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VOLUME XLVI
World
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Edited by Jim McAden
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WILL GIVE JOir
- ANNUAL- DANCE
AH Previous Rumors As
To Nature Of Event
Cleared Up
The Dialectic senate o1'i
Philanthropic assembly will give
their annual joint dance tomor
row night in the f!ar nlino TW
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ballroom with music furnished
oy Art Baroodv and his nrM.
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THE ONLY
COLLEGE DAILY
IN THE SOUTH
SENATE FILIBUSTER,;
CONTINUES UNLIMITED
Washington, Feb. 16. For
the second time this session, the
senate defeated a cloture pro
posal which would limit the 28
. dav-old filibuster against the
anti-lynchmg bin.
A vote oi 4t to 42 was re-
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COroea agauist me ruie, wnicn T .
requires a twq-thirds majority f ? a Joint statement made yes
r r x ii terday bv the twn TvrAM4inr.
i!i t: .11 , IllCerS of the oftpiotJoo nil
nm i-i v r ii ii i iiu iiiii mJi I riiTnrrrt i -
Director
bill
three weeks ago to invoke the
cloture rule in an effort to
break the filibuster.
Opponents of the anti-lynch-
inz bill, which would nrovide
for the punishment of state of
ficials who knowingly fail to
prevent lynchmgs, predicted
societies, all pre
vious rumors asto th nafnra
of the dance were cleared m
Up until Tuesday night there I
1
naa Deen a general misunder
standing between the two
groups about the dance.
Misunderstanding
Although both societies
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938
TRYOUTS TO BE
HELD TOMORROW
FOR PLAY BILL
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NUMBER 109
Professor Sam Selden whose
graduate students in Play Di
rection will direct the four forth
coming experimental plays.
Open Forum Will
Be Held Tonight
In Main Lounge
that the bill will be laid aside v9tecl to give the dance jointly.
soon. , j " iooucu Butting mat me
Senate Leader Barklev m.Jaffair would be given by the
ay.j imucatea tnat tne mn KBemuiy, xo oe Discussion Will vn rrMn
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wouM be sneived Jiday in or-ruvvu as tne annual jrniaall. Meeting Of Air Broadcast
der to maice way lor discussion - oince tnere was a mistake From 9:30 To 10:30
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uro v,wu,uuu emergency j me pnutxng oi.tne Dias, J
iciiei ui xcccuuy passea in tne uwuucu.ai .me aance will Alee nauonany-Known au-
house. have rolls of the two societies thorities will attack a nrnhletYi
Opponents of the lynchinsr wnicn will be checked at the confronting the entire nation.
measure appeared jubilant over time of entrance to the dance.
today's action, saying that it
meant ultimate shelving or de
feat if it is brought to a vote.
INFLUENCE OF NAZIS
SPREADS IN AUSTRIA
Vienna, Feb. 16. German
iNazi mnuence gained more
- ground in Austria today as a
result of the appointment of two
ministers approved by Adolf
Hitler to Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg's cabinet.
xne cnange grew irom con
ferences between the Austrian
leader and Hitler at the latter
Berchtesgaden mountain retreat
last Saturday.
Amateurs Must Sign
Up For New Contest
At Once, Ivey Says
Forthcoming Program Promises
lo Be Biggest Show Since
Beginning Of Features
'Wages, Prices and Recovery.1
tonight on the American Tnmn
Meeting of the Air, to be broad
cast from 9:30 until 10:30 over
Graham Memorial's new ampli
fier.
Following presentation of the
speakers' viewpoints, the Gra
ham Memorial audience will dis-
Speakers
Professor O. M. W. Sonurue
Ajhateurs 'wholexDect to" com
pete in Graham Memorial's next
nrn -qo- TXr J 1
iicai - euiiesuay must kjiouc
signify immediately, according of Harvar university, Prof es
to an announcement from Pete sor -faul H- Douglas of the Uni-
T. Murchison. nresident of the
Ivey yesterday.
1 he program promises to be
the biggest since the beginning
of the amateur features. The
Experimental Group To
Be Presented
March 3
Public tryouts for the Play
makers' 54tn experimental bill
win be conducted at the Play-
maiters. theater tomorrow after
noon at 4 o'clock. Plays present-
3 a
ea m tnis group will be select
ed from those submitted bv stu
dents in Professor Koch's play-
writmg class.
There will be many roles to be
cast and it is hoped that a large
number of contestants - will at
tend : the tryouts. PeoDle who
have not taken part in previous
proauctions are urged to turn
out. : ,
Students To Direct
The four plays chosen for
production will be directed by
students in Professor Selden's
graduate course in Direction,
and they will be under Selden's
supervision.
The program will be selected
from the following new plays :
ine Koad Away," by Ralph
Miller ; "Two Wings to Fly
Away," Rietta Reily.; "Where
the Wind Blows Free," by Emily
Crow; "Getting Away from It
All," by Emily Crow; "Still
Stands the House " bv Owen
Pharis; "Hidden Heart." bv
Howard Richardson; "Mountain
Bush," by Lois Latham; "The
Panic of Twenty-Five," bv Jo
seph Lee Brown; "Father For-
'giye Them,!' by Clemson White;
and "Beyond These Borders,"
by Clemson White.
Those four plays selected will
be produced in the Playmakers
theater on March 3.
Ambassador Dieckhoff Savs
Germany's Foreign Progam
Is A 'Good Neighbor Policy'
Chairman
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Randy Berg, chairman of the
Student-Faculty Day committee.
which has announced that the
event will be held April 5.
The original date set for Stu
dent-Faculty Day was April 6,
but this was changed because of
an athletic conflict.
Junior, Senior
Quints To Get
Underway Soon
Game On February 25 Mav
Determine Winner Of Upper
class Athletic Trophy '
Cotton Textile Institute of New
York, will be the speakers..'
Sprague is professor of bank
In his fight to keep Austria snows was nearly a sprague is prolessor of bank-
independent from the other Ger- m0nth ag0 and the camPus tal" ing and. finance at Harvard;
man-speaking country Schusch- been besieging Ivey for iougias is prolessor of political
mgg was forced to take into his anotr- As a lare number of economy at Chicago; and Mur-
ittiwwpttino nave itnea-uy suo- wovx, iui inci nca u ui tue u. o.
mitted their names, the pro- Bureau of Foreign and Domes-
gram will probably be com- tic Commerce, speaks for the
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'Dope9 On Eccentricities
Of Professors Is Given
cabinet two friends of Hitler, in
spite of the fact that the Nazi
Party remains unlawful in Aus-
tna.
The two posts taken over by
the German sympathizers are
toose of minister of the interior
with jurisdiction over nolice.
and minister of justice. Still an
other Nazi friend, a minister
without portfolio, was in the
Previous cabinet.
T
mediately after being
sworn in, the new cabinet began
rk on another agreement
wie by the two leaders Sat
ii J
"y, that is, the release of
fundreds of Nazi prisoners now
- Austrian jails.
Marines fight off
JAPANESE INVADERS
ananghai, Feb. 16. Japanese
oldrs attempting to invade
"e American defense sector of
e international settlement for
fourth time were today re-
,edby United States marines.
Japanese, who said their pa
su ls ;!ere sent into the area to
Pervise Japanese who entered
ami r y' tried t0 reach an
icable agreement with Amer-
7- authorities on
.iIie United
Speaks Tonight
Nigrelli Discusses
league ui iNanons
At Frosh Assembly
Carolina International Coopera
tion League Head Defends
World Peace Group
the matter.
States representa
3 stated that they were capa-
"wnaging affairs in the
sector.
in another Dart
na. JnrtQvin. x. 1 1 '
Vasf T ' "cae troops on tne
W .xnghai corridor battle
f0r ; I atPted to set up a base
irr g the Yellow river in
China? t0 Cut off Haow,
lf eriporary caPital from
restof the country.
Henry Nigrelli, president of
the Carolina International Co
operation league, spoke on "The
League of Nations" at freshman
assembly yesterday morning.
In his talk, Nigrelli dealt with
the League of Nations and such
items as war, world conditions,
peace, arid the need for interna
tional order.
"The League of Nations has
often been condemned," stated
the speaker, "but it is new and
has had no precedent. Its object
is to promote international co
operation and world peace."
Fights War ' ...
While trying to build up a
spirit of world peace and better
conditions, he continued, the
league has had to fight the
world's greatest ' enemy, war.
"Do not throw out the league
because it has not been success
ful, said Nigrelli, "but give it
time. You won't have peace un
less you support something that
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Students Show Highest Reaction
To Rambling On Lectures,
V "Riding" Students
At long last the eccentricities
of college professors, an.impor
tant factor in. student Hi SPUR
sions, have been tabulated. The
statistical analysis of academic
peculiarities, gathered, , indeed,
by a psychologist reveal some
amazing facts.
However just what relation
there may be between scholastic
ranking in a course and the
number of annoying habits ob
served in a' teacher remains to
be revealed.
Rambling in lectures, that
habit which professors fall into
frequently when their minds
have shifted into neutral and
their tongues idle on, had the
highest frequency among 229
college students tested as to
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tneir reaction to the annoying
habits of college professors.
Moore Makes Tests
The test was made by Joe E.
Moore, formerly of State college
and now with the psychology
department of George Peabody
college. Moore took his graduate
work in psychology here.
Moore's data, reprinted in a
pamphlet from the "Journal of
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Junior and senior basketball
ers will swing into action on the
afternoon of Friday, February
25, in a game that may deter
mine the winner of the Junior
Senior athletic tronhv. Jim
Joyner and Joe Patterson, re
spective presidents of the
classes, announced yesterday.
The quints are scheduled to
start their game at 3 o'clock on
the center court at the Tin Can.
Ramsay Potts and Bill McCach
ren are coaches for the two
teams, Potts, a guard last year,
tutoring the seniors and Mc
Cachren, also a guard, supervis
ing training for the juniors.
Since the seniors won the
class touch football during the
fall quarter, they wil receive the
trophy in the event of a court
victory. Under a new nlan ex
plained by Patterson, the two
classes will combine funds fn
buy a permanent cud to sd to
the champion class each vear.
The trophy will probably be
given Awards Night, Patterson
said.
CPU' Speaker Says His
Country Wants Peace,
Not War
1200 Hear Speech
Defining his country's foreign
policy as "a good neighbor pol
icy," Dr. Hans Dieckhoff. Ger
many's ambassador to the Unit
ed States, went on to tell of the
Nazi state's present standing
with other world powers, in his
speech before 1,200 persons in
Memorial hall last night
Speaking as a guest of the
Carolina Political union. Dieck
hoff exDlained his cnnnfvtr'ci
0
feeling toward war by stating,
"Germany's aim is to have a
just and stable peace. We much
prefer, peace to war. We do not
want war."
Germany After War
Introduced by Dr. Frank Por
ter Graham, the German envoy
devoted a good portion of his
speech to the period following
the great war. He said that ac
cording to the provisions of the
Versailles treaty Germanv dis-
armed completely following . the
war. It was, understood at tnatf.'
time that this was to be the first
step in a world disarmament
program, but contrary to this
agreement the . other countries
remained armed to the teeth.
"We waited 13 years for those
countries to disarm," he said,
?'and finally in 1935; with a mad
race for rearmament going on
about them, Germanv decided
she had waited long enough) so ;
sne began her program of rear
mament.
'We are not setting the nace
in this mad race." he said in an
interview before the speech.
We are just trying to nrotect
ourselves, by keeping ud with
the others. We are mnro fhun
willing any time to considpr
plans for disarmament," the en
voy said.
Colonial Policy
In mentioning the colonial
policy of the Nazi state, Dieck
hoff said that they would try :
to regain their colonies that
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Dean W. W. Pierson of the
graduate school who will speak
on "Dictatorships in South
America" tonight at a meeting
of the Foreign Policy league.
League Group Will
Hear Dean Pierson
Foreign Policy Club Meets To
night In YMCA Building
Possibility of dictatorships in
South America of the Italian
form will be discussed by Dean
VV. W. Pierson of the graduate
school tonight when he speaks
at the Foreign Policy league
meeting in the YMCA.
This talk is part of an at
tempt by the league to acquaint
itself and its visitors with cur
rent problems facing foreign
countries.
The public is invited to at
tend. .
Hop Heads To Meet
The executive and dance com
mittees of the sophomore class
will meet tonight at 7:30 in
room 211 Graham Memorial.
75, 'Froggy ' Wilson Tells
Of School In Times Past
Labor Department
Head Will Conduct
First Aid Classes
rred J. Coxe, Jr. Will Open
Series Of 20 Meetings Monday
Morning At 9 O'clock
.Beginning Monday morning
at 9 O'clock. Frpd J. CmrA Jr
of the North Carolina Depart
ment of Labor, will conduct a
series of 20 two-hour classes in
first aid.
Each Monday, Wednesday,
ana Jbriday night until the
course is finished, classes will
be held from 9 to 11 o'clock in
the morning, probably in" the
Employees club.
The course, which is being
sponsored by the local chapter
of the American Red Cross in
conjunction with the national
association, will be primarily
given for a group of ten Uni
versity employees especially se
lected for this purpose.
Other persons interested in
taking the course can do so if
they signify that intention be
fore the week-end.
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Eminent Zoologist Receives
Ihousands Of Congratulations
On Birthday Yesterday
By Bill Snider
"Froggy" Wilson.was 75 years
old yesterday, and he was more
than willing to take time out ii
his office at Davie hall yester
day afternoon to recall those
earlier days he knew here at
Carolina.
Relatively few persons re
member his real name. Henrv
Van Peters Wilson, but all are
aware of the fact that he is one
of the most eminent zoologists
in the country that he has an-
outstanding record in the field
of science, having served as
president of the North Carolina
Academy of Science and of the
American Society of Zoology.
Congratulations
Yesterday afternoon there
were birthday telegrams on his
desk, many, he said, from the
thousands of students he has
taught during his 46 vears as a
member of the University fac
ulty.
"I think that old faculty of 12
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