University of I.'orth Carolin Chapel Hill, 11- C 1-31-43 EDITORIAL WEATHER Amateur Spirit Cuib-tvine fun Jit AVC Seeks U Ciaudy with no noticeable chaae in temperature. VOLUME LVI United Press CHAPEL. HILL, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1947 rtioue F-3371-F33l NUMBF.H Id -S J vN " Js uN r r n a Mm Worn 7 Local Restaurants Ignore Meatless Day Bv Earl TIpffnM- President Harry S. Truman, should he have visited Chapel Hill 1 yesterday, would have been disheartened at the sight of half the ( tuumv.ijjam; a ic3uuijiH5 uiiu uaies serving meai on. ruesaay, m direct violation of the Chief Executive's request for meatless Tuesdays. During the noon hours yes terday, a Daily Tar Heel report er made a personal survey of the menus of various town eat ing establishments. Three Serve Meat While no itemized listing was made of the meats offered on the menus, three of the six estab lishments open for business at that hour had cusromers who were partaking of meat courses. Two of the Franklin street food emporiums the Carolina Coffee shop and the Marathon were closed. But such is the Tuesday custom of the Mara thon. Complying with the Presi dent's wishes, judging by meals before customers, were the Col lege Sandwich shop, Danziger's and Harry's. Each of these es tablishments were serving meat substitutes such as chicken or fish. Joining these two in serving substitutes was the Carolina Inn. Balance Score But to balance the score in ac cordance with national opinion which is said to be split fifty fifty as to whether the meatless "Tuesdav " should Be observed, were three establishments the University, the Campus, and Gooch's. Noted on the tables before some of its customers for the most part consisting of Univer sity students were such meats as hamburger, veal steak, and pork chops. This was meatless Tuesday in Chapel Hill. On campus the story was sim ilar with Lenoir dining hill serving meat substitutes while an uncounted and undetermined number of fraternities failed to join the ranks of the one-day-a; week vegetarians. Tn horr. the second meatless Tuesday in Chapel Hill was not IFC Rules Committee To Indoctrinate All Following a meeting of the Interfraternity council Rules committee, chairman Meigs Golden announced that an "ori entation to rush week" meeting will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Hill hall. This meeting, although not compulsory, is a "must" for all freshmen, transfers or other new students who are interested in joining some fraternity and have received at least one formal bid to visit a fraternity house dur ing rush week, Golden said. Begins at 3 Formal rushing is scheduled to begin at 3 o'clock, immedi ately following the meeting. Golden explained, "The main purpose is to instruct the men as to fraternity plans and pro cedures and emphasize certain restrictions accompanying rush week at Carolina." Handbooks will be distributed by the IFC outlining rushing rules. Men will have explained to them in detail the rules which they must follow during the week and will be urged to arcmaint themselves thoroughly with them so as to avoid viola tions. The committee also announc ed the procedure IFC will use in issueing formal invitations to ioin. On Wednesday. October 29, all men who have been rush ed formally and are interested in joining some fraternity must rejKirt to Memorial Hall be tween the hours of 3 and 6 o'clock ia the afternoon to pick U s ST-. t 'j 3' While many Chapel Hill es tablishments served meat yes terday in defiance of Presi dent T r u m a n's request, .Charle9;;:lUuckntur9-r.cha-irmaiiv of the Chief Executive's Food . Conservation committee, takes time off from work to eat his Tuesday lunch a cheese 'sandwich and a glass of milk. similar to that of Charles Luck man, chairman of the President's Food Conservation committee, who on meatless days limits his lunch to a cheese sandwich and a glass of milk. Meanwhile, reports indicate that over the nation, the drive to conserve food in order to aid Europe's starving millions is meeting strong opposition from selfish American pocket books and stomachs, Announces Meeting Fraternity Rushees up their formal invitations to join. It was emphasized' by the group in this connection tha' because a man has been rushed by a fraternity informally since the beginning of school or for mally during rush week it does not necessarily mean that the man will receive an invitation to ioin that fraternity. Therefore, the rushee must report to Memorial Hall on Oc tober 29 to obtain his invita tion. He must then go to Ger rard Hall and pay the IFC fee of one dollar which will then entitle him to go to the house of his choice. A table will be set up by the IFC for this pur pose. Failure of rushees to comply with any of these regulations will result in their being dealt with bv the Interfraternity Council Court, Golden said. Formal bid cards were issued by the IFC at their weekly meeting Monday night in Gra ham Memorial. A condensation of rushing rules have been printed on the back and carry such reminders to the mentis. "Your failure to visit any fra ternity from which you receive an invitation will render you ineligible to join or be pledged o any social fraternity at the University of North Carolina for the period of one year Freshmen are warned to re frain" from giving too many dates in advance in order that they may with other fraternities. - Wafer Filter Plant To Be Constructed On Local 12 Acres The constuction of a new water filter plant, with a ca pacity of three million gallons, for the University and the sur rounding area was announced yesterday by Collier Cobb, Jr., chairman of the Trustees' Build ing committee. Purchase of the 12-acre site, iocated beyond Carrboro on the road to University Lake, was completed Monday by the committee and A. D. Bond, the former owner of the property. Contracts for the construction should be let as soon as the State Advisory Budget com mission has approved the de signs, Cobb explained. The de signing of the plant will be done by the William C. Olsen company of Raleigh. Because of the critical short age in drinking water suffered by the University community during recent months, Cobb said that "as soon as the plans are completed, the approval of the state commission should be forthcoming." The new plant will be design ed to serve ? 0,000 people, in cluding Carrboro, the Univer sity student body, Chaoel Hill, and surrounding localities. This is expected to solve the area's water problem for some years to come, as there will be room 6rithefilter"lTte" for tfieex-" panding of facilities to supply 100,000 water users. The site was chosen with care by the committee from six other alter nates, Cobb concluded, and is iusf a short distance, away from University Lake, which is the source of the community's water supply. Pines will be laid down the road from the lake to the new plant. Frame Buildings To Get Heat Soon "Wa should get heat into all the temporary classrooms with in the next 10 days," J. S. Ben nett, University building super visor promised yesterday. During the temporary respite afforded by the current mild weather, University building authorities have been busily en gaged in searching for the need ed pipe or a serviceable sub stitute. Bennett said they had managed to procure a quantity of footage of steel pipe from Army buildings at Camp But ner near Durham. If they can obtain outside pipe for the nec essary insulation, the installa tions can be quickly made, Ben nett explained. Pipes made of an asbestos and cement compo sition will be used if the Uni versity is unable to get any more steel. "We have already got the heating operating in four or five of the structures," Bennett con cluded. Coast Guard Favor Ends as Boomerang Rockawav Beach, New York, Oct. 14 (UP) A Rockaway Beach gasoline station owner who thought he was doing the coast fmard a favor got the scare of his life today when the object he thought was a marker buov turned out to be a 400-pound mine. Irving Chick saw the object floating in Jamaica Bav near his was station. He lifted it to the bulkhead with a tow truck and then called the coast guard to e11 them he had found a buov. The coast guard sent two of its men to the scene. They imme diately identified the spear shaped object as a mine. Police say that the mine is so rusted that it is impossible to identify its nationality. , Eve-Witness An American in Europe By John P. Kennedy, Jr. (Editor's note: The following article is part of the obser vations of John P. Kennedy, Jr., a student at the Univer-' sity, who spent last year in England and in Europe. His opinions are not necessarily those of the staff.) America today is incredibly rich, prosperous, and sleek. If we could see ourselves as visitors from the world outside see us, we should say, not only that Americans have that strange habit of chewing gum and that they walk with a kind of looseness that identifies them anywhere, but also that they are rich, that they all wear brand-new clothes, that nearly every family has an enormous car, and that every meal is a huge feast. Last month I returned , from a visit of a year in England and on the Continent, and I was surprised, when I landed in this country, at our amazing prosperity, at our bright neckties, at the extreme politeness of the South, and sur prised also to see that we American university students are so little concerned about " contemporary world problems. Students in "pubs" at Oxford and Cambridge and in cafes on the Boulevard St. Michel are more concerned with the ideological conflict between Russia and America and the problem of rebuilding Europe than "we are. We, Dr. Craig has pointed out, whose country is a principal in the ideologi cal war, are hardly concerning ourselves at all to strengthen our position. We, on this side of the Atlantic, do not realize how real the threats to world peace of hunger, cold, and (Continued on page two) Musical Merry-Go-Round to Be Presented By University's Communications Center Young people all over North Carolina will hop onto a Musical Merry-Go-Round October 25, a week from this Saturday, when the University's Communication center presents the first program in a new radio series of great music for children from 10:45 to 11 in tne morning. The show will be carried by stations of the Tobacco network and may be heard locally over wRMHt Earl Wynn, Director of the Com- ujLiiin. jliuii enier. Highlighting music to be play- ed this concert season by the Nortli Carolina Little symohonv dim uie iun sympnony orches- - - ira, lviusicai Merry-go-round" will feature recorded excerpts, student soloists and a musical quiz. Stuart Lucas, University sen ior, will direct the shows. Pro duction of the series will be un der the supervision of Earl Wynn, and Miss Jane Grills. Next Saturday's "Musical Merry-go-round" will include Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," the Russian song "Mea dowland" by Knipper and "The Little White Donkey" by Ibert. The program is only one of five separate series of weekly radio programs that will orig inate in the newly-constructed studios of the Communication Center. A schedule of programs will be printed at the beginning of next week. SCHW Meets To Assist Unions Fall activities of tile South ern Conference for Human Welfare will get under way this evening at 7:30 when the or ganization meets at the Presby terian church to discuss several new programs. According to Chairman Geor gia Ethridge, the local group will continue to work for recog nition of the United Public workers, CIO, by the Univer sity. During the summer session the group undertook, along with several other campus organiza tions, to bring to the attention of the student body the fact that employees of the University who belong to the union are denied the right of collective bargain ing. This situation has arisen, conference' members explained, because the University's trus tees have passed a resolution which makes it impossible for any official in the administra tion to recognize the existence of a union. Conference members here are also planning to discuss ways anH moans rf taVinff apt inn against the current high cost of living at this evening's meeting. "VTII 7- K f i 1 VV VA UUtlineS rnmn,;Hnn YkTA, committee W oric: Fot Coeds Here The campus YWCA, in order to fulfill its funda Pose "to live mnrP f.,!Kr nA I . ----- m j more creatively through a grow ing knowledge of God. and to have a part in making this life possible for all people" has organized several discussion and service committees to suit the needs of all coeds. Rev. Father F. J. Morrissey, assistant pastor of the Roman Catholic church, spoke Monday to the You and Your Religion committee, outlining the un derlying principles of Catholi cism. He stressed the continuity of the Church as handed down from Christ to Saint Peter, through the Bishops of Rome, who are the Popes. He also em phasized the distinction between the absolutism of the Church as contrasted with the relative qualities of Protestantism. The weekly meetings of this committee are open to the pub lic, and will from now on be held Thursday evenings at 7 o'clock in the YMCA library. At the next meeting, on October 23, a business meeting and dis cussion will be held. Jeanne Basnight and Helen Compton are co-chairmen of the commit tee. At Monday's meeting of the Public Affairs committee, head ed by Jo Fishel, chairman, and Mary Anne Daniel, secretary, two films, "The Northeastern Region" and "The Southeastern Region" were shown, and Mr. Harry Williams of the sociology department spoke briefly on the meaning of region and region alism. The political problems of the South will be discussed at next week's meeting, to be held at 5 p.m. Monday in the Town Girls room of the Y. All meet ings of this committee are open to the public. Mrs. N. B. Adams of the ex tension department of the li brary spoke briefly on Monday to the Career committee, of which Doris Harrell is chair man, outlining materials on va cations available in the library and where to find them. This committee's meetings are a'so onen o the public, and their rlans for the vear include voca- t;onai . inrerest and aptf"e tests, talks by interviewers from i harge companies, and other aids ( See Y.W.C.A., page four) Legislature to Vote 0n$1200 Measure For Student Record The most heated Student Leg islative session of the year is expected Thursday night as a bill comes to the floor from the finance committee asking that $1200 be appropriated to the Publications Board for the set ting Up and publishing of the Student Government Record. Although the establishing of the Record was approved by the Legislature during the sum mer, this bill to appropriate funds for it, has received an un favorable report from the fi nance committee, according to Jack Folger, Speaker of the Leg islature. The publication' was designed to inform the students of the University of the proceed ings of the Student Legislature. It was to be released twice each term. Confirmation of two more ex executive appointments will be asked of the lawmakers in their third meeting of the year Thurs day. Walter Arnold and Tom Lockhart have been named by Tom Eller, President of the Stu dent Body, to seats in the Stu dent Legislature. No opposition to these appointments is fore seen. A bill to investigate the pos sibilities for a so-called "Com munity Chest" will be brought out of committee with a report by Bob Collins who briffinalTy introduced the bill last Thurs day evening. The "Chest" as proposed would limit the vari ous drives each year of the Red Cross, Cancer Prevention Soci ety, etc. to one maior drive for all. The funds would be con trolled by a board to whom the charities would apply for aid. ROBBED! St. Louis, Oct. 14 (UP) Police at St. Louis were called out to investigate a reported burglary today. Finding an open window, they left their fingerprint equipment and a flashlight on the window sill while they interviewed the proprietor. When they return ed, the print set and flashlight were gone. 9 o;.. i-- ff 4 I k ill I I ? V " f- flf fins'- r -HJ,'rP- :- i r "P -- , f jl Jt B 4t.u;.-sA i i i t t&lkvt, 8BSJi& ZTtMLtM t--t- . . morial jam session. All musicians in campus orchestras, the jivesters are, left to right: Jack Burney, pianist; Gene Stryker, bass fiddle; Jerry McDuffie, trumpet; Eddie Seajle, drums; and Norman DeLancey, trombone. This afternoon's jam session will be held in the Rendezvous of the student union from 3 until 6 o'clock, with Harry Shippman acting as moderator. A fourth "year student majoring in music, Shippman is first sax and clarinet man with Johnny Satterfield's orchestra. The program will consist of three hours of completely unrehearsed playing without sheet music. All student musicians and the general public are invited. Upon entering the room musi cians will be asked to register. Six or eight man combinations, each to play a few numbers of their own choosing, will be chosen from the registration lists. If possible, those planning to participate, with the exception of bass fiddlers and drummers, should bring- their own instruments Light Vote Of 1,051 Defeats Art Melton By Chuck Hauser W,ith a light vote of 1,051, UP and CP candidates Ruth Evans. Gene Johnstone, and Harold Bursley took over the editorship of the Yackety-Yack last night with an almost three to one lead uviT their Student party opponent, Art Melton. Johnstone, Evans, and Burs- ( " ley, running as a board of edi-1 nn; i n tors for the ' University year book, received 781 votes out of the total, cast, .while Melton got 270. Office Vacant The office of Yack editor was left vacant at the end of the summer when Bill Moffitt, who was elected on a triple-party ticket last spring, handed in his resignation. Almost two weeks ago the Student Legislature passed a bill calling for a special election scheduled for yesterday to fill the post. . Johnstone Comments When informed of the board of editors' victory last night, Gene Johnstone, who . is also president of the Publications board, released the following comment on the outcome of the election: "Speaking for the board, I would like to thank the student body for the confidence it has expressed in us. We intend to do everything within our pow er to give Carolina a yearbook that she can take pride in as a reminder of this memorabl e i year." District Counts Tabulations of votes by dis tricts are as follows: Gerrard hall: Board 446, Melton 119; Ay cock dormitory: Board 220, Melton 76; Lenoir hall: Board 50, Melton 44; Alderman dormitory: Board 65, Melton 30. Students of Albemarle Plan New Year's Dance Students from the Albemarle or north eastern section of North Carolina who are interest ed hi organizing a New Year's Eve dance will meet in Gerrard Hall at 5 o'clock this afternoon. If a sufficient number does not appear, the plan will be aban doned. chnn in list wfini9v'i! firit Wrightsville Beach Wrightsville Beach. Oct. 14 (UP) Storm-borne high tides lashing Wrightsville beach have undermined u number of beach cottages and caused con.siderablt damage. Police say waters rose a foot deep on several .streets and two feet of the ocean strain' has been cut away. At Carolina Beach, police say no damage has been reported from the heavy rain and n it-lit wind resulting from the noith-ward-bound Florida hurricane. The tide today was the highest Vetera officers can remember in many years. The city has turned out in force to help repair loose pil ings supporting beach homes which have been battered by the waves. Police say one cottage on the landward end of the At lantic View fishing pier at Car olina Beach has collapsed. Wa ter and gas lines are also re ported to have been undermined by the tides and the streets of the resort town are littered with seaweed and marsh grass. University Club To Take Collection Chuck Voigt, president of the University club, requests that all presidents of dormitories, sororities and fraternities who have not previously reported their appointment!, fur repre sentatives to the club please do so at once. Tomorrow a table will be set up in the "Y" for collection of one dollar by all members so that a get-acquainted party may be held in the near future. Pres ident Voigt will be at the table between classes. Meetings are held each Mon day in the Horace Williams lounge of Graham Memorial at 7 o'clock. wcklv informal Graham Me-

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