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rC Editorials Interfraternity Coumeil Why Are We Here? News Secondary Training Here Mims Speaks Tonight UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA- VOLUME Lr-A Subscription rates $j0 session $.75 summer CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1942 Telephone 4351 20 Grahai Memorial NUMBER 6 it Lecturer cheduled On Campus Tonight Former Professor Returns for Talk On "Humanities" Dr. Edwin Mims will take a stand for the humanities the classical school subjects in their role in the present war during his speech tonight at 8 o'clock in Graham Memorial. The internationally famous winter- preter of literature who once, claimed popularity as a Carolina English pro fessor will return from his present re tirement to discuss "Humanities and the Present War" in the Student Union's main lounge. Edgar W. Knight, Kenan professor of education at this University, will introduce the 70-year-old author and lecturer. Dr. Mims will come back to Chapel Hill on the invitation of Dean of Ad ministration Robert B. House. Dr. Mims was a member of the University faculty from 1909 to 1912. He is still known for his wide popularity among students and faculty members. The eminent educator retired last month after a lifetime of educational service. He taught 15 years at Trinity college, three years at Carolina and was head of the English department at his alma mater, Vanderbilt, for 30 years." Dr. Mims is still described as "youth ful, yet with the buoyancy of one who has lived well and found pleasure in his work." He continues to speak his educational theories, which include his conviction that wide cultural and classical training is needed to balance vocational training. "We must educate the total man," he declared recently. -We ' must not educate the social man alone, the eco nomic man, the classical man, the man with vocational training, but the whole man." "In modern education, although there is a reaction against the classics, there is still a demand for the humani ties, the same demand for hard work and intellectual discipline as before," See MIMS, page 4 Koch to Present Drama Sketches On Thursday Proff Frederick H. Koch follows his "Midsummer Night's Dream" mono logue this Thursday, with a talk on the Drama and Humble Folk at 4:30 in the Playmakers' Theatre. The talk will consist of Dramatic readings of character sketches in prose and poetry. Koch will present dramatic charac terizations from the South, the Western American states, New England, Can ada, and Mexico. Dramatically, he will portray char acters from Edgar Lee Masters, "Spoon River Anthology," and others by Olive Tilford Dargan, Maxwell Anderson, Dubose Heyward, and Thomas Wolfe of the North Carolina Mountain people. Among these folk sketches, A Ver mont Village from Walter Hard's, "A Mountain Township" and excerpts from Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," will be characterized. Southern Style Sound and Fury Minstrel Show, Navv-Student Barbecue to Climax Week's Slate Sound and Fury's minstrel show "Are You from Dixie?" Friday night and a campus-wide barbecue Saturday will climax this week's slate of - Stu dent Activities programs. An amateur show and readings by Proff Koch Thursday night will also highlight the schedule, according to Miss Helen Dugan, activities office head. Art Department Tea The art department will sporsor a tea this afternoon in Person hall at 5:00 o'clock. Art students and faculty members will attend. Tonight Dr. Edwin Mims, former Carolina English professor, will deliver an address in the Student Union main lounge, and a reception for the famous literature expert will follow. The speech will begin at 8 o'clock. Mi ms To Speak : 4 ATHLETE Lt. - Comm. Harvey Harmon who will appear with other officers of the Naval Pre-Flight training school in the mass meet ing next week. All-Americans To Appear Program Planned To Introduce Navy A Naval Ail-American program on which many of the nation's outstand ing athletes and coaches now stationed in Chapel Hill will be introduced to the student body, faculty and towns people in Memorial hall, Monday night, July 13, it was announced yestorday--- The program, sponsored by the sum mer activities office, is designed to bring some of the Navy's most distinguished sports personnel into personal contact with students and faculty for the first time and to "bind the friendly rela tionships" between the two units. The gala event will begin at 8 o'clock and will be held to approximately an hour so that students may get back to their studies, it was learned. Heading the all-star show will be "Sleepy" Jim Crowley, one of the famed "Four Horsemen," a familiar figure on Kenan stadium in recent years as head mentor of the Fordham gridiron forces, and now serving the nation as head football coach of the Naval Pre-Flight unit. Lieutenant-Commander Harvey Harmon, former head gridiron director at Pennsylvania and Rutgers and now director of athletics for the Pre-Flight unit, Lieutenant Ed Don George, for mer heavyweight wrestling champion of the world and director here of the hand-to-hand combat, and many other equally noted men in the field of sport will be included on the program. Consisting of several talks, includ ing ones by Lieutenant-Commanders Crowley and Harmon, introduction of many other athletic stars on the plat form, probably a sports quiz with ques tions being directed towards any of the authorities on the platform, and other forms of entertainment yet to be de cided upon, the program is open to the general public with no admittance charge. Bert Bennett, president of the student body, will preside over the See ALL-AMERICANS, page h A meeting of the entire faculty and graduate student membership of the education department will be held to morrow afternoon in Gerrard hall at 4 o'clock. Another Graham Memorial amateur show, with prizes and Whitey San ders as "mogul of ceremonies," will come Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Proff Koch's talk at the Playmakers theater will precede the amateur show at 4:30. Carr dormitory will journey to Sparrow's pool in Carrboro for a picnic at 6:30. Friday night's minstrel show will be free to the campus, Miss Dugan an nounced. Student Activities office will finance the Sound and Fury show, to begin in Memorial hall at 8:30. Under auspices of the Town Recre ation committee, YMCA secretary j ' -- .. i w .--- A S&F Minstrel Stars Root In Parody By Billy Webb Laid in the sultry, drape-shaped at- i mosphere of a Carrboro negro cafe instead of the customary frostbitten, smoke-hazed barroom in the far North, Sound and Fury's parody of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" in its min strel, "Are You From Dixie?", stars the performance of boogie-woogie pian ist, Aldert Root, as' the Mysterious Stranger. When the haggard and grim as haggard and grim as a blackened face will permit stranger staggers into the cafe mouthing, "Drinks for the house," he is scarcely noticed until he jdrops heavily upon the piano stool and be gins to let his fingers rove over the keys. "Oh God, how that man could play!" reads the poem. And Root does play with that fervor. Boogie-Woogist A serious enthusiast of boogie woogie piano ' playing, Root, who is from Raleigh, learned to play boogie woogie from listening to records played by such "masters" as Pinetops Smith, Albert Ammonds, Meade Lux Lewis and others. Later he developed a tech nique of his own playing ad lib entire ly. His peculiar style is characterized by a heavy, driving bass and swiftly moving improvisations with the right hand. Adding to the color of the scene will be .ten "hi-yaller" girls lounging in the bar, langorously drawing on cigar ettes and feigning inebriation." Ann Montgomery will be perched upon the piano smoking from a long holder as inspiration for the "haggard" stranger. Script by Hall, Hutton Written by Sound and Fury prexy, Ben Hall, and chief stooge, notorious Tiny Hutton, the parody is cleverly adapted to the changed setting, con taining such lines as the following: "With his suit that was loot and solid to boot." Service's plot and verse form are retained intact. The youngest performer to ever act in a show by the musicomedy organi zation is Charlie Cannon of Chapel Hill. He is part of the minstrel, later playing a hot trumpet solo on "Dark town Strutters Ball" between acts. Hurst Hatch has been cast as Dan gerous Dan. Shot Cox, Libby Izen, Wharton Black, and Margaret Nor man are featured in a "jitterbug jump" to be staged as part of the cafe scene. Activities Schedule Today, June 30 Art department tea Person hall 5:00. Dr. Edwin Mims address Graham Memorial 8:00. Reception for Dr. Mims Graham Memorial follows speech. Tomorrow, July 1 Graduate education department ses sion Gerrard hall 4:00. Thursday, July 2 . Proff Koch talk and dramatic read ings Playmakers theater 4:30. Carr dormitory picnic Sparrow's pool 6:30. Amateur show Graham Memorial 8:00. Friday, July 3 Sound and Fury's minstrel show: "Are You from Dixie?" Memorial hall free 8:30. Harry Comer and the Student Activi ties office, a campus barbecue will be Saturday evening's center of attrac tion. The barbecue, complete with a whole pig roasting in a pit "to show the yankees what a real barbecue is like," will be free to all Naval ca dets. The Navy will pay the cadets' share instead of financing a regular evening meal. Students will pay $.50 for their meals. Tables will be set up in Emerson field for the barbecue, scheduled to begin at 6 o'clock. The Navy may stage a special patriotic ceremony during the festivities. Tickets for the Saturday barbecue will be on sale throughout the week at the Student Activities office in the YMCA, in all dormitories and by spe cially canvassing students. ADVANCED AIR TRAINING INSTITUTED AT AIRPORT Local Theater Manager Grants $350 Scholarship E. Carrington Smith, local theater manager, will establish a $350 scholar ship for worthy Carolina students out of receipts from three special motion picture shows next year. Smith will sponsor shows in the fall, winter and spring quarters next year and will turn over funds to the Uni versity scholarship committee to "use as they see fit." If more than $350 is received, the surplus also will be de voted to a scholarship fund. - The scholarship will be set up under the name of the local Carolina theater company. Weekend Permission Required for Coeds Honor Council Makes Ruling For Summer Term "Permissions will be required hence forth for coeds to leave the campus tf or week-ends, if the destination is other than home," announced Mary Lib Nash, Women's Honor Council president, yesterday. House meetings were held last night in the women's dormitories to inform them of the new rulings, which were formed by the Honor Council, col laborating with Mrs. M. H. Stacy, dean of women. The new agreement will apply only to the undergraduate coeds, and it was undertaken in order to relieve the ad ministration of heavy responsibilities. Effective this week-end for the Fourth of July holidays, the new rules have been made into form letters to parents. Coeds may get the proper blanks at the Dean's office in South building. The permissions are in a blanket form and will cover the entire summer session. The Honor Council also emphasized that coeds, under no circumstances, are to visit men students in private homes or apartments. Inter-fraternity rul ings have already been listed, and vio lations of either of these rules will be dealt with by the Honor Council. Education Group Launches Program For Summer Term Thirty-three members of the Edu cation Workshop have launched a sum mer program to solve educational prob lems within the Workshop and the University, Dr. W. Carson Ryan said yesterday. The director of the education de partment group announced that dur ing two-hour daily periods members will "attack problems of social region study, music and art integration, ac tivities program in the seventh grades, physical education and health pro grams, evaluating English in high school, improving reading in high schools, audio-visual aids for secondary schools, mental health of teachers, ex ceptional children in the state, science in primary grades, treatment of shy children, organization of home eco nomics and teacher-pupil planning." Dr. Ryan will be assisted in the pro gram by Misses Antoinette Beasley, Ruth Kotinsky, Nan Lacy and Adeline McCall, and I. Epps Ready, W. D. Perry and W. H. Plemmons. Conferences, tours and a luncheon already have been held in the Educa tion Workshop's summer slate. J Tar Heel Issues Call For Workers Freshmen, transfers or other stu dents interested in working on the staff of The Tar Heel are asked to report at the news offices, 206 Graham Memor ial, between 2 and 3 o'clock tomorrow and Thursday. Vacancies on the editorial, news, and business staffs will be filled from ap plicants following tryouts., Charlie Nelson, business manager, emphasized the need for ad solicitors. "This scholarship is the product of a desire to help worthy students through the University and possibly to bring more students here," Smith explained "It's not pleasant to see some fellows try to go through school on a shoe string, and perhaps this fund may help out." Smith staged shows last year to raise funds for the NYA drive and for the present scholarship fund drive. If $350 cannot be raised after three shows, Smith will continue the drive until the amount is received. Andrews Gives Collection Confederate Money Donated to UNC Alexander Boyd Andrews, secretary of the University board of trustees, has presented a vast collection of Confed erate and state currency and bonds valued at $500 to the library's Southern Historical, collection. The prominent - Raleigh attorney turned over the collection last week to J. G. deRoulhac "Hamilton," director of the collection. It contains approxi mately 8,000 separate items and 2,000 duplicates. Hamilton and Olan V. Cook, assist ant librarian, are still engaged in ex amining and sorting the items. Cook said that he was "amazed at the size of the collection." After checking deal ers' catalogs yesterday, Cook found that Andrews' gift contained 167 out of 341 existing Confederate notes, each valued at about $2.60. Official Title The collection will be known as "The Alexander Boyd Andrews Collection of Confederate and State Currency, and of Notes of State Banks of Issue." As soon as the gift has been properly ar ranged, cabinets will be built and the collection will be put on public exhibi tion from time to time. According to Hamilton, the Andrews collection is "meticulously classified and beautifully arranged in separate window-pane envelopes." The collec tion is the result of several years of research and effort by Mr. Andrews, who is noted for his work in such "hobbies." The gift includes Confederate cur rency and bonds of the Confederate period, currency of several of the colonies of continental money and of notes of banks of issue. A large quan tity of similar items which has accumu lated in the library over a long period will be added to the Andrews collec tion. Shop, New Theater Feature Colonial Building Scheme By Margaret Morrison Colonial architecture, Williamsburg style, with the addition of Georgian features, is the long range building plan dreamed for Franklin street. First touches have already begun in the new theater building on East Franklin street and Smith-Prevost's new home on the west side of North Columbia street. About a year ago the Board of Al dermen decided upon a scheme of town beautification by providing for the gradual evolution of the business district architecture from the general nondescript variety of today to a uni formly beautiful style that style be ing Colonial. A Planning Committee was appointed by the Board of Alder men, the first members being appoint ed for one, two, three, four, and five years with the ones appointed to fill their places given a five year term, thus keeping old members on the com mittee at all times. At this time H. Supervision By Navy Slated For Program Secondary aviation training pipe dream of local CAA coordinator W. R. Mann and fellow enthusiasts be comes a reality on gigantic Horace Williams airport "within a few days," it was announced here yesterday. Official word from Washington in dicated that actual training would be gin "shortly," even before the setting of quotas for all flight training cen ters throughout the nation. Under Naval supervision, tHe ad vanced training marks the first stab at full utilization of the tremendous aviation resource of the University latent in Horace Williams airport, largest college airport in the nation a mere two miles from the heart of Chapel Hill. Forty Students Trained Possibly 40 students, enlisted through the regular Naval selection channels, will be training at a time under authorized CAA instructors. The program is being set up jointly with Duke university which will handle 20 students pilots at a time. Equipment, leased and maintained to the University by the Ser-Air cor poration of Raleigh will consist of. from one to three Waco VPT's, of 220 horsepower, Mann stated yesterday, with the probable addition of more ships as conditions require. Officials stated that the secondary training would not affect the doubled primary CPT program recently an nounced for the University which em braces an increased curriculum of ground school and flying work. Under the new primary . program, trainees are required "to be enlisted in either ' the Army or Navy air corps reserve and will be subjected to an eight hour course covering 244 hours of work as contracted with the old program of 72 hours over a period of sixteen weeks. No Connection with Pre-Flight The advanced training will have no connection with the Naval Pre-Flight school recently commissioned on the campus but othcials intimated that See AIRPORT, page U Portrait Painter To Demonstrate With Living Model Kenneth Ness, resident artist at the University, will give a painting demon stration in the studio of Person Hall Art Gallery, on Sunday at 3 o'clock. The popularity of the portrait demonstration which he gave in April has encouraged this second demonstra tion. At that time he selected a model from the audience and achieved an ex cellent likeness of one of the art stu dents in the class on a large canvas in three hours. While the model was rest ing Mr. Ness answered questions asked by the audience. , The studio classes, conducted this summer by John Allcott, head of the art department, are interested in ob serving the artist at work and. this demonstration is open to the public. G. Baity is chairman while J. P. Har land, L. J. yPhipps, Collier Cobb, and the late Colonel Pratt complete the committee. Plans for building or remodeling property in the business district must be passed on by this committee. The plans must conform to the Colonial style with liberty and variety allowed in detail to keep the general appear ance flexible but at the same time. uni form in total outline. Archie Davis, a Durham architect, drew up the plans for the new theater and for the little building on Colum bia street. Becoming interested in the project he has already completed plans for the remodeling of the west side of Columbia and is now working on similar plans for the south side of East Franklin. They, of course, are purely tentative, but they give a def inite .working basis for the whole pro ject and indicate something of what See NEW THEATRE, page 4 ii-'l lev