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Inter-Racial Discussion Group
Adopts Resolution To Admit
Negro Graduates Immediately
Challenger
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Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, fiery
president of the Sophomore class,
yesterday challenged the Junior class
to a basketball game. All arrange
ments are being made by Reddy
Grubbs.
LOCAL TOWN HALL
GROUP WILL HOLD
REGULAR SESSION
National Network
To Give Program
On Civilization
The. local meeting of the town hall
group this week will follow its usual
proceedure of gathering to listen to
the national. broadcast on which will
be heard two' prdminent'speakers"; A
local discussion will, be held immedi
ately after in the Graham Memorial
Immcp. TTip nrnorrnm nll bpcHn at
9:30 tonight.
I The topic of tonight's speakers will
pe "nas iwentietn fjentury uivuiza
tion Improved Mankind?" and the
speakers will be William Lyon Phelps,
dean of American men of letters and
Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of ap
plied Christianity and noted author.
The local discussion will be lead by
George Mowry of the Social Science
department.
TONIGHT'S TOPIC
The topic of tonight's discussion is
one which is expected to create much
interest and furnish material for an
entertaining discussion. According to
a bulletin released by the Town Hal
advisory service, there is no doubt
that mankind today is much further
advanced than it has ever been before
but the idea behind the discussions
tonight will be to question whether or
not man is really better off now than
he was in the cave-man days.
The two speakers who will be heard
tonight are considered to be well
versed on the topic. Dr. Phelps is
said to be the best known of all speak
ers appearing on the American plat
form today. He is the author of 18
books and holds 13 degrees from vari
ous colleges and universities. His syn
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Educational Survey Shows
High School Students Are
Not Adjusted For College
Efficient Guidance Program
Is Needed For Adequate
Preparation
By LARRY LERNER
A good portion of high school. stu
in the state did not receive the
ye of training they desired, a recent
educational survey conducted jointly
y the National Youth administration,
4 rth Carolina College conference,
tate Department of Public Instruc
lon and the UNC Testing service,
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bpu,delillite contrast is pointed out
een the training received in high'
nool with the further training which
inevtudent desired- Of ail the seniors
0rth Carolina high schools which
cen? Cluded in this survey, 50 per
grou the low academic standing
p at graduation time desired
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EDITORIAL PHONE 4151
Comer Proposes
Plan To Alleviate
Present Situation
By LOUIS HARRIS
In the presence of numerous stu
dents from both Negro and white
schools, an inter-racial panel discus
sion was held last night in the lounge
of Graham Memorial. Contrary to the
campus poll, taken by the CPU a
few weeks ago, the gathering, includ
ing Paul Green, noted playwighter,
Dr. E. E: Ericson, Dr. E. J. Wood-
The following resolution was
adopted to send to the state legisla
ture by more than 100 citizens, stu
dents, and teachers who met for an
inter-racial panel discussion in the
lounge of Graham Memorial last
night:
It is the consensus of opinion that
in view of the already limited funds
for education in North Carolina,
and in view of the fact that setting
up separate institutions in profes
sional and advanced training would
undoubtedly deter the future prog
gress of education and in racial
relations in the South, that the leg
islature consider a policy whereby
qualified and carefully chosen Ne
gro students could be educated in
graduate and professional levels by
the means and forces already ex
isting in the state.
hous, and other prominent members
of the faculty, whole-heartedly fav
ored admitting Negroes to the Uni
versity graduate school at the pres
ent time.
The expression of the sentiment
came m tne open-iorum nscussion
which followed the talks of five guest
speakers, Dean James Taylor of the
North Carolina College for Negroes,
Dr. Nathaniel Dett, of Bennett col
lesrer Harrv F. Come, secretary of
the YMCA; and Jane' Castles, grad
uate student at the, University.
Frances Jones, student at Bennett
college in Greensboro, was dropped
from the program, and Representative
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GROUP TO DISCUSS
PUBLICATION FEES
Special Committee
To Hold Meetings
In preparation for its report next
week to the Student legislature the
sfwial nublications committee will
meet today and tomorrow with mem
bers of the editorial and business
staffs of the campus publications to
discuss their respective publication ap
propriations. Conferences with the Publications
Union board and the Student Audit
board will follow the interviews in the
committee's investigation of the publi
cations fee levy on students.
With complete information before
them the committee members over the
week-end will draw up a report which
may contain recommendations to the
legislature for a reduction in fees or
a more proportional allotment to the
various publications.
Burlington Man
Awarded Contract
H. F. Mitchell, general contractor
of Burlington, was yesterday award
ed the general pontract for the re
noAfatilon of Gerrard .nail. Mitchell
submitted the lowest bid, $18,920 for
the contract.
A contract for the . heating con
struction work in the building went
to the Carolina Heating and Engi
neering compan of Durham which of
fered a low bid of $1,990 for the con-
tract. - , . . .
The companies will begin work im
mediately. Plans for the building call
for complete renovation, giving the
budding the same appearance, within
and without, as it bad before.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1939
Student Entertainer
Shown here is Orlando Barera, Italian
ly with the young Cuban soprano, Miss Emma Otero, on the Student Enter
tainment program Monday evening. The program, second to be sponsored by
the Student Entertainment series this quarter, will be presented in Memorial
hall.
JACOCKS LOANS
ART COLLECTION
TO DEPARTMENT
Works Of Famous
Artists Will Go
On Exhibit Here
Dr. W. -P. Jacocks, former student
of the University who is now in Del
hi, India, doing research work for the
Rockefeller Foundation, has loaned the
art department his collection of 118
etchings and lithographs, it was learn
ed yesterday from Russell T. Smith,
head of the department.
The collection contains works by 50
artists including such well-known
names as Thomas Benton, Grant
Wood, W. R. Locke, John Stewart
Ernest Hart, Jon Corbino, Doris Lee,
and Peggy Bacon. The prints cover
a wide variety of subjects, including
all phases of modern life. Portraits,
landscapes, and animal life are rep
resented in the pieces. The prints will
be used for study in the art classes
and will be exhibited in part from
time to time, but those interested in
seeing them may do so by applying at
the office of the art department.
BENTON WORKS
Three of the works of Thomas Ben
ton from the collection are now on
display in the library. They are
"Frankie and Johnnie," "Huckleberry
Finn," and "Jesse James," all show
ing life along the Mississippi.
The prints will be in Chapel Hill for
at least a year, and new pieces will
be added to the collection. '
Dr. Jacocks, although his field is
medicine, has long been a patron of
fine arts and is interested in the col
lection of prints as a hobby. He was
graduated from the University in
1904, received his master's degree" in
1905, and obtained his doctor's de
gree from the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1911. While he was at Caro
lina, he was a member of the foot
ball team, a track man, member of
the Golden Fleece, and a Phi Beta
Kappa. Since 1911 he has been a mem
ber of the International Health Board
of the Rockefeller Foundation, except
for a brief period during the war
when he was captain of a medical
corps. He was later appointed director
of the Health Board. He has always
been an interested alumnus of the
University, and recently while spend
ing a three month furlough in North
Carolina, made several visits to the
campus.
Harvard Prof essor
To Speak At Duke
Roscoe Pound, dean emeritus of the
Harvard Law school and prof essor of
law at Harvard university, will speak
on "American Juristic Thinking in the
Twentieth Century," in a talk to be
given tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
in Duke .university's Page aduitor
ium. This is the fourth of a series of
public lectures celebrating the cen
tennial anniversary of the founding of
the university.
Dean Pound delivered the McNair
lectures in Chapel Hill on "Law and
Morals" in the spring of 1922. Many
of his former students are members
of the faculties of the University and
of Duke.
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BILL FOR NEGRO
GRADUATE SCHOOL
REACHES SENATE
Murphy Proposes
Measure To Answer
High Court Mandate
In a move to ease the tension on
the problem created by Negro applica
tion for admittance to the University
graduate school, a bill is now before
the State Senate now convened at Ra
leigh providing for departments of
law and pharmacy at the North Caro
lina College for Negroes and A and T
college. The bill, sponsored and writ
ten by Representative "Pete" Murphy,
passed that house on Wednesday.
There' were several provisions in
the legislation, most prominent of
which was the ruling that the schools
could not be established unless 10 or
more students enrolled in the courses.
It was specified that North Carolina
College for Negroes would have the
prof essionaV departments, while A and
T college would provide the technical
work and specialized training. It was
stressed, however, that the depart
ments will grow as need and funds
dictate.
PROVISION
Should, however, fewer Negroes
apply for admission, the bill would
allow necessary funds for tuition at
out-of-state colleges offering Negroes
the same training.
In explaining the bill to the assem
bly, Murphy said that the action is
mandate of the United States Su
preme court, which ruled that Negroes
have the same educational opportuni
ties as whites. He quickly added, that
unless this provision is made, Negroes
can not be prevented from entering
white colleges operated by the state.
OBJECTION
Upon a suggestion by Representa
tive J. W. Caff ey that the bill be re
ferred to the Appropriations commit
tee so that adequate funds could be
written into the act, Murphy vehe
mently objected.
Administration officials, Dean M. T.
Van Hecke, Dean Pierson, and Dean
Beard were all silent when asked to
comment on the new bill.
Straley Appointed
To Committee Post
H. W. Straley, III, professor of
geology at the University, has been
appointed to a committee of six to
supplement the List of Books for Col
lege libraries. The committee is com
posed of six nationally known geology
experts, headed by Charles B. Shaw,
of Swarthmore college in Pennsyl
vania. ,
This list, published in 1931, was in
tended to include only those books
that were considered essential for a
liberal arts library. It was, there
fore, a highly restricted list, with
only 35 titles of all the books pub
lished in the last seven years in the
field of earthly sciences, may be
added by the present committee.
This week-end Straley is attending
the annual meeting of the American
Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers being held in New York.
He is a member of the Institute's Geo
graphical Education committee which
is to present a report on investiga
tions relating to the teaching of Geo
physics in the United States.
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Full Fee Next Tei
Better Address
The Next One
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom
of night may stay these couriers from
the swift completion of their appoint
ed rounds." '
Thus reads the creed of the United
States mailmen.
But when the mail has no address,
the carriers simply must toss -their
creed out in the snow and rain of the
gloomy night This, in substance, is
what Postmaster R. A. Eubanks had
to do yesterday.
The local postoffice head sent the
Daily Tar Heel two postcards, each
bearing a personal message but no
sign of an address. On one of the
cards, -"Pete" wrote to "Dear Anne"
and lamented he didn't "know what
to say in such a small space." In fact,
he was so disturbed over the lack of
space he devoted all the address side
of the picture postcard to an expres
sion of his woe. v
Another student told "Dear Folks"
he would be home Thursday afternoon
or night unless they advised him
otherwise before 12 o'clock today., But
he overlooked one small technicality
he left the front of the card per
fectly blank.
Postmaster Eubanks promised good
service if local patrons will cooperate
in this little matter of writing ad
dresses. GLASS PROTECTS
ZOO GORILLAS
Person Hall Movie
Will Show Today
Gorillas have to be protected from
the public This was one of the facts
taken into, consideration by the archi
tects in' building the houses at the
London zoo, which is the setting for
the motion picture, "New Architec
ture for the London Zoo," to be shown
in Person hall art gallery this morn
ing at 10:40 and tomorrow night at
7:45.
Because gorillas are particularly
susceptible to human diseases, they
are housed behind glass walls so that
the public may see them, but cannot
transmit infection to them. However,
the animals also have iron bars be
tween them and visitors.
Although the motion picture, which
is a part of the current exhibit, "Mod
ern Architecture in England," is de
signed to display the architecture at
the zoo, the audience is much more in
terested in the animals than in the
buildings.
Of particular interest are the pen-
v
gums, wnicn are snown in many
varied situations in their modern pool,
designed in a manner hygienically and
organically suited to these strange
birds. The giraffes and elephants also
draw their share of laughter.
The picture, which runs about ten
minutes, was made for the Architec
ture department of Harvard univer
sity, the London Zoological society,
and the Museum of Modern Art by L.
Moholy-Nagy, assisted by Cyril Jen
kins and Hazen Sise. There will be no
admission charge.
Money Supplied By Home Folk
Group Of University Students
Own Local Methodist Church
Cabinets Begin
Institute Study
Cabinets of the YMCA and YWCA
began their preliminary study for the
Institute of Human Relations Monday
night at the first in a series of three
sessions. . .
The combined membership divided
into groups each discussing one of the
four topics of the institute.
Dr. H. R. Douglass of the education
department led the discussion of the
group -on education. Dr. Douglass,
faculty adviser for the group, directed
the discussion toward an analysis of
the educational system and pointed
out in what respects it did or did not
prepare for citizenship. Brooks Pat
ten, Miss Elizabeth Orton, and Rod
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NUMBER 110
To Collect
Elliott Explains
Rumors Concerning
Union's Surplus
Following a two and one-half hour
session of the Publications Union
board yesterday, Tim Elliott,"1 presi
dent, announced that the board bad
decided that the publications fee for
the spring quarter will be $2.75. This ?
sum makes the total of $6.90 which is
the fee paid for publications for the
entire year.
Elliott explained that the fee this
year has been increased from the usual
$6 to $6.90 in order to aid the board
in successfully financing the campus
publications without running into
debt, as it did last year. The board,
he said, ran into debt almost $1800
last year and this year, even with the
increase in fees, will still run slightly
in the red.
REASON
Elliott further pointed out that the
board is able to increase the publica
tions fee bacuse the increase only
raises the total fee to the amount
originally voted by the student body.
In keeping with the policy of the
I board to lower student fees to the
minimum, the fee voted was lowered
because a six dollar fee was deemed
sufficient. The board's present finan
cial condition makes the 90-cent raise
necessary.
In order to clear up the rumors
which have, for some time, been cir
culating about the surplus of the Pub
lications Union board, Elliott said
that the surplus has been accumulated
over several years and that it is drawn
upon only when one or several of the
campus publications goes in debt and
that likewise, when one of the publi
cations makes a profit in any one
year, this profit is automatically
added to the surplus of the board.
"The policy of the board," he explain
ed, "is to run on a small loss rather
man -tp try jo xaase a proiiu -
A SUGGESTION " 7r'r,''
The board also received a sugges
tion from Rutherford Yeates, editor
of the Yackety-Yack, that the editor
of the Daily TAR Heel be chosen two
years in advance after this year. De-
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Wood Will Swing
In Chapel Today
The campus' newest swing band
Charlie Wood and his "Caro
linians will stage a rythym ses
sion in Memorial hall during as
sembly period this morning, and the
entire student body is invited to
join the jitterbugs free of charge.
Wood and his tooters have been
well received in their few previous
campus appearances. They will play
for the Grail dance Saturday night
from 9 to 12 in the Tin Can. The
Grail will sponsor this morning's
session.
The band features a style of
Southern shuffle rythym. Specials
come from the brass choir; Bill
Seth, vocalist; and the trumpet trio,
composed of Hubert Henderson,
Sam Galloway, and Warren Simp
son. -4
Chapel Hill Congregation
Built Parsonage When Con
ference Erected Building
By GLADYS BEST TRIPP
One church in Chapel Hill is en
tirely owned by 750 University stu
dents! It is the large Methodist church
on Franklin street, and all the money
to build it was sent directly from the
home folk. ; ,
By 1926 the old Methodist church,
although adequate for the Chapel Hill
congregation, was not large enough to
accomodate the Methodist students.
Several other . congregations had re
cently built new churches, and thus
the situation in the Methodist church
was brought more acutely before the
eyes of both stuednts and the Chapel
Hill people. ;
Kev. Walter Patten, father of
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