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'Wxv IT EDITORIALS: U O Liberalism FormnlaUd w Political Machinery I7 MiJdlm piii.':V y- jitrt tceatkerl THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 VOLUME XLVH EDITORIAL PHONE 4351 CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY: 15, 1939 ECSDTES3 mOSl 4156 NUMBER 103 4 3 M fi i ! i i r . v -v i ; NEGRO COLLEGE STUDENTS TO BE HERE FOR JlEET Inter-Racial Panel Discussion Set For Tonight At 8:30, With an attendance of students from A and T college, Bennet college in Greensboro, the North Carolina Col lege for Negroes, and Woman's college in Greensboro, the inter-racial panel discussion, jointly sponsored by the YMCA and the ASU, will be held this evening at 8:30 in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. -Definite word had not been receiv ed at press time whether Walter "Pete" Murphy, legislator from Row an County, would be one of the guest speakers. Paul Green, eminent play right, and Dr. Guy B. Johnson, mem ber of the University sociology depart ment, have promised to be among the audience which will take part in the forum duscussion. SIX SPEAKERS The six speakers will discuss the problem of higher negro education, primarily as the subject has been pro voked by the recent negro application to the University . Graduate school. Both the negro and white students in the audience will be afforded the op portunity to express their opinions on the question directly after the speak ers have concluded their talks. The men and women are : Dean James Tay lor of the North Carolina College for Negroes; Dr. Nathaniel Dett, profes sor at the Bennett college in Greens boro; Harry Comer, secretary of the YMCA at the University; Jane Cas sels, University graduate student; arid Frances Jones, student at Bennett col lege in Greensboro. Besides being a professor am i'nnett college, Dr. Dett is an accomplished musician, having been a student under Mme. Boulanger in the Fontainbleau school of music. He is considered to be one of the leading negro composers in the nation todays and has also tak en part in several student-worker con ferences, the last of which was at Dur ham this fall. Dean Taylor has been active in YMCA activities, both at the University and throughout the state. Miss Jones attended the World Youth conference in Poughkipsie this summer and is the daughter of the president of Bennett college in Grens boro. Miss Castles is a member of the YMCA Industrial council, and has taken active participation in inter (Continued on last page) WC FROSH WILL MAKE VISIT HERE Friendship Council To Entertain Girls Freshmen of the Women's College YWCA are scheduled to arrive on the campus at 3:30 Saturday afternoon, to take in a program of entertainment the University Freshman Friendship council has been planning since the beginning of the current quarter. After the men meet their dates, blind President W. T. Martin, of the Freshman Friendship council, an nounced last night that there are still some girls coming over from Greensboro on Saturday without dates. AH Freshman Friendship counselors without dates are re quested to go to the office in the YMCA, where the necessary ar rangements can be made. and otherwise, the group will re assemble in the Playmaker theater to hear the Rev. Dr. Don Stewart, who 13 pected to speak on boy and girl relationships. The freshmen will take the Greens boro girl3 to the freshman smoker to held in Swain hall at 8 o'clock. Having been such a success at the first freshman smoker, Professor Bill 01- has consented to speak to ! the 0UP again. A dance at Graham memorial from 8:30 to 10:30 will conclude the formal arrangements for entertainment for the night. The girls will leave for Ureensboro at 11:30. A list of the Greensboro students "no are coming. is in the hands of a- Martm, president of the coun ' ari those freshmen who want to for a girl are urged to see Mar- " or some other officer of the council. 1 students who sign for dates are nested tr, k . " l. ' ;1 hen the - - w ai, uruuaui uieiiiuiM" girls arrive. Date Set For Student F Above are several scenes snapped April 25, the date having been set yesterday when the holiday committee met tees, and complete, its membership. gleteatfon Set Foi ffiC ADMITS 14 rWfllSlBERSTO FILL VACANGl Club To Have Last . Meeting Of Quarter In Memorial Tonight Fourteen new members were ad mitted into the International Relations club yesterday afternoon according to a report received from John Rankin, uhairman of .the membership commit tee. These new members fill . the va cancies of those who did not return to school and those who were dropped from the IRC membership role. The quota of 60 members is now filled. The new members are: Adrian Spies; Shelley Rolfe; Norman Gans- len; Louis Harris; Ray Hutchinson; Joe Dawson; . Harold Warshaw; Al Barber; Virginia Reynolds; Arthur Link; Ed Prizer; Joe Darrocatt; Ern est Morris; Wellington Lewis. Those who were not admitted will be con sidered again "when new vacancies arise. The club will have its last meeting of the quarter in the Grail room to night at 7:30. AH members are re quested to attend. A new secretary will be elected; IRC keys will be de cided upon; the William and Mary conference will be discussed; several will be added to the boards and a new board will be drawn up. Except for board meetings the club will not meet locally again this quarter. Read ing material will be available also. The ,various boards will meet directly after the meeting. IRC ROLL The IRC membership roll in addi tion to the newly admitted persons now includes the following: William Borders; Tinga Bower; James E. Bry ant; Phyllis Campbell; Betsy Clark; Dorothy v Cobie; Melville Corbett; Beth Crabtree; Ben Dickens;-Mar garet Evans; Dexter Freeman; Peter Gernsheimer; Frank Givan; Doris Goerch; Alma Grant; Sam Green; John Hampton; Olive Cruikshank; Thomas Holmes; Marion Igo; Walter Kleeman; Stuart Issacs; Eleanor Jackson; J. M. Justice; Lincoln Kan; (Continued on last page) Next On Student Entertainment Miss Emma Otero, Cuban Soprano, Is Touring Nation Will Appear Here With Orlando Barera, Italian Violinist By LOUIS HARRIS When, Miss Emma Otero, young Cuban soprano, appears on the Stu dent Entertainment program to be held Monday evening, she will be in the midst of a tour of the United States, which- is supplementary to a successful triumph in eight European capitals. Miss Otero will be featured jointly with Orlando Barera, Italian violinist. In a review of a concert which she rendered in Lowell, Mass., on January 18, the Lowell Courier-Citizen stated: "The singer's voice is naturally a good one. It early attracted the attention of musicians in her native Cuba, and its notable flexibility has grown with practice and experience. There is a (Continued on page two) acuity Day ' M - M'. 'yJ- - - - Kin . - l-ltf p on last year's Student-Faculty Day. The ... Same General Program Planned For This Year Setting April 25 as the date for the fifth annual celebration, the Student Faculty Day committee met yesterday afternoon and discussed program plans, named subcommittees, and com pleted its membership. Co-chairmen Olive Cruikshank and Pudin Wales called the first meeting in order to begin work early in prep aration for the event. SAME PROGRAM " The same general program as has been conducted during the past Student-Faculty Day celebrations will be continued. Plans call for a morning coronation of the king and queen and dormitory open house. In the after noon an intramural recreational pro gram will be held with various ath letic contests between students and faculty. Later in the evening the fra ternities willhold open house for the faculty. At night the popular Jambo ree will be given in Memorial hall, fol lowed by a costume ball in the Tin Can. Student members of the committee are: Miss Olive Cruikshank and Pud din Wales, co-chairmen, John Clark, James Davis, Jim Joyner, Felix Mark ham, Brooks Patten, Joe Brown, Bob Magill, Miss Elizabeth Malone, Morris Rosenberg, and Marvin Allen. Faculty members include: Dean R. B. House, Dean F. F. Bradshaw, Fred Weaver, H. F. Comer, E. L. Mackie, Harold Meyer, W. A. Olsen, H. K. Russell, J. M. Saunders, Herman Schnell, Wm. Deb MacNJder, and Wal ter Spearman. SUB-COMMITTES The sub-commitees, as apopinted by the co-chairmen are: Coronation Committee: Miss Eliza beth Malone and Harold Meyer, co chairmen. Luncheon committee: James Davis and H. K. Russell, co-chairmen. Jamboree committee: W. A. Olsen and Joe Brown, co-chairmen. Fraternity Open House committee: John.Clark and E. L. Mackie, co-chairmen. Dormitory Open House committee: Felix Markham and Fred Weaver, co chairmen. Dance Committee: Jim Joyner and . (Continued on last page) University Band To Hold Concert Representative music of both the classic .and modern schools will be performed by the University Concert band at its annual winterconcert in Hill Music hall on Wednesday, Feb ruary 22. . . Fpr the past several years, the band, an 80-piece organization, has made a jiumber of . tours throughout the state, and plans are again underway for a series of concerts in both, the eastern and western parts of , North Carolina. ' ' J " Membership into the" Concert band is by the try-out method which in sures a good instrumentation and near perfection of the ability of the per former. As in the past, the concert is open to everyone without admission charge. celebration will be held this year on to discuss plans, name subcommit April 25 BOAKE CARTER MAY SPEAK ON CAMPUS IN APRIL Newscaster Tells CPU He Plans To Answer McNinch Possibility that Boake Carter, well known radio news commentator, will come to this campus sometime near April 1 was expressed yesterday by Townsend Moore, treasurer of the Carolina Political union. Moore, upon returning from Phila delphia, where he interviewed the newcaster, said that Carter expressed the desire to answer the speech made here by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Frank R. Mc Ninch January 26. Carter said that t ne had gone over the" McNinch ad dress thoroughly and claimed that the commissioner had made many statements in the speech here which he would like to refute. PLANNING TRIP The commentator is planning a four-week trip Jto Europe at end of the month during which he will in terview Adolf Hitler, Bentio Musso lini, Josef Stalin and Neville Cham berlain. He told Moore that it would be impossible to make any definite engagement with the CPU until he returned from Europe. Carter previously made tentative arrangements to speak under CPU auspices in September and later in January but was forced to call both off because of business engagements. STRING QUARTET TO APPEAR HERE Coolidge Ensemble Will Play March 6 The Coolidge String quartet will give a concert at the University on Monday evening, March 6, through the courtesy of the Elizabeth Spra gue Coolidge Foundation of ; the Library of Congress. Established in 1925 by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Cool idge, this foundation provides, among other things, for the conducting of periodic festivals of music, the giving of concerts, an dthe offering and awarding of prizes for original com positions. ; - " - The quartet, composed of William Kroll, first violin, Nicolai Berezowsky, second ' violin, Nicholas Moldavian, viola, and ; Victor. Gottlieb cello,- has been heard in recital all over the coun try and in numerous radio broadcasts from the' Library of Congress' and under private auspices. It takes part each spring in a music festival from the Library of Congress in Washing ton and; has been featured for the past two years at the Pan-American festival in . Mexico. The organization appeared at the Berkshire festival in the fall and this season will travel as far as Honolulu and give-a cycle of all the Beethoven quartets ' at the University of California in the spring. It will also play at the San Fran cisco and New York world's fairs. The appearance of the group in Chapel Hill will be one of five 'pro grams given in as many southern states on the present tour. 7 . Four Student Leaders Advance Definitions Of "Liberalism" In TownMeetingPanel Discussion MAY FROUCS - DATE CHANGED Chairman Watt Miles announced last night that the date for May Frolics has been advanced a week and that the annual dance set was definitely scheduled for the week end of April 21 and 22. He explained that this change had been made at the request of Maestro Larry Clin ton, the 1dipsy-doodleT, whose or chestra is to furnish music for the occasion. The former date for the series was April 14 and 15. With the announcement of the transferral of the Frolics, came word that the Freshman dances scheduled to be held on the week end of April 21 and 22, have switch ed dates with the Frolics, and will now be held on April 14 and 15. COMMITTEE TO ' HEAR PUBLICATION FEE CRITICISMS Group Of 3 Will Make Report To Student Legislature Any student, graduate or under graduate, who has any criticism of compulsory publication fees may pres ent his case to the Student legislature publications commitee at 2 p. m. to day on the , mezzanine of the YMCA, Volt Gilmore, committee chairman, has announced. . , The, commitee, composed" of Legis lators Gilmore, Tim Elliot, and Mitchell Britt, will hear student opinion on the fees and study the fi nancial structures of the publications. REPORT TO BE GIVEN Its report to be given on the fee structure, including any recommen dations for changes in charges made students or changes in allotments among the publications, will be given at the legislative session next week. Gilmore explained yesterday that his committee is "a manifestation of the legislature's interest in student representation in all student affairs any paying fees for the Daily Tar Heel, the Yackety-Yack, the Maga zine, and the Buccaneer is very def initely a major student affair." Among questions the committee will consider are proportional allotment of the fees to the four publications, the justification of the size of the exist ing publication fee, and the legality of charging "all students compulsory fees. Playmaker Tryouts Set This Afternoon Tryouts for the Fifty-Ninth Ex perimental Bill - of New Plays is scheduled for 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Playmaker theater instead of at 4:30 as announced yesterday. Stu dents interested in acting are urged to try out for the three new plays selected for production. The three j?lays to be presented are "Twilight Song," a play of religious superstition, by Donald Muller; "Pas que Flower," a play of the Canadian prairie, by Gwen Pharis; and "Kid Sister,' a domestic comedy of adole scence, by Wieder Sievers. - : - Tryouts - will begin promptly at 4 o'clock arid : casts will be - posted on Thursday.1 .-s. - - Bringing 'Em Up A club for the prevention of juv enile love was announced yesterday by D. S. Carroll, of 212 Old West. Carrol said the club would meet every Tues day evening in his room- The club was organized after Car roll received a valentine from an 11-year-old : Pittsboro girl, the younger sister of another young lady' whom Carroll had been visiting. The valentine also contained a short romantic note. "If I cant get the one. I want, IH get the baby and bring her up like I want her," Carroll said. Audience Takes Part In Debate On Related Subjects By JIMMY DUMBELL Marked by four individual defini tions of the word "Liberalism," sev eral references to the Derry incident and a discussion of the editorial policy of the Daily Tas Heel, a town hall meeting was held in Graham memorial last mgnt for a discussion of the ques tion of liberalism on the campus which was raised by the last issue of the Carolina Magazine. The program was begun with a panel discussion by four student leaders which was followed by an open forum in which members of an interested audience participated. The program, which was presided over by Bob Magill, presented John Kendrick, chairman of the Human Re lations institute and a graduate stu dent in Economics, as the first speak er. Kendrick,-who spoke on "A Criti que of Liberalism," opened his speech with the statement "I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as liberalism." He went on to explain that in his opinion, there was no absolute definition of the word "liberalism" and that it was more of a label which could be applied to many people. SECOND SPEAKER The next speaker on the platform was John Creedy, editor of the Caro lina Magazine, who spoke on "Are We Being Educated?" Creedy opened his address with a statement to the ef fect that he thought the present sys tem of note taking in class .was prac- -tically useless in that it retards the process of thinking. Different some what from the usual proceedure he then asked the persons in the audience to tell why they think students come to college. The answers he received were : "To obtain a basis for criticism in later life," "To learn a trade," "To equip oneself for facing "the world in later life," for social advantages and for the opportunity to participate in athletics. In answer to the statements he received from several members of the audience, Creedy observed that "The average student doesn't know yhat he wants; he comes to find out." The floor was then turned over to Jim Joyner, president of the student body, whose topic was "Is Student Government Effective?" Joyner re viewed the systems of student govern ment which have been in effect in the past and then suggested that perhaps student government arose out of a philosophy of liberalism. Joyner then turned to the subject of the recent Derry incident in which several students delivered slanderous propaganda during a speech by Dr. George Derry, an anti-communist. He mentioned at the same time the re cent case of a group of students par ticipating in a proposed lynch mob. He explained the action taken by the student council in these different cases and then explained why the students were found guilty of violation of the campus code. The council, he explained objected not to the content of the Derry pamphlets, but the manner in which they were distributed. - Allen Merrill, editor of the Daily Tar Heel, speaking on "What Is Lib eralism?" opened his address with the comment that there was an element of humor in attempting to answer the question and also said that there was an element of tragedy in the fact that it cannot be defined exactly. Merrill (Continued on last page) Handbook Editor Will Be Chosen Aspirants for editorship of the 1939-40 Freshman Handbook should obtain application blanks from the YMCA office, President Brooks Pat ten . announced yesterday. .The ap . plications must be turned in by Feb ruary 25 " and the faculty commit tee on the handbook will make its choice before the spring holidays. The editor must be at least a sophomore and must be a member of the YMCA, Patten said. Written ' applications will be considered by a committee of four from the "YMCA board of directors. On the committee are Dean F. F. Bradshaw,. chairman. Dean C P. SpruilL Jr Dr. E. L. Mackie, and Alumni Secretary J. M. Saunders. Is .4.1 . i " i t I j I 11 : : ? i t i i i! 1 i ' 'I, , 1 : i V) J hi )