North Carolina Newspapers

FEB 1 4 1341 i li A i . i f ill i 'v II o r i cr--fs ma I is ttttt EATHER: Cte$; possibly raix; &J net prud XS-ti 'iQJiUL JLJIa--Aly(vUx-. tykZ)) lJU i Vv THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST L 1 VOLUME XljX ' x otp.: tss CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, FEBRUARyT4Ti941 Editori7s ; n7ssi7i " NU1IBER 103 Latins Feted 3y University Of Virginia Group To Visit Richmond, Williamsburg: Entertained by the University of Virginia Carolina's South American ritors opened the first day of their .ve-day trip to Virginia cities and jjtorical points yesterday by view r the University campus in Char Ijtsesville and inspecting famous Mosticello, home of Thomas Jeffer- Xhe 110 Latin students, professors, jsisess and professional men and voinen, who have been studying and jring the "good neighbor way", here for three weeks, are making this, the second of several similar side trips, fcv bus, permitting an elastic sched with frequent stopovers accord ing to their various talents and tastes. Accompanied by Leavitt, Lyons The delegates, who represent seven siath American countries and include a somber of distinguisned n gores are accompanied by Dr. S. E. Leavitt i-ector, Dr. J. C. Lyons, secretary, 2. JL Gruman, University Extension head, and other local people. Yesterday they were the guests of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia at lunch, a sightseeing trip vesterday afternoon, and at a dinner Lid entertainment program last night. After breakfast today the motor cade will move on to Richmond, where the Eembers will be feted at a lunch eon, dinner, and a special program as ests of the Chamber of Commerce, headed by Edmond BrilL Tomorrow the party will continue to Williamsburg for a visit to William and Mary college, the city, and the ex hibition buildings of the restoration. They will lunch in Williamsburg, leave in the afternoon, and arrive back in Chapel Hill in time for din ner. - v- - G. B. Zehmer, Extension director cf the University of Virginia, and Randolph H. Perry, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, were in charge cf the arrangements for the reception and entertainment in Charlottesville Cast Announced For Playmakers Fourth Production The cast for "The Marauder," sew play by Noel Houston, to be the Carolina Playmakers fourth public production, has been selected by Earl Wynn, director of the production, and play is now in rehearsaL The play, which tells the story of a wealthy land-owning family in Okla henva, is beinsr oroduced for the first ae by the Carolina Playmakers, by special arrangement with the author's a?ent It is under consideration for Xew York production by the Theater Guild. Houston is a former Playmak i and is in Chapel Hill for the pro duction. Playing the role of Joseph Green free, father of the family, is Robert Bowers of Webster Grove, Missouri His three daughters, Mardella, Elea- nor, and Susan, are being played by Elizabeth Carr, of Collinston, Louis-'-aa, Betty Bolce, of Cincinnati, Ohio, d Jean McKenzie. of West Palm ch, Florida. The grandfather, a full-blooded kdian, is being played by William Chichester, of Chapel Hill. Gilbert Geyser, a novelist, is played by Arthur Gy, cf Brooklyn, New York. Kent, a Jcacg man in love with one of the Thiers, is played by William Bras- of Evanston, Illinois. Robert Car- 01 Hamlet is playing the Butler. Guests in the party scene are Mor- a Flower, of Forest Hills. New lTK Emilie Johnson of Bradenton, JJorida, Stanley Lieber, of Gastonia, eancr Jones, of Cambridge, Mass., Je Stiefelmeyer, of Cullman, Ala J, Peter Hitchcock, of Menton, , and Arthur Conescu, of Brook n, Y. . The Marauder" will be presented lte Playmakers Theater four ?ht5' March 5, 6, 7, and 8. Advisors Pnl Sophj ls, Frosh Grades Frfc5hmen and sophomores must tieir advisors for midterm marks &re noon tomorrow, the General e?e office announced yesterday. F t "J : i Hans Kindler Kindler 's Career Brings World Fame National significance attaches to the career of Dr. Hans Kindler, who will conduct the National Symphony or chestra of Washington, D. C, in a concert here Tuesday tight in Memo rial hall, because, largely through his efforts, one of the major symphony orchestras of the United States has been created in the nation's capital. When Dr. Kindler established the I National Symphony in 1931, he had already achieved world fame as a cello virtuoso. For more than 15 years he had concertized throughout the world. Kindler has appeared as soloist with such world-renowned conductors as Stokowski, Mengelberg, Furtwangler, Bodanzky, Stock, Reiner, and Mon teux. . . Starting his music studies in his native city Roftterdam, Holland as a child, young Hans drew attention to himself for the first time by taking first prize for piano and cello playing at the Rotterdam -Conservatory. He was then only-13. His concertizing began shortly thereafter. v The young virtuoso came to America for a visit in 1914 and when the World War broke out decided to stay here. He has made his home in this country everince. He was first cellist with the Philadelphia orchestra until 1920, when the demand for solo appear ances lured him from his orchestra desk. - j Dr. Kindler did his first conducting in 1927 as guest director with the Philadelphia orchestra. Later he con ducted festivals of modern music in Rome, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Paris and Brussels. In the same year he came to Washington to conduct the world premiere of Stravinsky's bal let, "Apollo Musagetes," in the Li brary of Congress Festival. Continuing his concert work, in 1929 he played a season of 110 con certs throughout the world, including the Orient, Europe and the United States. He then decided to give more of his time to conducting, in which field he felt he could contribute more to the advancement of music in Amer ica, his adopted home. Clement Declares Students Ready To Defend Democracy SDD Organizer To Start Chapter By Mary Caldwell "College students in the South have, in the majority, already decided that they are ready to fight if it becomes necessary for America to aid the fail ing democracies. This ottitnP on the cart of the South's college students has been no HntA nn numerous university cam- puses by Patricia Clement, Benning ton college graduate 40, who has visited eight southern schools in the past three weeks Goucher, George- - . A w - own. George Washington university, ITniversitv of Virginia, Sweet Briar, VPI, Mary Baldwin, and William and Mary. Organizer of SDD As a worker for the national or ganization of Student Defenders of Democracy she has been aevoung ner time to esiauiiaiix6 on college campuses, and will be here until the first of next week. "The southern students that I nave mPf" said Miss Clement, "have been carefully watching the European war and are alert to the precarious posi tion of .the democracies a posuion Dry Cleaners Face Charges Of DTH Today Group Will Debate : Plant Conditions In Chapel Hill Representatives from the six Chapel Hill dry cleaners, the dormitory man agers and the Interfraternity council will discuss accusations of inefficient handling of student cleaning-' at a conference in the. Datly,Tar Heel editorial office this afternoon .-at -2 o'clock. Time regulations on work, inspec tion of plants" and guarantees on cleaning "contracts"wiTl .come before the group for debate. Rumor of Outside "Firm " , Rumor of a state firm's intention of establishing a branch in the vil lage with experienced labor to handle deluxe cleaning was reported but town cleaners said yesterday they will move toward all possible im provement o service at the meeting, it was stated. Louis Harris, whose column in the Daily Tar Heel Wednesday evoked immediate action from the Chapel hill dry cleaners, will be chairman of the meeting. Price dissensions among the "firms themselves will not be considered at the conference as its purpose is only to see that students get better work at a- reasonable cost. Daly complaints from students and steady reports of disgust over the poor work in Daily Tab Heel col umns brought the situation to a head although it has been smouldering for some time. Proposals to organize the cleaning firms and also to bring a group from the North Carolina Dyers and Cleaners association to inspect periodically plants here will be brought up, but pre-conference comments re flect, little hope for that particular measure. " - V - --i -- fearitone Soloist To Give Program Sunday Afternoon Earle Spicer, a baritone who is well remembered as radio's Fuller Brush Man, will appear in concert Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the main lounge of Graham Memorial, Richard Worley, director of the Student union, announced yesterday. Spicer, a British baritone, has had extensive concert - engagements throughout Europe and America. He has appeared as soloist with the New York, Cincinnati and Toronto sym phonies, Boston Handel and Haydn, and the Westchester and Chautauqua festivals. He has sung before more than 45 colleges and clubs, and last season sang for President Roosevelt and the Governor-General of Canada. In addition to three years as the See BARITONE, page 4. which makes them, today, ready to go to war if necessary. Last year this time, most of them were probably of the opinion that they would not go to war under any circumstances." "The students, as a whole, de clared Miss Clement, "are a thinking bunch and are very much aware of what is going on. It was partially to find out if this were true that the SDD national committee was set up last December. It had been reported that the college group of America was a pretty dormant b)mch disinterested and inactive. We challenged that opin ion, said' that we didn't think we were such a lost generation, and set out to find the truth, whatever it might be. ; "First a national headquarters was set up to offer a bond between the thinking groups on the various cam puses. What the bUD wants to do is to give the students a channel through which they can crystallize their sentiments, and also give them a workable program so that they can actually do something about the situation. The national committee keeps in touch with the local campus committees, sends them literature, outlines plans for money-raising proj- See CLEMENT DECLARES, page Newsome For Rejection As Parallel By Charles Barrett The state board of education yesterday extended to an unprecedented extreme its boycott of a state history book by University Professors Hugh T. LeOer and A. R. Newsome. After ignoring last December a unanimous recommendation from the state textbook commission that the book be adopted for standard fifth-grade use, the board of education yesterday also struck : : : : Y.'Af ! .-:;:; " I - - f i ; 1 V, ff ' , NORTH CAROLINA AND INDIAN POTTERY on display in Person Hall Art gallery will be open to the public throughout February. The exhibit was arranged and collected in part by Mrs. Margaret Stauffer of Marion, the state NYA supervisor of arts and crafts, who is pictured with Raymond Pyatt at work above Pyatt is a member of the Marion group under the direction of Ernest Hilton. Japan Ready War Might Spread To Orient -.-....w-- . . . . By United Press l SHANGHAI, Fefari4(Frid European war might spread to the Orient "at any moment? was voiced in high Occidental diplomatic quar ters today and appeared to be based on and Italy in a simultaneous "knock- out offensive against the British Empire. ' These developments, linked with war moves m Europe, high-lighted the disturbed Asiatic scene: A reliable Occidental informant said that "the Japanese battle fleet" was concentrated off Haiphong, Indo- China, yesterday but that "nothing was known of the reasons' for the demonstration. The Japanese said a number of their warships were in the Haiphong area in connection with measures for enforcement of the ar mistice agreement between Thailand and French Indo-China which was ar ranged by Japan. As a result of urgent advices from Washington, the U. S. consulate-general here again sent circular letters to all American residents - of the Shanghai consular district urging that women, children, and non-essential men in this region leave imme diately. LISBON, Feb. 13 Early restora tion of the Spanish monarchy was foreseen tonight after disclosure that former King Alfonso XIII under an Saga Will End At Sing Tonight That saga of the old-west, "The In dians Are Coming," will come to an adventurous end Saturday night at 8:30 at the community sing in Me- jmorial hall. "Trail's End" is the title of the con cluding chapter of the movie serial. The lonsr-awaited appearance f the Chi Omegas will actually take place Sunday night, when they pro vide a stage show by singing sorority songs. ," - The other movies to be shown will be Charlie Chaplin in "The Tramp" and Ralph Graves in "Off His Trol ley." Student Licenses To Be Issued Today Student license plates will be given out in the Dean of Students office to day between the hours of 3 and 5. Stu dents with cars are required by the law of the safety council to display these tags. In the future license's will be issued only on Fridays and Mon days. - Lefler Text r" To Join Axis; a belief that Japan will join Germany agreement with Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco has renounced all claims to the throne in favor of his 27-year-old son, Prince Don Juan. Adolf Hitler was reported in diplo matic quarters to be angered at the naming of Juan, pointing out that the youth was educated in England as a naval officer and might work against See NEWS BRIEFS, page 4. Latin Pianist To Give Recital Sunday Night Hugo Balzo, who ranks perhaps as e u : : j. :ii UUL" X pulIlL, Will Sic v-v u c and its Inter-American institute in Hill hall here Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock it was announced today. Senor Balzo is being brought here by the Institute as a special gesture to its 110 South American scholars, professors, business and professional men and women. There will be no ad mission charge, and music-lovers here and in nearby towns .are cordially in vited to hear him. First Visit to the States Although Senor Balzo has traveled widely in Europe, first as a student and later as a concert artist this is his first visit to the States. Sturdy Carolina Gentlemen Telegraph Amorous Messages . Valentines Are To-the-Point By Shirley Hobbs The Carolina gentleman has no soul - or at least not a romantic one! This startling revelation came about in the annals of the local Western Union. It is no flowers and hearts for the Chapel Hill Lochinvar. When that sturdy male woos by . wire, he says such things as, "O Babe, I'm your knight in shining armor Won't you be my loving mama?" or "Be my Valentine. Be my honey. Well live on love and your old man's money." or "Roses are red, violets are blue, so what?" (All quotations guaranteed authentic) - - - - v . . A telegram to arrange a date at a girl's school i3 a great tax on the Sittffled ' . Book the Newsome-Lefler text from the supplementary reading list recommended by the commis sion. Of 385 books recommended by the textbook commission for parallel reading in state schools, the profes sors' book was the only one not ap proved by theoard of education. No New Justification After the Tar Heel stirred a state wide furore last month by charging that politics entered into the board's December decision, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction Clyde Erwin listed as the board's first rea son that the Newsome-Lefler text "contained 'opinions on politics to which members of the board, espe cially Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, took exception." No new basis other than this pre vious statement was offered yester day to explain why the professors' book, which was termed by a national publishing house to be the "best state history ever printed," was singled out from 385 books to be removed from the supplementary list. Educational Crime After the board failed to adopt the Newsome-Lefler text for standard use last December, the action was termed "an educational crime" by a former member of the state textbook com mission. ; One of the state's highest educa tional authorities charged that "No commodity in North Carolina is sold on so low an ethical basis as ele mentary textbooks." , - It was emphasized last night that: the textbook commission, which indi- cated its strong approval of the Newsome-Lefler book last December by giving it unanimous endorsement for standard classroom use, again sup ported the book by including it on the supplementary reading list. Overruled Twice This commission is composed of school superintendents, teachers, and other educational leaders. The board of education, which in both instances reversed the profes sional advice of the textbook commis sion, is composed of ex-ofScio state officials, including the governor, Sec retary of state, auditor, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, and attorney-general. The board's decision to eliminate the Newsome-Lefler text from its ap- nroved narallpl list Hops not nrevent r thp V, fro pH - -t.nol , braries and as a teachers' aid, but renders this use improbable. Books approved by the board are of fered to schools at a reduced rate, .Newsome and Lefler, informed of the unparalleled action of the board, seemed very surprised last night but decided to withhold comment. It "was also learned yesterday that the text by Jule B. Warren, selected by the board in December over the professors book, is considerably be hind publication schedule and has not been issued yet. The book was scheduled to have been completed on January 25 and to be put in use on February 1. imagination. Those who want to re serve their supply for the date resort to Kiddiegram form number 1394 which reads, "Brush your teeth, comb your hair, hurry to' bed, say your prayer,-and before you know it, I will be there." More Imports From Greensboro Getting girls to come to the Hill is another matter. The usual procedure is to make a list in order of prefer ence. At each rejection, the operator sends the invitation to the next girl on the list. When other colleges are giving dances, there are. more refu sals. Greensboro is top-ranking for invitations' with Sweet Briar and Hol lins coming in close. Imports have come from as far as Massachusetts, Connecticutt, Illinois, and Texas just for the week-end.