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f ri GRAIL DANCE 9-12 P. M. BYNUM GYM SCHENCK INITIATION 5:30 P. M. GRAHAM MEMORIAL SESVED BY THE UNITED PRESS VOLUME XLIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 NUMBER 113 mm FRESHMEN DEFER PROPOSED HONOR COURTQUESTION jf Class Votes for . Tribunal, It Will Also Name Method of Selecting Members. PLAN FAVORED BY COUNCIL The freshman class voted yes terday to pospone decision on the proposed honor court until it assembles again Monday morning. If the class decides to lave' such a court, it will then Tote on the method for selecting the members. Nick Read, chairman of the honor court committee, . asked the freshmen to consider the fol lowing methods of selection and be prepared to discuss and vote on them Monday: 1. That the class delegate to the executive committee t h e power to elect the .members of the council. 2. That the class allow the ex ecutive committee to nominate 22- men, from which the 11 men cn the court will be elected by the class. 3. That the class elect a nom inating committee from the en tire class, with the president and chairman of the executive com mittee acting as ex-officio mem bers, to nominate the 22 men. Weathers States Approval Virgil Weathers, president of the student body, speaking for the student council, told the freshmen, "We are heartily in sympathy with the proposed honor court and sincerely hope that it succeeds." Tete" Mullis, president oi the freshman class, presided and called on Nick Read . who presented the report of the honor court committee. The honor court, as it is pro posed, will have 11 men repre senting the five schools : four from the. college of liberal arts, three from the commerce school, two from the engineering school, and one from both the phar macy school and school of ap plied science. A member of the student council will act as an ad viser. Freshmen convicted of cheat ing in their own honor court will then have the .opportunity of appealing to the student council. Law Library Gets Full Data on Gold Cases Briefs, Majority-Minority Re ports, and Comments on Hand. The law library now has the full reports on the gold clause cases on which the U. S. Su preme Court handed down an opinion this past Monday. These reports include the majority opinion as delivered by Chief Justice Hughes, and the dissent ing opinion as delivered by As sociate Justice McReynolds. The library also has the briefs on the respective cases, prepared hy Attorney General Cummings and heard by the Supreme Court on January 8 and 9. These re Ports and briefs, together with newspaper and magazine com ment, may be secured at the law library desk. However, they cannot be taken out of the read ing room. Composition Exams All students who plan to take the examination for the removal f composition conditions are f sked to see Dr. H. K. Russell in 203 Murphey Monday from 10 10 11 a. m. or 3 to 4 p. m. iAW FRATERNITY INITIATES TODAY Judge Michael Schenck Will Be Inducted at 5:30 O'clock. Judge Michael Schenck, asso ciate justice of the N. C. Su preme Court, will be initiated nto Vance "Inn, University chapter of Phi Delta Phi, inter national legal fraternity, today. The initiation will take place in Graham Memorial at 5:30 o'clock which will be followed by a banquet at the Carolina inn. Officers of Vance Inn are William Vass Shepherd, Ral eigh, magister; Peter Hairston, Advance, secretary ; H. G. Con nor, Jr., Wilson, clerk, and Frank Wilson, Winston-Salem, historian. Among prominent alumni ex pected for the exercises are Judge E. E. Rives of Greens boro, and Judge George W. Con nor, associate justice of the N. C. Supreme Court. T TO SEND NINE TO FAYETTEVILLE Deputation Team Will Make 15 Appearances in Four-Day Stay; Leaves Thursday. Nine campus leaders will rep resent the University Y. M. C. A, when it sends its deputation team to Fayetteville Thursday, according to an announcement from Harry F. Comer yesterday The team will make 15 appear ances during its four-day stay in the eastern town. Its visit will include talks to clubs churches, schools, and to a mass meeting Sunday afternoon of the boys of Fayetteville. Personnel Included in the team, which will leave Chapel Hill Thursday afternoon, are Lee Grier, Fran cis Fairley, Don McKee, Bill Yandell, H. F. Comer, and the James Dees quartet composed of Claude Ballard, John Walker, Harold Gavin, and Dees himself. Comer and the quartet made the recent "Y" deputation trip to Dunn with Jack Pool, chair man of the Y. M. C. A. deputa tion group. Pool recently an nounced that a complete pro gram with deputation trips planned for each week-end (ex cluding the period for examina tions) was being drawn up. Pool, as chairman last year, led his teams over the state con tacting more than 25,000 people. He plans to beat his record with the new program outlined for the remainder of this year. OPERA A broadcast of two operas, "Don Pasquale" by Donizetti and "La Serva Padrona," by Pergolesi, from the Metropoli tan Opera House in New" York, will be heard in the choral room of the Hill music hall today at 1:40 p. m. VANCE INN ITIATION White-wigged and black robed figures presided over the initiation of students to Vance Inn of Phi Delta Phi, international legal fraternity, last night in Graham Memo rial. Those lawyers who were elected to the fraternity are Alex Andrews, Clement Ben nett, Mark Dunn, Ralph Gard ner, John Higby, Chapin Lit ten, Nicholas Powell, Virgil Weathers, and John Williams. F.D.R. PROMISES PERSONNEL MEN Huey Long Abuses Farley, Vio lates Press Release; House Pushes Bonus Issue. Washington, Feb. 22: (UP) There was joy in the camp of the Democrats tonight, for they were promised today by Presi dent Roosevelt that a personnel man was to be appointed for each government board and agency. These job-finders will not only' listen to Democratic Congressmen wanting jobs for their constituents, but they will listen respectfully. Speaker of the House Joseph T. Byrns said that some 10,000 jobs would be available for sup erintendents and foremen of CCC camps. The Senate and the House completed action on the Conally "ho? oil" till and sent it to Roosevelt for his signature. Amendment Deleted The House passed a $378,000,- 000 war department appropria tion bill after removing an amendment previously voted which would have increased the army's enlisted strength by 11,- 000. More than 100 representatives signed a petition to force a vote in the House on the $2,015,000,- 000 soldiers' bonus bill. If 217 sign within the next few days, a vote will be forced on March 11. The Louisiana Loudspeaker, Huey Long, gave tongue tonight in the Senate to some of the most profuse and extreme abuse ever recorded from the floor of that assembly. Using everything included in his vocabulary short of repressed profanity, he de nounced Postmaster - General i"Big Jim" Farley as a "cheap , . crook." He then proceeded to crive excerpts from an ill- gotten press release of the speech that Farley is scheduled to make tomorrow. Newspapers throughout the country refrained from quoting Long, holding that the Delta Dictator had violated an ethical trust. Fiddlers, Bards to Have Three-Day Festival Arranged by University Insti tute; Will Begin Wednesday. A three-day old-time music convention, arranged by the In stitute of Folk Music at the Uni versity, will begin Wednesday at Cranberry high school, near Elk Park, N. C., according to an announcement by Richard Chase, associate director of the institute. - Striner musicians, ballad singers, those who can sing the old time hymns of the "all-day singing with dinner on the grounds" type, and others who just wish to attend and listen-dn are invited to the festival. Fiddlers, banjo-pickers, and string bands will be featured on the opening day. Ballad-sing ing and old "love songs," tradi tional children's songs and other secular pieces will characterize the following day's program, and the third day will be given over to sacred music. Infirmary The following students were confined in the infirmary yes terday: Nancy Flanders, C. H. Woodburn, Irving Landon, Stewart Parker, W. M. Fletcher, R. F. Blount, J. P. Jenrette, and Ralph Gardner. Political Union Definite arrangements for the program of the first meeting of the newly-formed Carolina Political Union are not yet complete, Phil Hammer, temporary chair man, announced yesterday. The hitch in the program has been the failure of speakers invited to partici pate to answer invitations. However, it is expected that definite plans will be an nounced in tomorrow's is sue of this newspaper. Monday night is the ten tative date for which the first meeting of the union is to be held. This will be changed, however, if an out side political speaker can not be obtained for that night. The rest of the program will be given' over to final organization of the new Union, Hammer announced. Proposals will be submitted for organization by the tem porary committee appoint ed by the chairman for that purpose. Ancient Heritage To Add To Author's Drama Achievements Philip Parker's Play Is Among Three Originals to Be Pre sented Next Week. Philip Parker, Carolina junior who came here this fall from Bowdoin, has received frequent recognition in his five months with the. Playmakers. His orig inal drama, "Ancient Heri tage,' will be presented next week on the Playmakers bill of new Carolina plays. . Parker first appeared before Carolina students last fall in the Playmakers' production of Karl Capek's "R. U. R." After having several of his originals produced experimentally by the Playmakers, Parker again came to the front with his portraya of George Brent in the latest Playmakers production, Noe! Coward's "The Young Idea.'V Three-Play Program His latest recognition with tne Kocn outiit was tne an nouncement recently that his Ancient Heritage" would be produced, along with two other outstanding originals : Patsy Mc- Mullan's "Cottie Mourns" and Ella Mae. Daniels' "Yours and Mine," on the bill of new Caro lina plays, scheduled to be pre sented Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. . His play concerns his native New England and New English aristocracy. The author's love for his own locale and its tradi tions led him to write a story de picting two members of his own family. These two women, Car rie and Sarah Bancroft in the drama, have carried on the tra ditions which have lasted through New England history since its beginning in 1620. DR. GEORGE ADDRESSES STATE COLLEGE BODY Dr. W. C. George of the Uni versity medical school address ed the faculty and graduate stu dents in the biological depart ments of State College yester day afternoon. I His paper was a discussion of some of the problems involved in contemporary investigations of the structure and function of the blood cells. TAX SUBSTITUTE IS NOT APPROVED Senate Committee Chairman Finds No Slerit in Plan. Raleigh, Feb. 22. (UP) At the conclusion of the hearings by a joint finance committee on the McDonald-Lumpkin sales tax substitute, indications were that none of its sections would be adopted. Chairman Harris Newman of the 'Senate Finance Committee told the United Press, "Hear ings have convinced me that there is no merit whatsoever in the plan." The House in a lively session today debated the Senate reso lution to invite former Gover nor Cameron Morrison to ad dress a joint session. They fi nally passed the resolution, bearing an amendment chang ing the time to Wednesday at 8 , m. GRAIL GIVES HOP AT MNETONIGHT Freshmen May Attend Third Winter Dance; Wardlaw, Ex Campus Boy, Will Play. With another of a' long line of distinguished . orchestras that have originated at the Univer sity furnishing the music, the third Grail dance of the winter quarter will begin tonight at o'clock in Bynum gym. According to Simmons Pat terson, treasurer of the Grail, freshmen will be admitted. Since Jack Wardlaw left the University with, his band they have toured Europe and have es tablished themselves as one of the most, popular bands on tne eastern seaboard. At present they are on an extensive tour of southern colleges and universi ties from their winter location at the Hotel Patrick Henry in Roanoke, Va. Vocalists Rate Featured vocalists with the band are Lucile Gregory, Bob Bland and Roland McKellar. Bland was given an excellent rating by the Columbia Broad casting system in an audition last summer over their network. Miss Gregory is one of the most outstanding feminine singers appearing with a southern or chestra. - The dance will last from 9 un til 12 o'clock. Tickets are priced at $1 and are now on sale at Pritchard-Lloyd's, or they may be bought at the door tonight. Knight Leaves Today To Meet Educators Will Speak at Atlantic City Education Conference. Dr. Edgar W. Knight, direc tor N of the summer session, leaves today for Atlantic City, N. J., where he will attend the winter meeting of .the National Education Association, which begins Sunday. Dr. Knight will speak to the executive committee of the Nat ional Society of College Teach ers of Education. He will also attend the meet ing of the National Council of Education, prominent body to which he was elected last sum mer. He will return Wednesday or Thursday. B. Y. P. U. Program A group of W. C. U. N. C. stu dents will conduct the weekly program of the B. Y. P. U. to morrow night at 7 o'clock in the Baptist church. " NYE. TO DISCUSS WAR PROFITEERS TOMORROW MGHT Prober of Munitions Companies Appears Here under Auspices of University Y. M. C. A. SPEAKS FIRST IN RALEIGH United States Senator Gerald P. Nye will address the Carolina student body tomorrow night in Memorial hall at 8 o'clock on the subject of ''Munitions Prof iteering, etc." Nye's appearance at the Uni versity is being sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. The North Dakota senator will address a peace group in Raleigh tomor row afternoon and will come to Chapel Hill for dinner tomorrow night in the Carolina Inn. x Was Chief Prober "Munitions Profiteering, etc. will , deal with the Senate inves tigation of the munitions indus try in this country. The Senate investigation committee, which group Nye headed last summer, recently revealed startling facts concerning DuPont and other munitions manufacturers. The Senator's lecture will give Carolina students a chance to hear from the "investigator" himself many of his findings. Nye, a leader of the minority in Congress, is an advocator of dis armament, provided the disarm ament steps are taken by loyal citizens not biased by stock-con tact with the munitions industry. Glass Houses ... that was defeated by Congress that the United States should . TT7 11 - 1 TT 1 join tne worm tourr. lie De- neves xnat America snouia ciean up her own back yard before forcing herself and her plans for international peace on the rest of. the world. The North Dakota Congress man has become known as the "Progressive Republican." He has had an outstanding career as a journalist and entered na tional politics only during the last ten years. rrrYi7"CTTrYr ttttatc RUSSELL TUESDAY Writer-Teache Will Give Regu lar Bull's Head Lecture. According to an announce ment from Elizabeth Johnson, director of the Bull's Head Bookshop in the Y. M. C. A., Professor Phillip Russell will appttr uxi uie regular iuesuay afternoon lecture program in the Bookshop next week. Russell, author of several books and outstanding, as a writer, will address the Bull's Head audience on "Preventive Writing." The speaker is" the teacher of the creative writing course. The class meets for two hours each Thursday night in the Bull's Head where the Tuesday lecture will take place. FOREIGN BULLETIN London, Feb. 22. (UP) Sir John Simon, English foreign secretary, planned tonight to hurry to Berlin, and possibly to Moscow, to act as a peace-maker between Russia and Ger many. The British government ex pressed alarm at the blunt charges of official organs in Moscow that Germany was hun gry for war and that Hitler was preparing to seize territory in eastern and central Europe.
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