INSTITUTE ADDRESS BENE.GEER MEMORIAL HALL 8:00 CO INSTITUTE ADDRESS FRAKGIS J. GORMAN MEMORIAL HALL 10:10 f nr uTArrrn DAT VlO A T iWlttl XUiilillfiii SCIENTIST TO BE WEIL LECTURER Xaski, British JEconomist, To Deliver First Address in. Series Tomorrow. Dr. Harold J. Laski, British economist and world famous au thority on political science, will give the Weil lectures on Ameri can Citizenship, and" will de liver his opening address tomor row night at 8:00 in Memorial hall. The general subjects of his lectures will be "Democracy and Administration," 'the first being on "The Crisis in the Modern State," to be followed Friday and Saturday nights by "The Place of Administration in the Modern State," and "The Ex pert in Democracy." Dr. Laski is professor of Political Science in the London school of economics-of the Uni versity of London. He was for merly a faculty member of Har vard and is this year a visiting professor of the law school at Yale. Established in 1914 During the years 1914-1915, an unendowed lectureship on American citizenship was estab lished by the University. The first incumbent was ex-President William Howard Taft, who lec tured on "The Presidency : Pow ers, Duties, Obligations, and Re sponsibilities." Since that time, this foundation named the Weil Lectures on American Citizen ship has been permanently es tablished through the generosity of the families of Mr.. Sol Weil and Mr. Henry Weil, of Golds boro. : ., OTTO STUHLMAN PRESENTS PAPER TOCVENTIONS Physics Professor Attends Meet ings of Two Scientific Groups In Washington. Dr. Otto Stuhlman, of the physics department, has just re turned from Washington where he attened the meetings of the American physical society and the National Academy of Science on May 1 and 2. The meetings took place in the bur eau of standards in three sepa rate buildings, the industrial building, the chemistry building, and the east building. Dr. Stuhlman presented two Papers at the convention, one in conjunction with Henry zur Burg, candidate for master's de gree, on "Electrodeless Dis charge Characteristics of Hy drogen and Nitrogen," and an other written in conjunction ith C. J. Craven, a senior, on "The Mechanics of Efferves cence." The first of these was pre sented on Saturday morning at the National Academy of Science auditorium. The dis cussion that followed the read ing brought out the interesting fact that if our radio engineer ing friends would only supply us with an accurate way of measuring the electrical fields inside of a solinoid recited by radio wavps. it would be possible to interpret similar problems in a more exact and reliable man ner. , Great Interest Shown The second paper was read at xne Bureau of Standards on Fri day. This rpadin? was received ith a great deal of enthusiasm nd le4 to the asking of many I (Continued on last page) Philological Club Hears Dr. Plessow Dr. Gustav Plessow the Philological club last night m bmith building, delivering one of his special lectures on "A New Theory Concerning Middle English Dialects." The German professor dis cussed the various dialects in medieval England. As a result of his study of Middle English manuscripts, he has formed a theory that the distribution of Middle English dialects con forms to the trade routes in a beetle-shaped pattern rather than to areas separated by lan guage boundaries of the shape of an H, as was formerly be lieved. Dr. Plessow hopes to "obtain the assistance of a team of schol ars of universities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia to prove or disprove this theory by making a paleo graphical analysis of the nearly 800 volumes written in Middle English. LAWS NEEDED TO HELP EMPLOYERS MYERSEELIEVES Institute Speaker Gives Three Causes for Trouble in Industry. James Myers, industrial re search secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, spoke yes terday morning in Memorial hall in an , address before the Human Relations Institute. His subject was "Gastonia, Marion, and Danville." Dr. Myers, an ordained minis ter, stated that the best method to study industrial diseases was to discover the cause1 of the dis eases by gathering all the facts in the case. "The three causes for unrest in industry are: con ditions in the mills of the south, a lack of real democracy, and a lack of business organization in industry as a whole." Mill Conditions Poor ".The conditions in the mills caused the outbreak of ' strikes, and not outside agitation, as generally supposed." In Marion the mill people themselves sent outside for an organizer, after they had been forced to submit to three wage cuts and three stretch-outs in the mills. The wages jtvere very low, ranging from six dollars and a half per week up to twenty seven dollars per week, even in Danville, where conditions are best. In Gastonia it was discovered that any person with initiative could have led the strike, not to men tion Communistic agitators. The sanitary conditions in some of the mills at Marion were found to be exteremely bad. "A real democracy is lack ing in the average mill." It is an accepted fact that in Marion the management of the mills was stunned when the workers staged their walk-out, believing that the workers were well satis fied with conditions. A mill is less apt to have a strike when there is an organized ' union, than when the' workers are un organized." Lack of Organization "Referring to a lack of busi- organization in industry as a whole as a factor in causing nr Mvcrs said, Out- throat competition prevents the misino- nf wacres. Due to this, anarchy in this country has al ready appeared under cover. The best remedy for all these troubles is competent and fair (Continued on last page) CHAPEL HILL, N. 0, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931 WILSON HONORED BY APPOMTMENT Chosen by American Library As sociation as Delegate to Con ference in England. Announcement was received here yesterday by Dr. Louis E. Wilson, librarian of the Univer sity, of his appointment by the American Library Association as representative to the British Library Association Conference at Cheltenham, England, Aug ust 31 to September 5. The an nouncement is made by the pres ident and secretary of the Amer ican Library Association and is accompanied by the request that Dr. Wilson present a paper be fore the British librarians upon the subject of "Education for Librarianship." , Heads State Association Dr. Wilson is at present first vice-president of the American Library Association, a member of its executive board, and chairman of the board of educa tion for librarianship which has to do with standards and curri cula of the various library schools in the United States and Canada. He is also president of the , North' Carolina Library As sociation and has recently been made director of the new library school to be opened at Chapel Hill in September of this year. In June he will conclude the thirtieth year of his service as librarian of the University. TAU BETA PI 10 TAP TOMORROW Professor T. P. Noe Will Deliver Address at Annual Spring Initiation. The spring tapping of Tau Beta Pi, national engineering scholastic fraternity will take place tomorrow night at 8:00 in Phillips hall. Professor T. P. Noe will deliver the address. The initiation of the newly elected . members will take place Tuesday, May 19, followed by a banquet in the Carolina Inn. Membership in Tau Beta Pi is considered the highest honor that an engineering student may obtain. .To be admitted to this fraternity-a student must have qualities of scholarship, charac ter, and fellowship. The local branch of Tau Beta Pi, the Beta chapter, is one of the three national honorary fraternities on the campus, the other two be ing Sigma Xi, scientific research society and Phi Beta Kappa, na tional honorary scholastic fra ternity. Founded in 1885 The Beta chapter is one of the sixty chapters of the fraternity in the United States, having its founding at Lehigh university in 1885. Since then, 16,000 engi neering students have been ad mitted to membership. The lo cal chapter was organized in 1928, and the tapping Thursday will be the sixth in the history of the local chapter. Tau Beta Pi has two tap pings each year, one in the fall for seniors alone, and another in the spring for juniors and ris ing seniors. Seven engineers were tapped last January, when only seniors were admitted to membership. These men were: Doc J. Thurs ton, John Andrews, Robert Ed mund Hubbard, Giles Foushee Horney, Rankin Jones White, Howard F. Chrisco, and Ray mond John Ruble. DAVIDSON HONORS UNIVERSITY HEAD Trustees Name Graham Recipi ent of Doctor of Laws De gree at Spring Sleeting. President Frank Graham, as well as five other men prominent in their fields, will receive hon orary degrees from Davidson college at the approaching twenty-fifth commencement. President Graham, who grad uated from the University and taught here for several years, will be the recipient of a degree of doctor of laws. He has al ready been honored this spring with a degree from one south ern institution. George G. Al len, of New York, is also to re ceive this degree. He was the business and confidential advisor of the late James Buchanan Duke, and is at present executor of Mr. Duke's will, chairman of the board of trustees of the Duke endowment, and is vice-chairman of the board of directors of the British-American Tobacco company. Professor J. A. Tillinghast, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, will receive the doctor of litera ture degree. Tillinghast grad uated from Davidson and later obtained a master of ..arts de gree there. He studied at Cor nell, and has taugh at Oregon; Belfast, Ireland ; and Washing ton, D. C. He is now professor (Continued on last page) SCIENCE GROUPS MEETTNRALEIGH Many Papers To Be Presented to N. C. Science Academy and Chemical Society. The program for the 13th an nual spring meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science and the spring meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society, which will be at N. C. State Col lege in Raleigh this Friday and Saturday, was announced here yesterday by Dr. H. R. Totten of the botany department, who is secretary of the Academy. At the opening sessions Fri-! day and Friday afternoon pa pers will be presented, and at 4:00 Friday afternoon there will be a business meeting and the election of officers. P. M. Ginnings, vice-president of the Academy, will preside at the evening meeting at 8 :30, and the address of welcome will be made by Dean B. F. Brown of the State College of science and business. Dr. W. F. Prouty of the University geology depart ment, president of the Academy, will deliver the presidential ad dress. Immediately after the even ing meeting there will be an in formal reception at the State College Y. M. C. A. Chemical Society Meets The North Carolina Section of the American Chemical "Society will meet at 9:00 Saturday morning with Prof . L. A. Gige low as chairman and Prof. H. D. Crockford as secretary, and at 9:30 the mathematics and phys ics sections will convene. W. W. Elliott, is chairman of the mathematics section and Prof. E. L. Mackie is secretary. A. A. Dixon is chairman of the psys ics section and W. E. Speas is secretary. A series of exhibits will be on display throughout the two days of the meeting. Among those who will pre Continued on last page) Parker Urges Leadership At Annual Fleece Tapping Tapped Last Night MAYNE ALBRIGHT, Raleigh Presi dent of the student union; former secretary of the student council; treasurer of the state student federa tion; Phi Beta Kappa; varsity wrest ler; monogram club; treasurer of the Grail; speaker of the Phi assembly; associate editor of the Yackety Yack; debate council; Cosmopolitan Club; Amphoterothen; and Tau Kappa Al pha (national debating club). BEVERLY MOORE, Greensboro- Student chairman Human Relations'' Institute; Phi Beta Kappa; Cosmo politan Club; Amphoterothen; and president of .student division, North Carolina conference for social 'service. WILLARD "RIP" SLUSSER, Blacks burg, Virginia Varsity football and track star; monogram club; and vice president sophomore class. HAMILTON HOBGOOD, Bunn President of the senior class; presi dent summer session student body 1930; intercollegiate debater; debate council; Mary D. Wright debate med al; Tau Kappa Alpha; Grail; Cosmo politan Club; and head-waiter ; at Swain hall. K. C. RAMSAY, Salisbury Retiring president of the Publications Union board; associate editor, sports editor, and city editor Daily Tar Heel; presi dent of the Di senate; Phi Beta Kap pa; Grail; and Cosmopolitan Club.' JACK DUNGAN, Chapel Hill Edi tor Daily Tar Heel; former managing editor, city editor, and assistant edi tor Daily Tar Heel; editor Carolina Handbook; secretary Publications Union board; former president sopho more Y cabinet; treasurer freshman friendship council ; treasurer pi sen ate; president Polity forum; Buc caneer contributor; and member of the Central Administrative council. AUBREY PARSLEY, Wilmington Varsity football; Phi Beta Kappa; Grail; honorary engineering societies; and numerous social activities. PARKER BELIEVES LAW IN HARMONY WITRTHE TIMES Judge of Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals Addresses Law School. Is H;he law of today anti quated? This was the question asked by Judge John J. Parker, of the fourth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, in an address yesterday morning to the . law school. In answering the query he outlined the development of the legal profession and sug gested possible improvements to be made by the rising generation of barristers. The conclusion reached by Judge Parker was that the sub jective law of today is in com plete harmony with the times, though many alternations in the adjective, or procedural, law might be beneficially carried out. After defining law as the force determining the conduct of citizens in their relations with each other and with the state, the'speaker declared . that to serve its appointed purpose and avoid the criticism so often di rected against it, it must develop with the increasing complexity of civilization. In illustrating this process of change, reference was made to comparatively re cent changes in the law relative to master and servant relations, labor unions and kindred prob lems of employment, combina tions in restraint of trade, public service commissions, and phases of the modern expanded range of everyday life. Though we should at all times hold fast to the constitutional guarantees, they must change in their appli- (Coniinusd on last page) NUMBER 163 ONLY SEVEN MEN GET HIGH HONOR Two Hooded Figures Stalk Aisles of Memorial Hall Be fore Tense Crowd. ALBRIGHT TAPPED FIRST Seven men were honored last night at the annual tapping of the Order of Golden Fleece in Memorial hall. Judge John J. Parker, of the fourth circuit court of appeals gave the ad dress of the evening. Ed Hamer, Jason of the order, presided at the meeting and Dr. Horace Williams, of the philoso phy department and one of the founders of the Golden Fleece introduced the speaker. Judge Parker, who is a mem ber of the honorary organiza tion, gave a message calling the state to leadership. He made a plea for educated men in the open conflict of American life. "The source of wealth," said the speaker," is the ability to develop the mental and not the physical side." He thought that the state did not make a greater investment than in the intelli gence of its people. "Education is necessary for the physical welfare of the state and the state should support education for the doctrine of self-defense," said the judge. "What we need is an educated leadership in our political life, which is sadly flacking. We need leadership of trained men in our economic world. We must develop edu cated leadership in cultural ac tivities, and to direct the citizen ship in the use of its newly ac quired leisure through this machine age. We must raise leadership in our religious life." The speaker then showed how different was the call of leader ship today in our complicated (Continued on last page) SPECIAL MEETING TAR HEEL CALLED Places for Fifteen Reporters Now Available for Remainder Of Quarter. A special call meeting of the entire reportorial and news staff of the Daily Tar Heel will take place tomorrow afternoon at 5:00 o'clock in 104 Alumni building. All reporters and news men must be present if they ex pect to remain on the staff. Students contemplating work on the paper next year are re quested to report at this meet ing, as, according to present plans, there will be no regular tryouts next fall. There are places for fifteen reporters at present, and it is planned to continue new applicants tomor row on the paper next fall, in stead of taking on a lot of new men at the beginning of school. Persons trying out for the Daily Tar Heel this spring will have chances for advancement in the fall, provided they do a reasonable amount of consistent work. They will also be eligible for attractive charms, and pic tures in the publications', section of the Yackety Yack. No pre vious journalistic experience is necessary ; the only prerequi sites are the ability to use good English clearly, and to be will ing to do a fair amount of work. This call is primarily for those persons who are interested in the success of the paper as a stu dent enterprise, and are willing to help further its growth.

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