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if I jw. PLAYMAKER PASSES EXCHANGED AT STUDENT SUPPLY STORE PLAYMAKER PASSES EXCHANGED AT STUDENT SUPPLY STORE i ! : I ? f ! ( w I j v . i J -if i VOLUME XXXIX m r 4 "V "ti Tin m HEAD OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Both at World's Fair in Chicago In 1933 To Be Directed by Sociology Professor. Announcement has just been cade that Howard W. Odum, director of the school of public welfare, has been appointed di rector of Social Science Exhibits in the "Century of Progress," World's Fair, to be held at Chi cago, 1933. Among other sug gested plans is one providing for a comprehensive social science building alongside the temple of science, in which will be housed the exhibits of natural sciences, sponsored by the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science and its committees and directed by Professor Henry Crew, head of the department of physics at Northwestern Uni versity. There were two committees charged with the selection of a director. One was a special com mittee appointed by the Social Science Research Council and ratified by the "Century of Progress" administration. This committee was composed of the secretary of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur ; President E. B. Wilson, Social Science Re search Council; President R. M. Hutehins, University of Chi cago; President H. W. Chase, University of Illinois ; President H. G. Moulton, ol the Brooklyn Institution; and President Logan Paxon, of the University of Wisconsin. The other committee was a local committee at the University of Chicago, some of the members of whom were Dean Charles H. Judd, of the school of education; Professor Harry A. Millis, head of the department of economics; Professor Charles E. Merriam, head of the depart ment of political science : Pro fessor William F. Ogburn, of the department of sociology ; and Professor Donald Schlesinger, school of law. - It is understood that the ac ceptance of this position will not take Dr. Odum away from North Carolina except on leaves of ab sence, granted for certain parts of the years, beginning with the winter quarter, 1931. Tar Heel Editors To Give Radio Talk Will Yarborough, editor of the Daily Tar Heel, and Jack Dun gan, managing-editor, are sche duled to give the fourth of a series of radio programs broad cast over WPTF this year. To morrow afternoon from 5:30 to 5:45 the two Daily Tar Heel editors will discuss the subject of "Campus Publications," "Red" Greene president, of the studeat union, in the first radio program of the year outlined the system of student . government now used on this campus. The second speaker on the series was Ed Hamer, president of the Y. C. A; Hamer discussed at length the work, history, finance, and organization of the Y asso ciation here. Archie Allen, in the third program, discussed Universitv" athletics. The last mf talk was made by "Red" Greene, who continued his discussion on the present student government system. Tomorrow night's program wiU probably be the last to be Siven this quarter, but it is the Plan that such an idea be con tinued during the winter quar-; Executive Session Scheduled By Di The Dialectic Senate brings its quarter's program, to a close with the meeting tonight at which officers for the winter quarter and the president for the spring quarter are to be elected. Prior to the election of the next quarter's officials, re ports from the several commit tees are to be heard. - From all appearances so far it has been reported that interest in the societies has increased somewhat over that of last year. Each of the five speakers on the program of the Senate's banquet held lately mentioned the fact that they had noticed the rising interest,- and urged that this be kindled to a greater degree. SONGS OF NEGRO TO BE DISCUSSED BYGUOOHISON Community Club Sponsoring Meeting in Music Auditorium Tomorrow Night. Guy B. Johnson, of the Insti tute for Research in Social Sci ence, 'will speak tomorrow night at eight-fifteen " o'clock in the music auditorium on the subject, "Negro Folk Music in the United States." The music de partment of the Community Club is sponsoring" the meeting. Mr. Johnson will trace briefly the development of , American negro folk songs, describing the various types of songs and point ing out the indebtedness of ne gro songs to the white man's songs. In his latest work, Folk Cul ture on St. Helena Island, S. C, which has just been released by the University of North Caro lina Press, Mr. Johnson devoted quite a bit of space to the con troversy over African versus European influences in the negro spirituals. He came to the con clusion that the general features and many of the particulars of these songs were borrowed by the negroes from the whites dur ing slavery. Tomorrow night he will summarize the evidence on this point. He will also discuss negro folk music as a basis for artistic composition. Mr. Johnson will illustrate his remarks by musical excerpts, and after his talk there will be a program of songs, piano selec tions, and phonograph music illustrating the various types of negro music. In the folk song division Professor Ward Fenley will sing several secular songs, including "John Henry," "Stago lee," "Rainbow Round My13houl- der," and I Told My Uap'n 'mat My Feet Was Cold." He will accompany himself on the gui tar. A quartet, composed of G. W. Fenley, G. M. McKie, 01 sen, and,R, P. Bond will sing spirituals in old-time style. Among their selections will be "Standing in the Need of Prayer" and several others col lected by Mr. Johnson on St. Helena Island and rarely heard in this part of the country, in cluding "Eagle's Wings," "Ma- (Continued on last page) Infirmary List The infirmary list for yester day included J. A. Williams, J. H. Shuford, Poole Funderburke, E. L. Peterson, and Coach Col lins. Coach Collins' anxiety for fhp welfare of the team caused him to neglect his own health, . JZ r and as a result he is coniuwu ! !fhfl ?r,f with a very heavy' - mj mmiuui; - - CHAPEL HJLI N. C TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1S0 Replied Qf Rosetta Stone Latest Library Acquisition o- A cast of the famous slab of black basalt known as the Rosetta stone was recently ac-; quired by the University of North Carolina library for the collection maintained by the Hanes foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book. The cast was se cured from the British Museum in London through the efforts of Dr. L. R. Wilson, University librarian, while in England last summer. It is made of plaster, colored black, and polished so as to resemble very closely the ori ginal stone. It is now on exhibit in the main entry of the library. The Rosetta stone played an important part in the discovery of a method of deciphering Egyptian hierogyphics. It was discovered in the Egyptian town of Rashid, called Rosetta by Europeans, in August, 1799, by a French engineering officer named Boussard. This officer was engaged in clearing a site for new fortifications being built as a part of Napoleon's military operations during the Egyptian expedition. The stone was later taken to Cairo at the order of Napoleon and there placed in a museum which he had founded in that city. When Napoleon capitulated to the English forces in Egypt in the spring of 1801, the Rosetta stone, together with other Egyptian antiquities, were surrendered to the British and sent to England. It is now on display in the Egyptian gallery in the British, Museum. Commerce Library To Be Open Sundays Beginning next Sunday the commerce reading room in the general library building will be open during the regular library hours on Sundays from two until five o'clock. This Sunday serv ice is being offered at the re quest of commerce students and will be continued as long as there is sufficient use of the room to warrant keeping it open. So that the books in demand may be available for Sunday readers, the week-end circula tion is discontinued and the fol lowing rules will be effective Sat urday: Books 'may be drawn from the room Saturday night at ten o'clock for use until two o'clock the following Sunday af ternoon. Failure to return books at this time renders the borrow er subject to the customary fine for the late return of over-night books. Books may again be drawn for home circulation at four-forty-five o'clock Sunday afternoon, returnable at nine thirty on the following Monday morning. , Engineers Meet Thursday Thursday night there will be a joint meeting of the engineer ing fraternities. Professor Rod man of the University of Vir ginia and vice-president of the southern district of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical En gineers, will address the meet ing with a talk on Jefferson. The meeting will be held in Phillips Hall and all four soci eties in the engineering school will be present. Ray Addresses Engineers Club Charles E. Ray, of the North Carolina Department of Conser vation and Development, ad- dressed the Charlotte Engineers Club yesterday at a luncheon . , meeting in Charlotte. The contents of the stone is an inscription .of the decree passed by the Grand Council of Egypt- ian priests assembled at Mem phis to celebrate the first com memoration of the coronation of Ptolemy V, in the year 196 B. C. The decree was written in two languages, Egyptian and Greek. The Egyptian portion of the stone has the decree engraved in two kinds of Egyptian writing; that is, the hieroglyphic charac ter and the informal demotic hand. The Greek portion of the inscription is cut in ordinary Greek characters. By compar ing the Egyptian portion of the stone with other examples of hieroglyphic writing, and by means of the Greek translation of the decree which also appear ed on the stone and which could be read by Greek scholars, it was possible to decipher the mean ing of the hieroglyphic and de motic characters and thus es tablish a method for reading material written in this way. The University is fortunate in having acquired, through the Hanes Foundation, this import ant monument of human culture. The Hanes Collection was estab lished April 5, 1929, by the Hanes family of Charlotte and Winston-Salem, as a .memorial to their parents, John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes. It comprises materials illustrative of the origin and development of the written and printed re cords from the beginning of his tory to the present. Alumni Association Nominates Officers The alumni association of the Universitv met last Saturday morning at ten-thirty in the CarnliTia Tmi 'President W T. Carolina Inn. President W. T. Shore presided over the meeting. Reports from committees were heard and officers were nom mated and elected for the en- suing year. The alumni secretary, the class secretaries, the director of the Alumni Loyalty Fund, the alumni representatives on the athletic committee and the nom inating committee made reports. C. Felix Harvey and R. M. Hanes were nominated for pre sident of the association; K. P. Lewis and Junius Adams for first vice-president; T. C. Tay lor and W. D. Carmichael for second vice-president;- and Claude W, Rankin and F. S. Spruill for representatives on the athletic council. These candi dates are to be voted on by niail- , ballots. C. W. Tillet, Jr. and A. L. Parrington were elected as directors-at-large and J. W. Armstead was re-elected as class secretary. Alumnus Honored By Public Health Society A recent number of Science carries the note that Dr. John A. Ferrel, B. S., 1902, was elected president of Delta Omega, the honorary public health society, at the annual meeting held in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Ferrel who is a native of Clinton, N. C, has been the director for the United States of the Internation al Health Board of the Rocke feller Foundation since 1913. He is an M. D. (1907) and a Doctor of Public Health (Johns Hopkins 1919). Delta Omega has six chapters, all of them in institutions in which the Public Health work is extensive and ' of high order. Assembly To Elect Officers Tonight Tonight at its regular weekly meeting the Phi Assembly elects officers for the winter quarter. President Mayne Albright, be cause of the importance of the meeting requests that all mem bers be present. ; The picture of the assembly for the Yachety-Yack will be made at the meeting tonight Refreshments will be served to the members immediately after the close of the meeting. The newly-elected officers are to take their places when elected and conduct the remainder of the program. IMMPLOYMENT TO BE DISCUSSED BY UMVERSITIES Industrial League Sponsors Con ferences of Eastern and Western Colleges. A conference of students from forty eastern colleges and uni v, j versities is scheduled Union Theological Seminary in New York, December 29 and 30 for the purpose of studying the causes and possible solutions for the unemployment situation. The conference is being sponsored by the League for Industrial Democracy, 112 East 19th street, and leading economists and so ciologists are being secured by the league to speak at the con ference. On January - 2, 3, and- 4 the Chicago office of the league will sponsor a conference for mid western and western students on the subject, "The Radical Fade Out. Can Liberalism Survive Graduation?" Benjamin Marsh, executive di rector of the People's Lobby and 1 Clinch Calkins, author of "Some Folks Won't Work," will speak at the New York conference, De cember 29, on the extent and ef fects of unemployment. A. J. Muste, dean of the faculty of Brookwood Labor College and Colston E. Warne of Amherst will talk on "Types and Causes of Unemployment." On December 30, Charlotte E. Carr, industrial consultant of the charities organization society, and Dr. Harry W. Laidler, co director of the league will dis cuss "Immediate Remedies for Unemployment." Paul Blan shard, writer and executive di rector of the city affairs com mittee and Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch will also speak on "A New Society Where Economic Secur ity is Secured." Students presiding at . the various sessions of the confer ence are: Howard Westwood of Columbia, Charlotte Tuttle of Vassar, Joel Seidman of Johns Hopkins, Martha Stanley of Smith, , and Peter Nehemkis, president of the intercollegiate student council of the league. 4 Karl Borders, executive sec retary of the Chicago office of the league, is in charge of the mid-western conference. Speakr ers will include Jane-Addams, Paul Hutchinson, Sam Levin, Clarence Senior, E. F. Tittle, and S. J. Duncan Clark. Students and faculty members are welcomed to the conference as visitors. Harland Lectures in Raleigh Dr. J. P. Harland, of the de partment of classics, delivered an illustrated lecture to a group j of Raleigh people in the St. Mary's auditorium last night on 'Archaeology and Art.' 3 MAJOR CAIN DIES AS A RESULT OF MOTOR ACCIDENT Professor Emeritus of Mathe matics and Celebrated Engi neer Succumbs in Eighty Fourth Year. Major William Cain, former University professor and one of the outstanding members of the .American Society of Civil En gineers died late Saturday night as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident a few hours mUeFm The Major was crossing Franklin street when a car driven by Bill Parkin struck him down. Because of the poor visibility and the slippery street, it was impossible for Parkin to prevent the accident. Major Cain was born in Hills boro eighty-three years ago, and attended school in the same town. At the age of fourteen, because of the military train ing that he received while at school in Hillsboro, he was ag- signed to Camp Crabtree as drill master ior txie recruits. Alter xne Civil War Dr. Cain returned to school at the North Carolina Military and Polytechnic Insti-. tute where he graduated with the' degree of M. A. Upon his graduation the late Major studied law with his grandfather, Judge John L. Bailey, but he was too young to practice, and when an oppor tunity presented itself for him to enter into the field of civil engineering Tie grasped it eagerly. Dr. Cain was employed as an engineer by several railroads in the state until some funds which were to be used in constructing a new road were stolen, and it was no longer necessary for the railroad to employ an engineer when there was no road to be (Continued on last page) Speakers Chosen For University Radio Programs A series of radio broadcasts have been planned by the Cen tral Administrative Council, which met last night. These broadcasts have been made regu lar weekly features over station WPTF at Raleigh, and are broadcast each Wednesday after noon at 5:15. The program di rector of the radio station is so pleased with the - talks that WPTF will continue to broad cast them as long as the Univer sity wishes. The talks are as follows: December 10 Will Yarbor ough and Jack Dungan on pub lications. December 17 J. C. Williams on debating. January 7 John Lang on a report of the National Congress of N. S. F. A. at Atlanta during the holidays. January 14 Mayne Albright on the Di and Phi literary soci eties. January 21 Pat Patterson on class organization. January - 28 John Idol on honorary organizations. The Central Administrative Council also voted unanimously in favor of the return of op tional class attendance for jun iors and seniors. The council was appointed by Red Greene, and consists of Red Greene, chairman ; Mayne Albright, secretary; Ed Hamer, Pat Patterson, Will Yarborough, Jack Dungan, Mayne Albright, John Lang, John Idol, Archie NUMBER Allen, and J. C. Williams. " I cold.
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