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s y'f- ---- Uncle Sam and Leap Year frails Make double hazard for the males Our enemies are weak, you betcha. Bat watch out guys, the galsll getcha. :! 'I S J t i Y 3 ' t i J - VOLUME LII SW Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC Business and Circulation: 8641 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1944 Editorial: F-3141, News: F-3146. T-S147 B ticker's Speech Set For NUMBER SW 17 Eigh Civilian. Student Launch Town Quota In One-Week Push Set at $13,700 The annual campus Red Cross drive, aiming at a goal of $1,000, begins to morrow in conjunction with a Chapel Hill effort to raise $13,700. The student drive closes Tuesday, March 7, and will be counted m the Chapel Hill quota In accordance with national rulings the drive will be conducted only among civilian students, since men in the ar mored forces are contacted through tneir own channels. Student Heads Five student leaders head this civil ian eitort to raise $1,000. Nancy Jen kins will conduct the main part of the drive, the canvassing of the four wom en s dormitories; Julia Weed has charge of sorority houses; Turk New- some, fraternities; Bob Burleigh, men's dormitories; and Charlie Vance, town A1. it ". M. a Doom win oe set up in the Y to receive student contributions through out the week long drive. Individual canvassing will take place at residences by committees working under the five chairmen. Money Used Locally The money raised by the local drive will be used both overseas and on the home front. Of the total amount col lected 40 per cent will remain in Chapel TT"11 am. I ne greatest part 6f this sum will be turned over to the Red Cross home service which provides relief for the families and dependents of men in the armed services. Money collected through the Red Cross for overseas use provides blood plasma, hospital supplies, and Red Cross units overseas. The funds needed to ' maintain the Red Cross, which serves the stricken people of the world, have been multiplied to an enormous figure since the outbreak of war. Dr. Godfrey The campus drive is under the super vision of Dr. J. L. Godfrey, while the Chapel Hill drive is being conducted by A. K. King. In charge of the Red Cross Home Service is Professor George H. Lawrence. Plans concerning the drive were for mulated yesterday at a meeting of the five student leaders and Dr. Godfrey. The booth in the Y will be set up to morrow and room to room canvassing will begin at that time. Graduate Scholarships Senior girls interested in apply ing for graduate scholarships offered by Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr, Syracuse, and Columbia University may make application in the Dean of Women's office, 104C South Building. $1,000 t- Thirty Saturday Night .Red Cross Drive ounor row 45 Marines Leave Tomorrow For Training at Parris Island Marmes leaving Carolina tomorrow for further officer training total 45, according to a list released by Captain James Marshall yesterday. Approxi mateiy vu members of the Carolina Marine unit are being transferred to otner bases. Men who came to Carolina from ac tiye duty and who failed academically win De sent to New River. Others who did not1 meet academic requirements win go to San Diego. Midshipman School jiiiurine iranslers to the Navy will go to Asbury Park to' await midship man training. Eight men are trans ferring to Duke for engineering train ing. , The places of the departing Marines will be filled by approximately 55 to 60 new men, coming from active duty and naval shore stations, North Texas Ag ricultural School and Georgia Tech. The majority of the new Marines will be war veterans. 14 Graduate Of the Marines going to Parris Is land nine received diplomas for A.B. de grees and five completed requirements for degrees of B.S. in Commerce. Oth ers were awarded certificates. The following men who. will report to Parris Island for officer training re ceived A.B. degrees: William Rose Britt, Leonard Sam uel Cohen, Ernest Frankel, Robert Ed ward Frye, Walter Thomas Galliford, Jr., Thomas Jefferson Griffith, Jr., Lew is Clifton Hayworth, Edward Connell O'Leary, Frank Tournier Taliaferro. Commerce Majors JMiwin Eugene Boone, , Jr., Walter Warren Johnson, Marshall Joyner Par ker, William Horton Petree, and Rob ert Stanley Kosenast were graduated from the School of Commerce. TV.r, , . r. j."v.oc icueiving cerancates were Furnifold M. Simmons Andrews, Frank Oakes Barnes, Marlow Fairington Bostic, Joseph Reynold Carlier, Elijah uavis Catterton, Jr., Erwin Bennett Clarke, Samuel Augustus Cox, Jr., Rus sell Browning Davis, Reeves M. Edens, Malcplm Weathersby Edge, Haywood Alexander Faircloth, William Leon Fu- trelle, Jr., Edward Goodman, John Hughston Hutchinson, Robert Blan chard Jones. Lionel Marshall Levey, Frederick William Lowe, Jr., Robert Lee Mar shall, Jr., Robert Wayne McCollum. Bernard Angell Mock, Clifton Goodwin Moore, Myron Lenoir Moore. Jr.. Ar thur Broadus Moss, James Rennie Per rin Governor Bricker UNC Chosen By Du Pont For Grants Carolina was chosen this week by the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co. as one of the several colleges and univer sities throughout the country which will award 22 postgraduate fellowships for research in the field of chemistry. William Mitchell Painter, James Lw.i,.- , ' Gordon PPrWnc ni;- t , amuuui' -u acn, win oe vCi mcti. ruoie, made lat(i .- y,0 Kobert Lee Shuf ord, Kester Andrew Sink, John Frank Smith and William Bernard Soyars, Jr. ASTP Lansuase Expert Gained Fame As Soloist With Ten-Cnf. PiVr-nU . - - .. " " . ,. WWW! V By Mary Louise Huse "My piccolo has paid for itself more times than any instrument I could have picked, claims Les Lieber, former Paris correspondent for the New York Times now in the ASTP unit here. "It cost me ten cents and I've received as much as $200 a night for playing one number on it." Lieber was working with Paul White- man's orchestra as publicity man, but when his skill on the dime fife was discovered he became constantly in de mand as a featured specialty. Here in Chapel Hill where he is majoring in Spanish Lieber leads a double life. Dur ing the day he saturates himself with anguages; in his spare time he offers nis services to college bands needing his help or appears on entertainment programs. But languages are his first and foremost interests and he sneaks French, German, Spanish and some Russian. At an early age Lieber became inter- vuu iwcigu languages, a poor student m secondary school, he cared for little besides music and his saxo phone. Suddenly, without any particu lar reason, he became extremely inter ested in forign language and began to study French. Through his French he became interested in Europe. in order to satisfy this desire to speak different languages he joined a m the year by the heads of chemistry departments selected for the duPont grants. Schools Chosen utner institutions receiving post graduate awards are the University of California, University of Chicago, Co lumbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Illi nois, Johns Hopkins Universitv. Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State College, University of Pennsyl vania, Princeton University, Purdue University, Stanford University, Uni versity of Virginia, University of Wis consin, and Yale University. Fellowships for advanced work in chemistry were established by the ClVlIlTI sloi-IOn 1 1 1 1 1 1 . I . U UU1U auu piayea nis way duPont Company in 1918, when there x uvci jiiurvpe. xie made three sepa rate trips in this manner. On one of his continental tours he joined a French Hot Jazz orchestra and played in a contest at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. The contest was sponsored by the King of Belgium for the Belgian Congo relief. Unfortunatelv was a scarcity of well trained chemists. Through the Fellowship Plan the com pany seeks to encourage promising stu research. .Women are admitted to can dents to follow a career in chemical didacy on the same basis as men. This action of the committee encouraeres them to prepare themselves adequately band was considered out of the running for positions in industrial research lab- as it only had one French player itepeat Performance "My biggest showf" said Lieber, "was right here in Chapel Hill where I See LIEBER, page 4 oratories, where already a laree num ber of women have been employed. Because of the shortage of instruc tors in many colleges, due to wartime See DuPONT, page 4 Calendar Peculiarity of Leap Year Gives Carolina Coed Long Awaited Opportunity To Brazenly Pop the Question Girls Make Plans To Stop Evasion By M. E. Richter Leap year is not a year at all, it's one day out of a whole year that really gives it that name. According to the dictionary it is called leap year be cause in the following year "any given date leaps over the day of the week when it would naturally fall" and this phenomenon occurs only once in every four years. As a matter of dull statistical fact, it is a year that has 366 days instead of the customary 365 and February, one of the few months that have only four weeks in it is repaid for its patience by having one additional day added. Mathematical Maze There is a puzzle surrounding leap year according to the mathematicians who say that "if you divide the number of the year by four, and in the case of the century years, by 400; and you get no remainder, then that year is leap year! For the simpler soul it is enough to know that on this one day, out of all the days in every four years, it is per missable for the female of the species to boldly approach the male of the species and brazenly, frankly say "Will you marry me?" What sweeter words could there be, what greater emanci- L E A P Y E A R pation can women ask for in this great world than the privilege, the honor and the power to ask that fateul question instead of coyly waiting to hear it. Military Regulations A thorough examination of the army manuals and navy bluejackets does not reveal any instruction concerning the proper answer to this interrogation. The War department has issued vol uminous pamphlets and booklets on what the serviceman is to say to all the new nationals that they will meet in the course of the progress of our allies into foreign lands. They are books on "how not to offend the British," "How to make friends and influence the In dians," and Dictionaries containing key words to be used in scraping acquaint ances with all sorts of allies, not nary a word about leap year manners. According to Secretary Stimson there is to be an A. E. F. of some 10 million by 1944 or '45. Unofficial ad vices from Washington indicate that this mass evacuation of American males has already begun. This has caused the curtailment of various col- Women Petition For Late Curfew lege training programs, officers schools and the drafting of fathers and younger men. Already familiar with this war time problem is the Carolina coed who has bid goodbye to some 300 Navy men during the past week. Coed Pow-wow " i . Carolina coeds are taking steps to prevent the exhorbitant loss of good material hereabouts. Last night, ac cording to Mrs. Stacy, dean of women, secret meetings were held in women's dormitories and sorority houses to plan a concentrated battle for the remain ing V-12, Marine, NROTC, pre-flight, ASTP, and civilian male students on campus. Action will be taken today, it was learned. At the time of publication a petition for late permission for all coeds was pending decision behind the doors of South building. "Due to the amount of time necessary for coeds to overcome inherent shyness," the petition read, "the coed student body of the Univer sity of North Carolina do hereby peti tion for permission to stay out until 3 o'clock Tuesday night, February 29." On Foreign Shores South building is said to be split over the petition. Administrative heads are See LEAP YEAR, page U "Ohio's Favorite Son" One Of Three Major GOP Hopefuls By Sam Whitehall Major plans have been completed and last-minute arrangements are being made for the address of Governor John William Bricker, of Ohio, candidate for the Republican party nomination for President of the United States in the November elections, to be sponsored by the Carolina Political Union in Memorial Hall Saturday night, March 4. Bricker's speech, directed mainly toward the South, has been set for eight thirty, with WPTF and affiliated Southern networks planning for a rebroad cast of the speech at eleven o'clock. Preceeding the speech in Memorial Hall, the CPU will entertain at a banquet at the Carolina Inn at six o'clock, and following the speech, an open informal reception will be held in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. "Everyone who is interested in meeting Governor Bricker and in talking informally with him is cordially invited to attend the reception," announced Harvey White, chairman of the Union. Bricker's Standing Serving as governor of the state of Ohio for his third successive term, Ohio's governor and favorite son announced his formal entry into the 1944 Presi dential race during the second week of November. Miles behind Dewey, Willkie and even General MacArthur in public opinion polls he stands a very good chance of being nominated as a compromise candidate. Another Ohioan named Warren Gamaliel Harding won the nomination that way in 1920. Among political figures in the capital city who have pledged their support to Bricker m his campaign is Senator Robert Taf t. a few months himself as a potential candidate, whose father once controlled the Republicans in the South. "Time and again I have said that the United States should take her nlace in a cooperative organization among sovereign nations after this war. We want no super government, no central authority over us," said Governor Bricker m his only observation on foreign policy in his. Lincoln Day speech in Wash ington on February 10, referred to by newspapermen as "Bricker's big-time debut." Called a "safe and sane candidate," Bricker's address in Chapel Hill Saturday night will constitute his second major political speech since his Washington debut. The Governor from Ohio is a strong supporter of the state ballot in the soldier-vote controversy now deadlocked in a joint committee meeting between the two houses of Congress. Meeting in Durham Bricker and his party are expected to arrive in Chapel Hill around five o'clock Saturday afternoon, and will proceed directly to the Carolina Inn. They will meet with Republican leaders of the state, including a meeting with Sim Delapp of Lexington, Republican party state chairman, Saturday morning, holding a press conference around noon before proceeding to Chapel Hill. GOPartyies are working toward a strengthening of the party's influence throughout this section of the country. Bricker is invading the South and East on a personal appearance campaign tour making his bid for the Republican nomination. March winds will blow up a political flurry next week with seven states set during the month to pick 152 Republican and 129 Democratic national ventional delegates in primaries and conventions that mav Trrvn initial tests of strength among the batch of G. O. P. White House asnirants. With only eight of the 1,059 Republican National Convention Mn, far selected an uninstructed New Mexico slate claimed by supporters of Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York" to be heavily in his favor th following will pick G. O. P. delegates - iu iu, new Lamy sun a n Minnesota 18; New York 85; and Iowa 23. Governor Bricker and his backers are, at the present, concentrating on their campaign throughout the Southern and Eastern states in an effort to pick up and carry more Southern Republican delegates. Though still dominated by the Democratic nartv. Tsr-tii ramia has a larger percentage of strong Republican "blocks" than ever before in the political history of the state. 'Honest Harding" Bricker, tagged by Willian Allen White as "an honest Harding." is attemnt- ing to gain his largest addition of Republican delegates especially from these CJntTnr. t.4-r 4 4 f T 1 .1 1 t -mm . "clC11 vrur-oiiiicai trends irom major party leaders, many of whom are outraged by Willkie, are looking more and more favorably toward the Ohio Govenor as the "dark-horse" nominee at the national convention this spring. The Carolina Political Union, which issued an invitation to Bricker several weeks ago, is a non-partisan, non-profit student organization on campus, cen tering its interest and work in the study of national affairs, and throughout the years brings major figures from the national political scene to the campus as guest speakers. Governor Bricker is the first speaker of major import to appear on the CPU platform during the current quarter. Journalism Majors Edit Orange County Paper in Entirety "The News of Orange County," run by a staff of enterprising young jour nalists under the direction of J. Roy Parker, assistant professor of journal ism and owner of the paper, goes to press for the seventh time this week. The student reporters and editorial ists of the Orange County News do everything except the printing of the paper. In Hillsboro, where the paper is located, no equipment for printing is available at the present time, al though Parker plans to set up a shop there m the near future. All printing is done m Ahoskie, N. C, where Par ker owns three newspapers and a print shop. Large and Bost Student managing editor of the paper is Harry Large. Under the di rection of Roy Parker he makes up the front pagei writes the lead stories, and helps with the headlines. Working with Large as a reporter and editorial writer is Sid Bost. Both students are working on the Orange County News in connection with courses offered by the journalism department. The women's angle is covered by Al ie Bell and Jo Ann Griffith, journal ism majors. Their weekly assignment See JOURNALISM, page 4 "Twilight Zone" Gets Underway With the production of "Twilight Zone" on March 8, 9, 10 and 11, the Carolina Playmakers will highlight their twenty-sixth year of existence. "Twilight Zone" was written by Tom Avera and Foster Fitz-Simons, and is being directed by Fitz-Simons. Final rehearsals are now under way. War Drama The setting of the play is the living room of a village doctor on the coast of France on the night of the coming al lied invasion. Members of the cast are: Dean Newman as a young German lieu tenant quartered in the small French town; Ann Galbreath as the daughter of the doctor who is in love with the German lieutenant. Lt. Paul Hawk will play the part of an underground leader, Paul Cardre. Josephine Sharkey will take the role of Marcelle; Douglas Hume will por tray Jean Pelletier, the village store keeper, while Mariesta Applewhile will play the part of an entertainer from a Paris night club. Included in the cast are Randall Brooks, Carrington Cross, Sherman Lazarus, Bill Lane, Jean Le Febre, Phil Gilbert, Warren James and George Oritz. Playmaker History Twenty-six years ago, in the fall See TWILIGHT, page 4
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