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LIEKARY (Periodical Dept.) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N. C. 1-31-48 it VOLUME LVI United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948 Phone F-3371 F-3361 No. 94 WEATHER trff fjT Off E- z? tf EDITORIAL Woftord Nominated For Head Cheerleader in Campus Party Meet The Campus party yesterday ar jounced the nomination ,,f Richard "Dick" WoiTord of candidate for head cheerleader ions. Woffard, a junior, will oppose Charlie Stancell, the UP i.-.-,iiw'' ;md as vet an unnamod SP man. He has had one year ex- p( !i(i:cc as a cheerleader here, find he was a drum-major j.t "cid-villc for four years. Also in Reidsville, he did a grc;it deal of debating and reach ed the semi-finals of the state de-b.-iling tournament during his high school senior year. Upon receiving the nomination Wofford said T"If elected to this post by the student body, I will attempt to convert the great Ca rolina spirit into the kind ol noise that heartens the team and hclp: them win ball games." Commenting upon the nominee. Chairman Bob Haire of the Cam pus party said yesterday that he impressed him as "an energetic go-getter who will undoubtedly, if placed in office, be a factor in achieving a much better spirit next year." Haire also announced that the Campus party in its meeting Tu esday would be considering some "most important" nominations, and that any and all party mem bers were urged to attend. He said that with such "cx cellcnt men" as Jess Dedmond '-'co-nominated by the UP) and !v Woff ord already nominated, the Campus party had made a 4 good start towards presenting the best slate available in the Spring elections. "Thus", he concluded, I "we hope to have our nominees I selected b3r the largest possible 'number of party members." World Peace Program Is In Second Year Now in its second year of I operation, the. High School World Peace Study and Speaking pro f gram has enrolled 102 state high 1 schools to date according to E. R Rankin, Extension Division head of high school relations. Rankin said that the program is at study of the ways and means of building permanent peace. It was conceived by Oscar "o. k." Merritt; of Mt. who is an alum nus of the University. Without supporting any one controversial thesis, the program is proposed to present . all re sponsible points of view in un biased consideration. The program is offered to high schools of other states who agree to comply with tho requirements of the contest. A gold medal is offered to each high school fn- lolled. The medal is presented the student who prepares and delivers the best speech on world peace. A handbook is published by the Extension Division containing authoritative articles for study, a comprehensive bibliography find rules and suggestions for conducting the program. The program is financed and sponsored by various civic or ganizations in the cities. A bul letin" has been prepared and dis ! tributcd by the Extension Divis ion including articles by C. B Robson, Samuel R. Levering. Harry S. Truman, and George C Marshall. A feature of the program Ranking brought out, isi the fact hat there is no time limit on Vv awarding of the medals. It is feft up to the individual high schools at. what time during the Lchool year it will be conducted. kayt year's total included 200 high schools enrolled, 4.000 stu dents studying material on last year's topic. "Is World ' Govern ment the Pat!) to Peace?" Thi rw't topic is entitled, "How ''an the United Nations be Strengthened?" 1:15 Reidsville to run as the party's in the Spring campus elect- Journalism Class Plans to Present Show Tomorrow "Editorially Speaking", a radio show conceived during the war by University journalism stu dents, will be revived tomorrow over radio station WDUK, Dur ham, at 12 o'clock noon. In addition to this local broad cast, the 15-minute show will be re-broadcast at 3:45 tomorrow afternoon over the newly-organized 'North Carolina network con sisting of 13 stations throughout the state. Joe' Morrison, journalism ad visor, said yesterday that the show is being put on by members of the fall quarter class in radio news writing which ' will be re sumed in the spring but was not offered this quarter. Purpose of the show is three fold, Morrison said. "First, it is designed to familiarize students with state papers and worthwhile editorials they caiiy; second, it gives the radio news writing students experience out of class; and third, it gives the students a look at the feeling and temper of the state press since only editorials concerned with North Carolina issues arc quoted." - Editorials on Sunday's show include such timely subjects as the recent death of Orville Wright, the special session of the state assembly for considering a raise in teacher's payi parking meters, tobacco situation, amount of money in circulation, the weather .and state politics. Newspapers from which edi torials were clipped include Greensboro Daily News, Char-1 McAllister, Kay Mills, r,a mu latto Observer, Winston-Salem i ridge, Ed Buckher, Marty Pear- Journal, Kings Mountain Herald, Raleigh News and Observer, Greensboro Record, Durham Sun, High Point Enterprise, Skyland Post and Wallace Enterprise. Goddess On Capital ! Atlanta, Georgia, Peb. 6 (UP) ! The giant goddess that stands atop the Georgia state capitol must be ;t puzzled lady these days. She represents peace. But workmen repairing and re painting the capitol dome have found 3 bullet holes in the old lady, evidently the work of high powered rifles... Ruark Started from 'Polluted' By Donald. MacDonald "I armed myself with a large bottle of bourbon," said genial Bob Ruark, "and I wrote very well polluted. I would wake up in the mornings to find 20 pages of copy I'd never seen before." And that, in the words of her creator, is how "Grenadine Etch ing", the very binomy, very his torical heroine of the current sa .irical best-seller, was born. Ruark, Carolina graduate of 1935 and a Scripps-Howard syn dicated columnist, arrived in Chapel "Hill Wednesday night. "I haven't been back, for any length of time in 13 years." he said, "and I want to see if theue isn't enough material here for columns to keep me around for 10 or 12 days." The idea for "Grenadine", it -corns, had earlier beginnings hi.n the bourbon episode. Ac cording to Ruark he became more than slightly piqued at the "Scar lett O'Foxes O'Harrow, turquoise type of things" which his . wife, ill then with a foot ailment, be pZZ-" Vyjfi" m ' fi46-Jvv'-rfis -. vA;aMM Mlic&!Hufo&x'i.-Aei . M " WWII jl'WTOT " .., mfll' ' J t ' " " - - S , - 'SJ" hilt & , 4 ' JrZh nmi.M 4 -,t , fell I ftZ? 'M ' W ANXIOUSLY AWAITING RESCUE (top) are Andrew Ray, Fielding Warren and Anthony Vida, after drifting with Ihe tide for 30 minutes on an ice floe in the Hudson River off New York City. Below, they (arrow) hold lightly to a lifeline from the fireboat James Duane as they are pulled lo safety. The boys were playing on the ice near shore when section on which ihey.were siandhvj broke off and iloaied into middle of the river. (International) Methodist Group Youth Conference Starts Tomorrow Members of the local Wesley foundation chapter ' are to pres ent "The Rock" at the National Youth conference : held in Winston-Salem February 8. Rev. Robert Nelson, director of the local Wesley foundation, is in charge of the group, and Mrs. Arnold Nash has charge of the seminars at the conference. . "The Rock" is a play from tho j adaptation of T. S. Elliott's poem and members of the cast include the following: Martha Menden hall, Mae Day, Leo Nance, Jim sail, Mary Lee Lambert, Margie Cameron, Doris Weaver, Lowell Perry, Ed Penland, Bob Dulin, Art Bridgman. Bob Bunch and Katherine Hovis. Amgng the outstanding speak- ers at the conference Harold Elirensperger, editor of Motive "b "'"r" speak in Chapel Hill on his re turn trip. Hodgson Recovering Tarnation editor Matt "Took ie" Hodgson who was hit by an automobile early this week is recuperating in , the infirmary, nurses stated yesterday. Bourbon Writing Paid Off For gan reading night after night. "I wrote a gag column shortly af terwards and . threatened to cre ate a very historical novel of my own." The threat became a reali ty during those bourbon nights. Ruark's ideas were these: "Take the biggest-bosomed gal you can get, give her a nice exotic name, get her seduced in as many strange countries and by as many strange men as possible men with names like 'Stud Seven', in volve her in every sort of ca tastrophe known to God or man. allow her to have 24 children all of whom have either two heads or no head, and then on the lajt page let her walk upstairs with a decanter of brandy in her hand, saying. "I'll think about it to morrow.' " Mrs. Ruark. who is with hsr ! husband in Chapel Hill, collect ed the copy pages and stored them in a shoebox on those morn ings after. Doubleday, Doran and company became very happy she did, and Mrs. Ruark was even happier. But one has only to hear Ross Addresses Wallecites; Tells History of Third Party By Sam Whitehall ' Mike Ross, a union organizer for the CIO United Furni ture Workers union, spoke to the Wallace for President club at Gerrard hall last night. His subject was "The His tory of Third Party Movements'" In North Carolina". ; ganizer in the South, was intro duced to the group by President Bill Richardson of the Wallaceite organization-. His speech deliver ed before a small gathering which half filled the hall was well received, and at several points he was interrupted by scattered applause and laughter. At the outset of his talk, he announced that lie would go somewhat beyond his announced subject and claimed that he would present the third party "tradi tion" from the state and nation al standpoint. Ross singled out the state of North Carolina as the only state to be controlled by the Populist party . movement which enjoyed brief favor at the close of the last century. "All three branches of the state government" he told his audience, "were under the Fusion (Populist-Republican coal ition) control of the 1890's". He claimed that during their rule state government and race relations were extraordinarily good. ( (Sec ROSS, prtyc 4) the amount of those royalties to realize who was happiest of all. Just think of all that bourbon! The versatile author and col umnist first came to Carolina from his home' in Wilmington td study journalism under depart ment head O. J. "Skipper" Coffin. "One thing I learned from Skip per," Ruark confessed, "is an ap preciation and a common-sense rrangement of words." There were only about 2,200 students here than, Ruark said. They were students only in ths foolish sense, remarkably inter ested in everything except stud ies. Today's change in tilings, he continued, is most evident in the veterans. "The 'Y' looks' like any PX. The faces are all the same. You could blow one whistle here, and everybody would put on old suntans. Give 'em a rifle and off they'd march. That, 1 don't like about it." But he ad ded that such a situation is simi lar at every university. Ruark. is a veteran himself with .... St )ifcJllihiA f2 Morrison Speaks To Phi Assembly Robert Morrison, former editor of the Daily Tar Heel and Speak er of the Philanthropic assembly E-poke Thursday night at a special meeting of the Phi in Roland Parker lounge in Graham Memorial. ' Morrison traced the growth of he Phi from its reorganization alter the War in the fall of '45 to the growth of the present large and efficient body, com mending the present Speaker. Chester zum Brunnen for the ex cellent work he is doing. He stressed the importance of the Phi as an integral part of the campus and pointed out its far reaching influence stating that the Phi is an old and great organization. Mr. Morrison is now teaching English at the University of Illinois and working on his Ph. D. University service in the Navy. That came much later after .beginning his career as a copy boy on a Wash ington paper for $12 a week. H:s newspaper history is summed in his own words. "I started out honest and wound up rich." He became sports editor of the Washington "Daily News". Sports writing, to him. is the best way tc begin in journalism. The average sports writer, Ruark said, is an athlete worshipper who has a great bushel of cliches with which to worship. "I'd much rather talk to any lady wrestler "in the world," he said, "than any diplo mat." During the war Ruark is re membered for his bold expose of conditions in the Mediterranean theater under Brigadier General "Courthouse" Lee. He explained exactly how he came upon the story when at Leghorn near Pi sa, he was taken to lunch by a couple of sergeants "to a pig sty mess hall where we ate this lukewarm swill. I got most of my first series from General Lee's .... .lAiVlfiMVAVWWll p ii ii- '-'j ij . rjr I State Student Legislature May Be Held Sometime In April, Declares Fitzgerald Laboratory Theatre to Present Satire on 1845 Era Tonight . By Mark "Fashion," the 1845 social presented by the Laboratory makers, will open tonight at 8:30 .in the main loung of Gra ham Memorial, and songs of the period will be one of the main features according to W. P. Covington, director. The play, which will be re ipeated Sunday night. Is being 'presented in true 1800's style, with the original songs and some entre-act skits. The featured songs "will include "My Mothei Was a Lady", "The Curse of an Aching Heart", and "New York, What a Charming City." The entre-act numbers include "Come On, Papa!" and "Frankie and Johnie", as well as a song panto mime and a comic skit. The mu sic for the ball room scene was written especially for the produc tion by Sound and Fury writer Frank Mathews. Fashion," written by Anna Mowatt Ritchie, boasts a cast in cluding Edsel Hughes, Quentin Brown, Erie Hall, Sidney Shert zer, James Byrd, Martin Jacobs, Mac Shaw, John Constable, Catherine McDonald, Gloria Gunn, Betty Young, Edna Dooley, and Mary Jo Cain. No Charge The production is being pre sented without an a'd mission charge, under the sponsorship of Graham Memorial. It is being staged in front of a series of screens designed by James Riley, and-will be played at floor level with the audience on three sides. The members of the cast de signed their own costumes, and the lighting for the production is being handled by Helen Brown and Frank Echols. Allen Smith is house manager, and Ellen Smith is stage manager. Harry Thomas is supervising make-up, Sybil Drake is accompanist, and Mart in Jacobs is choreographer. Pat Palmer is prompter and direct or's assistant, and George Up church is handling the proper ties. Annual Co-op Meeting Is Slated Wednesday The Chapel Hill Mutual Dis tributors, Inc., will hold its sec ond annual meeting next Wed nesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Medical building auditorium, Co op Board of Directors announced today. Officers for the coming year will be elected at the meeting and the treasurer will announce the stock dividend to be paid to the holders of co-op stock. The new board of directors will also be chosen at the meeting. . Grenadine Alumnus own public relations staff." There was little danger of a suit be cause he was furnished signed documentaries from G. I.'s and aiass alike. Later Ruark uncovered the story about Frank (The Voice) Sinatra's chumminess with "Luc ky" Luciano in Havana. Sinatra threatened suit. "It was a good itory," said Ruark. "because 1 hought it was a rather odd place for a youth leader to be, mixing with guys like Luciano and Ralph Capone." The suit didn't pan out be cause again he had documentary proof. "I hollered for Sinatra's 'keeper' in New York and told him I had all the evidence." Ruark calls his job the best newspaper job in the U.S. and he's going to hold on to it. He isn't afraid of being shot because "people largely have an inferiori ty complex about shooting news papermen." His columns, which "Time" once called "belt-level stuff", give the average man's re actions to things about him be Sumner satire and melodrama beins Theatre, of the Carolina Play- Lindsay To Head Democratic Club Bob Lindsay, junior from Greenville, S. C. was recently elected president of the UNC Students for Democratic Action. The retiring president, W. C. Dutton, Jr. of Atlanta,. Ga., was elected vice-president. Margaret Healy of Langly Field, Va., was elected secretary. Bill Grier is treasurer. At the meeting, the chapter's committee for the Marshall plan reported on its plan for awaken ing further interest locally in the purposes of the Marshall plan. Citing the need for the deve lopment of an integrated eco nomy between all countries of eastern and western Europe, Lindsay appealed to those who wish to see a democratic Europe revived in the fight against ex tremist groups of both the right and left. Dan r inkle, industrial engi- . , tT . , . T Workers Union of America, CIO," told the group about his work 7ith the union. Members discussed plans for attending the Americana for De mocratic Convention in Philadel phia, February 21-23. It was an nounced that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will preside at the banquet meeting. Speakers at the convention will include William Green, Walter Reuther, Senators O'Mahoney and Morse and Reinhold Niebuhr. Convention advertisements say that the meeting will be "the greatest parliament of liberals ever held in the Western Hemi sphere." DTH STAFF NOTICE There will be a Daily Tar Heel staff party this evening. Time and place had not been decided at presstime last night. However, Frank McDonald, chairman of the arrangements committee an nounced that they would be posted on the office board from nine until noon this morning. McDonald also revealed that there will be a small assessment from those who attend the affair which, he said, "definitely will not conflict with the ball game." Started from Scratch Bob Ruark :.t General Lee or Sinatra. About 'he UMT proposal he says, "I'm in favor of it, but I don't think ;t will pass as long as Congress men have sons." Columns to him are "one part leg work and six parts being able to think whilo -itting down." His first column from Chapel Hill will appear in 4onday newspapers. "Grenadine, rather bawdy pa rody", is only the beginning of the New York columnist's book work. He has already sold an in complete autobiography and col umn collection to Doubleday for fall publication. "Grenadine" took three months to write, and Ruark has five months remain ing in which to finish "I Didn't Know It Was Loaded." He calls himself lucky in jour nalism, and he gives this advice to young hopefuls: ''There is no substitute for luck in this busi ness. You can have talent and be a great writer, but if you don't have luck you might as well drop dead!" 1 By Chuck Hauser The State Student Legisla ture appears to be ncaring reality, according to Earl Fitz gerald, president of the De bate council, as he announced that a meeting of the execu tive council of the legislature has been called for March 6 in Raleigh to prepare final plans for the eleventh annual ses sion of the body. "I see no way in which the legislature can be held before April," Fitzgerald said yesterday. The session was originally plan ned for November 28-23, 1047, but the executive council (at that time composed solely of State college students) cancelled thj assembly, apparently due to Iho race question. Negroes were first admitted to the legislature during the session held during the fall of 1946, which was very smooth-running, ac cording lo participants and spec tators at that time. "On March G we will decide exactly when the legislature will be held," said Fitzgerald, "and I am confident that it will paas the executive council." The decision to hold the exec utive council meeting on March was made by delegates from State, Carolina, and Meredith del egates at a meeting held Thurs day night. Delegates from this campus were Lucy Jordon and Earl Fitzgerald. According to Fitzgerald, De bate council vice-president Blan ton Miller will call a meeting ("probably early next week" of heads of all organizations on this . . . . i campus who wish to sponsor the assembly to determine who in to attend the executive council meeting on March 6. The University will be permit ted to send seven delegates to the council meeting. Each college In the state may send one delegate per 1,000 students, with a mini mum of 2 delegates. Kerr Scott To Run . In Governor Race Burlington, Jan. 6 (UP) Ag ricultural Commissioner W. Kerr Scott has announced that he will run for Governor of North Caro lina and will resign his agricul ture post immediately." Scott is in Burlington tonight for a mass meeting of Alamance County Democrats. Meanwhile in Raleigh, Govern or Cherry says he has not heai-d from Scott concerning the resig nation or the candidacy for Gov ernor. He says if Scott resigns from the Agriculture Department he will appoint a successor who will probably be from the depart ment. World Federalists Talk Nationalism In the first discussion of the aims of the United World Fed eralists, the student chapter meeting in the Grail room Thur sday afternoon heard Jim Rob erts in a discussion designed to show the concept of nationalism as the greatest obstacle to a fed eration. Roberts began the discussion and various members of the stud ent chapter expanded his idea3. Nationalism was discussed in re lation to (1) the purpose of a nation, (2) reasons leading to the failure of nations to maintain peace and (3) area of a nation's operation. In weeks to come the UWF chapter, which meets regularly at 5 o'clock on Thursdays, will program discussions to serve the dual purpose of furnishing infor mation of the organization and its views to visitors and new members. At the same time dis cussion groups will attempt to ac quaint present members with new ideas and views of the constantly-changing world political scene. All persons interested in these programs are urged by chapter president Juke Wicker to attend.
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