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LIBRARY (Periodical DeptTj University of North Carolina chaPel Hill, N. C. 1-31-49 x EDITORIALS Ntw Lineup in Soulh Is She Real? Letters Are Welcome WEATHER Rain and continued cool ivy l r ru a mm(u a r r w VOLUME LVII Carmichael Gives Talk At Freshman Assembly By Charles Prilchard Freshman students yesterday ' applauded the advice and humorous illustrations offered by University Controller William D. Carmichael II in the initial freshman assembly in Memorial hall. Carmichael, introduced by Dean of Students Fred H. Weaver as a man "qualified to speak for the Carolina he appreciates," spoke on upholding the standards of the University. Own Standards "Try to establish your own standards . . . built on a rock foundation," the speaker told his audience, adding, "make sure you're not just a ditto mark fol lowing the crowd." Standards and a plan for living up to these standards will de termine much of the happiness in life, he said. Standards in the University must be raised to in creasingly greater heights, the Controller pointed out. Greatest University Citing the standards set by the football team in the game Sat urday, he said: "If we had the same hours of thoughtful prepar- I ations and determination in all other things, we would have the greatest University in the land." He advised giving a great deal of thought to the matter of "draw ing the blueprints" for the stu- j dent's life. A specific job of the University, where students begin drawing that blueprint, is to pro duce citizens, he said. Selden Gives Talk With Photo-Slides To 200 Playmakers Samuel Selden's illustrated lec ture, "Adventures in Playmak ing." highlighted an informal meeting of the Carolina Play- makers in the Playmakers the ater last night. The lecture, ac companied by photographs pro iected on a screen, covered the background history of the the ater group. Selden, head of the Dramatic Art department, punctuated his talk with "eye-witness" accounts of, the humorous stories behind the incidents shown in the pho tographs. The pictures included scenes from Playmaker produc tions and from the many tours that the drama group has made in its 30 years of activities. One highpoint of the meeting was an experimental motion pic ture made by John Hamby and George McKinncy. The movie was a continuation of some work the two students started in the motion picture production course offered last spring under the di rection of Ed Freed. Selden opened the meeting by introducing the members of the staff and the graduate assistants. Approximately 200 students at tended the meeting. Challenge COLUMBIA,. S. C Sept. 28. (UP) Gov. J. Strom Thur mond of South Carolina, pre paring to push his own cam paign for president, today challenged President Truman again to tell Southerners his reasons for backing the civil rights programl Mr. Truman ignored Thur mond's first challenge last weekend to discuss the pro posals in Texas. "Wherever he speaks in the South," Thurmond said, "let him discuss his civil rights pro gram with special emphasis on his reasons for wanting to break down race segregation and to pass the un-American FEPC law. "And let him tell his reasons for wanting an anti-lynch law when only one person was lynched in the United States last year, while there were over 360 murders in New York alone, " the governor said a a news conference. United Press Flyers Request Shmoo Shipment To Feed Berlin NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (UP) The men of the 17th Military Air Transport squad ron today ordered a shipment of "shmoos" with which to end the Berlin crisis. One of the American Air Force units participating in the air lift into the blockaded German capital, the squadron cabled an order from .Rhein, Germany, for a dozen. They promised to drop the shmoos into Berlin by parachute in "Operation Little Vittles." Their cable from Rhein read: "Al Capp, United Features syndicate, New York city. "Will you ship by air im mediately one dozen (12) shmoos addressed to "Opera tion Little Vittles," care of Lt. Col. James R. Haun, com manding officer, and men of 17th Military Air Transport squadron, Rhein, Main Air Force 'base, AP0 57, U. S. Army? "We will fly subject shmoos to Berlin at once and assure world crisis wrill be ended im mediately. Special parachutes being readied to drop shmoos where they will do the most good. Once multiplication starts, we will all come home and take you out for a shmoo Christmas dinner. "Suggest eager shmoos be oriented stateside prior to shipment with special refer ence to Ellis Parker Butler's famous tale of proliferocity, "Pigs is Pigs." Fear cargo ca pacity C-54 insufficient for ocean crossing if your critters fail to heed words of wisdom regarding over - enthusiastic propagation of species. "(Signed) Men of 17th MATS squadron." The mention of special "shmoo parachutes" recalled that the American fliers some months ago began making par achutes of handkerchiefs and dropping candy and gum in them to German children in the American sector of Berlin. Community Club An exhibit of arts and crafts by Chapel Hill women will be the feature of the opening meet ing of the Community club of Chapel Hill, Mrs. J. A. Warren, president, said yesterday. The meeting will be conducted Friday, Oct. 8, at 3:30 in the Episcopal parish house. Mrs. Warren invited every Chapel Hill woman and extend ed an invitation to every new comer. Anyone wishing to place an exhibit is requested to phone Mrs. Warren. Following the exhibit a social hour will be conducted and re freshmenlfc will be served. AGD Alumnae All Alpha Gamma Delta alum nae are requested to attend brief important meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Alpha Gam house, 226 Franklin street. First Issue of Carolina Quarterly Is Due for Publication in November The first issue of the Carolina Quarterly, new literary magazine on campus, is now being prepared and should be ready for publica tion some time in November, said the editors yesterday. "The Quarterly," said Editor Bill Sessions, "was started by a group of students last spring who were interested in providing an outlet for the numerous literary talents on campus and in Chapel Hill. The staff consists of some of the most prominent profes sional authors and student writ :f , - f,x, s f yA 1 nasi...., . , 2LLl!f&x. , . IN LOS ANGELES Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Mrs. Dewey respond to the ovation of the crowd that filled the Hollywood bowl to hear an address by the GOP candidate for president. He promised traitor's treatment for Communists who engage in treasonable acts. A parade of Hollywood notables pre ceded Dewey on the speaker's platform. Dewey Says Country Will Not 'Compromise Our Principles' MISSOULA, Mont., 'Sept. 28 (UP) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey declared tonight that America will "not compromise our principles" in its search for a peaceful settlement of the Berlin crisis. Tn his mnst snlpmn rlisrnssirv.i Education Board Will Map Budget For Years 1948-51 RALEIGH, Sept. 28 (UP) The state Board of Education to rorrow will make its budget de mands for the 1948-1951 fiscal years, Paul Reid, controller of the state board, said today. Reid said that major sections of the budget drawn by the board's Financial committee would . i i l concern leacners salaries, anu state aid for school construction. He added that funds may be re quested for expansion of the school bus fleet. The controller could give no estimate today of the amount the board will ask from the 1949 Gen eral Assembly. The state this year is spending $64,687,295 for oper ation of schools. The amount to be sought for teachers' salaries was expected to be increased in response to universal demands for higher teacher salaries during the pri mary election guocrnaionai campaign. Governor-Nominate Kerr Scott favored a scale providing a min uraum salary of $2,400 for teach ers holding "A" certificates and a maximum of $3,600. The current scale for "A" cer tificate holders ranges from $1,620 to $2,412. Regarding expansion of the school bus fleet, Reid explained that at the present time locali ties must purchase the original buses with their own funds and the state will purchase replace ments as needed. He said the board would consider v asking funds to finance the original pur chases as well. ers in this vicinity." Pricilla Moore and Roy Moose, both well known in campus pub lications, are serving as associate editors of the Quarterly. Other editors are Virgie Matson, fiction; Lee Knowles, poetry; James Rathburn and Harry Snowden, feature. The editorial and business staffs wish to extend an invitation to all students interested in work ing on the publication. The Quar terly office is located on the south mezzanine floor of Graham Memorial. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1943 of the critical world situation, the Republican presidential can didate said the threat of war hangs ominously over the future of America but we must not give up hope or efforts for a peace ful solution. Dewey, who has been keeping in touch with the Paris nego tiations on the Berlin crisis throughU. S. Delegate John Fos ter Dulles, told an audience at Missoula, Mont., that a "dark cloud" hangs over the future of the nation. Monogram Club Opens Doors To All Students at University By Charlie Gibson For the campus at large the Monogram Club has now opened its lavishly renovated clubhouse, inviting all students to use and enjoy a spacious lounge, a circus room complete with snack bar, and a dining' hall which is soon to serve the whole student body. The onc-story brick building on the Country club road just be hind Stacy dormitory and the quonset huts was originally con structed by the Navy in 1943 at a cost of approximately $45,000. Used by the Navy as officers' quarters, recreation hall, and re ception lounge for trainees here during the war, the building was given to the Monogram Club in 1945. "The clubhouse, Chancellor Robert B. House stated, "was turned over to the Monogram Club with the understanding that they would act as hosts for the University and would use it for the good of the campus. We had faith that the Monogram Club would work out something at tractive, and that faith has been justified, The wrhole campus has benefited by their initiative and enterprise." Chancellor House credited most work on this project to W. D. Carmichael, Jr., comptroller of the Greater University, and to P. L. Burch, former co-ordinator between the University and the Navy program here, now direct- or of Victory Village.- Clubhouse Hours The Monogram Club first be came an all-campus student cen ter on September 18. Its doors are open six days a week from 7:30 A. M. to 11:00 P. M. and from 1:00 P. M. to 11:00 P. M. on Sundays. Supervising the new building are two University graduates, Ed 'No Thefts' No reports of dormitory thefts during Saturday's foot ball game had been received late yesterday, even though the name of the owner of a stolen typewriter was released in yes terday's Daily Tar Heel. Dean of Students Fred Weaver and Police Chief W. T. Sloan concurred in statements thai no reports of stolen prop erty had been received '.by them. And no word of any thefts were recived from dorm itory managers or other offi cials. 1 Chief Sloan said if John In gram, owner of the stolen type writer, wanted his machine back, he could claim it at the police department in the Chap ' el Hill town hall. A stolen cam era and sports coat also await their respective owners, he said. HendersonNamed As Guest Speaker At Di Inaugural Dr. Archibald Henderson, re tired Kenan professor of mathe matics and official biographer, of George Bernard Shaw, will be guest speaker at the annual Dia lectic senate inaugral ceremonies tonight in the Di hall at 9 o'clock. All new students and any other students who are not members of the senate are invited to attend the program. Officers to be installed at the meeting are Jim Southerland, president; Gran Childress, pres ident pro tempore; Jerry Petti grew, critic; Cam West, clerk; Charles Long, treasurer, and Bill Harding, sergeant at arms. Merle Stevens, Di representa tive on the Debate council, and Long, Di representative on the Carolina Forum, will also be sworn in. Southerland will give the annual inaugral address. An informal reception will be held in the Di hall, located on the third floor of New West building, immediately after the meeting. Riggsbee and Frank West. Riggs bee, ex-foreman of the former dormitory refreshment stand be side Emerson Stadium, tends the main floor lounge and the circus room. West, experienced hotel resort manager, is in charge of the basement dining hall. On the main floor the lounge finished in brown wood paneling affords ample seatting and read ing room. At one end of the lounge is the mirror-walled cir cus room where a definite carni val atmosphere prevails among huge wood carvings of a seal, an elephant, a giraffe, and a 25-foot long, 3-feet high circus parade behind the soda fountain. These hand carvings required seven months' work by Carl Boettcher, University building commision employee and accomplished sculp tor. Downstairs is the eatting room finished in grey wood paneling with enough light-colored wood (See MONOGRAM, page 4) Traditional Chapel HiH Rain Brings Variety of Military Surplus Into Use By Wink Locklair Rain which began late Monday night and fizzled to a drizzle throughout yesterday, brought out a great variety of coats, hats and Army surplus to greet the first "weather" of the fall term. Hundreds of reversibles, field j jackets, Navy dungares and, on three separate occasions, hip boots, were pretty much the uni form of the day, as university men and women began their early morning rounds. The first showers of the year cajoled numerous students to for feit breakfast for some extra sack time. Lenoir Hall, which usually has much more than it can hand le by 8 o'clock, was cloister-quiet Phone Campus Party Slates Rally As Year's First Political Meet ; p f;r$ : X A'jt If PRESIDENT TRUMAN is shawn addressing a huge crowd in San Diego, Cal., one of ihe largest he has encountered on his Irip. The chief executive castigated the Republican majority in. Congress for cutting appropriations for western reclamation pro jects. Preceding the Democratic presidential candidate's speech, lens of thousands of persons crowded the city's palm-lined streets to hear the president. Truman Charges Republicans With Damaging U. S. Security OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 28 (UP) President Tru man charged today that Republican-inspired investigations of Communism have "impeded" the FBI and damaged na tional security. Mr. Truman denied that Com- munism is a "powerful force" in America, and asked the nation to consider "the damage that is being done to our national secu rity by irresponsible persons who place their own political in terests above the security of the nation." In the biggest speech to date in his 18-state campaign tour, Mr. Truman replied to Republican charges that he had "coddled". Communists. The president told an Oklahoma state fair audience that the Republicans had raised the Communist question as a "smoke screen." He chargad that Republican leaders have "impaired our na tion's atomic energy program by their intemperate and unjustified attacks' on our atomic scientists." "I charge that they have not produced any significant infor mation about Communist espion age which the FBI did not al ready have," Mr. Truman said. "I charge that the Republicans have attempted to usurp the constitutional functions of fed eral grand juries and courts. "I charge them with having trampled on the individual free doms which distinguish Amer ican ideals from totalitarian doc trine. "I charge finally that, in all this, they have not hurt the Com munist party. They have helped it." He charged that the Republican party is "the unwitting ally of the Communists in this country." To support his argument he cited figures to show that Communism reached its greatest popular strength in 1932 when the Com munist party polled raore than 100,000 votes." most of the morning. Downtown eateries reported slow business, also. All classes, of course, began at the scheduled times, and only a few absences were noted. The freshman class assembly was said to be well attended. On a day such as yesterday, the library always does good bus ines. It seemed to. be a god day to read all the out-of-town ac counts of the Carolina-Texas rout. (Someone must have felt that Sat urday's triumph entitled him to a few special liberties with the honor code: the sports section of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot was no where to be found.) F-3371 F-3361 - - ' i i i . -. , ,, ,. . . , . . ,..,- . Playmakers Seek Acting Personnel For First Comedy Public tryouts for the first major production of the Carolina Playmakers, John Van Druten's two act comedy, "I Remember Mama," will be held at 4 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock today in the Ptey maker theater. Lynn Gault, dir ector of the production, will con duct the tryouts. Roles to be filled include 12 women, 9 men, and several ex tras. Gault explained that tryouts are open to students, faculty and townspeople. The simple tryout pocedure wil be to read short scenes from the play, with several people trying for different roles at the same time. Everyone will be given chance to try for the role he is most interested in, and he is al lowed to try for as many roles as he wishes. "However," Gault said, " any body who tries for one role will automatically be considered for the other roles that his voice or manner might qualify him to play." Gault invited everyone who is interested in. working with the play to attend tryouts. "The Car olina Playmakers includes the campus and town, as well as the Dramatic Art department," he said. T Remember Mama" was first produced at the Shubert Theater, New Haven, Conn., in 1944, and later had a very successful run at the Musia Box theater in New York city. Gault, wh5 designs the settings for the Playmaker productions, directed last season's highly suc cessful production of "The Mik ado" in Memorial hall. Most Efficient Carolina's Beta Upsilon chap ter of Alpha Delta Pi, social sorority, was selected as the most efficient chapter in the United states at the annual convention held in Atlantic City, N. J., this summer. Grace Mane Blades, senior from Apex and Carolina dele gate to the convention, received on behalf of the chapter a silver service set as the award for out standing efficiency. The chapter will keep the award until 1951, when every chapter in the coun try will again compete for the honor. NUMBER 5 Jess Dedmond, Godwin, Eller To Give Talks Launching a program of political activity for the fall quarter, the Campus party will hold a one-hur political rally in Gerrard hall tonight at 7 o clock. Party Chairman Jack Worsham said the meeting will be the first pre-election rally opened to all interested people sponsored by a political party on the campus. With student government and campus politics as the mam themes, the rally will feature ad dresses by several campus lead ers. Scheduled to speak tonight are Jess Dedmond, president of the student body; Jim Godwin, vice-president; and Tom Eller, the former president of 1947-48. Worsham announced that other entertainment will also be pro vided. The Campus party chairman ship will be officially turned over to Worsham in a ceremony to night by John Rosser, temporary chairman during the summer ses sions. "New students have shown a keen interest in student govern ment and we are expecting many of these men and women to be come leaders in campus politics," Worsham said. He added that "The Campus party is a middle-of-the-road party with a broad platform that covers both frater nity and non-fraternity issues." The CP chairman announced that business, covering a struc tural change in the organization of the party, will be transacted immediately after the rally. Wor sham explained that the organ ization of the party is being shifted from centralized control to district control. Free Election Bill Meets First Test ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 28 (UP) Georgia's "free election" bill, a by-product of the Southern re volt against civil rights, meets its first legislative test tomorrow when two slate senators throw in amendments aimed at hobbling President Truman and Henry Wallace. The measure, which would guarantee a place on the ballot to Democrats, States' Rights Dem ocrats and other parties, thus hits its first roadblock after free wheeling through two days of a special legislative session. During these two days it has been read twice and received approval of a senate committee. Sen. E. C. Widcman of Douglas announced today that he will seek to prune from the bill provisions requiring presidential electors to support party nominees. Thus Georgia's Democratic electors, controlled by Gov.-Nominate Herman Talmadge, could refuse to vote for President Truman even if he carries the state. Sen. President William T. Dean of Conyers said he plans to in troduce an amendment requir ing electors to sign non-Communist affidavits. From Wall Street Somewhere on campus xhera is a young lady, probably an English major, who lost a mys terious package which is cur rently driving the English de partment mad. Miss Orpah Cummxngs of the department said yesterday that the day's mail had brought in a brown-paper wrapped pack age slightly larger than a shoe box and weighing very little. It was addresed lo: "The young lady who was on the Silver Meteor lo Baltimore Sept. 12 "Care of ihe English depart ment "Chapel Hill, North Caro lina." The mystery-shrouded mis sile was sent from 63 Wall street. New York city.
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