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VOLUME XLI
CHAPEL HELL, N. C-, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1932
NUMBER 20
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DR. RONDTHALER
GIVES LIFE STORY
OF FOUNDER OF Y
Salem College President Is Prin
cipal Speaker at Y. M. C. A,
Anniversary Program.
Dr. Howard Rondthaler,
president of Salem college, de
livered the principal address of
the Y. M. C. A. anniversary pro
gram yesterday morning in
Memorial hall. The speaker
traced the history of the Y. M
C. A. from the time of its origin
in 1844 up to the present.
George Williams, the founder
of this world wide organization
for boys and young men, was
born on an obscure farm invest
England in the year 1821. At
the age of eighteen he went . to
London as a draper s appren
tice. The apprentices Tiad to
keep very long hours in their
work and had no time or facili
ties for recreation or amuse
ment. He conceived the idea of
organizing a club for the ap
prentices with the purpose of
giving them Christian diversion.
The club grew rapidly and the
members, after disregarding
many proposed names, decided
on the one that we know today-;
The Young Men's Christian As
sociation. Within six years the
Y. M. C. A. had f our branches
the first in Montreal, Canada,
the second in Boston, the third
in Philadelphia, Penn., and the
fourth in Charleston, S. C.
For the accomplishment of
providing a club primarily for
the working class of boy and
young man he was knighted by
Queen Victoria. Upon his death
lie was buried in Westminster
Abbey, among England's most
famous soldiers and statesmen.
Dr. Rondthaler stated that
Sir George Williams was the
only man in England to be born
a private citizen, live as a pri
vate citizen, and after death be
buried among the famous.
BOY SCOUT SEMINAR TO
BRING EXECUTIVES HERE
GRAHAM MEETS
WITH ALDERMEN
The first Boy Scout executive
seminar of the year will be held
m Chapel Hill December 1-2, ac- Aldermen Consider Establish-
cording to an announcement ment of Bowling AUeys and
made today by Dr. H. D. Meyer Pool Rooms Here.
of the department of sociology.
This meeting - will bring to AZ tne mommy Doara oi ai-
Chapel Hill all the Boy Scout mermen's meeting this week,
executives of North Carolina.
SOPHOMORES SET
DATEFOR DANCE
Executive Committee of Class
Decides Hop Will Take
Place November 5.
President Frank P. Graham and
According to the preliminary h?3 aPpoind to J"
gate me ixiatLei uj&cua&tu tne
announcements, the theme of the
seminar will be "Indian Life in
North Carolina." The Boy Scout
fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega,
will participate in the seminar
proposition of permitting pool
rooms and bowling aleys to be
established in Chapel Hill.
According to City Manager
and the initiation banquet which John L- Caldwell, there is an old
will be a part of the program.
GRAHAM ACCEPTS
ECONOMIC BOARD
VICE PRESIDENCY
President Will Call Discussion Meet
ing of State Leaders in Novem
ber at Charlotte.
N.
C. PRESS ASSOCIATION
MEETS HERE OCTOBER 29
ordinance prohibiting the opera
tion of pool rooms, bowling al
leys, and all gambling devices
within five miles of the Univer
sity, without permission of the
president of the University.
It was contended, on the other
hand, that since pool tables are
now in use in Graham Me-
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President Frank P. Graham morial ana Dowiing alleys are
has accepted an appointment to under construction, city officials
serve as temporary vice-presi- should be allowed to grant per
dent for the North Carolina divi- mits for the operation of these
sion of the Southeastern eco- devices in the town. When the
nomic council, according to an meeting adjourned, the matter
announcement made Thursday had not been definitely decided
by Hugh MacRae of Wilmington, upon
president of the council! Presi
dent Graham accepted the ap
pointment at the request of the
council.
Sometime during the first two
weeks in November, a statewide
meeting will be called in Char
lotte by President Praham in the Three University Faculty Mem-
November 5 was the tentative
date set by the executive com
mittee of the Class of 1935 for
the annual Sophomore Hop in
the Tin Can. This decision was
reached at the annual meeting in
the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night.
William Sadler was appointed
chairman of the decoration com
mittee by President George C.
Franklin. Harold Bennett was
chosen chairman of the commit
tee on invitations. The commit
tee decided to hold the nomina
tion and election of the dance
leaders soon.
The affair is limited to mem
bers of the sophomore class.
Members of the executive com
mittee who attended the meeting
included : Julien D. Winslow
chairman ; Goodwin May, Foster
Thorpe, Chapin Litten, Clifton
R. Faucette, H. K. Bennett, Wil
liam Sadler, Robert Blount,
James Lothien, and Abbott L.
Dibblee.
The North Carolina press as
sociation has selected Chapel
Hill as the place for its meeting
October 29, according to an an
nouncement given out yesterday.
The press association when it
convenes here will discuss plans
for the mid-whiter newspaper
institute. The local committee
arranging plans for this conven
tion consists of Professor Oscar
Coffin, head of journalism de
partment, R. W. Madry, news
bureau, Louis Graves, editor of
the Chapel Hill Weekly, and R
M. Grumman, extension department.
MEN TRYING FOR
RHODES AWARDS
TO APPLY TODAY
Candidates Must File Applica
tions With Dean Hobbs
Or C. P. Spruill.
CHRISCO CHOSEN
TO STUDY WATER
SUPPLY OF STATE
Conservation Department of "Water
Resources and Engineering
Gives Scholarship.
STATE TEACHERS
TO ASSEMBLE FOR
ANNUAL MEETING
interests of the work of the
council, Mr. MacRae said.
Leaders in all lines of life in
the state, covering business, in
dustry, agriculture, and social
fiplds will loin President Gra
ham for the meeting.
. bers to Deliver Addresses
At Greensboro.
Old Geology 5 Test
The tenth annual North Caro
lina teachers convention meet
ing in Greensboro October 21
22 will have three speakers from
the University of North Caro
lina. Dean D. D. Carroll will ad
dress the commerce students,
UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINTS TWO NEW
BOOKS MS WEEK
"Liberalism in the South" and
"The Era of Muckrakers" Deal
With Social Conditions,
A test in place geography will Dr. J. C. Lyons the French teach
be given this morning at 9:30 ers, and Dr. W. C. Jackson, will
o'clock in room 106 Bingham for discuss the newly begun school
the benefit of those students who of public administration. .
have tentative credit for geology
5, now called economics 11.
There will be three general
sessions, two Friday and one
Saturday, and twenty depart
mental sessions. About 1,500
teachers and superintendents
are expected to attend these
sessions which are scheduled to
Anti-Hitch-Hiking Law, in Effect Five Years, Does Not Prevent convene in the auditorium of the
Soliciting Rides But Forbids Standing in Streets
For Such a Purpose.
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The University of North
Carolina Press has announced
the publication of two impor
tant new books. Liberalism in
the South, is the title of the book
which is scheduled to appear
Monday. The Era of the Muck
rakers by C. C. Regier was is
sued Thursday.
Liberalism in the South, by a
young southern author, Virgi-
nius Vabney, is a "survey of the
Judge Lenient On Bumming Fines
Charging Twelve Cost Of Court
Not a single fine has been im
posed for violation of the anti
bumming ordinance passed five
years ago. In reviewing the
operation of the regulation, C.
P. Hinshaw, judge of the local
recorder's court, estimated that
the number of arrests did not
exceed twelve. Seven of these
were made early this year on of
fenders, ignorant of the ordin
ance. The usual court procedure I
has been a warning and the pay
ment of costs of court.
The city ordinance making it
unlawful for a person to solicit
automobile rides within certain
areas of the streets of Chapel
Hill was effected by the board of
aldermen in 1927. The enact
ment of this bill, intended to
cure students of the strange
malady, R. B. House, University
secretary terms "Thumbitness,
came as a result of the excessive
annoyance caused motorists by
students seeking free rides.
Precarious Conditions
The situation was considered
dangerous for-both driver and
pedestrian, for the hitch-hikers
insisted on mobbing the streets
and congesting traffic at corn
ers. There is no record, how
ever, of the death of a student
or even the contraction of an
injury while seeking a ride in
Chapel Hill. Nevertheless, .an
accident in which three pedes
trians were run over on Frank
lin street resulted in a general
prejudice to street bumming.
Motorists made many com-
Greensboro senior high school.
During tne riday sessions
Clyde A. Erwin, president of the
State educational association ;
Mrs. John K. Norton, National
Educational Association; Dr.
Frank H. Hickman, Duke; and
Mrs. Blanch Prebble will speak
to the assembled body. Satur-
n , .j- day, Dr. B. H. Van Ott, Virgi
annoyed them by standing far . , , . , . .
out m the street. Another , , TT
- education; anu ur. xuvvm xi.
Keeaer, uoiumma university,
will make the principal address
es. All departmental work will
be under the supervision of ca
pable speakers and teachers.
grievance arose from the case
the driver who stopped for per
sonal purposes and then discov
ered his car filled and surround
ed by bummers, who clambered
aboard without so much as ask
ing Permission of the driver.
These conditions and a general
resentment against individuals
seeking something for nothing
resulted in the enactment of the
following ordinance :
Text of Ordinance
"Be it ordained by the board
of aldermen of the town of
Chapel Hill: "
Section 1. That no pedes
trian shall be permitted to take
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a stana on tne motor vemcuiui.
portion of any street in the town
or in any manner obstruct motor
voWnlnr traffic, and that in
VUA W MAMI J
crossing the street all pedes
trians shall keep in motion while
in that portion of the street
Section . 2. That any person
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CITY HEALTH OFFICER
MAKES MONTHLY REPORT
More specific knowledge of the
supply of water in North Caro
lina for industrial uses is to be
sought through studies to be
made by a fellowship student
here, according to an announce
ment made by Col. J. W. Harrel
son, director of the department
of conservation and develop
ment. A fellowship in chemical engi
neering, Director Harrelson said,
has. been awarded to H. F.
Chrisco, a graduate in chemical
engineering and a resident of
Badin. The selection has been
approved by President Frank
Graham, and the fellowship is
being extended through the con
servation department's division
of water resources and engineer
ing here.
Seven in Infirmary
Seven students were confined
to the University infirmary yes
terday. J. G. Beard, Evelyn
Holloman, B. M. Kahn, Eleanor
Lockhart, Peggy Ann Hanir,
Brasel Lanier, and W. A. Shear
ouse were the students.
Applications of candidates for
Rhodes schorlarships must be
filed with either Dean A. W.
Hobbs, chairman of the local
committee, or C. P. Spruill,
member of the state committee
by today. State selections are
scheduled for December 10, and
district committee meetings will
take place a few days later.
A candidate for the scholar
ship, which allows two years of
study at Oxford, must be an un
married male citizen of the
United States between the ages
of nineteen and twenty-five. He
may apply either in his native
state or in the state in which he
has had two years of higher
education. There are eight dis
tricts in the United States, each
comprising six states. Two can
didates from each state are sel
ected to appear before a district
committee, which will chose
from the twelve men the four
that seem best suited and most
representative.
A scholar may remain a third
year in Oxford upon presenta
tion of a plan of study for that
period satisfactory to his school
and to the Rhodes trustees. He
may then postpone his third
year in order to have a period
of work in the United States, or,
in a special case, may gpend his"
third year in graduate work in
some university in Great Brit
ain or in Europe. )
The stipend of a Rhodes
scholarship is fixed at 400 lbs. a
year. A student is not restrict
ed in his choice of subjects.
Qualities that are considered
in the candidates include: liter
ary and scholastic attainments,
moral characteristics, leader
ship, and physical vigor.
iberal movement in the fields of
politics, education, race rela- A u -r jj
tera-UrcniDaia nenaerson s oiograpny
tions, religion, industry, litera
ture,, journalism, and women's
rights from the time of Jefferson
to the present in the Southern
States." Liberalism is defined
as a doctrine which has as its
center principles of dignity and
the worth of the individual. The
author honestly and fearlessly
applies this doctrine to the prob
lems of the South.
The author, Virginius Vabney,
is a young Virginian of unusual
ability. He is a lineal descend
ant of the first president of the
original Phi Beta Kappa chap
ter at Washington Jefferson col
lege. He -himself, a Phi Beta
Kappa member, graduated from
the University of Virginia in
1920, having completed the
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ALUMNI REPRESENT U.N.C.
AT COLLEGE CEREMONIES
Five births and no deaths
were included in the vital statis
tics report for the month of Sep
tember, made by Dr. S. A, Na
than, city health officer, at the
meeting of the board of alder
men this week.
Of the five births reported in
Chapel Hill for September, ac
cording to Dr. Nathan, two were
white children and three were
colored.
Diseases reported in . the
county during September in
cluded two cases of scarlet fever
and one case of diptheria at
Hillsboro, and one case of pel
lagra in the rural district ad
joining Chapel Hill.
Reverend William Trabus
Steele, '17, of Brentwood, Tenn
essee, was the University rep
resentative at the ninetieth an
niversary of the founding of
Cumberland University Thurs
day and Friday at Lebanon,
Tennessee.
At the dedication of the Mary
Reed library at the University
of Denver, October 28, W. M.
Bond, '07, of Denver, Colorado,
will act as this University's rep
resentative," while Harry Leslie
Dillon, '30, will perform the
same service at the exercises at
Linfield College, McMinnville,
Oregon. Dillon is a member of
the faculty at Linfield college.
Of Shaw Will Be Released Today
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Head of Mathematics Department Has Distinguished Himself in
Field of Literature by Works on Shaw; Present Book to Be
Most Complete Biography of Shaw Published.
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Dr. Archibald Henderson's de
finite biography of the great
comic dramatist, George Bernard
Shaw. Playboy and Prophet,
will appear before the public to
day.
This date will mark an im
portant event in the literary
history of Chapel Hill, for it is
at that time that one of the Uni
versity's loyal and brilliant fac
ulty members will establish be
yond question his eminence in
the field of great contemporary
literary production.
This new work is more com
prehensive and complete than
any biography of Shakespeare,
and the celebrated subject has
been treated with the same ser
iousness and comprehensiveness
that would have been accorded
to Shakespeare, were he living
at this time.
Early Books Helped Shaw
As is the case with Boswell
and Dr. Johnson, it is doubtful
whether Dr. Henderson's first
biography made Bernard Shaw
or whether the biography of
Bernard Shaw made Dr. Hen
derson. In this connection
Shaw recently commented,
"Professor Henderson's first
biography in 1911 did me a sig
nal service ... I became an in
dividual where I had not even
been a species." Although this
is the eighth book to be publish
ed by Dr. Henderson dealing
either wholly or in part with
Bernard Shaw, it is an entirely
new work and is quite independ
ent of the earlier volumes.
The book is especially remark
able when one considers that it
covers in detail seventy-six ac
tive years of the life of a drama
tise who has had some forty-two
plays produced in practically
every corner of the globe.
As the possessor of the most
complete collection of Shaviana
in existence and as a friend of
his subject for more than a
quarter of a century, Dr. Hen
derson is particularly well quali
fied to be Shaw's biographer.
However, it is a critical bio
graphy, and although Shaw read
the proofs, his corrections per
tained to factual matters and
were not intended or allowed to
influence the biographer's point
of view.
Dr. Henderson's long friend
ship with Shaw began in rather
an unusual way. While studying
for his Ph.D. degree at Chicago,
he happened to witness one of
Shaw's plays. The playwright's,
brilliance, originality and keen
insight into human nature in-
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