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VOLUME XXXVIII
STUDENTS FREED
FROM BLAME FOR
CHRISTMAS FIRE
Dr. R. E. Coker Says Insinuating
Statements Unfair To Chi
Psi Fraternity.
Student members of the Uni
versity chapter of the Chi Psi
fraternity, whose house was de
stroyed Christmas night by fire
of unknown origin, have been
done an injustice by the recent
report of the State Insurance
Commission, Br. Robert E. Cok
er, a faculty member of the
(chapter, said today.
Dr. Coker takes, issue with
the statement of Dan C. Boney,
insurance commissioner, that
the house, which was insured
for $9,000 had a value estimated
at from $4,500 to $5,000. Dr.
Coker says the estimated value
of the house was around $12,000.
Commissioner " Boney's conclu
sions were based on a report
made by W. A. Scott, who made
the investigation for the depart
ment. Dr. Coker further stated that
the report .that a number of the
students rooming in the house
had removed their trunks before
the holidays was without foun
dation. "Twelve students , were room
ing in the house before ,Christ
mas, but so far as I can learn
only two of them removed their
trunks before the' holidays," Dr.
Coker said. . "These two said
they did so because the house
was robbed during the holidays
a year ago and they preferred
not to take chances. On the
other hand, two other students
who were planning to live in the
house after Christmas, moved
their things there before the
holidays and lost them in the
fire."
Dr. Coker said that all of the
private records pictures, and em
blems of the fraternity, as well
as the furnishings, were lost in
the fire.
"I was glad to- see the state
ment of Commissioner Boney. in
which he said that "we are not
insinuating that the members of
the fraternity or any particultr
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Inter Racial Group
Of fers Two Prizes
For Student Essays
The Commission onr Inter
racial Cooperation, a southern
organization with headquarters
in Atlanta; is offering two
awards of $i00 eacti for the best
papers' on "Justice in' Race Re
lations" submitted , by students
in Southern colleges during the
present school year according to
an announcement recently re
ceived by University authori
ties. ;
The papers submitted should
be between 1,500 and 2,500
words in length and must be de
livered or mailed to the com
mission not later than May 1.
According to the announce
ment the subject has been chos
en "because it furnishes a com
mon ground on which all may
stand." The purpose of the
study is to lead college -men and
women to inquire into conditions
existing between the white and
colored people of America.
A list of subjects for study
are given and sources of infor
mation on the subjects are in
cluded in the announcement of
the contest. .
Inquiries concerning the con
test should be directed to R. B.
Eleazer, 409 Palmer Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Magazine Notice
The next issue of the Caro
lina Magazine will be publish
ed Sunday, January 19. Dead
line for copy for this issue
will be Saturday, January 11.
All book reviews are expected
to be in by this date. Any
student at this University is
eligible to contribute material.
No contributions will be re
turned unless accompanied by
a stamped self -addressed en
velope. JOHNtMEBANE,
Editor.
Y CABINETS MEET
FOR FIRST TIME
SINCE HOLIDAYS
The freshman, sophomore,
and junior-senior cabinets of
the Y met last Monday night
for the first time this quarter.
The meetings were held in the
respective rooms of the cabinets
m the Y at 7:15.
Aubrey Perkins, presiding in
the absence of the president,
opened the freshman program.
After Mr. Perkins had told of
the unfortunate mishap of Alex
Webb, the cabinet voted to send
him some sort of gift which was
to bought by a free will offering
of each member. Since' -Webb
will be unable to attend school
this quarter, the, cabinet elected
Jimmie Kurfees as temporary
president! After announcing
about the Human Relations In
stitute that will be held here
next year, and after making an
announcement concerning the
Blue Ridge conference " next
summer, Mr. Perkins outlined a
few plans for the coming quar
ter. The meeting then closed
with sentence prayers. -
The program for the sopho
more cabinet consisted mainly
of business. All the plans for
the coming quarter were thor
oughly discussed. The meeting
was closed with a word of pray
er by Grady Leonard.
The junior-senior cabinet al
so had a very important business
meeting, discussing some of the
features on the Y program for
the winter and spring quarters.
A word of prayer closed the
meeting.
An American Folk Drama Being
Developed Here At University
(By Frederick H. Koch)
I have been asked, to write
something about my adventures
in playmaking and about the
Carolina folk-plays written by
our young playwrights at the
University of North Carolina.
From the first, our particular
interest has been in discovering
native materials and fresh dra
matic forms in play writing and
in' acting. We have cherished
the locality, believing that if the
locality' were interpreted faith
fully, it might show us the way
to the universal. For, if we
can see the lives of those about
us with understandingwith
imagination why may we not
interpret that life in significant
images for all? It was so with
the Greeks before us, and with
our own English forbears. It
has been so in all lasting art. It
should be so for us here in
America.
It is a fallacy of the young
writer, I have found, to think
of the dramatic as something
unusual and remote from his
own experience and observation.
Long ago now, and far away, at
the frontier state university of
the prairies of Dakota, where I
began my adventures in play
CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1930
NOTED -ALUMNUS I
TO SPEAK HERE
Judge J. Crawford Biggs To
Address Law School Stu-
dents Thursday.
Judge J. Crawford Biggs of
Raleigh will deliver an address
on "Practice in the Federal
Courts'' Thursday at 11 o'clock
in the first year room in Man
ning hall. Judge Biggs is one
of the leading members - of the
bar at Raleigh and he has been
identified with a great deal of
the important litigation of the
Federal courts of this state.
He graduated at this Univer
sity summa cum laude in : 1893?
He was editor of the Tar Heel
and a member of the varsity
football team during his student
career. After his graduation he
was for a time a member of the
law faculty of this University
and later of the law faculty at
Trinity. Subsequently ne was
a judge of the superior court
for four years and during the
Wilson, administration he was
special assistant to the attorney
general of the United States.
. Ever since he won the Man
gum medal while a student here,
he has been noted as an inter
esting and attractive speaker.
All students in the University
are invited to hear his address.
Saville Photographs
Wilmington Section
Thorndike Saville, professor
of sanitary and hydraulic engi
neering, made, what is believed
to be the first series of air maps
for any branch of the state
government when he took pic
tures from an airplane Satur
day of the section of beach from
Wilmington south to the Cape
Fear river.
These air pictures were made
for the water resources division
of the department of conserva
tion and development in connec
tion with its beach studies.
Professor Saville flew to Wil
mington from Raleigh with an
aerial photographer from the
Curtiss Flying service at Ral
eigh, and made the pictures dur
ing the afternoon. He returned
to Raleigh the following day.
writing, a young freshman
wrote for me a theme about "A
Storm in New York City." I
couldn't understand how the boy
happened Vrite on such a- sub
ject: I callefd hlni'ihtb my" office';
"Have you ever been in New
York?" Tasked hint.
"No. . ." he admitted frankly;
"Where do you come from ?"
"I live in the' country,' near
Langdon," he' explained.
"Oh, yes. That's where they
had a cyclone Jast week, wasn't
it?"' , . -
"Yes. You know up there in
Langdon I saw where the
cyclone had driven a hitching-
post right c through a telegraph
pole !" And, with assurance in
his voice," "That's where I got
my idea !"
"You went through that cy
clone yourself and then wrote
about a storm at the Flatiron
Building in New York City,
which you have never seen. Why
did you do that?"
"Oh, I thought it would be
more interesting."
This attitude seems to be
characteristic of many of our
youthful writers and of some
who are not so youthful. It
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Carolina PI ay makers To Have
Annual Twelfth Night Revels
At Theatre Saturday Evening
v o
Two Plays To Be Presented At Entertainment; Cakes And Cider
- To Be Served; All Playmakers ;
Invited To Attend.
The Carolina Playmakers will
hold their annual Twelfth Night
Revels Saturday evening at 7:30
at the Playmaker theatre. Fol
lowing the tradition, the kitchen
scene from Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night will be enacted
by a cast made up of members
of the faculty and students.
The old English Christmas
play, Saint George and the
Dragon, will be played by an all
faculty cast. The second part
of the program will consist of
improvised comedy, music and
dances, under the supervision of
the Twelfth Night committee, of
which Robert Dawes is chair
man. '
Those taking part in the scene
from Twelfth Night are Profes
sors Urban Holmes, Hubert
Heffner, W. E. Caldwell, Holmes
Bryson and Louise Thacker.
The cast for Saint George and
the Dragon : Captain Slasher, J.
Local Engineering
Society To Receive
National Charter
Announcement was made yes
terday that the petition of the
local mechanical engineering so
ciety for a studentlbranch of the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers had been approved by
the council of the national or
ganization which means that the
University now has an official
student branch of this national
engineering society.
Notice of the approval of the
council was received by Profes
sor H. G. Hoefer from the sec
retary of the national society,
stating that such approval had
been given by the council at the
last national convention of the
society which was held in New
York during the first week of
December.
The establishment of the stu
dent branch of the' American
Society of Mechanical Engineers
followed the petitioning of the
national body for a student
chapter by the local mechanical
engineering society which was
organized last quarter
Since ' its organization in the
fall quarter, the society has'held
several meetings and has started
activities- among' the younger
mekb&f of thV group f by the
organization' of model' airplane
club. . , It is planned' to continue
this activity under the "new or
ganization name.'
The establishment' of the stu
dent' branch of the1 American
Society of Mechanical Engineers
makes a total of three student
branches of national engineer
ing societies which are now1 on
the campus. Student branches
which were already established
are those of the American Soci
ety of Civil ' Engineers and : the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers.
Bull's Head Notice
A change has been made in
in the hours , which the Bull's
Head Book Shop will be open
on Saturday. , Instead of be
ing open from 8 :30 until 12,
as it was last quarter, it will
be open from 9:00 until 12:30.
A professor declares there are
two hundred dialects in the
United States. But the dollar
speaks them all. ." - Louisville
Courier Journal.
O. Bailey ; the King, P. C. Far
rar; the Turkish Champion,
Russell Potter; the Noble Doc
tor, M. T. Van Hecke; the
Clown, A. S. Wheeler; Beelze
bub, G. F. Horner; the Dragon,
English Bagby. The play is
directed by Professor P. C. Far
rar. After the program cakes and
cider will be served in j the
Green Room, and there will be
dancing on the stage. Willie
Strowd's negro orchestra will
furnish the music.
All students, members of the
faculty, and other members of
the community who have parti
cipated in any way in the Play
makers' productions, or who
have served oh any committee
are cordially invited to come,
according to an announcement
by the directors of the Play
makers. No written invitations
will be issued.
Representative Of
Electric Company
Talks To Engineers
Speaking before the students
of the school of engineering
Monday noon on the topic "Per
sonality and Its Influence on a
Business Career," Howell Van
Blarcon, sales supervisor of the
Westinghouse Electric Company
outlined the factors that make
up a personality and what can
be done to cultivate a pleasing
set of personal characteristics.
Beginning with a summary of
the things which contribute to
a successful career in which he
included native, intelligence,
natural aptitude, education and
a pleasing personality, Mr. Van
Blarcon stated that of these four
only the last can be changed to
any great degree and that this
one is extremely, important in
the present-day business world.
Continuing with an analysis
of what makes ufc personality
the speaker mentioned the four
factors of appearance, manners
friendliness, and forcefulhess.
Each of these is important, he
stated, and each is subject to
change which can be brought
about by the application of well
known principles.
Mr. VanBlarcon was in Chap
el Hill Monday interviewing sen
iors in electrical engineering
who are contemplating- entering
the service" of the Westinghouse
company after graduation.
Meeting Community
Club Is Postponed
The meeting of the: Com
munity Music Club scheduled
for today will be postponed
one week due to the unavoida
ble absence of the program
chairman.
Firemen Answer Alarm
Chapel Hill firemen answered
an alarm at one o'clock yester
day afternoon for a grass fire
in the back yard of the home of
John Creel, South West Lane.
The blaze was quickly, extin
guished by beating the fire
down with nearby brush. There
was no damage.
Buccaneer Notice
There will be a meeting of the
art staff of the , Carolina Buc
caneer at five o'clock this after
noon at ,the Buccaneer Office.
NUMBER 74
DRAMA LEADERS
TO MEET HERE
THIS SATURDAY
Meeting Under Auspices Of The
Extension Division And The
Playmakers.
Dramatic directors from col
lege, high school and commun
ity clubs of the state will gather
here next Saturday, January 11,
for their annual conference, to
be held under the joint auspices
of the Bureau of Community
Drama of the University Exten
sion Division and the Carolina
Playmakers.
The program falls into f three
divisions a round table discus
sion led by state directors for
the morning session, the presen
tation of two plays at the after
noon meeting, and the annual
Twelfth Night Revels of the
Carolina Playmakers that eve
ning. All meetings will be held
in the Playmakers Theatre,
where the conference will open
at 10 :30 oclock Saturday morn
ing. The directors will be welcomed
to the University by Professor
Koch, who willmake a short talk
in opening the discussions.
The discussions are designed
to give the director an opportun
ity to exchange ideas on meth
ods of directing arid "producing
plays. Directors who have al
ready consented to lead discus
sions are Robert Wunsch, of
Asheville Senior High, who will
preside, Miss Grace Everest of
Fayetteville ' High, ' Miss ' Ella
Henninger of Greensboro Col
lege, - Miss Vivian Burton of
Smithfield High, f Mrs. Oscar
Randolph of Morganton High,
Miss Sally Richardson of Winston-Salem
High, and Miss Edith
Russell and E. R. Harrington of
the Theatre Workshop of Ashe
ville.
The general topic of the morn
ing session will , be "Dramatics
and the Educational Program,"
including ; such sub-topics as
"Getting Dramatics in the Reg
ular Curriculum," "Original
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1929 Building In
Town Amounted To
Well Over $750,000
A backward glance at the
building operations carried on
in Chapel Hill, for the year now
closing, shows the expenditure
of rather more, than three quar
ters of a million dollars for
buildings and . other improve
ments, according , to a story by
H. D. Carter in The Chapel Hill
Weekly. .
The University has completed
and occupied the' new library and
also "Bingham Hall, and has the
old Library alterations, to equip
the building for the uses of the
music department, ' almost fin
ished, although the new music
auditorium has not been started.
Rooms 'Jiave been built on the
top floor of Spencer hall. Ex
tensive work has been done on
the grading, walks, and gutters
of the south campus. Parking
space has been made in the south
of the new library, and Route
54 provided with concrete pav
ing from Pittsboro road to the
Country Club road. This road
now has sidewalks, and the ad
jacent land has been graded.
Fraternity house building has
been unusually active, nine be
ing either built or under con
struction with housing facili
ties for 280" students. These
structures represent an aggre
gate outlay of about $320,000
exclusive of the furnishing.