POLITICAL UtflON
TOMORROW 8:15
GERRARD HALL
SENATOR NYE'S ADDRESS
8 P.M.
MEMORIAL HALL
SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS
VOLUME -XLIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1935
NUMBER 114
UN.C. WILL HEAR
ABOUTMUNITIONS
INQUIRYTONIGHT
Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota
Senator, to Discuss Con
gressional Probe.
WILL SPEAK AT 8 O'CLOCK
Tonight at 8 o'clock in Memo
rial hall, Carolina students will
liear the facts concerning Con
gress's last summer investiga
tion of the American munitions
industry from the mouth of the
Uorth Dakota Senator who
leaded the investigation, Gerald
P. Nye.
Under the sponsorship of the
University Y. M. C. A., Nye
-will appear here tonight after
making a similar lecture on
""Munitions Profiteering, Etc."
in Raleigh this afternoon.
Reported Last Fall
The Senator's address to the
Carolina audience will deal with
the Senate investigation of Du
Pont and other American arm
ament makers. Nye and his
group made startling revela
tions to the United States last
September when the committee
made its report to Congress.
Nye, with an outstanding ca
reer as a newspaperman, enter
ed national politics during the
1920's when he was appointed to
fill a Senatorial vacancy in Con
gress. Since then he has ad
vanced to the leadership of the
minoritv in Congress and has
become known as the "Progres
sive Republican.
Voicing a reason for his op
position to the United States'
entering the World Court, Nye
Tecently told a Philadelphia au
, dience that the. United States
should clean up her own back
yard before she forced herself
and her peace projects on other
nations.
PLAYERS TO HOLD
TRYOUTSTUESDAY
Seven Plays Will Be Presented on
Next Playmakers Experi
mental Bill March 7.
Seven plays will be presented
on the second bill of experiment
al dramas by the Carolina Play
makers March 7. Tryouts for
the casts will be conducted
Tuesday afternoon in the theatre
at 4:30 o'clock.
According to Samuel Selden,
technical director of the Play
makers, 12 original dramas have
been submitted by students in
the University's playwriting
courses for consideration on this
second bill of experimentals.
The seven plays to be chosen
'will be announced tomorrow.
Second Half of Quarter
Five experimental dramas
"were presented several weeks
ago on the bill for the first half
of the quarter's work. The
coming productions will repre
sent the second half of the quar
ter, according to Selden.
v Tryouts are open to all, and
People who have not yet become
associated with the Playmaker
group are especially, invited to
Participate. Appearing in an
xperimental drama gives credit
toward the Playmakers' annual
mask award, announced Selden.
B. Y. P. U. Program
Several W. C. U. N, C. stu
dents will conduct the weekly
Program of the B. Y. P. U. at 7
o'clock tonight at the Baptist
hurch.
Karl Fussier Says Observatory Here
Was The First Owned By U.S. College
Medical Professors
Back from Reunion
Dr. C. S. Mangum and Dr. W.
deB. MacNider, both of the Uni
versity medical school, havere
turned from the annual reunion
of the graduates of the. old
North Carolina University medi
cal school, which took place at
Fayetteville, February 22.
The reunion was unique in
that all the doctors that attend
ed are graduates of a school
which no longer exists. The
University medical school, which
was in Raleigh, was in opera
tion only from 1903 till 1910.
In that time it graduated some
physicians who today stand at
the top of their specialties.
Among them are Dr. J. A. Far
rell, medical director of the
Rockefeller Foundation; Dr.
Marshall C. Guthrie, surgeon in
charge of Indian affairs for the
United States government; Dr.
C. S. Mangum, dean of this Uni
versity's medical school, and
Dr. W. deB. MacNider, also of
the University.
On the program were -Dr. H.
A. Royster and Dr. J. W. Mc
Ghee Of Raleigh, both of whom
were members of the faculty of
the old medical school.
FIRST-YEAR CLASS
VOTES TOMORROW
ON HONOR COURT
Freshmen to Make Final Deci
sion on Tribunal at Assembly.
The freshman class will vote
in assembly tomorrow on the
honor court proposed to them
last Friday by Nick Read, chair
man of the honor court commit
tec. Should the class accept the
plan at the meeting today they
will also vote on the method of
selecting the 11 members of the
court. Three methods have been
proposed: selection directly by
the executive committee, selec
tion by the class from 22 candi
dates nominated by the commit
tee, and selection by the class
from 22 candidates nominated
by a committee elected by the
class, -with the class president
.and chairman of the executive
committee acting as ex-officio
members.
f The plan, approved by Virgil
Weathers, president of the stu
dent body, would vest in the
court the power of trying all
cases of violation of the honor
code arising in the f reshihan
class. Decisions would be sub
ject . to appeal to the student
council.
FOREIGN BULLETIN
Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 23.
(UP) Angered by the course
that the League of Nations took
in attempting to settle the Bolivia-Paraguay
conflict, those two
nations resigned from the
League today.
P. U. Board!
A special meeting of the
Publications Union Board has
been called for tomorrow
morning at 10:30 o'clock in
the seminar room of Bingham
hall, it was announced yester
day by Claude Rankin, presi
dent. All members of the
board are urgently requested
to be on time as important ac
tion will be taken regarding
the circulation of the Daily
Tar Heel.
Joseph Caldwell Purchased $6,-
000 in Equipment for Early
Research in Astronomy.
"As far as I have been able to
find out," said Dr. Karl H. Fuss
ier of the physics department,
"the University had the first
astronomical observatory of any
institution in America. It was
built by Joseph Caldwell, first
president of the University, af
ter he had gone to England and
purchased $6,000 worth of phy
sical apparatus."
Dr. Fussier referred to Kemp
P. Battle's "History' of the Uni
versity of North Carolina,"
which records President Cald
well's observatory as being the
first "connected with an institu
tion of learning in America, that
of Professor Hopkins at Wil
liams College being in 1836,"
five years after the completion
of the University's observatory.
Site of Observatory
"We have located the approxi
mate site of the observatory,"
said Dr. Fussier. "It is near the
varsity tennis courts, as i un
derstand it, there used to be a
hill there which was leveled off
in marking the courts," the phy
sics professor said. "I should
like to see an appropriate mark
er or monument erected there by
some senior class to keep some
thing of historical importance
in peoples' minds," Dr. Fussier
added with emphasis.
Dr.-'Fussier at the present
time is at work identifying the
surviving pieces of the appara
tus housed in the observatory.
"Some of the old instruments
and equipment are still used by
the physics department," said
Dr. Fussier. Among the various
pieces still in use Dr. Fussier
named a leyden jar, an instru
ment with two large spherical
mirrors, a pair of discharge
handles for electrical discharges,
and an instrument called an
armilary, a device for visualizing
the heavens in relation to the
earth, which he considered his
torically valuable.
Arc Scale
Dr. Fussier went on to de
scribe an arc scale which he had
resurrected from one of the
telescopes purchased by Presi
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Fun To
By Mac Smith
Blond-headed Freshman John
Leach leaned back in his chair
down in Everett f dorm.
"Go ahead, boys," he said to
the assembled group, "go-ahead
and have some.. There's plenty
of it, so help yourself."
Leach proceeded to pass
around the large candy box fill
ed with enough goodies to please'
the most hard-boiled football
senior. The box had come di
rect from the pantry of Presi
dent FrankPorter Graham.
Now it had happened 'after
this fashion. Leach, like all
good freshmen, was studying
awfully hard last week when
the piercing voice of the dorm
store-keeper had called him
down to the phone.
The victim rushed down and a
soft voice told him he was want
ed at President Graham's man
sion . . . a party, or something.
Leach frocked up and hurried
out to the edge of town. He was
goin' to see Dr. Frank.
A smooth little man met Leach
at the door and invited him in
side. Except for Dr. Frank,
Leach was alone in the great
liouse. ,
GRIER AND McliEE
LEAD DISCUSSIONS
T0M0RRDW NIGHT
Y. M. C. A. Cabinets Will Con
sider Pros and Cons of Cap-
ital Punishment.
W TO PLAN DEPUTATION
Y. M. C. A. Members J. C.
Grier and Don McKee will lead
the "Y" cabinet discussions to
morrow night at 7:15 o'clock
when the respective groups re
sume their study of social prob
lems. Grier will address the junior
senior group on the subject of
"Capital Punishment.'' Grier
was .scheduled to deliver his ad
dress on the same topic last
Monday night but postponed his
talk until tomorrow's meeting.
"Similar Topic"
j McKee, in the sophomore
cabinet, will take up a similar
topic, "Should Capital Punish
ment be Abolished T He will
present both sides of the ques
tion and will point out the dis
tinct advantages of abolition.
The "Y" groups will consider
the report of the deputation team
committee which has scheduled
a Y. M. C. A. trip to Fayette
ville for the coming week-end;
the matter of visiting theNorth
Carolina state .penitentiary in
Raleigh, in connection with their
study of crime, will also be taken
up in the meetings tomorrow
night.
. For the entire winter quarter,
the "Y"; cabinets have been
studying "Social Disorganiza
tion" and two more speakers
have been scheduled to address
the groups on the remainder of
the quarter's program. Presi
dent of the "Y" J. D. Winslow
will appear before the. upper
group next week to lead the dis
cussion on "Juvenile Delin
quency." COMPOSITION CONDITIONS
All students who plan to take
the examination for the remov
al of composition conditions are
asked to see Dr. H. K. Russell
in 203 Murphey hall tomorrow
morning fromx 10 to 11 o'clock
or tomorrow afternoon from 3 to
4 o'clock.
Be Fooled
Fifteen minutes passed and
Leach was enraptured with the
warm cordiality of Dr. Frank.
Then the president arose and
offered his apologies ... some
work to do . . . would Leach
make himself at home and
browse about the library.
The young freshman felt ill
at ease. "Didn't you call for me
to come around?" he said.
Dr. Frank turned with a ques
tioning "No." '
Leach gulped and then Dr.
Frank smiled . . . joke victim
for 34-35 had at last turned up.
"Come on, young' man, and
we'll fix things up." Whereby
Dr. Graham led young Leach to
the pantry and between the two
a feast was made ... milk and
chicken, cake and a few can
dies. "And take this with you," said
Dr. Graham. It was a huge
box of goodies straight from the
hands of the president. -
Leach stepped out in the fresh
Carolina air, whisked over to
Everett and called in the scav
engers to feast oncemore off
the president's candy box. Some
joke, eh, boss?
Former N. G. Sales Tax Director
Will Speak To
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Debaters Will Meet
Wake Forest Here
Francis Fairley, and W. C.
Durfee of the University debate
squad will meet a debate team
from Wake .Forest tomorrow
evening at 8:30 o'clock in Ger-
rard hall.
; The local debaters will take
the negative on the query: Re
solved, that nations of the world
agree to prevent the shipment
of arms and munitions.
This will be the return en
counter for the debate Friday
night at Wake Forest in which
Norman Kellar and Don Sea-
well of the University argued
the affirmative for the same
query.
The visiting team will arrive
here tomorrow, afternoon and
will be entertained at dinner af
terwards. Having debated "the same
query on several previous occa
sions, Durfee and Fairley are
expected to be quite familiar
with the question.
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR ARTCOURSE
Southern Art Projects Will
I Sponsor Painting and Art
Class at University.
Plans for the fourth event in
the Southern Art Projects pro
gram for North Carolina, the
watercoloring course - to be
taught for three weeks begin
ning March 25 by Eliot O'Hara,
artist, teacher, and author of
"Making Watercolor Behave,"
have been completed, R. M.
Grumman announced yesterday.
The course in the technique of
watercolor painting will include
the following topics: abstract
brush drill, values (light and
darkness), warm and cold color,
tree strokes, application of brush
strokes to landscape, the spec
trum, neutralization of color,
tree shadows on a white house
(method of showing form by
lighting) , geometric shapes and
painting, recessions into space,
transitions, memory sketches,
and review with some notes on
composition.
Criticism of students' work
will be made three times during
the course, usually on rainy days
when tho class is unable to get
out of doors. Balance, align
ment, direction, scale, and
rhythm will be considered in the
criticism of students' pictures.
Anyone over 14 years old, re
gardless of previous art train
ing or experience, is eligible to
enroll. - The classes, however,
will be limited in enrollment.
The cost of the course is $5
for tuition, $8 for" materials.
University faculty members and
their families, students, and
members of 'Miss Tuttle's art
classes are exempt from the tui
tion charge.
Registration blanks and fur
ther information may be obtain
ed from Grumman at 312 South.
BROADCAST
A broadcast of the Brahms
cycle, featuring his Second
Symphony, played; by the New
York Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of
Arturo Toscannini, may be heard
in the choral room of the Hill
music hall this afternoon at 3
o'clock. The concert will come
from Carnegie hall in New Ybrk
and is the second in the Brahms
cycle.
Political Union
HARRY McMULLAN
TALKS TOMORROW,
Present Chairman of State In
dustrial Commission to Make
Address on "Taxation."
NEW GROUP TO ORGANIZE
Harry McMullan, chairman
of , the state industrial commis
sion and former director of the
state sales tax, will speak at the
first meeting of the newly
formed Carolina Political Un
ion in Gerrard hall tomorrow
night at 8:15 o'clock on "Taxa
tion." McMullan is regarded as the
outstanding authority in North
Carolina as regards the sales
tax and its application in North
Carolina. He delivered a speech
before the North Carolina Club
recently on the subject and was
well received by a large campus
audience.
Organization Meeting
The first meeting of the Union
will probably differ from the
subsequent gatherings, as it com
bines an organizational session
with the presentation of an out
side speaker.
There will be no debate or dis
cussion on the issue following
McMullan's speech, as it is ex
pected that the creation of the
organizational plans will con
sume a large portion of the eve-
-
nmg. -
Proposals Ready
Proposals for organization
and procedure have been drawn
up by a committee appointed by
Phil Hammer, temporary chair
man, and will be presented to
morrow night.
As tentatively planned subject
to ratification or rejection by
the Union, the proposals call
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ICKES DEPLORES
CONGRESS' DELAY
President's Works Relief Plan
Under Fire; Ickes Points
Out Country's Needs.
Washington, Feb. 23. (UP)
PWA Administrator Harold L.
Ickes stressed the national need
for public works tonight as he
termed the Congressional delay
on the President's works relief
bill as "most unfortunate."
The energetic public works
chief announced that a prelimi
nary survey of the nation had
uncovered more than $8,500,
000,000 in available projects, be
sides the $3,000,000,000 already
on file.
Meanwhile .
Meanwhile President Roose
velt's legislative . program, in
eluding his works relief appro
priation, was jeopardized in
turn by a bolting Senate and a
rebellious House. The New
Deal is evidently on the defen
sive on all fronts.
The administration is ob
viously depending on the folks
back home to chastise the Sen
ate. A strict enforcement of
rules is.to be the prime defense
against rebels in the House. ,
FORUM POSTPONED
The third lecture of the series
of winter forums sponsored bf
the Presbyterian church, sched
uled for tonight, has been post
poned because of Senator Ger
ald P. Nye's address.
Professor J. A. Spangler of
Duke University was to have
spoken on "The Christian and
Communism."