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I THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, MARCH 29. nu PAGE TT70 The off-! newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University cf North Carolina at Chapel HiH, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christinas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class mat at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C-, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.03 for the college, year. 1940 Member 1941 Fbsocktfed Ge&de Press Don Bishop -L Ceaelxs Suuu.Tr Wit. TT. Exuxra Joseph E. Zattoun Associate Emits: Bill Snider. Eeitcsial Bo ass: Louis Harris, Simons Roof, George Simpson, Orrille Campbell. : ' .; - 1 ' " -: ColcmnistsV Martha Clampitt, Barnaby Conrad. Cartoonist: Henry MoIL , , Featuie Bourn: Jim McEwen, Shirley Hobbs, Marion Lippincott, Faye Riley, Constance Mason, Kathryn Charles, Buck Timberlake. . CrrY Eirross: Fred Cazel, Bush Hamrick. , Wax EniToa: Ed Rollins. Night . Errross: . Dick Young, Sylvan Meyer, Bob Hoke. Assistants: Bruce Snyder, Baxter McNeer, G. C. Mcqure. Rrpwrrzxs: Bucky Harward, Philip Carden, Ransom Austin, Mary Cald well, Grady Reagan, Ernest Frankel, Paul Komisaruk, Elsie Lyon, ' Vivian Gillespie; Larry Dale, Grace Rutledge, Bill Webb. h, -Staff PpoTOGSAPHza: Jack MitchelL Spobts Editob: Leonard Lcbred. . Night Sports Editohs: Harry Hollingsworth, Ernie Fraakel, Paul Ko misaruk. ' SPOS-rf Reporters: Ben Snyder, Abby Cohen, Earle Hellen, Steve Reiss. Local Advertising Managers: Bill Schwartz, Morty Ulman. Durham Representatives: Bill Stanback, Jack Dube. - LOCAL Assistants: Bill Stanback, Ditzi Buice, Jimmy Norris, Marvin Rosen, Farris Stout; Robert Bettmann. Collections: Morty Golby, Mary Bowen, Elinor Elliott, Millicent Mc- K en dry, Rose Lefkowitz, Zena Schwartz. Office Manager: Jack Holland. , Office Assistant: Sarah Nathan. v Circulation Office Staff: Henry. Zaytoun, Joe Schwartz, Jules Varady. For This News: FRED CAZEL Paradise and Pennies ' Sympathies and loud huzzahs of praise have been raised throughout the state as W. T. Couch, head of the University Press, turned down lucrative out-of-state offers, and chose to stay in Chapel Hill. The Daily Tar Heel' and everyone connected with the Uni versity undoubtedly appreciates Couch's gesture. It is a gen uine one, and one that hurt him financially. But, the sad part of the whole matter is that a man has to be taken away from the University sheerly because of financial reasons. For many years nowDr. Graham has virtually begged Legis lators in Raleigh to allot more money for higher pay. for profes sors and members of the administrative staff at the Univer sity. Consistently, we have been turned down. Unnecessary, superfluous, we haven't a gold mine, and many other objections have been raised. And, gradually, many of the better men from our faculty are siphoned off to richer academic hunting grounds. Our adminis tration pleads, the state refuses, and the men leave. The process is simple, for we all realize that a good man must be paid a good salary, and he has a certain limit; no matter if the place happens to be a near-paradise. . ' Rubbing the whole vicious cycle in even deeper this week were the state newspapers and general sentiment throughout the state. Many editorials were written commending Couch on his .fine spirit, how he is one of the few real leaders in the South who is willing to give his every effort for its development, even at the sacrifice of personal material gains. How the state can have the crass nerve to exult over a man's staying here, when he is underpaid, and still call it a wpnderful gesture all at the same time that the state does not consider increases in salaries a vital phase of appropriations to the Uni versity is beyond the Daily Tar Heel's comprehension. After all, you can't often expect many men to do what W. T. Couch has done and if the matter is thought through, one real izes that a man is perfectly justified in leaving here for a more lucrative offer. If -these same state interests that are now praising Couch's loyalty would remember it when the next Legislature appropria tion comes around, and then reward his fine spirit and that of many other men on this campus, whose sympathies have been over-taxed in the past, then, indeed, do they have just cause for praising Couch. w Until then, all such talk is mere hypocrisy. L. H. Note to Super-Patriots Jepson vs. Beer In all the puffing and blow ing about strikes in national defense industries some of us should stop to inquire just why the laborers are striking or threatening walkouts. It is probable that in many cases they have legitimate claims. Despite what is said in some of the speeches in Congress, the American laboring man is not by nature a saboteur and fifth columnist. Some .of our lovers of democracy . might cast a glance at the home front to see if the principles they so vehemently swear by are being safeguarded. , National Advertising Sendee, Inc. CbUege "mUhben Represent A2Q Madison Ave. Hew Yon. N. Y. Managing Editor : Business Manager Circulation Manager Issue: Sports: ERNEST FRANKEL The turnout of students at the Helen Jepson concert Thursday night and the en thusiastic applause given her singing are ample evidence that the Student Entertain ment committee is giving the students their $3 worth a year. ' ' Other outstanding perform ances this year have been the concert of the United States Marine band; the singing of Jussi Bjoerling, the Metro politan tenor; the concert of the National Symphony; anfl the Playmaker-Music ' department-Entertainment commit- SJiow IBiisimess "NATIVE SON. By Rinhard Adler NEW YORK, Mar. 2& Last Summer, the sun baked the red, Ca tawban surface of Chapel Hill. In the back of a stuffy little office, two American Geniuses fused. There was just a shade of differ ence. Both are men. Botht can. feel and think clearly and right eously. Both have towering ideals. Both are Americans born. Are both Americans Bred? One is white, one . is black. One has problems, the other, many problem?. Paul Green is the white man, Richard Wright, the negro. One has a holy, message to tell about his and his . people's many problems. -The other is a sensitive man Who feels, appreciates, understands these problems. A man who studies, even lives them, then writes of ; them. It is for this that -he has been chosen to tell their story in the new med ium. From this union of burning bush eyebrows and somber skin a new Christ - child was born, im maculately conceived from combined efforts and pure thoughts of a right eous cause. This babe was "Native . Son," the play. Today it is a full- y grown person that bears the ponder ous burden and problems of 12,000, 000 people. Last Monday, "Native Son," open ed at the St. James theater in New York City. Ten consecutive scenes without the intermission pause reached out and touched the heart of every American in the theater. The multitude had been fed from -one loaf, it. sobbed, then wildly " cheered. ' r .. The story of Bigger Thomas, ne gro of the Chicago slums who ac cidently killed a white girl and then burned her body in a furnace, will kindle the souls of the millions of Americans .that it will eventually Letters To The Editor (Letters must be typed. Those over 300 words long are subject to cut ting or omission) Ignorance and Isolation To the Editor: I hope isolationism is a thing of the past. I believe it should be. There are, however, several cam pus groups that believe otherwise. , They warn us not to lose our heads; not to be fooled again by catch phrases such as "Save the world for Democracy." Only ignorant people are fooled a second time," they tell us. . To analyze this situation and, at the same time, answer the charge of ignorance, I wish to quote a portion of a letter by Marshall Hanley, Student Chairman of the Indiana University Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, writ ten to our committee: "What has been the result of fol lowing the isolationists? They said ' we didn't dare enter the League of Nations or" we would fail to collect the war debt. We followed their advice. We didn't collect the debt. They said we didn't dare enter the World Court or Europe would be making! decisions affecting us. We I took their advice. Today we find a hostile world changing our whole economic way of life not to feed, clothe, and shelter, but to kill. They said we shouldn't have any relations with the League or we might get mixed up in foreign en tanglements. We have followed their advice. We have the first peacetime conscription. We are giv ing, not lending to Europe. We are not so much worried about getting mixed up in Europe as we are that ! our last friend on the Continent will be destroyed. They said we should not boycott Japan. We didn't. Now we are threatened with having' to face our own products made into deadly weapons. . They said isolation was the best policy. We followed their advice. Now we are in danger of being . really isolated. It is not a question x of fighting in Europe; it is a ques tion of fighting with our backs to the wall and a whole world against us. And still the isolationists pose as tee presentation of the Gil bert and Sullivan opera "Pa tience." -The quality of the programs a year or so ago was sufficient ly high to dismiss the asser tion of a student that he and the students would prefer ten glasses of beer to the enter tainment bought by their $1-per-quarter fees. - The enter tainments this year refute this statement even. more. reach. But they will not feel hatred for this martyr. Yet Bigger is a negro boy completely walled in by an unjust American society. He looks into the sky and sees a plane aim lessly soaring. At first he is thrill ed at its carefree majesty, then this feeling turns into the unspent ever- : growing hate against his white wardens. , ;. :- - A social worker finds him a job as chauffeur and overseer of the furnace at the Dalton home, a fam ily of wealthy capitalists whose source of income is the cheap negro tenements of the South Side. ? . The twenty year old daughter, Mary Dal--ton, is a. communist (the unidealis tic type that harbors their beliefs for pseudo-escapist reasons). She tries to treat Bigger as an equal, but makes the already bewildered boy intensify his" fierce hatred. Big ger accidentally smothers Mary in 'her room and when the act is over, unknowing and fear burst the in ner bubble of his apathy. He asks for ransom and signs the note "Red," desiring the blame be placed on her communist friends. After his crime has been discovered, he escapes to the tenements to revel in the idea of having his picture on the front pages of all the papers. In the next to last scene, the com munist lawyer, Paul Max, defends the 'innocent boy with a superb summation, desribing the savage inhibited surroundings that drove Bigger to be what he was. The performance of Canada Lee, natural negro violinist, Prizefighter, and actor, was inspirational. His aptitude to fit a mood should - be remarked. The excellent, job of James Morcum, combination realis- - tic-expressionistic sets, which subt ly - suggest close-fittedness, are worthy of mention. 1US. friends of America! We now ask, "Who are the ignorant?" In my mind it is obvious who the ignorant are. What folly isola tion! Walter Haas Churches . Sunday worship services at the Chapel Hill, churches Ihis week will be as follows: at the Baptist church, Sunday school, 9:45; morning wor ship, Rev. G. P. Albaugh, "Have We Lost God or Has God Lost Us?" 11 'oclock; high school forum, 7 o'clock; and student forum, Frank P. Graham, "The Church During and After the War," 7 o'clock. " At the Presbyterian church, Sun day school, 9:45; student class, Ernest L. Mackie, 10 o'clock; morn ing worship, Rev. C. M. Jones of Brevard, "Present Significance of an Old Word,' 11 o'clock; and im portant congregational meeting fol lowing the service. At the Methodist church, church school, 9:45; morning worship, Rev. J. Marvin Culbreth, "Beginning the Ending of a High Task," 11 o'clock; Wesley Foundation, 7 o'clock; and Epworth League, 7:30. At the Episcopal church, Holy Communion, 8 o'clock; service and sermon, 11 o'clock; and prayers and organ recital, 8 o'clock. At Gerrard hall, Catholic ser vice, Rev. F. J. Morrissey, 10 o'clock; and daily mass, 719 Gim ghoul Road, 7:15. At the United church, Sunday school, 10 o'clock; and morning wor ship, Rev. W. J. McKee, "Sinister Forces Which Bring About Cruci fixion," 11 o'clock. At Graham Memorial, a Friends meeting, 11 o'clock. Those who would like a period of quiet mediation, with freedom for expression, are in vited. At the Methodist church, Luth eran services, Rev. Henry A. Sch roder, pastor of St. Paul's Luth eran church of Durham, 5 o'clock. SING (Continued from first page) ranger who joins rampaging outlaws and wins the sheriff's daughter, is the feature film of the evening. Follow-, ing the feature will be a cpmedy, "A Boy's Pal," starring "Corky," the wonder pup. , ' The latter film is especially recom mended, for young audiences in the film index. Send the Daily Tab Heel home." ' Miss Jepsoii Wins Audience With Beauty, Drama,Voice By Josephine Andoe , Helen. Jepson came, saw, and conquered Chapel Hill. Thursday she walked alone about the campus and in the words of the militarist, "reconnoitred, viewing the terrain." The latter was scarcely what under graduates had their eye s upon, as Miss Jepson was promptly mobbed. Few, excepting devotees of Swarth out and Pons, quarrel with the sing er's title as the "Best-Dressed Wo man in Opera." In her afternoon promenade, she , wore a chic black and beige ensemble; for her triumph at the concert before the largest audience a student entertainment artist has drawn to Memorial hall in the last seven years, Miss Jep son wore what her fellow-artist and accompanist, Robert Wallenborn, calls the "cocoanut-icing dress," ac cording to his account a Schiapa relli creation employing twenty-five tons of ostrich feathers -f which remark, according to your reviewer, you will take with a ton of salt. . Even . an inveterate iconoclast must admit that Miss Jepson's beau ty, infinite grace, dramatic skill and vocal technique combined forces to win . her audience completely. The spontaneous and enthusiastic ap plause with which the singer's en trance was greeted grew in volume and duration throughout the eve ning. Perhaps -the choice of three Shakespeare settings as the open ing group was not a very happy one because of Miss Jepson's approach to the art of singing and because of the audience's relative inexperience with concert programs ; and your reviewer, while appreciating the enthusiasm and vivacity of the sing er, thought these charming ; old English songs would have been more artistically performed had they been sung with simplicity and sincerity, and without the many tempo and NEWS BRIEFS " (Continued from first page) Roosevelt sent it from the- Yacht Potomac aboard which he is cruising off the Florida coast. His message was regarded as "ex tremely significant." Only yesterday, Acting Secretary of .State Sumner Welles, gave assurances that some U. S. war aid for Yugoslavia would be forthcoming under the lend-lease program if Yugoslavia- were forced to defend itself against aggression. Mussolini Seeks Solution To Yugoslav-Axis Relations ROME, March 29 (Saturday) Premier Benito Mussolini was said in well-informed quarters early today to be seeking a compromise solution of Yugoslavia's relations with the Axis in order to protect a source of Italy's vital wartime needs. Italy, it was said, is seeking a formula whereby the new Belgrade government can ap prove the tri-power pact which Yugo slavia signed at Vienna n Tuesday, and at the same time remain aloof from .military developments. Yugoslavia Not to Repudiate Tri-Power Pact as Published LONDON, March 29 (Saturday ) The exchange telegraph said in a dis patch from Berne early today that it had learned from official quarters in Belgrade that Yugoslavia will not re pudiate , the tri-power pact as pub lished. " On the other hand, if the pact con tained any secret clauses which seems probable the new government considers that it can not be bound by them because it does not know their content, a dispatch said. - Nazis Warn Yugoslavs Against 'Anti-German Outrages BERLrN, March 28 Germany to night delivered a semi-official warning to Yugoslavia alleging "anti-German outrages" against Reich citizens and the Yugoslavian army's coup d'etat are linked with U. S. and British in trigue in the Balkan nation. Official sources said that the formal protest has been delivered to the new Belgrade regime against the outrages and the swift Yugoslavian military organization following yesterday's CALL OVR REPAIR For Radio', Range, and Ref rigerator Service Telephone 6161 BENNETT ANftBLOCKSIDGE, Inc. intensity changes which were prr ious and inappropriate. Bat irraed iately following, . in the aria f roci "Othello,' Miss Jepson's vocal qual ity was thrilling and her dramatic interpretation flawless. Indeed, te preceding statements might b ap plied to the performance of the en tire program, with an additional compliment to Miss Jepson c her handling of the middle and lower tones, though her voice occasionally acquires a sharp edge in its rpper register. She sang with great Iy?a cy and exquisite diction The performance was the length of two usual programs, for in addition to the four arias and fourteen songs originally planned, Miss Jepson gra ciously gave eight encores; and Wal lenborn, the exceptionally fine pian ist .by whom Miss Jepson is fortu nate to be accompanied, was called back for three encores in his own right after his performance f a group of three modern piano com positions. Wallenborn 's playing was brilliant and facile, and the au dience enthusiastically received his performance, which was fortunate ly devoid of the usual meekness of an -accompanist and possessed the force and authority of an establish ed solo artist. Honors for the evening were Isc shared with Chapel Hill's own Wil ton Mason, graduate student in music, whose song "Journey's End'7 is being performed by Miss Jepson in all her concerts this season, about fifty-six performances this toyr. The singer presented the young composer and pianist to the audience which was applauding and calling for him at the conclusion of bis number. Dr. Harland and the studen'; en tertainment committee are to be con gratulated for securing again this charming and top-ranking artist for a Chapel Hill concert. German demand "for immediate eiari- fication" policy. ef Yugoslavian's f;rei?r Turkey Warns Germany Not to Threaten Freedom ISTANBUL, Turkey, Uarch 28 A strong warning to Gerraar.7 that any threat to Turkish independence will "turn the Near East into a battle ground," was sounded tonight by the vice-president of parliament amic press predictions that the U. S,, Rus sia, "and Japan will be drawn into thf war. DEBATERS (Continued from first page) bates Princeton university on tht question "Resolved: That the English speaking nations of the world shoulc form a permanent union, both mili tary and economic." The tryouts for both of these debates will be helc Tuesday night at 9 o'clock in tfie Grail room. The freshman squad debates Emorj' university April 4 on the national query,- "Resolved: That the nations of the Western Hemisphere should form a permanent union." Tryoutf 'for the freshman squad will be held Tuesday morning at 9 a. m. in the Grail room. All students interested in trying" out are welcome to come to the try outs. . CHEERLEADER (Continued from first page) nial problem was the issue on coed cheerleaders and the drum majorette which arose last fall. Trouble Occurs in 1937 Equally as serious was the rotf raised four years ago when the Mono gram club under Pete Mullis became dissatisfied with the work done by Head Cheerleader Glenn Davis. Monogram club members took over the .cheerleading for one game with the permission of the" Student council but finally returned the job to Davi and his squad. . Under the new bill,, such issues coed participation and the advisabil ity of co-head cheerleaders would be left to the 13-man committee.. .
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