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VOLUME XL
KECOMMENDATION
FOR CHANGES IN
UNIVERaTYMADE
Dr. W. E. Peik Advances Ideas
At Faculty Luncheon in
Graham Memorial.
Recommendations for the di
vision of the University into two
colleges and for a comprehensive
examination to be given at the
end of the sophomore year
-were made by Dr. W. E. Peik, of
ihe National Research Bureau
of Chicago at a luncheon given
by twenty-nine faculty members
in Graham Memorial yesterday.'
Dr. Peik was the guest of
the group at the luncheon yes
terday and spoke on the prob
lem of curriculum reorganiza
tion. This is a phase of the
work he is carrying on with the
Tesearch bureau. He has been
in Chapel Hill two days study
ing the University as the insti
tution selected for the south
eastern part of the country in
his survey of twenty-eight uni
versities in the United States.
Like Chicago Plan
"He recommended the division
iof the University into a junior
and senior college of two years
each and the setting of a stand
ard of excellence to Be tested by
-comprehensive examinations at
i;he end of the second year, some
what similar to the plan now
followed at the -University of
Chicago.
Dr. Peik asserted that he was
impressed favorably with his
visit here and that he regarded
Ihe work done in the Univer
sity as exceptionally good.
BANKERS GROUP
WILL MEET HERE .
TOT THURSD AY
President Graham WiU Welcome
Members Attending Gath
ering at Dinner.
The annual meeting of group
four of the State Bankers as
sociation will take place here,
Thursday, with M. C. S. Noble
as toastmaster at a dinner at the
Carolina Inn' at 7 :00 o'clock that
evening. The dinner will be
followed by a business meeting,
at which officers for next year
will be elected.
The offices to be filled consist
of chairman, vice-chairman, sec
retary, treasurer, and a member
of the executive council of the
state association.
The address of welcome at the
dinner will be delivered by
President Frank P. Graham of
the "University, and Ernest
Booth will speak on behalf of
the bankers. R. M. House and
Paul P. Brown will also address
the group.
Instrumental music will be
furnished by T. Smith McCorkle,
and the University Glee Club,
under the direction of Harold S.
Dyer, will present a group of
numbers. '
The association divides the
state into ten groups, by coun
ties, group four being made up
of the counties of Chatham, Dur
ham; Franklin, Granville, Har
nett, Johnson, Orange, Person,
Tance, Warren, and Wake.
Gold Visits Chapel Hill
Michael Gold, author and edi
tor of New Masses, stopped in
Chapel Hill for a three days'
stay. Thursday he ' addressed
Phillips Russell's English class.
He was on his way from Flor
ida to New York.
Review Editors Are
Guests At Supper
i
Almost the entire staff of the
North Carolina Law Review,
Consisting of sixteen student
members and about half as
many faculty members, met at
the home of Professor M. S.
Breckenbridge last night, where
they were entertained at a sup
per. The event last night was the
third Law Review supper" for
this year, and it was featured
by the appearance and distribu
tion of the April issue of the
periodical. No special speaker
was invited,"but criticism and
comments wTere made!
C T. McCORMICR
WRITES ARTICLE
FOR M REVIEW
Paul W. Wager Contributes
"Forest Taxation" to Month
ly Publication.
Charles T. McCormick, for
mer dean of the University law
school and now professor of law
at Northwestern University,
contributes one of the leading
articles in the April edition of
the North Carolina Law Re
view, just issued. His article on
"Damages as Affected by Flue
tuations in Value" and the one
on "Forest Taxation" by Paul
W. Wager are considered the
best two in the current issue.
wager is an assistant pro
fessor of rural economics at the
University and is at present at
tached to the staff of the Forest
Taxation Inquiry of the federal
government. The information
he gives in his discussion of for
est taxation is of particular
value to North Carolina, as it
deals with the various plans pro
posed for developing the state's
forests. He gives special atten
tion to the so-called "Yield Tax"
plan of forest taxation.
Against Property Tax
Wager points out .that by
a searching study of three coun
ties, Beaufort, Chatham, and
Macon, it was demonstrated that
the yield tax would result in de
creased revenues from taxation
and that perhaps forest land is
not taxed high at present be
cause of low assessments. The
writer quotes S. H. Hobbs, A. J.
Maxwell, and N. E. Day on the
importance of the forests as a
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MURCHISON GIVES
SECOND LECTURE
ON DEPRESSIONS
Maturing of Major Industries Blamed
As Cause of. Present Eco
nomic Disorder.
Giving the final of his series
of lectures in assembly yester
day morning-, Dr. C. T. Murchi
son of the commerce school dis
cussed the factors causing- the
present depression.
After youthfulness of in
dustry had caused the "good
times" from 1921 to 1929, they
reached maturity and a decline
followed, he said, adding that
automobilcand power industries
duriner this period, more than
doubled themselves.
He then traced the expansion
of different trades and then the
subsequent decline causing a
curtailed purchasing power of
the public which in turn caused
the depression.
In conclusion Dr. Murchison
emphasized that the present de-
pression wTas 'not a result of
overproduction or mal - distribu -
tion of wealth but the maturing
of major industries.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932
Henry Page Represents Non-Alumni
Point Of View On Trustee Board
Aberdeen Man Is Ranked as Being Great Thinker; Has Been
Prominent for Years in Educational and Business
-Affairs Throughout the State.
Considered one of the most
forceful writers and one of the
most able men in the state, Hen
ry A. Page of Aberdeen pecu
liarly represents the interests of
the whole of North Carolina on
the University board of trustees. I
He is not an alumnus, having re
ceived his education at the fam
ous old Bingham school, and he
has never sent one of his chil
dren to the University.
Prominent Among Trustees
In this capacity he has repre
sented the non-college point of
view and the interests of the
whole commonwealth so splen
didly that many, who know the
steadying influence he exercised
on the building committee in the
days of expansion, will say that
he is one of the best trustees of
the University. That is because
Henry Page is a thinker of the
first order, and because he writes
and speaks his views directly
and forcibly, without caring
whether his point of view is the
popular one. ?
Ranked as Great Thinker
Page easily ranks as one of
the great minds of the state to
day, and yet some of his brothers,
and especially the late Walter
Hines Page, have outranked him
in the prominence they won. As
it was said in a biographical
sketch in Lewis' History : "Hen
ry Page is a man who stays much
at home, who attends to his own
affairs, andwTho devotes much
thought and labor to the manage-
Research Institute
Investigations
o
Organization Established by Special Grant From Laura Spelman
. Rockefeller Foundation Places Emphasis on Projects
And Problems Rather Than Disciplines.
o
The Institute for Research in
Social Science was made possible
at the University in 1924 by a
special grant from the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller foundation,
and by University appropria
tions. For some time there had
been special need for assistance
in the many investigations which
are already under way in the
fields of history, government,
economics, sociology, jurispru
dence, anthropology, tatistics,
social psychology, and other re
lated fields.
With the establishment of
the institute there began an ex
tensive program of regional re
search with studies in local
government, southern historical
backgrounds, and socio-economic
activities, including studies in
social - industrial relationships,
crime and criminal justice, the
negro, folklore and folk back
grounds of the southern people,
social institutions,, public wel
fare and child welfare, and hu
man geography of: the south.
The scope of the program of
the institute includes the social
sciences, and tjie emphasis is
i i it
upon projects ana proDiems
rather than disciplines. Research
projects, chosen chiefly from the
state and regional field, are se
lected with a view to their
generic value and for their pos
sible contribution in both meth
od and content.
Forty-Two Books Printed
Forty-two volumes have been
published under its auspices
since the establishment of the
i institute in 1924.
More than
' 60,000 copies of these books have
been sold, and they have had
mentof his large business inter
ests ; and yet he is a man whose
influence upon the life of the
state takes rank with that of our
chief public citizens. He does
too much thinking of a high ,or-
der, for him not to be heard
from at times and for him not
to have to do with matters
touching the interests of the
commonwealth."
Opposed Walter Clark
When that was written, Page
was known as a man with large
lumbering interests, who had
built and become president of
the Aberdeen and Asheboro
Railroad (taken over by the
Norfolk Southern in 1911). He
had never held a public office,
but he had shown such marked
ability and had so won the con
fidence of the people that Gov
ernor Aycock had appointed him
on a commission in 1904 to in
vestigate the management of
the old Atlantic and North Caro
lina Railroad. He had been
president of the convention of
Anti-Saloon Leagues, and . had
come into the public eye with
his unsuccessful fight against the
nomination as chief justice of
Walter Clark, whose well-known
views of corporations in general
and on railroad corporations in
particular he thought to render
Clark "altogether unfitted to
hold the scales of justice evenly.
Served in Legislature
It was his great interest in
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Gives Aid In
In Social Science
more than 1500 reviews. Five
volumes have been especially
commended, three have made
New York front pages, and at
least a dozen have had notable
review recognition. In addition,
more than sixty articles have
been published by members of
the institute.
The permanent staff of the
institute is composed of re
search professors and associates
who, in addition to their own
researches, direct other re
searches and may give courses
in line with their special sub
jects. There are also a limited
number of research assistant-
ships, made on a twelve months'
basis, open to men and women
who have shown ability to do
original research.. Such assist
antshins carrv with them sti-
A. V
pends" varying from 750 to
$1500.
The board of governors of the
institute is composed of mem
bers of the various social sci
ence departments and includes
the following : Frank P. Gra
ham, chairman, E. C. Branson,
D.- D. Carroll, R. D. W. Connor,
J. G. deR. Hamilton, A. M. Jor
dan, C. T. Murchison, Howard
W, Odum, M. R. Trabue, M. T.
Van Hecke, and L. R. Wilson.
Howard W. Odum is director of
the institute and Katharine
Jocher, assistant director. The
permanent research staff con
sists of Ernest R. Groves and
T. J. Woofter, Jr., research pro
fessors ; and Clarence Heer, Har
riet L. Herring, Guy B. Johnson,
Guion Griffis Johnson, Roy M.
Brown, and Rupert B. Vance, re
search associates.
Allen Made Head Of
Law School Seniors
In the election of officers for
the third year class in the law
school, which took place in the
second year class room in Man
ning hall yesterday, the follow
ing offices were filled:
President, Archie Allen, Ra
leigh; vice-president, J. O.
Moore, Charlotte; secretary,
Homer Lyon, Whiteville; treas
urer, S. B. Sternberger, Wil
mington; bondsman for the
treasurer, Edwin S. Lanier,
Thomasville;, class mascot, Miss
Cecile Piltz, New York City;
custodian of mascot, Edwin But
ler, Clinton.
DR. MILLIKAN TO
DELIVER ANNUAL
McNAIR LECTURES
Famous Scientist Will Offer
Series in Memorial Hall
April 20, 21, 22.
Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the
California Institute of Technol
ogy, one of the world's most
noted scientists, will deliver the
annual series of McNair lectures
at the University this spring.
Dr. Millikan has announced as
his topic "The Changing World"
for the lectures which will be
given on the evenings of April
20, 21, and 22, at 8:30 o'clock
in Memorial hall.
The McNair lectures were
made possible through a fund
established by the will of John
Calvin McNair of the class of
1849. The series was inaugu
rated in 1908. The object of the
addresses, under the will, is to
"show the mutual bearing of sci
ence and religion upon each
other, and to prove the existence
of attributes (as far as may be)
of- God from nature."
Won Nobel' Prize
Dr. Millikan is considered to
be one of the world's greatest
men in the field of physics. In
recognition of his research and
discoveries, extending over a
period of many years, he has
been awarded a number of priz
es and medals. In 1932 he was
awarded the Nobel prize in
physics for isolating and mea
suring the ultimate electrical
unit the electron, and for photo
electric researches. Previously
he had been given the Comstock
prize, the Edison medal, and the
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BOTANISTS STUDY
HUGE PINE TREE
IN WAKE COUNTY
Professors Coker and Totten Also
- Find Exposed Granite
And Fungi.
While on a botanizing expedi
tion in the eastern part of the
state, Dr. W. C. Coker and Dr.
H. R. Totten, of the botany de
partment, examined the "big
pine" of Wilson county, near
Stantonsburg, and discovered a
remarkable formation of expos
ed granite and interesting fungi
at Mitchell's Mill, Wake county.
The tree, which is a loblolly
pine, is seventeen feet and ten
inches in circumference, measur
ed at four feet above the ground.
By examining incisions made by
previous visitors, the botanists
counted 312 rings at that height.
Both men state that this is
the biggest pine which they have
seen east of the Mississippi, cer
tain species west of that river at
taining greater dimensions and
heights. "The tree evidently
was fast growing and not as old
as its appearance indicated," ac
cording to Dr. Coker.
NUMBER 147
DEBATERS FROM
GREENSBORO GET
AYCOCK AWARD
Hish
School Week Completed
With Awarding of Prizes to
Winners Last Night.
Curry high school of Greens
boro, upholding the negative of
the query, "Resolved: That the
United States should adopt a
system of compulsory unemploy
ment insurance," won the unani
mous decision of the iudsres
last night in the finals of the
North Carolina High School De
bating Union for the Aycock
Memorial Cup. The winners of
the twentieth annual final con
test outclassed their opponents
from the Kinston high school be
fore an audience filling Memor
ial hall.
Nash Herndon of Greensboro
was the most forceful speaker
on the platform while his part
ner, Miss Katherine Keister, up
held her part of the debate cre
ditably. The speakers for the
affirmative were Miss Louise
Weyher and Ralph Burgin.
Prizes Awarded
After a short speech in which
he outlined the purposes of High
School week, President Frank P.
Graham warded the Thomas
Hume cup for excellence in high
school journalism to the Durham
high school. Annual awards of
this cup are made for ten years,
the school winning the cup the
most number of times during the
ten years wins it permanently
at the end. of the tenth year.
Greensboro has won it four
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GEOLOGY GROUPS
WILL MAKE TOUR
TO WEST COAST
Credit Will Be Given For Com
pletion of Courses Offered
On Summer Trip.
The geology department of the
University will offer two courses
this summer to those going on
the western tour conducted by
the Southern Tours, Inc., which
will go as far as Los Angeles.
College credit and credit to be
applied toward renewing or
raising teachers' certificates may
be secured upon, completion of
these courses. Possibilities will
be afforded for field work and
first hand geological studies in
a constantly changing labora
tory, as more than 9,600 miles
will be covered.
inose maKing tne tour will
assemble from several conveni
ent points in the state at Maiden
June 7. From 4here the auto
mobile party will proceed to the
Pacific "coast by way of Louis
ville, St. Louis, Denver, and
Salt Lake City, winding up in
Los Angeles. Cities taken in on
the return trip, ending August
3, include Portland, Oregon;
Banff, Canada ; Yellowstone Na
tional Park; Cheyenne, Wyo
ming; and Louisville.
Besides a stop at Yellowstone,
visits of one day each will be
made at Pike's Peak, Grand
Canyon, Agua Caliente, Yosem
ite, Craf ter Lake, Mount Ranier.
Lake Louise, and Glacier Na
tional park. . v ,
Students wishing to make
the trip may secure full infor
mation from R. M. Grumman in
the offices of the extension di
vision in South building, or
from Professor G. R. McCartney,
who will accompany the party
as instructor, at New East.