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0 LIBRARY (Periodical tJe&t.) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. N. C. EDITORIALS Chalk One Up Noi Convictions May Be Back 4 ' .... . MBW"" ' " A " v;y vSua sz? k?k "y .. VOLU"mE LVII. United Press CHAPEL HILL, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949 - . . . Phone F-3371-F-3361 NUMBER 74 1 ; , , . . a I M " I f ft IJ 'I ill' I CAN -l ' 'l V 6 fin 1 r?V 1 PRESIDENT TRUMAN WALKS from the White House to. Blair house, his temporary residence, with Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett for a conference. The poster is for the March of Dimes drive, 'Feed a Student' Eating Places Will Be WSSF Target Tonight University students eating an evening meal in the Caro lina inn, Lenoir hall, and N. C. cafeteria will be asked today to make contributions to the World Service fund in order to "Take a Foreign Student to Dinner. The Greater Council of the Bap- tist Student union will man meal lines at these three eating points from five until 7 o'clock this eve ning. BSU members will hand all students getting in the lines a card explaining the urgency of WSSF support in war-strained countries abroad. These cards will also explain Ihe idea that by giving up as much as the cost of tonight's meal, a University student might, fig uratively speaking, take some foreign student to a badly-needed dinner which he might other wise go without. Voluntary con tributions will be taken up by more BSU members when the students reach the regular cash ier. This program is a part of the current campus drive to raise funds for the international stu- g ci nt charity. Overall WSSF cam paigning here is under the spon sorship of the Council for Reli gion in Life, the inter-denomina-tional organization of all Univer sity religious groups. W.S.S.F. ROUNDUP Contributions to the World Student Service fund rose to S3:', 1.05 yesterday as collections fro'-,, three different projects t"t;,..d $174.32 during the third aay of the drive. ! louse - to - house solicitors l'i-"iight in $135.63 as they step uri their effort. The "Miss i';. '.IT contest brought in $36.59 f- .tudents contributed for the piivdie of voting for their fV.onte campus beauty. The b:i-.l-:eioull score-picking contest Today's special WSSF project the "Take a Foreign Student t Dinner" collection at Lenoir H. Carolina Inn cafeteria and C. cafeteria. Tickets for the "t!'v auction are also set to go ;itc lodav. I v. V , Dr. Warner Talks On Japanes Art In Person Monday Dr. Langdon Warner, dis tinguished archaeologist and cura tor, eulogised the artistic value of the "utilitarian things" of Japan in an illustrated lecture on 'J'apanese Folk Art" at Per son hall Monday evening. Defining art simply as "things made by man for the use of the spirit and the body," Dr. Warner declared that there are often high artistic values to be found in the art products of "simple folk" such as the Japanese rice farmer. lie said that most folk arts are engaged in "without preoccupa tion with beauty," and that the occidental who tends to accept "loveliness" where it is so ob vious that he cannot miss it, will have to train the eye to detect unaccustomed subtleties in the folk arts if he is to under stand them. Dr. Warner's lecturd was spon sored by the North Carolina I chapter of the Archaeoligical Institute of America. . Person Classes Can Use Models Models, both male and female, for drawing and sculpture classes are needed by the art department during the winter quarter, an Ar, kv thp de- announcemeru ina.- partment yesterday revealed. No previous experience or special type ot pnywuj - necessary. Models will te employ ed by studio hours rather than over a long period of time; wages studio. are from SZ io o a i0 nor i t,uncnfinnlfi who Students anu i.uwwi are interested in this type of part-time employment are asked to tact Lynette Warren, sec retary of Ihe department. 8801. WSSF Auction To Be Staged Next Tuesday Faculty, Coeds To Participate Tickets will go on sale today for a daffy auction to be staged Tuesday at 7:30 in Hill hall at which faculty members and at tractive University coeds will participate in the final and most novel stunt of the current cam pus drive supporting the World Student Service fund, interna tional student charity. Admission to the auction will be 50 cents. All groups sponsor ing beauty contestants in the "Miss Pay-Off" balloting, another feature of the WSSF drive here, are asked to send representatives to pick up these 50-cent tickets in the YWCA office this morning. Each ticket sold by noon Saturday can be counted as five dime votes for any of the "Miss Pay-Off" contestants. Jerry Weiss, chairman of auc tion plans, said the Tuesday stunt ! would be similar to the one staged j successfully this summer to aug ment the University WSSF con tribution last year. While the coeds are to be sold as dates to the highest bidder, the faculty members will be auctioned off for comic services. The list of faculty members and the unusual services which they will volunteer Tuesday for the worthy student cause is only partially complete. Typical of those now scheduled to appear are Katherine Carmichael, dean of women, and Twig Branch, coed advisor, both to be cigarette girls among the audience. Norman Cordon, Metropolitan opera star, and Earl Winn, radio department head, will act as auctioneers. Roy Cole Band To Give Concert Roy Cole and his orchestra will present a concert in the main lounge of Graham Mem orial Saturday between 5 and 6 o'clock. The last half of the pro gram will be broadcast over, sta tion WDUK. All members of the student body are invited to attend the program, said Bob Watson. Seats will be provided for those who attend. There will be no admis sion charges. 'Barnstorming Bach' Difficulties By Charlie Gibson When Baroness Maria von Trapp decides to take all her children "Barnstorming with Bach," neither Hitler's plans for her native Austria, neither a collapsing Vermont farmhouse, nor pregnancy can stop her. T.ittlp inconveniences which her family ensemble has encoun tered during ten years of con cert touring are now nothing more than laughable anecdotes. Today the Trapps have become successful and widely renowned for taking their native costumes and instruments everywhere to eive many programs of classical arias, folk songs, and rare church music. Typical of their concerts will be the program to be given here on Friday night at an 8 o'clock Memorial hall presenta tion of the Student Entertain ment committee. Yet back on the day that a Nazi flag was raised over a small Austrian town called Salz burg in the Tyrol Alps, Hitler would hardly have predicted the future of this ingenious musical plan correctly, either. Upon sight of the swastika, all the Trapps ofons To Elect 'icersfonight By Gordon Huffines The Student legislature wiil elect new officers at the first session of the winter quarter' in the Di hall tonight. With none of the three political parties holding a majority in the legislature, a lively fight is expected in the contest for officers and committee chairmen. bmily baker Is New Head Of Senate Angas Resigns As Coed Leader Emily Baker, senior from Ashe ville, assumed the speakership of Coed senate Tuesday night fol lowing the resignation of Fran Angas. Eleanor de Grange, junior from Winchester, Va., was elect ed to succeed Miss Baker as speaker pro tempore. Miss Baker has served as critic of the Philanthropic assembly, on YW Junior council, Hockey club, hilosophy club, intramural de bater, representative to the Na tional Debating tournament, WAA council, Student legislature, sec retary of the Student party, rep resentative to the United Nations seminar, Graham Memorial Stu dent Activities committee, rep resentative to the State Student legislature, and secretary Of the YW Careers "committee." She is at present chairman of the YW Public Affairs committee, on the Daily Tar Heel staff, on the steering committee of the Student party, sergeant-at-arms I of the Phi assembly, and social j chairman of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Miss de Grange is a transfer from BriarclhT junior college where she was executive editor of the Briarcliff Quarterly and a member of the Drama club, Glee club, and Orientation committee. At the University she has served as an intramural debater, and a member of the Glee club, Uni versity dance group, and Coed senate, in which she was a mem ber of the Elections committee. She is on the Dean's list and is Treasurer of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Carolyn Tuck, junior from Vir gilina, Va., was chosen as a sena tor to fill the vacancy created by Kit Finney, who did not re turn to school this quarter. Couldn't Stop Trapps r?" Y -Ml TWO OF THE younger Trapp sisters are shown above play ing block flutes. held a conference the Baroness, their seven daughters (four by his first marriage), their two older sons, and Father Franz Wasner, family spiritual adviser and music teacher combined. The family with Father Was ner as director were already vet erans of many European folk festivals; and now at just the right time, a letter had come in , Offices to be filled tonight are sion by Tag Montague (UP); clerk, filled by Jack Worsham, former chairman of the Campus party; sergeant-at-arms, held by Ed Washington (CP); and parli amentarian. The latter position was held by George Rodman (UP). The chairmanships of the fol lowing committees are also to be filled: Rules, headed by Thur man Williams (UP); Elections, headed by Joe'Leary (UP); Ways and Means, headed by Herb Mitchell (UP); and Coed Affairs, headed by Edith Knight. The present line-up of the 50 seats in the legislature, as fol lows, does not give any one of the parties a majority: The Uni versity party controls 22 seats, the Student party, 14, the Cam pus party, 6. There are 5 SP-CP members, 2 UP-SP members, and 1 CP-UP member. Party chairmen refused yesterday to release the party slates of nom inees for positions to be filled to night. Fire Breaks Out On Church Street A small fire broke out yester day afternoon at 1:45 in the home of Mrs. Nonie Womber, 207 Church street.- The blaze resulted from a clog ged flue over a coal stove which caused sparks to ignite a sheet of thin board around the pipe. Phi Assembly In Ousting of Ed Joyner's dismissal of Com munist Bill Robertson from the staff of the Daily Tar Heel was approved by 47 of the 50 mem bers and visitors attending Tues day night's meeting of the Phil anthropic 'assembly and unani mously supported by the Phi. In discussing his policy Joyner declared that the editor of the Daily Tar Heel had as much right to drop Robertson as he had to drop any column. He re ported that no protest of viola tion of freedom of the press oc- viting them to make a concert tour throughout the United States. The Trapps voted to leave home and Hitler, setting out with only the $10 each was permitted to take out of the country. Upon arrival in New York their only other valuables were visitors' visas and high hopes of becoming American citizens. House-hunting American-style was among the Trapps' initial problems. Visiting a musical friend for the summer at Stowe, Vermont, they found a 600-acre farm overlooking a valley that was straneelv reminiscent of their native Austria during peacetime. True, the farmhouse tilted and the roof sagged, but that view was wonderful. They bought it. A few weeks later the farm house collapsed in a windstorm. With characteristic briskness, the Baroness said: "After all, we only bought the view, not the house. Now we don't have to pull the old place down. Later difficulties caught the (See TRAPP page 4) House Invokes State Statute To Stop Talk Chancellor Had 'Legal Advice' By Chuck Hauser John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, New York Communist newspaper, and one of 12 Communist leaders in the United States under indictment for conspiracy to overthrow the government, was told by Chancellor R. B. House yesterday that he could not deliver a scheduled ad dress on the campus. , House, quoting a law in the North Carolina statutes, told Herb Mitchell, chairman of the Caro lina forum, at 2:30 yesterday af ternoon that Gates would not be allowed to speak in Memorial hall. The forum, non-partisan; speakers' organization, was co sponsoring the address with the Communist party of Chapel Hill. "The Carolina forum," House said, "has a record of hearing all points of view on questions of public interest. It has had ad vice and support from faculty and administration. "The invitation to Mr. Gates came about through collaboration of the Carolina forum with the Communist party of Chapel Hill and would have proceeded in line with traditions of freedom in the forum except for the point in the consolidated statutes of North Carolina. "Mr. Gates was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of teaching and advocating the vio lent overthrow of the united States government in violation of (See HOUSE, page 4) Upholds DTH Bill Robertson curred when "Odds and Ends" was dropped, and he doubted that Communists would com plain of suppression when George Sokolsky's (Republican) column is terminated. Joyner pointed out that John Gates, editor of the Daily Work er, does not permit Pegler, Pear son, or Sokolsky on the pages of that newspaper. Estimating card-holding Com munists on campus at 36, Joyner stated that other minorities such as the Vegetarians do not enjoy as much space as the Com munists, and pointed out that the "Write-Awav" column was still open to all students. Hans Freistadt asked for the continuance of a column devoted to Communism and offered to write one. He declared that Rob ertson was not disloyal for at tacking American foreign policy since the Constitution does not recognize a state of cold war. Freistadt informed the As sembly that his party favors freedom of the press and is fight ing to come to power by parlia mentary means. AVC Keeps Proxy Voting, Passes Other Measures At Tuesday Meet Two motions to eliminate proxy voting were defeated by Ameri can Veterans committee members at Tuesday night's meeting in the Presbyterian church on Franklin street. One motion, presented by AVC member Charlie Sellers was designed to eliminate proxy vot ing entirely, while the other mo tion, initiated by Chairman Audrey Williams, made a few changes to permit proxy voting under certain conditions. A motion providing for a busi ness agenda to be adopted at the beginning of each meeting wasmittee. Speaks To 1,000 On WesfFrancfn By Sam .McKeel Forced twice to move his speaking grounds, once be--cause of an order issued by Chancellor Robert B. House and Dnce by a gas station attendant, John Gates, editor of the Communist organ The Daily Worker, last night addressed an estimated crowd of 1,000 people in front of the Chapel Hill high school on West Franklin street. . i , H 5 i " - f . I - t 4 - ' ' It, 3 v i - ' JOHN GATES Gafes Brands House Move As Outrage' 'Free Speech' Is Called. Real Issue By Herb Nachman "I think the cancellation of my scheduled address by the Uni versity authorities is an outrage," Daily Worker Editor John Gates declared just 20 minutes after his arrival in Chapel Hill yester day. Gates was informed when his plane arrived from New York yesterday afternoon at 2:22 that his speech had been cancelled by University authorities on the grounds that it violated a state statute prohibiting a person ad vocating or teaching the over throw of the United States or North Carolina government from speaking in a state owned build ing. The editor of the Communist Daily Worker and professed Com munist for 18 years was brought immediately for an interview in the offices of the Daily Tar Heel. During the interview, Gates was by no means non-committal. He talked freely for a full hour concerning his indictment by the House Un-American Activities committee and about the action taken against him by the Uni versity. "I think what is happening on the University of North Cam- lina campus on this issue is a replica, on a small scale, of what is takine Dlace nationally.' The real issue involved in my in- I booing and heckling as he talked dictment is the suppression of j briefly on the charges brought free thought and free speech, .against him and his 11 fellow The denial of my right to speak j Communist national board mem here at North Carolina is proof i bers who go on trial Monday.' of that," Gates brought out. I "It is the common belief," Gates on to say (See GATES, page 4) passed, as was another motion to write a chapter letter to the national AVC headquarters urg ing an increase in GI subsistence. A third motion to write a letter to the Oklahoma Equal Educa tion committee indicating ap proval of its drive for equal ed ucational opportunities was also passed. - Reports on various committees were given by AVC members John Webb, of the local policy committee; Henry Adams, of the publicity committee; and Glenn Fisher, of the cost of living corn- He went on to sav that theisaia, mai x nave ocen muiatu, At 6:30, 15 minutes before the scheduled time of the speech, several hundred people had con gregated outside the locked Joors of Memorial hall. At 6:45 a spokesman for the Carolina ..orum said that all formal plans ior the speech had been cancel led. A policeman seen in the crowd said that he had not been sent there specifically, but that Gates "will not speak here." Seeing Gates the crowd swarmed around the corner of Columbia and Cameron and gathered at the filling station on the corner of Franklin and Co lumbia streets. Chased from his second position by an attendant Gates asked the crowd if they wanted to hear more. Followed by cries of agreement, he made nis way to the front of the high school. Alter the speech the mob fol lowed Gates as he walked some four blocks to Graham Memorial and a scheduled reception which was never held. The Communist party leader and his party holed up in one of the Roland Parker Spokesmen for the Carolina forum said last night the forum acted in good faith in bring ing John Gates lo the campus to speak. "When Chancellor House made his announcement that the forum could not sponsor Mr. Gates on University prop erty, the matter was taken out of our hands," the statement said. The forum members went on, "we are sorry that on such short notice we had a speaker and no hail in which he could speak. In the future, we shall endeavor to present speakers as scheduled and we hope to maintain our principle of fair ness to all points of view even those views with which we cannot agree." lounges on the second floor of the student union and waited for the crowds in the hall, down stairs and outside the building to disperse. One half hour later Gates left the building and slipped into a car waiting on Franklin street. He sped away to an undisclosed place in town where he planned to wait until time to leave for jthe airport and his New York plane shortly after midnight, During his speech in front of jthe high school, the Daily Worker I editor met a continued din of and that my 11 fellow board ! members have been indicted for I trying to overthrow the govern ! ment. That is not true. There j (See SPEECH, page 4) j 'Unfortunate' i Jess Dedmond, president of ihe student body, last night commented that it was "un fortunate that the' Carolina forum brought Mr. Gates down without having established the proper clearance. "I am opposed lo the use of the University's facilities," Dedmond continued, "for the purpose of his speech." A number of students asked that Dedmond's statement not be printed as representing the feeling of the entire student body on ihe matter.
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