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DEAN B.F.BROWN 8:00 P.M. GERRARD HALL DEAN B. F. BROWN 8:00 P.M. GERRARD HALL VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. O, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932 NUMBER S3 (u M HIGH SCHOOLS TO MER CONTESTS POR SCHOLARSHIP TT-iiversity Extension Division Sponsors Annual Competition ' JFor Scholastic Excellence, Students To Hear Faculty Members The student Sunday school class of the Methodist church have arranged to have promin ent members of the faculty speak to them on successive Sundays (luring this quarter. Next Sunday morning Profes sor Collier Cobb will talk to the class, and on the, following weeks men from different de partments of the University will speak, as follows: January 31, Dean D. D. Carroll; Febr- tension division. This year's! J.-.' t., ' tx r ir. ecompetition will mark the eighth VJ' fli pw rw Latin contest, and the seventh of Tr. , .' OQ - - . " - -ni -u o -u McKie ; February 28, Profes : the series of French, Spanish, A ' , r , . n, ,. 1 , Msor Archibald Henderson; and ; anu :.auituiaucs cuii tests, xius Spmf Sf aZ&s n Ha Of OW West Terrifying Cries Awaken Students E. J. Woodhouse Plans Book About Charlotte Honor students in all the hi h schools of North Carolina will be given an opportunity to display their individual scholas tic skill in the annual academic CO- tests of the Universjty ex- Professor E. J. Woodhouse of the University government de partment has agreed to become i ' j? l 1- it. : j general euitor oi a uuu& ou me Ghastly moans and eerie ! raised upwards in a , horrible history, growth, and future shrieks disturbed the childlike J manner. From the depths of its ' possibilities of Charlotte and sleep of the third floor inhabi- monkey-like throat emerged the : Mecklenburg county, according tants of Old West dormitory terrifying sounds that had dis- jto an announcement Tuesday by Rral Titrha Atm. At almost ' turbed the rest of a score of Clarence 0. Kuester of the DEAN BROWN OF STATE TO LEAD FORUM TONIGHT Second Student Meeting Con venes In Gerrard Hall at 8:00 O'clock. ' ' March 6, Professor Holmes, Jr. U. T. dates announced for the differ ent competitions are as follows : Latin. FebTnary 26; French March 11; Spanish, . March 25; ..and mathematics, April 22. By means of these contests sion and the . Sevtffll depart- be heard in Memorial hall, Jan- the exact hour of midnight (the time the spirits walk!) pande monium broke loose in the south section. ' . Tousled heads raised from pillows, trembling feet were in serted in slippers, and nervous hands turned doorknobs. Horrors! GALLI-CURCI HAS BEEN LAUDED IN MANY COUNTRIES students. t The spectators momentarily recoiled from this horrifying! tableau, but soon, one more cour ageous than the rest dared tackle the flame-bearing dwarf. It was soon discovered that the actors in this pageant were act- nllw limnoTi Vusi n nrc onrl tia! Ti There in the dim light of the , Wiiio rWnres IW first nauway was a nerce-iooKing, aim t6 fender high schools mammouth-humped dwarf who bore a flaming torch in a knotty hand. Backing into a corner was a tall spectre, white-faced, mentp nQn -x UUid out o. - .. - no through an increase in the in terest of North Carolina stu dents in the field of scholarship, particularly in the designated subjects. Since this activity "was inaugurated, with the first annual Latin contest February 18, 1925, the high schools have displayed a gratifying enthus iasm. Last year's winners were : Latin, Durham; French, Fay etteville; Spanish, Fayetteville ; .and mathematics, Greensboro. Durham high school leads in the total number 'ofvictories, having gained three, all in the Latin contests. COEDS AND GRAIL TO GIVE DANCES THIS WEEK - END Women's Association Has First Dance of Quarter Tomorrow In- Graham Memorial. The social activities of the uary 27, has been the center of more excitedly enthusiastic scenes than any living singer, surpassing even those accorded Madame Fatti in the heyday of her greatness. Who has not witnessed or read of those Galli-Curci triumphs in halls and opera nouses wnen, in exulting joy, vast audiences have refused to let her go, even after lights had been shut off in vain endeavor to induce them to go home. All America has sworn al legiance to her. We refused to release her for even part of a single season, until foreign offers of long standing were im possible longer to resist. Then, her managers, Messrs. Evans and Salter, yielded to strenuous insistence, and her first famous tour of the British Isles began. After her London debut at the great Albert Hall, twenty police men were called to keep back throngs crowding the pavement as she left the stage door. Her recent and second tour there aroused an even greater fervor. When Galli-Curci sailed into gaunt, more meehanleal than!' human Its eyes were sunk deep into its1 pSlg face and were appeared to be. You guessed it! - Two impressionable freshmen who had seen . the thriller, Frankenstein' could not re sist the Impulse" to re-enact the! cinema crimes. ' Queen City chamber of com merce. University students who are particularly interested in county government and administration will assist in the compilation of the book. Actual work on gath ering data will not begin, how ever, ' until next October, the material to be published the fol lowing January. PHARMACISTS TO HEAR LECTURE BY DRUG TECHNICIAN Bean B. F. Brown, of the school of science and business, North Carolina State college, will speak upon the relation of international investments to international relations tonight at 8:00 o'clock in Gerrard hall. This is another pf the series of lectures in the forum on world affairs sponsored By the Y. M. C. A. Dean Brown is considered the most qualified observer upon' such questions at his institution; Edward J. Woodhouse,. profes sor of government, will follow Dr. Brown's lecture Tuesday evening with a review of the Meneeley Btt foundry Dates Back To Early Colonial Days 0 - , Company That Cast Bells for the Morehead-Patterson Tower Have Centuries of Experience, Being One of Half Dozen Bellfounders in the Country. o Wi'iitii. txnio nf Charlotte. 'district manager of the Coca- " iess . me caienaar 01 ine Cola company, will present two'present gisiature and tne pos lecturea in TTnwpll hall tnmnr- jsibihty of effecting some meas- winter quarter will get under-: Sydney Harbor, Australia, for ay this week-end with the "Women's association -and the Order of the Grail dances Fri day and Saturday niglit respec tively. Jack Baxter and his Carolina Tar Heels will fur nish the music for both affairs. The co-ed dance -will take place in the lounge room of tJraliam Memorial from 10 :00 until 1:00 o'clock. The Order of the Grail dance, as usual, will be In Bynum gym nasium from 3 :00 until 12 :00 o'clock. It is the first of three Grail dances scheduled for this quarter. Tickets will be on sale at the Book Exchange .and .at Pritchard-Lloyd drug store to morrow and Saturday. German club -rules will pre vail. No smoking will be al lowed on the floor, and no cou ples will be admitted after 10:00 o'clock. teen thousand pounds. Another record of the family is that of I having cast the four highest sets of bells in the world, those The bells, which are heard every evening from the More-head-Patterson Memorial tower, have in their casting the results of years, even centuries, of ex perience in the bellfounders' in dustry in America. The-family of Meneeley. mak- ones on the Roanoke and Straus row night at 7 :30 and Saturday morning at 9:30. The first will be in the nature of a sound motion picture. It will show all the details of cor rect fountain service and how such service will not only in crease the efficiency of a soda fountain but will result in in creased sales. The Coca-Cola buildings in Chicago. A good set of bells, according to Charles Meneeley, is hard to make and getting a set in tune is even harder. The bells must ers of the bells, have been in the j business since the early colonial days of America; and even now are one of the half dozen or so bellfounders in the country. Their work dates back four gen erations to the time when their great-grandfather married into the family of Hanks, who made the first set of bells in America. Among the many, famous bells made by the Men eeleys are those in the Little Church Around the Corner. Twelve of the Meneeley bells chime in the Chapel at West Point, while the bell in the Plymouth Rock Church is also one of their products. The bell in the tower of Independence Hall, the largest bell ever cast bell would have to be cast right ures which will assist in the present movement toward the reduction of armaments. At the first of the series held last Thursday Dr. Elbert Rus sell, dean of the graduate school of religion at Duke uni versity, urged that America take the initiative in reducing armaments. Accordingly, the ffreat forum passed a resolution, only one aissenxmg vote Demg cast, urging that the American dele gates to the Geneva conference all company has devoted a on the Metropolitan Life Tower j deal f attention to the business and Consolidated Gas Company management of a drug . store, with narticular enmhasis. of course, on tne soaa iounram. i w The lecture on Saturday morn ing will deal with the subject of efficient management in a drug store. Wilson will be here as the J special guest of trie students in 1 A XJ -L materially reduce military forces and equipment. per and 22 per cent tin. The commercial pharmacy, a subject taugnt Dy jrroiessor i. vv. xvose. Meneeleys do not file bells down after they are cast in order to harmonize them. They cast so many bells that they can always find the right one from the many in stock. QUARTET SINGS TONIGHT IN GRAHAM MEMORIAL Infirmary List by the Meneeleys, weighs thir- there in the park. CHILDREN TO ACT IN IBSEN'S PLAY Harry Davis, who is directing Ibsen's A Doll's House, the Play- topical magazine, is sponsoring makers' next 'public perform- j a writing contest open only to ance, has finally found three per-! college undergraduates. A fif sons whom he thinks will fit the ty dollar prize is offered in each parts of the three children in the of the following classes : short play. The parts will be taken by ' Students confined in the Uni versity infirmary yesterday in cluded: M. L.Wood, L. P. BrodkJ er, William B. Patterson, Char lie Neff, G. lv. Chlarder, H. C. Finch, R. G. Chatham, and Eu gene Webb. Heeler Notice The following Heelers are requested to meet with the editor before Saturday : Ben nett, Bauchner, Janof sky, Lit ten, Rpyster, Slade, and Wil-kins. here celebrated tour of that country and New Zealand, flow ers were dropped on the ships deck from an aeroplane; the pier was massed with people to bid her welcome. And, j ust as in the British Isles, what tri umphs followed! In Melbourne, as single in stance, for two hours after her ninth successive and farewell concert there had ended, the vast audience refused to leave the hall. When she had no more encores to grant, they sang in stead, following in a body as she left and standing on the pavement sang in chorus, "For she's a jolly good fellow." As she drove off slowly it was be tween ranks of closely wedged humanity. In the Phillipines and Japan, wildly cheering audiences pelt ed her with flowers until she stood knee deep in them; in Hawaii the population crowd ed into the theatre where Galli Curci sang, almost smothering her with long wreaths of exotic blossoms. As she sailed away that evening the pier was black with people singing native songs as a goodbye. Those scenes form but small part of "Galli-Curci demonstra tions" in her marvellous career. Before we were enthralled by the maeric of her voice, Italy, EffvDt South America, Russia, Paul Green will speak at the Spain and Central America had meeting of the John Reed club made links in her chain of con-j tonight at 8:30 in Graham quests 4 that encircled .the whole Memorial. , There will be a dis globe. ' jcussion of the Scottsboro Case. Tonight at 7 :30 in the lounge of Graham Memorial there will The company has been asked be a recital of spirituals by the to cast a three hundred thousand . Silver Tongue quartet This pound bell as a World Memorial 1 group of singers is composed of in Central Park, New York, j four Chapel Hill negroes who Should the plan mature, whicnjare popularly, known through- seems unlikely at present, the out the state for their singing. They have made several broad- CHORUS PRESENTS THE ELIJAH NEXT TUESDAYEVENING Several Soloists Are Also to Ap pear on Program in Hill Music Hall. casts over the radio. The nersonnel of the auartet MAGAZINE OFFERS is: W. L. Sellers, first tenor; WRITING CONTESTS Thomas Booth, second tenor ; ! Louis Booth, first bass; Walter Ltie jsew Kepublic, weekly Hackney, second bass. sketch (1000 words), article (2000) .' words), editorial (1000 George and Donald Howard and words) , and a review o any Betsy Emory. The Howard book published since January 1, boys are the sons of Dr. and ( 1932 (1000 words). Mrs. George Howard. Betsy Manuscripts may be submit Emory is the daughter of Mr. ted in more than one class. The and Mrs. S. T. Emory. Her .winning papers will be publish mother was formerly Miss Mary e(j jn New Republic and the Dortch of Goldsboro, sister of magazine reserves the right to Helen Dortch, who was widely buy any non-prize-winning en knowta for her activities in theory at the regular space -rate. HENDERSON WILL ATTEND BI-CENTENNIAL PROGRAM Playmakers some years ago. B. Y. P. U. Social The B. Y. P. U. of the Chapel Hill Baptist church is planning a social this evening at 7:00. All members and all visitors who de sire to come will meet in front of the church at this time. The contest closes April 1, 1932 and the editors of the magazine will act as judges. Manuscripts 'should be addressed : Contest Editor, The New Republic, 421 West 21st Street, New York, N. Y. Dr. Archibald Henderson, au- ithor of "Washington's Southern Tour," "Washington1 the Trav eler," "George Washington and the Great Dismal Swamp," and other writings on the first presi dent, is scheduled to be the chief speaker at a large gathering in the city of Chattanooga, Tennes see, February 22, under the aus pices of the . ex-service men of that city, as part . of the Wash ington bi-centennial celebration of 1932. John Reed Club TRYOUTS FOR DEBATE SCHEDULED TONIGHT Y. M. C. A. Campfire Try outs for two and possibly more debates will take place at 7 :30 tonight in Graham Memor ial when candidates will be tested at the debate squad meeting. Any student is eligible at the tryouts. Each candidate is ex- '1 A 1S- The Chapel Hill music club, under the direction of Dr. Har old S. Dyer, head of the depart ment of music, will present selections from the famous oratorio of Mendelssohn, The Elijah, in the Hill music hall next Tuesday. This program, which is to be open to the public, will be. given by a chorus of forty ; selected voices from the community and student body. The first num ber will be an overture by the University symphony orchestra and is to be followed; by the chorus, Help Lord. After these numbers the ensemble will sing the well known pastorale, He is Watching over Israel, follow ing this with the finale. ? r George Bason, baritone solo ist, will sing Lord God of Abra ham, and Dr. U. T. Holmes, of the romance language depart ment, will give the aria,- It is Enough. Mrs. G. A. Harrer, contralto, as the - only woman soloist on the program will ren der Rest in the Lord. In a trio arranged for female voices, Mesdames Murchison, Law rence, and Harrer will sing the well known number, Lift Thine Eyes. All persons who are to attend the Y. M. C. A. campfire tomor row night, at which Bishop W. Jpected to bring a group of P.' Remington, of the Eastern 1 sues on the question of capital Oregon Diocese, will speak, are ' ism vs. socialism and must . be requested to get in touch with J prepared to speak for five minr the Y office. jutes on one issue. Campus Calendar Beginning with this issue, the Daily Tar Heel is revising the campus calendar by mak ing it more concise, simple, and direct. Events will be in cluded to which ; there' Is' ho admission charge.