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ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION
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FRONT SOUTH BUILDING
ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION,
10:30 A.M. '
FRONT SOUTH BUILDING
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VOLUME XLm
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935
NUMBER 142
UNIVERSITY CLUB
IMS WITH 41
HISING MEMBERS
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Initiation of Newcomers and
Nomination of Officers for
1935-36 to Be Next Week.
TOUR CO-EDS INCLUDED
Forty-one new members of the
"University Club met with the
outgoing organization last night
nd were greeted by speeches
and the immediate assignment of
regular club work, x "
Four co-eds, representing the
dormitories and sororities, were
among the new members, the
first women students ever elect
ed into membership of the or
ganization. '
: Frank Willingham, president
of the club, and Phil Hammer
ex-president, greeted the new
members with words of welcome
;and well wishes. Willingham
outlined the work which must
be carried out during the spring
-quarter, listing the various func
tions and aims of the club.
Committees Appointed
Committees were appointed
from old and new membership
to welcome various visiting
teams during the. next week.
Next week the new members
"will be formally initiated and
nominations for 1935-36 officers
-submitted.
Following the joint meeting,
the old club met and discussed
several important items, includ
ing the annual club banquet
plans. .
The new members of the club,
elected two weeks ago and to as
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FRATERNITY MEN
PASSAMMMENT
Only Presidents of Respective
Fraternities Will Compose
Interfraternity Council.
.Only presidents of the respec
tive fraternities will henceforth
be members of the Interfrater
nity Council it was learned last
night after the council had pass
ed an amendment to the consti
tution to that effect.
The amendment, proposed
last week, will have the effect
of removing the impotence of the
Interfraternity Council due to
a heretofore non-authoritative
.group of representatives com
posing tne membership. '
Sluggish Organization
Members up to now have had
the status of "anybody" at the
meetings of the council and, as a
result, the organization has
lapsed out of a great deal of its
former usefulness.
Council legislation will be
speeded up with the injection of i
the new constitutional clause in
to the council program. House
presidents will officially repre
sent their fraternities and will
have the power to vote on coun
cil matters.
Harold Bennett, Theta Chi, is
president of the present, Inter
fraternity Council; Frank Rog
ers, Phi Delta Theta, treasurer ;
L. C. Bruce, Phi Gamma Delta,
secretary, and Mark Lynch,
Sigma Nu, chairman of the con
stitutional committee.
English Comprehensive
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English majors - planning to
take the comprehensive exami
nation the spring quarter are
requested to report to Murphey
"201 Friday morning .at the
chapel hour.
Debaters en Route Hurt
In Wreck Near Troy j
Two Members of Cliffside Team
Are Seriously Injured.
Members of the high school
debating team of Cliffside, N.
C, were badly injured in a
wreck near Troy, N. Cat
about noon veSterdav. TTi
team was on its way to Chapel
Hill to participate in the state
high school debating tourna
ment, now being, held here.
Two members of the group
were very seriously injured, and
four girls were hurt, though not
badly. Those in the car were
the principal of the Cliffside
high school, the coach of the de
bating team, and the members
of the team.
FIGURE LEADERS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Secretary Patterson Names
Freshmen and Their Dates
Participating Tonight.
The names of freshmen and
their dates who will participate
in the figure at the class dance
tomorrow night were announced
yesterday by Joe Patterson, sec
retary. They are Nick Read, Mar
garet Jordan; Drew Martin,
Jane Ross; Gene Bricklemyer,
Ruth Steadman; Pryor McFad
den, Sue Sutherland; Stuart
Leake, Elizabeth Gray; Warren
Haddaway, Ann Baker; Jimmy
Coan, Virginia Lee; Earl Ruth,
Jane Wiley; Tom Burnette,"Mar
tha Croom; John Davison, Thel-
ma Powers.
Red Meroney, June Busch;
Pete Mullis, Caroline Rivers ; Joe
Patterson, Patsy McMullan ;
Paul Darden, Elizabeth Fulg
hum; Gene Simmons, Becky
Jorden; Ed O'Herron, Mary
Stewart ; Jack Tate, Nancy
Mann; Tom Myers, Esther Meb-
ane ; Ramsay Potts, Susan Win
stead ; Bill Seawell, Bessie
Stroud.
P. U. BOARD ENDS
KEY COLLECTING
Board Plans for Uniform Key;
Services Engraved on Back.
Henceforth giddy journalists
will be unable to flit from pub
lication to publication, working
sporadically under several edi
tors for the purpose of acquiring
two, three, or even four keys to
be laid away among their for
gotten trophies. -
At least, that is what the P.
U. Board hopes will be the result
of its acceptance yesterday of a
uniform key for all four publi
cations, according to one of the
board members.
According to the new plan, in
the future a journalist who has
already won the uniform key
from one publication, will not
be eligible to receive a key from
another publication.
Instead, every time a student
does satisfactory work with a
publication other than the one
on which'he served originally
the name of the new magazine
or paper will be engraved on the
back of his key under his former
position of service.
MEDICAL LECTURES
Dr. Hunter Sweeny and Dr.
D. R. Perry will give a lecture in
Caldwell hall tonight -at 7:30.
The topic will be "The Surgical
and Medical Treatment of Pul
monary Tuberculosis." The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend.
Today We Will Stand V
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(AN EDITORIAL)
The prospects of war are far from pleasant, but war it will bei
if the present generation does not soon convince the leaders of
this nation that youth is serious about this business of hating and
outlawing armed conflict. I
What good will it all do anyway; this school-boy strike against
the inevitable ? None, if only a few straggling voices open up to
shout out "Down with War." But the story may be different if
a large group of determined students, seriously bent on a serious
subject," forget their pleasures for just one half hour today and
show what Carolina men (and women) really tfiink about another
world war, with its terrible results of immorality, inflation, shat
tered morale, and depression.
. There is something to this peace racket besides blowing off
steam. There are definite measures which can be taken to keep
the United States out of war, measures which a unified student
opinion can help to materialize. And the sooner the big guns in
the government know that we know it and will push our convic
tions, the -better. Those of us who drew anything at all out of
the recent Human Relations Institute , know something, at least,
of what these measures should be the nationalization of muni
tions, the elimination of profits
age-old neutrality policy.
Now is the time to act! Once
fever of conflict seizes the nation,, we. gre''s helpless ai a herd of
steers. Here is a chance to show that we are more than mere
beasts, that we are thinking human beings with definite ideas and
determined convictions. And one of them is NO MORE WAR!
Statement of the Anti-War Committee
To the students and faculty of the University:
Today every major nation, including our own, is engaged if! S
frantic drive toward war. : Unwilling to solve economic problems
by sane economic adjustments, the governments threaten to con
ceal their incompetence in the domestic sphere by going in for
"strong foreign policy," "isolation," "economic nationalism."
Fast expanding armaments budgets are clear signs of this. These
suicidal tendencies of governments are based on an assumption
which may or may not be true. It is the assumption that you
and your generation will supinely serve as cannon fodder in an
idiotic and wholly unnecessary war. It is assumed that, as a sub
stitute for more constructive employment, you and your genera
tion will accept orders to march and kill and be killed in a stupid
war against those with whom you have no quarrel whatsoever.
In short, it is assumed that you will take it lying down. Will you?
On April 12, 1916, the United States entered the World War.
It is amazing to realize prospects of war are almost greater today
than they were on April 5, 1916. On April 12, 1935, students in
colleges and universities throughout the United States will join
together simultaneously in strikes and demonstrations in a great
protest against war. We believe that such an expression of our
attitude will be significant to the people and to the leaders of our
country. We, therefore, call upon all the students, professors,
and townspeople of Chapel Hill to gather at 10 :30 o'clock on the
morning of April 12 in an outdoor mass meeting on the south side
of South building to show the people of the state and the nation
where you stand on the question of our country's entry into an
other war;
Students ! Your influence should mean something. It is time
for you to act. -
VIRGIL LEE R. P. RUSSELL
CHARLES LLOYD AGNEW BAHNSON
NILES BOND JOE BARNETT
HARPER BARNES DON BECKER
NICK READ DON McKEE
(Initiative Committee) .
ANTI-WAR QUESTIONNAIRE
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Following is a list of questions prepared by the student sponsors
of the anti-war demonstration being staged today. The 11 o'clock
class hour is to be devoted to a discussion of some phase of the
problem of war. It is suggested that these questions form the
backbone around which discussion is built. ' .
I. Do you favor the expenditure of public funds f or mili- .
tary education in schools and colleges ?
2. Would you favor the diversion of money now being paid
r to munitions makers into funds for education and for adequate
unemployment relief ?'
3. Do you favor a policy of nationalization of the munitions
industry? '
.. 4. Would you fayor a confiscatory tax on profits made dur
ing a war ?
5. Do you favor armed intervention in foreign countries
for the protection of property and lives of American citizens ?
6. Would you endorse American adherence to the League
of Nations and the World Court?
7. Would you refuse to fight in any war pursued on foreign
soil?
8. Would you refuse to fight if the boundaries of the
United States were invaded by another power?
9. Would you lend your support to others who refused to
take part in military service?
10. Would you support the struggles of exploited peoples '
Cubans, Mexicans, Filipinos, etc. -for freedom from domi
nation by American imperialism? : '
II. Do you favor the proposal of the Soviet Union made
through its Foreign Minister, Maxim Litvinoff, for immediate,
complete, world disarmament?,
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from war, and a revision of our
war has been declared, once the.
University Students Stae
Protest Against War Today
Senior Regalia Deadline
The deadline for members of
the senior class to have them
selves measured for the Senior
Week regalia has been set for to
morrow, it was announced yes
terday.
Seniors who have not already
been measured should have the
ceremony performed at once in
the Student Co-operative Store
where the regalia is now on dis
play. DEBATERS GROUP
HEARS PRESIDENT
IN FIRST SESSION
Graham Urges the 272 High
School Debaters to Remem
ber Teams "Back Home?'
OPENS TWO-DAY PROGRAM
Two hundred and seventy
two debaters and their instruc
tors' gathered in Memorial hall
yesterday afternoon for the
opening meeting of the 23rd an-
nuai fifial contest of the North
Carolina High' School Debating
Union.
N. W. Walker, acting dean of
the department of education,
presided at the meeting and pre
sented President Graham to the
members of the convocation..
"Chapel Hill is very happy to
have you -here," stated Dr. Gra
ham in his address of welcome.
He reminded them of the beau
ties of Chapel Hill andxthe fact
that "140 years of University
history looks down upon 272
energetic debaters."
Debate Today
. One of the gratifying things
about such debates, according to
President Graham, is that "high
school debaters of today debate
issues that become the laws of
tomorrow."
Comparing the structural plan
of the debating union to a pyra
mid, Dr. Graham reminded his
audience of the thousands of
losjng competitors throughout
the state who form the founda
tion that makes their presence
in the finals possible.
"When you are on the pin
nacle of that nvramid," said
President Graham, speaking to
any team that may be the winr
ner, "think of the thousands of
students that form its base."
E. R. Rankin, secretary of the
debate committee, then read the
program for the remainder of
the contest and explained to the
contestants the method which
would be used to select the pairs
for the first preliminary.
Debate Girls Invited to Dance
Benevolent "Pete" Mullis,
president of the freshman class,
announced last night that all
high school girls attending the
debates, who would like to be
included in the dance party for
the freshman class tonight
might leave their names with
him at the Y. M. C. A. between
12 and 1 o'clock today.
He will arrange for them to
have dates.
Change of Headquarters
Editor Pat Gaskins, 'laughed
sick, 'announced yesterday that
he is "receiving" copy for the
next issue of the Carolina Fin
jan, the Farewell number for
the Gaskin regime, at the Uni
versity infirmary.
STEWART, RUSSELL
WILL BE SPEAKERS
Big Demonstration Will Be Held
In Front of South Building
At Assembly Period.
GRAHAM GIVES APPROVAL
Everything except the weath
er is settled for the grand-scale
anti-war demonstration to be
held at 10:30 a. m. If the
weather permits, the rally will
be staged on the steps of South
building. If it is raining, stu
dents and faculty members wil
gather in Memorial ha.ll,
Amplifiers' have been, secured
and Rev. Donald Stewart of the
Presbyterian ehureh and R,
Phillips Russell, University,
uglegate to the peace conference
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at .orusseiis, win speaK. rnn
Hammer will preside. ,
'" President Frank P. Graham
gav to committee hfe approval
of the plan. "Go to it. I am alf
for you," said the president. "I
stated my views on the war
problem in my inaugural ad
dress and I think your effort co
incides with what I said then."
Graham's Statement
Said President Graham at his
inauguration : "The colleges and
universities, by virtue of their
humane purpose and the very
nature of their social being,
have the responsibility of help
ing to build a world in which
the call to idealism and heroism
of youth shall never again be a
call to war."
Questionnaires will be distrib
uted at the meeting.' Everyone
should get one of these or read it
in the Daily Tar' Heel. Dis-
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GA.TECHN.Y. U.
DEBA1ECAR0L1A
Teams Wrangle over Japan's
Policy in the Far East and
Munitions Matter.
Before a small audience1 in
Gerrard hall last night two
North Carolina debate teamS en
cm rrorl in ira-rVkcil " ? Ujlvci ttt.V.
teams from Georgia Tech and
New York University.
Tech debaters, Gibson and
Darden, staunchly upheld the
negative of the query: Resolv
ed, that Japan's policy in the
Far East is comparable to the
Monroe Doctrine of the United
States, against Carolina's Kirk-
patrick and Kaplan.
The N. Y. U. team contended
that the private manufacture of
armaments should be prohibited
by international agreement while
the Tar Heels objected strenu
ously, if not sometimes illogical
ly. Both sides presented reme
dial plans, at the same time find
ing loopholes in those of the
other side. .
Fairley,' Cross, and Durfee
wrangled lengthily over this
phase of the" munitions question
with Bernard Eisenberg, Henry
Levine, and Morris Grief f of N.
Y. U. Chief points of discus
sion were Fairley's bale of cot-
ton, Cross's quotation from
Isaiah, and Durfee's doughnut,
all of which were likeneb! by
them. as. instruments of destruc
tion. - x
The gentlemen from -New
York concluded the occasion by
calling the Tar Heels a bunch of
prophets and "retired from the
scene. Both battles were blood
less. - .