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CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY. MAY 8. 1945
Editorial: F-3141. News: F-3146, F-3147
NUMBER SW o4
.Former University Professor Oested By OWI
After Chapel HillCitizeiis Write Protest Letter
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Authorities To Gather Here
For Conference On
By Marv Hill Oast
Widely-known authorities in a
dozen different fields will come
together here this week to take
part in the University's Sesqui-
centennial Research Conference
tomorrow", Thursday and Friday.
Purpose of the meeting, an out
standing feature of the University's
besquicentenmal celebration, is "to
consider the needs and opportunities
for research and creative effort in ad
vancement of general human welfare
in the Southeastern region."
That greater investment in re
search will pay big dividends in the
South is the opinion of these special
ists, who are authorities in the fields
of health, industry, the humanities,
the physical, biological and social
sciences, and in regional planning.
Dr. Robert E. Coker, head ' of the
Zoology Department, is chairman of
the committee on arrangements.
Three-Day Program
Among tne nationally-Known men
appearing f on the three-day program,
and their topics, are the following:
Wilson Compton, president of Wash
ington State College, "The Power of
Ideas," at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday
night at the Carolina Inn; Wilbur A.
Lazier, director of the Southern Re
search Institute, "Research for Pros
perity in the Industrial South," 10
o'clock Thursday morning; Raymond
R. Paty, president of the University
of . Alabama "The " Development " of
Southern Research,", 11 o'clock
Thursday morning.
Others are Russell M. Wilder, Divi
sion of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, and
head of the Department of Medicine
of the Mayo Foundation for Medical
Education and Research, "Research
in Nutrition: Importance to the Pub
lic Health," 2:30 p. m. Thursday;
Brigadier General James Stevens
See CONFERENCE, page 3.
TH Staff Meeting
Called Thursday
A staff meeting of all new and
old members of the Tar Heel will
be held Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock in the Tar Heel office on
the second floor of Graham Memo
rial, announced Editor Bob Morri
son. Editor Morrison says that there
are still Vacancies on the staff that
have to be filled and any civilian or
military students, with or without
newspaper experience, are urged to
attend (the meeting and join the
staff. ' 1 V
Coif man Named Head Of Medieval Academy ;
Holmes Elected
Kenan Professor
Organized Group
Dr. George R. Coffman, head of the
English Department, was elected presi
dent of the Medieval Academy of
America, at a recent meeting held in
New York City. At the meeting, Dr.
Urban T. Holmes of the Romance Lan
guages Department, was elected a Fel
low and Academy Councillor.
Dr. Coffman is the first president
from the South, and he and Dr.
Holmes are the only two Fellows of
the Academy from this section.
A constituent member of the Ameri
can Council of Learned Societies, the
Academy's purpose is to take up any
aspect of modern civilization, the in
terpretation of which requires an un
derstanding of the Middle Ages. Dr.
Coffman inspired the founding of the
Academy, which was organized in 1921,
beginning as a committee of the Mod
ern Language Association of Ameri
ca, of which Dr. Coffman was chair
man. , -
Dr Coffman is a past member of
the Executive Council of the Modern
it
Crisp Is Unanimous Choice
For Political Union Head
The Carolina Political Union Sun-f
day night elected officers to serve for
the coming year. Bill Crisp; law
student from Candler, N. C, was
elected chairman. Other offices filled
were: vice-chairman, Bob , Gurney;
secretary, Jerry Davidoff; treasurer,
Myra Sklarey.
Crisp, who enters law school at the
end of this term, has been at Caro1
lina 19 months. He has been a mem
ber of the CPU for over a year. His
election as chairman was by unani
mous vote; it was the first time in
the history . of the Union that any
chairman had been elected unopposed.
Crisp has served the campus in
several capacities. He has been presi
dent of the Dialectic Senate, vice-
president and president of the Uni
versity Debate council, president of
the North Carolina Students Legisla
tive Assembly senate, vice-president
of the Student Body, and a member
of Tau Kappa Alpha, national debat
ing fraternity. He was appointed by
Dr. Graham to serve on the Students'
Welfare board. He represented Caro
lina in the Southeastern Arts forum
at Greensboro in 194d, playing an
orisrinal four-movemnet suite for
piano entitled "The New South.' Bill
is also a member of the International
See CRISP ELECTED, page h.
Lt. Breckenridge
Killed In Crash
Professor M. S. Breckenridge of the
University faculty and Mrs. Brecken
ridge received word Friday that their
only son, Lt. (jg) Arnold Brecken
ridge, was killed in an aircraft acci
dent in California. Lieutenant Breck
enridge was born in Chicago in No
vember, 1915, and came, to Chapel
Hill with his family in "l926.
He received" his A.B. degree here in
1937, and went to the medical school
with a fellowship until 1940. He com
pleted the work for his M.D. degree
at McGill University, Montreal, in
1942. He finished his internship the
following year at St. Mary's Hospital
in San Francisco and then he entered
the Navy, being sent to Pensacola,
Florida, to train as a flight surgeon.
At the time of his death Lt. Breck
enridge was stationed at Camp Kear
ney, San Diego, with the air combat
service unit for Commandos.
Group's Fellow, Councillor
" ''AllW'l"! I I Tlrf "ll'lllll II in V
DR. COFFMAN
Language Association of America and
a past president of the South Atlan
tic Modern Language Association. He
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BILL CRISP
Bazaar Sales
Net Large Sum
Committee Heads
Named For Year
Bazaar sales in connection with the
United Nations Fund Week held here
last week netted $168, according to an
announcement by Lib Henderson, head
of the War Coordination Board Spon
soring the event.
This money has already been sent
to national United Nations Fund head
quarters in . New York.
Also announced by Miss Henderson
are a number of committee heads for
the coming year. They are Rebecca
Drane, child care, Fran Cely, Mary
Holt Drewry and Phyllis Hon, recre
ation, Jane Isenhour and Marguerite
Murray, publicity, and Mary Hill Gas
ton, stamps and bonds. Betty Hor-
witz headed the United Nations Week
committee.
Regular stamp sales will begin again
in coed dormitories and sorority houses
this week, with salesmen coming
around on the usual nights.
Next War Board meeting is sche
duled for Thursday afternoon at 5
o'clock in the WGA room of Graham
Memorial. Any visitors are welcome
to attend.
Only Two Fellows
From This Area '
received his A.B. degree from Drake,
his M.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D.
from Chicago. Editor of Studies in
Philology, a University publication,
and an advisory editor of College Eng
lish, the official organ of the National
Council of Teachers of English, Dr.
Coffman has also edited texts in early
and modern drama.
A Kenan Professor at UNC, he has
been a visiting lecturer at Harvard
and Wellesley college, and has taught
at summer sessions of Chicago, Color
ado and Stanford universities.
Beside taking an interest in the
University's welfare, Dr. Coffman has
for 15 years been actively interested
in the secondary schools of North
Carolina, especially their work in
English. In 1942 he was one of the
initiators of the organization of North
Carolina English Teachers, with its
long-range program for the improve
ment of teaching and curriculum in
English in the high schools of the
State.
War Loan Gets
Started Here
Next Monday
Rally Will Be Held
In Local Theater
Chapel Hill's Seventh War Loan
will get underway officially on May
14 with a rally, to be held in the
! Carolina theatre here from 11 to
11:30 a. m.
The half -hour program will be fea
tured by the showing of a war movie
and a brief talk by Capt. Preston S.
Marchant, in command of the V-12
Marines at the University, relating to j
his experiences during the 29 months
duty in the Pacific.
The war bond rally is being spon
sored jointly by the Orange County
Seventh War Loan Committee and
the Chapel Hill Merchants Associa
tion. Merchants and downtown es
tablishments will close during the
half-hour program to give their em
ployees opportunity to attend the
rally. All citizens are also invited.
The program will be confined to a
half hour.
Heading the arrangements for the
Merchants Association is E. Carring
ton Smith, president; Clarence Oak
ley, vice-president; and Miss Fay
Beeks, secretary. Assisting them are
the association's directors: Harvey
Bennett, Vic Huggins, Y. Z. Cannon,
Vance Hogan, C. E. Teague, John W.
Umstead, Seaton Lloyd, George Livas,
and Shell Henninger.
Orange County's quota for E bonds
in the Seventh War Loan is $450,000,
which is included in an overall quota
of $574,000. E bond sales in the coun-
I ty in the Sixth War Loan amounted to
$341,705. Offsetting the larger goal
in the current drive is "the fact that
all bonds purchased between April 9
and July 7 will be credited on the
quota for the Seventh War Loan.
Employees of the National Muni
tions Plant at Carrboro, with a quota
of $29,475, staged a "special empha
sis week" April 13-20 that resulted in
the purchase of bonds totalling $42,
581.25. Carolina Graduate
Publishes Books
In South America
During the past two years a young
diplomat, Charles Edward Eaton,
graduate of the University, now con
nected with the United States for
eign service at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
has been conducting a campaign to
foster better literature and cultural
relations this country and South and
Central America.
Eaton is the author of a volume of
poems, "The .Bright riam, which was
published by the University Press in
1942. He is also a secretary of the
American embassy at Rio de Janeiro.
In this project he is enlisting the
support of representative authors of
the United States by contributing
writings for the Brazilian newspaper,
A Manha, which has been called the
New York Times of South America.
These articles appear in the liter
ary supplement, called American
Thought" (Pensamento da America) ;
and every issue of this magazine sec
tion contains essays, critical and in
terpretative, by American writers,
North, Central and South. They deal
with subjects of international inter
est and concern, literary, cultural, his
torical, diplomatic. These articles are
all in Portuguese, the spoken lan
guage of Brazil.
Eaton's aim is principally to ac
quaint our good neighbors to the south
ward with American literature. Few,
and sometimes no, translations have
fceen made into Portuguese of many
North American authors of literary
eminence and wide popularity.
An extended essay on Mark Twain
by Archibald Henderson was featured
in a recent issue of "Pensamento da
I America." Dr. Henderson was a friend
of the late Samuel L. Clemens, and
wrote his first biography. Dr. Hender-
See EATON, page 3.
Petition Calls Attention
To Subversive Booklets
Friederich Lauded Nazi Party In Writings
Dr. W. P. Friederich, former associate professor of German
here, who was chosen lately by the OWI for a responsible position
in the overseas division, was ousted recently when the OWI re
versed its previous decision at the insistence of a group of Chapel
Hill citizens. The Chapel Hillians signed a letter petitioning the
former faculty member's removal.
The letter cited Friederich's?
admitted sympathy with the
Nazi regime calling attention to
a pamphlet written by Fried
erich in which the policies of
the Nazi party were condoned.
The pamphlet, entitled "Po
litical Problems in Present-Day
Europe," was published by the
University of North Carolina
Press, and still is in use by the
extension division of the Uni
versity. It is understood that
parts of the original manuscript
were toned down before publica
tion. Published in October, 1938, the
pamphlet was followed by another
work by four other University pro
fessors that was meant to comple
ment the earlier presentation written
by Friederich by giving another view
upon European problems.
Much of the Chapel Hillians' con
demnation was based on such state
ments of Friederich as "Democracy,
so restrained and disciplined in Brit
ain and in Europe's neutral coun
tries, has achieved its most radical
and?absurd forms. -in .-France," and
"Many of the German ambitions are
justified, just as much of the intetrnal
Nazi program (Labor Camps, Winter
Help, etc.) is excellent." In the in
troductory chapter, the writer refers
to the Allies of the First World War
as "fat-bellied victors" and speaks of
the League of Nations as "this God-
sent Wilsonian idea." The author
mentions the "seventy-three million
Germans" which. is interpreted as in
cluding the peoples of the now con
quered countries of central Europe.
In 1937, Friederich collaborated
with Dr. A. E. Zucker, former pro
fessor of German literature to write
another extension division pamphlet
entitled "Literary Backgrounds of
Present-Day Germany." The authors,
in this work, wrote regarding Jewish
literature: ". . . Theirs (the Jews)
was the task of being 'debunkers'
and it is only to be regretted that
they often went too far in their ni
hilism and that their radicalism pre
cipitated the growth of National So
cialism." The pamphlet written by the other
University professors, accompanies
the first pamphlet by Friederich.
That is, when one asks for Frieder
ich's booklet, the other is sent also.
Some Not In Accord
The Tar Heel has information that
there are groups in Chapel Hill who
are not in accord with the OWI's ac
tion. It is intimated that steps will
be taken to reinstate Friederich's
contract.
Dr. Friederich came to Chapel Hill
See FRIEDERICH, page U. .
BEHIND
On Thursday night, the halls of the
Student Legislature will once again
ring with hot words of debate on the
subject of big-name dance bands.
The Legislature passed a bill in
1942 prohibiting expenditures for any
one dance to exceed $400 and limit
ing expenditures for any one set of
dances to $750. Twice since that time,
bills have been introduced to break
that bill. Twice they have been de
feated. Thursday night will make or
break the legislature's "hold the line"
policy on dance expenditures.
The bill was introduced last Thurs
day by Clive Thompson, candidate for
speaker of the legislature in the April
elections. Back of Thompson will prob
ably stand the fraternity votes in the
legislature. The going will be tough,
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Campus Debaters
Plan For Debate
With WM College
Tryouts for a debate with William
and Mary College will be held tonight
at 7 o'clock in the Grail Room of
Graham Memorial. The debate will be
held at William and Mary next week
end, and the national debate topic
will be used:
"Resolved: That the Federal Gov
ernment be empowered to require that
all labor disputes not settled by vol
untary means be submitted to com
pulsory arbitration, constitutionality
conceded."
Also tonight the Debate council
will complete spring elections for the
coming year. A president, vice-president,
and executive will be elected.
New members of the Debate council
include George Lilly, Tom Redfern,
Dave Pittman, Nina Guard, Fred
Chamberlain, and Bill Crisp. Pro
fessors Godfrey, Lefler, and Wood
house are the faculty advisers.
The council will consider ap
propriations or the reorganization of
the Phi Assembly. All those interest
ed in seeing this speaking society get
started again are invited to attend
the meeting tonight.
Eddy Test Induction
Out-of-state students who passed
the Eddy test will be able to arrange
induction at the North Carolina in
duction center at Fort Bragg, accord-
ing to information received from
Raleigh.
Additional information can be ob
tained at 207 South Building.
IT ALL
and unless some mighty powerful talk
ing is done, Thompson's bill which pro
vides for the removal of ALL restric
tions from dance expenditures will pass
by about five votes.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend this gala affair free of charge.
If the bill fails to pass, it will mean
that expenditure limitations will re
main. If it passes, it will mean that
over $5,000 will be spent probably twice
per year for big name bands. These
bands will play for dances to which
will come people from all over the
state, in cars, and in busses. Debate
will commence at about 8 o'clock on
the elections bill and the dance bill
in the fourth floor of New East. Of
course, debate will cease at 12 o'clock
that is, if wartime curfew restric
tions are observed.