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TAR HEEL MEETING 4:00 O'CLOCK TODAY 205 GRAHAM MEMORIAL MEETING WITH DEANS 10:30 O'CLOCK TODAY FRESHMAN CHAPEL ' VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. O, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1932 NUMBER 5 fl- II E W W PLAYMAKERS TO PRESENT COMEDY TO START YEAR Dramatic Group Plans to Pre sent Two Bills of Plays This Winter. The Carolina Playmakers will open tneir niteentn season m Chapel Hill with a modern ro mantic comedy, which will go in to rehearsal the first week in Oc tober. Philip Barry's sophisti cated American comedy, Holli Aav ; Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell, a satiric comedy; Sir James Barrie's, A Kiss for Cin derella, a comedy of romance; and New Brooms, by Frank Craven, and another American comedy, are the four under con sideration. Negotiations with publishers to secure production rights are now going on, and final decision will be made with in a few days. A season ticket tor tne six major productions is again offer ed by the Playmakers, to sell at two dollars. Tickets will be sold by student agents and will also be on sale at the Book Ex change and Alfred Williams. Last year the Playmakers open ed auspiciously with Saturday's Children by Maxwell Anderson, and this season's opener will be an important modern comedy from those mentioned above. The second show will be an original long play or a bill of three new one-act plays. Professor Koch tates that the new playwriting oss looks very promising, with students from a number of dif ferent states, and the prospects are good for another original full-length play which will rank in importance with last year's Strike Song, by Loretto and J. (Continued on page three) North Carolina Arising From Its Intellectual Stupor, Says Green , o ' Paul Green, North Carolina's Most Famous Playwright, Discusses The State's Intellectual and Cultural Progress Dur ing the Past Few Decades. o ' Since 1905 North Carolina has awakened from an intellectual stupor of centuries to forge ahead industrially and culturally in the south, stated Paul Green, the state's most famous play wright, while conferring this summer with officials of the Fox Film Corporation in Iowa. Green was at the University of , Iowa to witness and assist in the pre miere of his Tread the Green Grass, "North Carolina has no sea port," Green said,4 "so that in colonial times it wa's rapidly out grown by Virginia on the north, tfith its harbor at Norfolk, and South Carolina on the south, 'ith Charleston. During ante bellum days the culture of the region centered about Charles ton, Norfolk and Richmond." This backward condition con tinued until 1905, which is gen erally accepted as the year of the cultural and industrial awakening 0f the state and the beginning 0f the Carolina ren aissance. "Two separate groups are re sponsible for the change," he thinks. The work of several dis tinct families account for in dustrial progress. "The Dukes, the Cannons, the Grays, the Hayneses, and the Reynoldses began building huge factories in the Piedmont." Sharing in the intellectual and cultural development were a number of North Carolina's EDITORIAL STAFF OF PAPER MEETS THIS AFTERNOON New Men Wishing to Try Out for Openings 'on Staff Are Asked v To Be' Present. The second, meeting of the Daily Tar Heel editorial staff will be conducted this afternoon at the -offices in Graham Me morial at 4 :00 o'clock sharp. All members of the reportorial staff are required to attend and all persons interested in working with the publication are expect ed to report at this time. - The purpose of the meeting is to complete plans for organiza tion for the year and work out several routine details which were not presented at the initial meeting. In view of this fact, all new men will be required to report for the meeting which will be necessarily short. There are at present several openings on the staff of the pa per and those who wish to try out will be given the opportunity to do so. Henderson Publishes New Shaw Biography Dr. Archibald Henderson's new biography of George Ber nard Shaw, the noted English playwright and critic, is to be published next month by Apple- ton. Dr. Henderson, head of the mathematics department of the University, is widely known as a scientist, writer, and historian Dr. Henderson is the official biographer for Shaw. The work is to be entirely independent of Dr. Henderson's earlier work on Shaw. This book is considered as the most comprehensive biog raphy that has ever been written on any living man and is reputed to trace the whole course of Shaw's life and career down to the moment of going to press. sons. "In the other group were such men as Walter Hines Page, then editor of a Raleigh news paper but later ambassador to the court of St. James; Charles Brantley Aycock, the governor of the state; Edward Alderman and Edward Kidder Graham. These men were educators, lead ers in the field of culture," he says. Alderman and Graham were each presidents of the Uni versity. ers in the field of culture, he Paul Green, who for the past several months-has devoted his talent to scenario writing for motion pictures, is a professor of philosophy here. One- time winner of the Pulitzer for play writ jng, he has had four plays produced in New York. The No 'Count Boy was the first, follow ed by In Abraham's Bosom, The Field God, and more recently, The House of Connelly, At pres ent he is in Hollywood adapting "State Fair" for a Fox photo play. ' Co-ed Tea Party The Woman's Association of the University will give its first of a series of teas from 4:00 to 6:00 o'clock in the reception room, of Spencer hall this after noon. For the past few years, because of the increasing num ber of co-eds attending the Uni versity, teas have been given once a week to afford the girls a chance to get acquainted. Y.M.C.A. APPOINTS COMMITTEE HEADS McKee, President of "Y," An nounces Appointment of New Committee Chairmen. Announcement was made yes terday by Bill McKee, president of the Y. M. C. A., as to the ap pointment of chairmen for the various committees. These chair men will come from the senior i i t it 'it i caumei ana tney win nave a sub-chairman working with them from each of the lower cabinets. The appointments were dis cussed and plans of the commit tees were laid out Monday night at the meetings of the sophomore and senior cabinets. The chairmen and their com mittees : Lee Grier, religious em phasis; Ike Minor, Bible study; Wofford Humphries, social en tertainment ; John Acee, social service; Graham McLeod, church co-operation; Alex Andrews,' li brary; Roy McMillan, deputa tions; Bob Barnett,. world fel lowship ; Clairborne Carr, publi city; Jim Steere, freshmen; Jim Curfees, case work; Bill Sprad- lin, speakers ; Ike Minor,' fin ances; the boys' work commit tee, the conference committee, and the inter-racial work com mittee have their chairmen yet to be selected. - - The sub-chairmen from the (Continued on page three) DEPUTATIONS TO BE ORGANIZED BY MESHMAN GROUP Jack Poole Outlines and Ex plains Work of Friendship Council in Assembly. Jack Poole, former president of the freshman friendship coun cil and now "a sophomore,", as Dean Bradshaw introduced him, was the main speaker of yester day's assembly program. The program was opened with a devotional conducted by Rev erend A. S. Lawrence of the Episcopal church and announce ments by Dean Bradshaw, who then presented Poole. -Describes Work Poole gave a full explanation of the freshman friendship council and outlined the program for the coming year. The pur pose of the council is to give the boy a betterspiritual life as well as social, he said. One of the features of this year's program will be the or ganization of a deputation team from the freshman class. This team will be composed of eight men, four of whom will form a quartet, while the others will be speakers. This practice was begun last year and carried out very suc cessfully. The time for try-outs for the team will be announced sometime next week. Bull's Head Reading - The initial reading sponsored by the Bull's Head will take place this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the lounge of the bookshop. George Horner of the English department is to read, from Ste phen Leacock's Afternoons in Utopia, a humorous parody on the flood of economic volumes lately published. The event is a continuation of such afternoons which were in augurated during the. summer sessions to great success. Mary Dirnberger, manager of the Bull's Head, will act as hostess. RULES ON CHECKS CITED BYMEDFORD Chairman of Committee Reports 1,620 Worthless Checks Given Last Year. The chairman of the student council check committee of the University, William Medford, reported yesterday that during last year, 1,620 checks, drawn by students for a total of $12,989 .90, were returned by various banks, and called attention to the regulations on bad checks -of students. JtsanK iaiiures were respons ible for more than ten per cent of these and fifty-one per cent were returned for one of three other reasons : the failure of the stuuent to Keep accurate ac counts; checks written with the intention of depositing sufficient sums and subsequent negligence in that respect ; and misunder standing at home. There were two students suspended, six were placed under suspended sentences, and sixty-five were put on probation. Thirty-nine per cent were returned for mis cellaneous reasons. i The committee is composed of the members of the student coun cil. This group receives a list of bad checks each day from the Bank of Chapel Hill and sends a notice to the offending student It tne cneck is not taken up (Continued on last page) FINAL PLANS FOR' EXTENONWORR NOW MADE READY Courses to Be Given Concerned Primarily With Administra tion of Public Schools. R. M. Grumman, director of the University extension divi sion, announced yesterday that final arrangements for the new extension classes are being made. These classes are conducted each year throughout the state under the direction of members of the University faculty, and this year will be concerned primarily with public school administration and are designed especially for those who. are interested in public school administration and pub lic school teaching. Professor George Howard of the University department of education will teach two classes in Raleigh and Wake county in co-operation with the State Col lege extension department. He will also have charge of classes on administration and educa tional administration in Roa noke Rapids, Nashville, and Rocky Mount, and will work with Miss Cecilia Bason on the same courses in Burlington and Mebane. Miss Bason will con duct classes in social science, na tural science, and study methods in Roxboro, Sanford, and Fay etteville. William J. McKee, also a pro fessor of education at the Uni versity, will teach classes on so cial policy and education and psychology ofs elementary edu cation at Lumberton, Rocking ham, Oxford, and either Pitts- boro or Siler City. W. E. Cald well, professor of history, and A. C. Howell, associate professor of English, will conduct classes in their respective fields at Hemp. At Shelby, Rutherf ordton, and Columbus, Roy W. Morrison, as sociate professor of education, will conduct courses on guidance and administration, psychology (Continued on page three) SOCIALISTS NEED 2,000 NAMES FOR THOMAS PETITION Lawrence Claims Ninety Per Cent of Local Professors Are Signers Of Petition. According to figures released by Alton S. Lawrence yesterday, the 'attempt to place the name of Norman Thomas, Socialist can didate for president ofthe Unit ed Stated, on the North Carolina electoral ballot for this year was 2,000 names short of the num ber required by the state laws. Lawrence said that the peti tion which requires 10,000 sign- ers oeiore tne candidate can have his electors on the ballot had 8,000 signers. He also said that ninety per cent'of the fa culty members of both the Uni versity and Duke university had signed the petition. Lawrence, who gives his ad dress as Chapel Hill, could not be reached by the Daily, Tar Heel yesterday to verify the re port that ninety per cent of the faculty members here had sign ed the petition. Socialists in the state were re ported to be highly hopeful yes terday of securing the necessary number of names on the petition to have Thomas' electors on the ballot. The petition must be be fore the electoral board in Ral eigh today as the time limit ex pires at this time. Buccaneer Try-outs Men interested in trying out for the Buccaneer, University comic magazine, will gather to day in the offices of the publica tion at 1:30 p. m, A number met yesterday for the first try out and opportunity is given for additional men who are interest ed in working on the comic. The offices are at 207- Graham Memorial. Fraternity Row, Once Center Of University Social Life, Is No More ; o Moving of Chi Phi House Marks the End of the Old Fraternity Row Which Once Thrived With All the Noise and Excitement of College Life. o With the moving of Chi Phi fraternity to other quarters, Fraternity Row is no more. The houses, once thriving with all the noise and excitement of col lege life, how stand bleak and, for the most part, deserted. A slow process of decay has re duced Fraternity Row from the social heart of the campus to an obscure spot, harboring nonde script buildings. Alumni witness the transfor mation with mingled wonder, and sorrow. They recall the section as it was in its heyday. Enter ing the row. by Swain halloa visitor first encountered the oYd Kappa Alpha house at the head of the lane. Next came the home of Kappa Sigma, lying be tween the Kappa Alpha and Pi Kappa Alpha houses. The Betas were just across the path which cut through to Columbia street. Around the corner and facing up the lane was the Deke house with porch reaching all the way around the sides. Further on around the curve, back of the Methodist church and facing the open field where the Hill music hall is now, were the Sigma Alpha Epsilons and the Sigma Nus. Climax About 1917 In the years immediately pre ceding the World War the row saw the climax of .its glory. Uni versity life, then even more than now, centered around the fra ternity and naturally gravitated EXECUTIVEGROUP OF BOARD MEETS IN RALEIGH TODAY Trustees Expected to Select President of Greater Uni versity at Session. Persons connected with the University are turning their eyes toward Raleigh today where the executive committee of the board of trustees of the Greater University Of North Carolina will convene to consider several questions which have aroused state-wide interest. President May Be Chosen At this time the president of the Greater University is ex pected to be chosen under the power conferred on the execu tive committee by the entire, board last spring. The man chosen will head the whole in stitution consolidated by the General Assembly of 1931 while each of the divisions, the Univer sity, State College in Raleigh, and North Carolina College in Greensboro, will have a vice president who will head that di vision. i Tatum Petition Up Among other matters slated to be brought up is the petition presented Governor O. Max Gardner three weeks ago by L. A. Tatum which condemned the University as allowing subver sive teaching. Two hundred and eighty-three persons signed the petition. The board may also make sev eral new appointments connect ed with the institution, among which is the choosing of a libra rian for the University to fill the place of Dr. Louis R. Wilson, who resigned last spring. R. B. Downes is acting librarian at present. toward the old row. The houses there are silent witnesses to the furious horseplay of fraternity life of yesteryear and the gay so cial life which now centers around the Tin Can and the By num gymnasium. The exodus began when the S. A. E. house burned to the ground and carried with it the Sigma Nu home. Shortly after the fire these two fraternities establish ed themselves in their present residences. The Dekes were next to move. When they built on Columbia avenue, the Chi Phis moved into their old home. Pikas and Betas Last ' Later, the burning of their houses also forced the Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigmas to re build in Cameron court. Finally the Pikas and Betas, the last of the original members of frater nity row, followed the stream down to Columbia street. The passing of the row as a home of fraternities is the tri umph of brick over frame homes. As the orders grew larg er and wealthier they sought more imposing domiciles in more advantageous locations. Today, the few structures re maining in Fraternity Row are boarding houses and rooming places, cramped in between the ever-growing wings of the Uni versity. The school has recently taken over the old Chi Phi home for purposes similar to that of Best House.
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