The Carolinian [February 3, 1927]

              For a Better
N.C. College
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North Carolina College for Women
For a Better
N. C. College
VOLUME Till GBBBN8BOBO, N. C, FEBRUARY 8, 1027 NUMBER U
LEW SAREn READS
TO N.CX.W. STUDENTS
AND GIVES IMITATION
Poet, Lecturer, Professor, and
Student of Nature Tells
of Experiences
HAPPINESS IN FORESTS
He Forcibly Presents His Belief That
People Are Happiest Who Lire
Cloaeat to Nature
An" unusual missionary, dressed in a
red shirt, gray trousers, and heavy
boots, was Lew Sarett, who appeared at
the college auditorium on the evening
of January 18. He delivered a message
with a real spiritual appeal on the di-vinity
of the outdoors and explained
that happiness is inherited by those who
' live in wholesome communion with na-ture.
A more enjoyable entertainment has
not been presented by the concert lee-tare
course this year than the varied
program rendered by this combined
woodsman, poet, and professor.
His optimistic, sensible philosophy
lauding the inestimable value of the
simple pleasures of family life; hit
striking stories of French-Canadians,
lumber jacks, and Indiana; his imita-tions
of the languages of wild animals
anl birds; and his effective rendition
of poems inspired by the atmosphere
of the northwest held the rapt attention
of the charmed audience for nearly
two hours.
The principal thought of the lecturer
was presented forcefully in the fact
that one is happiest when he is living
closest to'the soil and nature, for it is
than that he can best discriminate be-tween
the worthy and the ignoble things
of life. He pointed out that most moo
apend their lives earning a living'rather
than learning to live. People of today
seek happiness in sensational pleasures
which are not . itisfying and enduring
according to.Mr. Sarett. The real and
laating happiness is that which is found
in the expression of a natural and sim-ple
life, he •declared.
The next feature of the concert-lec-ture
course, a recital, will be given on
February 10. The artist*, Buth Breton,
violinist, and Helen Traubel, soprano,
will give matinee and evening per-formances.
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INT. REL CLUB TO
MEET ON THURSDAY
In Preparation For Dr. Jackh's Visit
An Interesting Program on "New
Germany" Is Planned
The International Relations Club will
meet Thursday at 7 p.m., with' Miss
Elliott as a guest. At this time there
will be a discussion concerning the en-tertainment
of Dr. Jackh, who is to be
on the campus soon.
The program is on the subject, "New
Germany." Fodie Buie will present the
present economic conditions; Blanche
Arm field will lead the discussion of
politics and government; Lillian Pear-son
will take up the youth movement,
and Carolina Price will talk on repara-tions,
disarmament, and the Dawes plan.
The question of foreign relations will
be discussed by Minnie B. Jones. *+.
SOMETHING NEW—A FILM SCHOOL
From the universities come men
trained for selling real estate in Florida
and sewing machines in Patagonia; men
who have taken Motor Vehicle Sales-manship,
and men who are trained to
detect scrub cattle. Even captains of
the walnut industry, in California, have
succeeded in having a course offered at
the State University for walnut growers.
And now the film school is a possibil-ity.
With the financial reviews report-ing
the film industry as third in the
country, there is a move afoot to put
film production into the curriculum.
President Nichols Murray Butler an-nounces
that a faculty committee at
Columbia University is considering the
matter.
At a luncheon of the Motion Picture
Distributors of America, President But-ler
broached the subject. He declared
that he would make a definite announce-ment
as soon as the faculty committee
completes its report.
A committee, appointed by Will Hays
for the producers and by Dr. Butler for
the University, will maks a final report
on the entire subject.—New Student.
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Home Economic Club Has Short Meeting
At a short meeting of the Home Eco-nomics
Art club, Thursday night, Janu-ary
80, plans for a page in Fine Needles
were discussed and designs for a elnb
pin considered.
MUSIC SENIORS SPEND
10 DAYS IN NEW YORK
The group of twenty music seniors
who left Greensboro for New York on
Thursday, January 20, are back at N. C.
C. W. ready for second semester and
work. They have been the participants
in many interesting and exciting hap-penings
since last they saw our campus.
They left Thursday night, reaching
Washington the . following morning.
Piling into a sight-seeing bus, they saw
all the important things to be seen in
our eapitol city—the Pan-American
Building, the Museum, the White House,
the Capitol, where they met Senator
Overman and saw the House of Repre-sentatives
in session, the Congressional
Library, Arlington Cemetery, Mount
Vernon, and the new cathedral. Friday
afternoon the whole party boarded the
train for New York.
In New York, the party again made
use of the sight-seeing buses. They
visited old cathedrals and chapels, the
Little Chureh Around the Corner, the
Woolworth Building, the Stock Ex-change,
the Paramount Theatre, the
Aquarium, Metropolitan Art Museum,
Grant's Tomb, the Grand Central Rail-road
Station, and the Natural History
Museum. They were shown over the
"Majestic," one .of the largest boats.
They visited Columbia University and
saw Miss Bibbens, head of the Public
School Music Department here. The
manager of the Commodore. -Hotel
showed them over from kitchen to ball
room. They visited the Schirmer Pub-lishing
Company, Bteinway Hall, and
the Brass Shop in the slums where they
found many wonderful bargains—too
many, in fact, for the health of their
pocket books. The party took in the
plays "Broadway," "The Play's the
Thing." and "The Constant Wife;" one
operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance;"
four operas, "Tosea," "Das Rheingold,"
"Die Gotter Dammerung;" and "Aida;"
and they heard the Philharmonic Sym-phony
Orchestra, a piano recital by
Morris Rosenthal, and an artist's con-cert
featuring Galli Curci.
And now, it's all over and the party
is back—tired but happy and glad of
the experience. The trip has been made
an 'annual affair, and every, year th«
music seniors look forward to the New
York trip.
NINTH STUDENTS'RECITAL
SHOWS UNUSUAL TALENT
Takes Place In Recital Hall of Music
Building Afternoon of January 18
With Thirteen Performing
PROGRAM VARIED AND POPULAR
The ninth students' recital was held
In the Recital Hall of the Music Build-ing
Tuesday afternoon, January 18, at
3 o'clock.
The program is as follows:
Melody Au Bevoir,. Carl Beinecke—
Jane Dupuy.
The Lamentations of a Dolly, Cesar
Franck—Dorothy Lane.
A Round Dance, Nicolai Von Wilm—
Betsy, Dupuy.
The Merry Farmer, Schumann—Nas"
rtterndoo.
Bolero, Streabog—Jane and Betsy
Dupuy and Nash Herndon.
Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58, Chopm—
(First Movement) Dorothy Parham.
Organ-Lullaby, Macfarlane—Katheryn
Brown.
Lento, Cyril Scott—Christie Louise
Maynard.
Gypsy Rondo, Haydn—Lelia Thomas.
Characteristic Piece, Sinding—Mar-garet
MacConnell.
Albulmblatt, Urutzmacher — Velna
Boykin.
Fantasie Improptu, Chopin—Elizabeth
McGwigan.
Berceuse, Chopin—Julia Anna Yancey.
Rondo Capriceioso, Mendelssohn —
•Helen Land.
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REQUIRED DRILL HIT
Opposition, to compulsory military
training is again manifested at Ohio
State University with the revival of
the Optional Military'Training League
under the leadership of Nelson North,
a student. The first open meeting was
recently held, at which arguments
waxed fervid between the friends and
foes of-compulsory drill.
' A World War veteran, Captain Donald
Timmerman of Columbus, spoke at the
meeting, painting a gruesome picture of
dead men, famine and destruction, con-trasting
harshly with another picture
of serene Wednesday afternoon drill in
the campus. He described how a soldier
is taught to push a bayonet into the
body of an enemy soldier. "Is this in-struction
in accordance with the princi-ples
of higher education f" he asked.
The Anti-Optional Drill League is again
in action, proposing a debate if student
interest warrants.
(Last February the students of Ohio
Stats University voted 1099 to 701
against compulsory training. The agi-tation
against forced drill ceased, how-ever,
when a faculty committee appoint-ed
to make recommendations was un-able
tq come to a decision. Military
drill was made optional at Boston Uni-versity,
College of the City of New York
and Emory College during the past year.
—Ed.)^New Student. —*+,
APPRECIATION OF CRITICISM
"Students at modern universities are
spoon-fed, parrot-like, and are not
taught to think. Yon go with the cur-rent,
wait for the band to play, move
with the mob line. You do not think,
dare and- set alone." These charges
hurled at college students in general by
Sherwood Eddy, are a few of millions of
charges against college students. Just
as Georgia students fiss about the Co-op,
so do the elders fuss about other
people's children.—Bed and Black.
INT. REL CLUB DISCUSSES
POSSIBLE CURES OF WAR
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The League of Nations and the World
Court Are Analysed as Means
of Preventing War
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THEY COULD FORCE ARBITRATION
At the last meeting before examina-tions
the general subject of the Inter-national
Relations Club was means of
war prevention. The program, lead by
Carolina Price and Lillian Pearson,
treated of the' means by which the
League of Nations and the World Court
can prevent wars.
"The Covenant of the League," Miss
Pearson said, "provides for arbitration
of disputes between members by either
of four arbitration commissions.—Either
the Council, the Assembly, the World
Court, or any arbitral body called by
the disputants—may hear and decide
cases."
"The League provides for compulsory
arbitration and enforces the decision of
the arbitrators in cases of dispute of,
MASQUERADE BALL
EVENT OFSATURDAY
Grady Miller's Orchestra Fur-nishes
Music For Dancing
at Annual Frolic
MARY LOGAN WINS PRIZE
Forgetting the nerve taxing week that
had just passed, the faculty and stu
dents gathered together in Spencer din-ing
hall Saturday night for a few hours
of celebration. The occasion was the
all college party, or Masquerade Balh
Crepe paper in the college and class
colors had transformed the dining hall
into a very inviting place, where the
college community could meet together.
The guests of the evening began arriv-ing
about 8:30-and as they arrived they
gradually fell in step with the music
that Grady Miller's orchestra furnished.
However, it was not until Katherine
Hardeman led the-group as its members
joined together in the Grand March that
the dancing really began. After the
Grand M&rch a number of clog dances,
toe dances, and interpretive dances
were given. r ,
This year the costumes were verj
unique and pretty. As is the annual
custom, a prize was given for the most
original and attractive costume. This
prize went to Mary Logan, who wore a
qnaint Dutch gown, with an equally
quaint hat and wooden shoes. The
judges for the contest were Mrs. Dn-rand,
Miss. Jamison, and Miss Killings-worth.'
The success of the party was due to
the efforts of Margaret Lambe, chairma-of
college social committee, and those
people" who worked with her. Of this
group Evelyn Thompson and Clara
Guinguard, who were in charge of enter-tainment
and decorations, deserve men-tion.
DR. ERNST JACKH WILL
SPEAK AT CHAPEL TUES.
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Internationally Known German States-man
Will Visit International
Relations Club
SUBJECT, "THE NEW GERMANY"
-Dr. Ernst Jackh, German statesman,
will speak-at the chapel hour on Tues-
international concern." Tday, February 8. The subject of his
■TTOh,e,, g*it_rlis. Adi-s.c'.u s s e di .tuh e provbaib.l e a It»tiJ- address will be "The New Germany."
tude of the League of Nations in case
of war between the United States and
Mexico over Nicafaguan supremacy. An
analysis of the covenant showed that if
a non-member waged aggressive war
against a member, of the League that
body could- demand arbitration, or sug-gest
to League members sanctions that
might be used against its aggressor to
foree arbitration. The club members
speculated on the strength of economic,
judicial, and military sanctions neces-sary
to subdue the United States.
Carolina Price analyzed the structure
of the World Court. She contrasted
the effectiveness of its permanent or-ganization
wjth the less efficient Hague
Tribunal. The court is codifying a body
of international law which rs aiding the
movement for world peace.
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A NOTE ON PENOLOGY
Dr. (Nicholas Murray) Butler said he
had been interested in penal institutions
and that he was convinced law enforce-ment
bore no relation to crime. Pris-oners
lie had talked With, he said, all de
clared they would not have hesitated to
commit crime if they had thought of
possible detection and punishment.
"They Were more afraid of social os-tracism,"
he went on. "When a man is
afraid of what his bank, his family and
his friends will think of him if he does
wrong, he is on the right track."—From
the New York Times.
Proposed slogan to eurb crime wave:
"Even your best friends wont know
you."—New Student.
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WHAT THE COLLEGE BOY NEEDS
1. "What the college boy needs,"
opines Will Rogers, "is narrower pants
and broader mind."
2. "On behalf of those seniors," says
W. L. in the Oregon Emerald, "whose
chief memento of college is a diploma,
we hope the grantors of stfeh things
have made a new year's resolve to give
us better and more beautiful diplomas,
hand-painted and embroidered if neces-sary."—
New Student.
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Barnes Next Open Ferns* Lecturer
Harry Elmer Barnes, history profes-sor
at Smith college anS prominent
writer on the subject of socialising his-tory,
will apeak at the Open Forum
Tuesday, February 8th, at a pjn.
Dr^Jackh, whose visit is sponsored by
the International Relations club, will
spend the day on the campus discussing
international problems with members, of
the club. Much interest has been
aroused by the prospect of his visit, as
be is well-known in international circles.
The German diplomat has had a wide
experience in dealing with European po-litical
questions, having attended the
peace conferences at Geneva and Lo-carno.
The appearance of Dr. Jackh's
book, "The New Germany," a subject on
which he speaks with authority, has
aroused a great deal of favorable com-ment
recently.
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MANY NEW SINGERS
ADDED TO CHORUS
The first chorus practice was held on
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The follow-ing
new girls have been received into
the chorus:
First sopranos: Marion Eley, (3a"i
Guignard, Ruth McFarland, Lillian
Washburn.
Second sopranos: Cordelia French,
Ruth Worthington, Juanita Martin, Er-ma
Somers, Rosa Jones, Opal Ledfold.
First altos: Katheryn Brown, Helen
Land, Luna Lewis, Rebecca Ogburn,
Katie Midyette, Mary Clara Tate.
Second alto: Aline Parker.
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PROFESSORS THUMBED
Professors thumbed the January 12th
issue of the Harvard Crimson nervously
in the privacy of their homes. Students
nodded approvingly over the "Crime"
or took violent exception to certain
opinions printed therein.
The reason was a new Confidential
Guide to half eourses beginning in the
middle of the year. Bach course was
criticised by some student "in such a
position to have a requisite knowledge
of the course, its subject L.after, its
professor and his manner of presenting
his material."
The Confidential Guide first appeared
in the Crimson In the fall of 1925.—
New Student.
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Margaret Eliss Smith will not be able
to return to the college second semes-ter
on account of the illness of her
mother.
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Betty Sloan is ill in the Infirmary.
LAST CHANCE FOR
-PINE NEEDLES"
Neat week will be absolutely the
last chance to get a copy of the 1927
"Pine Needles;" so write home at
once for the necessary cash—that
la,M.
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FRENCH FACULTY
PRESENTS COMEDY
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French Clubs Are Entertained
By Good Acting and Effec-tive
Costumes
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
The faculty members of the Romance
language, department presented a play,
"LTiomme Qui Epousa une Femme
Muette," to an audience composed of
the two French clubs, January 20, in
the Aletheian Hall. The play is a com-edy
in three acts, two of which were
given. The cast was as follows: Maitre
Simon, the judge, Dr. Underwood; Cath-erine,
his wife, Dr. Miller; Maitre
Pierre, a lawyer, Miss La Rochelle; Pal-lidore,
a doctor, M. Hardre; Jean, a ser-vant,
Mr. Ebaugh; Fanchon, a servant,
Miss Lavery.
The judge wishing his wife to talk,
calls in the doctor to operate on her.
She, seeing the knives and other instru-ments
prepared for her, faints. The
operation is quite successful but to such
an extent that, to the distress of the
household,' Catherine talks incessantly.
The servants threatened to leave and in
desperation the judge calls the doctor
who renders the worried judge and ser-vants
deaf, to the satisfaction of every-one.
The play was in every respect, a suc-cess.
The acting, especially that of Dr.
Miller, Dr. Underwood and M. Hardre,
was very good and the costumes quite
realistic and effective.
After the play the Senior French Club
held a short business meeting and
elected Catherine Tighe secretary of the
club and Rebecca Smith president of
the program committee, to fill vacan-cies
caused by the resignation of the
two former officers.
Miss Garrett told the club about the
meeting of the Alliance Francaise which
is to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, Feb-ruary
4th and 5th. It was suggested
that two delegates be sent from the
club, but no definite decision was
reached concerning the matter.
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VESPER PROGRAM IS OF
READING AND MUSIC
Mary Lou Fuller Is Assisted by Helen
Justice, Rath Edwards, and
• Temple Williams
Mary Lou Fuller was in charge of
the Vesper services Sunday evening.
The whole program was given over to
reading and music at which time she
led the devotional and read a poem.
Helen Justice played several piano se-lections
before the service began. After
prayer, Ruth Edwards sang a solo.
Tempie Williams gave a reading, "The
Gardens of Pleasure," from Shreiner's
"Dreams." Several hymns were sung,
and the services were concluded with
the Y. W. C. A. benediction. •+.
A SUGGESTION
Working Stndents Afflicted With Low
Wages Are Tola to Organise
A student labor union T The Daily
Kansan suggests this as a remedy for
low wages on the University of Kansas
campus. /
According to the local Y. M C. A. em-ployment
bureau there are. almost twice
as many applicants for jobs as there
are jobs to be filled. Consequently lo-cal
employers take advantage of the
situation and pay miserably low wages.
The students, who must work to remain
in college, are not in a position to pro-test.
Higher wages, which would make it
unnecessary to work long hours, and
hence permit more to be employed, can
be obtained only through the concerted
effort of the student workers. The Daily
Kansan believes.
It la not necessary, the paper says,
"that the organization be called a union,
but that is what it must be. The diffi-culty
is to convince student workers
that they must organize. The unignor-able
fact stands out that they are inher-ently
a part of a bourgeoisie which eon-aiders
labor menial, and labor organiza-tions
symptomatic of bolshevism."
"Will they, supposedly educated, be
able to break away from class preju-dices
when it is to their common good!"
—New Studeni
MR. KAHN SPEAKS TO
MATHEMATICS CLUB
ON LIFE INSURANCE
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Member of the Jefferson-Stand-ard
Life Insurance Corn-
Talks
HE ANALYSES STATISTICS
Mr.'stalin Explains the Mortality Table,
WMA Shows Declining Life
TSpectsney With Age -
Mr. W. J. Kahn of the Jefferson
Standard Life Insurance company spoke
before the Mathematics club on Janu-ary
19, at 7 o'clock in the evening, using
as his subject "The Mathematics of Life
Insurance."
Mr. Kahn declared that a mastery of
the fundamental principles of actuarial
mathematics is not necessarily difficult.
He added, however, that the more in-clusive
subject of mathematical analy-sis
of statistics is difficult to grasp, al-though
it has become, with the wider
use of statistics, an important study.
The speaker called the mortality table
"the primary working tool of the ac-tuary."
The mortality table, he ex-,
plained, makes a study of a number ot
lives which entered observation at a
particular age and shows the number
which will survive at each integral ad-vance
in age. In this country, according
to the speaker, the table most popular
with life insurance companies is called
the American Experience of Mortality.
Mr. Kahn explained the essential fea-tures
of this table, giving a careful
analysis of the principles which govern
the declining expectation of life with
adjance in age.
The lecturer also explained the neces-sity
for a practical study of interest
rates, since this phase of the subject
must be combined with the mortality
rate in order to decide upon amounts
of interest and reserves. He then en-tered
upon a detailed analysis of the
principles governing the use of tables in
life insurance.
Mr. Kahn's lecture was one of the
most interesting features of the meet-ings
of the Mathematics club, which,
though organized only last fall, has had
a number of enjoyable programs.
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MISS CATHERINE DENNIS
SUCCEEDS MISS ZOLLMAN
New Home Economics Teacher Is a
Graduate of William and Mary's
and of Columbia
Miss Catherine Dennis, of Norfolk,
Va., has come to the college to take the
place of Miss Alice Zollman in the Home
economics department. Miss Zollman
has gone to Columbia university to work
on her master's degree.
Miss Dennis is a graduate of William
and Mary college from which she re-ceived
her bachelor of science degree.
She also holds a master's degree from
Columbia university.- Miss Dennis has
taught in various high schools of Vir-ginia,
and also in William and Mary
college. During the past four years she
has been organizing cottages for the
home-making eourses in the Virginir
high schools, and she has met with much
success in her work.
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KRONER FOR PEACE
Unexpectedly, the Walter Hines Page
School of International Relations re-ceived
a gift of 60,082 kroner for carry-ing
on its work of ferreting out the
complicated motivations of national pol-icy.
The check, amounting to about
15,776 American dollars, was the gift of
Vice President Dawes and represented
his share of the Nobel Peace Prise for
192S, which was awarded him in con-junction
with Sir Austen Chamberlain,
British Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Johns Hopkins University will be the'
home of the Page School. President
Goodnow of that institution sets forth
its purpose hi a message accompanying
the announcement of the Dawes gift:
". . . .little effort has- been made to
search out in a scientific and objective
manner the underlying causes—commer-cial,
financial, physiographic, ethic, psy-chological
and political—which deter-mine
the policies of nations.
" until these causes are deter-mined
and set forth.... national poli-cies
will have to be adopted without
adequate knowledge.. ,\, also without a
comprehension as to their connection
with an effect upon the policies of their
states. It is one of the purposes of the
Page School to supply this lack of in-formation.
.. ."—New Student. .+.
Katie Gravely spent the week-end a*
Winthrop college.