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VOLUME XL
MUSICIANS WILL
MEET HERE FOR
AUDITIONS TODAY
Tryouts for Tforth Carolina
Symphony Orchestra Will
Begin tll :00 O'lclock.
Between fifty and 100 musi
cians from .all sections of the
state are expected here this
morning for the first audition
rehearsal of the North Carolina
Symphony Society which pro
poses to form a Ttforth Carolina
symphony orchestra.
The audition wall begin at
10:00 o'clock this morning and
continue until 4:30 o'clock in the
afternoor. AH musicians with
symphonic experience oif quali
fications, and others interested
iiave been invited to be present.
To Rehearse at 11:00
According to plans announced
ty Lamar Stringfield, places
and positions will not be award
ed by individual audition, but
-the musicians will gather in
the auditorium at 11:00 o'clock
and rehearse together for an
"hour. During this time the
grading and assigning of places
will be accomplished according
-to ability shown. Only those
musicians about whose ability
nothing is known by the of
ficials present and "who cannot
l)e graded in the rehearsal will
be assigned by individual audi
tion. Stringfield has indicated that
the orchestra will be neither
purely professional nor purely
student. Though many prof es
sional, expert, and student musi
cians will take part in the audi
tions, he said, awards will be
rmade upon proficiency.
pfficials consider the Sym
phony Society to have made re
markable progress during its
month of organization. Clubs
CAMPUS LED IN
SCHOLARSHIP BY
ZETA BETA TAU
Figures Released by Registrar's
Office Place T. E. P. and
Sigma Delta Next.
Zeta Beta Tau led the thirty
three fraternities and sororities
on the campus in scholastic av
erages for the winter quarter of
this year, according to stand
ings released several days ago
T)y the registrar's office. Tau
Epsilon Phi came second and
Sigma Delta third, slightly
ahead of the. Pi Beta Phi soror
ity, last fall's leaders.
The academic average of the
whole student body for the win
ter quarter was 3.19 as com
pared with 3.31 of the preced
ing term. The fraternity aver
age was 3.05, an increase of .09
over the average of the fall
quarter.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon , ranked
fifth in averages to complete the
first rank in averages of "plus
4" while in the "plus 3" class
Kappa Alpha led with Beta
Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon,
and Chi Omega following in or
der. Two fraternities scoring "plus
2" were Sigma Nu and Zeta Psi
while Chi Psi, Phi Gamma Del
ta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Theta Chi
and Delta Psi completed the list
of sixteen societies making an
average above that of the gen
eral fraternity average.
Seventeen fraternities fell be
low the fraternity average, while
thirteen were beiow the aca
demic average.
Play Changed
Playmakers Will Produce Kaufman's
The Butter and Egg Man"
Next Month.
Executives of the Carolina
Playmakers decided yesterday
that, owing to the casting diffi
culties, it would be inadvisable
to give Frederick Lonsdale's
English society comedy, Aren't
We All? In its place will be
substituted Kaufmann's popular
American comedy, " The Butter
and Egg Man.
The cast for this newly chosen
production will be largely made
up of those who have already
successfully tried out for the
first play. However, additional
actors are needed, and Professor
Koch announced that anyone in
terested in this performance is
invited to try out.
Tfie Butter and Egg Man will
be given on the dates previously
announced, May 19, 20, and 21.
The play will also be used as a
part of the commencement exer
cises, and will be repeated Sat
urday, June 4.
COMMERCE GROUP
HEARS SPEECH ON
MARKET PROBLEM
VanNoppen Declares That Water
Transportation Is Cheap
est f Three Means.
Donnell, VanNoppen, sales
manager of the White Furniture
company at Mebane and one of
the first students to graduate in
the University commerce school,
addressed the -Taylor society
Thursday night on the problem
of the marketing of goods at
the present time of depression.
.VanNoppen began by saying
that all business consists of two
divisions manufacturing and
selling. Marketing comes under
the selling division, and the
speaker defined marketing as
the transfer of ownership of a
commodity. He continued his
discussion .of marketing, show
ing that the biggest problem of
the manufacturer is the distri
bution of his product. He point
ed out that there are three means
of distribution, freight, motor,
and water transportation.
Explaining that it was much
more economical to ship goods
by water than by other means,
VanNoppen gave an illustration
showing that it was much cheap
er to .ship furniture made in Me
bane from the ports of Norfolk
and Charleston and let it pass
through the Panama canal, on
its way to the Pacific coast, than
it was to ship it overland by rail
or by ihotor. ,
In comparing the old crafts
men with modern methods of
production, VanNoppen showed
that large scale production. was
responsible for many big prob
lems today, mainly overproduc
tion resulting in surplus goods
being piled up without a con
sumer. The speaker explained in de
tail the huge advertising cam
paign undertaken by his com
pany and discussed! the various
types of modern advertising.
"The purpose of advertising,"
he said, "is, first, to create a de
sire generally, and, second, to
create a desire specifically, and,
finally, to create a name for the
customer to call when he is in
the market for a particular, com
modity." Five in Infirmary
AC. Avery, Mary Borroughs,
E. Weiner, Ansley Cope, and W.
D. Croom were on the infirmary
list yesterday.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932
Circulation Of
Library Books
Sho ws Increase
Greater Facility in Handling Books
Is Suggested as Reason for
Large Advance.
K
Statistics from the University
library indicate that the student
body has been reading more in
the last year than ever before.
A further revelation is that
more advanced scholastic work
and research has been carried
on in the library than hereto
fore. These facts gain significance
in the fact of the sharp budget
cuts which the library has sus
tained in recent years. In the
period 1929-30, when the appro
priations cut from $41,000 to
$33,000, the library circulation
increased by over 15,000 books.
Although the total reduction for
books and periodicals has been
$15,000 since 1927, the annual
circulation has mounted to
124,000.
R. B. Downs, assistant libra
rian, names the greater facility
in handling books upon the part
of the library as a possible ex
planation for the phenomenal
increase in circulation. It is
also pointed out that during the
past year the library has pur
chased relatively few new books,
yet the circulation has not
Uhown a decline.
The enlargement of the num
ber of history, English, and lan
guage assignments is also ad
vanced as a reason for the per
sistent increase, in circulation.
HOUSE BELIEVES
STATE SPENDING
WAS WORTHWHILE
Executive Secretary Praises
North Carolina's Progress
Before District Bankers.
"North Carolina has no rea
son to regret that it spent the
money it did for such things as
good roads, education, and pub
lic welfare, during the last ten
years," Robert B. House, execu
tive secretary of the University,
asserted here Thursday, night in
an address before a district ban
quet session of the North Caro
lina Bankers Association.
Seventy-eight bankers were
present and they came from the
counties of Chatham, Durham,
Franklin, Granville, Harnett,
Johnson, Orange, Person, Vance,
Warren, and Wake. They make
up what is known as group four
of the state association. '
Enjoy Advantages
"Of course we have got to
pay now- and we should be will
ing to pay f or the advantages
we are enjoying as the result of
this spending but had we "been
more conservative in our spend
ing, it probably would have been
many years hence before we
could have attained the proud
and enviable position of pro
gress we now hold.
"We have accomplished the
fine things we have because our
people had vision, and we will
be among the first states to
comVout of 'this depression be
cause our people have character,
integrity, and ability.
Everything considered, we
have reason to be thankful that
we had no more bank failures
than we did. It could have been
much worse."
Welcome by Graham
Dr. M. C. S. Noble, president
of Bank of Chapel Hill was
toastmaster. The bankers were
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Gold Asks Home
Talent To Write
On Local Topics
Editor
of 'The New Masses' Sees
Promise for Southerners Who
Portray Southern Scenes.
A plea for those southerners
who aspired to writing as a car
eer "to plant their roots in the
soil around them" was launched
here yesterday by Michael Gold,
staff editor of The New Masses
visiting Chapel Hill, in an ad
dress to Dr. E. E. Erieson's class
in sophomore English.
Gold, who expressed the be
lief that there is at least one po
tential literary; genius in each
class, asked that those aspiring
to a literary career to write of
scenes of the south since they
were best able to do it, as the
psychology and background of
the south was hard for those of
other sections to understand. He
added that the old feudal char
acter of the section was break
ing down and that this genera
tion would see a new movement
in the direction of realism.
Believing that the school of
James Branch Cabell was al
ready decadent, he said the
newer group, including Paul
Greene, William Faulkner, and
Fielding Burke, who are akin ta
Romaine Roland and Henri Bar
busse in France, represent the
new south, which has in it the
promise of an entirely changed
social structure.
- Gold outlined Russia's political
system before Professor Wood
house's government class.
WITHDRAWAL OF
HARRIS FOLLOWS
REINSTATEMENT
Columbia Editor Resigns Imme
diately to End Sensational
x Controversy.
Reed Harris, expelled editor
of The Columbia Spectator, was
reinstated to Columbia 'Wednes
day, but immediately tendered
his resignation to the university.
The end of the episode was ef
fected by negotiations, largely
on the part of a few lawyers in
Harris' defense, which sup
posedly brought an end to his
rather sensational collegiate
career.
As editor of The Spectator
since last fall, Harris' career
was far from quiet. To his
charges of professionalism in
football, he added attacks on the
restaurant in John Jay hall.
This stirring up a great deal of
comment, both favorable and
unfavorable throughout Colum
bia, finally culminated in his ex
pulsion by Dean Herbert E.
Hawks a few weeks ago. ,
Baldwin's Statement
Roger N. Baldwin, counsel for
Harris, is quoted as saying:
"The university's action may
be construed not only as a con
fession of error but as unwil
lingness to hve the matter
threshed out in courts. . While
previous court decisions did not
encourage hope of success, the
university would be obviously
embarrassed to have Harris'
charges sifted in public. Nor
could President Butler have re
lished going on the stand as a
witness to explain how he ap
plied his professed liberalism in
the Harris case."
Chi Phi Banquet
Chi Phi fraternity will give
a banquet tonight at 7 : 00 p'clock
in the banquet hall of Graham
Memorial.
Y Heads Gather
Meeting Will Be Addressed by "Presi
dent Frank Graham and Tom
Wright Today.
Between thirty-five and forty
executives of the various "Y"
organizations throughout the
state registered for the student
officers training conference,
which opened yesterday after
noon. Dr. McNeil Poteat of Ra
leigh addressed theproup last
night in the Di hall.
Today's program consists of a
talk by Reverend Thomas Wright
at 9 :30 a. m., and, after various
discussions and committee meet
ings, President Frank P. Gra
ham will address the conference
on the topic, "America Needs
Leaders."
A special meeting of the
North Carolina state cabinet
will take place at 4:00 p. m. for
the purpose of electing next
year's officers. This session will
be followed by a tea. Dean Mil
ner will give the purpose of the
Student Christian associations
at the evening meeting. v
F.P.GRAHAM TO
DELIVER ADDRESS
IN NEW ORLEANS
Other Distinguished Speakers
Will. Be Heard at Library
Association Meeting.
The annual meeting of the
American Library Association
occuring in New Orleans during
the week April 25 and receiving
delegates from every notable li
brary in the United States will
be attended by President Frank
Graham, Dr. Louis Round Wil
son, Professor. Frederick Koch,
and members of the library
staff, headed by R. B. Downs,
Cornelia S. Love, Guelda Elliot,
W. M. Smiley, and Merle Der
renbacher. President Graham will ad
dress the association Monday
night on "The Public Library in
American Civilization" and will
be one of the distinguished
speakers at the meeting. Dr.
Wilson, university librarian,
will read a paper on "Special
Collections in Southeastern Li
braries" before the Bibliograph
ical Society of America, an inde
pendent organization v affiliated
with the association. Professor
Koch will speak on "Making
Original Drama." -Many
Delegates Expected
The American Library As
sociation boasts of a member
snip of 15,000 in the United
States, Mexico, and Canada, and
it is expected that more than
2,000 .will attend the meeting in
New Orleans.
President Frank Graham, of
the University of North Caro
lina; Hendrick Van Loon, au
thor of Story of Mankind; Ed
win R. Embree, president of the
Julius Rosenwald Fund; Fred
erick Koch, of the University of
North Carolina, and originator
of community folk-play writing
through cooperative authorship;
and Mary Mims, community or
ganizer for Louisiana, and au
thor of The Awakening Com
munity will be noted speakers on
the conference program.
Dodge, Visits Chapel Hill
Dean Homer L. Dodge of the
graduate school of the Univer
sity of Oklahoma visited the
University Thursday as a rep
resentative of the Association of
University Professors. The as
sociation is making an investi
gation of methods of instruc
tions in' American colleges.
NUMBER 153
MILLIKAN PRAIS1
SCIENCE'S METHOD
MMAUJECTURE
Famous Scientist Completes Mc
Nair Series by Telling of
Objective Study.
"I think there can be no
shadow of doubt that the great
characteristic feature of our.
times, the one thing that dis
tinguishes our civilization from
all that have preceded it, is the
discovery of the scientific
method and the results that have
followed from its application."
Dr. Robert A. Miilikan. of the
California Institute of Tech
nology, noted physicist, told a
University audience last night
in the final of three McNair
lectures on the mutual relation
of science and religion.
That discovery, Dr. Miilikan
said, was made some three hun
dred years ago but its cumula
tive effects have come only with
in the last century.
Scientific Method
"The scientific method consist
ed in discarding all priori pos
tulates about the nature of real
ity and all complete philosophic
systems such as all the philoso
phers of the, ancient world had
started with, discarding like
wise all intuitive axioms and all
authority such as had been the
foundation of medieval scholas
ticism and appealing to the tri
bunal, of brute facts, facts which
bore no relation to any philoso
phic synthesis then possible in
a word getting away from" the
basis ' of introspection and over
to the basis of objective observa
tion. That is the method of
science."
Dr. Miilikan said there had
resulted from the scientific
method practically- the whole of
modern material civilization in
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SOCIAL SERVICE
GROUP TO OPEN
MEETINGSUNDAY
Graham and Branson WiH Ad
dress State Conference in
Durham Next Week.
Many representatives of both
the faculty and student body of
the University are expected to
attend the twentieth annual
meeting of the North Carolina
Conference for .Social Service,
which will take place Sunday,
Monday, - and Tuesday in the
Duke Memorial church in Dur
ham. '
President Frank Graham and
Dr. E. C. Branson will speak at
the meeting, and Professors S.
H. Hobbs, Jr., and H. D. Meyer
are to lead seminar discussion
groups. H. F. Comer, Profes
sors H. W. Sanders and Albert
Coates will further represent
the University. Professor Mey
er of the sociology department
will speak at a luncheon meet
ing Monday giving the report
of the committee on recreation,
and Dr. Roy Brown, of the-school
of public welfare, is to report
on the work of the committee
on crime Tuesday afternoon.
The program of events con
sists of forum discussion groups,
mass meetings, a number of ses
sions at which specific social
problems are to be discussed,
and special student sessions will
be conducted. A sizeable dele
gation of University students
will be present at the student
session, which will be opened at
' 11 :00 o'clock by Dean Justin
I Miller of the Duke law school.