The Carolinian [March 15, 1924]

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VOLUME V.
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1924 NUMBER 21
Mildred Doxey, Sam Davis
and Claude Aycock Are
Elected To Places Of Honor
LETTER IS READ
Dr. Foust Congratulate* Students on
Spirit of Co-operation Which
Ha* Been Shown
STAND FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Mildred Doxey was elected presi-dent
of the Y. W. C. A.; Claude Ay-cock,
president of the Athletic As-sociation;
and Sam Davis, Editor-in-chief
of the Carolinian at a joint
meeting of the Y. W. C. A., Athletic
Association, and the Student Govern-ment
Association, held in the College
auditorium Tuesday night.
The new officers will go into office
six weeks before the end of this
semester. The meeting was presided
over by the presidents of the Y. W.
C. A., Athletic Association, and Stu-dent
Government Association respec-tively
for the election of officers of
the different organizations.
Mildred Doxey, the incoming Y.
W. C. A. president, is from Poplar
Branch, N. C. She is particularly
fitted to serve as president, as she is
a member of the present Y. W. Cabi-net,
being secretary of the associa-tion.
Besides this, she was one of
the representatives sent by
DR. FRIDAY DISCUSSES
REFORMS JNJAXATION
A» Finance Expert, Give* View* On
the Problem* of Reduction of
Federal Taxe*
CRITICIZES MELLON PLAN
"The subject of taxation is an in-tricate
one and one about which
there is too little popular know-ledge,"
stated Dr. David Friday as
the opening of his lecture on "Taxa-tion
Reform in Washington," at the
meeting of faculty and students at
chapel hour Tuesday. "It is a sub-ject
which caused more controversy
and rebellion than, perhaps, any
other. The question now it: is the
present exploitation merely political
bunkum of honest efforts to relieve
the public?"
"It has always been hard for the
public to pay taxes, even when the
country is enjoying its greatest
prosperity. Human nature revolts
at it But so long as there are gov-ernments
it will take money to run
them; and the only way to get mon-
North'ey is through taxation," sadi Dr.
Carolina College to the Student Vol-unteer
Conference which was held
in Indianapolis in December. Here
she was able to hear the most im-portant
problems, relating to relig-ious
work, discussed by experts and
students from all of the leading col-leges
and universities of the country.
She is also a member of the pres-ent
House of Representatives, treas-urer
of the class of '25, and a vice
house-president.
A letter from President Foust to
the student body was read by the
secretary of the
ment Association,
congratulated the
Student Govern-
In it Dr. Foust
students on the
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Friday, in summing up the causes
of revolt against taxation, and the
necessity for this same taxation.
The fundamental cause lying be-hind
all this agitation, according to
Dr. Friday, is the war.
He said, "Whenever a nation soes
to war it inevitably promises that it
will pay taxes for it both in that gen-eration
and in many generations to
come."
As one who had been closely con-nected
with war finance as a mem-ber
of'the Treasury Department of
the government during the war, Dr.
Friday told how the $8,000,000,000
necessary to finance the war was
DR. DAVID FRIDAY TALKS ON
"ETHICS OF INDUSTRIALISM
METHODIST STUDENTS
OF U. S. AREJO MEET
Union of North and South Branches
and Other Vital Problem*
to be Di*cu**ed
N. C. C. W. TO PARTICIPATE
Sam Davis Claude Aycock
NINE STATES HEAR
SHAME OF_LYNCHING
States Responsible for 28 Mob Mur-ders—
26 Victim* are Negroes—
2 are Women
39 STATES ON ROLL OF HONOR
Washington, March 15 — Nine
states bore the black shame of lynch-ing
in 1923, according to the Non-
Lynching Roll of Honor of the Fed-eral
Council of Churches. These nine
"SWEET LAVENDAR";4
SCHEDULES MARCH 15
Dramatic Association to Present
Three-Act Play by Sir Arthur
W. Pinero
MORRIS TAKES LEADING ROLE
Shall the north and south branches
of the Methodist church unite?
Is consolidation of all Protestant-ism
possible?
Where can youth serve in the
church today?
It is to help answer these and
other vital church problems that
C. C. W. has been invited to par-ticipate
in a national convention of
Methodist students, the first of its
kind ever held at Louisville Ken-tucky
April 18, 19, and 20.
It is proposed that every college
and university in the United States
where any considerable number of
He Difines Ethical Judgement
as the Prudent Choice Be-tween
Two Desires.
"Sweet Lavendar" will be present-ed
by the Dramatic Association Sat-urday
night, March 15th, in the col-lege
auditorium. The play, written
in three acts by Sir Arthur Wing
states were responsible for 28 mob I Pinero, has been given probably more
than any other amateur English play
and for thirty years has delighted
thousands of audiences. Mary Eliz-abeth
Morris will take the leading
lynchings in- 1923. Places on the jrole as Lavendar. Miss Morris will
Roll were earned during the last year | be supported by Feriba Stough as
year by South Carolina, Alabama Dick Pheynll, Nellie Ervin as dem-and
Tennessee. It is the first year ent Hale; Dorothy Boyd as Miss Gil-murders.
Twenty-six of the victims
were negroes, two being women.
The Roll of Honor contains the
names of 39 states which had no
since comprehensive records on
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PLANS FOR SUMMER
SCHOOL MADE PUBLIC
Two Session* to be Held During
Period Between June 10th and
August 30th
N. C. C. STUDENTS GO
TO STATE CONFERENCE
Beatrice McCracken Honored at An-nual
Meeting of Student
Volunteer*
The two summer sessions will be
repeated at North Carolina College
during the coming summer. The first
session will begin Tuesday, June,
10th, and close July 21st. This will
enable students who attend the first
session to have an extended vaca-tion
before school opens. Those who
wish to attend the second summer
session may complete the work of
the session on August 30th, in time
to begin school on the first Monday
in September.
The cost for each session has been
placed at such a figure that to at-tend
coats less than the living ex-penses
would be in most localities
in the state for the same period of
time. There will be no charge for
tuition in any course offered. The
entire charge for each session will
be $42.00. Charges for students who
do not board in the dormitories will
be $10.50. The price of board for
the six weeks will be $25.00. There
will be extra charges for all music
courses except public school music.
Any teacher who holds or has held
a one year temporary certificate,
based on high school graduation, or
who holds an elementary certificate,
or one of higher grade, or any grad-uate
of a standard high school, may
enter the summer session. All others
should attend county summer schools.
The majority of the courses of-fered
will carry both certification and
college credit which will count to-ward
a degree when regulations of
fillian, Dorothy McNair as Minnie
Two hundred and fifty of twenty-five
North Carolina Colleges met in
Charlotte, March 7, 8, 9, at the an-nual
State Student Volunteer Con-vention.
Queens Colege acted as
hostess to the delegates, and enter-tained
the Convention.
This convention was a reiteration
of the Indianapolis Convention, many
of the same topics being presented
and discussed. In fact, the slogan
of the convention was: "Charlotte
to the State as Indianapolis to the
world."
Among the speakers present were:
Dr. Braum, Dr. Montgomery, and
Dr. Fitch, all of China; Harry P.
Wilder, founder of the Student Vol-unteer
Movement; and Dr. Haun-shew,
of the Methodist Foreign
Board. Mr. J. Foster Barnes, of
Greensboro, had charge of the music
of the meetings.
The banquet on Saturday night at
the Chamber of Commerce Building
was one of the chief features of the
Convention. Many yells and songs
from the various colleges were given,
and several splendid speeches made.
On Saturday afternoon the Lenoir
College Delegation gave a pageant,
"The Grain Reapers," which was
written by one of the Lenoir Vol-unteers.
On Sunday several of the
delegates spoke in the various
churches of the city.
Beatrice McCracken, of this col-leeg,
was elected editor of "The Vol-unteer,"
the publication of the State
Student Volunteer Board. The of-ficers
of the association are: Alice
Gibbens, Queens, president; John
lynchings have been kept that South Gilfillian, her daughter, Nell Folger
Carolina and Alabama have been free (as Dr. Delaney, El Kornegay as Mr.
from the crime. - |Maw, Mary Johnston as Horace
Only four states in the Union have j Bream, Rosalynd Nix as Mr. Bulger,
never had a lynching. They are Ruth Wilkins as Ruth Bolt, and Vir-
Massachusetts, New H a m p sh i r e,|inia Davis as Mr. Wedderburn.
Rhode Island and Vermont. The On April 15th the Association will
lynchings of 1923 were confined to stage "Tarnish" which is now play-groups
of states. All four of the ing on Broadway has been one
West-Southern States were guilty of of the most outstanding successes of
the crime. Three of the eight South-1 the New York theatrical season. It
ern Atlantic States, one of the four is a very unusual for a play to be
East-South Central States and one given by amateurs until it has been
of the West-Northern Central States run on Broadway for some length of
had lynchings. .time, after which it is given over to
The second annual announcement j stock companies for stock production
of the Roll of Honor is as follows: on the road and finally to amateurs.
States that have never had a But through special efforts and ar-record
of a lynching: Massachusetts, rangement the privilege for presen-
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and tation by students of this college has
Vermont, 4. been secured. By this means North
Dr. David Friday talked to the
students in the auditorium, Monday
night at 7:30 o'clock, on the sub-ject
of "Ethics of Industrialism"
Dr. Friday is doing an unusual
work, as the leader in a broad move-ment
of original study. He has talk-ed
on economic problems before
great meetings for the consideration
of world problems. Dr. Friday was
formerly in the teaching profession,
but was compelled to give this up in
order to meet the demands placed
upon him to go on the lecture plat-form,
and direct the big "clearing
house" of research work in New
York City. Dr. Friday is an excel-lent
speaker, and holds his listeners'
attention throughout his speeches. He
has the rare ability to intersperse
humor with serious remarks.
In beginning his talk, Dr. Friday
first defined ethics, ethical judgment
and economical judgment. He said
that ethics concern things that are
Ethical judg-ment
is the choice between two de-sires
of necessities, whereas, econom-ical
judgment is the prudent choice
between the two desires or necessi-ties.
The basis of economy is the
choice of things which can be met
with our means.
In order to bring out the out-standing
characteristic of present
society, which is industrialism, be
contrasted medieval society with
present society. During medieval
Methodist students are enrolled will
send at least two delegates to the really worth while,
conference. Plans for the selection
of representatives from N. C. C. W.
by Methodist students, its is expect-ed,
will get under way immediately.
Strange almost as fiction was the
incident which gave birth to the con-vention
of idea. Like the origins of
many other religious movements the
proposal grew out of an unusual co-incidence,
a co-incidence that
brought groups of students from the
two branches of the Metohdist church
together at the recent Student Vol- society there was a different valua-unteer
convention at Indianapolis. tion on economic scale from the
Additional states which have no Carolina College students will have
record of a lynching since 1886: the opportunity of seeing this play
Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey and
Utah, 4.
Additional states that have no
record of a lynching during the past
ten year: Delaware, Idaho, Indiana,
Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada,
Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wis-consin,
10.
Additional states which have no
record of lynching in the past five
years: Montana, Wyoming, New
Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, New York
and North Dakota, 7.
Additional states which have no
record of a lynching during the past
two years: Kentucky, North Carolina,
West Virginia, California, Colorado,
Nebraska, Kanasas, Illinois, Wash-ington,
Ohio and Minnesota, 11.
Additional states which have no
record of a lynching during 1923:
South Carolina, Alabama and Tenn-essee,
3.
Total states still having mob mur-
1923, 39.
otal states still having mob mur-der,
9.
This is the second time chat the
Roll of Honor has been issued by the
Commission on the Church and Race
Relations of the Federal Council of
Churches. It is based on records
kept by Professor Monroe N. Work
at Tuskcgee Institute and the Na-tional
Association for the Advance-ment
of Colored People. They have
been carefully checked. When the
before it has had its usual run in
Chicago, Boston and other larger
cities. The play will be given both
on campus in the college auditorium
and in the Grand Theater of Greens-boro.
The city still talks of-the event.
It was Sunday afternoon. Dele-gates
from the North Church, as-sembled
in one of the Indianapolis
churches, were engrossed in a dis-cussion
of world problems. Sudden-ly,
without warning, the group from
the South Church filed silently into
the church. A thrill like a charge of
electricity swept over the room. No
word was spoken—none was needed.
No voice could have proclaimed the
inevitable question so effectively as
the silence: "If we can unite, why
cannot the churches we represent do
likewise? Why not face tile common
world task together?" A joint dis-cussion
followed—an intense, heart-to-
heart discussion—from which the
united body arose as one man to
answer: "We will!"
The coming conference was a di-rect
outgrowth of this resolution. A
Methodist student was selected from
each delegation and these met in a;
succession of conferences. The final
meeting was held New Year's Eve.
As the old year faded away and the
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2,500,000 GERMAN
YOUTHS ARE STARVING
Federal Council of Churches Pre-sent*
the Grim Fact* of the
Situation
Washington, March 17 — Grim
facts regarding the starvation of the
children of Germany are presented in
a statement issued today by the Fed-eral
Council of Churches under the
title "Do the Children Need Us?"
It paints a "black picture" of the
situation not only among the chil-dren
but also among the aged and
the general population.
The churches declare that 2,500,-
000 children are starving. A half
million of them are under school age.
The statement said that "from 50
per cent to 70 per cent of the chil-dren
in cities and industrial districts
are" undernourished. This is from
one-third to one-half more than last
June.
MEMBERS OF D1KEAN
SOCIETY SEE PLAY
New Girl* of Organisation Present
"The Deacon'* Second Wife"
in Good Style
"One ounce of meat per capita per
Westbrook, Trinity, vice president; first Roll of Honor was issued it was'day was the food supply for 1923.
Virginia Poe, Greensboro College,
secretary; and Harry Price, David-son,
treasurer.
The delegates from North Caro-the
college are complied with in full, lina College were: Lorena Kelly,
challenged in many states, but when 'It is less now. Only from one-eighth
the records were checked over, only to one-twentieth of the pre-war milk
one or two adjustments were neces- supply is available now—the quan-sary.
tity varying with the district Chil-
There was a great reduction in dren over two years of age get no
present scale. Asceticism and mon-astic
life were the highest achieve-ments
of the medieval society.
In the last twenty years there has
been an increase, of 60 per cent
more to each person, in all maunfac-tured
products manufactured in the
United States. Some of the chief
products, that have been extensively
manufactured are furniture, auto-mobiles
and foodstuffs.
The progress in science and me-chanical
inventions includes the great
common use of electricity for num-erous
practical purposes, telephones
and telegraphs.
The most economical power of the
United States came into evidence
during the past world war—the mon-ey
used and lent to other nations
during the war, together with equip-ment,
and an extensive army and
navy.
In the year 1923 the productions
were greater than they had even
been in any pre-war year. This prog-ress
was due to the higher standard
of living, which has survived the
war, and many other national ad-justment.
Yet, there is a great ca-pacity,
which remains unsounded.
The scientists and inventors have not
gone to their limits. Agriculture still
has the national resources, of fertile
lands, forests and favorable climate,
which is a vast store for its further
advancement.
Besides the material development
of the United States in recent years,
there has been experienced ethical
progress in industrialism. This in-eludes
the intellectual, artistic and
spiritual phases of modern society.
There exists a democracy for all, op-portunities
are unlimited. Wealth
and -educational advantages are at
the hands of everybody since poverty
has been abolished.
If America, as a great industrial
power do not continue rapid progress
in industry, it will be a failure,
o
H. C. COWLES, BOTANIST
TO SPEAK AT COLLEGE
One wishing to graduate, however,' Beatrice McCracken, Edith Goodwin, the number of lynchings in 1923, milk in the cities and industrial dis-should
not plan to do this by summer' Esther Howard, Temple Williams, | when there were 28, the lowest num- tricta. Twenty per cent of the chil-session
alone, for at least one year' Pay Hargate, Vance Thompson, Alice ber in any year since accurate rec- dren applying for admittance to the
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'Cranner, Sue Canter, Christina Cur-tis,
and Elise Harrison. (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Three)
After the call meeting of the
Dikean society, Saturday night, the
flew girls of the society gave a play,
"The Deacon's Second Wife," for
the old girls. The second wife was
really only the deacon's school girl
niece who came to visit him while
her "Aunt Malvina" was away for
two weeks. Summer tourists come to
the farm and wanted to stay for a
while. Kitty, under the guise of her
aunt, took them in and endeavored
to keep the house going. The com-plications
which arose, of which a
love affair between "Aunt Kitty"
and the chauffer, was not the least,
kept the audience laughing through-out
the evening.
The new girls did splendidly. Much
credit is due them and also to Miss
Mary Johnston who coached the play.
The cast was: Kitty Rollins, the
deacon's wife, Gertrude Tarleton; Forest Heritage and What About It."
Deacon Fitz, Annie Davis Melvin; Dr. Cowles is a teacher and scholar
Mrs. Fitz, Carolina Price; Mrs. Bui- of international reputation, and a
lock, Grace Martin; John Bullock, most interesting speaker. He comes
Frances Handy; Dorothy . Bullock, to the college at the invitation of
Lillian Davis; Phillip Gamboge, the Science Club.
Eloise Cradle; Mrs. Brown, Mary All members of the faculty find
Zealy; Milyton Fits, Merle Harvey; the student body are cordially invited
Nancy Fitz, Irene Schulken. to attend the lecture.
Dr. H. C. Cowles, professor of
Botany in the University of Chicago,
will give an illustrated lecture in the
college Auditorium at 8 o'clock,
Tuesday evening, March 18. The
subject of his talk will be "Our
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