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lie Editorials La Carta del Domingo Las Calabazas j Los Reyes Headlines EI Senor Padllla Habla UP Escoge Tres Ilombres Harris Dice Los Proyectos -THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME L CHAPEL HILL, N- C SUNDAY, .MARCH 29, 1942 Editorial: 43W; Nevi: 43; K'wtxt: M NUMBER 129 Padilla Declares That American Youth to Die tor Freedom, Justice Friviiegedi it ? AM Lyman Higdon UP Picks Higdon, Manly, Burleigh for Junior Race Class Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer Candidates Announced By Billy Webb The University party last night announced the nomination of Lyman Higdon for vice-president, Ike Manly for secretary, and Bob Burleigh for treasurer, of the junior class. A rising junior from Franklin, N. C, Higdon is a member of the sophomore dance committee and a resident of Lewis dorm, having lived there since he entered the University. Versatile in athletics, he participated in intramur- als and was a member of the varsity boxing team. At Georgia Military Academy, where he prepped before coming to Carolina, he won letters in football, basketball, boxing, and base ball. In addition he was active in stu dent government and a. member of the debating squad. Ike Manly, who has an outstanding scholastic record, has been active in intramural football and wrestling as well as a member of the frosh track team. A member of a German honor ary fraternity and candidate for mem bership in two additional honor fra ternities, he has a scholastic average of 95 Manly is a member of an OSCD committee and a two-year resident of Graham dormitory. In high school he See UP PICKS, page i YMCA Cabinet To Pick Out More Candidates The nominating committee of the YWCA cabinet will select tomorrow night more candidates for the offices of YWCA president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. Four candidates have already been picked by the nominating committee and tomorrow's selections will complete the list. Voting day is undetermined and only YWCA members will be al lowed to vote. There will be only one ballot for president and vice-president. The person receiving the highest num ber of votes will be president and the second highest, vice-president. Mary Martha Cobb and Holcombe Turner have been nominated for pres ident and vice-president. Miss Cobb attended the National Assembly of Stu dent Christian association held in Ohio during the Christmas holidays. She has attended the leadership training course and is a junior member of the YWCA Cabinet. Vote! Vote! Vote! Hatch Act to Crack Down On Politician 's Publicity By Hayden Carruth During the period of pre-elections campaigning, the Political Expendi tures Act, passed by the Student legis lature in the winter quarter, severely affects all political candidates on the campus. The campus "Hatch" act puts the following limitations on campaign ex penditures : candidates for student body president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer, editor of the Daily Tar Heel, and speaker of the legislature may spend no more than $12.50 on the political campaign up to and including the day of elections (April 16) ; can didates for Tar an' Feathers, Yackety Yack, and Carolina Magazine editor ships, head cheerleader, Publications Union board representatives, president and vice-president of the Athletic as sociation, and Debate council repre sentatives are limited to $10; candi dates for sophomore, junior, and sen - V Ike Manly Coeds to Take Office Exam Tests to Coyer Political Duties Coeds aspiring to political office must attain eligibility by taking exams next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the WGA room of Graham Memorial, Jean Hahn, speaker of the coed senate, announced. The exams will cover questions deal ing with make-up and duties of the various organs of student government and the correlation between men's and women's government. Nominations will be held April 10 and elections April 14 in Caldwell hall. Offices open to nomination are: eight representatives to the coed senate; and president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the coed honor council. Coeds may attend the meeting Mon day night to discuss the pamphlet re cently distributed by the coed senate. There is no -compulsion as to taking the test Monday night. Tfie exam will be purely objective, dealing with phases of government and interpretations of campus laws discussed in the pamphlet. Debaters to Arrive From Midwest Tourney Four student members of Carolina's Debate council forensic . tournament throughout middle western states are expected to arrive in Chapel Hill to morrow with reports of contest re sults. YMCA Membership Meeting Tomorrow There will be a YMCA membership metinc tomorrow nieht at 7 o'clock in Gerrard hall. Elections will be held ior president, and Student council rep resentatives are limited to $7.50; and candidates for vice-president, secre tary, and treasurer of the three classes, and class representatives to the Stu dent legislature are limited to $5. Because the Daily Tar Heel has not agreed to pay for the cuts of those candidates within the $7.50 category, an amendment to the Political Expen ditures bill will bejntroduced in the Student legislature by Elections com mittee chairman, Bucky Harward, to raise the limitation of this group to $10. The amendment will be consid ered at the Wednesday meeting of the legislature. Further clauses of the act state that no political party may expend more than $50 up to and including the day of elections. All the money spent on a candidate's campaign, whether contributed by the See HATCH ACT, page U Marr is iceieases Survey f Reorganization By Hayden Carruth A round-up of Office of Student Civilian Defense activities and plans at the opening of the spring quarter, including personnel revision and inauguration of added projects, was released from Harris, student coordinator. Personnel changes included the appointment of associates to all OSCD po sitions, the associate officers to undergo a training period in preparation for taking over next year. Associate Dick Railey, forums; Tom Gibian and Harvey Segal, information center; Bert Bennett and Henry Wisebram, Civilian defense and protection; Harold Wag ger, consumer's research division; Dot son Palmer, recreation ; Art Dixon and Hall Partrick, curriculum; and Jim Ladd and Charlotte Power, office staff. Harris outlined new and planned ac tivities : ' Morale: the dormitory bull sessions will get under way once again this week. Necessary disruption of the program has been temporarily caused by the evacuation of students from the upper quadrangle. State-wide panels are going full blast each week in, all principal centers of the state. Hen derson, Durham and Clinton are on this week's schedule. Information: a new program inte grating the facilities of the Informa tion center and those of the morale pro gram and the Chapel Hill units is planned. Civilian protection: Bert Bennett is shaping up the lists of wardens who have been displaced by the air cadet influx. All previously appointed war dens will retain their positions, but will double up in many cases. A meeting of all wardens will be called later this week. "We hope to manage a trial blackout by the next weekend," Harris said. - Consumer's research : A list of houses See HARRIS, page h Busick Elected ACPA Director At Session Here John Busick, publicity director of George Washington University in Washington, was elected director of the fourth district of the American College Publicity association for the ensuing year at the closing session yesterday of the district's annual meeting held here. Mr. William H. Wranek presided over today's luncheon session, which was addressed by Dr. Ralph McDonald of the University's Radio department; J. Maryon Saunders, secretary of the General Alumni association, and Roy Parker of the Journalism department, Dr. McDonald described the type of radio programs which are being broad cast daily from the University's radio studio and said that 600 individuals had participated in 250 programs this year. Mr. Parker told the publicists that weekly newspapers would use a great deal more college news if it were sent to them in more localized and person alized form. Mr. Saunders outlined the Alumni association's program for presenting in graphic fashion to alumni the Univer sky's war efforts. Alonzo Squires, talented blind law student in the University, entertained the delegates with interpretations of several celebrities. Speakers at this morning's session included Irving A. Spalding, Jr., pub licity . director, the American Univer sity; Milson C. Raver, publicity, West ern Maryland College; Phillips Rus- See ACPA, page U FFC Will Sponsor Community Sing The Freshman Friendship Council will sponsor a Community Sing at Ger rard hall tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. E. A. Rankin will speak briefly during the business session. John Simms, president of the FFC urged that all freshmen attend. OSCD's t OSCD headquarters yesterday by Louis officers are Billy Britt, morale division; ; : -- n n . -w--r wan sets up Navy Program Personnel Will Organize 300 Officers, Teachers; Kessing to Be Head First concrete steps in the gigantic task of building 7,000 young men into first class naval airmen were taken yesterday when the Navy cleared its decks for action and ordered Lt. John P. Graff USN, Ret., to the executive staff of the pre-flight training pro gram here. i Lt. Graff's job will be to set up the organization of the pre-flight training personnel which will number more than 300 officers, instructors, coaches and physical instructors--"men who have been tested and found true." Heading this group will be Com mander O. O. Kessing, USN, who will arrive sometime in April. A graduate of the US Naval Aca demy, 1919, Graff served during the first World War on cruisers and battle ships in the Atlantic fleet. He was on the original complement of officers at the commissioning of the USN Reuben James and spent two years in foreign waters on this ship. The Reuben James was the first US man-o-war to be tor pedoed and sunk in this war. "This program," said the lieutenant, "is one of the greatest undertakings that has ever been inaugurated by the United States Navy. The object is to give physical conditioning, Naval and academic indoctrination to the large number of boys who will complete their training in flying schools and become the Naval aviators who will blast our enemies to perdition." Cadets who finish the pre-flight training here will be sent to flying schools throughout the country for fur ther instruction in training, pursuit and bombing planes. Graff is the third officer to arrive at Carolina and set up permanent headquarters. Hart & Kaufman's Wit Pumped into 'GWSH' ' -v ' I Li i i iiinii in i m n mi wt f mm" '' nmnuMMiiT fflnr rwiTntif J--' ..mia A REPRODUCTION of one of the outlandish scenes laid in a farm house in which George Washington allegedly slept is shown above. Characters assemble buckets, pans and mops to stop a storm that has blasted its way through the building's rickety walls. Statesman Stirs Audience, Explains Country's Stand By Paul Komisaruk Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla stirringly declared last night that ". . To die for freedom, for justice, for brother hood in a world which the totalitarians are attempting to bring under subjection is an epic privilege for the youth of the Amer icas," while issuing an urgent plea to continue together under the "dark cloud of present-day events, with realization of the fact that we are all like the crew of the same ship, in the heart of a storm that growls ever more threateningly closer to us.' The tall, distinguished statesman, sensation of the Rio conference in January, forcefully traced Mexico's policy of anti-Axis action and opposi tion to aggression, and asserted that his country's s international policies "have rested, on its consistent asser tion that the liberties won by its peo ple in their fight for recapture of spiritual and. material rights are in dissolubly bound up with the very con cept of the sovereignty of the Repub lic of Mexico." v He pointed to Mexico's friendship with the "other republics of the con tinent," and stressed "our American mindedness and our unshakable re solve to contribute to the unceasing moral and material growth of the Western Hemisphere." Emphasizing -Mexico's anti-Axis policy in the present war, Padilla said that it comes as a "logical consequence of that unhesitating and unswerving belief adopted in all previous con flicts." The 49-year-old diplomat explained that in its longing for world collab oration, "Mexico adopted the splendid theories of indivisible peace and col lective security. Unfortunately," he added, "a wave of blind rage has, in a single moment, swept away every possibility of such general action that See PADILLA, page U Quartet's Spirituals Scheduled Today at 5 Talent comes from - the colored folk of Chapel Hill, and Green Dur ham's "Sunset Four' appears in concert this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the main lounge of Graham Me morial singing streamlined modern versions of Negro spirituals. Organized several years ago, the quartet is comprised of Green Dur ham, baritone, chief cook at the Chi Phi house; James Dooley, tenor, Lenoir Dining hall waiter; A. D. Ly ons, bass, Carolina Inn waiter; and Wilfred Budget, second tenor, work er at the Community Cleaners. They have appeared in Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh and several other neighboring cities, and are famed for their savage interpretations of folk music. This concert is one of a series of Sunday afternoon programs sponsored by Graham Memorial. tt Envoy States Reasons for Sudden Visit By Walter Klein Mexico's Number One diplomat is on his way to Washington for seven days of State Department and White House conferences covering: 1. US armament production for Mexican forces. 2. Settlement of the oil confiscation battle. 3. Discussion of the new Lend- Lease action with Mexico. Ezequiel Padilla stated also last night that Mexican rubber production is already in swing and entering the United States in limited but steady quantities. Commenting on Standard Oil Com pany executive Farish's cold shoulder to Mexican oil settlement plans, Pa dilla remarked, "I don't know very much about the circumstances of the disagreement." The Foreign Minister reported that Japanese inhabitants in western Mex- ico have been completely evacuated and that Pacific waters are being guarded against possible Jap raids "with all available forces." "If it is ever necessary for Mexico to declare war if the United States believes it so we will make the dec laration without hesitation," Padilla asserted. The envoy backed up Mexican Am bassador statement of two weeks ago that April 29 wjll be the day when US and Mexican Congresses take up a joint plan for settlement of the oil fight, and "ending of the strife may come soon after." "Thousands of Mexican laborers are working unselfishly today to speed completion of the Pan-American high way, which your government has called essential to the inter-American war effort. Our part in the work will be finished in a matter of days." Hillel Discussion Meeting Cancelled Hillel Foundation's regular Sunday afternoon discussion meeting will not be held today. Playmaker Cast Starts Rehearsals Swinging into rehearsal under the deft direction of Earl Wynn, the Car olina Playmakers, with their inter pretation of "George Washington Slept Here," prepare a wealth of laughter for prospective audiences. Born from the errant humor of Moss Hart and George Kaufman, "George Washington Slept Here," to be pre sented on the nights of April 15, 16, 17, 18, farcically represents , the vagaries of human life. In their land of pretense, the Playmakers have run the gamut of emotion. This play swerves from the purely dramatic to the portrayal of the superficial exis tence of city folk transplanted to the country. Cows wander in and put of the kitchen. Irate neighbors make life miserable for the bewildered char acters. Misfortunes are however, sur mounted by the everlasting cleverness of the citybred children of nature, who underneath their veneer of hardness really have a heart of pure rubber. Some of the actors are veteran Playmakers long familar to playgoing audiences and some of them compar atively new to the Carolina stage.