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CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BETAS VS. RUFFIN KENAN STADIUM 4:00 " .championship game BETAS VS. RUFFIN KENAN STADIUM 1:00 ' i VOLUME XXXIX DAVIDSON TO BE HOST OF ANNUAL LANGUAGE MEET Doctors Lea vitt and Taylor Are Listed Among Prominent Speakers at Convention A The third annual convention of the South Atlantic ' Modern Language Association will meet November 28 and 29 at Davidson College. ' The program starts Friday afternoon, November 28, 1 with registration. The association is divided into four parts. The English section, of which Jay B. Hubbell, of Duke University, is chairman. The French section is under the chairmanship of W. S. Barney, of North Carolina College for Women. The chairman of the German section is Guy R. Vowles, of Davidson College, while the Spanish section has as its chairman E. V. Gage, of Flor ida State College for Women. An address of welcome by Dean J. M. McConnell of David son College will open the pro gram on Friday night at eight o'clock. Following this songs in! English, French, German, ana Scandanavian will be rendered by Mrs. E. J. Cullum and Mrs. G. R. Vowles. The third num ber on the program will be a one-act play entitled , "A Sunny Morning," by the ' Quintero brothers, and translated into English by Professor Fred K. Fleagle. A lecture with slides given by Professor John N. Ware of Shorter College on "Villon in Paris"' will conclude the Friday night program. Saturday morning will be given over to a business session at which time F. W. Bradley, of the University of South Caro lina, will preside. Following a report of the committees, next year's officers will be elected. (Continued on last page) Mental Hygiene' Of National In the last November issue of j the Survey, there appears a re- j view of Dr. Groves' latest book, Mental Hygiene. Written with Phyllis Blanch ard, this book has met with wide approval of the men and women interested in the subject. Dr. George K. Pratt of the National Committee for 'Mental Hygiene reviews the bookt as follows : "This is the book that every person in the professional field of mental hygiene has promised himself some day he would write. That Groves and Blan chard should have stolen a march on the rest of us who were laggard, speaks much for their energy and perspicacity. And the best of it is that the book is a corking fine one. The au thors have been particularly suc cessful in steering "with a nice discrimination between the Scyl la of writing a self-conscious and simplified primer and the Chary bdis of inditing a ponderous and equally self-conscious tome. Mental Hygiene comes as near having a universal appeal as any work: of its kind, and its generous bibliography and Questions for class discussion at the end of each chapter make it an almost ideal textbook for students in sociology, psycholo gy, social work arid psychiatry. "The reviewer with difficulty restrains his cheers, especially for the excellence of the first two chapters on the origin and de velopment of mental hygiene and the psychiatric background. GREEN WILL READ HIS NEW PLAY ON SUNDAY EVENING Music Will Accompany Reading "Tread the Green Grass" "of Tread The Green Grass, Paul Green's latest contribution to the field of drama, will be read by the author Sunday evening, at 8:30 in the Playmakers Thea tre. This is the second Play maker reading of the year and from all accounts it should be one of the best, if not the best, on the schedule. Lamar String- field has written a musical ac companiment for this play and will direct this in accord with the reading. Tread the Green Grass is to be produced in New York some time this season. In cidentally, the Pulitzer Prize winner by way of Abraham's Bosom, has another play, The House of Connolly, preparing for the 'metropolitan stage. , Concerning the reading' of Tread the Green Grass Paul Green has issued the following statement: "A string quartette with flute under the direction of Lamar Stringfield will play the music which Mr. Stringfield is composing for the play. Tread The Green Grass is a philosophi cal fantasy written in the form of a musical composition some what in the nature of an opera. "The story is that of a young girl, seventeen years'" old, in whose mind the personifications of Christian religion, paganism of sex, childish beliefs in fairies, and Mother Goose (a code of morality) and the . common sense of the everyday life strug gle for supremacy. The charac ters in the piece representing the different phases or personi fications of the girl's character are a young preacher (Jesus), a young lawbreaker hiding in the woods (Dionysus) with whom she runs away, an old woman (Continued on page two) Receives Praise Hygiene Committee Taken together these portions constitute as fascinating (and as authentic) a portrayal of how mental hygiene came to be, as anything yet to appear. Then come successive chapters deal ing with the influence of mental hygiene on childhood, adoles cence, marriage, the schools and colleges, industry, recreation, re ligion, literature, social work, and public opinion. Read con secutively and then integrated in the reader's mind as a whole, these chapters give an insight into the amazing thoroughness with which the concepts of men tal hygiene have permeated the thinking, and frequently the techniques, of virtually all the social sciences. Probably the most helpful contribution men tal hygiene has made to these so cial sciences is found in its in sistence on a dynamic point of view that asks why people act as they do, as contrasted to con ventional and static practices that rest content merely to ask what people are, and to paste la bels on conduct accordingly. Groves and Blanchard have caught and imprisoned in their book the true significance of this contribution and have de monstrated effectively how edu cation, religion, social work, and the like, can free themselves from some of the fetters of out moded tradition that render sterile so much of their effort. George K. Pratt, M. D. National Committee for Mental Hygiene. CHAPEL HILL, N. C F HID The Jitney Players in Action The above picture is a scene from "The Murder in the Red Barn" which the Jitney Players, renowned troupe of traveling dramatists, will present, along with "The Duenna," in the Play maker Theatre on December 1 and 2. . Unique Dramatic Troupe Is To Present To Shows In Village On the first and second of December the renowned Jitney Players will present The Murder in the Red Bam and The Duenn i in the Playmakers Theatre, i was officially announced today. The announcement comes as an agreeable surprise to those who are acquainted with the ability and history of this little troupe of traveling actors. Subscription tickets will not cover this attraction but reser vations may be obtained tomor row at the Students' Supply store. A special rate of fifty cents is offered to students. The . history of the Jitney Players who presented a series of performances, here last year with great success, is indeed an interesting one. Eight years ago the people of any New England town or re sort might have been startled tq see springing up in their midst a complete theatre, un folding from what proved, on closer inspection, to be automo bile stage. A Ford truck with an unusual body, plus another truck for baggage, plus the un bounded enthusiasm of youth, with a genius for ferreting out good plays, equalled The Jitney Players introducing themselves to the people of New England and to troubled theatrical waters. Just who and what are The Jitney Players? v This question may well be asked as this win ter, people of this town will see rolling through their streets trucks and cars labeled "The Jitney Players." Eight x years ago Bushnell Cheney and -his bride, Alice Keating Cheney, were beseeched by their many , friends who urged them to produce summer entertainment for -various chari ties. Both Miss Keating and Mr. Cheney were well known in theatrical circles, having played on Broadway, so it was natural that the social world, which had had been theirx background, should turn to them when some thing different was needed for their benefits. Along with the romantic background of The Jit ney Players it must be recorded that the funds for starting the players were the wedding check presents sent to the bride and groom. ' The first company, composed of Broadway professionals rein- iorced bv college friends as w 0 stage hands, sallied, forth in the summer of 1923 in real gypsy AY, NOVEMBER 21, 1330 fashion, riding wherever they might perch on the trucks, play ing beneath the stars and when the days work was done, sleep ing alongside their stage. How ever, up to the moment of start ing the company was unnamed. As they rolled out on the high way, on that first eventful jour ney, one of the company laugh ingly shouted, "Here goes the jitney players," calling the -company after the more or less stock term for Fords, and so the name conceived in jest has grown into one of the best known of all theatrical organizations, an . or ganization that the New York papers claim is -the saving grace of the present theatrical orgy. Like any new departure from the conventions The Jitney Players were at first - looked upon with skepticisrn. Soon, however, the people of the east began to look forward to the an nual visits of this company. Small out of the way places wel comed them ; summer resorts be sought them; the better drama was coming into its own ; the road, in its most primitive sense had returned. The , result was the enlarging of company and equipment. Throughout the de velopment of the materialistic side, in caring for the bodily comforts of actors and patrons, the original idea of presenting the unusual and best drama- of all ages was not lost sight of. Out of the demands from new sources came the winter touring company of The Jitney Players, carrying on the principles of the summer company, l?ut acting in doors. The new step was taken in 1928 and has so grown that at present the winter season out lasts the summer one. After all citadels of the drama and educa tion had succumbed to The Jit ney Players the only field unex plored was that center of com mercialism, New York. . Here meeting the commercial theatre on its own terms, on its own field, The Jitney Players enjoy ed a five weeks' run, winning unanimous acclaim from the New York press. Back of all the success of -The Jitney Play ers lies the simple fact that suc cess has never dimmed the ideal. The play has always been con sidered before the N box-office, with the result that those of dis cernment in the, theatre have spread the word, and an ever growing reputation has opened wider fields. V P. H. J. LOCAL ORDER OF MECHANICS WILL BE DISTRICT HOST Meeting of Nineteenth District Will Be at Pickwick Theatre Tonight " .Members of the 19th state dis trict of the Junior Order : of United American Mechanics will meet at 7 :30 tonight in the City Recorder's Court room (Pick wick Theatre Building). J. Frank Adams, "district deputy, of Durham, will be the presid ing officer at the meeting. Rev. Roy Morris, of Carrboro, will open the program with an invocation, which will be follow ed by an address of welcome by Mayor Zeb P. Council. L. M. Carlton of Roxboro, will respond ! to Council's welcome. . . After the reports of the var ious councils, in the district, D. W. Sorrell of Durham will in troduce Rev. S. Fr Nicks, of Rox boro, state vice-councilor whose address will be followed by talks by E. V. Harris, of Tarboro, and Dr. Chas. E. Brewer, presi dent of Meredith College. Dr. Brewer, present national vice councilor of the organization, will be introduced by R. M. Gantt of Durham, who is a past state councilor. The 19th State District is composed of thirteen councils in - Durham, Caswell, and Orange Counties. German Club AH applications for member ship in the German Club must be turned in before seven o'clock tonight to Will Yarborough, Sigma Alpha, Epsilon House. Cards for the dances may be se cured every night from seven to eight at the S. A. E. house. Candy-Pull Tonight Tonight at seven-thirty in the basehient of the Methodist church there will be an old fash ioned candy-pull. Students are invited. Law Students Discuss Insanity And Dirunkeness As Crime Alibis By L. S. S. "There, little murderer, don't you cry. Just plead crazy and you'll get by." This prevailing popular sentiment caused the class in the administration of justice in the law school to in vite Dr. English Bagby and Dr. J. F. Dashiel of the psychology department to its November dis cussion, led by Professor Coates of insanity and criminal lawr The meeting was opened by a talk on responsibility for crime committed while drunk or in the throes of delirium tremens by W. B. Matheny, first year law student from Forest City. He stated that voluntary drunk enness, while it might reduce the degree of a crime, was never an excuse or defense. "Permanent insanitv caused bv chronic al coholism, however, is as good an insanity as any so far as the criminal is concerned," he stat ed.;; ; V -The court's definition of a de fendant's sanity the ability to know the nature of his act and whether it is right or wrong was discussed in a paper by Wrex Malone, third year law student from Asheville. "The defendant," he said, "must prove his defense of insanity to the satisfaction of the jury." Moral insanity, Mr. Malone explained, was not re cognized in North Carolina as the courts maintain that "to know the right and still pursue the wrong is to be under the se duction of the evil one." NUMBER 53 ALULIM OFFICERS MI HULL IE CHOSEN BY ASSOCIATION Committee to Present Nomina tions at Annual Business Session. Here The nominating committee for officers of the General Alumni Association of the University has been appointed by W. T. Shore, of Charlotte, president of the association. Judge J. Crawford Biggs of Raleigh, T. Holt Haywood, of Winston-Salem, and Herman G. Baity, of Chapel Hill, will serve on this committee and will pre sent nominations for officers at the annual business session of the association which will con vene in Chapel Hill December 5 for two days. This committee will present to the assembled alumni of the University nominations for president, two vice-presidents, and a representative on the Uni versity athletic council, and the association will in turn nominate two candidates for each of these positions to be presented to members of the association by ! mail ballot. The new officers will be announced January 1, 1931. The 1930 Alumni Assembly opens December 5 with a dinner at six-thirty o'clock at the Caro lina Inn. The program will center around the topic, "What has happened to the relation between teacher and student at the Uni-; versity of North Carolina?" with discussions led by Deans A. W. Hobbs, D. D. Carroll, Francis F. Bradshaw, and- Dr. English Bagbyall of the Uni versity faculty. The business session of the annual assembly will be at the Carolina Inn Saturday morning, December 6, beginning at ten thirty o'clock. - M. R. Alexander, third year law student from Asheville, dis cussed the function and prob lems of the expert witness in court. "The average juror, he stated, "was just as able to diag nose a case of insanity as a case of pellagra or leprosy." "Mr. Alexander demonstrated the difficulties of the hypothetical question. Martin Kellogg, Jr., third year law student from Sunbury, discussed the disposition of a defendant who had been de clared insane. After the discussion of the law's treatment of insanity the program of the meeting .was turned over to Dr. Bagby and Dr. Dashiell who demonstrated thoroughly the difference in the legal and psychological point of views. According to Dr. Bagby, "lawyers want the expert wit ness to say that the defendant has symptoms A, B, and C which-clearly indicate demonical depressive insanity which would make him knock people in the head. . , "The conditions under which an expert must examine a de fendant make this impossible,", stated Dr. Bagby. He further stated that tq send an expert out for an hour to examine a de fendant and come back with a verdict of sane or insane was grotesque. "However," admit ted Dr. Bagby, "if you dangle $250 a day before him, an expert will be very liable to reach a conclusion." . --
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