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HI EDITORIALS: Visit Death WEATHER: y Warmer and cloudy THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z52J volume : xlviii Businci: 9887t Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940 Editorial: 43S, New: 43S1, Kittoz 690 NU3.IBER 83 'Our Bob9 Airs Tie ws Faculty Asks Stress Earl J. Johnson Here Tomorrow At 8 On Themes, Report 9 RULES ANNOUNCED FOR SENIOR WEEK "IDEA" CONTEST Three Suggestions : Must Be Offered .i News Briefs By United Press lON'DON, Jan. 16 CUP) Great Britain loses three submarines and art of 107 men aboard. Prime Minis Veville Chamberlain refuses to tU the House of Commons why Hore Belisha was ousted as war minister. Vast sabotage plot to wreck railroads k discovered. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher, says he will be a candidate for Republican nomination for president on the plat form of pledging preservation of de mocracy "along with prosperity." pRIS Charges that men promi nent in French public life have "con nived" with Hitler results in promise of investigation by. military tribunal. French report sinking of three Ger man submarines. MOSCOW-r-Soviet press strikes out against what it calls monstrous inven tions abroad of Red army defeats in Finland; promises that Finnish forces will be completely crushed and de stroyed. WASHINGTON Hot congressional fight over American aid to Finland breaks loans to Finns through Export-Import Bank with assurance they iron't compromise United States neu trality policies. PARIS French government warns in official statement that any German attempt to invade Belgium will find a million Belgian and Dutch troops alongside the Allies to "hermetically seaP the blockade of Germany on the est. WASHINGTON Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Caro lina, chairman of the ways and means committee since the inauguration of the Roosevelt administration, an nounces that he will retire next Decem ber 31 when his term ends in order to tend to private business and take life easier. HELSINKI The Finnish air force repels Russian reconnaissance squad rons. Red land assaults are thrown back on the Karelian Isthmus and near Sail in the north. Russian bombing at tacks continue. STOCKHOLM Sweden and Nor way speed up shipments of men and war materials to Finland. WESTERN FRONT Heavy thaw bogs down action; no man's land is ankle deep in mud. ROME The Italian war council is scheduled to meet February 8, it was announced today. (Students are urged to write in their opinicns of the new United Press ser vice noic being offered by the DAILY Tab Heel. Continuance of this spe cial ftature depends upon these opin ions.) Letters Praise New United Press Brief s In Daily Tar Heel "Praise God for your service! Now I won't have to carry but one paper Th words on a post card from Bob Magill, Graham Memorial direc tor, seemed to voice campus reaction to the new United Press wire service kgnn for a week's trial in yesterday's Daily Tar Heel. All students who did not send in thr opinion of the service yester day are urged to do so in order to aid tie Publications union board in mak inJ? their decision whether or not to assim funds to continue it. Typical comments in yesterday's mail were: ' "Keep up the UP news service. It is a rreat addition to the paper" Hassell Thigpen. "V? news briefs intelligent idea onufoal. Enjoy a lot and hope for "cn4wnuance"--Gibsorr Jackson. Others voicing approval of the late rs flashes included: Bill Allen, Jimmy Howard, Joe J'dborn, Charles Sink, Noel R. S. Joodhouse, Ham Jones, Chunk Jen-k,n-S Ben Heath, Louis Gaylord, Gear Simpson, T. Edwards, Jick Garland, "urtes Roberts, J. E. Zaytoun, Bill BruKrr, and Jimmy Schliefer. Junior Senator Will Give Address On 'Americanism' North Carolina's spectacular junior senator, Robert R. "Our Bob" Rey nolds, will return to his alma mater to morrow evening at 8 o'clock to speak on "Americanism" in Memorial haU. The senator will attempt to con vince the campus that the only way to make the nation safe for Ameri cans is to register and fingerprint aU aliens; to stop all immigration for the next ten years; to deport all alien criminals and undesirables; and to banish all foreign isms. The campus will have an oportunity to tell the senator its reactions to his program in an open forum session after the ad dress. While at the University, "Our Bob" led the same active life which has gained much attention since then. A star trackman in the 440-yard dash, he captained the track team in his se nior year. He also played on the foot ball team, acquiring a reputation as one of the fastest men on the squad. . SPEEDY FELLOW After college, these same speedy characteristics were evident "upon many occasions, most notable of which were his kissing episode on the steps of the Capitol with Jean Harlow, and his many trips, after hot debates in the senate, to Germany and Italy. Among his other feats, the North Carolina senator has published two travel books, entitled, "Wanderlust," and "Gypsy Trails." Other of his non political activities have been as nation al commander of the Loyal Order of Moose and president of the Roosevelt Motor clubs of America, the latter in 1932, when he was an ardent New Dealer and still in the good graces of the Chief Executive. ' Despite the notices he' has received from several Washington political ob servers, "Our Bob" has fared well enough to make the front pages of the (Continued on page 2, column 3) Washington Editor Will Open Newspaper Institute Tomorrow Three-Day Program Will Be Conducted Here And At Duke Frank Waldrop, editor of the Wash ington Times-Herald, will deliver the opening address of the 16th annual Newspaper institute in Gerrard hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be open to the public. s Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Times-Herald, was scheduled fn, nMV. but in a telegram to Presi dent Frank P. Graham it was learned that she is ill with influenza. The Institute, which is conducted by the North Carolina Press association, with the cooperation of the University of North Carolina and Duke Univer sity, will continue through Saturday morning, with the Friday evening ses sion being held on the Duke campus. Registration is scheduled for 4 o'clock at the Carolina Inn. GLEE CLUB CONCERT TH-cooMnt? Mr. Waldrop's address will be a brief concert by the Univer f 0t,' Glee Club, after which Presi de j, 4..v ' . dent Graham will welcome xne ueic gates. W. ?. o ne jjcx a will respond, and Talbot Pat rick, publisher of the Goldsoboro News Argus, will introduce the speaker. Friday morning's session will fea ture a news room clinic and round table for dailies and weeklies to be conduct ed by John Harden, news editor of the Salisbury- Evening Post, and an ad dress, "Resolutions for. 1940 by Charles L. Allen, executive secretary of the New Jersey Press Association, who will be introduced by B. A. Low rance of the Mecklenburg Times, Char lotte A round table will follow. Earl J. Johnson, vice-president and general news manager of the United Press, will deliver a luncheon address at the Inn at 1 o'clock when R. M. Grumman, director of the University (Continued on page 2, column 6) DTH Technical Staff Members of the Daily Tar Heel technical staff will meet this after noon at 2 o'clock. By Each Entrant Rules for the senior, class "idea" contest, in which eleven prizes amount ing to twenty dollars will be offered for the best ideas for use during se nior week, were announced yesterday by Benny Hunter, class president. Explaining the contest, Hunter said, "The prizes will be awarded- for the best and most original suggestions for any type of entertainment, such as a saddle shoe stomp, stunt night, smoker, etc anything new." First prize will be $10. : Ten sec ond prizes of $1 each will be offerd for the next, best schemes. y , RULES The rules of the competitionare: 1. The contest is open to any bona President Benny Hunter an- nounced yesterday that the senior, class had sent flowers to the funeral of L J. Kellum, University senior of Jacksonville,-N.C, who died in Wilmington Monday. v V: fide member of the University student body. - ". . 2. At least three ideas must be sub mitted by each contestant. 3. The contest starts on Wednes day, January 17, and ends on Saturday, January 27. 4. Ideas are to be original and not repetitions of things that have been done before. If no ideas are accepted, no prizes, will be awarded. 5. Ideas must not be too elaborate and yet must be full enough to present their possibilities. 6. Judges will be a committee com posed of Jim McCallum, chairman, Jack Burton, Sam McPherson, and Benny Hunter. . . - . 7. Ideas may be given to anyone on the committee or mailed to Jim Mac Callum at the Phi Kappa Sigma house postmarked not later than January 27. Campus Driver Rule Now In Full Force Student auto licenses may be ob tained in 205 South building here after, Jack Vincent, chairman of the safety council announced yesterday. He added that it is now illegal for a student to drive a car in Chapel Hill without these licenses. PHI DOWNS BILL CONDEMNING ASU Two Votes Taken On Warm Issue In two ballots, one in which mem bers and visitors were allowed to vote and another in which only members voted, the Phi Assembly last night an swered negatively to the question, "Should the ASU be condemned as a communistic organization?" The votes were 26 to 20 and 17 to 13. During the spirited discussion of the question, Sidney Rittenberg, a member of the ASU, took the floor a large part of the time, outlining the ASU's program and defending the or ganization's policy concerning the at tack of Russia against Finland. The turning point of the argument came when Representative Sue Klaber made the statement that whether or not the ASU is communistic it should not be condemned, because that would be a violation of the liberal policy of the University. Up until that point, the sentiment of the gathering seemed to be in favor of the question. Because of the importance of the question, it was decided by a unani mous vote that two ballots should be taken and duly recorded in the min utes. Two new members, Norman Bur wen and Jimmy Walker, were initiat ed into the assembly at the meeting, and Bob Wright, chairman, made a re port' of the picture committee. .' . . . application to duty . . . UP Official Has Bottom-To-Top Success Story Earl J. Johnson, General News Man ager of the United Press, who will be the principal speaker at the Friday luncheon session of the annual News paper Institute here, has had a wide, varied experience. Beginning at the bottom, he worked his way to the top by energy and close application to duty. Mr. Johnson, who rose to the vice presidency of the far-flung news-gathering syndicate in 1938, and who di rects one of the largest staffs of re porters and editors in the world, went with the United Press in 1922. His first job was that of a pony reader in Chicago, dictating dispatchesover long distance to small newspapers which subscribe to the abbreviated reports. Subsequently he worked in Chicago as police reporter, writer, and desk assistant. His next assignment was manager of the UP bureau in Cleve land. That was the beginnings of a series of news and business department assignments in the Midwest, New York, and Europe which brought him to his present post in 1935. FAR-FLUNG STAFF In this capacity as general news man ager, Mr. Johnson keeps in touch, by cable, telephone, and wire, with the far-flung staff of the UP praising, criticizing, suggesting short cuts, mov ing men ahead of the news, concentrat ing manpower quickly wherever news developments occur. Thousands of men and women con tribute from every part of the globe to the endless stream of information which passes through his office in New York to make up the daily news report of the United Press. Mr. Johnson's job is to know what will interest the public, not only in the United States but in the 48 other countries where UP dispatches appear in the daily press; and to see that ac curate reports are delivered to its clients in those countries with all pos sible speed. The feature speaker at the Friday luncheon session here is a native of Kansas, and for a time between leav ing the University of Kansas and join ing the United Press he was. city edi tor of his hometown paper in Winfield, Kas. Livingston Recital Will Be Broadcast Over Studio Today Herbert Livingston of the Univer sity department of music will broad cast a piano recital at 3 o'clock this afternoon over the Southern broad casting system from the campus stu dio in Caldwell hall. PROGRAM His first selection will be in classi cal style the Sonata no. 7 by Joseph Haydyn from a group of more than 50 such works. The parts of the se lection will be played without inter ruption. . A romantic Frederick Chopin etude will be Livingston's second presenta tion. This composition, the Etude opus 25,' no. 9, is sometimes known as the "Butterfly" etude. This will be fol lowed by another Chopin work, Ma zurka opus 50. Concluding his recital Livingston will play Piano Sonata No. 1 by Wil liam Pijper, a contemporary Dutch musician who teaches at the Amster dam conservatory. This is a composi tion in the modern style which exem plifies the musical liberties in melody, harmony and rhythm of the recent writers. DAVIS CAUTIONS AGAINST EXCESS OF BAD CHECKS Students Issue Wave Of 'Bouncers' Before Holidays A wave of bad checks given by stu dents to the Book Exchange before the holidays led Jim Davis, president of the student body, to issue a caution yesterday that the student council will have to start taking action against offenders unless the wave stops. Forty-three of 331 checks cashed in the Book Exchange in the 12 days be fore the Christmas holidays were bad, for an average of four bad checks a day with a combined value of $30.09 a day, it was disclosed. University students are prohibited by the honor system from writing bad checks, and the number written in the past has been a negligible matter. Therefore the council has not thought it necessary to prosecute offenders. STEADY INCREASE In September the average number of bad checks passed in the Book Ex change every day was one; in Octo ber the average increased to slightly over one; in November it was. slight ly under two; and then the average leaped to four in December. The amount of money represented in the daily average of bad checks in creased proportionately: $5.48 per day in September, $8.20 per day in Octo ber, $15.88 per day in November, and $30.09 in December. In the past a committee has been appointed to cooperate with the mer chants association of Chapel Hill in dealing with writers of bad checks, but if the average continues to increase this quarter, the council will be forced to take action, Davis stated. Interfraternity Group Votes To Report Women In Houses Assembly Pictures To Be Made Today All members of the Phi assembly are requested to be in front of Man ning hall at 10:30 this morning to have the Phi Yackety Yack pictures made. DI-PHI TO DEBATE THIRD TERM QUERY January 30 Set As Date For Meet A debate between members of the Di senate and the Phi assembly will be held Tuesday, January 30, at 8 o'clock in Graham Memorial, .it was reported at the meeting of the Di last night. The subject of the debate will be "Roosevelt shall be a candidate for a third term." The senate approved the bill that the Di-Phi dance shall be held Friday, February 23, at Carolina Inn. This was the only other positive ac tion taken by the Di at last night's meeting. A bill limiting the member ship of the organization to 100 mem bers was killed in committee. BILLS SENT TO COMMITTEE Several bills were presented from the floor and referred to committees for action. Those of general campus in terest were entered in the following form: Resolved, that the Dialectic Senate send a telegram to the House of Rep resentatives of the United States ex pressing whole-hearted approval of the Dies committee. Resolved, that the Dialectic Senate extend active financial aid to Finland. Resolved, that the Dialectic Senate petition the Daily Tar Heel to create a column of political analysis in the paper. Members of new committees appointed by President John Busby were as follows : Town Hall committee, Norman Levinson and Maury Kern (Continued on page 2, column 3) Says Outside Work Is Worst Weakness In Honor System The faculty committee on the honor system has termed a lack of em phasis on work done outside of class themes, book reports, term papers, lab reports, etc as the greatest cur rent deficiency, in the honor system and asked the junior class honor coun cil to take steps to remedy the weak ness, it was announced last night. The council issued the following statement: "We feel the faculty committee has touched upon a subject which could ef fect serious injury to Carolina's honor system. If it is true that due to under emphasis, irregularities and care lessness have crept into work car ried on outside of class, we believe that students only need to be remind ed of the deficiency in order to correct it themselves. JUST A REMINDER "The council therefore is planning no 'investigation' into work outside of classes, but simply will take steps to bring the matter to the attention of the student body. "To be effective the honor system must be carried out in complete detail. Outside work is definitely an impor tant detail. We believe the student body as a whole cherishes the honor system, and will redouble its efforts to prevent any possible weakness which might seriously injure the sys tem as a whole." The council announced that pledge masters of campus fraternities would be asked to make a short talk on the honor system to pledges at the time of their initiation. They would be asked especially to emphasize outside work, members of the council said. OTHER STEPS - Another step to be taken by the council will be to request all dormi tory floor advisers to further acquaint freshmen on their floors with the ( Continued on page 2, column 5) Sub-Committee To Take Action On Problem Soon The Interfraternity council last night unanimously passed a resolu tion to cooperate with the Woman's Association In reporting all coeds who visited Greek houses until the first of next week, when the committee ap pointed to study the problem of women students in fraternity houses will have taken some definite action. Under the present ruling of the . Woman's Association, no coeds are allowed in the Greek houses, unless a chaperoned party is being given. Should a women student cross the for bidden threshold it is the duty of all of the fraternity president's to report the coed for violation of the women's code. The committee to study the prob lem met last week and appointed a sub-committee to draw up a definite resolution to present to the adminis tration. It has been reported that the sub-committee has come to a decision and will offer the suggestions to the larger group, which will in turn pre sent the recommendations to the ad ministration. The committee's findings will be given directly to the administration, and will be acted upon, without hav ing to go through the Student Advis ory committee, and the faculty com mittee on fraternities as was the case in the Interfraternity council's peti tion presented last fall. Mrs. Walter Spearman addressed the council before the regular meet- (Continued on page 2, column 6) - Union Gives Program Of Classics Tonight A recorded program of classical music will be offered tonight at 7, o'clock in the main lounge of student union. The program will consist of: Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz," and "Tales from the Vienna Woods," Saint Saens' "Dance Macabre," and Beeth oven's "Symphony Number 5 in C Minor." '
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