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fills It DITORIALS: Lines Coeds Frats Honors V TTEATHER: General flush THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME XLVm Buslnest: 9887 Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940 Editorial: 43S New,: 435! i' Kick: 690S NUMBER 77 ! MeNpittt lhiedliuildl Ob T ative CPU emit 1 YOUNG DEMOCRATS CONVENE TO PASS ON CONSTrrUTION Club May Obtain Farley To Speak At Banquet Here The constitution of the Young Dem ocrats' club, recently drawn up, will be presented to the group for their ap proval tonight at a -meeting in Ger rard hall tonight at 7:30, announced president Joe Dawson last night. The club, in a bid for prominence, trill discuss the possibilties of obtain ing James Farley to speak on the campus during his tour of North and South Carolina. He will speak at Clem son colege on January 22 and at Winston-Salem on January 24. Daw son has corresponded with Farley in hopes of having him at a banquet here January 25. Farley has already stated his desire to appear. OTHER SPEAKERS Brick Wall, a member of the speak ers' committee, will make a report to night on his negotiations securing Ben ton Gray and Judge Walter D. Siler to speak here in the near future. Gray is a prominent figure in the social se curity administration at Raleigh, and Judge Siler is a former assistant attorney-general. The treasurer of the club, Buddy Nordan, will make a Teport on the or ganization's finances. Secretary Ernest King said last night that he hoped all men and women on the campus who have received no tices that they are official members of the club will be present tonight. Any additional students who are interested ingthe YDC are cordially invited to attend this meeting and' file applica tions for joining the organization, King said. Herb er t Livingston Presents Recital At Hill Tonight A recital featuring the. wide variety of artistic expression in the sonata will be presented by pianist Herbert Livingston tonight at 8:30 in Hill Music hall. The program will include the "Sonata in D Major" by Josef Haydn; "Sonatina, In Diem Nativitatis Christi MCMXVIIT by Fenuccio Busoni; "Sonata" by WTillem Pijper; and "Sonata, Opus 111" by Ludwig von Beethoven. The Haydn work is a typical ex ample of the treatment accorded the sonata form by the classicists of the late 18th' century. Busoni's selection is reflective of the celebration of Christmas in Berlin in 1917, as viewed by a foreigner. It tells a story in the manner of the 20th century impres sionists. PUPER SONATA "Sonata" by Pijper is a short num ber representing the synthesis of the methods of the sonatalists, who do not recognize the existence of keys, and the polytonalists, who use two keys to gether. Pijper is a young Dutch com poser, pianist, and critic, now teach ing at the Amsterdam conservatory, who writes in the very modern style. The Beethoven work is the last of thirty-two sonatas he composed for the piano. Livingston says that it is "probably one of the greatest piano sonatas ever written." Livingston came to tae University as a graduate assistant in music in January, 1939, after studying at Syra cuse university. He has appeared twice as soloist with the Syracuse symphony orchestra, and has appeared over XBC. He hasdone radio work here and at Syracuse. Kreisler Tickets Tickets for the concert to be given by Fritz Kreisler, world-famous vio-lir-ist, in Memorial hall on January 16 raay be secured from members of the total chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, na tional honorary music fraternity. Thi group is sponsoring the concert appearance of Kreisler in Chapel Hill. Comedienne n V XI . . . attractive actress . . . Actress Cyrilla Dome To Co-Star In Play With Jackie Coogan Cyrilla Dome, who will appear with Jackie Coogan in the stage show "What A Life" this Friday night, is an at tractive young actress who has play ed leads in New York for two years; appeared in the threecharacter play, "The Bow Breaks"; was in the touring company of "Squaring The Circle"; and played the role of Tina in the stage production of "The Old Maid." She went to Vienna as a member of the Josefsteadler Ensemble, and in the Austrian capital played in "All's Well That Ends Well," "Dr. Pretor ius" and the lead in the revival of "X Y Z." MAJOR PRODUCTIONS In Hollywood Miss Dome has been cast in major productions by Educa tional Pictures, Warner Brothers, and Paramount. Fully a dozen radio pro grams featured this versatile actress, among them the '"March of Time," "Columbia Workshop,' "Great Play Series of National Broadcasting Co.," and "Cavalcade of America." As the endearing little Barbara Pearson, student sweetheart of Henry Aldrich, the misunderstood boy who is always off on the wrong foot, played by Jackie Coogan, Cyrilla Dome brings the sympathetic note to the George Abbott comedy. The cast for "What A Life" includes in addition to Miss Dome, Jackie Coo gan in the lead, Frank McGlynn as principal and Josephine Dunn as the secretary to the high school princi pal. The appearance of Coogan here is being sponsored by the Playmakers and tickets are now on sale at 314 South building and at Ledbetter-Pickard's. This Collegiate World o (By Associated Collegiate Press) In the future Dr. Richard J. Werner, president of Salina Junior college, isn't going to be as ready with his criticism of student conduct, and here's why: When three students called on him to recover a lost article, he reached into the lost-and-found drawer of his desk, and began: "Just look at these car keys left here. It's a sure thing no one can do without them. And yet they are left here for days." Then began his stammering: "Why, these can't be my car keys, can they? By . golly, they The students were dismissed with out another word! NEW SLANG DEPARTMENT: These are the latest slang definitions developed by Ohio State university students: ' i. K Campus glamor boy male with ?5; campus glamor girl-coed with a late model car; dive any place with a neon sign, an orchestra and a college boy; swing organized disorganization; friend anybody who will an you money; acquaintance anyone who has loaned you money; civilization a col lection of modem inconveniences. ' . CONTEST DEPARTMENT: In a bull-session argument, Lafayette col lege's Jack Hamilton bet he could walk 60 miles in 24 hours. He did and collected nine bucks. -X. ELLIS DELIVERS ADDRESS TO PHI AT INAUGURATION New President Offers Defense Of Free Speech The Philanthropic assembly at its first meeting of the new year last night 'heard Speaker Phil Ellis up hold the rights of free speech at the University in his inaugural address, initiated seven new members, and de feated a bill advocating the estab lishment of a committee to investigate un-American activities on the cam pus. In his address Ellis also outlined the Phi's program for the coming quarter. Announcing the Phi inten tion of introducing bills advocating better lighting in the library and social rooms for the dormitories, made known their hopes to secure Libby Ward, speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, as a guest speaker, and requested the coopera tion of every member of the assembly in their winter quarter membership campaign. -COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED He also announced the following committees: dance committee, Joe Dawson, chairman, Ott Burton, Bob Sloan. Pete Burkheimer, Marian Igoe, and Frances Gibson; committee for cataloguing the Phi's collection of portraits, Bob Wright, chairman, Mickey Warren, and Tom Bell; Di Phi debate committee, Bob Sloan, chairman, Elton Edwards, Horace Ives, and Herbert McNary; publicity, Bob Farriss, chairman, Faison Barnes and Charlie Barker. : The new members, initiated last night include B. O. Bums, Ann Thorri burg, ; SusanKJaber, Alaine Marsh, Joe Greenberg, James Heyward, and Vernon Harward. IRC Will Discuss Conference Tonight Tonight at 7:45 in the small lounge of Graham Memorial the Internation al Relations club will hold its first meeting of the winter quarter at which several matters will be discussed. Plans will be made for the Interna tional Relations conference to be held here this spring, which will be spon sored by the Carnegie institute. The propaganda clinics which will take place this quarter will be dis cussed and definite plans and speakers arranged. The club's picture for the Yackety-Yack will be taken. Mail Subscribers Renewal blanks are enclosed in this issue for Fall Quarter mail subscrip tions which have expired. Please re turn these immediately if further sub scription is desired. Professor, Wife Are Caught In Germany While On Tour Story Told Of Two Ameri cans Who Went To Europe As Tourists Last Year By SANFORD STEIN This is the Odyssey of two Ameri cans who went to Europe as tourists last year, but got caught in Germany when peace gave up the ghost. August 21, 1939. Professor and Mrs. J. P. Harland arrived in Berlin to attend the International Congress for Archaeology. They had been in Europe since March, having visited Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Scandinavia. Being primarily in terested in archaeological research Dr. Harland had been granted a year's leave of absence by the University they had not paid much attention to the newspapers, were unaware that another crisis was approaching. The only unusual thing Dr. Harland no ticed was the scarcity of Englishmen and Americans at the conference. Mrs. Harland spent her time enjoying the "marvelous" Berlin zoo. CONFIDENT OF PEACE August 25. Leaving the conference and on their way to Greece, the Har lands stopped at Nurnberg where they saw preparations being made for the great annual Nazi congress. Every- ASU Convention Splits On Issne Of Finnish War At the fifth annual convention of the American Student union, the Rus-so-Finnish question brought out a sharp division into factions when two chief officers, Secretary Josph Lash and National Chairman Mollie Yard, were ousted in the annual elections after their plea to brand Russia as an aggressor in the conflict. Lee Manning Wiggins, a senior here at the University and president of the local ASU, was chosen . as national chairman for the coming year. CONDEMNS LOAN TO FINLAND The Union also voted to condemn the U. S. loan to Finland, the moral embargo Russia, sale of navy planes to Finland, military control of the Civil ian Conservation corps, the Civil Aero nautics authority's student pilot-training programs, and the increase of the defense budget at the expense of so cial legislation. The organization also urged a boy cott of the movies, "Gone With The Wind" and "Birth of a Nation." Specific wording of the resolution was: "While the American Student union has no sympathy for the Russian attacks on Finland and specifically condemns it as a clear act of aggres sion, nevertheless it does not want to see our neutrality prejudiced by those acts we consider to be unneutral." PEACE RESOLUTION The peace resolution finally adopted by the convention urged full support of China in the Sino-Japanese war, and branded the Allied war with Germany as an "imperialist" conflict being fought for "markets and colonies" ra ther than in the interests of democracy or small nations. The Dies committee accused the American Student union of being one of the "communist -front" organiza tions, at the same time white-washing the American , Youth congress of any un-American accusations. Student Car Owners Must Get Licenses By Friday Afternoon Jack Vincent, chairman of the safe ty council, yesterday reemphasized the necessity for all students keeping cars on the campus to get their licenses by Friday, January 12. Licenses may be obtained in the small lounge of Graham Memorial every afternoon between 3 o'clock and 5:30. Of durable type, the plates are made for attachment to the state tags on the autos and will cost 25 cents. Any student driving a car after Fri day without a license will be sub ject to action by the council. Continu ous violators may be turned over to the student council for infraction of the honor system. one seemed confident there would be no war and Dr. Harland sent home a postcard to that effect. He and his wife paid a brief visit to the medieval city of Rothenberg where they bought an etching from an art dealer who proudly invited them to listen to France and England on his radio. It was then the Harlands got their first inkling of England's preparations for war, de cided .to ask the American consul in Munich for advice as to what to do. August 27. The Harlands arrived in Munich, having seen a great deal of mobilization on the way down. Mean while, Mrs. Harland ljad caught flu, was forced to stay in bed for three days. The consul advised them to leave for Holland immediately, but since their work and winter clothes were in Greece and their return trip tickets were on a Norwegian line, they refused to go. August 31. Dr. Harland found that his Yugoslavian passport was not in order, and that he'd have to stay in Munich' until it could be adjusted. FIRST BLACKOUT September 1. Dr. Harland in the American Express office in Munich heard Hitler's speech saying that war had been declared with Poland. That ! (Continued on page 4, column 1) J CPU Speaker .-"V 1 t ? j V' L. , siY . . . handsome candidate . BUSBY 0UTLIN1 PURPOSES OF DI BEFORE MEMBERS Prexy Presents Winter Program Full Of Action The Di senate is beginning the new year with the evident determination to become again one of the leading cam pus organizations' as the attitude of the new president, John Busby, indi cated in his inceptive address at the regular meeting of the senate last night. Busby, in his speech, outlined the purposes of the senate, tracing the ac tivities of the body since its inaugura tion in the University. The main func tions of the organization are, he said, first, to serve as a "training ground for parliamentary procedure, public speaking, and the Democratic pro cesses of government." Second, "to promote dialecticism the training of minds in constructive, logical reason ing," and third, 'to carry on miscel laneous activities for the purpose of benefiting the University as a whole." WINTER PROGRAM A general program for the coming quarter was given by Busby. In brief, it was to make -the Di a restricted, honorary organization, to realize ex actly "where we stand, how we got there and where we are going," and finally to cut out the red tape and quibbling which take up so much use ful time at the meetings. The president closed his speech with the emphatic statement that, "We're through talking, we're going to do something this quarter." During the meeting it was announced that the Yackety Yack picture of the senate would be taken today in front of South building at 10:30. Calendars Available For Town Students All town students who wish a copy of the Graham Memorial Calendar of campus events for the winter quar ter call by the office in Graham Me morial or the YMCA to get one. Little Fellows Organize Fraternity At Yeshiva College For All Half -Pints NEW YORK CITY. (ACP) "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" is here, and here to stay at least if Shikey Bard has anything to say about it. While busily engaged in research for a term paper in History at Yeshiva college, Bard noticed in the text which he was using that Napoleon had noth ing on him as far as height is con cerned. Going back to the original sources, Shikey found in a text that not only he and Napoleon but neither John Paul Jones, Chopin, Beethoven, Keats, Milton nor Machelangelo were around when the extra inches were handed out. . . . Having justified the existence of his microscopic brethern, Bard has assum ed the task of organizing these con centrated dynamos into one organiza tion. The main purpose of this society is to insure the little fellows protec tion from being trampled underfoot. This "fraternity of the Little Fel (Continued on page A, column S) GATTON CONFERS WITH CANDIDATES WHILE IN RALEIGH Life Photographers Snap CPU Officers For Publication Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt has tentatively accepted the CPU's invitation to appear here on April 2, Chairman Harry Gatton an nounced yesterday. The former Indiana governor and prominent candidate in the race for the Democratic nomina tion told Chairman Gatton and three other union members, in an interview shortly before his Jackson Day address in Raleigh, that he would like to speak here if pressing duties in the nation's capital permitted. During the past few weeks the na tion's political spotlight has been fo cused on -the silver-haired Indianan, whom it has been rumored from time to time is President Roosevelt's choice for the party nomination next June, should the Chief Executive choose not to run. Current political trends, how ever, have found the former governor to the Phillipines the target of severe attacks from both the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic machine. SNAPPED FOR LIFE While in Raleigh conferring with McNutt, Gatton and his CPU associ ates, Bill Joslin and Ferebee Taylor, were snapped by a Life magazine pho tographer. Although the definite date of release is not known, it is expected that the shots will appear in the na tional picture publication some time in the near future. The reporter told union members that he was familiar with CPU activities, recalling the nation-wide attention received when the President spoke here. , .. In his Raleigh speech, commemorat ing Jackson's greatest victory at New Orleans, McNutt praised President (Continued on page 2, column 5) Coed Dorm To Give Leap Year Dance Friday Evening Something new in dances will take place Friday night from 9 until 1 o'clock when coeds residing in New Woman's dormitory No. 1 give the first Leap Year dance to be held on the campus this quarter. The dance will be "Leap Year" in the true sense of the word with the girls "doing the honors" beforehand and the boys taking over their cus tomary , status after the dance has be gun. "We're going to call for our dates and buy them beer and anything else they want beforehand," said Nancy Taylor, social chairman of the dormi tory. Miss Taylor is being assisted in making preparations by Mary Jack- son. ." Charlie Wood and his orchestra will furnish the music for the occasion. Chaperones for the evening will be Mrs. J. S. Cobb. Dr. and Mrs. Frank P. Graham, Dean and Mrs. R. B. House, Mrs. M. K. Stacy, Mrs. Irene F. Lee, Mrs. Elle G. Hardeman, and Mrs. Vic tor Humphries. Committee Formed At Syracuse University To Correlate , Student Suggestions SYRACUSE, N. Y. (ACP) De signed to give students a voice in the conduct of their courses and the method of presentation of subject matter, a five-man student committee has been appointed by the men's student gov ernment of Syracuse university to hear and correlate all suggestions, inquires, and complaints and present them to the proper administrative authorities. Suggestions for improvement of subject matter or classroom presenta tion and complaints against texts or instructors will be handled by the com mittee, to be known as the suggestion and inquiry committee. Petty or in sincere complaints will be disregarded. Students must submit their suggestions or complaints in writing to the com mittee. All communications must be signed, but the signatures will not be made known to any but the committee. Material will go to the deans of the respective colleges, or to administra tive officers, unsigned, according to the plan. ' I h
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