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Tom Kerr Is Endorsed By Student Party
Editorial Aide
Seeks Humor Mag
On Campus Lines
By Donald MacDonald
Tom Kerr, present assistant ed
itor of referendum happy Tarna
tion, was announced yesterday as
Student party candidate for the
position of next year's humor
mag editor.
Kerr (rhymes with Tar) was
unofficial editor of the latest is
sue of the victorious humor mag
azine which hit the campus short
ly before last week's referendum.
According to Editor Tookie Hod
gson, who was confined to the in
firmary because of an automobile
accident, it was Kerr who hand
led the last minute lay-out and
organization which brought the
magazine out on time.
Top-Notch Humor Mag
The candidate's name will ap
pear on the campus-wide ballots
in the April elections. "If elect
ed," Kerr said yesterday, "I will
continue the present policy of
Tarnation, at the same time seek
ing to discover the general cam
pus ideas of college humor. When
this is done, the campus will be
given a really top-notch humor
magazine."
The SP nominee is a freshman
who hails from Pasadena, Cali
fornia. His experiences in the
publications field began when he
was elected editor of his school
newspaper for both his junior
and senior years in high school.
He later worked for six months
on the staff of a national maga
zine in New York city.
Kerr's nomination came at the
regular Monday night session of
the Student party in Graham
Memorial.
Major Undecided
The rising sophomore is un
decided about his major course
of study, although his interests
lie in publications. He will prob
ably seek a degree in either Eng
lish or journalism.
As yet, no other candidate has
announced for the magazine edi
torship. Tri-Delt Award
Open to Students
Applications are now being ac
cepted for the Delta Delta Delta
scholarship, which has again been
made available to women stu
dents in colleges where there are
chapters of the sorority.
The applicants may or may
not be fraternity members, but
they must be well-qualified stu
dents working toward degrees.
They must show promise of be
coming valuable citizens in their
future communities. The Delta
Delta Delta committee on awards
shall be the sole judge of the
respective merits of the aplicants.
The successful candidates will
be notified by May 15. The
awards will be sent to them at
the time of enrollment in the
next term of school.
Application blanks may be se
cured from Audrey Branch, per
sonnel adviser to women, in
104-C South Building. Completed
applications must reach the com
mittee by March 31.
FAITHFUL TO THE END
Pascoag, R. I. (UP) Mrs.
Emily Pullen, 90, died in her iso
lated, snowbound home. Her 72-year-old
handyman, George Daly,
worked for 43 hours shoveling a
1,000-yard path so he could carry
word of her death to the outside.
UP LEGISLATORS MEETING
The University party legislators
will meet this afternoon at 3
o'clock in Graham Memorial.
Society Editor Jane Mears Is Elected
By Senate to Edit Coed's Handbook
Jane Mears, Daily Tar Heel
an overwhelming majority of the Coed Senate to the position
of editor for Woman's Handbook at the Senate meeting Tues
day night.
Miss Mears, who was highly
recommended by DTH Managing
Editor Ed Joyner for the position,
has done desk work on the Daily
Tar Heel for two years and is
the DTH's first society editor.
Previous to her entrance to Caro
lina she was assistant editor of
the "Chaser," newspaper at Chevy
Chase junior college, in Chevy
Chase, Maryland.
Upon notification of her elec
tion to the position Jane said,
"Nothing makes me happier than
to receive this honor and I will
direct my talents and experience
toward doing something concrete
for those who will soon share our
life at Carolina."
Following the election, the Sen
ate passed a bill abolishing the
point system which has limited
the number of activities in which
a coed might participate. It was
pointed out that the point system
might prevent the most qualified
candidate from holding the most
appropriate office and lessens the
Committee Passes
Anti-Lynching Bill
Washington, Feb. 25 (UP)
A Republican dominated House
committee has approved a strong
anti-lynching bill, a measure
President Truman called for in
his famous Civil Rights message.
The bill, as approved by the
committee, sets up Federal pen
alties for lynch mobs and for
local officials who fail to stop
them. GOP leaders expect the
measure to be approved by a full
committee tomorrow and it may
reach the House floor in record
time.
. With Republican support as
well as pressure from the White
House, Southern Democrats feel
that they can't stop it in the
House and they realize that even
a Senate filibuster will be tough.
Meanwhile, House Democrats
have released a list of 74 mem
bers who say that the President
is threatening to split the party
with his Civil Rights proposals.
Republicans are giving their
all-out support as it fulfills one
of their 1944 election pledges. In
addition, it angers the Southern
Democrats and widens the gulf
between President Truman and
the solid South.
Discrimination Bill
By Gordoiv Huffines
The Phi Assembly defeated a
proposal to admit a limited num
ber of Negroes to the University
on an experimental basis Tues
day night by an 8-8 tie. The re
fusal of Acting Speaker Pete
Gems to cast his vote to break
the tie automatically defeated
the bill.
Declaring that segregation in
North Carolina schools is detri
mental to advancement and free
the admission of Negroes to the
University to determine the feasi
bility of a non-segregated school
system."
Representative Graham Jones,
introducing the measure to the
assembly, asserted that the pres
ent non-segregation policy of the
South is inviting outside inter
ference in the form of federal
legislation to solve racial prob
lems. Maintaining that the Uni
versity should lead the way in
liberal reform, Jones stated that,
"Science has proved that racial
determinism, and all that it im
plies, is a false doctrine."
Other supporters of the mea
society editor, was elected by
interest of coeds in student gov
ernment.
The floor was opened for dis
cussion of the two bills being
considered by Legislature, the
first of which is to place supreme
power in the hands of Legisla
ture by giving it power to revise
all Senate action except social
rules while the second bill is to
do away with the Senate alto
gether. It was . pointed out that
the Senate is the one organiza
tional force which keeps the co
eds together and the Legislature
is not sufficiently representative
of all the women students. There
fore, all coeds are urged to at
tend the Legislature meeting to
night. A bill stating. that coeds must
have approval of Dean Carmich
ael's office before visiting fratern
ity houses or attending fraterni
ty parties is to be considered at
the next Senate meeting, accord
ing to a statement made by Bar
bara Cashion at the close of the
meeting.
House To Accept
Johnson's Award
Charlotte, Feb. 25 (UP
Secretary of the Army Kenneth
Royall is scheduled to arrive in
Charlotte tomorrow to speak at
a Brotherhood Week meeting.
At the meeting, the Carolina
Israelite publication will formally
name Ambassador Herschel V.
Johnson of the United Nations
General Assembly as the Caro
linian who has done most toward
American Brotherhood during
1947.
The award will be accepted for
Johnson by Robert B. House,
Chancellor of the University of
North Carolina.
Johnson, a Charlottean, is un
able to attend the program.
Doctor Frank P. Graham, presi
dent of the University of North
Carolina, originally was slated
to fill in for Johnson but he has
been called to Lake Success for
a UN conference.
The Carolina Israelite gold
medal award is made annually.
Another feature speaker at the
program will be former North
Carolina Governor J. Melville
Broughton of Raleigh.
sure stressed the fact that the
bill advocated equal educational
opportunities for the Negro ra
ther than equal social opportuni
ties. These members maintained
that admitting Negro students to
the University would advance the
educational status of the Negro
and would be an ideal experiment
to determine whether or not the
two races could work together
in an "educational atmosphere."
In an attempt to defeat the
measure, the opposition bloc pro
posed an amendment to the ef
fect that the Phi should support
the Negro regional institutions
now being considered by South
ern governors. A clause favoring
state appropriations for the im
provement of Negro primary and
elementary schools in North
Carolina was also added to the
amendment, but the measure was
defeated by representatives who
charged that the proposed amend
ment was avoiding the real issue
Opposing the non-segregation
experiment, representative David
Sharpe stated that the plan
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New Religious
To Continue Duties of CRIL
By Margaret Gaston
A new group, the Council of
Student Religious Organizations,
has replaced the Council for Re
ligion in Life. At an organiza
tional meeting Tuesday night the
new council elected its officers
and approved a constitutional
charter.
The new organization differs
chiefly from CRIL in that its
membership is restricted to re
presentatives of groups whose
primary concern is the religious
life of the University. CRIL had
included such other organizations
as the International Relations
club.
Harmon is Prexy
Elected to head the council was
Paul Harmon, president, Joan
Schlosburg, secretary, and Gray
Sanders, treasurer. Claude shotts,
secretary of the YMCA, will
serve as advisor.
Groups represented in t he new
Council are the Baptist Student
union, Canterbury club, Hillel
foundation, Lutheran Student As
sociation, Pilgrim fellowship,
Presbyterian Student groups,
Wesley foundation, YMCA,
YWCA, and the Christian Science
organization.
Pastors to Advise
The Council will include one
student from each of the member
organizations, and the Student
shall be an officer or a member
well acquainted with the policies
and activities of the organization
which he represents. The student
pastors and other group advisors
will participate in the work of
Man Who Stole Two Quarters Given
New Trial By State Supreme Court
Raleigh, Feb. 25 (UP) The
State Supreme Court has reversed
the conviction of a man who was
sentenced to five to seven years
for the theft of two quarters.
Edward Minton was sentenced
by Judge Clawson.L. Williams af
ter trial in Edgecombe county. He
was convicted of stealing two
quarters from the coastal lunch
in Tarboro.
The reversal was rendered by
the Supreme Court on the rul
ing that the conviction had been
made on circumstanial evidence.
Associate Justice Sam Ervin said
it was insuffiicient to sustain a
conviction unless the facts shown '
DOG
Group Formed
the Council in an advisory capa
city.
In the last meeting of the CRIL
Mr. Shotts was authorized to ap
point a committee to consider the
future of the Council for Religion
in Life. Vivian Parks, president
of the Baptist Student Union, re
ported for the committee in the
meeting last night by presenting
the constitutional charter, which
was accepted with few changes.
According to t he charter the
purpose of the Council is to serve
the religious life on campus in
the following manner: (1) To co
ordinate the activities of the
various member organizations,
(2) To serve as a medium for the
exchange of information about
the work of the member organi
zations, (3) To study the campus
in order to determine the areas
of religious need not being met
by the current programs, (4) To
recommend activities, events,
and services that will contribute
to the religious life on the "cam
pus. Broad in Scope
Mr. Shotts has this to say about
the dissolving of the CRIL "CRIL
was so broad in its scope and
representation that It ceased to
have a function as a council. It
tended to become a competitive
organization and tried to define
its functions independent of its
constituent member organiza
tions." Each representative has been
asked to make synopsis of acti
vities of the group he represents.
The council will meet in the
next two weeks.
point out unerringly to the de
fendants guilt. He said the facts
in the case would not stand the
test.
A new trial was also granted
D. O. B. Choate of Sparta who
was charged with performing an
illegal operation in Swain coun
ty. Harvey Grant was also grant
ed a new trial by the Court.
Grant was convicted with man
slaughter in the death of his
brother-in-law Ray Woods.
Justice Winborne said that the
lower court's verdict that Grant
plea of self defense would not
stand unless they were satisfied
he had retreated to the wall be-
fore shooting Woods.
For Tarnation Editorship
Carmichael Receives Member-at-Large
Nomination from University Party
Billy Carmichael III, Sally
John Stump are the University party candidates for the Pub
lications board, party officials announced yesterday.
Carmichael, junior member of , advertising layout manager for
the board, will seek the post as
member-at-large.
Besides being co-sports editor
of the DTH, Carmichaei is co
sports editor of the Yack and
feature writer for the Carolina
Magazine. He is a member of the
Student Entertainment commit
tee and has served on the GM
Board of Directors.
A rising Senior from Chapel
Hill, Carmichael is a member of
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
He was president of Sound and
Fury last year and has played
Jayvee basketball.
ketball.
Sally Woodhull from Allen
town, Pa., and Dick Gordon from
Merion Station, Pa., will seek
the two Senior positions on the
board.
Woodhull is a transfer from
Woman's College where she was
make-up and news editor of the
Carolinian. She was also a mem
ber of the Square Circle, honor
ary math society.
Since entering Carolina, she
has been a reporter for the DTH,
Cherry Comments
On Civil Rights
Raleigh, Feb. 25 (UP) Gov
ernor Cherry has returned to his
office from a trip to Washington
to confer with other Southern
governors about regional schools.
However, the meeting which
drew most of the headlines was
the meeting with Senator J.
Howard McGrath of Rhode Is
land. McGrath is chairman of the
Democratic National committee.
In Cherry's opinion there is
nothing in President Truman's
Civil Rights program to cause
undue alarm. He says there is
no point in stirring up trouble
and says he thinks the biggest
accomplishment of the meeting
was that it gave a lot of people
a chance to blow off steam.
As Cherry puts it, some of the
points in the bill will not affect
North Carolina at all. As to the
so-called Negro problem he says
North Carolina has always gotten
along pretty well with a minority
race and there is nothing in the
Civil Rights bill to worry about.
'Plight Of Venu
Taking Venus as his example
and model of art through the
years since classicism, John V.
Allcott, head of the University
Art department, has evolved a
compact and eye-opening explan
ation of the rise of modern ab
stract art which he described in
one short hour to an audience,
composed chiefly of his collea
gues, in Hill hall last night.
"The Plight of Venus," as de
scribed by Professor Allcott, is
the inability or the lack of in
clination on the part of everyone
other than artists or students of
art to see that modern art is
not dishonoring Venus or any
other subject by painting or
sculpturing in abstract.
"This manner of expression is
still strange to most of us, and
we are apt to be hostile to it
even as our fathers were hostile
to the art of their time," Profes
sor Allcott said. "And so, because
of this hostility, there is a Plight
of Venus.
"But if we remember that
reality as sensed by our time is
different than in former times,
Woodhull, Dick Gordon and
the Carolina Magazine, chairman
of the YWCA Publicity commit
tee, a member of the "Y" cabi
net, and the "Y" Junior council.
She is a member "of Chi Delta
Phi honorary Literary society
and is secretary of the Pi Beta
Phi pledge class.
Dick Gordon is present busi
ness manager of the Yack. He
served as advertising manager
for the Yack last year and has
been a member of the Student
Legislature.
A member of Delta Psi, Gor
don assisted in drawing up the
Interfraternity council coed a
greement. He was also a member
of the Freshman Orientation com
mittee. John Stump, aspirant for the
junior post on the Publications
board, is a reporter and night
editor for the DTH.
He entered Carolina last fall
and has served on the Elections
board and the Infraternity coun
cil and is a member of the Yack
staff. Last summer he was a
member of the Clarksburg Ex
ponent business staff.
Watchman's "Wink"
Lands Him In Jail
Houston, Tex., Feb. 25 (UP)
The wink that landed him in
jail, a 56-year-old night watch
man explained today, was en
tirely an occupational accident.
The man was arrested after the
target of the eye-click, a young
woman, told police he started
"following me around" six
months ago.
"It's the way daylight affects
my eyes after working all night,"
he told police. "Daylight makes
my eyes blink."
A Houston city ordinance
makes it unlawful "to stare at
an make what is commonly
called goo goo eyes at a female."
The watchman will face the
judge tomorrow.
NATURAL BRIDGE PHOTOS
Photographs of the students
who participated in the Natural
Bridge Y conference last week
end are on display in the YM
and YWCA nffirps nnr? aHHifi--
Jal copies may be ordered there.
and that artists are driven to
apprehend reality, to give it
form, beauty and direction, then
we will approach humbly and
inquisitively the work of our
artists. And little by little, or
with sudden joyous bounds, we
will come to share the thought
currents and ideas of our day.
We will see that artists are still
concerned with honoring Venus,
and we will understand Venus
more soberly and deeply than
ever before. If this comes to be,
then there will be no Plight of
Venus."
With the aid of tiny drawings,
mostly his own, and some photo
graphs made into slides for a
screen, Professor Allcott traced
in vivid manner the transition
from classicism, to realism, to
impressionism, expressionism and
abstract, giving a running com
mentary on .the thought behind
each movement.
Professor Allcott has been in
vited to give this same lecture
at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York in April.
I Candidate Was
In Legislature,
On Men's Council
By John Stump
Jim Godwin, rising senior
from TilJman, South Caro
lina, has been nominated for
vice-president of the student
body by the Campus party.
The third man to declare for
the vice-presidency, Godwin goes
into the campaign with service
in each of the three branches of
student government.
Following his transfer from
State college to go into the Ma
rine program here, he spent three
years in the service. He returned
to the campus in 1946.
At State, Godwin held the po
sition of secretary of the student
body. Previous to that, he serv
ed as vice-president of the sopho
more class, secretary of forestry
and as a member of the student
council.
Since coming to Carolina, God
win has been on the Men's Hon
or council, and has served in the
Student Legislature. He earned
his varsity football letter here at
the University and is vice-president
of the Monogram club.
When informed of Godwin's
nomination, Student body presi
dent Tom Eller commented
"There can be no doubt of his
qualification for the office." A
member of Phi Delta Theta, God
win's accomplishments have
caused him to be included in
"Who's Who in American Col
leges and Universities."
Godwin promised yesterday
that "If elected, I shall devote an
honest effort to do my best to fill
the requirements of the office."
Godwin's nomination came at
a meetin gof the party held Tues
day evening. It was by acclama
tion. The meeting was addressed by
ex-party chairman Jess Ded
mond, who is running for presi
dent of the student body with a
joint CP-UP nomination. Dcd
mond reported on the recom
mendations coming out of the
discussions on student affairs
held at the Natural Bridge Y
conference last week.
Dedmond urged the group to
study carefully the suggestions of
the conference and pointed out
that it will be the duty of the po
litical parties to take a stand on
many of the findings which were
made.
New WNC Group
To Meet Tonight
President Bud Regan of the
Western North Carolina club an
nounced that the club will meet
tonight at 7:30 in the Roland
Parker Lounge at Graham Mem
orial. Regan said the club was
reorganized at a meeting two
weeks ago and is now function
ing with a new staff of officers.
"All new members will be wel
comed at Thursday's meeting,"
said Nell Evans, new member
ship committee chairman.
George Simpson was appointed
to head the program committee
while John Brady was reaffirmed
as chairman of the entertainment
committee. Johnny Orr took over
the reins of the dance committee.
Ragland Medicius has been
placed at the head of transporta
tion section. The club maintains
a service for persons wishing to
obtain rides and persons wishing
to obtain riders to and from the
vicinity of Asheville. "Any4 per
son wishing to use our service is
requested to contact me as early
in the week as possible," said
Medicius on accepting the posi
tion. The publicity committee is
headed by Carroll R. Melton.