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EDITORIALS: O Equal Opportunity TTTTEATHER: XlxJ Continued clear and y y carmer today. oil :r 0 -THE OiVLy COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 VOLUME XLVH EDITORIAL PHONE 41 SI CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1939 res rs ess phone ai$6 NTBIBER 77 Mr EdtaoailioB it it 1T 1 M 1 TT it it 'A' it it it it it Glenn Miller Signs ; . s BAND TO FEATURE SMOOTH SWING IN TIN CAN FROLICS ' German Club Will Announce Leaders Early This Week Glenn Millar and his orchestra, at present filling an engagement at the Paradise restaurant in New York city, have been signed to play for the Mid-Winter dances, which will be pre sented at the Tin Can February 3 and 4, a member of the German club executive committee said last night. The date for the set was previously announced for the week-end of Feb ruary 10 and 11. The latest announced time has been definitely set. Other events scheduled for the week-end are varsity basketball games with the Uni versity of Maryland February 3 and the Virginia Military academy Feb ruary 4. TORCH SINGER The orchestra, featuring a torch singer, a glamorous blonde of medium height, broadcasts from the Paradise restaurant three nights a week, and Is well known for its Brunswick re cording of "Sold American," ar swing adaptation of a tobacco auctioneer's chant Performing for the North Carolina Debutante ball in Raleigh last fall, Miller won acclaim for his smooth dance style, which is said to resemble the rhythm of Tommy Dorsey. His first appearance in the state sent dance enthusiasts to the recording sales places, where they found discs "of the Miller rendition of "Humores que," "Doin' the Jive," "Community Swing," "Why'd You Make Me Fall in Love" and "Don't Wake Up My Heart." SMOOTH SWING The smooth swing stylist has gained an enviable reputation within the past two years. Dancers find his perform ance composed of variety, straight numbers and novelty arrangements. Early this week leaders for the series will be selected and announced. The set is expected to consist of two tea dances and two evening f ormals. Only members of the German club will be permitted to attend the dances. Members from whom membership and reservations may be obtained will be announced soon in the Daily Tar Heel. . Philological Club Will Meet Tuesday Professor Dougald MacMillan and Elliott Healy are on the program for the regular meeting of the Philo logical club in the lounge of the Grad uate club Tuesday evening at 7:30. Professor MacMillan will discuss eighteenth century versions of "The Unhappy Favorite." Mr. ' Healy will speak on "The Views of Ferdinand Lot on the Origins of the Old French Epic." . If You Please The Daily Tar Heel wishes to apologize to any persons who may have been somewhat rudely greet ed over the night office telephone last night. From now on, how ever, will you kindly wait until at least 11 o'clock before calling for the outcome of out-of-town games. Southern Collegiate Editors Daily Tar Heel, University of North No Negro ever enrolled or applied for enrollment at Ole Miss. It is m nceivable that any will seek admission here in the future. A Negro m WMwnt enough to desire a college education certainly should not choose a Schocl in the Deep South where his own race as well as the -white would rard him as having overstepped the established boundaries. A Negro who attested such action would help his race about as much as the young Jew ho murdered the Nazi attache in Paris. I should strlyopposeit FRED SHAW, Editor, The Mississippian. Gaines attempting enroll since 1935. Defeated through ate courte. Lin- YWCA President '"3 mm i&...syi?0,,yX- .V.WiVvWv.-.V.v ills , Vyy-yyX Ik w.v.v.v.vw.-jv.v.-.-.yi;.y-:.:.::.:.;.:.;.a Margaret Evans STUDENTS WANT SCRIPT RETURN Dormitory Groups Circulate Petition Circulation of petitions in dormi tories requesting that the University administration restore the use of Swain hall script as legal tender in dormitory stores and the Book Ex change was begun during the week end. Proponents of the idea yester day reported almost 100 per cent response.- - - - The administration last quarter or dered that the Book Exchange, which had formerly handled meal tickets turned in at dormitory stores, stop accepting script. The movement to restore the paper money apparently began almost spon taneously in the lower quadrangle and was reported yesterday to be spreading through all the v dormi tories. Interviewers- students who have had Education C-61, psychology 21, or experience in interviewing work and who ' are interested in remunerative part time interviewing are asked to see Mr. Cussy in 209 Peabody at chapel period tomorrow. A study is to be made this week. .... Mm v w.'. v.-, J Bureau Reports That Self - Help Students Need Jobs At Once Two Tracy Agents Omitted From List Abie the Fishman, otherwise known as Leonard Bernard Baron, who is the undercover man of the famous campus Dick Tracy club, was highly insulted when he was not listed among the members of the notorious detective's campus group. Sid Siegel, another one of Tracy's colleagues was unintentionally omitted from the list of the de tective's agents. Carolina For Mid : : CAMPUS ASSEMBLY WILL FORMULATE PROCEDURE RULES Speaker Hendrix Names Merrill Group Chairman In an attempt to put the infant student legislature on its feet a spe cial, committee wiU meet early next week to formulate a set of rules of procedure and make a series of recom mendations to the legislative body de signed to increase its efficiency. . Members of the committee include Allen Merrill, editor of the Daily Tar Heel, who will serve as chairman of the committee; Jim Joyner, president of the student body; and Walter. Klee man and Sam Hobbs, both of whom have served as president of the Dia lectic senate. MERRILL SAYS Merrill yesterday explained the function of the new committee. "The bill creating the legislature," he said, "which was passed by the campus last spring, presented no outline of pro cedure for legislative sessions. The drafting committee purposely left this responsibility to the legislators. Our committee, appointed by Speaker Bill Hendrix, hopes to preesnt a plan of procedure that will allow the body to function smoothly in at least a formal way." Another light was thrown on the subject by Walter Kleeman, also one of the committee members. "The prob lem faced by the committee," accord ihg 'td Kleemah,Vrtseems t6 be one not only of evolving a workable method of getting business done, but also of educating the members of the legis-? lature in the use of that procedure. It will be no easy job, and the accom plishment of our final object, that of smoothly running legislature, will ultimately depend on the interest and cooperation of each individual mem ber." BETTER ORGANIZED Although the first meeting of the legislature, held shortly before the Christmas holidays, served only to ac quaint its members with their new duties, it is hoped by the leaders in student government at the University that it will be well enough organized within the next few weeks to carry on its work of campus legislation. The legislature was empowered last year by the campus to take any action through its representatives that the j (Continued on page three) Large Number Of Applicants Find No Work Available On the heels of a prediction by Governor Clyde Hoey that the building program in progress at the University will necessitate an increase in tui tion charges, there came a report yes terday from the University Self -Help bureau that some 100 students are "in dire need" of employment imme diately. Jobs held in the University and off campus total 865, with 200 persons holding more than one job, it was (Continued from page two) Express Varying Opinions On ever by supreme court before . university must act. Students look for Ne groes enroll next September. Magazine making survey see students care Negro enroll. Our December 14 editorial asked students accept Negro as inevitable sign advancing civilization, compared discrimination Negro with Nazi program Germany, Jewish Ghetto, etc. Jews mostly favor, Gentiles 50-50, state students 50-50, northern non-residents favor, southern non-residents against. Copy editorial, poll results by mail. State statute provides for separate schools. M. U. offered paycost differences neighboring school accepting Negro for curriculum untaught at Lincoln. W. E. MACKLIN, Editor, Missouri Student. Negro application to law school shelved last year and not pushed by ap plicant. If further applications Gamecock will advocate necessary expansion of existing State Negro college. A. COURTENAY CARSON, JR., University of South Carolina. -WiEter Dances February 39 4 : : - : ; ; ' Altar-Bound University ' i. ::-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-x-:-:-:v:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Xv . SINGER-ALUMNUS TO MARRY SOON Norman Cordon Goes To Altar In April Norman Cordon, University alum nus and Metropolitan Opera star will marry Miss Deane Van Landingham, wealthy Charlotte socialite and prominent golf player, it was an nounced today. The wedding will take place sometime in April at St. Peter's Episcopal church, where Cor don sang as a choir boy. Cordon originally ' lived in Wash ington but moved to Charlotte at the age of eight. He sang in the church choir every Sunday for four years, receiving as remuneration a weekly salary of 25 cents and car-fare. His voice was at first soprano, but by the time he entered Fishburne Mili tary academy it had changed to a baritone. Cordon's chief interest at the time, however, was playing the saxophone, and when he entered the University of North Carolina in 1922 he tried unsuccessfully to get a job in Hal Kemp's campus band. DISCOVERS ABILITY It wasn't until he joined the glee club that Cordon discovered he had a good voice and he left school in 1924 to seek a career as a singer. He sang in the chorus of one of the Schubert productions for a season and then began doing radio work, forming part of a quartet and ap pearing later with Paul Whiteman. Since then Cordon has made over 1200 radio broadcasts. One night Norman Cordon was asked to sing at a party he was at tending. Impressed with his voice, one of the guests introduced him to the director of the Chicago Opera association, and Cordon made his operatic debut there in 1933. He has since sung with the San Francisco Opera association, Cincinnati sum (Continued on page two) lwmmmmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmmm k.v.-.'.-..-.v..-..-.-.v...-.-.-..v.-.v.'.Wii' :v::v::::::::-:vK:4 Alumni ' . HALKEMPWILL WED DEBUTANTE Alumnus Confirms" Marriage Rumors Hal Kemp, Carolina alumnus who has become famous for his unique dance-band, this week corroborated rumors that he will remarry. He said he will wed Miss Martha Stephenson, a New York debutante, January 21, or "as soon after as possible." At present Kemp is playing an en gagement at a theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio. He met the blonde night club singer-debutante four years ago. She is a former model. LEFT CAMPUS While a student in the University Commerce school, Kemp became popu lar as the leader of a dance orchestra. Finding his music more remunerative, he left the campus to be hailed the leader of one of the most promising orchestras in the country. On . his al most-annual returns to the campus he insists on dedicating a selection to his "old pal," Dean D. D. Carroll. The dance group was making a reputation with the arrangements of John Scott Trotter and is now placed among the best of popular orchestras. Trotter left the band a year ago to become manager of an orchestra for Bing Crosby on his national broad cast. Kemp, the father of two children, obtained a divorce from his first wife a few weeks ago. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Kemp, live in Char lotte. Coed Wanted WANTED One coed with dy namic personality to solicit ads -for the Daily Tar Heel. Work is of interesting nature (so is staff). Please report to business office in Graham memorial tomorrow at 2 o'clock. y&&1 ::::. :y.-Kx::' ::: m-nii(r""irr-itrifrti-iir ---i - i v' g ; III III llj (y f y f.1h IIIi'DBTSiI I Negro Admittance Question Personal opinion not yet; mature enough to be exnressed. It is ottum v A. Wt that the situation of Negroes seeking admission will arise but the opinion of the administration is not available. A statement of policy is a delicate re sponsibility to assume so I can say nothing definite at present. Later per haps. I do not believe the students are aware of any such possibility. CLAUDE DAVIDSON, Red and Black, University of Georgia. No reports as yet of any Negro students applying for admission here. Former editorial policy all against idea. Now will submit to idea but not to practicability of it. s WILLIAM M. MOORE, College Topics, University of Virginia. Editor will not return from coast until Monday. Will refer telegram to him on return. , DUNCAN GRAY, Duke Chronicle. GRAHAM INSISTS ASSEMBLY MUST SOLVE PROBLEM Many Opine That Equal Facilities Must Be Provided By JIM McADEN As a result of and in connection with last week's application for ad mission to the University graduate school by a New York Negro woman, the Daily Tar Heel yesterday polled college newspaper editors of the southern state universities in an ef fort to obtain the general opinion of southern college students on the ques tion of Negro - white education. Meanwhile University President Frank P. Graham, himself an ardent backer of Negro progress, issued a statement in which he declared that the question, as far as this institu tion is concerned, will be left up to the state legislature. Dr. Graham said, "The only authori tative answer to the question as a basic matter of law and public policy can be given by the state." He pointed out that the state should make equal provisions for graduate and profes sional work at the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the State A & T in Greensboro. The Daily Tar Heel directed the following telegram to student news paper editors at eight of the South's most important universities, includ ing South Carolina, Alabama, Geor gia, Mississippi, Missouri, Vir ginia, Tennessee, and Duke: " Please wire us what 'you can give on Negro citizens of your state en rolling at your school. What was or will be your editorial policy should Negroes seek admission. Replies were received from all but Tennessee and Alabama. Copies of the other six statements will be found at the bottom of this page. ANSWERS Those editors answering expressed themselves as in favor of separate instruction and advocated expansion of existing Negro institutions if necessary, while the most definite re plies were received from Mississippi and Missouri, the state which recently met defeat in the United States Su preme court in its case against Negro educational , segregation. W. E. Macklin, editor of the Mis souri Student, said that his school ex pected Negro enrollment next Sep tember. The Mississippian editor, Fred Shaw, declared that Negroes would be foolish to attempt entrance at his uni versity. FROM RALEIGH Although denied yesterday by all administrative officials contacted, a rumor persisted that approximately a dozen Negro citizens of North Caro lina have applied for admittance to the University since the New York woman's attempt at entrance. Inter viewed on the matter, a member of the Attorney General's staff in Ra leigh said that no cases had been re ferred to his office. He further point ed out that if such cases were brought up, it seemed probable that Negroes, as a result of the Supreme Court de cision, would have to be provided with equal educational facilities or be ad mitted at Chapel Hill. Governor Clyde Hoey said that he did not believe that . the state was ready for Negro-white education and in this respect the state would (Continued on page two)
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