STAFF MEETING
REPORTERS 7 :00 P. M.
211 GRAHAM MEMORIAL
DURHAM CHOIR RECITAL
4:30 P.M.
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MASTERPIECES OF
GOETHE WILL BE
OFFEREMUESDAY
Centenary Celebration of Ger
man Poet Is Under Direction
Of Dr. W. D. Toy.
In cooperation with the Go
ethe Centenary Committee of the
University, the Carolina Play
makers will present Master
pieces of Goethe Tuesday even
ing, April 19, at B :00 p. m. The
committee is composed of Pro
fessor Walter D. Toy, chairman,
Professors Ernest C. Metzen
ihin, Urban T. Holmes, Harold
S. Dyer, and Frederick H. Koch.
The program being given by
the Playmakers is hut one of sev
eral events to take place in com
memoration of the death, a hun
dred years ago, of Johann Wolf
gang Goethe, the greatest Ger
man poet.
The event Tuesday is open to
1 1 1 I ail
tne puoiic ana tnere win oe a
silver offering at the end of the
performance for the purpose of
defraying its expense.
Program Content
The first part of the program
will be given over to Goethe's
master hallads and lyrics, given
in both German and "English.
Metzenthin, its director, will be
assisted by Professor Howell and
Caro Mae Russell with the Eng
lish part of the entertainment,
while Katherine Buxbaum will
give the German reading.
The second part of the enter
tainment will be given over to
scenes from "Iphigenia in Taur-
is." Professor Harland will ex
plain the Greek background of
the drama, followed by three
monologues in which Metzenthin
will be assisted by Margaret
Vale, Phillips Russell, and Pro
fessor McKie in the English
part. Margaret Holmes, ' Mr.
McCoy, and Professor Olsen will
he the actors of the German
parts.
Ensemble Music
Following the final scene the
Carolina Salon Ensemble, under
the direction of Thor Johnson,
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Modern University Is Not Educational
Declares Hart Stebbins In Article
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Yale Junior Calls Institution an Advertisement on Large Scale
In Essay in The Daily News; Voices New Criticism
Of America's Third Oldest University.
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'The modern university is not,
and has not ever been, an edu
cational institution," , declares
Hart Lyman Stebbins, Yale ju
nior in a recent article in The
Yale Daily News. "It is simply
a process of putting people in
such a situation that they can
more easily become educated if
they want to."
. Voicing a hew criticism of the
"'murmurings of culture" at
America's third oldest univer
sity in his essay, "Yale a la
Thos. Cook & Son," Stebbins de
clares that Yale, "just because
of its size, is not an institution
of higher learning; it is an ad
vertisement on a grand scale."
"There is. as yet no marked
interest in the classroom," he
-continues, "and it seems to me
that such a condition is entirely
reasonable. A graduate recent
ly likened the years in college to
a tour ; that struck me as a good
simile, and it occurred to me la
ter that it ought to be' perfect.
You cannot study Wordsworth
and Coleridge and Scott and By
ron and Shelley and Keats and
Landor and Arnold in five
months and have anything but
a tour; ... you cannot study
EMINENT SOCIOLOGIST
WILL ADDRESS CABINET
Miss Harriet Herring, emin
ent woman sociologist and au
thor of books on sociological sub
jects, will speak to the senior
cabinet of the local Y. M. C. A.
at 7:15 o'clock tomorrow night
in the cabinet's room in the Y
building.
Miss Herring has made exten
sive studies of southern social
problems and the public is, in
vited to attend her lecture. The
other cabinet will meet at its
regular place at 7 :15 o'clock.
Following the sophomore cab
inet meeting, D. C. Shoemaker
will make announcements about
the handbook published by the
group for the incoming fresh
man class. '
A. G. HINM AN WILL
SPEAK ON REAL
ESTATE MONDAY
Economics Professor to Deliver First
Of Series of Five Lectures
In Bingham Hall.
"Why Buy Real Estate?" is
the subject of a lecture to be
given by Professor A. G. Hin
man, of the department of eco
nomics and commerce, at 7:15
tomorrow evening in 103 Bing
ham hall. This is the first of a
series of five lectures on current
economic problems to be pre
sented on successive Monday
evenings by members of the com
merce department.
Professor Hinman came to
North Carolina last fall from
Northwestern University, where
he spent four years as a re
search associate in the Institute
for Economic Research, study
ingproblems in the field of land
economics and real estate. He
is the co-author of two books,
"Urban Land Economics" and
"Real Estate Merchandising."
The purposeof his lecture to
morrow evening will be to evalu
ate the usual motives for buy
ing real estate in the light of the
peculiar characteristics of the
commodity. He will also point
out some of the unfortunate pri
vate and public consequences of
unwise expenditures for real es
tate. all these and lead an extensive
social life and sleep a lot and ex
ercise a lot, and, at the end of
the year, be expected to know
anything."
.Yale "Describes' Learning
Deprecating "tea tamVeduca
tion," Sbbins declares that the
best thing that Yale does is to
"describe" learning, "afford
models" of eminent men who
have used the product, and "dis
tributes samples." "Real edu
cation is a detailed review, and
four years at college does not al
low time for the whole process."
The author of the essay com
pares the attempts of colleges to
educate to fencing in a field, and
the field is too large. . "Fence it
in further," he advises. ' "Take
a specific, issue. Statement, and
question: Faculty and other sug
gesters are gathered, community-like,
around the Yale under
graduate, saying, 'We believe
that our system of education
heretofore ihas been wrong. We
have' assumed that the under
graduate is not interested in
studying, and our assumption
has been supported by the stu
dent's eagerness to participate
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1932
I yre Taylor Says
Inviting Will
Author of North Carolina Plan
To Attract Outsiders to
. Economic
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article ,
was especially written for The Daily
Tar Heel by the author of the North
Carolina Plan.)
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By Tyre Taylor
Let us suppose that North
Carolina, as a community, has
certain aspirations. To be quite
definite, let us say that these as
pirations, or objectives, are first,
economic security, and second,
the provision of a reasonably
satisfying physical, social, and
spiritual environment in which
to work and live and rear chil
dren. .
Let those civic aspirations be
granted, because they are facts,
common to every civilized com
munity and people.
The question then arises,
what are the most effective
means for achieving these objec
tives? How may North Carolina
most' surely and permanently
lift herself from the present
slough of economic despondency
and stagnation? How did we
get this way ? What can be done
about it?
Obviously, you agree, this eco
nomic problem must be at least
partially solved before we shall
be in any position to think prac
tically in terms of the second ob
jectivethat of cultural or spiri
tual progress. But is this neces
sarily true? Granted that ex
treme poverty and advancing
civilization cannot exist simul
taneously in the same common
wealth, and that it takes money
to support a decent standard of
individual and community living,
does it follow that "we must first
make our pile and then go in for
well-paid university professors,
'culture,' cleanliness, good cook
ing, beauty, leisure, and all those
things which are associated with
the 'happy life'?"
A Dangerous World
I do not think that this fol-
MEDICAL UNIT TO
HEAR PRESIDENT
FRANK P. GRAHAM
Dr. E. Starr Judd to Speak; Medical
School Head to Read Paper
At Annual Meeting.
President Frank P. Graham
will be the , principal speaker
Tuesday, April 19, at the annual
meeting of the medical unit of
the General Alumni Association,
which gathers in Winston-Salem
in connection with the annual
meeting of the North Carolina
Medical society. (The alumni
gathering will be a luncheon
meeting at the Robert E. Lee
hotel.) Dr I. H. Manning, head
of the medical school, will read
a paper on "The Contribution of
Biological Chemistry to Clinical
Medicine" before the members
of the medical society.
Dr. Manning's paper will be
discussed after its reading by
Dr. William Coppridge of Dur
ham and Dr. C. T. Smith of
Rocky Mount. Among the guest
speakers is Dr. E. Starr Judd,
president of the American Med
icak Association and chief sur
geon of the Mayo Clinic of Roch
ester, Minnesota. The other
guest speakers are Dr. Elmer
H. Funk of Philadelphia, and
Dr. O. H. IerryN 0f the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania.
At the Wednesday meeting
seven members of the State
Board of Medical Examiners will
be elected to serve six years, and
one member of the State Board
of Health to serve three years
Making State
Return Prosperity
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WTants State Beautifying Project
Moe Here and Improve
Conditions.
lows, any more than it follows
that, because we are in the midst
of hard times now, good times
will automatically and necessar
ily return; and I think that the
sooner we recognize this the bet
ter. We are living in a fast and
dangerous world in which the
law of the jungle is still in full
force and effect, and unless we
find ways and means for adjust
ing ourselves to actual condi
tions, and surmounting our dif
ficulties, we shall certainly slip
backward. A civilized state is
like a human organism in that
it is constantly dying, and when
the forces of destruction over
come the capacity for making
repairs, a funeral becomes in
evitable. Now what has been our eco
nomic and governmental ap
proach in North Carolina? Has
it been intelligent? Are the re
sults satisfactory?
First, let us take a look at ag
riculture. Over half our popu
lation depends upon farming for
a livelihood and we cannot pos
sibly hope for a return of better
times until the farmers find . a
solution for their problems.
Must Live-at-Home
And the very first thing we
observe in connection with this
situation is the annual expendi
ture of over $100,000,000 a year
an average of $165.00 for each
family for food and feed, that
could be produced at home for a
fraction of this cost. It is still
possible, notwithstanding the de
pression and the live-at-home
campaign, to find through cer
tain sections of North Carolina
on Saturday afternoons thous
ands of homeward-bound auto
mobiles, wagtms,' carts, and pe
destrians loaded with eggs, ba
con, butter, milk, and every va
riety of canned food, shipped in
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EDITOR SELECTS
COMPLETE STAFF
OF V. HANDBOOK
Newly Appointed Staff Will Gather
For Organization Meeting V
Tomorrow Evening.
Staff appointments of busi
ness manager, associate editors,
sports editor and editorial as
sistants were announced yester
day by the editor of the Caro
lina Handbook in conjunction
with Bill McKee president of the
Y. M. C. A. In addition to the
editor, Don Shoemaker, appoint
ed this week , in that capacity,
the following staff will serve
this year:. Lonnie Dill and Bob
Woerner, associate editors ; Bill
Jones, business manager ;"F. C.
Litten, sports editor ; E. C. Bag
well, Carl Spenser, J. D. Wins
low, editorial assistants.
The staff will begin work fol
lowing an organization and as
signment meeting on the second
floor of the Y .M. C. Abuild
ing Monday night at 8:00 o'clock
immediately following the cab
inet meetings. New men inter
ested in work of this . sort are
requested to communicate with
the editor prior to the meeting
Monday. "
As the official annual hand
book of the Y. M. C. A. the
Carolina Handbook is mailed
each summer to freshmen en
tering the University the fol
lowing fall, and contains infor
mation on "Y" work, campus or
ganization, publications, athlet
ics, social and honorary orders.
S. C. TAX COMMIftfUOXFR
TO ADDRESS N. C. CLUB
.W. G. Query, tax commission
er of the state of South Caro
lina and recognized as one of the
leading authorities on the ques
tion of luxury taxes, will ad
dress the North Carolina club
in Bingham hall April 27.
The commissioner will de
scribe the extant method of tax
levies on luxuries in South Caro
lina, and estimate the advan
tages of a like system being in
stalled in this state.
Before his visit to Chapel
Hill Query will speak before
the North Carolina Conference
of Social Sciences in Durham
April 26. "
TWADDELL WILL
PRESENT CHORUS
IN UNION TODAY
Mixed Singers .From Durham Will
Render Concert in Graham
x Memorial at 4:30.
This afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
William Powell Twaddell will
present a choir of thirty-five
voices, composed of boys and
girls from the Durham high
school, in a concert in the lounge
room of Graham Memorial.
Many of the singers have re
ceived state-wide recognition.
Twaddell is superintendent of
music in Durham high school and
choir master of the First Pres
byterian church there. He has
arranged a program filled with
selections from Mozart, Grieg,
and Haydn along with others.
One of the selections to be heard
is the composition of one of the
members of the boy's glee club.
The girls club has taken the name
of "The Cantaves," while the
boys are known as the boys'
glee club.
Among the numbers on the
program are: Emitte Spiritum
Tuum, by Schuetky; Within
This Sacred Dwelling, by Mo
zart; Hence, Loathsome Melan
choly, by M. T. Cousjns, Jr.;
Moon Marketing, by Powell
Weaver; Love Thee, by Grieg;
Ave Marie, by Arcadelt; Lo,
How a Rose E'er Blooming, by
Praetorius; and The Spirit's
Song, by Haydn.
Dean Of Janitors Relates Hardships
Endured By Collegians Of Severities
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Seventy-Eight Year Old "Uncle Billy" McDade Gives Intimate
View of College Life in Period Immediately Fol
lowing War Between the States.
By G. B. Bryant, Jr.
University students who are
feeling the pinch of the present
depression may get a bit of con
solation if they will pick up
first-hand information on the ex
periences of Carolina collegians
in the days not far removed
from the War Between the
States.
Few people hereabouts are so
well qualified perhaps to give a
close-up, intimate view of the
way the collegians lived in the
old days as Uncle Bill McDade,
age seventy-eight, one of the
most respected of the Univer
sity's colored janitors. Uncle
Bill has waited on more Carolina
students than any living janitor.
JJncle Bill began work at the
University shortly after tthe
Civil War, when Kemp P. Battle
was president. He has watched
the institution grow from a few
buildings and less than a dozen
professors to one of the fore
most universities of the country.
Likes to Spin Yarns
Despite the fact that he has
out-lived his three score and ten
years, Uncle Bill is still active.
He likes to spin yarns about the
NUMBER 14S
INAUGURATION OF
CAMPUS LEADERS
SETFORTUESDAY
Formal Installation of Newly
Elected Officers to Take Place
In Memorial Hall.
The new campus officials
chosen in the annual spring elec
tion, will be inaugurated into
office Tuesday, April 19, in
Memorial hall at assembly pe
riod. Mayne Albright- president
of the student body, will speak
for a few minutes before turn
ing over his office to Haywood
Weeks. The new president, af
ter touching on his new poli
cies, will introduce the other of
ficials, the most important of
whom will make short speeches
of acceptance.
Wednesday ,April 20, all new
officials will assume their duties
and will replace those officers "
who have served during 1931-32.
This period in the spring is in
tended to give the newcomers
the benefit of the experience of
the old members who will be on
hand to assist, and to allow the
new officers to become thorough
ly familiar with their jobs be
fore the fall quarter begins. All
treasurers after this year will
close their books and turn over
their accounts to the Student
Audit board by April 30 to per
mit the makings of a uniform
audit of them.. .
The plan tif an induction cere
mony was begun last year, and
before that time only student
council members received any
formal inauguration.
After 'his induction, Weeks
will assume control of the meet
ing, and will introduce the men
who are to serve with him on
the student council, and also the
other officers who are to come
into office.
Stringfield Lecture
Lamar Stringfield will lecture
on the origin of the'N. C. State
Symphony Orchestra Society at x
4:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
in the choral room of Hill music
hall.
days when boys arrived at col
lege on horseback and in carri
ages, when the rooms in the dor
mitories were heated . by wood
burning' stoves, when the stu
dents studied by the dim light of
kerosene lamps, when a tin wash
pan was to be found in every
room, and mustaches and side
burns were the vogue.
Of course, there is the psycho
logical difference that the col
legians in those days had never
been accustomed to anything
better. .
The old negro speaks with
pride of the men he "waited on"
when he was young, and of the
sons and grandsons of those
same men who came to the Uni
versity in later years. Uncle
Bill is now serving his third gen
eration of students. "I have
known men who have left this
place and then got to be gov
ernors, senators, and judges," is
me of his boasts, "and when they
come back to Chapel Hill, they
190k me up."
Recalls Reconstruction
Uncle Bill recalls the dark days
during the Civil War and several
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