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University 01 iru. Chapel Hill, N. C. 1-31-43 e 30auik mMwt 3fed ' jP" " ij" 'J aass0 WEATHER EDITORIAL Accomplishment and Nd Combined Mag Sarin? Totally Unqualified Cloudy with occasional rain Y Groups Plan Winter Retreat VOLUME LVI . United Press . CHAPEL HILL, N. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1948 Phone F-3371 F-3361 No. 93 Convocation Will Welcome Graham Return President Frank Graham, CGHS o F For Leaders Of Student Activities ji Conference To Be Held In Virginia February 20-23 By Helen Highwater Campus problems and world affairs as they affect a uni versity student body will be discussed by Carolina stud ents and representatives from other schools at a Winter Re oat at Natural Bridge, Vir nia, on February 20, 21, and i .,,nnsoied by the YMCA and an- YWCA, the retreat is open to the entire student body, and lias as its theme, "A Clue to Our purpose. oiuaent leaacrs in campus politics, publications, and other organizations will attend in older to discuss their re spective fields, and authorities in national and international af fairs will speak, all with the aim of aiding students to visualize the goals toward which they should be working. Principal Speakers Cameron P. Hall, of New York Citv, a member of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Frank Hanft, of the University Law school, will be the principal speakers, discussing national and Mullinax to Head Conservation Club The Carolina Conservative club held its semi-annual elec tions Wednesday evening in Ay cock Dorm. Election results found Paul E. Mullinax of Gastonia taking over the presidency from John C. York of High Point The post of first vice-president was given to Banks Talley of Bennettsville, S. C. Paul Harril of Forest City was elected second vice-president, Meek Carpenter of Kings Mountain, secretary. and Charles Kauffman of Char lotte, treasurer. After the elec tions, present political highlights and future club activities were discussed, and a new meeting place selected. Wallace Attacked In the political discussions ;herc was no defense offered tvhen Henry Wallace was verb ally thrashed by several of the members, and the topic was closed when club treasurer. Charles Kauffman stated that the only way to deal with Henry Wallace was to ignore him com pletely. The Universal Military Train ing question was brightly spot lighted. President Paul Mullinax declared that the anti-UMT arguments-were illogical and sup ported his1 statements with illus rations. - T here were no dissen ters present: -; Decline Merger When the topic of club activi ties was brought up, an offer J rom the Young Republicans club to effect an affiliation between the two clubs was considered and the dominantly Democratic Conservative club tentatively de cided that the brotherhood could be achieved by individual mem bers, but declined as yet to link the club as a whole with the other organization. Plans for the annual sprine banquet were discussed and formulated, 'and the meeting concluded with the decision to hold future assemblies in room 20 of the New East Annex each Wednesday evening at 7:30. Laundry Will Resume Town Service Monday Announcement came yesterday from the Laundry office that reg ular weekly pick-up and deliv ery service will be resumed for students living in town begin ning next Monday, February 9. Weekly laundry service is al ready in operation for students living on campus. 2:30 ' ' '.. 4 i Jr: I ! f I DR. FRANK HANFT CAMERON P. HALL j international problems respec tively. In addition to the speeches and discussion groups, features of the weekend will include sight-seeing trips to points of interest around Natural Bridge and square and ballroom dancing. Pete Burks ;and Julia Ross are co-chairman of arrangements for the retreat. Registration for the retreat will be opened to the . campus as a Beale Praises Norman Thomas Who Will Speak Here Tuesday By Mary Ann Taber "One of the best speakers and most well-informed men in the country," University History Professor Dr. Howard Beale says of Norman Thomas, Socialist party head who will speak here next Tuesday evening. Under sponsorship of the Caro lina Political union, Thomas will speak against universal military training in Memorial hall at 8 o'clock. Thomas will arrive in Chapel Hill next Tuesday in time to speak on American foreign policy to Dr. Bcale's 10 o'clock history class. Plans for a luncheon on Tuesday in honor of the Socialist leader have been laid but arc in definite at this time. Fills Auditorium Those who recall Thomas' pre vious visits to the University in 1937-33 or '40 will remember him as the speaker who has consist 2ntly filled Memorial hall to ov srflowing. He has always partici- oated enthusiastically in class eminars, open forums, and in- Jormal "bull sessions. rJ nembcrs say he responded in the question periods after his speech es as clearly and concisely as any speaker they have ever sponsor ed. Twice in the past Thoma's trav ling expenses have been paid hy ,-oluntary contributions, since the rips, have not been part of a ire-election campaign and since t's not CPU policy to pay speak ers. Agressor For Peace . . i 1 The 64-year-old leader nus on" been noted as an agressor for )eace and has been attached to he Socialist party for the pur pose since 1920. After one visit he stated, "the peace ana cairn which our party seeks is found it Chapel Hill." ' He went on t- lail the university town as an 'oasis of learning". In the past Thomas has mo&l often spoken here in the capacity of a commentator on internation- il and national affairs. In ly.i. he pointed out to University stu dents the trends toward Fascism in the U.S. For the topic ot nip speech in 1938 he chose the So- hialist program which was aim ed at keeping America uui war, attacking Roosevelt s lor- i .1i7- --lir at that cign ana neuiiauy time and opposing rearmament. Agajn in 1940 while stating Americas role ai nome cu.u o broad he said America's task a- broad was keeping ouu ul wcm the same time making democracy ,-nrk at home. Once again he at tacked Roosevelt's foreign policy and armament program. The lat- ter, hp said, was then costing me U S a million dollars for "drunk en soldiers and arms that would soon be obsolete." whole next week. Claude Shotts , . ",,',,-a inounced by Chancellor Robert general secretary of the YMCA R Housc following consultaticm has stressed that any student oniwith ct,,Hont fai-nit sh campus may attend, and that the make-up of the group is by no means limited to members of the Y cabinets. Invitations have been sent to about 25 colleges near Natural Bridge to send delegates. Transportation to and from Natural Bridge will be furnished (See RETREAT, Page 4) nnc m ar Qttnnrl sa r.rJ that tVir Scholarship Test Is Open to Coeds The Memorial Scholarship Committee of the Katherine Gibbs School, a four-part busi ness college for women in Bos ton, Chicago, New York City, and Providence, has announced the opening of its national scholar ship competition for 1948. Entries will be accepted from any wo man senior at an American uni versity, and two of the applicants will be chosen by the commit tee to receive these tution-frce benefits. Polly Jo Evans, University graduate of last spring, is cur rently at the New York branch of this school, having won one of the 1947 scholarships over a nation-wide field of entrants. All coeds interested in further information as to the entrance requirements of this competition, may procure them from Kathryn G. Cook, associate director of the University's Bureau of Vocation al information, in Room 209, South building. Three Featured Acts Are Scheduled Tonight In Graham Memorial's Rendezvous Floor Show By Sally Woodhull Skippy Mann, blackface comic singer, will be one of three feat ured acts at tonight's Rendezvous floor show starting at 10:30 in the campus carbaret on the ground floor of Graham Memorial. He will sing several numbers while acompanying himself at a white piano. Also featured in the show to night is Dick Katzin who per forms under the name of Riqui Casino. A junior from Winston Salem, he has been heard on lo cal and national radio shows and has been very well received in other appearances. He will do several popular comedy songs. Dallas Byerly, freshman from Sanford, will appear tonight with his new partner in an acrobatic adagio routine. A twelve-year-old dancing prodigy from Sanford, his partner will be making her first campus appearance. Opening at 7 o'clock, the Ren dezvous room will have music for American representative on the three-man Good Offices commission that effected a truce in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute, will be welcomed home at a special convoca-, tion that will include Uni versity trustees, faculty, al- j umni, and students, it was; announced last night. President Graham returned to this country Sunday and is now presenting his report to the Sec retary of State and to the Se curity Council of the United Na tions. He is expected to return to Chapel Hill around February 14. The decision to welcome him home at a general convocation, instead of a formal dinner, as was originally considered, was reach- cd yesterday afternoon and an- ' a a a a ministrative representatives. Playmakers Plan jTryouts Tuesday Harry Davis, director of "Call 'Back Yesterday", the next full length production of the Carolina I Playmakers, announced tryouts jr next Tuesday, February 10, at 4 o'clock and 7:30 in the Play- maker theater. The play is sched uled for performance March 10 through 13. "Call Back Yesterday" is by Gene McLain, and contains parts for nearly thirty actors and act resses. Davis said that scripts of the play have been placed in the re serve room of the library so that students who are interested in ("Jfa VJIA.J AVX KJJLX JJ. JllCtll, I parts will have the opportunity to read the material. He added, "The Carolina Play makers is a community theater. All students, faculty members, and townspeople are eligible to try out for parts, or to take part in the backstage work." Davis, associate professor in the dramatic art department, direct ed last summer's production of "Outward Bound" and last sea son's presentation of "State of the Union". Absent Legislators The following members of the Student Legislature were absent from the February 4 special ses sion: Dick Borcn, Lynn Blanch ard, Dan Logue, Peppy Lucas, Joyce Peterson, Jane Rogers, Mary Swann. On January 27 the following legislators were absent: Gil Bur nett, George Drew. These legislators are asked to submit excuses to Jim Fort, chairman of the Rules committee of the Legislature. dancing all evening furnished by John Hough and his trio. Hough, a junior from Washington, plays the clarinet, and has appeared with several dance bands in the eastern part of the state. Pianist. Jack Sturgell, second member of the trio, is well-known in New York cafe society, and mm ems By Chuck Hauser The constitutional amendment Ibill which would take away the appellate jurisdiction of the Stu dent council was tabled by the Student Legislature last night. and the magazine consolidation bill met a like fate, following heated discussion on both. The bill to establish a Coed Affairs committee of the Legis- Roy Cole Band To Furnish Music For Senior Program On Monday By Donald MacDonald Music will be furnished by Roy Cole and his orchestra, with featured vocals by George Demas, at the senior class entertainment program scheduled for Memorial hall Monday night. Designed to bring all seniors together for one of the last busi ness and entertainment meetings of their scholastic year, the pro gram will begin at 8 o'clock. Senior class president Benson McCutcheon heads the commit tee composed of Cattie Holt and Jim McCormick which has ar ranged the program. Roy Cole, a student from For est City, has been connected with campus orchestras since pre-war tudent days. He has played with the college orchestras of Jimmy Fuller, Ted Ross Charlie, Wood Bill to Abolish Fraternities Defeated by Di Senate, 19-3 By Sara Whitehall Al Lowenstein unexpectedly pulled a bill out of his hat at Ahe Dialectic Senate Wednesday night designed to put the Di on record as favoring the abolition of fraternties. All the bill did, however, was to cause some excitement in : what had been a relatively quite Rho Chi Tapping Honors Fourteen Sam Kobnce, President of Rho Chi, welcomed the following new members into the Rho Chi So ciety, Wednesday night at a meet ing of the Studenty Branch North Carolina Pharmaceutical Associ ation: Scott Gardner, James Edwards, Sam Cavenaugh, Mary Beth Lockwood, Winfrcd King, Hal Hawkins, Mrs. Peggy Costner Simmons, W. M. Jordon, Thomas Mitchell, John Hood, Jr., William Forrest, Gordon Heath, William Puckett, and Rudolph Pittman. Folowing the tapping ceremony. the new members were introduc ed to the society by Van Secerst. has appeared frequently i n Greenwich Village cabarets. Playing the bass fiddle for the combo is Howard Myers, junior from Winston-Salem, who also plays with the University Sym- phony orchestra. The combo is scheduled to play for dancing every Friday night from 7 o'clock until closing, but the floor shows, planned by en tertainment director Clarence Barbour, will go on a two-week schedule after next week's show. Next Friday night the Rendez vous room will be converted in to a New Orleans water front cafe, bead curtain, bamboo and all, with Bill Corley and Grace Blades doing the featured dance, choreographed by Bill. Records for rehearsals of the show have been lent by Ab's Book store. At tomorrow night's open house, as at those of the past, delicacies from Danzigcr's candy kitchen will be furnished frevi, donated by Edward K. Danziger, lature, the bill to establish a committee to investigate student banking facilities, the Legisla ture budget for the coming year, and the speaker's fund bill all passed with little or no discuss ion. Legislator Tag Montague pro posed a new bill to establish a committee to study the consti tution with reference to the pres- Wkt-n iTS lr ... i 8: 'j2z$3 f4 , ,; ,.,.,( ROY COLE AND and Freddy Johnson. When he returned to Carolina from service in 1945 he organized his own campus orchestra. Cole plays saxophone with the group, while his vocalist is also a sax-player. Sharing Monday's spotlight will be the dancing of a professional ballet artist, Frances Johnson. Miss Johnson will dance two speciality numbers, interpreta- tions of "Ballerina"., and 'Golden session discussing the question of whether fraternity rushing should be delayed until a student's sec ond quarter in school. The latter was the bill originally scheduled for discussion by the body. Bill Defeated Lowenstein's measure was de feated 19-3 after hot debate. The three persons voting for the mea sure were Lowenstein, Bill Hard ing and Mickey McNutt. In his charges against frater nities, Lowenstein made such ac cusations as the statement that fraternity presidents are some times ousted for standing up for the honor code rather than de fending the brother who violated it. "The Interfralernity council ve to controls student government," Lowenstein declared, going on to charge that the IFC influenced the Student council on the House Privileges board decision. "Stullify Thinking" Still holding the floor, the abo-; lition-biU's creator made the statement that fraternities "stu- Itified" thinking, and that the fra- J Mag office. ternity system was responsible j Titled "Of Cabbages and for honor code violation when the j Queens," the WC story was choice was between the "system" j written by Mag managing editor and the honor code. Charlie Gibson and is illustrated Defenders of fraternities on this by Bill Harrison. Apparently the campus in general were John story's content is as secret as the Van Hecke, Charlie Gibson and atom bomb, but the story of Randy McLeod, among others. J why it is appearing is not. The original question of the e- ; According to Editor Fred vening, the bill to recommend de- 'jacobson, the magazine and the laying fraternity rushing of newjWC "Corradi" had agreed to ex students until they have been in change impressions of the schools residence for at least one quarter, ! for publication. However, the was passed by a 20-1 vote. The' Carolina magazine's story on WC lone opponent of the measure was did not meet their ethical stand Marshall Pinnix. ards and was killed. The same Lilile Discussion Little discussion was held on the bill, due to the. obvious fact that most members of the Senate were in favor of the plan. It was introduced by Dortch Warriner. Uj fl ent judicial set-up and to present ; another constitutional amend an amendment to the Legislature j ment bill introduced by Jess to take the place of the Eller-! Dedmond. Referred to committee, sponsored amendment which was it provides for a holdover mem tabled by the special session of j ber on the Women's council to the law-making body last night. S be chosen after the April elec- The rules were suspended by a two-thirds vote of the group, and the measure passed almost unanimously. Also under new business was HIS ORCHESTRA , Earrings." She is appearing through the courtesy of the N. C. Entertainment bureau. Football movies and songs by the Sigma Chi septet will be extra features of the mammoth show. The septet members in clude Bill'Sunas, Buddy Lyons, j the Mens council decision by a B. K. Grow, Earl Somers, Bud faculty appeal board last sum Early, Len Butt and John Clay-jfner, and the reversal of the ton. Piano accompanist is Hank Men's council decision on a scalp- iBecbc- Sechriest Given Publications Post Stuart Sechriest, assistant pro fessor in the University's depart ment of Journalism, has been ap- pointed as the new faculty mcm - ber of the Publications board, Chancellor Robert B. House an- nounccd yesterday. Sechriest, who is in his second year on th school's faculty, will serve until December 31, 1943. He replaces W. A. Olscn of the English ' department whose term in this position has expired. The new board member is a graduate of the University and!,jk t th t l ki 1 . 1 1 1 . J . . 1 i " naa oeen cmpioyca ror several years on the staffs of various Greensboro newspapers before coming to Chapel Hill last year. The Publications board, is corn- posed of four student members j lieve I have to say anything more elected yearly, two faculty ad- j there. Bill Tate, head of the Men's visors and one permanent non-j council, is a Phi Gamma Delta, voting faculty member. Its func-I Charlie Lambe th, on the Men's tion is to handle matters con- council, is a Phi Gamma Delta, cerning the four student publi- ' South Trimble, another member cations. I (See LEGISLATURE, Page 4) Story That Woman's College Banned Is Big Attraction of New Mag Issue By John Slump Appearance on Saturday of the January issue of the Carolina magazine featuring a story on Woman's college illustrated by the years "most revealing" cover the news vrsterdav from the , thing happened to their story on jWC's impression of us. Gibson's story was the one they rejected, and the Mag' is publishing it in self defense. Published not in self defense i but in the belief it will be an wsne fete tions from the junior members of the council elected in Dcccm- ber. If the chairman at that time ' is a junior, she shall automatic- ally become the holdover mem- 'ber, the bill states. Student body President Tom jEllcr started the ball rolling on discussion on his proposed con stitutional amendment by telling the legislators of his previous opposition to the bill last year when he sat in the Legislature. The bill not only takes away the appellate power of the Stu dent council, but provides for.the Student council to become tha one honor code violation court in the judiciary set-up, with the Men's and Women's councils be coming social violation courts. Any appeal students may wish to make would be directed to a faculty appeal board. "I believed the appeal would work last year," Eller stated. 'and I sat in here with the same weapon the opponents of this bill could use tonight that the basic right of the students to appeal should never be revoked." The president of the student body discussed the reversal of ing case by the Student council in the fall. "The appeal mt'U M abolish ed at all costs," fcidcr declared, going on to say, "We have spent a hazardous two years unsucceBS fully trying to make the system work." -W,,TCJ Charging into a new angle of (the situation, the president slated, !"A virtual clique and I am nyt J saying this for the benefit of j the press a virtual clique is in 'control of the Men's council." I Legislator Jim Vogler ques tioned Filer as to the meaning of the word "clique" as he used it. "I would not like this publi cized, since the Daily Tar Heel has been indiscreet in some other things they have handled rccent- ; lv." Eller rxnlained. "hut I would personal attacks on any mem- ibcrs of the councils. "Bob Broughton is chairman of the Student Council and he is a Phi Gamma Delta I don't bc- exceedingly popular feature is a pictorial "Campus Quiz" concei ved and conducted by Wilson Yarborough. It features "un familiar shots of familiar spots", and according to Jacobson no one who has taken it so far has made a respectable score in identifying the places pictured. 'Neapolitan Nightmare" by Roy Moose will be the fictional fea ture of the issue. Described by Jaoobson as "the Saturday Eve ning Post type", it is the story of the adventures of two Ameri can soldiers in the Italian black market. "Lady and The Lion" by Louis Stevens is another of the coming issue's stories that the editor classed as top secret. However, he did perniit it to leak out that he believes it to be the best work of a popular campus author. "OK Chaos", a "most unusual" story written by Howard Myers and "A Report from Switzer land" sent by a University alum nus to the magazine complete the "balanced menu bein2 of- 1 fered.
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