DR. ROBERT A. MILLIKAN
McR LECTURE
MEMORIAL HALL 8:30
DR. ROBERT A. MILLIliN
McNAIR LECTURE
- MEMORIAL HALI-8:30
VOLUME XL
CHAPEL HILL, N. O, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932
NU51BER 151
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SALE OF SENIOR
INVITATIONS WILL
END NEXT WEE K
No More Graduation Notices
Will Be Sola After Tues
day, April 26.
Instead of the usual two-week
period for the sale of graduation
invitations, the committee . in
charge of this year's sale has
announced that it will be forced
to conclude its work at the end
of one week. Only two or three
days remain in which to place
orders. This procedure has
been made obligatory due to the
lateness of the date.
Low Prices Increase Sales
Due to the low prices on the
booklets being used this year,
graduates and seniors are plac
ing orders for larger numbers
.than in past years. The leather-
bound -invitations may be se
ured in dozen lots this year for
r$5.40, instead of $9.00 as last
ear. The cardboard back in
vitations are being sold for $2.40
a dozen, whereas they sold for
$3.60iast year. The highest
single order thus far has been
for $21.60, numbering f our- doz
en leather covers.
Anyone may purchase the in
-vitations as souvenirs. The
name of every person who is a
fourth y ear man, or who has
. satisfied residence requirements
for higher degrees is usually in
eluded in the roll of the schools.
Serve Many Purposes
Invitations,' . in addition to
serving as momentas of an oc
casion which is an important one
in the life of every college grad
uate, serve as a calendar of the
graduation exercises, a memory
record of names and buildings,
. ;and the very primary purpose
of notifying relatives and
rfriends of a graduate's success,
and inviting them to attend the
r exercises. !
The . sale Will continue for a
short t;me longer a Pritchard
Lloyd Drug Company and the
Y. M. C. A. at assembly period.,
and at the Y. M. C. A., Pritch-ard-Lloy&'s,
and Sutton's during
the early afternoon. At night
salesmen will fee at the two
drug stores.
Lectures Begun By McNair Bring
Outstanding Speakers To University
-0 :
Though , Conceived; in 1858, First Series Was Not Given Until
1908, When Dr. Francis H. Smith, a Theologian of
Wide Repute, Delivered Injtial Address. ,
Emanating from the generos
ity of a deeply religious and hu
:man individual, for the last
twenty-five years the John Cal
vin McNair lectures have
brought leading figures in the
realms of theology, science, and
philosophy to the University.
An illustrious line of thinkers
and orators has preceded the
present speaker, Dr. Robert A.
Millikan of the California Insti
tute of- Technology. While the
lectures have seldom failed to
be of paramount importance,
'there has been a decided 4end-
ency away from the original
conception of the series. In ad
dition to eminent scientists and
theologians, authorities on law,
literature, and philosophy have
engaged in delivering the Mc-
.Nair lectures.
t Conceived in 1858
The -series were conceived in
"1858, when John-Calvin McNair
of the class of 1849 designated
in his will the establishment of
such a fundv The terms of the
bequest state 'that a course of
Jectures -were to be founded
COUNTY BANKERS
BUSINESS SESSION
CONVENES AT INN
President Graham Delivers Welcome
Address to Group Four of
State Bankers.
Group number four of the
State Bankers association will
conduct its annual meeting here
tonight beginning with a dinner
at 7 :00 o'clock in the Carolina
Inn. '
The dinner will be followed by
a business session at which of
ficers for the coming year are to
be elected. The positions to be
filled are chairman, vice-chair
man, secretary, treasurer and a
member to represent the group
on the executive committee of
the state association. President
Frank P. Graham will deliver
the address of welcome at the
dinner and Ernest Booth will
respond for the bankers. Other
speakers will be R. B. House,
and Paul' P. Brown. -
Group four of -the state asso
ciation consists of bankers from
the counties of Chatham, Dur
ham, Franklin," Granville, Har
nett, Johnson) Orange, Person,
Vance, Varren, and Wake..
VanNOPPEN TO ADDRESS
LOCAL TAYLOR SOCIETY
Donnell VanNoppen, sales'
manager of the White Furniture
company, Mebane, and first
graduate of the school of com
merce of the University, will ad
dress the local student branch of
the Taylor Society tonight. He
will discuss the problem of mar
keting in the present depression,
with special reference to the fur
niture industry. The White4
Furniture company, which is the
oldest and largest furniture
manufacturing company in the
south, has recently inaugurated
a . national advertising cam
paign as" a phase of its market
ing methods. VanNoppen will
describe the company's methods
of selling its high grade furni
ture, and will therefore discuss
practice rather than theory. The
meeting will take place at 7:00
o'clock in 113 Bingham hall.
No Assembly
There will be no freshman as
sembly today.
"which shall be to show the mu
tual bearing of Science, and
.Theology upon each other and to
prove the existence and attri
butes of God (as far as may be)
from Nature." . .
The will also provided
that
the course must be prepared by
a member of some one of the
Evangelical denominations. "A
further stipulation required that
the lectures be published no lat
er, than twelve months after de
liverance. The University press
has been the official publisher
of the McNair lectures since
their founding.
In 1906 the trustees of the
University deemed the interest
on McNair's investments suf
ficient to take advantage of the
terms of his will. Two years
later Dr. Francis H. Smith, a
theologian of wide repute, de
livered the initial series of lec
tures.' His discussion, dealing
with the manifestations of God
in the material universe, ad
hered closely' to the limitations
of the will. But a noticeable de-
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PhWLOEESU.S.
CRMINALSYSTEM
Bill Declaring Penal Code Too
Humane Defeated; Five
New Men Initiated.
Members of the Phi assembly
voted at the meeting in Phi hall
Tuesday night, thatthe present
criminal system of this country
was not too humane. Heated dis
cussion was provoked by this
measure, efforts to have it
tabled indefinitely, by its adver
saries beinsr defeated.
... .
venson introducing the measure
declared that the modern ten
dency was to coddle criminals,
citing instances of increased lib
erties and privileges being grant
ed. In opposition Representative
Kelly stated that the criminals,
environmental conditions being
responsible for their status, were
supposedly subjected to a period
of reclamation.' Representatives
Boyles and Greer advocated
stricter measures as a more ef
fective crime deterrent. .
-Members initiated into the as
sembly were -A. H. Suiter, -Jr.,
D. S. Hartshorn, J. R. Strawn,
Ted Newland, and Richard Reed
Deyane, Sergeant-at-arms Bill
Spradlin, assisted by Treasurer
DaivMcDufiie, served as initiat
ing committee.
Infirmary List
W. G. Duflock, H. G. Dupree,
Jr., Ansley Cope, A.M. Baracket,
and Emmie Frances Polhill were
on the infirmary list yesterjday.
THREE COLLEGE
GENERATIONS OF
, ALUMNI TO MEET
Class of 1882 Will Hold Its
Fifty-Year Reunion at June
Graduation Exercises.
Three college generations k
Carolina alumni wiil meet this
June when the classes hold their
reunions in connection with the
annual "graduation exercises.
The class of 1882 will have its
fifty-year reunion. The class
of 1931 will have its first re
union. . Others classes having
reunions are: '87, '88, '89, '90,
'06, '07, '08, '09, '25, '26, '27,
and '28.
fhis schedule' is arranged by
the Dix schedule of class re
unions which brings together
groups that were in college. at
the same time. This makes" it
more than class reunions.
The schedule for the reunions
and for the Commencement ex
ercises will extend from Satur
day, June 4, tov Tuesday, June -7.
On Saturday the Senior j Class
day will be held. On' Sunday,
June 5, the Baccalaureate will
be given. Monday, June 6, will
be Alumni Day, and the usual ex
ercises are to be given.
Alumni day will open by a
meeting of all the alumni in
Gerrard hall, a building which
all the alumni will remember.
The Alumni luncheon will be
given in Swain hall. All alum
ni, whether they are in the
classes having the reunions or
not, are invited. The" various
classes will hold their suppers
at separate places in the eve
ning. The Alumni ball in the
Tin Can will close activities.
Tuesday will be the final day,
and the alumni will attend the
Commencement exercises, an
Memorial hall.
Graham Memorial will be used
as general headquarters for the
reunion.
DEPUTATION TEAM
WILL DUNN
Ed R. Hamer to Lead Last Trip
Of Season Sponsored by
University Y. INI. C. A.
The last Y. M. C. A. deputa
tion of the season will leave this
afternoon for Dunn. Ed R.
Hamer, freshman secretary of
the "Y," will lead the group
which is made up of Jack Poole,
Blucher ... Ehringhaus, Philip
Goodwin, Claude Freeman, John
Withers, and Al Williams, R.
B. House and Homer Lucas will
join the group Saturday after-
noon.
Thursday night the deputa
tion will attend a supper-meet
ing with the Hi-Y clubs of the
city. Friday the group will talk
to the high school, the graded
school, the colored school assem
bly, and the Parent Teachers'
Association. In -the " afternoon
the members of the ' deputation
will enter in a tennis match with
the high - school team, and that
evening they will attend a father
and son banquet.
Saturday morning -the depu
tation will talk at a theatre mass
meeting for all grammar school
boys, visit the homes of shut-ins,
go on a hike with the boy scouts,
and attend a social in the eve
ning. Sunday each member will talk
at a different, Sunday Schoolrand
R. B. House will address the
Men's Bible class arid the con
gregation of the Methodist
church.
GOETHE PROGRAM
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
WORKOFGERMAN
PJaymakers Conducted Second
Goethe Centenary Celebra
tion Tuesday Night.
Marking the second in a series
of programs commemorating the
cenxenary oi tne aeatn ot tne
German poet, the Carolina Play
makers in cooperation with the
Goethe Centenary Committee
presented a few of the most cele
brated works of Goethe at the
Playmakers Theatre Tuesday
night. . ,x
Professor Koch opened the
program with a short talk on
Goethe and his connection with
the stage. After his greeting
several of Goethe's ballads and
lyrics were presented in both
German and English.. The pas
sages were first read in the
translated English, then enacted
by local persons who were pro
ficient in Goethe's native tongue.
The presentations in the ' first
part were "The Erlking," "Rose
on the Heath," ;The Fisher
man," "Mignon,'' : and "Marga
ret at Her; Spinning :Wheel." , ,
, The second part of the pro
gram consisted of scenes ... from
Goethe's Greek play, v"Iphigenis
in. Tauris" with three .mono
logues by three of the leading
characters and the final scene of
the play. : 5 - ,
Faust Scenes Presented
At the intermission the Caro
lina Salon orchestra with Thor
Johnson conducting played two
classical selections. The entire
third part of the program was
devoted to the more noted scenes
from Goethe's celebrated Faust.
These scenes were introduced by
Professor Koch reading the dra
matic ending from Marlowe's
Faust from which Goethe re
ceived his inspiration. The
scenes from Faust presented
were the "Prologue in Heaven,"
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DEBATE TRY-OUTS
FOR TWO MEETS
SET FOR TONIGHT
Men Will Seek Places to Areue
Questions With Virginia
And N.C.C.W.
At 7:30 tonight in room 214
Graham Memorial the debate
squad will conduct try-outs on
the subject, Resolved: That the
United States' should adopt the
British system of radio control.
Carolina's representatives for
the radio debate with Virginia,
in which the University will up-
hold the negative of the ques-
tion, will be chosen at this meet-j
ing. ..
At 8:30 the squad will have a
recess to attend the Millikan lec
ture and the meeting will recon
vene at 9 :80-at which time try
outs for the N. G. C. W. debate
will take place. The contest will
be on both sides of the question
of disarmament, Resolved: That
the German reparations and inter-allied
war debts should be
cancelled. " . . . ,
The N. C. C. W. debate will be
a dual affair, 'representatives of
the -University ; debating?" with
the representatives of the
Greensboro institution both here
and at Greensboro. -The radio
debate, an annual affair, will
take place over the Haleigh sta
tion, WPTF, early next month.
The debate squad will be aided
in the discussion of the question
of disarmament by Dr. Meno
Spann and Professor E. J.
Woodhouse, while W, O. Olsen
will preside. '
GRAHAM SEEKS LOANS
FROM MEDICAL ALUMNI
Dr. Frank Porter Graham ad
dressed the North Carolina Uni
versity medical alumni 'who met
in connection with ths Sfinual
convention of the tat Medical
Society. He urged them to help
sWell the loan fund to save the
education of five hundred stu
detfts. '
The vice-president, Dr. W. M.
"Coppridge of Durham, presided
in the absence of the president,
Dr. J. A. Moore.
The alumni authorized the ap
pointment of a committee to can
vass the members for contribu
tions to the loan fund.
Michael Gold Declares Future Of
Theatre Depends On Mass Drama
, o . .
Editor of "New Masses" Addresses Professor Koch's Playwriting
Class on Movements Which New Workers Theatre
Is Fostering to Put Masses on Stage.
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, "The Little Theatre of today,
although fine, amateurish, and
cultural, offers nothing in the de
velopment of a social problem;
the, new Workers' Theatre, crude
and experimental, has the germ
pi creative vitality," declared
Michael Gold, editor of , New
Masses, before Professor 1 Fred
erick Koch's piaywrjtihg class.
., The author of Jews Without
Money and Fiesta, . visiting . in
Chapel Hill, , gave the class
startling revelations concerning
the degeneracy of the commer
cialized Broadway theatre and
a graphic interpretation of the
new Workers' Theatre, based on
dramatizing , and 'putting on the
stage the masses, as the only
hope for the theatre in this coun
try. '
New Class Emerges '
"With the change in Russia a
new class has come," pointed out
Gold in his talk, "and the aim of
the theatre has been to present
through the individual, the mass,
and mass problems on the stage.
Truly, it is propaganda, but it
serves to educate the masses as
DR. R. A JIILLIKAN
DISCUSSES TIME
. IN FIRSTADDRESS
McNair Lecturer Begins Series
By Refuting Layman's
Conception of Time.
Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan,
director of the Norman Bridge
laboratory of the California In
stitute of Technology at Pasa
dena delivered the first of three
McNair lectures last night in
Memorial hall. The subject of
the three speeches is "The
Changing World," and last
ilight'a topic Was "Time." To
night Millikan -will speak on
"Matter," and tomorrow night
on "Ideas.'i-
In his address last night, Alil
likan pointed out the erroneous
views of time which the common
seilse individual clings to in this
day and time, despite this" chang
ing world. "Time is to the or
dinary man an absolute, perfect
ly simple, completely understood,
common sense concept which lias
always been with the race and
always will be."-
Start -of Mechanical Laws -The
introduction about 1600
A.D. of accurate short-time
measuring instruments changed
fundamentally man's thinking
and his acting. It was this that
brought into vogue the ideas of
the uniformity of nature and of
the continuity of nature too.
These made possible the devel
opment of the mechanical Iqm$
which postulate the existence, of
absolute time, and absolute
length as fundamental concepts'.
These ideas underlieVthe whole
development of the modern scien
tific and engineering world of
the eighteenth and nineteenth
eenturies, and this world of an
absolute time and an absolute'
length is the one the ordinary
man lives in now,
"The Nichelson-Morley experi
ment with the subsequent devel
opment of relativity constituted
the first discovery of the twen
tieth century which showed that,
at least so far as the observa
tional world is concerned, there
is no such thing as .' absolute
ime, nor indeed absolute space--
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the early mystery plays of the
middle ages were used by the
Christian Church throughout
Europe and England Similar
troupes were organized, and
workers' theatres travel from
place to place, penetrating into
the smallest villages. The red
army of'China has done well in
this way. It puts on plays at all
stops, and the plays present con
crete problems of the peasant
and the worker, in terms of the
masses. -
"And in these same workers'
plays, the Broadway actor has
no place. His artificial acting,
imposed on; him by the tradi
tion and actuality of night clubs,
racketeering, gangsters, and
drawing room manners, makes
it impossible. for him to ack
Workers, clerks, and others who
are in the physical and actual
make-up fit for these fundamen
tal social problems - - grasp the
movement. The old, profession
alized actor of Russia has also
gone. In Russia there is now a
new actor Just as there is a new
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