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MEETING OF EDITORS TODAY 5:00 P. M. MEETING OF EDITORS TODAY 5:00 P. II. i fi J l - "' 0 ; f j y VH Mi C j I X1 N 1 i I If'- f roLUME XXXIX JONES SAYS CUT IN SALARY WILL RUIN UNIVERSITY Ventures That Professors Will Be Lured Elsewhere By Higher Salaries. "To cut the salaries now paid to the professors of the Univer sity would be an act of suicidal folly " stated Howard Mumford Jones, former professor of Eng lish here, in a letter to Gover nor Gardner which was publish ed in the last week's issue of the Chapel Hill Weekly. The University of Michigan professor made the statement that although he had left the University with reluctance and regret, it seemed a wise thing to do in view of the fact that a ten per cent cut was about to be ef fected. "It is my opinion that North Carolina is naturally at the pres ent moment too closely concern ed with her own troubles to rea lize the blow which the state is likely to deal to her own reputa tion (and therefore her drawing power) by this proposed reduc tion," he continued. ' He went on to say that this in stitution has reached a place of prominence in the nation as well as in the entire South ; yet if this cut goes through, practical ly all would be lost. "For a, measure of this kind is far reaching in its effect; news of it gets abroad ; the ' institution is immediately thought of as a bad place to go to, and a good place to leave; and even it the pro posed cut lasted only a year or two, the damage done to the re putation and attractiveness of the state university cannot be re paired in the same length of time," he declared. Mr. Jones is ot the opinion that the members of the present faculty are loyal to the institu tion and to the state. "But if they leave," he continued, "it is simply because in the situation they cannot afford to stay." The writer declared that he already knew of several of the faculty who were seeking other jobs for fear the ten per cent reduction might be put into ef fect. He stated further that both the Universities of Texas and Virginia have a "higher salary rate than this University, and also every northern state univer sity of any standing whatsoever pays a higher salary scale. "If the University of North Caro lina is to be anything but a pet ty second-rate school, it is not a salary cut, but a salary increase that is imperatively demanded," me English nrofessor said in conclusion. Debating Bulletin Prepared by Rankin An extension bulletin, entitled "Independence for the Philip Pines," has been compiled by E. & Rankin, secretary of the high school debating union, and dis tributed to the various schools entering the debating contest. The bulletin includes reviews of contests held in the past," regula tions, and both affirmative and Negative references on the query, wnich is: Resloved, that the United States should grant im mediate Independence to , the The state-wide triangular con tests will be held April 3. Schools hich win both affirmative and negative sides in these debates wiN send teams to Chanel Hill April 16 and 17 'to compete for xne Aycoek Memorial Cup. Many Entertainment Tickets Unclaimed Despite the last minute rush on the student tickets of the en tertainment series due to the Goya performance about a third of the total number still remain unclaimed. Dean A. W. Hobbs of the liberal arts school .urges hose students who have not yet gotten their tickets to do so at once, and not to wait until just before the next offering to crowd into the office to claim them. Students in the schools of lib eral arts and the school of educa tion, having already paid for the tickets when they paid their tui tion, are the ones who are en titled to the passes. Of the 720 odd students in the two schools, only four hundred and fifty have received their card of admit tance. SPRING FESTIVAL DANCESPLANNED Five Fraternities Are Repre sented in Social Activities, April 10 and 11. The Spring Festival, a set of three dances sponsored by five fraternities on the campus, will be given April 10 and 11. This set is similar to the May Frolic which was given last year and which will take place again May eighth and ninth. The five fraternities giving the dance are Pi Kappa Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Tau Ome ga, Phi Delta Theta, and Pi Kap pa Alpha. The committee . in charge of the dance includes: George Newman, Pi Kappa Phi, chairman ; Bill Bliss, Phi Gam ma Delta, secretary ; Mosely Fonvielle, Phi Delta Theta, trea- surer; Jbarron urier, a. i. u.; and Ed French, Pi Kappa Al pha. . The Festival will open with a dance Friday night, and will continue with a tea dance Satur day afternoon. The last dance will be Saturday night. All the dances will take place in Bynum gymnasium, which will have de corations appropriate to the sea son. Several fraternities are plan ning to have week-end house parties. A number of orchestras are under consideration by the com mittee, but an engagement has not yet been made. Y. Cabinets Will Meet Tomorrow The three cabinets of the Y will meet Monday night at 7 :15. The topic for discussion will be the State Student Volunteer Con ference which will meet here February 27 to March 1. Each cabinet has a definite part to as sist in entertaining the delega tion to this conference which is . expected to be attended by ap proximately two hundred col lege men and women irom tne institutions of North Carolina. Rankin on Trip E. R. Rankin, secretary of the committee in charge of the high school basketball contest, will go to Raleigh Monday and to Salis bury Tuesday for meetings con cerning the contest. The finals between the win ners of the eastern and western districts will be held in the Tin Han around the first of March. Basketball champions of the past included Durham, for five years; I three: Wilm- if iuu ia;ii jwij imrton. three: and Greensboro Chapel Hill, Asheville, Reidsville and Spencer, one year each. CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1931 CLUB GIVIS INITIAL CONCERT OF THISQUARTER "Ave Maria" and "Autumn" In cluded in Program Given Last Night at Rollins College. The Glee Club gave its first concert of the winter quarter last night at Rollins College, Virginia. The program consist ed of numbers from northern Europe, two French numbers, a group of sacred songs, and a final group made up of American songs. Among these numbers was "Ave Maria," the choice number which was sung by the club last year, when it won the Southern championship at Greenville, S. C. "Autumn," by Gretchani nov, was also sung. This num ber has met with much approv al on the tours of the club. Other concerts this quarter will be the Maennerchor con cert on Monday in the music building, Spring Hope, February 20; Guilford College, February 28; Southern Pines, March 1; and Salem College, March 3. The concert at Guilford will be re ciprocal, as the Guilford Choir will give a concert here in the music building this winter. The personnel of the Glee Club is chosen from .the 140 men who comprise the squad. Seventy-five of these are chosen (Continued on next page) CAROLA GOYA ENTERTAINED BYAVITTS Dancer Is Guest of Spanish Pro fessor and Wife; Tells of Life and Training. Friday evening after her per formance in Memorial hall, Carola7 Goya was entertained by Professor and Mrs. Leavitt at their home. The members of the Spanish department and the South American students of the Uni versity were also guests of Pro fessor Leavitt and his wife. Amando Mendez speaking for the foreign students presented the dancer with a corsage of roses. After speaking of various sub jects, Senorita Goya, talking in fluent English though with a de lightful foreign accent, told something of her life. She was born in Leon, a small town in northern Spain, and studied in Seville and Costillo, most famous of Spanish danc ing instructors. Following years of arduous study Senorita Goya made her debut and was pronounced an outstanding success by leading critics. She has appeared be fore distinguished audiences both in this country and abroad. Carola Goya's performance Friday night was received en thusiastically by the audience, as evinced by the unusually great number of curtain calls. Appearing before a university audience is the most feared thing in the life of any perform er because if the audience is not satisfied it will openly show its disapproval and disconcert the artist to such an extent that he will not-be able to put forth his best efforts. The reception given Senorita Goya's offerings Friday night leave no doubt in the minds of the entertainment committee as to the wisdom of their course in arranging this program. OLDEST ALUMNUS RECOVERS FROM SERIOMIMSS Descendant of Daniel Boone Lacks Four Years of Cen tury Mark. W. G. Candler, the oldest liv ing alumnus of the University, has as his goal the century mark. He lacks but four years from at taining this goal, and holds a courage that promises to carry him past his ambition. He lives quietly with his family at Cand ler in the western part of the state. He has just arisen from a sick bed where he was confined for many weeks by an illness of pneumonia and complications. With his hair a little greyer and perhaps a. little thinner but his spirit is undaunted. He is the great, great grand son of Daniel Boone and the grandson of Colonel William Moore, first white settler west of the French Broad river. He has practiced law most of his life, and was a representative in the General Assembly for three terms. At the age of twenty-one he passed the examination that ad mitted him to the, bar. After practicing law for thirty-five years, he entered politics and was voted solicitor for his dis trictmuch larger than the pres- (Continued on last page) SOCIETIES WILL MEETfOGETHER TUESDAY NIGHT Di Will Be Host to Phi in First - Joint Meeting of . Quarter. , The Di senate will be the host of the Phi assembly in a joint session Tuesday night at 7:15. This will be the first combined meeting of the two societies this winter. x It has been the custom in the past for the two groups to meet jointly at least once during the quarter. This plan was inaugu rated several years ago to sti mulate friendly rivalry between the two organizations in an at tempt to create more interest in forensic activities on the cam pus. At the last joint session the two societies met to witness the Mary D. Wright debate which was won by the Phi representa tives. McBride Fleming-Jones, and Clyde Shreve of the Di con tested Hamilton Hobgood and John Wilkinson of the Phi. Hob- good won the medal for-the best speaker of the group. The Tuesday night session will be presided over by Presi dent J. M. Little of the Dialectic group. - Mrs. Steele Dies Mrs. Wilbur Daniel Steele passed away Friday afternoon in Watts hospital following a six-weeks illness which, begin ning with pleurisy, developed into a severe case of pneumonia. Staff Meeting The weekly meeting of the city editors, editorial board, and sports editors will begin in the office of the Daily Tar Heel at five o'clock instead of five-thirty as was announced last meeting. All of the edi tors are required to attend unless previously excused by the editor or managing-editor. New Plays To Be Read Tomorrow Plays written in Professor Koch's play-writing class will be read Monday evening at seven thirty in the Playmakers Thea tre. Among the plays are Lonely Hearts, a comedy of nor thern Alabama by Phillip Mi thas; and Ever Snitch, a comedy of the Carolina coast by Irene Fussier. Two or three other new plays are to be selected from plays by Tom Loy, William Long, Ruth Valentine, Ellen Ste wart, Dr. Hammond and others. From those read there will be selected for the spring produc tion, April ninth, ' tenth and eleventh. Students interested in trying out for parts are re quested to be present Monday night at the reading. Tryouts will be held in the theatre Mon day afternoon, February six teenth at four-thirty. HUME CUP GOES TO GREENSBORO Homespun Wins Award in Ex tension Division Magazine Contest. To Greensboro goes the honor of winning both the magazine and newspaper awards in the seventh annual contests in high school journalism conducted by the University extension divi sion. Greensboro receives the Hume cup, a trophy given by a group of University alumni, of which George Stephens is chair man. The cup is given in mem ory of the late Thomas Hume, a distinguished English profes sor here. Judges of the contest were Dr. L. R. Wilson, O. J. Cof fin, and Louis Graves, all of Chapel Hill. In the newspaper contest the prize-winning Greensboro entry was entitled High Life. Honor able mention, went to the High Point Pointer and the Durham Hi-Rocket. Other schools enter ing papers were Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Beaufort, New Bern, and Wadesboro. In the maga zine contest first prize went to Greensboro for Homespun, hon orable mention going to Winston-Salem, which entered Black and Gold. This is the seventh consecu tive year that Greensboro has won either the newspaper or the maerazine contest, and is the fourth time that it has won both contests in the same year. , Mitchell Society To Meet Tuesday The Elisha Mitchell scientific society will meet Tuesday, Feb ruary 10, in room 206 Phillips hall. The meeting will be the 326th. Professor N. P. Bailey will talk on the following subject: "Response of Thermocouples to Rapidly Oscillating Tempera tures." Professor F. K. Cam eron will deliver an address on "The Absorption of Sulphur Di oxide by Calcium Phosphates' The society meets on the sec ond Tuesday of each month. Membership is open to the fac ulty," graduates, and advanced undergraduates. The public is cordially invited to attend. Journalism Students Will Work on Weekly Students in the school of Jour nalism will have charge of pub lishing the next week's issue of the Chapel Hill Weekly. This plan was carried out several times last year, much to the delight of Editor Graves, who expressed himself as being happy to get the week off. NUMBER 101 ORIGINAL PLAYS SIMITTTED FOR STATEMTWAL Number Already Sent Indicates Grnwinr Trtrpt In fVpw ative Writing. That interest in creative writ ing is growing throughout the state is shown by the many ori ginal plays that have been sub mitted for the state dramatic festival and state tournament to be presented in Chapel Hill Feb ruary 26, 27, and 28. Ephraimfs Light, by Helen Bridges Parker, and It's Mine Ain't It, by Arthur Edwards, both from Seabord County high school, under the direction of Mrs. T. R. Everett are two of the plays to be presented. The following are from city high schools: Asheville, under the direction of W. R. Wunsch, submits We Still Have Memories, by Moselle Burke, and Rhine stones and Rough, by Kneale Morgan. An original play, Clippings, was presented at the Dramatic Festival last year. One manuscript comes from Central high school, Charlotte : Queer Sister,' by Mary Wood ward. Miss Louise Duls is teach ing creative writing there. Fruitland Institute at Hender sonville, under the directorship of Miss Flora Mae Hood, sends in The Trysting Spring, by Nancy Lee Coker. Winston-Salem high school will present The Frost King, by Dorothy Clay, and Negro Fan tasy, by Isabella Hansom, with Bessie Watts and William Per ry directors. Mars Hill College and Sea board Woman's Club, which are in the same classification for the contest, submit two plays each : His Heritage, by Frances Barnes, and Unhappy Gypsy, by Martha Parker, both of Mars Hih Miss Bonnie Wengert, di rector. A Pair o' Quilts, by Ber- nice Harris and Reece Bullock, and The Evidence, by Leila Taylor Edwards and Bernice Harris, come from the Seaboard Woman's Club. Lenoir-Rhyne college will sub mit The Beast on the Hill, by Robert Shelby, and Mountain Shadows; by Erskine C. Dysart, under the direction of Miss Pearl Setzer. . Wake Forest College also en ters with a drama, God's Ship, by Edward T. Harrell. Judges for the dramatic con test have been chosen from the the townspeople of Chapel Hill : Mrs. Paul Green, Dr. A. C. Howell, and J. O. Bailey. Administrative Board Discusses Joining of State Institutions A short meeting of the ad visory and administrative board of the University in the presi dent's office, yesterday discussed the possibility and advisability of the combining of the boards of the three state supported in stitutions. This proposal has been before the state General Assembly for some time but no definite action has been taken on the matter. It is hoped that this year's as sembly will start the work with a few minor changes, and that it may be continued in slow stages by the succeeding assem blies until 1933 when the plan would be in complete effect. The meeting of the Univer sity board decided nothing de finitely, but only discussed tha project from all angles.
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