Vol. 20, No. 23
High School Has
Commencement in
Hill Music Hall
Julia Frances Newsome Was Val
edictorian, Monte Charles
Howell Salutatorian
BLACKWOOD WINNER OF
KIWANIS CLUB AWARD
The Chapel Hill high school
had its final exercises Wednesday
evening in the Hill Music hall.
The 95 graduates received their
diplomas from Edgar W\ Knight,|
S. Marion Justice, chief of the
bureau of occupation, informa
tion,-and guidance of the state
department of public instruction
hered the address.
ft was announced by William.
,11. Peacock, principal of the L
school, that the valedictorian was |
Julia Frances Newsome and that |
the salutatorian was Monte!
Charles Howell.
"Future Farmer” agriculture)
honors were won by James Stur
divant (livestock judging) and
Lewis Cheek (public speaking).
The winner of the Chapel Hill
Kiwanis Club citizenship award
was James Blackwogd.
The Leonidas P<fik chapter of
the United Daughters of the Con
federacy presented prizes to
Frances Privette and Catherine
Porter Lewis for essays on Sid
ney Lanier.
Before the exercises the high
school band gave a half-hour con
cert, and Mrs. A. VV. Honeycutt,
at the piano, played Elgar’s
‘‘Pomp and Circumstance.” The
school choir sang under the direc
tion of Mrs. Margaret Lee
Maaske. Soloists were John
O’Steen ( piano), Georgia Logan
(flute), and Harris Mitchell
< French horn).
For “Our Daddies”
The I'oui and five-year-old boys and
girls in the Calvert school conducted
by Mis. I) F. Milam at her home in
Westwood gave a Jgarty for mothers
at Christmas, and ever since then they
have been clamoring for a party foi
fathers. They gave it Sunday after
noon and put on an entertainment the
them* of which was “Our Daddii
There were song,-, original stories
told by theii authors, dances, and a
play i "The Lion and the Mouse”).
Kvei v child received a diploma with a
gold seal. Four finished first-grade
work, the rest finished kindergarten.
The 13 children in the school this
> yeai were Paul Barnes, Catherine
Berryhill, Bill Blown, Anne Grisctte,
John ' Hanft, Ned Hedgpeth, Eliza
Horsley, Tommy - Phil Lloyd, Galen
Hobbs, Eugene Lane, Seoopy MeAl
listei. Amory Merritt, Mary Lee
Kuark, Peter Tteavi.-, John Russell,
Sally Sehnell, and Allen Williams.
The enrollment is to he expanded to
perhaps JO pupils next year. Mrs.
Milam will continue as teacher. Mrs.
Harold W. Brown, who organized the
school a year ago,- has been succeeded
as secretary-treasurer by Mrs. Frank
Hanft.
Kotarians Hear Lieutenant Welch
Lieutenant S. W. J. Welch of the
* United States Navy talked to the Ro
tary Club night before last about the
commissioning of officers in the Navy.
He'told of the examinations an appli
* cant had to stand and of how, if he
passed, he served for several months
on a probationary basis. He said that
the widespread impression that the
Navy had lowered its physical Stand
ards was erroneous; in only one field,
vision, have the requirements been
made less strict.’
Today’s Movies
“The Magnificent Dope,” with Hen
ry Fonda, Lynn Bari, and Don Ameche,
- will complete a two-day run today
(Friday) at the Carolina theatre.
“The Big Shot,” with Humphrey Bo
gart, will be at the Carolina as a late
* show at 11:15tonight and as the regu
lar show there tomorrow.
Honorary Degree fur Garrett
Howard College conferred an hon
orary LL.D. degree on M. B, Garrett
of the University’s history department
Inst week at its graduation exercises
in Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Garrett is
an alumnus of Howard!
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor '
University Gives 5 Honorary Degrees;
Address Is by Raymond Grpm Swing;
War Work Topic at Alumni Luncheon
At its commencement exercises in .
the Kenan stadium Tuesday the Uni- j
versity conferred honorary degrees on j
Governor J. Melville Broughton; Rob
ert Lee Flowers, President of Duke
University; Dr. George Marion
Cooper, of the North Carolina heaith
department; James G. K. MeClure,
general manager of the Farmers’ Fed
eration; and Dr. William S. Tillett,
director of the bacteriological labora- ;
to lies of the New York University Col
lege of Medicine.
The exercises began wi.th the ,-ky
clear, but as they proceeded the storm ;
clouds gathered. The rain held off un- j
til the last lap of the ceremonies, the j
conferring of honorary degrees, and ;
then it came down in great sheets. The i
crowd fled from the stadium while Pre
sident Graham was reading the cita
tions. The citations were not lost, how
ever, because anybody could read them
iin the newspapers next morning.
1 Address by Raymond Crum Swing
! , Raymond Gram Swing, former news-j
paper correspondent in Berlin, l.on
i don, and other foreign capitals, de
i livereii the commencement address. Me
spoke of the virtue of doubt.
”1 do not lament that you have come
upon the scene in -this tragic hour,” he
! said to the members of the graduating
class. “You have the stamina and the
fortitude to bear the exactions of deep
change. You will dare to examine all, to
doubt all You will build the new world
with the bricks and mortar of doubt.
The Serv ice Center
Chapel Hill’.s new service cen
iter for men in the armed forces
will Vipen tomorrow in the old
Methodist chui’ch. It will la* un
der the command of Recreation
Director l)a\id Sessoms. Ihe
Women'Ll' the Baptist church will
be hostesses at the center this
week-end.
It will be open from 2:30 to
10 P.M every Saturday and from
1:30 to 1) P.M. every Sunday.
While’ the center has been pre
~~pafed especially for the benefit of
the pre-fiight Naval cadets be
ing trained here, it is open to men
in all other branches of t he armed
forces. Soldiers, sailors, and
Trnrn nr.v a rt- tm Hi-ft Go ciiv H Hl
- play games, or read, or write,
or listen to the radio.
The management of the center
is under the general direction of
the Local Defense Council.
Townspeople are invited to come
in and look it over.
The furnishing of the rooms
was done under the supervision
of Mrs. R. 11. Wettach. s — —
A Sunday Piano Recital
William-Cant will give a piano
recital at 4:30 Sunday afternoon
m Hill Music hall. Everybody is
invited. This will be the first of
a series of Sunday afternoon
musical programs to he given
during the Summer School. Mr.
Gant’s program will include Pre
ludio con Fuga in A minor, Bach ;
Sonata in F major, Haydn; Fan
tasien, Op. 1 H>, Brahms; Nacht
stiick and Ragtime, both by
Hindemith.
Shorthand Conference Today
Everybody who wants to take
courses in shorthand and typing
this summer is asked to come to
the high school (typing room,
first floor) at 2 o’clock this (Fri
day) afternoon to confer with
Mrs. Jerry Daniel, the instruc
tor. Hours for classes, and other
pertinent matters, will be dis
cussed. There will be beginners’,
intermediate, and advanced
classes.
A Canning Demonstration
A demonstration of the canning of
fruit and vegetables* will be given at
10 o’clock next Wednesday morning
at the Hillsboro high school by MiSs
Myrom Clinard of the Ball Brothers
Company of Muncie, Inidana. The
public is invited. The demonstration
- is being given under the auspices of
the extension department of Orange
county. ’ • •
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1942
, “Underneath the doubt is a founda
tion of positive faith. There is faith
in the need for freedom and the prac
ticability of freedom, freedom of mind
and freedom under the law. Such faith
is tile cornerstone of democracy. For
democracy itself is a paradox, a j
society of individuals who are true to j
their own visions, but who are con- i
cerned with the rights of other indi
viduals.' For democracy, whatever its
| constitutional form, is dedicated to the
protection and fulfilment of the indi-
I vidual, and the individual can only
■ l! In- lias tfii- e image v u huu.
I niveisity'if Ujirfc for it or
I ’At the alumni luncheon Tuesday,
j presided over by Major L. P. McLen
don, the chief topic was the work done
by the University in preparation for
war. President Graham told of the
resolution adopted by the trustees,
nearly two years ago, providing for
j physical training for all students; of
j the establishment of the Naval R. (>.
!T. ('. and. the Students’ - Volunteer
I Training Corps; and of the activity
! of faculty and students in civilian dc-
I tense. “ ' — :
Commander O. t). Kessing, com
! tnandiug officer of the Naval Pre
! Flight Training School, received a
j great ovation from the alumni arid’
their guests. The purpose of the school
is to put future Navy fighting pilots
through a course'of preliminary train
ing, mainly physical, and Commander
Kessing described the training process.
Rosemond Fleeted
T. A. Rosemond was elected
president of the Chapel Hill Mer
chants Association last Monday
evening at the organization’s an
imal election meeting. Other new
officers are Otway Brown, vice
president; Paul M. Thompson,
state director; L. J. Phimis, at
torney; Fred B, Edney,Student
representative; and Miss Chri
stine Thompson', secretary and
treasurer.
New - directors are Clyde Eu
banks, Dwigbl Ra>, L. E. Jonesr
R. L. Ray. J. Herbert Ledbetter,
and E. T. Hearn.
Other business at the meeting
included discussion of the plan
: Tbr~ Tin- MCricCiay-jinTfiioiTf
idosing of the stores during the
]summer. It was agreed that all
.stores (except drug stores) in
jUhapel Hill and Uarrboro would
j close for the day at 12-:,30 every
Wednesday. The purpose of this
is to give employees a midweek
half-holiday.
Annual Is Dedicate
Thi' Yackrty Yack, tin Uni-
I versity students’ annual, which was is
sued last week, is dedicated to Phil
lip- Russell of the journalism depart
ment. A full-page photograph of Mr.
Russell i.s accompanied J»y the follow
ing sketch:
“We dedicate—not to Phillips Rus
sell the teacher, though his classes
might well serve as models of the
pithy, thought-provoking experience
that classes should be.
“Nor to Phillips Russell the writer,
though his biographies of Franklin
and Emerson arc .warm and human,
and mark him for real ability.
“Rather to Phillips Russell the Man,
because his character and strength
somehow work their way to the hearts
of his students, because his open
mindedness and fairness exemplify so
beautifully the spirit of our Univer
sity.”
Walter Creech Going to
Corporal Walter D. Creech, Jr., of
Chapel Hill has been chosen as a can
didate for officer training and is to
take a special course in the field ar
tillery school at Fort Siii, Okia. He
has been stationed recently at Camp
Blandmg, Fla.
Corporal Creech served more than
a year in the Field Artillery, special
izing in Communications, and then was
transferred to the headquarters of the
Second Army Corps to receive infan
try training.
At the time of his induction into the
Army in April, 1941, he was a mem
ber of the University’s romance
languages department. He was 'Tbe
first member of the University faculty
' to go into the Army under the Selec
tive Service Act.
Corporal Creech took both his A.B.
Chapel Hill Chaff j
A woman who attended the)
N. C. C. W. in Greensboro thirty
years ago was telling me one day i
this week about the manners and
customs that prevailed there |
when she was a student. The
costume for gymnasium exer
cises consisted of a middy blouse)
land bloomers. Full length stock
ings hatl to l>e worn with them,
because it would have been im
modest to have the legs bare even
jin a gym. There was a contest
lamong the classes, with a prize
)offered to the class whose team
gave the best performance in
| calisthenics.
When somebody asked if it
'wouldn’t be a good thing, for the
judging committee to be made up
of men, the college community
was scandalized. No male eyes
had ever been permitted to gaze
upon the. students in their bloom
ers, and (he proposal.to let down
this bar was denounced as an af
' front to decency. But the ruling
conservative element, when they
found that the revolutionary pro-
Jposal had strong backing, in the
younger section of the faculty as
i well as among the students, com
promised. They agreed, to have
| men as judges provided that all
the men In* physicians. The col
lege adnmiist ration would attend
j to inviting them.
When the performers and the
■spectators assembled for the con
test, the judges’ bench was oc
cupied by the five oldest phy
sicians m Greensboro. Young
I members of the profession had
been rigidly excluded.
1 "When 1 look at an old photo
graph of mine, showing a gym
,class,” said the woman who told
jme about this incident, “the
| funny thing to me i.s that any
! man could have ever l>eeu ex
: peeled to - get an> soi l of —rtf -
J proper thrill, or any other sen
jsation except one of repulsion,
; from looking at those frightful
figures in blouses and bloomers
tiffi/t’T.-t:iY-t,--T-<>rtTi’i’r STOrfeiTiC-C-- ! -
I
* * *
Lieutenant John P. Graff, ex
i cent ive officer of the Naval Pre-
Flight Training School,.was chief
guest of honor at the reunion of
the Lloyd clan in the grove at
Fane ( reek church on a re
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(I to Phillips Russell
The hook has a “Hats Off” section
in which the following men are recog
nized for “doing excellent work in.
fields other than puie scholarship:"
W R. Mann, head of the Horace Wil
liams airport; Kd Lanier, secretary
of the self-help bureau; John Allcott,
head of the art department; Ralph W
Host, head of the chemistry depart
ment; Ralph McDonald and Earl Wynn
of the University’s radio studio; W. C-.
Coker, head of the botany department;
and J. G. deßoulhac Hamilton, head
of the Southern historical collection.
Faculty members who are cited as
distinguished personalities are E. W.
Zimmermarm, J.' B. Woosley, J. P.
Harland, H. W. Odum,. George E.
Mowry, U. T. Holmes, E. R. Groves,
Archibald Henderson, It. E. Coker,
arid George Coffin Taylor.
The editor of the Yackety Yack is
Charles W. Tillett, 3rd, of Charlotte.
i Officers’ Training'School
and M A. degrees at the University
here. He studied for two years in
France as a Franco-American ex
change student at the University of
Lyons and Bordeaux and taught Eng
lish at the College de Bergerac.
He is a native of Goldsboro and a
nephew of Mrs. A. A. Kluttz arid a
brother of Mrs. Frederic E. Coenen.
Store Building Being Dismantled
The interior of the store building
formerly occupied by Ray’s Friendly
Market is being dismantled by its
owners, the Durham Public Service
Coiapauy. The property’s 2,00ti-gal!on
storage tank, which was a part of
the old ice plant equipment, will be
sold or used for scrap meta). Mr. Kay
has moved his business to Carrboro.
Living Quarters Are Jammed as
Summer School Opens; Throngs
Departing and Arriving Cause
Great Confusion in the Village
Typhoid Vaco illation
j Dr. William P. Richardson, the j
| health officer, reports that there)
I are. rive cases of typhoid fever
| in onr family in Chatham coun
ty. He urges people' here to
come to the health department
I and get typhoid shots at the vac-!
:filiation clinics which are con
ducted from 2 to 4:30 every Fri
day afternoon and from 9 to 121
o’clock every Saturday morning. |
“The.source of the typhoid fever
in Chatham county,” he said,
“was found to be a woman from ■
whom the family bought milk.)
She had had typhoid .five years!
ago. and is a carrier.”
Wednesday P.M. Store Closing
Beginning next Wednesday,:
June 17. all Chapel Hill and
Cafrboro stores (except drug'
|stores) will close for the day at!
' ;
12:30 everv Wednesday after- 1
|noon throughout the summer.)
This plan, which is designed to
I give employees a midweek half
holiday, was agreed upon Mon
day evening at a meeting of the
!Me rc hunt s Assoc iat io 11 .
The New Theatre
Work on the new theatre here,
which was halted last Saturday'
because of war priorities regula- 1
tions, will probably resumed j
| soon, Manager E. Carrington
Smith said yesterday.
“The building is about 85 per
cent complete,” Mr. Smith said.,
“All we have left to do is the j
plastering and the installation of j
1 )u ■ soats, screen, and other..fix-j
tures. We have all the needed,
fixtures and materials here and
have applied to the Government
for permission to finish the job.
. Wfc-have xeaaoa. Lu hope that we
will get this permission soon.”
The new regulation which j
halted work on the building'also
stopped the construction of all'
other theatres and places of pub-,
lie entertainment throughout the
nation. Workmen have been
finishing the roof of the theatre
this week, since HJie regulation
allowed for the adequate roofing
of buildings so near completion.
Mr. Smith said that he expect
ed the new theatle w uqld be open
ed in September, a, originally
scheduled.'.
Memorial to George .Vickie
Day after tomorrow, Sunday,
June 14, will be the first anni
versary of the death of George
McKie. For forty years Mr. Mc-
Kie served the Presbyterian
church heresy elder and teach
er, and a memorial tribute to
him will be presented at the
morning services. His colleagues
in the faculty, other citizens,
students of the University who
knew him, are specially invited.
The tribute will be printed in the
church bulletin.
Hamilton Gets Another Degree
The University of the South con
ferred the degree of doctor of let
ters on Rpulhac Hamilton last Mon
day at Sewariee, * Tenn. This is the
second honorary degree Mr. Hamil
ton has received this year. Washing
ton and I jee University conferred an
LL.D. on him last month.
Wilson Honeycutt Joins the Army
Wilson Honeycutt, a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Allison W. Honeycutt, was in
ducted into the Army day before yes
terday at Fort Bragg. He was in
command of a busload of other new
soldiers who went from Durham to
Fort Bragg. Honeycutt court
reporter on the Durham Sun.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
'With 10 Dormitories Taken by
Navy, Others Are Occupied
with 3 Persons to Room
FRATERNITY HOUSES ARE
BEING PUT TO GOOD USE
Probably never before in the
history of Chapel Hill was there
so grea£"confusj,on. so great diffi
culty about transportation md
messages and all other services
connected with moving in and
I moving out, as there was this
week.
The movers-in are expected to
i make up a record-breaking sum
jmer enrollment. Students are
■ quartered three-to-a-room in both
|men's and women’s dormitories.
“Chapel Hill, the 'peaceful vil
lage,' remarked a Summer
School official day before yester
-1 day in a tone of weary satire.
| “Why, the town’s a regular mad
house."
: People were scurrying around,
j trying in vain to get taxis and to
! get their luggage hauled, over
come by last-minute jobs that
couldn’t be done because the
facilities were swamped.
Students and commencement
visitors were leaving town, and
Summer School students were
pouring in. The place where the
two streams had their main, col
lision was the bus station.
1
[Busses came in packed tight, and
| one company of human sardines
got otf to let another company
get on. Great stacks of trunks
and suitcases stood in the wait
ing rooms and on the pavement
j outside.
j About the most tired-looking
j man seen around the streets was
jC. S. Bartlett, the proprietor of
the taxicab company. His face
was lined with fatigue, and the
pressure of demands which he
. could not aatiafv had him ..wor
ried almost To the point of
desperation. He was so beset that
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I Thu Swimming Schedule
Tickets- for swimming in the Bow
man Gray pool may lu- obtained at the
cashier’s office in the South building
by faculty members, children, and
other townspeople. Prices: $2 for
adults', $1 for children. A ticket, which
is good foi six weeks, is not usable un
til it has been signed by .a physician
w ho lias examined the ticket holder.
Here is pool’s schedule for the first
term of the Summer School:
Naval cadets’ instruction from 7
A.M. to 11:30 A.M., Monday through
Saturday; instruction for children,
11:30 A M. to 12:15 P.M., Monday
through Saturday; recreation for ail,
12:15 to 1 P.M., Monday through Sat
urday.
University students’ and Naval
cadets’ instruction, 1:30 to 3:30 P.M.,
Monday through Friday; Naval cadets,
3:30 to 5:30 P.M., Monday through
Friday; adults’ recreation period, 5:30
to 6:45 P.M., Monday through Friday;
Recreation for all, 7:30 to 8:30 P.M ,
Monday through Friday; 3 to 6 P.M.,
Saturday; and 2 to 5 P.M., Sunday.
Further information may he ob
tained from Dick Jamersnn (telephone
3431).
Plans for Softball
■ I .—.Mil %
Everybody in playing
softball or in organizing a team is
invited to come to the Community
Center in the old Methodist church
at 7:30 Monday evening, when sum
mer plans for the softball league
will be discussed. “If we are to have
a town softball league this summer,
we must get at it right away,” Recrea
tion Director David Sessoms said yes
terday in announcing the meeting.
Hay Wolfs in Georgia
The Ray Wolfs have gone to Athens,
Ga., where Coach Wolf, now a lieu
tenant in the Navy, is to be the head
football coach at the Naval Aviation
Pre-Flight School at the University
'of Georgia. Their address there ie
* 158 Brittain Street. *