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VOLUME LVII
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1948
Phone F-3371 F-3361
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Vandalism Talk
Held By Officials
Campus leaders from North
the University met yesterday in
out vandalism and create more
schools.
Present at the meeting were
the presidents of the two stu
dent bodies, Fred Kendall and
Jess Dedmond; Dean Wood from
State and Dean Fred Weaver from
the University; and other members
of the student governments of"
both schools.
Bringing most of their atten
tion on the subject of vandalism,
those present suggested many
and varied ways of getting the
''idea across to the student bodies.
One State spokesman said that
he thought that the idea is to
keep foraging parties of both
schools from going out with paint
brushes and buckets of paint.
Dean Wood said that the best
way to stop such action is through
the students themselves, not
higher school officials merely
talking to the students.
According to another State
spokesman, State will have dif
ficulty with their publicity, due
to the fact that their school
paper, the "Technician," is a
weekly paper and will come out
only twice more before the State-
Carolina game.
Both schools were quick to
point out and emphasize the
penalty for vandalism. In both
schools the penalty is the same,
indefinite suspension from school,
Plans were made to reach stu
dents through the IFC, the IDC,
and the freshman assembly.
.Last year cheerleaders were ,
exchanged for the pep rallies of
both schools. The new idea is to
exchange student body presidents
for the pep rallies on the com
ing weekend and to exchange
cheerleaders for the pre-game
pep rallies.
Kendall said, "We appreciate
the invitation to visit here. It was
certainly an opportunity to bet
ter the relation. The campus
government at State plans to do
everything possible to assure that
this meeting and all other con
tacts that the schools have with
each other be done in true friend
ship and sportsmanship."
From Dedmond came the state
ment, "We were delighted to be
hosts to student leaders and
faculty of North Carolina State.
I hope that this meeting may
be a beginning of more under
handing and good will between
our institutions. We should look
forward to further meetings to
discuss problems not only per
taining to our athletic relations
but to matters concerning our
mutual interests as units of the
Greater University of North
Carolina."
Fund Increased
RALEIGH. Oct. 5 (UP)
More than a quarter-million
dollars in railroad funds went
to Ihe consolidated University
of North Carolina bank account
today because of a one hun
dred and fifty-year-old state
constitutional provision.
Wake County superior court
judge William C. Harris yes
terday signed a final judgement
turning a $275,593 settlement
over to ihe University's es
cheasles fund. The settlement
was the final result of a case
cnvolving overcharges of pas
senger fares collected by ihe
Southern Railway and ihe At
lantic Coast Line for intra
state iransporiaiion during a
period between Aug. I, 1944,
and July 25, 1945.
Income from ihe fund is
used for scholarships at ihe
University at Chapel Hill
North Carolina State college
in Raleigh and ihe .Woman's
college in Greensboro.
Carolina State college and
an early attempt to stamp
good will between the two
Freshman Group
To Meet Tonight
In Gerrard Hall
A one - hour organizational
meeting of the Freshman Work
commission will be held in Ger
rard hall this evening at 7 o'clock,
bringing together all freshmen
interested in advancing their
class's fellowship through the
YMCA.
The gathering tonight will be
open to all first year students.
John Brockman, president of the
freshman group in the YMCA
last year, will preside over the
meeting which will include brief
explanatory speeches about the
work commission and the history
and work of the Y in general.
"The Y believes," Brockman
stated, "that the best way to
bring the freshman class mem
bers closer together is to organize
a sort of nucleus of class leaders
among the freshmen themselves.
Then this nucleus can formulate
its own ideas to benefit all
freshmen throughout the com
ing year, the 'Y' offering what
ever assistance is called for."
Called the Freshman Friend
ship council heretofore, an annually-organized
group of first
year students has taken an active
part in the YMCA programs for
many years. Last year the council
arranged two dances in con
junction with WCUNC; co-operated
with the YMCA cabinet
in the local charity drives and
the campus-wide Natural Bridge
retreat; and planned the pre
school conference at Camp Na
wakwa for this year's new stu
dents. Wallace Group
To Meet Tonight
The Wallace-for-President Club
will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in
Horace Williams lounge of Gra
ham Memorial. Persons interested
in the Progressive party and the
namnaicn nf Henrv A. Wallace
are invited to attend the meetings
each Wednesday. There will be a
question and answer session at
each meeting of the Wallace
group.
Pan-Hel Council
Will Meet Today
The Panhellenic council meets
this afternoon in the Grail room,
Graham Memorial at 5 o'clock
Feme Hughes announced yester
day. Fitz-Simons To
At Bull's Head
During
the fall's first Bull's
Head Bookshop tea to be con
ducted this afternoon at 4 o'clock,
Foster Fitz-Simons, assistant pro
fessor in the department of Dra
matic Arts, will be present to dis
cuss his recently published book,
"Bright Leaf." The tea will be
held in the library staff room,
next to west door entrance on the
ground floor of the University
library. .
No invitations will be sent out
for the tea and no reservations
will be made; however, all stu
dents, especially those interested
in creative writing, and the gen
eral public is invited to attend
to hear Fitz-Simons.
Fitz-Simons will be introduced
by Samuel Selden, head of the
Dramatic Art department of the
University. Th6 exhibit that has
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ON THE ANNIVERSARY of ihe signing of ihe Trujillo-Hull
ireaiy. President Rafael L. Trujillo, of ihe Dominican Republic,
inspects ihe U. S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea during iis visit io the
Caribbean country. In ihe ireaiy, signed 10 years ago, ihe United
Slates agreed lo restore lo ihe Dominican Republic full control
of its customs houses.
All Yack Appointments
Cancelled; Deadline Set
All Yack. appointments.. for pictures have been cancelled
Bill Duncan, Yack editor, said yesterday. Duncan received
a long-distance call from Arthur Grey, president of Chidnoff
Studio, N. Y., yesterday to the effect that the studio is loos
ing money on the contract with the Yackety Yack because
students are not filling their appointments according to
schedule.
The photographers were origin
ally scheduled to take pictures
through Oct. 31, but further de
velopments force them to stay
here only through the 22nd of
this month. Duncan said pictures
will be made according to a
"first come, first served" sched
ule. At least 200 pictures a day
must be made in order for all
students to appear in the 1949
yearbook. This is a necessity,
according to Duncan, in order
that both the Yack staff and
Chidnoff meet their respective
deadlines.
Last year's pictures were not
satisfactory to Duncan, and he
urged Chidnoff studio to send
the best photographers available
to the University. This was done,
but to a greater expense. The
photographers are top flight men
in their field, and Grey report
ed that the pictures taken this
year were far superior to last
year's.
Proofs will be returned to
students in less than two weeks
after the picture is made, and
implicite directions will be en
closed with the proofs as to what
proceedure the student should
Speak Today
Bookshop Tea
been on display in the main lobby
of the library will be removed to
the staff room to be viewed dur
ing the tea. The display, labeled
"The Making of a Novel," shows
the steps utilized in the writing of
Bright Leaf. Major changes in
the eight different versions from
the initial manuscripts to the fin
ished product, is shown in the ex
hibit. The book, about which the
member of the Playmakers will
speak, required a period of ten
years to write and captures
the development of a tre
mendous fortune in the tobacco
industry. Motion picture rights
to the 631 -page book, published
by Reinhart and company, has
been sold by Fitz-Simons to Met-ro-Goldwyn-Maycr
studios.
use in returning proofs and
ordering personal pictures. Of
fice hours are from 9 to 12 o'clock
and from 1:15 to 6 o'clock. No
pictures will be made on Sat
urdays.
Male students are requested
to wear coats and ties, and pre
ferably white shirts, and the
coeds are to wear white blouses.
Four poses are made of each
student.
Grad Exam-Takers
To Register Today
All students planning to enter
graduate school next quarter must
register today for the graduate
record exam. The exam, which
will be given Oct. 25 and 26, is
a national exam, administered
once each three months.
Debate Council
Calls Meeting
The Debate council requested
yesterday that all students inter
ested in joining the varsity de
bate squad attend a meeting to be
held in Graham Memorial at 7
o'clock tonight. Business of the
meeting will concern information
on tryouts and formation of the
squad, announced Earl Fitzgerald,
president of the council.
Debafe Council Schedules
First Meeting
The University Debate council
will hold its first meeting of the
year tonight in Horace Williams
lounge of Graham Memorial,
Earl Fitzgerald, president, an
nounced yesterday.
Students interested in varsity
debating, especially new 'and
transfer students, are requested
to attend the meeting.
At the meeting, Fitzgerald said,
the intercollegiate debate ques
tion will be given to those pres
ent, and announcements regard
ing practice debates and tryouts
will be made. He emphasized
that the Debate council is in need
of coed speakers, in order to use
all-girl teams during the year.
80th Congress
Is Di Subject
The Di Senate will debate to
night at 9 o'clock in the Senate
hall, West building, the question
of President Truman's remarks
concerning the 80th Congress.
Don Shropshire, former presi
dent of the Senate, will introduce
a bill "To return Harry S. Truman
to' the White House." The bill
reads:
"Whereas: The 80th Republican-controlled
Congress of the
United States has failed to pro
vide many of the, measures that
the administration deemed abso
lutely necessary to national
security,
And whereas the Congress has
passed legislation that has been
detrimental to the economic
structure of the country, and
whereas the Congress has shown
a marked tendency to court the
vested interest groups,
And 'whereas the Congress has
turned our respected government
into a type of side-show by its
rediculous hearings of the Un
American committee,
And whereas the Congress has
generally been playing 'politics'
instead of letting the best inter
ests of the nation dominate their
deliberations pending legislation;
therefore be it resolved that:
Article I: The Dialectic Senate
go on record as backing the recent
remarks concerning the 80th Con
gress by the President of the
United States, and
Article II: The Senate goes on
record as favoring the return of
Harry S. Truman to the White
House as President of the United
States."
The Di Senate has had on its
roll many great men such as Pres
ident James K. Polk; Governor
Zebulon Baird Vance, Past Deputy
Minister to the U. N. Security
council, and Dr. Frank Porter
Graham president of the Greater
University of North Carolina.
"The meeting tonight is open to
all members of the student body
and townspeople." said President
pro-tem Gran Childress.
Ring Orders Will
Be Taken Tomorrow
Orders for senior rings will
be taken at the Y tomorrow by
Lee H. Blackwell the representa
tive from the L. G. Balfour
company. Each Wednesday there
after he will be at the Y between
one and 4:30 in the afternoon
to take orders.
As in the past the Order of
the Grail will handle the trans
actions with Monroe Landreth as
chairman of the Ring committee.
Society Writers
To Meet in GM
There will be a staff meeting of
all people interested in doing any
type of society writing for the
Daily Tar Heel in the kitchen of
Graham Memorial at 4 o'clock
today. Everyone is welcome to
come, whether experienced or
green as grass.
This Evening
The tentative program for this
quarter's activity included de
bates with the University of Vir
ginia, Georgetown university,
University of Pennsylvania,
Princeton university, Yale uni
versity, and Harvard university.
This is a continuation of the ex
tensive debate program which
was in progress here last year.
Several schools, including the
University of Georgia, have re
quested to be listed on the de
bate schedule here in Chapel Hill.
PJans are being made for later
in the year when the debate team
will attend tournaments, and
visit other schools in the neigh
boring states.
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IN THIS ROCKY CAIRN, about 450 miles from the North
Pole, stranded members of a Navy-Coast Guard expedition found
records signed and left in a bottle by Comdr. Robert E. Peary
more than forty years ago, in 1906. The cairn is located on Cape
Sheridan, Can., where the stranded men were waiting for a heli
copter to rescue them when they made the historic discovery.
University
Under Saunders, Sper
By Lincoln Kan
Spike Saunders, executive secretary of the General Alumni
association, was appointed general chairman of the Uni
versity day program Oct. 12 by Chancellor R. B. House,
and Norm Sper, head cheerleader was put in charge of the
actual program at a preliminary meeting yesterday.
The University day services as
planned so far will begin at 11
o'clock in front of the South
building steps facing the library.
The band and the University
choir will lead the singing of
the University hymn which will
start the services. The entire
student body will be asked to
join in one minute ot silence
after the invocation. The pro
gram will end with the singing
of "Hark th4 Sound."
The celebration of the 154th
anniversary of the university
since it opened for matriculation
will be an expression of the
faculty administration and stu
dent's allegiance.
Tentative plans made at the
preliminary meeting also call
ed for a parade formation, mock
cornerstone laying ' and other
pageantry. Classes will be sus
pended till 2 o'clock, immediate
ly after the services.
The Order of the Grail was
asked to assume the responsi
Freshmen Hear Spruill Speak
During Third Assembly Meeting
By Charles Pritchard
Continuing orientation of new
students, the third freshman as
sembly in Memorial hall yester
day introduced to the students
Dean of the General college C.
P. Spruill, Jr., who briefly out
lined the obligations of faculty
I and students along with the op-
j portunities presented
Dean Spruill, a graduate of the
University and the instigator of
the division of the General col
lege, said yesterday that the
heritage of the University has
been placed in the hands of the
freshmdn, and that here it is a
case in which the whole is great
er than its parts.
"As long as you live and re
member, there will be the mem
ory of experience at Chapel Hill,"
the speaker said.
According to Dean Spruill, an
attempt is being made to con
tinue the task that is becoming
harder and harder to discourage.
This faculty obligation, he said,
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bility for the pageantry which
will commemorate the Universi
ty's anniversary. They will seek
the cooperation of the Playmak
ers and other organizations.
The Monogram club will as
sist in the distribution of pro
grams and will help encourage
the full participation of the
campus.
Attending the meeting called
by Chancellor House were; Bill
Shuford, assistant to Spike
Saunders; Scotty Venable, re
presenting President of the Stu
dent Body Jess Dedmond; Ed
Lanier, director of Central rec
ords; Roy Armstrong, director
of admissions; Dr. J. C. Lyons,
faculty marshall; Gus Johnston,
president of the Monogram club;
C. E. Teague, assistant controller
and business manager of the Uni
versity; .Victor Huggins, presi
dent of the Chapel Hill Mer
chant's association; and Spike
Saunders, executive secretary of
the General Alumni association.
is to recognize and deal with
each student as an individual.
He urged the freshmen to ar
range conferences with their ad
visors in order to plan "the best
years of your four years of
study." He recommended that
the students take full advantage
of placement test service, medical
advice and urged them to adapt
the resources of the University
to the energies of the student.
Strenuous efforts, Dean Spruill
pointed out, are still being made
to combat the housing crisis,
another faculty obligation.
"Personal conflicts can be re
solved by the ideal that each
student is an individual, unique
in his own abilities," he said,
explaining the opportunities of
developing warm associations and
personal friendships among stu
dents. "We will find that most any
thing 'we learn comes in handy
at one time or another," he advised.
Says He Will
Even Argue
In Missouri
By Sam McKeel
J. Strom Thurmond, gov-'
ernor of South Carolina and
States Rights candidate for
the presidency of the United
States, last night reiterated
his challenge to President
Truman to debate the Civil
Rights proposals anywhere
in North Carolina or he would
debate him in Missouri.
Speaking before a Hill hall
audience of 1,800 that filled the
seats, the aisles, and crowded out
side the doors, Thurmond includ
ed Dewey in his challenge, add
ing, "Henry Wallace, I ignore."
Thurmond assailed the men
who have said that the States
Righters have left the Democratic
party. "We have not left the
Democratic party, the national
leadership has left the Demo
cratic party," he said.
In attacking the Fair Employ
ment Practice commission Thur
mond said, "I never thought the
time would come when an em
ployer could not hire and fire, or
promote and demote whom he
pleased. This bill is against the
best interests of America. You
can't ask an applicant if he is
an atheist, if he is a Communist,
if he has ever gone under any
other name, or if he has commit
,ed any crimes. That bill is perfect
lul me communists; iney couian t
ask for a better bill."
As he made one statement on
Dewey he was booed, looking
around he said, "I thought we'd
hear from the Republicans soon.
If you Republicans will wait a
minute I'll convince you."
Almost at the close of his
speech, Thurmond said, "Now
we come to Wallace. I don't care
to discuss him so we'll get on
another subject."
"Truman is coming to North
Carolina soon," he said. "When
he gets here I want some of you
good Southerners to ask him to
explain civil rights,"
Thurmond pointed out that the
constitution of the United States
says that voting requirements are
left to the individual states. "As
long as the people in the United
States can fix the voting require
ments we will have a fine country
and not a totalitarian state," he
said.
Talking of the anti-lynching
bill, Thurmond said he was
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against lynching as much as any
one because it is the worst form
of murder. In the United States
last year there was just one lynch
ing, while in New York city alone
there were 350 murders, he said.
Asked what his policy toward
Russia is Gov. Thurmond said he
believes in being patient but firm.
He said he believed in giving
Russia what was supposed to be
given under agreements, but giv
ing them nothing else.
Thurmond opened his speech
by saying that no matter who ran
in the election, "if I am elected
the White House will have the
prettiest first lady in history."
Well-Baby Clinic
Switches Dates
The Chapel Hill Well-Baby
clinic, co-sponsored by the Junior
Service league and the District
Health department, announced
yesterday that their meeting
dates will be changed.
The meetings will be held Oct.
12 and Oct. 26 at 1:30 in the af
ternoon. The former morning
section will meet at the latter
date. All morning meetings have
been cancelled for the quarter.
The babies scheduled for im
munizations on the morning of
Oct. 12 should be taken to the
District Health department on
Friday afternoon, Oct. 15, or
Saturday morning, Oct. 16, for
their shots.