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University of ?.'orth Carolina
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EDITORIAL
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Wilbur's Troubl
Sunday. December 7
VOLUME LVI
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N.'C.,- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1947
Phone F-3371 F-3361
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WSSF Will Start
Colloction of Money
Pledged Last Month
December pledges to the
World Student Service fund.
made during the main campus
unve in iNovemoer, should be
paid Monday and Tuesday,
according to an announcement
made yesterday by Emily Von
Borries and Tag Montague,
co-chairmen of the WSSF
statistical committee.
A table will be set up in the
Y lobby for receiving the money,
and it will be staffed from 10
to 12 and from 2 to 5 each day.
During the drive students made
pledges to be paid in four month
ly . installments, November, De
cember, and February. This is
the first collection other than
that during the drive itself, and
students are urged to remember
their pledges and pay them
I promptly.
f Approximately $5,165 dollars
has been paid or pledged to the
fund, of which $3,600 has al
ready been sent to the regional
headquarters of WSSF in Atlanta,
Georgia. According to figures
released by international head
quarters in Geneva, Switzerland,
. $5,000 will operate for one year
01 a student center of fairly larga
V sjize in China, providing facilities
" X. fr cneaP meals, bathing, warmth,
I light, study, recreation, and self-
help.
M The same amount will provide
,1 and equip a student center m
j Europe, or equip a sizeable stu
' dent kitchen and dining room.
1 1 Money collected in American col
j ! lieges, which last year amounted
J to $520,000, is disbursed by
World Student Relief headquar
,. ters in Geneva, through repre-
isentatives in devastated countries.
Goal for American colleges this
'l Hate Water' Stuart Sechrfest States
As Swimming-Medal
By Bob Rolnik
"I hate water!" declares Assist
and Journalism Professor Stuart
Sechriest. He maintains that
there is a plot against him. The
University Athletic department
has awarded Sechriest a medal
for swimming!
"They're just trying to flatter
me into taking a bath' insists
the Journalism professor waving
a letter he received yesterday
from the Department of Physical
Education and Athletics.
"Dear Mr. Sechriest,' the letter
begins. "We are holding for you
a charm which was awarded to
you for your participation in
swimming in 1944. Please call at
this office for your award."
"Why, I don't even know how
to swim!" Sechriest exclaims. "I
wrote the Physical Education de
partment a stinging reply. They
can't trick me into washing with
that stuff they call H20!"
This is the letter which the un
washed prof sent to the charm
awarding Department of Athlet
ics: "Subject: Charmed, I'm sure:
"1. In reply to basic communi
cation dtd. 3 December 1947, the
'Fastest Hands in the World' Will Appear
In Performance Tonight in Memorial Hall
The ' man with "the fastest
hands in the world," internation
ally famous gambling expert
Mickey MacDougall, comes to
Memorial hall this evening at
8 o'clock for a gratis performance,
sponsored by Graham Memorial.
Performing incredible feats
with cards he has never seen be
fore, MacDougall also gives a
mazing demonstrations with dice
and other gambling "gimmicks"
which are used by professional
gamblers to fleece the unwary.
Along with this, he tells his own
pungent true-life stories of
gamblers who live, and frequent
ly die on the turn of a card.
. As part of his equipment on
the road MacDougal carries the
catalogs of several supply houses
that sell all the paraphernalia re
quired for cheating in almost any
game. These include marked
.decks of cards and an invisible
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Four members of the Modern Dance club are shown above
doing their interpretation of "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen."
They, are, left lo right, Janet Green, Sibyle Mitchell, Venitah
Sanders, and Harriet . Sanders. The club will make Its first
public appearance of the year in Ihe community yulelide
program to be presented Tuesday night in Memorial hall.
(Photo by Yarborough)
Aching Feet5 Bulging Biceps
Plague Modern Dance Group
Plot Reaches Climax
undersigned wishes to congratu
late himself for winning a swim
ming charm in 1944, since that
was the year he was merely
wading (not swimming) in the
swamps of Louisiana with the
armed forces.
"2. Before accepting this charm,-
the undersigned poses the follow
ing questions: (A.) If football
players receive gold footballs, will
the undersigned receive a ' gold
fish? (B.) Will the fish be of
the dead variety? (C.) Will the
charm be a live mermaid?
"Also, before awarding this
medal, it seems that the Athletic-
department should" be acquainted
with the following habits pecul
iar to the undersigned: (A.) He
doesn't know how to swim. (B.)
He doesn't bathe. (C.) He doesn't
admire water running under
bridges. (D.) He never touches
the stuff.
"4. So, if it's all the same with
the Athletic Department, please
keep the charm and mail to the
undersigned its monetary equiv
alent in Confederate War Bonds."
Signed: "Stuart W. Sechriest,
Acting Air Raid Warden (j.g.)
Confederate Army Air Corps."
MICKEY MACDOUGALL
backs of cards. The markings
then can be seen only through
a red eyeshade.
Every gambling house m New
York has a picture of MacDousaU
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By Venilah Sanders
The illusion that Modern Dance
is for delicate aesthetes is refuted
heartily by the members of the
Modern Dance club, who limp
home with aching feet after their
rehearsals three times a week.
The seven girls who at present
comprise the club boast bulging
biceps as a result of their many
two-hour sessions in the Women's
gym.
First Appearance
First public appearance of the
year for the club will be in the
community Yuletide program
with the Wesley players, .Tues
day night at 8 o'clock in Memor
ial hall. "Christmas in Dance
Drama" will feature dances to
three Christmas carols which are
student-choreographed, and the
piano accompaniment will be fur
nished by Betsy Green.
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentle
men" depicts a merry group of
peasants gathering in an Old
English square, jovially express
ing the seasons festivity. "Carol
of the Bells" is an abstracted
study in the two Christmas
Moods, jubilation and adoration.
The audience will join in sing
ing carols with a community cho
rus led by Ferne Hughes, and the
Wesley Players 'will present
Stephen Vincent Benet's Christ
mas drama, "A Child is Born."
and dealers and stick men are
warned to watch out for. him, but
he usually gets in because, as he
says, "pictures of me always
make people look for a great
big guy." One. of the most com
mon crooked devices, according
to Mac, is the well-known put
and take top. These tops can be
made so that when spun to the
right they say "Put two dollars,"
and when spun to the left they
say "Take the pot." "Cute isn't
it," said Mickey, "If you know
which way to spin them!"
It was by way of a magician's
act that he first came into the
business of being a card detective.
At the age of 14 he used to pes
teringly hang around the stage
door of the Philadelphia theater
where magician Horace Goldin
was performing. Finally, in des
peration Goldin gave the boy a
job. As the boy for the famous i
Indian rope trick! I
Art Student Takes
Award far Portrait
In State Contest
Ben Williams, senior art
major from Lumberton, was
awarded a purchase prize in
the "Society of North Caro-
jliha Artists," exhibition at
Raleigh State Art Gallery,
Wednesday. Governor Cherry
issued the awards to the five
purchase prize winners, which
included Jennie Rembert,
wife of John Rembert, in
structor in the art depart
ment, and Mary Leath Thom
as, yisiting instructor in the
department last summer.
Instead of awarding money to
the winners of the contest, the
North Carolina Society decided
last year to purchase , works of
the winners and to have them in
the permanent collection of 'the
North Carolina Art Gallery. An
exhibition of this gallery will be
at Person hall sometime in
January.
Two from University
A jury, composed of out-of-state
artists, selected 175 paint
ings to be used in the "Society
of North Carolina Artists" exhi
bition. Two University art ma
jor's works were accepted. These
include James Moon and Joseph
Bolt.
The work submitted by Will
iams for the contest was a por
trait "Geanie", of a former stu
dent. He completed the portrait
last summer after working on
it for two months.
Williams has been going to
school continuously for the last
seven years. Schools attended in
clude the National School of
Art, Washington; Corcoran School
of Fine Arts, Washington; George
University of -North Carolina.-He
studied privately with Eugene
Weisz, well known artist affili
ated with the Corcoran School.
Won Award,
Williams was awarded ' the,
Ronsheiim Memorial award given
to first year students at Corcoran.
A year later he won first prize
in the Washington Art Fair. He
also won an award for figure
ainting from the Corcoran school.
Last year he had a painting
chosen for exhibition in the "So
ciety of North Carolina Artists"
exhibition.
In September of this year
Williams had a one-man show,
consisting of 16 paintings, at
Mint Museum, Charlotte. Ten of
these paintings were brought
from the Mint Museum to the
exhibition here, "Artist, UNC."
Williams has had many of his
works on display in various ex
hibitions throughout the country.
Williams Is Chosen
For SCHW Position
Aubrey Williams, Jr., chair
man of the campus chapter of
the Southern Conference for Hu
man Welfare, was elected to the
board of representatives of the
SCHW's Committee for North
Carolina at last Saturday's state
wide SCHW convention in
Greensboro.
Biggest thing the SCHW plans
to do here during the next year,
Williams said, is to urge recon
sideration of a resolution passed
last May by the University trust
ees declaring that they had no
authority to recognize any union
of University employees. '
SCHW seeks to have restored
the right of the local union, U
nited Public Workers of America,
CIO, to bargain collectively under
the Wagner Act. The union had
been operating- in Chapel Hill
for several years prior to the
action of the trustees. This action,
Williams maintains, has no legal
precedent and under it "Univer
sity employees have no right to
organize. This is a violation of ,
civil liberties."
FOOTBALL PICTURE
Coach Carl Snavely requests
that all players who dressed for
the Virginia game be in game
uniform in Kenan stadium to
morrow afternoon
for a s-id piciurs
at 4 o'clock
Japs'. Sneak
Cauabt DTH
Six Years Ago
Today Attack
Shocked Nation
By Donald MacDonald .
It happened the Japanese at
tack six years ago on Sunday
just like today, and it left quite
an impression on each of us.
Like every newspaper, the
Daily Tar Heel that Sunday was
caught with its columns down.
Press time was Saturday night,
and the maddening barrier which
every newsman knows at dead
line: knocked out any chances
of "war" in Sunday print. The
War did not reach American ra
dios; until Sunday afternoon.
Instead, the DTH printed a
--aim. usual Sunday edition.
Streamer headline was "Graham
to Highlight Seven Day Honor
Study''. Led by Student Legisla
ture leaders and President Gra
ham, Carolina men and women
were worrying about the Honor
system much as students today
are : concerned about elections,
parking problems, no bowl game.
Coates, now head of the Institute
of Government, was scheduled
to begin a week of honor system
study by addressing "a Graham
Memorial audience at 7:30 p.m.
Monday."
Christmas Spirit
The Christmas spirit was T
squared into all the edition's ad
vertisements. There was an edit
orial entitled "Our Honor System
As We See It" written by Bill
Seeman, a senior from Durham.
The White Phantoms were sche
duled to play the Hanes Hosiery
quint in Winston-Salem on Tues
dayT4'It.M: Pull'ham, Esq?'', with
Robert Young and Hedy Lamarr,
was showing at the local google
flash. Of course, the national scene
enjoyed some play. There was a
small United Press-authored ar
ticle headlined "Japanese Milita
ry Movements in Indo-China
Threaten Peace." That was be
cause President Roosevelt
had
addressed a personal message to lit anyway.
Hirohito for maintenance of ! Instead of "honor system" edit
peace threatened by reported Ja- orials, the first war issue carried
panese military movement in In
do-China and the Gulf of Siam.
It was quite ironic, too, that a
radio forum, entitled "Must We
Fight Japan?" would be present
ed, the DTH reported, that after
noon from 3 until 3:30 o'clock o
ver stations WRAL, WAIR and
WBBB. Professor J. L. Godfrey
of the history department was to
act as moderator and Dr. George
Mo wry, Admiral P. W. Foote, (U.
S. Navy, retired), and Roger
Mann, president of the Interna-
tional Relations club, were sche-
duled to participate. Then it hap-
Ex-Tqt Heel Mentor
Gets Davidson Post
Davidson, N. C, Dec. 6 (UP)
Charley Jamerson, former, as
sistant coach to Carl Snavely
at Carolina, today was named
head coach of football at David
son College to succeed Bill Story,
whose resignation becomes ef
fective June 1.
Jamerson is a veteran of 16
years of scholastic and collegiate
coaching and he has to his credit
a fine erid Dlavinff record at
a ..1 tt i : l r Tit: : .. i
Ai ticuuscis. xie nans iiom liiixiuis.
Jamerson was mentioned
prominently for this post last
season but Story was given the
nod. Jamerson coached baseball
at' Davidson last year, and he
will continue in this capacity
in addition to his football duties.
Story is giving up the Davidson
coaching job in oredr to accept
a position as assistant principal
at Maury High in Norfolk.
Glee Club Meeting
It is imperative that all mem
bers of the Women s Glee club
meet at 6:30 this evening in
Hill hall. Originally the meeting
was scheduled for 7 o'clock, but
an unexpected occurrance has
mode the earlier time necessary,
was the announcement which was
issued by the Music department
yesterday afterncor:-.
Attadk On fear!
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THE JAPANESE ATTACK on Pearl Harbor just six years ago today Sunday, Doc. 7 hurl
ed the United Slates into the greatest and coilliesl war of all lime. What followed cost Ihe
Uniled Stales more than 1,000,000 casualilies, more than 330,000,000 in treasure, a vast floel of
ships and an immense number of aircraft. Out of the peace came not tranquility, bul Ihe
atom bomb.
pened in Hawaii, and the script,
like a patriotic chameleon, turn
ed red-white-and-blue.
When the nation's radios, a
round 1:30 o'clock, interrupted
programs with bulletins of the
Pearl Harbor attack, the script
of the University radio show was
suddenly altered. President Frank
P. Graham, faculty members and
student leaders in an unrehearsed
broadcast, discussed reactions on
the campus to the Japanese de
claration of war.
Tuesday's edition or the DTH
was indeed a rare one. In spite
of the world-shattering events,
Editor Orville Campbell could
not publish an extra on Monday
due to printing difficulties. But
the campus would probably have
: been too close to its radios to read
a front-page editorial entitled,
"It's Here Let's Face It." The
editorial used too many cliches,
but it stressed one important
point planning for peace.
"Japan's declaration of war,"
wrote Campbell, "woke up a Jot
of college students. For the first
j time since the war started, they
(wanted to know what to do,
where to turn, whom to go to
about doing their bit. The DTH
does not profess to be in a posi
tion to give advice. Most of us
who work on the paper are in
the same boat as you. But we've
Scholarship Award
ExFootbaii Player5 Actor
Wins Koch Writing Award
Robert G. Armstrong, Jr., of
Bessemer, Alabama, was awarded
the Frederick H. Koch Scholar
ship in Playwriting recently, .it
has been announced by Samuel
Selden, head of the University
Department of Dramatic Art.
The scholarship, a memorial to
the founder of the Carolina Play
makers, covers the 1947-43 scho-
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been thinking about the problem
for some time, and we want to
get our say off our chest. Take
it for what it's worth: Fellow
student, our first impulse is to
tell you to keep your shirt on,
take things easy, and think the
thing through clearly. Forget a
bout being a playboy.
"If college student continue to
play the lotus-caters, if they keep
up their shallow superficial, pseudo-sophisticated
attitude of un
concern, if they continue to defer
consideration of the -war and the
after-war, the time will come
'when they are called on to help
determine the policy of their
country, and they will have to
answer, 'Not prepared.' "
Headline of the Tuesday issue
was: Phillipine Invasion Report
ed; Manila Bombed Following US
Declaration of War Upon Japan."
In smaller type there was. "West
Coast Blacked Out in Test Raid;
Guam. Wake Island Taken By
Japanese; US Ships captured."
Evidence of the hysteria was this
news account: "About GO enemy
planes were said to be nearing
Sari Francisco last light, but luck-
ily they turned back."
There was a very serious pho
tograph of Dr. Frank, an account
of the assembly which overflow
ed Memorial hall on Monday to
hear the University president tell
students to "stick to their books
and equip themselves in body and
mind for any task they may be
lastie year.
Armstrong. former football
player, actor, and playwright of
Howard College, played the role
of "Peter Couchon", the bishop,
in the recent Carolina Playmaker
production of Bernard Shaw's
"Saint Joan." He made his second
appearance during the past sum
mer, in the leading role of "John
Borden" in Paul Green's "The
Lost Colony" at Manteo, N. C. He
was a featured actor in the Play
maker presentations of ''Hear the
Hammers Ringing" and "Mac
beth." Before the war. Armstrong en
tered Howard College, near Birm
ingham. Alabama, on a football
scholarship, but his interest soon
became centered in theatre .work,
especially writing. The Howard
College Masquers produced three
of his one-act plays.
After a period of army service
and work in the steel mills, he
came to the University of North
Carolina to work with the Play
makers, and last year they pro
duced his one-act play, "Egypt
Land ', on an experimental bill
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called upon to perform for their
country."
More indicative of sludenv body
feeling was the article entitled,
"Students View Crisis With Re
signation." The author wrote
with a patriotic fervor: "Only
outward manifestation of student
opinion thus far was the number
of 'Beat Japan' banners that ap
peared on several. of the frater
nities and dormitories.
"Among the women student3
questioned not one of them ex
pressed any doubt as to a final
ly victorious America. They are
all willing to do their part it was
noted. It seems that they are
more afraid for their brothers,
their friends, and their fathers
I than
they are for themselves.
Coed Anne Guill phrased their
situation 'as though we were an
audience watching a play in
which the actors iuid incidents
are entirely beyond OUT control;
it isn't ie; l.' "
At the Pick, a Monogram mo
vie called "Let's Go Collegiate"
was scheduled and "Swamp Wat
er" was drawing crowds at the
Carolina I'Vo'fessor Koch, late be
loved founder of the Carolina
Pliiymakcr:;, was set lo give his
Christmas Carol leading in Me
morial hall the following Satur
day night.
1-t happened the Japanese at
tack six years at;o on a Sunday
just like today, and it left quite
n impression on each of us.
'Carolina Fight'
Not Planned Yet,
Declares Tenney
:T!ie! e m.v'ht possiblv bs 3
fight, but its not planned at
this time," remarked Harrison
Tenney, Carolina representative
for Frank Daikys Mendowbrook,
commenting on the Meadowbrook
advertisement which appeared in
yesterday morning's Daily Tar
Heel,
He v.-as ipaking of a typo
graphical en or which appeared
'in at least 2.000 copies of the DTH,
most of which were circulated
throughout the lower quad dor
mitories. The ad read, "Meadowbrook
presents University of North Ca
lolina Fight," and continued to
say so for the 2,000 issues until
a sharp-eyed pressman noticed
the error and stopped the press.
Having no linotype operators
: on
duty, the collection had to
be made in handset type, causing
the other 5,500 papers to proclaim
"University
of North Carolina
NIGHT."
Stan Kenton will be at Mead-
owbrook to provide music for vne
"Fight" night, December 28, and
reservations may be secured now
through the DTH business office,
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