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JOHN LANG RADIO STATION WPTF TODAY 5:15 ft! y'cs n u -h y s i r rr fL) VrO j i PRESS INSTITUTE CAROLINA INN EIGHT O'CLOCK VOLUME XXXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931 NUMBER 79 NOTED NEWSMAP AND JOURNALIST TO SPEAK HERE Mark Sullivan, Prominent Politi cal and Historical Writer to ' Address Institute. Freshmen Nominate Seventeen Men or Thursday's Election Mark Sullivan, noted news paper correspondent and politi cal prophet, is to be among the outstanding news men present at the Seventh Annual News paper Institute which gets un der war tonight in Gerrard Hall at 8:00. President-elect Frank P. Graham is scheduled to deliver an address of welcome to the visitors as the opening speech on the program. Sullivan, author of The Great Adventure at Washington andj Our Times, the United States, 1900-25, is from Pennsylvania, j After graduating from a normal school in West Chester, Pa., in 1892, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts eight years later from Harvard, and 1903 the degree of L. L. B. from the same institution. In 1927 he was awarded the honorary de gree of Litt. D. from Brown University. Prom 1893 to 1900 Mr. Sullivan was a part owner of the Daily Republican which is published in Phoenixville, Pa. Dr. Sullivan is probably the best known out-of-state news paper man who will attend the meeting here this week.- He has made a name for himself in the journalistic field, as well as, to a lesser degree, as a contempor ary historian. -- ; He will address the institute tomorrow night at the Carolina Inn immediately following a buffet supper. "Observations of (Continued on next page) ANNUAL CONTEST PLANS ANNOUNCED Student Orators Will Speak on "The American Legion" at Third Meeting. ALUMNI OFFICERS FOR 1931 Professor George McKie has received a bulletin from Mr. Cale K. Burgess, department of Americanism officer, in Raleigh, announcing the third annual American Legion Oratorical Contest. The subject for this year's contest is, "The American Legion." Students desiring to enter the contest should notify Professor McKie before Febru ary first. The American Legion contest was inaugurated in 1928 when the subject was "The Citizens' Duty to Vote." The subject for the second year was "Our Flag. ' The subject chosen this year was "The American Legion." The rules for the contest al low the entrance of all under graduate white students. Speeches may not exceed fifteen minutes in length The Univer sity's representative will be se lected in a preliminary meet be fore March the twentieth, on which date the finals will be held in Raleigh. The prizes for the meet are: first, gold medals and seventy five dollars ; second, fifty dollars ; third, twenty-five dollars; and fourth fifteen dollars. The Le gion hopes to have additional Prizes, but these will certainly be awarded. ' Information on the subject way be secured from a recent book by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Fletcher, A History of North Carolina Department of the American Legion and Auxiliary, 2nd from Legion posts and Le gionnaires in every county. Last night the class of 1934 met in Gerrard hall at seven thirty to nominate officers. The purpose in delaying the nomina tion until last night was so that the freshmen might become ac quainted with each other. The meeting was adjourned at eight o'clock The candidates for the presidency are: Ike Minor, John Phipps, Otto Prochazka, and Red Rankin; for the vice-presidency: John K. Barrow, T. H. Brough ton, Joe Gardner, Harold Meade, and James M. Tatum; for the secretaryship : Bob Gold, John Leake, Shelley Sims, and Joe To bin; for the office of treasurer: Walter Groover, Lasley Hudson, Dave McCatheron, and Gus Mc- Iver. The voting will take place in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. Thursday from eight-thirty to five-thirty. The voters are to vote for one man in each office and for one only. The balloting will be in charge of Red Greene, president of the student union. Prouty Tours New England Studying Geological Strata Dr. W. F. Prouty has just re turned from an extended tour of, Columbia, Harvard, and Yalej Universities, where he visited j the departments of geology dur ing the larger portion of the fall quarter. - While in Connecticut and Massachusetts, Dr. Prouty made several field trips which enabled him to complete one phase of his studies on "The Structual Relation of the Trias sic Basins of Eastern United States." In addition to visiting a number of other institutions, field trips were made in the glaciated area of Rhode Island, south-eastern Massachusetts, and Southern Vermont. Of es pecial interest were the glacial tillitis and varied deposits of Perihocarboniferous age exposed best on the Squantum Peninsul ar southeast of Boston. These play a large part in the theory of the shifting of the earth's pole, as held by many European geologists. Many geologists f mm other continents have visited these deposits. Dr. Prouty will teach during the winter quarter, but he ex pects to continue his Kenan leave of absence in the spring. 19 3 l OFFICERS ALUMNI ASSN., I 1 I I i " . IK. 'i !. . '.V.-. .... -.. .- .-.V.-, S ' - - 5 L'.V i: ' .... i , jH j j I " feb-js '. . 1 ; I 1 1 C.FELIX HARVEY I j W-- --?! K. P. LEWIS A I 1 1 WD.CAEAAICHAEL Jft DURHAM. A. C. l ' m NEW YOGK. CIT i 'm. II JVortfi Carolina Final Cast For , 'East Lynn' To Be Chosen Tonight The final cast for the Play makers' next play, East Lynn, will be chosen tonight at seven- thirty when the first rehearsal for the play will take place. The results of the tryouts held last evening are as fol lows: Sir Francis Levison Mr. Ayres or Mr. Jess; Archibald Carlyle Mr. Rulf s or Mr. Ward; Lord Mount Severn Mr. Bissel or Mr. Ward; Rich ard Hare Mr. Deans; Lady Isabel Miss Winburn or Miss Perrow : Barbara Hare Miss Daniels or Miss Norwood; Miss Carlyle Miss Walker ; Mr. Dill Mr. Oettinger or Mr. Piland; Justice Hare Mr. Zimmerman; Ofiicer Mr. Wrigley; Joyce Miss Bowers; Wilson Miss Reed. This new presentation of the Playmakers will be presented February 5, 6, and 7. Student Opinions And Problems To Be Discussed By Lang NO FLU EPIDEMIC HERE ON CAMPUS SAYS AIMNETHY Condition Practically Same As Last Year at This Time. J. MARYON SAUNDERS BXKCUTtva MCfWfVkJkV . CHAPEL. tfiLL, AA C The group of men pictured above have been selected by the members of the University Alumni Association to head their or ganization during 1931. Eight hundred out of 1,400 possible ballots were cast in the election, which was held by mail. Mr. Harvey is a member of the class of '92, Mr. Lewis of the class of '00, and Mr. Carmichael of the class of '21. Mr. Saunders, '25, is continuing his duties as the active head of the association and as editor of the Alumni Review. BUSINESS WILL PICK UP IN 1931 SAYS WESTINGH0USE PRESIDENT Latest Press Book Deals With Strikes Many Aspects of the Present Situation That Promise Im provement, He Asserts. A comprehensive history of the theory and practice of the general strike in countries of Europe, the Orient, North and South America will be covered in The General Strike, by Wil fred H. Crook, which is the next book to be published by the Uni versity Press. The author was born in Lan cashire, England, and holds ad vanced degrees from'Oxford and Harvard, is now a naturialized citizen of the United States and a professor at Bowden. He is admirably fitted both in temper and in training for a study of "labor's tragic weapon. He deals with such topics as lhe First General Strike: Great Bri tain," "France, the Home of Theory" ; "Belgium, the Land of the Political Strike" ; "Sweden Tries Anything Once" ; "Holland in 1903: the Penalty of Over- confidence." The study is iuny documented. The following is an article written by F. A. Merrick, presi dent of the Westinghouse Elec tric and Manufacturing Com pany at the close of this past year: "The - past year has pre sented a progressively dis appointing picture for com merce andr industry in general. Following the stock ; market break in October, 1929, the high tide of business receded rather quickly to a level which was al most universally accepted as the base line to be expected for the current course of things until the upturn came in sight. This view was encouraged by several favorable factors present which have not usually been found in similar situations. Prominent among these were the plentiful money supply and the general absence of swollen inventories. Existing inventories, however, were then judged in relation to past consumption, and when the stock, markets began their pro nounced downward slide in mid summer of this year and cus tomer buying was abruptly cur tailed in consequence, the inven tories loomed larger and prices of all commodities yielded, bring ing the result of added stagna tion through the natural timid ity of purchasers in a falling price market. "The electrical manufacturing industry suffered with all others hi this series of changes, except in so far as work on larger types j of equipment, requiring consid erable time for fabrication, held up the level of employment dur ing the greater part of the year. "While the short-time outlook in the industry thus shows a much lower trend than has been the case in recent years, there are many aspects of the situa tion that promise improvement the extension of electrical ser vice to the farms of the country is progressing with increasing rapidity-there are important lines of industry who are em bracing this period of relativiely slack business to rehabilitate their plants on most modern ef ficient basis which generally means increased electrical equip ment all branches of govern ment, federalstate, and munici pal ; are joining in an effort to advance construction of useful public works and even under present conditions there is ground for expectation that the use of electricity in the house holds of the country will be ac celerated throughout the coming year, with attendant market for the appliances which will create this added use. "And beyond all this is the basic fact that goods in the hands of the public are daily be inff consumed, that the shelves of the dealers are being cleaned up and the stocks of distributors lessened thus the fundamentals nf a normal return to sound business in all lines are working themselves out as must ever be the case. "This is too large and too fun damentally prosperous a country to stand still for any long period." The weekly radio talk over station WPTF will be given to day at 5:15 by John Lang, sec retary of the National Student Federation of America, and R. C. Greene, president of the stu dent body of the University. Greene will point out the ideals and the program of the N. S. F. A. for the coming - ir-w If "J J year. Me win attempx xo ex plain the work that the organi zation does as a member of the International Student Federation. Lang, in his talk, will tell of the trend of student sentiment in the United States on such matters as prohibition, subsidiz ed athletics, a third party, the tariff, cancellation of allied war debts, and the world court. V The greater part of Lang's speech will be given over to a detailed discussion of the prob lems confronting the present session of the state legislature. In his discussion of these prob lems Lang will attempt to pre sent the facts from the view point of the student. In addition to the considera tion of the state's problems, Lang . will report on the plans of the N. S. F. A. to aid students in receiving .the benefits of re duced rates on railroads and in hotels, and to establish loan funds for college students. "The cold situation in Chapel Hill and the University is no different than it is every year at this period," stated Dr. Wil liam Abernethy, physician in charge at the infirmary yester day. "We are pleased to report that, while we had twenty-three persons admitted to the infirm ary Monday, it was only neces sary to care for eleven Tuesday." Dr. Abernethy urges all who feel ill to either report to the in firmary or to call the infirmary if they are too ill to come, and medical attention will be brought them. Most of the persons who have been ill during this period have been confined for three days on ly. Only eight actual influenza cases exist at the present time. Dr. Abernethy has gone to the dormitories and examined all students who had reported as being ill, and. he states that a large number of those reported ill were suffering from nothing more than slight colds. The in firmary is fully equipped to handle the situation, and anyone who really needs medical atten tion will be admitted. The University authorities es pecially wish to impress on the minds of the students and their parents that there is no immin ent 'danger of the University's closing down because of the num ber of students who are ill. LIST OF AWARDS IS MAM KNOWN Graduate School Offers Group Of Teaching Fellowships To Students. Leavitt Speaks To Philological Club OUTSIDERS MAY SECURE ENTERTAINMENT TICKETS The students of the liberal arts school and the education school can get their student en tertainment tickets today from the business office. Other per sons who wish to see the per formances may buy the book of tickets entitling them to see all six attractions for $2.50. T. C. Worth, who is in charge of the sale of such tickets, states that they will be obtainable at the Y. M. C. A. at chapel period during this week and next. Sat urdays he will be at Sutton's Drug Store from ten to twelve thirty to sell them. Dr. Sturgis E. Leavitt, of the Spanish section in the depart ment of romance languages, made an address last night at seven-thirty to the Philological r.lnh on the subiect of "Latin- American Literature in the United States," at the Graduate Club. Dr. Leavitt's talk was mainly a survey of the contributions made by American leaders in the fields of literature and language to our knowledge of Latin American literature. Beginning with, the contribu tions made by William C. Bryant in 1828, Dr. Leavitt traced the development of the knowledge of Spanish American literature in the United States up to the pres ent time. Dr. Leavitt also stressed the fact that, due to the rising im portance and growing know ledge of Latin-American litera ture, that course is now being taught in many leading Ameri ! can colleges and universities. The graduate school announc ed recently a list of fellowships to be given in the school for the year 1931-32. They are avail able to graduate students and to seniors who expect to enter the graduate school next year. The first group of fellowships are offered by the University to men who will devote a part of their time to instructing or to other prescribed work. There are twenty-six of these fellow ships, each carrying free tuition and $500. There are also a number of appointments with a stipend of from $500 to $800 and free tui tion offered to students who will devote1 half their time to in structing in the department to which they are assigned. These are also given through the Uni versity. Free scholarships will be ap pointed to fifteen graduate stu dents who apply for themf next year. Two Graham Kenan fellow- pend of $700 and free tuition are available to men or women of the graduate school next year. For research in chemis try there will be given the Le- , doux fellowship of $300 and free tuition to either men or women. Through the Institute for Re search in Social Science there are available for next year from eight to ten appointments allow ing $1,500 annually for the ex penses of students who will de vote their time to research. Ap plication blanks can be secured from the director of the Insti tute, Dr. H. W. Odum.
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