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I i - , . PEP MEETING SWAIN HALL 6:00 P.M. PEP MEETING SWAIN HALL 6:00 P.M. - 1 TTATTT1TP VT ! MSON RELATES RISE OF MODERN SOCIAIJST PARTY Public Invited to Join in Dis cussion of Social, Political, and Economic Problems. A large group gathered in the Y. M. C. A. iast Tuesday eve ning to discuss socialism. The meeting opened with a brilliant outline of the history of social ism by Dr. E. E. Ericson, pro fessor of English. Commencing with the ideals of socialism as laid down by Plato he traced its rise through the influence of Aristotle, Sir Thomas More's Utopia, Robert Owen, Saint Simon, Fourier, Louis Blanc, Proudhon, and ' culminated by Karl Marx with his Das Kayital, a book of scientific socialism. At this point, Dr. Ericson drew an interesting comparison be tween Marx and Darwin, the English scientist, showing the simfurity of their works. He followed by bringing the history of socialism up to date, men tioning the Fabian socialism of Sidney Webb and George Ber nard' Shaw, and finally the American adaptation as set forth by Norman Thomas. Open Forum After the lecture, there was an open forum, and, the social ists feeling that they had suc cessfully answered all questions, announced that in two weeks time another discussion of so cialism and communism would take . place at the same place. ...Those-interMed..4n,theLvltal problems of modern politics are invited to drop around to the Y. ,M. C. A., Tuesday evening, October 13, to hear them dis cussed. The Chapel Hill local of the Socialist Party of America is sues the following correction of the announcement of its last meeting, reported above. The. announcement in Tuesday's Daily Tar Heel read as follows: '"Anyone may participate in the discussion provided their ideas are from the Socialist view point." The statement should have read: "Anyone interested in talkihcr over social, enocomic, and political problems is invited to all discussion meetings. Press Issues New Book By Paul Ward W. T. Couch, assistant direc tor of the University of North Carolina Press, today announc ed the publication of the first book to be published this school year. Intelligence in Politics, by Paul W. Ward, member of the faculty of the school of citi zenship and public affairs, Syr acuse university. It is a study of citizenship in the field of political science, and how intelligence may be more effectively used in public af fairs. This is the first book by Ward to be issued by the Uni versity Press. He has two other volumes to his credit, however: Sovereignity and The Fields of Knowledge. ' f Electrical Engineers Meet The student chapter of the American Institute" of Electrical Engineers meets for the first time this year tonight at 7:15 in Phillips 206. D. J. Thurston, president of the chapter, ex tends a cordial invitation to all students in electrical engineer ing, especially all freshmen, to attend. 'Members of the electri cal engineering faculty will give short talks. - Breckenridsre Better After Severe Illness Word has been received here that the condition of Professor M. S. Breckenridge, of the law school, who has been dangerous ly ill in the Emergency Hospital at Washington, D. C, for the past several days, is much bet ter and that he will be able to leave the hospital within a day or so. , Professor Breckenridge had started back to the University to begin his work at the begin ning of the fall quarter when he was taken ill in Washington. ror several days his condition was considered hopeless, hut a change for the better came in a few days ago, and it is probable that he will be able to resume his duties sometime in the near future. . anese Student Plans To Observe Labor Conditions Jisakmu Fukusato, on First Visit to United States, Has Difficulty With Lectures. Jisakmu Fukusato, of Tokyo, Japan, is the latest recruit to the ever-growing international col ony at Chapel Hill. This being his first visit to the United States, it was with difficulty that Fukusato conveyed his abr. sorbing tale to a Daily Tar Heel reporter. He has come here in an effort to study economic and labor thought throughout the world, with special emphasis on conditions in this country, x Fukusato graduated from the University of Waseda in Tokyo. It was there that his course was bent in the direction of Caro lina. This school was highly recommended to him by Profes sor S. Kitasawa, who received his M. A. here in 1913 and his Ph. D. from John Hopkins in 1915. Professor Kitasawa is one of the most famous Japenese economists, and has . always dis played an excellent opinion of the University. The Japenese student left Yo kahoma on August 22, and ar rived at Victoria, Canada, eight days later, proceeding directly to Chapel Hill. He finds it a most ideal university site, being particularly pleased with the amount of surrounding green ery. He plans to spend from two to three years of study in this country; but has not yet decided .whether the entire time will be consumed at Carolinal At pres ent he is taking economic courses under Dean D. D. Carroll and Professor M. S. Heath. It is m the lecture courses that Fuku sato has his greatest difficulty Emrlish. De- 111 - stiite his five years of study of the language he sorrowfully ad mits that "it is too rapid" m tne lecture room. He can, however, speak .and write intelligible English. PITTSBORO ROAD TO BE CONNECTED WITH STREET - The citizens of Chapel Hill have requested that McAuley Street be opened up from Pitts boro Road to Pittsboro Street. The request has been considered by the officials of Chapel Hill, and the work on the, one block has already been started. The new street is expected to be completed by the time the Georgia-Carolina game is play ed, and will relieve the traffic problem on that day. Jap CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1931 UNIVERSITY GU CLUB PLANS TOUR Attendance of 74 Men at First Rehearsal Is Indication of Promising Year. The University of North Caro lina glee club started what ap pears to be the most promising year of its history last week. Seventy-two men were present at the first rehearsal, of which nearly fifty were hew men. The rolls of the club will be open for the rest of the week to any new men who are interested in receiving training in this field of choral music. All places in the club are open as a hew club is formed every quarter, in the selection of which new men are given the same standing as the old men, so that the selection may be made ac cording to ability and hot preju diced because of former experi ence or service rendered to the club. Dr; Harold S. Dyer, the direc tor, will give the men trying out for the club instruction in v choral singing at the rehearsals which are held on Monday, Tues day, and Thursday afternoons from five to six o'clock in the choral room of the Hill music building. . , A tour of the western part of the state has been planned for the fall quarter which will prob ably include concerts in Ashe ville,. Statesville, Sheby, N. C. C. W. at Greensboro, and Salem college at Winston-Salem. Dur ing the winter quarter, the club expects to make a southern tour that will include Charlotte, Greenville, S. C, Atlanta, Ga., Spartanburg, S. C, and South ern Pines. During the spring quarter the club has planned a northern and eastern tour which will include Wilmington, New Bern, Sweet Briar, Va., Wash ington, D. C., Richmond, Va., and Hollins college neajr Roa noke, Va. The glee club will en ter the South Atlantic glee club contest as "defending cham pions," and if they are success ful there will enter the national contest in New York. The officers for. this' year are as follows: Wm. C. Barfield, president; A. J. Stahr, vice president; W. T. Whitsett,. sec retary; Ken S. Wilson, business manager; C. M. Sawyer, pub licity manager; . and J. W. Slaughter, librarian. Harry L. Knox will again be accompanist and piano soloist. CAST CHOSEN FOR PLAYMAKER BILL More than 150 students ap peared for the Playmaker try outs Tuesday afternoon and night at the theatre. This is the largest number that has ever tried for parts for any one play at the theatre, and it was necessary to continue the try outs froin 4:30 in the afternoon straight through to 10:00 at night in order to get as good a cast as possible. Tentatively the following have been selected: Frolie Sands, Margaret Firey and Olive New ell ; Willy Sands, Robert Crowell ; Mrs. Halevy, Betty Jones, Ber nice Freeman, and Jo Norwood; Bobby, Betsy Perrow and Olive Newell; Mr. Haley, Edward Blodgett; Rims O'Neill, John Sehbn ; Mrs. Gorlik, Marion Tatum; Chauffer, Bill ("Red") Rankin ; A Lodger, Carlyle Rut ledge, j These persons met for a read ing rehearsal yesterday evening evening at 7:30. CRITICS SAY NEW PLAYKSUCCESS Paul Green's "House of Con nelly" Wins High Praise at Opening Performance. Paul Green is receiving many congratulations for the recent and apparently overwhelming success of his new play, The pouse of Connelly, which opened in New York Monday night. Tuesday, Professor F. H. Koch received the following telegram : "New York, Sept. 29 Paul Green's House of Connelly rav ing and instant success. Critics and audience stood up and cheered. Tell everybody Shep." The telegram was signed by Shepherd Strudwick, who was present at the opening perform ance. Strudwick was formerly a student at the University and participated in the Playmakers all four years of his college ca reer. He made, five tours and played twelve leads in Play- maker productions, as well as make the scholastic rating of Phi Beta Kappa. His home was in Hillsboro. Since graduation Strudwick has been continuously identified with the stage. He played in the famous summer repertory company, Surrey Playhouse, in Surrey, Maine. He also took juvenile leads in two 'of Charles Coburn's plays, The Yellow Jack et and Falstaff, when they were produced in New York. According to a telephone call from Maxwell Anderson to Mrs. Green, Paul Green received fif teen curtain calls. Anderson, author of Saturday's Children, What Price Glory? and Eliza beth, the Queen, was present for the opening performance. He is a friend of Green's and inci dentally worked under Professor Koch in the Dakota Playmakers, as did Green in the Carolina Playmakers. ROTARIANS MEET AT INN TONIGHT Rotarians from eight towns in this district-some 200 of them will gather here at the Carolina Inn tonight, at 6:00 o'clock, for a big inter-city meet ing of group 6, comprising clubs in Chapel Hill, Durham, Hen derson, Oxford, Roxboro, Ral eigh, Clayton, and Sandford. Ben K. Lassiter, Oxford at torney, will serve as group lead er and toastmaster. Henry M. London, of Raleigh, is chairman of the committee on arrange ments, other members of which are Mr. Lassiter and Rev. C. Excell Rozzelle. The Rotarians will be wel comed to Chapel Hill by Rever end Rozzelle, who is president of the Chapel Hill club. The in vocation will be. given by Rev. William F. West of Roxboro. Prof. Poster Barnes of Duke university will be song leader. There will be addresses by "Parson" Gilmore of the Sand ford club ; Ted Johnson, Dis trict Governor, of Raleigh ; and Dr. Frank Graham, president of the University. - Dillards Visiting Here Dr. and Airs. H. Dillard, of Philadelphia, parents of John R. Dillard of the University, ar rived today to spend several days at the Carolina Inn. , Infirmary List The following students were confined in the infirmary yes terday: Pete Gilchrist, Allen Barbee, and R. W. Geitner. . Van Hecke Explains New Judgment Law M. T. Van Hecke, in a speech to the High Point Bar Associa tion, stated the belief of many that the declaratory judgment act sponsored by the University law school and passed by the 1931 General Assembly was for the purpose of proyiding a ve hicle for 'a New Bern negro to seek an Anglo-Saxon status was false and absurd. The purpose of it is that any person interested in a will, deed, written contract or any writing affected by a law may have his rights determined. , This act, de clared Dean Van Hecke, is func tioning in a satisfactory man ner. He wishes it clearly under stood that the act was not pass ed for any private or ulterior motive. Persian Admires American Girls And Hospitality Approves of Prohibition After Seeing Effects of Non Restriction in Europe. "The American girls are the prettiest I have ever seen, and I have seen girls of ten nation alities," said Victor Humbart- zoom Serunian, University f reshman . f rom Tabriz, Persia. In careful slow English, which is excellent for a master of six other languages, including his native Persian, his father's na tive Armenian, and his mother's native Assyrian, Serunian ex plains that he attributes the American feminine beauty of form to athletics. Athletics, the Persian believes, are a booh to America. He saw his first foot ball game Saturday, and liked it so weil that he also saw the tilt at Greensboro Saturday - night. "Of course the giris of my own country well," Serunian smil ed quizzically. - "Prohibition ? I don't drink." Having traveled throughout Eu rope; driven by war and famine from his mission 'school home at Tabriz, and suffering contact with harsh Russian and cruel Turkish troops, Serunian speaks with force, "I've seen the effects all over Europe. So I think pro hibition is a good thing." "Will Persia and the Orient ever become westernized to the adoption of American customs? Not for a long time," says the easterner. "The Americans are changing faster to the new than the Oriental people adopt the old. The people of Persia are rejoicing at the inauguration of trolley lines, while the Ameri cans remove them because trol leys are to slow." Serunian is delighted at the Southern hospitality and friend ship which, he says, exists in no form in the metropolitan North where he has lived since his ad mission to this country last year. "Most Persian young men desiring a college education come to America," says Serun ian, as did two of his brothers before him, both of whom stud ied here in Chapel Hill. Ser unian's father, who heads the American school at Tabriz, was a classmate of W. D. "Parson" Moss, of Chapel Hill Presbyter ian Church. A college educa tion also exempts a Persian from the compulsory military service policy of Persia's soldier King. Serunian intends to return in foijr years to enter the Persian rug export trade. NUMBER 10 SOCIETIES OPEN YEAR INDUCTING NEWPRKIDENTS Many Join Di and Phi; Dungan and Hobgood Deliver In augural Addresses. The presidents of the Dialetic Senate and the Philanthropic. Assembly, jack Dungan and Hamilton Hobgood respectively, made significant inaugural speeches to the literary societies Tuesday night Each, after re ceiving his staff of office, spoke on phases of the work of the societies. Hobgood's Inaugural Speaker Hobgood, first recall ing the traditions of the Assem bly and the men. of distinction who had received training in the Phi, enumerated 'the benfits to be gained from participation in the work of the society. Speak er Dungan also gave an intro ductory historical sketch and spoke briefly of the" work of the Senate and its benefits in train ing "well-rounded men for use ful lives." The most significant part of his speech was taken up with proposals of future policies for the consideration of the Sen ate. , Union of Di and Phi Two proposals of President Dungan deserve especial notice. He came out rather strongly for a union of Di and Phi and the other discussion groups on the campus to form "a cosmopolitan University Assembly." He also proposed that the Senate admit co-eds to the society. To quote Speaker Dungan : "With time, and an altruistic outlook on the part of their members, it can be conceived that the Dialetic Senate, the Philanthropic Assembly, the Amphoterothen Society, and Epsilon Phi Delta, could become a useful, dynamic, cosmopolitan University Assembly parallel ing the work of the Unions at Oxford and Cambridge." And again he urged the Phi to "throw wide our doors to every regularly enrolled student, male or female." New Initiates The new Senators initiated as follows: Mack Heath, Fran cis Harrell, Emil S. Colucci, F. E. Howard, Jr., R. C. Scott, Jr., J. B. Simons, O. R. Keith, Jr. J. E. Waldrop, R. L. Bolton, Jr., Harold Long, Clyde Larmer, Mason Gibbs, J. S. Blackwood, and Archie B. Joyner. The following persons received the title of Representative from the Phi : A. L. Hodges, Ernest Freeman, Aaron Epstein, M. L. Wood, L. D. Chapel, D. B. Fox, T. A. Moody, R. D. Collins, W. D. Stevenson, B. R. Wall, Jr., R. L. Huber, W. H. Lazarus, C. E. Boyles, R. L. Smith, A. L. Kaplan, P. C. Smith, J. Bar bano, E. G. Beam, C. Bond, J. H. Hensin, P. Ivey, H. Gruyn, J. A. Stanley, H. W. Wells, Jr., M. E. Evans, J. Giobbi, J. M. Bell, R. L. Ferrell, J. D. Win slow, E. E. Griffin, Jr., J. W. Durham, J. A. Douglas, Jr., A. Fleishman, J. K. Biddle, H. T. Beam, L. W. Manheim, Jr., F. Siuder, K. W. Young, N. Swartz, S., Monroe, S. M. Patti shall, H. M. Goldstein, A. Ellis, H. L. Brisk, W. B. Rodman, S. M. Hodges; F. J. Allred, C. Griffin E. T. Freeman, D. W. Hanks, Jr. House Speaks in Greensboro R. B. House, executive secre tary of the "University, spoke before the Lion's club of Greens boro Wednesday. . i 1