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TAR HEEL MEETING CITY J1DIT0RS 5 :00 .REPQRTERS---7:00 TAR HEEL MEETING EDITORIAL BOARD 5 :3d REPORTERS -7:00 , " j irT T TAT 17 YT RED CROSS PLAN "WAS FIRST USED IN THIS COUNTRY Colonel Pratt Says America Pointed Way After Europe Abandoned Idea Although formally organized in Europe, the plan of a Red Cross organization was really conceived and first put into prac tice in America, according to Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, dir ector of the Chapel Hill chapter of the Red Cross. Explaining his statement, Colonel Pratt told , how the first move to organize the. Red Cross was made in 1863 when a group of national representatives met in Geneva, Switzerland, to con sider the project. Nothing was accomplished at this meeting, however, . so the delegates were told to return the next year with authority to act for their gov ernments. yBolles Conceives Idea In August, 1864, representa tives from twelve nations gath ered again at Geneva, but they were about to give up the idea of providing any definite way of relieving the sufferings of the wounded soldiers when S. P. Bolles, of Boston, agent of the United States Sanitary Commis sion, who was merely sitting in at the conference, told them that what they said could not be done had been done and .'was being done on the battlefields of Amer ica, As a result an organization was effected to work out the safe plans "as' those followed here in the United States. , ' Beauregard's order It was General Beauregard, Colonel Pratt said, who issued an order in 1861 that doctors, stretcher-bearers, nurses and other attendants of the medical units, engaged in the Civil War were to be regarded as neutral and that they were to be allow ed to carry out their work unmol ested. The Fedeal Army issued a similar order the same year, and General Bragg later did like wise in eastern North Carolina. Disappearance Of Machine Age Is Only Solution To Noise Abatement Chapel Hillians Complain of Late. Chiming of Bell Tower and Low . Flights of Airplane ; Students Inclined to Study To Jazz Accompaniment. . o " , By Don Shoemaker Schopenhauer once said that cabmen who crack whips in the road deserve capital punishment. We wonder, under such a restric tion what should be done to the modern truck driver with his liarsh, vitrolic protestations - at traffic paces and his ever-tooting horn. Should Schopenhauer be alive today, he would doubtless liave more cause for his protests against noise-making. The ma chine age, with its clanking printing pressed and puffing steam engines has changed Scho penhauer's' 'World from the com parative quiet of the tomb into a veritable boiler factory. Noises Abhorred Oxford has formed, a society for the abatement of noise, pro testing, that passing automobiles -disturb undergraduates at their study. M.- Chiappe, prefect of Paris police, forbids the sound of rlavrms at certain hours, and lias set a time limit' to .the ener- -gies of house wives who "beat mats. . Noise abatement organi- zations are common, too, on this side of the Atlantic. - Frequent efforts to somehow modify-the NEW MEMO RIAL BELL TOWER AND DONORS - -SI J- L - I . - ; v - - 1 1 - a ill I 1 I $ I . I , I I j - y &Vfti If lt Pictured above is the MoreheadrPatterson Memorial bell tower and its donors, John Motley Morehead (upper left), and Rufus Lenoir Patterson (upper right). The new structure, com pleted at a cost of $100,000, will be formally dedicated Thanksgiving Day immediately before the annual Carolina-Virginia football gme. Speakers will be Frank F. Patterson, associate editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun and a brother of one of the donors; Governor O. Max Gardner, and George Gordon Battle, prominent New York attorney ,-,v.r,v.: ...j-,.., The tower is a memorial to the Patterson and Morehead families, who have been distinguished in the history of North Carolina and closely identified with the University. Graham Memorial Tea This afternoon from 4:00 to 6:00 o'clock the first of a series of teas will take place in the lounge of Graham memorial. Misses Anna Gray Watson, An na Chamblee, Jo Norwood, Or villev Culpepper, Patty Lewis, and Virginia Ferguson will be the hostesses for the ocassion, and Thor Johnson and a trio of musicians will render the music. clamor of automobile traffic and 4levated railways have been at tempted in New York. Chapel Hill has had its advo cates for noise abatement. Uni versity professdrs who dwell in the vicinity of the new bell tower have requested that the tolling of the hour be restrained after bed-time, and housewives com plained recently to the airport that the siren, of the sight-seeing monoplane which recently car ried passengers over Chapel Hill be hushed. Many fraternities have restrictions on the . hours that radios shall be played. - Until the threatened decadence of civilizations brings about the disappearance of the so-called machine age, we doubt whether noise will ever be greatly modi fied or abated. This sentiment is perhaps best expressed in a recent editorial in the Manches ter (England) Guardian which comments thus on the Oxford noise abatement society : r "If Oxford undergraduates wish to be prepared for the consitirons of post graduate existence, they should, practice., writing Greek (Continued on last page) CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1931 .:-x-'X-:o:':s:.:.;:.x-:-x-::v:-.'.'.:-x-:-x-x-:-:-?.:-:-:.:-:-X': Campanile Commemorates Noted Families Of State Names of Ancestors and Descendants of John Motley Morehead ' and Rufus Lenoir Patterson Inscribed Upon Walls and Bells of Tower to be Dedicated Thanksgiving Day .' O : ' By R. W. Madry The Morehead-Patterson bell tower, the $100,000 gift of John Motley Morehead III and Rufus L: Patterson II, two distin guished alumni of the University is to be formally presentel to the University at dedicatory servic es to take place Thanksgiving Day, just prior 'to the Carolina Virginia game. t The dedication program was announced today for the first time. ; The "address of presenta tion will be. made by Frank F. Patterson associat editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun, a broth er of one of the donors, and Governor O. Max Gardner will make the speech of acceptance. There will also be an address by George Gordon Rattle, Promin ent New York attorney and an alunmus of the University', whose subject is announced as Old Bells and New". . Tablet Unveiling Miss Mary Morehead, of Char lotte, and Master Rufus L. Pat terson III, of New York City, will unveil the tabled bearing the dedicatory inscription. Three selections will be played on the chimes at the dedication : "The Bells of St. Mary's", "How Tedious and Tasteless the Hours When. Jesus No Longer I See", and, "the Old North. State". These tunes were selected by the donors. : The dedication services, which will take place at the tower, will begin at 12 : 00 o'clock promptly and will be concluded by 12 :30. Then from 12:30 until 2:00 o'clock when the Carolina-Virginia game will get under way, the first concert will be played on the chimes. Thirty selections are listed for the concert, which will offer a wide variety of tunes," in cluding such pieces as "Amer ica", "Over There"-, "O, Come All Ye Faithful", "Blue Bells of Scotland",. "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia",, "Home, Sweet "Home", "Silver Threads Among the Gold", "The Wearing of the Green", and "The Last Rose of Summer". . Dedication Inscription The tower is to be dedicated to "perpetuate the memory of those members of the Morehead and Patterson families who have from the foundation of this Uni versity been associated with Jts activities as trustees, teachers or students". ' The Moreheads and Pattersons have been distinguished in the history of North Carolina and have been closely identified with the University. John Motley Morehead, one of the donors, is a grandson of a former Gover nor of the State and the first J president of the General Alumni Association of the . University. John Motley Morehead ( III has achieved high renown as a chem ist and is at present minister to Sweden. He is a member of the University class of v 1891. The other donor is a descen dant of William Lenoir, a hero of King's Mountain and the first president of the University's board of trustees.. The donor's. (Continued on last page) ' English Department ! Lists Seventy - Four Courses In Catalog " It would take an exceptional student t seventy-nine years to complete all; of the courses off ered in the regular sessions of the. University excluding the schools of law, medicine, phar macy, and the extra summer school . curricula. The student ! would necessarily be exceptional because if he habitually flunked courses, it would . take much longer than seventy-nine years. It was found that the depart ment of English leads in the number of courses offered with a total of 74. The department of education, however, is a close rival for first honors with .courses totaling 70 1-2. At the bottom is found the de partment of library science, piti fully offering the grand total of 2 courses during the regular school year. The journalism de partment competes with this record by offering 7 courses. Among the languages, French leads with 33 1-2 courses. Latin is a close runner-up, having 32 courses in the gray book. Span ish follows with 23. There are 22 German courses. Greek courses number 20 and Ital ian boasts of 7. - In number of courses offered, the history department is near the top. It lists 69 1-2 courses. Its closest rival is the chemistry department, having 53 1-2 cours es available. Mathematics and geology tie for next place, each department offering a total of 48 courses. . Other departments list cours es as follows: music, 20; philos ophy, 19 1-2 ; physics, 22 ; psy chology, 23; rural-social econ omics, 27; sociology, 35, botany, 125 l-z: economics, 6b: com merce, 31; government, 21 1-2; and zoology, 18. ' , No student has ever taken all of these courses. It is believed that any man who succeeded in passing all of the University courses would be long-lived and, after finished his college career, would be well fitted to cope with any situation confronting him. DorisKenyon Took Up Music As) , An Escape From Mental Distress - ' --o . ' ' , Talented Screen Star, iri Exclusive Interviewvto Daily Tar Heel, Believes Talkies Have Made Intellectual Backgrounds r - More Necessary for Movie Work. . . o Stopped in the wings ' back stage of Page auditorium at Duke university Friday night on her way from the stage to her dressing room at the end of a joint concert in which she had been starred with Alfredo San Malo, the Spanish violinist, Doris Kenyon of the cinema was interviewed by The Daily Tar Heel, while autograph hunters and representatives of the Dur-J ham professional papers stood around in amazement. Miss Kenyon was asked whether she thought the intel lectual level of actors in the movies was low. She evinced a great deal of interest in a recent controversy which the Daily Tar Heel precipated on the sub j ect and in which Conrad Nagel took a large interest and part. Her answer to the charge that movie people are morons is "Aren't there as many morons, in the colleges as in the movies?" Views on Talkies "However," she continued, "I feel that the talkies have made intellectual ' backgrounds more necessary. I am frequently asked by persons whether I feel NUMBER 55 REPORT MADE ON. RACIAL GROUP'S LYNCIMG STUDY Howard V. Odum of this Uni versity, Is Member of Commission The Southern commission for the study of lynching, a' part of the Southern inter-racial com mission interested in better re lations between the white and colored races, published its find ings over a two-year period of work last week. Dr. Howard W. Odum, author and head of the sociology department of the University, is a member of the group.. The important findings of the commission after investigation of twenty-one lynchings is list ed in Time as follows: ' . "Two of the twenty-one lynch ees were 'certainly innocent' of any crime. At-Mount Vernon, Ga., black S. S. Mincey, local G. O. Politician1, pressed his partisan agitation too far for the comfort of Democrats A masked mob dragged him from his home, beat in his skull, left him to die from -concussion of the brain. At Thomasville, Ga., black Lacy Mitchell dared to testify against two white men charged with raping a negro woman. Four men, the de fendants' friends, dragged Lacy Mitchell from his home, shot him dead. "'Real doubt of guilt' existed in at least half of the other lynchings. ... "Of the 3,693 lynchings in the past forty-one years, only twenty-three per cent carried the charge of rape. "Eleven of the 1930 lynchees were illiterate, while only one had reached the fifth grade in school.' ' Many of them were, 'defective half-wits'." "On the basis of its factual re port," continues Time, "the com mission prepared to draft an ef fective anti-lynching statute for southern states which would, somehow, substitute reason for rape-of-the-law. that a college education is a benefit to movie actors. I have always urged them to acquire college training, but feel, of course that success on the stage or in the movies does 'not de pend upon that lone." Miss Kenyon attended a small girls college, finishing her formal education at Barnard. During the course of the eve ning the actress who has been' touring the country since Sep temper, sang in many lang uages. In her present tour, which is to be concluded shortly,' she sings in Old English, Ger man, Russian, Japanese, old and modern-Greek, Italian and Hun garian. "Languages are one of ny hobbies, an affinity for which I contracted while in college," Miss Kenyon confided to the in terviewer. Individual vs. Type ' "In the movies it is true that directors often look upon indi viduals as types, and tht it is difficult for persons labeled as villians, or comedians, , for in stance, to secure other parts. Concert work is a definite proof , (Continued on last page) '.. ,
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