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Wm PHI-DUKE DEBATE 7:30 P. M. NEW EAST POLITICAL SPEECHES 10:30 A.M. MEMORIAL HALL - SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS VOLUME XLHI CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935 NUMBER 139 Campus Pacifists Plan To Stage Anti-War Rally Friday Morning Strikers for Peace To Gather at South Demonstration Is Part of Nation wide Protest Against War, Including 41 Colleges. KEY. STEWART WILL SPEAK Friday morning at 10:30 a call will go out to all University students and professors to as semble in front of South build ing in a mass anti-war demon stration. The committee sponsoring the demonstration has secured Rev. Donald Stewart of the Presby terian church, to address the meeting. The committee has planned a questionnaire to be printed in the Daily Tar Heel which will be used in the class discussions on war. - All faculty members holding .11 o'clock classes are urged by the committee to lead discussions on the war problem in their class hours. National Strike The demonstration at the Uni versity is held in conjunction ivith the nation-wide anti-war meetings to be held at over 41 colleges and universities. The movement is sponsored by the youth organizations: National Council of Methodist Youth, the Student League for Industrial Democracy, and the Inter-Semi-mary Movement. Dr. Stephen P. Duggan when he was recently in Chapel Hill, stated that he will lead the anti war demonstration at Vassar College of which he is a trustee. Norman Thomas also endorsed the anti-war move on his recent visit here. Senator Gerald P. Nye and his Senate munitions investigating committee, have publicly com mended the student nation-wide anti-war action. New York, April 8. (UP) Pacifist college youth completed plans tonight for an anti-war in ternational "strike" called for Friday. Striplings yet unborn when the world marched to battle 21 years ago are determined this shall not happen again. So in earnest are they that the Ameri can League Against War and Fascism has sworn this oath: "We pledge not to support the United States government in any war it may conduct." "What would you do if this country were invaded?" is the natural question. "Wouldn't you fight to defend your home?" "There's no such thing as a defensive war; that's just a gag," was the way Robert Chase, 20, of Seattle, Wash., Columbia University junior, bluntly put it. Chase is chairman of the Colum bia anti-war committee. V Cabinets Make Plans For Rest of Year New Officials to Meet in Comer's Office at 10:30 Today. Members of the upper Y. M. C. A. cabinets met last night to draw up plans for the rest Of the year and to make arrangements for inducting the new officers ho were elected yesterday. The group also selected the Pic, "Problems of the South," for a series of cabinet discus sions this spring. ' . The new officials are asked to eet in the office of Harry F. Comer this morning, at 10:30 o'clock to make further prepara tions for work next year. Di Senate The Di Senate will cut short its regular 7 :15 o'clock meeting tonight in time to attend the de bate in Gerrard hall at 7:30 be tween the Phi assembly and the Columbia Debating Society of Duke University. The debate will deal with the subject of the socialization of medicine. ROOSEVELT SIGNS WORLD'S LARGEST LUMP M10TMENT President Sets Work Relief Ma chinery in Motion by Signing Record Appropriation. FERA AND CCC GET SHARE Aboard Roosevelt Special Train, April 8. (UP) A few strokes of President Roosevelt's pen on the $4,880,000,000 works relief bill today set in motion the use of history's largest lump sum appropriation to put 3,500,- 000 men to work. The bill was sent to Jackson ville, Fla., by courier having been enacted by Congress in a 75-day battle. Roosevelt signed it as he sped northward. Refreshed Refreshed and rested from a fishing trip in Caribbean waters, he, will attend the funeral of his cousin, Warren Delano Robbins, New York, minister to Canada, who died Sunday from pneu monia. Immediately after signing the bill, the President signed two allocations from the amount ap propriated under the new law. First, $125,000,000 to the FERA to continue relief ; second, $30,- 000,000 for the continuation and maintenance of CCC camps and conservation work. DEBATERS STUDY MEDICINE TONIGHT Japanese Policy, Arms Making Are Other Topics. Pursuing the issue raised in the Carolina-Bucknell forensic effusion Friday, the debate squad will discuss the socializa tion of medicine, led by a mem ber of the medical school faculty. The discussion will occur in 209 Graham Memorial at 9 o'clock tonight. Points will be reviewed for two intercollegiate debates which will take place here Thursday. Meeting Georgia Tech on the issue: Resolved, that Japan's policy in the far east is com parable to the Monroe Doctrine of the United States, J. W. Kirk Patrick and A. S. Kaplan will uphold the affirmative. A three man gang-up of Fran cis Fairley, Oliver Cross, arid Winthrop Durfee will represent the Universitv acrainst New York University. They have the negative of the query: Resolved, that the private manufacture of arms be prohibited by inter national agreement. Tar Heel Staff City editors and desk men on the Daily Tar Heel staff will meet this afternoon in Graham Memorial at 3 o'clock and -reporters will meet at 3:30 o'clock. Failure to r"end this meeting will in sus pension from dtaff. GRISETTE NAMED NATIONAL ALUMNI HEAD ATCAPITAL Tar Heel Is First Southern Presi dent; Carolina's Saunders Is Vice-President of Council. EDITS OFFICIAL "NEWS Felix A. Grisette, director of the Alumni Loyalty Fund of the University, was elected presi dent of the American Alumni Council at the annual meeting of the organization in Washington last week. The outstanding honor to an alumni executive, Grisette's election brings the presidency to a southern school for the first time in the history of the coun cil, which is made up of over 300 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Two Officers Here Grisette's election gives the University two ranking officers in the council J. Maryon Saun ders, secretary of the University Alumni Association, is already serving a three-year term as vice-president of the organiza tion. Among the duties of the presi dent is the editorship of the council's official publication, "American Alumni Council News." Grisette is already edi tor of Carolina's new magazine, "University Facts." Long Active . The new president has been active in the ranks of the coun cil for six years. A graduate of the University, Grisette has taken graduate work in higher educational administration at the University of Pittsburgh and at Carolina. Before becoming full-time di rector of the alumni loyalty fund at the University in 1929, he had previously served as as sistant University editor at the University of Pittsburgh, as member of the editorial staff of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, and as director of financial cam paigns for colleges and other philanthropic institutions thoughout the United States. Grisette returned to Chapel Hill from Washington Monday. POLANYI SPEARS HERE TOMORROW Foreign Policy League Sponsors Lecture by Austrian Journal ist on Church, Fascism. The Foreign Policy League will bring Dr. Karl Polanyi, noted Austrian newspaperman and lec turer, to speak here tomorrow night on "The Churches and Fascism on the European Con tinent." Dr.' Polanyi, in this country under the sponsorship of the Institute of International Edu cation, directed by Dr. Stephen Duggan, will address an audience in Gerrard hall at 8 o'clock. Political Veteran The Austrian lecturer, who recently made a two-year tour of "England, has led a life full of political, excitement, begin ning with his college days at Budapest University, where he organized a club interested in workers' adult education. Although he was born of Hun garian parents and spent his early life in Hungary, he is at present an Austrian citizen. He was driven out of his fatherland in 1919 by the successful Com munist revolution there. Nine Freelance Candidates Threaten Clean Sweep Of University Party Men SENIORS TO ELECT ONLY ONE OFFICER Hutchins Opposes Party Man Fisher for Junior Presidency; Two Others Opposed. FRESHMEN ELECT THREE The rising senior class, met last night in Gerrard hall, with Ernie Eustler presiding, for the purpose of nominating senior class officers for next year. Trip Rand was nominated for president and, when no opposi tion was offered by the two non party men present, he was de clared unanimously elected. Mor ris Rhodes also found no opposi tion for the position of vice president and accordingly was handed this office. Lewis Puck ett received the office of secre tary in a like manner. Clare Bumped Jack Clare bumped into the only opposition offered when ever-ambitious Bill Weaver had himself nominated for trea surer. Several University party men became confused and ap plauded vociferously. Jimmy Craighill was nominat ed and unanimously injected in to the Student Council chair for the senior class next year. Jake Austin, junior class trea surer, submitted the budget for the class as approved by the executive committee at its last meeting'. After it was unani mously approved, the meeting was adjourned. The fight between Clare and Weaver will be settled at the polls at Graham Memorial to morrow at the same time that the remaining campus elections are decided. The polls will be open from 9 to 5 o'clocKT MACHINE DRIVES ON The well oiled, free wheeling University party machine ground on the first acrid sands of serious competition last night when Jim Hutchins as well as Joe Fisher was nominated for presidency among" the rising juniors as they met in the Phi assembly hall. After the powerful party cogs were stepped into high gear, Jim Daniel was thrust into the vice-presidency unopposed, and Frank Umstead was conveyed into the office of secretary by a like route. The party bandwagon lost con siderable momentum when Fred Weaver was nominated to op pose Wally Dunham for trea surer, and John Parker - heard the call to run against Bill Cochrane for representative to the Student Council. AND ON . A smoothly functioning polit ical organization that found scanty opposition nominated un opposed candidates for three of the five rising sophomore class officers at a meeting presided over by Class President Pete Mullis last night. Nominees who will take office (Continued on page two) Mon6grant Club A Yackety Yack picture of the entire membership of the Mono gram club, including newly named monogram winners, will be taken at 10:30 o'clock today on the steps of the law building. All participants should wear their monogram sweaters, ac cording to Ralph Gardner, presi dent of the club. -e Y' Council Nominees The Freshman Friendship Council nominated at its meeting last night the following for of ficers of the rising sophomore cabinet: Bob McGill, president; Drew Martin, vice-president; and Jimmy Coan, secretary and treasurer. These names will be voted on next Monday night. Nominations from the floor will be in order at that time. PHI MEETS DUKE SOCIETYIONIGHT Wiley Parker, Winthrop Durfee Represent Assembly in De bate at 7:30, New East. Wiley Parker and Winthrop Durfee will represent the Phi Assembly in a debate in New East at 7:30 o'clock tonight against Wade Marr and Robert Morris of the Columbia Literary Society at Duke. Parker and Durfee were cho sen at try-outs . Saturday night with James Van Hecke, Robert Smithwick, and Clarence Griffin acting as judges. Query: Medicine The Phi Assembly will defend 4;he affirmative of the query: Resolved, that the several states adopt socialization of medicine. This change would include, among other things, the afford ing to all citizens at nominal costs general medical care and the services of hospitals and clinics. Speeches will be eight min utes in length and five minutes will be allowed for rebuttals. The Dialectic Senate will join in the first- joint meeting of the societies since the fall quarter. This debate marks the re sumption of forensic relations with Duke whjch had been can celled for a number of years. INSTITUTE OFFERS ANOTHER SPEAKER Rabbi Wise Lectures Tomorrow On Hitler, Jews. As a continuation of the Hu man Relations Institute, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, son of the late Rabbi Isaac Wise, has been in vited to, speak here tomorrow night on "Hitler and the Jews." Rabbi Wise, noted for his al most radical progressiveness, has just returned from a trip through Germany, England, and France. He speaks today in Ra leigh on the' same subject The invitation tendered Rabbi Wise came as a result of the en thusiastic reception accorded the Institute by the campus, and the fact that a small amount of the Institute fund was left over after payment of debts. All the -periodicals on display in Memorial hall last week in connection with the Institute have been transferred perma nently to the Bull's Head Book shop. Reporters Wanted There are now three va cancies on the reportorial staff of the Daily Tar Heel. Any student desiring to try out for one of these positions is asked to see Bob Page in the Daily Tar Heel office in Graham Memorial between 2 and 4 o'clock this afternoon. FAIRLEY IS WEDGE IN TRIANGLE FIGHT Thompson's Candidacy Is Sur prise; Foe Is Only Opposed Publication Nominee. 16 NOMINEES UNOPPOSED The three candidates for president of the student body Francis Fairley, "Snooks" Aitken, and Jack Pool will present their views on student govern ment in Memorial hall this morning at 10:30 o'clock, Announcement of Francis Fairley for president of the stu dent body and Carl Thompson for editorship of the Carolina Magazine injected surprise and complication into f the political scene as campus-wide candidates were nominated in Memorial hall yesterday morning. The candidacy of Fairley, a student councilman, now makes the race for student body presi dent a three-cornered one. Both Fairley and Stuart Aitken are independents in opposition te Jack Pool, University party nominee. Third Hat, Fairley A third hat in the ring may result in a run-off election. Al though Fairley is conceded to be the weakest of the three can didates, he can make trouble for both his opponents by cutting into their support or by using it as a balance of power in favor of either. Thompson, who passed up an opportunity to submit his name when the Magazine held its staff nomination Sunday, will oppose Charlie Poe, University party nominee and official choice of the staff. He was named in Memo rial hall by Virgil Lee, who ran for the Magazine editorship last year. Official staff nominees of the four publications are, as an nounced yesterday, as follows: Nelson Lansdale (Fin j an), Phil Hammer (Daily Tar Heel), Claude Rankin (Yackety Yack), and Charlie Poe (Carolina Mag azine). Vote Tomorrow The following campus-wide candidates will be voted on in election tomorrow: president of the student body Jack Pool (nominated by Benton Bray), Stuart Aitken (by Ken Young), and Francis Fairley (by Thur man Vick) ; editor of the Caro lina Magazine Charles Poe (nominated by the staff) and Carl Thompson (nominated by Virgil Lee). The following candidates are unopposed and therefore auto matically elected by their nomi nation yesterday: vice-president of the student body Tom Evins ; president of the Athletic Asso ciation Jim McCachren; vice president of the Athletic Asso ciation Marvin Allen ; editor of the Daily Tar Heel Phil Ham mer; editor of the Yackety Yack Claude Rankin; editor of the Finjan -Nelson Lansdale. President of the Y. M. C. A. Billy Yandell; vice-president-Don McKee; secretary George MacFarland; treasurer Grey Yeatman ; cheerleader Lester OstroW ; debate council Oliver Cross and Robert Smithwick ; senior representative to the Pub lications Union Board Charles Ivey; junior representative Ned McAllister; representative-at-large Fletcher Ferguson. -
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