University Library
Chasol HiU. 11- 0.
PLAYMAKER PRODUCTION
8:30 P.M. '
PLAYMAKERS THEATRE
DR. CHARLES A. BEARD
8:00 P.M.
GERRARD HALL
VOLUME XLI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C? THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23,U933
NUMBER 112
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PLAYMAKERS TO
GIVE THREE- ACT
COMEDY BY KERR
Sad Words to Gav Music" Will
Be Offered Here Today, To
morrow, and Saturday.
7 ar Heel Observes Fortieth
Birthday With Today's Issue
-s
Sixth Radio Discussion
Is Scheduled Tonight
George Koch, owner of radio
station W4UM, will speak on
"Power Amplifier Theory and
Practice" at the sixth of a series
of radio discussions tonight at
7:30 o'clock in 206 Phillips hall.
tomorrow and Saturday in the for the bfefit of dio ama-
Alvin Kerr's three-act comedy
Sad Words to Gay Music, direct
ed by Samuel Selden, will be pre-
Playmakers Theatre. The per
formance. tonight will be accom
panied by the Carolina Salon
teurs and are open to all who
are interested.
The topic for this discussion
Paper First Issued in 1892 With
Baskerville Editor and Mur
phy Managing Editor.
With the current issue The
Tar Heel observes its fortieth
birthday." On the morning of
February 23, 1892, the Univer
sity received its first copy of the
publication which in four de
cades has grown from a strug
gling weekly to a daily of im
portance and power.
The rise of a weekly paper
Ensemble, under the direction of is of particular interest to ama
Thor Johnson teur operators because it ex
Sad Words to Gav Music is plains the fundamental theory
Kerr's first play to receive pro- back of the various classes of
fessional production. It is pre- amplifiers. The subject will be
illustrated and clearly ex-
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in the new version, developed af- plained.
fpr successful production Iastf After the 'talk there will be an
summer. Before his graduation informal discussion. At each
in 1928, Kerr waSan active play- weekly meeting a selected topic
wright and director in the Play- is presented by a person ex
makers. His latest play, Sour perienced in that phase of radio
Lavendar. may be produced here work, followed by discussion.
later - The meetings are concluded with
Cast for Plat- code practice for those who de
sire it.
SPEAKING COURSE MAY
BE OFFERED IN SPRING
will be taken as follows: Cora
Hamilton, Marion Tatum ; War
ren Hamilton, Edward Martin;
Parker, Carl Thompson; Sheua The English department will
Patterson, Eugenia Kawls ; Bart give English 47, public speaking
Beresford, James McConnaug- course, during the spring quar
hey; Peter Chase, William Bon- ter provided a sufficient number
yun ; Cookie Cunningham, Aileen of students desire to take it.
Ewart; Bill Cunningham, Irving Students wishing to enter this
Suss; Emma, Oramae Davis; class should report to Dean A.
and Dr. Lawson, Bradford Bis- W. Hobbs in South building im
sell.. mediately.
The.. Playmaker Ensemble, English :47 is a full course in
conducted by Lamar Stringfield, public speaking and is adminis
will play for the performance tered by Professor W. A. Olsen.
tomorrow, and thev Carolina
Salon Ensemble will furnish ac
companiment Saturday night.
TWO LOCAL MEN
AMONG COLUMBIA
SUMMER FACULTY
Seven Prominent North Carolina Edu
cators to Serve on Summer
Session Staff.
Life-Savers to Meet
CfflH MENG SAYS
CRISIS CAUSED BY
JAPANESE POLICY
Chinese Speaker Declares Con
ditions in Manchuria Chal
lenge Peaceful Countries.
"The crisis in the Far East is
not incidental," declared Chih
Meng, noted Chinese lecturer,
who addressed an audience in
Gerrard hall Tuesday night on
"The Manchurian Problem." In-
! stead, added Dr. Meng, it' wTas
was to a, lare extent the result brought abut by a constant and
of the general expansion of the ruthless -expansive policy of
University during the early paru
nineties. President George T. Dr. Meng conducted several
Winston, who had been inaug- forum discussions yesterday in
urated in 1891, quadrupled the addition to his lecture Tuesday
enrollment in four years and night. He will proceed today
encouraged the pursuit of such to State College where he will
extra-curricular activities as de- lead similar seminars on Sino
bating, football, and journalism. Japanese problems
As the University began to Scores Japanese Policy
widen its scope, the need for a Dr. Meng expressed the view
permanent record of campus that the warlike conditions in
Budget Estimate On Per
Capita Cost Of Students
Declared To Be Incorrect
Woman's Head Added
To Advisory Group
Mary Frances Parker, presi-j
dent of the Women's Student as
sociation, has been added to the
recently appointed Advisory
Board of the Division of Stu
dent Welfare. Total member
ship of the Board now numbers
ten outstanding student leaders.
Official announcement of the
creation of the board was made
Sunday. The student group
will act in an advisory, capacity
to the Administrative Board of
fifteen University officials whose
work embraces all University
relationships ' with students
other than formal instruction.
President Frank P. Graham ap
pointed all members on both
boards.
Sub - Committee Recommends
Changes in Free and Out-of-State
Tuition Here.
events ana achievements was
felt imperative.
Origin: Unknown
In just what . manner the
paper originated is still , a mat-
the Manchurian area is a chal
lenge to all liberty-loving and
peace-loving people of the world.
Japan's repeated encroachments
in the territory accompanied by
ter of conjecture. Perhaps, shady denials of any attempt on
like Topsy, "it just growed." At her part to take Manchuria were
any rate, the most reliable the reasons for; the recent con
source of information is to be flict. Japan's Manchurian policy
had from Walter Murphy, first is much the same as in the
managing editor of The Tar famous Korea affair of 1910
Heel. when, although Japanese states-
In an article written last year men swore that it would not in
he gave his version of the pub- terfere m that country, it an
lirwHrm'& "fnnnrli r Tn fTio- -foil nexed it under force with the
of 1892 he and the late Charles pretext of self-defense.
Baskerville decided to lay be- Dr- Meng pointed out how the
fore the Athletic Association a Japanese government took ad
proposal for that organization vantage of China and Manchuria
frit snrnlsn-r a nanpr wVnVK -romiM during the flood and economic
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
TO PRESENT CONCERT
Members of the senior Red
Cross life-saving class and all
students interested- in joining
will meet at 2:00 tfclock tomor
row afternoon in 210 Graham
Memorial. Members of this class
will have an opportunity to take
the lied Cross examiner's test
to be given at Duke University
next month.
Dr. English Bagby, professor
of psychology, and Dr. Edgar W.
Knight, professor of education,
will be among seven North Car
olina educators who have been
appointed to the summer session
faculty of Columbia University.
Dr. Bagby will direct studies in
the psychology of nersonalitv
and in social psychology. The Officials of Alumni Organizations
,-..ifl4.j e ui ouinern uoueges win
n4.ii ,v Hear Graham Tomorrow
wn picocni liaLiuiiai ixiiiiuJ
ALUMNI HEADS TO
MEET IN DURHAM
FOR CONFERENCE
be the official organ of the stu
dent body. The year previous
there had appeared on the cam
pus for the first time a student
weekly, entitled The
Hillian. It, however.
panic of 1931. . The League of
Nations intervened in Japan's
policy of occupying Manchuria
with force, but that country re-
Chapel buked the League with the argu
YVod ment tnat it naa lnsumcient
tion policy is.; among the, prob- u a roroximaelv fiftv alumni
lems to b taken up. Dr. Knight officiajs representing twenty
will participate in a program of fivie C0Heffes and universities of
professional studies of educa- Alabama, Georgia, Flpridfa, the
tion, besides conducting courses rjarolinas and Virginia will
in the history of education and meet in arconf erenCe tomorrow
educational expansion in Amer- Saturday in tne Washing-
lca- : , .... ton Duke hotel, Durham. J.
Other North Carolinians Maryon Saunders, University
Dr. Calvin Hoover, professor alumni secretary, who is direc
of economics at Duke Univer- tor of district three of the
sity, will offer two courses, one American Alumni Council which
on 'International Economics' soonsora tin conferences, will
and the; other , on "Economic 1 have cnarge of the program.
Thought from Adam Smith to. President Frank P. Graham
the Present." Dr. Henry Fuchs, wfli address the convention Sat?
professor of music theory at urday afternoon on a college
North -Carolina College . for president's, , view . of organized!
Women, will direct two courses alumni work. Immediately fol-
in music. Other North CarbtoliowinffGranam's speech the con
appointments are: Dr. C. L. fe'rence representatives will
Gohdes, associate professor of journey to Chapel Hill for a
English, Duke University, Amer- campus visit and tea in Graham
ican literature : Dr. H. M. Poteat, Memorial.
Professor of Latin. Wake For- Business Session Saturday
est College. Latin : C. H. Stone, The most important business
Professor of library science, 0f the conference will be the in-
North Carolina College for Worn- formal discussion Saturday
en, librarv sWe! morninir. Different alumni sec-
Manv cfnta from North Lptarips will lead an open forum
Carolina are expected to enroll on various alumni topics of m-
for the rnnrP fViia summer. (Continued on page iwuj
tempt on her part to capture
Mafechuria Japan, however, rec
ognized the independence of the
contested country before the
League's Official report of the
(Continued on paffeS two)
before the end of the school year facts to prove that any real at-
from lack of support.
Staff Appointed
The pldn met with unanimous
approval, arid the Association
appointed a Doara wmcn con
sisted of Baskerville, editor,
Murphy, managing, editor, and
W. P. Wooten, A. B. Andrews,
Perrin Busbee, Caswell Ellis,
and Crawford Biggs, assistant
editors. Of this original staff,
Murphy and Andrews are still
active in University affairs as
members of the board of trus
tees of the Greater University.
Baskerville and his assistants
Set to work in a tiny printshop
located on the upper floor of a
store, room in the house next to
The concert by the Univer
sity Symphony orchestra, origin
ally scheduled for 4:00 o'clock
Sunday afternoon in Hill Music
hail, will be presented at 3:00
oclock according to an an
nouncement by Professor H. S.
Dyer, head of the music depart
ment and director of the orehes
tra. The change in time has
been made in order to allow the
concert of the St. Helena quar
tet, sponsored by the Y. M. C.
A., to be given in the same hall
at 4:00 o'clock.
Members of the orchestra will
rehearse for the concert at 2 : 00
o'clock Sunday.
Siate Employee to Speak
Charles Ray of the state de
partment of conservation and
development, will speak at the
regular meeting of the Ameri
can Society of Mechanical En
gineers at 8 :00 o'clock tonight
m 314 Phillips hall. Ray will
talk on the work of the state
conservation department.
University Trustees Committee
Answers Questions of Joint
Appropriations Committee.
MAY SET FIGURES TODAY
Figures on the per capita cost
to the state of students in the
University as reported by the
advisory budget, commission
were declared to be mistaken
yesterday by a committee creat
ed by the Board of Trustees of
the Greater University and
other friends of the University
in a hearing before the joint ap
propriations committee of the
General Assembly.
No action on the University's
appropriation was taken yester
day though a vote on the matter
is expected today.
The group appearing before
the appropriations committee
yesterday included the commit
tee created by the board in Jan
uary and appointed by Governor
Ehringhaus to consider consoli
dation and other matters relat
ing to the University ; Mrs. Jul
ius Cone of Greensboro, repre
senting the Woman's College;
Irvin B. Tucker of Whiteville
and Clarence Poe of Raleigh,
representing State College at
Raleigh; Charles W. Tillett, Jr.,
of Cnarlotter representing the
University ; President Frank P.
Graham, and C. T. Woollen,
business manager of the Uni
versity. Their purpose in appearing
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BEARD OUTLINES
CONCEPTIONS OF
NATION'S CONCERN
Weil Lecttfrer Delivers Second Talk
On National Interests Here
Last Night.
Student Assessed Damages For
Injuries To Roommate
Peter Hairston Awarded Forty-Nine Cents Actual and One Dol
lar Punitive Charges From Bill Markham in Sensational
Two-Day Trial; Courtroom Filled to Overflowing.
' o- '
As the result of alleged in
juries sustained in a fight with
his roommate, Bill Markham,
two weeks ago, Peter Hairston,
tn nld Methodist chure.h. After first-year; law student, was Tues
V,cfc fn, Uvir,Jlay night awarded forty-nine
that vague instrument known as
a policy and an intensive but al-
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cents actual and one dollar puni
tive damages after a sensational
two-day trial which created
great interest in the law school.
Pfli TkMes Bill T5 An over-flowing audience
Admit Negro Students ?rd jury retM ?. a.
judgment ot iorty-nme centa a-
At the meeting of the Fhi as- tual and ?100 punitive damages
sembiy Tuesday nighty bill, in favor of the plaintiff, Hair
Resolved: That Negroes" be' ad- ston. JudgS J. H. Chadbourne
mitted to tne University law subsequently reduced the amount
school, was tabled indefinitely, td orie! dollar before he' would
The vote among members' was sign the judgment;
10-10, when' Speaker pro-tern Ladies Embarrassed
Em'mett Willis voted that the The fight grew out of an alter
bill be tabled' indefinitely. cation iri contract class between
The bill introduced by Repre- the two men when Hairston is
sentative Rubin, Resolved: That said to have jibed Markham
federal assistance be limited on- upon his failure to go on a bas
ly to those veterans who were ketball trip and a fight ensued.
actively engaged in the late war Conflicting evidence was pre-
and former wars, and who now sented Monday night as to which
find , themselves handicapped of the two struck the first blow,
physically or financially as a re- and counsel later debated the
suit of this service, was voted fmPstinTi nf WhpTier or not the
upon and unanimously passed. language used by either of the
two men constituted an aggra-,
vated assault. It is however
reported to have constituted ex
treme embarrassment among
the lady members of the audi
ence when presented in the evi
dence; ' ,
Following the presentation of
the evidence Monday night, the
plea for the plaintiff was ofr
fered by Archie Allen arid BUI
Adams,- and Archie Cannon
spoke iojf the defendant. Fol
lowing this, the judge charged
the jury which remained out
with the case for more than
twenty minutes.
Adams, representing the de
fendant, made a motion for mis
trial upon the return of the jury
with the verdict but was over
ruled. He claimed the trial was
unconstitutional as women mem
bers were on the jury, which he
claimed was in direct opposition
to the constitutional provision
calling for "Good men and true"
to serve on the jury.
Court Stenographer Playful
Cither develoDments of the
trial, it was learned yesterday,
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The different conception of
national interest in territorial
and commercial expansion Were
explored here last night by Dr.
Charles Austin Beard, noted
historian and author, in the sec
ond of the annual series of Weil
Lectures on American citizen
ship. The third and final lec
ture will be presented tonight in
Gerrard hall at 8 :00 o'clock.
Dr. Beaitf in his lecture last
night started with an interpre
tation of the views of Jefferson
and the Democratic Party. Jef
ferson, he said, had a "clear-cut
conception of the American na
tion as a homogenous people
Capable of self-government. He
believed that its economic base
should be' agriculture the agri
culture of the small and inde
pendent farmer. Jefferson op
posed turiaing American people
into factory hands dependent
for their livelihood upofc the
casualties and caprices of trade.
He believed that the 'mob 6f the
great cities' were sores oil the
body politic.
"Under the administration of
Jeffersoli and his party Louisi
ana was acquired, Florida, and
the West to the Pacific, this
territory was largely unoccu
pied and could be made the home
of independent fanners. While
the planting aristocracy sought
to profit from this expansion it
was defeated by the verdict 'of
history. True to its tradition
the Democratic Party in 1900
opposed the annexation of dis
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