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SENIOR cCLASS MEETING TODAY 10:30 ROOM 111, MURPHEY L- ' -,-..... O.- VOLUME XL PLANS FOR FOLK PLAYS EFFECTED BY PLAYMAKERS .a Magnolia's Man" and "Job's Kinfolks" to Be Presented for Association of Universities. Two native folk plays, Job's Kinfolks by Loretto Carroll Bailey and Magnolia's Man by Gertrude Wilson Coffin, will be presented in the Carolina Tlay makers theatre Friday evening, November 13, as a special fea ture of the meeting of the As sociation of American Universi ties. They are revived from a repertory of Carolina folk plays -written by members of the Caro lina Playmakers. . , ' Author Has Lead Role Loretto Bailey lays the scene of her play in the mill section of the state. She does not treat either side of the mili situation, but deals with the characters arid ljves of the people living therein. She is interested in the lives of these people, so newly come to town from the mountains and from the tenant farms, and so unable to make the most of their wages. She takes the- leading role in the play. . Comedy of Mountains Mrs. Coffin also takes the leading part in her play. , Mag nolia's Man is a comedy on the lives of the mountain people of IJorth Carolina ten years before the" outbreak of the World War. Tftie time is pictured when , the new freedom had not come, to the rescue of the spinster. In the rural sections then, if " a girl missed a husband she must sit around and wait for the first wife to die. Feminine neighbors never let her forget she was "fading fast," and the spinsters sometimes took desperate mea sures in the matrimonial field "with more or less success. The cast for 'Job's Kin folks is : Continued on last page) STATE DRUGGISTS OPPOSE CALLING OF EXTRA SESSION Executive Committee of Phar maceutical Association Ex presses View to Gardner. The executive committee of the North Carolina pharmaceu tical association wired Governor Gardner Wednesday urging him not to call-a special session of the state legislature at this time. The message, which had been decided upon at the meeting of the executive committee, Tues day, was transmitted by Dean Beard of the ! University phar macy school and stated that the committee "had been led to take this action through belief that a special session would tend to create uncertainty, unrest, and thus check the slow recovery that business seems to have been making during the past month." "Unnecessary Move" The message also stated "that it is the collective opinion of the1 druggists that the conserva tive thinking people of the state believe it unnecessary, in fact, unwise, to call the legislature back to Raleigh." T The executive committee is composed of: A. E. Weatherly, chairman, Greensboro; Paul Webb, Sr., Shelby ; J. C. Hood, Kinston ; Dean J. G. Beard of the University pharmacy school, secretary-treasurer, Chapel Hill ; G. H. Grantham, Sr Dunn J; C. L. Eubanks, Chapel - Jlill; and Warren W. Home, Fayettevillel THE NEW -4 . p -- . - tot " -...-r.. - ,V j. . Tfci, v ;.V -i'"'' " . " ' .;. T. tnlinr fl-"l liif I imiHIIlii II " n" ' - ' ' " " Completed through the gift of an undisclosed alumnus after it had been standing for eleven years, the Graham Memorial is now serving "many campus organizations, individuals, and soon the members, of the faculty. . In the basement is the game room where pool, ping-pong, ta-bowl, checkers, cards,rand other forms of-indoor .sports may be played. The main floor contains a lounge which may easily be turned into a ball-room. On the second floor, the publications of the University have their offices, as do many other organizations, f SPIRITUALS NOT OF NEGRO ORIGIN SAYS DOMBREE President of. Julius Rosenwald Fund of Chicago Speaks to Underclassmen Assembly. Dr. Edwin R. Embree, presi dent of the Julius Rosenwald Fund of Chicago, in addressing the assembly yesterday morning on the intellectual progress of the negro, declared: "I am a confirmed optimist about the two races going forward har moniously and in cooperation to ward the development of a com mon state and nation." The speaker gave a brief sketch of the origin of the ne gro as a race which ' has devel oped from the infusion of Euro pean and Indian blood into the veins of the first slaves brought to this country. " -. During the eighteenth cen tury, there was no animosity be tween the negro . and his mas ter ; however, with the rise of the cotton , industry, "a system instead of. a personal relation ship" supplanted tfie once satis factory status of the negro. His education was held back ; no longer was he allowed the privi leges of worship which had been granted him. Following the Civil war came emancipation with the difficulties which arose from freedom being granted to a people who were then unab sorbed in the- social system. - The negro, Dr. Embree stated, brings certain gifts to American civilization : folk - tales, -folk-music, and a progress in the higher arts which is developing rapidly. He exploded the popur lar supposition , that spiritual are directly" derived from negro songs, and - said Hhat the music of spirituals originated from old English religious songs, while the words are hardly of African origin. ' CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, N0VE3IBER 6, 1931 STUDENT UNION BUILDING OF THE UNIVERSITY . Student Injured E. A. Neuren Suffers Broken Back in Wreck on Durham Road Wednesday Night. " ' Pinned beneath the wreckage of an overturned car, E. A. Neu ren, University sophomore from Brooklyn, New York, suffered a broken back in an accident on the Durham road Wednesday night. Reports from Watt's hospital, where he is being treated, stated that the injury was serious. A peculiar chain of circum stances was linked with the ac cident, involving another Univer sity sophomore, George Crane, who suffered a broken leg in a touch football game Wednesday afternoon. Crane had made a "date" with a Durham girl and requested Neuren to fill the en gagement after he had been re moved to the University infirm ary with the inury. None of the three other occupants of -the car was seriously injured. Senior Meeting Hamilton Hobgood, presi dent of the senior class, an nounces a special called meet ing of the class this morning at assembly period in 111 Murphey. It is very impor tant that every senior be present. THe Sunday Feature Issue " of the " : ' ' ' ' ' ' ' .' i. J Daily Tar Heel - - . - Vhich Will Appear. November 8, Will Contain a Group of Featured Subjects Headed by President Graham's. Career as an Educator ? What Has Become of tfte Preston" Cup? ; Robert W. Winston "A Freshman at Sixty" ,r,, . l'UJ A ' ? j ... ; trt- v t:-J.-'f. :.V . JJ J-. ' Holiday Declared Superior Court Judges Stop Sessions In Honor of ' President ' Frank Graham. Superior court Judges Michael Schenck and G. V. Cowper, now presiding in Charlotte, , and alumni of the University, - re cently paid President Frank Porter Graham a most extraor dinary tribute. The judges de clared Wednesday, November 11, a court holiday, saying that they had a double reason for doing so. ' ' "It is not only for Armistice Day but also in honor of Frank Graham," they said. President Graham will bee formally in stalled next Wednesday as the eleventh president of the Uni versity. Theta Kappa Nu Is Host The NortH" Carolina Gamma chapter of Theta Kappa Nu is host to the chapters of the Delta province thi week-end in a series of meetings to be followed by a banquet Saturday night at the Graham' Memorial building. Professor Lee M. Brooks, faculry member, will make the address j of the evening. Several notables including Donald Fisher I.ybar i ger, executive secretary of the fraternity, and. Jesse A. Engel, : province archon, are expected. 3k t w V , F. V - -i J 1 . " - ; -.. . y -s- i f v lit -si TWO PROFESSORS LISTED AS TOWN HALL LECTURERS University Alumnus Is Asso ciate Director of Political Education Platform. Dr. Archibald Henderson and Professor Frederick H. Koch, of the University faculty, occupy important positions on the fall program of Town Hall, the league for political education of New York City, 'which is one of the foremost lecture platforms in the world. Dr. Henderson will lecture upon Eugene O'Neill, dramatist. This lecture comes at the same time O'Neill's Mourning Be comes Electra, just produced by the Theatre Guild is running in New York. Professor Koch, ; director of the Playmakers, will give a read ing of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Denny Is Director ' George V. Denny, an alumnus of the University, is associate director of this institution "and editor of its publication, the Town Hall ' Crier. While at Carolina, Denny was student manager of the Playmakers. He wks retained after graduation as an instructor in dramatic art and was the youngest professor of this subject in the United - T States. After leaving this institution he was connected with several important dramatic enterprises, later becoming director of the in stitute of arts and sciences, di vision of the extension bureau of Columbia university, which po sition he occupied until he re signed to accept his present one. Bynum Resting Easier . i Jefferson Bynum, who has had a severe case of pneumonia since last. Friday, was resting easier yesterday after a somewhat rest less night. SENIOR CLASS MEETING TODAY 10:30 ROOM 111, SIURPHEY - NTOIBER 41 POTEAT ATTACKS PRESENT MEAGER SCHOOLSYSTEM Wake Forest President-Emeritus Addresses Opening Session of Education Conference. American children "are edu cated not for independence and freedom, but for a dumb con formity," Dr. William Louis Po- teat, president-emeritus of Wake Forest college, declared here last night in an address before the opening session of the Univer sity's fourth annual southern conference on education. "Our education is meager," Dr. Poteat averred, "but such as we give is in chains. It is not free. As a group, we teachers are in the habit of taking orders and, like the chameleon, we re flect the color of the environ ment. We can teach the flat or round theory the fiat - or the evolutionary theory of evolution. We are 'safe' and have develop ed an admirable skill in present ing matters in dispute without taking sides." Other speakers at last night's session were Dr. Edwin R. Em bree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, Chicago ; and Dr. Thomas H. Briggs, professor of education in teachers' college, Columbia university. . Dr. Embree, himself reared as a southerner, praised the south for having made living a fine art, but crticised what he described as "the present lack of leadership and high standards in southern universities." Prominent educators from all sections of the South were pres ent at the conference, which will continue through tomorrow, had its opening session. The dele gates were guests of the Univer sity at dinner at the Carolina Inn and were welcomed in a brief J address by President Frank Porter Graham. - USE OF STUDENT UNION DISCUSSED BYDIRKTORATE Body Votes to Invite University Faculty to Use Graham Memorial. The Student Forum, an ad visory council affiliated with the board of directors of Graham Memorial, student union build ing convened Wednesday night for its second meeting of the year. -'r y ' - " By the action of the board of directors, the game room in the basement of Graham Memorial is to remain open on Sundays, and is to be open until 11:00 o'clock Friday and Saturday nights. The time for closing the room during the week will depend upon the number of men using it. .. The board has also agreed that a correspondence be conducted among similar student unions in other colleges in order that the local union profit by the experi ence of other bodies. A repre sentative will be sent to a con vention of student union secre taries to meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in November. ; Of great importance to the faculty and the students was the unanimous vote of the forum to invite the University faculty to use' Graham Memorial. The forum recommended to the board that permission be grant ed organizations desiring to dance in the lounge of the build ing. .
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