North Carolina Newspapers

f yf DITORIALS: Please Advantages iTEATHER: if Continued clear y and vanm 2 525 77E ONLY COLLEGE DA ILY IN THE SO UTHEAST- VOLUME XLVm BUSINESS: 435; CIRCULATION: 6476 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1939 NTW3 Day: 43S1; Nifbt: NUMBER Sororities End Silence Period With Formal Pledging Today Rushees To Report To Mrs. Stacy To Receive Bids Following a two-day period of ab solute silence between sorority girls jni rushees, bids will be issued today to approximately 65 coeds by the Al pha Delta. Pi, Pi Beta Phi, and Chi Omega "sororities. Girls who have bid3 tare been notified by Dean of Women Mrs- Marvin H. Stacy and will report to her .office between 8:30 and 1 'clock today. All girls will list the sororities in order of preference and will submit the list to the dean. Mrs. Stacy will then see if the first sorority listed by a girl has issued that girl a bid. If so, the girl will receive that bid and no other. If the girl does not have a bid from her first choice but has one from her second choice, she is given that one. If she has no bid to either her first or second choice she will be given one from her third choice. No girls will actually receive more than one bid. If a coed wishes to accept her bid, she is expected to visit the house of the sorority she intends to pledge be tween 5 and 6 o'clock this afternoon. Chess Champion Ready To Defend Title Tonight Termed in Bob Magill's final press release as "a rising chess genius," Harold Feldstein, red-headed Univer sity student, will make his bid for campus fame tonight, at 7:30 in the lounge of Graham Memorial, when he attempts to turn back 15 aspiring chess players simultaneously. A re ward of two dollars is in the offing for the lucky man who . can turn the tables on the hitherto invincible sum mer school champ. Optimistic jand eager to spring -an upset tonight are: Richard Ehrick, Richard Adler, H. G. Dorsett, Joe Felmet, Irving Alperin, Harry Ham ilton, Edwin Mashburn, Gregory Perky, William Hancock, Charles Woodson, Billy Woodson, Joe Davis, John Busby, N. C. Browder, and Joe Bliekman. All week long, these 15 chessmen have been warming up in the small lounge of Graham Memorial in preparation for peppering away at Feldstein. CHAMP Former chess champion of all New York schools and last summer's vic tor in the summer session tournament, Feldstein has an impressive record to fall back on. He has indicated that he will make an unmerciful assault on his opponents and will finish them in short order. Bob Magill has made preparations in the lounge so that all spectators may get a good view of the evening's proceedings. The tables will be spread out across the room, forming a long, narrow battle line. Dr. Glen Hayden, reputed to be (Continued on page 4, column 2) Largest Southern Herbarium Operated By The University Dr. W. C. Coker Is Director Of Plant, Shrub Collection Located In Davie Hall By VIVIAN GILLESPD3 The largest herbarium in the South is located at the University, under the direction of Dr. W. C. Coker of the botany deartment. The collection, consisting of dried flowering plants and shrubs and fungi, is located in Davie hall, where new specimens are constantly being identi fied and catalogued. Plants have been sent here from all parts of the world to be identified. Dr. Coker, a Kenan professor, was instrumental in developing the her barium. When he came to the Univer sity in 1902 he found a small collec tion left by Ash, which he used as the foundation for his collection. The botany and zoology departments "were separated in 1902, which facilitated the growth of the herbarium. The pri vate coHection of Harbison was added a few years ago, and the collection now numbers roughly 85,000 speci mens. An original method of protecting (Continued on page 2, column S) FROSH WILL HEAR EXPLANATIONS : OF DANCE RULES Committeemen To Make Talks At Frats This Week Explanations of the campus dance organization functions and dance committee rules will be given at fresh man assembly in Memorial hall , to morrow morning. The program will open a week of talks which will be made at fraternities by various mem bers of the dance committee. Special emphasis will be placed on the regulations governing student con duct at the dances. Groups planning to sponsor dances will be given informa tion to aid in managing the affairs. SPEAKERS At the assembly tomorrow morning Richard Worley, chairman of the dance committee, will be accompa nied by Paul Thompson, president of the Order of the Grail, and Studie Ficklin, president of the German club. Each will speak on the management and production of dances by the or ganization which he represents. Rules of the University dance com mittee have been , posted on bulletin boards in the dormitories several weeks. Attention is called to the rules on floor conduct stating that: "(1) Any girl desiring to leave the dance (Continued on page 2, column 5) PHI TO INITIATE 100 NEW MEMBERS Group To Discuss Plans For Dance - Approximately 100 new members will be initiated into the Phi as sembly at its meeting tonight at 7:30. Discussion of the Phi dance which will probably be held Friday night in the Woollen gymnasium, wiU also be in order and two motions wiU be brought before the house. Joe Dawson, speaker of the as sembly, announced a meeting of the Phi dance committee at 7 o'clock be fore the regular meeting. The principal motion before the house tonight will be: "Resolved: that the activities of the German club be taken over by an organization com posed of representatives from the In terfraternity council and Interdormi tory council in equal proportions." The other motion before the house will be: "Resolved: that President Roose velt should accept proposals to arbi trate for a peaceful settlement of the present European war." All prospective members of the Phi are asked to be present at the Phi hall on the fourth floor of New East to night at 7:30 for purposes of initia tion. Glenn Perrin Wins Book Exchange Football Contest Glenn Perrin of Aycock dormitory won a tennis racket as first prize by guessing within 102 points of the cor rect scores in the 10 games included in the football contest sponsored by the book exchange last week. Other winners and their prizes were: Merlin Martin, second, pair of tennis shoes;- Howard Vick, third, Carolina sport shirt: G. A. Lemmon, : fourth, can of tennis balls; and Edward Hod ges, fifth,- Carolina belt buckle. Approximately 3,000 predictions were cast with 17 of them picking all the winners. Book exchange officials ex pect to run the contest each week pnd of the football season. Predictions may be entered all this week for-oriext Saturday's contest, the contest closing at 2 o'clock Saturday. No person may enter more than one guess in one day. Last Saturday's contest included the games played by Duke, N. State, Davidson, Wake 'Forest, Navy, Au burn, Georgia Tech, Columbia, and Alabama. Here Tonight Dr. Russell O. Lyday, former staff member of Mayo clinic, who will ad dress the student branch of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical association tonight in Howell hall at 7:30. Dr. Lyday will speak on 'The Pharma cist's Role in the Practice of Medi cine." All medical and pre-medical students are invited to attend the meeting. STEWART, ROBERTS LEAD DISCUSSIONS FOR YMCA GROUPS Junior-Senior Cabinet Accepts WCUNC Invitation "Are We Justified in Not Going to War?" a discussion led by Mike Rob erts, was the basis for the program at the Junior-Senior YMCA cabinet meeting last night, while the Sopho more cabinet participated in a discus sion led by Dr. Don Stewart on "Liv ing in Accord with God's WiU." . Roberts brolce the "main discussion into two parts, the first of which was, "Should We Stay Out of the War." After prolonged debate, an affirma tive decision was clinched by the state ment of Bill McKee, YMCA Secre tary; "Stay x out someone must keep a calm, clear head in order that a just peace be reached." PREVENTION "What Can W Do to Prevent the U. S. from Going, to War?" was the second division of the problem. The concensus was that the abatement of pernicious propaganda and the avoidance of entanglements would do more than any other course to keep America out of war. All of the Junior-Senior cabinet members from Carolina and State col lege will meet in Greensboro Oct. 22, which is the first day of the Religious Emphasis week being sponsored there, for supper and a platform ' meeting with the Women's college YWCA. The invitation was accepted and the social committee, composed of Syd Alexander and Jack Vincent, was put in charge or arrangements for the trip. President Alex Bonner, of the Sopho more cabinet, opened the meeting with scripture reading and prayer, after which plans for the social to be held jointly with the YWCA cabinet Mon day, October 23, were presented. Dr. Stewart in opening pointed out the distinction between the scientific and the spiritual approach to God. The discussion completed a series of four studies of the subject, "God," taken from a book of that title by W. M. Horton. Next week, the, cabinet, led by Dr. Stewart, will review this series and complete the plans lor tne social. ' Swalin To Speak Dr. Benjamin Swalin will speak at the regular Bull's Head tea tomorrow afternoon at 4:15. He will have as his topic, "Getting Out of - Europe in September." Directory Corrections The student section of the direc tory will be posted in the YMCA lobby today. All students are asked to check it for any correction in name and address which might be necessary before the directory goes to press. Only a few days will be al lowed this year for such corrections so each student is urged to respond promptly to this request. HALF-HOLIDAY DECLARED FOR UNIVERSITY DAY Chase WiU Be Main Speaker At Celebration All 11 and 12 o'clock classes on Thursday, University Day will be sus pended, but afternoon classes and labs will be held as usual, it was announced yesterday. The half -holiday will mark the 146 anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of Old East, oldest university building in the country. Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, for mer president of the University, now chanceUor of New York University, will be the' main speaker of the occa sion, which wiH be held in Memorial hall. PROCESSION -Forming at the south side of South building at 10:40, the academic pro cession wiH march to Memorial hall. The .University band will render the processional march. Following the in vocation, the University hymn wiU be sung, and Dr. Frank Graham will in troduce Dr. Chase. Judge Robert W. Winston of the class of '79 wHl speak for ten minutes on "Memorial HaU Its Tablets and Memories" and will formally announce the erection of tablets in memory of three of the University's sons, Matt Whitaker Ransom, Robert Bingham, and. Robert Worth Bingham. After Judge Winston opens the second part of the. program with his address there will be. responsive reading led by Dean Ri B. Housed : . IN MEMORIAM Following a period of silence in memory of the University alumni who ' (Continued on page 4f column 4) BRADSHAW LISTS 11 MORE PLEDGES ii Total Rises Overt . Weekend To 240 Dean F. F. Bradshaw's office an nounced yesterday that 11 more fresh men had pledged six of the campus fraternities. Added to last Saturday's total of 229, the present number now is 240, nine more than last year at this time. The new fraternity pledges are: Lambda Chi Alpha: W. David Ash burn; Zeta Beta Tau: J. H. Altschull and Xarshall Solomon; Kappa Alpha: Arthur Jacocks, Thomas Lynch, and George Johnston; . Kappa Sigma: Martin Barrier, Bill Mann, and Frank L. Johnson; DKE: C. C. Harris; and ATO: George Shipp. All freshmen .wishing .to join fra ternities are requested to make com plete pledging arrangements with Dean Bradshaw's office in South build ing. Department Heads Asked To Submit Summer Programs Guy B. -Phillips, secretary of the summer session, has requested the heads of all departments of schools of jthe University to submit the pro grams they intend to offer for the summer school session of 1940. The budget for the next summer session will be the same as . it was during the past session, but changes in courses are invited and encouraged. It is believed that some of the courses which were offered last summer, and which did not have a very large en rollment, could be supplanted by new courses for which there is great de mand. The estimate of the new courses must be turned in by November 1, as preliminary announcements are going to be published before Christmas. Cat alogue material will not be required at this time, however, but at, a later date. Dean R. B. House is director of the summer session and Phillips is secre tary. IRC To Broadcast JThe second in a new series of pro grams entitled "Straws in the Wind" will be broadcast by the international relations club over WDNC in Durham this afternoon at 5:30. Walter Klee man and Lincoln Kan will discuss the news of yesterday and the seem ingly unimportant items of today's news which, in their opinion, may be the forerunners of his stories tomorrow. Cooper Accepts CPU Invitation To Sneak EVP Phone Service Disrupted By Fire Daring Weekend Telephone service in BVP dormi tories was interrupted over the week end when, it is alleged, someone set fire to the telephone just outside the Vance store. - Residents milling through Vance early Sunday found the wall badly smoked and the insulation on the wires along the wall burned away. The re pairman of the telephone company said that no repairs will be made to the service until an investigation is made to ascertain the prankster. Unburned wires leading directly from the telephone show that the fire did not originate in the phone itself. Dormitory consensus of opinion holds that paper placed on the pay box was ignited by an unidentified person. "Please Keep Off The Grass," Ask Campus Groups Several University organizations, including the Interdormitory council, the Interfraternity council, the Stu dent council, the Daily TarHeel and the buildings department in coopera ting in asking the students to keep off grass on the campus. Notices were delivered to all dormitories yester day asking students to use paths and walks instead of making their own paths on the grass. UNDER THE PLOW The buildings department will be asked to plow up the paths which have been made on the grass and to plant these plots in grass seed. . This marks the first time that such a concentrated effort has ever been made ,tbwards: - achievement of " this purpose and it is hoped that with" the cooperation of so many of the campus organizations, the move will be suc cessful. Friendship Council, Holds Steak Fry, Community Sing Inaugurating the freshman social season, the Freshman Friendship coun cil last night held a steak fry and community sing at Battle park with over two-thirds of the members at tending. Trucks left the YMCA at 5 o'clock yesterday and transported the stag crowd to the park. Steak was served with the usual trimmings, followed by a community sing and numerous "bull sessions" which rounded out the even ing's entertainment. Sam Williams, chairman of the com mittee on arrangements, said, "if thif is a sample of the way our entertain ments are going to be in the future, Oh boy!" Lyons Says Hitler Can Expect Little Help From Mussolini -8 Traveler "fry ' 1 J. C. Lyons of the Department of Romance languages,' who has just re turned to the campus from his annual European tour which gave him an op portunity to observe first-hand condi tions leading up to the present war. Panel Discussion To Include Smith, Broughton, Maxwell Chairman Harry Gatton of the Car olina Political union yesterday an nounced the acceptance of Tom E. Cooper, mayor of Wilmington, to ap pear on the panel discussion program to be held in Memorial hall Wednes day, Oct. 18. The program will mark the first time in the history of the state that four prospective candidates for the governorship have appeared on the same platform. Other unannounced gubernatorial aspirants also slated to speak at that time are A. J. Maxwell, state com missioner of revenue; and J. M. Broughton and Willis Smith, both Ra leigh attorneys. The subject which the four men will talk on has not as yet been announced, although, it is probable that the text of the speeches will be left to the "candidates" own discretion. Although none of the four men has officially announced his candidacy, it is generally accepted by citizens of North Carolina that all of them will do so shortly after the first of the year. VARIED CAREER Cooper has led a varied career in the state political scene, formerly hold ing down' a legislator's post and serv ing as the mayor and commissioner of public safety in Wilmington. It is expected that most of his support for governor will come from the eastern part of the state. Uracn oi tne iour speakers win maKe short talks, after which an open forum (Continued on page 4$ column 5) DI TO DISCUSS AH) TO CANADA Induction Of New Members Scheduled Whether or not the United States should aid Canada in the event of in vasion of the Dominion by an out side foe, will be the main topic for discussion when the Di Senate con venes tonight at 7:15 in New West. Also on the calendar is the bill: Resolved, that President Roosevelt should act as mediator between the belligerent nations now involved in war. FINAL VOTE Final vote on five new applicants (already passed by the executive com- ' !u 1 T .1 minee lor memDersmp in tne senate will be taken at the meeting, with in itiations of the new men immediately following. If all five are approved, it will bring the total number of in itiates to 16, 11 already having been approved by the senate. Plans for intercollegiate debates with literary societies of nearby col leges, sponsored by the Di, will prob ably be discussed. "Italian Soldiers Might Rebel At Any Plan Of Fighting With Germany," Professor Believes By JO JONES Germans can expect little help from Italy is the conviction of Dr. Corydon Lyons of the department of romance languages who has conducted Euro pean tours of collegiate groups every summer for many years and has there fore had an excellent opportunity to observe changing condition abroad. - Dr. Lyons came back from his last tour recently with the firm belief that Mussolini will hesitate to help,-Germany because he realizes that, although it is possible for him to order the Army out, the Italian soldiers might rebel at any plan of fighting with Germany. DISLIKES HITLER "Italians as a mass dislike Hitler," he says. "There has been an attempt at cross-colonization in Italy to pro mote better relations between the Ger mans and Italians. At every Italian hotel we stopped in we found several German waiters, but the opposite of the original plan has been the result. "There was also a persistent rumor afoot that Germans had been placed (Continued on page 4, column 2) nr V