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i- j Ai r J'.; YC ED I TO R I A L S WEATHER EE ". . . Shall Never Die" Meet Mackie and Leonard What is Democracy i Fair and continued cooL VOLUME LVII Fleece See Slofed Nex The Golden Fleece, highest men's honorary organization on campus, will conduct its forty-sixth annual tapping cere monies of new members Monday evening, April 25, in Mem orial' Hall at 7:45. In keeping with the secret nature of the organization, the .number and names of the men to be tapped will not be revealed until the ceremonies one week' from tomorrow. A group spokeman stated thai because of tho impressivenes; and solemnity of the service, thr doors will be locked directly a 7:45, and all who wish to attend the ceremonies should be in th?i seats by that time. , The annual Valkyrie Sing wil be held following the tapping This event will give fraternity, sorority, and dormitory iron nnd women an opportunity to com plete locally for loving cup awards given by the Valkyries, similar honorary organization for coeds. The tapping of new members into- the men's honorary order marks the Fleece's only public meeting each year. It has been a practice since the group's for mation forty-six years ago to con- duct meetings and activities in ut most secrecy. Since its Officers' names are withheld from the public but are released at the tapping, the Jason, the Vice Jason, the Grammateus, and the Christopher for the past year will be recog- j nized next Monday. Members of the Fleece are chosen for their personal integ rity, outstanding service in one or more fields of student ac tivity, scholarship, and leader ship. The order does not set a specified number for member ship each year but selects each member in proportion to the number of men on campus who are deemed worthy of member ship. Last year 10 men gained admission into the Order. At present the 19 student and the 12 faculty members in the Fleece do not as a group sponsor any campus action. However, individually they, work towards a common aim all tasks being in stigated without public credit. Armstrong Back From Conference Roy Armstrong, Director of Admissions of the University of North Carolina and president of the North Carolina Association of Collegiate Registrars, has re turned from Chicago where he attended the fourth annual Na tional Conference on Higher Ed ucation. Some 700 representatives of accredited colleges and uni versities attended. The Conference, sponsored by the National Education Associa tion, of which Dr. Ralph Mc Donald is executive secretary, is an annual planning session for faculty members and administra tive officials of institutions of higher education. Trends and problems of common interest were discussed and analyzed. Mr. Armstrong served as a consultant to study with a group of "Admissions Policies and Pro cedures," one of eight main topics. 'General' Coxey Celebrates 95th MASS1LLON, O., April 16. (UP) The leader of the famed "Coxey's Army" march on Wash ington in 1394 celebrated his 95th birthday anniversary today, still convinced his theory of "money at cost" would solve the economic problems of the United States and the world. "General" Jacob E. Coxey spent the day quietly at his home here with his 83-year-old wife, Hen rietta. Coxey told reporters who call ed at his home that after 79 years of crusading, he is even more convinced that all nations should print all the money they need and exchange it for goods. Tomorrow will mark another highlight in the tumultuous career of Coxey, who still wears a high , wing collar reminiscent of his more active" days. cnons Miss Greer Named Head Of Advisers Will Be Director Of Training Plan Charleen Greer of Tulsa, Okla homa, has been named as the overall chairman (of the student adviser program for 1949-1950, it was announced today by Sally Osborne, chairman of orientation. She will be in charge of training the new student advisers in their responsibilities and will work clocly with the orientation corn- mittee to schedule the events of the orientation week next Sep tember. Charleen was vice-president of the Choral Club her freshman year at Oklahoma A. & M. and was a member ot the Y.W.C.A., the Terpsichorean dance club, the Rifle Club, the International Re lations Club, and the United Na tions Club. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi at Oklahoma and also participated actively in the intramural sports. As a junior here at the University, Charleen is a member of the Y , campus affairs committee, the Coed Sen ate, and was chosen the Home coming uQeen for the Carolina- State game last fall. She "was elected secretary of the Univer sity Club and' is pledge trainer of Pi Phi for next year. She has already announced that the first of the three training classes for the student advisers will be held the first week in May, and details will be given later,. Naval Group Plans Meet Monday Night The Naval Reserve Air Unit will hold its regular meeting Monday night at a new time, 6:45, in the Naval ROTC annex, Naval Reserve Lt. R. E. Simpson, Officer-in-charge, said yesterday. Lt. (jg) William Bragaw will address the unit on "Aviation and the Navy." vt . i memmmaiatKmauMMk. wiinnninnmil tr ir imnnvrmr n i ' HARRIET KEEN. BEATRICE DONLEY, and Jean Schneck, above, will be the featured soloists with the Women's Glee '. Club in its annual spring concert Thursday night. Women's Glee Club To Give Spring Concert Thursday Thc'Women's Glee Club of the University Music Department will present its annual spring concert on Thursday in Hill Hall, under the direction of Paul Young. The 100 voices of the women's chorus will be assisted by three soloists and by the Men's Glee Club. Harrfet Keen, soprano, of the University voice staff; Bea trice Donley, contralto; of Mere dith College Music Department; and Jean Schneck, contralto, of the Women's College music staff, will be featured soloists. Johann Adolf Hasse's "Mise rere," for full chorus and solo I WW ... - I Um M h-L A I " - K lit ! ? 1 . A vv . "vr - I ifr 1 n P III -v w--- - - 4iv- It':' ill ir r5 A TYPICAL STREET SCENE following the devastating earthquake that rocked a 500-mile-long area of the Pacific Northwest shows smashed cars standing in a rubble-strewn street in Seattle. Wash. Police are aiding a motorist who lost control of his car -during the earthquake, ramming into the side of a building. The quake killed six persons, injured many and caused millions in property damage. Miss Schof field Is British Visitor Here For Week The School of Library Science of the University had an inter esting visitor from England this week. Miss Margaret Schoffield, the first exchange public librarian in this country, talked to the School about library conditions and methods in England. Miss Schoffield exchanged positions . with Miss Virginia Williamson, Librarian of the Johnson County Library ' in Smithfield. Miss Williamson is near Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Miss Schoffield pointed out the difficulty British libraries have in g-etting books. She said the fires in London during the last war were "worse than the great fire of London in 1666." She also' pointed out the dif ferences in training of librarians. A sort of apprenticeship system is used. Candidates enter libra ries as "Juniors" and work as they study. Over a period of six years three examinations are given by the' Library Association: entrance, registration and finals. At ' the satisfactory completion of the registration examination, the li brarian becomes an associate ot the Library Association, and af ter the final a Fellow of the Library Association. "Wc are great ones for letters aft3r our names as well as titles if we have one," commented Miss Shoffield, F. L. A. ists, will open the program. Oth er numbers to be performed will be William Schuman's "Prelude," for Women's voices, using a text from Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel;" a group of four folksongs; and Brahms' "Al to Rhapsody." For the perfor mance of the "Rhapsody," the Women's Glee Club will be join ed by the Men's Glee Club, mak ing a chorus of nearly 300 voices. Admission to the concert will be by season ticket or by single admissions which are on sale in Hill Hall 109 at 85 cents. All seats are reserved. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SUNDAY, Generally Fair Skies Promised For Paraders By United Press The weatherman promised generally fair skies for Eastern paraders today throughout most of the nation, but residents of some fire-ravaged areas hoped for rain. . , : rtesiaents ot sections of Vir ginia arid the Pacific Northwest waited hopefully for rain to help extinguish fires sweeping through j forests dried out by a rainless; spring. In contrast, floods covered ' some areas along the Missouri river. Winter still held a grip in some areas, where residents were clear ing away thick blankets of spring By United Press The Weather Bureau punc tuated its forecast of a frosty Easter in North Carolina with reports of light snow at Ashe ville and Mount Mitchell yes terday. Asheville listed "very light flurries," not enough to stick on the ground. Lofty Mount Mitchell said a trace of snow was on the ground there and the mercury hung at 15 degrees at' 7:30 a.m. Mitchell was the only area reporting subfreezing temper atures on Easter Eve. Ashe ville had 35. Charlotte and Greensboro 40, Raleigh 46 and Wilmington 58 early today. Today the weather bureau forecast partly cloudy and cool over North Carolina, tonight fair and cooler with scattered frost in interior portions of the Tar Heel state. Tomorrow the prediction was fair and rather cool. snow. The weatherman warned church-goers planning to attend sunrise service in northern states to wear overcoats and mufflers. Freezing or near-freezing tem peratures were forecast for the early morning hours from the great lakes eastward through Pennsylvania, interior New York, New England, and as far south as the Carolinas and Tennessee. At Washington, weathermen predicted that the only Easter Sunday rain areas would be along the lower cast coast of Florida, in the Lake Superior area and westward through North Dakota and Montana. Some snow fell today around Buffalo and elsewhere in West ern New York. New York state was recovering from a windstorm, of gale velocity in some sections, which crossed from Lake Erie to the Hudson Valley, felling small buildings and killing some live stock. Unusually dry- timber stands in the Pacific northwest were plagued by scattered fires. The largest was a 1,000-acre fire near Battleground, Wash., brought "fairly well under control" early today. ' APRIL 17, 1949 5fc -tUti fr-"lS ,V. ?ft.. wm 3. Itfrr "n-if-irimyrti Indians Observe Lent in Arizona With Weird Rites Guadalupe, Ariz., April 16. (UP); Arizona's Yaqui Indians danced a weird ritual represen ting Worship a.t Christ's tomb as their centuries-old half-pagan observance of Lent neared its Easter climax. Music from goat-skin drums, pebble-filled gourds and crude flutes was slow and sorrowful, in contrast to. last night's wild pagan dance following the re enactment of the crucifixion. Tomorrow at sunrise, the Yaquis will chant a paean of glorification and victory as they march to the village Catholic church, restore the statue of Christ above tho alter and hear mass. Hundreds of visitors flocked here to watch the celebration of Christ's passion, which the In dians picked up from 16th century Spanish missionaries. Some of the tribesmen set up cold drink and hot dog stands to serve the crowds. The ancient ritual began Wednesday . when a group of Yaquis . representing "Los Fariseos" (the pharisces) started a daily search for Christ, repre sented by tho statue. Thanks to the betrayal of Judas, he was found last night in a cottcn wood bower which passed for the garden of Gcthsemanc. Then "Los Pilatos," or soldiers of Pontius Pilate, masked and armed with spears, seized Christ and put him through the trial and crucifixion, all accompanied by the throb of native music. Mean while, the true believers speared the dummy representing Judas. The music reached a wild crescendo as half-naked, painted Indians garbed in weird head dresses swung into their pagan dance, a mock celebration, of "the false prophet." The Indians who conduct these annual ceremonies only 12 miles from Phoenix, Ariz., are a hardy tribe who cling to their traditions despite the ever-increasing pressure of civilization. Unlike other Arizona Tribes, the Yaquis are not federal wards. They fled Mexico with a price on their heads almost 50 years ago when the Porfirio Diaz government seized their lands in the Yaqui valley of Sonora, ! Mex- ne group settled near 1 Tucson, Ariz., and another here. Phone h u reft oiosf NCAA wo In orensic iiee Evans, Miller Cop First Two Places Robert M. Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Evans of Durham and a freshman it the University, i won first place in dramatic : reading in the nationol debate tournament being held at Martha Washington College in YVeder- : icksburg, Va., during the week- end, according to word received ; here today. Blanton Miller, University junior from Boone, won second place in the same contest. Upwards to 200 students" from 59 colleges and universities throughout the country are par ticipating in the tournament which includes debating, dra matic and address reading, and poetry reading. In addition to Evans and Miller, other students representing the University are June Hust, Kan napolis; Bob Hutcherson, Rock ingham; Charles Dixon, Belmont; Sam Manning, Spartanburg,' S. C; Bob Giles, Chapel Hill, and their coach, Jim Taylor, law student from Elkin. Young Evans was graduated last June from the Durham High school where he won both the Citizenship and Declamation Medals, was a member of the Student Council, and was a re porter on the student newspaper. Leighton Slated To Address Meet Professor Joseph Alexander Leighton, formerly Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, will give a colloquium lecture at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the Carolina Inn. His topic will be: "Some Philosophies on History: Prin cipally Hegel, Marx, Spongier and Toynbee." Professor Leighton received his L. L. D. degree in 1943 from Ohio State in recognition of his distinguished career. Leighton will also deliver a public lecture Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in. Gerrard Hall undsr the auspices of the Department of Philosophy here. House Goes Under Wafer Again As Senate Slices Spending Bill RALEIGH, N. C, April 16 (UP) House members got their heads above water this week just in time to get shoved under again by the Senators who worked over time to trim appropriations. As soon as the Representatives popped to the surface to gasp "aye" to the road bond compro mise, the Senators handed them huge chunks of gold carved from the house-approved spending measure and they sank again. The Senate needed two more days to complete action on the it $200,000,000 road bond meas ure and it would take three more days for the House to pass it into law. The Senate's precedent-shattering Good Friday session ran for six, long, unbroken houi-s and re sulted in changes to the appropri ation measure that guaranteed lawmakers would not finish their work in the coming week. Once again $25,000,000 of the cushion fund was grabbed for use in extending state aid to counties for. the building of schools. That action put the ap propriations bill in the roll-call class and meant it could not be completed by the Senate before Tuesday. The Senators also whacked F-3371 F-3361 o pposes en Win ROBERT EVANS Actor Beery Dies Of Heart Attack; Was 64 Years Old HOLLYWOOD, April 16. (UP) Grizzled Wallace Berry, who re cently celebrated his 34th year as the "lovable old rascal" of Hol lywood's rough and tumble mov ies, died at his home last night of a heart attack. He was 64. It was the last of many seizures suffered by the lusty character; actor since he strained his heart I last summer cranking an out-J board motor. ' j He had been under constant care of his doctor ever since, and for the past several weeks a priv ate nurse had been at his home to make sure the once-active Beery lived quietly. Present with the jumbo-sized actor when he collapsed were his adopted daughter, Carol Ann, her mother, Mrs. Reta Beery, Beery's brother Will and his wife, and! his nephew, actor Noah Beeiy, Jr. j They said the hard boiled actor j passed away suddenly. j "It all came so fast," they said. I "He apparently felt no pain or j fright." nearly $21,000,000 from appropri ations for school teachers salaries. That gave two outstanding reas ons 'why ihe House would refuse to concur and the appropriation bill would follow the course of the road bond bill to a confer- ence committee. j The representatives previously i voted 59-48 against a proposal to spend $25,000,000 of the cushion fund for school building. They also voted 69-38 to squelch at tempts to cut the school appro priations by about $13,000,000 a cut considerably less severe than that inflicted by the Senate. The fights were two of the most bit ter of the legislative season. The cushion fund originally was put into the appropriations bill j to support a $2,200 to $3,100 sal ary pay scale for college-trained teachers. Sen. Edwin Pate, who supported the Senate cut yester day, said the $5,000,000 of the cushion fund left for school teach er pay would provide a salary scale of $2,025 to 2,710. Although the Senators cut the $417,319,000 appropriations bill ap proved by the House by a total of $24,405,000, they added nearly $3,000,000 to pay for bond in terest and redemption. The net reduction was $21,482,269 and the NUMBER 145 Vatican Paper Says Force Never Destroys Ideals VATICAN CITY, April 16 (UP) The Vatican i newspaper Osservatore Romano" said today the Roman Catholic church is op posed to a war against Russia and communism because ifr abhors war and believes it is "folly" to try to destroy an idea by force. In a special 3,500 word article devoted to Pope Pius XU's work for peace, tho newspaper called Cominform charges that the Pope and church supported war a "perfidious offense and calumny." It charged that the Cominform campaign was aimed at making the clergy and Catholics "co responsibles of an armed con flict" in order that the church might be "damned" regardless' of who won. Describing communism as "first a moral and economic motive and fact," the paper said a Soviet liquidation would fail to destroy communism. "A war and -a defeated Russia would force it to mark time, not to' give up," the Vatican journal aserted. It cited the "very significant Yugoslav episode, which the Cominform feared even before the fact itself," as an indication of the great "risks" which com munism already was running. The article, signed by editor-in-chief Guiseppe Dalle Torrs, filled more than three columns of .the six-page newspaper. It described the work of the Popes in the past and at present for peace. It said: "There is no offense more saddening- and no calumny more perfidious for the church . than to say it is a supporter of war. "With such precedent, it would be ingenuous at least to marvel that the words and action of Pius XII for peace would be enough to make quiet those who want once again to have the clergy and Catholics co-responsibles of an armed conflict in order that, whatever its outcome, favorable or not to the enemies of the church, she and her hierarchy may be struck by their immediate vendetta if they win, or, if de feated, that she may be damned by the implacable hate of the victims of 'reaction' and by their future reprisals." , spending measure stood at $398, 029,235. The liquor issue flared up time and again during the week with wets and drys in the House virt ually at a stalemate until a com promise amendment was drawn that knocked all the fight out of the bills. The amendment provided that if county-wide votes were order ed within 60 days after ratifica tion, the act permitting cities to vote would become void. Tacking on that amendment re sulted in swift passage by the house of measures calling for liq uor elections in Greensboro, Chadbourn, FairblufT, Tabor City, Whiteville, Mooresville, Walnut Cove, Dunn, Hertford, and Clin ton. The bills will not become laws until the Senate concurs in the amendment to the Clinton meas ure and passes the others. Rep. Lewis W. Outlaw of Dup lin, who refused to accept the amendment and fought for a liq uor election in Wallace, was whip ped 55 to 13. He promptly moved to postpone indefinitely similar bills for elections in Faison, Ken ansville, and Warsaw. Rep. G. N. Noble of Jones County picked up the cue and had a liquor elec tion bill for Trenton postponed. IV ,Te ie x, ie y m at ik r- r- rh in P id c , i- r 3t :e n it. til ': ', M , . A H - 4. r I II ; i MI . ; i i I