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Jm ? " OPEN FORUM DR. CHIH MENG BINGHAM HALL 12:00 WEIL LECTURE DR. CHARLES A. BEARD GERRARD HALL 8:00 VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933 NUMBER 111 n tlD 1 I I it FIVE NAMED FOR FELLOWSHIPS BY DEANA.W.HOBBS CQACH RANSON URGES MORE ATHLETIC SPIRIT M. D. Ranson, coach of the University cross-country team, spoke before the freshman ex ecutive committee, Monday night Twenty-Four to Be Selected by in behalf of the betterment of Harvard as Junior Fellows athletics at the University. He Under New Award. pointed out the growing laxity in athletic trainincr and the lack of Five students m the Univer-1 t d enthuaiaam of the sity have been recommended by student body in athletic' events, Dean A. VV. liobbs ol tne scnooi and also emphasized the fact of liberal arts lor appointment tnat several prominent alumni as junior prize ienows m xi- had expressed their dissatisfac vard University's "The Society t- - itK th , it f our ath- of Fellows," which has recently letic code Coach Ranson urged A I J 1 been tormed, it was announceu th pnnnn-i tn rnnrafp with the yesterday. The names of the eligible students were not made public. The fellowship society of Har vard is composed of senior fel lows, a group consisting of the president of the University and the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, ez officio, and a chairman and four others ap pointed by the corporation and confirmed by the board of over seers, and of junior prize fel lows, who are appointed by the senior board from the recom mendations submitted by college deans and presidents throughout the country. Dean Hobbs has heeri authorized to act in the recommending capacity here. Chosen on Merits Monogram club. The donation of a hundred dollars to the university loan fund for the use of selp-help freshmen was also discussed. DR. ODUM POINTS TO RISE OF NEW SOCIALFRONTIER Can Be Broken Down Only by Development of New Social Constitution, He Says. The United States is facing a new, social frontier, according to Dr. Howard W. Odum, director of the University institute for research in social science who Twenty-four junior prize f el- spoke Monday night in Gerrard lows are selected on the basis of hall. This new frontier can be their promise of notable con- broken -down and a new . social trihution to knowledge and order established only when the thought. They shall devote their people are willing to draw up a whole time to productive scho- social constitution that will take William Gaston Candler Oldest Living Alumnus Of University '. o .. Attended Law School Here in 1854 and 1855, and Has Practiced For Thirty Years; Reverend William Curtis Prout of Middleville, N. Y., Is Oldest Living Graduate. o- SONG COMMITTEE WILL HAVE MUSIC PUBLISHED larship free from academic regulations for degrees, and shall have all. the , privileges ;tof . '. :- .. . ' . -' 4 : . , . ontinued . on , page., two) mm KREISLER TO GI VE CONCERT MONDAY EVENING Famous Viennese Violinist Will Appear Here Under Auspices Of Phi Mu Alpha. Fritz Kreisler, world famous violinist, will appear: in Me morial . hall Monday,, evening, February 27, at 8:30 o'clock. The concert is . sponsored by the local chapter of the Phi Mu Al pha musical fraternity. Kreisler is considered the most cosmopolitan genius among present day performers. Al though born in Vienna, he is by . . t ;i care oi the cnangmg social trends of today, he declared. : Dr. 0um addressed the Y: -,M.t C.A. cabinets and other inter ested students' in an open forum in 'which he discussed the social trends of the country. Dr. Odum was associate director of President'- Hoover's . committee of sociologists,- which recently completed a three-year survey of the United " States and ' on whose report- Dr. Odum based his lecture. ' ' ' Social Constitution Needed Using the Constitution' of the United States as an illustration, he emphasized the need of some form of constitution in all' the oe0a nf life. Our failure to jjiacaoj . - ...... adopt a social constitution, con tinued Dr. Odum, has 'been due Aiir fpar nf snrial training, of IU uui ; . ' rationalization, in that respect He explained that the present rUsfiirhprl social conditions . are In the year 1854-55, during the time when David L. SwTain was president of the University and Elisha Mitchell was profes sor of science, a young man, William Gaston Candler, attend ed the law school here. At the death of Dr. William M. Rich ardson, '51, who. died a few months ago at the age of ninety- eight, Candler became the old est living alumnus of the Uni versity. Born in Candler, Bun combe county, Candler came to the law school at the age of twenty. Holding what is to be lieved to be the oldest law li cense in the state, issued at the June session of the Supreme Court in 1885, he has practiced law tor thirty years. Me was elected to the lower house of the JNortn Carolina legislature in 1865, 1868, 1874, and 1896. In 1872 he ran for Congress on the Republican ticket against General Robert B: Vance, but, since the district ,was Demo cratic, he was defeated. Cand ler is a life long Republican and advocate of prohibition. ' Fought in Civil War During the Civil War, Cand ler served as firsi lieutenant in the sixtieth North Carolina regiment. Upon the death of his father, he was permitted to hire a substitute long enough for him to go home to wind up his father's estate. At this time he was elected prosecuting attorney for Buncombe, Transylvania and Madison counties. He held this office until the end of the war. v "' '' Ckndler still ' lives in Buri combe, county with his family April 15 of this . year" will ' see him entering upon his hundreth year. To be a centenarian has been his ambition for the past thirty years. Oldest Living Graduate Eight years after Candler en tered the University, another At a meeting of the school i i t song committee yesteraay, im portant steps were taken toward securing publication of a num ber of school songs now on hand. A number of interested people both outside the University and inside are working for the pub lication of the available songs. The committee will meet next ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES IS OPENED HEREJY BEARD Weil Speaker States Diplomacy Is Based on Conceptions of National Interest. m 3 a J : J j.e ;ai. i VI f 1 llllMVriMV 111 f 1 "III- young man, tne oldest living J J graduate of the University, was 10 the selection of the song. enrolled. Reverend William Cur- aiscussion tooK piace aoout tis Prout of Middleville, N. Y., tne Publication ,and orchestra received his A.B. degree in 1865. tlon of Hark the Sound- A num" Born at Watauga January 31, ber ot calls nave been Placed for 1848 he entered the University cPies ot he son b members in 1862 and graduated at the of the alumni and various or" age of seventeen years and four chestras and broadcasting sta- heritaffA a Czer.h. His mnsir.al tminincr wns nro. Anatn'fln due to the incapacity of the peo and French teachers. Amonfr to absorb the results of the tions have asked for copies and permission to have them orches trated for. bands and orchestras. RELATIONS WITH LATIN COUNTRIES TO BE DISCUSSED months. ie was the only one that matriculated in his class as the others were enlisted in the Confederate army. He later graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York and also received an hon orary degree from Trinity Col lege at Hartford, Connecticut. Active in Ministry Reverend Prout has been very Dr. Fred Rippy and Hubert C active in the ministry, having Herring to Speak Friday on served for the past fifty years Open Forum Series. as KprrAtflrv nf t.h Div.fse of " - 7 1 mi 11. n it Albany. . V L ,?rogram 01 V16 At. .,p mp of thp sivv.fiftl, wPen rorum-aiscussion series . - . ..." scheduled ViprA fnr Fridnu nicrht anniversary ot "his graduation . . . he said, "I look .back over these Gerrard hall will, bring to the sixty-five years and . am very grateful for what the University did for me. Although I was a mere boy and did not at all ap preciate the situation, there was given me a g;roundwork of edu cation .which has stood, me in good stead and. never left me up ready f pi the work , that. I . wds called upon to do. And I think of .the - University .with . great gratitude and great affection." This statement was part of an article which he wrote for the Alumni Review in June .1930. In this article he also described life during his stay at the Univer sity.' ;' v?; .; .. .-. DR. MENG TO GIVE China Institute Dirctpr Will Continue Forums and Lec tures on Campus GRANT LECTURES ON SEA AIRWAYS the greatest musical influences upon his career was the Italian music for the violin of the sev enteenth and eighteenth cen turies. Since the completion of his conservatory course in Paris, Kreisler has made concert tours which have taken him to every large city in the world. Never Played Over Radio Kreisler has never appeared in a radio performance and sin cerely believes that the concert 3tage is the only satisfactory means of musical presentation and that it will again be placed above the radio and "canned mu sic" variety of entertainment now so popular with the public. Kreisler's program here Mon day will include the well-known Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata, a Mozart concerto, and a group of modern compositions including several by the French composers Ravel and Debussy. Tickets for the concert are how on sale at the office of the department of music and may be reserved by telephone or mail. highly productive machines. In other words, the success of the projects which we formerly set out to achieve has been the cause for our present failure to coordinate our society-with the results of the modern industry and science. Dr. Odum offered no solution for the present economic and social illar; but presented the challenge of the committee that the people break up their soci ety into units suitable for use in the construction of an em bracing social constitution. Chosen Festival Chairman R. M. Grumman, director of the extension division, was elect ed chairman of the Dogwood Festival committee Monday af ternoon. Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt was elected vice-chairman, and Felix Grisette secretary treasurer. Committees are now being appointed by Chairman Grumman to complete theplans for the festival, which will take place in the latter part of April. Three gatherings today will hear Dr. Chih Mehg, associate director of the China Institute in America. He addresses Pro fessor K. C. Frazer's class this morning at 9 :30 o'clock in Saun ders hall on International Re lations." At 11 :00 o'clock Dr. Meng will speak m the Playmaker theatre on "The Chinese Thea tre." Heng himself is deeply in terested in the drama and has written a number of plays. The public is invited to attend this lecture. He will conduct a forum at 12:00 o'clock in the auditorium of Bingham hall for several com bined history, government, and commerce classes. Ample op portunity will be given today to ask Dr. Meng any questions that may arise during his lecture. There will be space for visitors to hear him at this f orum. . Immediately after lunch Dr. Meng will leave for N. C. State College where he will conduct a similar series of forums and lectures. Co-ed Tea ml n i mere win De a co-ed tea in Spencer hall this afternoon from 4:30 to 6:00 o'clock. Elizabeth Johnson and Janie Jollv will serve. Declares Atlantic Seadromes to Be Next Step in Develop ment of Aviation , inrection or seadromes pro viding thirty-six hour round- trips between Europe and America is the next step in aviation development, accord ing to Captain Hugh Duncan Grant, noted British meteorolog ist, who spoke in Gerrard hall Monday night. "Week-ending" in Europe will at last be a cer tainty with the construction of the proposed landing fields in mid-Atlantic. Grant's lecture, "Wings, Wea ther, and seadromes, was pre sented under theauspices of the public lectures committee of the University faculty. Dr. Archi bald Henderson introduced the speaker. A brief description of the gi gantic seadromes was given by Grant, who is now in America as consultant to the Armstrong Seadromes Ocean Airways com pany, which is undertaking the feat of planting .a series of these floating islands across the At lantic." Grant discussed the feasi bility of the idea and expounded the theories connected with the seaworthy characteristics of the seadromes. A moving picture showing many of the epic flights in avia tion history was presented im mediately following Grant's ad dress. platf orm4wo of the best known authorities -in the field of Latin American relations in Dr. Fred Rippy -and Hubert C. Herring. Their topic, appropriately head ed "America in an Interdenend- ent - World" ' will be discussed from the - cultural ' and social angle, since both are accredited with research into these phases of the Latin American situation. Dr. Rippy, since 1926 a pro fessor of history at Duke Uni versity, is the" author of numer ous books and magazine articles on Latin America, as well as a distinguished ' lecturer in this field. Agraduate of Southwest ern University in his 'native Tennessee. Dr. Rippy took his MlA; at Vanderbiltf and his doc- ibrate at the University of Cali fornia. where he afterwards served in the history depart ment. He was Albert Shaw Lec turer in American Diplomacy at Tl ' TT t .' - T T ., . uonns .nopKins university m 1928 and lecturer of the Insti tute Interamericano of the Na tional University of Mexico, in 1929. Several of his best known literary efforts are The United States and Mexico, Latin Ameri ca in World Politics, and Histor ical Background of the Ameri can Policy of Isolation (written with Angie Debo) . Herring Is Diplomat Herring is best known for his work in promoting goodwill be tween the United States and Mexico during the tense days preceding the Morrow mission. As director of the committee on cultural relations - with Latin America, he has for many years been active in promoting closer knowledge and understanding between the citizens nf th ( Continued on page two) The ruling formula of modern diplomacy is that it is based upon practical conceptions of national interest, a formula that was one time enunciated by Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, declared Dr. Austin Beard, noted historian and former professor of political science in Columbia University, in the first talk of the annual series of Weil lectures on Ameri- con citizenship. Dr. Beard ad dressed a large crowd in Ger rard hall last night. Dr. Beard will deliver the sec ond and third lectures tonight v - and tomorrow night at 8 :00 o'clock. The Weil foundation, under which the series is given was established in 1915 through the generosity of the families of Sol and Henry Weil of Golds boro, the first incumbent being William Howard Taft. Muddle in Far East Referring.to the troubled situ ation in v the Far. East, with which he has had first .hand ac quaintance for many years, Dr. Beard, pointed out . that China and Japan . have been for some time .in effect at .war, if theo retically at peace, and, that r it now appears a nominal war may become at any time an acknowl edged war. ; ' ' ; "If the . Hughes formula' Continued on page two) IS PLAYMAKERSTO PRODUCE ELM BY I EORMER MEMBER New . Version of Terr's, "Sad WwkjM Gay Music" to J3e - A Ye Tomorrow JNight j. The Carolina . Playmakers will honor one of their former mem bers in producing. Alvin Kerr's Sad Words to Gay : Musia,,, this week-end.. The comedy will be produced tomorrow night .or the first time in the . ne,w. version, which was developed after,, two productions in summer theatres. After several years with the Playmakers here, during which Kerr took a prominent part in all dramatic activities on the campus playwriting, acting, di recting, and scenery work he went to New York to gain prac tical experience in the profes sional theatre. He has acted in a number of Broadway produc tions, including: Lolly, with Mary Young; The Novice and the Duke; and Everything s Jake, Don Marquis sequel to The Old Soak. Kerr has also acted a part in and stage managed Five Star Final, starring Arthur Byron, both in New York and on the road, and directed a production of the same play in Philadel phia. A part in Wild Waves with Osgood Perkins and numerous roles in stock productions also contributed to Kerr's knowledge of plays and the theatre. Sad Words to Gay Music is his first long play. He has just completed a new one, Sour Lavender, which the Playmakers hope to produce later. Disregarding the traditional aspiration of play wrights, Kerr says that he nev er expects to write a novel. Twenty-One in Infirmary Twenty-one persons, were con fined to the infirmary yesterday. They were: Nelson Lansdale, Dave Plissoii, F. J. Mcintosh, Jimmy Craig, D. D. McCachren, P. P. Fox, C. B. Cameron, J. H. Dellinger, F. G. Wolke, Brasel Lanier, George S. Steele, Jr., B. C. Proctor, H. A. Brooks, J. A. Farmer, Louise Helens, F. C. Thomas, Hugh M. Wilson, C. P. Rogers, L. P. Tyree, Richard A. Harris, Jr., and H. H. Haniss.