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Wht DITORIALS: Statesmen-Politicians TTEATHER: Vat uable Mediator Renaissance For All F air and warmer -rJ7F OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME XLIX Batiacaa: 9887; Cixcalstioa : 88S4 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1941 Editorial: 435C; News: 4351; Hightz C30 NUMBER 126 ooay o Til w FacultjiIM i - m - i T Board To Seek Setup Without Money Fines Totten Heads Group Appointed ' By Dean House An overhauling of University rules for class cuts is being considered by a special 12-man faculty committee now investigating the ever touchy prob lem, it was learned yesterday. Dean of Administration R, B. House said a careful check was made of yes terday's class attendance, to give the committee accurate information on which to base recommendations for a 'fairer system without monetary pen alties." Rales Termed "Outmoded" The 12-man committee, headed by Dr. H. R. Totten of the botany de partment, was appointed by House af ter reports of growing difficulty in en forcing attendance rules and "general dissatisfaction" with the present sys tem among both students and faculty. The rules now in effect were enacted more than 10 years ago and have been termed "outmoded" by some critics. Three phases of the cut problem are being investigated by the committee: weekend absences, first-day absences, and general cuts during the week. Statistics on each are being gathered in South building and will be given a thorough analysis before new arrange ments are made. Meanwhile the English faculty has moved to enforce the present rules strictly, throughout the department. Students in yesterday's English class es were startled out of their seats by a mimeographed ultimatum which said that four unexcused absences vould mean an automatic drop from class for any student. A member of the department said yesterday that this action wa3 merely an attempt to bring about a unified departmental policy strictly enforcing rules already "supposedly in effect throughout the University." Text of Warning Following is the ultimatum, which, according to Dean House, is "in line" "ith present University rules: "The department does not allow op tional attendance. A penalty for a single absence will be evidenced by a lowering of the student's class stand- l-rr "Unexcused absences in excess of three shall result in the Dean's being asked to drop the student from the course. "Absences from classes on, Friday afternoon or Saturday shall count double. "Excuses for absence shall be See BOARD SEEKS, page 2. Hampton Quartet Presents Concert The famous Hampton Quartet of Hampton Institute, Virginia, present ed a successful concert of Negro spir ituals in Memorial Hall last night be fore a responsive audience. The group appeared here under the auspices of the YMCA. The program included "Down by the River Side," "Rise and Shine," "Every Time I Feel the Spirit," "Ezekial Saw the- Wheel," "Steal Away," "Git on Board Lil' Children," "De Old Arks Amoving,' "Old Time Religion,' "Want to Go to Heaven When I Die "Go Down Moses," "My Lord What a Morning," "Let. Us Cheer the Weary Traveler," "View the Land," "Swing Low Sweet Char iot," and "Old Man River.' Seniors Sign Today For Job Interviews Seniors in Commerce or Arts and Sciences who desire interviews with representatives of the Liberty Mutual insurance company for jobs as claim adjusters, or with representatives of Prnctor and Gamble for jobs as sales "Jfn, must sign up at the office of S. J. Welch in 206 South Building by 5 o'clock today. Graham To Confer With Mediation Board Today By Ranson H. Austin Dr. Frank P. Graham, appointed last week by President Roose velt to serve on an 11-man labor mediation board, will assume his duties today in a conference called at Washington by Chairman Clarence Dykstra to formulate plans the board intends to follow in recon- ciling the labor .disputes. Dr. Graham, together with Dykstra, former national selective service di rector, and WTilham H. Davis, New York attorney, will represent general public interest. Controller W. D. Carmichael said yesterday that Dr. Graham's appoint-ment--one of the highest of several national honors of the University president came as a surprise, and that his selection was first learned here over-the radio. Since he is not on a federal salary, Dr. Graham will receive traveling expenses plus $25 for those days spent actively arbitrating. Representing Employees Representing employees on the board are: George Meany, secretary of the American Federation of Labor; George M. Harrison, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor's Brother hood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organiza tion and Thomas Kennedy, secretary treasurer of the C.I.O.'s United Mine Workers of America. Representing employers Walter C. Teague, former president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; Rodger D. -Mapham, president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship com nanv: Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington (D. C.) Post, and Cvrus Ching, vice-president of the United States Rubber corporation. In brief, the board is authorized to 1. Assist contending parties reach an amicable agreement. 2, Afford means for the parties to voluntarily settle disputes, with the See GRAHAM, page 4. Mathematicians Hold Meet Here Friday, Saturday Mathematicians from all sections of the Southeast will assemble at the University Friday and Saturday for the 19th annual sessions of the South eastern section of the Mathematical Association of America. The meeting is expected to attract teachers of elementary mathematics as well as college professors. Principal guest speaker will be Dean L. P. Eisenhart of the Graduate School of Princeton university, head of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton and past president of the American Mathematical society. Dean Eisenhart will speak at the banquet session Friday evening, March 28, on "The Teaching of Mathematics." The local committee in charge of arrangements for the meeting is com posed of Prof. John W. Lasley, chair man; and Profs. E. T. Browne, fc. L. Mackie, W. Hurewicz, Henry Wallman, and Vinton Hoyle. The sessions win get unuer w Friday afternoon with the presenta tion of papers by members of the as sociation, after which will " come the banquet session and Dean Eisenhart's address. The Saturday morning session will be devoted to a business session, sec tional meetings on geometry, algebra, and pedagogy, and a general session. All states on the Atlantic seaboard from Florida" to North Carolina and this side of the Mississippi river in the South will be represented. In view of the tremendous upsurge in mathe matics in recent years the attendance is expected to be excellent. Dr. Forrest Cumming of the Univer sity of Georgia is president of the Southeastern section, Dr. John W. Lasley of the University of North Carolina is vice-president, and Dr. Henry A. Robinson of Agnes Scott college, Georgiaf is secretary. Cuts, May '- : : : : x I V"- A: .4 P v- X ; . VVC Y MMMTtfrVj. Dr. Frank P. Graham Funeral Held For Dr. Henry Assistant Registrar Served for 19 Years Funeral ""services for Dr. "' George Kenneth Henry, Assistant Registrar of the University andN former Latin professor, were held in the Chapel of the Cross1 Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. He would have been 64 years old the seventeent'h of June. Dr. Henry was greatly beloved by generations of students, faculty mem bers, officials and employees of the University and was widely known for his spontaneous friendliness and his sparkling humor. He had been treas urer of the Chapel HHl Episcopal church for many years. Native of Canada Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1877, the son of Rev. Matthew George Henry and Mary Parker Henry, Dr. Henry was educated at the Classical Union School in Palmyra, N. Y., and took his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Hamilton college, New York, in 1900 and 1904 respectively. Dr. Henry came to the University Ann . 11. in lyus as an instructor oi maxne matics and in 1909 he began teaching Latin. In 1914 he took his Ph.D. de gree here and was made an assistant professor of Latin, a position "he held until 1922 when he became Assistant Registrar. He married the former Miss Bessie Harding of Washington, N. C, who survives him. Their children are Na thaniel Harding Henry, instructor in the University English department; Rev. Matthew George Henry, Rector of Calary Church, Tarboro; Dr. Rena Hoyt Henry of the Guilford County Sanatorium and Miss Mary Elizabeth Henry of Chapel Hill. Active oallbearers were Edwin S. Lanier, James A. Williams, Roy Arm- j strong, Ben Lumpkin, J. S. Fowler John Manning, Harry W. McGalliard, and George F. Horner, all of Chapel Hill. . Crippled Children Benefit Saturday The Chapel Hill chapter of the North Carolina League for Crippled Children announced yesterday that it would present a special motion pic ture at the Pick theatre Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. All proceeds will go for the aid of crippled chil dren in this community. The picture is "Forty Little Moth ers," with Eddie Cantor in the lead ing role. ... Tickets will go on sale this morning at the Y, South Building, Graham Me morial, and the Bull's Head Book Shop. Price 25 cents. - , J i i y-i 1 t Stalin Pledges Neutrality With Turkey Soviet Leader Confers With NipponJMinister By United Press Joseph Stalin yesterday stretched cautious hands toward the titanic struggle between Germany and the British Empire, supported by the United States, and was said to be opening the way for British recogni tion of his absorption of the Baltic states and half of Poland, and a deal with Japan which might result in pro tecting -Russia's -Asiatic planning. The. Soviet leader's right hand was extended toward the British Isles and the Atlantic and his left toward war- torn China and a Japanese empire which is striving desperately to end an undeclared war with Cathay which has kept much of Nippon's military strength immobilized, since the great European conflict started. Complicating a .confused interna tional situation, Stalin made these moves: Agrees to Turkish Alliance 1. Agreed to a joint Russo-Turkish declaration asserting that if Turkey is attacked and should find herself forced to war for defense of her ter ritory she can count on Russian neu trality and "comprehension." The declaration was designed to allay Turkish fears that Russia might join Germany in. a joint attack on Turkey because of that country's friendship for Britain, and to obtain a more favorable atmosphere for British recognition of Russia's sovereignty over the Baltic states and over those areas of Poland which Moscow was awarded after Germany . overran the former Polish republic at the begin ning of the war. 2. Talked with Japanese Foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka for two hours in Moscow, thus supporting re ports of an impending Russo-Japanese accord which might include a cessation of Russian assistance to China. Such a deal might enable Japan to end her conflict with China. Both moves appeared in line with See NEWS BRIEFS, page 2. Di To Discuss Aid To Britain Bills concerning aid to Britain and the sending of food to Nazi-occupied countries will come before the Di sen ate's first meeting of the spring quar ter in New-West tonight at 7:15. The first bill up for discussion is "Resolved, That the war materials sold under the lend-lease bill should be convoyed by American ships." The second is "Resolved, That Eng land should release the blockade to en able shipments of food and the neces sities of life to countries under Ger man domination." W. A. Deesi Kyser Elected Alumni Association Officers v - I. - ......-....-.. " .V. . -. d J Kay Kyser I J -ft t . ' i l X...? i V; Revamp Regulations s M irr f tvt asr Jtieaa w For Editor of April Issue By Bucky Harward Mag Editor Adrian Spies yesterday calmly set off the first explosion; in spring politics by simultaneously resigning his edi torship and calling staff nominations for next year's editor to- : night at 7:30 in the Mag office. ..y v s " I Adrian Spies Plays Aired Nationwide Playmakers Present -Hit Time, In S Last Saturday, while the majority of Carolina students were enjoying he holidays, a group of Carolina laymakers of the Air were busy giv ing the hrst oi a series oi plays broadcast over a coast-to-coast net work of the Mutual Broadcasting sys tem. From the campus studio through he facilities of WRAL in Raleigh, a group, of student players selected for their good work in experimental Play- maker productions presented to the nation via a Mutual hook-up "In Time, In Space," a play by Joseph Feldman, holder of a Rockefeller dra matic art scholarship. Series to Continue The series of coast-to-coast broad casts will be continued next Saturday when student actors will present Bet ty Smith's "Out of the Prairie," por traying the early life of Abraham Lincoln in IlUnois, over the Mutual system and WRAL from 4:30 to 4:55. Dr. G. R. MacCarthy, of the Geol ogy department, will be the first speaker on today's radio programs from the university studio in Cald- wellhall. MacCarthy will speak on "X-Raying the Earth in Search of Oil, Ore, and Water," a topic con cerned with the application of Geo physics to modern economic prob lems, over WPTF from 2:30 to 2:45. McGaughey to Present News . At 2:45 The Weekly News Round Sec PLAYS AIRED, page 2. Kay Kyser, one of the. University's most widely known alumni, was named first vice-president, and W. A. Dees, Goldsboro attorney, was electedfpresi dent of the UNC Alumni Association during the holidays. The two men were nominated at the annual - Alumni "Assembly here Feb ruary 6, following which ballots were mailed to alumni members. Stacy, Watt Named Bowman Gray of Winston-Salem won a new term as alumni representa tive on "the University Athletic coun cil, the new directors of the associa tion being State Senator H. E. Staey t of Lumberton arid Lawrence Watt of Charlotte. W. A. Dees, the new alumni presi dent, was graduated in 1911. His class, of which he is permanent presi dent, is holding its 30th reunion in June. He is the father of Bill Dees,; See KYSER ELECTED, page 4. I lI(l?plIlillS IT H ames Mams The sudden announcement of staff nominations, first of ..the year, should ioieiiuiu most stan pontics, opies pre dicted yesterday. Henry Moll and James Cox, logical candidates for editor, did not know of his plans until yesterday afternoon. Spies, who is now putting together the March issue of the Mag for pub lication on Friday, would have edited only one more copy. He appointed Louis Harris, member of the Maes editorial board for the past year, edi tor for the April issue. Reasons for Resignation In explaining his resignation, Spies disclosed that he has finished all scho lastic work necessary for graduation and has immediate prospects of a job on a northern newspaper. "As much as I'd like to, I cannot see my way clear to stay another month to edit the April issue," he said yesterday. Spies' power to set staff nomina tions and to appoint Harris, at first questioned, was confirmed last night by Dave Morrison, president of the student body, and Leonard Lobred, president of the Publications Union board. Selection of Authority "Since the Student Council recog nizes staff. 3 oiranatior; sue nly. as an ex pression of opinion by the publica tions," said Morrison, "I can see no objection to Spies' calling the Mag nominations whenever he chooses. Al so, since he was elected by the stu dent body to hold the editorship un til his term is up, he also has the right to appoint someone to edit the last issue." Lobred revealed that the right to See SPIES RESIGNS, page 4. Art Exhibit Winners To Be Selected Today Prize-winning entries in the fourth annual North Carolina school art ex hibit will be selected today in Person hall, John V. Allcott, head of the art department, announced today. Three out-of-state artists, F. C. Schwarz of the William and Mary art department; E. W. Rannalls, head of the art department of the University of Kentucky; and W. W. Fink of the Pennsylvania Country Day School, will judge the paintings, sculpture, and model houses which have been submitted by the school children of the state. To be held here and at WCUNC from March 30 through April 16, the exhibit is open to all elementary and college students in North Carolina, with the exception of students of the Univer sity and the Woman's college, sponsor' institutions. Cooperating organiza tions of the North Carolina Federa tion of Women's clubs are also spon soring the collection. The exhibit will be divided into two parts, the work of artists from . the first through the sixth grade; and the work of painters from the seventh grade through college. Person Hall Art gallery will display the work done in elementary schools from March 30 until April 6; and will exhibit the work done in high schools and colleges from April 10. through April 16. - Passbooks at Gym; Jepson To Sing Athletic passbooks and student entertainment books will be given out in Woollen gymnasium all this week it was announced yesterday. Identification cards will be required. Helen Jepson, world-famed so prano of the Metropolitan Opera company, will open the entertain ment series with a concert in Memo rial hall Thursday night.
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