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 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 (Continued on page two) (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 (Continued on page two) 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. *