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MAY 1 5 1940 b x r vf fTf7 JRhi i i f THDITORIALS: W TTEATHER: H - 1 j Class Finances Fair and tcarmer Z 525 -77E OALY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME XLVID Bosiaeft: 9887 CrcuUtloa: 9SS6 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940 Editorial: 4356i Newt: 4351 NIfkt: 906 NUMBER 171 14 Students Tapped. By Golden Fleece; Ed Megson Is Jason Record Number Selected For Membership "With the accompaniment of weird or gan music which swelled and soften ed throughout the ceremony, two hood ed figures with a mantle of golden fleece about their shoulders stalked through darkened Memorial hall Sun day night and pounced upon the shoul ders of 14 students selected for mem bership in the Order of the Golden Fleece. The 14 students, chosen for leader ship, character and service, were Har ry Gatton, Dave Morrison, Bill Dees, Carroll McGaughey, Horace Richter, Allen Green, Jack Lynch, Don Bishop, Chuck Kline, George Ralston, Bill Jos lin, Gates Kimball, Bill Shuford, and Lee Manning Wiggins. The Fleece, oldest and usually con sidered highest honorary society on the campus, thus .established a new high record in recent years for the num ber of new members taken in. Nine or ten are usually admitted. Megson Disclosed as Jason Ed Megson, senior, was disclosed as Jason of this year's organization when he presented a brief talk on the aims and principles of the Fleece, and on the requirements and qualifications for membership. The ceremony was begun with an or gan prelude while the entire auditor ium W33 darkened. Suddenly a boom ing voice began reading the history of the Fleece from the darkness on the stage, and then Megson was presented as Jason. Dim lights were on in the back of the auditorium during the actual tapping, while a sptolight was thrown on a large golden lamb in the center of the stage. Spotlights from the two corners of the stage followed the hooded mem bers in their weaving course through the audience. News Briefs German Motorized Forces Gain Ground in Holland Queen Wilhelmina Flees to London By United Press AMSTERDAM, May 13 German motorized forces today cut Holland in half when they struck 60 miles across the nation's river belt to the Moerdyk bridge and crossed to Hallandsch Diep just south of Rotterdam, the Dutch high command announced in a com munique tonight. The communique, revealing- that the swift-striking Nazi army had achieved one of the chief aims of its invasion of Holland, was issued shortly after disclosure that Queen Wilhelmina and the government "moved else where." The Queen and her government fled to London although the Dutch an nouncement did not disclose to the Dutch people the fact that a tempo rary government was being set up in the British capital. The Germans, reaching Moerdyk bridge, the largest in Europe, came to within 30 miles of the Dutch capital at the Hague. Earlier in the day it had been ad fitted that the German mobile forces, led bv tanks and armored cars, had reached the industrial centers of Lang straat, east of the Moerdyk bridge, alone the southern extension of the Maaa river. In Rotterdam, 15 miles north of the Continued on page 4, column 2) Degree Getters, Get Your Measurements Seniors and all others expect ing to get degrees, whether bache lors, masters, doctors, and faculty members who may need them, are asked to go by the YMCA be tween 10:30 and 11 o'clock this morning or between 2 and 4 o'clock this afternoon and measure them athes for caps and gowns. 1L 1L German Club Head Ike Grainger GRAINGER CHOSEN NEW PRESIDENT OF GERMAN CLUB Garland Elected Vice-President, Cross Secretary- ike Grainger, SAE, was elected president of the German club yester day afternoon at a meeting that last ed no longer than 90 seconds. Other new officers are Jick Gar land, Beta'Theta Pi, vice-president; Henry Cross, St. Anthony hall, secre tary; George Millaway, Sigma Chi, treasurer; and Tom Wright, DKE, chairman. Outgoing President Studie Ficklen (Continued on page 4, column 4) PHI WILL DISCUSS CAMPUS POLITICS Sloan and Farris Will Make Reports The Phi assembly continues its dis cussion of. Dolitical propaganda in campus elections at its regular week ly meeting tonight at 7:3"0 in Phi hall fourth floor of New East. The bill up for discussion is "Re solved, That all types of political nronacranda be prohibited in future M t - campus elections." The other bill is "Resolved, That trip United States should extend all tvne of material aid other than men to the Allies." Bob Sloan will read a report from the Constitution committee, and Trpasnrcr Bob Farris will report on the work of the finance committee. Speaker Marian Igo urges all mem bers to attend, as this is an especially important meeting. Cheering Tryouts Scheduled forKenan Stadium Today at 4 Because next fall's football sched ule begins at an earlier date than usual, Co-cheerlea4ers Charlie Nelson and Jane Rumsey announced that tryouts for next year's squad will be held to day at 4 o'clock in Kenan stadium. Coeds, as well as men students, are invited to come out, because, as Nel- . 1 i J Al ilt of son saw yesieraay, uieic least two girls on the cheering squad. Senior Concessions Anyone interested in concessions at the Blackout Ball Wednesday night see Tom Stanback immediately at the Sig ma Nu house. y '.: : ': " vV i :" . : U - , i " ' ' ' ': ;:-:.::-:::--:-::' :::. v:-; ::: L, Aj Ball Game With Faculty, Banquet With Wine, Women, Song, Add To Senior's Joy By Morris Rosenberg As far as Carolina students are concerned, five things are in evitable: the Revolution, David, Clark, 8:30 classes, Bob House's harmonica, and Senior Week. Things have gone too far for the Class of 1940 to do anything about it, and so the beeryeyed Se nior executive committee, after four, has laid plans for a festival the World's Fair completely off Seniors Oppose Faculty at 3 Highway patrolmen by the f ordf ulls were pouring into Chapel Hill early this morning and workmen were busy completing final construction of bleach ers on the coed field in preparation for the estimated crowd of over 000, 000,000 expected to witness thej an nual Softball classic to be fought this afternoon at 4 o'clock between the Saddle-Shoed Seniors and the Flat-footed Faculty. Gates will open at 8:31.5 this morn ing and reserved seats will be on sale for $0.00 while bleachers seats will go for half the price. Fred Weaver, coach of the Fumbling Faculty, grinned proudly with 'two rows of sparkling store teeth when asked what he thought of his team's chance today and, deftly depositing a wad of tobacco in an upper cavity, re plied, "Wal, Ah aint saying we will, and Ah ain't saying we won't. In fact, Ah ain't a-saying." Dave Bowman, coach of the Sadistic Seniors, nervously bit off his thumbs when asked the same question and tim idly shouted, "Why, we'll moider dem bums, well tear 'em limb from limb, (Continued on page 4, column 4) Dean Bradshaw Heads Against $- Parties Imperil Student Freedom Dormitory and fraternity presi dents were advised against beer par ties yesterday by Dean' of Students Bradshaw "because the indulgence in beer by organized units of the Uni versity imperils the willingness of the trustees and others responsible for University affairs to continue their support of a program of student free dom." The dean pointed out that there is a rule passed by the trustees direct ing the faculty "to discipline or dis miss from the University any student who is known to engage in drinking al coholic liquors ..." The facts that the University has allowed beer parties and also collects fees which the dormitories use to pur chase the beer would be quite sufficient for restrictive action by the trustees, and reaction out in the state for cur tailing the University's policy of com plete liberality, he went on to explain. "The administration does not choose to forbid that beer parties be held, be cause it feels that it is a matter of stu dent responsibility and self-government," he emphasized. "Still, it is not the purpose of the University's policy of freedom to make possible the un (Continued on page 2, column 4) is There A Red Menace Couch, Ericdon By T. N. Pridgen (Charlotte News Staff Writer) As one moves upon the Chapel Hill scene from the outer regions the lines of the picture soon appear, and all is not Springtime trees and Colonial building and students on the campus. Dim shapes take form and they curi ously contend with each other in the realm of ideas, Basic concepts sprout implications, and it is these off -shoots, these potentialities, which strive so bitterly. And because they are intangi ble and capable of many interpreta tions, the conflict is hopeless and end- ess. It began when Jehovah smote the radical angels in order to protect the Heavenly possessions and the end is not in sight. We go into the office of the Chapel Hill Press. It is an institution which has published many books of many kinds. It is allied with the University of North Carolina. William T. Coach is in charge, and is one of the leaders vainly trying to get rid of the first that have shoved the opening of the pages of the Daily Tar Heel. Banquet Starts Tonight at 8 It's all "wine, women, and song" to night at 8 o'clock in the new dining hall as, the gourmands of the Class of 1940 get together for the annual Se nior class banquet except there won't be any wine. Or women. And the sing ing will be pretty bad. Vance Hobbs will be at the helm trying to steer a course through a pro gram laden with speakers, elections, jitterbugs, tap dancers, and singing waiters. Permanent class officers, a presi dent, vice-president, and secretary treasurer, will be elected along with the Senior Superb Sublime Superla tives: the most popular boy, best all round boy, best male athlete, best looking boy, most likely to succeed,! best scholar, most popular girl, best all-round girl, best coed athlete, best looking girl, screwiest screwball, Mr. and Mrs. 1940, best dressed boy, cut est boy, most personality, most con ceited, most bashful, play boy, best dressed girl, oomph girl; most out standing girj, and party girl. Whew! Sanford Stein, risque rhyme writer, will read the class prophecy, Bill (Continued on page 2, column 3) Advises Group Beer Parties YMCA SPONSORS MOVIES TONIGHT Summer Work Camps Will Be Discussed Graham Memorial lounge tonight at 7:30 once again will be converted into a moving picture emporium and upon the screen will flash inviting views of the Quaker. Summer Work Camps, after which Fred Roberts, a refugee student from Germany here at the Uni versity, will speak briefly on "Differ ences in Experiences in Work Camps in Germany and the United States." An open forum period will follow this talk. The YMCA is sponsoring this Film Forum in an effort to interest people in Work Camps as a possible experience for the coming summer. This summer there will be twelve of these Work Camps, conducted by the American Friends Service Com mittee, and located in various areas where groups will have an opportunity. to study conflicts in American life. Some typical sections where these groups will be found are the Michi gan automobile area, the sharecropper (Continued on page 4, column 5) at Chapel Hill? State Views On Communism ;t ' 'C' f Dr. E. E. Erieson of those called liberal. Some have call ed him a Communist. The Chapel Hill Press, they say, publishes radical lit Women Pass Mew Proposal Becial Privile Grail Delegata Bill Dees DEES SUCCEEDS PAUL THOMPSON AS GRAIL HEAD Idol, Jones, Coxhead Also Take Office Bill Dees, University rising senior from Goldsboro, was elected delegata of the Grail, succeeding Paul Thomp son, at a banquet Friday night in the Carolina inn, honoring the 13 Grail neophytes. A member of the Student council for the past two years and a candidate for president of the student body this spring. Dees has been very active on the campus. His office as delegata of the Grail will correspond to that of president. Succeeding DeWitt Barnett, Char (Contrnued on page 4, column 3) Co-op Group Will Present War Play Tonight at 8:30 No Admission To Be Charged The Co-op theater presents tonight at 8:30 in the Playmaker theater its second production of the year, Irwin Shaw's anti-war play "Bury the Dead." The play, conceded by critics to be one of Shaw's best, is laid in a war time burying ground. The plot cen ters around the refusal of six corpses to be buried, and the reactions of the live characters to this refusal. Jones and Schack Direct Eleanor Jones directs the produc tion, and Jerry Schack is the' stage manager. No admission will be charg ed. The Co-op theater was formed sev eral months ago by students interest ed in dramatics, and .is, as its name implies completely: cooperative. erature and he encourages its distri bution among the students, and, so, is dangerous. He prepares wearily to go all over it again. "I don't know whether I am a Communist. I don't know what a Communist is. Some say one thing, some another. I vote the Demo cratic ticket. I believe this, that Jefferson and Washington . and Adams and the early American leaders brought something to the world that we, as Americans, ought to be tremendously interest ed in preserving. I, personally, am tremendously interested in pre serving it. Democratic Society Is His Ideal "I say this, that America is fac ing an issue which is coming on for set tlement. It is a matter of dictatorship. The fight is whether we are to have one big dictator or many little dicta (Contwued on page 2, column 5) raiitni ges -4 Girls May Attend Midnight Show Friday Night An amendment to the Women's As sociation constitution providing that Sunday night be counted as a week end night, thereby permitting women students to stay out until. 11 o'clock was passed at the Women's Associa tion meeting yesterday, and will go into effect immediately. It was also passed that senior girls having a C average may take two "key privileges" each weekend, allowing them to remain out until 12 o'clock on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday nights. Girls may now attend the midnight show every Friday night instead of only when there is a dance on the campus, it was voted at the meeting. Junior Council Representatives The motion to establish an Inter dormitory Council which would advise incoming students and attempt to im prove both interdormitory and intra dormitory relations was unanimously passed. The council will be composed of nine seniors and three graduate students appointed by the new and old women's councils in the spring of the year. Girls agreed to include a junior rep resentative in the women's council, who will take office immediately following ' her election at the beginning of the winter quarter. . ' Hominations' for HERe "junior repre sentative shall be made by a special nominating committee appointed by the president of the Women's Associa tion at the beginning of the fall quar ter, which will consist of two repre sentatives each from the sororities, and seven representatives from the non-sorority group, with the agree ment that junior girls may meet and make nominations from the floor. Ot DI TO DIS CUSS NEW CONSTITUTION Three Other Bills To Undergo Debate Final action on a proposed new constitution will be considered tonight at the Di Senate's weekly meeting in Di hall at 7:15 o'clock. Discussion of the revised constitu tion was moved up one week due to lack ef attendance at last week's meet ing of the Senate. It is imperative that every member attend tonight as a technical problem is now involved concerning membership status. Last week only 21 members were found to actually be on roll, so few Senator Williams moved those absent be made "honorary members." The motion was not recognized by Speaker John Bonner. Questions of absences along with problems of obsolete phrases and ad ministrative reorganization will be brought up for debate tonight at what is expected to be a turbulent session. Three additional bills will undergo debate tonight. One, a petition to the Student Legislature to admit a Di Senator as member, is particularly important. The same petition will re quest the legislature to submit copies of its controversial bills to the Di for discussion. . " - Two other bills to be considered are: "Resolved, that the Di go on record as condemning the present method of excluding men from selection of May Court members,'' and "Resolved, that the clerk of the Di write a letter to Dean Bradshaw asking steps be taken to abolish all forms of hazing and fraternity initiation." , Coed CPU Applications Coeds interested in joining the CPU may obtain blanks at the Y until Thursday.
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