The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-26
BY JOHN SELBY
APP Features Writer

CHAPEL HILL, N. C. June
26.-If a battle wagon were TO
steam UP the tiny creek that
runs through the woods back OF
the University of North Caro-
lima stadium and fire a broadside
into the village of Chapel Hill.
it wouldn't change the village
map more than the Navy already
has changed if.
Even when 1000 naval pre-
flight men are segregated as are
those in Chapel Hill, they make
their mark. In addition a hun
dred young officers attend an
indoctrination school each month,
and 275 pre-meteorological army
boys are domiciled here. And
next fall practically every one
of the 400 young men on the
campus will be actual or poten-
,tial service men.
Girls Still Remain
Only the 800 girls who normal
ly complete their junior and Sc
nior years in Chapel Hill viii
De LETT to continue the ancient
tradition-and the WAACs and
the WAVES are after them
Education is the main industry
of many small American towns:
but In Chapel Hill the Ur1iver-
sity is the village, quite liter
ally. II teaches or employs
nearly every person in the place
1t owns the telephone system,
the lights, the laundry, the only
hotel, the water system. There
are about 5000 people here now,
and the University is their Great
White Father.
Perhaps because of this fact.
the University is used TO quains
situations. Still, nothing like this
ever happened here before
New Problems Arise
Imagine the Navy roping off
almost half the campus. Imagine
the commanding officer being IN
a position to say, I'VE need an
other floor in such and such a
building" and getting It For
that matter, imagine 1000 young
men getting up at $50 every
morning and going to bed at 9
every week night for 3 solid
months with not a moment 20
slip into a Franklin street drug
store for coke.
From Saturday noon to Sun
day night the boys have shore
leave, and then the picture
changes. They have their own
movie. They take over the local
barber shops, when BARRIERS snip
steadily until the shears drop
from numb hands.
The stores do business. but
the stocks are different. Navy
/ ties and shirts and socks replace
remnants and North Carolins
blazers. Grocers sell TO boarding
house keepers, but these have ma
val instructors land students
! thrown out of their dormitoriesl
as guests these days. And the
.University's Carolina Inn Strug-
giles to care for visiting relatives
as in the past, but these are NJ
I longer worried over Johnny
grade in Astronomy /.
Frat Houses Taken Over
Next fall exactly one dorml'
tory will be left TO the Univer-
sity, and very likely all but one
or two fraternity houses VIII DC
rented to Uncle Sam.
Sunday mornings parents stu
pass their home-going children
in the interval between Sunday
School and sehHEehss IA -
the parents wear gof6 Sr'ssc
One of the most beautiful stads
-~~-
! in uniform shall render the NH
tary salute" The Supreme Cour
decided the instant case IN har-
mony with that law. The pres
mas never published that law Z
member of your profession said
few years ago. I'VE have becom'
literary prostitutes.
If you have respect for tn
truth you will publish this lettel
n your paper as a correction q
your editorial.
Yours for Constitutional gov
eminent,
]. E. CARNEY.
Key West. Fla.
June IS, 1913.