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VOLUME XL VII
EDITORIAL PHONE 4)51
CHAPELr HILL, N. CyFRmArOVEMBER-lgr-lSSS
NUMBER 5-6
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Saying Ahhh!
Miss Virginia Kibler, North Caro
lina product and president of Chi
Omega sorority which is holding a tea
dance this afternoon. -
CHI OMEGAS
DANCE TO MUSIC
BYJEEPJBpETT
Clarinet, Orchestra
Entertain Sorority
At Tea Dance
The active members of Chi Omega
sorority are being honored by their
pledges with a tea dance this after
noon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the ball
room of the Carolina Inn. Jeep Ben
Tiett, His Clarinet, and His Orchestra
will furnish the music for the dance
The honored active members and
their escorts are: Virginia Kibler,
president of the sorCrity, with Bob
Dicks, Claire Whitmore with Drip
Tyree, Miriam Durrett with John
Wallace, .Jane Hunter with Loke
Long, Anne Nash with Bobby House,
Betty Norcross with Jim Parker, Julia
Holt with Allen Kornegay, Berta
Arnold with Louis Gaylord, Nancy
Smith with Bill Seth, Mary Frances
Hunter with David Fuller, Peggy
Sabine with Bill Hudson, Altajane
Holden with Jim Keith, .Molly Al
britton with Jim Hunt, Bea Dalton
with Joe Young, Martha Gunter with
Wade Williford, and Margaret Evans
with Charlie Clark.
Patrons and patronesses for the af
fair will be President and Mrs. Frank
Graham, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Jordan,
Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Mackie, Dr. and
Mrs. I. H. Manning, Dr. and Mrs. M.
S. Breckenridge, Mr. and Mrs. Estelle
Lawson Page, Dr. English Bagby,
Mrs. Irene F. Lee, Mrs. Victor Hum
phries, Mrs. E. G. Hardeman, Mrs.
Inez Stacy and Mrs. A. A. Kluttz.
Beginning With Mexican Revolt
Josephina Niggli Becoming
Famous Carolina Author
Is Credited -;With Wide And
Thorough Knowledge Of
Mexican Life and Customs
By JAMES KEITH
Carolina's scholarly halls have
turned out into the world many fa
mous and infamous people. Some of
them fade into their own lives and
are forgotten. But occasionally one of
these passing" students finds some
thing way back in his mind that he
must give to the world so he'writes
a book and we remember him.
Josephina Niggli says that "the
Mexican Revolution anl I began in
the same year, 1910." While the Revo
lution was playing around in Mexico,
scaring good honest citizens, Josephina
was learning all about Mexican life so
that she could come to Carolina and
hecome a writer. ,
She was born in Monterrey, Neuvo
Leon, Mexico, played with Mexican
peons from whom she learned a world
of folk lore which she used later in
the preparation of her plays. Her edu
cation consisted of four months in the
American school at Mexico city, two
years in high school at San Antonio,
Texas, four years in Incarnate Word
under the supervision of Dr. R. E.
fcoehl, and a year in the school of
Journalism at Columbia University.
Jn 1935, she came to the University
to study playwriting and it was here
that she gave the world her book,
GLEE CLUB WILL .
PRESENT ANNUAL
FALL CONCERT
Thomas Edwards
To Be Feature
Attraction Tonight '
The Men's Glee club, under the di
rection of John E. Toms, will present
its annual fall concert in Hill "Music
hall tonight at 8:30. Heard on the
program will be Thomas Edwards,
noted tenor soloist, who will sing two
groups of, songs as well as assist the
club in other selections.
After his graduation from the Ob-
erlin conservatory, .Edwards served
as tenor soloist in one of Cleveland's
largest churches and he is now teach
ing ? voice in North Carolina. He will
appear again at .the ,University when
the Chapel Hill Choral club sings Hay
den's Oratorio, "The . Seasons", in the
winter quarter.
Also as a feature, Glenn Starnes,
music major, will sing "For A Last
Good Night" with the accompanyment
of the entire chorus.
Numbering slightly less than 60
voices, the "glee club will sing on its
program Bach's "Now Thank We All
Our God," "Adoramus Te" by Mo
zart, "The Nightingale" composed by
Welkees and a comic number entitled
"The Green Eyed Dragon." The same
program will be presented, by the club
at St. Mary's school in Raleigh on
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Director Toms is planning for the
Men's Glee club to make four week
end trips during the winter quarter
to various girls' schools in North
Carolina and Virginia.
SOPH QUORUM
PASSES BUDGET
Class To Spend
$667.90 This Year
Meeting yesterday morning in Hill
Music hall, the sophomore class man
aged to declare a quoroum and pass
its budget for the current school year.
The class used Freddie Johnson's
orchestra and 20 University coeds to
attract one of the largest crowds
which have attended any class meet
ing during the current budget-passing
season.
Items of the budgets are as follows :
auditing, $10.00; printing $5.25; pic
tures, Wooten-Moulton, $11.25; nine
pages in Yackety-Yack, $221.40; mis
cellaneous, $10.00; donationa, $10.00;
and class dance, $400.00 totaling
$667.90.
"Playmaker of Mexico."
In high school she began her lit
erary career ; by writing f illin poems
for the high, school paper. One of
these poems, "Tourist in a Mexican
Town", was published in the Denver
Echo. Turning from a poetic career
in 1930 at the request of the St.
Mark's Player, Josephine wrote her
first play, "Who Murdered Gertrude."
"It was a fine piece of tripe," she
said, "but the audience like it."
Of the plays which she has pub
lished, she said," "with the single ex
ception of 'Cockfight' I never wrote
a Mexican play until I came to Caro
lina." "Mexican Folk Plays" which was
placed on the market November 5th,
includes "Azteca", a dramatic por
trayal of the soul of the prehistoric
culture of an outlived past; "Solda
dera (Soldier-Woman)", the historic
struggle of Mexican Valkeries in the
Revolution of 1910; "The Red Velvet
Goat", a saenate, a story of the Mexi
can lower classes lifted into reality
on the stage; "Sunday Costs Five
Pesos", a hilarious comedy of small
town Mexican folk.
UNDERSTANDS LIVES
Frederick H. Koch, who has written
the foreword in the book, says, "Jose
phina Niggli has shown not va little
facility in both the one:act and the
full-length form. She understands the
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EX-UNIVERSITY
PROF SPEAKS ON
COHONSOUTH
Dr. C. T. Murchison
Speaks At Duke
Centennial
By WALTER KLEEMAN
" DURHAM, November 18. In con
nection with Duke's Cenntennial Cele
bration, the second day of a two day
symposium on "The Changing Eco
nomic Base of the South" brought to
the fore today a talk by Dr. Claudius
T. Murchison a former professor at
the University of North Carolina, and
now president of the Cotton Textile
institute, on "Factors Affecting the
Future Development of the Cotton
Textile Industry."
" After 'showing that 80 per cent of
the spindle activity of the country
was accounted for by the South, Dr.
Murchison considered the possibility
that the industry might shift to the
Southwest, since such industrial shifts
have been a feature of American eco
nomic history.
To make his point clearer the Insti
tute head reviewed the founding of
the industry, in the South. "No out
siders brought the cotton textile in
dustry here," he said, "Local initia
tive was the real force behind the
southern textile industry, and after
starting with the most meager re
sources imaginable, the manufacture
of cotton textiles has been brought to
the point where it accounts for 21
per cent of our state's manufactured
products to-day."
INDIGENOUS TO SOUTH
Emphasizing the fact that the in
dustry is indigenousous to the South,
economically and otherwise, and that
it has become an integral part of the
local economy the speaker pointed out
that the mills had a payroll in 1937
of over $200,000,000 for 300,000 work
ers, and that the total value of its
products was over $800,000,000.
"Timber, iron, oil, . coal, farm and
power resources were the fundamental
factors in other industrial shifts,"
Murchison continued, "But these did
not affect cotton.", His conclusion was
that a shift to any other section of
the country was unlikely, since na
tural resources are the only means of
attracting, these industrial shifts.
All through his history of . the
growth of the cotton industry in this
section of the country the speaker
emphasized the low wages and long
hours which were at first present
throughout the early mills. "These low
costs," he said, "offset the lack of
experience, skill, and capital, but
even so, they were as high or higher
than any other wages offered at that
time, and the hours were no longer
than those of any agricultural work
er." "BENEVOLENT PATERNALISM"
Murchison also pointed out that the
laying of a broad base for the indus
try was necessary before it could turn
to its present policy of 'benevolent pa
ternalism.' "No other industry can
match the cotton industry's record in
this respect," he said, as he showed
the various .ways in which the mills
have attempted to better the lot of
the mill-worker.
Then Murchison turned to the re
cent history of the industry and its
probabile effect upon the future. "In
1928 the industry was faced with
competition within itself, both in the
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Men's Glee Club tonight presenting its
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Roosevelt Unable To
Attend CPU Banquet
White House Secretary Marvin
Mclntrye telephoned Voit Gilmore
late yesterday that President
Roosevelt will be unable to attend
the banquet which was to be given
in his honor by the CPU.
Mclntrye also said that Roose
velt's address will begin at 4:15
instead of 4:30 p. m. in order that
he may return to Washington
earlier.
AUTHOR OF BEST
SELLER SPEAKS AT
BULL'S HEAD
Allen Tate! Says
Authors Are Like
Sharecroppers
Allen Tate, author of a recent best
seller, "The Fathers," and professor
of English literature at W.C.U.N.C.,
told members at the Bull's Head tea
yesterday afternoon, "Authors are like
sharecroppers always behind in pro
ducing the crop."
Professor Tate said that, contrary
to popular belief, authors do not write
from "feeling" or "inspiration," but
that they write with words. "The nu
cleous of my book was the first sen
tence, which came to me unexpected
ly," he . said. "From that sentence I
developed the plot, the locale, motive
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DEES WILL GIVE
CONCERT, GRAHAM
MMORIALLOUNGE
Carolina Alumnus
To Be Accompanied
On Piano By Soyez
James Dees, baritone, will give a
recital in Graham Memorial lounge
.at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. Dees,
who is a Carolina alumnus and resi
dent of Chapel Hill, will be accom
panied at the piano by Willi Hans
Soyez, exchange student from Ger
many and instructor of piano at the
University.
, Dees and Soyez appeared on a Me
morial program .last summer, and
gave a series of joint programs over
WDNC the past winter. Dees has also
appeared on on a chain of programs
over WPTF. ,
Dees, who is a pupil of Frank
Hufty, of Norfolk, ,Va., was for two
years soloist with the University glee
club, and has been baritone soloist for
the Chapel of the Cross, Episcopalean
church since 1934.
' Soyez is a pupil of Adolphe Schmitt
of the University of Heidelberg, Ger
many. While in Germany, he was
active in radio work at Stuttgart, and
did much concert work in southwest
ern Germany. During . the. school year
of 1936-37 he was' exchange student
and instructor in piano, at the Uni
versity of Rochester, k and . during t the
school year 1937-38 he heidthe same
position at the University of North
Carolina.
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annual fall concert at 8:30 in Hill Music
CPU INVITES HIGH
SCHOOLS TO SEND
MEN T0:SPEECH
No Other Tickets
Are Issued For
Presidential Address
Invitations to President Franklin
Roosevelt's address here December
are being sent by the Carolina Po
litical union to prominent students of
each high school in North Carolina,
in an effort to obtain as representa
tive an audience for the chief execn
tive's speech as possible.
Letters are being forwarded to prin
cipals of each high school in the state,
asking that they choose two students
from their school, preferably from
presidents of student bodies, editors pf
school papers, or president of senior
classes.
STUDENT SEATS RESERVED
Meanwhile, Union Chairman Voit
Gilmore announced that seats at the
President's speech will be reserved for
every University student in the special
sections set aside at both Kenan sta
dium and Woollen gymnasium.
Many requests have been made of
the CPU for tickets to the speech.
However, no tickets, with the except
tion of those for high school represen
tatives and special guests, will be
given out.
Business Of Faculty
I Meeting Held Secret
Unpublishable business concerned
an important meeting of the general
faculty Thursday afternoon. The
main purpose of the meeting, was the
selection of a committee on honorary
degrees. Names of committee mem
bers were not disclosed. According to
a report from Dr. T. J. Wilson, j Uni
versity registrar, the assembly ad
journed after discussing routine mat
ters not divulged to the public.
By Speech Of Doting Mama
Behavior At Carolina pances
Attributed To Committee
Alcohol, Bad Manners,
"Goings On" Under Control
Of Body Created In 1925
"The University of North Carolina
is the only school that holds dances to
which I'd consider sending my daugh
ter. .This is because of the gentleman
ly conduct of the students."
This statement made by a Carolina
lady recently; is an excellent tribute
to the work accomplished by the Uni
versity Dance committee, an organiza
tion which has been in existence since
1926. The year before its formation
in 1925 , alcohol, bad manners, and
various .other "goings on" had put
campus dances in such ill repute that
the administration had suspended
them indefinitely.
.The . executive committee of the
German club decided that something
had best be done to rectify this situa
tion and managed to persuade Presi
dent Chase to let it be the first off i
cial dance committee of the Univer
JOHN C. FINCH,
DRIVER OF CAR,
SLIGHTLYHURT
Einar H. Dale Also
Injured As Auto
Swerves, Hits Pole
One University student was
killed, one "not seriously" hurt
and one slightly injured at ap
proximately 11:30 last night
when a car driven by John Clin-
ard Finch struck a telephone
pole near Mrs. Frank Miller's on
East Franklin street.
Charles Connelly Spell, senior
riding with Finch, died on the
way to Watts hospital as result
of injuries. Einar Hornibrook
"Bob" Dale, sophomore, suffered
cuts about the head and face
and was returned to University
infirmary for treatment.
CAR ON CURVE
Finch's account of the acci
dent was "I met a car on the
curve, and I thought he was
crowding me, so I moved over."
Witnesses reported that the car,
a 1939 Buick, bounced along the
curb several times before crash
ing into a telephone pole. The
car was utterly demolished.
Finch, formerly of Lexington,
was hurt only slightly on the
chin and knee. His mother is now
living with Mrs. Jenkins on East
Franklin street.
NO INVESTIGATION YET
' Officer 'Wright of the Chapel
Hill police force investigated the
accident but said no official in
vestigation would be made until
today or possibly later, pending
developments in the boys' condi
tion. Dale, a native of New Jersey,
lives at 116 Graham with Cabel
Lowe.
Spell's body is being returned
to Walker's Funeral home.
Board Has Made
No Official Act
Graham Memorial board of di
rectors wishes to make it clear
that no - official action has been
taken on the proposal to install
a night club in the banquet hall of
Graham Memorial, it was stated
by Bob Magill yesterday, j The
proposal was not rejected but
merely tabled until next week.
The report in the Daily Tab Heel
yesterday merely expressed what
appeared to be the reaction jof
some of the board members to the
, discussion which took place dur
ing the meeting.
sity. Dr. Chase then asked the , late
Professor Bernard to head the group,
and the latter agreed to do so, pro
vided that neither the executive com
mittee, nor the faculty, nor the stu
dent council would have anything to
do with its workings and that in ad
dition there could be no appeal from
the organization's rulings. The school
gave the committee a charter embody
ing all the provisions Dr. Bernard
had demanded and since . then it has
always had the final say in all mat
ters regarding conduct at dances.
SIX YEAR RULE
The German club faction represent
ed the 11 most prominent fraternities
on the campus and for six years it
continued its reign. Most of its rulings
are still in practice. Then , in 1932
there was a meeting of three faculty
members and 15 students who were
delegates of every dance group in
the school and it was decided that
the University Dance committee as it
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