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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941 Editorial : iss ; n : n : m.:
NUMBER 2
Welfare Board.
Action
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.Bill.
Stacy Predicts
Topheavy Rise
In Coed Ranks
Enrollment Figures
May Pass 700 Mark
Before Final TaUy
"My estimate is that we will have
almost 700 coeds in residence this year
when all the figures are completed,"
said Mrs. Marvin Stacy, adviser to wo
men, yesterday, in regard to the record-breaking
coed registration during
the last two days.
This is an increase of 100 coeds over
last year, when 597 coeds were in resi
dence here. Yesterday, over 600 coeds
had been registered, but graduate stu
dents were still arriving.
Smith dormitory houses 53 of these
new coeds, while 35 of the undergradu
ates are out in town.
Hostesses in town for the under
graduates are Mrs. T. Neil Johnson
with 10 coeds, Mrs. C. M. Graham with
10 coeds, Mrs. E. R. Rankin with four,
Mrs. Guy Phillips with six, Mrs. W. F.
Strowd with two and Mrs. P. W. Foote
with three.
All the dormitories are filled beyond
their capacity Mrs. Stacy said. Alder
man and Mclver dormitories have 98
coeds, Kenan has 117? Spencer 77, and
Archer 24. There are also about 35
coeds in, sorority houses.
One South American is entering
Carolina this year, Miss Angela Vidal.
Largest UNC Band
To Assemble Here
For Game Satuday
The largest band ever to appear at a
Carolina football game will make its
initial-appearance at the stadium on
Saturday ' aTthe" South" Carolina game.
The same three drum majors who were
the stars of last year, Miss Boots
Thompson, Charlie Moore, and Dick
Bennett, will be back in action.
Earl Slocum, director of the band,
said after the first rehearsal Tuesday
night, that there are indications that
this will be the best band that has ever
represented the University. The final
rehearsal before the game will be held
today in Kenan stadium at 5 o'clock.
All freshmen or transfer students
who are interested in playing with the
band this year were urged to report at
Hill Music Hall to arrange an audition.
Ball Invitations
Available Toddy
Invitations to the annual coed ball
to be given tomorrow night from 10
until 1 o'clock in the Tin Can, will be
out today, and boys are asked to stop
by the Graham Memorial off ice to re
ceive the names of their dates, Fish
Worley, Director of Graham Memor-.
ial announced yesterday.
There will also be a special figure
for the chaperones, and their part
ners will be chosen at the dance,"
Worley stated. : ,
This dance is sponsored by the
YWCA and the Graham , Memorial
Student Union in honor of all the
new girls. Admission is by invitation
only for the male element, and all
new coeds are invited.
Music will be provided by the Car
olinians. Formal dress will be in or
der. . .
S&F Issues Call
For Campus Talent
In Annual Search1
Randy Mebane, president of Sound
and Fury, and Bob Richards, director,
announced today that the club is
starting - its annual - Fall - seuch..,f or
campus talent. " 1
Beginning the day that new students
hit the campus, Sound and Furyites
have been pursuing people with good
voices, acting talent and all of the
things that go toward the big three
act musical comedy planned for the
last week in February.
Mebane and Richards urged all new
comers and old students to apply for
membership, by coming to the Sound
and Fury offices in Graham Memorial
and leaving their names and abilities
for consideration by the club. Notice
will be given in the Daily Tar Heel of
a forthcoming meeting " fof . possible
applicants.
Because of the untimely death this
summer of Ray Glikin, Producer of
Sound and Fury, a new election will
be held to fill this office.
Playmaker Tickets
Are Ready Now
Season tickets for Playmaker per
formances will be on sale this week at
the business office in Swain Hall, Prof
Koch's office in Murphy, and at Led-
betteh-Pickard's in the village. Cost
is $2.00 for the entire book of tickets.
CoMg
ressiomal Leaders
Revision iof Mentality Law
Student Union
Adopt
Budget
Orchids to Doc
Carolina Infirmary Rated
As One of Nation 's Best
By Jimmy Wallace
The University of North Carolina
is blessed with having one of the most
efficient and perhaps most capable
Inf irmarys in the country. Any stu
dent here that has been on the sick list
will tell you that. What any student
won't tell you, however, is why the
University. Infirmfery is so widely
known throughout the community of
Chapel Hill and the many neighbor
ing communities for the good work
that it has done in the medical field.
To begin with, the Infirmary, hav
ing a permanent staff of five doctors
and four nurses, is capable of dealing
with almost any situation, some of
them that would scare an ordinary
infirmary to death. Last year the
Infirmary here coped with three suc
cessive epidemics. They were; mumps,
measles, and influenza. At one time
during the influenza wave, the number
in bed reached a total of 250.
The University Infirmary has avail
able at all times an almost limitless
supply of beds which it can get from
the Buildings department,and during
times of emergency, the Infirmary
hires extra nurses to help care for the
extra patients.
As for being an asset, the Infirmary
is worth it's weight in gold to the
students for the money that it saves
them. Many of the high prices cur
rent today in other medical estab
lishments would make medical care
an impossibility for the student with
limited finances. Other than the fee
which is included in your regular bill
the only charge that the Infirmary
makes is for the food you eat while
you are there. For it there is a nom
inal price of one dollar a day.
Do not expect when you go to the
Infirmary to get out in a few hours,
because usually the doctors are very
careful to see that you stay until you
are completely well. While you I are
there expert care will be given you; so
the doctors implore you to go to the
Infirmary at the first sign of an ache
or a pain. If you are in class and
suddenly feel, sick, don't wait until
after class, go to the Infirmary im
mediately! You are always protected
by the Infirmary excuse.
As for the medical paraphernalia,
the University is equipped with many
conveniences and comforts, has a mo
dern X-ray and fluoroscopic unit and
a well lighted and equipped clinical
laboratory for diagnostical purposes.
When the new students come in,
each one of them is examined physi
cally and given a "tuberculin test."
If the result of the test is positive,
indicating that they, have tubercular
tendencies, they are given X-ray ex
aminations to determine the extent of
the disease.
The Infirmary classifies the student
as to what type of physical education
he will take, eiviner each of them a
program best suited to his physical
make-up. Some of the Infirmary doc
tors teach Hygiene in the physical
education department and in so doing
help correlate the two programs. The
University health service which is di
rectly under the University physician
maintains an out-patient clinic in
Woollen Gymnasium in order to ex
tend medical care to the center of ac
tivities. A staff physician is in charge
with a graduate nurse in attendance.
Appropriate $12,000
For Needs This Year
The Board of Directors of Graham
Memorial in a meeting yesterday after
noon adopted a $12,000 budget for the
school year 1941-42, and appointed a
committee to investigate reopening the
Grill , f
The directors appointed Mack Snipes
head of the barber shop in the base
ment and have raised the fee for hair
cuts to 40 cents, eventual profits will
be used for maintaining the game room
for students free of charge.
The board also established two new
student organization offices in the
building, room 209 for the offices of
Sound and Fury, campus musi-comedy
organization, and room 101 A for the
use of the University Dance committee.
This room will also be available for
any student group for general office
use.
Budget Figures '
The figures for the budget are:
$3,000 for recreation, $1,000 for build
ing and improvement, $4,000 for gen
eral administrative expenses and sal
aries, $4,000 for maintenance and run
ning expenses. '
During the summer approximately
$1,000 was spent. Among other things
two full length mirrors were installed
in the ladies' lounge.
The ladies' purchasing committee,
in charge of the selection of all new
equipment rMrs? F. P. ' Graham,' Mrs.
R. B. House, and Mrs. M. H. Stacy.
Committee Members
Members of the committee on the
Grill are: Alumni secretary J. M.
Saunders, YMCA secretary H. F. Com
er, inter-fraternity president John
Thorp, and Speaker of the legislature
Terry Sanf ord.
Tom Avera Is Honored
In National Contest
Tom Avera, Jr., member1 of the
Playmakers, and Sound and Fury
was awarded honorable mention for
his play "Swing, You Sinner" in the"
annual Charles H. Sergei play writ
ing contest.
Harry Kleiner, Yale university
student, was announced by Professor
Frank Hurlburt O'Hara of the Uni
versity of Chicago to be the winner
of the annual award of $500 for the
best one-act play submitted from an
American college or university.-
Delegates of Nazi-Dominated Lands
Plan for Peace After End of Hitler
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. Administration leaders tonight were
confident that congress would revise the neutrality law to authorize
arming of American merchant ships, and waited for President
: r Roosevelt's go-ahead signal.
" The President said yesterday that
the nation was tending toward this next
move in the battle of the Atlantic, and
revealed that a decision would be made
next week whether to seek piece-meal
revision or outright repeal of the neu
trality measure. The verdict may come
when he meets with his chieftains next
Monday.
Undaunted by admittedly heavy
Russian losses and continued German
progress on the eastern front, repre
sentatives of nations fighting Ger
many, or occupied by the Nazis, met
Wednesday in London, and mapped vic
tory plans for the reconstruction of
Europe.
Simultaneously British generals
planned a winter campaign designed
to secure the Mediterranean and the
Middle East, and to give Russia the
maximum of aid by the latter route.
Bitter fighting raged from the arc
tic region of Murmansk where snows
have begun, to the shores of the Black
sea probably the main theatre of war
fare this winter.
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JOHN SIMMS, winner of the covet
ed Jackson scholarship, was recently
elected President of the Freshman
Friendship Council.
Coed Senate
To Organize
, General organization will be the
order of the day tomorrow at 5 o'clock
when the Coed Senate meets in the
WGA room of Graham Memorial, Jean
iann, speaicer oi the Senate, an
nounced yesterday.
Permanent meeting time and place
for the year will be decided upon to
morrow, and the Senate will also con
sider any necessary revision of coed
rules.
Not Open
The meeting tomorrow will not open,
Miss Hahn said, because it is only an
organization meeting. However, in
the future coeds may attend.
Meeting every other week through
out the year, Senate members are
urging all coeds to come to the meet
ings, make suggestions, find out what
their government is doing.
Senate Members
Members of the Senate are: Miss
Hahn, speaker; Eleanor Bernert, vice
speaker; Dot Cutting, secretary; June
Love, treasurer; Jean Wire, Lucy
Darvin, Sarah Umstead, Jane Knight,
Frances Bonkemeyer, Ditsi Buice,
Mary Lib Nash, and Elsie Lyon.
Obituary
An Editorial
Last Tuesday night, the Carolina Gentleman died at the be
ginning of his 147th year.
, For exactly a hundred years he enjoyed perfect health and
it was not until 1897, when the campus first heard the rustle
of feminine skirts, that he began to show signs of the dreaded
' and apparently incurable disease, "Petticoat Fever." Even in
that first year, loitering in the doorway of what Suttons was
then, he began to exhibit the unmistakable symptoms undis
guised ogling and shrill whistling as one of the coeds passed by.
Forty-five years passed during vhich the condition of the
Carolina Gentleman has grown steadily graver. Although the
handful of coeds increased to over 700 a good fifth of the en
tire student body although Carolina girls grabbed a con
stantly greater part in campus activities and developed their
own student government, the Carolina Gentleman, weak and
shaken with fever, persisted in regarding them as sideshows
instead of a normal part of campus life, At basketball and foot
ball games, where the germ was strongest, he suffered constant
relapses. - ;
The entertainment staged Tuesday night by Sound and Fury
was too great a strain for him. As the few coed performers
stepped out on the stage to do their parts, the Carolina Gentle
man passed loudly away. His last breath was a frustrated whis
tle, his last movement a stomp on the floor.
He is survived only by a multitude of students who, although
enrolled in, the University, know nothing and care less about an
outmoded Campus Code: "I am on my honor at all times to con
duct myself like a gentleman."
Major war developments included:
(1) Berlin claimed German troops
had stormed their way through Len
ingrads crumbling outer defenses
and the city was becoming a "slaugh
ter pen" for the 4,500,000 soldiers
and civilians defending it. -
(2) Moscow claimed a series of suc
cesses along the entire 1800 mile battle
front. These included reports that a
week-long German offensive . near
Murmansk had been smashed with
thousands of Germans dead, and that
Leningrad defenders pushed back lines,
captured a. panzer column and three
towns, and repulsed German attacks.
The Soviets did not mention the four
Russian armies which the Germans
See NEWS BRIEFS, page U.
Town Girls Start
Hospitality Plan
A general policy of making students
feel more at home will be directed
especially this quarter toward help
ing the 50 new town girls to lose that
feeling of isolation - from campus ac
tivities, it was decided at a meeting
of the town association executives yes-
erday.
Plans already have been made to
bring university girls and town girls
rom Duke together and, in addition,
the association hopes to present a
dance during the quarter.
Although no definite dates have
been set for any scheduled events the
girls plan to have one business meet
ing a month, and one open house held
jointly with the town boys.
Present Crisis
Now Prevents
Decisive Steps
Proposal Awaits
Trustee Approval
In Near Future
By Bob Hoke
The well-oiled wheels of legislation
ground to a temporary stop 'late this
summer as a sub-committee of the Stu
dent Welfare Board recommended
temporary postponement of action on
the $55,000 student fees bill.
Designed to transfer the control and
apportionment of student fees from
faculty administration and place it
squarely in the hands of the student
legislature, the comprehensive pro
posal is considered to constitute a far
reaching extension of student respon
sibility in a vital area of the Univer
sity's affairs.
Bradshaw Statement
"The delay in the execution of this
legislation", says Dean F. F. Brad
shaw, Chairman of the Welfare Board,
arises entirely from the special cir
cumstances of this time, and the very
considerable problems in the field of
procedure which it arises." . -,
Poised, ready to be set into opera
tion, the bill will be brought again
before the legislature at an early
9 meeting by Ferebee Taylor, chair
man of the Finance committee, for
official approval of the postpone
ment. In the path towards eventual
adoption lie the sanction by the Ad
ministration and the scrutiny of the
Board of Trustees.
The seven-man sub-committee stud
ied the proposal referred to it by Dean
of the Administration R. B. House
through the Welfare Board and after
two meetings held during the summer
months recommended to the Board.
Dean House and the student propon
ents of the proposal that it be recon
sidered oy tne Administration at a
future date.
Uncertainties
The recommendation was mainly
based upon the uncertainties as to en
rollment, collections and the personnel
of the Student Audit Board, and the
legislature at the time of the sub
committee's meetings. .
"We all regard the general purpose
of this piece of legislation with real
favor," commented Dean Bradshaw
in considering the measure.
The proposal, conceived and for
mulated by Bill Allen, student lead
er of the past year, was drafted and
presented to the legislature last
spring by an unofficial committee of
See FEES BILL, page U
Humble Apologies . . .
Inadvertently it was stated in yes
terday's Tar Heel that boys enrolled
in the "four year course" of the
NROTC were not subject to the draft
while boys enrolled in the "two year
course" were.
There is only one course, a four year
one, open. There are cases where the
draft has taken freshmen and sopho
mores enrolled in the course. Upper- .
classmen in the course are usually de
ferred if they are doing well enough
in the course to merit it.
All for a Mint Julep
Because Davie Wanted a Drink
Chapel Hill Became a College
This whole thing started because of
a mint julep!
Now keep it quiet; Dave Clark
mustn't hear a word. But, the Univer
sity of North Carolina endowments,
buildings, history, tradition, students,
alumni, Chapel Hill has been built
these past 165 years on the strength
of a mint leaf.
And here's how:
William R. Davie, assigned to the
task of finding a site for a state uni
versity, stumbled across a rolling coun
tryside at noon one day; tied his horse
to what is now the Davie Poplar; and
sent out a scout to find water. The
scout returned, not only with a cool
drink, but with information that the
Southerners' delight, a mint julep,
could get a fresh start beside the spring.
Either in desperation or recognizing
the need for the beverage at the pro
posed school, Davie picked Chapel Hill
and mint until nightfall then report
ed to the authorities.
From that time traditions piled up
and tody the Old Well, Davie Poplr,
arboretem, Gimghoul, confederate sol
dier,' gravel walks, "off the grass"
campaigns, humor mag trouble, poli
ticians and "Beat Dook" are as much
a part of it as independence of action.
Since President Alderman squeezed
out the University's first major appro
priation in 1898 for rebuilding the
well history has revolved around it.
For after months of bickering, and
press labeling of "trumpery," the Uni
versity was granted $20 for the job.
Only a few years before several stu
dents captured a dozen Yankees, drop
ped them to the bottom of the well, and
left the notation: "This is as near to
See TRAD ID TION, page 4