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OCT 3 1 jq-J ( H? DITORIALS: TmTEATHER: Vfif C&ntinxed e'4 and i 1 Chosen Few f j Deadline . . . ( i VV cfaWy -77 OiVLr COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 VOLUME XLVm Busuiew: 93S6j CStcularloa: 9S81 CHAPEL HILL, N. O, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939 iliar.il: 4355 Nem: 4351 Mk: NUMBER 40 PL n 4 Present Concert Tonight V 1 V U 1 i ' The Trapp Family choir will open at 8:30 in Memorial halL Trapp Family Student Entertainment Series With Concert Tonight At 8:30 Austrian Songs To Feature Program ' In Memorial Hall - "The Trapp family choir, a European group of eight, will present a varied m a a Droeram 01 Austrian ioik songs in Memorial hall this evening at 8:30 Tonight's concert will be the first of the fall quarter student entertainment presentations.- The proeram is divided into five parts, music of. the early masters Austrian masters, music lor xne re corder ensemble, folk songs from sev eral countries, and folk songs from the Austrian Alps. Among the noted V nn'll la ' sung and played during the course of the program are (Gregor Aichinger, Thomas Morley, "Wolfgang Mozart, Franz Wasner, Johannes Brahms, and Georg Telemann. RAPID RISE The Trapps are an Austrian choir, featuring typical Salzburg arrange ments of various numbers. The fam ily of eight is directed by Dr. Franz "Wasner! The choir first rose to fame in Vienna three years ago, when Chan cellor Kurt Von Schussnigg took no tice of its singing and secured several radio broadcasts. Shortly after its rapid rise, the .group won every major choral com- (Continued out pagv 2, column 2) Saturday Is Set As Deadline For Yearbook Photos Saturday, November 4, is absolutely the deadline for all juniors and se niors to have pictures made for the Yackety Yack, Jack Lynch, editor, said yesterday. He urged that all up perclassmen wishing to have pictures in the annual have them taken imme diately. Only 17 pictures of juniors and slightly more of seniors are need ed to complete the class sections. "Now is the time for all good fra ternities to bring their number of pic tures for the Yackety Yack up to 36, he said. All freshmen and sophomores whose pictures will appear in the fra temitv section must ray $1.25 each -when they have their pictures made. Pictures may be taken any day this week between the hours of 8 o'clock in the morning and 6 o'clock in the afternoon at Wootten-Moulton studios. Marching Rehearsal Scheduled Today The University band will hold a marching rehearsal this afternoon at 5 o'clock at Kenan stadium, it was announced yesterday. Instruments will not be needed. No Musical Quiz Vance Hobbs, Graham Memorial irapressario, said yesterday that, due to unforeseen complications, the student union Kay Kyser musical quiz, scheduled for Hill hall tomor row evening had been postponed for another week. a:; : :. -:.-.; 1 the student entertainment series tonight Choir Will Open $- FOUR PROFESSORS WILL HOLD PANEL TOMORROW NIGHT House To Preside Over Discussion In Gerrard Hall A group of four University profes sors will conduct a peace forum cover ing every aspect of America's posi tion in the present European conflict tomorrow evening.at 7 :3Q, in Gerrard hall. Dean R. B. House Will preside over the discussion, which will be open to questions from the audience through out the course of the evening. The four professors who will par ticipate in tomorrow's forum are Dr. George Thomas of the philosophy de partment; Mark Orr, secretary of the southern council on International Re lations; Dr. Louis Katsoff also of the philosophy department; and Dr. Alan Bonnell, a member of the faculty of the economics department. COMMITTEE The program is being planned by a special campus committee headed by Lee Wiggins president of the ASU. Other members of the committee are Miss Melville Corbett, president ef the Women's Association; Jim Davis, pres ident bf the student body; Allen Green, editor of the Carolina magazine; Mar tin Harmon, editor of the Daily Tar Heel; Bob Magill, director of Graham Memorial; Miss Louise Jordan, pres ident of the YWCA; John Bonner, president of the YMCA; Harry Gat- ton, chairman of the CPU; Walter Kleeman, president of the Interna tional Relations club; and Fred Wea ver, assistant to the dean of students. College Opinion Opposes Embargo Repeal, Sending Of Troops To Help Allies Win War Senate Will Debate Two New Proposals At Session Tonight The Di senate will initiate new mem bers at its meeting in the Di hall to night at 7:30, after which the follow ing two bills will be discussed: Resolved, That the Di senate peti tion Comptroller Rogerson to reinstate the use of Swain Hall script in dor mitory stores; and the library open on Sunday nights until 11 o'clock. Treasurer Arthur Link requested that all members make arrangements for payment of dues before the meet ing tonight. Passbooks Available Before Performance All students entitled to student en tertainment passbooks who have not received them yet will find them avail able in the lobby of Memorial hall pre ceding tonight's performance, it was announced last night. Proper identi fication must be presented. UNIVERSITY CLUB APPOINTS JUDGES FORKOIHECOHIING Groups Continue J Preparations For 1 Weekend Events 4 Judges for all decoration contests in connection with the gigantic home coming and second .annual Greater University day celebrations to be held here this weekend were, selected last night by the University club, as sev eral campus committees and sub-committees continued preparations for the event. It was decided at a meeting of the homecoming committee, under the di rection of Jim Davis, to hold contests between men's dormitories, men's fra ternities, women's dormitories, wom en's sororities, and the merchants of Chapel Hill. : A sub-committee, com posed of Jack Vincent, president of the Interdormitory council; Studie Fick- len, president of the Interfraternity council; and Melville Corbett, presi dent of the "Woman's association, was appointed to decide upon regulations for all contests except the contest be tween the merchants. The committee will inform each . dormitory and fra ternity of these regulations and of the prizes to be awarded. The contest for the merchants is under the direction of P. M. Thompson, president of the Merchants' association. JUDGES The judges for the men's frater nities are Roy Armstrong, chairman of the committee; Harry Russell, Sis Clinard, Rex Winslow, and Jim Joy ner. For men's dormitories Mr. Her man Schnell, director of intra-mural athletics, is chairman and Dr. E.; L. Mackie, Alice Murdock, Mr. S. A. Stroudemire, and Bill Dees are on his committee. Dr. English ""Bagby is chairman of the committee for ( Continued on page 2, column 5) : MUSIC PROFESSORS TO GIVE CONCERT Program Slated Tomorrow At 8:30 Professors Benjamin F. Swalin, Glen Haydon, and Irvin Zimmerman ,of mLusic department will present vjiiamuer music recital wmuriow evening at 8:30 in Hill music hall. On the program are Cdnto Amoros - Sammartini, Sumare from the Saudades do Brazilian Milhaud, La Fontain d'Arethuse-Szymanowski, Kresiler-tango-Albenz, and Le Trille di Diable-Tartini presented by Ben jamin Swalin. " Sonata . for Clarinet and piano in E flat major, Op. 120, No. 2, by Brahms and a Trio for clarinet, viola and piano in E flat major by Mozart will be played. . In the number Le Trille Diable, Tartini relates, that the Devil appears in a dream and played for him a sonta with decidedly difficult trills which he wrote out upon arising next morn ing. Majority Also WiU Not Vol- unteer-If U. S. Enters Foreign Conflict As the nation debates the way to stay out of a European war, what is American college youth thinking and saying about the situation? Scores of persona interviewers Jast week com pleted the first of this year's polls for the Student Opinion Surveys of Amer ica on campuses from coast to coast and found: 1. Students are opposed to changing the neutrality law, mainly because they believe this would involve the United States. 2. Even if the Allies were in danger of losing to Germany, the" United States should not send troops to help them. 3. College men almost six out of every 10 say they would not volun teer if England and France were los ing and this country went to their aid. With the cooperation of the Daily Tar Heel and over a hundred other member newspapers, ballots have been gathered for the surveys from typical (Continued on page 2, column 4) CPU A Ti TT Tv 0 lEllC ere Sports Ed Emanates Gloom, Frustration After Unhappy Trip By SANFORD STEIK While everyone else is remembering with rapture and delight the events of the Carolina-Penn game gloom and frustration emanate from the bleary, one-third-of-the-way-open eyes of Shelley Rolfe, who spent a very un happy weekend. It all happened when Shelley pre pared to gOvto Philadelphia in the performance of his duties as sports editor of the Daily Tar Heel. He had been anticipating a berth on the train and was all set to enjoy aristo cratic slumber with the team. But uiiforseen circumstances put him in an ordinary day coach and hence he slept not a wink Friday night. WINKS AND PANCAKES Arriving in Philadelphia, Shelley got a room at a hotel and was all ready to snatch a few needed winks, but within an hour five people were occupying all the beds in sight and three others were making merry in j the shower. So Shelley went down to eat some breakfast. He bought pan cakes and was given two small pit chers, one containing maple syrup and one containing coffee. Where upon Shelley promptly poured the cof fee over the pancakes, which gave them a rather unusual taste. Before the game started, Shelley strolled down the main street of the City of Brotherly Love and bumped into a lady passing by. He turned around to apologize, -when the female suddenly exclaimed, Oh a" masher, huh!" and smacked him vigorously with her pocketbook. COFFEE AND TYPEWRITER During the game Shelley sat in the pressbox of the stadium at Franklin Field and faithfully recoreded every play and touchdown. In the midst of the massacre, he spilled the entire contents of a cup of coffee over his (Continued on page 2, column 5) Debaters To Hold Tryouts Tonight v Aspiring debaters will stage try outs tonight at 8:45 in Gerrard hall for places on the Carolina team that opposes an English team here Novem ber 11, it was announced yesterday by Bill Cochrane, secretary of the de bate council. . Query for this year's battle of words is: Resolved, That the American for eign policy should be one of complete isolation. The University will take the affirmative stand. Tonight's try outs are open to any student of the University. Two prin cipals and one alternate will be se lected on the basis of the trials. Phi WiU Initiate New Members Tonight In Assembly Hall The Phi assembly tonight at 7:30 will initiate a group of new members and complete plans for the organiza tion's dance, scheduled November 11. Two questions will be open for de bate at the meeting in the Phi assembly hall. They are "Resolved, that the two campus political parties should participate actively , and openly in freshman elections," and "Resolved, that there should be concerted action by University organizations to pre vent open demonstrations of violence against Duke University." Student Government Committee To Meet The student government committee will meet today at 2:30 in the Grail room in Graham Memorial, it was an nounced last night. Members are Jack Fairley, Allen Green, Lee Wiggins, Tom Wright, and Otho Ross. mm w miff es f Winter Vindicator Senator Robert Rice Reynolds North Carolina, founder of the "Amer ica for Americans" Vindicator organ ization, who has accepted a Carolina Political union invitation to speak here next quarter. TAFT WILL SPEAK ON YDC PROGRAM Others Scheduled In Near Future E. Hoover Taft, often spoken o jokingly as the "good Democrat with the Republican name" but jof f icially eastern organizer of the. North Caro lina Young Democrats club, will speak to the two weeks old University unit tomorow night at 8 o'clock in Gerrard hall. . ' . Taft, for many years a leader in the organization, is credited with large part in making North Carolina one of the best organized YDC states in the union.- His offices are now in Raleigh. Taft is the first YDC official to address the University club. Presi dent Joe Dawson and Walter "Brick' Wall, chairman of the speaker com mittee, have announced that arrange ments are already underway to bring other officials here soon, including Forrest Pollard, president of the state organization, Attorney General Harry McMullan, and D. L. "Libby" Ward, speaker of the 1938 General Assembly, Dawson announced the meeting will be open to the public. MEMBERSHIP Vice -president Tom Long and Ott Burton, co-chairmen of the member ship committee yesterday released names of successful applicants for membership: District 1: Alex, Bonner, Tommy Sparrow, G. E. Bell, J ames Ellison, Mary T. Hudson, Richard Radey, J R. Jordan, L. W. Gayldrd, Kesler Fel- ton, R. J. W. Hobbs. District 2: Louise Guigan District 3: Charles Barker, A. B. Hendricks, Nere Day, Z. L. Riggs. District 4: Doris Goerch, Albert Johnson, Robert Rose, G. I. Britt, Randall Brooks, B. D. Powell, Tommy Brafford,lMary Anne Koonce. District 5: G. I. Kimball, L. J. Williams. Mary E. Stone, Allen J. Green. District 6 : L. P. McLendon, Bob Berbert, A. V. Tucker, William Ward, William Singletary, F. R. Edney, C. B. Gidus, Mary Sue Robertson, Sara Summerlin, Eloise Brown, Fred Ed ney. District 7: L. E. McKnight, Ellis Fields, Donald A. Currie. District 8: Kenan Williams, Eliza (Continued on page 2, column S) Methodists Invited To Party Tonight Tonight at 7:30 all Methodists are invited to come to a Halloween party given by the Wesley foundation of the University Methodist church in the church. Including such ameusements as apple-bobbing, a varied program of games has been arranged. Miss Dora Gene Martin, chairman of recreation, will lead. Everyone is urged to bring a date. 1 '.Hl".. , .M, - ; : -J .- v f y - eynold. or rami tiai'teir Carolina Senator Will Make Address On Vindicators Senators Robert Rice Reynolds of 1 North Carolina, Robert A. Taft of Ohio, and H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire will appear on the platform of the Carolina Political union daring the winter quarter, Chairman Harry Gatton announced yesterday after a weekend trip to the nation's capital. Reynolds is slated to talk here about January 11, Taft on February 0, and Bridges on March 11. I North Carolina's "Our Bob" will speak on his "America for Ameri cans" Vindicator program. He has consented to the holding of an open forum discussion following his speech. OPEN CAMPAIGNS Both Taft and Bridges will open their southern campaigns for the presidency here and it is expected that the two Republican candidates will outline their platforms in quest of garnering southern votes for the GOP nomination next June. While in "Washington, Gatton also visited John Hamilton and William Castle, chairman and vice-chairman of the National Republican party. Carle--ton Smith, head of the National Broadcasting company bureau in the capital, told the CPU chairman that plans were being made to have the Bridges and Taft speeches carried over a national hook-up. During his terms as junior senator from North Carolina, Reynolds has led an active career in both his role a3 a representative of the state and as the leader of the Vindicator's organ ization. Reynolds - recently ' voted" against the President's arms embargo repeal, stating that he was casting his lot with the opposition, though against the will of the people he represented, for the good of the state of North Carolina. PROGRAM His Vindicator paper and organiza tion have a five-point Droeram de signed "to make America safe for Americans." They stress keeping America out of war; registering and fingerprinting all aliens; stopping all immigration for the next ten years; deporting all alien criminals and un desirables; and banishing all foreign isms. Taft is a former governor of Ohio, and has received much mention as the (Continued on page 2, column 2) Bob Magill Says Dancing Club Had Successful Debut Graham Memorial's rendezvous for dancers held a successful opening last Saturday night, Bob Magill, director of the student union, said yesterday. A large crowd of students who stayed at home for the weekend danced to strains of a portable nickelodeon in the new student dance hall on the second floor of Graham Memorial. The hall will be opened for dancing every week day evening except Mon day from 9 to 10:30 and every: Friday and Saturday night from 8:30 to 11. A variety of refreshments are served from an improvised soda fountain. Director Magill also announced that the contest f$r naming the new dance rendezvous is coming along rapidly with several suggestions already hav ing been submitted. AH entries must be handed in by next Saturday noon. A prize of $3 will be awarded to the person contributing the name ac cepted by the student union program committee, consisting of DeWitt Bar- , nett, Vance Hobbs, and Gibson Jack son. Riding Club Meets Tonight At 7:30 There will be an important meeting of the horseback riding dab tonight in the small lounge of the first floor of Graham Memorial at 7:30. The girls who had planned to have riding as a physical education sport and any others who are interested are urged to attend. If anyone cannot attend the meeting please call Arty Fisher or Irwin Ebel at 9446.
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