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SsriUs Dept. Chlpel Hill, U. C WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild with an expected high of MOTHER What better for a frater nity, asks the editor, than a housemother? See p. 2. Yesterday's low, 40. Volume lxii number ios c.,. . - -- -7P-' . ' - , 1 New'Germany, Austria Struggling, By James Four exchange students from Germany and Austria spoke last night - wuuuica, were Wolfgang Holstein from Konigsberg, East Prussia; Eruck from Vienna, Aus - They Nikolaus tria; Rolf Metzen from Marburg, and Hans Karl Kandlbinder from Passau-on-the-Danube, Bavaria. Holstein attends Carolina; Kandl binder goes to boUi Carolina and Duke and the other two attend Duke. The foursome- formed a panel which spoke to the YMCA Wrorld Understanding Supper Forum in Lenoir Hall. Holstein opened the discussion with some remarks on the general picture of postwar Germany. In Western Germany "the main prob lem," he said, "is a problem of population. We lost more than half of the country." Political and economic restric tions have made it impossible to produce our needs, he continued. Only through American aid have we been able to get through this "black period." West Germany under Allied control is primarily industrial with a population of about 50 mil lion. East Germany under the domination of Russia is agricul tural, with a population of 18 mil lion. So the West, its food supply lying in Russian hands, has a con tinuing food problem, .Holstein said. In industry we are restricted as to what we can produce, Holstein said. This is a problem. One mil lion people remain unemployed despite the progress made in re building industry and cities. The population is older, too, Holstein continued. Six million soldiers were lost in the war, and four million civilians were killed by Allied air attacks. "We have had to . start a new life." Bruck described Austria as a politically unimportant country. "The importance of Austria today is more cultural," he said. Vienna has given the world many great musicians and artists, and the University of Vienna is a center of great medical and artistic achieve ments. The Moscow Declaration of 1943 promised Austria freedom and in dependence, continued Bruck, and "we are still trying to get this in dependence treaty which we are supposed to get according to the Moscow Declaration." He expressed the feeling that Russia did not agree at last week's Eerlin Conference to withdraw her troops from Austria because she knew this would result in a loss of Russian influence in Southern Europe, especially Rumania, Hun gary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. "But people run business like before the war, so they don't re ally mind occupation," Bruck com mented. Some say we don't need our own army anyway since we are guarded by four armies now, he added. Discussing the political situation j m Germany, Metzen spoke of changes in the attitude of the western nations toward Germany. He said the Nuremberg trials were not trials of individual persons, they were the West against Ger many. The Germany of today is not the Germany of the period from the late loth century to 1945. A change took place in 1945, and "Germany has ceased to be a world Power, now and forever." The new government of Ger mMy has the task of building a stable economic situation and se curing for the people an accepta ble living standard. IThis must be done, he said, through a sound for eign trade policy, since it must import 45 0f its food supplies in addition to raw materials. w 1946, continued Bruck. the Policy of the United States toward Germany changed favorably so the Policies of nearly all other western states changed along with the US. e remarked that the danger to day is lhat Germany might have to compete on the world market. 00fl reduction cost within Ger jnany is hkh. so only through pro tective tariffs can the West Ger- Brunclcfarmer SUrvive' accordinS t0 Tho h-t student to speak was Jfcuidlhinder. He told of his ex lenpnces bchind thg Jron Cuftain W East Berlin. ' " ..He oemice ruADCi un i fci f ucniuccnAV ECRDIIADV iqsa fWiwo in. firnhnm. MtmnnnL FOUR PAGES TODAY Natives Say Wright CPU Will Talk Of Paf Report The Carolina Political Union will discuss the proposals made by the State of the University Conference Sunday night at 8 o' clock in the Grail Room of Gra ham Memorial. The discussion will deal with the recommendations of the con ference to prohibit freshmen from fraternity participation, to segre gate freshmen into separate dorm itories with special counsellors, and to liberalize undergraduate curricula. ' These recommendations were made in a summary report pre sented to the conference here last week by Dr. Eugene Pfaff of Woman's College. Two members of the faculty or the administration will be guests of CPU in the discussion. Church Union To Be Debated RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 23 Dr. L. Nelson Beall of Montreat, N. C, will argue against, and Dr. Ernest T. Thompson of Union The ological Seminary will argue for the proposed Presbyterian reunion at a meeting to be held here March 11. . Dr. Frederick H. Olert, pastor of Second Presbyterian Church where the debate will be held, said today the meeting comes out of the plan of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church to acquaint its members with the re union proposal. Dr. Olert, who is also president of the Richmond Area Council of Presbyterian Churches, said the council is sponsoring the meeting in response to widespread re quests that a debate be held on the subject in this area. UP Backs $3 Raise In Fees; Gorham Says SP To Be Slowed The University Party last night voted to gi3 its support to a bill now in Legislature to raise student fees from $15 to $18 dollars a year to provide extra funds for the operation of Graham Memorial Student Union. The action was taken after President Bob Gorham told the party that he would "back the bill to the : hilt." gm Director Jim Wallace Modern Dance Recital spoke to the party on why he thought the bill should be passed. The Legislature will act on the bill Thursday night. In a oep talk dealing with the snrim? elections. Gorham told his Dartv that "we are reaching- a crisis in the Student Party's 'good deal.' He told the meetirtg that "brakes will be put on" the Student Par ty's actions in Legislature "some time within the next week." He said that with their 31 to 18 ma jority in the Legislature the SP legislators have become "irre sponsible" and are appropriating student funds "indiscriminately." He stated that he did not know what he will do with a bill passed recently by the Legislature to pro vide funds for improvements m Victory Village. He could veto it. The SP won every Legislature seat in the Village in the fall elec tions. Some UP members have ex pressed the opinion that the bill to appropriate funds to the Vil lage was a "payoff" by the SP and a means of insuring an SP win there in subsequent elections. Both the UP and the SP are cur rently nominating candidates for seats in Legislature in the spring election. Next week the UP will nominate candidates for the editor ship of The Daily (Tar 'Heel and the Yackety Yack, class officers, and president of the Carolina Athletic Association. Valkyrie vaiwrie Sing chairmen wiir meet tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the library of the Y. 1 P'IWWw mwwwwiwm iumimimw if h mm , , , I t -. t 1 I I ac. c ) rtAMni iaI ' PAUL W. BOYNTON Will Speak On Jobs Boyntons Talk On Getting Job To Be tonight Paul W. Boynton, Employment Supervisor for Sacony-Vacuum Oil Company of New York, will speak, on "Six Ways To Get A Job," tonight at 8 o'clock in Gerrard Hall. Boynton has had many 'years of experience in interviewing college students for positions with Sacony Vacuum and speaking before stu dent groups on vocational topics. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including "Six Ways To Get A Job," "So" You Want A Better Job?", "Recruiting For Industry," and "Selecting The New Employee." Beginning as a sales trainee with Sacony-Vacuum after gradu ation from Syracuse University, Boynton moved into the person nel department and then to the company's headquarters in New York City in 1930. He is a mem ber of Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Phi, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Amer ican College Personnel Associa tion, and the College Personnel Officers' Associations of various areas of the country. Following the talk, which is be ing sponsored by Alpha Kappa Psi and Delta Sigma Pi profes sional business fraternities, will be a period of. questions and answers. Planned For March 28 The UNC Modern Dance Club will- present "Fragments, and Pauses" at its annual spring re cital March 28. The club recently won an honor able mention with this dance in a competition with fourteen other colleges and universities at 7om an's College in Greensboro. The members of the UNC dance team are Clint Lindley, Suzanne Elliott, Ed Lovings, Janet Green, and Jim Gilliken. Dodger Star Asks Bsitsr Robinson LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 Jackie Robinson told an audi ence of UCLA students here recently that he would like to see their institution take the lead in promoting better race relations. The famed Brooklyn Dod ger, first Ne- ero ever to break into big league base- ' ball, told the group he would be the proudest j' American i n i the world if -v UCLA showed t the way in , eliminat - Jackie Robinson ing race prejudice. Robinson ex pressed an "intense pride" in the University; from which he " (J 1 ; WeZZ dressed young woman inm heels walking down the fourth floor of Winston Dorm. . " Legislator Gene Cook playing football with sepen-year-old be side gym. Duke Building Formal Rites Slated Today DURHAM, N. C, Feb. 23 (JP)- Duke University will officially open its new classroom-administration building here tomorrow at -a brief, informal ceremony. University trustees and officials will be present at 12:30' o'clock when George G. Allen, trustee from New York and chairman of the building committee, will pre sent the keys to the new $1,758,000 structure to President Hollis Edens. Now almost entirely occupied and furnished, the new structure marks the end of an "era in stone" at the University. The classroom administration building completes the Gothic quadrangle on West Campus as planned when the orig inal campus was built in the 30rs. At that time when James B. Duke and officials were planning the university, a plaster model cf the new building was prepared. However, in intervening years more pressing needs and a lack of immediate funds required that construction be postponed. With the post-war growth of the university froai..31500 to approxi mately 5,000 students and with funds from the development pro gram, the building became a reality. Student Union Building Dedicated At Williams WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 23 Williams College's new $1, 400,000 Student Union and Fresh man Center was dedicated Sunday. It was named Baxter Hall in honor of James P. Baxter in, president of Williams since 1937. The Student Union was designed to promote the solidarity of the freshman class and to offer great er social opportunities to non fraternity students. , New DTH Box Beginning this morning The DaiSy Tar Heel will be available at a new location to serve stu dents who live on the north side oJ Chapel Hill toward the air port. A mailbox has been erected at the forks of Airport Road and North Columbia St. Papers will bo placed in the box each morn ing and subscribers living with in the area may pick up their copies from the box. The papers will not be labeled with the in dividuals' names; just take one. Relations Talks On Race Issue graduated some 10 years ago. "We must do away with race prejudice," Robinson said, be cause "exchange students will say, 'this is not the country we thought' when they see examples of such prejudice. We mustn't give them the opportunity of saying this." The major league baseball star cited his team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, as an example in the promotion of human relations. He told of an experience with a teammate whose only reason for not wanting a Negro on the club was his fear of losing his position on the team. It so hap pened that Jackie didn't play the same position, and ever U since he has been on friendly terms with his teammates. Robinson went on to tell why he was proud to be a Negro. Dr. Engstrom Traces Bird Symbol From Homer To Ernest Hemingway UNC French Professor Says Birds' Flight Is Mankind's Link With The Past, Future The symbol of the bird in flight links man with the past and "the great unwritten poetry of man kind," Dr. Alfred Engstrom said Insight Into Life Trustees Visit Coeds UNC's ten women trustees left yesterday, having filled their forty-eight nours at Carolina with meetings and informal get-togethers, which Trustee Mrs. May Tomlinson said gave them ia clear insight into the life of the women students." Mrs. Tomlinson said that she was impressed by the sincerity of the girls, their earnestness of purpose and their widespread interest in not only campus, but community activities. The ten women trustees, Mrs. Albert Lathrop, Mrs. Charles Til lett, Mrs. Grace Taylor Roden bough, Mrs. J. W. Copeland, Mrs. J. B. Kittrell, Mrs. B. C. Parker, Mrs. Charles Stanford, Mrs. Tomlinson, Mrs. Edward M. Anderson, and Mrs. R, S. Ferguson, were on campus for the past two days attending meetings of coed organizations and meeting girl students. At the luncheon yesterday in University Committee's Ruling Clarifies Position On Dances By Fred Powledge According to the University Dance Committee,, a dance must have live music in order for it to be a dance. The committee's chairman, Charles Waters, reported that defi nition yesterday to members of a group appointed by the student Legislature to review Dance Com mittee rules and practices. Waters and Ray Jefferies, assistant to the dean of students, appeared to an swer questions fired at them by review committee members and Chairman Gene Cook. The Review committee was formed, according to Chairman Cook, because "Many people think the rules and ' regulations of the dance committee have expanded" beyond their limits. "The Dance Committee is following the letter of the law," said Cook, which, by some, "is deemed unreasonable." The definition of a dance (live music and dancing) came, said Jefferies, ". . . because you've got to draw a line somewhere." Jef feries explained that Dance Com mittee members and doormen would find it rather difficult to be on hand every time a juke box was played and a couple started dancing. Committee members said they knew of several fraternities which had had dance privileges removed, and which plan to have records, instead of combo music, for their spring pledge dances. The investi gators agreed that such a dance would be, in effect, the same as "I'm proud because despite all the things we can't do, we do so many others. I'm proud be cause I'm a Negro an Ameri can Negro. And I would be the proudest American in the world if you (UCLA) showed the way to better race relations." The baseballer said that if they can make progress in hu man relations in Florida and Alabama, then the people at UCLA could do it, too. Robinson told the group of students that Paul Robeson was wrong in thinking that Negroes would not defend this country if called upon. "He couldn't have spoken for my family. If he hadn't gone on the wrong track (Communism), he could have been the greatest single" inspiration to the Negro race." last night. Delivering this year's second Humanities Lecture, the UNC French professor traced the bird Lenoir over a hundred coeds ate and talked with the women. Dean of Women Students, Miss Katherine Carmlchael, said that she was pleased with the turn out and that she thought the visit was a wonderful opportun ity for Carolina girls to get to know the trustees. "We know all about the coeds now," said Mrs. Kittrell. "We've seen how they live and play; they seem happy and we are pleased," she said at a tea given yesterday afternoon by the School of Business Administra tion in Carroll Hall. This is the first visit of the trustees during which the wom en spent the night in the girls' dorms. After hours Monday night each dormitory entertained with a coffee break at which presidents of the dorm pre sented the guests with Southern cookbooks. one with live music . . . but dances with recorded music do not fall under Dance Committee, auspices. Other questions the review com mittee posed included: The constitutionality of the rule that dances may be held only on Friday and Saturday nights. iThe purpose of the rule that any person desiring to leave a "dance hall" with the intention of return ing must be accompanied by a chaperone. The definition of "signs of drinking" in the rule that "Any one showing signs of drinking or other misconduct shall be dealt with according to the discretion of the University Dance Committee"; and, dances outside Chapel Hill. Jefferies and Waters answered the first two questions by saying that a shortage of doormen and money prohibits the Dance Com mittee's covering dances which might be scheduled during the week; and, everything needed at a dance may be found in Woollen Gym, the University's most-used "dance hall" namely, rest rooms, telephones and refreshments. When asked to define "signs of drinking," the Dance Committee representatives were puzzled. "To tell the truth," they said, "it varies from the committee to commit tee." As for dances outside Chapel Hill, Waters stated the rule that the Dance' Committee will super vise all such dances is "added in surance" that those who go "be have as Carolina gentlemen." Review committee chairman Cook said the group will meet again tomorrow at 4 p.m. The meeting, Cook said, will be open to all students and any suggestions and criticisms they may wish to render. Department Of Therapy Will Hold Open House The Department of Physical Therapy at North Carolina Me morial Hospital is holding open house this Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. in observance of North Carolina Physical Therapy Week. Staff members will explain the different methods of treatment used in their department and will demonstrate the various tech niques administered for the ill nesses and injuries requiring phys ical therapy treatment. TTie physical therany staff will be available at anv time throush- I out this week for discussion with j ' any individual or group on campus which might be interested in phys-; ical therapy as a profession. j symbol from Homer to Heming way. "'They're all in the long rec ord if mankind," he told the Ger rard Hall audience of about 150 persons. "By considering the strangeness and beauty that have gathered through the ages about the image of the flying bird, we can see something of the persistent sensi bility that links us and our poets . . . with the - great unwritten poetry of mankind," Engstrom de clared. "Folklore, anthropology, formal augury, and traditional literature all bear marks of a common heri tage in the image of the flying bird with its variety of symbolic meanings that survive from the ancient past," he continued. Dr. Engstrom was introduced by one of his former teachers here at the University, Dr. Urban T. Holmes, Jr., of the Department of Romance Languages. Dr. Holmes recalled the speaker's knowledge of birds and that which they sym bolize when he was a student in his French class. "Bird flight has always fasci nated mankind in the spring and fall migrations," said Dr. Eng strom. He explained how this flight has often been considered pro phetic of weather conditions, an omen of disaster, or "an immediate link between the will of the gods . . . and the lot of man." . , Telling how the Romans used birds as "messengers of Zeus," a Romanjgod, Dr. Engstrom said they were used to "answer ques tions." They were limited to an wers of yes or no, he said, "so they were particularly adapted to po litical questions." Tracing various bird symbols in reUgious literature and mystical poetry, Dr. Engstrom brought the symbol down to today by quoting from Hemingway's "Snows of Kil imanjaro." In the Hemingway work, the bird is used to represent death, "the strangest and most haunting of all." He said the modern author has employed the symbol "with remarkable imaginative power." Both Dr. Engstrom and Dr. Holmes wore tuxedos. The sizable audience was made up mostly of professors and graduate students, with a few undergraduates. Demos Invited To WC Dance The UNC Young Democrats Club will attend a dance given by the Woman's College Young Dem ocrats in Greensboro Saturday. Al House, president of the UNC club, announced that the informal dance will be held in the Eliot Hall Ballroom on the WC campus from 8 to 12:00 p.m. Harold Gale's seven-piece combo will furnish the music. All Carolina students are invited to attend the dance. Tickets can be purchased at booths in the Y Court and Lenoir Hall tomorrow, Friday and Saturday, or from any member of the executive commit tee. They will also be sold at the door on the night of the dance. Stag tickets are 75c and date tickets are $1.25. Anyone needing transportation to Greensboro can sign up with the YDC when purchasing his tickets. Eure To Talk Here Tonigh "An Overall View of Political Parties, Election Systems, and Laws in North Carolina" will be the topic of an address given by Secretary of State Thad Eure when he speaks here tonight at 8 o'clock in the Town Hall under sponsorship of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters. Members of the local league in vited Secretary Eure to speak here in an effort to help citizens become better acquainted with the voting procedures and to encour age them to vote in all elections. The league supports no particu lar candidate. Mrs. John Gillin, Chapel Hill, is state president and Mrs. Arthur Fink is-president of the local chapter.
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