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CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942
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NUMBER 10S
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TTEVE
PECK, University party
candidate for vice-president of the
student body. He shares the execu
tive post candidacy with Bert Ben
nett, UP nominee for president.
ANSON HALL, University party
nominee for the presidential post in
the junior class. Announcement was
made in yesterday's Tar Heel. He
opposes Mike Carr, SP candidate.
Ambassador Blasts At 'Damned Germans'
In Hard IRC-Sponsored Verbal Onslaught
A New Faith
UPNominatesSteve Peck
To Begin First Campaign
For UNC Vice-Presidency
Campus Leader Tosses Hat in Ring
As Running Mate of Bert Bennett
By Ernie Frankel
Steve Peck was nominated last night
by the University party to run for
the vice-presidency of the Student
body.
First candidate to enter the race for
the post, the campus leader is running
mate of Bert Bennett, named last week
to head the UP's ticket. Three years
of student government work holding
positions in every phase of University
activity precede Peck's . nomination ;
and party officialdom, announcing the
selection, labeled it "another step in
our program of qualified candidates."
This year's work, embracing seven
posts, was all but overshadowed by
his organizational activity, as he di
rected dormitory and fraternity drives
for NYA funds in his capacity as
president of the University club. Hold-
in er down lobs on the Junior honor
council, Student Government commit
tee, Inter-campus council, Freshman
Orientation committee ' and Student
legislature, hard-working Peck also
headed the Junior dance committee.
Dormitory and sport work part of
Peck's activity since he came here from
Wilmington where he headed the ROTC
See UP, page U
Playmakers to Give
Student Written Play,
'Behold the Brethren'
Branscomb Lectures Tonight;
Ends Winter Religion Talks
The University Religious Council, sponsor of quarterly campus lectures
ends its Winter series tonight at 7:30 in Gerrard hall when Dr. Harvie
B. Branscomb, professor of the New Testament at Duke University will
speak here on "A New Faith in a Dying Paganism."
Dr. Branscomb, a native of Alabama is a graduate of Birmingham South
ern College and has received degreees at Alabama, Oxford and Columbia.
This lecture will conclude the cur
rent series that has been presented
by the Religious Council for this quart
er. Both the preceding lectures and
the one tonight revolve around "The
Beginnings of Christianity in the light
of Modern Scholarship."
Dr. Branscomb, a former Rhodes
scholar, has spoken this week on "The
Nature of the Earl," and "Did Jesus
Found Christianity." The lecture to
night as were the preceeding ones will
be open to the public.
Since its initiation, the idea of a
series has been carried on by the stu
dent religious organizations on the cam
pus. The current series was arranged
by the local Religious Council with Bet
ty Dixon as president and Rabbi Sam
uel Sandmel as Council adviser.
The council itself is composed of
members of the various campus religi
ous groups who cooperate in getting
the speakers.
While tonight's lecture .marks the
end of the current series, the Council
has already been active in choosing
the speakers for next quarter. The
Spring program however is not com
plete at the present time. The council
is planning to present Dr. Conrad Moe
hlman sometime during the spring
quarter.
Dr. Moehlman is associated with the
Colgate-Rochester Divinity school. !
According to their policy of annu
ally producing a student-written play,
the Carolina Playmakers will present
as their fourth production of the year,
"Behold, The Brethren!" by Joseph
Feldman of New York City, March 4,
5, 6, and 7 at 8:30 in the Playmaker
Theater.
The drama holds for its theme the
struggles of an immigrant mother and
her four sons to realize their opportun
ities in this country. Three of the
brothers rise through unscrupulous
methods to a certain material height,
but in the process they become smeared
with their methods which take revenge
on them in the end. One brother, the
vonnrest Josenh. coes out into the
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country, riding the rails, bumming his
way, working and talking and living
with the American people. Thus he
learns of them and becomes part of
them. At the end of the play he re
turns to his family and becomes the
instigator of its regeneration.
For many years it has been the
custom of the Carolina Playmakers to
present a full-length drama every year
by one of their present or former stu
dents. The author of the present play,
Joseph Feldman attended school here
as an undergraduate and returned last
year as -a Rockefeller Assistant con
nected with the Southern Film Service.
He is now in the army.
Tickets for the show will be made
available at a later date and can then
be obtained with the Playmakers sea
son tickets or at the general admission
price of .$85. '
Politics Out;
Leaders Meet
Emergency Committee
Talks Clean-Up Plan
Carolina's traditional liberal ism
faces a streamlining effort tonight
when student officers, dorm and fra
ternity leaders, self-help representa
tives and students looking for clean
politics and government meet at 10
o'clock in Graham (Memorial's banquet
hall. '
This Emergency Committee, origi
nated by a small group of politically
impartial students and expanded by a
steady stream of BMOC's, will attack
and complete a point-to-point platform
to be recommended for use by both
Student and University parties.
Does student government mean look
ing out for student welfare? That
question will be discussed and voted
After an expected affirmative decision,
the Committee will seek to establish
means to have candidates take stands Chapel Hill s second blood typing
on the Emergency Program instead of will be held next Friday and Saturday,
the traditional slap-on-the-back, per- J. H. Bullitt, Med school professor in
sonality-plus pressure methods for charge of the classification announc-
vote-getting. ed yesterday in a civilian defense bul
Student and faculty leaders who at- letin
tended Sunday night's special session "At some time students and towns
will re-assemble for tonight's meeting, people ffiay themselves need a trans-
Present at that meeting were Truman fusion or they may wish to give blood
Hobbs, student body president ; Ferebee for someone else," Bullitt stated. He
Taylor, speaker of the legislature; Or- urged wholehearted cooperation in the
Nazi U-Boats
Still Danger
To Islands
Javaward Jap Push
Slowed by Airmen
.From East Forces
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Feb. 18
UP Nazi U-boats still are operating
in the tanker lane between Venezuela
and the Dutch owned island of Aruba
and Caracao, it became known today,
despite intensified air and sea patrols
which are believed to have sunk at
least two of them.
BATAVIA, Feb. 18 (UP) Indies
American and Dutch sky fighters slow
ed the roll of Japan's force toward
Java today by drowning 11 of their
planes, sinking a large transport, dam
aging two more, and crushing many
troop-packed barges.
RANGOON, Feb. 18 (UP) The
battle of Burma blazed into full fury
on a 300-mile front today with Japanese
shock troops forcing the Bilin River
45 miles from the Rangoon-Lashio rail-
See NEWS BRIEFS, page U
Loudon Says Netherlands
United for Total Victory
"It will never be too late to lick the damned Germans V
Such statements were pounded into an audience of 1,900 yester
day by Dr. Alexander Loudon, Dutch Minister. Memorial hall's
largest afternoon crowd on record, with the SRO sign hung out,
heard the IRC address that last was being called "the best deliv
ered speech ever made at Chapel Hill."
"The call has come. We must forever eliminate treachery ! Brute
force! Lies! We must have victory at
all cost!" Loudon blasted. He tore in
to Germany with fists frozen tight and
teeth flashing hate.
"German brutality will never cease.
They like to be regimented. They have
no respect until they are kicked into
line. Their government doesn't serve
the people, the people serve the gov
ernment. Government, HEIL!" here
the Minister gavo the Nazi salute.
When It's Over
"When the war is over the Germans
will come to us, begging to be saved
They won't save themselves. They'll
say they had been drunk and need
some aspirins, lne uermans are a
cancer. They must either be cut out
or treated with radium. What medical
treatment is to be used will be left to
the doctors at their first consultation
at the peace table."
Dr. Loudon, employing all gestures
and voice variations, described the
Dutch East Indies picture as extreme
ly grave. He stated that if the only
remaining gates, the Soenda and Lom
bok straits, are opened by the Japa
nese, the Allied lifeline is doomed. "It
is now a problem of time and equip
ment. Never So United
"Never before in Netherlands his
tory were the Dutch so united with
their Queen as now. Our small, effici
ent fleet is operating in the North Sea
See LOUDON, page U
Dutch Lose
One Fourth
Of Land Army
Twenty-five per cent of Dutch land
forces has been destroyed in the Far
Eastern battle against the Japanese,
and 10 per cent of the Dutch East
Indies air, force has been annihilated.
Netherlands Minister Dr. Alexander
Loudon, IRC speaker, disclosed yes
terday afternoon.
"More fighters must come soon
from somewhere . . . the necessary
miracle is strong, immediate aid." The
Minister did state that shipments of
planes, munitions and military sup
plies shipped from the United States
were "arriving steaaiiy. ' Ana ne con
firmed indications that rubber ship
ments from the Dutch East Indies are
heme iin loaded on Pacific coast dorks
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every week.
"I love the Germans so very highly
that I would enjoy seeing Germany
divided among the victors when this
war is finished." The special envoy
of Queen Wilhelmina shrugged his
shoulders as he remarked that "there
are 154 American post-war peace agen-
See INTERVIEW, page U
And Now They Go Down to the Dorms. . .
Hill Citizens Get,
Blood Type No. 2
At Med Building
'America Needs Tin'
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ville Campbell, Daily Tar Heel editor;
Roland Parker, assistant dean, and
Francis Bradshaw, dean of students,
and heads of both University and Stu
dent parties.
The Emergency Committee is the
voluntary drive to classify everyone
in Chapel Hill.
The typing must be done by experi
enced laboratory workers with proper
materials and equipment which will
be on hand on the specific days, Bul
first concrete organization to be formed Htt stressed.
in reaction to warnings issued by Dean f The classification will be made next
Bradshaw that this year's elections Friday, from 7:30 to 9:30 and next
must install best possible officers or Saturday from 2 o'clock until 5:30 in
the administration will be forced to tbo Mpdiml building.
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Strongly urging that everyone free
have their blood typed between the
specified hours, the medical official
stated that no one will be asked to
promise to donate blood.
The operation is a mere needle prick
on a finger to obtain a drop of blood
for analysis.
Local defense heans stated that the
previous typings held on February 7,
11, 14 were unsatisfactory from the
point of the number of persons volun-
curtail or end student government dur
ing the war crisis. '
Sophs Give Nod
To Class Budget
At 10:15 PM Tuesday night sopho
more President Dotson Palmer breath
ed a deep sigh ' of relief. The class
1941-42 budget had just been passed.
After several months of work by teerinir. Only 200 were classified in the
maimer and nis committees, tne neces- three fl.-- aithoueh f acilities can
sary 421 votes were secured with only teke carQ of 400 persons jn one after-
six votes m tne negative. - noon
The final successful method used
after rnmprmis nlans durinc the last
two months had failed was the old Students to Sign
system of gathering the votes in per- Pqj German Exaitl
son. Short some 1UU votes on luesaay,
Palmer with the aid of the class honor Graduate students planning to take
council sought out enough sophomores the German reading knowledge exam
to put the measure through. on February 28 are required to regis
The $100 appropriation to the NYA ter m the Graduate School office, 20 J
trrin va m'TOTi nvpr imm ed iatel v to that I South buildincr. before Saturday at 1
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organization, Palmer stated yesterday, o'clock, it was announced today.
US Drugstores Undertake
Tin-Tube Saving Campaign
Druggists throughout the country are swinging into line behind the "Amer
ica Needs Tin" campaign due to the stoppage of tin shipments from Malaya to
get American customers to save the collapsible tubes for tooth paste, shaving
cream, and other drug products in order that the tin may be recovered and re
used.
In a plan, announced with the approval of the Bureau of Industrial
Conservation, the 60,000-odd drug
stores in the US will be asked to set
up collection boxes for used tubes. This
action is in cooperation with a joint
committee of the Packaging Institute
of America and the Collapsible Tube
Manufacturer's Association working
with wholesaler and retailer organi
zations in the pharmaceutical field.
All manufacturers of collapsible
tubes are being asked to get behind
the drive and to have their sales or
ganizations do active work in obtain
ing the tin. The campaign will be call
ed 'to the attention of the public
through the radio and the press.
Poster and display cards, approved
by the War Production Board, will be
employed in the nationwide drive. The
posters depict Uncle Sam holding up
a banner which carries the legend, "I
need the tin in your toothpaste and
shaving cream tubes. Bring them in.
This tin will be allocated by the War
Production Board."
Sponsored by the Tin Salvage In
stitute, a non-profit corporation under
the direction of the Collapsible Tin
Manufacturer's Association, this or-
ganization is establishing reclamation
See DRUGSTORE, page U
SATC Was Organized
By Carolina Students
During World War I
, By Charlie Eessler
"Left face." "Forward march." These
commands and others now ring sharply
across the University intramural field
as the second volunteer training army
intensely drills, preparing a crack ba
tallion of troops for active duty with
the United States army. ,
But marching men and stern com
mands are not new at Carolina, for on
a cool Tuesday evening, March 19, 1917,
only a quarter of a century ago, 500
eager but inexperienced volunteer stu
dents assembled in old Commons hall to
organize the school's World War train
ing force, the Student Army Training
Corps.
The students of '17 were divided into
four companies, who in turn were'sub
divided into platoons and squads. With
in two weeks after the birth of the or
ganization the United States army
shipped 200 rifles to the men and as
signed a drill sergeant to assist in their
raining.
Then, as now, the students drilled
only two hours a week, but because
of their daytime class work, they did
all their marching at night under hasti-
y constructed lights on the athletic
ield behind South building.
The military program of 1917 pro
See SATC, page 4
UNC Professors
Conduct Pajama
Clad Classes
S&F Make-up Artists
Must Report Today
Sound and Fury members interest
ed in working on make-up for Bagdad
Daddy will meet with Dick Berstein
in the Sound and Fury office tomor
row at 2 o'clock.
By Hayden Carruth
And now the professors go down to
the dorms.
Since Socrates the art of pedagogy
has been centered on the classroom,
and the entire institution of education
principled on the formal parliamentar
ian atmosphere of the lecture hall. To
day, at Carolina, the tables are turn
ed. - -
Students long suffering under class
room rigidity now merely ask the prof
to their own room and pick him to
pieces with the admiring support of
their fellow residents. Instructors,
stripped of their professorial habitat,
succumb to the lounging atmosphere
of the lower quadrangle, while pajama
clad students sprawl on chairs and
beds, even line the floor of the chosen
room.
Another phase in the Student De
fense morale program, these student-
faculty bull sessions on the war and
all its varied fields promise to branch
into a long-standing institution in Uni
versity life. Dr. A. T. BonnelL faculty
worker on the program, said that "this
series offer the only feasible system
of activities to alleviate the widening
breach between student body and fac
ulty that has been broached since the
abolition of student-faculty day."
"The informality of the dormitory
bull session and the attraction that a
good, old-fashioned get-together has
for the boys provide a perfect medium
for student information and discussion
of the war and war issues," said Pat
Winston, morale head of the OS CD.
With at least eight forums a week
in the men's dorms, the list of 35 pro
fessors serving at present on the fac
ulty staff is kept busy covering all
phases of the war. Although most pro
fessors usually start the session by
beginning a discussion in their own
field, the students' eagerness for dis-
See DORMS, page U