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CHAPEL HILL, N. 0, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940
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NUMBER 165
Poop a Hi Bee
Seniors To Celebrate Soon
With Dashes of Dis, Datem
Week Begins Monday,
May 13, With Blackout Ball'
On Wednesday's Program
Both male and female members of
tjje class of 1940 are going to have a
fi-d diie-dee-dee time beginning next
3londay if the report issued yes
terday by the senior week committee
i; ay indication.
Sot satisfied with the amount of
cancir.g afforded by the annual Junior
Ser.icrs. the committee has a "Black
out Ball" on tap for "Wednesday night,
May 25. Approximately 500 class
vreary seniors will gambol from 8 until
11 o'clock on the cement tennis courts
sprawled just beyond the lower quad-
ransrlt-.
The general idea, according to the
conunittee, is based on the fact that
riost of the seniors were born during
Tv'orld War I and are graduating, they
hope, ia the midst cf "World War IL
Orchestra Plays Behind Barricade
Bcuncars that is, gate attendants
at the Ball will be garbed in uni
forms and the orchestra is to play
from behind a barricade of sand bags.
Dimmed lights, fireworks and search
lights will be used to provide the at-j
mosphere of a city under fie. There I
are hopes that a no-break dance sans
lights will be possible.
A "Music Under the Stars" program
in Kenan stadium Monday night at 8
o'clock will open senior week. While the
music, stars and stadium are espe
cially for the celebrating seniors, the
committee has announced that every
faodv niav come if they watch their
step.
Senior Banquet on Tuesday
Tuesday night is the date for a big
srer, better senior banquet in the new
University dining hall at 8 o'clock. A
permanent class president will be
elected, the class history, will and
testament and prophecy are to be read
and the food will be both plentiful and
( Continued on page 4, column S)
News Briefs
Great Britain Requests
Mussolini to State
Italy's Position
(By United Press)
ROME, May 7 (Tuesday) Great
Britain has asked Premier Bonito
Mussolini to define Italy's "exact po
sition reeardmGr the European war
before May 16, according to reports
from resDonsible dinlomatic circles
today.
saying' that Pope Pius XII has trans
mitted to President Koosevelt a sug
gestion that the moment may be at
hand for a "final effort" to secure a
general European peace settlement
before Italy is drawn into the war.
The British demand was reported to
be tantamount to a direct question as
to whether Italy is neutral or at war.
Mussolini's status of non-belligerency,
it was said, is not regarded by
Britain as satisfactory in view of the
importance in which the Allies attach
to their blockade of Germany and the
Rone-Berlin partnership.
Some quarters connected the Brit-
iiS action with the latest joint efforts
"w.th the Pope and President Roose
velt. Tr.e British request to Mussolini for
exact definition toward his attitude
toward entering the war on Germany's
cr maintaining his "non-belliger-
Confirmed on page 4, column 5)
Inviting Two Girls Not So Bad After All
I- yf u think you're in trouble just
bau. two girls accepted your in-
-atir.Ti to the coming Junior-Senior-ca-es,
just listen to this tale of woe.
Earton and Bill Beerman have
fti.vd final word from Madeline
Z?r, the University of Illinois
fspjs beauty queen, that shell be
c't the weekend of May 17-18. The
thing started off as a joke, but
Jr backfired along the way and the
kal iais are a present con
riiting suicide or at least a trip
J f uth America.
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Benny Hunter
Senior Prexy
Challenges
Junior Class
Voicing the Senior class's collective
contempt of the juniors, President
Benny Hunter yesterday challenged
the third-year men to their annual
Softball game with the seniors. If
Junior President Gates Kimball ac
cepts the challenge, as he certainly
will, the long-awaited battle will take
place next Tuesday afternoon at 4
o'clock on the coed athletic field.
.No matter the outcome the game
will be one of the highlights of Se
nior week. Hunter promises, "Our
gallant team will fight to the last
ditch, never yielding for a single mo
ment. Our coaches, Dante Berini and
Dave Bowman, expect to muster the
best Senior team in history a team
that, even though it loses, -will never
dip its flag."
The confidence of the Seniors is
bolstered by the fact that their teams
have already defeated the juniors
twice this year in basketball and
football.
The senior coachinir staff issued a
call for candidates yesterday, declar
ing, "We cant win that ball game
without a team, you know. So sharpen
your batting eyes and grease your
gloves, and come on out."
Miss Duffield
Concludes Stay
With Short Talk
Miss Kay Duffield of the New York
Student Christian Movement and di
rector of Presidents School, concluded
her two day stay on the campus last
night with a talk to the YlI-YWuA
at their regular Monday night sup
per meeting held in the Presbyterian
church. Her topic was "What Is In
volved in Christian Leadership on a
College Campus."
Miss Duffield pointed out there
were two Kinas 01 ieaucia, ucaw
... x1 A
tive and constructive, ana men out
lined a program of six essentials need
ed.
The first qualification of a good
leader must have is conviction "A
real leader," Miss Duffield stated, "has
a real conviction about his cause, A
which has trrown out of
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(Continued on page 4, column S)
they decided to send her a wire, as
follows :
"BY UNANIMOUS VOTE YOU
HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO REP
RESENT ALL-AMERICAN IM
PORT AT JUNIOR -SENIORS
HERE. PLEASE WIRE YUUK
ACCEPTANCE IMMEDIATELY."
She did.
Young Lady Replies
Then a letter came from the young
lady. "I'm not in school this semes
ter," she wrote. "I'm in Chicago do-
-fnr
ing raalO worn, aim jjicfc", -
screen tests. Yes, 111 be delighted zo
represent the Ail-American import at
your dances.
Burton and Beerman efed to car
IS0I1D AND FURY
DRESS REHEARSAL
SLATED TONIGHT
'One More Spring:' .
To Be Presented
Tomorrow, Thursday
Final dress rehearsal will be held
tonight in preparation for the Sound
and Fury musical comedy, "One More
Spring', which will be offered tomor
row and Thursday nights at 8 o'clock
in Memorial hall as the last Stu
dent Entertainment of the year. Tick
ets may be secured from 9 to 5 in
the lobby of Memorial hall or in Led-
better-Pickard upon presentation of a
Student Entertainment passbook or
payment of 35 cents.
For the past month Director Car
roll McGaughey has been whipping the
production into shape, instructing the
leads how to sing their songs most
effectively, planning the lighting for
each scene, securing the necessary
sound effects, working out the vari
ous chorus routines, and reorganiz
ing the scriut so that 5 the show runs
smoothly and the maximum humor is
obtained.
Four sets have been' designed and
built under the supervision of Harry
Held and Ted Dichter a Y scene with
a soda fountain similar to the one in
the Book Exchange, the interior of a
bus station, a coed's dorm room and
a. stylized garden set. To avoid waits
between scenes when the numbers
are being changed, the director and
authors have arranged the musical
numbers in "One More Spring" so that
each time the curtain is closed there
will be some dance or song given in
front of it and the show's continuity
will not be broken.
A few of the features the musical
comedy offers include a reproduction
of the Y chapel period stampede, a
conversation between two imports re
vealing what they really think of the
boys who invite them down for a dance
week-end, a hen session in a coed's
dorm room showing the girls as "the
boys never hear or see them, an en
tirely original method of securing the
student body president nomination
from a campus political party, a tor
rid love scene between Frances Gib
son and Bill Stauber, and a bringing
together of the Student Faculty Jam
boree's successful team Martha
Clampitt and Ralph Bowman.
PHI TO DISCUSS
POLITICS TONIGHT
Bill to Abolish
Handbills Up
In view of the furor created by thej
extravagance of political aspirants
in the campus elections the Phi As
sembly will attempt to clear up the
situation tonight at the regular meet
ing in New East when the bill, "Re
solved, That all types of political lit
erature, banners, and posters be pro
hibited in future elections at Caro
lina," will be discussed.
The bill, "Resolved, That more
benches should be placed in the arbo
retum," tabled at the last meeting
because of the time taken up in elec
tion . of officers, will be discussed
along with another bill which pro
vides "That the Phi Assembly should
sponsor a omens' May Day with the
election of court attendants and a
May King.
Speaker I go stated today that sev
eral revisions would be made in the
constitution and urged that all mem
bers be present to vote on these
j changes.
ry on. fcena pictures at once, they
wired her. But Madeline replied dis
couraginglj "on second thought, fi
nances will keep me from coming."
Another look at the girl's picture
prompted the boys to drastic action.
Western union wires hummed once
more. "Expense is no object. We're
expecting you."
That one brought results. Yester
day a final telegram came from Miss
Ziegler. "Have reconsidered. Pic
tures on way and letter follows."
Mr. Burton and Mr. Beerman would
like to contact interested parties who
have the proper financial connections
to give Miss Ziegler the right sort
of care and attention when she arrives.
Glenn Miller and.
Play For Final.
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Good News for Local Dancers
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Eddie Duchin
Golden Fleece
New Members
Jason's Identity
To Be Revealed
For First Time
The Golden Fleece, honorary Uni
versity society, will conduct its an
nual tapping ceremony in Memorial
hall next Sunday night at 8 o'clock
at which time several rising seniors,
seniors and graduate students, who
have shown outstanding ability in one
field and general qualities "of excel
lence in others, will be inducted into
the organization.
The ceremony which will be open
to the public, will be preceded by a
10-minute organ prelude after which
all the doors will be locked. None
of the initiates will be warned be
forehand. T . :
Rising senior initiates and other
members who will return next year
will form the active membership of
the organization.
Jason, this year's leader of the Gold
en Fleece whose identity will be re
vealed at the ceremony, will open the
ceremony by reading the story of Ja
son and the search for the Golden
Fleece.
The members, clad in black robes
topped by shining fleece will then ap
pear in the glare of spotlights, stalk
ing through the darkened hall to tap
the new men.
This year's members are Dick Wor-
ley, Jim Davis, Ed Megson and Dewitt
Barnet, University seniors, Fred Wea
ver, assistant to the dean of students,
and Bob Magill, director of Graham
Memorial.
'On Choice' Topic
Of This Week's
Vesper Programs
Continuing the new type vespers
which have proven so popular during
the past weeks, the committee in
charge has chosen to have this week's
set deal with the subject, "On Choice,"
Last night the service was in charge
of the girls from Spencer hall with
Eunice Patten speaking on "The
Problem." Phi Gamma Delta will
take over tonight and Charles Idol
will talk on "The Standards of
Choice." Wednesday goes to Old
East and Jim Davis with "The temp
tations of Choice" as the topic. Thurs
day, Bill Joslin of Sigma Nu will dis
cuss "The Wrong Choice." Friday,
new student body president, Dave
Morrison will close the week's series
with "The right Choice".
Mrs. Dorothy Thomas
To Lecture Tonight
In Person Art Hall
Mrs. Dorothy Thomas will give an
illustrated lecture tonight at 8:30 in
Person hall on "Backround for the
Pre-Raphaelite Movement in Poetry
and Painting". The lecture will be
open to art students and any other in
terested persons.
Mrs. Thomas, wife of Professor
George Thomas of the University
philosophy department, has done
graduate work in the history of art
at New York University and has
taught at Mount Hoi yoke College and
at Breadloaf, N. H., Summer School
of the Arts.
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Sunday Night
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PROFS DISCUSS
EUR0PEANWAR
AT DlC MEETING
Ropp Declares
Nobody Will Win
Present Conflict
"Neither the Allies nor Germany
can win a victory with the war setup
as it is today," Professor T. Ropp of
Duke University said last night, as he
and Professor William Stinespring of
Duke, Professor J. C. Sitterson and
Professor C. H. Pegg of Carolina, an
alyzed the war situation in Europe at
a meeting of the International Rela
tions club in Graham Memorial.
Professor Ropp, whose subject was
"Central Europe," expressed the be
lief that a British blockade would tend
to injure England and the Allies more
than it would hurt Germany, and since
this is England's main weapon it would
not result in a victory for the English
Professor Stinespring discussed the
situation in the near East and said he
believed the British would make a
demonstration in Egypt in the near
future, in order to feel out Mussolini
and see just what Italy plans to do in
the present crisis.
In discussing what the war means
to the United States and vice versa,
Professor Sitterson declared that the
cash and carry plan was invented for
(Continued on page A, column 4)
Monogram Executive
Group Meets Tonight
The executive committee of the
Monogram club will meet to
night at 7:30 at the Phi Alpha
house with Sid Sadoff, president
of the club. Executive committee
members are Billy Groves, Frosty
Snow, Steve Forrest, Stu Rich
ardson, Don Baker, Wimpy Lewis,
Mickey Wagner, George Coxhead,
Jimmy Howard and Noel Wood-house.
Y Secretary Returns Home
After Leave Of Absence v
Bv Fred Broad
"New York is interesting but ifs
the sorriest place in the world to live,"
was the comment yesterday of Harry
F. Comer, secretary of the University
YMCA, who has been on leave helping
Alumnus George Denny with the New
York Town Hall.
, Mr. Comer has returned to his old
haunts for a few days preparing for
next fall, when he again will assume
his familiar place in the YMCA office.
When asked how it felt to be back
in Chapel Hill, his immediate reply
was, "like a first arrival in heaven.
Chapel Hill is a more interesting and
better place to live than New York
could ever be," he added.
Mr. Comer, who has been secretary
of the Y3ICA here since 1921, will be
back on the job September first and is
very anxious to get started again. "I
am very weil pleased with the work
(Continued on page 4, column )
ddj DecliM
Miller Signed
For Friday Set;
Duchin Saturday
Glenn Miller and Eddy Duchin and
their orchestras have been signed to
play for the Finals, terminating dance
series of the year, June 7 and 8, Louis
Sutton, secretary-treasurer of the
German club, announced yesterday.
Miller, who plays Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday nights for the Ches
terfield program from 9 to 9:15, will
perform for the Friday affairs, a tea
dance and an evening formal; and
Duchin, who broadcasts nightly from
the Persian room in the Hotel Plaza
in New York at 11:15, will play for the
Saturday tea and evening dances.
Miller features the singing of
Marion Hutton and Ray Eberle "in
America's number one band." The two
vocalists are the same who appeared
with the orchestra at its initial per
formance on the campus for Mid
Winters in February, 1939.
Miller Has Reached Top
Known as one of -the outstanding
trombonists in popular dance bands,
Miller arranges his own selections and
has kept the personnel of his band in
tact over the past several months. The
style of the orchestra, which has been
imitated by numerous other organiza
tions, is based on one of the finest brass
sections playing today.
Duchin is recognized as an ac
complished pianist and has been called
"the Magic Fingers of Radio" for sev
eral years. Singing with his orchestra
are Lew Sherwood, "singing trump
eter"; Stanley Worth, "song stylist,"
Johnny McAfee, "society favorite,"
and the "Three Ear Benders."
Dorothy Sang for Duchin
In 1932, Eddy Duchin added a girl
vocalist to his organization. She liked
her' work suxd saic to Juidy, ,iThis is a
great business and I'm going all the
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DI WILL DEBATE
REORGANIZATION
All Members
Urged to Attend
Final action on a proposed new
constitution will be considered tonight
at the weekly meeting of the Dialectic
Senate.
Questions of obselete phrases and
administrative reorganization will be
brought up for debate at the session
tonight, along with initiations of
new Di members.
Subject for debate will be: ''Resolv
ed, that the Di go on record as dis-
ap roving the present method of ex
cluding men students from electing
members of the May court."
John Bonner, newly-elected speaker
of the Di Senate, urges that all mem
bers be present in order to consider
the proposed constitution.
Band Rehearsal
Band rehearsal will be held in Hill
I hall at 7 instead of 8 o'clock tonight
as originally scheduled.
Glad to Be Back
Harry Comer
loveliness. In a rash moment