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1-31-40 U EDITORIALS WEATHER Aid io Lectures Why Do Men Fail? Dutch Are Burned Up Mostly cloudy and continued cold. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1949 Phone F-3371 F-3361 NUMBER 90 VOLUME LVII " ' tt j n. , Umted Press . i i M Registration For Retreat Begins Today YM-YW Meeting Begins Feb. 18 Registration of students plan ning to attend the YM-YWCA sponsored winter retreat at Mon treal Feb. 18-20, will begin to day in the Y building. A registration table will be open Tuesday through Friday from 9 until 1 o'clock according to Muriel Fisher, chairman of the registration committee for the annual retreat. A fee of $3.50 to cover cost of transportation and recreation, will be collected at the time of registration. Upon arrival' at Mon treal total weekend expenses of $10 for room and board are pay able. Sudents able to take other stu dents to the retreat in their cars will receive compensation for driving expenses. ' J. C. Herring, Baptist chaplain, is to be adviser for the "What can we believe about God, pray er, and other bases of faith" dis cussion group and Ray Mills is to serve as student adviser. "What different does religion make in thoughts, actions and purposes" will be headed by Bet ty Carpenter, holder of the Dan forth fellowship. Sue Stokes is student adviser for this commis sion. The third discussion group, "Social aspects of campus life," will be headed by Fred Weaver, dean of students, and student ad viser will be Bill Mackie. Bill Friday, assistant dean of students, and Al Lowenstein, student, will be in charge of the "Political aspects of campus life" group. Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the school of religion, is scheduled to advise the group discussing "Aca demic aspects of life." Tom Don nelly will be student adviser for this group. "Civil rights" will be headed by Nell Morton, secretary of the Fellowship of Southern Church men. "Labor problems and economic tensions" will be discussed under the leadership of Paul N. Guth rie. Dick Murphy, student, will assist Guthrie. Dr. Frank Hanft, of the Uni versity Law school, will head the group to discuss "International problems." Edie Knight will Serve as student adviser. NORTH STATE ROUNDUP To Ask Aid RALEIGH, Jan. 31. (UP) Representatives of the North Carolina ports authority said today they will appear before the Joint Appropriations com mittee of the General assembly today to ask for $7,500,000 to develop North Carolina's port resources. Hits Spending STATESVILLE, Jan. 31 TTT TJon T?nhprt L. DoUh- i .vv.. " ton, (D N. C.) chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, today felt public spending must be checked be fore "the very security of our government will be jeopar dized." Trade Boycott WHITEVILLE, Jan. 31 (UP) The Columbus County Bap tist association today , claimed endorsements from several churches in the county of a res olution to start a trade boycott of this city because it voted to restore beer and wine sales. Complete Plans DURHAM, Jan. 31 (UP) Plans were completed today for organization of the nation's first stale department of the' Mili tary Order of the Purple Heart, Inc., the veterans group an nounced today. PT- - MU ' 'V ill, i.i-ini.i I I I wrB-iiiiMiMiaiftt i ' j mi in ft ii IN WASHINGTON. Vice President Alben W. Barkley signs his first bill since taking office. The measure a $500,000 appro priation, provides for the relief of humans and livestock in the blizzard-swept rangelands throughout the western United States. UVA Announces $75 Collected At Polio Dance The University Veterans asso ciation elected over $75 in the March "of Dimes dance Saturday night, even though only juke-box music was used during the even ing, president Gene Newton an nounced yesterday. The contributions began with $25 from the UVA, and money kept rolling in all evening from the people who attended the dance. Coeds Margaret Gaston and Danny Payne solicited con tributions during the dance. With the addition of another $25 which the UVA is expected to vote at the next' business meet- 1 mg, the association expects to top all campus groups in money collected for the March of Dimes campaign. Piano Concert Slated Tonight Robert Wallenborn, famous pianist and music lecturer, will open the music department's Feb ruary schedule of concerts with a piano recital tonight at 8:30 in Hill hall. The Pasquier trio will sing on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Admission will be $1. Another trio, the Vielle, is set for Sunday, Feb. 8. The pro gram will include medieval and Renaissance music and will be free. The concert is presented in cooperation with Gfaham. Me morial. Thcv University Men's Glee club will give a concert on Thursday, Feb. - 28. Admission will be 85 cents. The final concert will be held on Monday, Feb. 28, with Antonio Brosa and Kathleen Long presenting a concert of violin arid piano music. They will be spon sored in cooperation with the Eliz abeth Sprague Coolidge founda tion, and admission will be by complimentary ticket. Agrees to Closing Negro Taxpayers fo Keep Up Efforts to Get Into Charleston COLUMBIA, S. C Jan. 31 (UP) A South Carolina Negro leader today said it was all right with him if Charleston college was closed rather than admit Ne groes, but if Negro taxpayers con tinued to support the college, they would continue to seek en trance to the college. James M. Hinton, state presi dent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, last week wrote Mayor William McG. Morrison request ing that Negroes be allowed to enroll in City college. He said Negroes, pay some of the taxes that support the school. Mayor Morrison said. ''Roforp Monogram Club Elects Terrell New President Monogram club officials an nounced yesterday that the new president of the club is Laddie Terrell, elected at the last meet ing. Dan Breeden was voted in as vice president of the organiza tion. Bill Flamisch was elected secretary-treasurer and Vic Seix as was chosen as representative to the Carolina Athletic associ tion. Gus Johnston received the newly-formed post of representa tive to the Monogram board of directors. Terrell, the new president, is a track man specializing in middle distance and the broad jump. Breeden is on the varsity swim ming, squad. Outgoing officers are Gus Johnston, president; Bob Hutton, vice president; Dan Nyimicz, secretary-treasurer; Bill Pritchard, representative to CAA. Retreat Chairmen Schedule Meeting A meeting of the chairmen of all committees set up for the YM YWCA winter retreat will be held this afternoon at 4:15 in the Y building. Final plans for the retreat will be drawn up. Lil Hotard and John Hough, co-chairmen of the retreat, have urged that all chair men attend the meeting. Waiting for Spring? 'Winter Is A By Don Maynard Students who tripped heavily down their dormitory steps yes terday morning were somewhat startled to see that winter had last arrived in Chapel Hill. acceding to such demands, I would instruct the City council Ways and Means committee to cut off an appropriation for the college." Hinton replied, "If Mayor Mor rison and the city of Charleston desire to deny white children the right to a college education rather than extend the same privileges to Negro youths, it will be all right with the NAACP. "But if Charleston college still operates on taxpayers' money, with whites and Negroes paying ttiose taxes, Negroes intend, through due process of law, to share' the funds on an equal basis," he said. Council Group Reviews Plans For Projects Four Proposals Are Discussed The Project committee of the Student council of the Greater University of North Carolina met here oyer the weekend and dis cussed projects that have been submitted by various members of the council. Composed of two members from each of the schools of the Greater University, the commit tee discussed at length several proposals. Heading the list and receiving much attention was the proposal for the sponsorship of the State Student legislature. This proposal would have the council sponsor the legislature at its annual meet ings in Raleigh. To grant the council this authority a bill would have to be introduced and passed at the regular legislature meet ing. Another project discussed was the possibility of a Greater Uni versity day sponsored by the council. As suggested there would be one such day in the spring of this year and another next fall at the time of the State-Carolina football game. The proposal for recognition of the council and of the unity in the Greater University was made in a motion that such recognition come by reciprocal of monograms on cheerleaders uniforms. An idea for presenting some token to the delegates as a sym bol of the unity of the three schools was discussed. The final proposal rested on the idea of presenting keys each year to the delegates. The keys would be so designed to show the unity of the three branches of the Uni versity. It was suggested that three copies of the newly adopted con stitution be drawn up, written in longhand and on parchment. The copies would be signed by all members of the council and a copy would be presented to each library of the three branches. Delegates present at the meet ing were Nell Jones and Betsy Umstead of Woman's college, Ted Williamson and Preston Andrews of State college; and Jim Godwin and Dortch Warriner of the Uni versity. Fantasy Tryouts To Be Held Today Tryouts for parts in "Apple Tree Farm," a musical fantasy, will be held this afternoon from 2 until 6 o'clock in the Rendezvous room of Graham Memorial. Twenty speaking parts are open to students and townspeople. Thq play, written by Ida Lupino, will be. presented April 4-6. Natural Phenomenon Several meteorologists, unper turbed by the sudden shift in barometers, sat by their firesides yesterday and calmly awaited the spring. "After all," they asserted, "win ter is a natural phenomenon." And they produced records to back their statement. The U.S. Department of Agri culture's yearbook for 1941, "Cli mate and Man," furnishes factual information on North Carolina in general along with a few scat tered chips pertaining to "the Hill." For example, the yearbook states quite blandly, "North Caro lina is rather sunny." In spite of the sunny outlook of the yearbook, statistics can not be overlooked. In the period from 1899 to 1938, the Chapel Hill area averaged 100 days per year of rain, 60 days of thunder storms, 15 days of snow blanketed mud, 30 days of dense fog, 120 cloudy days and one hailish day. Add 'em up. In the course of one average year, 326 days are passed beneath overcast skies. And when it does get sunny whew ! In 1936, during the summer Sleet As W Month Is Warmest Since Freeze of 1931 Says Saunders of Local Weather Station "The warmest January since cial Max Saunders said yesterday. 1931" stepped out of the lime- The sleet and freezing rain be light early yesterday to make gan to blow into the Chapel Hill way for a low mercury reading area Monday night, following a of 25 degrees and a blustery steadily-sliding mercury reading sleet and rain storm of almost throughout the day. Relatively one-inch depth, filter plant offi- cold weather Saturday and Sun- Winter Strikes South From Gulf To Virginia ATLANTA, Jan. 31 (UP) Winter dipped deep into the South today, spreading snow, sleet and ice' from Louisiana to Virginia. The weather bureau reported freezing rain from Atlanta north through the Piedmont section to Virginia. In North and South Carolina and Kentucky, the rain fell on top of snow. Snow covered large parts ,of the Carolinas, Tennessee, Louisi ana, Mississippi and Arkansas, j Highways were slick and dan gerous, particularly in the moun tains. Many schools were closed. Power failures were numerous. At least seven deaths were at tributed to the storm. There were numerous accidents resulting in minor injuries. Only Florida and the lower sections of the Gulf states es caped the freeze. In Miami, the temperature was 80, the sky was blue and a soft wind was blow ing. In Atlanta, inch-thick ice coat ed trees and buildings. The Georgia Power company's 110,-,000-volt underground, lines went out in the downtown area about 8:30 a.m. Nearly all of the city's business offices were darkened. Snow, Icy Rain Blanket State By United Press Winter skidded into North Carolina yesterday on a slick coat of ice and brought a warn ing that highways were danger ous with or without chains. Police departments and the weather bureau joined in broad casting road warnings after a 36 hour fall of snow, sleet and freezing rain over the entire state. But for east and central por tions the weatherman promised quick relief. Freezing rain ended at mid-day with somewhat warmer showers continuing through yesterday to thaw out the ice coating. months, Carolinians were grumb ling that it was too hot when the mercury soared to 107. They prayed for the coolness of winter. "We can always warm up," they could be heard to say. That same year those folks got their "cool" winter, a thumping 10 below. But the Tar Heel state is not at a total loss. Figures show that in leap years Chapel Hill may look forward to from 15 to 65 days of absolute weathery bliss. To a disgruntled student body these appalling figures are sub mitted: Approximately 25 days of that fair weather allotment have been expended since the begin ning Of 1949. Weather observers are begin ning to make long-range predic tions for next summer. "If we have any more fair weather be tween now and the summer months, the good days will be dangerously near exhaustion," they warned. "If this allotment is exhausted we will be forced to predict a summer of sleet and snow." "Mother Nature must be kept balanced," they grimly explained. I rorm nits Lamous arm January Fades Four-Year Coeds Will Be Subjecf Of Phi Tonight The Philanthropic assembly will discuss the possibility of a four year curriculum for women students at the University in its regular session in Phi hall, New East at 7:30 tonight. Speaker pro - tempore Pete Gerns announced as an alterna tive to the four-year plan the following resolution: That the University refuse admission to women students. A member of the assembly as serted that the idea of excluding women from the University would encounter stiff opposition. No proponents for making the University an all-male institution have yet been found to speak for such a measure. Crowded dormitories and class rooms are expected to be present ed as arguments against a four year curriculum. Residence Board Hears Brockwell Sherwood Brockwell, fire mar shall of North Carolina, spoke to members of the women's Board of Residence Thursday afternoon on the problem of fire prevention and safety. Brockwell said fire drills should be planned and timed with attention to the structure of a building, the floor space to be covered in making an exit, the width of the stairway, and the number of occupants. He added that planners should allow for two thirds of the occupants to exit by one stairway. According to the fire marshal experts figure it takes no more than, two minutes to evacuate a frame building; no more than three minutes for a building of masonry with frame interior; four minutes for a building with fire-resistant floors; and no more than six minutes for a building of top fireproof material. Models Minus Chests Goff Scoffs at xFase Modesty', Bosom Is Gad-Given Right' CHICAGO, Jan. 31 (UP) A girl who can wear sweaters should be proud she is built that way, an orthopaedic surgeon said to day. Dr. Charles M. Goff of Hart ford, Conn., said he'll have none of this false modesty from wo men with bosoms. "It's their God-given right," he said, "and they should be proud of it." Dr. Goff's chief interest is in posture. He's a member of the Posture committee of the Ameri can Academy of . Orthopaedic Surgeons which is in session here. One of his. chief worries, he said, is the esteem American women are giving to the flat-chested day nights were the early fore runners of yesterday's freeze. The sleet storm became quite heavy late Monday night, icing roadways not only in Chapel Hill, but throughout the state and in most of the Southland. Snow was reported in Raleigh and oth er areas of the state, although only a few flakes were noticed in this vicinity. Saunders said the University electric and water division co operative weather station record ed a low early yesterday morning of 25 degrees, and a high read ing of 36 degrees' at 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon. The tempera ture wa's not expected to drop be low yesterday's 25-degree level this morning. The filter plant worker also said the University weather sta tion's precipitation reading show ed that .95, or almost one inch, of sleet and rain fell during ' the storm. Saunder said the lowest tem perature reading this winter was 14 degrees last Dec. 26 and 27. The highest temperature reading in the unusually summer-like January was 79 degrees on Jan. 25, last Tuesday. But Saunders pointed out that yesterday's 25 degree low was the lowest for any January reading since 1940. Last year the January minimum reading was 26 degrees. The Chapel Hill police depart ment reported no accidents caused by the heavy ice slick which covered the town's streets. And the State Highway Patrol said the number of accidents in the state was "surprisingly low," the United Press reported. The patrolmen were quoted as saying motorists have been much more cautious because of the treach erous weather. L. C. Morrow of the University electric and water division said yesterday that few power lines had gone down because of the weight of ice or snow. He said some were down on Columbia streets and " in west Carrboro along the Lake road. No tele phone wires have been broken so far, he reported. The local Carolina Trailways bus ticket office said their buses were running "on schedule without any accidents." Canterbury Club Will Hear Wells Dean William Wells of the Col lege of Arts and Sciences will be one of the four lay members of the Episcopal church to lead discussions on "Marriage and the Family" at a meeting of the Can terbury club tonight at 6 o'clock in the parish house. This is the second in a series of four programs on the subject of Christian marriage. In planning these programs, the members of the Canterbury club arc follow ing the project of Episcopalians all over the country. figure.' "It's awful," he said. "There's a growing impression that the thin flat-chested women are what men want and that's not true." Actually, he warned, girls who try to look flat-chested can grow up with all sorts of inhibitions. They'll have trouble with their husbands, too, he added. Dr. Goff said that the women who model clothes are setting the bad example. "Live models make us groan," he said. "They're terrible." "These fashion models go around- with their stomachs pushed out and their chests caved in," he said. (See SWEATERS, page 4) . Y Solicitors Begin Drive With Supper Baptist Church Scene of Meet A kick-off supper for YMCA fund solicitors held yesterday evening in the Baptist church formally opened the campus wide fund raising drive, Charlie Fox, YMCA financial chairman, announced last night. Speakers at the supper in cluded Chancellor R. B. House, Jess Dedmond, student body president, and Warren Ashby, chairman of the YMCA advisory board. Today, solicitations will begin all over the campus and all stu dents will be asked to contribute money to the depleted Y funds. Booths will be set up in the YMCA for town men or other stu dents who wish to contribute their money there. Pledges may be used for money in case stu dents are short of ready cash, and all students contributing to the Y fund campaign will receive mem bership cards granting them full YMCA privileges. Fox said the membership cards will indicate the bearer endorses the purpose of the YMCA, identi fies him as a bona fide student of the University, and gives him the privileges of "visiting member" in city YMCA associations. "The YMCA is shooting for a $5,000 goal," Fox said. "I feel confident the drive will be a suc cess and we will meet our goal." Chancellor House, endorsing the drive, said, "I am appealing to students to give more financial support to the YMCA. The Uni versity has always given what it could and would give more if it were able.- Friends and alumni give some money, perhaps they should give more." "But my appeal is to students who benefit by the Y every day and who may take too much for granted. The YMCA is a fellow ship of Christians in service of the campus, and it needs student membership, support and partici pation. To me, it is not just a matter of meeting a campus need. It is a t personal opportunity. I have been working in the YMCA for over 30 years, and I find that it -gives me more than it ever gets from me." THE WORLD IN BRIEF New Capital TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, Jan. 31. (UP) Occupied Jerusalem may soon be declared the capi tal of Israel, reliable sources said today. These sources said all government departments may be transferred shortly from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Doubt Proposal MOSCOW, Jan. 31. (UP) Western diplomats conferred today on Premier Josef Stalin's "peace" statements in an at mosphere -of doubt that his pro posals would produce any im mediate change in the world situation. Stops Publicity WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UP) Chairman John S. Wood announced toady that the House Unamerican activities commit tee had voted unanimously to bar radio recorders, newsreels, television and news photo graphers from future committee hearings. Reject Demand NANKING, CHINA, Jan. 31 (UP) The Chinese govern ment today rejected a Commu unist demand for the detention of "war criminals", including Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, and strong Communist forces were reported massing east and southwest of this capital. Recognition WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UP) President Truman to day granted full diplomatic recognition to the new Jewish state of Israel and its neighbor ing Arab state of Trans-Jordan.