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'OLUMB XXXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2S, 1931 NUMBER 91 i I 1. COMfflTTEE WILL ATTEMPT RELIEF FOR ILLITERACY Members of Commission Ap pointed by Governor Gardner T Convene Here Tuesday , The state commission on adult illiteracy, which was recently appointed by Governor O. Max Gardner, meets at the - Carolina Inn, Tuesday night, February 3, for the purpose of formulating plans for carrying on a cam uaign to relieve, the present adult illiteracy situation in this state. .. . , A committee similiar to this existed last year, but due to several resignations of its mem bers, the group was broken up. The newly-appointed committee is to continue the work which was begun by the old one last year. ." - " . .V4 It is the plan of, the group to encourage the several city civic organizations in" this state to hold classes which will be open to the adult illiterates in ; the different communities. In this way, stated Mr. Luther Hodges, of Spray, acting chairman of the group, a large number of the ignorant elders in this state will be reached. The University extension division will help in this work. According to the statistics which have been recently pub lished by the national govern ment, North - Carolina ranks -among the first ten states hav ing the largest number of illit erates in proportion to popula tion. Those who have been appoint ed on the committee from this community include Dr. Howard. W. Odum, I. C. Griffin, and R. M. Grumman. There are sev eral other members on this com mittee from different parts of the state. Since the appointment of the committee, Mr. Hodges has been the acting chairman of the group. At the meeting on February 3 an official , chairman will be selected. RUSHING TO END ATTmVENOON Period of Silence Lasts Until Today, When Bids Will Be Distributed. Fraternity rushing for the winter quarter will end today at twelve o'clock. Officers of the in terfraternity council state that rules governing this neriod of suence must be strictly ob served, just as they are during j the regular rushing season in the fall. " v V All bids are to be turned in to John Cooper, secretary-treasurer of the council, at the Sigma Nu house before three o'clock to day. Rushees will report to him between the hours of three and six today. According to the rushing rules as changed by the inter fraternity council this quarter, rushing began two weeks ago, January 14, at twelve o'clock. Ir the spring quarter rushing will begin five days after classes kgin and will last fourteen jays. The period of silenceJwill begin at twelve o'clock on the fourteenth day and will end at Slx o'clock on the fifteenth day. In the fall quarter 301 fresh men were pledged by the several fraternities. The number will 06 smaller doubt. this, ; ; quarter, ' no' COMPOSER WILL PRESENT CONPHRRT FRIDAY EVENING Beginning promptly at eight thirty o'clock, Friday evening, January 30, a chamber music concert will be presented at the Playmakers Theatre" by Lamar Stringfield, assisted by Mrs. Fred B. McCall, pianist, Dr. D. A. McPherson, violinist, and the Faculty Chamber Orchestra. The first consideration in planning the concert has been to give an hour's program of num bers selected for an enjoyable evening oi musical entertain ment. This is to be Stringfield's first . public appearance as solo ist' in his native state during trie past four years. Very rarely does one hear of a composer who is also an artist on a musical instrument as well as an artist conductor. String field will appear in those three roles at the concert Friday eve ning. He has also been active in demonstrating the soundness of his theory that individual Amer ican music comes from subjects and inspirations surrounding the unsophisticated folk lives of the- American people. RED CROSS AID WIDELYSOUGHT Appeals for Food Pour in From Drought Area Where People Are Starving. Reports from the American Red Cross news service indicate that applications for relief are still pouring into Red Cross headquarters from the drought area, especially from Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma Texas and Mississippi. ;. . A report from Earl, Arkansas tells of the loss of 376 mules in one week through starvation, and asserts that even landown ers will be unable to replace livestock now being permitted to die. ". ';, , "One man with a family with out food for several days, until his milk cow could be sold to buy groceries, asserted his family, had no winter clothing, nothing to eat, no feed for his stock, no work, and all his stock had been turned out to forage for them selves." A letter from someone in the Ozark hills seeking to trade black walnuts for second hand clothing is representative of the attitude of most of the sufferers who do not want to ask for aid as long as they have anything left. '; The Red Cross secretary writes of the distress in a nor- mally prosperous community in Ohio : at 9 :30 one night a call for relief for twenty-one persons living in a barn and at 7 : 30 the next morning a call for help from a family of seven with no (Continued on last page) j Idol Scheduled For Weekly Radio Talk Another of the fifteen-minute talks about the University will be given at five o'clock this afternoon when John Idol will discuss "The Music Department of the University from radio station WPTF in Raleigh. As usual, the speaker today will be introduced! by Red Greene, presi dent of the student union, who is in charge of the radio series during which - several campus leaders have ; previously appear ed Idoly senior, has been a member of the University glee club, under the- direction of the music department. CIENCE NOTABLE TO LECTURE HER i DmiNGmK-EM) W. D. Bancroft, Chemist of National Reputation, Will Speak Friday Evening. Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell University, and his wife will be entertained in Chapel Hill the last few days of the month. Bancroft will lecture at eight p. m. Friday, January 3D, in the auditorium of Venable hall, on "Colloid Chemistry and Medicine" to the North Carolina chapter of the Sigma Xi and the North Carolina section of the American Chemical Society. I Preceding the lecture there will , be a dinner for the members of the two organizations. , Dr. Bancroft has been lec turing at Rollins College, Winter Park, , Florida, and is stopping here on his way north. He is Retreshments were served at the of a distinguished family. His j conclusion of the speech, grandfather, George Bancroft, Professor Cameron was in the famous : historian, was one troduced by Professor Heer of time secretary of the navy and j the commerce faculty, who call- during his administration the Naval Academy was founded. Later he was minister to Eng land and Sweden.; His father, the late John Bancroft was a member of the famous group of young Harvard men, who were concerned in the rise of the Calumet and Hecla copper mine. Bancroft himself was distin guished at Harvard as a football player and oarsman, as well as by excellent scholarship. Although he was offered an attractive opening in Harvard on graduation, his interest in the' then newly developing science of physical chemistry took him to Amsterdam to study with the great Dutch Master Van't Hoff. Taking his doctor's degree in 1892, Bancroft re turned to-Harvard for a year as an instructor, and then joined Trevor at Cornell to organize the research laboratory which has been one of the most pro ductive in the world, and to found the Journal of Physical (Continued on page two) Alumni To Sponsor Glee Club Trip To Roanoke, Virginia In response to the intense en thusiasm shown by Carolina alumni at Roanoke, Virginia, the university glee club will pre sent a concert at Hollins college, seven miles from Roanoke. The concert will be on the night of February 7. Among those "alumni who have shown such interest in the glee club are: Dr. J. T. McKin ney, Reverend Dr. A. R. Berke ley, and" Colonel William S. Battle Jr. These alumni have taken it upon themselves to pro vide entertainment for the glee club during its stay in Roanoke. Approximately thirty members of the club will go on the trip. The program is under the aus pices of the Hollins music as sociation. The club will be served dinner in the college din ing room prior to the concert. Joseph A. Turner, general manager of Hollins College, wrote to the glee club the fol lowing message: "I report with pleasure con siderable enthusiasm on the part of students and faculty. This concert deserves from every standpoint a large patronage.1 On the Monday fbllowiiisr the giee ciuid concert at Hollins the entire Maennerchoer will give a concert in the music build ing here at eight-fifteen o'clock 17 INDS POSSIBLE USE FOR COTTON FIBRE IN RAYON Professor Frank K. Cameron Explains Discovery at Delta , Sigma Pi Smoker. Professor Frank Cameron of the University chemistry de partment spoke last night at the first smoker of the new year given by Delta Sigma Pi, pro fessional commerce fraternity, upon the topic of "Prospective Commercial Use of Cotton fibre in the Manufacture of Rayon. A large audience was highly en tertained by the brilliant talk made by the speaker, in which he was assisted by N. W. Dock- ery, a university undergraduate who presented some statistical data about the experiments which he, aided by Professor Cameron, has been carrying on. ed attention to the fact that the speaker has been receiving nation-wide attention recently since he announced that he and his associate are on the thres hold of commercial production of cotton for use in rayon. j Professor Heer further point ed out that many seek to explain the current depression in terms of the outstripping of effective consumer demand by a rising tide of production, due largely to the marked technological ad vances which have recently been taking place in industry, and that in Professor Cameron the audience would find one of the technologists himself, who would have an opportunity to express his views upon this very pressing problem. "Scientists have long been aware," stated Professor CamT eron, "that of all the commonly known aboriginal and cultivated plants, cotton contains the high est cellulose content. Further, that this is true despite' the fact (Continued on page two) . CHEMIST MUST BE ALERT BOST TELLS STUDENT SOCIETY Dr. R. W. Bost, professor of organic chemistry, addressed the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Monday evening. Dr. Bost made his talk on the de sirable qualities of a successful chemist and a successful chemi cal engineer. He pointed but how essential it was that a chemical engineer should cor rectly meet the problems that his employer set before him. Dr. Bost said, "There is noth ing more pathetic than a slip shod chemist. The chemist must be alert, keep up with the mod ern ideas as much as possible, make helpful professional ac quaintances, have the patience of Job, and be a Iedder and not one of those being led. The se cret of success is do a little more than is required by one's em ployer." George Holroyd, a graduate student in chemistry, gave a brief talk on how it is possible, on paper, to obtain products by using chemical reactions which are known to be true in some cases, but which, when put to gether, give an impossible prod uct. He succeeded in making a molecule of chlorine contain ing twenty-four atoms, from manganese acetate, by using several substitution reactions. Refreshments were served. STUDENT BARBERS WILL NOT BE HIT BY PROPOSED LAW Rumors that the student bar ber shops may be forced out of business through the enforce ment of a statute amendment recently proposed to the General Assembly- are unfounded. The suggested change in the law "Would give authority to the State Board of Barber Exam- iners "to make reasonable rules and regulations for the sanitary , management of barber shops. It is also untrue that the Chapel Hill barbers, through the barbers union will attempt iegislation against student bar bers. There is already a special section in the barber regulations that rules against a person of fering barber services in room in which he sleeps. gfoj. dents in colleges and universi ties are the only persons ex empted from the observance of this ruling and, according to the barbers here, no effort will be made to" have their status changed. PROUTY EXPLAINS CRASH ATM AGAR A Geology Professor Calls Gradual Erosion of Falls a "Geologi cal Time Piece." Dr. W. F. Prouty of the geology, department recently explained the phenomena which took . place at Niagara Falls several days ago. Great masses of rock precipitated . into the pools below the falls causing the edge of the falls to retreat several feet. The erosion of the falls has been going on since the melting of the Continental. Ice Sheet from the northern United States and has served as a geo logical time piece. The retreat of the falls has been regular; averaging about one foot a year on the American Falls and about five feet a year on the Horse shoe Falls, , According to Dr Prouty the length of Niagara Gorge is ap proximately seven miles. "The rate of erosion of Niagara Falls in the past has been sometimes slower, and sometimes faster than. now. The pendulum has been lengthened from time to time by a diminished water sup ply and shortened by an in creased water supply. Where the pendulum was long we now have shallow water and rapids, and where it was short we have great depths and quiet reaches. An estimate based on the above facts indicates that the geologi cal pendulum has been swinging away for about 35,000 years." A gradual erosion of the softer shale under the more mas sive ledge of the crest caused an unstable condition-" of the rock which upon being subject ed to occasional earth tremors caused the recent collapse. . At the 'present rate of erosion in about seven hundred years Horseshoe Falls will have re treated to the upper end of Goat Island, and the American Falls, after an average retreat of seventy-five feet from its present position, will have lost all its water to the Canadian Falls." ; - -.y Reporters! The following reporters will meet the managing editor to day in the Daily Tar Heel of fice at one-fhirty sharp r Shoe maker, Kelly, Andrews, Ma lone, BroughtoiE, and' Poe. TRUSTEES DELAY CONFERENCE ON APPROPRIATION Discussion of Important Matters Is Postponed Because of Graham's Illness. The University trustees meet ing scheduled yesterday was postponed because President Frank Graham is still indis posed after a severe case of in fluenza. No definite date ha3 yet been made, but the trustees will not meet before the hearing in Raleigh Thursday, January 29. President Graham was con fined to his home January 5th and since that time has not been theiae Perform his duties. His ; conamon, aitnougn it nas im proved much in the last week, is of such a nature that his phy sician deems it best to remain in his home for a while longer. Since his health has made it, possible for him to leave his bed, Graham has been preparing the budget report which he must present at the trustees meeting. Thiswill be the most impor tant meeting in several years in the opinion of many. The prob lems that have been so warmly debated for the past month will be taken up. The decisions reached by the trustees when they meet will decide to a great extent the course of the Univer sity in the near future. There will be the k question of salary cuts to be debated, the state ap propriation to be. discussed, and the question of consolidating this institution with State Col lege and North Carolina College for Wohien will receive con sideration. Among the smaller questions ior discussion win be the award ing ul several nonorary degrees to outstanding men of the Uni versity. The awards committee has already selected a few on whom such degrees may be be- NEW SERIES OF Freshmen Hear Professor Koch, First of Faculty Speakers, on "Objectivity in Life." Henryx Johnston, assistant dean of students, announced in freshman chapel Tuesday morn ing the plan of presenting a series of addresses to the fresh men to be delivered by the vari ous prominent men who direct the different activities on the University campus. These talks are intended to help the fresh men learn more about the cam pus activities and to direct their efforts along the most promising lines. ' : The first of these speakers, was Professor Frederick Koch, the director of the Carolina Playmakers. "Form an objec tive for your life and then stick to it," was the advice he gave to the freshmen. Prof. Koch gave his own case as an example a3 he told how his dramatic work has been such that it has fur nished a wholly engrossing in terest for his entire life. To be engaged in a life work that does , not actually afford pleasure and Interest makes one's life a tragedy. Therefore, Professor Koch advised young men to find the work that is most interesting to them and fits them better in order to make their lives successful. The time I iq tvrri& pnllecfi davs. "Ha avs.
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