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"""j, READ EDITORIAL: "PROPERLY CONDUCTED COURSE" FEATURE BOARD 10:30 A.M. TAR HEEL OFFICE VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1933 NUMBER 72 ill lIiVV PLAN SEMINAR ON LIBERAL RELIGION PRE THIS MONTH fission Brotherhood" of Uni versalist Preachers Plan Ten Lectures in This State. An extensive educational cam paign of liberal religion will be conducted in North Carolina during the week of January 15-22, when simultaneous lecture series are to be held in ten cities and towns of the state by mem bers of the newly formed "Mis sion Brotherhood, a Liberal Preaching Order." The order, -which has its headquarters in Boston, is composed of Unitar ian and Universalist clergymen who have pledged themselves to do a certain amount of lecturing and teaching each year, and is -the first inter-denominational "band of liberal mission preach 'ers in all church history. ; The ten series of meetings in Uorth Carolina will be conduct ed with the assistance of the Unitarian Laymen's League, which has held preaching mis sions during the past eleven .years and whose - staff preacher, the Rev. Dr. Horace Westwood of Boston, is director of the or '4er. The Rev. Dr. Francis B. Bishop of Rocky " Mount, state superintendent of Universalist churches, is directing the organ ization work for the missions. The meetings in Chapel Hill, "which will convene in Carolina Inn will take the form of a sem inar in liberal religion,, conduct? edby Dean Clarence. R. Skinner, of the Crane Theological School of Tufts College, chiefly for students and faculty members of the University. The other places to be visited are as follows : Asheville, Winston-Salem, Wil mington, Greensboro, Goldsboro, Irarham, High l?oint, Raleigh, and Rocky Mount. (Continued on last page) DEAN BRADSHAW URGES COURAGE Treshman Assembly Speaker Tells of Needy Students as Evinced by Letters. The first freshman assembly of the winter quarter was con ducted yesterday by Harry F. Comer. The speaker for the pe riod was Dean F. F. Bradshaw, who first spoke briefly on getting a fresh start this quarter and then spoke mainly to those un der financial or other difficulties. He said that the correspondence he had received last week seem ed to indicate that a large per centage of the students were either sons of widows, one of a family of ten, had lived on a mortgaged farm or else had just been moved from one. Dean Bradshaw emphasized the fact that courage was neces sary in times like these when the majority of students are finding it difficult to stay in school. He closed his talk by saying that in testinal fortitude was the most important thing in life. At the next assembly period, , " , V,? ' -aionaay, K. B. House win aeiiver i o XT a?i1flYio iucosage xroin wit? picojuvm, o office. Feature Board All present members of the feature board on The Daily Tar Heel must report at the office this morning at 10 :30 o'clock for a short conference with the chairman. GRAIL SCHEDULES SATURDAY DANCES Three dances this quarter will be offered by the Order of the Grail. Definite plans have been made for the first dance for Sat urday, January 14, which will take place in the gymnasium. The music will be provided by Nick Laney and his Blue Devils from Duke. x Dances given during the fall quarter were well attended, real izing a profit of between $500 and $600 dollars. Returns were (to have gone for the new Caro lina song, but as nothing has ever been done about this mat ter, the money will probably be contributed to the loan fund. DRAMATISTS WILL TAKE STATE TOUR IN LASTQUARTER Three Original Plays Will Be Presented on First Trip In Three Years. Returning after an absence of two years, the annual tour of the Carolina Playmakers will be conducted again this year for the twenty-ninth time. The last tour was made from April 18 to 30, 1930. Conditions in 1931 and 1932, however, pro hibited any exhibitions out of school. A quartet of plays were presented on the 1930 tour. No 'Count Boy by Paul Green, Job's Kinfolks and Black Water Jy Loretto Carroll T3ailey, and ilftv nolia's Man ojt Gertrude WilsSi i Coffin were presented. , Three plays will be presented on the 1933 tour. These "are Davy Crockett, Half Horse, Half Alligator by John Philip Mil hous ; Four on a Heath, a grotes que by Foster Fitz-Simons; and Stumbling in Dreams, a folk comedy of Tin Pan Alley by George Brown. All three of these plays have been success fully presented in Chapel Hill. All leading characters who ap peared in the plays here will re tain their roles, but there will be doubles for other parts. Fif teen Playmakers will make the trip in a thirty-two passenger bus. Scenery and lighting effects used in the productions here will be carried on the tour. The complete itinerary has not been arranged. Raleigh, Green ville, and Wilmington have, de finitely been booked for presen tations, while Goldsboro, Ash boro,r and Southern Pines will possibly be included. Carolin ians in the east will have an op portunity to see the plays this year, since the last tour was made in the western part of the state. Dormitory Banquet The first of the . dormitory smokers will be conducted -next Wednesday evening at ,8:00 o'clock when residents of Lewis dormitory will meet in the ban quet room in Graham Memorial for a round-table talk and re freshments. Following the smok er the students will attend a show at the Carolina theatre as ffuests of the manaeer. E. Car- OlliXUl. N. Rushing Resumed Pledging of new men by the fraternities may be done at any time, according to, the interfra ternity council. All invitations of this sort must be handled through the dean's office in the same method that was used dur ing the fall rushing. Dr. Odum Aidsln Of Committee Head of Department of Sociology at University Was Assistant Director of Research on Executive Staff of Hoover's Group Studying Country's Social Conditions. o When President Hoover said : "It is the first attempt ever made to study simultaneously all of the fundamental social facts which underlie all our social problems," he referred to the newly published volumes Recent Social Trends in the United States which is the result of three years of study by many of the leading social workers in the country and the expenditure of $1,000,000 or more. - In September, lresident Hoover authorized the organi zation of the Research. Commit tee on Social Trends whose pur pose was. "to examine and re port upon recent social trends in the United States, with a view to providing such a review as might supply a basis for - the formulation of large national policies looking .to the next phase in the nation's develop ment." Dr. Howard W. Odum, head of the University's sociology de partment, was one of the prom inent members of the commit tee appointed by the president to promote the research. Not only was Dr. Odum a member of the committee but he was ap pointed assistant director of re search on the executive staff. Odum on Committee For three years the commit- l tee worked on a study of social condition in the United. States; A composite work of all the so ciologists includes a study of the population of the United States, the manner of the utilization of the country's natural wealth, the influence on the country of in vention and discovery, and agen cies of communication in this country. Poor Reception In Chapel Hill Due To Radios Not Atmosphere 0 Research by University Consolidated Service Plants Mechanic Reveals That Campus Enjoys All Advantages for Good Reception Afforded by Any Section of State. o When crackling and smashing are heard inharmoniously along with the best dance orchestras and when the voice of your favorite v comedian fades into nothingness just as he gets to the point of his joke, don't yield to that first impulse of shouting in censorable terms against the atmosphere" of Chapel Hill which seems to be responsible for the failure of programs to "come in" properly. Look to your radio set instead for Chapel Hill gets just as good radio reception .as any place in the state; no better as claimed by the owners of the numerous midget sets that have ranges out of all proportion to their size, and no worse, as claimed by the owners whose sets are dragging out the tenth year of their ex istence. Radio Phenomenon Found An interesting fact was dis closed by the radio mechanic of the University Consolidated Ser vice Plants, who at one time or another tends to the ills of near ly all the radios in town. Re ception oh Rosemary street, he noted, was for some unaccount able reason not as good as in the rest of the town. Since there are no electrical plants in the vicinity that might interfere with reception, this is an unex plained mystery; Research Work On Social Trends In the first volume are chap ters on the trends in economic organization and shifting occu pations, a study of education and changing social attitudes and interests, and the rise of metropolitan communities. Oth er subjects treated in the first volume are rural life, the status of racial and ethnic groups, the vitality of American people, the family and its functions, and the activities of women outsjde the home. Second ' Volume of Work The second volume continues the subjects discussed in the first. Chapters on childhood and youth, labor groups in the so cial structure, people as con sumers, recreation and leisure time activities, the arts in social life, and changes in religious or ganizations are contained in this volume. The volume also con tains a study of the health arid medical practice, crime and pun ishment, privately supported so cial work, and a chapter by Dr. Odum on public welfare activi ties. The concluding chapters deal with the growth of govern mental functions, taxation and public finance, public adminis tration, law and legal institu tions, and finally the relation be tween the government and so ciety. This survey was made under the direction of the committee by twenty-eight authorities in the field of social work. These were aided by a staff of collabor ators and research assistants comprising 117 of the nation's leading educators, scientists, arid sociologists. This body of ex perts made separate surveys of ( Continued on last page) The contention of the physics department that radio reception was . normal when compared with the state as a whole was borne out by statements from a number of students, faculty, and others. The radio at Spen cer hall, which often sees over time duty, was reported as get ting Guy Lombardo, Hal Kemp, the Lucky Strike Orchestra, and Ishairi Jones without any dif ficulty. The radio at President Graham's home has been little troubled by atmospheric condi-J tions, and except for occasional "fading" has been hearing sta tions from Denver, to Mexico clearly. The consensus of opin ion frcfm the students as a whole has been that the radios in their dormitories and fraternity hous es work not only efficiently but too well. Best Reception iji Winter The best reception is in the winter , time. Cold, dry nights offer ideal conditions.- However, reception during the summer is unusually good, .although it is often marred by electric storms that bring on that bane of all programs, static. Those who have been experi menting with short wave sets have found atmospheric condi tions quite normal and have no trouble in getting stations clear ly from all parts of the country. PLAYMAKERS WILL TRY OUT MONDAY Tryouts for Shaw's comedy You Never Can Tell, -the next Carolina Playmaker production, will be conducted in the Play maker theatre Monday at 4:30 and 7 :30 o'clock, it . was an nounced yesterday. You Never Can Tell will be presented on February 2, 3, and 4, as a part of the Playmakers Shaw-Henderson program. A public address by Dr. Archibald Henderson, "George Bernard Shaw . as a World Power," and an exhibit of Shaw posters from European theatres, will begin the lecture program on January 29. DRAMA GROUP TO CONDUCT ANNUAL REVEISTONIGHT Playmakers to Convene for Busi ness Meetings on Morning and Afternoon Before Fete" A full round of activities has been scheduled for the Play makers theatre today when the members of the Carolina Dra matic Association will gather for their annual meeting in the morning and afternoon and Playmakers old and new will celebrate the annual Twelfth Night Revels tonight. The morning session of the as sociation's meeting will begin at 10:30 o'clock with an address of welcome by Professor Frederick H. Koch, director of the Caro lina Playmakers. Following this will be discussions of playwrit ing, scenery and lighting, busi ness management, high school dramatics and little theatre movements. "After a business session will be the presentation of Four on a Heath, one-act play by Foster Fitz-Simons. Durham School Play An original play given by stu dents of Durham high -school will open the afternoon session and will be followed by a stunt by the Winston-Salem high school while High Point high school students will offer "Py ra mus and Thisbe" from Mid-Sum mer Night's Dream and the Playlikers of the Woman's Col lege at Greensboro will present a one-act play. Lamar Stringfield, research director of the Institute of Folk Music will introduce a program played by the Carolina Salon Orchestra. Annual Revels The festive Twelfth Night Re vels conducted yearly by the Playmakers following the or der of Elizabethian celebrating twelve nights after Christmas will get underway tonight at 8:00 o'clock with a program of stunts, skits, and take-offs on old and new drama. The program is divided into two parts, the first being a pre sentation of Elizabethian scenes by members of the faculty and the second taking the order of modern skits and take-offs by students. Although no formal invita tions haVe been issued to this af fair in which . the Haymakers forget serious business and at tempt to have fun persons who have been connected with the or ganization are invited to attend. Sigma Xi to Meet at Duke The local chapter of Sigma Xi, national scientific society will meet January 11? at , Duke as guest of the Duke medical staff. HAPGOOD INJURED; MTCHELL CHOSEN TO ICTURE HERE Open Forum Lecturer Accident ally Shot and Political Econ omist Will Replace Him. Dr. Broadus Mitchell, associ ate professor of political eco nomy at Johns Hopkins Univer sity, famous authority on the rise of industrial problems in the south, has agreed to speak here during the open forum discus sion series in the place of Pow ers Hapgood, who was accident ally shot by a gun held in the hands of a friend, during target practice near his home in In dianapolis, Ind A blood trans fusion and an emergency opera tion have probably saved Mr. Hapgood's life, but he will be unable to keep any of his en gagements as a lecturer in this and other cities this year, Dr. Mitchell will speak at 8 :00 o'clock, January 12, on "The American Scene: 1932." Studies Social Change Dr. Mitchell has for many years been interested in social change. Beginning as a news paper man, after graduating from the University of South Carolina, his natural bent led him into the study of political economy. He received the de gree of Doctor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and became a teacher of political eco nomy, and studied the rise of in dustrialism in the south. His writings include: The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South, (Johns Hopkins Press) ; . Fred erick Law Olmsted, A Critic of the Old South, also published by the Johns Hopkins Press, and William Gregg, Factory Master of the Old South which was pub lished by the University of North Carolina Press. The In dustrial Revolution in the outh (Continued on last page) ORGANISTS PLAN CONTIST IN MAY Students' Contest Scheduled by American Guild of Organ ists at State Meet. The sixth annual students or gan contest, sponsored by the North Carolina chapter of the American Guild of Organists, will be conducted in Chapel Hill, May 8, in connection with the annual meeting of that organi zation. Entrance enrollments are be ing made by students who are residents of this state with Pro fessor Nelson O. Kennedy, in structor in piano and organ, who is the dean of the North Caro lina Guild and who is acting chairman of the contest commit tee. Any organ student who is under twenty-five years of age and who is a. resident, of. this state is eligible for entrance in the contest. Inaugurated in 1927 At the annual meeting of the North Carolina chapter of the American Guild of Organists at St. Mary's College, Raleigh, in April, 1927, it was. unanimously decided that the chapter would thereafter sponsor a contest for organ students to be conducted in connection with the annual meeting of the chapter each spring. s The contest is intended to en courage, young musicians to study the pipe organ, and to raise the standard of proficiency among the organists of the state
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