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TAIt HEEL STAFF MEETING 7:00 P. II. til H ' TAR HEEL STAFF MEETING 7:CD P. 11. if i ! I : f ... 15 j ; ! I - n v, i ST VOLUME XXXVIII Commerce Professor Blames Lack Of Readjustment For 'resent Murchison's . Contribution In Quarterly Review Selected By Librarians As One Of Out standing Articles Of Month. Failure to adapt itself- to changes- in industrial environ ment is responsible for many of the evils in. the textile industry, writes Dr. C. T. Murchison, of the school of commerce, in the January issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. The article analyzes the difficulties of the present situation in the. "textile industry from the point of view of the mill owners. The contribution has been se lected by the Council of Libra rians of the American, Library Association as one of the ten outstanding magazine articles of the month. The authors of the other nine are Mark Sullivan, Walter Lippman, Gamaliel Brad ford, Henry Cabot Lodge, Chas. A. Beard, Franklin S. Clarke, Orville Welsh, BernWd De Voto, and Philip Marshall Brown. Dr. Murchison finds King Cot ton's ills of a basic nature, lying deep in the structure of the in dustry itself. Stagnation, he says, is one of the causes of the disease. Cotton manufacturing, viewed as a whole with respect to all its processes from the pur chase of the raw material to the sale of the finished product, "has remained practically un changed for the past fifty years" ; whereas other industries "have been forming combina tions and mergers of every type, revolutionizing production and marketing methods, and, adopt ing all sorts of devices for con trol of output, inventory and price." "The textile industry in the South, no less than throughout the whole country, is itself faced with the necessity of a readjust ment that is little less than a life and death struggle," the ar- tide states. "The case of the operators of the mills is not the simple one of a man who puts his hands into well-filled pockets to take out more money to meet in creased wage demands. A mill must be operated at a reason able profit or it cannot long be operated at all." Aside from this obvious lack of unified organization and in tegration of the processes of the industry, another cause of the ills of King Cotton is the fact that "the wild gyrations of the raw cotton market are demoral izing the industry." It is noth ing strange or new for the price of raw cotton to jump from 10 to 40 cents per pound in one year, the University economist points out. This irregularity of the mar ket makes for difficulty in ad Justing proportionally the price f the goods, causing greater risks, greatef variations iiT the Productive output, and fluctua tions in the price of the finished Product. Spontaneous changes W fashions characteristic of the Resent time tend, also, to rack ine nerves of the cotton indus try. "Any real steps toward a per manent abatement of the troubles in Southern cotton mills must begin with a study of the economic conditions that sur round the network of industrial enterprises that go to make up the entire textile industry," Dr. murchison writes. "Little or nothing, Dr. Mur chison states, "could be gained Continued en pag$ tkre$) Textile Troubles Tar Heel Meeting The regular weekly meeting of the Tar Heel staff will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in Alumni building. All mem bers of the staff are requested to be present. '.; - Glenn Holder, Editor. COUNCIL GIVES PLANS FOR TILT Annual Carolina-Virginia Radio Debate To Discuss Calendar. The debate council announces that the second annual Carolina Virginia radio debate will be broadcast, from station WPTF, Raleigh, late in April.- This event will take the place of the regular University Hour- pro gram of the particular week of its occurrence. The question of the thirteen months calendar will be the subject of controversy. This particular query was selected because it is the object of wide spread discussion in the scien tific world at present. The de bate is designed to be an edu cational program on the subject of the "new f angled" calendar. Last year the University of North Carolina and the Univer sity of Virginia met in the first battle of the air in their history. The debate was broadcast from station WRVA, Richmond. J. C. Williams and'W. W. Speight represented the Tar Heel insti tution in the contest. The present agreement be tween the two universities calls for an annual radio debate be tween them. Richmond and some North Carolina town are to be the scene of action on al ternate, years. What's Happening TODAY 9 :45 a. m. Sunday school class es. '' t 11 :00 a. m. Ex-Governor Sweet to deliver address at Method ist church. . 11:00 a. m. Services at local churches. 7 :00 p. m. Important meeting of Daily Tar Heel staff in Alumni building. 8 :00 p. m. Ex-Governor Sweet to deliver address at Method ist church. y MONDAY 10 :30 a. m. Professor JW. S. Bernard to make address in chapel commemorating Lee's birthday. 2:00 p. m. Candidates for sub assistant football managers report at Emerson fields 4:30 p. m. Tryouts for Play maker productions in Gerrard hall. 7:00 p. m. Meeting of art and editorial staffs of Buccaneer in Alumni building. 7 :15 p. m. Meeting of all Y. M. C. A. cabinets in Y. 7:30 p. m. Tryouts for Play maker productions in Gerrard ' : halL Bernard To Speak Dr. W. S. Bernard will speak before the sophomores in chapel tomorrow in connection with the celebration of Robert E. Lee's birthd&y. .C : ' . .. , CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1930 Billy Arthur r j i BILLY ARTHUR, ONE YARD TALL, IN UNIVERSITY Former Vaudeville And Radio Star Registered In Depart ment Of Journalism. Billy Arthur, known to radio and vaudeville audiences as i "One Yard of Fun," is the small est student" in the University.1 Arthur is registered in thev De partment of Journalism, and is a recent addition to the sports staff of the Dally Tar Heel. He measures a little more than a yard in heighth. For the past year he has been in vaudeville, where he came to be known as "One Yard of Fun" because of the fact that he is only about a yard tall and plays humorous sketches. With the Keith circuit he played in Atlanta, Richmond, Memphis, and other leading Southern cities. With the Loew circuit he- played over the North and in many places in Canada, ap pearing in New York, Philadel phia, Toronto, Ottawa, and other cities. For some time Billy was con nected with the WBT broadcast ing station at Charlotte, appear ing in comic sketches and sing ing, j "-' For four years, 1922-1926, Billy travelled with the Char lotte baseball club as mascot. This perhaps, accounts for his interest in sports. He wa3 sports editor of the Charlotte central high school paper and was connected with the sports section of The Charlotte News. Dr. Pierson's Father Dies News has been received here of the death Thursday night, in River Falls, Ala., of Dr. W. W. Pierson. Dr. Pierson was the father of Dr. W. W. Pierson, Jr.', a member of the history depart ment here. - Dr. Pierson died of a heart at tack and was buried in Birming ham - Friday morning at 10 o'clock. He was a retired phy sician of River Falls, Ala. i Y Cabinets Notice Pictures for the Yackety Yack of the Junior-Senior cabinet, sophomore cabinet, and the Freshman Friendship Council will be taken Tuesday at chapel period in front of the law building., EDITOR, Yackety Yack. PLAYS SELECTED FOR PRODUCTION BY PLAYMAKERS Committee Picks Four Out of Six Plays Submitted; Pro duced In February. After the Playmaker reading of new folk plays last night in the Playmaker theatre, a com mittee composed of Professors Bagby, Caldwell, Paine and Mr. Bruce Bennett, a visitor from the New York State Normal at New Paltz, selected four of the six plays that were read for production in February. Of the six plays read not one of them was; written by a North Carolinian. Each of the authors is from a different state. This reveals the fact that the Play makers are developing a native American drama rather than just a native state drama. "Death Valley Scotty" by Milt Wood of Pomona, Calif. ; "Holly hocks" by Joe Fox of Methues, Mass. ; "For Auntie's Sake" by John Patric of Snohomish, Wash., and "Suspended Anima tion" by Kent Creuser of New York City are the plays selected for production. "The Maver ick" by Irene Fussier will be re vised for future production. Tryouts for parts in the plays will be held in Gerrard hall to- morrow afternoon at 4:30 and tomorrow evening at 7 :30. A wide variety of parts is open. Directors of the plays are very anxious to secure new talent for plays. Every one interested is asked to try out. REALTOR GIVES PLAN FOR BOARD H. V. Koonts To Make Proposal For Local Real Estate Board At Institute Meeting. Henry V. Koonts, Greensboro realtor and secretary and treas urer of the Norjth Carolina Ap praisal, will make an effort to have a rear estate-board organ ized for Chapel Hill'at the Real Estate Institute to be held here in February. Mr., Koonts stat ed his plan in a letter to Louis Graves, editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly. The Institute meeting is to be held under the auspices of the University extension divi sion. s Mr. Koonts' letter answered an article in a recent issue of the Weekly which stated that a number of faculty members were successful realtors. Mr. Koonts explained the meaning of, the word "realtor." "The professors who have made such a success in real estate," he writes, "are to be congratulated, but none of them are realtors in name, as you will see from, the enclosed pamphlets and other information. Knowing them as I-do, I feel that all of them are realtors in practice and would make ideal timber for a real estate board, and we will endeavor to organize a board in Chapel Hill during the Real Estate Institute in February. Here in Greensboro the news paper men are honorary mem bers of our board, but for some reason which we are not able to explain we have had a hard time educating them in the use of the word realtor." Mr. Koonts encloses a sheet giving the definition of .realtor, as prepared by Glenn D. Willa man of Los Angeles and accept ed by the national organization (Continued on peg four) ExGoveraor "To-lDisciiss Patriotism And . 'CKristianity In : Addresses Ex-Governor Sweet -.X-:-:-:-;-i-: v. .-wy.v vx-:'' McKie Announces v Speaking Contest The annual American Legion State Oratorical Contest for col lege students will take place in February, according to an an nouncement from Professor George McKie of the English department. The contest is open to. any college student in North Carolina. ? In accordance with the plans of the contest committee, head ed by Cale K. Burgess of the Raleigh Post, each school will select its representative some time before the final contest, to be held in Raleigh. Mr. McKie is in charge of arrangements for selecting the University speaker. ' . A similar contest for high school students will also be spon sored by the Legion. The local post of the organization will conduct the contest in Orange county. Playmaker Notice Tryouts for roles in the bill of four new one-act plays to be produced by the Playmakers in February will be held Monday afternoon at: 4 :30 and in the evening at 7 :30 in Gerrard halt. The Playmakers stage will be used at the time for a rehearsal of "The Show-Off." As a wide variety of parts are open, there is abundant opportunity for new players. Everyone interested is asked to be present by the direc tion. Glee Club To Sing In Chapel Programs The University glee club has been invited, by Dean F. F. Bradshaw to appear in three successive chapel programs, prior to its entry in the Febru ary contest at Greenville. H. S. Dyer, glee club director, has accepted, stating that he is glad of the opportunity for the club to sing before audiences, believing that several such ap pearances are greatly-beneficial to the group. Buccaneer Notice There will be a meeting of the Buccaneer staff, art and editorial, in the Buccaneer of fice in the basement of Alum ni building, Monday night at 7 o'clock. Important that all members of the staff be pres- Cut. CY EDSON, Editor ui&L. . NUMBEILS1 Of Goloracf W. E. Sweet To Speak Under Auspices Of Local Y At Meth odist Church; To Explain Eel log Peace Pact. IS NATIONALLY FAMOUS W. E. Sweet, ex-governor of Colorado, speaks here this morn ing at the Methodist church at 11 a.vm. on the subject of "The New Patriotism." Mr. Sweet -will speak again tonight at 8 p. m. on A Valid Christianity for Today." He is here under the auspices of the local Y. M. c. a. For the past 25 years Nr. Sweet has been president of the Denver Y. M. C. A. and has tak en an active part in all kinds of student x and religious work. During the late war he was a divisional secretary in France for the Young Men's Christian Association, and since that time he has been connected with simi lar activities in that country. Mr. Sweet has presided over the annual Y conference of the Mid dle west for the last 12 years. He is a graduate of Swarth more College, a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and a member pf the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. ; During the years 1922-24 Mr. Sweet was governor of Colorado, and in 1926 was a candidate for the United States Senate. He is a trustee of the University of Denver. Governor Sweet is a student of the Kellogg Peace Pact and t his morning address will be based largely on the implica tions of this document. In re gard to his evening address, Mr. Sweet made the following state ment in" a letter, "I have some very clear notions ;- about social and economic questions. Under the title, 'A Valid Christianity for Today,' I shall speak with wide freedom on the implica tions of the gospel as applied to industry. My address will run strictly counter to many ac cepted ideas of the church peo ple in your state, but if indus trial" ills are ever cured, they must be cured by those who hold strictly to the principles of the Christian Gospel and who want to see them rigidly applied. , While in the state Mr. Sweet has delivered addresses at State College, Duke, and several other of the larger schools in the state. He. has also made visits to Marion" and Gastonia in or der that he might get first-hand information on the recent dis orders in the two places. Johnson To Discuss Interracial Problems Guy B. Johnson, of the Uni versity Department of Sociolo gy, will speak on "International Relations : the Negro" before the sophomore "Y" cabinet to morrow evening at the Y. Mr. Johnson is nationally rec-' ognized for his work in connec tion with interracial problems. Haywood Parker Convalescing Haywood Parker of Asheville, University trustee, is in Fort Meyers, Florida, convalescing from an illness. He was threat ened with pneumonia, and then his old sinus .trouble recurred. The doctors ordered him to Florida for a rest.. It
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