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VOLUME LVI
United Press
CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1948
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Legislature
Montague Elected
Speaker Pro Tern;
Butt, Leary Win
By Gordon Huf fines
A bill providing for an in
vestigation of the block fee
structure was the first piece
of legislation passed at the
opening session of the new
Student Legislature last night. (
Providing for a joint investi
gating committee composed of
the Finance committee and the
Publications board, the bill auth
orizes the committee to investi
gate the inequality of block fees
being paid by graduate and un
dergraduate students.
At present undergraduates are
charged a $5 and graduates a
$3.85 quarterly fee which covers
such items as publications, stu
dent government, and the Gra
ham Memorial fee.
Jack Girard, chairman of the
Finance committee, has set Mon
day afternoon for the first meet
ing of the join! committee. Tom
Eller, Charlie Long, and Ernest
House were appointed as special
members of the investigating
board.
Officers for the present session
of the Student Legislature were
also elected last night after the ,
legislators had been sworn in.
With the voting along party lines,
the University party was in com
plete control of the elections.
New officers are: Tag Montague,
speaker pro tern; George Rod
man, parliamentarian; Jack Wor
sham, clerk; Ed Washington,
sergeant-at-arms; and Charles
Loudermilk, student represen
tative to Graham Memorial.
In the election of committee
chairmen, Len Butt was elected
chairman of the -Ways and Means
committee; Jack Girard, Finance
committee; Joe Leary, Elections
committee; Edith Knight, Coed
Affairs; and University party
Chairman Thurman Williams
was elected to head the Rules
committee.
The new UP redisricting bill,
(See LEGISLATURE, page 4)
French Club to Give
Dumas' Play Tonight
Following last night's success
ful opening night, the French
club will again present Dumas'
romantic drama, "Henri III et sa
Cour" in the Playmaker theater
tonight at' 8:30 There is no ad
mission charge,"1 but according to
custom in French theaters, sou
venir programs will be sold.
Directed by Walter Creech of
the romance language depart
ment, the play was first produced
in. 1829, and has been credited
with setting the pace for the ro
mantic movement in drama. Al
though Dumas is best known as
the author of two novels, "The
Three Musketeers and "The Count
of Monte Cristo," he had his ini
tial success as a playwright.
The production is sponsored by
Graham Memorial, and proceeds
from the sale of programs will
be donated to American Aid for
France.
Ripps Discloses That
UJA Drive Thrives
Norm Ripps, chairman of the
campus drive for the United
Jewish Appeal, today announced
that $750 of the $3,000 goal has
already been pledged, with only
one-third of the students having (
been approached.
Jewish students in Europe and j
Palestine will benefit greatly by 1
any donation. All money raised
through this campaign will go
along with funds raised from
other campuses to buy clothes,
food, books and other necessities.
Contributions may be turned
in at the Hillel Foundation office
in the "Y" building. Citizens of
Chapel Hill may turn in their
contributions at Berman's.
Will Investigate Fee Structure
New Publications Board Elects Officers,
Approves Contracts, Plans Legislation
Burgess to Speak
To Presbyterians .
On Sunday Night
Dave Burgess, noted minister
from Rock Hill, S. C, will be
guest speaker Sunday night at 7
o'clock at the Presbyterian
church.
Burgess, who was
born "in
China where his
parents were
missionaries, is now serving as a
minister to labor from the Con
gregational church. He was the
first minister to be appointed to
that position from a Protestant
church.
Serving on the South Carolina
Committee of the Textile Work
ers of America, Mr. Burgess is
doing educational and organizing
work for the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations. He is also
serving as Chairman of the Labor
committee for the Fellowship of
Southern Churchmen, Burgess
was responsible for the first
church-labor conference in the
South.
Before coming to South Caro
lina, Burgess did work of a simi
lar nature in Arkansas, Missouri,
and Tennessee. Working in Miss
ouri, Burgess aided a group of
tenants that lived in government
housing in organizing to buy their
homes. Partly due to the work of
David S. Burgess, 580 tenant
families of Southeast Missouri
became owners of the homes that
they lived in. This group of fami
lies called Mr. Burgess to be their
minister. He served as their min
ister for a year and a half.
Burgess is the author of various
pamphlets, bulletins, and maga
zine articles. Most of these articles
have dealt with relation of labor
and religion.
PHI KAPPA SIG
Sixteen men were initiated in
to the Lambda chapter of Phi
Kappa Sigma fraternity on April
14.
Those initiated: were William Ed
ward Ayers, Jrt, Russell Edward
Baldwin, John David Barab, Jr.,
John Hayden Beard, William
Jackson Brown, Jack Wilbur
Clark, James Clinton Dismuke,
Jr., Dewey Lee English, Jr.,
Woodford Randolph Middleton,
Jr., James David 'Mills, Fred
Samuel Patterson, Jr., Claude
William Shannon, Edwin Harold
Shuford, Jr., Plez Avery Transou,
Forrest Ray Willard, and Peter
Ancell Webb, Jr.
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DETERMINED TO CAST HER VOTE, a bedridden Italian wo
man is carried to the polls in Rome on a stretcher. The critical
nature of the elections brought out 90 per cent of Italian voters,
including the lame, the blind and the halt to decide their future
leaders. (International Radiophoio)
1 The first meeting of the new
1948-49 Publications board yes
terday afternoon saw the election
of Billy Carmichael III, member-at-large
to the board, as presi
dent. Pete Gerns, senior member,
was chosen secretary and Chuck
Hauser, junior member, was
elected to the treasurer's post.
Ed Joyner, the other senior mem
ber, is coordinator of publications
for the group.
The new board approved a
contract for the taking of indivi
dual photographs for next year's
Yackety Yack with Chidnoff of
New York, a contract for the
printing of the yearbook with
Lassiter Press, and a contract for
engraving of pictures for the book
with Charlotte Engraving com
pany. All three are renewals of
this year's arrangements.
It was moved and passed that
bids for the position of circula
tion manager of the Daily Tar
Heel be accepted from next Sat
urday through May 6. Contracts
will be made separately for cir
culation in the summer months
and for next year.
The board voted to introduce
legislation in the Student Legis
lature to investigate the fee
structure. It was charged that
graduate students are not paying
the same fees as undergraduates,
but are receiving the same bene
fits, including all publications.
Other legislation to , be spon
sored by the board includes a bill
to provide for the new editors of
(See BOARD, page 4)
Monographic Study
Is Now Available
"Resource Management in
North Carolina," a monographic
study of Public administration by
Paul W. Wager, research profess
or of Political Science, and Don
ald B. Hayman, research assist
ant, Institute for Research in
Social Science at the University,
is now available to personnel in
terested in the administrative
aspects of Carolina's natural re
sources. "North Carolina," the authors
say, "can be justly proud of the
progress which has been made
in the use of the State's natural
resources. Although land, forests,
and wild life are still squandered
at an alarming rate, much of the
ruthless exploitation which mark
ed the past has been halted."
The authors point out that
"health and happiness of both
present and future generations
of North Carolinians are de
pendent upon the wise use of the
State's resources." .
America Gets
Anti-Red Bill
At Conference
Bogota, April 22 (UP) The
United States won a victory to
day at Bogota, Colombia.
A subcommittee of 12 Panj
American nations " unanimously
approved a strong resolution con
demning Communism in -. the;
Western Hemisphere. The docu
ment calls for all American coun
tries to take measures to prevent
the spread of Communism or any
kind of totalitarian thinking in
the New World. It also calls for
American nations to keep each
other fuly informed on any meas
ures taken against Undemocratic
political activity.
The resolution was adopted af
ter diplomats made a few slight
changes in the original proposal
offered by the United States yesterday.
United Europe, Sex Instruction,
Passed by Di Senate Meeting
Establishing a Federation of Europe and offering sex in
struction in public schools were the two measures approved
by the Dialectic Senate in its meeting Wednesday night.
; ; A bill advancing educational
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36 Law Students
Thirty-six students in the Uni
versity Law School have just
been pledged into Vance Inn, the
local chapter of Phi Delta Phi,
international legal fraternity.
The largest and oldest legal
fraternity in the United States,
Phi Delta Phi has chapters in 65
leading law schools throughout
this country and Canada.
Robert G. Stockton of Winston
Salem, president of the Vance
Inn chapter, presided over the
initiation ceremonies.
Early in May pledges of the
Duke University, Wake Forest
and Carolina chapters will be
formally initiated at ceremonies
to be held in the Senate Chamber
of the State Capitol at Raleigh.
A banquet will be held in "their
honor following the ceremonies.
New members at Carolina are:
June Ray Bras well, Newland;
Joseph Melville Broughton, Jr.,
Raleigh; Lester Grant Carter, Jr.,
Fayetteville; David Clark, Lin
colnton; Nere Elexus Day Jr.,
Jacksonville; Emery Byrct Denny,
Jr., Raleigh; Charles Lester Ful
tort?' Franklin; O. Max Gardner,
Jr., Shelby; William Allan Gar
rett, Danville, Va.; Winston
Bangs Gunnels, Sandersville, Ga.;
John Richardson Haworth, High
Point.
Edward Brandt Hipp, Greens
boro; John P. Kennedy, Jr.,
Charlotte; Robert Richard Laid
law, Western Springs, 111.; Rob
ert Dickson Little, Raleigh; Rob
ert Levoy McMillan Jr., Raleigh;
James Baughan McMullen, Ral
eigh; Jesse Seneca Moore, Jr.,
Reidsville; Samuel Fox Mordecai,
Raleigh; Daniel Wescott Moser,
Asheboro; Robert E. Perry, Jr.,
Greensboro; Warren Seipp Perry,
Kinston; William Horton Petree,
Winston-Salem.
Edward Knox Powe, III, Dur
ham; Leonard Stewart Powers,
Charlotte; Karl Schwartz, III,
Sarasota, Fla.; Basil Lamar Sher
rill, Gastonia; Marshall T. Spears,
Jr., Durham; Ralph Nichols
Strayhorn', Jr., Durham; Oscar
Edwin Starnes, Jr., Asheville;
Ralph Madison Stockton, Jr.,
Winston-Salem; 'Alfred Decatur
Ward, New Bern, and Algernon
Augustus Zollicoffer, Jr., Henderson.
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GOVERNOR Dwight H.
Green of Illinois was unani
mously elected by the arrange
ments committee of the Re
publican National committee to
deliver the keynote address a
the opening of the parly's na
tional convention in Philadel
phia on June 12.
I instructional, as jt was originally
sought religious indoctrination in
public schools. However, several
senators present objected to hold
ing classes for school children in
what they considered to be an in
dividual's own belief. Possible
nominational biases and jeopard
ization of the church's domain
were also criticized.
Early in the discussion from
the floor, Dortch Warriner mis
takenly interpreted the bill as
calling for instruction on sex in
stead of religion. After Warrin
er's speech in behalf of sex en
lightenment, Charlie Gibson put
up a substitute measure propos
ing proper instruction in both
sex and moral ethics in school
systems.
The alteration was favored by
Jijn Southerland, who condem
ned the "hush-hush" treatment
the subject is now given as moral
ly misleading. Bob Nelson also
pointed out that the term "eth
ics" would also provide for a
certain amount of religious edu
cation. A Union of Europe was passed
without noticeable dissention
once Randy McLeod specified in
an amendment that the bill
merely presented suggestions for
the federation and did not claim
to be a complete guide for the
overall framework of adequate
government for any continental
federation.
Suggestions included in the Di
proposal would give the Union
authority for granting citizenship,
levying taxes, borrowing money,
maintaining defense, coining
money, and regulating trade. Also
provided for was a bi-camer;d
legislature which would elect its
own executive.
Before the discussion on these
two bills, John Zucker, Di speak
er, inducted three new members.
The neophyte senators are Mor
ris Knudson, Los Angeles, Calif.;
Dick McLean. Lumberton; and
Welborn Phillips, Orlando, Fla.
TRANSFER ELIGIBILITY
All students who were notified
recently by General College that
they were eligible to transfer to
the College of Arts and Sciences
this term are to check by 203
South building, Dean Well's of
fice, between May 6 and 10 for
assignment of advisors and regis
tration instructions.
Florida Democrat
Has Been Senator
For Twelve Years
By Sam McKel
Florida's fiery Senator
Claude Pepper will speak here
next Friday night under the
auspices of the Carolina Political
Union.
The CPU, campus non-parti
san political discussion group, is
sponsoring the senator as part
of a series of speakers who will
present different views of Amer
ican politics. The speech is sche
duled for 8 o'clock in Hill hall.
Pepper has been the Democra
tic senator from Florida since
1936 when he was nominated to
fill out the two-year unexpired
term of Duncan U. Fletcher.
In a background statement re -
leased to the CPU, Pepper says
that his speeches indicate that
he is a "New Dealer," by which
he says he means that his legis
lative attitude is distinctly liber
al and progressive. "I see the
government as the means of
actually giving to the citizens
opportunity, personal security,
health, safety, and well-being."
The Southern senator goes on
to say that he is very liberal in
the extension of the federal pow
er in relation to economic ques
tion, but strict in the extension
of the federal government's pow
er in trespassing upon civil lib
erties or constitutional rights, or
those general rights thought of
as personal liberties or prero
gatives of a civic nature.
Pepper says that he believes
that only the federal government
can give the country anything
like a balanced economy and cor
relation and coordination of the
country's resources.
Albright- Comments
On State Surplus
Raleigh, N. C, April 22 (UP)
R. Mayne Albright, young Wake
County candidate for governor of
North Carolina, claims that candi
date Charles M. Johnson is using
tactics of desperation in -calling
for a 25 million dollar increase
for school appropriations.
Albright points out that as
State treasurer, Johnson should
have been aware of the surplus
funds during the last General
Assembly. Albright says that
Johnson could have asked for a
teacher pay increase, but that he
did not even endorse the 30 per
cent increase granted last year.
PI LAM OFFICERS
Pi Lambda Phi fraternity elect
ed new officers at a meeting last
Wednesday night: Irv Fox, Ox
ford, president; Fred Swartzburg,
High Point, vice-president; Len
ny Kaplan, High Point, treasurer;
Jerry Weiss, Chase City, Va.,
secretary; Howie Field, Atlantic
City, marshal; Bob Kaufman, Mt.
Vernon, N. Y., parliamentarian.
Began With Humor .
Taylor Won't Repeat
The last time Senator Glen
Taylor came to Chapel Hill, in
spring, 1947, he sang a "sere
nade" to his fellow Senate
colleagues, Taft and Bricker,
but this time he's coming back
to talk for Henry A. Wallace and
the Progressive party.
. As last year's Tar Heel said, he
began his speech with a lot of
humor, but made a neat transi
tion into serious discussion of
Capitol Hill problems.
Students who heard Taylor
speak last year under the spon
sorship of the C. P. U. well re
member the story he told of how
he got into politics.
It began in 1938 when he ran
for the House of Representatives.
In 1940 he ran for the Senate and
again in 1942 and 1944.- Each
campaign carried him into the
far country of Idaho. In 1944, the
But the Scenery's Nice . . .
Sper Finds New Job
Is Hard, Unenviable
By Bill Kellam
Easy-going Norm Sper, Carolina's newly-elected head
cheerleader, found himself in a rather unenviable position
in the now rusty and leaky Tin Can yesterday afternoon.
Most members of the local
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ruman ueciares
U. S. Would Join
Holy Land Forces
Washington, April 22 (UP)
President Truman announced at
1 his news conference today that
this country would furnish its
share of the manpower for any
peace army that the United Na
tions sends into the Holy Land.
The President made it clear,
however, that the United "States
would not do the job alone. He
said that if American soldiers are
to help enforce the peace in
Palestine or anywhere else, they
will have to be a part of an in
ternational police force which
will include soldiers of other na
tions, as well as America,
v Truman dismissed a suggestion
that he might not have the auth
ority to order American soldiers
into Palestine without congress
ional approval. He reminded his
news conference that he was
commander-in-chief of the armed
forces, and that there were plenty
of examples in history of chief
executives sending troops abroad
on their own, say-so.
The question of authority was
raised a few hours earlier on the
floor of the Senate when Owen
Brewster of Maine asked whether
Mr. Truman could send troops to
the troubled Holy Land.
Senate President Arthur Van
denberg replied that American
presidents have sent troops a
broad many times in the past to
protect American lives and pro
perty, Vandenbdrg added that if
the crisis in Palestine should go
beyond the need for protection
of American citizens, then the
dispatch of troops would require
the consent of Congress.
Today Australia asked the
powerful Political committee of
the UN General Assembly to
carry through the Palestine par
tition program approved last
year. .
AQUINAS CLUB
The Aquinas club will sponsor
a picnic for members and guests
at Hogan's lake Saturday after
noon. ,
Those planning to attend are
requested to make reservations
with Paul Baschon at 7381 or
Rudy Tropea in Old West as soon
as possible. Transportation will
be provided at the Y court at 3:00
Saturday afternoon.
governor's son, who was also
running for the office, took the
lead in the state's capitol, the in
cumbent was second and Taylor,
last.
Out in the other towns the in
cumbent was first, but when
they got to the crossroads and
the by-paths of Idaho, that the
other politicians didn't know ex
isted, Taylor slid into the lead
and won.
Senator Taylor began to be
talked about as Henry Wallace's
running mate the day after the
announcement of the formation
of the third party. He accepted
in a radio address during the last
week of February, 1948, saying,
"I have not left the Democratic
party, the Democratic party has
left me."
In the Senate, Taylor lead the
fight against the seating of Bilbo,
. 5LUUCIH uoujr nuuiu uwuw.fgt
have considered themselves quite
privileged to fill Sper's ample
brogans for in the hands of the
California card shark that he
claims he is in Kenan stadium
lay the power to make four of
the 10 or 12 comely coeds etern
ally (as long as he's head cheer
leader, anyhow) grateful to him
by their selection.
Girls Chosen
The pulchritude-packed quar
tet, the members of which were
disclosed by Sper at the close of
the tryouts, is composed of Sa
rah Jean Farlow, Lucille Arnett,
Claudia Lee, and Gale Hancock.
Miss Farlow will team with
brother Wray to give Carolina a
brother-sister combo. Sper also
named Sue Walton and Becky
Holton as alternates.
The new boss noise-maker
didn't consider his task to be so
pleasant yesterday, though, for
he spent almost two hours tear
ing his hair, pacing up and down
the floor of the then pleasantly
decorated Tin Can, and making
himself thoroughly miserable as
he sent the band of beauties
through their paces in his search
for the big four.
Disappointed Females
Sper's thankless job there
were six or seven disappointed
female aspirants wai easec'..
slightly by virtue of the fact
that he'd previously chosen hi3
quartet of male assistants. The
four male aides, who, along with
Sper and the gals, will begin an
arduous series of practice ses
sions this afternoon for the Blue-
White grid tilt on May 1, include
Wray Farlow, Joe Chamb-
liss, Herschel Snuggs and Jerry
Pence, who also ran for the post
of head cheerleader in the past
elections. Snuggs was an unsuc
cessful candidate for the job last
year.
A Few Spectators
Only a surprisingly low num
ber of spectators was on hand to
see the whistle-producing clad
gals strut their stuff.
Fretting more than a director
of a Broadway stage show on the
eve of its opening night, Sper
dashed from spectator to spec
tator after each group of girte
had gone through its tryout
cheers to see how the onlookers
rated the would-be racket-rais
ers.
As the number of girls who
went through their paces increas
ed, so mounted the number of
long faces on the candidates
(See SPER, page 4)
Then Talked Politics
'Serenade'
and has introduced bills to re
store price controls, for national
health insurance," and other social
legislation.
In the field of foreign affairs
he has been a vigorous opponent
of the Truman Doctrine in Greece
and what he terms the war policy
of the Democratic and Republi
can parties. He introduced a
measure in the Senate to imple
ment UN Palestine partition plan.
Senator Taylor is the son of
a Presbyterian minister, and as
he said in Chapel Hill last year,
got little formal schooling, but
made up for it by reading every
book he could get his hands on
about social and economic mat
ters. He is speaking here Monday
night at 8 o'clock in Hill hall
under the sponsorship of the local
Wallace for President Club,