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VOLUME LX
CHAPEL HILLN. C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1952
NUMBER 90
Students WecbnieVrbVisif
Me Anytime, Gray Asserts
By Walt Dear
"My office is open to students
any time" University President
Gordon Gray yesterday asserted.
The statement from Gray served
to dispell recent criticism "of the
Consolidated University on the
matter of visits and waiting for
appointments. Some students
have said that it is difficult to
UN Vetoes
Red Plans,
Graham Says
The United Nations Security
council overrode Russian objec
tions yesterday in deciding that
feace mediator Frank Graham
should continue his efforts to ac
cord a settlement between Pakis
tan and India over the disputed
Kashmir area.
Graham, former president of
the University and U. S. Senator
from North Carolina, was sup
ported by both the guarrel na
tions and also Great - Britain,
whose delegate, Sir Gladwyn
Jebb, spearheaded the approval
Main Soviet objection was cen
tered in that country's charges of
the United States' seeking mili
tary bases in Kashmir, Delegate
Jacob A. Malik mada this accusa
tion on a January 17 as part of a
series of charges that the U. S.
and Britain ' were deliberately
fostering Indian-Pakistan guar
rels over Kashmir in order to
turn that princely Himalayan
state into a military outpost.
Graham, whose efforts while
still president of U.N.C. settled a
similar dispute between The Ne
therlands and the United States
of Indonesia, was granted sixty
days in which to report tq the
Council.
Graham has been a popular ne
gotiator since World War II when
he was a member of President
Roosevelt's Labor Mediation
Board.
Eaton Receives
Literary, Prise.
A University English pro
fessor, Charles Edward Eaton,
on Wednesday night received
the Ridgely Torrence : Memo
rial Award of $100 for the most
distinguished book j of lyric
poetry published in 1951. The
presentation was made by the
Poetry Society of America at
its annual banquet in New
York. ;'v.
Eaton's book, 'The Shadow
of the Swimmer," won high
critical praise after being re
leased by the Fine Editions
Press on New York. Professor
Eaton, a greduate ofj Harvard"
is visiting lecture inj dramatic
art in the English department;
The award was the first ever
to be 'presented.' " v
see the president when he was
needed most.
Gray pointed out yesterday,
however, that he sees students
everyday and that he tries "to
give everybody an opportunity to
discuss his problems."
Such visits should not be cor
rupted to become merely student
devices to "bypass" local admin
istration offiicals, Gray said.
In line with the visiting pro
gram, Gray recently set up offices
at WCUNC in Greensboro and
State College in Raleigh. They
were opened for the express pur
pose of seeing students, faculty
and administrators to make con
solidation more meaningful, Gray
has indicated.
It is the first time in Greater
University history that such of
fices have been set up for this
purpose.
Gray travels to each office once
a week and spends most of the
day conferring with officials and
students.
The program to make consoli
dation more of a reality is having
success, Gray; said. "The trend
is good; We're making slow, but
sound progress," he stated.
"There are no insolvable prob
lems," the president added.
Since assumnig .office in Oc
tober 1950, Gray has attempted
to enlarge the concept of consoli
dation in the three schools. The
administrative branch of the
Greater University now has four
officers president, Gray; vice
president ,W. D. Carmichael, Jr.;
academic vice-president, Logan
Wilson; and assistant to the presi
dent William Frjday.
Although the students are most
concerned with their particular
schools, Gray believes "students
are aware of the value of having
the collective resources of con
solidation more so than citizens."
Selling consolidation to the
people of the State is much hard
er than it is to the three student
bodies."
Three' Newcomers "Star
Three comparative newcomers
to theatrical limelight will act and
sing the major roles in the Play
makers tuneful new musical
comedy,- "Spring For Sure," open
ing tonight at 8:30 in Memorial
hall.
Singing the role of Cindy, a
mountain girl in- love with a
mountain boy, is Virginia Wilson
from Jackson, Miss. Only 20
years old, the ( attractive Miss
Wilson possesses an unusually
fine romantic soprano voice which
could carry her to the tophVher
chosen theatrical .career. A jun
ior student here, she is studying
voice and piano, and will event
ually journey to New York in
search of fame and fortune.
-Having spent much of ( her life
singing ; beside a pianoor playing
u u hfr nrevious theatrical ex
perience ; was limited. But this
exhaustive study enaoiea;
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Oscar R. Ewing, Federal Secu
rity Administrator, will give two
addresses and appear before seve
ral groups here Tuesday.
His main address, sponsored
by the YMCA, will be in Hill
hall Tuesday night at 8 o'clock
when he will speak on "Promot
in the General Welfare."
At 1 p. m. he will discuss
"Health Alternatives Facing the
American People" at a luncheon
meeting of the Faculty Club at
the Carolina Inn.
He will meet informally with
the faculty in the Planetarium
Faculty dining room at 4 o'clock.
A native of Greensburg, Ihd.,
Ewing received his A. B. degree
from Indiana University and his
LL. B. from Harvard where for
two years, he was an editor of
the Harvard Law Review. He
taught law for one year at the
University of Iowa and then
joined an Indianopolis law firm.
In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh,
Pa., to -become general councel
for the Pennsylvania Lines west
of Pittsburgh.
Following service in World War
1, Ewing became associated with
Charles Evans Hughes as a mem
ber of the firm of Hughes, Schur
man and . D wight until its dis
solution in 1937. He then joined
with Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.,
attend the Playniaker tryouts and
walk away with the leading role.
She is very excited over her role
of Cindy and the reaction of lo
cal audiences will be of great im
portance to her. "
Singing opposite Miss Wilson,
as the mountain boy' who can't
decide whether to become a city
slicker or remain with Cindy on
their river, bottom farm, is bari
tone Laurence Stith.- He is from
New Bern, nd is also a student
pf voice and piano here.
Although he had acted a few
roles with the New Bern, Little
Theatre, for. the most part he has
attended only to the technical de
velopment of his voice. Feeling
the time had arrived to test that
voice in a full-length musical, he
came to the Playmaker auditions
and won a major part.
; Nancy; Green from Chapel Iill
will' perform ithe leading I comed
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to form the partnership of Hughes,
Hubbard and Ewing. with which
he was associated until his ap
pointment as Federal Security
Administrator in 1947.
As Federal Security Adminis
trator, Ewing has attempted to
bring into closer relationship the
Leonstituent units of the FSA,
which includes the Public Health
Service the Office of Education,
the Social. Security Administra
tion, the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation, and Food and Drug
Administration. ,
His recommendation of national
health, insurance as the best
means of solving the problem of
financing medical care has at
tracted wide attention. He has
also .emphasized the need to in
crease the number v of medical
personnel, to build more hospitals,
to increase research, and to ex
tend local health departments to
serve more people.
In August 1950 Ewing called a
national conference to consider
the problems of the aging, and in
December 1950 he served as
chairman of the Mid-Century
White House Conference on
Children and Youth.
Unitarian Meet
Set Sunday Nite
The Chapel Hill Unitarian Fel
lowship will hold its next regular
bi-weekly meeting in Graham
Memorial on Sunday, February
3 at 8 p.m.
Glen Fisher, chairman of the
Fellowship, will lead a discussion
of "Liberal Religion and Personal
Values." Fisher was formerly di
rector of Friends', Service Com
mittee activities in "Mexico.
Racial Discussion
Racial Tensions in Chapel
Hill, will be the iopic of dis
cussion by the Presbyterian
graduate group tonight at 6:45
at the Presbyterian church.
The discussion meeting will
follow a supper meeting there
at 6 o'clock .
In Musical
ienne's role of Coreita, a moun
tain lass who has trouble fending
off the amourous attentions of
many swains.
She had appeared previously
with the Durham Theatre Guild
and the Playmakers, but she con
siders this her first big oppor
tunity. Not planning a theatre
career, "Spring For Sure" may
change her mind. .
Staff members of the Playmak
ers, who have seen many sur
prising things in the course of a
history that began in 1917, were
deeply astonished that three ac
tors, unknown to them before,
should take over the major roles
in their musical. Yet this trio is
clearly demonstrating that the se
lection was wise.
' Tickets for the play are on 'sale
at Swain' : Hall : and Letbetter
PickarcTs, and at the Memorial
Hall box. office after 7 p.m. There
id still si gobd selection remaining.
.roreign.ocnooi
Alliance Seems
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eclares
Consolidated University Pres
ident Gordon Gray yesterday ex
pressed , interest in the possibility
of affiliation with a foreign school.
The president referred to a bill
introduced to the Student Legis
lature last week which called
for a Special committe to study
the affiliation issue.
Although the bill did not say
what particular school was meant,
legislators at that time indicated
that the University of Indonesia
would be he one most likely for
affiliation.
Gray asked yesterday what
"affiliation" means and whether
an exchange of faculty would be
contemplated by such an arrange
ment. The Indonesian school is similar
to the Greater University in that
it has three schools with a . con
solidated office directing the over
all operation.
Ali Sastroamidjojo, first am
bassador from the Republic of
Indonesia to the United States
has accepted an invitation to
speak here on February 8.
The ambassador will speak In
connection with the WSSF drive.
Donations made to the drive
will be sent to the University of
Indonesia in honor of Dr. Frank
Porter Graham, former UNC pres
ident and UN mediator in the
Dutch-Indonesian dispute.
- The World Student Service
Fund is an American effort ta
assist needy persons at foreign
universities.
Complete details of the am
bassador's visit here will be an
nounced soon.
On January 23, 1950 he was
appointed by; President Soekarno
as the first Ambassador to the
United States. Sastroamidjojo
has been closely .associated with
the Indonesian nationalist move
ment. " There's not: much possibility
of getting more coeds on the
campus to help lower the four
to one male ratio.'
President Gordon Gray ex
plained yesterday that when
the question of Consolidation
was being, considered, back in
Governor O. ; Max Gardner's
days, the Board of Trustees
agreed that the Woman's Col
lege would handle the job oX
educating most of the women
who desired to attend the Con
solidated University
"I r , don't forsee an early
change of this principle," Grajr
said. J . :--' ' 1 ; ' f
Trustee regulations apparent
ly are difficult things .to cir
cumnavigate, 4
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