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etc O 1940 nDITORIALS: ri Ominous j Good Deed I ' 1 1 ' I Fnir anA rmtimued y cold 1525 THE ONLY COLLEGE DA ILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME XLVHI Business: 988? Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL. N. C SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1940 Editorial: 4356t New 4351 1 Sight: 6906 NUMBER 93 Wk muip Urn mttl Juniors And Seniors Select Leaders For Spring Diances -e News Briefs By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 The House late tonight passed with out a record Tote and sent to the Senate $722,100,084 farm ap propriations . bill slashed $66, 928,434 below "bed rock" budget estimates, despite warning from President Roosevelt and other administration leaders that cuts threaten to impair New Deal ef forts to aid agriculture. HELSINKI, Feb. 2 Russian para chute troops dropped from swarms of bombing planes are annihilated or cap tured behind Finnish lines; President' r.iife ,vS n nation who,, Rtnrfaa L K'allio savs no nation whose standards of civilization are as low as Russia's can ever conquer Finland. - WESTERN FRONT Sharp ma chine gun duels, but rain and fog blind other activity. BELGRADE Reports say nations of Balkan entente meeting here are straggling to prevent split-up which would divide their friendship between Germany and the Allies. BERLIN Nazis accuse Turkey of being Allied tool at entente confer ence. BUCHAREST Rumania confident she can defend her possession even if permanent risk developed at little en tente meeting. HYDE PARK President Roosevelt intervenes to stem a house drive to economize at the expense of his farm program and warns that cuts below his budget figures will cripple New Deal efforts to aid agriculture. WASHINGTON Chairman J. War ren Msdden M the NLRB discloses that he "severely reprimanded" .re gional director Harrick of New York and obtained the resignation of Miller of Cleveland after the two attended a luncheon given by company officials involved in a labor case. WASHINGTON Vice- President Garner announces his willingness to enter his name in a Georgia democra tic presidential preference primary if one is held in what is interpreted as a bid for southern conservative support as well as a maneuver to force the holding of a primary. WASHINGTON The inter-American neutrality committee meeting at Rio de Janeiro has recommended that the 21 American republics adopt legis lation to intern automatically any belligerent vessel which puts into an American port after violating the Western Hemisphere neutrality zone. RALEIGH Part of the Wright Memorial bridge over Currituck sound on the North Carolina coast collapsed under pressure of an ice jam, maroon ing hundreds on outer banks; ferry blocked by ice. RALEIGH Governor Hoey an nounces the appointment of Hathaway Cross, assistant paroles commissioner, as personal secretary to succeed Rob ert L. Thompson, effective after Feb rary 15. RALEIGH State democratic exec utive committee in a 10-minute ses sion selects May 16 as date for state convention in Raleigh and May 4 as date for precinct meetings and May 11 for county conventions. Hillel Forum Plans Program On Zionism With Robert Jacobs Ratbi Robert P. Jacobs, of Ashe viIfe, will speak on "Zionism" at the Hiliel Sunday evening forum to be heW Sunday night at 7:30 in Gerrard tan, it was announced yesterday by Hillel foundation. The Zionist movement is one of the most controversial and least under stood of current issues and Rabbi Jacobs comes to the campus well qualified to speak on it. He is a grad uate of the University of Syracuse and the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and after several years as rabbi in Hoboken, N. J., he be came the spiritual leader of the Beth Na-Tephilah congregation in Asho viIIe. He has lectured on Zionism and tber topics at a number of religious institutions and colleges in the North. Class Elections : Held On Committee Nominations Eight finals dance marshalls and 12 Junior-Senior dance leaders were chosen Wednesday by the juniors and seniors but results of the final tally were not released until late yester day. . From the 16 nominees Steve For rest, Jimmy Howard, Don Baker, Ott Burton, Herb Hardy, Charlie Idol, Skipper Bowles, and Don Bishop were elected as final dance marshalls. Martin Harmon, George Ralston, Billy Winstead, Jim Davis, Jack Fair ley, and Ed Megson were chosen from the .14 nominated for senior dance leaders. They will participate in the figure at the Junior-Senior dances in the spring, 0 . . , ' Surviving from competition offered by 22 nominees for the junior leaders, Kenan Williams, Jimmy Howard, Paul Severin, Charlie Idol, Dee Grainger, and Skipper Bowles, were elected to serve at the dual class hop. ' Dave Morrison's name was placed on the junior ballot by mistake, it was announced. As a class officer he is automatically a member of the dance figure. ILM PINAFORE TO BE REPEATED Second Showing Tonight At 8:30 Tonight at 8:30 the Playmakers and the music department will-present for a second time Gilbert and Sullivan's colorful operetta, "H.M.S. Pinafore," in Memorial halL Last night's per formance was attended by around 1,000 people. - The -a t tractive- costumes-" were de signed by Ora Mae Davis, Playmaker costumer. Going to no end of trouble to get English naval costumes, bustles for the dresses, and a certain type of umbrella, Mrs. Davis' work is un usually accurate. Reserved seat tickets for tonight's performance may still be obtained at 316 South building and Ledbetter Pickard's by exchanging Student En tertainment passbooks or Playmaker season tickets. All seats in the house are reserved. McClamroch States Intention To Run For Legislature Professor Roland P. McClamroch of the English department today an nounced his intention to stand for reelection as Orange County repre sentative to the North Carolina state legislature. In formally announcing his candi dacy, Mr. McClamroch said: "I am a candidate for reelection to the Gen eral Assembly from Orange county, subject to the Democratic primary on May 25. Contrary to many rumors, it has always been my intention to run for reelection. "Although I was not enthusiastic about becoming a candidate in 1938, preferring to vote for a friend with more political experience, I be lieve that the interests of( Orange county and the state can best be served by returning a representative who has taken the responsibility ser iously and to the best of his ability discharged its obligations." McClamroch received a leave of ab sence from teaching duties when he attended the last session of the legis lature. Maaske To Return For Summer Session Dr. Roben J Maaske, who left Chapel Hill last year to accept the presidency of Eastern Oregon State Teachers College, will return to the University campus this year to teach in the second term of the University of North Carolina's Summer Session at Chapel Hill, Administrative Dean R B. House announced yesterday. During the two years of his service with the University Dr. Maaske made many friends and contributed much to the fields of adult education, rural edu cation, school administration and gen eral University activities. He was the (Continued on page 2, column 2) Sherman C. Smith -: , x .-ft. xb;v .l&S:s:;; . long live the king . . FRATS TO GIVE DANCE TONIGHT Wood Will Play At Pledge Ball The second annual Neophyte ball, at which Charlie Wood and his orchestra will play, will be given by Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta Kap pa Epsilon and Zeta Psi fraternities honoring new initiates at the Washing ton Duke hotel in Durham tonight. . Leading the ball will be: "Merrimon LeGrand of Greensoboro with Jick Garland, Hortense Jones of Danville, Va-r with Ed Maner, Dee Murray of Norfolk, Va., with Sam Means and Sue Joyner of Raleigh with Trent Ragland. SAE DATES j Sponsors of SAE and their dates ;will be: Laura Mae Shaver of Albe ' marie with Harry Horton; Peach ; Peeler of Greensboro with Fred Swin ;dal;" Elvira" Cheatham of Henderson with Russell O'Dell, Alice Leigh Blow : of Greenville with Henry Garwes; Mar : gie Sugg of Greenville with Howard ; Hodges ; Mary Allen Clinard of High Point with Hugh Smith; Elizabeth Gregory of Durham with Tennie Hall; ; Sally McNider of Chapel Hill with T. G. Brown; Mary Powers Brooks of Durham with William Thornton; Hor tense Miller of Houston, Texas, with jGiswold Smith; Honey Peck of Thom as ville, Ga., with Kenneth Sprunt; and Betty Winborne of Raleigh with Bob Glenn. DKE DATES Deke dates will be: Virginia John son of Greensboro with Brockton Lyon ; Norma Dozier of Rocky Mount with William Young; Julia Booker of Chapel Hill with Hunt Hobbs; Betty Whales of Edenton with Julius Davis; Joanne Karns of Washington, D. C, with Don Patterson; Myrtilla Harvey of Kinston with Cam Radman; Delia Murdoch of Salisbury with Graham Clayton ; Eloise Bethel of Wilmington with Hugh Morton; and Sudie Clark of Greensboro with Barrow Turner. ZETA PSI Zeta Psi's sponsors are: Betty Hill of Raleigh with George Penick; An nette Spruill of Raleigh with Charles Hancock: Dorothy Dawley of Rich mond with Jim Self; Eloise Bethel of Wilmington with Henry Hunter; Jane Forbes of Raleigh with Jack Trotman; (Continued on page 2, column 5) ,::, J.i Song Titles To Be Theme Of Student-Faculty Dance Freddy Johnson And Jimmy Farr To Furnish Music For Fancy Dress Ball Tuesday The theme of the annual Student Faculty dress ball to be held next Tuesday night at 10:30 will feature costumes representing song titles, ac cording to announcements made by the committee early this week. The ball will feature two dance bands Freddie Johnson and Jimmy Farr and will last until 1 o'clock. King Sherman Smith of the chemistry department and Queen Marjorie John ston will be presented at the dance, and will review the parade of the costumes to be held for the judges who will decide on the best costumes. Prizes, will be awarded to both stu dents and faculty members. They will be awarded on the basis of best cos tume representing current popular (Continued on page 2, column 5) KING AND QUEEN GIYECOMrlENTS ON CORONATION King Smith Terms Romantic Ballad Tretty Schmaltz' "Nothing like this has ever hap pened to me before . . ." "It sure is pretty schmaltz . . ." These were the comments yesterday of Marjorie Johnston and Sherman Smith, respectively, when they heard the march and romantic ballad writ ten for their coronation as queen and king of Student-Faculty day. The coronation will take place as the finale of the first act of a two-act musical revue, directed by Carroll Mc Gaughey, the first such Student-Faculty day program in the history of the holiday. The revue begins at 7:30 in Memorial hall next Tuesday night. "DEDICATED TO YOU" Miss Johnston, who is the first Student-Faculty day queen to have a spe cial original ballad dedicated to her, will enter the hall from in back of the auditorium and proceed down the center aisle, f ollowed by her two at tendants, Frances Dyckman and Alice Murdock. She will walk up the steps to the center of the stage. Mr . Smith will have come out from one side and will stand beneath her while he sings the special ballad, "You're the Queen of My Heart." An original coronation march will be played while the queen and her at tendants come down the aisle. . A trio, composed of Gene Turner, Ralph Bowman, and Roger Matthews, will sing portions of the ballad .and will hum in the background while Mr; Smith sings. FIRST ACT A musical prologue will . open the show and the first skit will be "Three Publicity Hounds," featuring the cam pus three . most - publicity-conscious professors, whose identity will be kept a deep secret until the night, of the performance. Special music has been written for the skit. Next on the program is the Grail Dance Ballet, a satirical presentation (Continued on page 4, column 4) Students Concerned Chiefly With Safety In Demanding Peace (By ACP) Despite the fact that most of the war talk on the nation's campuses is peace talk, there nevertheless ' is a growing tendency among collegians and their campus superiors to dis cuss what they believe to be the bad effects of peace movements that make collegians more concerned with safety first than with the fate of their na tion. First to focus attention on this particular interpretation of the un dergraduate peace movements was President-emeritus William Allen Neilson, of Smith College, who said: "For the moment, the attitude of our academic youth seems to be so largely self-centered that one doubts whether the - form in which pacifism was brought to them during these years was the best for their spiritual health. (Continued on page U, column 2) Carolina Students Yolunteer To Teach Prisoners In Camp Six Carolina students under the di rection of the Extension division and Rebecca Wall, director of adult edu cation for Orange County, have volun teered to teach prisoners in the State prison camp at Hillsboro each Thurs day evening. .The group visits the camp and in structs the prisoners in various sub jects including agriculture, current events, history, geography, arithme tic, and other elementary subjects. It is hoped that later moving pictures might be shown and other forms of educational entertainment presented. Those students who volunteered to teach are Dick Edkins, Roy Clark, Moses Malkin, James Howard, D. B. Powell, and Steve PiUer. P 'Annoraaces Plm ?or ReBreseiitatioB Of Town Student: s Ralph S. Boggs r Of V if ... folklore scholar . . . BOGGS TO STUDY SOUTH AMERICA Professor Begins Tour In June Ralph' Steele Boggs, associate pro fessor of Spanish in 'the "university for the-last nine years, has received a grant to make a six months' tour and study of South America beginning in June. He will visit the most important intellectual centers of the continent, travelingas far south as Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. Dr. Boggs special field is Panameri can folklore, and he plans to see first hand what is being done in the field, and to establish personal contact with the leading f olklorists, as he did two years ago in Mexico. In addition to the immediate values of his trip, Dr. Boggs feels that folk lore has vast potentialities in develop ing Panamerican understanding, amity, and cultural unity. "Nothing is more typical of a folk than its folk lore," he declares, "and hence there is no better way of bringing a true picture, of one nation to the attention of another than by means of its folk lore. . And once American nationals realize they -have something in1 com ( Continued on page 2, column S) Six Fraternities Given Permission For Coed Visits Pending final acceptance by the ad ministration of the recommendations of the student committee on visitation privileges in fraternity houses, the of fice of the advisor to women announced yesterday that representatives of six fraternities which are sponsoring pledge dances this week-end have made special arrangements and have been granted permission to entertain wom en students in their houses this week end. The Neophyte ball, sponsored by DKE, Zeta Psi, SAE, and Beta Theta Pi, will, be preceded by. open houses and suppers.- Women students will be permitted to attend these open houses in al four fraternities. SAE is not sponsoring a formal party before the dance, but permission was secured to entertain women students in the house in the afternoon since it is one of the sponsoring fraternities. SATURDAY DANCES Zeta Beta Tau-and Pi Kappa Al pha will sponsor pledge dances! Sat urday night. ZBT will hold its dance in the Washington-Duke hotel in Dur ham arid Pi Kappa Alpha will enter tain in Graham Memorial. An open house will precede each dance and a supper party will follow the Pi Kappa Alpha affair. These two fraternities have been granted the privilege of en tertaining coeds in the houses dur ing the afternoon. Pika will be al lowed to entertain after the dance also as chaperones have been secured for the supper. The representatives of the six fra ternities pledged to maintain standards (Continued on page U, column 1) Organization To Be First To Provide Full Recognition By CHARLES BARRETT 'The Student party last night be came the first political organization in the history of the University to officially recognize the rights of town students to representation in the nomi nation of campus officials. Chairman Preston Nisbet, in a sur prise announcement, said within the next few days a chairman would be chosen from town students to arrange for the election of representatives to Student party conventions. "Heretofore," said Nisbet, "political activity has centered around dormi tories and fraternities, with hundreds of town students having no official voice in any party convention. OPEN TO ANYONE "Of course the Student party con ventions have been open to anyone, but we feel that town students are entitled to full official representation just as the other groups. "Representation will be based on the ratio of town students in the stu- . dent legislature that is, five dele gates." . Over a hundred representatives from dormitories and -fraternities two from each dormitory floor and each afliliatel fraternity have al ready been chosen delegates to Stu dent party conventions. Its two leading candidates have al ready been announced Dave -Morrison for president of the student body land Gates Kimball for vice-president. Morrison and Kimball were named last month at the earliest and largest convention, in the party's history. MORRISON'S CAREER Morrison, who has a scholastic av erage of 95, is acting president of the Monogram club, junior class repre sentative on the student council, treas urer of the University club and assis tant exchequer of the Order of the Grail, two selective honorary organi- v (Continued on page h, column 1) JOHNSON TO PLAY FOR MED DANCE Ball Will Begin In Tin Can At 9 Freddy Johnson and his orchestra will furnish the music for the annual medical school dance to he held tonight at 9 o'clock in the Tin Can. John Woltz and Fred Cochrane, co chairman of the dance committee yes terday announced the sponsors and dance leaders for tonight's med half of the law - med dances. ' Frances McColl of Albemarle will be escorted by V. L. Andrews, presi dent of the Whitehead medical so ciety; Tecoah Harnes of Waynesboro, Georgia, by French McCain, vice-presi dent; Ann Nash of St. Paul, by John Graham, secretary-treasurer; Clyde Edwards of Whiteville, by H. Lee Large, student council representative ; Peggy Raoul of Sarasoto., Florida, by John Woltz, student "legislature rep resentative and co-chairman of the dance committee; and Mildred Crowder of High Point, by Fred Cochrane, Jr., co-chairman of the dance committee. The following will also be in the figure : Janet Rumsey with Robert Keadale; Jane Duprey with Charles Putzel ; Jane Austin with Jack Huges ; Frances Gibson with Abe Conger; Mrs. Haynes Baird with Haynes Baird, Har riet Glasgow with John Ranson; Alice Murdock with John Hoyle; Amelia Hecht with Al Sheldon; Louise Payne with Richard Payne. Local Chi Omegas Initiate Thirteen Girls Thirteen girls were initiated last week into the Epsilon Beta chapter of Chi Omega: Ann Williams, Zoe Young, Louis Stiefelmeyer, Louis Smith, Mar Marjorie Barrus, Mary Isabelle Wolfe, Patty Bryant, Jean Littell, Emogene McGibbony, Mary Tilson Edwards, and Roselyn Holmes. Sarah Sawyer and Ann Thornburgh were pledged to the sorority at the be ginning of the quarter."
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