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. JAN' 0 1029 EDITORIALS: A Bright Spot 11 fMTilM: cooler today. rH ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 523 VOLUME XLVII EDITORIAL PHONE 4I5t CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRm AY, JANUARY 6, 1939 EC SIN" ESS PHONE 4H6 NUMBER 75 in) PU BOARD DECID AGA1STPR0P0SED MAG-BUC MERGER Results Of Recent Campus-Wide Poll InfluenceJDecision Finai -. int was reached yes terday -seeming the proposed in corporation of . the Carolina Buccan neer and the Carolina Magazine when the Publications Union board, using as a basis for its judgment results of a campus poll on the merger decided to allow continuation of both publica tions in their present forms. The PU board, President Tim El liot said, came to the decision after it had inspected the 808 filled-in questionaires which were returned. The most important question included in the survey was: "Would' you be in favor of combining the best features of the Buccaneer and the Magazine into a publication larger in size than either of the present ones?"; this rated 71 percent "no" answers and 29 percent "yes." To the question, "Would you be in favor of making a trial combination of the Buccaneer and the Magazine for one or two is sues in order to test its practicality?"; 54 percent' of the students replied "yes" and 46 percent "no." PROPOSED MERGER The proposed merger would have provided for a magazine to follow the style of more sophisticated literary humor publications of other colleges and would have been in the vein of the New Yorker and Esquire. The new magazine was expected to contain some 40 or 50 pages each month. The board decided not to sanction a trial edition of a merged magazine because of the student survey results and recommendations, of the business managers of the publications involved. The business managers claimed it would be improbable that ' sufficient amount of local and national, adver tising could be obtained to warrant (Continued on page two). PAINTING EXHIBIT TO OPEN SUNDAY Smith Will Give Brief Talk At 4 An exhibition of landscapes in oil by W. Lester Stevens of Springfield, Mass., and abstractions in oil by Jo sef Albers of Black Mountain allege, Black Mountain, N. C, will open Sun day afternoon at 2 o'clock in Person Hall Art gallery. Russell T. Smith, head of the art department, will give a brief gallery talk on the exhibition at 4 o'clock. Stevens, who has taught at the Bos ton University Art school and at Princeton university, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists, the North Shore Art association, the Springfield Guild of Artists, the New York Water Color club, the Philadelphia Water Color club, and the Connecticut academy and is an associate of the National Academy of Design. He has exhibited at many of the leading mu seums and galleries of the country and has won numerous prizes on his paintings. His work is of a conserva tive type, featuring bright colors with little blending and a sharp contrast between highlights and shadows. ' A New Englanders by birth, Stevens draws upon New England town and fishing village for much of the sub ject matter of his pictures. Albers, who has been connected yith the famous Bauhaus, art school ln Germany, both as a student and teacher, is at present a professor of ayt at Black Mountain college, where hls work is attracting nationwide in vest. Compared with the landscapes f Stevens, the work of this North Carolina artist would be considered Wra-modern to the last detail. He is a leader in the field of non-objective Painting and a master at this art, fiavmg received much f avorable criti- jQSm on his work. He combines color, 0rm' anl line into a pleasing and JPle pattern by the inter-relation rhythm, balance, and proportion. ere is no pbrtrayal of objects in "s Picturpc ti signs set together in harmonizing elJtionship to one another. thr 6 xhibition will remain on view oJ"1? January 31. The gallery is onl lm 10 t0 1 and 2 t0 5 'clock on I , days and f rom 2 till 5 o'clock 0n Sundays. Announce Date For Midwinters If it Bill Hendrix, president: Louis Jordan, vice-nresident: and Rillv Worth. secretary-treasurer, of the German club who with the other members of the executive committee last night announced February 10 and 11, the week-end of the Carolina-Duke basketball game, as the date for the mid-winter dances. The picture of Louis Sutton, assistant secretary-treasurer of the organiza tion is not included above. Other members of the committee (not shown) are: Harold Sager, Louis Jordan, Charles Lynch, John Moore, Johnston Harriss, Junius Tillory, Bill Davis and Billy Campbell. Graham, Hoey Give Statements Concerning Negro Application WOMAN'S ATHLETIC COUNCIL MAKES QUARTER PLANS Fencing Will Be Outstanding Sport On Coed Schedule Plans for woman's athletics for the winter quarter were discussed yester day at a meeting of the Woman's Athletic council in Graham memorial. Miss Kathryn .Fleming president of the council," presided. The outstanding sport for women this quarter will be fencing. The squad, coached by Allan Bloom, cap tain of the varsity fencers, meets with the varsity four nights a week for a workout in the Tin Can. Managed by iMiss Ruth Parsons and captained by Miss Adele Austin, the coeds are pre paring for a series of meets here in (Continued on page two) University Man Honored Abroad William Peery, working toward his Ph. D. in the University Department of English, was recently honored with publication of his article, "The Pasadena Playbox," in the current issue of "Drama," the British Drama league's official "Monthly Record of the Theater in Town and Country, at Home and Abroad." Peery, who uses his vacations for writing articles on drama and other literary genres, is a Rockefeller fel low in dramatic literature. The new article is an account of the private theater which Gilmor Brown, founder and director of the Pasadena Playhouse, built in his back yard so that he might offers lovers of the drama the type play seldom seen on the commercial stage. Peery gained material for "The Pasadena Playbox" during his month's stay last year in Pasadena, where he assisted in the premiere production of his three-act comedy . of show pople, "Carnival," which he wrote in - . J J TUT-Hr.' Pan! (ireen s Aavauteu iiwia Workshop CPU Committee Meets Applicants Applicants for membership to the Carolina Political union were inter viewed yesterday by. a small union committee composed of Voit Gilmore, Elizabeth Spencer, Harry Gatton, Townsend Moore and Professor E. J. Woodhouse. The union will announce its selec tion of four new members, of which two are to be coeds, in the Daily Tar Heel Tuesday morning. Over 60 students have applied for membership .to the group since the announcement of vacancies was made last quarter. Due to complications caused by President Franklin Roose velt's union-sponsored speech here im mediately followed, by examinations, the group decided to postpone, action on membership until this week. u University Head Says Governor's Group Considering Matter "The whole question is now under consideration by the commission ap pointed by the governor and will be worked out as a matter of state pol icy," Dr. Frank Graham stated last night answering a query on his posi tion regarding the application for en trance to the . University by a New York Negro woman. President Graham, even before the Missouri decision, held the position that 'equal provision in professional and graduate work should be made by the state at . the North Carolina col lege for Negroes, in Durham and the A. and T. college in Greensboro. He has also several times said that the University of North Carolina and Duke university should cooperate with the North Carolina college for Ne groes in making adequate provision for graduate and professional courses at the North Carolina college for Ne groes. s GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT Gov.ernor Clyde R. Hoey yesterday declared : , "North Carolina does not believe in social equality between the races and will not tolerate mixed schools for the races, but we do believe in equality of opportunity ... and the white race cannot afford to do less than simple justice to the Negro." More specifically the governor recommended establishment of courses in law, medicine and pharmacy at the Negro college at Durham and A. and T. college in Greensboro. BUDGET MESSAGE Extent and importance of these ad ditions can best be determined from the budget message to be sent to the legislature within a few days. -Although this is the only applica tion since the recent court decision, in former years several Negroes have (Continued on page two) . After South American University Alumnus Of 1937 Gets Article In George C. Stoney Tells Of Argentina In National Magazine A man who nearly failed to get his degree from the University because of poor spelling has an article in the January 4, 1939, "New Republic." The article is about the wooing of Argen tina by fascism; the man, George C. Stoney. Stoney graduated in 1937 without his degree. Leaving Carolina, he wan dered through the South and free lanced for the Raleigh News and Ob server. Finally he arrived in New. Or leans, took the boat to South America, stayed there two months (hence his article in the "New Republic"), and then returned to the United States and got work in the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Not long after he was writing much of the sur vey work over which he had slaved at first. He wrote not only for the Sur Phi B Mew Members In Local Chapter CokerPaysTributeToResearch Achievements Of Friend And Faculty Associate, H. V. Wilson Funeral Services To Be Held This Afternoon At 3 Funeral services for Dr. Wilson: will be held from his home this afternoon at 3 o'clock. He will be buried in Chapel Hill cemetery. ; "Someone has said, 'Most of the great discoveries are made by acci dent. The accidents occur, however, only to the prepared mind.' Such a mind," Dr. R. E. Coker recalled, "had Dr. Henry Van Peters Wilson."-Dr. Coker, head of. the Zoology depart ment, a position held for 45 years by Dr. Wilson, spoke to the introductory zoology class yesterday on the re search and achievements of his asso ciate, who died Wednesday of a blood infection. - When Dr. Wilson came to the Uni versity as head of the Biology de partment in 1891, he was faced with an enormous teaching load. Besides general biology, comparative anat omy, freshman physiology and nu merous other courses, he taught all of . the botany that . was offered at that. time. Prof. Lewis, head of the Botany department at the University of Virginia, studied under him. WORKED IN BEAUFORT Many and large classes restricted his time for research to Saturday afternoons, Sunday mornings, holi days and the summer vacation, which he spent in Beaufort. There, .with the cooperation of -,- Prof.. Joseph .A. Holmes, he received the permission of the United States Fish commission and founded the U. S. Fisheries lab oratory. Prof. Holmes taught geology and biology at the University in the early years following its re-opening after the war between the states. Later he became state geologist and a lecturer here, after which he left the state to organize and become the first director of the United States Bureau of Mines. Holmes made valu able contacts to establish the labora tory permanently by securing ap propriations for building and equip ment; Wilson provided the scientific knowledge. Neither could have done the work alone, but together they made the Fisheries laboratory a center for biological research for scientists from all parts of the coun try. SPONGE STUDY In the early '1900's, Dr. Wilson began the study of sponges and made the discovery that is probably his greatest contribution to research and most historical deed. Me had Kept a sponge colony, but had neglected it and considered it dead until he no ticed in the decayed part tiny scat tered masses of living sponge. With unusual accuracy and clear thinking he crushed the sponges and squeezed (Continued on page two) Travels New Rebuhlic vey Department of the Settlement but also branched out into free-lancing for the New York Times. 'And now he has an article in the "New Re public." WANING DEMOCRACY In this article he expresses his fear that the progressives of Argentina "will have a hard time restoring de mocracy or even from slipping into the Fascist ranks." First hand knowl edge makes his Contribution to the magazine extremely worthwhile. He tells of the Italian population of Buenos Aires, of the dangerous lead ership of the Germans in South Am erica, and of the apparent enthusiasm with which the Argentinans greet the Fascist parades on the streets. The "New Republic" also made men tion of another Carolina student. It paid a distinct compliment to Editor John Creedy and to the Carolina magazine, praising particularly the issue on the South. eta Kappa Initiates Eleven President .i- A f Charles Vilbrandt, president of the local Phi Beta Kappa chapter which last night took in eleven new mem bers. COEDS WILL VOTE ON DANCE ISSUE AT MONDAY MEET Malone Appoints Nominating Group For 1939 Officers Monday afternoon at a meeting of the Woman's association, the women students will vote to decide the issue of whether the association will spon sor three coed dances a year, one each quarter, or whether the women students and the association will con centrate their attention on a single large dance to be given during the spring. Elizabeth Malone, president of the w o m a n's association, announced after a meeting of the Woman's council yesterday afternoon, that the question has been debated in the council for almost a year and the (Continued on last page) 3097 Students Have Registered With the total of 3097 students reg istered for the winter quarter, regis tration headquarters have been trans ferred to the Central Records office in 208 South building. Although en rollment will continue for the remain der of the week, every student with out a legitimate excuse for late regis tration has been fined five dollars. Since early in December, students have been filing into the upper lobby of Memorial hall to enroll for the win ter quarter. As is usual for the second term, the record number of 3500 regis tered last fall dropped slightly. Final figures will be published early next week. . , Those students with names begin ning with A through D have already paid their registration fees in the cashier's office. The schedule for the remainder of the period is: January 5, E through G; January 6,' H through I; Jan. 7, J through K (office closes at 12:00 noon); Jan. 9, L through M; Jan. 10. N through P. J.Jan. 11, Q through R; Jan. 12, S through U; and Jan. 13, V through Z. Failure to pay or make the proper arrangements for payment during this period will result in a five dollar fee for delay. Howell Becomes House President n At a meeting held Wednesday night in Spencer hall, Miss Lillian Howell, senior from Enfield, was elected house ' president to succeed Miss Rosalie Haynes, who graduated at the close of, the fall quarter. Miss Howell, known about the cam pus as the girl who locks up the "Shack? each night after she has "shooed" the boys away, attended Meredith college during her freshman and sophomore years, transferring to the University in the fall of 1937. She is an accounting major. Raymond Dudley Is Elected Secretary For Rest Of Year By LOUIS HARRIS Taking the solemn oath of brother hood, ten men and one woman were last night initiated into the Univer sity chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The eleven new members are: William Jeffrey Cole, from Elkhart, Indiana; Ernest Craige of El Paso, Texas; Robert Albertson Dalton of Raleigh; Voit Gilmore of Winston-Salem; Alex ander H. Graham of Hillsboro; James William Little of Tryon; Thomas Richard Meder of Hollis, New York; Nancy Constantine Nesbit of Charles ton, South Carolina; Melvin Sokolsky; Harry Vaine Thompson of Rich Square; and Samuel Wright of Lawn dale. All are seniors except Dalton, who is in the law school, and Miss Nesbit, who is in graduate school. In a business meeting before the initiation Raymond Dudley was elect ed secretary for the remainder of the year. The other officers are: Charles Vilbrandt, president; and Charles Starnes, vice-president. Also appointed ' at the meeting was the committee which will handle selection under the new system of election in the honor ary society to be inaugurated next spring. The members are: Dean F. F. Bradshaw, Dean R. B. House, Dean A. W. Hobbs, Dean C. P. Spruill, and Professor E. L. Mackie. ' SYSTEM The system which was used in se lecting the present group of Phi Beta Kappa members was selected by the chapter, choices being made on the basis of attainment in "scholarly pur suits and high character." At the in-7 itiation itself, the history and ideals of the 'society are presented. After taking the oath, the students are given (Continued on page two) IRC SEEKS DIXIE CHAIN FOR SERIES Club Desires 1940 Regional Conference For the past month the Interna tional Relations club has been work ing on the possibility of extending its University of North Carolina Round Table broadcast to a southern net work, and of bringing the IRC re gional conference to Chapel Hill in 1940. Henry Nigrelli, president of the club, spent a week in New York with the Carnegie people and with the NBC studios in New York. He was told by Dunham of NBC that me chanical difficulties prevented a southern hook-up as there is no way to connect the southern stations ex cept by running a wire from New York down every week, the cost of which would be prohibitive at present. But because of his deep interest about the inclusion of students on the Round Table, which is done nowhere else con-v tinually, Dunham said that NBC will probably come down to Chapel Hill in April and as a sort of experiment will put the UNC Round Table on a nation-wide hook-up. The possibilities of a continuous extended hook-up may come in the future. MAY BE HERE The IRC regional conference which the Carnegie Foundation hold every year will probably be held in Chapel Hill in 1940. Miss Jones of the Car negie people suggested that Carolina combine its international relations conference with the annual . Carnegie conference for 1940. This means that oyer 300 student delegates would meet here in 1940 to participate in . out standing discussions of international problems. Carnegie spends about three thousand dollars for these confer ences. Delegates from all over the south annually attend them. New Women's Dorm To Give Annual Ball The New Womenls dormitory is planning its annual variety ball for Friday night, January 13. Prizes for the most original costumes will be awarded, and a floor show is being planned for intermission. Miss Mary Ames is chairman of the social committee. Serving as a com mittee with her are Misses Elizabeth Spencer, Elizabeth Huntley, and Elizabeth Gammon.
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