WEATHER FORECAST: INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND COLDER STUDENT MUSIC CONCERT 4:00 P.M. HILL MUSIC HALL VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1932 NUMBER 114 119 J III II BR. E.R. GROVES IS AUTHOR OF BOOK ON FAMILY LIFE " - University Professor Is Co Author of Volume on Im portance of Home. Dr. E. R. Groves, now re search prof esscr of social science -at the University, is one of the authors of a new book, The Family and! Its Relationships, just published by J. B. Lippin cott Company of Chicago. Ed na L. Skinner, bead of the di vision of home economics at Massachusetts State college, and Sadie J. Swenson, instructor in home economics at the Technical high school, Springfield, Mass., "have collaborated with Groves In producing a text which is ap plicable to the teaching of family relationships in the home eco nomics curriculum. . A historical background of the subject, present setting of family life, family life today, and cul tural aspects of home life are included in the book. The au thors, realizing the importance of the family as a stabilizing and steadying influence in this age of transition, try to estab lish the family, as an organiza--tion, in the minds of students and to show the obligations and responsibilities to members of a family. The text is sufficiently adapt able to be used either as a basic text or as supplementary terial in related courses. ma- STUDENT COUNCIL ISSUES WARNING TO FRATERNITIES University Students Asked to Co-operate in Insisting on Gentlemanly Conduct. 3 ' ' The student council has is sued a warning to fraternities, especially those with houses in Cameron and Fraternity courts, that the excessive amount of -disorderly conduct due prin cipally to week-end drinking will have to stop or the council will be forced to take drastic .action. - . . Last week the council invited representatives of the seven fra ternities housed in the two courts to meet together for a discussion of ways for improv ing the present situation. Mem bers of these groups, and Uni versity students generally, are urged to co-operate by insisting on gentlemanly conduct by the student body at all times. The council acted on the fol lowing cases at its regular meet ing Monday night: Case No. 27. A senior, guilty oi drunkenness, was put on strict drinking probation for the remainder of his career in the 'University. Another offense will .mean automatic suspension. Case No. 28. A sophomore, guilty of disorderly conduct in one of the dormitories, was put on strict conduct and drinking probation'and sentenced to move out of the dormitory within forty-eight hours. He will not be allowed to room in any Uni versity dormitory during the re mainder of his time as a student. Any violation of this probation will mean automatic suspension. Case No. 29. A law student, ?uilty of drunkenness, was put on drinking probation for the remainder of his time in the Uni versity. A second offense will -ean automatic suspension. VALUE OF FOLK MUSIC RELATED BY STRINGFIELD At the meeting of the insti tute of folk music yesterday af ternoon in the Hill music hall, Lamar Stringfield, composer and folk music authority, talked on the value of folk music in mod ern music. He indicated the manner in which a composer who was well-versed in theory and orchestration could not write a first-class composition without having access to some melody. Stringfield said that there is enough melody for all in the folk music. G. L. Bason sang two of Stringfield's com positions, one written to a poem by Sara -Teasdale, and the. other composed to a vers libre poem. Stringfield; also played sev eral phonograph records, among them Stravinsky's Fire bird, ex plaining how it derives some of its melody from folk music. Y.M.C.A. VOTESTO GALL FOR HONOR SYSTE1PLEDGES Proposed Change Requires Stu dents to Sign Pledge to Re port All Violations. Members of the Y. M. C. A., meeting in joint session last night in the Y, voted by acclama tion to stand behind President Mayne Albright of the student body in favoring the proposed change in the honor system re quiring each student at registra tion to sign a pledge to report all violations of the honor sys tem, making him as responsible as the offender for all violations of the system as seen by him and not reported. By this same vote the mem bers of all three cabinets sub mitted that they saw nothing objectionable in the signing of pledges at the completion of quizzes. Upening a lengtny dis cussion previous to the-voting, Albright expressed a desire to have the group find it in accord ance with their desires to exert their influences as a campus or ganization and as. individuals in having this addition to the present system approved by the student body. He stated that he considered it undoubtedly a material benefit in its effect upon the efficiency of the system. President F. M. James, of the Y, suggested March 28, as the date for the election of officers for the coming year. His sug gestion and appointments to the nominating committee were ac cepted by the members. Ac cording to the constitution of the Y adopted last fall the election of the officers will no longer be cnhiprt. to a vote of the entire campus. To be eligible to vote in the coming elections one must have contributed a sufficient ' sum to the Y. M. C. A. to receive a membership card or have at tended enough meetings of the organization required to be list ed on the roll as a member. The constitution provided for the membership of the organiza tion to decide whether election of officers should be conducted by the student council or by the organization itself. It was de cided to have the election con ducted by the officers of the Y. Dance Committee The junior-senior dance com mittee will meet tomorrow night at 7:00 o'clock in the Grail room of Graham Memorial. University Hadio Station Entered In Short Wave Amateur Contest 0 Station W4WE Was at One Time in Communication With Byrd And McMillan Expeditions; Has Been Heard All Over the World. Huddled over a long table strewn with mysterious tubes and coils, a small group of Uni versity students stands listen ing to messages flashed from across the sea. Even in the early hours of morning when the rest of Chapel Hill sleeps, these boys are "awake and working. The annual, amateur radio contest is on. For six days, beginning last Saturday, the operator of radio station W4WE must be constant ly on the alert. There can be no sleeping at the switch. He must be continually tuning and mak ing delicate adjustments in or der that his instruments may pick up even the faintest of radio waves. The first three days, American and foreign stations took turns in broadcasting and receiving. For four hours at a time American stations remained sil ent, bending all their energies towards catching messages from abroad, each station vieing with the other in an effort to pick up the greatest number of distant places. Then the American sta tions broadcast to the foreign countries. The last three days of the contest are being spent in endeavoring to get into actual communication with these sta tions abroad. In 1918 a group of students and faculty members interested in radio decided to erect a broad casting station here. For several years, on their own initiative, they operated this station, but about 1921, it was taken over by the electrical engineering de partment of the University. MEYER TALKS ON SOCIALCHANGES Speaker Says Most Unemploy ment Is Due to Inability to Make Social Adjustments. Dr. H. D. Meyer of the soci ology department .spoke in as sembly yesterday on "Social Ad justment." Meyer made the statement that sixty per cent of employees are discharged not because of inefficiency but be cause of inability to . make social adjustments to their jobs. He gave an illustration from a periodical. "Out of fifty-one college graduates who applied for a certain position, not one measured up to the qualifica tions demanded by one man who was careful to require that his employees should be able to ad just themselves socially," de clared, Dr. Meyer. "Science and the machine are veritably changing the face of the earth," stated the speaker. As an outgrowth of these changes, he explained, we have individual "group relationship" which is one of the causes of failure in social adjustment, and certain conditions which greatly increase its complexity. Of these latter, he mentioned five: wide distribution of population, new sources of contact among men; such as the radio, growth of so - cial knowledge, a defective or de linquent society, and the coming of the machine and large-scale production. "These changes are going on and on," declared Dr. Meyer. "We can discern no set pattern, but we must be plastic to meet their varying forces." From its modest beginning the station has gradually grown un til it is one of the best and most powerful amateur stations in the country. There is no part of the world in which it has not been heard. Australia, Hawaii, Tas mania, Morocco, Palestine, Czecho-Slavakia, even in the most remote recesses, the voice of the University has been picked up. . , Several times station W4WE was in communication with the McMillan arctic expedition, and almost constantly with the Byrd operators in the Antarctic. Many messages from the inhabitants of Little America were relayed to their relatives in the United States by this station. Admiral Byrd Has written a letter thank ing the operators of this sta tion for their assistance to the expedition. The amateur contest is noth ing new to W4WE. Once the winner, and several times the near winner, it is a veteran in the field. R. F. Stainback, of the department of electrical en gineering, and the faculty mem ber connected with the station expressed hope in the possibili ties of a good record in this W year's contest, since much new equipment has been installed and the old worked over. The station is operated by stu dents who "are" first class ama teurs and have been in the Uni versity for at least a year. In this contest six of, the best op erators will work in shifts in an effort to put up some stiff com petition for the rest of the ama teur radio world. EZRA E. GRIFFIN WINS JNCONTEST University Freshman , Judged Best of Eleven Speakers in Oratorical Meet. Ezra E. Griffin, Jr., University freshman, won a gold medal and seventy-five dollars, Monday night in Raleigh for leading a field of eleven speakers in the annual American Legion ora torical contest for North Caro lina collegians on the subject "George Washington." . In addition to the awards pre sented to Griffin last night, he also will receive a silver medal given by the national bi-centen-nial commission and will be the representative from North Caro lina in regional semi-finals of a nation-wide contest sponsored by that organization. Other prize winners of the intercollegiate contest were : Miss Jeannette Robinson, Queens-Chicora college, Char lotte ; Raymond Winters, Cataw ba college ; and Miss Annie Belle Knight, Mitchell junior college, Statesville. The same awards as were made to Griffin were presented William R. Richardson, Jr., a junior in Hugh Morson high school, Raleigh, who was ad judged best of seventeen high ischool boys and girls. SENIOR CLASS VOTES $50 At a called meeting of the senior class yesterday morning, the group decided to present $50 immediately to the Emergency Student Loan Fund, with pros pects for a larger donation in the spring. GRAHAM WILL BE MAIN SPEAKER IN ALUMNI MEETING President Frank P. Graham will speak at alumni meetings Thursday in Philadelphia, and Monday in Washington on the behalf of the Emergency Student Loan Fund. He will be ac companied by J. Maryon Saun ders, general alumni secretary, and Felix A. Grisette, director of the Alumni Loyalty Fund, who will assist in organizing committees for their loan fund campaign. The committee in charge of the meeting in Philadelphia is composed of Dr. G. H. Moore, '11, of Doylestown, Pa.; Earl Spencer, '20, and Dr. E. S. Mc Daniel, '25, of Philadelphia. At the dinner meeting in Wash ington, members of the North Carolina Society will be invited as well as alumni and their wives. WINTER RECITAL IS PLANNED FOR ' TIflS AFTERNOON Regular Student Music Concert Will Be Given in Hill Music Hall,. The regular winter quarter student recital will be given at 4:00 o'clock this afternoon in the Hill music hall. The public I w 4b W V W J is cordially invited, and every- one interested in classical music is urged to attend. The pro gram, which consists of violin, piano, organ, and oboe solos, is the following u Faust Fantasie by Alard, James B. Whitfield (violin), accompanied by Miss Virginia Buckles ; Sonata, op. IS Grave, Allegro di raolto e con tris by Beethoven, Brookes Fryer (piano) ; Tango. Serenade by Simon and Serenade by Czer wonky, Frank Parker (violin), accompanied by Miss Virginia Buckles; Sixth Sonata, Chorale, andante sostenuto, Allegro Molto by Mendelssohn, Thomas Teer (organ) ; VUlanella by Bruno Labate and Intermezzo Polka by Bruno Labate, Herbert Hazel man (oboe) , accompanied by Miss Virginia; Buckles; Sonata, op. 1U no. 1, Allegretto, Rondo by Beethoven, Ida Lee Zum Brunnen (piano) ; Concertine, D Minor by Ortmans, Isabelle Buckles (violin), accompanied by Miss Virginia Buckles; Etude in D flat by Liszt, Harry Lee Knox (piano) ; and Romance et Rondo by Wieniawski, Thor Johnson (violin), accompanied by Miss Virginia Buckles. HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE Firemen were called out early yesterday morning to fight a fire of unknown origin which totally destroyed an unoccupied dwel ling on the corner of Vance and Ramsey streets. The alarm was turned in about 4:00 o'clock, but when firemen reached the scene the fire had gained such a headway that they were unable to ex tinguish it. . The house was owned by J. C. Hammond, but the loss could not be learned yesterday. Gifts To Loan Fund Previous total ..$13,454.42 Inst, of Folk Music 3.00 Durham alumni (second donation) 50.00 News and Observer through mayor's committee 10.70 Total to date $13,518.12 MONEY IS RAISED FOR LETTERS ON LOAN FUND DRIVE Juniors and Seniors Appropriate loney to Send Letters To Parents. The junior and senior class have raised money for the pur pose of sending letters to all parents of University students reporting the success of the lo cal drive for the student emerg ency loan fund. These letters tell briefly the progress and co-operation in a; common cause. They are being sent in the belief that many parents would desire to know the success of this project and would like to have some share in raising this fund, whether or( not their sons are dependent upon financial help for continu ing their studies in the Univer sity. Many parents have, with out being requested, generously contributed. It is known that one mother gave $1,000 toward the cause. As a further example of con tribution from parents, the let ters enclose reprints of a father's letter which appeared in recent issues of the Daily TA8 ' Heel and Alumni Review, . It is thought that these messages will make known the great need of contributions to a great number of people in all parts of the country. v FACULTY OF LAW SCHOOL TO HAVE NOTEDTEACHERS Summer Sessions Will Bring Four Prominent Professors To University. The faculty of the 1932 sum mer session of the law school of the University, as announced yesterday by Dean M. T. Van Hecke, will include Professors James M. Landis of the Harvard law school, Henry Rottschaefer of the University of Minnesota law school, Bryant Smith of the University of Texas law school, Dean Julian S. Waterman of the University of .Arkansas law school, and the following four members of the regular law faculty: Professors M. S. Breck enridge, F. B. BcCall, Albert Coates, and R. H. Wettach. The session will be divided into two terms of five and one-half-weeks each, the first opening on June 13 and closing July 20, and the second opening on July 21 and closing August 27. Professor Landis, who taught quasi-contracts at the .Univer sity the summer of 1930, is a graduate of Princeton and of the' Harvard law school, where he4 is now professor of legisla tion and a commissioner from Massachusetts on uniform state laws. For one year he was secre tary to Justice Brandeis, of the United States Supreme pourt. He is the co-author, with Pro-, fessor Felix Frankfurter, of. The Business of the Supreme Court. Professor Rottschaefer was trained at the University of Michigan and at Harvard. While at Michigan, he served as an in structor in economics. For six years, he practiced law in New York City, specializing in fed eral tax matters. He has been a professor of law at Minnesota for ten years, and a consultant on Minnesota tax legislation and litigation. v Professor Smith is a native (Continued on last page )

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view