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VOLUME XT JIT
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1935
NUMBER 129
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SELDENANDRCCH
DELIVER FESTIVAL
ADDRESSES TODAY
Lee Simonson, Scenic Director,
Opens 12th Annual State
Dramatic Tournament.
CONTESTS CONTINUE TODAY
Eight events are scheduled for
today's 'program in the 12th an
nual festival and state tourna
ment of. the Carolina Dramatic
Association.
Beginning at 8:30 this morn
ing, Professor Frederick H.
Koch will speak on "Nineteenth
Century Drama" in the theatre.
At 9:30 he will talk 'on "Play
writing." Selden to Speak
Samuel Selden, discussing
"Play Directing," will appear at
11 o'clock. The afternoon ses
sion includes the final contest in
play production of the county
high schools, the presentation of
an original play from a city high
school, -and a guest performance
of Eugene O'Neill's "The Dreamy
Kid" by the North Carolina Col
lege for Negroes, Durham.
Samuel Freidman of the The
atre Union, New York City, will
begin the evening program with
"'Puppets for Propaganda Play,"
a demonstration beginning at
1:15 o'clock.
Final Contest
After Freidman's perfor
mance, the final contest in the
production of original plays by
individual members will be con
ducted with five plays entered
in the contest.
TYirlnr'a nrotrrnm -fnllAWR tVlP
opening of the festival last night
when Lee Simonson, distin
guished scenic director of the
New York Theatre Guild, lec
tured on "Stage Settings from
. the 17th Century to the Pres
ent.", Simonson's appearance
was sponsored by the Southern
Art Projects.
LEAGUE TO PLAN
QUARWS WORK
Policy Group Will Have Short
Business Session Tonight in
Graham Memorial.
According to Agnew Bahnson,
president of the Foreign Policy
League, a very important busi
ness meeting of the league will
be conducted in Graham Memo
rial tonight at 8 o'clock to make
plans for the club's spring
activities.
The meeting, announced Bahn
son, will be devoted to planning
a banquet for Dr. Stephen Dug
gan, who will appear on the Hu
ftan Relations Institute pro
gram here next week.
Sponsored by League
Dr. Duggan was secured as
an Institute speaker through the
efforts of the Foreign Policy
ague, as a feature of the club's
Program of bringing noted
speakers to the University cam
pus.
The general program for the
spring quarter and the date for
the election of officers will be
decided upon at the session to
night. :
"This is expected to be a brief
meeting," said Bahnson, "but it
13 very important that all mem
kers attend." '
Grail Meets Tonight
The Order of the Grail will
mt tonight at 10 o'clock in
Graham Memorial, it. was an
nounced yesterday by George
aioore.
Scenic Director
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Lee Simonson, scenic director
of the New York Theatre Guild,
who was the principal-speaker at
the opening session of the state
drama festival and tournament
at the University last night.
WRITERS TO HOLD
SUMMER MEETING
University Professor Phillips
Russell to Instruct at Blue
Ridge August 5-17.
maiviauais interested m
writing, whether for profes
sional, diversional, or 'cultural
reasons, are invited to attend a
writers' conference this summer
at Blue Ridge, two miles from
Black Mountain, N. C., an
nounced Russell M. Grumman,
director of the University ex
tension division, who is to serve
as secretary.
The conference, which will be
held from August 5-17, is un
der the sponsorship of the ex
tension division of the Univer
sity. Phillips Russell, acting
professor of English and teach
er of creative writing at the
University, will be the director.
Russell in Charge
Professor Russell was chosen
to direct the conference by a
committee consisting of Presi
dent Frank P. Graham and Dean
R. B. House of the University,
Dr. George R. Coffman, head of
the English department, R. M.
Grumman of the extension di
vision, and Professor Nettie S.
Tillett of the Woman's College
at Greensboro.
Ample hotel, classroom, and
recreational facilities will be
provided on the 1,600-acre es
tate at Blue Ridge.
Although the conference is to
be informal in nature, it will
provide lectures, round-table
discussions, criticisms, readings,
and will promote opportunities
for the meetings between pro
fessional writers, amateurs,
publishers, and booksellers.
Humorists State Choice
For Editor Tonight
Contributors to Last Three Is
sues to Make Nomination.
There will be a meeting of
the Finjan staff tonight at 7:15
o'clock to elect the" staff nomi
nee for the editorship of the pub
lication.
Only those students who have
worked on the staff for any of
the three preceding issues, The
Time issue, the End Everything
issue, and the Valentine issue
will be eligible to vote.
Everyone is urged to attend
but proxy votes will be accept
able if they are signed.
In addition the theme for the
forthcoming issue will be as
signed so that work may be be
gun immediately.
PRESS RELEASES
TENNESSEE BOOK
Biography of Taylor Emphasizes
Popular Figure's Political Life.
The University Press released
yesterday "Bob Taylor and the
Agrarian Revolt in Tennessee,"
a new book by Dr. Daniel Mer-
ritt Robeson, assistant profes
sor of history at State Teach
ers' College, Memphis, ,Tenn.
Tennessee's Bob Taylor, popu-
ar figure and apostle of love,
aughter and song, is portrayed
by the book in a light somewhat
different from that in which he
is usually placed. In this work he
is pictured in his more serious
role of political leader, gover
nor, and United States Senator.
The "War of Roses" in which
Bob Taylor and his Republican
brother, Alfred A. Taylor, con
tended for the governorship of
Tennessee forms an interesting
nucleus for a discussion of the
political and. sociological prob
lems of that day.
The book parallels the politi
cal activities of Taylor with the
beginnings -of the great agrarian
revolt that swept the country
during the eighties and 'nineties
of the past century.
House Passes Bills
To Srengthen Navy-
Measures Designed to Help U. S.
. Reach Treaty Power.
Washington, March 27. (UP)
The House today -passed
rapidly four bills designed to
help the United States Navy
reach treaty strength by 1942.
One authorized an expenditure
of $38,000,000 to bolster naval
defense, chiefly along the Pacif
ic Coast and the Canal Zone ; an
other provided for training of
500 youths annually to enter the
naval air service.
A third measure authorized
adding 1,032 officers to the
navy's present figure of 6,132.
The fourth provided for retire
ment of certain officers among
the higher grades so as to allow
advancement to the lower grade
officers..
STUDENTS TO REVIEW
BURLINGTON CASE
Nick Read and Ramsay Potts,
Carolina freshmen, have been
asked to collaborate on an article
for The State, edited by Carl
Goerch.
The article will deal with the
Burlington dynamiting case.
Read will treat the general as
pects of the subject and Potts
will discuss the case in its rela
tion to the University.
LANGUAGE EXAMS
The reading knowledge of
German examination for candi
dates for the higher degrees wil
be held at 9:30 a. m., in Saun
ders 109, Saturday.
The following Saturday, Apr!
6, at the same hour the reading
knowledge of French examina
Hon will be held in Murphey 314.
Students who have not regis
tered to take the examination
should file' their names at the
graduate cOce at cnce.
AGAIN
Alas, na student will skip
a class today to attend the
bus hearing in Raleigh; for
the Greyhound Lines at
torney was inconsiderate
enough to get sick at the
last minute yesterday, and
the hearing has for the
fourth time been postponed.
Relations Institute
Personalities
EVERETT D. MARTIN
Everett Dean Martin, director
of Cooper Union Forum, will ap
pear on the Human Relations In
stitute program under the spon
sorship of the Order of the Grail,
according to Frank Abernethy,
president of the Grail.
Martin accepted the invitation
of the Grail over the holidays, J.
D. Winslow, chairman of the
Grail speaker committee, an
nounced yesterday.
As director of the Cooper
Union Forum, the largest cen-
er for free discussion of politi
cal -and educational subjects in
America, Martin has become a
eading educator and writer.
Churchman, Illinoisian, lec
turer on social pnilosopny,
writer on philosophical subjects,
Democrat, Martin was chairman
of the national board of review
of motion pictures from 1919-
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Martin's books include "Fare
well: 'to Revolution,", which has
received much favorable com
ment. His other writings are
The Behavior of Crowds,"
The Mystery of Religion,"
Psychology," "Psychology and
Its Uses," "The Meaning of a
Liberal Education," "Liberty,"
Civilizing Ourselves," and num
erous articles and pamphlets.
JULIAN LaROSE HARRIS
Sixty-one-year old journalist
and public serviceman, Julian
LaRose Harris will lecture here
next week as a part of the Hu
man Relations Institute seminar
program.
Appearing in the classrooms
on the seminar programs, Harris
will bring into his discussions
his wide background of news
paper work. A Georgian and
Democrat, the editor was award
ed the Pulitzer prize in 1925
for the "most disinterested and
meritorious public service" ren
dered by American newspapers
in their fight against the Ku
Klux Klan, against the law barr
ing the teaching of evolution,
and against Negro injustice.
Harris, now advertising di
rector of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, has been connected with
the Chicago Times-Herald, At
lanta Daily News, Tri-Week-
ly Constitution, New York Her
ald, New York Evening Tele
gram, and the Columbus, Ga.,
Enquirer.
Harris is a member of the ad
visory board of the school of
journalism at Columbia Univer
sity and, is a member of the
southern commission on the
study of lynching.
JAMES M. LANDIS
Brilliant careered James M.
Landis, member of the United
States Securities and Exchange
Commission, will discuss "The
Significance of Federal Regula
tion of Securities" Monday
morning at 10 :15 o'clock on the
Human Relations Institute pro
gram.
Born in Japan 35 years ago,
young Landis was graduated
from Princeton and the Har
vard law school with honors and
has since served in the capacity
of author, teacher, law secre
tary, and bill-drafter.
After holding a position for
two years on the faculty at Har
vard, Landis became a full pro
fessor and the first occupant of
the chair of legislation there.
Called to Washington in 1933
to help draft the securities act,
he was later appointed a mem-
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Carolina, Duke May Co-ordinate
Curricula Of Graduate Schools
UNIVERSITY CLUB
The University Club will
hold its first meeting of the
spring quarter tonight at
7:15 o'clock in 209 Graham
Memorial. -
New members will be -voted
in at this time, the old
club having only two more
sessions before the inaugu
ration of a new regime.
Other important business,
dealing with springs plans
and unfinished projects,
will also be transacted.
TAYLOR RECEIVES
NATIONALAWARD
University Instructor Gets Fel
lowship Offering a Year's
Research in France.
Cecil G. Taylor, instructor in
the French department and a
candidate for the Ph.D. degree
in June, has been awarded one
of the American Field Service
Fellowships offered by the In
stitute of International Educa
tion in New York. The fellow
ship affords a year's research in
France.
This is one of three fellow
ships given in the whole coun
try this year and is the second
time that one has been granted
to a candidate from this Univer
sity. Other Candidate
The other candidate to re
ceive this award was Russell
Potter, formerly a member of
the faculty here and now at
Columbia University.
Interviewed yesterday, Tay
lor stated that he will spend
most of his time in the National
Library at Paris doing research
work in drama.
Taylor received his A. B. de
gree in 1929 and his A. M. de
gree in 1930 from this Univer
sity.
Henderson Praised
In English Article
Dr. Archibald Henderson,
head of the University mathe
matics department, is described
as easily tne most cosmopolitan
m mi -in
of American literary critics" in
an illustrated article in the cur
rent issue of "Town and Coun
try Review," an English maga
zine published in London.
In regard to Dr. Henderson
as an authorized biographer of
George Bernard Shaw, the ar
ticle calls his book, "Bernard
Shaw; Playboy and Prophet,"
"the most comprehensive and
completely documented biogra
phy of a living man that has
ever been written," and declares
the author's collection of Shav-
iana the greatest in existence.
Describing Dr. Henderson's
versatile activities, he is called
an authority on drama and
literature. "His authoritative
book, The Changing Drama,'
has been described as the only
philosophical summary of the
drama written by an Ameri
can."
A leading authority on rela
tivity and the theories of Ein
stein, an historian of the first
rank, particularly versed on
westward expansion in the old
south and old southwest during
the eighteenth century, Dr. Hen
derson, the article continues, "is
characterized by Einstein as 'an
extraordinary combination of
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artist and scientist "
The article carries a two-column
picture of Dr. Henderson.
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Co-operation Expected
To Effect Economies
Proposal Made in Report by Joint
Faculty Committee of
Both Universities.
PRESIDENTS FAVOR PLANS
That Duke University, and
Carolina will. join hands in of
fering a co-ordinated curriculum '
to the students of the two neigh
boring schools was the tone of the
report issued this week by a
joint faculty committee which
has been working on the matter
since the fall of 1933.
Commenting together on the
committee's work, President
Graham and President Few
said, "We present its initial re
port as evidence of a significant
trend toward the whole-hearted
co-operation of the two universi
ties." Graduate Work
The report shows that much
of the proposed co-ordination
will be done in connection with
the graduate schools. "In order
to offer students a wider intel
lectual opportunity and to effect
an economy in the costs involv
ed, it would be the part of wis
dom for both universities to
move toward a co-ordinated de
velopment of their resources to
graduate work," said the re
port.
"Illustrative of the processes
involved would be the provision
of opportunities for graduate
students enrolled in "one univer
sity to take for credit toward
their degrees a limited amount
of work at the other university
and for interchanges of profes-.
sors and consolidation of class
groups," continued the report.
To Avoid Duplication
That the nine-mile-apart
schools should first consider the
existing facilities in the various
fields of work in order that un
necessary duplication may be
avoided and the fullest possible
co-ordination attained was urg
ed by the joint committee.
Suggestions for the co-operation
program included proposals
for joint work in social research
in regional culture and popula
tion; in the activities of the
Duke school of medicine and the
social work division of the school
of public administration of the
University of North Carolina.
In visiting , professorships,
lectures, musical and dramatic
events and art exhibitions joint
ly supported and available to
both university communities; in
joint publications by the two
university , presses, certain spe
cial institutes and conferences
on international relations, on .
education, on public welfare and
on land planning, and in inves
tigations in North Carolina legal
history in both universities and
by the State Historical Commis
sion.
Composing the committee
working on .the matter were W.
C. Coker, R. B. Downs, M. T.
Van Hecke, E. W. Knight, How
ard W. Odum of the University,
and Alice M. Baldwin, W. K.
Boyd, Harvie Branscomb, Paul
Gross, and Dr. Frederick M.
Hanes of Duke.
Senior Executives
'Members of the senior class
executive committee will hold
their first meeting of the spring
quarter tonight at 7 o'clock in
the lobby of the Y. M. C. A., it
was announced yesterday by
Jack Pool, president.