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,-r TAR HEEL MEETING CITY EDITORS 5:00 ills1! 1 ! i i TAR HEEL MEETING CITY EDITORS 5:00 in luiiiy ? 1 1 I U s. VOLUME XXXIX CONTRACTS MADE FOE ERECTION OF MORIAL TOWER Construction of Morehead-Pat-terson Tower Scheduled to Be gin Friday Morning. Contracts were awarded last -eek to the firm of T. C. Thompson Brothers to erect the Morehead-Patterson Memorial bell tower on the grounds of the University. The work is schedul ed to begin on Friday morning, with a possibility of its being delayed until Monday. The location of this building is on the center line of the cam pus, 100 feet south of the Ra leigh road facing the library. The tower, built of brick of the same quality as other Uni versity buildings, will h,ave a height of 167 feet,, and, above the ground floor, dimensions of 18 feet square. The building is to have limestone trimmings in accordance with the limestone arcade which will surround the base. Above the eighth level, in the tower proper will be a set of twelve chimes, made by the manufacturers of the West Point chimes. These chimes will be rung by hand from the second level. Provisions have been made so that the electrical apparatus for ringing them , may be in stalled later if wanted. Below the chimes is to be a clock of very fine workmanship, with faces on four sides, each of the faces having a diameter of nine feet. These will be illu minated at night. The tower will be surmounted by a beacon .light. The interior of the tower on the ground floor will be plaster ed, but above this the finish will be rough brick. Overhead the interior of the arcade will have a finish of Guastavino tile vault ing. v A memorial tablet of polished Levanto marble with cast bronze lettering will be placed inside the arcade in memory of the Patterson and; Morehead families whose - descendants, John Motley Morehead and .Ru- fus Patterson, are donors of this gift. The plans of this tower were made in New York by McKim, Mead, and White in collabora tion with Atwood and Weeks, University architects, who are handling the local part of the work. Mr. Kendall, head of the New York firm, is visiting Chapel Hill today to look over the site of the building. rm - - ine local contractors are scheduled to finish their part of the work on September 1, 1931. Immediately following this the chimes will be installed. Publication Dates Arranged By Board In a special called meeting yesterday morning, the mem bers of the Publications Union Board formulated a schedule for the subsequent issues of the Carolina Magazine, literary sup plement to the Daily Tar Heel. It was decided that under no conditions should the magazine be allowed to publish more than eight pages. The dates on which the remainder of the numbers for the year are to be Printed are: February 22; March 8; April 5 , and 19; and May 3 and 17. The board also" voted to se cure two new typewriters for the office of the Daily Tar Heel. HOUSE TO MAKE THREE SPEECHES DURING WEEK Robert B. House, executive secretary of the University, plans to make three speeches in various cities in the state dur ing the next week. On Tuesday, the seventeenth, he will speak before the Parent-Teachers As sociation in Greensboro. Thursday, the nineteenth, he will address the Kiwanis club c? Durham at a meeting in celebra tion of the birthday of George Washington, and he will have a theme for discussion appropriate to that occasion. . The day following this, Fri day, he will speak before the Colonial Dames in Kinstori. He has not yet decided on his sub ject for this address in Kinstoh. ENGINEERS PLAN FOR ANNUAL BALL Leftwitch's Orchestra to Play For Dance, February 20, In Bynum. Tuesday night at the meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers the plans for the dance to be given by the engineering societies were dis cussed. The date has been off i cially set for Friday, February 20, from nine o'clock to one.. The ball will be given in Bynum gymnasium with music by Jelly Leftwitch's orchestra. The invitations have already been printed and are now in the hands of the committee in charge of the invitations. Engineers may " obtain their ' invitations from the senior room of their re spective branch of engineering. The president of each of the societies will be allotted a cer tain number of invitations to be given to the engineers calling for them. This will be the fifth of the annual balls given by the en gineering school. As the dance is practically the only social ac tivity of the engineers, they are planning to make it an imposing affair this year. Last year, it was held in the Carolina Inn. This year, however, the scene of the dance will be the gymna sium. Novel decorations have been planned, and the engineers expect to give the best dance that has been given by them since their dance was made an annual affair. There will be a meeting of all engineers at chapel period, Fri day, February 13, in room 206 Phillips hall. Paul Graham Will Play for Dances Beginning Friday The mid-winter dances given under the auspices of the Uni versity German Club will begin with dances tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock in Bynum gym nasium and will end with the regular German Club figure St. Valentine's 1 night. Paul Gra ham's orchestra will play for all the dances. Bill Bridgers will lead the junior figure Friday night, as sisted by Walter Crouch and Steve Lynch. This will be follow ed by dances Saturday morn- ng and afternoon. William Dunn will lead the concluding dance Saturday night, and will be as sisted by Lynn Wilder and George Bagby. City-Eds Called The city editors are called to meet in special session with the managing-editor this af ternoon at five o'clock. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931 SELF-HELP WORK DISCUSSED OVER RALEIGH STATION Hamilton Hobgood Outlines Pos sibilities of Earning Way Through the University. Hamilton Hobgood, who has attained the highest student position on the Swain hall staff and who is also outstanding in other campus activities, made the seventh of the series of speeches by Carolina campus notables yesterday afternoon. These programs are broadcast every Wednesday from WPTF, Raleigh's radio station, from five to five-fifteen, and are fos tered by the student union of the University. The purpose of all of the talks are to acquaint the people of the state with the ac tivities here. Hobgood spoke yesterday on "TT O 1-C 1 1 Oil J.' j j. ne oeii-neip situation at Carolina." The object of this speech was to inform the high school students in the state of the possibilities of earning their way through college, and to ad vise them to save, as much as they could now towards their education. The development of self-help at Carolina was traced from its very beginnings. During the war when, money was scarce and students were forced to leave the University on this account, the government was prevailed upon to pay stu dents to drill here at the Univer sity in the afternoons after classes4. The drill was usually referred to as "the afternoon pink tea party." This enabled needy students to make suf f i- t cient money to remain m school," Hamilton explained in his talk. ( "After the war, money was more plentiful, and the major ity of the students no longer had to do chores in order to help their families pay their school ing expenses. Outsiders were then employed in the capacities that the boys, had previously filled. Once again, however, the necessity for self-help work is making itseif evident, and at present seventy per cent of the student body are self-help work ers. This large percentage ac counts for the nationally recog nized democratic spirit that pre vails at Carolina." Hobgood then listed several of the many ways in which the .Continued on last page Oklahoma Playwright Emphasizes Distinction Of Barrett H. Clark Lynn Riggs, an Oklahoma playwright who read one of his plays here a short while ago, said oi .Barrett 1. (JlarK, a theatre critic, at the Carolina Inn, February 9: "Barrett Clark, who comes to Chapel Hill for a lecture at the Playmakers Theatre Thursday night, on the subject "Broad way Today," occupies a very unique position in the American theatre. "His connections with the theatre and they are powerful and authoritative are not his real distinction. He has livelier merits. He is a responsive critic and an open-minded man. But at the same time he is fearlessly iconoclastic, shieing brick after brick at the popular parade and the frenzied huzzaing which break out on Broadway for every slick play and every glittering performance. Cheapness and in security he. has nothing but con COFFMAN TELLS OF UNIVERSITY'S WIDE REPUTATION Promises Utmost Endeavor on Part of English Department To Render Service. In his talk last night before the members of the senior class at their smoker in Swain hall, Dr. George R. Coffman, head of the University English depart ment, stated that his depart ment would extend itself to the utmost in attempting to make the courses of the greatest value and interest to the students de spite the great loss which that department of the University has sustained. The head of the English de partment told the senior? that the University rated very high ly among educational institur tions. Dr. Coffman has taught from coast to coast in the North and he says that in all parts of the country leading educators agree that the University of North Carolina is probably the greatest university below Wash ington, D. C. To quote Coffman, "The University occupies that position among state universi ties in J;he United States that Harvard does among the private universities of the country." Dr. Coffman further went on to say tnat tne university is fortunate in being the oldest of the state universities and there fore rich in tradition. Many of the state universities are com paratively new and are forced to make their own precedents and traditions. The bead of the English de partment expressed the wish that he could have more creative writing classes formed, and have both these classes and the pro fessors teaching them cooperate with the campus publications. In speaking to the seniors Dr. Coffman told them that he would like to raise the standard of the undergraduate composition courses to the enviable position which they held when they were taught by E. K. Graham, once president, of the University In his day Graham was one of the most famous teachers of under graduate English composition in the country. During his profes sorship, the courses in English composition were the most popu lar on the campus. The changing attitude of the alumni of state universities also (Continued on last page) tempt for. But he goes out of his way to befriend and to beat drums for whatever seems to him in the theatre to be genuine ly a respectable talent, especially a beginning one. "As head of the play depart ment of the Theatre Guild, as literary ' advisor to Samuel French, as critic for the Drama Magazine, as translator of foreign plays, as lecturer at Columbia University and else where, as biographer as comen tator, as enthusiast he spends himself with more force and re sult than nearly anybody else for the thing in which he be lieves. "His friends can never figure out how it is that he seems to be in all places at once. He is a dramatic phenomenon, with grace and taste; he is a gentle man in boxing gloves. American drama couldn't get along with out him." In cooperation with the Greensboro Life Underwriters Association, Professor J. M. Lear, of the school of commerce faculty, will teach an extension class in Greensboro beginning Friday evening. Twenty men re presenting several life insurance companies in Greensboro have enrolled for the course, which is. one treating the subject of "Life Insurance." Upon the satisfactory comple tion of this course, the extension division will offer other courses for men and women in the life insurance business, for the pur pose of preparing them for the certified life underwriters' ex amination. HOUSE DISCUSSES BUDGETffiSTORY Shows Inconsistency of Decrease In Appropriations When In crease is Needed. Robert B. House, executive secretary of the University, spoke Tuesday night before the local branch of the Kiwanis club. In his address he restated most of the points made by President Graham in regard to the proposed appropriation cut and emphasized them. An altogether new and un- thought of reason for the con tinuation of the present budget was advanced, House compared the ten year period of growth that the University experienced from 1850 to 1860 to the more recent ten year period of ex pansion from 1920 to 1930. "In 1850 the University of North Carolina commenced a period of expansion that was stopped by the Civil War," said Mr. House. "This growth was due to the increase in funds which was caused by the gift of many of the old alumni of lands in Tennessee that they had re ceived for their services in the Revolutionary War. This land, when it Was given to the Uni versity, was sold and the money used to Improve the equipment and faculty here. The last year of this growth, 1860, the Univer sity was second only to Yale in the number of students in the graduating class, which num bered about a hundred. "The Civil War brought on its depression and the doors of the institution finally had to be closed because of the lack of (Continued u last page) FREE TRADE NEXT DEBATE SUBJECT The varsity debate squad wil hold its regular session in Mur- phey 201 tonight at seven-thirty. The meeting will be a genera discussion of the "Free Trade question. ' In its regular meetings for the past weeks the squad has been discussing the question of com pulsory unemployment insur ance. " The idea of these discus sions is to arrive at the really basic considerations and issues involved in the questions and to keep discussion in the public contests from revolving about details. In the weekly meetings which last about an hour and a half, the debaters not only learn all possible slants on the ques tion, but also get practice in pre senting their opinions and in formation from the rostrum. The debate schedule for the jiext two quarters includes meets here with teams from as , far away as Porto Rico, and at least nine contests away from here. NUMBER 104 NON-FRAT PARTY UNDER FIRE OF REPRESOTATIVIS Di Defeats One Bill and Hears Wood ho use as Critic In fiery tones Representative Lanier called upon the Phi As sembly in its meeting Tuesday night to. forbid the use of the assembly hall to any political unit whatsoever which had not obtained permission from the president of the group with the knowledge and assent of the as sembly. Lanier, a non-fraternity man, said that he had information from perfectly reliable sources that an organization calling it self a "Non-fraternity" party had made use of the hall, and asked permission of the assem bly to present an amendment to the constitution by which the assembly would be protected from appearing to give support to organizations with which it was not in sympathy. The pro posal received the unanimous support of the members. Lanier further reviewed the issue on which the party under fire hopes to gain the support of the student-body severely in dicting the group for its un- houghtf ul . attempt to create civil-war and unfriendly rela- ions on the campus. Two bills were passed by mem bers after limited discussion. The first reading, Resolved : That there should be a thorough ancT impartial investigation of the production, distribution and costs of electrical power in North Carolina. The second proposition presented for debate recommended that there be an investigation of public highway bus service and freight hauling in North Carolina. Di Defeats One Bill At the last meeting of the Di Senate the following bill was . brought up and defeated by a vote of twenty-one to fourteen: Resolved: That the tax on se curities in foreign corporations should be increased to help meet the state's revenue require ment for 1931. Senator Whita ker favored the bill, while Sena tors Ramsay and Brown opposed it. Following the report from a special committee, it was voted to accept the committee's recom mendation as to the purchase . of a society pin. The new one will largely resemble the one former ly used. Some discussion was had regarding changing the name of the organization from Senate to Society, but no action was taken. Following the regular discus sion, Professor E. J. Woodhouse, of the Government department, made a few informal criticisms and suggestions. Taylor Society To Hear Schwenning The Taylor Society will meet Friday night at seven o'clock in room 103 Bingham hall. After the business is finished Dr. Schwenning will make an address on "Dismissal Wages." He has devoted six months to collecting data on some forty in dustries of the United States and in countries of Europe. With the information he has thus gained he will discuss the prob lems of industry in the present day. - The society has arranged to have Morris L. Cook, promin ent consulting management en gineer of Philadelphia, speak at a meeting February, 25.
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