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rl f ,t . Pag-e Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1947 Interdormitory Shack At long last action will be taken to examine the possibilities of establishing a recreational building for the use of the resi dents of the men's dormitories. The new interdormitory coun . cil, headed by Frank Hassell during the summer months, has gone into great detail to investigate the problems of construct ing such a gathering place and the fate of the project will be decided Thursday night. The problem that rests before the Council to weave "into a . final pattern is this : Should the Council attempt to raise funds and build a shack here within a stone's throw of the dormi tories or should the structure be erected on one of the sur rounding lakes Hogan's lake, University lake or Eastwood? The seven-page dissertation that was prepared for considera- tion by the Council overlooked an important factor. The men's dormitories do not have any space lor recreation no recep tion rooms or lounges. An effective interdormitory shack should also serve in these capacities. It should house ping pong tables and other amusements for the use of residents of the dormitories as well as facilities for weiner roasts and organ- ized parties. Men should have some place on campus to enter tain their out-of-town guests. If the. proposed project-were not established on campus it would not be of the greatest benefit to its potential users. If it were placed on one' of the lakes out of town it would be used only during the weekends and individuals would be faced with transportation difficulties even then. The Interdormitory council should investigate and see if it is feasible to obtain the old Navy wrestling pavilion near Eraep son field. -The UVA used the framework of a similar pavilion and built their clubhouse that has been quite satisfactory. The location of the pavilion would be ideal for an interdormitory shack and would house facilities that the dormitories fall short of providing. r ,WW'iW'MWJJWJ'.' ' s - " mw' wwMfiTiiinpiwiini"nimiii"';lT"lww'!' S 9 ' f. s 9 - " rVif; 4 v4 I5 The University and its student union owe a great debt to the late Ames Brown, '10, distinguished alumnus and benefactor of the University. For without the generous assistance of this farsighted philanthropist, Graham Memorial might have "for many years remained incomplete. It was in 1931 that Brown donated $80,000 for the comple tion of the campus' first student union, built as a memorial to his devoted friend Edward Kidder Graham, past president of the University. The union had for many years lain in a half built state due to the lack of funds for .its completion from any source, when Brown, former White House newspaper corres pondent and Pan-American Airways publicity director, made , the anonymous gift which permitted the completion of building the union. Would it not be fitting to hang his portrait in Graham Memo rial along with those of his contemporaries, Dr. Frank Graham and Edward Kidder Graham? R. G. Bell of the Halls Hundreds of belles are now making their appearances on . campus, but one bell that all are concerned over was a little . late in making her debut this term. She was the South build ing bell the bell of the hall that draws a winning smile and low whistle sigh from both students and professors. Many of the professors have been cutting their classes short and not giving the student his full value of his tuition fees a practice that is frowned upon. A few have taken the other extreme and have lectured forth until nodding heads cushioned with the vibration of the uvula and the palate. For years the bell has been the signal for a turnover. It has come to be a campus tradition and has been termed in dispensible. She is welcomed back to the halls since her make-up is re paired. ' W$t 2Sattj Hat Heel REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISINC3 BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADI60N Ave. New York. N. Y. CHICAOO BOSTON LOS ANSELES SAH FRANCISCO Member Pbsocfcrfed GoUe6ia4e Press The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it ia published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods; daring the official summer ttrm, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under 'the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per college year; $3.00 per quartr. BARRON MILLS : .- .- Editor BILL LAMKIN - - - Managing Editor IRWIN SMALLWOOD ; Sports Editor HOWARD BAILEY ... - Business Manager JOE ALLAN - Circulation Manager STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE: EDITORIAL: Dave Garrison, Bill Buchan, Roland Giduz, Jimmy Wallace. . NEWS: Nora An3erson, Robert Sain, Frances Hill, Ed Oka, Louis Nicoud, Charlie Gibson, Raney Stanford, Miriam Evans. SPORTS: Bill Carmichael,. Leon Mitchell, Carroll Poplin, Gus Lacy. BUSINESS: Eaton Holden, Mary Willis Sledge, Jackie Burke, Julia Moody. f Night Editor: Bill Lamkin Sports: Imin Smallwood The Third Part A portrait of Dr. Archibald Henderson Newsweek Lauds Henderson Outs (Editor's Note: The following article appeared in last week's issue of Newsweek, and is print ed intact with the permission of the magazine.) John Steele Henderson, a Pitts burgh engineer, once journeyed down to Chapel Hill, N. C, to visit his famous brother, Archibald, head of the mathematics department of the University of North Carolina and official biographer of George Bernard Shaw. Aware that his brother never spared himself, the engineer merely glanced at the studio floor, which was covered with books, sheets, and charts, and inquired brightly: "Well, what book are you" writing now?" Dr. Henderson smiled: "I'm writ ing four," he replied. "When I get tired I just go from one to another." Far from regarding this as .an exaggeration, friends of Dr. Hen derson accept the story as a typical illustration of his tremendous ener gies. A faculty member for 49 miming wor Hi years, and department head for 27, the .."cosmopolitan villager," as someone once tagged him, has kept his admirers wondering when he would retire to take things easy. Last week word got around Cha pel Hill that the time had come at last. On June 17 Dr. Henderson will be 70. He has asked the University administration" to relieve him of his duties as department head. Retire ment, however, is another matter. The v professor will continue to teach, and meanwhile he will con tinue his extended researches into mathematics, literature, and Amer ican history. As for writing, he still had loads of work on schedule; a two-volume history of the opening of the Amer ican West, a book on the creative spirit in playwriting, and an un numbered lot of monographs and magazine articles. Like his . hero Shaw, Dr. Henderson still felt he had something to say. Veterans Forced To Quit Schooling For Lack Of Funds, Survey Reveals . Approximately .300,000 veterans who have entered American colleges and universities under the G. I. Bill of Rights have been forced to drop their studies because they could not support themselves or their families on gov ernment subsistence payments, reports Joseph North, editor of the New Masses, in a recent issue. Mr. North, who recently returned from a month's tour of campuses and trailer villages from Yale to Wisconsin, during which time he spoke to more than 1,000 veterans and their wives,- non-veteran students and professors, found the veteran-students in "dead ly earnest" about their studies and showing "phenomenal staying pow ers" despite the tremendous burden of maintaining themselves and their familiesv. "Over a million and a half of America's college students are former soldiers," reports Mr. North. "Nearly half of them are married and well over a quarter are parents. Most of them strive to live within the provi sions of the G.I. Bill of Rights $G5.00 for the single, $90.00 for 'the mar ried . . "I have a job, but it plays hell with my studies," one student told the writer. "I operate a telephone at one of the frat -houses. I get seventy-two cents an hour and work twenty-one hours a week . . . I go to class from nine to two; then I work from four to eleven ... I get home about mid night ... I work every other day, so that on alternate afternoons and evenings I can study . . . I'm major ing in History and English, hope to get a job teaching in college. I don't know whether I can stick it out, though. I haven't got folks that sup plement my subsistence pay . . ." The burden falls most heavily on the married vet, writes Mr. North. "On the campus at Yale I saw a stu dent in his aviator's shqrt leather jacket leading one child by the hand, toting another on his shoulders. I peered through the windows of the trailer camp at the JJniversity of Wisconsin to see a vet pouring over his books while his wife bent over a crib. For most, both married and single, the daytime hours are a con tinual jog from classrooms to the restaurants where they wait on table or to dark basements where they tend furnaces, or to any available tasks that will eke out the pennies to make ends meet ..." Desperate to learn, filled with "the sense of dreadful hurry" due to the years lost while in service, the vet eran students are excellent scholars, Mr. ftorth found. "A professor at Syracuse told me that the single vet studies harder than the youth fresh out of high school without war ex perience; that the married vet studies harder than the single man; and that the married vet with a kid or two studies harder than all combined . . ' Mr. North concludes: "It is a ser ious campus today; uneasy, disturbed, restless, brooding . . . Never before, I was told and what I witnessed underscored the testimony has there been such questioning. Skepticism is general; values are endlessly, chal lenged . . . the student of the twenties was inspired by the dream of ... a Wall Street career juggling ticker tape . . . Most were preoccupied with the social whirl of the fraternity and the five-letter man was the univer sity hero . . . Today's student can give you the name of the CIO presi dent quicker than he can that of the head of J. P. Morgan and Com pany ..." 1 CONSERVATIVE CL.UB MEETING The Carolina Conservative Club will hold its first Summer meeting Thurs day evening at 7:30 in Roland Parker lounge No. 2, Graham Memorial. All members are urged to attend this im portant meeting. Other students in terested in the Club" are cordially in vited to attend and join the discus Dial F-3371 for newspaper service. U. S. Atomic Plan Is Core Of Harmony in World Today . By Jimmy Wallace It has been said that Russia has been the foremost proponent of interna tional cooperation and understanding far out in front of all other nations in modern times. . Certainly there is much evidence which can be adduced in support of this statement. The behavior of the Soviet Foreign Office after the Great War plainly indicated Russia's desire for peace and understanding. This view prevailed through the time of Musso-S- lini's march into Ethiopia, and Fran co's march through Madrid. But what about today? The situa tion has changed little in relation to squabbling nations. We still have them. The second World War has momentarily removed two" of them from discussion; but it appears that there are as many conflicts and mis understandings between the United States and Russia today as there were between all the nations before the recent war. Isolationist Position' It must be admitted that the United States adopted an isolationist posi tion after,-World War I. But it must also be admitted that our present posi tion is more strongly international than ever before. The "reactionary and Fascistic," the "decadent and capi talistic" United States has shown its willingness to cooperate internation ally. But it appears that Russia has .be come more isolationist and national istic than ever before. Andrei Gromy- ko, the blustering ambassador speaks of "disarmament" and treaties "to out law Atomic warfare," much in the same manner as did Kellogg and Bri and after the first war. The world saw then that mere treaties did no good. We are faced with a situation in which the two most powerful countries in the world are at odds : about eco nomic systems, about politics, but most important of all, about the Atom ic Bomb. The United States pro duced the Atomic Bomb before any other country. We thereby produced the greatest problem of the century; more likely, the greatest problem in the history of the Human Race. Recognized Problem The United States government has officially recognized the magnitude of the problem and has also produced a pla nto control Atomic Energy. We have offered to give up some of our "sovereignty" in the interests of ev erybody, everywhere. Truly, the Ache-son-Lilienthal-Baruch proposal has been made in the best of faith. It is the only plan thus far mentioned which appears workable. But Russia is opposed to giving up her sacred veto power in matters in volving the peaceful application of atomic energy. Russia doesn't like the idea of thorough-going inspection. Russia proposes a plan to "outlaw" the use of atomic weapons. Henry Wallace proposes that we give up the bombs, destroy all of them that we have in bur possession, and thereby show our good faith. We should, in other words, completely disarm- first. Anyone who hopes to achieve this is not particularly bright. The Ameri can plan is the only sensible answer. What is wrong with this logic : if Rus sia does not have the bomb, and we of fer to entrust the whole works in the hands of an international body, with sufficient power to develop Atomic En ergy for peaceful purposes, what does Russia have to lose by coming in? Nothing. WE are the ones who are losing something if one wishes to put it that way. But suppose that Gave Me Beer Homesick Lassie Longs for Songs From Danziger's By Violet Fidel Danziger's was crowded with school teachers. There was no place for me. So I wandered up the street to Jeff's. Everyone is entitled to a few youth ful indiscretions. In Jeff's I' found Foo Giduz, Bob Hennessee and Charlie (he couldn't remember his last name) to indicresh with. "Boys,". I said, "Chapel Hill is changed. It hasn't gone to the dogs. (Far be it from me to stray into Kin berg's pound) it's gone to the school teachers, it's gone to the Freshmen, it's gone to Boy's State. If Sherman came South now, he'd take the Silver Meteor home. Summer school stinks!" "Sit down and have a brew," they said.' I sat down. I ordered a Viennese coffee. "Outlander," said Aggie, "Either drink beer like a lady or get the hell out." They gave me a beer. With Vien nese Coffee one sublimates. But beer one can cry into! 4 "I don't mind school teachers," said Hennessee comforting me, "I have fond memories of them. Two of the memories encountered me in Graham Memorial, but I was younger and sprier and could run faster. . ." "Ugh!" said Charlie (who couldn't remember his last name) as we order ed another round. "I don't mind Freshmen," said Foo Giduz, the perennial freshman, toss ing his little green cap in the air. "If they don't get any more sense they can always write for the DTH like I do. . ." "Ugh!" said Charlie (who couldn't remember his last name) as we order ed another set. "I dont mind Boys State," said a character who staggered in from the next booth, "I was in Boy's State See HOMESICK LASSIE, page S. Russia either has the Bomb or ha3 hopes of soon manufacturing one? That; apparently is the situation. Therefore, Russia stalls while the Bomb is developed. Why does Russia stall? That is an interesting question. But I would be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that if Russia gets the Bomb, she will never agree to inter national control. And when two nations such as Rus sia arid the United States square off, both with Atomic Bombs, there will not be much of the planet left when they are through. Thus, the great spokesman of inter national cooperation Is, by its actions today, insuring another war, and the great "reactionary, capitalistic" Uni ted States is proposing a plan, the core of which is essential if we are to have even 20 years of peace. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Spouse ; 6 Light 8 Greek letter 12 British Red Sea base 13 Blame 14 Boy 15 Advocate ot realism 17 Stage whisper 19 First settler 20 Highest bridge score 21 Practice ! 22 ? It for eating ,28 bicln growth ,27 Change 28 A diphthong 29 Hall! 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