DI SENATE NEW WEST BUILDING 7:00 P.M. PHI ASSEMBLY NEWEAST BUILDING 7:15 P.M. if MlfinM vf L V J f 1 V y .VOLUME XL ANDERSON SPENT MANY YEARS AS NEWSPAPERMAN Author Was an Outspoken Jour nalist Before Success of ' 'What Price Glory' Maxwell Anderson, the author of Elizabeth, the Queen,, which will be presented in Memorial hall, Monday evening, November 16, at 8:30, has been writing plays only since 1923. His most famous play, up to the time he delighted, Broadway with his version of the strangest lover af fair in history, was What Price Glory. This he wrote in collab oration with Laurence Stallings. It set a new mark for war plays, and loosed a Jot .of powerful ex pletives on the stage. Born in Pennsylvania Anderson was born in Atlan tic, Pa., about forty years ago. His father was the Baptist min ister of the town. As his father's pastorates took the family from town to town and state to state, young Anderson managed to snatch a little schooling in each place visited. In 1911, he was graduated from the University of North Dakota. Following his graduation, An derson taught at Stanford uni versity, and then took up journ alism, writing for several of the , California papers. Newspaper Work Tiring of the coast, Anderson journeyed to New York, where his positive opinions, always frankly expressed, were consid ered a valuable asset by The New Yorker. Later he returned to . newspaper work, and he was with the old New York Globe and then with the Morning World. He was still writing sizzling edi torials when the production of What Price Glory opened a new field of endeavor for him. Anderson had already been guilty of writing a play. It was called White Desert. Brock Pemberton produced it in 1923 at the Comedy theatre, New York. It was a beautifully writ ten but somber study of his be loved Dakota prairies in winter. Evidently it was too cold.or its coloring a bit too dark for the consumption of New York play goers, and it did not last long. Then came What Price Glory and the two collaborators found themselves famous over night. PRESENTATION OF CUP ISJAVORED 0. J. Coffin Is in Accord With Movement for Revival of Journalistic Award. Oscar J. Coffin, head of the journalism department, has ex pressed accord with the move ment for a revival of the annual award of the Preston Cup for j ournalistic excellence. The cup, first given in 1910 by Hon. E. R. Preston in memory of his broth er, was last .awarded . in 1921, and has until this week lain for gotten in the library. Believing that a revival of the custom will stimulate a new activity , on the part of journalists in the Univer sity, Coffin favors with the Daily Tar Heel for a renewal of the custom. There has been no objection to producing the award and start t ing again the annual presenta tion to a winner in a journalism contest of some sort, and the cup still contains room for several more names of winners. SET Inscribed upon the surface of each of the-bells pictured above are names of members of the donors' families who were Uni versity alumni. These twelve bells have a total weight of over seven tons. William R. Meneely, of the firm that furnished the campanile, will play the bells at the time of dedication. " THOMPSON TALKS ON TEMPTATION Chapel Speaker Urges Students To Guard Against Lit tle Sins The speaker on the program for yesterday's assembly was C. Douglas Booth, noted British lec turer. Mr. Booth however, was unable to arrive in time for as sembly, and Dr. Taliaferro Thompson of Union seminary was consequently asked to speak in his place. x 1 Speaking on temptation Dr. Thompson declared that this evil wTas everywhere ; that it followed a man no matter where he might go, on each new plane of his life. "Temptation is a great spiritual struggle," he said, "and one of the most subtle forms in which it approaches us is with the idea of doing a thing once. Life is a unit and we cannot do a thing once without it hurting us in the future. A liar must pay the penalty by having to lie con tinually. It's the little thing, then the larger thing, then the tragic thing." Dr. Thompson concluded his talk by saying: "We must make our lives a chal lenge rather than a truce." Pi And Phi Bills Phi to Discuss Republican Party; Seven Resolutions . Will Come Before Di Senate. Two resolutions are scheduled to be brought before the Phi As sembly for discussion tonight. They read as follows : resolved : That the present Republican ad ministration has been a failure, and resolved : That the- old sys tem, of freshman history and English was better than the present system. . Seven bills will be discussed at the meeting of the Di Senate. These bills are as follows: re solved: That the Carolina Maga zine be abolished ; resolved : That the University should allow sophomores and freshmen to reg ister for the winter quarter at some other time than New Year's Day ; resolved : That liberalism is dying out a the University; re solved: That Governor Gardner should call a special session of the state legislature ; resolved: That the united states of the world will afford the only per manent satisfaction of world peace and economic stability; re solved: That a system of educa tion be applied to state prison ers; resolved: That the Eigh teenth Amendment is the cause of organized crime at the present time. CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1931 OF CHIMES COMPRISING" NEW CAMPANILE Noted A viatrix, Touring Country In Autogiro, Talks On Aviation -0 Amelia Earhart, Publicly Demonstrating Novel Form of Aircraft, Tells of Its Chief Advantages Together With Its Faults. o . Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly the Atlantic, discussed aviation and the teaching of aviation in an interview accord ed a Daily Tar Heel reporter at the Raleigh flying field Saturday afternoon immediately after a graphic demonstration of the autogiro in which she is touring the country under the sponsor ship of a prominent chewing- giinf company. Miss Earhart received the re porter in a private office in the hangar. "Oh, where can I put mygum?" were the first words of the famous woman flyer, as she looked about helplessly. "I'm advertising the stuff, so I have to,. take my own medicine," she explained. After depositing the gum in the waste basket, she accosted the reporter : "Well, what can I tell you?" , It was explained that any in formation concerning aviation in general, and the autogiro in par ticular, likely to be of interest to University students would be ap preciated. Miss Earhart smiled. "There is one peculiarity that I've no ticed," she said. "That is, that few University students or per sons of university age use the commercial air-lines. 1 do not know whether or not this is be cause of the expense involved." Still smiling, she appealed to the reporter: "Perhaps you can answer that one for me?" When asked whether she thought the autogiro should be taught in college aviation cours es, she aswered: "Something about the autogiro should, I think, be taught in every avia tion course as it is a special tyfie of aircraft." Miss Earhart's chief objection to the autogiro is its lack of speed. "However," she ex plained, "there is no reason why Library Exhibitions Three interesting exhibitions are being arranged in the hall of the library upon early North Carolina materials, first editions of American authors, and incun abula, books printed before 1500. Reduction in Electric Rates The University Consolidated Service Plant has made a reduc tion in the electric rates. Ac cording to the manager these re ductions will be put into effect January 1, 1932. it can't be adopted as a speed or transport plane." Discussing aviation in gener al she expressed surprise that "few Americans know of the facilities offered in flying and its instruction in our own coun try and that we excel the rest of the world. She stated that one thing she thought aviation needed was better trained teach ers'. "" w'r ' "- " ' Miss Earhart read the report er's notes and made pencilled amendments. She added a post script to the notes : "Sometimes I think aviatiQn pupils alert young ones know almost more than their teachers." The autogiro, which Miss Ear hart demonstrates, uses freely rotating blades to support it in the air instead of the usual fixed wing surfaces of the ordinary airplane. The weight of the ma chane suspended under these blades owing to their, design and their -angular setting causes them to rotate, much like a maple seed. This rotation provides the sustentation or lift through the engagement of sufficient air. The name, "auto-giro" means "self rotation." The upper blades are started by a self-starter which is discon nected when the autogiro leaves the ground. Because of air pres sure, the blades turn at 120 revo lutions per minute while the ma chine is in the air. The tips of the blades travel nearly 200 miles art hour. The autogiro can-take off in fif yards if 'there is no wind, or in fifteen yards if there is an ordinary wind. It can descend on a run of fifteen feet. It can climb at 1,400 feet per minute faster than the swiftest elevator; it descends at fourteen feet per second slower than a para chute. Its air speed is from 20 to 120 miles an hour. Lewis Carr Will Sneak Lewis Carr will address the local chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, commerce fraternity, at a smok er this evening at 8 :00 o'clock. Mr. Carr is a noted writer and is also an authority oh farm questions. At the present he is residing temporarily in Chaps! Hill. Students in Infirmary Foy Gaskins, R. W. Geitner, and George Kelley were confined to the infirmary yesterday. BOOTH DISCUSSES INDIANPROBLEMS Lecturer, Here Under Carnegie Foundation, Says English Power Is Disintegrating. Sir C. Douglas Booth, British lecturer, publisher, and author ity on British affairs, presented Monday night, Memorial hall, a review of the British foreign pol icy. The title of his address was "The British Foreign Policy." The lecturer cited the obstacles to an unified British foreign pol icy. Since the imperial confer ences held a decade ago, the con stitutional changes have ob structed the government of Eng land in maintaining a definite policy as to her relation with her possessions. According to the speaker, this is the major ob stacle. Post-War Policy England's post-war policy was based upon the theory of the state as a power with the tradi tional method of maintaining the balance of power. Post-war changes in the policy decreed the abandonment of rigid doctrines of sovereignty and the replace ment of this by co-operation with all the organs of international peace and the settlement of dis putes by the World Court. Situation in Europe Today the situation in Europe is that the material power of (Continued on last page) - Plants For Tower Grass and Shrubs Set Out on Grounds Around Bell Memorial to Beautify It for Thanksgiving Debut. The finishing touches to the grounds of the, Morehead-Pat-terson Memorial tower are ex pected to be completed by Thanksgiving, according to Dr. W. C. Coker, professor of botany, who is in charge of the exterior decorating of the tower. The earth around the tower, is already becoming dotted by the little shoots of grassand soon it will be surrounded by a thickly grown lawn. The .walks have been laid off and will be bordered by nearly half a mile of hedges, necessitating the use of about eight hundred box plants. The tower x itself, rearing its lofty head into the slcy, is of, burnt brick and stone. The portico is ceilinged with a light azure tile arranged to form numerous crescents. The bells have been installed in the tewer, and workmen are priming and manicuring: the edifice for its public presentation on Thanksgiving. NUMBER 41 CHANGE MADE IN INAUGURAL PLANS TO TAKE EFFECT Entire Student Body, Together With Other Divisions, to View Ceremonies in Stadium. Due to the unusually large number of acceptances to the in vitations for the formal inaugu ration of President Frank Porter Graham, two very important changes have been made in the original plans for the inaugural ceremonies. I he first of these is the decision of the committee to move the, exercises from Me morial hall to Kenan Memorial stadium. This was done because it was feared that Memorial hall would be too small to accommo date the huge crowd expected. The second important change is. the last minute plan of making an additional division of the in augural procession. This new division, the tenth, is to be made up of the student body, of the University. The im portant part about this an nouncement is that the commit tee requests the student body to assembly on the south campus between South building and the Y. M. C. A. by 10:00 o'clock, Wednesday morning. The stu dents are requested to be there by this time ,so as to fall in line double file and march directly be hind the ninth division. There will be no attempt to organize the students according to classes. The procession is to start on the main walk between Bingham hall and the University library. The band which Will follow the color guard, will stand at the in tersection of the walk and the highway. The color guard is to be made up of four members of the Chapel Hill post of the American Legion, bearing the American flag and also the North Carolina banner. Led by the col or guard and the University band, the procession will march by the bell tower, down the path and through the main gate of the stadium leading to the field. The band will take its position to the left of the speakers stand which will be erected on the field. Then the band will play while the re mainder of the procession files in and takes its position. The band will then be seated in the rear of tfae general student sec tion. The color guard" will take its position to the right of the speakers' stand andplant the colors. Then the guard will take seats designated for them. The (Continued on last page) CHIMES TO RING AT THANKSGIVING. Experienced Musician Will Play Chimes in Dedication Pro gram at Virginia Game. The chimes of the campanile will be played on Thanksgiving day by Chester Meneely, head of the corporation which furnished the chimes for the bell tower. He has played the chimes of prac tically every prominent tower, not only in this country, but also abroad. He has toured Europe several times and on each trip has entertained large audiences composed of admirers, in Lon don, Paris, and Berlin. His ex perience in, playing bells covers a period of forty years. Students, who have stated their interest in learning to ring the chimes will be given instruc tion by Meneely when he comes to Chapel Hill for the Thanks giving program, r '

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