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CHAPEL HILL, N. O, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 12 Z I TEBBTHi HEAD DAILY TAR EM BUSINESS STAFF New Business Manager Assumes Duties Today Filling Vacancy Left by Marcus Feinstein. SCHOLARSHIPS DISCUSSED Joe Webb of HMsboro was se lected yesterday, by the Publi cations Union board to serve as Tab Heel to succeed Marcus Feins te In of Philadelphia. His new duties were taken over with today's issue. Webb is a junior and has been actively ensasred on the business staff of the newspaper for three years. He served as assistant business manager during the fall quarter under, Feinstein. Makes Statement The board yesterday made a formal statement regarding- the new publications scholarships about which some controversy has recently arisen. The Uni versity scholarship committee thought that the board perhaps was not justified in the creation of the funds with money from student fees for use for the ben efit of a certain class of students. The P. U. board, however, yesterday declared that the cre ation of the scholarships was in line with the policy of the group this year to invest any accrued surplus, into the publications for their improvement and that they believed that the scholarships -would work to this end. - scholarships would be given to :f our members of the staffs with mo stipulation regarding the division of the staffs on which they worked. It was originally planned to award Jwo scholar ships to members of the business staffs and two to members of the -editorial boards. TEACHERS RETURN FROM CONVENTION Irs. Jocher, Groves, Johnson, And Brooks Take Part in Philadelphia Meeting. Drs. Katherine Jocher, E. R. Groves, Guy B. Johnson, and Lee M. Brooks, all of the sociolo gy department, have returned from the meeting of the Ameri can Sociological society which they attended in Philadelphia December 27-30. Dr. Jocher's paper dealt with "What Pre-Social Work Stu dents Can Get from a Study of Groups." Dr. Johnson partici pated in the program at two points, at one session presenting a paper, "Some Factors in the Development of Negro Social Institutions in The United States and at another leading the discussion on "Negro Char acter as revealed in Folklore." Dr. Brooks gave a discussion paper on "Traditions and Pat terns of Negro Family Life in the United States." He also served as a member of the com mittee on resolutions. One of the outstanding actions of the group was a vote taken favoring going on record as commending the present fed eral administration and its pre decessor not only for the sight ing of new social "objectives but also for their recognition of so cial research and of the role of social science leadership in for mulating policies pointing to ward a planned social order. GRADUATE GROUP GATHERS TONIGHT AT 7:30 O'CLOCK Drs. Knight and Pierson Will Address Club Members. A meeting of the Edwin Greenlaw Graduate club will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the lounge of Smith building. All graduate students are mem bers of the club and are urged to attend the gathering. Dr. Edgar Knight and Dean W. W. Pierson will speak on changes in curriculum. Dr. Knight, who has been investigat ing curricula of colleges and uni versities in various parts of the country, will speak with special interest in view of proposed changes at the University. Dean Pierson will analyze graduate curricula and evaluate proposals for change., A special committee appoint ed by, President Cameron will make its report on the Appoint ments Bureau of the Graduate office. , The activities of the bu reau, which have somewhat cur tailed in the last two years be cause of inadequate funds, will be discussed. It is expected that the suggestions for making, the bureau more active will receive the attention of the graduate students. TRAINING COURSE YILL START SCON Classes Will Be Conducted in 4 The Three Branches of the Greater University. Training courses for unem ployed teachers will begin in all three divisions of the Greater University of North Carolina on January 8 and will run for? a period of two weeks, it wasan nounced here yesterday. At the Woman's College in Greensboro classes will be con ducted in general adult educa tion and nursery school work. At State College, Raleigh, work in literacy classes and . general adult education will be offered. At Chapel Hill provision will be made for work in literacy classes and general adult educa tion. Blast Have Approval Teachers desiring to take ad vantage of these special courses, it was stated, should confer with their local county or city super intendents of schools and secure also the approval of the State Superintendent of Public in struction. Registration for the work to be offered at Chapel Hill will take place in Peabody building from 10 to 12 o'clock, Monday morning, January 8. Classes will start at 2 o'clock the same day. Persons interested should write to Prof. N. W. Walker, Chairman of the University committee, Chapel Hill, for fur ther particulars. Unemployed teachers ap proved for, this work will draw $12.50 per week for attendance upon the two weeks training course. The only expense to teachers in connection with the course will be a charge of one dollar a day for room and board. FEATURE BOARD TO MEET All members of the feature board will meet with the chahv man this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in 205 Graham 3IemoriaI. Upperclassmen desirous of try ing out for the board are invit ed to attend this meeting. T7C1 LAW PROCESSOR Visiting Instructors for Summer School Terms in Law School Announced by Van Heche. The visiting professors for the summer law school were an nounced yesterday by Dean 31. T. Van Hecke. The list includes Charles T. McCormick of Northwestern University, Wesley A. Sturges of Yale, Henry Rottschaefer of the University of. Minnesota, and Walter Wheeler Cook of Johns Hopkins. . Professors McCormick and Sturges will teach the courses in damages and debtors estates, respectively, during the first term. During the second term, Professors Rottschaefer and Cook will teach the courses in taxation and conflict of law. Professor McCormick was a member of the regular law; fac ulty here from 1926 to 1931, and served as dean during the last four years of that period. Professor Sturges- taught credit transactions here during the summer of 192S and Profes sor Rottschaefer gave the course in taxation at the sum mer session of 1932. Professor Cook has taught three members of the regular law faculty of the University Breckenridge, Van Hecke, and Wettach. Co-ed Physical Education The class in physical educa tion for freshman co-eds will meet this afternoon at 4 :00 o'clock in the banquet room in Graham Memorial. EXHIBITION SHOWS MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS ON PIRATES Buccaneer Included as Part of Display on Pirates. The library is featuring an exhibition this week on pirates and buccaneers. Threes cases in the Hbrary contain books and manuscripts on this subject, many of these having been printed several hundred years ago. One case contains only manu scripts and books on the life of Edward Teach, who is common ly called Blackbeard, and other pirates of that time, especially those who preyed on the North Carolina coast. This case also contains a contemporary map of this period, and a manuscript of 1717 recording the trial of a pirate before the House of Com mons and the House of Lords. : A peculiar feature of this case is a copy of the pirates issue of the Buccaneer. Ac cording to R. B. Downs, li brarian of the University, the Buccaneer got its name from the notoriety of the pirates on this coast. Another case is on the sub ject of the pirate in literature. This case includes a collection of the drawings of Howard Pyle on pirates and pirate ships. There are also in the case works by such famous authors as Scott and Marryat. A third case is on the subject of the history of pirateering. PhJD. Examination The final oral examination of Miss Ezda Beviney, for the de gree of -Doctor of Philosophy in the department of zoology will be held this morning at . 10:30 o'clock in the department semi nar room. SEAN AMOUKC FACULTY METiIBERS ATTEND IIEETING IN PHIL ADELPHIA Professors of Three Departments Participate in Conference. Several members of the facul ty of the school of commerce, the department of history, and the sociology department attend ed a joint conference of the American Economic association, the American Statistical asso ciation, the American Sociologi cal society, the American Po litical Science association, the National Association of Teach ers of marketing, and the Amer ican Marketing society held in Philadelphia December 27 through 29. Professor M. S fessor, Professor Taylor, Dr. P. W. Heath, Pro Malcolm D. Wager, Pro- fessor R. J. M. Hobbs, and Dr. C. T. Murchison of the school of commerce attended. Pro fessor Taylor-spoke before a joint session of the National Association of Teachers of mar keting and the American Mar keting society, on the subject of marketing research. He was elected a vice-president of the National Association of Teach ers of marketing. According to Dr. Murchison the main discussion of the con ference was the recovery pro gram of the president. "The ma jority of opinion seemed to fav or the president's program but there were two or three vigor ous dissenters, stated Dr. Mur chison. "Almost everybody felt that economic recovery was un derway and that the outlook was the best of several years." BONES OF WHALE FOUND BY LOCAL GEOLOGY STUDENT Remains of Prehistoric Monster Discovered by Cop eland. Bob Copeland; Jr., & student in geology at the University, while making, geological study during the , Christmas holidays, came upon huge pre-historic bones exposed by the erosion of a branch of the Chowan river in Northampton county. The find was reported to the geology department and the area was visited by a party con sisting of W. F. Prouty, head of the geology department, G. R. MacCarthy, C. E. Fike, Chilton Prouty, and Copeland. The bones, the age of which can be counted in millions of : years, proved to be those of one of the earliest known, modern "right," baleen, or "whalebone" whales. The whale was from 40 to 45 feet long. The skeleton was largely disassembled and rested in a bed of green sand and marl with many Miocene : marine shells of great variety. Only those bones which are near the surface of the ground or entire ly exposed are hard enough to allow removal. The party was successful in removing parts of the fossill intact. As soon as the bones found have been prepared for; : exhi bition they will be shown along with the fossil shells from the same bed in a special case in the geology museum. Eight Abed Eight students were confined to the University infirmary yes terday. They were: M. O. Blount, Erik Kjeilisvig, W. E. London, D. L. McMichael, H. S. McKay, Melvin Nelson, F. W. Smith, and George Vick. Directors Say Cleaners . ' Not .Violators Of Code Award Nominees Robert Bamett and Robert Lassiter were selected yester day to represent Ncrth Caro lina in the sectional competi tion in Atlanta, Monday, for Rhodes scholarships. Barnett is a graduate student at the University, and is from Shanghai, China. Lassiter, captain of the 1933 Yale Uni versity football team, is from Charlotte. PRESS RELEASES NEW BIRD STUDY "Birds of the South" by Char lotte Hilton Green Is Pro fusely Illustrated. The University press an nounced yesterday the release of "Birds of the South" by Char lotte Hilton Green. The book is composed of a group of studies of birds commonly found in the southern part of the United States as well as those which regularly migrate to the south for the winter months. Mrs. Green takes each bird in dividually, tells its habits, the environment to which it can best adapt itself, and gives other facts which are especial ly interesting to lovers of na ture. The book contains 32 plates ihT full color which pic ture the birds in their natural habitat. In these pictorial de scriptions Mrs. Green has en deavored not to exaggerate the true coloring of the particular species she is portraying. The work also contains 30 black and white pen and ink drawings by Paul Porterfield. ; Mrs, Green has been interest ed in nature study for many years. She has studied animals in their native haunts and at man-made feeding stations. She has recently had a series of ar ticles published in the Raleigh News and Observer as special Sunday features. Her husband is a professor at N. C. State College in Raleigh. Mrs. Green intends to follow this book with another, "The Return of the Birds." DEAN ADDRESSES FRESHMEN TODAY Dean Francis F. Bradshaw, speaking on the work remaining for freshman students, will ad dress the first-year men today at 10 :30 o'clock in Memorial hall in the first assembly program of the winter quarter. Freshman convocations will continue to be held Mondays and Fridays at the regular time. First-year men will seat them selves in the same places they oc cupied last quarter and will be allowed only two unexeused ab sences during the quarter. -Professor E. J. Woodhouse will address the first-year group Monday on "Important Prob lems now Facing ; Congress," Upperclassmen are especially in vited to attend the lecture. Freshman programs this quarter will be planned by the assembly committee and the freshman executive committee. Instead of continuing programs of a general orientation type, the committee will plan this quarter to give the class the kind of program which is most enjoyable and instructive. C. D. Roberts of Durham Makes Charge; Non profit Group. The newly-formed student co operative cleaners association is not violating- cleaners' and dyers NBA codes a3 was charged them yesterday by trade officials, it was declared yesterday by direc tors of the new association. The rumor arose yesterday that the student cleaners organi zation was violating rules when C. B. Roberts of Scott and Rob erts Dry Cleaners company of Durham and also chairman of the administrative board of the sixth North Carolina trade area, declared that the association was operating contrary to clean ers codes. Obtain Legal Advice Officials in the association, af ter obtaining legal advice yes terday, stated that the newly formed business does not ope rate under cleaners codes. The cleaners association is a non-profit organization only for students and people connected with the University. The association was just form ed two days ago by University students. It operates on a non profit basis, is under the direc tion of students, and the book3 wilLbe audited by the Student Audit board. Directing the association are Harper Barnes, president of the student body ; Haywood Weeks, former president of the student body; Bill Anglin, vice-president of the Law association; and Irvin Boyle, president of the inter-fraternity council. STATUS OF SHOPS HERE 'DEFINED IN CIRCULARS The following handbills, sign ed by local dry cleaners, were (Continued on page twit FIVE PROFESSORS ATTENMWINGS Drs. Harland, Holmes, Lyons, MacMillan Present Papers, At Various Places Professors J. P. Harland, Ur ban T. Holmes, J. C. Lyons, Dougald MacMillan, and S. G. Sanders are among the Univer sity professors who attended meetings of various scholastic associations during the holidays. Professor Harland read a pa per at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, which was held . in Washington. His subject was "The Contributions of the Bronze Age to Classical Greece. Holmes Reads Paper . Professor Holmes of the ro mance languages department read a paper, on "The Philo sophical Ideas of Du Bartas" before the Renaissance section of the Modern .Language asso ciation which met in St. Louis. He also read another on "Les Chetif s an Unpublished Cru sade Epic" before the Medieval Literature section. Professor J. C. Lyons of the French department presented a paper at the meeting of the Renaissance section and Pro fessor Dougald MacMillan offer ed a paper before the English drama section of Modern Lang uage association. Professor Shipp G. Sandera attended the meeting in Wash ington of the American Philo logical association.