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VOLUME XXXIX
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1931
NUMBER 122
SIMONDS TELLS
OF UNIQUE TYPE
OF SAW FACTORY
Head of Simonds Manufacturin;
Company Addresses Members
Of Taylor Society.
Gifford K. Simonds, head of
the Simonds Manufacturing
Company, spoke to the Taylor
Society yesterday on "The Si
monds Windowless Factory."
This factory which manufac
tures saws, saw files, and other
tools, was built in less than a
week. ' . .
The windowless factory has
been built in an attempt to mas
ter all changeable conditions
and no pains were spared to
carry out this idea. The whole
plant is under one roof , and al
though there are no partitions,
no objectionable , noises are
made. The lighting fixtures are
a combination of Cooper-Hewitt
and incandescent lamps. The
DuPont corporation laid the
floors for the mill while the walls
and ceiling are noise proof. The
news of the day and music are
given the employees over
loud speakers placed at inter
vals over the building. The ven
tilation is regulated to resemble
a "spring day" at all times. The
Simonds organization has done
everything that may in any way
reduce outside influences.
According to Simonds the fac
tory will pay for itself .in two
years. The philosophy is that
whenever there is a new way to !
do a thing better, then you are
wasting time by not taking up
new methods or 'ideas, and the
organization expects to increase
its efficiency eighty per cent.
SAVILLE TO HELP
IN RESEARCH ON
lYEATHERBUREAU
Appointed by American Engi
neering Council To Help Im
prove Present Service.
Graham To Address
Alumni Gathering
The annual winter meeting of
the Cumberland . county alumni
of the University of North Caro
lina is to convene tonight at
Fayetteville, with President
Frank Graham as the chief
speaker.
Harry Hodges and Jack Crane
of Fayetteville, who are mem
bers of the football squad, and
Coach Chuck Collins will attend
this meeting.
The officers of this alumni
club are Frank Stedman, presi
dent; James S. Huske, vice
president; and Scott Russ, secretary-treasurer.
DI, PHI SOCIETIES
ELECTOFFICERS
Phi Assembly Discusses Bill
Favoring a More Adequate
Infirmary.
GEORGIA DEFEATS
U. N. C. DEBATERS
Audience Acts as Judges
Question of Free Trade
Policy.
on
Last week the American En
gineering Council appointed
Thorndike Saville, professor of
Hydraulic and Sanitary Engi
neering, as one of the four en
gineers from various parts of
the United States who will make
a study of the United States
weather bureau, and present
methods which will improve the
Present service rendered by that
institution.
A new system of providing
data for the use of hydraulic en-
augers is one ot the improve
ments they will undertake to
Provide. The present methods
used by the weather bureau have
Proved unsatisfactory for! the
ever increasing needs in that
field. The committee will study
tfle situation and present plans
t consider more efficient. A
large part of the wnrV is tn be
done
At the regular weekly meet
ing of the Di senate Tuesday
night officers - were chosen
for the spring quarter. All
the officers were selected at
this meeting with the exception
of the president. K. C. Ramsay
had already been" chosen for this
position at a previous meeting.
. The following will take office
with; President Ramsay as a re
sult of Tuesday's election : J.
M. Little, critic; McBride Fleming-Jones,
president pro-tem ;
Starlin Whittaker, sergeant-at-arms
: Charles Rose, clerk.
All . nil t
ui omces were niiea as a re
sult of a unanimous vote with
the exception of the position of
sergeant-at-arms. In this con
test Whittaker defeated McNeil
by a vote of 18 to 6.
A motion was passed by the
senate which provided that
henceforth all meetings of the
senate would be held at seven
instead of seven-fifteen o'clock.
. A resolution was submitted
by Senator Medf ord favoring the
appropriation of thirty dollars
to have three hundred copies of
the Di's constitution published
for the use of the members of
the senate. This measure was
passed by a large majority.
The Phi Assembly at its re
gular session Tuesday at seven
fifteen o'clock elected officers
for the spring quarter and con
sidered a resolution favoring a
more adequate - infirmary. The
new speaker, Egbert Haywood
departed from the usual custom
of procedure by with holding his
vote on the infirmary mea
sure after the assembly vote had
resulted in a tie. The fate of the
bill will be determined at the
next meeting of the assembly
when the speaker casts the de
ciding vote.
In the selection of officers
the Phi elected the first mem
ber of the opposite sex to serve
as an officer when it chose Vir
ginia Douglas for the position of
speaker pro-tem by a unanimous
vote. Other officers are as fol-
The debate team of the Uni
versity was defeated by the Uni
versity of Georgia in the deci
sion of the audience Tuesday
night in Gerrard hall on the
question, Resolved: that the
United States should adopt a
policy of free trade.
In 1897, the University of
North Carolina debated the Uni
versity of Georgia for the first
time. This was the first team
that Carolina ever debated. H.
G. Connor and D. B. Smith were
the Carolina's representatives in
the discussion of the adoption of
the Swiss referendum in the
United States.
In the debate Tuesday night,
Georgia affirmed that the Unit
ed States' world leadership was
due to our protective policy and
that it protected farmers as well
as industrialists
The- Carolina debaters main
tained that the world leadership
of the United States was in spite
of the tariff and that the tariff
is discriminating in favor of in
dustrial producers against con
sumers.
Carolina was represented by
J. C. Williams and Clyde Shreve,
and the University of Georgia
by Fred B. Smith and McCarthy
Crenshaw.
NEW DRAMAS TO
BE GIVEN TODAY
Four One Act Plays Will Be Pre
sented This Evening at 8:30
In Playmakers Theatre.
This evening at 8:30 at the
Playmakers Theatre, four new
and locally-written one-act dra
mas will be given. The general
public will be admitted, and sea
son tickets are good for the oc
casion. .
Tom Loy's "Penny for your
Thoughts," the curtain-raiser,
is a rapid, - twenty-five-minute
bit of life in the subjective, ex-
House Committee Favors Bill
To Consolidate State Colleges
Fleming-Jones To Be
Di Member on Council
McBride Fleming-Jones was
appointed by President J. M.
Little of the Dialectic Senate as
the representative of the Senate
on the Debate Council for the
coming school year.
Fleming-Jones is a member of
this year's debate council and
has participated in several de
bates this season, and will make
the trip to Boston this spring
vacation. He is a member of
Tau Kappa Alpha, national de-
the meeting Tuesday night.
RELIGIOUS BOOKS
GIVEN TOLIBRARY
Rev. Hunter of Raleigh Is Donor
Of Sixteenth Century Litur
gical Works.
German Professor
On Visit Here
Dr. Gustav Plesow, of the j
University of Tubingen; is a
visitor in Chapel Hill, and for
several weeks will be the guest
of Dr. E. W. Zimmerman of the
school of commerce, who was a
class mate of his at the Univer
sity of Berlin when both were
undergraduate students.
At his own university, Dr.
Plesow is a professor of Ameri
cana, a subject which deals with
American culture, life, and edu
cation. Here at the University
he plans to carry on his study of
American social and university
life. Dr. Plesow is very much
interested in the organization of
the university.
perimenting with dialogue com
posed entirely of Eugene O'Neill j bating fraternity, and was elect
asides, which give rise to a led president pro-tempore of the
series of more-or-less-f ortunate , Senate for the spring quarter at
mistaken-identity situations. In
the cast with the author are Bill
Long, Mack Pickard, Elsa Craig,
and Becky Daniel.
The seriously realistic note of
the evening will be struck by
"There's a Nigger - for You,"
Mary Griffith's tragedy of shift
lessness, concerning the effect of
a half-witted son on a tubercu
lar wife's family. Charles El
ledge has directed the piece, and
Miss Griffith takes one of the
leading roles. She is supported
by Patty Jordan, Pat Lumpkin,
Wilbur Dorset, Alonzo Korne
gay, and Homer Triplett.
Donald Rulfs, the director of
"Always a Bettin' Man," an
other of Mr. Loy's efforts, has
built a set recreating the roof
of an insane asylum in Mary
land, where the action takes
place between Mr. Elledge, an in
fmate and John Edwards, a car
penter.
Mr. Edwards, as it happens,
is also the author of the pro
gram's final show, a breezy do
mestic discussion called "My
Business and My Wife." Ellen
Stewart is the director ; her play
ers are Janet Browne, John Se
hon, Robert Langf ord, Virginia
Love, and Edgar Hazelwood.
The present group of produc
tions will be continued tomor
row evening with "Mansions,"
"The . Constant Lover," and
"Fancy Free" ; and on Saturday
evening with "The Rising of the
Moon," "Cocaine," and "Sup
pressed Desires"- all profes
sional plays. j
Bruce Barton Considers Going To
College A Fad, Like Backgammon
"Going to college is a current
fad, like Backgammon," said
Bruce Barton, prominent au
thor, contributor to various
widely-known magazines, and
chairman of Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn, well
known advertising agency, in
an interview recently granted
the Princetonian. '
"Many people," Mr, Barton
continued, "are attending col
lege simply because it is the
m connection with hydrau-
as
1:
ut undertakino-K nr"h
flod control, water supply, and
ater power projects.
roiessor Saville has for
Ion
lf North Carolina department
1 conservation and develop
ment, and has compiled much
?ata fr that organization on
jWraulic problems of the state.
latest study was on a rem-
jty for the receding coast line
the Atlantic coast of this
ate. in this and many other
milar problems concerning the
thing to do. Although a great
lows: William E. Uzzell, ser-, number of these people should-geant-at-arms
; Lee Greer, read- n't be in college, the fact that
ing clerk, and Philip Sassar, as-
they are there doesn't necessar-
sistant treasurer. The ways and y ruin their chances in life.
means committee is composed of
S time been connected with! Representative Wilkinson, chair-
IHTlrl t
as done extensive work, and of
Ird helpful solutions.
s water systems, both in-
t - A A! "I
man ; ana liepreseniatives dam
pen and Brown.
The resolution, Resolved:
That, provisions should be made
for a more adequate infirmary
to be used in case of an epidemic,
was the cause of much discus
sion, in which nearly every mem:
ber took part.
The new speaker, Lgoerc
People who would be ruined by
college would be ruined anyway.
As we have been told, 'college
doesn't make fools, it develops
them '
"An education is no one-way
proposition. Many, with the
opinion that the sum ' total of
human happiness would be con
siderably increased if everyone
attended college, seek higher
education with the hope of a
Haywood will give his inaugu- j keener appreciation of the finer
ral address at the next meeting uuugs, wmie a college expen
of the Assembly, which will be ence undoubtedly augments one's
held at the first of next quarter. ' powers for enjoyment and ap
preciation, at the same time it
intensifies his faculties for suffering."
Mr. Barton explains that
many people he has known en
tered college without the neces
sary amount of potentiality to
comprehend the true value and
significance of things discovered
during the course of a college
career, rnese maiviauais nave
left far less fortunate than
they entered, for their tastes
have been enhanced to such a de
gree that they are rendered in
capable of seeing clearly along
many different lines.
"I am not an enthusiast
about the courses in college that
are presumed to fit one for a
job," added Mr. Barton. "Of the
subjects I took up in college,
Greek and Mathematics, neither
having any direct bearing on
the advertising business, have
helped me most. These subjects
compel one's mind to attack a
difficult mental operation and
think it through to its logical
conclusion.
"The mind is exercised and
hardened only by accurate hard
work. Just being exposed to all
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The books being displayed on
the lectern given the University
library by Reverend A. B. Hunt
er of Raleigh, which may now
be seen in the rotunda of the
main reading room on the sec
ond floor, are two sixteenth cen
tury liturgical works from the
Hanes Collection.
One is a Graduale Romanum,
printed in Venice in 1580 by
Peter Liechtenstein. It contains
the words and music for the
chants used in the celebration of
the Roman Catholic mass, print
ed in red and black with fre
quent large wood-cut initial let
ters. The musical notation
seems unusual to modern eyes,
since it uses only four bars in
stead of the customary five.
This is a-characteristic of plain-
song music.
reter Liechtenstein was a
nephew of another Venetian
printer and came originally
from Cologne. His uncle, Her
mann Liechtenstein, was a part-i
ner of Johannes Hamman, who
specialized in the publication of
liturgical works.
The other book is a psalter, or
t book of Psalms arranged for
use in the Roman Catholic serv
ice. It was printed in Venice
in 1563 by the heirs of Luc An
tonio Giunta, the last of a cele
brated family of Italian printers
who flourished in the latter part
of the fifteenth century. This
work, too, is printed in red and
black with some plain-song mu
sic. The text of the 'Psalms is
in a fine large black-letter.
GRAHAM, BROOKS
AND F0UST ARE
AT DISCUSSION
Graham Proposes That Group of
Experts Look Into Matter
And Make Report.
The House committee on re
organization Tuesday night
voted unanimously to favorably
report the amended bill provid
ing for unifying the University
of North Carolina, North Caro
lina College for Women, and N.
C. State College into one Univer
sity of North Carolina.
Although Dr. E. C. Brooks,
president of State College offer
ed two amendments which were
rejected by the committee, he
does not oppose the consolida
tion of the three schools.
Dr. Julius I. Foust, president
of N. C. C. W., expressed the be-,
lief that "speaking as a North
Carolinian and not as a college
president, the bill is fundament
ally right and ought to pass, as
I believe it will."
Frank Porter Graham, pre
sident of the University of
North Carolina, described his
attitude as "an open mind with
a question mark." He offered an
amendment, which was adopted
by the committee after being
endorsed by Dr. Foust; Josephus
Daniels, and other speakers,
which strengthens the section
authorizing the employment of
experts in the field of higher
education to make a study of
the entire matter.
Another amendment proposed
by Representative Sea well of
Lee, was adopted, which read :
"That the final location of any
school, department, or division
of work now located at any of
the three institutions shall be
subject to the study and recom
mendation of the experts and
the commission without pre
judice by any provision of this
act."
The measure, as drawn, pro
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Representative Of
W. T. Grant Company
To Be Here Friday
H. T. Carmichael, representa
tive of W. T. Grant Company,
is to be in Chapel Hill this Fri
day to interview seniors who are
interested in becoming connect
ed with that organization.
Henry Johnston, Jr., of the
vocational department of the
University, has requested that
all seniors who wish to make ap
pointments with Carmichael see
him at his office in 204 South
building before Friday.
W. T. Grant Company has a
chain of 609 stores, located
throughout the United States ;
their chief need at present is
men to manage these branches.
Booklets may be obtained from
Henry Johnston explaining the
types of work, chances for pro
motion, and the training which
is required for a position . with
this firm.
FRESHMAN SMOKER
POSTPONED U N T I L
SPRI NG QUARTER
The executive committee of
the freshman class announced
yesterday afternoon that the
first freshman smoker of the
year will be in Swain hall imme
diately after the spring holi
days. The committee stated
that it was impossible to secure
a speaker that would interest
the class this quarter.
Wallace Wade, Duke coach,
was first asked to speak, but de
clined saying that he would be
glad to come over after he was
settled at Duke.
Alfred E. Smith, Democratic
nominee for the presidency in
1928 was asked when it was
learned that he would speak to
the legislature, but he also was
unable to come as his plans
called for only a few hours stop
in Raleigh. The plan was to in
vite him as guest of honor and
after the smoker to have him
speak to the student body, but
this had to be foregone when
his plans were learned. Presi
dent Graham, "Red" Green, stu
dent union president, and Pres
ident Minor, of the freshman
class, each wrote Mr. Smith ex
tending him an invitation to
come to Chapel Hill.
The executive committee an
nounced also that three smok
ers would be held during the
spring quarter with Coach Wade
and Governor. Gardner among
the speakers if possible.