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EDITORIALS
Honor System
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SMILING Betty Williams
wears a satin laslex swim suit
that caused many an eye to
turn in her direction as she
strolled along the beach in
Miami. A two-lone tailored
bow is attached to one shoulder
strap. The bottom of the suit
is elasticized so .that it clings
tightly to the pretty model.
(International)
Council Releases
List Of Debaters
Announcement of the list of
speakers who will represent the
University in the Grand National
Forensic tournament set for
Fredericksburg, Va., on March
24 was made yesterday by De
bate Council President Earl Fitz
gerald. " "
Fitzgerald also said the speak
ers should meet in Graham Me
morial next Sunday afternoon at
4:30 to make final arrangements
for transportation to the tourna
ment. Question for debate at the
tournament will be: "Resolved:
That a world federal government
should be established."
Debaters taking the affirmative
position will be Merle Stevens,
Emily Baker, Dortch Warriner
and Herbert Yates. Negative
stands will be taken by Charles
Long, Herbert Mitchell, Tom
Shelton and Jim Spence.
Poetry readers will be. Blan
ton Miller and Robert Giles.
Herman Sieber and Blanton
Miller will enter the tournament
contest for dramatic readers.
Extemporaneous speakers will
be Miss Stevens and Charles
Long. Address readers will be
Robert Giles and Blanton Miller;
and orator contestant will be Bill
Miller. Debate council represen
tative will be Jim Taylor.
Summerlin Edits
Budding Authors Publish 'Bud'
By Donald MacDonald
Fourteen budding authors,
members of Professor Phillips
Russell's creative writing class,
have at last realized an ambition.
They have "published" even if
it took their own manual labor
to complete their magazine.
Summerlin Is Editor
The result of their efforts
comes off the mimeograph to
day, a 72-page magazine entitled
"Bud". Sam Summerlin, a 'senior
journalism student, is editor of
the publication which has be
come a regular feature of Pro
lessor Russell's class each winter
quarter.
Art Editor Don McKinney is
responsible for the cover design
and a special dedication page to
Russell. Stencilling was done by
each member of the class, and
mimeographing by Guy Kirkman
of the University News bureau.
Should Be Considered
Each member of the class is
represented in the magazine.
There are stories which, the
modest authors say, probably
never will appear anywhere
hereafter. Also are some which
acording to readers' opinions, the
Wicker,Thompson,West,Sanford
Seek Council Posts On SP Slate
Announcing the Student party's
final slate of Student council
candidates for April elections,
SP spokesmen yesterday listed
nominations made at Monday
night's party session.
Men candidates for Student
council posts are: Jake Wicker,
Sanford; Cam West, Philadelphia;
and Fred Thompson, Rocky
Mount.
Wicker, a junior, is president
of the University, chapter of Uni
ted World Federalists and also
serves as vice-president of the
Carolina Political union.
A legislator, Cam West is a
member of the Dialectic Senate.
Fred Thompson, a freshman, is
a member of the Student Legisla
ture, of the Freshman Friendship
council and the Elections board.
Women candidates for Student
council are: Iris Best, Concord;
Emily Baker, Asheville; and
Marty Davis, Clayton.
A transfer from Women's col
lege, Miss Best is in Alpha Delta
Pi sorority and serves as co
chairman of the Westminister
group of the Presbyterian church.
Playmakers' Fourth Production Is Original;
'Call Back Yesterday' Is Scheduled Tonight
Democrat Club Adopts Constitution;
Makes Plans For Securing Speaker
Adoption of a constitution and
plans for bring another promi
nent Democratic speaker to
Chapel Hill were the principal
accomplishments of the Young
Democrats club meeting held yes
terday afternoon in Graham
Memorial.
The speaker, whose name was
not announced, will appear here
on April 6. He will follow Jona
than Daniels in the series of
prominent Democrats currently
being brought to the campus by
the YDC.
A provision forbidding the en
dorsement by the local organi
zation of any person prior to his
nomination by the party was in
corporated into the constitution
and, as expected, the group bound
itself to support the nominees
of the Democratic party.
According to the newly adopt
ed document, the purpose of the
campus YDC will be "to increase
the efficiency of popular govern
ment, to foster and perpetuate
better-known publishing houses
would do well to consider.
The content ranges from stark
realism to romantic mystery,
from tales of insanity to Rebal
aisian humor.
Privy Peril
Highlight of the issue is the
lead-off article, "New England's
Peril The Privy," a humorous
essay modeled somewhat along
the lines of the Atlantic Month
ly's "I Personally" contributions.
The author, John Gignilliat,
gathered his material from a
summer bicycle tour through
New England when he stayed at
American Youth hostels which
did not know the advantages of
modern plumbing. Planning to
study architecture, Gignilliat
found the difference in structures
worth recording. He has two
other contributions in the issue,
a short story entitled "Let No
Man Put Asunder," and a char
acter sketch, "The Damnation of
Earl."
Bourbon and Liberalism
A short story which received
unanimous editorial approval is
"Listen: A Banjo" by Sandy
Grady. Grady's story presents a
Miss Baker is a member of
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
V
NORMAN SPER (rhymes
with cheer), who has the Stu
dent party endorsement for
head cheerleader, has been one
of the leading promoters of the
CAA-aproved card stunts at
football games.
the ideals and pi-incipals of the
Democratic party, and to provide
for our people, through its ad
ministration, the highest degree
of justice, social welfare, and
happiness."
All students on campus were
made eligible for active member
ship. In this connection, Lester
Carter, the president, requested
that anyone who may be inter
ested in the Democratic party
identify himself with the organi
zation. Under the constitution, an exe
cutive committee was set up as
a governing board, with its mem
bers to be elected by the full
membership of the club and to
have the power to appoint their
own chairman. It was also pro
vided that the constitution adopt
ed yesterday should supersede
any like document now in exis
ence. The next meeting of the group
will take place on Thursday,
April 1.
72-Page Magazine
dangerous situation come from
an overdose of "liberalism" mix
ed with an overdose of bourbon.
Included also in the issue is a
story already chosen by the
literary board for criticism at the
Arts forum to be held in Greens
boro at Woman's college tomor
row. ". . .Of Red and the World,"
by Charles Preslar, concerns in
sanity with a campus setting.
The story has appeared in a
special issue of the Woman's col
lege magazine, "Coroddi," pub
lished for the Arts forum.
The literary board which made
selections from a host of contri
butions gathered from class as
signments is composed of: Norma
Hotard, D. F. MacDonald, Don
McKinney and William Arm
strong. Other persons who have their
work included are: Benedicta
dos Santos, Jim Kluttz, Lucy
Barret, Bill Prouty, James H.
Shumaker and Elaine Patton.
Copies of the publication,
which were bound by Colonial
Press, will be distributed to the
class members as, souvenirs, and
copies will be kept on file at the
Library and in Bynum hall.
She is a critic in the Phi Assem
bly and serves as a reporter on
the "Daily Tar Heel" staff. She
also served on the "Y" junior
council.
A Salem college transfer,. Miss
Davis worked on the "Salemite",
college newspaper. She was an
International Relations club
member and officer. At Carolina
she is an Alpha Gamma Delta
pledge, majoring in chemistry.
Candidates for Council mem
bers at large are: Sam Magill,
Shanghai, China, who is vice
president of the YMCA, a track
star, and who served as co
chairman of the WSSF drive last
year; Bill Mackie, Chapel Hill,
a former member of the Student
Legislature where he was chair
man of the Finance committee;
and Anna "Chick" Slack, Raleigh,
a pharmacy student, a Student
council member and a candidate
for re-election.
At the party meeting Chairman
Gran Childress announced a
special meeting of the party for
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock
in Roland Parker lounge.
Good Seats Open
For Tomorrow,
Thursday Nights
By Mark Sumner
Gene A. McLain's new full
length play, the highly experi
mental "Call Back Yesterday,"
will be given its premiere run
starting tonight at 8:30 and con
tinuing through Saturday by the
Carolina Playmakers in the Play
maker Theatre. It is the drama
group's fourth major production
for the 1947-48 season.
"We still have good seats for
all the four production nights,
but the best tickets are for Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings,"
John W. Parker, business man
ager, said late yesterday.
The play counts heavily on
lighting and a new type of scen
ery designed by university senior
James Riley. William Ayers, Kay
Kyser scholarship holder, is ser
ving as master electrician.
McLain, a graduate student in
the dramatic art department,
says his play is "an attempt to
escape the limitations of the box
setting, the restrictions of realis
tic time, and the distracting
qualities of material detail, and
have tried to present the es
sence of the characters as they
might exist in memory or imagi
nation."
The play is under the direction
of Harry Davis, associate profess
or, and the cast includes: Gordon
R. Bennett, James Geiger, Mary
Jo Cain, Claude Rayborn, Sidney
Shertzer, Porter Van Zandt, Erie
Hall, Hilda Lawrence, George
Upchurch, Margaret Cameron,
Mac Shaw, Eleanor Ringer, Ed
sel Hughes, Robert Eberle, and
Harry Thomas.
A. E. Westover, III, is stage
manager, and Robert Eberle is
crew chief. The technical crews
include: Hilda Lawrence, Betty
Finley, Iantha Smart, Fred Bull,
Harry Thomas, Mac Shaw, Suz
anne Davis, George McKinney,
and Bradford Fearing.
CP MEETING
The Campus party will meet
to complete its slate for offices
to be filled in the Spring elect
ions at an urgent special meet
ing set for tomorrow evening at
7 o'clock in Roland Parker 2 of
Graham Memorial.
All candidates already nomina
ted, all those who wish to receive
nominations, and any interested
persons have been asked by party
chairman Bob Haire to make a
special effort to be present.
Victor Seixos,
Di Lorenzo Are
Endorsed by CP
Vic Seixas and Vinnie Di
Lorenzo were nominated for
president and vice-president re
spectively of the Carolina Athle
tic association at a meeting of the
Campus party held last night.
Seixas, rising senior from Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania, is a ten
nis star and has played varsity
basketball for the University.
Army Pilot
During the war, he served as
an AAF pilot for three and one
half years, two and one -half of
which were spent overseas.
Before leaving Carolina, the
candidate served as treasurer of
the sophomore class and was a
candidate for the vice presidency
of the junior class when he left.
Previous to his service, he play
ed freshman tennis and freshman
basketball and participated in
one year of varsity competition
in each of the two sports.
Riggs, Kramer Comment
Since returning to Carolina,
Seixas has played one year of
varsity basketball and has . ad
vanced to a starring position on
the University tennis team and in
amateur tennis circles. Bobby
Riggs has said of him, "I'd put
Vic right near the top of the
list of up and coming stars."
Jack Kramer declared that in
ranking Seixas as number 11
among 1947 tennis amateurs the
experts had given him a "raw
deal".
The candidate is captain of this
year's tennis squad, a member
of the Monogram club, and is
on the Dean's list.
Government Experience
Di Lorenzo, the vice-presidential
nominee, is also an outstan
ding athlete with experience in
student government.
He has played two years of
varsity baseball at Carolina and
has one season of service on the
basketball team. An ace port
sider, he was a winning main
stay on last year's diamond
squad.
Di Lorenzo has served one year
in the Student Legislature and is
a member of the Monogram club.
He is a rising senior from Ber
genfield, New Jersey.
Both nominees are members of
Chi Psi fraternity.
ARRIVING in New York
from Czechoslovakia, Ameri
can opera singer Josepha Che
kova tells of the Red terror
which followed the Communist
march to full power in that
country. She warned, "What I
heard from crying lips should
be a forceful warning to Ameri
ca to be ever vigilant against
the march of Communism."
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Student Body President Vetoes Biii After Open Meeting
Of Party Leaders, Interested Persons Probes Question
Veto Statement
Released in Full
By Prexy Eller
(Following is the complete
text of the statement released
by Student Body President
Eller after he applied his power
of veto to the redislricting and
reapportionment bill yesterday
afternoon.)
"My reasons for vetoing the
legislative enactment in re re-
districting and reapportioning are
as follows:
"In this, as in past occasions,
we are conlronted witn a dis-
asterous time problem in regard
to re-apportionment and re-districting.
All nominations must
be in at the end of this week.
"(1) In my opinion, it is un
fortunate and impracticable to at
tempt to achieve much-needed
re-apportionment in the same act
with politically questionable dis
trict division.
Step Forward
"(2) The provision for division
of the Dormitory area is a step
forward, as is the separation and
representation of Victory Village;
however, the bill provides for
virtually no division for the town
which has more residents than
the dormitory areas. This is in
my opinion contrary to the theory
of districting which dictates that
the sole reason for districting is
to allow a constituent to know
his representatives. I cannot
agree with the spirit of an act
which districts the minority and
leaves the majority in reality un
districted. "(3) Commuters should be con
sidered as a part of no geographi
cal district, but should be in class
separate from all others. This bill
has men from the town represen
ting men from Hillsboro, Raleigh,
Durham, and even Greensboro.
By classing these men in the
town district, disproportionate
weight is given the voters of the
town, because representatives
who represent the town as a re
sult of this action will in practice
be chosen from the town district.
Equity Question
"(4) A series of circumstances
in the Legislature have attended
the passage of this bill which
seriously involve the question of
equity to the contestants. (I re
fer to the fact that the passage
was upon a 23-22 vote when a
member of the majority vote wish
ed to change his vote. (The vote
of the clerk having been erron
eously ignored. He failed to
achieve his hope to do so be
cause the Speaker had called a
recess. Following the recess no
opportunity, in the presence of
haste, presented itself for his re
quest.) In addition, I had warn
ed the Legislature that its bill
would be unacceptable to me.
Some legislators had already con
cerned themselves with pressing
advance business.
Dangerous Premise
"(5) It seems to me that we
adopt a dangerous premise in re-
! presentation when we make fur
ther districting on a geographi
cal basis. Students should not be
represented as resident on a par
ticular street, but as members of
a community of interests. The
conclusion to be drawn from this
is that we should have districts
built upon the provisions of the
constitution which refers to men
in Dormitories, women in dormi
tories, and town students. In my
opinion, the fraternities represent
a. community of interests and
should be districted separately
from ' non-fraternity town men
and women, just as they are now
districted separately from the
dormitories. It is only fair and
reasonable to say, therefore, that
we should have tangible bases
for districts rather than mere
geographical map appearances.
"(6) I have duly considered
this bill in the presence of more
than 15 representatives of diver
(See ELLER, page 4)
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TOM ELLER, president of
the student body, yesterday
vetoed the campus redislrict
ing and reapportionment bill
which was passed by the Stu
dent Legislature last Thursday
night.
UP Head Attacks
Tom Eller's Veto
Announcement of Tom Eller's
veto of the redistricting bill has
been received by the University
party with marked opposition,
Party Chairman Thurman Wil
liams announced yesterday.
The UP chairman said, "The
University, party received the
news of President Tom Eller's
veto of the redistricting and re
apportionment bill with a defi
nitely unfavorable opinion.
The bill passed, which provid
ed for the breaking down of the
town district into four districts
instead of one, had been spon
sored in the Legislature by the
University party.
"The UP had assumed that in
breaking up the single district
it stood to lose representation in
the Legislature. Although the
party realized this, it felt that
this bill would result in better
representation from the town
district.
"The party knew that the bill
was not perfect, but it felt that
it was a move in the direction
of better man-for-man represen
tation in our Student Govern
ment.
"This feeling is the main plank
of the University party's plat
form and the party has and will
continue to fight for this plank
regardless of opposition.
"In vetoing this bill, Tom El
ler and Student party members
have broken faith with the stu
dent body. Backward steps such
as this which are made only with
political interests behind them
are detrimental to student gov
ernment. This veto is strongly
opposed by the University party." roll around on April C.
Political Parties Are in Agreement
On Selecting Men's Council Members
All three campus political par
ties have reached agreement on
the method for nominating can
didates for positions on the Men's
council.
The plan for nominations was
voted affirmative backing by the
Student party Monday night, the
University party yesterday after
noon, and the Campus party yes
terday evening.
The proposal calls for four
members of the nominating board
to come from each party. These
are: Student party Gran Chil
dress, Bill Mackie, Dortch War
riner and Herb Alexander; Uni
versity party Thurman Wil
liams, Charlie Loudermilk, Len
Butt and Anne Coop Knight;
Campus party Bob Haire, Walt
Arnold, Bob Ormand and Tom
Lockhart.
Bill Tate, Mike Carr and Tom
Eller will sit as non-voting mem
Death of Measure
Follows Hot Debate
By Party Spokesmen
By Chuck Hauser
Tom Eller, president of the
student body, turned thumbs
down yesterday afternoon on
the redistricting and reappor
tionment measure which was
passed by the Student Legis
lature last Thursday night.
The veto followed an opening
meeting held at 3 o'clock yes
terday in the student government
offices. The assembly was attend
ed by leaders from all three
political parties and by a num
ber of other interested people
who wished to add their aid in
helping the student body presi
dent make up his mind whether
or not he should kill the bill.
Cause of Dispute
The ceuse of the whole dis
pute was the provision for the
town men's districts in the re
districting section of the law. As
passed by the Student Legisla
ture, three districts were provided
for. The original proposal pre
sented by the Elections commit
tee authorized five voting areas.
In the open Elections commit
tee meeting preceding the Legis
lature session, Joe Leary present
ed a four-district amendment
which took the four votes op
posing the five-district plan which
won the committee vote, 5-4. But
the amendment Lary threw on
the floor Thursday night was for
three balloting districts, not four,
and subsequently both confused
and took by surprise many legis
lators and visitors.
Conference Goes Negative
And after much heated debate,
discussion, charges and disputes
yesterday, Eller went into pri
vate conference with Elections
board Chairman Al Winn and
right-hand man Scotty Venable
and came to the decision that he
would put a negative stamp on
the measure.
The two sides of the question
were argued back and forth be
tween 3:10 and .4:20 until the
participants began repeating
themselveS, at which time F.ller
called the meeting adjourned.
Eller Gives Reasons
Charges of hurting student gov
ernment, political intrigue, and
distorted justice were hurled
about the little student govern
ment office. Eller's reasons for
his veto are to be found in an
adjoining column and the other
side of the question is also pre
sented in today's paper by UP
Chairman Thurman Williams,
who was one of the bitter de
fenders of the redistricting bill.
At any rate, the decision means
that neither the new apportion
ment figures nor further district
ing of any voting areas will be in
effect when the spring elections
bers of the board, with Tate as
chairman. The election was made
at the first meeting of the board
at 9 oclock last night.
The board will make all nom
inations for the Men's council and
will handle all publicity con
cerning them. The nominations
will be made after interviews
with all interested students.
Those who desire candidacy
are urged to submit applications
for consideration to Bill Tate in
care of Men's council, Graham
Memorial, as soon as possible.
The deadline for these applica
tions has been set for Thursday,
March 25.
On that day, the board will
meet in Roland Parker lounge 3
in Graham Memorial to orient all
applicants, and then will move
to the Grail room for the interviews.