| Show Professor Runs Novel Bookshop At Al Chapel Hill New Idea Put Into Effect in North Carolina 1 Students May Brow Browse e or or Buy Buyas as Choice hoice Dictates Chapel Hill N. N C. C Dy C.-By By New Student Student Student Stu Stu- Service I the dent Service I believe that reading of good books Induces the buying of books and that owning of books is Is a part of ones one's education tion On that theory Howard Mumford Jon Jones s 's established th time the Bulls Bull's Head Bookshop shop on the thee University of North Carolina campus Howard Mumford Jones is professor proCessor of English English English En En- glish and a good one But that Is In in- He Is above all a person of Ideas and his Ideas have had not nota a small part in making the Chape Hill university a center of real learning In the south and the university university university uni uni- the intellectual center of the state The Bulls Bull's Head Bookshop in name has a glorious so sound und like the Mermaid Tavern for instance instance Actually Actually Act Act- Actually Its spirit Is more nearly akin to the famous tavern than to a bookshop book book- shop For Howard Toward Mumford Jones is not trying to grow rich by selling books He wants to see Ideas grow and gain nourishment In his shop Room Murphy Hall that's the bookshop It has a professors professor's office and out of the line of student fic It was not decorated upon opening open open- ing with costly curtains or other and addenda to take talce the curse of the academic off it as Mr Jones says sas Some day it will have all that But Dut it is coming slowly for Cor the bookshop Is not a moneymaking moneymaking money money- making enterprise It is a book center where students aided by volunteer librarians come to browse or to buy as they choose That is all Mr her Jones asks He wishes to interest the students in books and If the they buy and there are profits well enough That means more books can bt be purchased and Murphy decorated somewhat So far much to the surprise of well- well meaning persons who warned against the venture the sales have been steady and fairl fairly heavy So itIs it itIs Is said th there re are now curtains on the windows Perhaps there are arc some easy chairs too Mr Jones needed courage for his plan because the southern public Is not very much Interested in books North Carolina is a bit more learned learn learn- ed than its sister states yet et even ven evenIn evenIn In Chapel Hill the one store that dealt In general books s had to give up for lack of customers The sale on cheap magazines however was heavy very heavy Howard Mumford Jones decided that book reading must be ed So the Bulls Bull's Head Bookshop was opened to meet the demand for other than text books and to simulate sim Mists a demand where none existed before On a profit non-profit basis for anyone concerned and backed bythe by bythe bythe the university book exchange as a worth worthy educational enterprise the bookshop was ready to lose money But Dut it didn't i and it thrives I |
