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CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1939
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NUMBER 17
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Capitol s Leaders Send Fraisi
Of Charles Staples Mangiim
Reynolds, Flury
Send Condolences;
Leader Mourned
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 High
tributes were paid today by distin
guished persons in Washington to the
memory of Dr. Charles Staples Man
rum, former dean of the University of
Xorth Carolina Medical school and na
tionally prominent in educational and
judical circles.
"One of the most lovable men I ever
met" was Senator Robert S. Reynolds
comment on Dr. Mangum. "I knew
kjn intimately and well for over 25
years, dating from the time when I
was in tke University. I had . seen
much of him in the intervening years
and I was very familiar with his long
ind splendid career of activity. Need
less to say, I was profoundly distressed
when I learned of Dr. Mangum's pass
ing. The nation yes the world has
lost a great educator and a great and
noble man."
NEWSPAPERS
Washington newspapers gave con
siderable space to the news of Dr.
Mar. gum's death and described in de
tail his activities from the time of
his medical practice in Audenried,
Pa and his union with the faculty of
the University down, to the present
tine.
Professor Henry Flury, Washington
biologist, lecturer and author, who ad
dressed many public meetings in
Xorth Carolina some years ago while
on a southern tour, declared that "Dr.
Mangum rendered a fine public serv-
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Chess Champ Will
Play 15 Games
Simultaneously
Bcb Magill, director of the Student
union, has ; issued a calif or studentsLtoj
answer a cnauenge Dy iiaroia reia
siein -who says that he "challenges any
15 students or faculty members to
p!ay him a simultaneous game of
chess."
The 16-man game will be held in the
form of a chess exhibition at 7:30 the
night of October 10 in the Graham Me
morial lounge and a stipend of $2 will
be offered to any and each man who
can beat Feldstein at his game.
FIRST 15 TO ANSWER
Students or faculty members wish
ing to answer the challenge are asked
to drop by the Union director's of
ficethe first 15 men to leave their
names will be scheduled to play.
The "15-man" challenger was win
ner of the summer school chess tourna
Eent and a former New York high
school chess champion.
The public contest will mark the
beginning of chess activity on the cana
pe for the fall. The tournament will
be followed by registrations for a
chess tournament. "Interested chess
enthusiastis have suggested the pos
sibility of organizing a chess club and
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UNC Student
In Edinburgh
D. D. MacBryde Writes His
Family Of Conditions 48 Hours
After Outbreak Of Conflict
The following letter has been re
wived by J. P. MacBryde, University
sta-ient, from his brother D. Mac
Bryde. now a student in the University
cf Edinburgh after completing - six
Norths of study in Munich, Germany:
Dar Folks:
As I write these words, WAR has
ken in existence between Great Brit
ain and Germany 48 hours. After
those weeks and days of tense specu
ktion and wondering, that awful word
s again become reality, and already
people of this realm are remark
a calm and have settled down with
amazing- resoluteness to "see it
ccnvnoN
A xtek ago today, Grossdeutschland
cupkd Slovakia on the same day,
t King of Belgium and the Queen
f the Netherlands had offered their
?01 offices in finding a solution by
titration.
Six days ago, Thursday, the last
of August, I heard the dastardly
broadcast by the German radio which
oicfd the "16-point plan for settle
DORM COUNCIL
KILLS PROPOSAL
TO REDUCE SIZE
Nicholson Is Only
Speaker For Bill;
Vote Is 43-14
By a vote of 43-14, the Interdormi
tory council, meeting last night in the
banquet hall of Graham Memorial,
killed a proposed amendment which
would have reduced the size of its
membership.
As stated' by George Nicholson,
chairman of the amending commit
tee, the purpose of the amendment
was to insure the council of efficient
action by admitting to membership
only presidents and vice-presidents of
the dormitories. .
DEBATE
Prior to the voting, there was a
brief debate concerning the merits
and demerits of the proposed amend
ment, with Nicholson as the bill's sole
audible defender. Joe Zaytoun and
Mitchell Britt were outspoken in
their opposition to the amendment. It
was alleged that, since dormitory presi
dents and vice-presidents are chosen
from the junior and senior classes
alone; the sophomores and freshmen
residing in the dormitories would be
unrepresented in the council . if the
amendment carried.
Following the foil call last night,
the committee which had been ap
pointed .to investigate the status of
the residents of Sutton-Strowd re
ported that since those students do
not reside in a school-controlled build
ing they are not eligible for member
ship in the council. However, stated
the committee, these students, who ap-
plied for membership at the last
meeting of the councilrwill be allowed
to send a non-voting delegate to its
sessions.
REQUESTS
In response to requests that the
council take action to keep students
from walking on the grass of the
campus, Jack Vincent acting presi
dent of the council during the illness
of John Singletary, the president ap
pointed a grounds committee which
will attempt to promote the use of
the walks. Constituting the commit
tee are Ben Heath, chairman, Tom
Brafford, and Bill Dye.
Following Vincent's - recommenda
tion, it was moved and unanimously
voted to admit residents of dormi
tories "H" and "K" to the council.
Through a delegate, residents of
"L" dormitory also applied for mem
bership. Since this dormitory houses
a number of graduate medical stu
dents, the acting president appointed
a committee consisting of Al Stewart,
chairman, Leonard Lobred, and Bill
Owen to determine whether "L" resi
dents are eligible for membership.
Ike Grainger's motion that the
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Receives Letter
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Describing Outbreak Ut War
ment with Poland." This was the first
we knew of them and the first the
Poles had heard of them. As with the
fateful invitations to Schussnigg in
Austria and Dr. Hacha in Czechoslo
vakia,' so there was a last-minute de
mand that Poland send ONE MAN,
immediately to sign conditions, with
out consulting his government, which
he "could read over while signing."
Britain, alarmed, began rushing three
million school children and others out
to sparse sections, and decided on
complete naval mobilization.
FIRST BOMBING
Five days ago (Friday, September
first), I called up a friend in an Edin
burgh Vigilance office; and went
suddenly weak to hear the question:
"Have you heard German planes
bombed Warsaw this morning!" I
went out into the back yard where the
family of German Jewish refugees
were sitting, and told them "Frieg
ist angefangen" (war has begun), and
with their sobs I got my second ink
ling of what this ghastly thing really
meant. They have brothers and sisters
still over there who haven't been able
to get out, and who now will be at tie
complete' mercy of an already merci
less Nazi regime. When I left Ger-
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DOGS WILL EAT DOGS......
The fight's on and it's going to be, to all appearances, the
old story of dog eat dog while the meatbone lies unmolested.
The German club's reorganization plan has backfired. The
financial difficulty, outward omen of unsound business man
. agement in the organization, seems to be solved by the new
plan, which requires all members to pay regular dues.
But the problem now is political. Four fraternities, their
members making up a sizable minority in the club, have al
ways been left out in the cold when office-filling time came
around. And, according; to the present plan, these four fra
ternities Phi Delta Theta,; Phi Gamma Delta, ATQ, KA
are still going to live-ii" I3kimo land. . '
The lads in this longyce-bdund 'group are planning to thaw
out or get out. ' '.
The seven monopolists Sigma Nu, DKE, SAE, Sigma Chi,
Zeta Psi, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma would, no doubt,
hasten to open the refrigerator door, but, harking back to the
900 deficit, can't afford to jdo it, since the four non-office-holding
fraternities will pay in to the club approximately
$4,200 in the course of the year, a tidy-enough sum to put on
one of the three annual dance sets the club sponsors.
The four fraternities'' ask democracy (oh, ill-used word) in
electing officials. . .
We suggest a clause in the reorganization plan which will
require public announcement of the date and time of nomina
tion and election meetings.. And it wouldn't be bad to require
that notices be sent to each club member that, in keeping
with the democratic principle,. would give NON-FRATERNITY
members their democratic chance.
Mr. President (Stuart Ficklen, Sigma Nu), Mr. Treasurer
(Louis Sutton, ZetaPsi), and the rest of you in-power mem
bers, why don't you give up a bit of that power? It would be
a pretty sad commentary on your abilities if the German club
collapsed during your tenure of office.
BUT... j,
MR. BOB MAGILL, YOU WHO" ARE DER FUEHRER OF
THE GERMAN CLUB, USE TOUR VETO POWER TO EN
FORCE SANE ACTION. . YOU, AS DIRECTOR OF GRAHAM
MEMORIAL, WOULD HARDLY WELCOME THE THANK
LESS TASK OF REPORTING A $900 LOSS OF GRAHAM
MEMORIAL FUNDS. (Loaned to balance the 1938-39 Ger
man club books).
Pffl DISAPPROVES
OF THIRD TERM
FOR ROOSEVELT
Group In Favor
Of Naming New
Dorm For FDR
Following the inaugural address of
president Joe Dawson, the Phi as
sembly passed three resolutions and
killed another in rapid-fire order at
its meeting last night.
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The group downed by 16 to 12 vote
a resolution that Roosevelt be en
dorsed for a third term. Three resolu
tions were passed: that one of the
new dormitories be named "Roose
velt"; that the assembly sponsor a
dance in the near future, preferably
in Woollen gymnasium; and that the
Phi establish a date bureau to pacify
the "seven sad sirens," the "eleven
languishing Lotharios" and other date
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From Brother
" k. "WW T"
many 90 days ago, the Jews had al
ready been told that in case they
"succeeded" (i.e., the Jews) in stir
ring up a war against Germany (and
so all Germans would have you be
lieve), that they would every one of
them, be annihilated. Yesterday I re
ceived a letter from a Jewish business
man in Munich, whom I had taught
English during the winter, and with
whom I was sitting in his home when
he was arrested and taken to concen
tration camp for 13 weeks (to come
home a broken man). In this letter, he
voiced a heart-rending "auf Wieder
sehen," adding that the storm clouds
had gathered and . would evidently
break before he could escape, and
that before it was too late, he wanted
to express his deep devotion and ap
preciation to his best friend in this
time of trouble, an American, and to
say goodbye. An answer to that letter
was hard to compose and I doub if
it ever reached him.
GENERAL MOBILIZATION
Poland, bombed 94 times during
the day, appraised Britain and France
of this full-scale aggression, and gen
eral mobilization in the latter coun
tries was decreed. While Nazi on
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DIVOT
AGAINST
PROPOSED CHANGE
IN U.S. EMBARGO
President Putzel
Breaks Deadlock
By Negative Reply
Charles Putzel, exercising his presi
dential prerogative of voting in the
case of a tie vote, last night broke
the deadlock in the Dialectic senate
on the question of repealing, the em
bargo act and sent the bill down to
defeat by registering his "nay."
A compromise on the question of
embargo or cash-and-carry was pro
posed by Walter Kleeman. He sug
gested that the limitation of the goods
sold to warring nations would certain
ly cut down the opportunities of the
business interests of the United
States to draw the nation into war.
OPPOSED
Those senators opposed to the cash-and-carry
plan stressed the fact that
any economic goods sold to warring
nations by the United States would
probably be sold in such quantities
as to involve the people of America
in the European war.. That if the
U. S. became involved in the present
war, it would be impossible to en
force 'our neutrality policy at any
time in the future, was pointed out by
the opposition.
Opportunities to make money from
the European war was the chief ar
gument by the members in favor of
the cash-and-carry plan. Senator
John Bonner stated that the embargo
could easily be violated in fact, if
not in name, by selling arms to other
neutral nations who would sell them
to warring nations in Europe.
LINK RESOLVES
Senator Arthur Link introduced a
resolution that the Dialetic senate go
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Classical Program
Graham Memorial tonight at 7
o'clock will present another re
corded concert of classical selections.
Tonight's concert features the works
if Grieg, ; Wagner, Sibelius and
Debussy.
The program will include "Peer
Gynt Suite No. 1" by Grieg, "Lie
bestod from Tristan Und Isolde" by
Wagner, "Finlandia" by Sibelius,
"Clair de Lune" by Debussy and
"Prelude to Parsifal" by Wagner.
Four Fraternities Protest
German Club Reorganization
Plan; Threaten To Withdraw
CAST ANNOUNCED
FOR PLAYMAKERS'
NEW PRODUCTION
"No More Peace"
To Be Presented
October 25-28
Members of the cast of "No More
Peace," the Playmaker's first major
production of the current season, were
announced yesterday by Samuel Sel
den. Four performances of the play,
now in rehearsal, will be given on the
nights of October 25 through 28 in the
Playmakers theater.
Following is the complete
cast for the play: Napoleon,
Frank Guess; St. Francis,
Wieder Sievers; Angel, Miss Eleanor
Maupin; Noah, Donald Rosenberg;
Sameul, George Wilson; Lot, Charles
Avery; Laban, Douglass Watson;
David, Sanford Reece; Jacob, Robert
Carroll ; Rachel, Miss Helen Copen
haver; Fat Man, Norman Agnew;
Little Man, Fred Walsh; Thin Man,
Howard Richardson; Cain, Charles
Clapp; Sarah, Miss Camilla Shinhan;
Doctor, Chase Webb; Socrates, Fred
Howard; Warder, Joseph Bouldin;
Messenger, Joseph tLederman.
EXTRAS.
Also, a large cast of extras will be
used. Extras will be: Joseph Nick
son, Jack Dube, Russell Rogers, Willis
Gould, David Hooks, Bill Long, Bill
Bfasmer, Clifton Young, Charles Par
rish, Thomas Ljttleton, Miss Eleanor
Jones, Miss Mary Elizabeth Rhyne,
Miss Mary Heath, Miss Evelyn Mat
thews, Miss Louise Stiefelmeyer, Miss
Mary Lee Wilson, Miss Frances Gib
son, Miss Cynthia Hemke, Miss Lou
Alice-. Hamrick," Miss . Elizabeth Cafr,
Miss Margery Johnston, Miss Roselyn
Holmes, and Miss Eleanor Erickson.
"No More Peace," written by Ernest
Toller, German dramatist, is a comedy
satirizing war. Its scenes are laid in
Olympus, where Napoleon and St.
Francis argue on war and peace, and in
an imaginary country called Dunkle
stein, where preparations for war are
started by a bogus telegram from Na
poleon. Economics, Commerce
Students Will Meet
To Organize Club
Because of interest among the Eco
nomic and Commerce students, a meet
ing has been called for tonight at 7:30
in 108 Bingham hall to discuss plans
for the organization of a Economic and
Commerce club.
Realizing the need for a better ac
quaintance with the economic and busi
ness conditions as they exist today and
a need to know those students funda
mentally interested in this subject,
steps will be taken by a student com
mittee with Professor J. C. D. Blaine,
of the commerce school, to organize
such a club.
The student committee is composed
of Loise Brown, Martha Kelly, Ed
Stelling, Pete Burkhiemer, Howard
Kahn, Charles Elliott and Viencent.
Numerous students were approached
with the idea at the end of school last
year. It met with instant approval.
At present their only contact with the
economic conditions and business life
is through lectures. , There is little
chance for an open discussion and ex
change of student opinions.
The purpose of the club will be to
provide such contacts.
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Wagner Speaks Today
Sidelights on the lives and careers
of many of the greatest figures of the
American theatre and concert stage
will be given by Charles L. Wagner in
a talk today at 12 o'clock in the Caro
lina Playmakers Theatre.
Wagner, the oldest established na
tional concert manager, has known in
timately and handled the professional
affairs of an impressive array of ar
tists, including such figures as Will
Rogers, Helen Hayes, Walter Huston,
Claudette Colbert, Madge Kennedy and
Jeanette MacDonald. It is of these
and others equally as famous that he
has written in his book, "Seeing
Stars," which will come from the press
this fall.
Wagner's talk will be open to the
public without charge.
Method Of Election
Of Group Officials
Under Criticism
Four campus social fraternities
Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Alpha, Phi
Delta Theta, and Phi Gamma Delta
yesterday announced that unless cer
tain changes are made in the new re
organization plan of the German club,
they will withdraw their support from
the organization. The new plans were
drawn up and presented to the execu
tive committee of which the four are
members, for approval Monday.
The four groups made it clear that
they do not object to the financial reor
ganization plan, but that they are op
posed to the undemocratic means of
electing officers, which plan has in the
past, they believe, led to the misman
agement and financial loss incurred
by the club. . -
NEW PLAN
Under the new plan of financing the
club's activities a quarterly fee, not
to exceed $7, is to be collected from each
member. Failure to pay these dues
will mean forfeit of membership. All
old members of the club will retain
their memberships with only dues to
pay, but new members will be charged
an initiation fee of $5. This plan will
mean an actual decrease of annual fees
of $6, but will also mean a larger in
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IRYIN ZIMMERMAN
TOGIVEPIANO
CONCERT TONIGHT
Musician To Open
RecitaLSeries ;
In Hill Music Hall
Irvin Zimmerman, graduate assist
ant in piano at the University, will be
gin the fall series of concerts to be
given in Hill Music Hall with a reci
tal" tonight at Hill at 8:30. Admission
is free.
Zimmerman is a graduate of the
College of Music of Cincinnati where
he studied under Dr. Sidney Durst and
Dr. Frederic Bach.
The concert program will include:
"Fantasie in D Minor," Mozart; "Pre
lude and Fugue in C Minor," Bach;
"Nocturne in D Flat Major," "Mazur
kain A Flat Major," two etudes, and
"Polanaise opus 53," Chopin; "Ara
besque No. 1," "Clair de Lune," and
"Golliwog's Cake Walk," Debussy and
the "Hungarian Rapsodie No. 12,"
Liszt.
The complete program sponsored by
the Music Department for this quar
ter includes Mr. Zimmerman; a reci
tal of songs by John Toms, October 18 ;
Benjamin F. Swalin in a program of
violin pieces, November; Jan Philip
Schinhan at the organ. November 8;
a cello recital by William Klenz, No
vember 15; an. afternoon student re
cital, November 19; and a concert by
the University Symphony orchestra,
November 22. -
All programs but the student re
cital will be held at night at 8:30.
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the music department's fall concert
series with a recital in Hill hall at 8 :30.
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