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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1943 The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is issued daily during the regular sessions of the University by the Colonial Press. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the summer terms. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March 3. 1879. Sub scription price: $8.00 per year, $3.00 per quarter. Member of The Associated Press. The Associated Press and AP features are exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news and features published herein. Edito Business Manager ... Managing Editor Sports Editor Editorial Staff: Charlie Gibson. Tom Wharton. Wink Locklair. Bill Kellam, Don Shropshire, Jimmy Rutherford, John Stump. Vestal Taylor. Newt Staff: Roy Parker, Jr., Zane Robbins. Bill Johnson. Sam McKeel, Wuff Newell, Don Maynard. Rolle Neill, Caroline Bruner, Bob Hennessee, Graham Jones, Glenn Harden. Sporti Staff: Buddy Vaden. Frank A lis ton. Jr.. Andy Taylor, Larry Fox, Lew Chapman. Joe B. Cherry, Bebe Smith, Art Greenbaum. Busintss Staff: Oliver Watkins. June Crockett. Neal Cadieu. Ed Williams. About- Sorority Rushing . . . . The next two weeks will be busy indeed for all the new coeds at Carolina as the five campus sororities throw open . their doors for an intensive two weeks rushing program. Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, and Pi Beta Phi girls have been laying, their rushing plans since mid-summer and the first rushing parties are scheduled Monday night. , Yesterday Marie Nussbaum, Pan-Hellenic rushing chair man, offered a few tips which should be beneficial to the: girls going through , rushing. Briefly stated, here are her suggestions: First, be on time to all rushing parties to which you are invited. It's, not necessary to "over-dress" for the occasion, and above all you should not attempt to assume a different personality. Be yourself, remembering that if the girls don't like your true nature, then you really don't want to be in that sorority. ' The condition of the house is, of course, Seek Girls That- Seem Your Type type and consider the overall congeniality of the group which is entertaining you. A little pre-rush investigation today also is in order. In quire about the 'group's scholarship and the campus activi ties of the girls in it. They reflect the industry of the chapter. Also a word of caution should be thrown in against de pending on the opinions of your room mate. Just because she's your best friend doesn't mean she is a good judge in sizing up a sorority. Make up your own mind after giving all the sororities an even break. A girl is being foolish if she. enters rushing with the belief that she already knows the sorority she wants to join. Sorority On Trial, Not You are. You be the judge. The sororities each have a quota of 55 women, and nat ually all the Carolina girls can't join asorority. Many have . no desire to do so. You should not be upset if you are not invited to join a sorority, for the big majority of the coeds are not members. Many of the campus' most outstanding girls are not in a sorority. And on the other side, there are many benefits which can be derived from membership. How ever, there's little need to discuss them. The sorority girls will give you plenty of reasons this week. So enter into the rushing period with the spirit that you are going to have a good time. And you will. For weeks now the sorority girls have been practicing their songs, painting their houses, and brushing up on their etiquette. During the two week rushing you will have an opportunity to meet some of Carolina's top coed leaders. And you will make countless friends during the time whether you join a sorority or not. .'.So bring out the punch bowl, dig up the old scrapbook. Rushing can be lots of fun. However, the Carolina gentlemen will just have to excuse the bags under the coeds' eyes this week. These post-rush chapter meetings can be awfully long and trying. Good Promotion Jobs 'Carolina students, whether they realize it or not, are being subjected to two terrific promotion campaigns these days. Students interested in advertising or some promotion job might well note the details of the campaigns, for they certainly have a professional mark. Ab's well-known Book Shop in Chapel Hill is conducting one of the two campaigns. Kemp Nye, of that organization, has designed a very clever "original" Carolina flag which he hopes will supplant the Confederate flags of last year's football days. We have had no report on the success of Ab's promotion campaign, but apperently the store has gone all out in an effort to sell the flags. At any rate their advertising technique is admirable. Nye has been cruising his Buick about the campus with flags waving, and at Friday night's pep rally they were in evidence everywhere, compliments of Ab's. At the conclusion of the rally, one Ab agent was seen throwing dozens of the flags downstairs from the balcony in an effort to get the movement started. In addition, most of the state newspapers have carried stories on the creation of the new. pennant. Alumnus Orville Campbell, still a wheel about campus, also has been conducting his own promotion campaign, and apparently is enjoying great success in his efforts to make the song "All the Way, Choo Choo" popular. Campbell has succeeded to the extent that Benny Goodman has made a recording of it. Also a local version was in evidence at a number of beach juke boxes this summer. The ditty, with music by the very talented Hank Beebe, was sung two or thre times at this weekend's pep rally.- The song is good, and the more one hears it the better he likes it. At. any rate, Campbell and Nye deserve an A in. their promotion efforts. It looks like both may meet with success. STarlKeel DICK JENRETTE C. B. MEND EN HALL ..V....CHUCK HAUSER ..BILLY CARMICHAEL III important. Frequently it reflects the person ality of its occupants. However, don't let yourself be influenced too much by the house. What really counts is the girls of the sorority. Seek out the girls that are of your And remember, you have no cause to be jittery or feel that you are on trial. The sorority girls themselves are more on trial actually than you, and they are just as excited about the coming two weeks as you -Book Battle- Frosh Father; Son Here By "Wink" Locklair A 44-year-old grandfather and his 18-year-old son are reg istered in the freshman class at teh University here this fall. When H e-n r y -- Peterson Leighion retired from active duty with the Army last May, he began, making plans to get started on a college degree. At the same lime his son, William Wood Leighion, was completing his senior year at Chapel Hill High School. Now, father and son find themselves as classmates in their first year of college. "The Government has provid ed a marvelous opportunity through the GI Bill of Rights for me to obtain a higher ed ucation and I'm most , anxious to take advantage of it," Mr. Leighton said, shortly after com pleting registration in Woollen Gymnasium.' He has enrolled for courses in social science, mathematics and German, and Bill will follow the usual fresh man curriculum, although he may get into the ROTC pro gram soon. During Mr. Leighton's Army carrer, which began at Fort Bragg in 1922, he spent over 13 years in charge of the ROTC office at N. C. State College. As a matter of fact, he was retired from the Raleigh institution. "But I've liked Chapel Hill since I first passed through here on a bicycle in 1919 when I was moving from Durham to Chat ham county. I'm glad to be en rolled in this University." Young Bill was active on the swimming team at the local high school and he took part in a number of extra-curricular activities there. This summer, to stimulate his interest in journalism, he too,k a guided tour from Chicago to the West Coast and up through Canada. His teachers hope he will be come interested in creative ; writing during college. Mrs. Leighton is very pleased with the educational plans of her husband and Bill. Henry P. Leighton, Jr.., who has a two-year-old daughter, Carol Lee, is assigned to the First Guided Missile Regiment at Fort Bliss. It may be December, 1951, or June. 1952, before Mr. Leighton receives his bachelor of science degree .from the School of Commerce, so he has made no definite plans as yet. "I fulfilled one life-long ambition by retiring from the Army this year. Now I'm gel ling started toward another important goal. I'm going to remain active and continue to work, of course," he said, "and I will maintain my affiliation with the Army in a reserve statue." -USSR Front- The Road To Fame By Tom Whitney MOSCOW, Oct. 1-m-The roads to fame in the Soviet Union are varied. One of these roads lies through literature. A Soviet cit izen who writes a best-selling novel or play or poem becomes known throughout the" length and breadth of the land. Another road lies through science. A Russian who makes a brilliant scientific discovery is soon the possessor of national fame. Equal fame, however can be attained by ordinary Vworkers and farmers also. ' For instance, two of the most famous people in the USSR this year are Maria Rozhneva' and Lydia Kono nenko. These girls who finish ed trade school only four years ago can read their names in Soviet papers from all parts of the country al most every day. The leading Soviet papers, Pravda and Izvestia, wrote about them in lead editorials. Their pactures appear frequent ly in magazines and papers. They are called on to give public lectures and to write articles. Maria Rozhneva and Lydia Kononenkb became famous be cause they were initiators of a nation-wide movement for ec onomy of raw materials. In running their looms . at the Kupava woolen mill, which is a little over two dozen mile's east of Moscow, these two girls who headed brigades in the mill became ' "i -i. The Washington Merry Round (Copyright, 1949, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 24-Sen-ate Democratic leaders, meeting behind closed doors last week, decided not to adjourn until something is done about the nation's overcrowded schools and the undermanned medical profession. Their decision was reached after personal appeals by Sen. Hubert Humphery of Minnesota for action on his emergency school-construction Bill, and by Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida for passage of his bill to increase medical, .training (facilities. : : Humphery avowed: "No leg islation could be more desir able nor. more timely than providing the classrooms our children need. Do you realize that nine million more kids will enter school between now and 1958?" "This is almost rabbitlike," observed Rhode Islands salty, 82-year-o Id Sen.' Theodore Green, A bachelor. Humphery grinned, said he was willing to go to any "ex tent in order to get the support of bachelors." He also explained that his bill had been Jalocked by Senator Taft, and urged the Democrats to go over Taft's head. "I understand," added Hum phrey, "that Taft is going to introduce a school-construction bill of his own." Georgia's Sen. Dick Russell, spokesman for the Southern Democrats, suggested an amend ment : ; authorizing emergency construction for schools hit by floods-,', ' earthquakes or other "Acts Rf God." But'jhe warned: "One thing we ought to have is a ceiling on appropriations for this bill." Later Alabama's Sen. Lister Hill backed up Pepper's plea for federal aid lo expand impressed with the possibili ties of reducing waste and making the raw material go farther. In the early 1920's, Skipper got involved in the biggest libel suit in North Carolina history. The nation was then ripe with controversy over the Poole "Monkey" Bill which forbade Ihe teaching lo the theory of evolution in public schools. Skipper got into trouble when he editorially asked "who was this emigrant ignoramus," in reference to the background of one J. R. Pentuff, a biologist with a Ph. D. degree from Shu rtleff College. Pentuff was an avid supporter of the Poole BilL This remark aroused Pen tuff's ire and when Skipper editorially called him "uraan nerly and uncharitable, even toward the members of his own denomination," for attacking a fellow Baptist, Mr. Pentuff de cided to sue Skipper for $35,000 damages. -By Drew Pearson medical, nursing, and denial schools, but also urged an amendment, directing thai these schools be built in areas where there in dire need. "This isn't the United Areas of America," Green broke in dryly. "This is the United States of America. Let's do it by states." -J "Now, Theodore," chided Hill. "After all, Rhode Island is just two counties when the tide is in and three counties when it's out." " But when the poll was taken, no dissenting voice was raised against either bill. Probably the busiest -man on Capitol ,Hill is senator Majority i leader Scott Lucas. But he has year fight for a group of war taken out time to wage a two widows who can't even vote for him. j These are women whose husbands were killed during the war while they, themselves, were thrown into enemy prison camps. They couldn't collect the pensions ordinarily paid to war widows, because the- law re quired that they file within one year after their husbands were killed. This was impossible, since these widows were stuck in concentration camps. But they will now be able to collect their pensions : as a re sult of a special bill, pushed through congress by busy Sen ator Lucas. Note none of the widows who got in touch with Lucas is from Illinois his home state. A secret breakfast took place in the Carleton Hotel the other day to discuss a problem that - worries the steel industry . just about as much as, the-strike ; ; This is the basing-poini sys, tern, a monopoly practice whereby steel companies les ; sen competition between each other by charging the same price , whether the steel is made in Pittsburgh, Pa., or Geneva, Utah. Already, in a lest case over .'cement, the Supreme Court, - point system violates the anli - trust laws, and the Federal 'Trade Commission is now .cracking down on other big , industries that use the basing- point system to regulate pri ces". -So, while the headlines have been screaming about the strike, the big steel companies have heen quietly maneuvering to save the basing-point system. First move was to try jam ming through congress a bill to legalize the system, which, how ever, was caught and amended by Sen. Estes Kafauver of Ten nessee and Congressman John Carroll of Colorado, two alert Democrats. Now the steel companies have changed their tactics, are trying to soften the Federal Trade Commission, have sent their best lawyers to work on Trade Com missioner Lowell Mason, usually a friend of business. It was Mason who met the lawyers at a Carlton Hotel Breakfast, bring ing along FTC Counsel Lynri VICTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSIOAV ELECTON - Go - Round Paulson and FTC Examiner Frank Hier, who are helping him on the steel case. The spokesman for the lawyers was Hoyt Moore of Bethlehem Steel, a lifelong friend of Ma son's. At the breakfast, steel at torneys urged a compromise permitting the steel industry to continue using the basing-point system. They wanted the Trade Commission to issue a - "cease and desist" order full of fancy words, ordering the steel com panies to stop certain minor practices but permitting them to continue systematic freight absorption the nub of the basing-point system. Note Commissioner Mason can count on one other commis sioner Garland Ferguson to vote with him. Tough Commis sioner William Ayres of Kansas will oppose, together with newly confirmed commissioner John Carson. Commissioner Ewin Da-, vis would oppose, but is sick. This may mean a tie vote. It's unprecedented for a Senator lo run for another senate seat before his own term ends, but that's what Washington's gruff, outspoken Harry Cain secretly plans to do. Though Senator Cain doesn't come up for re-election until 1952, he confides to friends that he wants to run in 1950 against his liberal colleague, Sen. War ren Magnuson. Cain, a diehard Republican, has been a voice-in-the-wilderness crying out against social welfare, while Magnuson, a Democrat, has been a dynamic crusader on the -other side. "We just cancel - each other out," Cain explained to a close friend. "So I'm going to give the people of Washington a chance to choose between us. They know my record, and they know Magnuson's record. Now let them have their choice." Cain also hasn't decided yet whether to resign his own seat to take on Magnuson. He knows that if he gives up his senate seat, G.O.P. Gov. Arthur Langlie could fill the vacancy with another Republican. But Cain is not a wealthy man, needs his senate salary. Furthermore, many senators have held on to their seats while running for other public offices, such as Governor or Vice President. If his scheme goes through, Cain will wage an old-fashioned, mud-slinging campaign. All the back-alley information he has collected for two years is slacked away in a thick file, labeled "Magnuson." and Cain plans lo Ihrow it all over the slate of Washington. Cain is a vigorous, rough-and -tumble campaigner. Magnuson, far more popular, both at home and in the senate, is more easy going, doesn't indulge in in vective. But if Cain does decide to run against him next year, it will be the stormiest cam paign in Washington State's history. The Skipper Coffin, UNC Bv Bill "We offer no excuse for being provincial." the head : of the Carolina . Journalism Depart ment, "Skipper" Coffin, (his initials, O. J., were forgotten long ago) chuckled between puffs on his ever-present stogie the other night as he reclined on his front porch studio couch and discoursed on his career and things in general. "Plenty of people criticize us for not turning out a student who's a "finished" product ready for a metropolitan, newspaper. All we're trying "to do is furnish some reporters and desk men for North Carolina newspapers," Skipper continued. "We try to start him right and to teach him to use his head. After that, if he gets on a metropolitan paper, it's up to him." "Provincial papers are very important. I consider them to be public utilities. Since they're more personal than big dailies, they have an obligation to their readers," Skipper said. The Skipper, has been turning out "provincial" newsmen at Carolina for 23 years. He came here in 1926, after a 15-year career on North Carolina papers during which he served on Ashe boro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Raleigh papers. His career culminated in his appointment as editor, of the Raleigh Times in 1918. Since 1926, Skipper has been a columnist and editorial contributor to the Greensboro Daily News. Skipper got his nickname around 1933 from Doc Blodgett, an intermittent student and journalist. Skipper used to kid Blodgett, who'd done newspaper work before entering here, about what poor work an old hand like Blodgett was doing in com parison to the inexperienced kids around him. Blodgett would listen and always answer, "Aye, aye, skipper." The other students picked up the name and it's stuck. Anyone who's been within earshot of the Skipper never forgets his booming voice, which goes through the walls "of By num Hall like a bullet through tissue paper, or his frequent, infectious belly laugh which convinces you that he wasn't kidding when he wrote (in characteristic Coffin phraseo- logy) the second of his ten journalistic commandments. It says: Thou shalt not take thy self too damn seriously. The Skipper is of medium height, but you get an impression of bigness from his every action. When ihe Skipper succeed ed Gerald Johnson as the one man journalism department in 1926, there were only a half dozen or so students en rolled as journalism majors. This was quite fortunate for the cramped quarters (one small class room and a closet size office for Skipper) could scarcely have held more stu dents. For nine years Skipper was the journalism depart ment. This condition continued until 1935 when Skipper and Com pany, he now had Walter Spear man, shifted their quarters to the top floor of Bynum Hall, where they now hold forth, or rather third, for the UNC Press and UNC News Service have ACROSS U Without sugar -4. Lessen 9. Article of SO. Room In harem 31. Treat royUy 33. Yeast 25. ITnitif millinery 36. Beverag- 12. Above: DOetiO. 38 Annint 13. Sweetheart 39.. Symbol for -".y in uii- sodium 40. Fashion 15. Crowned 17. Soon IS. More tgncbla 19. Incite 20. Feminine nickname 22. Pelt with rocks 2. Type of elec tric current: abbr. 26. Egg-shape4 29. Iniquity 42. Color 43. Be located 44. Command 47. Move to and fro 49. Playful 62. Went rapidly 53.. Poor Si. East Indian vegetable 65. Imitate 66. Fertile apota 67. Terminal SEPTEMBER 24 lllll.l I I i.m,.r-. . .. - , , , I ' r r wJt' h i7 1 mv KK' lp:LjlIil 3 . . . -srp35 sr 7WmM. IP mli----I-- .... . I mr newtreof ares Journalism Kellem crowaea in on. mem ano con sequently complicated the hous ing problem. " The department did not break the ten-per-year mark in grad uates until 1935, when 13 got AB's. The number of grads steadily rose until a pre-war peak of 54 was reached in 1941. The war made heavy inroads on the total and it was not until 1948 that the pre-war peak was surpassed with a total of 79. Last June, they did even better, for 80 students got journalism degrees. At present the department has a total of three prefessors, two assistant profs, one instructor, and two part time lectures. Skipper was born in Moore County in 1887. He graduated from Carolina in 1909 with a AB degree and was editor of ihe Tar Heel during the last semester of his senior year He succeeded Senator Frank Graham as editor. "I. set type for spending mon ey, made up the paper, wrote over half the stuff in.it, and solicited ads while I was editor," Skipper recalled. "And Louis R. Wilson (present head of the NC Historical Collection) quit teaching German after he had me in one of his classes." Skipper taught for two years after he graduated. In 1911 he went to work oh the Asheboro Courier as a reporter. The owner of the paper was a dis trict solicitor, so Skipper did all the work on the paper. Late in 1911 he served as sports editor of the Winston-Salem Journal but he resigned partially because the owner wanted him to go down to the train station and ask everyone where they were going so the paper would have a big personals column, but mainly because he was courting his wife, Mre. Gertrude Wilson Coffin, whom he married in 1912. The editorship of the Charlotte Observer semi-weekly was his next stop. "I reckon I put it out of business, for they stopped publishing it four months' after I got there," Skipper said. He became state editor of the Observer in 1912 when the for mer state editor, was promoted to managing editori The depos jed .managing editor was an it inerant Englishmen who was fired for using, a streamer to announce the sinking of the liner Titanic. "He was too progressive for them," Skip said. "I learned much useful information about newspaper work from that fel low, I never did know what happened to him." Skipper came to the Raleigh Times in 1916 as city editor. He also covered the 1917 legislature. While doing so wrote a number of poems, which he included in his daily column on legislative doings. The poems were char acter sketches of the various leg islators and public officials, "I published the book and lost money on it. I modelled the poems on the Spoon River an thology and apologized in the preface to Edgar Lee Masters for what I'd done to his type of book. I told the truth in verse and only a few got mad." 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