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library i i:.t. v ihapel Kpiti1 Assembly fleets Tonight Di Senate Meets Tonight VOLUME XXXVII CHAPEL HELL, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1929 NU5IBER 81 CAMPUS NORMAL AFTER A WEEK END OF DANCING Juniors Start Ball to Rolling and Grail Ends it With Dance On Saturday Night With dances and fraternity house parties the order of the day, the past week end was one of many social activities. There were five dances ;and a number of houseparties, all of which served in attracting the large number of girls who were in Chapel Hill over the week-end. The program . was opened Friday night with the annual hop of the Junior Class and a dance by the Zeta IPsi fraternity. The - Alpha , Tan Omega and Phi Gamma Delta fra ternities entertained with dances on Saturday and the Grail dance Sat urday night brought the social acti vities to a close. Several fraternities entertained girls with houseparties tfor the week-end. Among the fraternities laving girls were Sigma Delta, Phi Gamma , Delta, and Sigma Zeta. The annual Junior hop was held in i;he gym Friday night. A number of features added interest to the affair. Boxes of candy were given to each of the first five couples on the dance floor, and a music contest was held between two orchestras. Alex Men denhall's Tar Heel .orchestra was adjudged the winner by a popular vote of the dancers. The Grand March was led by Jimmy Connell, with Miss Penelope Alexander, of Charlotte, assisted by Bud Eskew with Miss Faith Dudley, of' Char lotte, and Red Green with Miss Kath arine Madry of Raleigh. . GRAHAM RESIGNS POSITION HERE Chief Electrician of University To Go With North State Company. GIVES TALK ON STATE HISTORY Connor Says State Has Made Progress But Still Has a Long Way to Go C. E. Graham reesigned this week from his position as chief electrician for the University Consolidated Ser vice Plants and took a position with the North State Electric Company of "Raleigh. This concern is the dis tributor for Westinghouse products: ranges, motors, generators, fans and "various other kinds of electrical equipment and contraptions. He will be the North State's special representative in installation projects, in demonstrations,, and occasionally in selling campaigns such as the one recently conducted here with electric cooking ranges. For a while he will continue to have his home in Chapel Hill. He may move later on but is not making any definite plan about that. Mr. Graham came here several years ago from the Aluminum Com tanv of America in Badin. By his competence, his accommodating na ture, and his agreeable manners he won a high place in the esteem of the people of ChapeLHill. He is a musician, and for a year or so during his stay here he conduct ed an orchestra. Miss Morgan to Talk On State Weaving Miss Lucy Morgan, director of the fireside industries of the Appalachian school of Penland, N. C, will give an informal lecture on "Native Weaving in North Carolina" in the Playmaker Theatre Tuesday evening at eight thirty. Miss Morgan will illustrate her lecture with slides showing the work the school is doing among the mountain people. She will also ex hibit some of the work. The Appalachian school has done notable work among the mountain people. Hand looms are used along with other weaving machines that can be operated in the home. Miss Morgan will give a demonstration of the working of the hand loom. Last year the Jugtown pottery makers came here. Professor Koch has invited the Tryon toy makers and wood carvers to come next year to give a showing of their work. NOTICE j- Beginning with the statement that it was impossible to sum up in a ten minute talk what it takes two quarters to teach Professor R. D. W. Connor, of the history .. department spoke in chapel yesterday morning on "The Historical Background of North Carolina," as the second of a series of faculty speakers who are delivering lectures on the general subject of understanding contemporary. North Carolina history. "We -are entirely too near to the period of expansion in the state to be able to see the factors that have caused this growth," said Mr. Connor, "perhaps 100 years from now one can look back on this period and de cide on the factors of this develop ment." In summing up the outstanding achievements of this period Mr. Con nor placed at the head of the list the settlement of the race relations pro blem. Instead of the hostility and animosity between the races, there is now a spirit to let each race develop to its fullest capacity. As the second of the achievement he cited the tem perance movement. In 1900, Dur ham as an example, had about 3000 people and 65 saloons, stated Mr. Con nor, but since then conditions have improved remarkably. Progress in education was given third place by the speaker, and the development of na tural and industrial resources were next. . At the close of his address, Mr. Con nor warned the students, as the future North Carolinians, to guard against a boastful, bragadoccio spirit and a fear of the responsibilities and burdens of leadership. Leadership is easier to attain than to maintain, stated - Mr. Connor, and the people of the state are 'fast becoming weary of the bur dens of leadership. North Carolina has improved wonderfully, but still she has nothing to brag about; so the people of the state should not boast of its accomplishments when the amount of money spent for education is still far below that sent in' many of the progressive states. WINSTON SALEM WINS CONTEST Twin City School Takes Type writing Award While Ashe ville Wins Shorthand Value of Little Theatre ovement Told by Smith M Managing Editor -z- ' . n, I ' if I : I I ' , . . ' , " IJ Columbia University Professor's Address is Feature of Final Session of Dramatic Confer ence ; Many Awards Given ; UNIVERSITY BOY COLBY LIBRARIAN Former Asheville Man and Car olina Alumnus Gets Quick Promotion George Ehrhart, Jackson, (above) who was recently appointed by the Publications Union Board as Manag ing Editor of the Daily Tar Heel for next year. Ehrhart has been active in newspaper work for the past sev eral years and since coming to the University has served as reporter and full-time managing editor of the Tar Heel. To Get Yackety Yacks Thursday The much-looked for Yackety Yack, University Annual, will be delivered to the students Thurs day of this week, according to Guy Hill, business manager. In order to speed up the delivery of the book, two lines will be formed; students whose names start with a letter from A through L will receive their books at the window of the Yackety Yack office on the south side of Alumni Building; those whose names start with a letter from' M to Z will get their annuals at the door of the Yackety Yack office in the basement of the "Alumni Office. Hill has made a record this year in getting out the Annual. This is the earliest that it has appeared for several years. Guy says that much credit is due the Queen City Printing Company and the Charlotte Engraving Company in getting out the book so early. Miller Talks To Sanitary Engineers The senior students in Sanitary Engineering were addressed yester day morning by H. E. Miller, chief engineer of the State Board of Health Mr. Miller talked on the engineering The university cud for excellence work of the Board of Health, and out I i -l j i i j i i i. i? in tvPwritin was awarded here Fri- unea xne nistory ana aeveiopmeni ox dav to Winston-Salem his-h school at tne Pul)llc contro1 01 water SUPP1V SUP " w I i. 11...... TT' 1 the conclusion of the annual con- P"es ana streams ponuuon. ms at test conducted by the North Carolina dress was of particular interest and Teachers' Association, with the Co- value xo tne engineering stuaents wno operation of the University Extension are planning to enter that branch of Division. President Norwood announces that the meeting of the Dialectic Senate tonight will be one of the utmost im portance! The date of the Bingham Debate try-out will be set. . ":' Sixty-seven students participated in the short hand and typing tour naments. The contest was held in Memorial Hall under the supervision of George W. Gaskill, former inter national amateur typewriting cham pion, and Edward S. Gallop, Jr. The winners in the various classes were: Class A, one-year students, Pauline Strup, Central high school, Charlotte; Class B, two years, Lil lian Willard, Winston-Salem high school; Class C, three semesters, Ruth Zigler, Winston-Salem; Class D, alumni, Elmer Jones, Raleigh high school ; accuracy, Marguerite Croxton, Asheville high school. The university cup, which is awarded in class B in the typewrit ing contest went to Winston-Salem, represented by Lillian Willard, Sam Dorsett and Bobbie Abbott. The team cup , for shorthand was won by Asheville in the advanced class. Mildred Lunsford made the individual high score with 97.91 Durham was the team winner in the beginners' class with Anna Miller as individual winner. The North Carolina Commercial Secretaries' Association met and elected new officers as follows: Miss Willie Rubie Blackburn, of Kinston, president; J. H. Shields, of Duke University, vice-president, and Miss Artlee Puett. of Elkin high school secretary-treasurer. The organization of the King's Daughters will' give a silver tea in the rooms of the Methodist Church Tnoodnv afternoon. May 14, from 4 to 6 o'clock. work. While here, Mr. Miller interviewed several of the seniors relative to their employment with the State Board of Health or with engineering companies upon their graduation. Asserting that there are more than j350 school and little theatre groups in this country and a total of 3,000 stu dents, are actively engaged in dra matic work, Milton Smith, Columbia University professor and noted dra matic authority, declared in an ad dress here Saturday that ''never be fore in the history of the world has there been such an interest in the non-professional theatre, nor has play producing ever been wider or better." Speaking at the final session, of the Carolina Dramatic Association annual spring- festival, being held here at the University of North Caro lina, Prof. Smith urged a large audi ence of school and community dra matic directors to consider themselves ,a big part in this great movement. , "We of the -little theatre," he said, "shouldn't think of our art as any different from the art of the profes sional theatre. We were really the first in the field, and we shouldn't apoligize for being - amateurs. We should be proud of it." . Substitute for Hughes I Professor Smith was pinch-hitting for Hatcher Hughes, fellow faculty member at Columbia and noted North Carolina playwright. His sincere and earnest evaluation of school dra matics, his discussions of present trends and his timely suggestions made his address..perhaps the feature of the closing day's program. Other events were a meeting of the new dramatic art section of the North Carolina Education Associa tion, a business session of the Carolina Dramatic Association, at which offi cers were elected, presentation of three more plays, contests in costum ing, make-up and stage modeling and presentation of awards. " Prof. Smith told of a "new and bigger conception of dramatics" and showed what it would mean educationally. Mrs. Louis S. Perry, president of the new dramatic art section of the North Carolina Education Associa tion, briefly outlined plans of the or ganization at the morning session, in cluding a professional directing dem onstration to be arranged to help the directors. Officers Elected W. R. Wunsch, Asheville senior high school, was named new presi dent, of the Carolina Dramatic Assor ciation ; P. C. Farrar, Chapel Hill high school, was elected vice-president, and Nettina Strobach, State representative of the Bureau of Com munity Drama, was re-elected secretary-treasurer. R. M. Grumman, di rector of the University extension di vision; Frederick H. Koch, director Bureau of Community Drama; Hu- bert Heffner and Samuel Selden, of the Carolina Playmakers; Elba Hen ninger, Greensboro College and Vir ginia Home, Wilson high school, were re-elected to the executtvie cbuncil. Continued on page three) Robert Bingham Downs, who was graduated from the University in 1926, has been appointed librarian at Colby College, at Waterville, Maine, according to word received here today. Mr. Downs has risen rapidly in his profession in his brief three years out of college, and his success is highly gratifying to friends here and in other sections of the State. He was at the time of his appoint ment information desk librarian in the New York Public Library. He was graduated from the University with honors in 1926, took his B. S. degree from the School of Library Service at Columbia University the f ollowing-year, and is this year a can didate for a master's degree. Mr. Downs has had special train ing in history, social sciences, and education, and is regarded as being well prepared for administrative work in college or university libraries. He is a native of Asheville. MARKER UNVEILED TO GENERAL DAVIE R. B. House is Chief Speaker t Ceremonies in Memory of University Patriot. HEEL ENGINEER GETSMPORTNT JOB IN CANADA . m i Hamilton McRary Jones, Native of Warrenton, Appointed Gen eral Manager of International Power Company Science Academy Meets In Greensboro May 10 This Cat Has No Use For Pajamas The University village has a two-legged cat. The animal didn't meet with an accident and have its other two legs amputated. It was just born that way with only two fore legs. There are no stumps to in dicate that nature ever intended it to have more than two legs. The cat's name is Mary, and she is 18 months of age. The fact that she has only two legs doesn't seem to bother her. She walks in kangaroo fashion and balances herself so well that her tail, which is unusually long, doesn't drag the ground. Mary is on exhibit here in Pat terson Bros.' Drug Store and has attracted much attention. One local dentist is said to have of fered $100 for her and to have had the price raised immediately by anothef local dentist. She is the property of Norwood Butler who lives near Chapel Hill. He says he doesn't want to part with Mary. 250 Scientists From AH Over State Expected; Varied Pro gram Being Arranged and Will be Announced Soon The North Carolina Academy of Science will hold its twenty-eighth annual meeting at North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, on May 10 and 11, it wast announced here today by H. R. Totten, University professor, who is secretary-treasurer of the Academy. The North Carolina (Section of the American Chemical Society is again to meet with the Academy, according to Dr. Totten, and an attendance of more than 250 scientists from all over the State is expected. General sessions will be held Fri day morning, afternoon, and evening with all groups meeting together. Separate sessions will be held Sat urday morning by each the Chemis try, Mathematics, Physics, and Gen eral Sections. Final touches are now being put to a broad and varied program, to be announced this week. With the four section meetings, there will probably (Continued on page four) Weldon, May 3. After more than a century since his death in 1820 be lated honors were done on Friday to the memory of W. R. Davie, citizen, soldier statesman, patriot, in the unveiling of a marker on the grounds of his old home in Halifax, now oc cupied by Hunter Norman. The marker is of rough granite j with tablet of bronze bearing the fol lowing inscription,: - "Here was the home of W. R. Davie, 1756-1820, colonel in the revo lution, delegate to Federal conven tion in 1787, grand member of Ma sons, a founder of the University of North Carolina, governor, minister to France. Erected 1929 by the North Carolnia Historical Commis sion and Grades Six and Seven of Halifax rural schools." The exercises of .unveiling were a part of the graduation exercises of the county rural schools. The children of the schools as sembled at the Halifax school house at 2:30 p. m. and marched to the former home of Colonel Davie be hind the Rosemary- band, which fur nished the music for the march and the unveiling. County Superintendent of Schools A. E. Akers acted as master of cere monies and announced the different numbers of the program. After in vocation by Rev. W. J. Watson, of Halifax, the assembled crowds sang to accompaniment of the band "The Star Spangled Banner," standing with heads uncJoveed. Undjfer the shadow of the , national and State flags, the cover, a national flag, was removed by boys and girls of the Sixth and Seventh grades, among them two descendants of Colonel Davie, Eliabeth and Jack Clark. The marker was presented by Miss Carrie Bowers, of Aurelian Springs, and received on behalf of the His torical Commission by A. R. New- some of the commission. Led by the band the assembly sang North Caro lina's anthem, "The Old North State." Two appropriate poems dedicated to W. R. Davie, composed by children of the Sixth and Seventh grades of Ringwood and Hollister, were recited by James Harris and Elizabeth Clark. Superintendent Akers introduced R. B. House, executive secretary of the University of North Carolina Mr. House paid due tribute to Col onel Davie and his associates. There are three outstanding points of serv ice which he rendered. First he gave his blood at the call of country though only a college boy at the time; sec ond, by his diplomacy and ingenuity in the convention he saved the con stitution; third, and perhaps greatest service was in the founding of the State University when there were no schools. Finding no schools he set his heart on a great State college and as grand master builder laid the cornerstone of the first building in North Carolina's educational system The exercises closed with the Hali fax county hymn, "Halifax, O Hali fax," by the assembly and band. Notable success in the public utili ties field has just come to a native North Carolinian and University alumnus, Hamilton McRary Jones, who has been appointed to the im portant posts of general manager of the International Plower Company and vice-president of the Montreal Engineering Company in Montreal, Canada. The news was received here today with much pleasure by friends who knew Mr. Jones as a student. He is a native of Warrenton. Mr. Jones was at the time of his appointment to the Canadian position manager of the Department of the Americas for the Westinghouse Com pany. He had previously held many important positions with the Westing house Company, with the South Porto Rico Sugar Company, and the Porto Rico Railway, Light and Power Co. Other important posts he held- were the Japanese managership for West inghouse Electric International Co., the direction of Westinghouse opera tions . in Mexico, and management of the Chilian State Railway electrifica tion work as conducted by the West inghouse organiation. Mr. Jones was born in Warrenton 46 years ago. He attended high school at Bellevue, Virginia, and re ceived his A. B. degree here at the University in 1905. He is a member of the American Institute of Electri cal Engineers, the Machinery Club of New York, the Chile-American As sociation, the American-Japan So ciety, and a number of social clubs. He is a member of the Zeta Psi fra ternity. . SAYS ORCHESTRA IS IMPROVING University Musicians Give Sev enth Program of the Year; Large Audience By DONALD WOOD On Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Memorial Hall, the University Or chestra, under the direction of T. Smith McCorkle. of the Music De partment Faculty, appeared in con cert, the seventh program of the tenth series. The orchestra- has greatly improved since its first appearance of the year, and Sunday afternoon's concert was very enjoyable from every standpoint. The orchestra was well balanced, and despite the fact that there were quite a few violins playing together, almost perfect harmony was obtained and hey showed signs of good training and direction. The woodwind section was unusually ! good during this con cert. During the "Zampa Overture," the clarinet solos were very " weak and the audience wondered if the in- strument had strength enough to struggle through the end of the piece. or not. This, however, should be at tributed to the fact that the clarinetist was attempting to play low notes on high-pitched instrument. The ac companiment by the rest of the or chestra smoothed over the difficulties which occurred in this number. The following program was ten dered to the several hundred visitors gathered for the concert: Marche Carnavalesque Friml Coronation March, from the Opera "Folkunger" Zampa Overture Prelude to Lohengrin Symphonie Militaire Adagio-Allegro Menuetto Kretschmer ' Herold Wagner Haydn House and Saunders Talk in High Point R. B. House, executive secretary of the University, and J. Maryon Saun ders, general Alumni secretary, will journey to High Point tonight to make talks 'to the High Point Club. This is to be a reorganization meet ing ,of the club, which is composed en-, tirely of former students of the Uni versity. J, F Royster, Dean of the Gradu ate School, announces that all candi dates for degrees must have their theses in by Saturday, May '11.
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