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Mm EDITORIALS: Another Beating Youth WUl Serve Big Matters Ahead PTEATHER: y Clear and colder -THF OxYZY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- VOLUME XLIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1941 Editorial : 435: New: 4SS1; Kibt: C9Q4 NUMBER 104 I Ml I II If II Workmen Begin Building New University 'Hangar Structure Will Be Fireproof, Hold 12 Ships A crew of 15 workmen began con struction yesterday on the Univer sity's new all-steel, fireproof hangar, ith completion expected within 60 days. ' The hangar is being built to re place the one destroyed by fire early this winter, and when completed will house at least 12 planes. It will be 60 ' by 80 feet, the same size as the old structure, but will be moved about 200 yards down field. . The hangar will be virtually fire proof, with steel framework and sheet metal sidings and roof. It will be open at both ends, and, according to Air port Manager W. R. Mann, has been designed to "facilitate in every way operation of the airport." Workmen .began digging the f oot-ino- for the new structure yesterday morning, joining about' 120 other men who are working on the field proper, which at completion will be the largest college airport in the nation. A. R. Hollett, University engineer, said yesterday that it would be im possible to determine the exact cost of construction until the sidings have been ordered. At present the engineers have only incomplete drawings ' of plans for the preliminary stages of the work, and the sidings will not be ordered for- another ten days. "It is all carried out under a gov ernment " contract, and , we expect to receive final word within a few !ays," he declared, but until that time work men must wait for equipment with which to continue the construction. The disastrous fire which swept the airport on the night of Saturday, January.l2,.completel5r demolished the hangar and ten airplanes', seven of which belonged to the . , University. They were immediately replaced by five new ships, however, and the work of the CAA school went on a-pace although without a hangar. . The five Piper Cubs owned by the University are still left under the open sky at night, and work on the new hangar will be rushed through in order to provide housing space for the valuable ships." ' Valentine Ditties Show Students9 Thwarted Love By Elsie Lyon Hedy Lamarr, Clark Gable, and Gipsy Rose Lee seem to be the ob jects of the greatest amount of Caro lina students' unrequited love, if the St Valentine's day poems written in Walter Spearman's book reviewing class yesterday are any indication. The annual assignment to write kitties in the Valentine spirit, brought of woe and hope from the 30 journalism majors learning, suppos edly, how to tear books apart. The connection between book reviewing and Valentine poetry is obvious, of coarse. The poems, although taking full ad vantage of poetic license, had the 'Jsaal dcse of day and may, befuddled and coddled, go and beau, and too and true. Unorthodox Rimes They also demonstrated such rhym ing lines as Errol (Flynn) and pearl, fare and Lamarr, figure and meagre, P-uing and reviewing, but no love and aoTe. The suggestive rhymes were the choicest, of course, but for further de tails see Randy Mebane who swiped em all from the DTH office. Just to throw out a hint: Hedy and bed4y. This should disprove the contention Feature Writer Shirley Hobbs that the Carolina gentleman is not esthetic. She just doesn't dig in the right filing drawers. . ... Few Samples A typical sample is this: If you're sad and lonely too, W your true love isn't true, Don't drown yourself with liquid, fare, BiJt go to see Hedy Lamarr. . A future foreign correspondent Sagged out this masterpiece: To Mussolini goes my best, The poor gng jow on any fun. n -"e's floundering in an awful mess; See VALENTINES, page 2. . Dry Cleaners Fail To Meet . Chapel Hill dry cleaners yesterday failed to attend a conference planned for discussion of complaints about the quality of student cleaning. Several firms s promised -Thursday to send a representative to the meet ing but when the appointed time rolled around no one had arrived. With discussion of time limitations .and work guarantees heading the agenda, the conference was to have reached an amicable settlement of the problem of alleged inferior work done on student clothing. . Managers of the various firms, when contacted, said they had nothing to gain from such a meeting and noth ing to offer. V Spicer Sings Here Sunday Baritone Will Feature Ballads Earle Spicer, noted British bari tone, will feature English and early American ballads in his concert here tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock in the lounge of Graham Memorial. Typical of the ballads which Spicer will sing tomorrow are "Old Zip Coon," "The Tune the Old Cow Died On," "Old Paint," and "Barbara Al len." Within the last year, Spicer has sung for President Roosevelt and the Governor-General of. Canada. He has also sung at over 45 schools and clubs. Fuller Brush Man In addition, he has sung with the London, Dublin, New York,' and Tor onto symphonies,, at the New York Bach Cantata, Boston Handel and Haydn, and the Westchester Chau tauqua festivals. Spicer is well remembered as radio's Fuller Brush Man who came "knockin' at your door" for three years over the National Broadcasting company. He has been praised for his splendid voice, magnetic personality, dramatic abilitv. distinct enunciation, informal 9 friendly maner, and his sense of humor. The London Daily Express said of him, "One of the most attractive vocalists we have heard for some time." News AimI Observer Criticizes Eejectioin Of History Textbook Broughton, Erwin Decline To Explain Action on Text Dr. Edward M. Kahn . Sociologists To Hear Kahn Hillel Sponsors Supper Tomorrow iwlward M. Kahn, director of the Atlantic Jewish Charities and fae ulty member of the Atlanta Univers By Philip Carden Governor J. M. Broughton, ex-officio chairman of the state board of educa tion, and Superintendent of Public In struction Clyde A. Erwin, also an ex officio member of the board, yester day declined to offer any explanation for the board's unprecedented action Thursday in rejecting one lone book from a supplementary reading list of 385 recommended by the state text book commission. Both officials also declined to reveal what member of the board had intro duced the motion to strike a North Carolina history text by University professors A. R. Newsome and Hugh T. Lefler from the list. Since the board was in "executive structions to arrange contracts with all the publishers, and that a motion was "properly made and seconded" that the Newsome-Lefler text be stricken from the list. Erwin denied reports published in ijr oviiuux ui ouuai wuia. Will Suealt l j a j j at. j tt ' v rM- x JT ; had introduced the motion. He point ed put that he had submitted the text- mon,my supper meeting sponsored Dy narily the board wouW him -fe Kahn has long been prominent in the field of social research. Besides being an instructor in law and social work he is executive director of the Federation of Jewish Social Service, is on the executive board of the At lanta Social Planning council, is Pres ident of the Georgia Conference on Social Work, and has served on the B'nai B'rith Hillel commission. Everyone is invited to attend the meeting. The procedure to be follow ed is to get the tray of food in the large dining hall of the University cafeteria and take in into the small banquet hall where -the supper meet ing will" be held. v ; v ."'' Knight Appointed Commission Head By Association Professor Edgar W. Knight, of the University of North Carolina, was ap pointed chairman of the Commission on Curricular Problems and Research at a meeting of the Southern Asso- session," it seems that the properly seconded and uncontested motion was all that was necessary to delete the book. In spite of his position as chairman of the board of education, Governor Broughton said that since the contro versy over the fifth-grade history text arose before he came into office he did not "feel like participating in it." The supplementary reading list is composed of books recommended for purchase by school libraries as paral lel reading. Exclusion of the New-osme-Lefier text from the list does not forbid its purchase by libraries, but will probably prevent most librar ies from obtaining it because it will not be available at reduced rates. Thursday's action was the second blow dealt the professors' history text, which was termed "by all odds . . the best suited to our needs" by the state advisory textbook commission. Last December the board ignored recommendations of the textbook com mission favoring adoption of the New some-Lefler history for standard fifth grade classroom use. Editorial Hints Action Might Be Political Worley and Union To Sponsor Comprehensive Crawl Tonight Haw River Playmates To Provide Music i "The Comprehensive Crawl," a Fish Worley square dance masquerad ing under a fancy name; will official ly take place tonight from 8:30 to 12 in the Tin Can. "We certainly hope the faculty will come down, even if they don't know how to square dance. We'll teach them in a short time, and besides, you have more fun when you don't know." spe cial student-faculty day promoter Worley said last night. Playmates to Play Special entertainment at the dance No Figures For Law Med Dances An innovation in Carolina's terpi chorean tactics took place last night and will continue tonight in the an nual Law-Med dances in the lounge of Graham Memorial. The first affair of the set held from 9 to 1 o'clock last night did not include time out for a figure and tonight's dance from 9 to 12 o'clock will repeat that unusual procedure. The Duke Ambassadors are provid ing music for the occasion. Dances, sponsored jointly by the two gradu ate professional schools, are formal and are limited to members of the two schools. ciation of Colleges and Secondary will include a personal appearance of Schools in Memphis last December. iroiessor JUiignt nas Deen a mem ber of this Commission since it was established in 1936 and also a mem ber of the Executive committee.. He succeeds Dean K. J. Hoke, of. William and Mary, whose term expired. The Commission has organized and directed a study of thirty-three select ed secondary schools in southern states and in addition has held three work-shops for the staffs of the par ticipating schools, one of which was held here in 1939. The Commission has also cooperated with a number of higher educational institutions in sum mer work conferences. A Work Conference on Higher Ed ucation is being planned for this sum mer and will be announced at a later date. Symphony Rehearsal . To Be Held Saturday University Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal of the woodwinds and strings at 2:30 p.m., Saturday. University Consumes Huge Quantities of Coal and Light; By Baxter McNeer The University consumes each 24 hours enough coal to heat a five-room house for three years and enough electricity to keep an electric re frigerator running constantly for 33 years; Fifty tons of coal, ground as fine as face powder, is burned each day to generate steam, which is first used to spin the dynamoes in the Univer sity's new power plant and then dis tributed over the campus to heat the buildings and supply hot water. More electricity is consumed Non dark, gloomy days, because it means that more lights will be burning and the current required will take a con siderable upswing. Three times dur ing the day the consumption reaches peak loads, corresponding closely with meal times. The biggest load of . the day is drawn from the generators at supper time. Huge Furnace Steam-to run the turbines and heat the buildings is generated in a fur nace that would make Nebuchadnez zar's look like a country store Burn side. No grates are used in this roar ing inferno; the fire is suspended in mid-air on an air-blast which feeds powdered coal into the firebox. Leaving the boiler at a temperature of 750 degrees, the steam first gen erates electricity in the powerhouse and then starts on its half-mile trip to the old power-house behind Phil lips, where it is distributed over the campus. " Pipes Run Through Tunnel Pipelines running , through a con crete tunnel carry the steam to the steps of Manning hall Tuesday mbrn- See UNC CONSUMES, Page U ing at 10:30. Billie Carden and her playmates, di rect from Haw River. The Play mates recently won first prize at the Old Fiddlers' convention in Durham Judy Bullock, the little girl with the tear in her voice, will come over from Greensboro to present two new songs. "Heaven Will Protect The Working Girl," and "The Bird In The Gilded Cage." - Grady Reagan will present severa new numbers, and the Graham Me morial Mountaineers will be present to fill in the gaps between Glenn Miller records. ! Phil Ellis To Wed Miss Hay ward Miss Mary Lou Haywood and Phil Ellis, both of Raleigh, will be married Sunday, May 11. Both Miss Haywood and Mr. Ellis are connected with WPTF in Raleigh. Miss Haywood is secretary to Graham Poyner, the program director; Mr. Ellis is an announcer. Mr. Ellis received an A. B. degree in journalism from the University last June. He has been with WPTF since June 12, the day after com I mencement exercises. Ellis was an active debater on the campus and served as speaker and speaker pro tem of the Phi assembly. He worked on the desk of the Daily Tar Heel, as a night sports editor and a news editor. Before his graduation from the University, he served as a student announcer in the Caldwell hall radio studio, getting much of his experience on the radio from that source. Ellis also took an active, part in politics while on the campus. Monogram Pittures To Be Taken Today The Yackety Yack pictures of the Monogram club will be taken on the GermcmsMdy Bulgaria Soon By United Press SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 14 German armed forces are expected to move through Bulgaria and perhaps Yugo slavia "in only a matter of days" for the purpose of forcing Greece to agree to a negotiated peace with Italy, a high source said today. Bulgaria is resigned to German oc cupation, regarding herself as being on the spot and powerless to put up any resistance, which would be tanta mount to committing suicide, it was said. No resistance is anticipated from any Balkan quarter, including Turkey and Yugoslavia and Russia apparent ly does not intend to put any stum bling block in the way of a Nazi pene tration oi .Bulgaria, it was ieit in Bulgarian quarters. Germans Subject London To Heavy Bombing Raid LONDON, Feb. 14 Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe tonight subjected London to its heaviest attack in a month, heaping hundreds of bombs and in cendiaries on all parts of the metro polis after a day of mass air battles matched only by the furious air war of last September and October. Mass air battles were fought over the Channel approach to the British Isles as the German air force appar ently sought to take up the challenge of a pounding RAF sweep of the Nazi See NEWS BRIEFS, page ' 4. The Raleigh News and Observer printed in this morning's issue an editorial censuring the action of the State Board of Education in rejecting -the much-discussed history textbook by University Professors Newsome and Lefler frdm the supplementary reading list for North Carolina schools. The editorial, entitled "An Appal ling Situation" and unsigned, fol lows: When the State Board of Educa tion not long ago turned down the history textbook of North Carolina which had been recommended by the Elementary Textbook Commission and . chose another, there was room for the feeling that the Board of Edu cation exercised its honest Judgment and chose what it regarded as the best book. Now, however, when the same State Board of Education, com posed v of elected state officers, only one of whom is in any sense an edu cator, . practically bars the book from the school lib ' the state the situation is si ?ed Honest men mign , lx differ as to whether the text on the history of the state prepared by Jule Warren, secretary of the North Carolina Edu cation Association and a former news paperman, or that prepared by Pro fessors A. R. Newsome and ' Hugh Lefler of the University of North Carolina history department was the best for fifth-grade readers. History professors might know more history without writing so interesting a text sion, composed of prdfessional teach ers, preferred the Newsome-Lefler book. That did not mean that the Board of Education was necessarily wrong when it chose Warren's in stead, but this additional action of the Board of Education practically barring the Newsome-Lefler book even from school libraries makes it apparent that something more than the virtues of the book is involved. All but the very innocent know that there are more things involved some times in the selection of textbooks than can be seen by the naked eye. In the selection of the textbook Pro fessors Newsome and Lefler might have benefitted by that solidarity of Ph.D.'s and professional educators which sometimes seems to restrict the writings of textbooks to college pro--fessors. On the other hand, Mr. War ren, as the permanent official in the professional association of the teach ers of the state and as a member of the State School Commission, might have benefitted by his own educational relationships. In a choice between books by such men the ordinary citi zens might feel that not all the poli tics were centered in the State Board of Education, which is composed en tirely of politicians. This last action, however, which . turned the Newsome-Lefler book down even as a supplementary reading, not only took the book out of the schools but also put the State Board of Edu cation on the spot. In this extreme ac tion it has either indulged in political proscription of the book or it has See TEXTBOOK, page 4. , . Chapel Hill Customs Found Similar to Those of Latins . The two youngest South Americans attending the summer school . here, Eleana Simon, 18,.. from Santiago, Chile, and Ignaeio Ycaza, 20, from Quayaquil, Ecuador, aren't having any trouble getting adjusted to col- ege life in North America. Latin- American students date, dance, - and go to football games just as we do in Chapel , Hill, they declare. ; "Sure, we date," said Ignaeio, who has just completed his second year of civil engineering in theJ university at Quayaquil. "And we have not needed "duenas" chaperones for ten years, which makes -it nice." Likes . Blondes . . . ' - Ignaeio, who has lost no time in dating in Chapel Hill, admits that he ikes blondesj but won't go back on the Latin brunettes either. "I guess I ike South American girls and North American girls both the same," he finally decided. "North American girls have a wonderful sense of humor, and they are quite intelligent," he . said. "The girls here are very gay and high spirited," Eleana, who has been ill with the flu for most of the time since she 'ar rived in Chapel Hill, has nevertheless made up her mind about American boys. "All these boys here seem, to take life so easily," she said. "A Chil ean boy at the university always car ries lots of books, and talks about his classes. Here th boys go to dances, they go out somewhere all the time. Studying seems to be a matter of second importance, here." No Cokes "When we have a date in Chile," See CHAPEL HILL, page 4.
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