DEBATE TRYOUTS
8:30 P. M.
.209 GRAHAM MEMORIAL
MM
X. Jy
DI AND PHI SOCIETIES
7:15 P.M.
NEW WEST NEW EAST
SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS
i
VOLUME XLIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935
NUMBERS jU
mm?
CAROLINA'S NEW
POLITICAL UNION
HEARS McMULLAN
permanent Controlling Commit
tee Is Elected; Will Name
Executive Chairman.
COMMITTEE MEETS TODAY
The Carolina Political Union
met in first session last night in
Gerrard hall and heard Harry
HcMullan, chairman of the state
industrial committee, deliver an
address on "Taxation." McMul
lan laid special emphasis on the
current developments in Raleigh
regarding the sales tax.
A permanent committee was
elected from the group last
might This committee will elect
a chairman who will serve as
-executive chairman of the Un
5on. It will also have other im
portant functions, such as pre
senting the issues for discussion,
providing factional floor repre
sentation, and deciding other
points of organization. '' -. .
The Committee:
Members of the committee
elected are Robert Smithwick,
Nick Read, Betty Durham,
Francis Fairley, and Phil Kind.
Phil Hammer, who has acted as
temporary chairman, will serve
as ex-omcio member.
The Union will foster liberal,
conservative, and radical divis
ions for the purpose of debate.
These groups will gather togethr
er their arguments at meetings
held outside of the Union and it
is expected will turn eventually
into regular factional organiza
lions. -
The new committee will meet
this afternoon at 5 o'clock in
Graham Memorial to discuss
plans for the next session, and
to elect the Union chairman.
AUTHOR TO TALK
AT BULL'S HEAD
Phillips Russell Speaks Today on
"Preventive Writing."
Professor Phillips Russell,
outstanding American author,
-will lead the regular Bull's Head
discussion this afternoon at 4 :30
o'clock in .the bookshop in the
Y. M. C. A.
According to an announce
ment from Elizabeth Johnson,
director of the bookshop, Rus
sell will address the Bull's Head
audience on "Preventive Writ
ing." The speaker is the teacher of
a course in creative writing at
the University. The class meets
for a two-hour session each
Thursday night in the Bull's
Head where today's lecture will
take place.
Russell's appearance will be
the third Bull's Head lecture
program for the winter quarter.
Today's discussion follows a
reading by Mrs. Urban T.
Holmes and a series of book re
views by members of the library
school.
DEBATE TRYOUTS
Debate tryouts will occur at
8:30 tonight in 209 Graham
Memorial on the query: Re
solved, That this house favor
the New Deal.
The University debaters,
who will be chosen from the
tryouts, will take the affirma
tive of the question against
Stanford University men
March 7.
Judges at the tryouts will
be Professors W. A. Olsen, E.
J. Woodhouse and George Mc-Kie.
Phi Assembly
The Phi Assembly will
convene at 7:15 o'clock to
night in New East. :
Bills for discussion :
Resolved, That this house
favor the passage of the Hill
liquor control bill, now be
fore the General Assembly.
Resolved, That all classes
in the University have op
tional attendance.
Resolved, That this house
favor the New Deal.
Plans will be presented
for a social to be given the
first week in March. A free
movie is considered.
T CABINET MEN
PLAN NEXT TERM
After Business Session, Com
bined Cabinets Discuss Capi
tal Punishment Problem.
Considering the problem of
Capital Punishment," and dis-
cussing plans ior tne coming
quarter, the sophomore and jun
ior-senior Y. M. C. A. cabinets
met jointly last night in the last
formal session of the winter
term.
President J. D. Winslow dis
tributed mimeographed leaflets
setting forth plans for the rest
of the year, and this program of
activities was discussed.
McKee Leads Discussion
Following the business ses
sion, a discussion on the social
worth of capital punishment was
led by Don McKee of the sopho
more cabinet.
The cabinets postponed the
proposed trip to the state prison
in Raleigh until a later date.
It was decided that the meet
ing of the organization next
Monday would take the form of
a smoker in Graham Memorial.
The session will be informal,
and a visiting speaker will lead
a discussion of the race question.
President Winslow' appointed
T. P. Yeatman for infirmary
visitation and elaborated plans
to co-operate with Dean Brad-
shaw's program of vocational
guidance. '
Leading Faculty Men And Students
Question Nye At Dinner Conference
, o
Senator Cites Case of Pressure to Keep Movies Revealing Racket
of Munitions Makers from Screen; Says Solution Must Be
Effected in Country, Not by International Agreement.
o
By Mac Smith
The repast finished, fresh af
ter-dinner cigarette smoke be
ginning to fill the air, 30 Caro
lina campus leaders leaned back
in their, chairs in a special Caro
lina Inn dining room Sunday
evening to listen to a young
looking, black-haired Congress
man give his authoritative opin
ion on the matter of munitions
and munition profiteering.
North Dakota's Senator Ger
ald P. Nye, answered the ques
tions of this group of 30, which
included faculty members and
students, for one hour Sunday
night before he appeared at the
mass meeting of the student body
in Memorial hall at 8 o'clock.
With a low voice that filled
ttiA little dinincr room, the Sena
tor answered the questions ask
ed by members of the group be
tween slow draws on his cigar
ette. Dr. Frank Graham, presi
dent of the University, sat on
Nye's right, his head resting on
his hand, one finger moving
through a design on the table
cloth, drinking in the words of
the North Dakotan. Once he
SENATE TO PROBE
ALLEGED PROFITS
OF PRESS MEN
Congress Receives First Veto of
Year; Committee Favors Old
Age Pension Exemptions.
MAY TABLE NAVAL BILL
Washington, Feb. 25. (UP)
The Senate authorized an in
vestigation today of the charges
by Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
(D., Mont.), that food proces
sors grew rich during the de
pression at . the expense of the
farmers and consumers.
The Senate received a formal
notice of the contest by Dennis
Chavez, Democrat, New Mexico,
for the seat held by Senator
Bronson Cutting, Republican,
New Mexico, charging that
fraud and illegal balloting seat
ed Cutting.
"Marine Organisms"
Congress received its first
veto of this year from Roosevelt
when the bill appropriating
$500,000 for a study of a control
for marine organisms returned
unsigned.
The House naval committee
favored tabling the bill authoriz
mer S38.0UU.UUU lor naval im
provements.
The House ways and means
committee voted to exempt 7,
000,000 farm laborers, domestic
servants, and transient workers
from the contributory old age
pension section of the economic
security bill.
Di Senate
Three bills, headed by the
resolution, That the North
Carolina sales tax be retain
ed, will come before the Di
Senate at its meeting in
New West tonight at 715
o'clock.
The other two bills are:
Resolved, That continued re
lief appropriations are ; in
jurious to the morale of the
working classes, and, Re
solved, That the quarter sys
tem be retained at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
smiled, nodded at the Senator's
words, and turned to "Y" Presi
dent J. D. Winslow, who sat at
his right on the end of the head
table.
E. J. Woodhouse, University
government professor, snapped
his jaws on the Senator's right
and continued to make mental
notes of what the speaker said
to recite to his class this week.
Professor W. A. Olsen opened
the questions concerning muni
tions : "Could you, Senator Nye,
tell me how true it is that pres
sure is being brought to bear to
keep shows like 'The Man Who
Reclaimed His Head, that play
ed here yesterday, from being
played in the show houses?"
Nye recited a case where he
knew a big offer had been made
to producers if they would with
hold release on a similar muni
tions picture. He indicated,
however, that many of the ru
mors might be propaganda of
the producers for commercial
purposes.
' Winthrop Durfee, Phi ready-with-the-question
man, asked the
(Continued on last page)
Enthusiastic Audience Applauds
As Nye Condemns Arms Makers
-8
Underwood Resigns
At a called meeting yester
day morning, the Publications
Union Board accepted the res
ignation of George Underwood
as circulation manager of the
Daily Tar Heel, Carolina
Magazine, and Fin j an.
:j Applications can be made
for the open position today
and until 2 o'clock tomorrow.
All candidates for the job
must see Professor J. M. Lear
immediately at his office in
109 Bingham hall in order to
learn the duties of the job.
Professor Lear will also re
ceive the applications.
. AH applicants will be inter
viewed by the board at 2
o'clock tomorrow.
ORIGINALS OFFER
TRYOUTS TODAY
orty Koies Will He filled m
. Seven Experimental Dramas
To Be Staged March 7.
Professor Frederick H. Koch,
director of the Carolina Play
makers, announced yesterday
the seven plays written in the
second half of his playwriting
course, which will be presented
on an experimental bill here
March 7.
Try-outs for the experimental
tiramas will be conducted this
afternoon at 4 :30 in the thea
tre. All students interested will
have an opportunity to become
connected with Playmakers' ac
tivities, according to Koch.
The Seven Plays
Included in the seven plays
that were chosen from a group
of 12, are: "Goldie," a Negro
comedy by Wilbur Dorsett;
"Tslaga," a drama of the Chero
kee Indians, by William Greet;
"The Settin'-Up," a play of a
country wake by Sara Seawell;
"Tea Party," a children's play
by Ellen Deppe; "While They
Waited," the first act of a full
length drama of a small-town
family, by Kenneth Bartlett; a
tragedy of family life by Anne
Moore ; and a mountain play by
Mildred Moor.
According to Professor Koch
there are 40 parts available for
try-out candidates.
One bill of experimentals
which included five original
dramas written in the same
playwriting course this quarter
has already been presented by
the Playmakers. The coming
production will represent the
work of the second half of the
quarters' work.
Tobacco Growers Decide
To Keep Prices Low
Wallace Shows High Prices Will
Destroy Foreign Market.
Raleigh, Feb. 25. (UP) To
bacco growers in North Caro
lina, Virginia, South Carolina,
and Georgia decided here today
that they would rather retain
the nation's foreign tobacco
trade than see prices for their
product sky-rocket further above
parity levels. .
Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace explained to 5,000 persons
that a small crop and the atten
dant high prices this year would
almost certainly curb the foreign
trade. He urged trying to keep
tobacco down to a parity price
so as to prevent over-production
later.
"U. S. Must Clean Up
Profiteers at Home"
"Take the Profiteering Out of
War and You Will End War,"
Is Senator Nye's Plea.
GOVERNMENT IMPLICATED
For one hour and 45 minutes
United States Senator Gerald P.
Nye from North Dakota held a
Carolina audience at the cheer
ing point Sunday night when he
addressed the capacity crowd on
the subject of "Peace or Profit."
Nye, who headed the Senate
munitions investigation commit-
tee in their active campaign last
September, voiced his protest
against the profiteering that
arms makers are carrying on at
the expense of world peace.
Our Own Back Yard
Considered the best authori- fiye schools: Four, from the
ty in the world on the matter of liberal arts school; three from
munitions profiteering, Nye in- tne school of commerce; two
delibly impressed the Carolina from the engineering, school;
audience with the fact that one from the school of.phar
America herself must take in macy; one from the school af
hand the matter a matter that
the government so far has not
onlv allowed to exist but has ac-
tually encouraged.
President of the Greater Uni
versity Frank Porter Graham,
introduced the "Progressive
Senator" from North Dakota,
who at present heads the minor
ity in Congress.
Applause after applause in-
terrupted Nye's stirring address
hat carried with it evidence to
support his accusations and ap-
peal to Americanism to "wake
up."
According to the Senator, it
is a question of profit or peace, freshman Council in trial will be
"The next war will not be a war submitted to the Student Coun
to make the world safe for demo- cil for action. Two or more
cracy," he said, "but a war rath- members , from the freshman
er to make the world safe for Council will appear before the
Du Pontcracy."
Freshman "Y" Council
Discusses Munitions
Projects for Rest of Year Are
Given 'Members.
Since no regular program
had been planned for last night's
meeting, the members of the
Freshman Friendship Council
held a general discussion under
the leadership of Harry F. Co-
mer, general secretary ot the
Y."
The major topic of the discus
sion concerned the facts given
by Senator Gerald P. Nye in his
address Sunday night.
A list of the Y. M. C. A. pro
grams and projects for the re
mainder of the year was given
to each Council member, and
Comer urged all to study it and
offer any suggestions that will
help the program to a successful
conclusion.
FRATERNITY FHUTUS
i
-Frtllnwincr fraternities
, , tiiitiVoi
must have the specified number
of pictures taken for the Yack
etv Yack immediately: Delta
Tau Delta, 4; Lambda Chi Al
pha, 4 ; Phi Kappa Sigma, 5 ; Sig
ma Phi Epsilon, 3; Tau Epsilon
Phi, 3; Theta Kappa Nu, 2; Zeta
Beta Tau, 1 ; and Kappa Alpha," 1.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
Comprehensive examinations
for commerce and liberal arts
seniors will be held Saturday at
9 a. m. in the departmental of
fices, it was announced yester
day.
Seniors planning to take the
examinations should report to
departmental heads this week.
FRESHMEN ADOPT
BOARD OF HONOR
BY BIG MAJORITY
Tribunal to Consist of Represen-
tatives from the Five Schools
of the University.
REHEARINGS PLANNED
The freshman class at assem
bly yesterday accepted their
proposed Honor Council by a
vote of 218 to 80. .
The complete plans of the
Council drawn up by the Honor
CounciI committee appointed by
rvus iviunis, presiaent oi tne
class and submitted to the class
by Nick' Read chairman, fol
low :
Representation
"The Honor Council will be
composed of members from the
freshman class, representing the
applied science.
I An addition there will be one
member of the student council
sitting with the freshman Coun
cil as an adviser. He will have
!
j no voting power, however.
"The Council will serve in
dual capacity : first, it will
foster and co-ordinate move
ments for strengthening the hon
or system in the freshman class,
N well as spreading information
about the system; secondly, it
will try freshmen reported for
cheating, but not fox. breaches
of the campus' code.
"The decisions reached by the
Student Council to submit each
decision and to present the facts
and findings of the case.
Appeal Possible
"The Student Council may call
ior a reiiearmg ui uie case ia
the facts and circumstances are
vague or if the freshman on trial
appeals for a rehearing. In
such an event, two or more
members from the freshman
Honor Council will convene with
the Student Council to present
any facts or findings which were
uncovered in the previous trial."
Before turning the. meeting
over to Mums, uean st. u .
Bradshaw commended the class
on the interest it is taking m
the honor system, and said that
he felt gratified that it is con-
sidering it.
There was some contention
as to how the members of the
honor council should be chosen,
but the class . finally decided to
elect representeatives according
to schools.
o: f1A riflSS ;s t. nnramzed
I ----
P-rocirfont. Mull is "will
- -
I have to appoint chairmen to pre
, .11 A,
various schools. Dean Brad
shaw said these meetings will
probably be either Wednesday or
Friday.
Sophomore Assembly
Pete Ivey will speak at the
first sophomore convocation for
1935 tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock.
His subject has not yet been an
nounced. Carroll to Make Talk
Dean D. D. Carroll of the
school of commerce will address
the Sanford Rotary Club today
in Sanford.
a P