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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRH) AY, JANUARY 20, 1939
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YWCA TO SPONSOR
ANNIVERSARY TEA
THIS AFTERNOON
Will Open Women's
Cabinet Room For
Remainder Of Year
Three years of activity and develop
ment will be celebrated by he YWCA
at an anniversary tea this afternoon.
The event will be of double interest in
that it will also mark the opening
for the year of the women's cabinet
room on the second floor of the YMCA
building.
The tea will be held from 4:30 to 6
o'clock in the cabinet room and all
members of the association are par
ticularly urged to attend. Tecoah
Harner, part time employed YWCA
adviser, remarked "It is an oppor
tunity for the girls to find where the
room is and to know that they are
-welcome." Members of the YMCA
cabinets and all who are interested
are also invited to attend.
COMMITTEE
On the committee for the anniver
sary tea are: Mary Wood, chairman,
Alice Kerr, Sarah Griffith and Sarah
McLean.
Three years ago Alpha Kappa Gam
ma, itself only Recently organized,
initiated the idea of forming a YWCA
on the campus to fill a definite need
of the women students. With the help
of the YMCA in technical matters
and advised by Harry Comer, direc
tor of the YMCA, and his office sec
retary Miss Helen Hodges, now Mrs.
Kenneth Jones, the YWCA became an
active organization in the winter of
1936.
The YMCA assigned the present
cabinet room to 'the exclusive use of
the women and made any other part
of the building and service of its staff
available to them at any time. The
organization began to plan its pro
gram and raise money for its budget
by selling pledges, holding candy sales
at the theater and sponsoring a fash
ion show. The next fall it adopted the
system, long used by the YMCA, of
pleding at registration to finance the
organization.
Miss Tempe Newsom, present
YMCA office secretary, was the first
YWCA president. She was followed
by Mamie Rose McGinnis, .Polly Pol
lock and Margaret Evans.
Tbe Cabinet room was closed dur
ing the fall quarter but with the com
ing of Miss Harner, who will use it
as an office, it was opened, decorated
and is ready for use during the rest
of the year.
COED MANAGERS
REPORT TO CHIEF
Women Are Busy
In Many Sports
Reports on women's athletic ac
tivities were given by the managers
of the various sports yesterday at a
meeting of the Woman's Athletic
council, in Graham memorial. Miss
Kathryn Fleming, president of the
Woman's Athletic association, pre
sided. Miss Sylvia Cullum, manager of
basketball, reported that 25 coeds
were out for basketball practice. A
game is scheduled with the Chapel
Hill high school girls' team for Feb
ruary 2. All coeds will be given an
opportunity to play and following the
game a first and second team will be
selected to play women's teams from
ether colleges. Miss Cullum announced
that a practice period for beginners
ill be held on Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoons from 3 to 4 with in
struction in the sport along with
regular practice from 3 to 4 each
day.
BOWLING
Miss Terrell Everett, manager of
fcowlirg, announced that a bowling
tournament will be held the week be
fore eXflmin-jfiM-icj All onorls SlTfl
""Ul-lVliJ, Hit UVU "
e!l?ible to compete, but each coed
must bowl at least ten games be
tween now and the tournament. Coeds
y bowl each Tuesday night from
s to 10 in Graham memorial free of
charge.
Miss Ruth Parsons, manager of the
encer3 reported that 14 coeds were
Practicing Monday ffcrio.i Thnrs-
:ays f"m 5 to 6 with the varsity
:encers in the Tin Can in preparation
for
a meet here with Maryland on
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Gift For Person Hall
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Shown above is the bronze statue, "Youth," given the University by Mrs.
Anna Hyatt Huntington. It was shown here last quarter when Mrs. Hunt
ington's traveling exhibit was quartered here for a short while.
374 Students Make Honor Roll
For Fall Quarter With Juniors
Leading Everyone lit Number
94 Seniors, 87
Sophs, 83 Frosh
Reach Average
Juniors lead all other classes in
the number making; the fall quarter
University honor roll released yes
terday. There were 95 juniors on the
list, 94 seniors, 87 sophomores, and
83 freshmen. Altogether the number
on the fall quarter honor roll to
taled 374, 211 in the upper college
and professional schools and 163 in
the General college. Over half of
these, 225, are from North Carolina.
In the General college 81 freshmen
and 82 sophomores came through
with the necessary average, while the
upper college and professional schools
total included 2 freshmen, 5 sopho
mores, 95 juniors, and 94 seniors.
There were 23 students who made
till A's, 15 students from the upper
college and professional schools and
eight from the General college. Three
freshmen, five sophomores, seven
juniors, and eight seniors went
through the winter quarter without
making course grades less than A.
Those who made all A's in the Gen
eral college: Henry Boone, sopho
more; James Gray, sophomore; G. E.
Ham, freshman; W. R. Richardson,
sophomore; N. F. Taylor, freshman;
T. F. Williams, freshman; David
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Once A Landmark
Old Tank Behind Dining
Hall Is Being Torn Down
80-Foot Tower, Once Used To
Hold Tar, Is Being Dismantled
For Scrap Metal
By BILL RHODES WEAVER
Behind Swain hall, lifting its orna
mental crown abovei trees and sur
rounding structures, rises the Univer
sity water tower, which soon will be
just a memory of the days when the
University was having growing pains.
For the past five years the tank has
stoood empty and unused. Prior to
that time it was used as a storage
place for liquid tar preparation with
which the campus roads were sur
faced. During storage, there was some
difficulty because the preparation ran
into the steam pipes and clogged the
heating system and water supply. For
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AMBASSADORS TO
PLAY FOR GRAIL
DANCE TOMORROW
Paul Thompson
Elected Scribe;
Gilmore Resigns
The Order of the Grail is planning
one of the most colorful dances of the
i winter quarter for tomorrow night,
Billy Campbell, president of the or
ganization, stated yesterday.
Paul Thompson was elected scribe
of the order at the meeting Wednes
day night. Thompson will take the
position made vacant by the resigna
tion of Voit Gilmore, who asked to be
relieved of the duties, so he can de
vote more time to work connected with
the Carolina Political union.
The dance, which will be held in
the Tin Can, will be given from 9 to
12 o'clock. Special efforts are being
made to decorate the ballroom in the
most lavish manner yet attempted by
the order. The Grail colors, purple
and white, will be used.
TWO NO-BREAKS
Two no-break dances will be given
during the evening program. , Grail
and escort no-breaks will be held. A
short intermission is planned at 10:30.
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Johnson To Play For
Town Girls' Dance
The Town Girl Farmerettes will pre
sent the first dance of the winter
quarter tonight in the form of a Barn
Warming. The dance will be held in
the lounge of Graham memorial from
9:30 until 1 o'clock.
Freddie Johnson and his orchestra,
dressed in overalls, will furnish the
music featuring both swing and "old
time" music. The guests will also
wear farm clothes, and prizes will be
given for the two most original cos
tumes. Regular ballroom dancing will be
used with the exception of one square
dance. Lewis Williams will call the
figures of the square-dance.
W eldon James To Speak Today
AP 'President Opens
Says Newspapers
Should Give And
Take Criticism
Newspapers, which have as one of
their functions the dispensing of criti
cism, should be the first to welcome
criticism when it is directed at them,
one of America's foremost newspaper
men, Robert McLean, president of the
Associated press, told members of the
North Carolina Newspaper institute
in an address at the Carolina inn last
night.
"The critics were saying 25 and 50
years ago that the interests,' adver
tisers, and the counting room were
controlling the press," McLean stated.
Similar criticism exists today, he
pointed out.
"However," he added, "the criticism
at this time is leveled more at the big
newspapers than at the smaller ones.
I attribute this to the fact that small
er papers are closer to their sub
scribers." OPENING ADDRESS
The speaker, who is also publisher
of the Philadelphia Bulletin, delivered
the opening address of the 15th an
nual state press institute, which will
continue here and at Duke .university
through tomorrow. The session was
presided over by Talbot Patrick, presi
dent of the North Carolina Press
association, and Dean of Administra
tion R. B. House welcomed the dele
gates. "If a newspaper expects justice,
fairness and tolerance from the pub
lic, it should offer justice, fairness and
tolerance in exchange," McLean de
clared. Dealing with a specific question of
fairness, he told of a poll ;of news
paper readers by the Gallup Survey
in which the public was asked if it
thought that papers were fair in hand
ling news- about the Federal adminis
tration. .
Eighty-two per cent of the answers
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LATE BULLETIN! 1
Word was received last night that
Henry Richard McGeehee, first
year law student, had just died at
his home in Reidsville of what was
believed to be pneumonia. He had
left school about three days ago
because of his illness.
A Phi Beta Kappa, McGeehee
graduated from Washington and
Lee university with the highest of
honors. His local address was 204
Carr.
Funeral services will be held at
3 p. m, in Reidsville today.
SURVEY SHOWS
STUDENT OPINION
Majority Against
Forced Attendance
' Abolition of compulsory class atten
dance in colleges, a subject seldom
mentioned two decades ago, has be
come an issue of the day. That de
velopment seems largely a result of
pioneering by educators like Robert
M. Hutchins with his Chicago Plan,
which allows students to attend classes
at their own discretion..
Few schools, however, have followed
the lead taken by the University of
Chicago: The majority of the nation's
colleges still require compulsory class
attendance in varying degrees.
Although educators discuss the ques
tion among themselves, seldom have
they asked the opinions of the stu-.
dents, who are most vitally interested
in the question. The Student Opinion
surveys of America are able to give
voice for the first time to the stu
dents' views on the issue. -
The nation's college youth were
asked, "Should compulsory class at
tendance in colleges be abolished?"
and 63.5 said yes, 36.5 per cent no.
Even though the poll revealed a
sizeable majority who favored aboli
tion of compulsory attendance, the
fact that more than a third opposed
the idea is significant. It invalidates
the claim of many elders that practi
cally all stuednts, if given any say,
would want to do away with compul
sory presence in classes.
Breaking down the results section
ally, sentiment favoring abolition is
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Panay Witness
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Weldon James, well-known United
Press foreign correspondent, will
speak to the fifteenth annual Press
Institute today at 1 p. m. Newsman
James was aboard the gunboat Panay
when it was bombed by the Japa
nese. CRUffiSHANK,
WALES CHOSEN
CO-CHAIRMEN
Pair Will Guide
Student-Faculty
Day Arrangements
Olive Cruikshank and Charles 'Pud
din' Wales were yesterday appointed
by YMCA President Brooks Patten
co-chairmen of the fifth annual Student-Faculty
day celebration.
The Sophomore and Junior-Senior
YMCA cabinets recently authorized
Patten to select the Student-Faculty
Day chairman, and Patten, after de
liberation with the cabinets, decided
to appoint co-chairmen, a boy and a
girl, since the celebration includes ac
tivities by both men students and co
eds. This gives representation to the
women's student body which functions
as a separate unit from the men's stu
dent body. ,
NO REMARKS
When asked for statments concern
ing their appointments the co-chairmen
held a hasty conference. Miss
Cruikshank refused to make any com
ment, while Wales declared, "All I've
got to say is that I'm going home to
Edenton this week-end to brief 50 law
cases and watch my sister in action
in a basketball game."
The co-chairmen will meet the first
of next week to select various com
mittees which will have charge of the
many phases of the event.
A definite date for Student-Faculty
Day has not been set, but the event
will be held sometime during the latter
part of April.
Wanted!
.The circulation department will
pay 10 cents per copy for issues of
the October and December Caro
lina Magazine.
Daniels Has No Objection To
Entrance Of Graduate Negroes
Brooks Will Speak
On Cooperative Plan
Professor Lee Brooks will speak on
the cooperative movement, as he saw
it in operation in Nova Scotia, this
afternoon at 3:30 before a meeting of
the American Home department of
the Community club in the Parish
house.
Professor Brooks, who studied the
Nova Scotia cooperatives last sum
mer in a survey sponsored by the
Federal Council of Churches, will il
lustrate his talk with motion pictures.
An open forum will be held following
the main speech.
All those interested are invited to
attend.
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Institute
Group To Move
To Duke Tonight
For Dinner
By DONALD BISHOP
Off to a successful ! beginning yes
terday, the 15th annual North Caro
lina Newspaper institute will con
tinue its sessions today . with .. a
lengthy program of addresses, high
lighted by first-hand accounts of the -life
of foreign correspondents along -current
war fronts as told by Weldon
James, youthful United Press news
chaser. James, now on leave after cover
ing the Chinese and Spanish battle
fronts, is scheduled to speak at a
luncheon in the ballroom of the Caro
lina inn at 1 p. m. today. University
President Frank P. Graham will ex
tend greetings to the visiting speak
ers and to the institute delegates. R..
W. Madry, director of the University
news bureau, will preside at the
luncheon gathering and Pete Ivey
will furnish entertainment.
M'CAMBRIDGE
Today's program of the three-day
institute gets underway at 10 o'clock
this morning when W. .J. Mc Cam
bridge, assistant general manager of
the Associated Press, speaks on
"Looking at Facsimile Around the
Corner."
Donald R. Brewster, field director
of the Herty Foundation laboratory,
will follow him with a talk on "New
Wealth From Pulpwood." After a
speech by Tom Wallace, editor of
the Louisville Times, "The Editorial
Page," the morning program will
close with a forum, conducted by J.
F. Hurley of the Salisbury Post, on
news photos and engravings.
Another busy program is scheduled
for this afternoon. "Legal Regula
tions for Wages and Hours of News
paper Workers," will be discussed by
Major A. L. Fletcher, assistant Fedr
eral wage-hour administrator and
former State Commissioner of Labor.
His speech is scheduled for 2:30 p. m.
Josh L. Home, of the Rocky Mount
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Fire Discovered
In Battle Dorm
Last night Eric Laddey and Bill
Corpening, a prominent track star,
passing the room of Ranson, Citron
and Short on the first floor of Battle
dormitory, noticed a column . of
smoke issuing from the cracks of the
door.
They immediately entered and
found the room entirely' filled with
smoke and some small flames, lap
ping up under the wash basin. They
quickly turned in the alarm and
then, with other occupants of the
dormitory, attempted to extinguish
the flames as much as possible.
CIGARETTE BUTT
The firemen shortly after arriving
had the fire completely out and began
to investigate the cause. A thorough
search of the basement revealed no . -hazards
there, so finally they at
tributed the flames to an unextin
guished cigarette butt and departed,
applauded by the large crowd that -had
gathered.
The occupants of the room find no
other damage than a strong smoke
odor and a small hole through the
floor under their wash basin. -
Editor Blames Much
Of Southern Poverty
On People Of South
By DOT COBLE .
Following up a talk made at the
Bull's head tea yesterday afternoon,
Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Ra
leigh News and Observer, stated, "I
don't see how anybody can object to
taking a graduate course at the Uni
versity with a Negro." Daniels also
stated that there would be no justice
in allowing a Negro to enroll in a
white school unless equality was set
up in advance, and he expressed the
opinion that 'scholarships to schools
outside the state should be given to
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