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LIBRARY" (Periodical Dept. University of !'orth Carolina " Chapel Hill, N. C. 1-31-43 ': WEATHER Cloudy and nol so cool; drizzle turning to rain EDITORIALS From The Ciaff At DTH Hits 55 Happy Birthday CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1948 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 103 - , - - -- r Multiple Changes In Suggested ONE of the reasons Miami is so popular at this time of the year is pretty Betty Wag reer. She's modeling a new two piece swim suit with a top made of bright gold and black stripes. (International) Phi Will Discuss Negro Entrance The Phi Assembly will debate a proposal to admit a limited number of Negroes to the Uni versity on an experimental basis tonight at 7:30 in the Phi hall. Twiff in the history, of the University the question of admit ting Negro students: has come be fore the; administration. In , 1932 a Netiro applicant took his plea to the courts but the case was thrown out on a legal technical ity. Again in 1939 a Negro woman applied for admission to the Uni versity graduate school, but -was refused entrance. mu re j iia i 't&. .iv y:'..y :t.w. s'.-, j: I p " f - - CUt i n , Legtsl T 1 Will Hold Public Session -'fin -cofif rovcrsial .Tppellate ju risd.ic.tion ...situation, will be dis cusseU this afternoon in an open li icO ting' of the : .sped a 1 com' m i t tre nf the Student Legislature set up to .study the judicial provi sions of the constitution. The committee, which will make its report to the Lcgiskir lure Thursday evening, has called the meeting "to make sure everyone is hoard," according to Chairman Basil Shcrrill. Unconstitutional Angles , Scheduled for the Grail room of Graham Memorial at 2 o'clock, the group will discuss the uncon stitutional angles of the separate Law and Medical . school honor courts. The committee was created on February f, and has been at tempting to determine whether-or not the Student council should keep its appellate jurisdiction over Men's and Women's council chs's winch arc appealed. They arc also endeavoring to f'.efine morn closely the powers of ilio student council. Hie procedure-it should follow in hear ing appeals, and the qualifications necessary for its members. Reort Thursday The Legislature has asked thcwiu oe me J" " " committee to report on their de cisions Thursday night, following a one-week extension which they gave the group at the last ses sion of the law-making body. By Student Handbook Editor - - To Be Selected Tonite By Senate Coed Senate will meet tonight in Roland Parker lounge of Gra ham Memorial' to elect the editor for the Woman's Handbook. ; The slate of applicants from which the editor is to be selected mclude the following: , Nina (Bunnic) "Davis, Doris Weaver, Em.:y- Baker; Randall Hudson, Miriam ' Evans,,!; Jane Mears;; Anne Fleming and ' Car ter Taylor. " The Handbook vill be com pic t- ed by June and sent to all protf- Dectiv'rnedrf-Wv '4n Uhlolcl m Virginia rnaay, saiur entrarice purpose is to help orient the co eds ' by ; giving a true picture of campus life at Carolina and is the only publication which pre sents social rules. The Senate meeting will: bo ope and any interested persons may attend. Miss McKnight Will Talk To Counsellors Frances McKnight; of the Child Migrant Workers program in New York state will be on the campus Thursday to interview any men and women students interested in employment in sum mer camps run by this organ ization. Kathryn G. Cook, through whose office in South building appointments to - see the camp representative may be . made, pointed out the advantages of this opportunity to those students who are interested in the fields of edu cation and sociology. . TICKET INFORMATION There are still a limited num ber, of tickets available for the indoor track meet Saturday night in Woollen gym. Students may purchase the ducats for 75 cents and passbook -coupon number 21. General admission to the public is $1.50. The Athletic office also an nounced that tickets for the Duke game in the Blue Devils' gym this Friday may be ob-: tained at the ticket window to day. Sometime tomorrow, all ducats still not sold will be turned back to Duke officials. ci ai Urr o up Student Body President Tom Ellcr stated yesterday-afternoon that he thought it would be de sirable for the recommended changes, if any, to be carried out soon enough so that political party chairmen could be notified to make nominations for possible newly-created offices. Members of the committee,' in addition to Chairman Sherrill, arc Bill Tate, Donnic MacDon ald. Bob Broughton," Jess Ded mond, Tag Montague and Scotty Venable, who is representing the student body president. Dedmond To Address Campus Party Tonite Topic To Be Student Government Objective Jess Dedmond, .former chair-! ! . il -...,,. ,i.l-, ic man oi inu v-huhu " J running at tnc prcscni nine mi ( . . . r . . . president of the student body i with a joint UP-CP nomination, will speak at a . meeting of the Campus party at '7 o'clock this evening iii Roland Parker lounge 2 of Graham Memorial. Subject of Dedmond's remarks a 4 fUnlf. government, vccuiuuig w "- v - man Bob Hairc, his talk is ex-party will be better able to de pected to precede a nominating j cide between possible nominees if session of the party. - they present themselves person- Regarding this session, Haire 1 ally for party consideration." Polic Hefe Leaders Inter-Club Council Freshman Chapel Are Recommended . By Sally Woodhull Personalizing the honor system, establishment of an interclub council, institution of. freshman chapel, and encouraging of op portunities for association be tween Negro and white students are among the recommendations to come out of commission groups at the Natural Bridge conference sponsored by !the YM and YWCA last Avcckend. Approxlnintely " 100 students from Caroliria, William and Mary, Randolph-Macon and ' Mary Bald win 'met at ' the ' Natural Bridge discuss prob lemt of campus and world affairs. Principal speakers at the confer ence were Dr." Camerori Hall of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr." Frank Harift of the Univer sity Law school, and Warren Ashby of the philosophy depart ment. Open Meeting Reports of the commission groups, delivered to the campus at "I an open , meeting yesterday afternoon in "Graham Memorial, showed, in addition to principles which should be followed, con crete steps suggested by commis sion members for the improve ment of student government, stu dent activities and social func tions, scholarship, racial rela tions, and attitudes toward world government and economic affairs. A complete report of recom mendations is to be compiled by the" Y's, iCwas announced at yes terday's meeting, and will be dis tributed to organizations con cerned.. Political Report Jess Dedmond, reporting for the commission on campus pol itics and organizations, stressed the necessity for good leadership programs and to pro vie enter among students, recommending ajtainment to be furnished by the course in student government; the j Graham : Memorial Entertain stimulation of interest among en- imen' bureau. tering- students, to be accom plished through better orienta- Hon; the improvement of student - fatuity relationships; and the dis- semination of graphic, knowledge about student government The lack of recreational facil- itics on campus was discussed .by the- social commission, and rec- ommendations reported by Ed ture entertainment. Measures McLeod include the building of pertaining to the UVA constitu a recreation Center; open houses tjon which have been tabled for for mens, dorms to' be held in some lime were discussed. Ac Graham Memorial or the Mono-, cording to Clamoitt thev will gram club, the establishment of lounges and dorm stores in men's dorms- . Racial Tensions George Worth, reporting for the commission on racial tensions, announced that the commission would prepare a syllabus of ac tion of other Southern univer sities on admitting Negroes, and submitted the following recom mendations: YMCA. YWCA, and Hillel should encourage church student groups to study segre gation and make a public state ment of their" stand on it. The thrco groups should form 1.. . , -. . - , , ; turned his back on the Demo a joint committee on colored com- . , - n III tn mirror fn fi it n-unn T-.- irlfn. (See RETREAT, page 4) stated yesterday, - "The f1i-nfirin nre npaf pnnilffh that it ' . . ;., I . . i -n-n rrhd tnrf rin i pan. i nmv .wv.- uy jin.m6. uui didates into the field, in order xn.ai me campus may wtign uiui merits in comparison with those of other parties." , ' He urged all of the people that the party steering committee has contacted to attempt to be pres ent at the meeting. Reason that Vin ffnvn foi this was that. "The" Snavefy Stays ; : Coach Carl Snavely will not leave Carolina. The Gray Fox made Ihe an nouncement yesterday after several days of deliberation and discussion over a $25,000 a year plus off ar had been made by the Los Angeles Dons of Ihe All-American Professional foot ball conference in an attempt to lure ihe Tar Heel mentor away from Chapel Hill. Snavely said ihe negotiations with Los Angeles grew out of a statement he made to his frierid. Harry Thayer, business manager of the Dons, and he added he is sorry the thing ever became public. The gray-haired coach said the Los Angeles offer was fair and generous and" he called it an opportunity which could n$t well be refused. But Snavely and his wife, after serious con sideration, "came face to face with the termination of our Carolina association, and with the thought that the work in which so many of us have joined might be impaired, sim ply found ourselves unable to leave. Dormitory To Be Guests Of UVA The girls from Mclver dormi tory will be the guests of the Un iversity Veterans association to night a tthe clubhouse behind Lenoir hall. ' President Johnny Clampitt an nounced this as the first in a new scries of open houses providing for amateur entertainment and a long range program. The new program was passed by.'.;- the association's Board -; of Governors in a recent meeting. Pinky Barnes and A. B. Coleman will be in charge of the informal entertainment with Barnes as the master of ceremonies. It was also decided by the board to appropriate $5 for these Next week the Town Girl's as sociation will be the guests of ! the UVA- T1 . u Dians an 0uting in the near future with giris flom Women's college as guests. Last night a . general business raePi.ing of the association di- CUSsed other possibilities for fu- probably be brought off the table and added to the agenda for a vote at the next regular meet ing. Wallace Washington, Feb. 23 (UP) Henry Wallace now has a run ning mate on the third party ticket. In a radio broadcast last night, fvniltoi" rilon T-nrl-!- rf Trillin president under the new party banner. The Idaho senator, who was elected to the upper house of Congress by campaigning on horseback with a cowboy band, has been Wallace's first choice since the third party was formed, '''hut the Tdahn senator had asked . .. - . . ... ... lor time to decide whether to risK what he called "probable polit ical suicide." Taylor announced his decision with these words, "I am going to cast my lot with Henry Wallace in his brave and gallant fight for peace." The 43-year-old senator went on to blast both -major parties. As for the- Democrats, he says, "I am not leaving the Democratic party, it left me. Wall Street and the military have taken over." Jerry Pence Tp Run On Jerry Pence, junior from Wa gram, will run for the position of head cheerleader as an inde pendent in the April elections. Pence, who is a member of this year's cheering squad, stated yes terday that if he was elected, he would work with the other con tenders for the position to do the best possible job in the office. Also listed on Pence's plat form are pledges to confer with J : ' 'S ''It b NEWSPAPERMEN LISTEN as Representatives Win, M. Col mer (center, dark suit) and John E. Rankin (right) tell of the -locked-door session in Washington during which some 50 south ern congressmen voted unanimously to "fight to the linish" President Truman's civil rights program. A resolution, warning ihe President that his actions jeopardized the life of the Demo cratic Party, was adopted. tlnlernaiional Soundphoto) Southern Governors Take Ultimatum to Dem Chairman Washington, Feb. 23 (UP) ed as one of the group, didn't ap- Fiebellious Southern governors met. this, afternoon with McGrath and then issued a statement say ing that, "The present leadership of the Democratic party will soon realize that the South is no longer in the bag. In cflccl, they demanded: "Either you withdraw President Truman's Civil Rights program from Congressional consideration, or we may withdraw our support of President Truman." Cherry in Group The men were governors from four Southern states, Gregg Cher ry of North Carolina, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Ben Lancy of Arkansas and B. II. Jes ter of Texas. William Tuck of Virginia, who was originally list- Has Mate lie called Wallace '"the only leader capable of ending the cold war and reestablishing even the beginning of international good will." After condemning the machine . politics of the Big City Demo- j cratic bosses and the so-called i "Jim Crow" practices of the Southern wing of the party, Tay lor asserted that the Republican program is laid down by Senator Taft and the national association. While refusing to renounce Communist support, Taylor asked j jvc part in the third CCUN-Li-if the party bosses would re- ons Civic ancl Educational con nounce the support .of the N.A.M. ! fcrence on the United Nations or as he put it "the high moguls ; hr( in statesville this past week- of the steel trust." The Idaho senator, whose term of office lasts until 1951, empha sized that he personally had no Use for Communists. He said his efforts would be directed toward making the American economy work so well that Communism could never become popular. Taylor also said he would work to see that the new party would not split the Progressive vote, but would back liberals on either of the old party tickets. Declares Candidacy For Cheerleader, Independent Ticket In April Elections cheerleaders of other schools to i with the infrantry of the 90th bring about better sportsmanship ; division in Europe, and returned and better half-time shows, to j here in September of 19 46. initiate a more active tumbling He was a member of the 1943 program in the squad, and to 44 swimming squad and was so work, during orientation week to cial chairman of the sophomore teach songs and cheers to the new class last year, lowerclassmen. j Pence's complete platform is The candidate, a chemistry ma-I composed of six planks, as fol jor, entered the University in j lows: 1 943, withdrew to go into the ) "Closest Cooperation" army in 1944, where he served! (i) if eiecicd, 1 will endeavor pear. They handed their ultimatum to the boss of the Democratic Na tional committee, Senator How ard McGrath of Rhode Island. The governors asked McGrath to use his influence with the President on three points. (1) To have the Civil Rights program withdrawn. (2) To adopt a plank in the Democratic National Con- vention platform to uphold the principle of State Rights and op posing what they describe as "Sirch invasion of that principle as the proposed anti-lynching, anti-poll tax and anti-discrimina- tion program." '(3) To restore the two-thirds rule in the 1943 Con vention at Philadelphia. This is the rule scrapped by'therparty in in?,6 which would give" the-Dixie delegates a strong Voice' in the Convention proceedings. '"' Eager Newsmen A full hour before the confer ence which was scheduled for '2:30 this afternoon, newsmen began flocking into the Democratic Na tional committee's fancy new headquarters on Connecticut av- (Scc GOVERNORS, page 4) Students, Faculty Members Participate n CCUfMions Educational Conference Students and faculty members from the University took an act end. Dr. Nicholas Demarath. of the Institute of Social Science Stu dios pdesided over a radio for um on "Should the UN be Scrap ped," which was discussed by Ro berta Stirling, state secretary general of CCUN, of Chapel Hill, Ben Cohen, assistant secretary general of the UN, Ambassador Henri Bonnet of France and Car los Blanco, minister from Cuba.J fsay Tate, Nina Davis, Mae I Belle Enman, Tom Kerr and Dr. C. B. Robson of the Uni-George Drew. AVC Will Discuss Bi-Racial Issue The Chapel Hill and Univer sity chapter of the American Vt U erans" committee will hear a talk on unsegregaled' ' education at UNC by Nell Morton at its meet ing tonight at 7:30 in tlie Pres byterian church. The public is in vited. Also on the agenda will be the deportation proceedings recently launched by the Department of Justice against large numbers of aliens in the United States. Plans for future informal social gatherings to be held by the chapter are . to be presented to the membership. It is anticipated that the 'local group may give entertainments and get-togethers lor all who wish to come. Neces sary arrangements are to be con sidered at tonight's meeting. Graham Home Dr. Frank Porter Graham was back at his desk in South build ing yesterday after returning from work in New York . and Washington Sunday afternoon. At approximately 9:15 yes terday morning the educator settled down to get back in ihe Carolina swing of things again. South building officials said that one more trip to Lake Suc cess on Thursday would be nec essary to wind up his recently concluded peace mission to In donesia. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS Le Cercle Francais will hold its regular . meeting tonight at 7:30 in Caldwell Y. The group will meet for supper together at the Carolina Inn at 0:15. Dr. Al fred Engstrom of the Romance Languages department will speak on "Paul Verlaine et sa pocsie." Visitors are welcomed. Literary Quarterly Backers To Meet Iii Graham Memorial , The . feasibility 'of establishing a magazine, the meeting will be a literary .quarterly on the cam- open to all who have ideas on pus, ..the-methods for doing ho, . the subject or who desire to st and the general reaction to the I tend. Editor l ied Jacobson of the idea of one will be discussed at r j Carolina magazine, who lias meeting to he held tonight at 7 j signed the petition for a quar o'clock in Roland Parker lounce ' tcrlv said vesterdav. "We want a . Graham Memorial. Open to All .alien: oy puoiicauons men in terested in the formation of such ,, . - versity Political Science depart- J ment spoke at a conference lun cheon Saturday on "The Bal ance Sheet of the UN." Other University faculty attending the Statesville meet were Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Leavitt, Dr. C. H. Tcgg and Dr. K. C. Frazier. Lincoln S. H, Kan, state di rector of CCUN from the Uni versity, presided at several con ference programs, appeared on radio broadcasts and conducted the final plenary session of the meeting. Carolina students, in ad dition to Miss Stirling and Kan attending the conference were to work in closest cooperation with the other contenders for the office to get the best ideas and workable plans for the bet terment of the cheering sections. (2) To arrang for conferences with cheering squad.? of other schools to encouiage better sportsmanship and better half time chows, (3) To initiate a more active group of tumblers into the squad. (1) New cheers and work for a good public ad dress system. Orientation Program in) T work miring orientation week to teach the incoming stu dents our cheer;- and rongs, (G) jTo intensify a caiupjinn for more school spirit, (7; To count on the student body to outcheer our op ponents. Pence, a member of the 'Alpha Tan Oh.ega fratci nily, is the: fourth person to enter the ract for the- head cheerleader position for next year. Parker, Bell Will Head Lost Colony Raleigh, Feb. 23 (UP) John Parker, the business manager of the Carolina Playmakcrs, has been named general manager cJ the Lost Colony for the 1948 sea son. Parker was named today at meeting in Raleigh of the Roa noke Island Historical Society, sponsors of the famous historical pageant written by Paul Green. He is a faculty member at the University. To assist Parker the Society has named Albert Bell, architect and builder of the Waterside Theater where the "Lost Colony" soon will open for its 11th season, and Jonathan Daniels has been named honorary vice president of the Society. Danicb will succeed his father, the late Josephus Daniels. Th? Board has entered in the official minutes on expression of grati tude for the work done on its behalf by the late editor of the Raleigh News and Observer. The- group also has arranged for a special concert scries bv former Metropolitan Opera star Norman Cordon. The concert tour will be designed to stimu late interest in the "Lost Colony" which tells the story of the first English settlement in North Am erica. large attendance as we expect to put the project in the hands of a ren1r.il rfimmittf.u :i iha mot.. , - . . v.. W H ,111. 1 J II. t. ing. Sentiment is believed to bo j running h;?H lor the establish jtnent of such a magazine. There j were, at last reports, 1,400 signa -j tures on the petition 3sking fo: iit, and prominent publications fig ures are included in that number. General and Specific The meeting tonight will be a general discussion of the entire proposal followed by considera tion of the specific methods and organization called for by such a move. According to Jacobson, the group will probably close the meeting by electing committees to look further into the financial and organizational ends of the project, to prepare a prospectus on the magazine, and to direct the program. The last named group would, Jacobson maintained, be useful in coordinating the overlapping efforts now being made for thi quarterly.
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