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Will 1a)7EATHER: VV Fair and Warmer . Today THE ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH VOLUME XLV EDITORIAL PHOXS 4351 CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1937. 411- NUMBER 175 MM Magill Names New Students To Committee Craig, Merrill, Wiley, And Von Cannon Are Advisers Student Body President Bob !Magill yesterday announced his appointments to the Student Advisory committee for the com ing year. The four men are Newton Craig, chairman and holdover member, Forest von Cannon, ris ing senior, Allen Merrill, rising junior and John Wiiey, rising sophomore. Functions The Student advisory commit- In Concert DuFour Thinks Seniors9 Week Can Be Better Visit To University Of Tennes see Pageant Gives Local Scout Ideas a . tee functions as a "shock absor- Dr. Benjamin F. Swalin, head of the violin department of the music school, who will direct the involving University combined University and North Carolina JLittie symphonies m their two concerts Monday at 2:30 and 8:30 p. m. in Memoria hall. Commenting on his recent trip to Knoxville as deputy for Senior Class President Joe Pat terson, Bob du Four said yester day, "I saw great possibilities for the improvement of next years Senior week in the Uni versity of Tennessee's Hillside celebration. . ; . : - "At the close of the evening's I " ' a program, tne senior class num bering about 300, left the stadi um in which the ceremony was held, and, with lighted candles, formed a T on the hill in full view of the 10,000 gathered to witness the event After one verse of the university's alma mater while the crowd stood hushed in the stands, the ' "T suddenly disappeared as the can dles were extinguished. It was a most impressive sight. ter" between the administra tion and the student body on matters services. The assistant to the assistant controller who is this year Fred "Weaver, acts as a consultant and leader rvf tliA trrrmn. The commmee represents the Swalin Will Lead Orchestras interests ot the student body and makes recommendations to the Local profess0r Noted' Dusmess department m iayor ot students in connection with all University services that are fi nancial in nature. In Comedy s ' I T v I , J - J' I : t 1 - - . ' -V. mmwmv First Performance Of Play Successful; Second Tonight Stutts Loses Throwing Bet Would-Be Hercules Fails To Come Through K&fe. Bob Nachtmann, whose acting in tne role m of l errovius . was vigorously acclaimed last night at the first showing of "Andro- cles and the Lion" in the Play- makers' Forest theater. The last showing of the production, which is this year dedicated to Dr. Archibald Henderson in com memoration of his 60th birth day, takes place at 8:30 o'clock tonight. For His Training In Music Ivey Supports Campus Issue May Use Loudspeaker At Polls Tuesday Benjamin Swalin, head of the violin department of the music school, will direct the combined University and North Carolina Symphony orchestras in their concerts Monday afternoon and night. : The professor was born in Minneapolis, Minn . 7 of Swedish parents. At the age of 17 he became a member of the Min neapolis Symphony orchestra. Two years later he relinquished University And State Symphonies Will Play Here The" legislature and class honor councils will be voted on Tuesday. Pete Ivey, director of Graham his position with that orchestra MemoriaJ who astounded voters to study in New York under during spring elections with his Franz Kneisel and Leopold Au- amplifier campaign against er staff elections, threatened to get the old machine out again Tues day if voters failed to visit, the Y. M. C. A. polls. Action A surporter of the legislature, Ivey hates to see the issue de feated, he said, because men who favor the plan will not take the trouble to cast their vote. Voting One thousand three hundred favorable votes, a majority of -the undergraduate student body, are required to make the legisla ture a reality. "You tell 'em," Ivey said, -"that if they don't come down I'm gonna ; get : my microphone after them." V He plans to put the machine on the truck and ride by the dormitories and fraternities. "It may even play .havoc with South building," he said. Study On an American student-exchange fellowship, Swalin was (Continued on page two) Group Leaves For WCUNC "Y" Members T Visit Greensboro Girls This afternoon at 3:15, some 50 or more of the members of the Freshman Friendship coun cil and Sophomore "Y" cabinet will journey to Woman's college in Greensboro for a special par ty, supper and meeting with the corresponding group of "Y" workers there. Each' member of the council or cabinet who is planning to go (Continued on last page) Monday afternoon and night the combined orchestras of the North Carolina Little symphony and the University of North Carolina symphony will offer two concerts in Memorial hall. At 2 : 30 p. m. there will be, a children's concert and in the evening at 8 :20 a program un der the auspices of Phi Mu Al pha, national musical fraterni ty. History The personnel of the combin ed orchestras will number ap proximately 55 players, of whom 15 were members of the original North Carolina Symphony or chestra which played its first concert here in Chapel Hill in May, 1932, under the leadership of Lamar Stringf ield. In May, 1934, the North Car olina Symphony orchestra be came an Emergency Relief ad ministration project. Since De cember, 1935, it has been main tained as a federal music pro- ect under the Works Progress administration. At present the organization is ocated in Greensboro under the joint sponsorship of the federal usic project .and the Greens- boro symphony society. Band To Give Last Concert Under Poplar Tomorrow's Program To Be Sixteenth Of Year Clyde Stutts, Graham dorm resident and com merce senior, hastily remov ed his shirt and began to exercise his arms in the street behind the medical building Thursday night. Giving the odds of 16-to-1, Harry Wilkinson, a freshman, had bet him $4 to 25 cents that he couldn't throw a baseball from the street behind the medical building to the one that runs parallel with the lower quadrangle. A score of Graham resi dents had gathered at the lower street and were wait ing for the ball. Stutts took his position, wound up his pitching arm and with the speed of a bullet the ball sailed through the night over the upper quadrangle. A minute later Athlete Stutts was minus 25 cents. His throw was 50 feet short. Library Staff Gives Dinner Large Audience Attends Shaw's "Androcles And The Lion" Holmes Proves Hit As the closing production of their 19th season the Carolina Playmakers last night present ed the first of two performances of George Bernard Shaw's com edy, "Androcles and the Lion," tne rorest theater beiore a large audience of students, townspeople, faculty, and press representatives from various state papers. The second and last performance will be given tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Of the play Dr. Archibald Henderson, official biographer of Shaw, says: "It is a Shavian species of Christmas pantomime, an English holiday festivity not found in the American theater. It is all hilarious fun sheer (Continued on last page) Second Meet Of Religions Planned Here National Convention Of Jews, Christians To Be Here Under the direction of Earl Slocum, the University band will' present its sixteenth and Affair Given As Effort last concert of the season to-i - Tn Draw Tlliricinnc morrow at 4 p. m. under the Da- Tncrf hoi- vie poplar. Charles Miller, a senior and solo cornetist in the band, will be featured as soloist for the oc- Iveu's Lottery May Lead Students On Road To Ruin Graham Memorial Director Plans To Turn Community Sing Into Gambling Den By Samuel Engs Pete's Place is the scene of feverish activity as the Graham Memorial director and his staff change the back room, now full of quiet and contemplative stu dents, into a gambling hell. Tomorrow night at 8, using len Levitch's community sing for an excuse, Director Ivey will undermine the morals of many an innocent mountaineer fresh man. He will run a lottery. nn Vi surface the whole Ivey Victim Of Ballot Pilierers Song Voting Is Adulterated By Several Meanies Pilferers of the worst sort m stuffed the ballot boxes m tne Y. M. C. A. yesterday. The box es were placed there by Admir al Pete Ivey, in connection with the Weekly Appreciation Cen turv of Progress Bank Lottery Community Sing Night in Gra ham Memorial tomorrow. Leonard Levitch, Vice Admir al and Svengali of the programs announced late last night tha (Continued on page two) The University library staff, in one of tne several steps to draw the consolidated Universi- casion. He will play "Napoli" by ty divisions closer together, gave Frank Simon. This work of Si- a dinner at the Carolina inn mon is based on the familiar Thursday night in honor of the tune "Funiculi-Funicula." Program Other numbers the band will play are Tschaikowsky's Sym- (Conttnued on page two) German Club Heads Chosen Russ Makes Talk At C. P. A. Meet State Secretary Addresses Last Meeting Of Accountants The Carolina Accounting so ciety, meeting in Bingham hall Thursday night for the last time of the year, had as guest speaker W. M. Russ, secretary of the State Board of C. P. A. exami ners. Himself a certified public ac countant, Mr. Russ advised al accountancy students to begin working toward a C P. A. de gree as soon as they finish col lege. "The profession is very much in need of trained college men," he said. The speaker defended college classroom "theorizing." "Many neoDle," he said, "will tell you that textbook theory has no practical application, but I wa ger that 99 times out of 100 those persons just don't under stand the theory." librarians from State college and the Woman's college in Greensboro. The principal speaker was Dr. Phillips Russell, of the Univer sity English department, who spoke on "Making a Library more HJiiective. Dr. Russell said that a library must be used as a more effective education medium and must compete with Umstead Picks Members moving pictures and the radio, Of New Committee asserting that such is not being done today, but that we must John Umstead, recently cho- learn our lesson from the pic- sen chairman of the Cierman tures and the radio. club, announced last evening the Rhni. w fraternity men who will serve p Kellam, Librarian at State col- wu iiic allied liuh b uccuuve r t t t : ... . iCgC, VI. XV. jyiV, XJlULiXLlUll Hit committee next year. w p ti m p.H p p Umstead delegated his power Downs, Librarian at the Univer- of appointment to the fraterni- sity. ties wmcn are memoers ot tne Fifty-eight librarians and club. Representatives were then TYiPrnhpra nf tho elected by the various Greek or- were present for the dinner. gamzations. The executive committee members are Dave Thorp, Zeta Psi; Page Hancock, Sigma Chi; Fred Parrish, Kappa Sigma; Fletcher Gregory, Kappa Alpha; Frank Rogers, Phi Delta vThe- ta; Lunsford Crew, Phi Gamma Delta; and Jimmy Coan, Beta ThetaPil Bearing the subject of "Edu cation and Human Relations," the National Conference of Jews and Christians will present the Second Southern ' Institute of Human Relations here, June 28 to July 2, to be presided over by University President Frank P. Graham, co-chairman of the institute this year. Opening the program on Mon day night, June 28, at 7:30 o'clock, Dr. E. McNeill Poteat, Jr. pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist church of Raleigh and commentator for the institute, will deliver an address on "An Institute Interpretation." Denny On the same night, George V. Denny, Jr., director of the Town Hall and the "Town Hall on the Air" at New York, will speak on the subject "Toward a Work able Democracy." Registration books may be found in the YMCA office. Ac cording to a notice issued by President Graham yesterday public school administrations, college presidents and deans are requested to call their teacher's attention to this institute. Lead ers of other groups, clergy, wo men's and men's clubs are urged to call the institute to the atten tion of their constituency. Statement Of Fact In the article entitled "Co operatives, No Cooperation," written by William Wooten and published in the April issue of the Carolina Magazine were a number of statements , which might be construed as reflecting on tne character ot Mr. nay- wood Weeks. Mr. Weeks de clares the statements to be un true in fact and inference. Upon inquiry we have found (Continued on page two) Three Students Will Hike To Raleigh On $75 Bet Local Men Prepare Problems For Text Hickerson And Trimble To Con tribute To Widely-Used Work T. F. Hickerson and R. M. Trimble, professors in the en gineering school, will prepare a group of illustrative problems for the new edition of Brace's "Highway Design and Construc tion." They will prepare a total of 120 problems for this text book which is now in its second edi tion and has been adopted as a text by 79 universities ancl col leges throughout the country. Atwood, Gilmore, Cook To Pene trate Swamps And Hills Next Thursday Jack Atwood, Voit Gilmore, and Fred Cook will hike cross country to Raleigh in 15 hours next Thursday or lose a total of $75. If they survive the hike they will collect $75 from such Chi Psi brothers as Professor Wal ter Spearman. Hal Armen- trout, Jack Kidd, and Franklin Harward. The terms of the bet are that the trio must tramp to the high way, 30 .yards out from the (Continued on page two (Continued on last page)
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