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The Oldest College Daily In The South
VOLUME L
Businesa: 9887: Circulation: 9889
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1942
Editorial: 4356; News: 4351; Night: 6906
NUMBER 159
Tawney To
On Campus Tonight
Noted Economist
To Appear at 8:30
In Gerrard Hall
Dr. R. H. Tawney, brilliant English
economist and a noted lecturer and
author, will address his first Chapel
Hill audience tonight when he mounts
the rostrum in Gerrard hall for a
speech at 8:30.
President Graham will preside at
the lecture and the general public is
invited to attend.
Dr. Tawney during his stay in
Chapel Hill is a house guest of Dr.
Graham who studied under the eco
nomist at the London School of Eco
nomics about ten years ago.
Dr. Tawney is a member of the In
stitute of Advanced Study at Prince
ton University which has attracted
such renowned scholars as Albert Ein
stein and Thomas Mann.
Born in Calcutta, India, Dr. Tawney
was educated at Rugby, Balloil Col
lege, and was an Oxford Fellow. He
taught at Oxford from 1908 until 1914
and has been director of the Ratan
Tata Foundation of the University
of London since 1914 and president of
the Workers Education Asosciation
since 1928.
A member of the Cotton Trade, Con
ciliation Committee in 1936, Tawney
was a fellow of the British Academy
in 1935, and an Honor Fellow of Bal
loil College in 1938.
A noted author, Dr. Tawney has
written numerous works on economic
affairs. Among his books are "The
Agrarian Problem in the 16th Cen
tury;" English Economic History:
the Acquisitive Society;' "Education,
the Socialist Policy;" "Thomas Wil
son, A Discourse on Usury;" "Religion
and the Rise of Capitalism;" "Equali
ty, '31;" and "Land and Labor in
China, '32."
Plans Instigated
For Return of TKA
Plans for reestablishment of Tau
Kappa Alpha, national honorary de
bating fraternity, will go before the
Debate council and squad Tuesday
night.
Dr. Frank Graham and Dean Robert
House are among members of the fra
ternity who are seeking to bring TKA
back to the Carolina campus.
The Debate session starts at 9 o'clock
in the Grail room of Graham Memorial.
Playmakers Rehearse for Ibsen Production
Casting Complete
For 'Peer Gynt'
By Nancy Smith
Casting has been completed and
nightly rehearsals are underway for
the Carolina Playmakers' Forest The
ater production of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt,"
scheduled for presentation on May 22,
23, and 24, under the direction of Dr.
Frederick II. Koch, director of the
Carolina Playmakers.
Promising to be the most elaborate
production ever attempted by the Play
makers in the outdoor Forest Theatre,
"Peer Gynt" will gather together all
the talents of the department of dra
matic art at the University in a con
certed effort. "Prof f " Koch will direct
the annual outdoor play. Harry Da
vis,, assistant professor in the depart
ment of dramatic art, will serve as
technical director of the production
and will design the lighting; Earl
Wynn, radio director, will arrange a
special musical setting from Grieg's
"Peer Gynt" score.
Playing the title role of the young
Norwegian, Peer Gynt is Douglass
Watson, of Barnesville, Georgia. In
the role of Aase, his mother, is Jean
McKt nzie, of West Palm Beach, Flori
da. Solveig and Ingrid, the two girls
in Peer's life are played by Mollie
Holmes of Chapel Hill and Phyllis Par
ker, of Smithfield.
Tom Avera, of Rocky Mount is cast
as the King of the Trolls, and Shirlee
Brimberg of New York City plays his
daughter, The Greenclad One. Robert
Carroll of Hamlet plays the Button
moulder. Also in the cast are Earl Wynn as
Aslak, the blacksmith; Elizabeth Trot
man as Kari; Elaine Berg as Maren;
George Latshaw as the Bridegroom;
Irvine Smith as the Bridegroom's
father; W. P. Covington III as Sol
veigs Father; Josephine Sharkey as
See PLAYMAKERS, page U
Speak
Lieut. King to Discuss
V-l with Frosh, Sophs
Lieutenant T. T. King of the At
lanta Naval Recruiting station will
meet with freshmen and sopho
mores tomorrow morning in Ger
rard hall at 10:30 to explain the
Nave's new V-l program.
The new program, recently an
nounced from Washington, allows
freshmen and sophomores between
the ages of 17 and 20 years to en
list in the Naval Reserve on a de
ferred service basis. Standardized
examinations will be given the en
listed men at the end of one and
one-half calendar years to deter
mine whether they may stay in col
lege for the full four years
With the possible enactment by
Congress to lower the draft age
minimum to 18 years, the V-l pro
gram will provide one of the only
positive ways that freshmen and
sophomores may be assured of re
maining in college.
Klein, Seeley
Nominated
For CWC Post
Elections for officers of the Caro
lina Workshop council will start to
morrow by means of mail ballots,
Chairman Richard Adler stated yes
terday. Executive committee of the CWC
met last Saturday to nominate Ann
Seeley and Walter Klein for chaiman
ship, Henry Moll for vice-chairman,
Mack Bell and Art Conescu for sec
retary, Samuel Seidell and Walter
Spearman for faculty adviser, and
Klein and Miss Seeley for publicity
directorship.
Adler said that "to afford mem
bers sufficient time for proper con
sideration" the Workshop mails bal
lots to the council with the request
that the votes be returned to CWC
offices by Wednesday. Votes will be
tabulated and results released Thurs
day morning.
Miss Seeley, a journalism major, is
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DOUGLASS WATSON AND JEAN McKENZIE go through a lusty
scene from the forthcoming Playmaker production of Ibsen's immortal
"Peer Gynt" to be presented at the Forest Theater from May 22 through
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Dean W. W. Pierson
Dean Fears
Standards
May Be Low
Fear that standards of graduate
education throughout the country may
be lowered as a result of the war and
competition for enrollments, already
showing decreases in many institu
tions, was expressed in a report pre
sented here by Dean Whatley W. Pier-
son of the Graduate School of the
University of North Carolina.
Expressing the view that institu
tions of higher learning can offer
their services to the federal govern
ment during the emergency and at the
same time maintain their graduate
education standards, Dean Pierson
said "I believe that the promise that
our graduate degrees given in war
time to people engaged in non-military
activities will be as good in
quality as degrees awarded in ordi
nary times would have a heartening
effect."
Warning against the lowering of
standards in order to maintain enroll
ments, Dean Pierson declared that "if
one thinks back to the other World
War to inquire about 'easier work
and reduced requirements,' it is be
lieved that the record was none too
reassuring."
Dean Pierson said that new pro
grams involving reduced requirements
and easier work, "will in all prob
ability, without differentiation, carry
such designations as 'emergency,' 'de
fense,' and 'war service' courses.
Some institutions, becoming panicky,
will outdo they have already out
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Smith to Begin Series
Of Weil Lectures Tuesday
Chicago Professor
Famed for Debates
Speaking at the first of this year's
series of Weil Lectures on American
Citizenship Tuesday evening at 8:30 in
Gerrard hall, Dr. T. V. Smith leading
professor of philosophy at the Univer
sity of Chico will discuss "Science:
the Discipline of Truth."
Dr. Smith, who has appeared fre
quently on America's Town Meeting
of the Air and who is a regular mem
ber of the University of Chicago Round
Table, will speak on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings on "Art: the Dis
cipline of Beauty," and "Politics: the
Discipline of Goodness."
The Weil Lecture Fund, established
in 1915, by the families of Sol and Hen
ry Weil of Goldsboro, has presented
the series annually with the exception
of 1931-32. Some former speakers have
been Charles A. Beard, Harold Laski,
Henry A. Wallace, Felix Frankfurter,
Dorothy Thompson, and Herbert Agar.
Dr. Smith was born in Blanket, Tex
as, and was educated at the University
of Texas and the University of Chi
cago where he received the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy. He has been for
many years professor of philosophy
there and editor of the International
Journal of Ethics.
Elected to the National House of
Representatives from the state of Illi
nois in 1938, Dr. Smith was chosen
to defend the Democratic administra
tion in a series of radio debates with
Senator Robert A. Taf t in 1939. Broad
cast over a nation-wide hookup, the de
bates continued for 13 weeks and were
published by A. A. Knopf under the
title, "Foundations of Democracy." His
brilliant defense is believed to have
contributed to the preparation for the
victory of the democratic party in the
1940 elections.
Smith previously appeared in Chapel
Hill in the spring of 1939 when he was
among the speakers on the Program
of the Institute of Human Relations.
Naval Officers
Move into GHQ;
Await Commander
Administrative headquarters have
been set up on the first floor of Alex
ander dormitory for the Naval Pre
Flight officers in connection with the
preparedness program here.
Final construction work was com
pleted this week and the building is
the first of the five requisitioned by the
Navy to be completed. All upper quad
rangle buildings are still under con
struction and are expected to be fin
ished early this month.
Commander O. O. Kessing is expect
ed to arrive May 9 and Lt. Command
ers Harvey Harmon and Jim Crowly
about the 16 at which time final plans
will be completed for all phases of the
vast program.
Wills, Jones
Represent UNC
Dr. George S. Wills, class of 1889,
and Dr. John P. Jones, a medical stu
dent here in 1908-9, will represent the
University at academic celebrations
this month.
Dr. Wills who has taught at Western
Maryland College for the last 19 years,
will be the University's official repre
sentative at the 75th anniversary ex
ercises of Western Maryland College
on May 16.
Dr. Jones, a native of Franklin, N.
C, who has practiced medicine at
Wakefield, Rhode Island since 1919,
will represent the University at the an
niversary of Rhode Island State Col
lege and the inauguration of a new
president there on May 23.
May" Court Rehearsal
Scheduled Monday
All co-eds in the May Court are to
be at Kenan stadium ' Monday after
noon at 4 o'clock for rehearsal. Those
unable to attend are to notify Randy
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Ten Per Cent
Mag Ref ere
Student
Government
Questioned
Assistant Dean of Students Roland
Parker will ask for abolition of student
government for the duration at Tues
day night's Di Senate session.
Speaking on the Senate's top bill,
"Resolved that student government be
abolished at Carolina for the duration
of the war," Parker will describe the
immediate possibilities of returning to
administration government, according
to Di president Roger Mann.
"Students think that such a move
is remote and imponderable, but 'ad
ministration officials and people in-the-know
are wondering how student
government can continue," Mann av
ered. "They see no other choice. To
some persons an abolition seems in
evitable." Di Senate officers arranged Tues
day's convention for the purpose of
stimulating realization of the nearness
of student government curtailment. The
meeting will begin at 7:30 in Di hall,
on the third floor of New West build
ing. Mann said yesterday that Dean of
Students Francis Bradshaw originally
had been signed to speak affirmative-1
ly on the bill, but Bradshaw informed
Mann yesterday that his appearance in
Kentucky Tuesday night would be im
perative. Assistant Dean Parker said
that Dean Bradshaw's views, with a
few points opposing, would be express
ed in his own speech Tuesday night.
Debaters Meet
Virginia Team
In Radio Contest
Carolina meets the University of
Virginia in a radio debate in Char
lottesville Friday afternoon.
"Resolved that the federal govern
ment should own and operate all mu
nitions plants" has been set for the
topic of the Debate council-squad's last
intercollegiate debate of the year, ac
cording to President Carrington Gret
ter. Tryouts for Carolina's affirmative
side on the question will take place
Tuesday night at the regular debate
meet in the Grail room, 9 o'clock. The
Debate council will back all expenses
covered by the Carolina team during
the Charlottesville contest.
WCHV, Charlottesville's high-power
broadcaster, will begin its coverage
of the Carolina-Virginia debate at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon.
The forensic contest, as the last in
tercollegiate debate, brings to an end
the Debate council and squad's "high
ly successful season" in which Carolina
teams met 20 colleges and universities
in dual competition. They also par
ticipated in three tournaments this
year: Dixie forensic tourney at .kock
Hill, S. C, Tau Kappa Alpha tourna
ment at Columbus, Ohio, and the na
tional Delta Sigma "Rho contest in
Madison, Wisconsin.
G-Man Starts 6-Talk Series
On FBI Technique Tomorrow
E. P. Coffey, chief of the FBI's
world-famed crime detection labora
tory, will open the second annual In
stitute of government lecture series
tomorrow afternoon in Graham Me
morial lounge, beginning a series of
talks on the role modern chemistry,
psychology, physics and other sci
ences play in catching criminals,
spies and saboteurs.
He will be introduced by Albert
Coates, director of the Institute, with
whom the FBI has worked for many
years.
The FBI chief, who was once spe
cial agent in charge of the two Caro
linas division of the FBI and who has
been to the Carolina campus a num
ber of times for Institute of Govern
Signs
ndiim
Hobbs to Receive
McKinnon Effort
To Repeal Bill
By Hayden Carruth
More than the required ten per cent
of the student body have signed the pe
tition circulated by Ben McKinnon, editor-elect
of the abolished Tar an'
Feathers, to reverse the act of the
Student legislature establishing a com
bination magazine, and the petition
will be presented to Student govern
ment officials tomorrow, McKinnon an
nounced yesterday.
Truman Hobbs, who officially retires
from the office of student body presi
dent Wednesday, will accept the peti
tion as the last act of his public po
sition. Hobbs yesterday did not know when
the date for the referendum would be
set. "I will confer with McKinnon
and other interested individuals before
announcing the date," he said. The
Student legislature constitution states
that the referendum must be held with
in two weeks after the presentation
of the petition.
"I don't think half the student body
would turn out to vote on a referendum
abolishing Woollen gym," said McKin
non yesterday. "I know that combi
nation is here to stay, but I want to
find out how the campus reacted to
the legislature's bill, and I think a
good many others would like to know
too," he added.
The constitution requires that a ma
jority of the enrolled students must
vote in the referendum in order that
the outcome may be considered legal
basis for the reversal of the legisla
ture's enactment.
Bert Bennett, president-elect, will
take over his new office Wednesday,
and "will probably work with Hobbs'
on the referendum." Hobbs indicated ...
that the date for the referendum will
be named after conferences with Mc
Kinnon, and that the date will depend
on the time that McKinnon may wish
for campaigning. "If the boys think
the time is ripe now, we will get the
referendum going within one or two
days," said Hobbs.
Thursday, McKinnon said that he
"didn't believe" he would do any cam
paigning for the referendum. He did
See REFERENDUM, page A
Goldberg Cops
Debate Honors
Arthur Goldberg, University fresh
man from Brooklyn, N. Y., has just
been announced the winner of a na
tional debating contest sponsored by
the National Hillel Foundation organ
ization. Goldberg, debating on the subject:
"Jews in the Post War World," won out
in a campus debate and from here went
to Portsmouth, Va., where he won the
district contest. He came out first in
an Eastern States contest in Baltimore
and from there competed for the na
tional title in Detroit.
The University student opposed rep
resentatives in Detroit from colleges
and universities throughout the coun
try, including Yale, Brooklyn College,
the University of Maryland, the Uni
versity of Virginia, Duke, California,
Texas A. and M., Ohio State, and
Queens in Canada.
He was presented the Bertha Bern
stein award.
ment short courses and schools, will
speak every ' afternoon tomorrow
through Friday at 5 o'clock, and the
concluding session will come Friday
evening at 8 o'clock.
Coffey's lecture series, entitled
"Scientific aids in crime detection as
developed through the FBI technical
laboratory," is subdivided as follows:
Evolution of scientific crime detec
tion, tomorrow; applying physics to
crime detection, Tuesday; applying
chemistry to crime detection, Wed
nesday; applying psychology to crime
detection, Thursday; scientific crime
detection in the United States and
Europe, Friday afternoon; and new
frontiers and the future of scientific
crime detection, Friday evening.