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NEWS EDITORIALS These Three September Post-Mortera-. Coed-Frats May Agree Wallace Here Elections Runoff SEC Concert Friday Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC VOLUME LII W NUMBER 14 W Bwbiw and CLrealatton : 8841 CHAPEL HILL, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1943 Editorial T-S141. News: Ml. T-X4n CPU ins Henry Wallace For Novem. it it it it it it it it ic it it peecjk it 3er S Campus Yotes Tomorrow lit Kniioff For Legislature Speaker Reid Thompson And Brogden Are On Ballot Philippine Soprano and Piano Team Star In First Concert of SEC Series on Friday The close results in the three-cornered race for speaker of the Legis lature forced Elections committee heads to schedule a runoff vote be tween the two .top candidates for to morrow. Balloting for all students, coed and male, will be at the YMCA and the polls will be open from 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. tomorrow. Men on Ballot Reid Thompson, AS, V-12, and E. O. Brogden, AS, V-12, who came in first and second in last week's voting, will be on the ballot tomorrow. By Legislature ruling, any election in which no candidate receives a ma jority of the votes cast must go to a runoff for final decision. In the final vote, only the first and second highest men are considered. Three Candidates The speakership was the only post last Thursday for which more than two candidates were running. Third man, whose name will not appear on tomorrow's sheet, was Pvt. Harris Knight, USMUK, who polled a sur prisingly high total of 443; surpris ing because he was running under the newly-organized Carolina party ban ner. In the Thursday vote, Thompson just edged out Brogden by 19 votes, 591 to 572. With Knight out of the race, the deciding ballots may come from the students who supported the Marine. Town Runoff " v ' - Another runoff, this one only for town students, was made necessary by a misprint on the ballot. In the voting for town representatives to the Legislature, the sheet had three names and directed the voter to choose two out of three. But since one of the rep resentatives must be a coed, by Legis lature law, she was automatically elected and the civilians should have voted for one out of the two boys, automatically checked the coed candi date. , - Many of the ballots had the two votes given to both male nominees, the count was thrown off and the elec tion tomorrow was called to straighten out the results. Only names up for consideration will be those of Charlie Vance and Dave Tayloe. Voters should choose one of the two. Elections committee head Jimmy Davis gave campus politicians stern warning that no politikin would be al lowed within 50 feet of the polls. Due to a loophole in the campus Hatch act, this was not stipulated in the Thurs day vote and close-to-the-polls elec tioneering was carried on to some extent. Senorita Gonzalez Sang for Roosevelt The three stars in Friday night's Memorial hall concert first of the Stu dent Entertainment committee series for the year, all come to Carolina with brilliant foreign and American successes behind them. Miss Enya Gonzalez, soprano, and the piano team of Whittemore and Lowe will1 appear on the double bill, scheduled to start at 8:30. Coming to this country from the Philippine islands, Miss Gonzalez made her American "debut with the San Carlo Opera in 1938, in the role of Madame Butterfly. Since then she i has been "a favorite with the nation's auuiciitco. The young singer traveled to the States under the sponsorship of Man uel Quezon, president of the Philip pine commonwealth. Born in Bulacan, the daughter of a famous Spanish opera star, she studied the piano and harp. Then one of her teachers dis covered her vocal talents and sent her to the Manila Conservatory for fur ther study. The soprano made her formal con cert debut at a birthday celebration for President Quezon. Very pleased with her voice, Quezon called upon her to sing again and again. A year later, in America to continue her studies, she sang again to Quezon, ft PIANO TEAM this time by short wave. Shortly after her arrival in New York, Senorita Gonzalez made her unexpected and triumphal debut in opera, singing the leading role of Cio Cio San in "Madame Butterfly." De spite the fact that she stepped into the role on very short notice and that she had never sung the part before in public, she was immediately hailed by the critics. Later she was invited to sing at the White House for the President andJ Pianists Are On Leave from Navy Mrs. Roosevelt. She has since appear ed with the Chicago opera, the Na tional Opera company, and the Ha vana Opera. In 1940, she was soloist with the famed Minneapolis prchestra. America's own duo-pianists," Whit temore and Lowe, have, since their first recital in Puerto Rico, been con cert favorites. Their exciting and unique arrangements made them one of the finest two-piano teams in the nation. ' - Their association as students and later as faculty members of the East man school of music, University of Rochester, has brought them an un derstanding of the music wants of young audiences. This association with the youth of America has given them "an invaluable insight into the tastes of American audiences." Now on active duty with the United States Navy, they have been furnish ing entertainment to their shipmates, along with regular duties. They were granted special leave in brder to play here -on Friday. Tickets for the concert may be pur chased at the door, Dr. J. P. Harland, committee chairman, announced. All Vice President Will Stop Here During Swing Through South By Bill Orth Vice-President Henry Agard Wallace, "the last of the New Dealers and the apostle of the Era of the Common Man," will speak at Carolina during -his projected Southern tour in November. The speech, probable highpoint of the year's platform programs, will be under the auspices of the Carolina Political Union. A definite date for the address has not been set, since the ex act itinerary of the Vice-Presidential Harrington Heads IRC Executives Newly elected officers of the Inter national Relations Club were an nounced this week by Clyde Rollins, V-12, former president of the club. The new officers are: Charles Har rington, V-12, president; . Ida Mae Pettigrew, secretary; Herbert Weber, treasurer. Among the new members admitted last week are Billy Mackie; Bill Spengler, ASTP; Ralph Glenn; Wil liam Friedman, ASTP Edith Hashe; Elizabeth Jardine; Roy DeMers, ASTP; and Ray Rothschild, ASTP. There are still a few vacancies in the membership for which application blanks may be obtained at the infor mation desk of the YMCA. The IRC will meet Sunday, October 24 at seven p. m. in the Grail Room to discuss the topic, "Military Strategy In The Far East." Majority of V-l 2ers Can Leave Saturday By Roland Giduz Speculation about the start of V-12 leaves - was ended yesterday when Captain Popham announced, "All V-12's who have been assigned an other semester at the University and who are not academic failures may apply for leave Saturday, October 23, extending through October 31." The administration has announced that all examination grades will be turned in to headquarters by 1000 Saturday, and under these conditions leaves will be. granted from head quarters beginning at nocn Saturday. Seniors and others awaiting fur ther orders will have no scheduled academic program, and will be free to leave any time during the vaca tion. However, those planning to go outside of the 60 mile limit must leave a forwarding address. In regard to failures Captain Pop ham said, "It is problematical wheth er those who may be separated from the V-12 program because of academ ic failures will receive leave or not. The chances are such men will re ceive about 3 or 4 days leave." An indexed list of all failures will be turned into the V-12 headquarters by 1 P.M. Saturday. Privileges Board Draws Up New Coed-Greek Agreement Attempting to present a partial solution to the weekend entertainment problem, the House Privileges board, under the chairmanship of Paul Sim mons, NROTC, has drawn up a new coed-fraternity agreement, with the suggestion that its approval or rejec tion and the execution of its terms be placed, on an experimental basis, en tirely in student hands. Under the campus code and Uni versity honor system, conduct regula tions and misconduct penalizations would be under the jurisdiction of students; a board would be set up to make laws concerning conduct and regulating choice of men's houses wherein coeds could visit, and penal ties for violations. In this way social fraternities would fall under a more comprehensive grouping, as was ex emplified last year when the two phar macy fraternities and the commerce fraternity were t granted visiting privileges. . Present Setup As it now stands, only those houses that have the final approval of the Dean of Women may have coed visit ing privileges. The new agreement follows the pattern of former coed 'Bar Z' Play To Open Here Next Tuesday Playmakers Produce Western Melodrama By Lois Ribelin The colorful western melodrama, "The Boss of Bar Z," which will be pre sented in the Playmaker Theatre on October 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30, prom ises "rip-roaring" entertainment from beginning to end, to its audiences. The play itself is the story of a west ern girl, owner of a large California ranch, and her experiences on the ranch. The actual play, however, is only half the show, for following "The Boss of Bar Z" will be an olio, which is an old-time vaudeville, composed of 14 civilian students at the University j separate acts. The olio will consist of will be admitted on presentation of comic numoers, xear-jersers oi me pe- their Student Entertainment Series vx passbook dances, and production numbers. Songs of Period Such songs as "Pretty Baby," "Oh, You Beautiful Doll,"4 A Bird in a Gild ed Cage," "The Rose with a Broken Stem," and a number of other favorites of the 1885 period will be included in the olio. Costumes for the whole show follow the 1885 styles. Not only are members of the cast costumed, but also the ush- fraternity agreements, with the ex ception that fraternity houses would be open to women students only from1 noon until dormitory closing hours on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, any house convicted of a violation of the coed agreement by the House Privileges board "shall be required, after penalty is served, to have present a member of the Inter See AGREEMENT, page U YMCA Plans Joint Supper The season's first joint supper pro gram of the YMCA and YWCA, to be held Thursday night at six o'clock in the First Presbyterian Church, will feature a student program. Tickets, priced at thirty-five cents, are on sale at the Y and in the dormi tories. The Social Service Committee of the YWCA is asking its members to help with issuing of the new War Ra tioning Books next week. Informa tion concerning this can be obtained at the Y. ers, box-office attendants, peanut girls in the aisles, and everyone else con cerned with the production of the show. Mrs. Irene Smart is designing and mak ing the costumes assisted by Miss Lib Stoney. Novel Play "The Boss of Bar Z" is a distinctly novel type of play for the Playmaker group here at the University to pre sent. It is an old-fashioned melodrama, straight from California, a gun-shooting, cattle-rustling affair in which the hero gets the heroine in the end and the villain receives his due punishment. The tangles in which the characters are involved to bring about this end should produce a riot of laughs and many a thrill for the audience. Ticket Sales Tickets for the production are on sale at the Playmaker business office, 209 Phillips, and at Ledbetter-Pickard's downtown, and sell for 85 cents for each individual play. Season tickets for Playmaker productions sell for $2.20. See PLAY, page U trip has not yet been fixed. Wallace-Jones Fight Wallace, in the position he occupied before his recent, violent fight with Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Fi nance committee, held considerably more power than almost any other Vice-President in the nation's history. He headed the Board of Economic Warfare, then supreme in supervising foreign purchasing and stockpiling. The Wallace-Jones controversy held the center of the political stage for many days and was finally settled by intervention of the President him self. Wallace openly accused RFC head Jones of incompetence. He produced facts and figures to show that Jones' organization had fallen down on the purchasing of flax, jute, quinine, co balt, beryllium and several other vital raw materials. He cited an incident when a misspelled word held up an im portant contract for three weeks be fore it could pass through "the red tape that Jones had set-up." Jones Counters Jones came back and countered the accusation in public and aired the dis pute in the press. The bitterness of the ensuing conflict forced Roosevelt to relieve both men of their positions as heads of the organizations in question. In a letter to Wallace, the President said, "The unfortunate controversy and acrimonious public debate which has been carried oh between you two . . . make it necessary, in the public inter est, to transfer these matters to other hands. There is not sufficient time to investigate where the truth lies in your conflicting versions as to the trans actions which took place over a year and a half ago. The present contro versy indicates that further coopera tion between your two agencies is im possible." BEW Abolished This action abolished the BEW, cre ated the Office of Economic Warfare, responsible' to James F. Byrnes and acting in accordance with a policy set by the State department. Wallace was the main loser in this major shift of Capitol Hill power and Washington observers were quick to label it as the first move by Roosevelt to drop Wallace out of any political plans he might have, in favor of a man "more acceptable to the Southern Dem ocrats, repelled by Wallace's type of New Dealism." Important Speeches Despite the ten-count administered to him by political oracles, the Vice See WALLACE, page U Editor-Elpct Ribelin Calls Mag Meeting Editor-elect Lois Ribelin called a meeting of all students interested in ,nrWnr rm the November issue of the Carolina Magazine for Thursday night at seven o'clock in the Mag omce on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Mammon By Sara Yokley In last Thursday's elections, after one of the shortest campaigns in Caro lina political history, the voters elect ed Denny Hammond, AS, -V-12, presi dent of the Student body, Kat Hill editor of the Tar Heel and Lois Ribe lin editor of the Carolina Magazine. With three parties in the race for the first time in four years, the prac tical stranglehold on campus offices held by the University party for the past two years was broken, when Miss Ribelin, United party candidate, beat the University's Opie Charters. The other two offices decided by the vote went to University nominees, however. In the fourth major office at stake, speaker of the Legislature, in elec tions, a runoff will be necessary. But in the three cornered race, Reid Thompson, AS. V-12. beat out E. O Brogden, AS, V-12, and Pvt. Harris Knight, USMCR. A breakdown of the balloting shows that President-elect Hammond trailed his opponent, Earl Pardue, AS, V-12, V. d, Hill and i . - ri" - I r ---v "i M 1 fx 1? -if -? "-o" I I v- m - j v s Ribelin Take Campus Posts HILL in the coed precinct but beat him by almost 200 votes, 925 to 747, by piling up a large majority in the voting at the YMCA and Swain hall polls. HAMMOND Most sweeping victory of the elec tions was that of Kat Hill, first Caro lina coed to, edit the school paper. Miss Hill took an early lead after the coed RIBELIN vote was counted and was never in danger of losing after that. She re ceived more than three times the vote her opponent, Jimmy Wallace, did, won by the count of 1297 to 366. In all three precincts Miss Ribelin led Miss Charters and became the first woman editor of the Carolina Maga zine by a vote of 912 to 697. Closest race in the Thursday ballot ing was for the speakership. Thomp son led with 591, Brogden was only 19 behind with 572, and Knight had 443. Brogden carried the coed pre cinct but trailed Thompson in the Y and Swain hall vote. Marshall Parker and Jack Folger edged Colin Byrd out of the two-seat Legislature election in the V-12 vote. Parker received 547 votes, Folger took the other seat with 457 and Byrd trailed with 300. The election results showed cam pus observers that the University party was still powerful, but that the United old Student party and the new Carolina party also had mustered strong voting power. The elections were necessitated by the leaving of the four V-12 men who formerly held the top offices that were filled on Thursday.
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