing hours: Sunday, Septem ber 27, from 2 o'clock to 6 o'clock and from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock; from Monday, September 28, to Thursday, October 1, there shall be rushing only from 7:30 to 10:30. On Friday, Oc tober 2, rushing will begin at 7:30 and continue to midnight. 5. No fraternity shall extend in vitation "to "a frehman to join before" Tuesday, September 29. 6. On Saturday morning, October 3, before 10 o'clock, each fraternity shall submit a list of those whom they wish to bid. This list shall be submitted through the Secretary of the Interfraternity Council to the Faculty Advisers on fraternities. 7. On Sunday, October 4, at , 2 o'clock, the Faculty Adviser on fra ternities will summon each man who receives a bid to some convenient place selected by him, at which time each man shall appear alone before the Adviser and any Assistants whom the Council may select to aid him, and state in writing his first choice of a fraternity which he would like to join. If the freshman has received a bid from the fraternity of his first choice, he will pay to the Adviser a $1.00 pledging fee, and then be directed to the house Or the fraternity which has bid him. If the freshman does not re ceive a bid from the fraternity of his first choice, he may make another choice immediately or wait to make another choice at a later date if he , so desires. Summer School. Outing Plans Near Completion by Leaders Plans are rapidly being completed for the grand finale to the summer ses sion in the form of an outinsr to Hogan's Lake for the entire student body on the afternoon and evening of next Saturday, August 22, it was an nounced yesterday. "Games and entertainments for everybody will be available and we are hoping for a turnout by the entire sum mer student body and also any faculty members thaf want to attend," Miss Helen Dugan, director of summer ac tivities, stated yesterday. "The only cost for the whole affair will be fifty cents for individual meals to be prepared at cost," Miss Dugan stated but added that no one needed to luy the fifty ceni meal ticket in order to come. Studerts not wishing their meal at Hogan's Lake are invited as well. The tickets are now on sale at the YMCA office and will be sold through the various dormitories and fraterni ties beginning noxt Monday, it was an nounced. Deadline for the sale of the tickets will be next Thursday at noon in order to give the caterers sufficient time to prepare the meals. Free transportation to and from Hogan's Lake will be provided for the Basement Use May Alleviate RobmProblem The administration is conducting an investigation of potential housing space for students in the basement of Steele, first floor of Smith, Hogue House, Hudson House, Archer house and possibly the YMCA in an effort to find rooms to implement the regular dormitories and town rooms for stu dents next year. If the available space in these build ings can be utilized, approximately 100 students can be accommodated comfortably. The University adminis tration will reach a decision by the end of the week as to whether this' space can be converted into rooms for stu dents, it was announced. , At present only one room on the first floor of Smith is used by students. A favorable proposal was made to con vert the large dining room and lounge of Smith into "barracks style" sleep ing quarters. If that proposal is ac cepted, classrooms will be opened to students for study purposes as was done spring quarter. All students will be assigned the usual furniture consisting of bed, bu reau and table in the new . rooms whether the "barracks" proposal is ac cepted or discredited. The University has a surplus of furniture acquired when the Navy remodeled the upper and lower quads using Navy furnish ings. Hogue house, employed by students for living quarters during the regular session, is now being used for storage. The administration investigating com mittee is also considering increasing the capacity of Hudson, located be hind Whitehead dorm, and Archer house, on Columbia street. Use of the upstairs in the Y is also being held as a possibility. Roy Armstrong, director of a com mittee investigating town housing fa cilities stated that "students will have no difficulty finding rooms in the fall. The University can provide adequate housing." ". ;V: . .,v - . .. -. . There will be no increase in the price of dormitory rooms, and if the barracks plan is instituted, the rental will be re duced accordingly. Freshman Council Holds Last Meet OfSummerMonday The Summer Freshman Friendship Council will hold its last meeting of the summer Monday night, in Graham Memorial. This meeting will wind up the activities of the first summer that the organization has remained active. The program Monday night will be a talent show with the members of the organization. There will also be guest artists who are prominent in campus dancing and musical circles. Last Mon day night the program consisted of a quizbee, and the week before Mr. Harry Comer spoke on the subject "The Church in the War." The first social event of the sum mer was a picnic followed by a dance. students in a number of trucks secured for the occasion. Included on the activities that will be available to the students at Hogan's Lake will be croquet games, bridge, horseshoes, and ping pong. In addi tion to these, there will be a commun ity sing, square and round dancing, a feature softball contest between the Men of Mullis, celebrated faculty squad that has run up an enviable won and lost record this year, and a select ed All-Star student team, and a series of acts similar to those put on by the Sound and Fury organization. The outing will start from the YMCA on next Saturday afternoon at 4:30 and will end in the neighborhood of 9:30 that evening. Social chairmen of the women's dorms from whom the tickets may be purchased are Jean Perkins, Jessica Graham, Elithe Outlaw, Jean Afflick, Rebecca Nicholson, and Mrs. W. G. Bram. In charge of ticket sales at the men's dormitories and fraternities are Bert Bennett, president of the student body, Joe Leslie, chairman of the Dance Or ganization Committee, Tom Baden, chairman of the University Dance Committee, and Bo Reynolds, dance committee member. Baptist CMirch, rm .lemporary ToHi use New School to Have 10-12 Rooms; Insurance Settlement Next Week A temporary high school structure to house student victims of Saturday's $125,000 blaze will almost certainly be built, Robert E. Coker, chairman of the Chapel Hill school board, announced last night. , Negotiations are under way to secure Baptist church rooms for use until the new building is completed, Coker said. The school, board met Wednesday night to discuss the building problem. It was ; X 1 TTfc 1 jonnson nana To Play for Ball Tonight Final Square Dance Scheduled Tomorrow Freddy Johnson will front Jimmy Fuller's orchestra in the YMCA court tonight for the summer activities of fice's Summer School Ball. Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Makepiece and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Carter will be chaperons at tonight's dance. The af fair will begin at 9 o'clock and will end at midnight. Kenan dormitory's dance is sched uled for tomorrow night at 8:30. Elithe Outlaw, social committee chair man, is in charge of arrangements. Also salted tomorrow is the final square dance of the summer, at the YMCA court at 8:30. The far-famed Chatham County Ramblers, known for their frozen faces as well as their cowpasture serenading, will "be there with bells, on," .,. .: .. - -. , Three organ recitals will highlight town activities Sunday. Jan Philip Schinhan's concert, postponed from Wednesday, will take place at Hill music hall, Mary Schinhan's will bejbeinS behind the times and must as- at the Methodist church and See JOHNSON, page 3 Activities Schedule Tonight, August 14 Summer School Ball YMCA Court Johnson orchestra 9:00-12:00. Tomorrow, August 15 Kenan dormitory dance 8:30-11:30. Square dance YMCA court 8:30. Sunday, August 16 Protestant interdenominational service Memorial hall 10:00 Union Church service Baptist church 11:00 Organ recital Mary Schinhan Meth odist church 4:30. Music Under the Stars Kenan sta dium 8:30. Organ recital Johnny O'Steen Epis copal church 8:30. Organ recital Jan Philip Schinhan Hill music hall 8:30. Monday, August 17 Community Sing South building steps 7:30. Tuesday, August 18 Dr. William Kilpatrick address Gra ham Memorial 8:00. North lawn swing concert 9:00-10:30. College Humor Enlivens Local Switchboard Vigil By Randy Jennings Blonde little Mrs. Larry Norwood, who holds forth nightly from 7:30 un til 11:30 in the Chapel Hill telephone exchange, asserts that the Chi Omega House probably gets more calls than the other two sororities, while the Phi Delta Thetas and the Kappa Sigmas run a close race for the popularity goal among the fraternities. . "The only time," said Mrs. Nor wood, "that I feel that the job is a little tedious is when I stop to realize that five out of six times that I an swer the phone, it's for 'Information'. Otherwise, well ... I wouldn't trade it for anything. Lots of funny things happen ...and lots of things that aren't so funny, of couse. We'e not allowed to tell the things that we overhear, if they're really personal or important." She plugged a line into a hole be uilding ents commonly agreed that a new tempor- lary structure was the only suitable solution. The new school will probably be built on the site of the razed ruins. It will take approximately 60 days to construct, and will contain 10 to 12 rooms. Adequate building estimates have not yet been received, Coker stated. "The costs will be terrifically but unavoidably high." Definite decisions on construction will not be made until another board meeting in 10 days. " Insurance. settlements on the. old building and wcgpkagi clearing pro ceedings will be completed next week. Insurance payments on the county owned and city-run building is ex pected to be "full," in spite of complete lack of fireproofing. According to Coker, no investiga tion of the cause or fighting conduct of the city's most destructive blaze will be made. "No investigation of our firefighting is needed. The firemen did much more than was expected of them and very inadequate equipment." He reiterated statements by Fire Chief P. R. Perry that the fire's causewill never be known definitely. Coker believes added pressure for better firefighting equipment is im minent after. Saturday morning's costly lesson. "We must riot blame any individual or group for the way we were caught short ,last week. The en tire community is responsible for our B Stud Johnsume ine responsiDUity tor procure ment of adequate facilities." The school board head said that fireproof buildings" in Chapel Hill are the exception, citing only four approved structures he remembered. "We have plenty of firetraps, and something will have to be done about it. There's' no question about that." Air Corps Wings Given 14 Former Carolina Students Taking the initial steps toward win ning their wings as pilots in the Army Air Forces, the following named aviation cadets who have at tended the University are now en rolled in the Army Air Forces Pre Flight School (Pilot) at Maxwell Field, Alabama, where they will un dergo expert military, physical and academic training to fit them for the job of learning to fly cur fighter planes. -, Cadet Samuel E. Belk, 2025 Grove Avenue Richmond, Virginia. '39-40 student and member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and Glee club. Cadet Lewis B. Doggett, 111 South Powell Street, See AIR CORPS, page 4 neath a flickering light. "Chapel Hill?" . . . "It's now exactly 2:29." "On the big dance weekends, we are just about the most popular girls in town, I suppose. Drunks can be either the most entertaining or the' most monotonous people on earth. I've had two or three of them ask for all three' of the girls' dormitories' num bers two or three times in 'succession. "The best one yet, though, is the one who called and asked me if I was the woman who washes. Naturally, I told him he had the wrong number. He sounded like he was in the condition when he would have the wrong num ber. But when I asked him what the' number was, all he said was 'You1 dirty woman'."; The war has brought with it much more business for Mr. Bell's little toy, See SWITCHBOARD, page, U
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