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- X Pi i ii -in) ! Report Circulation Complaints TAR HEEL OFFICE 8:30-9:30 A. M. TONIGHT TAR HEEL OFFICE 1 1 h y ! V 1 J i i i ; i VOLUME XXXVIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1929 NUMBER 3 JsTT( tti it ; , ; I 1929 Student Body R epresents Many States and 8 Countries Not Only Many Countries but Almost Every Walk of Life Represented Here. (By J. P. Huskins) Representing almost every one of the United States and the foreign countries of Spain, Ar menia, Persia, ' Siam,, China, Venezuela, Italy, Cuba, and others, the present student body of the University appears to be the most cosmopolitan group that has ever assembled here. Not only do they come from different countries but from all walks of life. Some have come as representatives of foreign governments, some on; grants from beneficiary funds, and oth ers have crossed the continent depending entirely on self-help as a means of support. Prominent Venezuellan Enrolls Dr. Raf Martinez-Ponte, from Caracas in Venezuela, South America, is here on a grant from the ' Rockefeller Foundation which is cooperating with the Venezuelian government in pub lic health work. In the colleges in Venezuela there are no special courses in sanitary engineering. It was for this reason, that he came to study American meth ods. Dr. Martinez-Ponte holds a Doctor's' Degree in Physical and Mathematical Science, the high est degree in engineering that can be secured in his country. He comes here from the Univer sidad Central where he won his doctor's degree. : : Cuba Well Represented A. - M. Perez, from Havana, Cuba, is enrolled as a freshman in the Electrical Engineering Department of the School of En gineering. Perez left Cuba 'to do his high school work in Spain before transferring to the Uni versity. (Continued on page four) Many Changes Made Here During Summer Various and sundry changes have been made in the business district of Chapel Hill since the University closed its doors last spring. A very noticeable change has been wrought in-the interior of ,Gooch's cafe. . A new kitchen has been added to the old structure, and an attrac tive alcove is arranged in the rear. A fresh coat of paint covers the walls, and new seats have been installed at the coun ter. Another drawing card is the addition of fouf charming waitresses to the personnel. The University Barber Shop also presents . a very different appearance. The complete in terior has been remodeled and painted. The personnel, how ever, remains unchanged, and Mack still predominates at the shine stand. The improvements in Jack Lipman's Shop are as yet in comnlete. A new floor has been laid, and a new front in stalled. Minor changes in the interior are yet to be made. A cafe department has been added to the Carolina Confec tionary store- Various other improvements have been made to the interior in anticipation of better business this year than ever before. Another marked improvement spallation of a Vita- i. lAXV nhone at the Carolina Theatre, which has been drawing capa city audiences since the change. TAR HEEL CALENDAR Beginning with Tuesday's issue, the Daily Tar Heel will run a calendar of University events on the front page each day. Faculty and class meet ings, meetings of organiza tions, events of general cam pus interest, and all athletic events will be included in the daily calendar. Officals are asked to call the Tar Heel office, phone 3401, between 1:30 and 5:00 on the afternoon before pub lication in order to have com plete information concerning the meetings of their organi zations included in the cal endar. WILLIAMS MAKES PLANS FOR N. C. DEBATING SQUAD Squad Plan to Be Continued This Year; Expected to Increase Interest. , To increase interest in debat ing and to improve the standard of debating at the University is the policy of the new Debate Council as outlined by J. C. Wil liams, president of the Council. These aims are to be fulfilled by the squad system, which was inaugurated last year. The squad is composed only of men who are interested in debating and other forensic activities. Meetings are held on Thursday night of each week. In the last analysis, the squad is a discus sion group which limits its dis cussions to the field of debating. The discussions of each meet ing are lead by some faculty member who is an expert in his field. For all members of the squad, including those who do not care to participate in inter collegiate debates, this affords an excellent opportunity to be come acquainted with current topics. The debate squad is in timately connected with the two campus literary societies. The function of the squad is to train (Continued on page four) Playmaker Tickets Will Be Sold Soon Hubert Heffner, business manager and associate director of the Playmakers, announces that the sale of season tickets for the Playmaker season will start within the next few days. Tickets will be on sale at the Book Exchange, the Student's Supply Store, and through three salesmen. So great has , the audience grown that all performances will be given three nights this year instead of two as before. Only nine hundred season tickets will be sold while over a thousand seats will be available for the performances. Single admission for one performance will be $1 while the season ticket for seven shows is only $1.50. It is requested that all who buy tickets leave their name and address in order that the Playmakers may. send them no tices of the shows. Reserved seats will be put up one week in advance for season ticket holders. Every effort will be made in order that the season ticket holder may secure, a de sirable seat at each performance NOTED DIVINE TO PREACH HERE AT HOMECOMING WEEK Dr. Shailer Mathews, Dean of Chicago Divinity School, To Take Part in Celebraton. Dr. Shailer Mathews, Dean of the Divinity School in the Uni versity of Chicago, and noted as an educator, editor, and lectur er, has accepted an invitation to take part in the University's cel ebration of Home-Coming Week in October, President Harry W Chase announced tonight. The University celebration will be a part of the general state-wide celebration. Dean Mathews will deliver a sermon at union services here Sunday night, October 20, in which all Chapel Hill denomina tions will take part. That after noon there will be a concert by the University Glee Club. The University celebration, it was stated tonight, will get un derway Saturday, October 19, with the dedication of the new library that morning, the Geor gia-Carolina football game that afternoon, and a performance by the Carolina Playmakers that night. During the following week the University program will be fea tured by meetings of the South ern Conference on Education, the Southeastern Library Asso ciation, the North Carolina Li brary Association, and the Citi zens' Library Movement of North Carolina. v Dean Mathews took his under graduate work at Colby College, from which he was graduated in 1884, and pursued graduate work at the University of Beflin and at the Newton Theological Institute. Honorary degrees have been conferred on him by Colby, Oberlin, Brown, Miami University, and Pennsylvania College. He was a member of he faculty at Colby from 1889 to 1894. . Since 1908 he has been Dean of the School of Divinity in the University of Chicago. He is edi tor of "The World Today" and noted lecturer, having deliv ered lecture series at a number of leading colleges and univer sities. He delivered the McNair lectures at the University of North Carolina in 1918, He is author of several books dealing with history and "religion. Authors9 Reading Season for Koch Predicts "the Biggest and Best Year Yet" for Caro lina Players. An authors' reading of new plays Tuesday night at 7 o'clock in the Playmakers theatre will open the year's program for the Carolina Playmakers, one of the most widely acclaimed drama tic groups in the country. The year's program is the most am bitious and diversified that has yet; been attempted; the pro grams will be given on three nights; tours will be continued, professional plays will be given, visiting dramatic groups will present their plays here, all of which will give the Chapel Hill theatre fans a busy year. "The biggest and best year yet," is the enthusiastic proph ecy of Professor Koch, veteran director of the Playmakers. Fresh from a successful sum (Continued on page four) LITTLE THEATRE BOOK TO CARRY STORY OF KOCH 'Footlights Across America" Will Publish Story on Caro- Una Professor's Work in Playmaking. ' Pioneering and creative work of Professor Frederick Koch, head of the dramatic department of the University of North Caro lina and nationally known as father of the famous Carolina Playmakers, will be set forth and lauded in a new book which will soon be published for Kenneth MacGowan, New York City play wright, author and drama pro ducer of note. The new book will be entitled Footlights Across America" Imd is hailed as the first authen tic account of the new movement among the so-called "Little The atres" in America. The book is the written result of Mr. Mac Gowan's extensive visit to all parts of the United States to study the development of the "Little Theatre." In this trip, he was commissioned by the Car negie Foundation. Mr MacGowan and Professor Koch have been friends and in close contact with the work of each other for many years. In the galley proof of the new volume seen here today, . Mr. MacGowan praises the pioneer ing work of Professor Koch in the development especially of the "drama of locality," stating that Professor Koch's policy is the logical way for the development of an authentic American drama. It will be remembered that Mr. MacGowan was the chief speaker before the drama sec tion of the conference of the American Association for Adult Education held at Chapel Hill last spring. After the confer ence, - Mr. MacGowan went to Statesville, N. C, to see the Car olina Playmakers in action dur ing the annual tour of the group. In the past Mr. MacGowan has been the author Qf a number of books, chief among -which have been "Continental Stagecraft" and "The Theatre of Tomor row." For five years he was associated with the eminent Eu gene O'Neil and Robert Edmund Jones in the production of world premieres of several of O'Neil's plays. The plays were produced (Continued on page four) Will Open Playmakers Tues. Police Have Easy Time Opening Week A week-end without the usual dances or football game to at tract out-of-town visitors gave the Chapel Hill police force a day of rest Saturday. The in flux of new students and upper- classmen was marked with the quietness of a proverbial Chapel Hill Sunday afternoon. Up to 8 o'clock last night no arrests had been made, ac cording to Chief Lloyd of the Chapel Hill police. Chief Lloyd stated in an interview with a Tar Heel reporter that this week-end was one of the quietest in the history of the town. No drinking was noticed and no unnecessary boisterous ness by any of. the students marred the opening of the University. College Night To Be Held Tomorrow . ight in Memorial Hall TAR HEEL MEETING Freshmen and upperclass men who wish to try out for the staff of the Daily Tar Heel will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Tar Heel office, basement of Alumni Building. Members of the present staff will meet at the same hour. New beats will be as signed and a number of im portant changes in the staff organization will be made. There will be a business staff meeting Monday night at 7:30 at the office. BOOK SHOP HAS BRIGHT OUTLOOK Bull's Head Bookshop is Becom ing Increasingly Popular With Students. The popularity which the Bull's Head Bookshop at Mur phey 214 has enjoyed since its establishment a few years ago. is not on the wane this velar, if early indications are not false. Within the first three days of its operation this fall, numer ous readers and the usual num ber of purchasers have come in for a quiet bit of recreation, reading books not on required lists. The Bull's Head was founded by Professor Howard Mumford Jones, who when he came here from the University, of Texas initiated tne movement tor a room in the language building where students might read the latest novels, biographies and general works and if they chose to, to buy them- It was established on a small scale, but its popularity grew, and now a large stock is kept on hand. The shop is operated as a branch of the Book Exchange. Its policy is to carry books of general interest rather than texts, though occasionally novels and plays studied in class are to be procured there in various cheao editions, . such as the Everyman and Modern Library. The idea of a popular reading room, however, has persisted, and it is the boast of the shop that no one has been asked to buy a book there. Among the new books recent ly added to stock are Howard W. Odum's Wing on My Feet, which has received numerous laudatory reviews and seems to be headed for even greater suc cess than Rainbow Round My Shoulder, the first part of the Odessey of the Black Ulysses; Andre Maurois' fine novel, At mosphere of Love, and his 'As pects of Biography (readers will remember M. Maurois as author of Ariel, the novelized life of Shelley, and of Disraeli) ; Claude G. Bowers' excellent treatment of The Tragic Era, the Recon struction period in the South ; and several humorous books which should prove interesting to those who want to start off the year iwith light reading. The Bull's Head is open all week days from 8:30 in the morning to 5 p. m. and on Sat- urdav from 8:30 to 12 o'clock. Navy was rated as the strong est team in the East at the end of the 1928 football season. Exercises - Frank Page, Former Highway Chief and Now Vice-President of Bank, Will Be Prin cipal Speaker at Annual Ex ercises. With Frank Page, former chairman of the state highway commission, President H. W. Chase and Ray Farris, president of the student body, as the prin cipal speakers, the annual Col lege Night exercises will be held in Memorial Hall tomorrow night. The program will get un derway at 8:15 wheri the Uni versity band assembles on the chapel steps to play the opening selection, and the exercises will begin inside Memorial Hall at 8:30. Providing the first opportun ity for the new men to gather with the upperclassmen in a general campus event, College Night is one of the high lights of the school year. Representa tives of the three chief groups connected with the University, faculty, student body and alum ni, deliver addresses. . Peyton Abbott will lead the cheering, which is always a fea ture of College Night, in the ab sence of a cheer leader. Elec tion of an official cheer leader has not yet been held. A num ber of special entertainment fea tures' have been arranged under the direction of Abbott. NELSON HIGHWAY AIDS MOTORISTS VISITING UNIV. Road Opened in August Short ens Distance to Greensboro and Raleigh. (By R. W. Madry) "The entire stretch of the state highway between Nelson and Graham was opened for traffic this week, and as a result the University was brought in to much closer touch with the state and the nation. The distance from Chapel Hill to Greensboro is now only 45 miles, whereas it formerly was 60; while the distance from Chapel Hill to Raleigh is only 28 . miles whereas . it formerly was 36. This new stretch of highway will divert a great deal of travel north and south that formerly passed through Durham, Hills boro, Mebane and Haw River. In fact, it is now nearer from Dur ham to Greensboro via Chapel Hill than by the old route. By way of Chapel Hill it is now only 73 miles from Raleigh to Greensboro, whereas by way of Durham the distance is 86 miles. This new Nelson-Graham highway is in excellent shape. The section from Nelson to Chapel Hill, which intersects the Durham-Raleigh highway about 10 miles east of Durham, was recently tarred. The first 15 miles of the section from Chap el Hill to Graham is sand-clay and the last 10 miles is cement. The 20 miles from Graham to Burlington is all cement. Nibs Price, California coach, never played collegiate football, but participated in the Rugby game which was played at Berk ley when he was there-
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