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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1947
Proof Enough
The recent confab between a student delegation and Coach
Bob Fetzer and Chuck Ericson of the Athletic association is
proof enough what can be accomplished by the students sitting
down and presenting their arguments and then reaching a
compromise.
Last year students here along with Georgia Tech, Duke and
others throughout the nation were rather peeved at the manner
in which they were being shoved toward, the goal line. Poli
tical parties on campus had included in their platforms the.
promise that they would strive for better seating arrangements
for the coming season. However, when the seating was ar
ranged for the '48 season much disappointment was observed
when the students did not get any seats in the section that
embraces the mid-stripe.
The Daily Tar Heel corroborated this disappointment with an
article that drew much attention and ultimately led to the con
fab arranged by this publication and the Chairman of the Stu
dent Party.
, The final outcome of the undertaking is nearly 800 seats
closer to the 50-yard line and that is what interests football
enthusiasts.
Job Well done
The only woman director of Graham Memorial student union
will complete her tenure of office Monday. Martha Rice, the
earnest, capable, and hard-working monitor of the Union, will
not be easily forgotten bythe students who used the facilities
of the Union or will it be simple to pass off her two years of
achievements and success with a shrug of the shoulder.
Before, she assumed the Director's duties it had been a man's
job and during her tenure of office it was a man-size job, but
she carried the burdens of responsibility well and built a
smooth-running program of activities for the benefit of the
campus.
Martha Rice will be long remembered for the many features
she added to the Union for student enjoyment. She took the
initiative to form a Graham Memorial orchestra that would be
available for. student dances, and her active part in sponsoring
dances and shows will be remembered for years to come. She
should be commended by the student body for a job well done.
Martha Rice will be long remembered for the many features
she added to the Union for student enjoyment. She took the
initiative to form a Graham Memorial orchestra that would be
available for student dances, and her active part in sponsoring
dances and shows will be remembered for years to come. She
should be commended by the student body for a job well done.
Great Reward
Last ' week representatives from colleges throughout the
country gathered together in New York for the second annual
conference of the Collegiate Council for the United Nations.
Still in the formative stage, this organization has as its . sole
objective the furtherance of the United Nations in every pos
sible manner.
' During a busy week of observing the U. N. at work and plan
ning among themselves, these students completed a detailed
and extensive plan of operations for the Council.
Committees of the Council are to be organized in practically
every college and university under supervision of the various
state headquarters. The North Carolina headquarters will be
formed on this campus under the direction of Lincoln Shiao
Hing Kan, Carolina delegate to the New York meeting. De
tails will be announced in the near future.
Willing, selfless workers are needed for the tasks that lie
ahead of this group. The help of any student who realizes his
or her personal responsibility in the United Nations cause will
be welcomed. The tasks are many but the reward is permanent
world peace. B. A.
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STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE:
EDITORIAL: Bob Sain, Bill Buchan, Bill Armstrong, Dave Garrison,
Robert Morrison, Pete Strader.
NEWS; Charlie Gibson, Bob Sain, Raney Stanford, Frances Hill,
Miriam Evans, Nora Anderson, Roland, Giduz. ,
SPORTS: Billy Carmichael, Jo Webber, Gus Lacy, Leo Wagner, Leon
Mitchell. ,
Night Editor: Bill Lamkin Night Sports Editor: Billy Carmichael
By The Staff
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PHI ASSEMBLY DISCUSSES DISADVANTAGES OF UMSTEAD
ACT: LOCAL 403 OF UP W CIRCULATES PETITION
FOR STUDENTS' SIGNATURES FOR HIGHER
PAY FOR LAUNDRY WORKERS.
Last Tuesday night the Assembly of the Philanthropic Literary Society
again raised the issue of more University control pver mercantile inter
ests patronized primarily by students. The fact that the peculiar situa
tion in Chapel Hill gives merchants here an unusual advantage without
the corresponding initiative to produce better goods arid serVices was
again mentioned, and the conclusion reached by the Phi was the same
conclusion which the organization 8 ;
reached when it discussed a Simi- I orir? wnrlciruy rnndit.ions" for some
lar issue last year that the Urn
stead Act should be repealed for
the best interests of the students.
To those not familiar with this
act, it should be pointed out that it
was passed several years ago by
the General Assembly after, it was
introduced by John Umstead, a
representative from Chapel Hill
who had' been too much influenced
by the lobbying and pressure of the
local merchants, acting individually
and collectively in the form of their
Merchants' association. The Um
stead Act provides that agencies
of the state shall not compete with
private enterprise, but it astute
ly makes an exception to every
agency of the state except the Con
solidated University of North Caro
lina. That students must have special
protection from business opportun
ists in Chapel Hill is manifest, but
this protection can not come in the
repeal of the Umstead Act until
the General Assembly reconvenes
in 1949. Until the next legislature
meets, the students can be protect
ed from unfair mercantile prac
tices and Chapel Hill merchant
monopolies by black lists (official
ly administered by student govern
ment) and by information supplied
during orientation, and afterwards
by student government.
All students realize that most
of the merchants of Chapel Hill are
sincere in their effort to conduct
businesses not only legally honest,
but fair and ethical in every way
to serve the best interests of their
student customers. It is only a
minority which offers a dangerous
threat to a sixty-five-dollar-a-month
student body.
Local 403 of the United Public
Workers, a CIO affiliate, has cir
culated a number of mimeographed
appeals to University students urg
ing that those students sign peti
tions to help secure "decent wages
127 workers (about -65. Negro)
at the University Laundry.
The DTH, told by a laundry of
ficial that the UPW was not recog
nized or approved by the state, was
unable to raise a representative of
that union for labor's side of the
story.
However, these points are made
in the union's petition appeal:
1) University laundry workers
now earn $21.34 each week.
2) Following a 20 raise grant
ed by the state (effective July 1)
workers will actually make less
($19.98 per week), since a previous
ly granted bonus would be absorbed
in the raise.
3) Current wages to laundry
workers cannot keep pace with ris-
ing liivng costs.
and 4) The University is "giv
ing increases with one hand and
taking more back with the other."
No specific examples of bad work
ing conditions were offered.
A laundry official refuted point
2 of the union's appeal. "Some
workers," he said, "will actually
make more when the raise goes
into effect." He did not specify who
"some workers" were.
The official added that the UPW
had "been on the laundry's neck"
with .literature and that the laundry
was simply not "concerned" with
the current appeal.
The situation is, of course, one
of interest to University ' students.
But in this case they are, as is the
DTH, in the middle ground between
management and labor not an un
usual spot .in this labor-conscious
age.
Whether laundry workers are
actually underpaid and are sub
jected to bad working conditions
are Questions that cannot be an
swered until the union puts its
cards on the table and deals in
facts and evidence instead of ac
cusations and innuendoes.
Shades of Shulman
Why is it that humor columnists have
to say, 'We were drinking beer at
Harry's . . .,' to start off something
funny? I can't see it," t said and,
leaving Hermione nervously fingering
her little check book, went back to
join my friend the poet, Athelstan
Boniface.
- 'A die caromed off a salt cellar and
spun to a stop with a deuce showing.
The other had one little black spot
on it.
"God's Wounds!" shrieked Ath, and
sighed a more placid, "oh fudge." Ha
scooped up the dice and flung them
again. He noticed me, and looked up.
"You may be seated, he said. I sat.
"Look here, Ath. I got a problem.
What's funny about this word:
'beer',?"
It must not have been very funny
to Ath because he didn't laugh or
even smile. With a penknife he sol
emnly quartered a benzedrine tablet
and offered me part. I thanked him
and waited for his word.
He ran long, brown fingers through
his lank, black hair and thought.
"Nothing," he finally said.
His big black eyes narrowed and
his nostrils seemed to flare. I could
tell he was going to have another
fling with the muse. The light in the
place seemed to grow dim. Ath rubbed
a finger against his nose.
"Beer," he said, "isn't funny. Let
me recite a parable." His voice was
a tense, melancholy whisper. I let
him.
"It was a beer joint on Franklin.
Smoke brown, blue, blown-out gray
curled and rose, crowding to cloud
the low ceiling. A girl, bloated, beery,
slipped a soft white finger through
the long hair on a young man's neck.
Laughter loud, light, simpering
rattled against the walls and grew
tired and anguished. A waitress,
sweating, warm, slapped a sopping
bar-rag on an empty table, sloshing
beer to the floor. And through the
night, the summer night, the drink
ers sang and shouted and whispered
and teased their girls. Outside the
plate-glass window the insects came
and circled and buzzed against the
neon and slapped with fragile wings
at a yellow, tear-drop streetlamp.
"And through the night, the sum
mer night, the drinkers teased their
girls and talked in low voices and the
girls put strands of hair in their
mouth-corners and toyed coyly, as
outside the insects, lured by light,
flung themselves against the yellow,
teardrop streetlamp.
Comes the Dawn
"And later the dawn, coming gray
and damp up the empty street, found
the beer joint empty and outside the
sidewalk strewn with broken in
sects." After a moment's silence Ath
rubbed his wide, sad-lipped mouth.
"There's nothing funny about beer,"
he said, "order us a couple," and he
let the dice fly against the wall.
This time they came up 13.
Problem Solver
'King Lear' Rules Board
But He's Not A Dictator
By Robert Morrison
(Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of sketches about sig
nificant personalities at the University.)
Today's column must necessarily take the form of a public apology. It was
over a year ago, when I was the editor of this newspaper, that I wrote an
editorial about "King Lear" (more formally called Prof. Joseph Merritt
Lear, M.A.)' in which he was blamed for the poor circulation of the DTH
and the inability of the Publications S
Union board to solve the pressing
problems of student publications.
Since writing that editorial, I have
served as president of the Publica
tions board, and today I testify that
King Lear is the only wall between
student publications and bankruptcy.
He's indispensable to the Publica
tions board, although he's far from
the dictator who most students think
he is.
Beer Is Sad, Says Poet,
But Order Me One Anyway
By Bob Sain
Hermione, the anarchist hashslinger, spoke confidentially into my ear.
"Your friend the poet, Athelstan Boniface, has been sitting in that booth
back there for three hours and twenty minutes trying to roll 13 on that set
of crooked dice. He can't do it."
Apropos of nothing I said, "Hermione, my proletariat passion flower, tell
me. Why is it that the word 'beer' is so ripsnorting funny? Why does the J
mere mention of 'Schlitz' or 'Bud' in a bunch of newsprint entitle the writer
to the mantle of Marquis of Thurber?
Leads the Way
Many are the times that-the Pub
lications board has been in earnest
session, locked away from everything
in a little office on the fourth floor
of New East or around the great
table in the Grail room, and the
"King" has straightened up in his
seat, cleared his throat a little, smiled
knowingly, and stated the problem so
concisely and conclusively that every
member felt a little ashamed that he
himself had not thought of the same
thing sooner.
Many members of the staffs of stu
dent publications hate the King bit
terly, but I know of no reason for
their hatred other than the fact that
the King doesn't like to see student
money flying around loose in tj
hands of every editor, managing edi
tor, cub reporter, and office boy. This
is a typical interview between a busi
ness manager and the King:
Typical Interview
B. M.: "Dr. Lear, I think that the
salary of the business manager
should be increased 10."
King: "Yes, and on what grounds
do you claim an increase?"
B. M.: "Well, it's a lot of hard
work, and, ah, the price of living is
up, and perhaps the paper may want
to expand, and . . ."
King: "Is that why you have never
collected for those ads you sold five
months ago?"
B. M.: "Well, ah . . ."
King: "Or failed to turn some of
your collections over to the auditor?"
B. M.: "Now . . . uh . . . ah . . .
well ..."
King: "Or failed several times to
make your deadline at the print
shop?" B. M.: "It just happened to hap
pen, that's all."
King: "Why has advertising de
creased so much since you became
business manager?"
B. M.: "The guy last year was
lucky, that's all."
King: "And most of the guys be
fore him must have been pretty lucky,
too, for they all sold more ads than
you are selling."
B. M.: (Mumbling to himself as
he leaves the office.) "That blank
Lear, he's trying to throttle student
initiative, that's what! Blankety
blank!"
KLAISS RESIGNS
Dr. Donald Klaiss has resigned his
position in the sociology department
to accept a similar teaching post at
the University of Arizona.
Write Away
Due to the limitation of space all let
ters from the reader must be lesai than 250
words in length and typed double space
whenever possible. Letters must be signed
'by the writer with address and phone
number, however, their name will be with
held upon request. The editor reserves the
right to delete any obscene or libelous mat
ter. "Smell Is Fidel"
Teachers, generally, stand for free
dom of expression. They may not be
very adept at the use of tfTe type
writer in expressing themselves, but
they use it any way.
One teacher, of the many here on
the campus who have expressed
themselves about your article by Fi
del, is interested in having his say
about the matter. The say is given
herewith:
TO FIDEL
(With apologie sto no one)
They say there are places
Where the presence of faces
Of teachers makes the place smell.
It now transpires ,
That the muse who fires
The mind to wite poetry well
' In 12 e is fired and has inspired
To write that smell is Fidel.
If she'll blow the foam off
Of all of that cheap scoff
That makes use of such words as
"hell,"
She'll find that her troubles
Blown off like those bubbles
Reveal that that smell IS Fidel.
A SCHOOL TEACHER
'Kiss of Death'
If the kind of thinking embodied
in Wednesday's WRITE AWAY let
ter by Jerry Pearson does not fairly
represent the views of the average
member of the Southern Conference
of Human Welfare, the organization
should, in self-defense, publicly re
pudiate his support. If Pearson's let
ter does exemplify SCHW thinking,
then the Committee on un-American
Activities "was SO RIGHT!
Right or wrong, the characteriza
tion of the SCHW made by the Com
mittee will probably stick in the mind
of the average citizen until such time
as the SCHW awakens to a realiza
tion of the fact that support from
Communists is the kiss of death to
any genuine liberal organization.
BILL PATTERSON
Enlist Today
Dear Editor:
I think today's $64 question is
whether there has even been a War
Department propagandist such as Mr.
Bill Buchan who thought the national
"crisis" was so great or felt his con
victions enough to enlist. The recruit
ing offices, Mr. Buchan, can be found
in Durham and Raleigh at the post
offices. They stay open till five.
ROBERT NEILL
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