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SN If Editorials Headlines Dance Costs Cut Poll Reveals Setbacks Baldwin to Speak Investigate Yourselves CVTC Tuition Looking: Ahead THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH- VOLUME L Business: 9887; Circulation: 88S CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942 Editorial: News: 4SS1; Kicfctx 6j3 NUMBER 112 IdD mm m urni no lilMIilMii Li Jfagr, 'Honor System Get Stem Setbacks, CPU Poll Reoea By Paul Komisaruk The 98-year-old Carolina Mag, together with UNC's beleaguered Honor System received the sternest set-back of their careers yes terday as final results of Tuesday's Carolina Political union poll were released. A grand total of 1,645 votes were cast, Dick Railey, poll chairman, announced, the number falling some 200 short of a record cast. The Mag vote, which reached 906 in favor of abolishment in the event that one campus publication be eliminated, owing to war cost polled 506 votes more than the students' second elimination choice, Tar an' Feathers. The Daily Tar Heel would be the third publication to feel the axe, students stated, 137 voting for immediate abolishment. The Yack ety Yack was fourth with 72 votes, while 30 students, failed to vote. Failing completely to vindicate itself from longstanding charges of "inability to work," the Honor System barely amassed a 65 vote majority who stated they would report a violation if they saw one. While 732 asserted they would report violations, 667 admitted they would not, and 246 failed to vote. Dissatisfied With Query The large percentage of students who failed to vote on the question indicated many were unsatisfied with the query, as it stood. Some charged it with am biguity, and many claimed that "degrees of the violation must be taken into consideration." Proposed dance expenditure reductions received an unexpected and over whelming two-to-one approval, as 1,026 favored the reduction, 553 opposed it and 66 failed to vote. Anticipated objections to re-appropriation of the cut dance funds arose, when some students crossed the phrase "funds to go for CVTC guns and uniforms . . off the ballot and substituted "the Red Cross." Take Affirmative Stand As a body, the students took a decided affirmative viewpoint on three issues dealing with the United States' domestic and foreign policies. A four-to-one majority voiced the opinion that America should assume the responsibility for post-war peace plans, in the event of an allied victory. ' See POLL, page 4 'hree Hour MMH A BBFOVe Crisis '.Bill ; Opposition Heavy -s Baldwin, ACLU Chief, To Speak Here Tuesday CPU to Sponsor 'Bill of Rights' Liberty Address More Bad News Rangoon Reported in Flames; Java 'Completely Encircled' By United Press US VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS, Southwest China The British have put the torch to Rangoon, converting it to an inferno of flames and smoke, and the looters are pillaging the city, an American volunteer flier who left the Burmese capital reported yesterday. WASHINGTON Sharp-shooting US army fliers notched new victories in the battle of the Dutch East Indies yesterday, sinking two big Japanese trans ports and blasting at least three Jap " planes out of the skies, without a single loss to themselves. WASHINGTON American "forces tracking down the axis "rattlesnakes of the Atlantic, are believed to have sunk at least three submarines and damaged another four during 56 at tacks on enemy submarines since the start of the year, Secretary of the Navy Knox said yesterday. He also disclosed that Axis subs fired on 114 United Nations' vessels in the western half of the Atlantic during the past See NEWS BRIEFS, page A FBI to Instruct County Police In War Problems Invitations have been extended to law enforcement officials. of Orange coun ty to attend the War Traffic school in session at the Institute of Government next Monday throgh Saturday. Edward Scheidt, Special Agent in charge of the Charlotte office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced recently. The school to be held here is one of a series of 6-day traffic schools being conducted by the FBI "in 120 strategic ally located cities throughout the coun try." Courses of instruction will be given by FBI experts assisted by traffic spec ialists whose services have been secur ed for this purpose. These specialists have made "a special study of war traf fic problems and national policies af fecting traffic control, including rec ommendations made by the War de partment." , Beginning at 9 o'clock Monday morn ing, the program will deal with sub jects such as: "Bomb damage to streets during air raids, accidents occurring during blackouts, provision of military convoy routes," and general blackout problems. Blood Testing For Chapel Hill Starts Tomorrow" Facilities for blood typing will be open to students and townspeople to morrow and Saturday in the Medical building, J. U? Bullitt, local officer in charge of classification stated yester- day. "It would be desirable for all persons in a community to know their respec tive blood types. At some time they may themselves need a transfusion or mav wish to eive blood for someone else," indicated L. B. Rogerson, local defense coordinator. The typing will be carried on between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 tomorrow night and from 2 o'clock, until 5:30 Saturday afternoon. The classification must be done by experienced laboratory workers, with Droner materials and eauinment. which, defense officials stress, are not constantly available. The operation requires merely needle prick of a finger to draw one droD of blood for analysis. Permanent record of the blood type will be kept by the local defense and medical au thorities to expedite transfusion in the event of war injuries or other disaster. It was emphasized that no one will be asked to promise to donate blood. On three typing days held in the early part of February only 200 persons vol unteered for classification although the medical building facilities can type 400 persons in one aiternoon. lt , - I, Mifj--fcn Miir-- " " " '- iinnii in nil 1 1 il mr f 'numi SP CANDIDATE, W. J. Smith, who was nominated by the party last week for speaker of the Student leg islature. Garden Color Film To Be Shown Tonight J. C. Langford's presentation "And Beauty Comes," a Kodachrome film featuring roses in famous gardens of America, will be shown tonight at 7:30iings for club "bull-sessions, Eight Awards For Festival Workshop Signs Famous Speakers Eight plaque awards for outstanding artistic achievement by Carolina stu dents and appearance of seven famous experts in creative arts as speakers, are scheduled to highlight the first Spring Festival of the Carolina Work shop council. - This announcement came yesterday from Richard Adler, Workshop council chairman. Names of the seven famed speakers, who will travel to Chapel Hill from points throughout the United States, will be released next week. All Carolina students may now begin work on their contributions to the Fes tival program, to be staged five days, from April 27 to May 1, it was announc ed. Prizes will go to the most outstand ing work in each of the fields that the Workshop Festival will cover: radio, music, dance, photography, art, journa lism and drama. Adler disclosed that a faculty committee, not yet definitely selected, will select winners in each classification. The seven addresses and a panel dis cussion to follow will cover the general topic, "Place of the artist in the war and in post-war peace." Most of the speakers will remain here throughout the Festival, witnessing exhibits, spec ial programs, and awardingxf prizes. The Spring Festival will take over four key campus buildings: Hill Music hall, Person Art hall, Playmaker's The ater and either uraham Memorial or Memorial hall. Exhibits will include displays and demonstrations of student work in all art fields. Production of three student- See WORKSHOP, page U IRC Votes Four Into Organization The International Relations club in ducted four new members at Monday night's assembly, first meeting to be held under the club's new business-dis cussion-social meeting set-up. Full voting membership positions went to Ernest Norwood, Louise Davis and Walter Klein. Associate member ship was given to Eric Josephson. The alternating meeting arrange ment, passed at last week's business session, includes a single business meet ing each month, two discussion meet- in 206 Phillips hall. J social meting the plan's innovation. . Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Roger Baldwin, leading spirit behind the Union's fight for free speech, addresses the campus from a Carolina Po litical union platform this Tues day night at 8:30 o'clock, Ridley Whitaker, union chairman, an nounced yesterday. Baldwin's acceptance of the CPU in vitation to speak here climaxes months of attempting to fix a suitable date for the much-sought after Union director. Baldwin informed Whitaker yester day he would discuss America's Bill of Rights in the war, and would prob ably include issues of free speech in war time, and peace aims and civil liberties. Baldwin's association and leadership of the Civil Liberties Union dates back to the outbreak of the first World War. At the start of the war, he severed his connections in political reform and so cial work in St. Louis, and organized the National Civil Liberties Bureau in New York. His aim: to help main tain freedom of speech, press, and con science. He directed the activities of the group throughout the war, and after the war was instrumental in ex panding the Bureau into the American Civil Liberties Union. A Harvard graduate, Baldwin is ac tive in a dozen different organizations concerned with civil liberties, with peace, and with international relations. See BALDWIN, page U By Hayden Carruth Last night 41 weary student legislators voted a reduction in dance expenditures to $750. At 11 :13 the Student legislature, meeting in Ger- rard hall for a three and one half hour session, ap proved the bill introduced by the Ways and Means committee, to cut expenditures for any single set of dances to $750 excluding $150 that may be gain ed from concessions, and to cut expenditures for any single dance to $400 excluding $75 that may be gained from concessions. Students packed the galleries, cheers and boos flew in a mingled chorus over the heads of haggard legislators, the battle surged in waves of power from side to side, members leapt up with cries of "Mr. Speaker" in a fervent effort to follow each other before the assembly. - The bill, originally introduced by Buck Osborne as representative of the majority interest in the Ways and Means committee, pro posed at first a reduction to $2,200 for sets of dances and $1,100 for single dances. Louis Harris introduced the amendment from the minority segment of the committee ad I vocating a reduction to $750. The amendment, originally defeated, was brought back by legislature action and Latin Scholars Get Diplomas Broughton to Give Awards Tomorrow The second session of the Inter- American Institute of Education's win- er summer school will officially close tomorow night with the presentation of diplomas to the 11 visiting South American scholars from Peru, Chile and Brazil in Gerrard hall at 8:30. Governor J. M. Broughton, acting as president of the Board of Trustees, will highlight the program when he awards the diplomas to the graduating Latins. Dean R. B. House will preside over the entire ceremony and present the speakers of the evening. Officals from New York's Institute of Inter-American Education will be present in addition to Dr. Lyons, Dr. See9 LATINS, page h passed. The amendment incorporated in the bill, the road to passage was left clear, and most of the original dissent ing votes swung over. Finally approved, the bill received legislatorial approba tion of 30 to 11. Student body president, Truman Hobbs foremost proponent of expendi ture slash, was extended the courtesy of the floor three times, and on each oc casion whipped the legislature to a cli maxing realization of their "inherent" duty to the University and the nation in the war problem. "It is my opinion that the-majority of this campus is ready to give up some of its luxuries, that it is only awaiting direction. I hope that Tug-name bands' will be only the first of the many luxur ies we will volunteer to give up be fore this total war is won," Hobbs blast ed. , "Tonight our government and its al lies are losing a war about as rapidly See DANCE CUT, page U S&F First Night Sell-Out at Memorial Hall r i i 4 - - wastes? f 1 1 - $ s - U I-j I X - ' it J? iV -fJW- ftu 1 V- - - I fp&K m r i : v. f I - 4 r ' I -II' - v;? v i I It ft 'IF ill ' 1 ' ?Vi ' . v If' t$x? J- N-V" - Py.-y. y Ar:.- : .. &.: ; ' v: ;-::: ;, .i-imy :v:.: VV j Mriltr x-l ira'-r iiiMiwtff ,wti rn"ifn llMrwilln, i maiM nMfM- 1 1 irwirnMrTWfartrTiTi'TTffr'n r'"nnr'-mn"irJr " "I'rrrTnnrit nrirrrni niiii imm 1 niir1"" ,v Photo by Hugh Morton IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE this is a rehearsal photo, look (left) at Sultan Artie Fischer's saddle shoes. That's Bagdad Daddy's daddy at right, George Latshaw. And stepping from her Mesopotamian cabana is the feminine lead of the production, Miss Diddy Kelley. ' Girls, Music, Girls, Gags, Girls, Humor, And Girls Included By Morton Bruce Ulman (Business Manager, Tar an' Feathers) There are 100 beautiful girls who have not got any dates for this evening. They did not have a date last night and they will not have any dates to morrow night. They are all working for the "Bagdad Daddy" and brother, why don't you go and watch them work. If you were one of those lucky people that clung to the rafters last night in Memorial hall please don't come back and deprive someone of a limb tonight. For there will be another packed house tonight, eager to see these Carolina Lana Turners performing again amidst "great pomp and pageantry in this year's new Sound and Fury show." Last night "musical history was cre ated at Carolina when "Bagdad Dad dy," a "harem-scarem spectacle of beau ty, girls, legs, and plot" brought stu dents to their feet with dance routines, threw 'em back on their seats with girls, and then rolled them up and down the aisles with comedy and also some hu mor. ' Tonight will be the second perform ance'of the show and tomorrow night the final performance will be presented. Tickets are still on sale and if you don't purchase yours now, that's too bad. TomBI l iim (Talks In Person Tomorrow Tom Beibigheiser, Tar an' Feathers cartoonist, will turn from lampooning art to discussing, it seriously when he gives a gallery talk in Person hall to morrow morning at 10 :30 during chap el hour. This will be the first gallery talk on the new exhibition "The Gov ernment in Art."
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