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mzzl fDITORIALS: O Appropriation TTEATHER: I f Cold vrinds strike again y and rain depart SJ Decrease -THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 yOLUMEJXLVII EDITORIAL PHONE 435 1 CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939 ECSIXES3 PHONE 4156 NUMBER 86 1 Clark Eichelberger To Speak In Memorial Hall This Morning On Results Of Lima Conference Speaker " CkrK M. Eichelberger, regarded as an authority on world affairs, will speak in Memorial hall this morning on "What the United States Got Out of the Lima Conference." He attend ed the peace conference in Lima last month. GROUP SENDS OUT QUESTIONNAIRES ON EXAMINATIONS Committee Begins Collecting Data On Comprehensives Questionnaires to collect informa tion necessary to give a clear and ac curate, picture of the system of. com prehensive examinations have ' been issued to members of the faculty, by the Committee on Comprehensive Examinations. '. - On action of the faculty last spring the committee was appointed to col lect sample copies of comprehensive examinations and data concerning the actual administration of the system in order to study the situation and make pertinent recommendations to the faculty. Dr. A. R. Newsome, head of the History department, is chairman of the committee. HEADS QUIZZED Department heads are asked to sub mit copies of comprehensive examina tions given by their departments in the last three years and to answer Iuestions as to whether the examina tions are written or oral, how long they may last, by whom the examina tions are compiled and graded, wheth er or not the identity of the student is known to those who grade hisj papers, and what the experience of the department has been in regard to failures. All members of the faculty are ask (Continued on page two) Tickets Go Fast For Tennis Match Only a little over 1,000 tickets re gain in the general admission sec tion for the Budge-Vines tennis match to be played in Woollen gymnasium Wednesday night at 8:15. . General admission tickets are on at $1.00 each, while students th passbooks may purchase ducats r ?o cents as long as they last, en the remaining 1,000 seats are gone, -whether they are purchased by students or outsiders, all seats will le on sale for $1.50 each in the re- ?:-::-ft-:-x-! ' ..:-yy-yy1.v.:.::-y v"c section. ' WAITING FOR 4,000 Almost 4,000 seats will be ready f0r customers next week for this sports event. Of these, 1,500 have set aside for general admission, and a little over 2,300 are in the re served stands. feSmce the start of ticket sales a tj k Weeks ago, over a thousand c ets have been purchased by stu fi s and outsiders at the ticket of J one- This does not include any oth S hich my have made by. J agents throughout the state. AkhIELD MAY REFEREE firm a h the rePrt was not con" ea yesterday, it is expected that (Cntinued on page two) Speaker Regarded As Authority On World Allairs Clark M. Eichelberger, director of the American League of Nations association, will speak on the topic of "What the United States Got Out of the Lima Conference," this morning at 10:25 in Memorial hall. Eichelberger, who has just return ed from Geneva and from the peace conference in Lima, is considered one of the most distinguished American students of foreign affairs, is a lead er of a movement in the United States which emphasizes the necessity of co operation among nations as opposed to the isolationist group, is a cavalier of the French Legion of Honor and a frequent consultant with officials in Washington. FOR WORLD PEACE Recently returned from Europe, Eichelberger was instrumental in or ganizing relief for refugees from Ger many, Austria and Czechoslovakia. He has often been recognized in Europe for his services in the cause of world peace and declares himself a friend of the movement in the South to in crease interest in international rela tions. , The speaker is. being sponsored jointly by the YMCA, International Relations club and the Southern Coun cil on International Relations. The public is invited and especially those students, taking, economics, sociology and social science. I, Having spent much time in Europe, Eichelberger is considered an expert on all phases of international rela tions and has made an extensive study of present conditions existing in Eng land, Germany and Italy. He comes here after an engagement in Durham where he spoke last night on the topic "Will War. Follow Munich?" EVERETT STEVENS TO GIVE CONCERT Graham Memorial Sponsors Program In connection with its attempt to familiarize the campus with clas sical music, Graham memorial will present a concert by Everett Stevens, young pianist-composer, Sunday after noon at 5 o'clock in the main lounge. Stevens will play a group of selec tions by 18th and 19th century com posers, including Beethoven, Liszt and Ravel. He has for the past seven years been a student at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, studying piano under some of the mmt. nntpd teachers and composers in this country. He received his early training in Washington, his birth place, under Mme. Marie von Un schuld, the former court pianist of Roumania. PRIZE-WINNER Besides having his compositions presented by leading symphonic or chestras, Stevens was the winner of first prize in piano-playing at the Peabody Conservatory of Music last May. Stevens has been lauded by many music critics. The New York Times says of Stevens: "he combined an adequate technique and a deliberate (Continued on page two) Alterations Made In Venable Hall Alterations are now in' order for Venable, the chemistry building. One of the basement rooms is being par titioned to make larger quarters for the department glass blower. Being the only glass blower in this vicinity, the local agent has been so bus filling orders from the Univer sity department, from Duke and other customers, that his old location has become too small. The other part of the partitioned room will be used for advanced analytical chemistry. The 20-student graduate chemistry of five years ago has increased to 42. In order to accommodate everyone the room once used for the chemical en gineering - department, now in Ra leigh, has had a second floor con structed, dividing the room into a basement room used for industrial chemistry and an upper floor for or ganic research students. - For Student Entertainm 'vvi S S ' J- S Eugene Loring, as "Billy," with two seen tonight in Ballet Caravan's production "Billy The Kid." The company, featuring native American material in first national tour. This performance entertainments. - Lobby Against Tuition Increase To Gather Final EvidenceToday GWYNN DISCUSS NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL PROGRAM Professor Suggests i Addition Of Grade, Varied Curriculum - "The only ultimate solution to the problem of adding an extra year to the North Carolina school curriculum is to move in the direction of addi tional local support for a school pro gram which the State is finding it now impossible to carry alone," says Dr. J. Minor Gwynn, University professor of education in an article in the current issue of "North Carolina Education," official organ of the North Carolina Education association. Entitled "The Twelfth Grade Whither?". Dr. Gwynn's article gives the results of tests performed during the past eight months to determine the feasibility of adding another grade to the present curriculum. ACHIEVEMENT Dr. Gwynn's study showed that North Carolina seventh grade pupils are just below, even with, or just above the level of achievement of pu pils at the end of the seventh grade in other sections of the country. These North Carolina students, how ever, he points out, are at the end of elementary education, while pupils in other states have another year to go (Continued on page two) When Off-Court Ellsworth Vines Plays Golf But Don Budge Hears "Jive ' 9 Weight 186 pounds; height 6 feet 2; name Ellsworth Vines, Jr.; occupation foremost professional tennis player in the world and undis puted king of the pro net ranks; present position in match with Don Budge, challenger for the crown. But that description far from typifies Ellsworth Vines, the lanky Calif ornian who turned back not only defeat on the courts but inher ent limitations to reach his present fame. Vines is a native of Pasadena, California, born there on September 28, 1911. He is fairly old for the fast game he plays, but age evidently has not yet caught up with his mad pace. A NATURAL Vines has, besides the natural ability to play tennis, . the physical equipment necessary for success. Possessing an unerring sense of rhythm and timing through years of experience, he has developed a ver satile ability in sports. Only recently, he made public his desires to attain a berth on the Walker Cup team for he is almost as great a golf enthusiast as he is ten (Continued on page two) ent J - of the "Rancher's wives," who will be ballet form, is this season making its will open the winter series of student Representatives From Each County Called To Meeting With a meeting this afternoon of j students representing all counties in the state, the student lobby protest ing the proposed tuition increase will wind up its campaign and gather ad ditional evidence to be used at the committee hearing on the issue next Tuesday. - --'fa, "An urgent plea ,to . students inter ested in combatting the measure was voiced last night by Lobby Chairman John- Rankin who asked that they come to the Phi assembly hall on the fourth floor of New East this after noon at 5 o'clock to complete the final plans of the lobby. The. chairman said that an attempt will be made to have each county of the state rep resented either by a single student or by a group who, as representative students of their county, will write let ters to the Appropriations committee protesting the raise. LAST CALL Rankin also issued a final call for personal stories from students now enrolled who would not be able to return to school if the increase goes into effect. "We have received a num ber of good reports of this kind," he said, "all of them from students who would be unable to bear the increase, but we will be able to make a better selection of these 'case histories' if we have more of them, to chose from. I cannot overemphasize the importance of these reports as evidence, and I (Continued on page two) Tennis is hardly John Donald Budge's only occupation for the Calif ornian is one of the nation's well-known jitterbugs. No, he doesn't drink, nor does he smoke, but his favorite hangouts are night clubs for the music. And, strangely enough, although the world's amateur king knows just about all the band lead ers and musical lingo possible he's not a lover of the light fantastic ' especially big-appling. The music af fects his brain and soul at once but cannot penetrate the entire sixv feet one and one-half inches to his feet. On his professional tour through out the United States, strict training might keep Budge from attending the night clubs but a mere matter of training cannot stop his love for rhythm. He carries with him on tour a portable phonograph of the latest model with a complete line of the latest swing recordings. At the close of his matches, Jitterbug Budge has a little private "jam" session in his hotel room before retiring. UP AND DOWN Publicity advances for the match (Continued on page two) President Of Associated Press Will Address Opening Session Of StateNewspaper Institute Annual Meeting Gets Underway This Afternoon The 15th annual North Carolina Newspaper institute will get under way at the Carolina inn this after noon, and tonight the state press will hear one of the foremost American journalists, Robert McLean, president of the Associated press. McLean, who publishes the Phila delphia Bulletin, is scheduled to speak shortly after 8 o'clock in the opening session of the institute. His subject has not been anounced. He will also be heard at a luncheon gathering of the Associated press club, to which publishers, managing editors, and tele graph editors are invited, at the inn at 1 o'clock. REGISTRATION After registration at 4 o'clock this af ternoon, the institute will open with a public meeting in the ballroom of the Carolina inn. Dean of Administra tion R. B. House will welcome the delegates and Talbot Patrick, presi dent of the North Carolina Press association, will respond. After Mc Lean's address, an informal fellow ship will be held before the lobby fireplace. - The institute will continue through Saturday morning. A banquet session will be held Friday night at Duke university, but the other sessions of the meeting will take place at the Carolina inn. " THOSE BEFORE McLean is inherently a newspaper man. He is the eldest son of the late William L. McLean, publisher of the (Continued on page two) 0LSEN TO DIRECT BIRTHDAY DANCE Group To Complete Sponsor Selection Professor William A. Olsen, mem ber of the University English depart ment, has accepted an appointment as master of ceremonies for the Presi dent's Birthday ball to be held in the Carolina inn Monday, January 30. Having taken part in numerous village and campus activities, Profes sor Olsen has become well known for his keen wit and humor. He will of ficiate at a program of round dancing in the inn ballroom. MEETING TODAY This afternoon a meeting of the af fairs executive committee for the ball will be held in the lounge of the inn at 4 o'clock. E. Carrington Smith, "general chairman, will preside. Selection of campus and town sponsors will be completed this week and announcement of the girls chosen will, be made in the Daily Tar Heel Sunday morning. Sponsors will se lect escorts to participate in a formal figure. A dance orchestra and a square dance band will be engaged within a few days. The committee plans to ob tain a University dance band for the ballroom event. Gone With The Wind Chosen Best Novel Margaret -Mitchell's best seller of last year, "Gone with the Wind," once more received noteworthy mention, when Drs. Spearman's and Russell's clases in journalism and book review ing yesterday voted that novel the best they had ever read. Following close behind was "Of Human . Bond age," written by W. Somerset Maug hm; .and two of the late Thomas Wolfe's works, "Look Homeward An gel" and "Of Time and the River." . James Joyce's exiled "Ulysses," Dante's "Divine Comedy," John Gals worthy's "Forsythe Saga," Stephen Zweig's "Marie Antoinette," Margaret Halsey's "With Malice Toward Some," and Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native" also were given recogni tion by the potential book reviewers. Frosh Pictures 1 Group pictures of freshmen ' whose names come between C. B. Idol and M. R. Mendelsohn will be taken for the Yackety-Yack in Hill Music hall at 10:30 this morning. Institute Guest . -six 'najBiiiwt' Paul McLean, president of the As sociated Press and publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, speaks tonight at the first session of the North Carolina Press institute. BALLET CARAVAN WILL INTERPRET MODERN DANCES Artists To Offer American Themes On Tonight's Bill Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Caravan will present "Billy the Kid," "Filling Station," and "Pocahontas" tonight at 8:30 in Memorial hall under sponsor ship of Tthe "Student' Entertainment committee Ballet Caravan, founded to develop a native American ballet and to em ploy American themes, dancers, and Student entertainment passbooks will be distributed for the last time today from 9 to 5 o'clock in the cashier's office, South building. musicians, is this year making its first national tour. "BILLY THE KID" "Billy the Kid," which deals with the story of the' pioneer outlaw, will feature the former Broadway actor, Eugene Loring, and the first dancer and ballet master of the troupe, Lew Christensen. Loring, author of the prize winning "Yankee Clipper,'' will dance the leading role. Aaron Cope land, well known symphonic composer, wrote the musical background. Christensen, inventor of "Filling Station," will also dance the leading role. In this ballet, the document of the life of a typically American filling station operator is portrayed, centered around the story of a murder. Virgil Thomson, who composed the musical (Continued on page two) Relations Group To Plan Session This afternoon at 5 o'clock the operating committee for the 1939 Human Relations institute will meet at the YMCA to discuss plans for the coming session which will be held here during the week of April 2-8. The committee, made up of faculty representatives from University de partments whose courses relate close ly to institute topics and students who rep'resent leading campus organ-, izations, will be divided into sub committees which will be delegated to organize and direct the various phases of the. institute. SUB-COMMITTEES The sub-committees are as fol lows: forums, to arrange afternoon discussions and luncheon and dinner sessions; publicity conservation, to take notes and preserve the informa tion contributed by institute speak ers; exhibits; interviews, and a stu dent secretary to provide assistants to each speaker; entertainment; handbook distribution; and classroom seminars. f The following students are mem bers of the operating committee: De Witt Barnett, Ralph Bragdon, Mar garet Evans, Edward Farrish, Voit (Continued on page two)