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CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1940
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NUMBER 181
Council Prosecution
They Got Them Oat, Anyhow
Graham Likes FDR's
New Foreign Policy,
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Lee Wiggins
Asks Council
To Take Action
Thursday night's peace rally, "which
produced the first egg-throwing in re
cent Carolina history but soon sub
sided into an orderly discussion, was
still the major subject of conversation
oo the campus yesterday.
Student leaders generally agreed
that the University's traditional
policies of freedom of expression and
orderly conduct of all meetings, which
tad undergone the closest shave they
could remember, won out in the end.
Possible reverberations from anti
Dcace movement activity loomed as
Lec Manning Wiggins, leader in the
rally, said he would ask the student
council to prosecute students who re
moved white crosses from near the
Confederate monument and converted
them into a bonfire.
Dave Morrison, president of the
student body, said he himself wa3
planning to initiate no action.
Graham Speaks to Seniors
President Frank P. Graham, whose
siknt appearance on the platform at
the rally considerably quieted the audi
ence, spoke to members of the senior
class yesterday morning, reiterating
a special statement to the Daily Tab
Heel made during the mass peace
meeting.
His statement said, "I am glad that
tbe peace group carried through its
program against ungentlemanly oppo
sition cf a few students who misrepre
sented the best tradition of the Uni
versity, and the overwhelming major-. In addition to having the first coed
ity of the students who believe in giv-1 neaj cheerleader in the history of Car
ing every minority a fair hearing, j olina tne new cheering squad has
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COEDS SELECTED
FOR NEW WOMEN'S
WTERDORM GROUP
Nine Undergrads
Will Aid Coeds
Entering Carolina
Nine undergraduate girls were
chosen yesterday to act on the re
cently organized women's Interdormi
tory council. They are Ann Moore,
Olivia Rhodes, Genie Loaring-Clark,
Betty Moore, Ann Thornburg, Maxine
Beestern, Sylvia Cullum, Alaine
Marsh, and Sally Wright. Represen
tatives from the graduate dormitory
have not been chosen yet.
Girl3 were chosen for the council,
the first of its kind for Carolina wom
en students, by the new and old Wom
an's councils. The purpose of the coun
cil is to arouse and stimulate interest
in extra - curricular activities, the
Women's Student Government, and
better dormitory relations.
Character and personality as well
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Here we ha"ve Adrian Spies, left, and Mack Hobson. They have been
roaming around with a "cat that ate the mouse" expression for the past
day or so. Reason: Spies has released his first issue as editor of The
Carolina Magazine, Hobson has distributed his first productions as editor'
of The Carolina Buccaneer.
Carolina Principles
And Eggs Don't Mi
Connell Will
Be New Coed
Cheerleader
Tcese students won through to a re
spectful hearing because of their sin
cerity." A large number of students ex
pressed the opinion that opposition to
the meeting arose because the rumor
spread that those sponsoring it were
not representative of the campus as a
whole, and that their sentiments con
cerning England and France were
contrary to the opinion of the major
ity cf the campus.
Campus Favors Allies
LaFt night's demonstration left
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signed Jeannie Connell, and- will
choose one other coed from Jesna Pre
vatte, Dolly Erickson, and Jane
Moody, Jane Rumsey and Charlie Nel
son, co-head cheerleaders announced
yesterday.
Definitely on the revised squad are
Miss Connell, Herschell Snuggs, and
Larry Stern. Two other members will
be chosen from among Bud. Samo,
Curry Jones, and Tom A vera.
John Feuchtenberger, styled "human
mascot" for Carolina, will perform in
a role that is an entirely original in
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(Editorial)
(Editor's note: The issue of the peace movement is not discussed here.
An evaluation of it will be found on page 2. This space is devoted to a
discussion of other issues: gentlemanly conduct and freedom of speech.)
News Briefs
British Warships, Airplanes
Cross Channel To Bomb Nazis
Successful Attack
Made on Bottleneck
(By United Press)
LONDON, May 25 (Saturday)
British warships steamed across the
narrow English channel today and
began hurling shells into German oc
cupied French Channel ports and
wave after wave of British warplanes
hurdkd from home bases and attacked
the "gap" through which Nazi col
umns were rushing to reinforce Ger
man forces already on the coast.
FA RIS Fierce Allied blows utiliz
ing massed men, guns, and planes to
light were reported to be driving a
P'og into a 25-mile bottleneck north
cf the Somme through which Ger
many's motorized raiders are stream
ing toward the English Channel coast.
In the past 48 hours the plug has
en driven one-third of the way into
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ir gap which separated the mam
French army from the 600,000 to 1,
W),GCC Allied troops which were
withdrawing from Belgium and al
lowing Germany's swift "tanzer" units
to pour across the Flanders lowlands
to the channel
If the gap is closed, French military
sPoicsmen said, between 20,000 and
20,000 Nazi troops and 1,000,000
tanks and other equipment' will be
Ftured in a trap along the channel
ere Adolf Hitler is gambling to ob
a foothold for his threatened
Sitzkrieg against the British Isles.
EERLIN German troops have
Cached Calais, French channel port,
miles from the English city of
across the water and have
ssUd through the first Allied line
afel the Scheldet river in Belgium
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PLAYMAKERSPLAN
GROUP OF PLAYS
To Give Three
Shows Thursday
Spring in Manhattan, the New Mex
ico of Billy the Kid and The Alabama
Black Belt will come together on the
Carolina Playmakers stage Thursday,
May 30, with the experimental produc
tion of three new one-act plays.
The plays are: "Truth or Conse
quences, Dy connie onum, w
ville. N. Y.: "The Death of Billy the
Kid," by Chase Webb, of Tularosa,
New Mexico; and "Watermelon Time,"
bv Kate Porter Lewis, of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama. They were wmien m nu
fessor Frederick H. Koch's course in
playwriting and chosen for production
out of a number turned in during the
quarter.
Miss Smith's play presents a cross
section of life in Manhattan, bringing
together a variety of people as they
take to the windows, the stoops and
the street on the first warm night 'of
spring. It is a play in which no great
problems are posed and none solved
but it has a fullness of character por
trayal and a lyrical quality not often
come by in student plays. The follow
ing are cast in "Truth or Conse-
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Band to Give Concert
The University band will play its
third in the series of weekly concerts.
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock unjer
the Davie Popular. v
The University of North Carolina enjoys a splendid reputation.
Wherever it is mentioned two great traditions are usually thought
of. Its students, its alumni, its friends proudly proclaim that their
University is one that cherishes to the utmost the tradition of the
Carolina gentleman and the tradition of freedom of speech. Dr.
Frank P. Graham, as the president of this University, becomes the
symbol of the great traditions. Wherever he goes, men with broad
vision recognize him as the champion of and representative of the
Carolina gentleman tradition. They praise him because he, as
president of the University and as a democratic citizen, is firm in
his insistence that every man in this democratic nation, in this
democratic University, shall have the right to speak his beliefs,
regardless of whether he or anyone else subscribes to these ideas,
It must have been a disheartening shock to Dr. Graham Thursday
night as he sat in Memorial hall and watched eggs and fruit land on
the stage as students students of this democratic and tradition
proud institution enacted an anti-war drama as a part of a move
ment for peace.
This symbol of the Carolina gentleman and of freedom of speech
ever true to his ideals the ideals which must have grown stronger
in him when he was a student here and a part of student democracy
and fair play leaped to the stage in defense of the right of those
actors to go on with their play. He made no statement. He did
not speak in behalf of the cause of those who were sponsoring the
movement; he did not condemn it. He rose only in defense of the
Carolina legends of the Carolina gentleman, of freedom of speech,
and of common decency.
One would have thought that the appearance of Dr. Graham
must surely bring the hecklers and egg-throwers to their senses.
One wanted to believe that the trouble-makers were unduly ex
cited, that they actually WERE Carolina gentlemen and had been
led astray by their desire for a good laugh. One hoped that they
would see the figure of democracy standing there on the stage and
would cover their faces in shame. Hopes ran high among propo
nents of student self-government' that the true spirit of democracy
would assert itself. When the thunder of applause greeted Dr.
Graham's appearance on the stage, these defenders of the legends
of the Carolina gentleman and of freedom of speech were reas
sured.
Then, his silently eloquent speech for fairness ended, Dr. Graham
returned to a seat among the audience. Surely he too must have
felt that this was not a characteristic display of Carolina conduct.
He must have felt, as others did, that the speech of Bob Magill, a
plea for freedom of speech and fair play, would surely register with
the students. After all, the persons who were guilty of the egg
throwing, the hissing and the booing, were not children. They
were mentally-mature individuals, capable of displaying at least
a thimbleful of decency.
But he must have been brutally awakened to the real natures of
some Carolina students when the noise continued, when another
egg was thrown onto the stage.
At last, a student who opposed the peace movement in its exist
ing form but who was a defender of that movement's right to speak
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Wanta Make a Dollar, Maybe
A dollar Uncle Sam's most beauti
ful contribution to humanity will go
to the well-informed person who
guesses the classical composition and
the popular tune which was taken
from it at the "Music Under the
Stars" program, sponsored by Gra
ham Memorial, to be held in Kenan
Stadium, tomorrow night at & o'clock
Heading the recorded - program is
Ravel's immortal Bolero; with Danse
Macabre by Saint-Saens; Selections
from the Student Prince by Romberg;
Brigg Fair (An English rhapsody)
by Delius; Marche Slave by Tschai
kowsky; Emperor Waltz by Strauss;
and The Unknown.
In case of rain the bell in South
building tower will ring at 7:45 to
indicate that the program will be held
in-Hill; hall;'
SENIORS, GRADS
MEET WEDNESDAY
IN MEMORIAL HALL
Dr. Lyons, Faculty
Marshal, to Discuss
Graduation Procedure
Dr. J. C' Lyons of the Romance
Languages department, who was re
cently appointed chief faculty mar
shal by University President Frank
Graham and Administrative Dean R.
B. House to succeed Dr. W. M. Dey,
announced yesterday that a short meet
ing of all seniors and grads expect
ing to receive degrees at commence
ment will be held Wednesday in Me
morial hall to discuss procedure of
graduation exercises.
Stressing the fact that a few strag
glers might make the procession look
very unruly, Lyons announced the
coming meeting at a brief conclave of
the senior class yesterday morning.
He also emphasized the necessity of
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School Papers
Hold Balkans
Vital Factor
Always a world hotbed, Europe's
Balkan states again are claiming ma
jor attention from observers of the
titanic struggle between Germany and
the allies. . - - -
American college writers are indulg
ing in varied , speculation as to tne
role the Balkans are likely to play
in the far-flung conflict of a major
nature.
The Daily Illini at the University of
Illinois feels that "to a great meas
ure, failure of the Balkan nations to
form at least tightly-knit neutral bloc
has caused the allied powers' states
men some sleepless nights. It means
that the Balkans, singly, are still weak
enough to encourage German or Rus
sian aggression. The Belgrade con
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'American Supplies,
Not Men, Needed
Says Dr. Frank
With discussions of America's po
sition concerning the European war
reverberating throughout the campus
because of the recent "keep out of
Europe's war" movement, President
Frank P. Graham in a special state
ment to the Daily Tar Heel yester
day said that he "in the main sup
ported President Roosevelt's foreign
policy."
Asked for an example of his dif
ference with Roosevelt's foreign pol
icy, Dr. Graham said that he opposed
the foreign policy of America and
other democracies "in withholding
rightful supplies from the Spanish
democracy when the Spanish people
were being crushed by Hitler and
Mussolini."
His stand with respect to the Span
ish democracy, he pointed out, is in
line with his present stand for sup
plies to the Allied democracies.
Supplies, Not Men, Needed
"It is American supplies, not men,
which the Allied democracies need,"
he said. "American entrance into the
war, in transferring the flow of sup
plies to our own forces, would cut
down the supplies now indispensably
needed by the Allies.
"America's main job is to be an ex
ample and stronghold of freedom and
democracy as a basis for the recon
struction of a stricken world."
President Graham's . personal sym
pathy is on the side of Great Britain,
France, Belgium, Holland, Norway,
Denmark, Finland, Poland, Czecho
slovakia, Ethiopia, the Spanish de
mocracy and Ci .j r ; ' '
He said he "deeply deplored the Al
lies' running out of Woodrow Wil
son's 14 points at Paris, the failure
of America to join the League of Na
tions, the failure of the League to
revise the Treaty of Versailles in hu
mane consideration of the German
people, the failure of the democracies
to lend a brotherly hand to the strug
gling German democracy, and the con
sequent tragic rise of Hitler to dic
tatorship. "I favor continuing the efforts for
organization of peace among the na
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Refugee German Student
Comments on 'Egg Barrage9
MUSIC STUDENTS
TO GIVE RECITAL
Original Songs
To Be Presented
A program of original compositions
by students in the University music
school will be presented to the public
in Hill Music hall Sunday afternoon
at 3:30 by the University Music de
partment and Phi Alpha Mu Sin-
fonia fraternity.
The original scores were written in
composition course taught by pro
fessor Earl Slocum.
The program will include: two pre
udes for organ by Frances Lee; trio
for flute, clarinet and bassoon by
Marjorie Keiger; Rondo for flute,
clarinet and .bassoon by Hubert Hen-
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Frosh May End Pains
From Line-Weary Feet
Do you have corns, bunions or cal-
ouses on your feet? Are you bothered
by fallen arches, ingrowing toenails or
Achilles' heel? If you are a freshman
and have trouble like these and do not
ike to stand in interminablelines for
hours on end and your sore feet in fall
quarter registration, there is still hope
for you.
our last chance for salvation is to go
to see your advised before 1 o'clock to
day and arrange your schedule of
courses for next year. Today is ab
solutely the final chance. All filled-
out programs of study must be turned
in at Memorial hall Monday afternoon
for numbering.
Compares Incident
To Pre-Hitlerism
Having witnessed the upsurge of
anti-peace rally sentiment in the form
of a barrage of eggs, fruit and boos
at the "Keep America Out of Europe's
War" rally Thursday night, Fred
Roberts, refugee German student, was
reminded of a similar experience of
his in pre-Hitler Germany in 1932.
At that time he was a student in
Berlin. Hitler was still a political
outcast, but his movement was gain
ing ground rapidly. Roberts helped
organize a student demonstration, the
purpose of which was to declare that
the accession of Hitler to power would
bring war to Germany.
In the audience, Roberts said, were
around 10 members of the National
Socialist movement. . They began hiss
ing the student speakers and in a
short while other students, who had
been indifferent onlookers, joined the
hecklers and participated in the" egg
bombardment which ensued. The
meeting disintegrated.
Twenty days later Hitler came to
power. ,
Roberts later spent four years in
a concentration camp. He came to
America last summer and is now en
rolled in the University and studying
economics.
Again referring to the Thursday
night escapade here, he said that he
was shocked that Carolina students
maltreated their own numbers but
quietly listened to rabid Socialists or
rugged reactionaries and made no pro
test, even though they disagreed, with '
the sentiments being expressed.
"We treat our visitors with re
spect, but we dont have to do this for
our own students," he said he "was
told by one students.' ' - '.