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TAR HEEL MEETING .ENTIRE EDITORIAL STAFF GRAHAM MEMORIAL 7:00 TAR HEEL MEETING CITY EDITORS 5:00 EDITORIAL BOARD 5:30 4 CAROLINA FOLK COMEDIES' TITLE OF NEW SERIES "Volumn Contains Eight Play maker Presentations; Is Dedi cated to Frank Graham. The fourth series of Carolina lolk plays, consisting of eight comedies and entitled Carolina Folk Comedies, isls just come from ;the press of Samuel French, New York, largest play publishers in the world. Koch's Introduction As Professor Frederick H. "Koch, founder and director of the Carolina Playmakers, points out in an introductory statement J or the new volume, these eight comedies, which were written ;and acted by the Playmakers, "'are plays of native expressive ness, of considerable range and variety of mountain charac ters, fisher folk, country youth, plantation life, the Negro, old Salem folk, and of Revolution ary Carolina. The new volume is dedicated to ' President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Caro lina. Dream Fulfilled The foreword is by Dr. Archi bald Henderson, who asserts that the Playmakers have ful filled the dream of the late Walter Hines Page, who, in a 'letter in 1909 to Edwin Hims, then professor of English in the "University, voiced his faith in the teaching of creative writing rand his desire to see it taught at the University of North Caro lina. The new volume is profusely illustrated with photographs of the original productions of the plays in the Carolina Playmak ers theatre. There are eight -full-page illustrations. Titles of Included Plays The eight comedies found in this new volume are Magnolia s Man, a story of the mountain folk, by Gertrude Wilson Coffin ; Ever Snitch, a comedy of the Carolina fisher folk, by Irene Fussier ; Agatha, with its scene laid during the Civil War, by (Continued on page three) Campus Versus Classroom A Perspective of University Life By Mayne Albright Student meetings are fre quently dismissed with a smile for attempting to cure all the ills of the world in a single ses sion. It is admitted that there is a great need for students to become conscious of their stu dentship, and to take an intel ligent interest in public affairs, and that student congresses are a step in that direction. No doubt is entertained that such meetings are inspiring (and very enjoyable) for the delegates so fortunate as to attend; "But what," it is asked, -"do you bring back of immediate and practical value ,which will im prove and advance our own cam pus life?" The 270 student leaders who represented approximately three fifths of the accredited colleges and universities of the country at the recent congress of the Na tional student Federation in Tol edo, might all agree on at least one answer to that question. They were able to take back a clearer picture of their campus life having viewed it in the light of comparison. The five day ses sion gave ample opportunity for discussion, and the delegates were student body officials, as Amelita Galli-Curci Mme. Galli-Curci, world fam ous Italian coloratura soprano, is being brought here for a con cert January 27 in Memorial hall by Phi Mu Alpha, music frater nity. The fraternity hopes to create a scholarship from funds realized from the concert. Di Senate Has Four Bills On Calendar The following are the bills on the Di Senate calendar for Tues day night at 7 :00 o'clock. 1. Resolved: That the Di Sen ate should establish a student loan" fund of fifty dollars to be administered by the proper Uni versity officials. 2. Resolved: That the editors of the Contempo have done the University a great injustice and that they should move their es tablishment from Chapel Hill. 3. Resolved: That the Di Sen ate go on record as believing that the Honorable Josephus Daniels should be drafted by the Democrats as their candidate for governor. 4. Resolved : That the primary purpose of the college should be to prepare the student to earn his living. Additional Pledges Phi Delta Theta announces the pledging of the following men: R. T. Burnett, Tryon ; J. C. Sales, Fletcher; L. L. Hutchison and L. B. Mann, Charlotte; andR. W. Goebel and W. E. Davis, High Point. sociation presidents and news editors largely, who had experi enced local problems of student affairs and who know intimately the campus management of their local institutions. The very fact that the problems and solutions were so varied on different campi gave added value to the discussion. The meetings dealt with vital issues and the data ob tained as well as the perspective gained should be of value to every institution. Such a perspective view of the University of North Carolina shows a great student interest and a remarkable development in the control of extra-curriculum activities, but a sad lack of student initiative or interest in curriculum affairs. It shows an unparalleled freedom of student life in action, speech, and press, but a shameful neglect of the opportunities afforded for stu dent expression in student affairs and in the administration of the University. We are, of course, an old in stitution and we now take for granted many of our campus agencies which have come about only after the experiences of many heartbreaking failures and . Continued on last page) CHAPEL HILL, N. O, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1932 KNOW YOUR (EDITOR'S NOTE: In the same vein in which a survey of University courses was presented before the holidays, the Daily Tar Heel continues with this issue a comprehensive summary of campus institutions with the idea cf causing every citizen of the University to become better acquainted with the policies and systems of operation of his service organizations.) SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS . , . ..... The highest of the local hon orary societies is the Order Of the Golden Fleece, whose mem bers are selected from the rising senior and higher classes. The theory of selection of men to be honored by this order concerns itself principally with the char acter of the men considered. The number of activity honors which the individual possesses serves as a basis for selection only to the degree that it indicates am bition, unselfish' service, altru ism, and integrity. Men chosen to high campus offices do not win recognition by this order because of that alone. Basis of Selection Beginning in January, six to eight meetings of the order are held at which the qualifications of every member of the junior, senior, and graduate classes are carefully considered. At times the selections of the Fleece may appear puzzling to the uninitiat ed because of this stress upon character rather than activities. An attempt is made, in theory, to include in the tapping, repre sentatives of all walks of student life, such as the athletic, the lit erary, the social, and the reli gious. For some years various stu dents have considered bringing M'LEAN EXPECTED TO RETRACT HIS ATTACK0N STATE Representative Declares General Assembly Showed Lack of Moral Courage in 1931. The state capital, mystified by Representative A. D. MacLean's newest attack on the 1931 gen eral assembly in a speech be fore the Rotary club of Washr ington, N. C, Thursday night, is sitting back and waiting for an apology from that gentleman, who has been known to make radical statements concerning the management of the state be fore and to make apologies im mediately after the smoke cre ated had cleared away. In his address at Washington MacLean declared, "The deficit in the state government for the first six months is over $1,000, 000 and this is due to the fact that we didn't have enough mor al courage in the capitol and legislature to levy enough taxes to meet the situation that now exists, a situation that we knew was going to exist." The speaker further stated that the members of the legisla ture were aware of the fact that the revenue bill did not carry enough money to meet the debts and obligations of the state, and that North Carolina bonds were acceptable in New York for six ty per cent of their par value, making it impossible for the state to borrow money except at a high rate of interest. "We have not only been short sighted financially," said Mac Lean, "but he state has been lacking in moral leadership." The state was also charged with being responsible for the breaking of many North Caro lina banks by withdrawing $30, 000,000 in deposits to meet ob ligations. ' (Continued on page three) UNIVERSITY various other senior honorary societies to the campus, the con tention being made that the Fleece takes in no more men now than it did when there were only five or six hundred in the stu dent body. On the other hand, it is contended by some that there are no more activities by which character may be exem. plified than there were when there were only five or six hun dred students in the University. It is further said that the enormous interest in debating and literary society work at that time has declined to such an ex tent that tens of students who would have been in public life and scrutinized by the group are no longer active in this work. The Order of the Fleece is a secret organization which seeks to influence the student body, in an unnoticed way, to be more altruistic, unselfish, and intel lectually free, and which emerges but once a year from its secrecy upon the occasion of its annual tapping. Neophytes tapped by the order are initiated late in the spring. Improve Social Life The orders of the Gorgon's Head and Gimghoul are even more secret than the Fleece, (Continued on page three) STRINGFIELD AND ORCHESTRA WILL PRESENTRECITAL Herbert Hazelman, Freshman, Has Composition in, Program ; Future Concert Planned. Lamar Stringfield and the Faculty Chamber Orchestra will give the first of two concerts, to be given this season, next Fri day evening at 8:30 o'clock in the Playmakers theatre, offer ing music based on native folk lore. The progrom will consist of works of Beethoven, Cyril Scott, Dvorak, on the first part, and Henry Hadley, Stringfield, Albert Stoessel and Herbert Hazelman, on the second part. The last four composers are liv ing American-born and repre sent writings containing many American characteristics. Institute of Folk Drama Two of these concerts were played last year and were so well received that the Institute of Folk Music was created , to carry on and broaden the field of presenting good and interest ing music. In each of these con certs representee works by liv ing American composers are brought before the public. To Play Student's Opus For the concert next Friday an interesting composition that was discovered in one of the Laboratory Concerts given by the Institute of Folk Music last fall is being played in its or chestral version. This composi tion, "Moronique Danse," was written by Herbert Hazelman, of Asheville, a freshman at the University. Mr. Stringfield says that "while this composition does not ' represent the highest form in musical composition it is iar bet ter composed and arranged than most of the music heard in many corners of musical presentation, and is well worth hearing.1 , To Address Institute b t I ' I v I V 1 . ; x e i . :-; s 4 It Charles E. Honce, executive news editor of the Associated Press, who is to be one of the speakers at the eighth annual sessions of the Newspaper In stitute, opening here Wednes day. Three Speakers On Assembly Programs Tomorrow's assembly will present freshmen and sopho mores an opportunity to criti cize and make suggestions in re gard to assembly programs. Ernest R. Groves, professor of sociology, will speak .Tuesday on "Science and Family Happi ness." As will be announced la ter, deans will see their fresh men Wednesday. v William A. Olsen, assistant professor of English, will ad dress! assembly Thursday. . F. M. "Pardner" James, president of the Y. M. C. A., will report Friday on the Student Volunteer Conference held at Buffalo, N. Y., during the Christmas holi days. H. F. Comer will pre side, and Rev. C. R. Dierlamm will conduct devotional services for this week. Athletic Pass Books Student athletic membership cards will be given out at the business office in South build ing beginning tomorrow morning at 9:00. Students must present their registration sheets in or der to secure the cards. Thoughts On Disarmament An Article on Military Expenditures By Harry Elmer Barnes (Editor's Note: Permission has been, granted through Dr. Barnes to re Drint the following adaptation of his article below from the "Berliner Monatshefte" in which it appeared during November 1930.) Thirteen years ago on Novem ber 11, Germany accepted the armistice terms offered by Pres ident Wilson. . After nearly two decades the States of Europe are more an xiously engaged in trying to undo the evil effects of the war and the subsequent peace than at any time since August 1, 1914. For two generations before 1914 Europe had been riding for4 a fall, with no serious efforts to prevent the ultimate calamity. Unbridled patriotism, feelings of pride and revenge, imperialism and trade struggles, competing colonial designs, tariff wars, secret treaties, and vast arma ments had transformed Europe into a great powder house which needed only a spark like the mur der of Franz Ferdinand to set it off. - Yet the war was not inevit able after the Sarajevo assassin ation. If Russia had not en couraged Serbian intrigues ; if NUMBER 76 PLANS COMPLETE FOR MEETING OF NEWSPAPER MEN Eighth Annual Sessions of the Newspaper Institute Will Open Wednesday. With advertising scheduled a3 the chief topic for discussion and with a number of prominent speakers listed for addresses, North Carolina editors and pub lishers and others with a pro fessional interest in the work of the Fourth Estate will gather here this week for the eighth annual sessions of the News paper Institute. The Institute is conducted under the joint au spices of the North Carolina Press association and the Uni versity. Indications point to a large attendance this year. It is felt that the depression will impress upon editors and publishers as never before the importance and value of new ideas such as may be gained from speakers and lobby discussions. The .Institute will get under way Wednesday evening, Janu ary 13, at 8 :00 o'clock and con tinue through Friday noon. Reg istration will begin at 4:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Two newspaper men and one advertising agency representa tive of national prominence are listed among the speakers. They are Charles E. Honce, of New York, executive news editor of the Associated Press ; J. Fred Essary, for many years head of the Washington Bureau of the Baltimore Sun, and General Mortimer Bryant, of Bryant, Griffith, and Brunson, New 'York. The complete program, an nounced yesterday for the first time, follows: , Wednesday, January 13 4 :00 p. m. Registration at Carolina Inn. 8:00 p. m. Opening of Insti tuteGraham Memorial. Ad dress of Welcome, Frank P. Graham, President of U. N. C. Response, J. L. Horne, Jr., President, N. C. P. A. News (Continued on page three) Germany had checked more carefully on "Austria after June 28, 1914; if Austria had been satisfied with the occupation of Belgrade as a means of holding Serbia to her word; if France had not encouraged the fatal Russian mobilization; if Russia had not frustrated promising diplomatic negotiations by that mobilization; if Great Britain had warned France and Russia that she would not tolerate mil itary agression if any one of these things had happened the war might never have happened. If all had happened and they would have had statesmanship prevailed there certainly would have been no World War at that time. But there was no rekl statesmanship and Europe partly strode and partly stumbled in to the greatest misfortune which ever came to the human race. How about the ideals for which we poured out blood and money ? Have the noble issues set forth by Mr. Wilson in 1917 and 1918 been realized ? The war to end war and armaments failed to materialize. Last year the world spent $4,158,000,000 for arma ments, $100,000,000 more than the year before. (Continued on last page)
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