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J. B. TAYLOR LECTURES
ON "AUDIBLE LIGHT
MEMORIAL HALL MONDAY
VOLUME XL
CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 193:
NUMBER 100
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GRAHAM PLEASED
BY RESPONSE TO
LOAN FUND DRIVE
PLAY3IAKERS' TRYOUTS
POSTPONED TO TUESDAY
The Carolina Playmakers have
postponed tryouts for three one
act plays from tomorrow until
Tuesday in order that everyone
Local Organizations Pledge Full .will have an opportunity to hear
Support During Week and
Alumni Plan Start.
the scientific lecture by John
Bellamy Taylor in Memorial hall
tomorrow night. These plays
are scheduled for the groups
next public bill. "
Candidates for parts in The
Common Gift by Elwyn deGraf-
enreid will compete at 4:30
Tuesday afternoon ; while try-
outs for Louise Wilkerson O'
Connel's The Loyal Venture will
take place at 7:30 o'clock; and
those for Bloomers by Jo Nor
wood at 8 :30 o'clock. A chance
to tryout for any of the plays
will , be given at 9:30 to those
who will be unable to attend
earlier.
Manuscripts of the three plays
are on reserve in the library,
and the Playmaker directors are
desirous that the productions be
read before -Tuesday night by
those contemplating trying out.
PHI ASSEMBLY GIVES
$25 TO STUDENT FUND
Classical Music Represents Art
In Its Purest Form, Says Ormandy
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Brilliant Conductor of Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Tells
Daily Tar Heel Interviewer That Modern Noise Is Respon
sible for Bizarre Effects of Present Day Composers.
Will Lecture Here
The response to the appeal for
funds for loans for 400 Univer
sity students has been highly
gratifying, President Frank
Graham said yesterday.'
The loan fund was well past
$8,000 then ; and with the trus
tees having pledged their sup
port, and with the appeal to al
umni yet to go out, prospects ap
cared distinctly bright.
The state-wide phase of the
alumni campaign will be begun
with mass meetings called by
Greensboro alumni for Tuesday
night and Durham alumni for
Wednesday night. President
Graham has accepted invitations
to speak at both meetings.
Trustees join cause r
The trustees at their Wednes
day meeting in Raleigh joined
the cause enthusiastically. John
Sprunt Hill of Durham gave
' ' TA o! tV V WT7T '. The Phi assembly voted Fri
headed by Stahle Linn of Sahs- ,w rt W1 oK n
bury was appointed to aid, and the iEmrgencv Student Loan
The dynamic Eugene Orman
dy, who celebrated his thirty-
second birthday a few days ago,
intimated, that symphonic musjc
is a slave to convention. These
so-called moderns disprove that.
and who is now conductor of the ' Of, course, you must not forget
world famous Minneapolis Sym-.that Bach, Schubert, Listz, and
phony, which thrilled a large practically all the great com
audience in Page auditorium at posers were moderns in their
Duke university, Friday night, day. Classical music, reprsen
was interviewed by a Daily Tar tative of complete music and the
Heel representative just before pure in this art form has always
his performance.; (been, and I see no reason to be-
Mr. Ormandy was questioned lieve that it will not always be,
on three phases of symphonic the main stream of symphonic
orchestration and direction composition and direction,
which seem to be of greatest in-' "There are few composers of
terest to laymen the v historic ; note today who are writing corn
side of that form of music, the plete symphonies; Music, as
mechanical side, and the new or ' soon as the depression is over,
modern music. 1 however, and very possibly with-
"Symphonic music," he said, ' in the next five years will find
is attempting to widen its itself in a richer and purer form
scope, bucn writers as stra- than it has ever enjoyed.
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BELLAMY TAYLOR
WILL SHOW THAT
LIGHT JSAUDIBLE
Noted Engineer Will Present
Popular Lecture-Demonstration
in Memorial HalL
vinsky and Ravel are represen
tative of this. They together
At this point Ormandy turned
from the interviewer to Lamar
$30,000 was set as a goal. The
administration and the loan-fund
workers, who include students,
faculty members and towns
people are highly gratified at
this generous action.
But the local campaign is not
being relaxed one bit, for the
University is making this cam
paign for its students on the
theory that' salvation, like char
ity, must begin at home.
The number of campus and
town organizations contributing
100 per cent had risen yesterday
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Fund.
Election for speaker was
moved ahead to February' 16,
The tryouts for the freshman
debate was set for February 15.
with many others are reflecting Stringfield of the University
our changed life. Modern noise, ' music staff, who had been sitting '
the telephone, the radio, rapid ( quietly listening, and asked:
transportation, and the many) "You played in my orchestra at
distractions all play a part in the Capitol theatre in New
;1
shifting emphasis quickly from
one thing to another. This at
titude of mind creeps into the
arts, and music is no exception
to this.
"It is not true, as you have
York, didn't you?"
Stringfield smiled acknowl
edgement. Ormandy has had a meteoric
rise. In 1922 he came to Ameri
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Bagby to Speak at Vespers
Dr. English Bagby will speak
this afternoon at 5 :30 o'clock in
Gerrard hall, at the first of the
series. of vesper services under
the auspices of the freshman
friendship council. Special music
will be a feature of the program.
The public is invited.
Upton Sinclair Claims Suppression
Of Speech Is Violation Of Liberty
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Noted Socialist and Novelist Is Indignant at the Suppression of
Lecture by Leo Gallagher on His Experiences in Russia.
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(Editor's Note: The Daily Tar
Heel is able to present this article by
Upton Sinclair, regarded as ; Ameri
ca's foremost candidate for the Nobel
arard in literature, through the
courtesy of the Pasadena Star-News.
The incident to which the writer re
fers was the repression of a meeting
in Pasadena California, at which Leo
Gallagher, attorney, was about to re
late his experiences in Soviet Russia.)
A man has, under the munici
pal ordinances of Pasadena the
state law of California, and the
Constitution of the United
States, exactly the same right to
express his opinions about the
Five Year Plan, and to tell about
what he saw in Russia, as he has
to preach about predestination,
or total immersion, or the im
mortality of the soul, or what
ver it is that a clergyman wants
to present to his congregation.
And the man who drives him out
of his church, or closes up his
lecture hall by force and vio
Jence, is just as much a law
breaker, regardless of what po
lice shield he may wear inside
his coat.,
It happens that I know Leo
Gallagher intimately. He is not
a member of the Communist
Party; he is a professor at the
Southwestern Law School, and
one of the most intelligent and
courteous gentlemen I have met
in Southern California. He is a
member of the executive com
mittee of our Civil Liberties
Union, and a tireless defender of
the right of freedom of speech,
which the rest of us in Pasa
dena have turned over to the Los
Angeles - "Red Squad." I have
STUDENT MEETING
WILL HEAR FACTS
ON AUDIT COUNCIL
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Albright Will Discuss Proposed
Board and Junior Class Will
Nominate Councilman.
MADRY RELIEVES
PRESS MAY HELP
CUT DEPRESSIONS
News Bureau Man Asks That Re
sults of Research Be Made
Available to Public.
John Bellamy Taylor, of the
General Electric company, who
will deliver a demonstration lec
ture tomorrow night on the man
ner in which audible light is
transmitted through . the air.
Faculty Commends
Loan Fund Campaign
Taking united action for the
first time since the loan fund
campaign opened, the faculty
went on record in weekly meet
ing Friday afternoon as unani
mously endorsing the raising
of the Emergency Student Loan
Fund. The faculty expressed
the desire "to add its voice to
that of the president in com
mending the emergency fund to
the trusses, alumni and inter
ested citizens as the urgently
necessary and permanently wise
way of meeting the present situ
ation." . A motion was also passed that
the president appoint a com
mittee to present the issues at
hand to the members of the
faculty and receive contributions
from them.
not heard Mr. Gallagher lecture
since his return from Russia, but
I know a good deal about his
ideas, because many of my
friends have heard him and re
ported to me. Also, as it hap
pens, my son and his wife spent
last summer in Russia and saw
good deal of Mr. Gallagher,
and wrote me about him lie
was pained by the suppression
of free sneech there. But no
doubt he thinks fetter of Rus
sia since Tuesday night.
My friends tell me that the
lecture, given several times in
Los Angeles, is a simple narra
tive of Mr.-Gallaghers personal
observations of conditions in the
United States, and no attack
upon the United States govern
ment, even by inference. But
you see, we in Pasadena are not
allowed to know what Mr., Gal
lagher wanted to talk about.
There is a Criminal Syndical
ism law in California, and this
law forbids the advocacy of the
overthrow of the "United States
government by force and vio
lence. If Mr. Gallagher had ad
vocated such a course-of action
in his lecture, it would have been
the right and the duty, of, a Pasa
dena police officer, or of a- coun
ty officer, to arrest him, at the
time, or: swear out a warrant
for. him later. But there is no
law, city or state, which permits
the preventing of a lecture on
the ground of anybody's belief
that the man may intend to say
something illegal. "
There is no Federal law gqv
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At a mass meeting of the stu
dent union in Memorial hall dur
ing assembly tomorrow, Mayne
Albright, president of the union,
will present facts about the pro
posed auditing board. The stu
dents of the University, will vote
Tuesday morning upon whether
or not such a board will be established.
Sparks Griffin, president of
the junior class, will preside
over the part of the meeting de
voted to nominating candidates
from the junior class to fill the
unexpired term on the student
council of E. B. Ferguson who
has withdrawn. Balloting will
be in Graham Memorial from
9:00 o'clock to 5:00 o'clock
Tuesday.
Auditing Board
The student auditing board,
which was recommended by the
student activities committee at
the motion of Dr. J. M. Booker,
is to be composed of two faculty
members, appointed by the Pres
ident of the University, the
president" of the student body
as an ex-officio member, and two
students selected by popular
vote. One of the students will
be a junior; therefore only one
member of the board-will be se
lected each year.
The members of the board are
to serve without pay.. Should it
be found imperative, a profes
sional audit will be arranged, the
i organization concerned having to
bear the expense. This means
that there will be . little expense
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The lecture-demonsrtation on
"Audible Light" by John Bel
lamy Taylor of the General Elec
tric company will be given at
8:30 o'clock tomorrow night in
Memorial hall. This scientific
entertainment is being brought
to the University through the
efforts of an alumnus and the
faculty committee on lectures, of
which Dean A. W. Hobbs is
chairman.
Taylor will .conduct experi
ments in which speech, song, and
'instrumental music are carried
on a beam of light. By means
of his apparatus, which he car
ries with him, the audience will
be enabled to hear much that
the eye is incapable of seeing.
The experiments will be ex
plained by the lecturer as re
sults of perfectly natural scien
tific laws. He deals primarily
with one type of the phenomena
that by which light is trans
lated into sound.
Taylor is well known, among
engineers for his many contri-.
buttons to electricity. He is a
former vice-president of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers. He is especially not
ed for producing seemingly
amazing- enects with a photo
electric cell.
There will '"be no admission
charge, and the public is invited
to attend. The lecture is high
ly recommended as being enter-,
taining to those not technically,
trained.
By making available to the
public through the press the re
sults of their research and ex
perimentation in ' such subjects
as economics, sociology, science,
history, and government, the col
leges and universities of the
country can make a major con
tribution toward preventing a
recurrence of depressions," Rob
ert W. Madry, director of the
University news bureau, assert
ed in Atlanta yesterday in an
address before the Southern Re
gional conference of the Ameri-
can college Publicity Associa
tion. Madry is vice-president of !
the national organization, which
met here last year.
"Education itself was never so
popular as it is today, as is well
attested by the steadily increas
ing student enrollments," Madry
said, "but a great" many people
are asking how a country with
so many educated men and
women could possible tall vic
tim to such an economic debacle
as the one which now confronts
us. Those critics seem to think
the colleges should be able to
provide remedies for all of our
economic ills."
Avoid Other Panics
Madry said he thought it
"manifestly unfair to attempt to
blame our educational institu-
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Dreiser Blames Economic Injustice
On Total Failure Of Individualism
Prominent Writer Says Common People Are Ruled Socially and
Economically by Small Group of Wealthy and Ambitious.
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(Editor's 'Note: Mr. Dreiser con
tributes this article on suppression
of free speech, which is the body of
the address delivered by him to the
Group Forum in New York, and
which is being printed for the first
time in The Daily Tar Heel today.)
It is all well enough to study
Gifts To Loan Fund
Yesterday's total $7,496.47
Mother of a student 1,000.00
Phi Assembly 25.00
Total to date $8,521.47
Staff Meetings
The city editors and edi
torial board of The Daily Tar
Heel will convene respective
ly at 5:00 and 5:30 o'clock
this afternoon. The entire
editorial staff is expected to
attend the 7:00 meeting at
which time Deans A. W.
Hobbs and D. D. Carroll will
offer constructive criticism.
which they commend, seeks to
dictate to and even rule the
world in other words, to make
it safe tor financiers and holding
companies. As it is now, though, we have
gotten no further than the right,
suchinstances of economic and of the most cunning and strong -social
injustice as Harlan and individuals among us to ag--the
mining districts of Illinois, ' grandize themselves, leaving the,
Eastern Ohio, Western . Penn
sylvania, the cotton mills in the
rest of us here in America, as
elsewhere, to subsist on what is
South and the textiles and other f left after they are through: And.
phases of New England and else-; if you will examine our Ameri-.
where, but, far more important can economic arrangement, you t
to me is the complete collapse will find that they are nots
of individualism which, as it through, since by now three hun- .
seems to me, lies at the bottom dred and fifty families control
of it all. We have, in America, ninety-five per cent of the wealth,
as well as elsewhere throughout of the country, and these fami-
OTvr'M Qtirl ViT--nrr"hmit Tiis Hps. tliAir trusts, and holdine
tory, allowed the individual of companies, are not only not disr .
unusual force or cunning or tributing that wealth in any
rrr-PoH r arm TiiTncolf nr. in other 'p.nui table ratio, but even if thev
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words, extend and multiply his .were so minded, which .they are
natural powers, while still pro--not, they are not capable of so
claiming and looking on himself
as an individual.
When, bv this process, these
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doing. Taken collectively, they
do not constitute any central au
thority. And except through the
individuals grow strong enough, ' functions of government which
they set themselves up as kings they seek to and do always di
or rulers and so, for thousands rect for their own private, ag
of years, we have seen tribes, 1 grandizement, they have no
nations and even races exploited means, let alone any . intention
for the benefit of a ruling class.
That idea" of a ruling class,
of so doing. . . . .
More, our government which
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headed usually by a pre-eminent is' supposed to represent all the
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individual is by no means deaa. , individualistic amDitions oi au
It brought on the great war of of our people, is now in no posi
1914, and it has developed the tion to do that. It, too, in its
American trust and .holding turn, has become of the instru
company with its pre-eminent ments of this central group of
financier which now, through a j individuals which now directs
few of these central financiers, all of its functions to its ; par-
ahd the- great organizations) (Continued on page three) t