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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941 Etftomi: :nm-. asii xxtt: m t
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Flying Scholarships
Reduced; Duke Students
To Use Carolina Field
Students Here Will Not Be Affected
Despite Lower Ratio for University
Requests by airport officials to eniarge the University's quota
of flying scholarships were not only turned down, but the present
quota itself was cut from 40 to 30 it was learned yesterday.
Simultaneously it was announced that Duke University students
would take their instruction at Caro-
TfT fi I Una's new 607 acre Horace Williams
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To Speak
For GPU
Nye, Martin
Scheduled
To Appear Here
Breaking the summer's silence, CPU
chairman Ridley Whi taker released
yesterday a full fall quarter program
highlighted by a defense official, an
isolationist, and the chief of the re
publican party.
"Wayne Coy, head of the Office of
Emergency Management, is the first
scheduled speaker of the year slated
to appear in Memorial Hall on the
night of October 20. Coordinating
agent for the various .defense authori
ties OPM, OPAC, and SPAB, Coy is
regarded by Washington newsmen as
being one of the men closest to Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Coy has promised union officials
to reveal the status of the defense
industries np to the time of the speech
and to explain the functions of the
various defense agencies.
Formerly Paul V, McNutt's assis
tant in the Securities Administration,
Wayne Coy has been recently written
up by Redbook magazine.
Nye to Appear
Senator Gerald P. Nye, republican
isolationist from North Dakota i3
scheduled to appear on the. CPU plat
form November 18. Recently figuring
in the Senatorial sub committee's in
vestigation of the movie industry for
allegedly spreading war propaganda,
Nye has gained national prominence
for his non-interventionist stand in
the Congressional chambers.
Chairman of the republican party,
Joseph W. Martin has been tentatively
scheduled to speak here in the latter
part of October. Martin is minority
leader of the'U. S. House of Repre
sentatives. Chairman Whitaker announced that
the Union would hold a campus poll
within the next two weeks on soe ; 2
pertinent issue on the national or
international scene. This poll will be
decided upon by the members of the
organization at the first meeting of
the year.
Complete DTH Staff
Will Meet Today
The staff of the Daily Tar Heel
will meet at 1:30 this afternoon in
212 Graham Memorial. This includes
sports writers.
New students, transfers, and old
students desiring to try out for the
campus daily will meet in the same
room at .2 o'clock, regardless of
whether they have already filled out
application blanks.
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ABOVE ARE THE 135 FRESHMEN who came to Chapel Hill a week early to participate in the YMCA retreat before orientation
weekf for some specialized orientation, if we may be a little vague. Anyway, here are a lot of freshmen who got their pictures in the paper.
Field. This was taken to mean that
Carolina's ratio would be cut still fur
ther as a result of sharing the air
training with Duke, but W. R. Mann,
airporj; manager, explained that it
would in no way affect training of
Carolina' students.
Duke is- operating under her own
quota of ten students and will supply
her own materials, equipment, pilots
and ground schools, if the plans go
through, Mann said. Duke students
previously took their training at the
Raleigh field.
Serious Shortage of Instructors
In turning down Carolina's request
for an enlarged quota, Washington C
AA heads explained " that the action
was being taken only to allow the pro
gram means to appropriate more mon
ey towards secondary training, cross
country flying, and training of in
structors. .
Carolina officials had wired Wash
ington, asking for an increased quota,
basing their request on their "highly
satisfactory" previous record. Joseph
J. Mitchener, regional superintendent,
responded that though training at Car
olina was satisfactory, such a course
would be impossible, because of ap
propriations. He then proceeded to
cut the quota, explaining that reduc
tions were being made in the entire
region, and further explaining, that
"a serious shortage of instructors for
military service has made an increase
in advanced training necessary".
Parodoxically, Carolina has no pro
visions for advanced training or cross
country instruction of any sort, and
will not benefit from the new appro
priations. House's Harmonica,
Frosh Talent Feature
College Night Show
Carolina's annual college night, held
in Memorial hall last night, featured
outstanding new talent as well as the
traditional hot harmonica of Dean R.
B. House.
Directed by Bob Richards, who was
assisted .by Ted Royal and Artie Fish
er, the show was staged under the su
pervision of Sound and Fury. Tiny
Hutton, overgrown exponent of extem
poraneous wit, serxed as master of
ceremonies, aided by stooges Pokey
Alexander and Catherine Charles.
The two Kay Kyser scholarship win
ners, John O'Steen and Elaine Berg
performed with more than enough ar
tistry to merit their recent selection,
O'Steen playing several classical se
lections for the piano and Miss Berg
presenting a dramatic monologue.
Sharing honors with the two music
drama scholarship winners in the more
serious side of the program was Zan
Harper, who played a violin solo.
Spice of the program was provided
by a boogie woogie dance by Artie
La vine and a ditty sung by Genie Loar
See COLLEGE NIGHT, page U
Elaine Berg
Berg, O'Steen Awarded
Eay Kyser
Coed Dramatist,
Selected as First
Elaine Berg-, J.9-year old dramatist, and Johnny O'Steen, 17-year
old musician, winners of the music and drama scholarships estab
lished by Kay, Kyser, nationally known Tar Heel band leader, actor
and radio performer, have amazing: talent in their fields.
Established last June through
hong Lines,
Registration
Worry Frosh
By Ed Lashman
Hundreds of freshmen doggedly and
tiredly filling out what seemed to be
innumerable blanks looked on with
combined bewilderment and disgust as
upperclassmen superciliously entered
Woollen gymnasium by 'the side door
waving special permits and hilarious
ly greeting friends and professors
alike.
Some 1248 freshmen coeds and upperclassmen-
registered Monday be
tween the hours of 8:30 and 6 p. m.
They lay around on the floor smoking
thousands of cigarettes, bulling about
future courses and professors, griping
about the fact that none of the fresh
man and sophomore profs were listed
on the schedule sheet.
Freshmen were initiated into the
delicate mysteries of the Carolina tra
dition of standing in line. As one frosh
put it, "It was just plain h 1!"
Cataloguing Coeds
Little did the unsuspecting coeds
realize that they were being catalogued
for future reference. The students at
the Tar Heel desk who repeated end
lessly, imperiously, monotonously "Tar
Heel card!" were perpetrating a Ma
chiavellian scheme on the trusting girls.
As each girl handedin her card with
her. name and address it was graded
A, B, C, or D as the case merited.
"How long is this thing going to
take." "How long have you been
here?" "Have a cigarette?" "By the
time we get to register there won't be
any courese left open." And so on as
tiredness overcame patience.
With audible and unprintable sighs
of relief freshmen stumbled out -of the
sids door loaded down with papers,
booklets an da schedule of payments.
Staggering happily over to the Tin Can
to" have identification card pictures
made, the weary thousand wended back
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Johnny O'Steen
Scholarships
Frosh Musician
Recipients
the Kay Kyser Foundation, -which
has been endowed by the former Caro
lina cheer leader, the awards are based
upon character, scholarship, leader
ship, achievements and promise of fu
ture distinction. The scholarship pro
vides tuition, room and board for one
year.
Graham Makes Announcement
Dr. Frank P. Graham made the an
nouncement of the recipients of the
scholarship after he had received rec
ommendations from the University
Scholarship committee headed by Dean
Dudley D. Carroll.
Entering Carolina as a junior,
Elaine Berg, co-ed recipient, has al
ready completed two years of under
graduate work at the University of
North Dakota, having also taught dra
matics in the Academy of St. James
last year.
She is a graduate of Grand Forks,
North Dakota high school and has re
ceived numerous honors for participa
tion in dramatics, writing contests and
general activities for both high school
and college.
Wins DAR Award
1939 winner of the Good Citizenship
Award offered by the Daughters of
the American Revolution, she repre
sented Grand Forks at the DAR's State
convention. During the same year,
she won a $500 cash prize offered by
a national watch company for the best
essay on the subject: "I am Proud to
See SCHOLARSHIPS, page ,2
Union Officers
To Plan Budget
The annual budget for the Graham
Memorial Student Union will be made
tomorrow afternoon when the Board
of Directors meets at 2:30 in the Grail
room of the Union. Other minor items
will be discussed, announced Richard
Worley, Director of student activities.
Members of the Board include Tru
man Hobbs. chairman: Dean R. B.
House, Dean F. F. Bradshaw, H. F,
Comer, and J. M. Saundersf Fred
Weaver, Mary Caldwell, Orville Camp
bell, Bill McKinnon, Sam Gambill,
Dotson Palmer, George Hayes, John
Thorpe, Terry Sanford, Diddy Kelly,
and Richard Worley.
Coed Ball, 'Blind Dates'
Scheduled for Friday
The annual ball in honor of the new
coeds will Be given in the Tin Can
Friday night from 10 until 1 o'clock
under the combined auspices of the
Graham Memorial Student Union and
the YWCA, Richard Worley, director
of union activities announced yester
day. ."The hour has been set at 10 to al
low the guests to attend the pep
rally," he said.
Admission will be by invitation
only, he continued, and there will be
a blind date assigned each coed as
well as a stag guest list. Each boy
is urged to call his date before Fri
day in order to make a definite ar
rangement for the night. Formal
dress will be worn.
Chaperones will be hostesses in
' dormitories and house mothers in
sorority houses.
"There will be plenty of old stu
dents on hand to introduce the new
girls to everyone, and we expect this
to be one of the best balls we have
put on in their honor," Worley con
cluded. State CPA's
To Hold Meet
Symposium Slated
For Oct. 24, 25
The second annual Symposium on
Accounting and Taxation of the
North Carolina Association of Certi
fied Public Accountants will be held
at Carolina and Duke University on
October 24 and 25.
Accountants, controllers, financial
officers of corporations, bankers, at
torneys and others interested in ac
counting and taxation will be in at
tendance at the Symposium, the first
of which last year drew more than
200 persons. " ' .
Purpose of the meeting is to discuss
and study problems of accounting and
auditing, the effect of the .war upon
business and professional activities,
and the forthcoming revenue act of
1941.
Among discussion leaders will be
well known representatives of the
American Institute of Accountants, of
the United States Treasury depart
ment, and of industry and the ac
counting profession of this State.
Speakers who have already accept
ed invitations to address the group
include Thomas N. Tarleau, Legisla-
ive Counsel of the United States
Treasury Department; ,M. L. Black,
Jr., of the Office of Price Administra
tion and Civilian Supply; and Henry
Dwire, Vice President of Duke Uni
versity. A detailed program will be
issued soon.
In addition to addresses there will
also be forums, round-table and panel
discussions on taxation and technical
subjects, including the last-in, first
out method of inventory accounting.
Registration is scheduled for 8:30
o'clock Friday morning, October 24,
at the Carolina Inn here. Sessions
will be held in Gerrard hall here and
in the Union at Duke.
AboutrFace
Pacifist Ericson Changes
In Favor of All-Out Aid
By Ernie Frankel
Carolina's foremost advocate of
peace for America," Dr. E. E. Ericson,
stepped out of his self -chosen role of
peace champion yesterday and, sanc
tioning a flip-flop of policy, did a com
plete about face urging "convoys, ship3,
tanks, guns all-out aid."
Only a few months ago marked by
Russia's entry into, the conflict, Presi
dent Roosevelt's historic proclamation
on freedom of the seas and the dra
matic Roosevelt-Churchill meeting
the dry, likeable Ericson, long a foe of
"any war," opposed Dr. E. J. Wood
house in a heated press-speech debate.
At that time bitter accusations and
stern rebuttals on either side of the
aid question rocked the campus.
"I've Changed My Mind"
Yesterday it wag a different story,
for in his study, speaking "for publi
cation" in an informal chai, the pro-
Three Point
Program
Announced
Technical Courses
For US Defense
Is Aim of Program
Carolina looks ahead in 1941.
The "future book" of America's old
est state university stating the pro
gram of progress for the coming year
is prefaced by the aim to generate
the full power of this school to serve
the American people as the "nation's
college," to train the country's youth
to help in the preservation of democra
cy, to mobilize educational resources in
promoting these principles.
Playing its historical role of forming
"useful and respectable members of
society," Carolina, through adminis
trative and faculty officials, has an
nounced a three-point program of pub
lic service and human welf are de
signed to co-operate with the federal
government in the national defense
effort.
"Through her laboratories the Uni
versity will train chemists, physicists,
geologists, biologists, pharmacists,
nurses and doctors ; on her lawns future
naval officers will drill; on outlying
fields aviators will train; in her gym
nasiums three thousand boys will regu
larly play and exercise to assure physi
cal fitness. The vision of her leaders
will turn to strategies yet unseen and
to the discovery of new methods and
materials for national preparedness
and protection.
"The University's research labora
tories as well as her research specialists
will continue to be used by the government-
in projects of vital importance
to national defense. The multiplex
resources of skill and ingenuity, plant
and equipment, will all be focused on
one aim the defense of America."
In a message to the students of the
United States, President Roosevelt
says: "Young people should be advised
that it is their patriotic duty to con
tinue the normal course of their edu
cation, unless and until they are called"
Speaking as Commissioner of the U.
S. office of education, John W. Stude-
baker urges:
The first obligation of
college students is to fit themselves for
the highest type of service; they should
not give up the chance to prepare for
their unique service in order to ren
der a service on a level which can be
See UNC PREPARES, page U
Credit Where
Credit Is Due
Students may thank for this 20-page
Daily Tar Heel the hardworking mem
bers of the staff who returned to Chapel
Hill a week early and spent beautiful
Indian summer days pounding a type
writer, gorgeous autumn nights watch
ing an inky composing stone.
Tip the hat to Harry Hollingsworth,
Ed Lashman, Horace Carter, Ernie
Frankel, Elsie Lyon, Bob Hoke, Paul
Komisaruk, Billy Webb, Jimmy Wal
lace, Sara Sheppard, Bucky Harward,
Gregory Perkins, of the literary staff s.
. Bob Bettman, Jack Dube, Ditzi Bu'ice,
Bill Stanback, Buck Dudley of the bus
iness staff.
fessor admitted that "I've changed my
mind since that time, I think that we
must now pour all-out aid, even to the
extent of convoys to Great Britain and
Russia." This after a Tar Heel edi
torial, written by Dr. Ericson, titled,
"A Program For America."
In that declaration "Is this a war
really to save democracy, or is it a
matter of one rising imperialism seek
ing to disestablish an older one found
ed on the same methods in the last
two hundred years?" . . . if we are
dopes we shall have war with all its
attendant misery with possibly a Fas
cist America as an aftermath . . ."
This reversal by the Carolina proT
fessor came on the heels of a similar
change of policy by many of the mem
bers of the APM American Peace
Mobilization changed to the Ameri
can Peoples Mobilization. Those same
See ERICSON, page