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LIEKASY (Periodical Dept.) University of north Carolina Chapel Hill, N. C. 1-31-43 editorial; Son; of the Orientals Radio Department Adds Crime and Cheesecake United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1947 Phone F-3371-F3361 NUMBER 12 o BBSime IFr BUM A : dtm 4ta mi:i(rar Md vy v rsr vvvw, s? vvv v trm.TTTYTfi! T.VT " , ISM $3 State Dr. Archibald Henderson Charlie Long Will Also Talk To 153-Ycar-Old Organization By Merrily Brooks i Dr. Archibald Henderson, head of the University mathematics department, will be the main speaker at Dialectic Senate in augural ceremonies this evening at 8:30 on the third floor of New West. His subject will be the Di's role in University life. Dr. Henderson, who has been a member of the faculty for fifty years is well known as a lecturer and author. He is the official biographer of George .Bernard Shaw and was a fellow student with Einstein on the study of relativity at the Uni versity of Berlin. Charlie Long, president of the Senate, which is 153 years old, will make a short address on the necessity of a student being abfe to express his thoughts clearly and precisely, and will preside over the entire meeting. The officers of the Di Senate will be inaugurated and all new members will be sworn in. The meeting will be open to every one , and especially t o those men receiving invitations. Following the meeting there will be an informal reception in the main lounge of Graham Memorial. Tom Eller Will Request Safer Victory Village 7 " Installation' of Jmote adequate street lighting" and increased po lice protection for Victory Village will be urged by Student Body President Tom Eller as a result of the attack Monday evening oh a student's wife, it was learned yesterday. Eller, who announced he would confer with the University ad ministration as soon as possible, described the incident as "a tragic thing to have happen in our University community." "It emphasizes the immediate heed for better lighting and protection for the veterans' com munity," Eller declared. Lauds Neighbors The president of the student body lauded the absence of any "hasty mob action" by neigh bors.'; "The fact that such action was held in distaste by those di rectly . concerned with the case is of extreme credit to students, for such ill-timed behavior is equally tragic." .Meanwhile, investigation of the case by Chapel Hill police continues, though last night Chief of Police W. T. Sloan re ported "no new developments." Sloan said he was aware of 'Oversize Closet7 in Graham Memorial Is Point of Origin For Almost AH Pictures Appearing in Campus Publications By John Stump r There is a little room with no sign on its door which stands directly opposite to the Yackety Yack offices, on the other side of Graham Memorial. It is not vacant, nor is it a storeroom. This little oversize closet is the "point of origin" of almost all the pictures which appear in your campus publications. . Here, in a space about the size of an apartment bedroom, a boy named Les Bodden and a half dozen assistants will de velop several thousand pictures during the course of the school year. Some of them will be photo graphs of prominent campus and outside personalities, some will' be elaborate full color scenes, and others will be split second action shots caught at tense moments of basketball games. Most of them will be pictures of the university and its men and women; some few will be commercial projects. But all will represent consider able working and waiting by a camera-carrying student who often as not is rewarded with nothing more tangible than a ,v?, . I HENDERSON rumors that Victory Village residents had "a vague idea" of the identity of the assailent, who, it was reported, is a white resident of the general vicinity. "But," said the police head, "No one has brought such in formation to us." Condition "Good". Dr. Ed Hedgepeth, University health service chief, at the same time announced the condition of the young mother of two children as "improved and good." He said scratches suf fered at the time of the attempt ed assault were not serious. It was reported in South building that an informal meet ing of University officials yes terday morning had decided the case was "closed." This was in terpreted as indicating there would be no investigation by the administration. credit line in fine print. These boys are staff members of the various publications and normally work under assign ments given them by the pub lication editors. Les himself is chief photo grapher for the Yack. Sometime next week, he and the other two Yack photographers, Wil son Yar borough and Bruce Harrison, will be assigned to cover the fraternity rush parties. Then, they will go from one party to another taking pictures of typical scenes, and, when they have several, they will re turn and develop them. After they have been finish ed, they will be given to Yack board of editors Gene John stone, Harold Bursley, and Ruth Evans who will accept some and reject others on the basis of their effectiveness in catch ing the spirit of the functions. For use on this and other assignments, the Publications board and the photographers themselves, have equipment for night photography, color pic tures, and high speed action shots. Expenses for this equip ment and its operation are paid DR. Palestine Issue Highlights First I.R.C. Discussion At the weekly meeting of the International Relations club Monday, a discussion of the Palestine problem was present ed the club as their first formal program of the year. The discussion was carried on informally. All sides of the issue were thoroughly analyzed by the 25 members present. Main points discussed were the status of the Arab and the par tition plan now before the Uni ted Nations. Plans are being carried out by John Bristow, program chair man of IRC to bring several top-notch speakers and authori ties on international affairs to Chapel Hill to present talks not only to the IRC but to the stu dent body and other interested persons as well. The program for the year will present speakers who have had experience either on congres sional investigating committees in Europe and Asia or have held some other post with the State department. Next week the program will be built around the subject of "The New Communist Interna tional" and its effect upon the operation of the Marshall plan. Bill Patterson, recently elect ed president of IRC for the year, will preside and deliver the main talk of the evening. The IRC meets every Monday at 7:30 in the Roland Parker lounge or trranam memorial. GM Jazz Session Is Set for Today Something new in campus music styles will be offered this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Rendezvous of Graham Memor ial, when the local jazz music ians assemble for a two hour unrehearsed jam session. All professional and amateur stu dent musicians who can come and bring their own instru ments, are especially urged to attend, in order to make the venture a real success. The pub lic is invited. Jack Burney, moderator for this afternoon program, says that he hopes sufficient inter est will be shown in the pro gram to justify weekly sessions. by a full scale allocation from the overall publications budget. However, at their own ex pense, Boddin and his staff are at present renovating the dark room and installing new plumb ing and equipment. . Strangely enough, all of this activity comes under the head ing of a "hobby" for most of the staff. Boddin himself is a language major who became an amateur 'camera hound' while in the AAF. His father sent him some photographic apparatus with which he took aerial pho tographs during lulls in combat activities; and he has been at it ever since. His staff and those of the DTH and the magazines use the darkroom almost continually. Especially at this time of the year, they often spend most of the day and some of the night there. What with classes and other demands on their time, Bodden feels that he speaks for the entire staff when he comes out for 28 hours in the day. "Sleep", sighed the harassed "amatuer" as we rose to go, "is a wonderful thing." To December Usfe of Voting Machines Planned; Yack Editor Candidates Must Meet Tonight Plans for use of automatic voting machines to facilitate balloting in the December elections were announced yesterday by Elections board chairman Al Winn. The board has met with a Representative of the Jamestown Voting Machine jCo. and obtained n tentative commitment for free use of the auto- matic devices, costing the student body only a shipping charge of approximately $30 per ma chine. Winn said each machine Vould accommodate approximately 500 voters per day, speeding not only the process of balloting but automatically tabulating returns. Their usej Winn declared, de -pends on further word from the Jamestown com pany and approval by the student legislature. Meanwhile, Winn announced final plans for the Thomas Requests Plan of Action For Red Threat Washington, Oct. 7 (UP) Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of the House Un-American Activ ities committee requested today that the national legislatures of all western countries meet to form a plan of action against what he calls the "threat of world Communism." Thomas says that Moscow's revival . of the New. Communis Internationale has convinced him that it is time to take ac tion against the threat of Com munism. He warns that the Communist movement must, as he put it, be recognized for what it is, a "foreign-directed . . . organization with the sin gle object of revolutionary sub version." The New Jersey Republican says that the New Communist Internationale should remind freedom-loving people every where that the Communists aim to destroy democracy. Thomas anti-Communist ap peal coincided with the an nouncement that there will be some more house-cleaning at home. The announcement was made by the State department, which said that its formal se curity code calls for the imme diate firing of any so-called "questionable" employee or of ficer, whether Commimist or Fascist. Council Selects New Vote System For Next Election Dormitory officer elections will be held under a new system of selection this year, the Inter dormitory council announced yesterday. Ballot boxes will be placed in the dormitories on specified days for 12-hour periods, and resi dents can write in their indi vidual choices for president, sec retary, and treasurer. Anyone with a plurality for any office will hold the post for the com ing year. Council members expressed the hope that by this method, instead of having the usual mass dormitory election meeting, of ficers more representative of a majority can be chosen, and the evil of interested minorities pushing through candidates in a mass meeting can be eliminated. Boxes will be placed in the lower quadrangle October 15; in the upper quad October 16; in Steele, Old East, Old West, BVP, and Whitehead October 20. The election will be conduct ed under the honor system, and all voters must sign the election announcement to be posted in the respective dormitories signi fying that they understand these conditions. Latest Rushing Regulations Are Issued At First Interfraternity Council Meeting No fraternity bids are to be delivered before 6 o'clock next Wednesday evening nor are any to be delivered after the follow ing Friday at 5 o'clock. This rule governing rush bids were passed unanimously by the 39 members present at the first meeting of the Inter fraternity Council which was held Monday at 7:15 in the Grail room of Graham Memo rial. It was also decided at the meeting that a list must be pre pared by each fraternity giving names and addresses to all new men, transfers or veterans that were sent bids from that fra ternity. These lists must be turn ed in to the Council on or be fore Friday, October 17 at 5 o'clock. Each fraternity will be responsible for the distribution of their bids either by mail or personal delivery. The group decided that bids will be sent out on a form card to be furnished by the council. Only essential information will be included on the card and a condensed list of rushing rules will be printed on the back. Representatives of the various fraternities were reminded at the meeting that they must post a bond of $50 before they will be allowed to begin rushing procedures. Also, each pledge must pay a Si pledge fee to the Dean of Men before he is al lowed to join any fraternity. A committee was appointed by Leon Todd, president of the council, to decide how format invitations will be distributed to new men following rush pe riod. The committee consists of Ted Young and Roger Cooley, fend is to be headed by Meigs Goldman. Wood New Leader Of Student Party Bill Wood, junior from Bur lington, was elected chairman of the Student party yesterday, replacing Charles O. Long. Meeting to complete its cam paign for Yack candidate Ar thur T. Melton, the SP accepted Lonc's resignation and elected by acclamation Wood, who bad served as party chairman spring. last American Legion Post Changes Meeting: Date The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion decided at the meeting last Friday night to meet the first Thursday in the month from now on. In order to foster good rela- j tions between students and townspeople, the legion hopes that many students will join and participate in discussions and social gatherings while here on campus. enate Ceremonies special Yack editorship election scheduled for Oc tober 14. Candidates for the post vacated by Editor-elect Bill Moffitt will meet tonight in room 211 at 7:30. And names of candidates must be filed with the board chairman at 8 Steele before midnight to morrow. Under standing election laws polling will ba conducted at five places next Tuesday from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. A new system for checking in voters at the polls is included in plans, though conventional ballots will be used, Winn announced. A date stamped will be used to mark students' ID cards, eliminat ing the timely process of recording names and ad dresses by hand. I The executive committee an nounced that a meeting of all new students will be held some time before rush week in order that rules of rushing and aspects of fraternity life may be ex plained. Formal rushing begins on Oc-tober-l. Students are requests ed to watch the Daily Tar Heel for announcements concerning rules and rushing schedules. In the meantime, rushing rules state that new men may visit fraternity houses upon invi tation but may not engage in conversation with the members in connection with fraternities nor may any fraternity entertain the visitors with refreshments or any formal entertainment. Yack Board of Editors Announce Changes In Yearbook Picture-Taking Procedure In a renewed effort to shorten lines as much as possible, the Yackety-Yack board of editors Gene Johnstone, Harold Bursley, I and Ruth Evans announced yesterday two major changes in pic ture taking procedures here. Ihe quicR-blowing tuse system which plagued all concerned last week had been changed and pictures will be taken in the evening throughout this week. Board member Evans also urged all those whose pictures have already been taken to come to the Yack offices and fill out their class cards. "No picture which is not accompanied by the information on these class cards can appear in the Yack," she said. The cards will contain the student's name, fraternity affili ation, honorary membership, ac tivities on campus, and local ad dress. The information is abso lutely necessary to the Yack staff, and the board emphasized that no picture will go into the book without it. These class cards will be found on the table immediately outside the Yack office on the second floor of Graham Memo rial, and any assistance neces sary to filling them out will be provided by the Yack staff. No one whose picture was i taken prior to yesterday morn ing has filled one out. The late arrival of the cards was given as the reason for the failure of the photographers to provide them when the pictures were taken. Somewhat red-faced over the failure of the lines to move fast er last week, the editors of the Yack went into conference over the week-end with Chidnoff of New York to find the reason for the slowdown, and the improved fuse system is the result of that conference. "To date this week not a single fuse has blown," commented Bursley in announc ing this change With the principal cause of Sound and Fury To Hold Musical Try-Outs Today Sound and Fury will hold try outs for its fall musical from 3 to ,5 and from 7:30 to 9 o'clock at Memorial hall today. Pete Strader has announced that there are straight speaking parts available in the new, two act musical- comedy for appli cants not talented in singing or dancing. The setting will be the Roaring Twenties, and anyone capable of portraying stage and screen personalities of that era will have an opportunity to ex hibit his talents. Those persons having seen the "Blip" skit and other Strader Gammage brainchildren will realize that there will be good parts available to those who merit them in this new creation by that writing team. It is not necessary to be a present member of the group to try for a part in the coming work. All interested theatrical aspirants will be welcome to this opportunity to break into the stage life of the campus. WINSTON-SALEM CLUB The Winston-Salem Carolina club which numbered 275 strong last year will hold its initiil meeting of the quarter tonight at 7 o'clock in Gerrard ball. At that time important business will be discussed concerning the annual Christmas dance to be staged again in the Twin City this year under Carolina club auspices. JNiew omcers win aiso be elected. Any student from Winston Salem who is enrolled in the University is automatically a member of the club and is in vited to be present this evening. last week's congestion removed, the board's announcement of ar rangements for night pictures was expected to result in even less delay. To take these photo graphs, both of the photograph ers will extend their working day to be on duty from 7:30 to 10 o'clock each night beginning this evening. Fraternities espe cially are asked to take advan tage of this new arrangement and come in the evening of their assigned day. The three editors issued a joint statement hoping that these changes will eliminate all waiting for individual photo graphs. Business manager Dick Gor- j don of the Yackety-Yack asked , yesterday that all campus organ- j izations which have not received a letter from him get in touch ! wkh the Yack office immediate ly, if they wish space in the : annual. Noting that several new groups have been formed this ; year, he explained that for space in the Yack to be assigned them, arrangements must be made by i the end of next week. He expressed pleasure in the j response of those groups which I have already contracted for the space which they are to occupy, ; but reminded all organizations which were notified but have not as yet sent contracts to the Yack office ro do so in the near future. "The deadline for these groups is October 9," he said. Di, Phi Hear Johnson Talk On Treasury By Bill Sexton North Carolina's state revenue per year should "level off" at 75 to 80 million dollars during the coming years, Charles M. John son, state treasurer and candi date for governor, predicted last night. Speaking at the annual Di Phi banquet in the Carolina Inn, Johnson declared that "the state's revenue will never go back to what it was in 1941, an unusually prosperous year." Explains Finances In an address dedicated lo ex plaining fiscal policy of the state government, which as treasurer he has directed for 15 years. Johnson developed four mai.i points: (1) The purpose of the build ing fund established by the 1947 General Assembly. (2) Significance of the post war reserve fund, also a crea tion of the recent legislature. (3) The present state of taxes in North Carolina. (4) The necessity of industrial development to maintenance of the state government's basic op erations. To Modernize Buildings The $50 million fund car marked by the assembly for new construction at state institutions, said Johnson, "is designed to bring North Carolina up to date after practically ten years of no building at all by the state." "The fund will be spent just as fast as it can," he said, ''though the actual program will be spread over several years." As for the $30 million post war reserve fund, "it really isn't a postwar reserve fund at all," the state treasurer declared. He explained that the sum was set aside as insurance against pay cuts for state employees if and when revenue drops. To Offset Pay Cuts "The state's employees gov ernment workers and teachers as well were two years la'.e getting their increases," he said; "this fund is to guarantee these increases for a period of two years after state income drops." Discussing present-day sources of revenue, Johnson told the Di Phi banquet that "we are now levying all we possibly can.-' He explained how already state income and franchise taxes are higher than those of other south ern states, though practically offset by the lack of a state levy on local property. : Need More Money And, said Johnson, despite current peak revenues and the income in sight during the near future, "we've got to have mora money for our institutions and schools." As the only solution to con tinued development of state op erations, Johnson suggested in tensive industrialization. "We've got to have more workers bring ing more money to the state, so we can collect more taxes," he declared. North Carolina needs assist ance from the national govern ment for its educational pro gram, Johnson said, though he added that "personally I am op posed to federal aid." Choosey! Detroit, Oct. 7 (UP) Cal ifornia isn't going: in like this one. Seaman Aaron Gatcu"od, AWOL from a California has since June, was arrested bf F.B.I, agents in Detroit lodav. They asked him why he over stayed a 30-day leave granted him. "I liked Michigan's elimat better than California's," hs told amazed federal agents.
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