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STUDENT FORUM MEETS GRAHAM MEMORIAL TONIGHT 9:00 DR. ZIMMERMAN SPEAKS ECONOMICS SEMINAR 113 BINGHAM HALL 7:30 'V VOLUME XL STUDENT FORUM MEETS TONIGHT FOR SECOND TIME - i - Ninety Members, Representing Entire Campus, Are Expected to Attend Gathering. The second meeting of the student forum will convene to night in the banquet hall of the Graham Memorial. Among oth er important matters to come up for discussion tonight will be the setting of a permanent date for the "meetings of the forum. It is very urgent that a full at tendance of the members of the forum be had tonight. It was very discouraging to the lead ers to see that only two-thirds of the members were present at the last meeting. At that time the discussion centered around the suggestions that a radio be put in the lounge room, and the advisability of having glee club and orchestra concerts for the students. The question of whether or not dances would be allowed in the lounge room was left up to the board of directors. The idea of having this forum was presented to President Gra ham last spring in the form. of a petition from a group of stu dents. These students wished that the student body as a whole might have a larger voice in the government of the union. Presi dent Graham submitted this peti tion to the board : of directors. .and as a result the idea of a forum became a reality. The "group" now" consists"; of r ninety members, or about one repre sentative for every thirty stu dents. The members come from the fraternities, dormitories, and from among students who live in town. Three ' students from this group were elected to the board of directors. 4 These three men who were elected at the first meeting were: Beatty Rector, Spec McClure, and Wallace Case. UNIVERSITY GETS CENTURY PLANT Specimen Is Nearly Sixty Years Old; Plants Used to Make Liquor in Tropics. The botany department of the University was recently given a century plant by J. Harvey White, of Graham. The plant, which originally came from the Governor Holt greenhouses at Haw River, is between fifty and sixty years' old at the present time. This specimen may be seen on the lower floor of Davie hall. Century plants require about twenty years to accumulate enough reserve food material to produce their , blooms. After this effort they, have exhausted their supply ; consequently, they die. When blooming, the plant sends up a central stem, gener ally fifteen to twenty feet long, and occasionally thirty feet in height, on whose tip is produced an inflorescence consisting of a great number, of flowers. This is one of the largest inflores cences found in the plant king dom. Aside from the aesthetic value there is an interesting additional use for the plant by the natives in some parts of the tropics. They tap the stem, and a large quantity of sap is exuded over a period of four to five months. -.This san is. "collected, and allbw ; ed'to ferment, producing an in toxicating 'drink known as "pulque." a : Dungan's Picture Is In College Humor A photograph of Jack Dun gan, editor of the Daily Tar Heel, appears in the Decem ber issue of College Humor. It is a feature of the monthly section of the publication en titled "Collegiate World," in which are included pictures of prominent collegians through out the country. This is the first time that publication has used a Carolina man's picture. Dungan is the present edi tor of the Daily Tar Heel, of which he was the managing editor last year. He has con tributed at various times to the Carolina Magazine and the Carolina Buccaneer. He has been secretary of the Publications Union Board, president of both the 1 Polity Forum and the Sophomore "Y" Cabinet of 1929-30. He is the only man to have edited the Carolina Handbook two years in succession, and is now President of the Dialectic Senate. FRIMMENHEAR RELATIVITY TALK Dr. Archibald Henderson Defines Seven Motions of Universe in Assembly Yesterday. Dr. Archibald Henderson ad dressed the freshman assembly yesterday morning on the mean ing of relativity. As he defined the seven motions of the earth, Dr. Henderson drew an analogy between ; Archimedes' -discovery of the lever principle and Ein stein's theory. Archimedes said, "Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum, and I will move the world." This, said Dr. Hen derson, illustrates the fact that a fixed point in the universe is an impossibility. The first of the seven motions is the movement of the earth on its axis. Its speed is roughly 1,000 miles per hour. The, sec ond motion, at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour, is the earth's orbit about the sun. He explained that the center of the galaxy is the star Carina, around which the stars revolve, 200 light years away from our earth. The spiral nebulae, which are similar to gigantic pinwheels, may be seen when the width of the galaxy is facing the earth. The star Sagittarius, which is the gravity center of the cosmos, is 50,000 light years away. Sagittarius itself, says Dr. Henderson, is moving. This completes the seven motionsof the earth. In summing up his talk, the noted mathemetician said, "The vision that a person obtains of truth is dependent on the ob server." Dr. Henderson closed with an explanation of the mean ing of relativity in terms other than those of higher mathe matics. 7 v COUNCIL CASES The student council at its last meeting tried two cases. . Case One: A freshman was found guilty of drunkennessand was put on drinking probation for the present school year. If he is found guilty of a second similar, offense,' he will auto matically be suspended from school. "; '".v V: . Case Two : A sophomore was found guilty of clipping articles from the papers in tneiiDrary; He was sentenced to4 pay -for all the damage. A second offense will suspend him from college. I CHAPEL HILLjN- C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1931 GLEE CLUB GIVES SEASON'S FIRST PROGRAMFRIDAY Fall Activities Begin with Special Performance for Southern Conference on Education. The University glee club un der the direction of , Dr. H. S. Dyer, in collaboration with Pro fessor Nelson O. Kennedy will present a short musical program, Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock, in-the music building. The pro gram will be given as a special prelude to the evening session of the southern conference on edu cation, which is meeting in Chapel Hill, November 5, 6, 7. This concert marks the first appearance of the club in the music building -since the opening of school. The program consists of: Three Christmas songs Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming, Praetorius; O, Come, All Ye Faithful, Reading-Baldwin; and Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, old German air. Organ Con cert Overture in B Minor, by Rogers, played by Professor Kennedy. Folk songs Fireflies, Russian ; Chit-Chat, old English ; and Reaper's Song, Bohemian. LAW REVIEW WILL BE ISSUED DECEMBER The tenth volume of the North Carolina Law i2evtew,published four times a year by the Uni versity law school, will be issued December 1. Contributing editors submitted their copy Monday. The copy goes immediately to the printers and the quarterly issue will be ready for the public December 1. Editors are selected by the faculty of the law school in the spring quarter of each year on the basis of scholarship and ability to write. William T. Covington, Jr., is editor-in-chief this year. Robert H. Wettach is faculty editor in charge. Anderson Once Fired As 'Rotten9 A ctor Proves Better Dramatist Author of "Elizabeth, the Queen" Recalls Student Days at North Dakota When His Career Was Changed From Playboy to Playwright. rO . Although Professor F. H. Koch refuses to take any credit for the fact that Maxwell An derson's name stands almost at the head of the list of Ameri can playwrights today, Ander son himself admits that "Prof f " once fired him from a cast be cause he was such , a "rotten" actor, thus, -saving him for his career as a dramatist. Professor Koch is especially delighted that it should be Max- well Anderson's greatest play, Elizabeth, the Queen which The Carolina Playmakers are to sponsor as the first presentation of the New York Theatre Guild ever to appear at the University. Monday evening, November 16, Elizabeth, the Queen will be played in Memorial hall, by a New York cast. " x Anderson with Dakota Players Maxwell Anderson was a charter member of the Sock and Buskin Society, organized in 1910 at the University of North Dakota where Professor Koch first planted the idea of folk playmaking in that frontier uni versity. It was a production of Twelfth Night that Anderson be gan rehearsing a very small role, Hut was subsequently kicked out by "Proff" in preference to a steadier actor. ; v LLM PRESIDENT DISCUSSES EVILS OF FRATERNIT H. W. Chase Gives Disadvantages of Lodges in Universities and Colleges of America. In a recent review of the American fraternity system President Harry Woodburn Chase, of the University of Illi nois and former president of this University, assailed the most outstanding weaknesses as he saw them and gave suggestions as to how they could be remedied. The two most outstanding points of criticism he saw were the financial condition and then the question of scholarship, es pecially respecting pledges. Expenses Too High Dr. Chase, in criticizing the fraternity finances, was opposed to their building such expensive structures at a time when the economic situation was so up set. He rather advocated liv ing in dormitories. Dr. Chase recommended a sensible adjust ment to new economic condition by saying, "Fees ought to be kept as low as possible." Freshmen Restricted Another of Dr. Chase's points of attack was the denunciation of study rules and other restric tions on freshmen. T He said that the scholarship of these fresh men could not be raised by re quiring that they stay in at night and study and then at the same time for the fraternity to demand toa much of . their rtime. He ;termed :lbfese compulsory methods of study put on the freshmen as another form of hazing. Dr. Chase considers haz ing as a childhood custom and says that no one ever developed a man by: treating him as a child. He emphasized the treat ing of freshmen as free human beings. He says, "They need guidance ' and stimulation from the upperclassmen. They do not need regulation and subjection." Mrs. Maxwell Anderson (then Margaret Haskett) was also a charter member of the first play ers group in .Dakota, but says that she was merely a good pro perty mistress never an actress. It was at a party following the production of his What Price Glory, in New York that Mr. and Mrs. Anderson reminded Profes sor Koch of those early adven tures in play-making when they were college students, and Koch Lwas a young instructor fresh from Harvard Maxwell Anderson's delightful historic romance, Elizabeth, the Queen, when presented in New York last November was de clared to be the greatest drama tic hit of the New York Theatre Guild since its extraordinary of fering of two years ago, Eugene O'Neil's Strange Interlude. Not only the outstanding production of the Theatre Guild, Elizabeth, the Queen is said to have "saved the day for a theatrical season in New York which was not able to boast of very many even mild successes," 1 Mail orders for tickets to this one performance are now. being received by. the -business man ager of the Playmakers prior to the opening of the :box-office sale next week. Cabinets Unanimously Accept New -$ Dr. L. R. Wilson Dr. Wilson heads the North Carolina . library" association which convenes in Durham, November 16, for Us thirteenth session. LIBRARY SESSION OPENSjMJRHAM Dr. L. R. Wilson Heads Associa tion Which Will Meet at Duke University November 12. -The 'thirteenth, session of the North Carolina library associa tion will convene Thursday, No vember 12, at Duke university, for a two day session. Dr. L. R. Wilson, University librarian, heads 'the association, and Miss Cornelia S. Love, headnof the Ich cal library order department,4s secretary. Dr. W. P. Few will welcome the association members Thurs day evening. Dr. Wilson will de liver his address the same eve ning. The subject of his speech has not been announced. Carl Milam, secretary of the American - library association, will be the outstanding visitor outside of the association pres ent. Meetings of the various de partment heads of the state libraries will " hold "individual sessions to compare their experi- i. ' - V -f ' .- i - , ' I " - - ' - , U"r'Z , ) - w; J V ' X 7 I - ;a ehces. President Wilson, of theiDroT)eriv he must nlan and initi- association, feels that the meet ing at this time is very import ant, for it will furnish members the opportunity to profit by the achievements that members of the library profession have ac complished in solving problems thrust upon them by the depres sion. Delinquent Taxes City Manager Foushee Is Checking Up on Business Houses. City manager J. M. Foushee sjid the tax department of Chapel Hill are checking up on ,the de linquent taxes of he business houses this week. The firms that have not paid their license and privilege tax will be given a one-week notice, after which court action will be brought against them. Mr. Foushee is unable to' say whether or not the rate of un paid taxes is any lower this year. " . - Pi Phi's Plan Dance . The Pi Beta Phi sorority will entertain at a dance at the Caro lina Inn on Friday, November 6, from 9:00 until 1:00 o'clock, in honor !oi their pledges. Bill Stringfeilow and his orchestra will furnish music for the occasion. NUMBER 39 Constitution i RULES DISCUSSED BY TWO HUNDRED ACTIVE MER1BERS James Kenan Approves Adoption . at Second Sleeting in Gerrard Hall. Meeting for the second time this quarter the joint cabinets of the University Y. M. C. A. un animously endorsed amid con gratulations and cheers a stu dent Y. M. C. A. constitution. President F. M. James pre sided over a meeting of some two hundred active Y. M. C. A. mem bers Monday night in Gerrard hall. Immediately following eve ning devotionals, the principal business of the meeting was reached. With a few brief words upon the necessity for a. clear cut definition of the work of the Y, as well as written obligations for its student officers, James introduced the constitution which was read by the secretary. James Kenan, chairman of the committee selected by the Y. M. C. A. student administrative board and the president, spoke for the adoption of the- consti tution, and was followed by lead ers, of the three cabinets. The new constitution clearly delineates' the idealsand the pur poses of the organization". In the future active membership is to be defined as participation in the work of the Y to the extent of securing- a membership card through a contribution to the or ganization or by ' attending.,, at, least' six meetings during the academic year. Active members will hereafter choose the student officers of the Y. The vice-president is to have the work of the present freshman secretary at the expiration of the latter's con tract, thereby effecting economy for the Y budget. The student correspondence secretary will be in charge of deputations and cor respondence for the organiza tion. The treasurer is charged with the responsibility of per fecting and perpetuating a per manent system of bookkeeping and finance and auditing. In or(jer to discharge his duties 1 A. X V ate campaigns for money, as well as prepare monthly budgets FRESHMEN WILL ELECT OFFICERS - First Balloting Ever Held in Graham Memorial Is Sched uled for November 18. Freshmen elections of officers will take place Wednesday after noon, November 18. A presi dent, vice-president, and a secretary-treasurer will be elected then. These men will remain in office until the" latter part of March,' at which time new offi cers wilt be elected. A mass meeting of the fresh man class is to be called within a few days to nominate candi dates for these offices. The elections will probably take place at the Graham Me morial building, which will be the first time that any election has ever been held there: The freshmen usually nave one of the most interesting elec tions on the Hill, for then em bryo campus leaders and politi cians are given a chance for the first time .to show their wares. In the past football men have generally won the office of president.
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