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.OLUME XXXIX
CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1931
NUMBER 105
ORCHESTRA PEAK
TO GIVE CONCERT
FEBRUARY 18TH
Symphony Orchestra to Make
More Frequent Appearances
In the Future.
The University Symphony Or
chestra, under the direction of
Professor T. Smith McCorkle,
will play a concert in the Mu
sic . Auditorium on Wednesday
evening, February 18 at eight
fifteen o'clock.
The University orchestra has
now reached the place where it
is entitled to the name symphony
because of its size, its instru
mentation, and the type of mu
sic played. The organization is
made up of fifty persons, which
number comprises an instru
mentation consisting of first and
second violins, violas, cellos,
basses, first and second flutes,
oboes, clarinets and bassoons;
first and second trumpets and
cornets: first, second, and third
French horns; trombones, tuba
and timpani.
Plans have been formulated
that call for more frequent ap
pearances of the orchestra in
the future. At least one other
program besides accompani
ments for several concerts will
be played this year
The program Wednesday
evening is made up of three di
visions. The first group of three
numbers: Ballet music from
"Rosamuhde," Schubert; "Ga
votte," Gluck; "Contra Danse,"
Beethoven.
The , second division of the
concert is a Bach Suite in five
parts, consisting of an overture,
a rondeau, a badiniere, the air,
and two gavottes played as one
movement. In this suite Bach
combines with his quality of
formality a marked lightness and
grace and represents both poly
phonic and homophonic music
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COMMERCE DEAN
TALffiyTO SOPHS
Carroll Points Out Aim of Com
merce Department in Chapel
Talk Friday. '
In his talk at sophomore
chapel yesterday morning, Dean
Dudley DeWitt Carrolf discuss-
Odum Returns To
Hill Via Airway
Dr. Howard W. Odum made
most of his trip home from
Washington by airplane. He left
Washington, Saturday at 11:30
in the morning and arrived at
Greensboro at 2:30 in the af
ternoon. Dr. Odum. left Chapel
Hill, Tuesday, February 3, by
train for Chicago where he is
chief of the social science divi
sion of the Century of Progress
International Exposition.
The plane he flew to Greens
boro in was of the enclosed
cabin type for six passengers.
He commented on the smooth
ness of the travel, which en
abled him to write in his note
book and take a snap , as well
and seemed impressed by the
good accommodations of the
landing fields. "
4Mrs. Odum has been telling
her friends tbtshe is afraid
that Dr. Odum will make all of
his trips by "plane whenever
possible, becausvi has become
so fascinated with air travel.
Day- Of Great Play -writing h
At Hand, Says New York Critic
INDEPENDENCE OF
PHILIPPINES NEW
DEBATE SIpECT
High School Triangular Contests
To Be Held from April 3 to
April 16 and 17.
The day of great acting may
be gone, but the day of great
play-writing is at hand, is the
conviction of Barrett Clark,
prominent New York author and
dramatic critic and head of the
play department of the New
York Theatre Guild, who lectur
ed here last night on "Broadway
Today." He was introduced by
Frederick H. Koch, professor of
dramatic literature -and director
of the Carolina Playmakers.
That the playwright today is
allowed to be himself and to say
what he wants to say is the most
convincing sign that the mo
dern theatre is growing up, Mr.
Clark declared. "Not so many
years ago," he said "the author
of a play was of no more conse
quence around a theatre than one
of the stage hands, and that was
V if ore stage hands were union
.-ed; but now the playwright is
not only welcomed but expected
to be present during the pro
duction of his play. This has
added dignity to the theatre, the
Playwright and the audience."
Mr. Clark admitted that the
iy business in New York has
jcome somewhat of a racket,
with its immense financial rami
fications. "I get disgusted with
Broadway sometimes," he said,
i(U,,i- T 1 ,,.1 T
uut x ant. cucuuiageu wnen x
go out and see the work which
is being done in the provincial
theatres, such as you are doing
here. The folk play is beginning
to succeed in New York, and I
believe that this is the potential
solution to one of the greatest
problems in the theatre business."
Sunday Meeting of
Tar Heel Is Called
The entire reportorial staff of
the Daily Tar Heel will meet to
morrow7 afternoon at five o'clock
for the first time since the old
form of regular Sunday .night
meetings was abolished. Since
this is a call meeting, it is ur
gent that all members of the
staff attend. J
Last fall the staff assembled
Mr. Clark expressed delight every bunday night, a system
with the recent great success of I which has been found impracti-
Green Grow the cal and the staff decided to meet
DEAN ANNOUNCE
SCHOLAR
GRADUATE
IN
CHC01
Lynn Biggs'
Lilacs." He said that such plays
as this are entering wedges, and
that such playwrights as Riggs,
who is no visiting in Chapel
Hill, and Paul Green are doing quarter will be reviewed, and
only at the special call of the
editor or managing-editor.
At tomorrow night's meeting,
the work done by the staff this
Positions Available as Fellow
ships Amount to Over
$1S,000.
The query for the annual
state-wide triangular high
school debating contests this
year will be "Resolved : That the
United States should grant im
mediate independence to the Phi
lippines", it was announced to
day by E. R. Rankin, secretary
of the state high school debating
union.
The preliminary triangular
debates are to take place April
3. Schools winning both sides
will send their teams to Chapel
Hill April 16 and 17 to compete
in the finals for the state cham
pionship and the Aycock Mem
orial Cup. The high school track
and tennis tournaments are also
scheduled at this time.
Secretary Rankin stated that
much interest is being shown in
the contest, approximately 200
high schools having already an
nounced their intentions of en
tering. Material on the subject has
been issued in the form of an ex-
much to broaden Broadway.
In looking at other types of
plays, Mr. Clark sees little of
interest in the current mystery
plays, or in the reviewed works
of dead authors, even Ibsen or
Shakespeare; but his praise for
Eugene O'Neill was unbounded.
In his consideration of the cur
rent season, Clark declared that
he found it neither better nor
worse than any in the past ten
years. :
Of the current English plays,
Clark favored Miss Moonlight
as being "very pretty." He re
ferred to Grand Hotel as the out
standing hit of the season, and
an exciting piece of theatrical
work. -
ioTiairm bulletin entitled "Inde
ed some of the purposes, and j pendence for the Philippines,"
compiled by Mr. Rankin and
published by the University
Press. This booklet also con
tains the rules of the contest
with affirmative and negative re-
management of the Commerce
School.
According to Carroll the de
partment's primary aim is to
develop students planning to en
ter any one of the three profes
sions that require specific busi
ness training. These are cor
poration law, government ser-
MID-WINTERS GET
UNDER WAY WITH
FIRST TEA DANCE
The mid-winters got under
way yesterday -aiternoon at
five o'clock with a te dance in
Bynum gymnasium the music
being furnished by Paul Gra
ham's orchestra. The Junior
dance in the evening began at
nine-thirty o'clock and was led
by Bill Bridgers, of Wilson, Wal
ter Crouch, of High Point, and
Steve Lynch, of Asheville. About
one hundred girls from all parts
of the country were in attend
ance. The members of the Ger
man Club numbered about three
hundred. . t
The set will continue this
morning at eleven with another
dance in the gymnasium, and a
tea dance will take, place this,
afternoon at four. The conclud
ing and regular German club
figure will begin at nine tonight
with William Dunn, of New
Bern, Lynn Wilder, of Raleigh
and George Bagby, of Charlotte
leading. Officials of the German
Club stated that no couples
wTould be admitted: to the floor
after ten o'clock.
several changes will probably be
made in the personnel of the
reportorial staff.
NEXT PLAYMAKER
READING WILL BE
GREENPASTURES
Professor McKie to Present
Next of Readings Series Sun
day Evening in Theatre. ,
INTERFRATERNITY
COUNCIL HEAD TO
GIVE RADIO TALK
Jack, Ward, president of the
Interf raternity Council, is sche
duled to deliver an address over
radio station WPTF, Raleigh,
next Wednesday afternoon at
five o'clock. This talk will be
in connection with the series of
student activity alks given by
Carolina students, the purpose
of which is to acquaint residents
of the state with various cam
pus activities. The topic of
Wednesday's address will be
"Fraternities and Their Place in
University Life."
The following Wednesday,
Jack Dungan, managing editor
of the Daily Tar Heel, will speak
in this same series on the sub
ject of , changes in college edu
cation and liberal issues such
as optional attendance.
ferences and a review of past
contests.
These debating contests were
(inaugurated eighteen years ago
ana actual business worK by the Diaiectic and Philanthro
Jtself. It is a necessity to be;pic uterary societies and the ex
tramed sufficiently in business tension division of the Univer
and commercial methods to have L;,r ,Q ,irsA nf PTTr.nnrat?-
Jl . .. ! OiuJ J-KJX o
7 greatest success m these - debating in a systematic
GROVES WILL ADDRESS
GEORGIA SOCIOLOGISTS
Southern Education
Heads Plan Survey
Mr. Carroll emphasized
ing debating m a
fashion in the high
he i North Carolina. Since that time
modern tendency toward special-' thev have grown to be one of
nation in the professional fields.
e showed how specialization
necessitated specific and inten
sive training in one's chosen line
f business. This aids in greater
efficiency and concentration of
energy. The commerce school,
therefore, has cared for this
need by including in the curri
clum the theoretical commer
cial studies as wrell as the actual
business methods.
The basic cultural courses
cannot be stressed too much,"
said Carroll. He pointed out that
a man's whole outlook upon life
and the breadth of his entire
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the important factors m high
school work.
The Goldsboro High School,
represented by Eleanor Bizzell
and Ezra Griffin, won the Ay
cock Cup last year.
Infirmary List
The infirmary list for yester
day included the following men:
Wilbur Hutchens, W. B. Fitz
gerald. R. T. Rollins, J. R. Poole,
E. A. Neely, Ned Wheeler, H. G.
Conner, Jr., A. H. Powell, E. P.
Dameron, Peter Hairston, N. W.
Dockery, J. S. Holland, and E.
N. Shaffner.
Dr. Ernest R. Groves, profes
sor of sociology at the Univer
sity, will, be one of the principal
speakers at the Georgia .Con
ference on Social Work to take
place in Athens beginning
March 4. Dr. Groves is autho
rity on social work and has re
cently completed a tour of lec
tures on the subject.
Another prominent speaker at
the conference will be Dr. Mir
iam Van Waters, a national au
thority on problems of juvenile
delinquency, who' was recently
a director of a nation-wide study
made under the joint auspices
of the President's National Com
mission on Law Enforcement
A dispatch from Atlanta,
Georgia, reports that plans for
a survey of education in the
southern states were announced
after a prolonged conference of
officials of state education as
sociations in Georgia, . JFloricla,
Mississippi, Virginia, and North
and South Carolina. The call
for the conference says .the
"public school systems , of the
South face a "major crisis."
Dr. H. O. Strohecker, presi
dent of the South Carolina Edu
cation Association, said : ."The
discussion of the conference de
veloped the fact, that in spite of
rapid progress, the South At
lantic states are twenty -years
behind the national average in
the number of days the schools
are open, and nine years behind
in the average salaries paid
teachers." Government reports
were quoted, . he said, to show
that the . average . expenditure
per child enrolled for current
Last year's Pulitzer prize
winning drama, Green Pastures,
will be read by Professor George
McKie of the English depart
ment at 8:30 o'clock Sunday
night in the Playmakers Thea
tre, as the regular February
play reading.
George Lawrence, a member
of the Presbyterian Church
choir, will sing the negro spiri
tuals that come in at- intervals
during the play. -
Included in Best Play of
1929-30, a review by Burns
Mantle, the Green Pastures was
mentioned first. The following
is taken from that edition : "The
memory of the play was im
measurably strengthened with a
majority of its devotees as time
passed.
"Probably no other people
could accept this retelling of the
story of the Old Testament, as
a colored preacher in Louisiana
might relate it to' his Sunday
school class, as the American
people have accepted and will
accept it."
"It demands, first, something
of a background of a majority
of the American people experi- j
enced in living with their puri
tan and essentially religious
forebears. It demands, second :
knowledge of, and a lively
sympathy for the southern
negro and his trusting and child
like religious faith, to give its
best values as a recital in dra
matic form.
"By his arrangement of scenes,
by his use of a negro choir for
the singing of related spirituals,
by his sympathetic selection and
re-arrangement of the dialogue,
and finally, because of his fine
feeling for the theatre and the
best uses to which the' stage can
be put, Marc Connelly has creat
ed a beautifully effected stage
play from a series of splendidly
written but detached sketches."
Fellowships valued at more
than 18,000 and a number of
scholarships and other appoint
ments for the academic year
1931-32 were announced yester
day by Dr. W. W. Pierson, dean
of the University -Graduate
School.
Applications must be filed
with the dean not "later than
March 15, it was stated.
Twenty-six teaching fellow
ships, carrying free tuition and
$500, making them worth ap-
Q
proximately $600 each, are to be
awarded to graduate students.
The recipients will be expected
to devote a part of their time to
instruction or other prescribed
work.
A limited number of appoint
ments with a stipend of from
$500 to $800 and free tuition will
also be available to graduate
students, who may be required
to give half of their time to in
struction in "the department to
which they are assigned.
Scholarships with free tui
tion are to be awarded fifteen
men or women in the Graduate
School.
The Ledoux fellowship of $300
and free tuition for research in
chemistry, and the two Graham
Kenan fellowships in philosophy,
with a stipend of $700 and free
tuition, are likewise available to
both men and women in the Gra
duate School.
Through the Institute of Re
search in Social Science, there
will be from eight to twelve ap
pointments available, carrying
n allowance of $1,000 annually
for the expenses of students who
will devote full time to research.
Child
and Observance and the White expenses in the nation was $71.
"Typical expenditures in south
ern states on the same basis are
Alabama $25, Georgia $23,
Virginia $35, Mississippi $26,
TT
xiuusrt; uonierence on
Health and Protection.
It is still too early to tell why
half of , the Democrats will be
mad at their rnnHit a nAxt . South Carolina $30, and North
year. Publishers Syndicate. Carolina $32."
ENGINEERS MEET
TO DISCUSS BALL
Each Student to Have Two Bids,
Including One for Himself
' And Friend.
State College Students
Will Aid Raleigh's Needy
The sophomore class of North
Carolina State, College recently
voted unanimously to give their
Sunday night lunches for the
rest of the year to relieve the
suffering in the mill sections of
Raleigh and to provide milk for
the undernourished children in
city schools. The junior and
senior classes had previously
taken like action at their regular
monthly meeting last Wednes
day night. .
At the mass meeting of stu
dents in the engineering school
yesterday the plans for the ball
to be given by the engineers
were discussed and explained.
According to the plans, each
engineer may get two invita
tions, one of which will be for
his own use, and the other to be
given to his guest. In any event,
at least one girl must go to
every invitation used.
The ball will be conducted un
der strict regulations, will be
well chaperoned and will be for
mal in nature. The chaperones
will be Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lear,
Mr. and Mrs. E. Gi Hoefer, Mr.
and Mrs. R. F Stainback, and
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baity.
Electrical engineers may ob
tain their invitations from Pat
Hayes or Frank Jaycocks in the
senior room. Rankin White, Tom
Riddick, and John Brown will
give out invitations in the senior
room to the civil engineers. In
vitations for the chemical en
gineers will be distributed by
RaymondRuble, Adam Fisher,
and George McCormick in the
senior room. Bob Plummer and
Aubrey Parsley will have charge
of the invitations for the me
chanical engineers and will dis
tribute them from their senior
room.
Engineers are advised to ob
tain their invitations at an early
date, as the supply is limited.