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CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1923 NEXT BUCCANEER Koch Hads State Committe .-.WILL" BE BETTER" SAYS CY EDSON i To; Ss!ect -Three; Winning Flays Reorganized: Deadline For ri!7iTri7eriin'nT' RECEIVE il 'Aviation Number Is No- Rockefeller Foundation Awards r una -To University - For Pro motion Of Research Work. vember 1. With the ' distribution of the first issue of the Carolina; Buc caneer, the editor, Cy Edson, Drama League Of America Announces Contest In Playwriting. ENDS DECEMBER 31 The University has received a grant oi nve tnousand dollars states that he expects one of the annually for three years from most successful;- years for the the 1 Rockefeller Foundation as campus monthly, .i Failure of an extension of a grant xf the contributors s to submit copy same 'amount - which has been early handicapped the organiza- given for the past three years. lion of the staff and necessitated ' Dr. W. C. Coker, .who is chair- the use of considerable old ma-1 man of the. committee to distrib terial in the first issue. ute the grant, stated yesterday Both the art and editorial that the grant will be used for staffs are to be completely re- the promotion of research in the organized with the November pure sciences. issue of the Publication. Many "The grant has been a great new men, will be added to the help to us in the stimulation of staff and more men will be given research work, ' said. Dr. LoKer, the opportunity of observing "and-the Foundation is doing a how the book is made W great piece of .work in making Th rnminp- issns will the tnese grants." 7 "Aviation Number," with the ihe sciences which will re mvpr dPsioPd hv W artist, on ceive aid from this gift are bat- A anv. ceoloerv. Dsvcholosry arid xne stau oi me wnarivim ' . Engraving Company. With zoology in the. natural sciences, hpW nrcmnizatinn and a larger and N chemistry, physics and staff of contributors the editor mathematics in the physical sci- PYnopk this issTiP tn Ka a err pat. I ences imnrnvpmpnt nvpr the first nnfi. Tin the past the grant from the Purpose Is-"TKe Discovery Of ..New Authors And The Devek oDment of -Native American Drama." : ITT uu II mm j BY ATTtltePHERE f SAYS PAT MM Former Texas Governor Talks Before - Kiwanis Club ; Says Carolina Has ;r Fine - - Intellec tual Atmosphere. Ex-Secretary Tells So DR. WAGSTAFF TO DELIVER ADDRE5 Professor Frederick H. Koch, director of 'the Playmakers, has been appointed state chairman of- three national contests in playwriting that are being spon sored for the third consecutive year- by" the Drama League of America and the Play Depart ment -of Longmans, Green, and Company. '; The . purpose of the contests is "the discovery of new authors and the development of - native American drama." Awards will be made lor a full-length play, a one-act Christ mas play, and a religious play, either full-length or pageant. "The winning full-length play will bp. produced by the New York Theatre : Guild, and the author will receive an advance ' "Atmosphere," Ex-Governor Pat M. Neff of Texas told the Chapel Hill. Kiwanis club last evening, "is that important qual ity by which people are judged. Natibrisv -peoples, and different sections of the country have dif ferent atmosphere and it is this quality which is permanent. The ex-governor, stressed the fact that the most important thing about institutions and peo ple is their atmosphere. He said that he . was particularly struck by the fine intellectual atmos phere which prevailed upon the campus of ,.the University of North Carolina. "It is that qual ity which is indigenous to an m stitution which . the students will absorb, and which will con vert them into a fine type." The speaker t mentioned the early connections between his own state and that of North Carolina, how North Carolinians teresiins r acts In Live f VelebrMed Mukoncnre -4 History Professor To Make Opening Talk To State Liter ary And Historical . . Associa tion. -;- -!-,:- Carolina Student Turns bpot- light On Domestic Life Of Harry K. Thaw, Famous Mur derer, Philanderer and Fi nancier. - ; ; : Dr. H. W. Wagstaff, of the history department, will deliver the opening address at the State Literary and Historical Association, which will hold its annual meeting in Raleigh to morrow and Friday. Dr. Wag- staff is president, of the Asso ciation. ; The other speaker for the oc casion is : Dr. William Starr Meyers, professor of politics at Princeton University. 1 Dr. Meyers,- who is a noted lecturer on political and historical subjects, is an alumnus of the Universi (By Joe Jones) While the public eye is turned upon the recent awarding of $75,000 by ..the New York Supreme court to Miss Marcia Estardus, New York night club hostess, for an alleged biting and hair-brush spanking at the hands of Harry K. Thaw, Broadway sugar daddy, it is of especial in terest to know we have a former secretary of Mr. Thaw right here on the campus. This stu dent, a Virginian, became con nected with Mr. Thaw while the latter was summering at Kenil worth, the Thaw estate near Winchester, Va. ; During his period of secre taryship this young man trav- ty, having been a member of the eled constantly with the divorced class of 1897. He will speak on husband of Evelvn Nesbit and the subject, -"Representative Another feature " of the corn- Rockefeller Foundation has been oe sZ idy Ster. hadW present inthestru ber 1. ; T,r,. mi to professors who are doing re- lllK issue ux tue uuttaiicci win . , . ,. . ,;n u , 6 , search, and this policy will be I be a change throughout the ... , , . m,; book m cuts to exemplify more . . . , , . clearlv the term "Buccaneer" aid given to those doing research The deadline for contributions . , . - n to the coming issue is Novem- , , . , . w , .n , v 11CCUCU ill uic rruiaj w swvu material used, to pay the salaries of research assistants, arid to pay traveling expenses. ' The committee responsible for the distribution of the ; grant within the University consists of Doctor Coker, chairman, Dr. Stuhlman, Dean Braune, Dr. MacNider, Dr. Bell, Dr. Prouty and Dr. Henderson. The University is the only in stitution in. the state to receive aid from the Rockefeller Foun dation to be used for the promo tion of scientific research. The Rockefeller Magazine Editor Visits The Hill James Southall Wilson, edi tor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, was in Chapel Hill last week as the guest of Dr. J. DeR. Hamilton. His primary motive in coming to the University was to solicit contributions to the publication from members of the faculty. Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Archibald Henderson had ai-tiVlpo in the masrazine last month. ceipts. ' The winning one-act Christ mas play will be produced by the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. -The religious play judged best will be produced by, the Pilgrim Players of Evanston. The author is to receive $500 gle for the uniting of Texas with the American union. . Mr. Neff made mention of the part played by President James K. Polk, a North Carolinian and an alum nus of the University, in bring ing Texas into the union. Other ' visitors at the weekly meeting o'f the Kiwanians were C. A. Upchurch, head of . the and Pres- advance royalty on the book and xt rovrtiir.p Anti-Saloon amateur acting ngnts oi xne iun- League) an(i Thomas J. McFad lensrth olay, $150 advance royal- ty on the religious play and $100 Eugene Olive, president of the advance royalty, on the one-act Kiwanis sdub, presided at the Christmas play. .The author .is meeting. It was announced that, also to receive a certain percent- beginning with next Tuesday, age of the gross sale of the book the Kiwanians would meet in the and 50 percent of all collections hkQaOTviT1 Af hP. Methodist I - from the sale of amateur acting church, rather than 'the Baptist 1 A. .. " '' '.' I . . . ' rignis. church, as has Deen tneir cus ISTorth Carolinians entering torn for the past four months. the contests should send their Tlnreii Praises Work Of Guy Johnson And H. W. Odum (By E. C. Daniel) It is not as the school iwth "a team of a hundred backs" or as the home of the Playmakers that the University of North Caro Unn is hpW mentioned recently nplli(Tpntsia. "the ttlUUIlg UIC-- in vi people who really count," but as the home and laboratory of a group of people become famous as authors on social research, especially on the subject of ' Southern Negro folk-lore. Press notices and reviews praising the work of University faculty mem bers have come to us by - the score, appearing in the nation's rnals. Fre- uiuob iiLiijyji. j quent mention has also been made of the University- Press which has done much to en courage the work by pioneering in the publication of books by local authors. Acmin wp. are able to give you an excellent report on two books written by University men, this time coming from the section on Books, Films, and Drama miMieVioA in '.'The Nation" for OH-nnpr 0: written by Mark Van Doren. "In many ways it is the most enthusiastic' of the rritiVisms that have come to us since the first wave of populari ty for University publications began its sweep over the country Headed "Dough-Boy and Ham mer-Man,'' it is a discussion of the merits of "Wings on My Feet" by Howard W. Odum and ' bv Guv B. John- son. - i T flno hpo-innincr Mr. Van XAA W "Tbis nair OI au- jiii.cn ooiju. -- " x thors cannot be too much ad mired. They write 'social r,t,-.Aiaa' -Q- thp TTniversitv of StUUl&o u -"- - " - North Carolina, but what they write is also literature, and it hp nf a . verv fine liopv-"" w " - order." " ' Taking first "Wings on My Feet" he continues : "Mr. Odum's book is a sequel rto 'Rainbow Rmm Mv Shoulder,' wherein manuscripts to Professor Koch who will place them in the hands of a committee of judges com posed of Professors Russell REGISTRAR RETURNS a ;- r.. - -.: - Dr. T. J. Wilson, Jr., -regis trar, has returned to Ghapel posea oi s .vuM after, spending several days Potter, R. P. Bond, and Dougald , iviaciviiiian, an oi tne iiigu&ii Government Past ent." ; :',-'';-'-V:' 'V';:. The North Carolina Folk Lore Society will convene at . the same time ; the members of the two groups will hold several joint-meetings. : The program for the two days is: Thursday, October 31, 8:30 o'clock, Virginia Dare ball room, Invocation and Presidential ad dress by Dr. H. M. Wagstaff to members and guests of the as sociation arid society. " Friday morning, November 1, 10 o'clock, Manteo room, Sir Walter, Paper: The Moravian Contribution to Colonial V North Carolina," by Adelaide Fries, Winston-Salem. Paper: "Fur ther Reflections on Reconstruc tion," by B. B. Kendrick,.lireens boro. Paper:" "The Status of Woman in Ante-bellum North Carolina," Guin Griffin John son, Chapel Hill. Business Session, Friday ev ening, November 1,.. 8 :30, Hugh Morson High School Auditor ium, Address, "Representative Government Past ' and Pres ent," by William Starr Meyers. husband of Evelyn Nesbit and slayer of Stanford White". Many and varied were the experiences he had. . The tale of . these ex periences, interesting though it be, is only one brief chapter in the career of America's most notorious playboy. During the last 24 years Thaw has occupied more space on the front pages of American 'news papers than . any other indivi dual; Lindbergh, Ford, Edison and Charley Ross not accepted. His marriage in 1905 to Evelyn Nesbit, coveted Broadway beau ty, followed a three-year court ship during which the gay ac tions of the couple frequently got into print; But if was 14 months later that the two be came the center of international attention .when Thaw shot Stan ford White on the old Madison (Continued on last page) NEWS INSTITUTE SET FOR JANUARY By Simple Auto Crash Problem (Bv Milt Wood) IThe Chance and confusion and error The chain of , their destinies wove." Franklin street was - peaceful 11 t A nnnnAll a moment oeiore. as yedtciui state judges by as Franklin street ever gta& Information re- when dusk adds Cyclopean eyes to already terrifying modern horseless wagons whose , com ponent parts of writhing steel at eventide are. even busier in staccato gasping lOUX WUU11UCU XllX UtCVA lilwuuvv.K, stops. Splintered glass glitters department. The state judges f r . PA. A -o Rnf fieri will select the winning mami- UTllUVi zuy a ' o m w . script for each contest and for ward them to 'the -national inde-es. who are Hatcher O - o z ... Hughes, Keriyon. Nicholson, Alexander Dean, Dr. Holman L Richardson, Prof essor Harold A. Ehren'sberger and Mrs. A. Starr Best. All manuscripts must be sub mitted to the December 31. garding the contests will be sup plied by Professor Koch. of the RANOTTET IS GIVEN BY SIGIVIA PHI SIGMA FRAT their unending quest to conquer. new pedestrians. The Sigma Phi Sigma social lioM itc first hnnniiftt two years ago this sociologist of the year at the Carolina Inn Monday1 night. Thirty members and pledges were present, in cluding Dr. Otto Stuhlman and K. H Fussier of the physics de partment and W. R. Berryhill of tie medical school. Dr.' Fussier made an interest- ii j , n. jL - i j ing taiK to tne iraternuy m wjiich he outlined the way to at tain success m one s life .work. Drs. Stuhlman and Berryhill also made short talks. suddenly proved himself a poet After- describing how Mr. Udum crnt his character "Black Ulys ses," and how he introduced him into the arrangement ot tne new the adventures ot an American Negro in' the World War, the reviewer proceeds to thp dialect which he declares is 'without any of the favorite de vices of the dialect writer. JNo misspelling, no labored grotes- querie.": And the result, says the critic, is an authoritive work on the Negro, his talk and tern peramenty ana luwucuv (Continued on last pas e) a The Phi Delta Phi Legal Fra ternity-announces the initiation of J. H. Chadbourne and Charles S. Mangum, Jr.: ; ,. - - Night falls with a thud. Brakes scream out like a signal for the piercing, rending crash that follows when two of the roaring giants wipe off each others gunwales. Crippled and reeling, one of v- the monsters limns onward 100 feet and buries . ... . i .i its gory head m a third and tnen a fourth armored machine-drag on which seeks vainly to escape bv side-slipping to the curbing. Nearbv diners near the battle of steeL poise potatoes arid gravy half way mouthward, and stam pede from the festive board to count the casualties-, -. . - -' In a twinkling, 4in is super ceded, by an aftermath of hush. University Will Be Host Annual Gathering Of Newspapermen. To on the battleground, its tinkling . 1 TfT II music stilled, witn suspicious eyes yet other monsters of' gas and oil and iron stop baffled and watch the scene. A large crowd of questions forms a hu- 1 - mi 1 . mm man circle, ine law appears, two of it. The surviving mata dors meet in the center of the ring, v- ; ' r Listeners hear a battery of charges and denials : it wasn't my fault . . .. nor mine . . . nor mine . . . I'm not to blame . . . where's the horse and wagon . . . who broke the bottle ... where's the driver of the Ford . V . what vas-he doing over on my side stand back there and give us i i a.: room . . nere s wnere nis ure slid . . that's where we hit his lights blinded me but I knew was on the right side of -the street . . . here officer, did you hear that . . I that's my car down there, -.'.i v; The chief of police and the larger of the two officers decides that it is time to take down some (Continued tn lztt page) January 15, 16, and 17 have been set as the dates for the next annual Newspaper institute, which is to be held here under " the joint auspices of the North Carolina Press association and the University. The dates were fixed and a tentative program outlined at a joint meeting here of the execu tive committee of the Press as sociation and a committee from the University. Five feature speakers are to be invited to address the insti tute. They are specialists in their line and are well known to the newspaper folk. Advertising, circulation, .and the editorial and news pages are among the chief topics to be dis cussed. The program that the joint rrimmittPA has in mind' is one Viq oKMiIrl Vo smppinl int.pr- newspapermen. The committee that met here to map out the program was composed of W. C. Dowd, Jr., Miss Beatrice Cobb, Lee Weath ers, Josh. Hqrne, Isaac London, and Herbert Peele, represeriting the North Carolina Press asso ciation, and R. M. Grumman, M. F.. ; Vinihg, O. J. Coffin, and R. W. s iladry, representing .the .University.; r , ,