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DR. CHARLES BEARD
. WEIL LECTURES
GERRARD HALL 8:00 P. M.
: DR. HIH- MENG
MANCHURIAN PROBLEM
GERRARD HALL 7:00 P. M.
VOLUME XLI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933
NUMBER 110
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CHIH MENG WILL
DELIVER ADDRESS
UPON MANCHURIA
Lecture and Discussion Will Be
In Gerrard Hall Tonight
At 7:00 O'clock.
H. M. Jones To Speak
Founder of "Bull's Head" Will Talk
At Weekly Meeting at 4:30.
The opening address of a
series of lectures and forum
discussions on the Sino-Japanese
difficulties will be delivered to
night at 7 :00 o'clock in Gerrard
liall by Dr. Chih Meng, assoc
iate director of the China In
stitute, in America, of which
Dr. Paul Monroe of Columbia
University is director. The ad
dress, a discussion of "The Man
churian Problem," will precede
hp first Weil lecture at 8:00
o'clock in the same hall.
Dr. Meng will lead forum dis
Hussions for individual history
.and government classes tomor
row morning until 12 :00 o'clock;
At 12:00 o'clock he will speak
and conduct a forum for several
combined classes and for as
many of the public as attend in
Bingham hall auditorium. Dr.
Meng is accompanied by his
-wife, who is available for for
ums with the women of Chapel
Hill.
Active Public Life
Dr. Meng is actively engaged
in public affairs and belongs to
the progressive wing in China's
new political growth. For a
number of years he has been a
Iteen student of Japanese affairs
irhich in any . way relate to
China. Out of this background
Tae comes to the University as an
able student of the topic he is
to discuss.
Recognized as one of the lead
ing contemporary authorities,
Dr. Meng is appearing under the
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SECOND CONCERT
TO BE PRESENTED
Harold Dyer Will Conduct Sym
phony Orchestra Sunday Af
ternoon in Music Hall.
Professor Howard Mumf ord
Jones, former member of the
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University English department,
will be the speaker at the week
ly Bull's Head meeting this af
ternoon at 4:30 o'clock:
Professor Jones, holder of a
Gugenheim scholarship, has
been teaching in Michigan since
leaving the University. He has
written poetry and is the au
thor of America and French
Culture and co-author of The
Romanesque Lyric. He has also
contributed to Scribner's.
While a member of the fac
ulty here Professor Jones found
ed the Bull's Head bookshop.
DRAMA GROUP TO
PRESENT COMEDY
DURING WI$EK-END
Playmakers Will Produce For
mer Student's Work, "Sad
Words to Gay Music."
STUDENTS DESIRE
RONALD TAMBLYN
AS LOCAL PASTOR
Petition Circulated on Campus Re
quests Call for Substitute Pres
byterian Minister.
The University symphony or
chestra, conducted by Professor
Harold S. Dyer, will present its
second concert of this season
:Sunday afternoon, February 26,
in Hill music hall at 4 :00 o'clock.
The symphony orchestra fol
lows a custom of presenting one
concert on the campus each quar
ter. The first concert was given
in December and another will
be presented in May. The or
ganization numbers fifty musi
cians from the music school, fac
ulty, and residents of Chapel
Hill.
Sunday's program will fea
ture a concerto for violin by
Bruch played by Professor T.
Smith McCorkle, concertmeister
of the orchestra. Other selec
tions on the program will in
clude Massenet's ballet La
Source, an arrangement for or
chestra of Wagner's Walthers
Prieslied from Die Meistersing
er and V.alse Triste by Jean
Sibelius.
Continuing their policy of oc
casionally producing an original
play by some University student
or graduate, the Playmakers
will present Sad Words to Gay
Music, by Alvin Kerr, in the.
Playmaker theatre Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday of this
week.
Kerr's Play is built around I finitely more
the character of an American
girl who goes to London to visit
the mother of her fiance, a
young Englishman whom she
has met in New York. The
young heroine's irrepressible
spirits prove very distressing in
the English household, and the
worst suspicions of her intend
ed mother-in-law are confirmed
when she runs away and mar
ries an old friend of the family.
Intriguing Home-Life
The home-life of this very un
usual couple furnishes excellent
comedy during the last two acts.
The middle-aged husband de
cides to regain his youth by con
tinually throwing parties, danc
ing on every possible occasion to
the loudest and snappiest music,
inventing a bar that pops out
at the touch of a button, wear
ing violently colored pajamas,
and, to cap the climax, coming
down with a severe case of the
mumps.
A movement sponsored pri
marily by Presbyterian students
in the University has been
launched on the campus with
the aim of having the local
Presbyterian call Reverend Ron
ald Tamblyn to the pulpit of the
church, it was learned yester
day.
Reverend Tamblyn has filled
the pulpit of the church during
the illness and since the death
of the late Dr. W. P. Moss, and
has gained popularity with both
students and church members.
The movement has taken the
form of a petition to the con
gregation of the church and
sponsors are actively canvass
ing the campus to secure the
names of eight hundred or more
students who are well enough
acquainted with the work of i
Tamblyn to back the movement.
Capability Cited
The petition states that dur
ing his short residence in
Chapel Hill, Tamblyn has shown
himself to be "a capable, tact
ful, devoted and thorough leader
and scholar in both religious and
intellectual life"; and that the
presence of a man of his capa
city in the community will be
beneficial than
the presence of several less ex
perienced men.
Reverend Tamblyn, a grad
uate of Harvard Seminary, came
to Chapel Hill from Greensboro.
He is considered one of the
most liberal ministers in the
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BOTANY DIVISION
SECURES VOLUMES
ON WILD FLOWERS
Set of Paintings by Mary Vaux Wal
cott Is Composed of Most Com
plete Selection of Flowers.
The botany department has
just received a five volume set
of wild flower paintings by
Mary Vaux Walcott entitled
North American Wild Flowers.
This collection was bought by
the library through the Biblio
graphical Aids fund, and repre
sents the most complete selec
tion of North American flowers
in existence.
Mrs. Walcott has spent- her
life in painting and describing
these various types of flowers
Many oi tnem were done on
geological trips with her hus
band, Dr, Charles Walcott, for
mer secretary of the Smithson
ian institute. The western flow
ers were frequently painted un
der very trying conditions. Of
ten, on a mountain side or high
pass a fire was necessary to
warm her stiffened fingers and
body. During a period of ten
years she spent from three to
four months a season-in study
ing in the Canadian Rockies.
. A secret process, which brings
out the white very distinctly,
has been used in printing this
collection!"
New Walk Planned
Members of Faculty and Student
Body Not Decided on Location.
Ten prominent members of
the University faculty and stu
dent body met yesterday after
noon in front of Graham Mem
orial, deliberated for over a
half of an hour, and failed to
reach a decision on a new walk
to be laid between Graham
Memorial and the gate facing
the post office.
Members of the grounds com
mittee, making the survey, stat
ed yesterday that no action on
the new walk would be taken
until student preference had
been ascertained through a se
lected group of representative
students.
SALON ENSEMBLE
TO FURNISH MUSIC
FOR PLAYMAKERS
Thor Johnson's Ensemble Will Play
Overture and Entre-Act Music
Thursday and Saturday.
SEVENTEEN MEN
TAKEN INTO NEW
HONORARY ORDER
Alpha Chapter of Beta Gamma
Sigma Initiates Eight Profes
sors and Nine Students.
Monogram Club to Meet
- The Monogram club will meet
in its regular quarterly session
tonight at .7 :15 o'clock in room
214 Graham Memorial,1 accord
ing to an announcement by the
president. The proposed initia
tion for new members of the
club will be a topic for discussion.
Greek Weiner Purveyor Is
Cosmopolite And Wanderer
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George Colment, Who Operates Chapel Hill's Odoriferous Hot Dog
Stand, Is Accomplished Linguist and Has Figured
In Rare Adventures.
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From olive groves to sizzling j face in a manner to remind one
weiners. That's the history of of a soldier who has been around
A. I. E. E. Meets Tonight
A regular meeting of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers is scheduled for to
night at 7:45 o'clock in 206 Phil
ips hall. The principal speak
er of the evening will be J. P.
McConnell, a University alum
nus and plant engineer of the
Burlington mills. His subject
will be some phase of electrical
engineering. The public is .in
cited to attend.
The Carolina Salon ensemble,
conducted by Thor Martin
Johnson, will play at the Play
makers theatre Thursday and
Saturday evenings in connection
with the current bill of the dra
matic group featuring Sad
Words to Gay Music, a Broad
way farce written by a former
member of the Playmakers.
The ensemble will present an
overture and will play between
the acts. This is the sixth cam
pus appearance of the group this
quarter. The most recent pre
sentation was in connection with
the Playmaker production of
George Bernard Shaw's play
You Never Can Tell which open
ed the Shaw-Henderson festival
here. The ensemble has sche
duled several other appearances
before the end of the quarter
among which will be a chapel
program given before the fresh
men assembly.
George Colment purveyor of
hot dogs in the little odoriferous
shack adjoining the Carolina
theatre.
But George has not always
had the satisfaction of the mid
night appetites of Hill residents
uppermost in his mind. In his
youth, years ago on the sunny
slopes of the Attic hills that
George always mentions with a
yearning look in his eye, the de
sire for romance, for adventure
burned in his soul.
Noted Traveler
Modern psychologists would
call George's bewilderment
weltschmerz, but to George it
was only the call of something
new over the horizon that drew
him on. Leaving his native
home, this modern Odysseus
started on a travel tour that car
ried him to nearly every country
in Europe and northern Africa.
Linguistic difficulties have
never been George's problems.
Not only can he speak and write
seven languages Greek, Eng
lish, Italian, French, Spanish,
Turkish, and some dialects of
the Romany tongue but, and
what is more interesting and
more striKing, ne can sing in
each one of these. George has
a fondness for France and Par-
isiennes, and to show that he
really treasured his memories of
Marianne in his mind, he offer
ed to sing a couple of bars of
Le Marsellaise.
Tall and dark, and with
wrinkles wreathing his stern
the world and seen and suffered
much, George would never be
suspected of any amatory con
quests. But Mrs. Colment
and there appeared to be a
twinkle in her eye at the time-
stated that George has an es
pecial fondness for young Turk
ish and French misses. George
smiled deprecatingly, as though
to say that this was of the far
distant past. But an active
imagination could easily picture
George as a lineal descendant of
either Ali Babba, Abou Ben Ad
hem, King Solomon, or the man
in the iron mask.
Involved in Penn Gunplay
George figured quite promin
ently last year in the Ashby
Penn shooting. In fact he was
the casus belli of that shooting
affray, and was nothing, loath to
recount his own part in the af
fair. "But that will never hap
pen again," said George.
"Look." And behind the coun
ter, the polished muzzle of
wicked looking shotgun was vis
ible. George means business.
"And look," and he flourished a
pearl-handled revolver, which he
claimed he intended to carry
around with him wherever he
went. "And it's loaded," hissed
George closely. Apparently al
George needs to do in the future
is to hiss closely to any intruder
.During the war, ueorge ran
three restaurants at Newport
News, Va., and while he catered
there to some "tough charac
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DR. BEARD WILL
COMMENCE WEIL
LECTURES TODAY
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President Graham Will Preside
Over Talk at 8:00 O'clock
In Gerrard Hall.
seventeen university men,
eight members of the faculty
and nine students, were initiat
ed into the North Carolina Al
pha chapter of the Beta Gamma
Sigma, national honorary com
merce fraternity, yesterday.
Following the initiation a ban
quet was held in Graham Mem
orial. John W. Jenkins of the
University of Georgia, Grand
Secretary and, Treasury of the
fraternity was in charge of the
initiation ceremony.
The members of the faculty
initiated yesterday were: Dean
D. D. Carroll and Professors G.
T. Schwenning, E. E. Peacock,
R. J. M. Hobbs, R. H. Sherrill,
J. B. Woosley, H. D. Wolf, and
W. F. Ferger. The students
taken in were: A. O. Carroway,
R. D. Covington, R. D. Davis,
C. C. Hamlet, O. J. Moore, An
thony Oliverio, Carroll Rogers,
Jack Thompson, and Virginia
Yancey.
The charter for the Alpha
chapter was granted following
the petitioning by a small group
of the faculty and students. The
constitution of the organization
provides that not more than one
fifteenth of the junior class nor
more than one tenth the senior
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SONG COMMITTEE
TO MEET TODAY
FOR DISCUSSIONS
Members Will Gather in 2 Hill Music
Hall During Assembly Period
This Morning.
Speaking on the "Father's
Conception of National Inter
est," Dr. Charles A. Beard, dis
tinguished American historian
and economist, will deliver the
first of the annual series of Weil
Lectures tonight at 8:00 o'clock
in Gerrard hall with President
Graham presiding. The series
will consist of three lectures on
the general subject," "What Is
National Interest," the first of
which comes tonight and the
other two on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings of this same
week. fc
The theme of Dr. Beard's
lectures will be to give a clear
conception of what is the na
tional interest which must be
maintained by independent na
tions while they are participat
ing in international cooperative
moves. The particular subjects
of the other two talks will be
"The Development of the Con
ception Land and Sea," on
Wednesday evening, and "To
ward a New Definition of Na
tional Interest," on Thursday
evening. , "
Dr. Beard, who, with Mrs.
Beard, has been visiting in
Chapel Hill for several weeks, is
one of -the most outstanding men
in the fields of history and social
science in America today. He
comes to the University to con
tinue this annual series of lec
tures and has had a long line of
distinguished predecessors at
the task, including former Pre-
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JENNINGS SPEAKS
AT CHAPEL HERE
Episcopal College Work Secre
tary Discusses Putting Zest
Into Our Lifes.
The University song com
mittee, appointed last fall to
consider the selection of a new
University anthem, will meet
during assembly period this
morning in 2 Hill music hall to
discuss further plans for secur
ing a song.
Started last October by the
Grail, the movement has gained
no results as yet, although songs
have been considered.
The committee to gather this
morning' is composed of : fac
ulty members : J. Maryon Saun
ders, University alumni secre
tary: C. T. Woollen, business
manager of the University ; Pro
fessors T. Smith McCorkle and
H. S. Dyer of the music depart
ment; and R. B. House, execu
tive secretary of the University ;
student members : Haywood
Weeks, Claiborn Carr, Claude
Sawyer, Wofford Humphries,
Thor Johnson, and Bobbie
Mason.
Coleman Jennings, college
work secretary for the Episco
pal church in Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, and West
Virginia, yesterday addressed
the freshmen and sophomores
during assembly period with a
short but interesting talk in
which he analyzed the two
trends which tend to put zest in
life.
The problem which confronts
us all, according to Jennings, is:
"How are we to get zest out of
life?" He said that there are
two trails to that end ; one being
a downward trail, and the other
an upward trail. "Following
the crowd, snobbishness, and
filling our lives so full that we
have no time for the really,
worthwhile things in life," were
cited by Jennings as examples.
Jennings stated that religion
was the best of the upward
trends. Many people put relig
ion in the "believe it or not"
class, according to Jennings,
but belief in the fact that there
is a being above us certainly
cannot-be put in that class.
Devotionals Today
Voluntary devotional services
will be resumed this morning at
10:30 o'clock in Memorial hall
with J. D. Winslow conducting
the short scripture reading and
prayer. Walter Patterson will
open and close the program with
meditative selections on the or
gan. , ; .