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CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1941
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S&F Speeds
Up Work for
Last Rehearsal
Bleary-Eyed Crew's
Revue To Last
About 2Y2 Hours
By Philip Carden
One hundred fifty bleary-eyed
Sound and Fury workers will try to
speed up their already supercharged
labors today to finish preparations
for a complete dr.ess rehearsal of
-'Standing Room Only" tonight in Me
morial hall.
Saturday night was the first time
that all the 25 parts of the revue had
been assembled into a continuous Te
hearsal to work out curtain cues, light
changes, dressing room schedules and
other coordinating technicalities.
"It looks like this thing is going to
be full Broadway length two and
& half hours," Director Carroll Mc
Gaughey said after the 8 hours spent
on coordination Saturday.
Not Sure of Length
With skits, vocals, and chorus rou
tines being practiced simultaneously
in various places over the campus dur
ing the past few weeks, only a sketchy
idea of the length, could be estimated.
Two people sing their own composi
tions in the show. Jane Dickinson
will present two' of her own songs,
"The Willow Tree Cried" and "So
Good." Barnaby Conrad, in a flaring
woman's dress will sing "I Ain't No
Glamor Gal" which is composed of the
things he would like to 'put in .his
column set to a kind of music.
Otier SiiU
Then there are the "Aggie" skit, the
one called "Dear Professor Koch,"
and "You Kissed - and. Told" -which
are explained sufficiently by their
titles. -.
The number with the most interest
ing background in fact is "In a Tele
phone Booth for Two," which is a
vocal-tap routine by: Fred Caligan and
Ann Angel. Sanford Stein got his in
spiration last year when he saw Or-
See SOUND & FURY, page 4.
Dr.Kuhn Speaks
On Freedom And
Human Relations
Dr. Helmut Kuhn of the Philosophy
department, speaking in Gerrard hall
last night on "Freedom and the Res
toration of Human Relations," em
phasized the idea that "democracy is
the most vital and most vulnerable
type of political organization."
He illustrated his point by showing
how it was' possible in a democracy
for a fascist group to grow up within
it. He explained that every political
idea is powerful so long as its anti
thesis challenges it and that the
present dictatorial challenge may
cause the rise of a democracy which
is not in defense of itself but pro
gressing. He explained that the philosophers
position in the field of uncertainty is
a pregmatic one, that is, the phil
osopher shapes his ideas in accord
ance with his determination. "We
know that restoration should come,
that restoration may come, but not
that it ii v,o said. "The core
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of freedom, the responsible agent,
identifies itself with freedom of con
science," he explained and went on to
say that this fact implies the possi
bility for the individual to flee from
freedom ... to abandon himself. Re
garding this point he explained, "We
assume that it is a catastrophy for
man to abandon his freedom. Demo
cratic wisdom is a divine check on
human lust for power," he said, and
explained that democracy is an organ
ization. of freedom within the political
Power and can never tolerate a po
litical power. establishing itself as a
power over human conscience.
YRC Elects Tew
Vice-President
At yesterday's meeting of the Young
Republican club, Leo Tew was elected
the club's vice president and plans
ere discussed concerning next meet
ing's address by John Wilkinson,
President of the state Young Repub
Iicans, on the other college clubs
throughout North Carolina.
Adolf Hitler
For Knock-Out Blow Against Britain
CPU Stood Up
For Tenth Time
. Yesterday for 'the tenth time this
year and the third time this month,
a CPU-scheduled speaker disappoint
ed the union and canceled a speaking
date.
Assistant Secretary of War Rob
ert P. Patterson last night notified
Bill Joslin, chairman of the CPU,
that he will be unable to fill his en
gagement here tonight because he
must appear before the House fore
ign relations committee today. Joslin
said last night that the entire pro
gram, which was to include an ad
dress by Major General Devers, com
manding officer of Fort Brag, had
been cancelled.
The three disappointments this
month were caused by failure on the
part of Nye, Rayburn, and Patter
son, who were scheduled at two
week intervals. '
Two Students
Hurt in Wreck
Edward Burks Is
Seriously Injured
Two University students, Frank
Saylor and Edward Burks, and
Wright Ellington, a Chapel Hill resi
dent, lie injured in Watts Hospital
today as the result of an accident ear
ly last night on the Raleigh " road,
when the car 'in which the trio was
riding crashed into a parked truck
and turned over. Burkes' condition
was termed serious by hospital at
tendants. According to R. H. Sutton of the
State Highway police who investigat
ed the wreck, a truck of the Dillard
Gamble company of Durham, out of
gas, was parked out on the highway
near the New Hope creek on route 54
300 yards from the main bridge, when
the 1937 Chevrolet, driven by Elling-J
ton, swiped the rear end of the van,
veered directly into the body and then
rolled over near the embankment.
The driver of the truck, Cecil Cates
of Durham, had gone for gas for the
stalled truck, and had left James
Shaw, also of Durham, to flag pass
ing cars with a top coat. The truck
carried no flashlight.
Ellington spotted the stalled truck
See WRECK, page 4.
Union To Sponsor
Dance Saturday
An opportunity for I Carolina stu
dents to perfect their conga steps and
rhythm will be . furnished by the
conga party which Graham Memorial
is sponsoring Saturday night from 9
to 12 in the Tin Can.
Conga steps, as well as square danc-
mg, nave Deen iouna, mruugu uin.c.
experience, to need the wide open
spaces, so Fish has moved the scene
of operations from, the lounge of Gra
ham Memorial to the vast and drafty
wastes of 'the Tin Can.
Julian Burroughs and his Student
Union orchestra will play for the
dance. The boys are working up sev
eral congax numbers to be played in
between the regular popular songs.
The orchestra was organized last
November and is composed of twelve
students, who will play for Fish's
night club as soon as it is opened.
Basketroom Users
Warned Against.Thief
Men using the basketrooms in Wool
len gymnasium were warned yester
day by basketroom authorities to be
careful that their lockers are locked
securely and can not be pulled open.
A person, or persons, is prying loose
the catch to the doors i and going
through the contents. Two $36 watches
and between $50 and $60 disappeared
last week.
Gymnasium authorities are doing
everything possible to apprehend the
theif, but until he is found, they have
requested that students use caution.
Boasts He
British Fleeing
As Nazis Get Ready
To Enter Bulgaria
" By United Press
BERLIN, Feb. 24 Adolf Hitler
boasted today that he is prepared to
"mobilize half of Europe" for a knock
out of Britain and that a vast Nazi
U-boat fleet, built up during the
winter,' will unleash merciless sub
marine warfare beginning next month.
Speaking in the rebuilt Munich
beer hall where he narrowly escaped
assassination in a time-bomb blast on
November 9, 1939, the Reichfuhrer
left no. doubt in the minds of his old
Nazi Party comrades that the begin
ning of an all-out offensive against
Britain is close at hand.
SOFIA, Feb. 24 The British lega
tion today began destroying confi
dential records and evacuating mem
bers of its staff to Turkey as signs
multiplied rapidly that the German
army is ready to begin its large-scale
occupation of Bulgaria, possibly with
in a matter of hours. .
The Bulgarian government ordered
nation-wide blackouts, presumably
against the threat of British bomb-
mgs, to begin eitner tomorrow or
Wednesday night. !
Bulgarian army officers in uniform
studied maps in Sofia's largest hotel
tonight with mysterious German
speaking visitors garbed in civilian
clothes. v
Nearly 200 villas in the exclusive
Bulgarian resort of Tcham Koria, 43
miles from Sofia, were reported to
"have been requisitioned for officers ofi
the German general staff. 11
British Promise New Method
To Smash U-Boat 'Blitz'
LONDON, Feb. 25 (Tuesday)
British naval quarters today promised
to meet Adolf Hitler's U-boat "blitz"
with new secret methods for tracking
down and destroying enemy submar
ines. These quarters asserted that the
"new secret methods" will be the
British navy's answer to Hitler's
boast yesterday that he will unleash
a vast Nazi U-boat fleet in merciless
submarine
month.
warfare beginning next
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 The Of
fice of Production . Management
cracked down on the nation's' alum
inum and machine-tool producers to
day, ordering them to give preference
to defense orders a move that will
be felt right down the line from com
mercial plane and auto manufacturer
to housewife.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 The Unit
ed States has no intention of contrib
uting war planes to the defense of
See NEWS BRIEFS, page 4.
CoateS' Explains Problems of Student '
Government, Winding Up Lecture Series
Student Government
Receives Set-Back
As Early as 1910
By Paul Komisaruk
Carolina's student government, the
problems it faced under fire, the sit
uations that arose and the way they
were handled,-were discussed by Pro
fessor Albert Coates at his third Sun
day night lecture in the Institute of
Government Building, before a small
group of student leaders. 1 ,
Professor Coates, who with his wife
has prepared a comprehensive history
of student government at the Univers
ity, wound up "the loose ends" of his
present lecture series explaining the
student government set-up at Caro
lina, its justification and its accomp
lishments. Professor Coates pointed out that
the students newly - won semi-independence
received opposition and al
most a complete set back as early as
1910 soon after its start. Up un
til that time, Professor Coates said,
the student council had merely been
"a -faculty device." The first test
came 'on March 26, 1910, when the
faculty revoked a decision of the stu
dent council and refused to expel a
Is Prepare
SP To Nominate
Junior President
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The Student party will select its
candidate for presidency of the ris
ing junior class in its convention to
night at 7:30 in Gerrard hall, Chair
man Mitchell Britt said yesterday.
The convention's choice will cam
paign against Sam Gambill, Univers
ity party nominee for the job who was
announced several weeks ago.
This will be the second office so
far for which both parties have
brought out candidates. The only oth
er office for which two candidates
have been announced is the presidency
of the student body, for which the
Student party's Truman Hobbs will
oppose the University party's Ferebee
Taylor.
Britt said yesterday that he hopes
the convention will also get around to
nominating "several other" candidates,
but that this would depend on the
time consumed 'in deciding the junior
presidency.
Di To Debate
Expenses Bill
Measure Would Limit
Campaign Spending
The question of limiting campaign
expenditures of candidates for stu
dent offices comes before the Di senate
tonight as agitation increases among
campus leaders to introduce a. bill be
fore the student legislature to regu
late political practices at the Univer
sity. -
Recognizing a Daily Tar Heel re
port that an estimated $1,000 was
spent last year by campaigners, the
Ways and Means committee of the Di
has approved and will send to the floor
of the senate.tonight a bill recommend
ing control of campaign . practices.
One candidate for president of the
student body, Truman Hobbs, leading
the Student party ticket, has made
the statement that he is entirely in
favor of limiting expenditures.
Last year's party chairmen, Pres
ton Nesbitt and Bob Sumner, and those
of 'this year, Mitchell Britt and Jick
Garland, expressed their desire to see
some measure of control instituted
over campaign spending.
The bill coming before the Di states
in the preamble that there is a neces
sity for more adequate regulation of
campaign practices. It recommends
that the members of the legislature
enact proper legislation to , accomp
lish this purpose.
In the bill it is stated that "each
candidate for president of the student
See DI SENATE, pageU.
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President Chase: Gambling Case
student who had been found guilty
and then had been "hipped" by the
council. The student body rose in
revolt, the President was asked to ap-
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Miss Patricia Clement
SDD Organizer
Speaks Here
Urges Students To
Make Voices Heard
"College youth at Carolina and
throughout the country believe in as
sisting Britain and making democ
racy work at home,"' Mis -"ia
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Defenders of Democracy, told a stu
dent audience here yesterday, "but we
must make our voices heard, , and be
an active part of our nation, not mere
ly silent partners.
"See democracy work and help
make it Vork," the speaker urged stu
dents, and suggested concrete means,
like letters and petitions to officials,
radio discussions, aid-Britam drives,
and home relief charities.;, : p
"You already have on your cam
pus the machinery for doing these
things," Miss Clement continued. The
local Committee to Defend America
by Aiding the Allies was mentioned
specifically, and at the conclusion Miss
Clement handed out membership cards
in this organization which a number
of students came forward and signed.
Primary Objectives '
The two primary objectives of Stu
dent Defenders of Democracy, as cit
ed by Miss Clement, were "immediate
and continued aid v to the countries
resisting aggression and a 'complete
J embargo on all goods to Japan."
"The Lend-Lease Bill enables us to
send those countries fighting totali
tarian aggression," she declared, "the
strength they need to repel the forces
that would stamp out freedom and
equality the world over. Aid to the
democracies is the most - direct and
surest means of victory for the Brit
ish and for American freedom."
Of making democracy work at home,
Miss Clement declared it "can not live
stationary but must move forward,
and its first concerns must be to meet
human needs." These she listed as:
"jobs for unemployed,- relief for needy,
Seer SDD, page 4.
1912 Hazing Incident
Almost Leads to Death
Of Student Council
pear before the student body and ex
plain why the guilty student had been
reinstated, where the student council
had made a mistake in their decision,
and just where the council stood in
regard to its future;, they demanded
to know the power, position and
rights of the stjident council. In the
fall of 1910, the Trustees granted di
rectly to the student government the
power of a civic government.
In 1912, Professor Coates said, a
far more serious threat arose to the
existence of student government on
the campus. It was over the question
of hazing, which had always been a
bitter issue on the campus, and from
1825 to the Civil War the students
had been divided over this question.
The 50 year old effort to put an end
to the practice came to a disastrous
head on a, Friday the 13 of that year.
Isaac William Rand, a freshman from
Smithfield, was taken from his bed
during the night, escorted to the ath
letic field and made to "perform" on
top of an overturned barrel. He slip
See COATES, page 2.
Garland, Britt
Lead Battle
On Proposal
Measure Defeated
18 to 8 After Hour
Of Hot Discussion
The hotly debated bill to reorganise
class government unanimously en
dorsed by the student government
committee and by the two candidates
for president of the student body was
defeated by the student legislature
last night after an hour of tumultous
discussion. s
Leading the opposition were the
chairmen of the two political parties,
Mitchell Britt and Jick Garland, who
urged the legislature to "spread the
honors."
Only 26 of the legislature's 48 mem
bers were on hand for the most riotous
session this year and the bill was de
feated 18 to 8.
As proposed, the bill would have
limited the number of class committee
members to 15 and combined the of-'
fices of secretary and treasurer.
Those opposing its passage argued,
for a "continuation of Jacksonian de
mocracy" and decried "a bill which
will sacrifice democracy for efficiency."
They plead, "You may send your chil
dren to. school here someday. Wouldn't
you want them to get an honor to go
under their picture in the Yackety
Yack?
Proponents of the bill, led by Martha
Clampitt and Pat Winston, asked,
"Since all of those against the bill ad
mit that only four or five members on
a committee of 75 do the work, why
have a gravy train?"
Better Chance for flraft. -'.
Britt, admitting that "it's the first
time that Jick and I have ever gotten
together on anything," said that the
chances of graft and corruption in
small committees would be heightened
because "15 can keep a secret better
than 75."
Speaking against the bill, Roy Stroud
brought on a word battle with Miss
Clampitt when he said, "I don't see
any way in the world how classes can
be more efficient than they are. There
will always be graft, now the four who
do the work can be advised by the 71
who don't."
Miss Clampitt questioned, "How can
they advise when most of them never
even come in contact with the presi
dent?" Stroud "Well, I'd be willing to bar
gain with you on the point between 75
and 15, but 15 is not enough."
Clampitt "What is so important
that must be done to require more ?"
Stroud "More than 15 people work
on senior committees."
Clampitt "What do other classes
do?" . " .
Speaker ''Please confine your com
ments to questions."
Stroud "Miss Clampitt is going on
the assumption that nothing can be
made of class government."
And the word battle continued, in
See REVISION BILL, page 4.
Town Groups Meet
To Pick Nominees
The town boys' and town girls' as
sociations will meet together tonight
in Gerrard Hall at 7:30 in a joint
meeting to nominate a slate to repre
sent town students in the student leg
islature for the coming year.
Town students are entitled to six
representatives on the legislature. Al
though six students elected were all
town boys, a move is under way this
year to give the girls at least one
representative.
Although nomination by the two
associations does not mean official
nomination, it is expected that both
campus parties will endorse their se
lections. Scouting Frat Meets
Tonight at 7:45
The Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity, will hold an open
meeting tonight at 7:45 on the second
floor of the YMCA building. All those
interested are invited to attend. The
meeting will be featured by a trip to
the radio studio.