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EDITORIALS WEATHER A Question Sunday Pric ttl ci lia Fair and mild. VOLUME LVI United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. O, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1948 Phone F-3371 F-33S1 NO. 143 U.N.C. Students vvy i J i r n jfi an lvl i ii r r v v j; r jMpfe 5iv y wvv ' 3 Mmli Sf M e Assembly I ? ' 4 u til f y rs 1 I i nTf S t iJXANGlt IS. f C BERING SEA jHf IN AN IMPORTANT MOVE io bolster U. S. defenses in the Arctic, ihe joint Army, Navy and Air Force plans io restrict the Aleutian Islands (1) for all hut military use. At. the same time, announce ment was made that a U. S. carrier force will visit Norway (2) on a "goodwill mission" April 29. Since the Scandinavian countries have been reportedly under Russian pressure, this action has focused attention on that area. No effort is made to minimize the importance of strengthening Nor way's hold on her strategic polar islands. Spitsbergen (3) has been a particular subject of rumor and discussion because of its proximity to Greenland, Iceland, and hence, ihe North American coastline. As the map shows, the Aleutians stretch almost to Russian-held Kamchatka and the Kurile Islands (4). Also they serve to guard ihe approach to Alaska. (International) Quarterly Finance Group Organizing Campaign For Author's Sponsorship Success hopes for the proposed Carolina literary quarterly are soaring following a re cent meeting of the magazine's Finance committee, at which tentative plans were set forth for both the sponsorship and financing of the new literary publication. The Finance committee, meet- iug in Graham Memorial, voted its approval of launching a campaign in which leading North Carolina authors and columnists will be asked to serve as sponsors for the quarterly. ' ' " " r Angus McKellar, committee chairman, presided over the meet ing which heard and condensed into a workable plan the ideas of committee members, including Billy Carmichael, III, Sally Woodhull, James Street, Jr., and James Dickinson. A joint meeting of the Facul ty Advisory council and the Fi nance committee is set for 4 o'clock Monday in the Grail Room of Graham Memorial, Me- 1 Kellar announced. It is hoped I this meeting will give the green j light to a full-scale publicity program, intended to reach every literary minded person in the state including alumni, newspa permen, business men, teachers and school students alike. The prospectus of the" new quarterly, recently released, blue prints a magazine of quality and proportions never before exceeded on this campus or in North Ca rolina. The proposed magazine, in com position, will feature 50 per cent student's contributions and 50 per cent professional offerings, with a minimum of advertising space. The quarterly is being created as a state magazine, published by and for the people of the state, and intended to higher the liter ary status of the state. A proposed 64-page publication, the quarterly, will endeavor to help reach each other, to become better acquainted with one an other. Sentiments may be voiced, state's traditions and oddities can be illuminated and the state's four sections will be knitted more closely together in unpredicted harmony. The Finance committe, already $2,000 having been under-written for the quarterly, is working for donations to increase that figure to an amount which will assure publication of the magazine for at least one year, or longer, depend ing upon the generosity of in terested persons. ORDER OF SHIEK There will be an organizational meeting Tuesday night at 8:30 in Gerrard hall for members of the Order of the Shiek. Announce ment of the meeting was made by Jim Thrash, acting secretary. 1 MUSMAN! AflCTK OCEAN f Id 33aM&& AFFIN yOLffT'S'S BAY gS23& Marine Corps Grad Program Offers Men Early Commissions The Marine Corps Civilian College Graduate program of fers qualified y.oung men an immediate commission in the regular Marine Corps, provided they have received a bache lor's degree from an accredited college or university. On pnlistini? he must affree to serve on active duty ior two years, during which time he will be given ample opportunity to consider making Marine Corps his career or to return to civil ian life. Upon appointment the officer is assigned to the next class of the Basic school at Quantico, Va., where he undergoes fundamen tal Marine Corps indoctrination and officer's training as a second lieutenant. To be qualified the individual must be a male citizen of the United States. He must be jnore than 20 and less than 25 years of age on July 1. Both married and single applicants are equally eligible. An unmarried second lieuten ant with less than three years service' received, including quar ters and subsistence allowance, approximately $250 per month. A married second lieutenant re ceives an ' increase of approxi mately $40 per montn. . Anyone wishing to file apph- cation may submit a request be tween 90 'and 120 days prior to his graduation for application in order that they may be com pleted by him and returned to Marine Corps headquarters. Re quest for application forms and any requests for additional in formation may be addressed to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Washington 25, D. C. French Club Will Give Benefit Drama in GM Graham Memorial will sponsor the French club's benefit presen tation of the romantic drama, "Henri III et sa Cour" by Alex andre Dumas, in the original French at the Playmakers Thea ter at 8:30 April 22 and 23. There will be no admission charges. However souvenir pro grams, according to the custom in French theaters, will be sold. Those attending may donate any amount they wish in exchange for these programs, which will be in French and will contain a i i. mi. synopsis m ttngiisn. ine pro ceeds will be sent to the Ameri can Aid to France. LONDON 4 fr . I Feller Will Speak Next Week in N.C. Dr. Will Feller, professor of mathematics at Cornell univer sity, will spend next week in Chapel Hill and Raleigh visiting the Institute of Statistics here and at N. C. State. He will give several lectures and lead semi nar discussions on statistical and mathematical problems. Dr. Feller, born in Yugoslavia and recipient of a Ph. D. degree from Goettingen, became in pre Hitler days director of the Labor atory of Applied Mathematics at the University of Kiel, Germany, but later moved to Stockholm where he carried on extensive re search in pure and applied mathe matics, including problems of statistics, probability and actuar ial work. Coming to this country before the war he joined the mathema ti department of Brown uni versity and became also execu tive editor of "Mathematical Re views." He became professor of mathematics at Cornell univer sity in 1946. The first of Dr. Feller's North Carolina lectures, all of which are open to the public, will be held-Monday, April 19, in Pat terson hall at State college. He will speak there at 4:15 Monday afternoon on "Creation and Ex tinction, Genes, Family Names and Chain Reactions." The remainder of the week he will spend in Chapel Hill, where he will deliver a series of three lectures on "Fluctuation Theory of Recurrent Events." These will be Tuesday and Thursday eve nings at 8 o'clock and Friday at 4 o'clock in Phillips hall. On Wednesday, April 21, a joint meeting of the Statistics colloquium and the Duke-Caro lina Mathematics seminar will be held in 320 Phillips hall at 4 o'clock, to hear Professor Feller speak on "New Light on Limit Theorems of Probability." This meeting will be preceded by tea at 3:30 o'clock for the mathema ticians, statisticians and their guests. 'Capitalism Hass Tells By Charlie Craven The Socialist Labor Party would overthrow the present system of government in this country by making effective certain provisions found in Article five of the Constitution of the United States, Eric Haas asserted last Thursday night. Hass, national organizer for the Socialist Labor party, told a bout 35 persons in Hill hall that "everywhere the . great majority of people believe . that Capita lism is done for, that is, the thinking people." The address sponsored by the Carolina ; Po litical Union, non-partisan dis cussion vgroup. ' ' Constitutional Amendment Article V of , the federal con stitution, to which Hass referred, provides, a menas of constitu tional amendment by a specific majority of the legislatures of the seyeral states and by a spe cific majority of the two houses of Congress. "The United States is heading toward state despotism, toward power concentrated in the hands of a few," he said. "This trend working .classes quit ; following their leaders and rely on the the ories of Marx and Engels." Based on Manifesto Hass stated that the principles of . his party are . based on the Communist " Manifesto but are opposed to the political precepts of the Russian government. The speaker claimed that the aim of his party is to "work to a maximum degree for a peace ful revolution." He continued, "The Socialist Labor party is attempting to impress people with the imminent fall of capi talism and to design an orderly change." In striking out at Henry Wal lace, Hass stated that the Third party candidate "has not a single (See HASS, page 4) J Campus Getting 2,000 Shrubs Are The campus is getting new touches for its spring dress, re ported J. S. Bennett, Director of Operations at the university yes terday. Two thousand new shrubs are being distributed over the cam pus and new grass will be plant ed in some of the bare spots that mar the campus. The hedges lining ' the campus walks are now in the process of being trimmed, and old, over grown hedges ; will be replaced by new ones. The Director stated that the grounds around some of the dor mitories could be- kept in better shape if the students would be more co-operative, particularly, f 'w . ' ' f . I s', ,, P ' '':;;''"'" j'-, ;, , J- w -; :- ' ," , '.,,, ', '; f "'" ' ' , ' aKW". -''' '-" '"' WJ-'1JLJ ' j 1 I :&&?jj.zf, ttm.w'-' HEAVY APRIL RAINS went to work in Ihe Pittsburgh, P area, even if some of the soft coal miners didn't. This scene of River avenue well illustrates what happened. A flood of sizable proportions swamps an auto while arks and shacks are completely surrounded. (International) Done For' Audience - Opposition Voiced On Preparedness Washington, April 16 (UP) Congress has heard a great many arguments lately in favor of the Draft and Universal Military Training. Today it heard from the opposition. 'George Harper, a spokesman for the conference of Methodist Youth, told the House Armed Forces committee that Congress should not adopt the Draft until it has lost hope for the peace. He said that enactment of the Draft Law would serve notice on the world that America was basing its foreign policy on force. Samuel Levering, a spokesman for the Quakers, argued that partial mobilization for war will lead to war, not to peace. However, preparedness plans continue. The new director of Civilian Defense Planning, Russell Hop ley, told a Nebraska audience that our Civil Defense will be able to operate in six months or possibly sooner. In New Orleans, a high rail road official said American rail roads are preparing themselves for the possibiliyt of another war. At the same time, the Army has moved to bolster its defenses in Alaska. It has ordered some 8,000 troops to the northern out post. New Spring Look; To Be Distributed in such ways as using the regular walks instead' of beating iew paths through the lawns. Repairs on campus streets that were damaged by the recent winter will be made between now and June, and arrangements to that effect are now being made. The puzzle of the disappearing benches at the "Y" court was solved by Mr. Bennett when he pointed out that students often appropriate the benches for use on other parts of the campus and sometimes fail to bring them back. He said that university emDlovees had to go out and bring the benches back to the "Y" court on several occasions. Umstead Act Gets Vote for Repeal; Other Bills Treated (Special to the Daily Tar Heel) By Chuck Hauser Raleigh, April 16 The 11th annual N. C. Student Legislature assembly slogged through miles of red tape here today to finally elect three Carolina students to top positions in the legisla ture Gran Childress, Char lie Long, and Pete Gerns. Gerns was unanimously elect ed by acclamation to the post of Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives. Childress was picked in a joint session of the Legislature as in terim secretary-treasurer for the coming year. Long was elected to the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives on the first ballot, with two persons op posing him. Interim president of the stu dent assembly is Charles Cooper of Duke University, while Presi dent of the Senate is Henry Huff, a Wake Forest student. Speakers pro tempore of both the Senate , and House are Ne groes. The former is John, Kelly of Agriculture and Technical college in Greensboro, and the latter is Thomas Byers, of John son C. Smith university of Char lotte. The well-known Umstead' act was repealed by the mock House of Representatives of the student group. The actual Umstead meas ure prohibits agencies of Caro lina, State College, Woman's Col lege and ECTC from selling any items except actual classroom supplies in competition with out side merchants. The statute pro hibits eating establishments run by thoses uch as Lenoir hall, from selling food at prices lower than those prevailing commercially off the campus. The Repeal bill, passed by the Student Legislature states that materials sold by college agencies must be confined to items useful to students while they are at tending college. It goes on to al low college eating places to charge less than commercial prices, and concludes by pro viding that the student will be presented to both the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate of the true North Carolina General Assembly at its next session. The Senate passed a bill this afternoon which provides for graduate schools for Negroes within the greater University of North Carolina. These schools are to be .equal in standards and requirements to other graduate units under the Greater univer sity. Another bill passed by the House states that when a Negro is involved in a criminal court case, at least one-third of the jury shall be composed of Ne groes. Likewise, it states that when a woman is the defendant in a case, at least one-third of the jury (See LEGISLATURE, page 4) Schenkkan Js Brute Student Enters Class On Stretcher By Miriam Evans Most University professors don't give their students so much work to do that when they finish it they are ready for the nearest rest home. However, an except ion to this was proved last quar ter by lanky Sigma Chi John Clayton. Dramatic Script Writing, Radio 74, is taught by Robert Schenk kan, who . requires a great deal of work from the chosen few who are allowed to take the course. If a student isn't taking Music Appreciation 41 and Phil sophy 41 along with Schenkkan's course, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to write, rewrite, and re write the rewrites of two orginal radio scripts, plus one documen HurwitzWillAddress Drama Festival Today Albert Hurwitz of the drama department of Yale univer sity will speak to the members attending the Carolina Dra matic association drama festival in the Playmaker theater t v 7- - -, ' ,'! i A. . '' r 'tq ',,' S 9w y , w$k "'i't fK ' V I '-" ' 4 M -' iSf ALBERT HURWITZ Cyrano Production Will Hold Tryours Foster Fitz-Simons, who will direct the Carolina Playmaker's Forest Theatre production, "Cy rano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand, disclosed last night that public tryouts for the big out door production will be held next Tuesday afternoon. The tryouts, which are open to everybody, will be at 4 o'clock in the open air Forest Theatre in Battle park. In case of rain, the tryouts will be in Memorial hall. "This play, which will be the biggest Playmaker production of the year, will require a large cast," Fitz-Simons said,' and we cordially- invite anyone interest ed to try out for a role." "Cyrano de Bergerac" will be the fifth major production of the Playmakers' thirtieth season and will be presented on May 21, 22, 23. 'Queen of the May' Turns Out to be Gl Oxford, Mississippi (UP) Students at the University of Mississippi turned out .to vote for the traditional "Queen of the May." When the votes were counted, it was found that the school had a Queen all right, only the queen was a man, a former GI named Fred Carney. School authorities promptly stepped in to squelch the gag and ruled that the write-in votes the former GI says he is going to enter the race in a run-oft election, on his slogan: "You don't want someone routine for your Queen." . . tary and one adaptation. On Friday, March 12, the last day of classes before exams, eleven weary people dragged themselves up the steps to Swain hall at 12 o'clock and creeped to their seats. The professor enter ed, smiled cheerily at his little class, called the roll, and dis covered that Clayton, the 12th of his slaves, was absent. "Anybody seen Clayton?" in quired Schenkkan anxiously. Somebody murmered some thing about his not feeling ; too well during the previous period; and after understanding remarks from the absentee's friends, one of the aspiring radio writers be gan to read a script. About 12:15, the door of the here at 11 o'clock this morning. The session will be open to the public, and all interested students are cordially invited to attend. Hurwitz will take on "Visualiz ing the History of the Theatre", and his lecture will be built a round a special exhibit, Includ ing a scale model of a classical Greek theater, a model of an attic player, costume plates, and speci al projects. Talks to Contest He will talk after the costume and make-up contests, which are scheduled for 10 o'clock. The mor ning session will open with a di rector's breakfast at the Carolina Inn. The breakfast will be a busi ness meeting and new officers for the coming year will be elected. Seven plays, including three originals, will be presented dur ing the afternoon and evening sessions before President Graham presents the awards at 10 o'clock tonight. Afternoon Session The afternoon session will fea ture productions including: "The Loop" by the Cunningham School of Speech, Gastonia ;original plays are, "The Man Who Looked Like God" written by Lou Hershaw, presented by the Quill and Que Players, Asheville; "The Will of the Gods" by Bob Grahl, produced by Lee Edwards high school, Asheville; and "One for tha ' Book" by Dorothy Summerrow, Florence Young, and Naomi Cun ningham, presented by the Lit- erature department of the Gas tonia Woman's club. Tonight will see productions of "Balcony Scene" by Rocky Mount high school, "Echo" by Central High, Charlotte, and "A Wedding" by Reynolds High, Winston-Salem. CPU Has Scheduled Pepper, Broughton Florida's Senator Claude Pep per and North Carolina's ex-governor J. Melville Broughton are scheduled to appear here during the last week in this month, a Carolina Political Union spokes man said last night. The .two speakers are appear ing in the series which is being sponsored by the CPU, campus non-partisan political discussion group. Broughton will speak on April 27, and Pepper is scheduled to appear April 30. Both lectures will be held in Hill hall. yf. A CORRECTION The Count Basie Dance will be held in Durham's Planters Warehouse Tuesday April 20th, instead of Friday as announced in yesterday's Tar Heel. . Gives "B" on Course room swung open and in march ed Hank Beebe and Jim Blount, fraternity brothers of Clayton, wearing white jackets and carry ing a stretcher between them. On the stretcher, with his arms hanging limply to the floor, was Clayton himself. The carriers marched to the front of the room and placed the stretcher at Schenkkan's feet, giving him a 'you brute you" look. When the laughter of the class and professor had subsided, Clay ton picked himself up and collap sed in the nearest chair after he had bowed graciously to the two friends who had given him the free ride. Clayton's toil was rewarded. . . he got a "B" on the course. ' i r
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