Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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TlIK .S AIPOSHM ON I IIP, f;iI T;TNr; F :r) ' OMir I ' .ASI: of ' nil ' , SOI ' TII The Chang- ing Economic Base of the South was the central theme of the second of the series of the four Centennial Symposia. This discussion of economic problems vital to the south, the nation, and the world was held on Thursday, November 17, and Friday, November 18. The purpose of this symposium was to examine the present economic status of the south ; to analyze the foreign and domestic demand and supply situ- ation of the staple products of the south ; to investigate the potentialities of particular industries which afford the prospect of expansion in the south ; finally, to consider the problems of financing the expansion of industry in the south. Attended by a distinguished group of southern leaders from the fields ol ' industr)-, linance, science, economics and agriculture, the subject of the symposium was discussed in its multiple aspects by such eminent men as Dr. Paul Van Zeeland, former prime minister of Belgium ; Secretary of Agriculture Henry . . Wallace, and a number of others. The whole southern region was represented by those in attendance and, in addition to the largely attended round table and discussion sessions, two capacity audiences heard the principal speakers at the public evening sessions. On the evening of the first day, Dr. Van Zeeland spoke on Proposed Roads to World Recovery. Dean Clalvin B. Hoover, of the University ' s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, presided, and Senator Josiah W. Bailey introduced the speaker. Dr. Van Zeeland, who is probably the outstanding personality among the younger generation of European statesmen, declared that the power and influence of the United States provide reason for hope for the world. The second day of the economics symposium opened with a round table discussion on the potentialities of international trade for the economy of the south. Dr. Van Zeeland led the meeting which was presided over by James H. R. Cromwell, New York economist and author. During an afternoon session Eugene R. Black, vice president of the Chase National Bank, New York, discussed problems of financing industry in the south. Secretary Wallace was the final speaker on the symposium program. While admit- ting that the future appeared dark for the south ' s cotton growers, Secretary Wallace said that the technology which is producing synthetic fibers to compete with cotton can be made to serve the south through other channels by finding new products upon which the region can expand new industries. He suggested that the south make every effort to push its industrial expansion program. HENRY A. WALLACE W.ALTER LIPPM.AN SYMPOSIUM ON LAW AND C:OXTEMPORARV PR( )BLi:. IS. The program for die third sym- posium in the Duke University Centennial series revealed a list of distinguished jurists, political scientists, and writers on modern legal and social problems who appeared on the program carried out Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3. With Dean H. Claude Horack, dean of the Duke School of Law, presiding, the symposium opened on Friday afternoon with the address of Justice Harold M. Stephens, of the United States Court of Appeals 1 4 1

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DR. GEORGE WALTER MCCOY attended the Centennial Year ' s opening exercises and heard four spir- ited addresses, including that of Governor Clyde R. Hoey, who came to speak in behalf of the interest of the people of North Carolina in the Duke Universitv ' celebration. The three speakers representing the University were Dr. Robert L. Flowers, secretar --treasurer and vice president ; A. S. Brower, executive secretary of the committee on the Centennial ; and President W. P. Few, who made a clear statement of the nature and scope of the observance that was uppermost in the minds of all those on the campus during the next sc en months. Oi particular public interest was the announcement by Mr. Brower of the names of the brilliant array of internationally known thinkers and leaders in almost ever ' field of life who would participate in tlie varied symposia and lecture programs that were scheduled for almost every week from the present through the Centennial Occasion held in April. THE SYMPOSIUM ON MEDICAL PROBLEMS. Opening the formal activities connected with the celebration of the Centennial Year was the distinguished three-day program of the symposium on medical problems held October 13-15. Two problems were brought before the symposium. On the first evening, with three prominent physi- cians speaking, the future of American medicine was discussed, v ith particular consideration being made of the proposed feder al participation in a program of socialized medicine. The remaining sessions were devoted to the discussion of diseases of particular interest to southern physicians. At the opening session, wth Dean Wilburt C. Davison, of the Duke University School of Medicine, presiding, President Villiam P. Few welcomed the isiting physicians to the first of the Centennial sym- posia. The first speakers were Dr. Allen V. Freeman, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, who spoke on Public Health Development in the South ; and Dr. George Walter Mc- Coy, of Louisiana State University, whose subject was Leprosy in the United States. An overflow audience heard the three addresses of the first evening of the symposium on the subject, The Future of American Medicine. Dr. John P. Peters, of Yale University, and Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, were t o of the speakers who discussed every phase of the problem of socialized medi- acinc. All of the subsequent papers were on diseases of particular interest to medicine in the south, including pellagra, amebiasis, malaria, fungus diseases in man, and sprue. Dr. George Hoyt Vhipple, dean of the - J University of Rochester School of Medicine, spoke on Anemia and the Building of Hemoglobin in the Body, and Dr. Villiam H. Sebrell, of the United States Public Health Ser ice, spoke on pellagra. Friday e ening s speaker was Dr. ' illiam G. MacCallum, professor of pathology and bacteriology at Johns Hopkins, who discussed malaria. J S T quality of the papers read during the various sessions by these ■ A y notable figures in the medical profession indicate that the south, and 9tk. Mewff - . jj g entire nation, will be benefited by the discussions heard by the DR. PAUL . N ZEEL. ND five hundred or more physicians in attendance. [23] { «• f •, '

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for the District of Columbia, on Rules of Evidence Before Administra- tive Boards. On the first evening Judge John J. Parker, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Judicial Circuit, presided and introduced the speakers : Professor Harold J. Laski, professor of polit- ical science in the Uni ersity of London, and Senator Arthur H. ' an- denburg, of Michigan. Vhile taking nearly opposite views on many phases of interpretation of the subject, Law in Modern Society, the two speakers had a common stand in the contention that democracy provides the only avenue for justice in the world. Saturdav ' s program was a particularly interesting one, with five speak- ers appearing, three during the day and two in the evening. The day speakers were Charles Fahy, general counsel of the National Labor Re- lations Board, who spoke on Procedure Under the National Labor Relations .Act ; Dr. Roswell Magill, professor of law at Columbia L ' ni- versity, who discussed Federal Taxation — Practice and Procedure ; and A. L. Fletcher, assistant administrator of the Wage and Hour Divi- sion of the United States Department of Labor, whose subject was Procedure Under the Federal Vage and Hour Act. The evening speakers were Dr. John Dickinson, general solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- panv and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and Walter Lippman n, special writer and columnist for the .Veiv York Herald Tribune. Both speakers took a strong stand for the resort to law instead of government for the solution of modern social problems. The entire program of this symposium served to direct the thought of all those attending toward a new consideration of the roles of law and go ernment in life today, and like the preceding symposia made a definite contribution to one of the major fields of endeavor with which the University is concerned. The symposium concluded the fall series, but two others were held in the spring : one on religion and the modern world, the other in the field of woman ' s place in modern society. DR. H. ROLD J. L. SKI DUKE UNIVERSITY DAY. -Attended by representatives of hospitals, orphanages, churches and other institutions and agencies of the Carolinas aided by the Duke Endowment, exercises commemorating the fourteenth anniversarv of the signing of the indenture of trust by James B. Duke turning over millions of dollars to charitable and educational purposes in this region, were held at Duke on December to. Par- ticular emphasis was made of the founding of Duke L ' niversity around long established Trinity College, and in the chief address of the exercises Dr. Neil Carothers, dean of the college of business administration in Lehigh University, declared that the privately endowed university, above all other institutions, has the opportunity to present fearlessly the truth on social issues and to combat the dangers confronting Amer- ican institutions. SYMPOSIUM ON MODERN RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS. Modern Religious Problems was the general topic considered on March 20 and 21 at the next symposium held in the Duke Uni ersity Centen- nial series. The religious leaders gathered at Duke for this occasion were from many denominations and from both Europe and America. Issues affecting the relation of church and state were discussed by Charles E. Raven, of Cambridge University, canon of Ely, and one of Britain ' s noted divines. Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, analyzed religion today in the southern states. Contemporary religious thought in Europe and .America was discussed by Professor Emil Brunner, distinguished Swiss theologian, now [2.=5l