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jj EDUCATION STUDENTS 1 yy EDUCATION STUDENTS MEETING ; PEAEODY 7:C0 P. II. MEETING PEAEODY 7 :C0 P. II. ' if-. Sl f 4i K tr- 5 : f s VOLUME XXXIX C5 I. L3J CERETilOBJY BEGINS AT MNE O'CLOCIL INPHIIJJPSfm High Standards of Scholarship Required for Member ship. - .... DISTINCT HONOR Seven Honored With JMember ghip at Tapping Last ApriL Immediately following the meeting of the American Insti tute of Civil Engineers tonight the, engineering students will .assemble in room 206 Phillips hall for the mid-winter tapping of the Tau Beta Pi, honorary scholastic engineering frater nity. The tapping will begin at nine, since Mr. R. S. Phillips will detain the engineering stu dents until that time with , his address to the civil engineers. Membership to this- fraternity carries with it a distinct honor, for to be admitted an engineer- . ing student must have qualities of scholarship, character, and fellowship. The Beta chapter of the Tau Beta Pi is one of the three national honorary frater nities on the campus, the other two being Phi Beta Kappa, na tionally known scholastic frater nity, and the Sigma Xi, honor- . ary scientific research society, i To become a member of the Tau Beta Pi the engineering student must make a record as high. or perhaps higher than that of the Phi Beta Kappa stu dent. '' . The Beta chapter is one of more than sixty such chapters in the United States. The first was organized at Lehigh Uni (Contmued on last page) SAUNDERS MADE DIRECTOR THIRD ALUMNTMSTRICT Will Preside Over Council Meet ings To Be Held Next Year In Florida. J, Maryon Saunders, executive secretary of the University Alumni Association, was elected director, of the third district of the American Alumni Council at the meeting , in Birmingham, January 16 and 17; He will pre side over the council when they meet next year in Tallahassee, Gainesville, and Winter Park, Florida. Mr. Saunders made the first address of the conference on Saturday morning. The paper he read was scheduled to be deliver ed by Felix A. Grisette, Director of the Alumni Loyalty Fund; but, since Mr. Grisette was un able to be there, he referred the duty to Mr. Saunders. The sub ject of the address, in keeping with the general trend of dis cussion, was "Some Aspects of University Fund Raising." Fol lowing this discussion other phases" of alumni wor were taken up for consideration and discussion. After the luncheon at the Tut wiler hotel, where the confer ence was in session, the after noon was taken up with discus sions of alumni clubs and other organizations for the purpose of oser contact with alumni and alumnae." At four in the after noon the, sessions were closed (Continued on next page) d - -v ta 4 It WW-, wi JJL Phillips To Address Engineers Tonight R. S. Phillips, engineer of the Portland Cement association will address members x of the Caro lina chapter of the American So ciety of Civil Engineers tonight in room 319, Phillips hall at eight-fifteen o'clock. The" sub ject of Mr. Phillips' talk will be "Monolithic Concrete." v Mr. '.Phillips has addressed the engineering students on many occasions in the past. His sub jects are always picked with the idea of dealing with topics in which the engineers are inter ested. For this reason his talks are well attended, and many stu dents : have expressed ' their pleasure at hearing him. SENATE PASSES RELIEF BILL FOR DROUGHT AREAS Red Cross Opposes Act Appeals for Volunteer Aid. But While the Red Cross is still trying to feed and clothe thous ands of persons ; in the drought stricken area, the Dill which has been passed by the United States Senate voting 25,0Q0,000 for the relief work awaits action by the House. The action of the Senate was against the wishes v of President Hoover and the central committee of the relief agency. The report of this agency stated that the Red Cross wished to remain a volun teer organization. This state ment was made : "We consider ourselves charged with the re sponsibility in the drought area. We are meeting: the needs and will continue to do so." Administration supporters wished a postponement of the bill until the Red Cross could have a chance to raise the $10,000,000 they are striving for, but this was voted down. Republicans in the House seem to be doubtful of defeating the bill, and "a compromise has been suggested, to permit the gov ernment to match on a fifty-fifty basis the amount raised by the Red Cross voluntary contribu tions Meanwhile the Red Cross is proceeding with its work. : In formation obtained from the American Red Cross News Serv ice states that thousands of families in Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri are be ing fed and clothed. In Ken tucky about 24,530 persons are receiving their food from the re lief organization. The reports speak of the need. for children's clothing; a need which has been accentuated by the bitter cold. The sufferers apply for help on ly when they have done all they can for themselves. A field worker wires: "An ordinary sight on the mountain trails is that of a lone family in a broken down oxen-drawn cart or with a half starved mule in the traces, moving away to any destination they can reach where help might be available." In Arkansas food and clothing are needed to take care of the hundreds of families which have to be looked after by the Red Cross. It is the opinion of physicians that there is no un usual situation as to illness but the cold weather will probably (Continued on last page) CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, ' JANUARY 22, 1931 TAX COIiEIISSIOK PUSHES REPORT Six Hundred Page Volume Con tains Everything Pertaining To Taxation in State. The report of the State Tax Commission, supposed to have been in the hands of the General Assembly last November, was completed Monday night. The volume,-a 600-page mass of sta tistics and figures, presents de tailed studies of everything con cerning taxation as it exists in North Carolina. The entire income tax situa tion in the state, presenting segregated studies. of individual and cooperation incomes, is given in this volume. The detailed income tax study was made up from an analysis of 63,165 returns forthe calendar year 1929 filed by individuals i and corporations and 3,249 by partnerships and fiduciaries. Only 34,661, or 61.3 per cent, of . the 56,546 individuals mak ing returns, reported any tax able income. A small group of 418 persons paid 57.2 per cent of the total personal income tax paid to the state, the incomes of these individuals being over $15,- 000 or over. Of this group 34.8 per cent of the income came from dividends and 16.1 per cent from business profits. The next largest percentage of the total income tax paid by any group was 16 per cent, paid by 29, 219 individuals whose income was from $1. to $2500. Of this group 64 per cent of the income came from salary and wages.; Corporation officials paid 25;1 per cent of the total income tax; skilled employees, 3.9 per cent; small business executives, 3.6 per cent ; doctors, 3.5 per cent; attorneys,' 3.2 per cent; teachers and professors, 2.1 per cent ; bankers, 1.1 per cent ; farmers, 1 per cent , and news paper publishers, .1 per cent. Public service corporations paid 19.6 per cent and manu facturers of tobacco 39.8 per cent of the total corporation in come tax. The total income of individuals and corporations in the state in 1929 was 922 2-3 million dollars, but the taxable returns amount ed to only 733 million dollars. A final taxable income of 186 1-2 million dollars remained after deductions of 488 million; this amount yielded a revenue of $7, 107, .186 of which 77.5 per cent was paid by corporations. Among the corporations 445 foreign businesses paid $3,026, 000. FIVE DEATHS REPORTED IN VILLAGE THIS MONTH Two cases of measles and three of pneumonia have been reported by the Chapel Hill health department within the past few days. One of the pneumonia cases proved fatal. Since the first of January five deaths have occurred in Chap el Hill of which four were white and one colored. Of these five, only two were buried here; the other three were shipped away. Garrett 111 Professor M. B. Garrett of the history department has been sick with influenza for the past three-days. V Lawrence 111 G. H. Lawrence) superintend ent of public welfare, is ill with influenza at his home on Forest Hills; - - -v. OCAL MUSICIAN IN FLUTE CONCERT Stringfield Formerly Won Pulit zer Prize for Musical Y Composition. The activities of Lamar Stringfield have been brought to North Carolina during this year as he is living in Chapel Hill. To the many people who have been following the work of this young musician during the past few years, the opportunity to hear him perform in person has now come. The, radio and concert orchestras have played his compositions for millions of listeners. Though his "Cripple Creek" was 'performed a num ber of times last fall was the first time that Mr. Stringfield had the opportunity of hearing it played except when he was conducting the performance. The Roxy Theatre Symphony played it at the time and the composer would probably have missed it then: had not the con ductor, Mr. Joseph Littau, wired him that it was being played in conjunction with the "Mountain Song." Now, jword comes from Mr. Littau, who accepted the conductorship of the Omaha Symphony last fall, that the "Mountain Song" and "Cripple Creek" are being played at one of Ms concerts on the third of February. Mr. Stringf ield's activity in giving to the musical world the music that North Carolina en vironment inspires him to write, goes on quietly in his cottage in Chapel Hill. His music, which he calls the music of his people, speaks for itself in that it creates a desire m tnousands oi people throughout the world to play and listen to repeated performances of his works. On Friday evening, January 30, Mr. Stringfield will make his first public appearance in his native state in four years. He will be assisted by Mrs. Fred B. McCall, pianist. Dr. D. A. Mc Pherson, violinist ; . and the Faculty Orchestra will play in cooperation with the University music department. The first part of the program will be devoted mostly to music for the flute, by composers of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The second half will be devoted to music composed by Mr. Stringfield, which he has based on themes of North Carolina subjects. His "Moun tain Song" and "Cripple Creek" from the "Southern Mountain" Suite will end the concert. The Playmaker building where the concert is to be played only seats three hundred and forty-five giving ample oppor tunitv to receive the intimate relationship with the perform- ,vv, ff, RT-ino-fioiri ht lieves best for the finest expres sion from the artist. Proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Faculty Chamber Orchestra; so that they may buy music-stands and other necessities used - by them. The Faculty Orchestra often plays for the Playmaker productions, and as the Music building is not available at" this time,the Play maker Theatre is being used. Reporters The following reporters are requested to report to the managing editor between one thirty and two o'clock this afternoon: Andrews, Bessen, Blackwell, Carr, Hawley, Pe gram, Poe, Riley. survey -Je veals 'VLiJaaagaeg .Attitude I oward2ducation - . Dialectic Senate Passes Two Bills At a short session of the Di senate Tuesday night the bill asking that congress appropri ate $25,000,000 f or Red Cross work in the United States, was defeated by a vote of nineteen to six. Senators Ramsay arid Shreve upheld the bill, while Senators Dungan,.Rutledge and Higdon opposed it. A second bill, Resolved: that campus political parties print a list of their candidates and plat forms at least two weeks before the election was passed by a vote of twenty-one to one without discussion. ALBRIGHT SPEAKS ON DEVELOPMENT OF TWO SOCIETIES History of Di Senate and Phi i Assembly Traced m Radio Talk. Mayne Albright, former presi dent of the Phi Assembly, was the speaker over station WPTF at five o'clock yesterday after noon. Albright talked on the his tory, purpose, organization, and present status of the Dialectic Senate and the Philanthropic Assembly at the University. In his talk Albright showed that the two literary societies date back almost from the time of the opening of the Univer sity in 1795. The University was formally opened February 12, 1795, and on June 3 of the same year the first literary society, the parent of the later societies, was formed under the name of the Debating society. The body met on Thursday evenings and the members "read, spoke, and composed." The objects of the society were the "cultivation of lasting friendship and the pro motion of useful knowledge." The society soon became too large and it seemed advisable to split the body. A new' body, known as the Concord Society, was formed August 1, 1795. The name of the Concord Society was changed to The Con cord Assembly of the Philan thropic Literary Society, and the Debating Society became the Dialectic Senate. From the first however, these names were shortened to the "Di" and the "Phi," and these simpler forms have remained to the present time. , From the beginning the two societies met in their respective library rooms on the third floor j of South building. By -1820 the libraries contained about one thousand volumes and several fine portraits of former mem bers. ' , v- ; . In the year 1834 the treasury of the Phi Assembly was in such condition that the group was able to of fer $1,000 to the University towards the erection of a new library, but the finan cial condition of the University would not permit the erection of the building. 1 In 1837 there were about seven thousand volumes in the libraries of the two societies, and it be came necessary for them to have larger quarters. As a result re presentatives from the societies petitioned the trustees, who ar ranged tohave New East and New West buildings enlarged. The presidents of the organiza- (Continued on next page) NUMBER S COLLEGE HEADS FAVOR IDEA OF OPTIONAL CUT: Some Would Blake Attendance Privileges Contingent on Ex ceptional Grades. OPINIONS DIFFER Several Schools Considering Adopting Liberal System In Use at University. The optional attendance sur vey which Jack Dungan has been conducting for the special com mittee of the Central Admini strative Council among the uni versities of the country has brought forth the" information that educational institutions of higher learning in this country are undergoing more of a trans formation at this time than they have since the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Education appears to be in a very transi tory stage with colleges every where seriously asking them selves if their instruction is ef fective and whether it is time to change their entire theories of education. At Syracuse University, con sidered conservative because of its being, a church school, Dean Harry S. Gander has advised the committee that "... ..An impor tant change was reflected last year in accordance with which professors are no longer requir ed to report attendance for junior and senior students. "I think that you will find an exceptionally fine attitude on the part of most, if not all, instruc tors in the University toward (Continued on next page)- HOUSE DISCUSSES ECONOMY IN HIGH SCHOOLADDRESS Executive Secretary Speaks at Mid-Winter Commencement At Rocky Mount. R. B. House, executive secre tary, delivered the commence ment address at the mid-winter commencement of the Rocky Mount high school yesterday evening. The subject of his talk was "The Present Economic Situation, Fundamental Causes, ' and Remedy." In the address Mr. House ex pressed the opinion that the present condition of the state was primarily caused by ignor ance of the people in farming,, business, industry and every phase of making a living and keeping it when it was made. He pointed out the farmer who still clings to theories and practices in' agriculture that his great grandfather used. It is not a question of finding ways to economize says Mr. House, but one of finding a sys tem of education that will bring the people through the primary grades and continue their edu cation through the University. The salvation of : the state de pends on the stand the people take for education. The gospel of Murphey, Wiley, Vance, Jar vis, Aycock, E. K. Graham and F. P. Graham must be maintain ed and a comolete educational system open to all and second to none, if the state is to be de-' livered from tragedy, concluded Mr. House.
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