North Carolina Newspapers

Ply )(t v p r -rl 1 i "VOLUME XLV ECSQCrJS FEOKZ 415 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1930 Drroxuu. re ocx 41st NUMBER 23 XJppeFclassmn To Have First Assemblies Of Year Thursday ' ' . : ' " . ' ' ' Presidents Of Three Upper Classes To Speak . Sophomores, juniors, and sen iors will get their first proof of the executive puddings they elected last spring when Presi dents Eutsler, Graham, and .Bond, respectively, led them in tneir nrst omciai class assem blies Thursday night. Meeting separately in Bing ham, Graham Memorial, and Memorial hall, the upperclass men will hear briefly from their class presidents and their Stu dent council representatives. Honor Councils Following the introduction of the newly-formed class honor councils and consideration of -certain matters pertaining to class functions, annual dance, etc., class members will probably participate in a short discussion of the merits of the new honor council and its relation to the -disciplinary status of the class itself. The Thursday night meetings .are the first class organization meetings to have been called this early in the fall quarter in a number of years. That all the classes are meeting on the same night is also unusual. INITIAL TRYOUTS FOR FOLK PLAYS BEGIN TOMORROW Plays Tot Be Selected v By Dramatic Staff From Scripts Beginning another year of experimental productions writ ten by students in the Univer sity, the Playmakers announce tryouts for the first bill of these plays to be held tomorrow afterT noon at 4:30. The plays, to be produced on the stage of the Playmaker tli eater, will be - chosen from several scripts submitted to the dramatic arts staff. . Dramas Among the plays are: "The 'Barren Year," a play of a South J Carolina farm woman by David Beaty; "And Things Happen," a play of post-war shadows by Don Waters ; "Waitin " a dra ma of the southwest Virginia mountains by William Peery; "'Founded on Sand," a play on church strife, by Eleanor Lane. . "Ugly Hands," a tragedy of factory women by Kate May Rutherford; "The Best Gifts," a drama of the labor front; and -"Tidal Wave," a tragedy of the South Carolina low country by Evelyn Snider. Tea Will Be Given For Art Teachers Mrs. Selden, Scotts to be Honor ed This Afternoon Final Notice Eli Joyner, business man ager of the Daily Tae Heel, yesterday issued a last call for those going out for the paper's business staff. Those interested are asked to see Joyner in his Graham Memorial office at 2 o'clock this afternoon. N. C. NEW DEALER WILL SP HERE Doughton Will Defend Roosevelt Regime Congressman Robert M. Doughton will speak in Memo rial hall at 10:23 o'clock tomor row morning as the Carolina Po- Lqyal Iveymen Stage Times Square Rally In Spite Of Shower Only 30 Rooters Find Their Way To Times Square, Scene Of Pep Meeting Pete Ivey held his scheduled pep rally at Times Square, New York, on Saturday before the game. The total attendance was 30 Carolina men. Pete said. "We couldn't make a bonfire because it was raining, and it is also against the law." According to Ivey, the main mass meeting was not the only pep meeting held in New, York. He said that individual rallies were bemg held all over the city. Carolina men were singing songs on practically every street corner and New Yorkers were lending their moral support. Benny Carr failed in his at tempt to borrow the Fordham 1 J 1 , 1 , JiMM-Li. JL V1UUHU1 TT t0 V CA J DUi A Y u . i .. .but they were using the ram on champion the re-election of h . -, T . , , President Roosevelt in the Uni versity's series of political ad dresses this fall. Nationally prominent as chair man of the .House Ways and Means committee, the North Carolina representative is ex pected to defend, the New Deal from recent blistering attacks made upon it by G. O. P. spokes men.' . -.' "Farmer Bob" Doughton's ad dress will be the first of a series of Democratic speakers sched uled io appear on the campus under the auspices of the union. Di Group To Debate Grading System Committee to Report on Recipro- , cal Passbooks At the meeting of the Di Sen ate tonight, the senators will discuss the present grading sys tem of the University r of North Carolina. x Lee Large, chairman of the committee on student passbooks, will give a report on the inves tigations of the committee. The plan under consideration is to issue passbooks to the students of Carolina and Duke which will admit Carolina students to Duke games and Duke students to Carolina games. N Miss Wisner Speaks At Conference Here Social Work Discussed at Caro lina Inn Luncheon In honor of Mrs. Sam Selden and Mr. and Mrs. Scott, mem bers of the new Art department of the University, a reception will be held in Hill Music hall this afternoon from 4 to 6 p. m., sponsored jointly by the Univer sity and the art department of the Chapel Hill Community club There will be on exhibit the first of the season's groups of paintings, eight oils and 12 wa- tercolors of North Carolina art ists. Refreshments will be served and the public is cordially in vited. Premier Pianist !TVT A ' jL ' rm rv- TT : if iioiicaon i alien on juocan Coed Petition By Trustee Group; Fight To Continue Josef Hofman, famed pianist and composer, who will give a concert in Page auditorium, Duke university, October 29. Fashion Show Groups Hill Presiding, Unable Rehearse This Week A o fliaKe morion or For Display Oct 29 Kecommendation Scenes to Depict Fashions from Graham Present 1Mb 10 iyjb last Saturday. Ivey said that sheep raiser from the . West promised him a ram, but did not make any promises as to the date of delivery. BAILEY TO SPEAK HERE TS WEEK U. S. Senator To Appear As Guest Of CPU Senator J osiah W. Bailey, United States Senator, will speak here in Memorial hall Fri day night at 8:00 o'clock in be half of himself and the Demo cratic party. V The Carolina Political union, which is sponsoring Sen. Bai ley's speech, will conduct a straw vote for students, faculty mem bers and townspeople in the Y. M, C. A. tomorrow. This is the sixth in a series of speakers sponsored by the C. P. U. Future speakers include At torney General Seawell and Con gressman Frank Hancock from Oxford, v UNC Band Is Soaked In Rainy Broadcast Bandsmen Sit for Hour in Down pour at Yankee Stadium Showing true Carolina spirit, the University band sat in a pouring rain for an hour in or der to give the broadcast which was heard over CBS at 12:15 last Saturday. Changed plans at the last minute placed the broadcast in the open bleachers of Yankee stadium. The moisture-soaked clouds did the rest. Congratulations from all over the country have been received by E. A. Slocum and members of the band on the excellence of the broadcast. Originally scheduled for 12 o'clock the program" had to be postponed . 15 minutes 'due to electrical difficulties at the sta dium. Practice for Alpha Kappa Gamma's fashion show will start this week, with the full cast participating. On Monday and Thursday eve nings, girls and boys in the Shack scene will practice at 6 :30 in Spencer, and Chi Omega's scene will be rehearsed at the Chi O house at 7 :30. Members of the Y. W. C. A. scene will practice at Spencer on Tuesday and Friday nights at 6:30. Pi Beta Phi's scene will be rehearsed at their house -Tues- The executive committee of the Board of Trustees failed yesterday to recommend that the faculty and local coed peti tions be placed before the meet--ing of the board this fall. After presentation of the pe titions by Judge L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill, John Spirant Hill (presiding in place of the gov ernor) asked if anyone desired to make a motion that the coed proposition be placed on the agenda of the fall meeting of the board. No motion was made, Miss Elizabeth Wisner, direc tor bf the Tulane school of so cial work and president of the association of schools of social work, was the guest of honor at recent luncheon and business discussion at the Carolina Inn. The special luncheon confer- ence, witn covers I or 14, was at tended by the faculty of the de partment of sociology and the faculty of the school of public administration. Mrs. W. T. Bost, commissioner; of public welfare in North Carolina, and Dr. Perr sons, of . the ' Duke university medical staff, were' also present. Dean II. B. House presided at s the discussion, and Dr. H. W. Odum presented the guest. Miss Wisner spoke on "The Organi zations and Aims of the Associ ation of Schools of Social Work. Just Kids When the special train carry ing Carolina fans to the N. Y. U. game pulled out of the Washing ton station, , several boys turned up missing. They had last been seen walking around the plat form barefooted, in shorts and top-coats. After the conductor had wired back to have them put on the next train it was discov ered they had occupied one of the Pullmans up ahead, climbed into berths, gone to sleep. Freshman Chapel The captains of the nine var sity sports will appear in fresh man, chapel this morning, each making a snort taiK. me pro gram is under the direction of the Monogram club, of which Marvin Allen is president. - Beale Will Address Bookshop Audience New Professor will Speak American Teachers on nrfwrd in tr tn f!nntrnllpr C: T. j j ;j 1 i l rr .o i -o - - aay ana r naay mgnis at i :av. j y-QQUjj The show will be given the nights of October 29 and 30 in Memorial hall. To facilitate practice, the five scenes in the Mr. Hill Hamstrung Mr. Hill, who favors admit tance of local girls, could not make the motion, because he show depicting fashions of 1776, 1 Q1Mmr 1860, 1890, 1900, an.1936 were given to Spencer hall girls, town girls, Chi Omega, Pi Phi, and the Y. W. C. A. These groups are responsible for each scene. DUKE WILL HEAR FAMOUS PIANIST The only power the trustee executive committee had was to recommend that the full board reconsider the coed problem- Cause Not Lost All that yesterday's refusal means, said Judge Phipps, is that at the next trustee meet ing in December or January the coed "netition ''won't, he nn aa a Hofman Widely Praised special item of business." By American Press But the faction advocating admission of local cirls. nrrnrn1- Josef Hofman, world-renowned intr to Ml0 PhlW Mrrv pianist, will appear in concert at their cause straight to the next rage auditorium, uuKe umver-r 0 - , lcf A fw sity, October 29 at 8:15. fn v. , w . Since the age of nine, when Those Present he electrified European music circles with .his performances, executive committee were pres ent at the session: Dr. H. K. Beale, new profes sor in the history department, will be the featured speaker at the Bull's Head tea this after noon at 4:15. Dr. Beale. a native of Ver mont, will speak on his -new book, "Are American Teachers Free?" This book is one in a series making up the report of the Commission on the Social Studies of the American Histori cal association. In the preface to his book, Dr. Beale acknowledges the help of Miss Georgia Faison and Dr. J. C. Russell, of the University faculty. Hofman has been touring Eu rope and America. His present American tour started in Janu ary, 1936. Praised The New. York Times says of Hofman: "His artistry brings a potent beauty to familiar music in piano literature." The New York Evening Post acclaims him as "the foremost pianist of our time." Tickets costing $1.10, $1.65, and $2.20 went on sale at the Duke box office yesterday. Mail orders may be secured now from J. Foster Barnes at Duke. Woodhouse Classes Hear Former secretary Of N. C. Socialist Party Alton Lawrence Speaks on So cialist, Communist Strategy In Presidential Campaign Alton Lawrence, former sec retary of the North Carolina So cialist party, gave a talk before Dr. Woodhouse's political "par ties class yesterday on the is sues of the presidential cam paign from the standpoint of the Socialist and his interpreta tion of the Socialist and Com munist strategy in this cam paign. Lawrence's was s : main point that the left-win group prefers Roosevelt to Landon as a de fense to the rise! of Facism in the United StatesThey regard Roosevelt and the Democratic party as a stop-gap until a Farm-Labor party can be form ed. Optimist Lawrence is very optimistic about the possibilities of build ing up a, rigorous Farm-Labor party in the near future, per haps as early as 1940. He ex pects leaders of this party to be such men as Congressmen Mar cantonia of New York, Amlee of Wisconsin, Lundin of Minne sota, Maverick of Texas; Sena tor Bone of Washington; Labor Leaders John Lewis, Joseph Du- binsky, and Sidney Loward. He also talked to the city government class on the Social ist government of Milwaukee, Reading, and Bridgeport. He contended the Socialist could do very little in the city until they had stronger support from So cialists in' state and national governments. Spargo Cancels Talk To Phi This Evening Landon Advocate Unable to Ar rive in Time to Speak contrary to previous an nouncement, John Spargo, for mer Socialist, will not appear at the meeting of the Phi Assembly tonight at 7 :15. John Sprunt Hill, Henry M. (Continued on last page) v SPARGO TO TALK FOR GOP TONIGHT ON UNION SERIES Ex-Socialist To Appear Here On Behalf Of Republicans Republican John Spargo ap pears at 8 :45 o'clock tonight in Memorial hall in behalf of Alf M. Landon. Once secretary of the Ameri can Socialist party, the speaker has changed his allegiance this fall and is appearing in a series of lectures sponsored by the G. O. P. He is brought to this cam pus by tne Carolina Political union. Writer Snarco was hnm in Plncrlnnr Spargo will be unable to ar- aTlfl first PTltprpd nnl:tlVs Wa rive in time to speak before the,Thirty years agQ he came to the I'm Dei ore nis mam aaaress ax Memorial hall. In spite of the absence of the Landonite, Speak er Frank McGlinn said that he expected a lively debate on the question, "Will America be forc ed to choose between Commun ism and Fascism within the next four years?" The second bill for discussion is Resolved : That students are not being prepared for the fu ture by attending the University of North Carolina. Graduate Women Due to the number of activi ties being staged this week, the graduate women have decided to postpone their benefit bridge party until the winter quarter. United States, where he has since been prominent as a So cialist and as a writer. . He is a reputed authority on social issues, industrial democ racy, religion, foreign relations, history, art, economic problems, the Russian revolution, and commerce. Tonight's program will be the fourth of a series of political discussions by national leaders. Spargo's address will be the second favoring the Republi cans, the first being made by Col. Frank Knox last week. So cialism was discussed in early October by Bishop Paul Jones and Jeffersonian Democracy was represented last week by Thomas Dixon. ' f'f r I I.