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Page Four THE TAR HEEL December 12, 1022 1 1 Blazing Trails for Progress Curiosity may have killed the well-known cat, but it has been underneath most of the hard-won developments that lastingly benefit mankind. Once in a great while, perhaps, ac cident has been the spark that has lighted the torch of achievement; but much more frequently always, nearly accomplishment, especially in the field of science and invention, has grown out of the insatiable curiosity that seems to be the heritage of us all. Mankind wants to know and is ; slowly finding out. Curiosity, the complement of imagination, knows no appeasement. ! This is, however, no essay on the vague sub ject of idle curiosity. There is a vast difference , between that and the organized, untiring, well planned activity which, as an integral part of Westinghouse organization, searches continu ally for the answers to problems which intelli gent speculation sets up. This, if you please, is curiosity in its highest and most intensified form; and it is a fundamental thing in the West inghouse operations. Research,' as we know it, is the guiding hand upon the purely creative activities of business. Constantly it brings to light new aspects of known laws, new visions of laws yet to be un covered. But the search for these is not hap hazard nor whimsical; it is organized and planned as carefully and thoroughly as any other busi ness activity. Whether chemical, electrical, or physical, it is engineering; and it follows engi neering methods and tradition. Many great engineers have been wholly at a loss in this specialized activity. For research, in a sense, reverses the usual order. Its en deavor is to discover unknown laws in the known facts a thing which is quite at variance with ordinary engineering practice. Yet there is a fine type of engineering mind which finds its great opportunity in this kind of work. And to that type of mind, and that type of man, re search beckons with an unmistakable hand. It is engineering pioneering, it blazes trails for progress, to new triumphs, in a wilderness into whose outskirts man has scarcely penetrated. ACHIEVEMENT OPPORTUNITY y AVESTINCHOUSEA L. Shertauood Eddy Write To Amphoterothen About Japan . Noted Lecturer and Student of World Problems Gives Interesting Account of Situation in the East. The following communication receiv ed from Sherwood Eddy, who gave a series of lectures at the University last year, was written from Peking, China. While here last year Mr. Eddy was ini tiated into the Order of Amphoterothen, he being its first honorary member. The letter, which is addressed to the mem bers of the order, explains itself. It reads as follows: My dear fellow-members of Amphotero then: Instead of writing, I wish I could sit down and talk with you about the won derful times we are having. Within a month we have been plunged into the new conditions of Japan, Korea, and China. I have been astonished by the growth of the rising liberal movement of the new Japan, the sturdy independ ence and new spirit of liberty in Korea, And the welter of graft and corruption in China, many of whose student lead ers are now seething with radicalism And bolshevism. After four years' absence, Japan seems like a new country. Her lead ers have turned right about face since the Washington Conference which has cleared the air of all war clouds and misunderstanding in the Far East. We had interviews with everybody from the Premier down to the poverty-stricken people in the slums. The new pre mier, Baron Kato, is a fine, honest ad miral who fought with Togo when he sank the Russian fleet; an expert re sponsible for Japan's naval expansion . that placed his country among the rank : ing sea powers. In order to demon strate his good faith iu America, he gladly signed and is carrying out the . provisions of a treaty which relegates his past work on the navy to the junk pile. He is recalling the Japanese troops from the disputed areas in Si beria, Shantung, and Hankow. He im pressed me as a sincere and fearless leader who will work consistently for peace and internationalism. . - We had more interviews than I can remember with the liberal leaders of the Diet, tho leading profsesors, Japan ese pastors, missionaries, and Christian loaders. I was much impressed by the wonderful work of Kagawa, the bril liant young Japanese ' who was at Princeton when I was there six years ago. He is doing marvelous work for the laborers and for the people in the heart of the slums. We had meetings for students and other young men in Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Moji, etc I have never known such interest on the part of Japanese students both in intrenational questions and in real religion. They are turning from their old materialism and doubt with a real heart hunger for a vital re ligious message. Our audiences in Ja pan did not rise over a thousand a night in the larger cities, as the colleges were not yet in session. But in Ko rea we spoke to audiences that run from three to seven thousand a night. I will tell you about this in my next let ter, and will send you a full report on jthe work in Japan. ,:, This is just a little note to tell you that I have thought of you many times in recent weeks, and that I realize what a partv you have had in making possible this tour. Already meetings in China have begun, but I will write about this in a later letter. Ever yours, SHERWOOD EDDY. DEVEREUX PLAYEES STAGE SHAKESPEAEE-SHAW BOUT (Continued From Page One) But nevertheless there were very bright spots. John Osgood was superb as Mercutio and easily the most Shake spearian thing about the play. The audience regretted his death at the hands of Tybalt perhaps as much as did Borneo himself. Miss Graf as Ju liet was beautiful and charming, and in the balcony scene quite wonderful. However, in her big scene in the last act she somehow missed fire. Clifford Dcvereux was handsome and dashing, but as the world 's great lover was rath er drab and spoke his lines with a lack of inspiration. He was much better in the last act than in the early part of the play. Edmund Forde was good as Benvolio but somewhat mechanical as the apothecary. Nanna Forbes gave a capable portrayal of the nurse and Lawrence Peterson was good as Friar Lawrence. In "Arms and the Man" the whole cast seemed more at ease. Miss Graf, portraying the eternal feminine in the pirt of the hero-worshipping Baina Pet koff, was brilliant. She acted with a proper amount of fire and showed a nice sense of restraint. Clifford Dev ereux, as the materialistic Swiss mer cenary, was very much better than as Borneo. However, in the wonderful omedy part of Captain Bluntschli, he did not make the most of his chances. He was very, very funny, but had he possessed a certain subtleness which was lacking from his acting he would have been infinitely more so. Edmund Forbes was adequate as Sergius but not too well cast in the part. He is essentially of a more sincerely digni fied type than the vainglorious Sergius. Nicola, the eternally complacent sub ordinate, and Loua were well acted by J. B. Souther and Lilian Hatch, al though Miss Hatch was not so good as she might have been in the role of the spirited servant girl. Lawrence Peter son was rather poor in his early appear ances as Baina 's father and quite pleas ing in his later entrances; while Nan na Forbes, as his wife, was altogether miscast. John Osgood held the stage for but one fleeting moment, but long enough to cause one to wish that he had had a bigger part. : In the delightfully brief intermis sions between acts, Mr. H. D. Meihe, accompanied by Mr. Hamilton, played several charming violin solos. PRELIMINARIES FOB CHAIN OF SOUTHERN DEBATES ARE WARMLY CONTESTED (Continued From Page One) boro, is a member of the Di, and one of last year's commencement orators. E. 0. Hunt, the alternate, is president of the Di society. The enlarged program of the debate council has been adopted with the defi nite intention of putting debating in its rightful place of importance at Carolina. In former years debating held a much more important position in campus attention here than it does now. In the days when every student belong ed to one or the other of the literary societies, debating was the chief stu dent activity. : Then the fame of Caro lina's debaters was nation-wide; they had the reputation of winning 70 per cent of all debates entered. Of late, Carolina 's debating team programs have fallen short of their old reputa tion, and interest has lagged on the campus. 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