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TONY SARG MARIONETTES
FRIDAY
Vol No. XXX.
Chapel Hill, N. C, January 31 1922.
No. 28
Biggest Snow In Years Descends
Upon Village; Frosh Beats Sophs
Freshmen Come Bask Strong After Reverses Saturday and Over
whelm Sophomores in Momentous Battle Sunday; Variety
of "Snow Costumes" Make Appearance.
PLAYMAKERS PRESENT
PLAYS USED ON TOUR
AT LOCAL PLAY HOUSE
JUUb'E STACY SPEAKS
I U SIUULNT5 UN LAW
AS A Lift
(By Charlie Parker)
Slow to anger, but aroused to
tempetuous wrath by a slow goad
ing process, the Class of 1925 swoop
ed down Sunday upon the luckless
aggregation of 1924 and sweeping
away their defense, completely anni
hilated that class of college chaps
often referred to as "bloody sophs."
Indeed the bloody ones were Sunday
night much more bloodier than usual.
The Freshman victory was as complete-
as possible.
Sophomores upon the campus were
at a premium Sunday afternoon, and
whenever one was discovered and
run to cover, always the Frosh battle
cry of, "We want Sophs" would
reverberate about the campus until
some other luckless individual had
been thus identified and duly endow
ed with his portion of pure white
snow.
The Freshmen were undoubtedly
firmly entrenched in their position of
ascendency.
The tables were turned. Access
to Swain Hall and the Postoffice,
which during Friday and Saturday
had been well "nigh unobtainable by
members of '25, was Sunday made
even more so for Sophs.
Freshman Victory Feature.
The sweeping Freshman victory
over: the Sophomores was without
doubt the biggest feature of the big
gest snow the University town has
seen in years. The snow, although
preceded by a severe cold spell,
caught many unprepared, and the
local clothing store's stocks of boots,
leggins, overshoes, and sheepskin
coats were practically exhausted by
noon Friday, and no more were to
be had. Being of a powdery nature
the snow did not break down tele
graph wires and poles, and thus cut
orc Chapel Hill from communication
with the outside world, as was the
case during the famous ice age of
1917. Although the ground was
covered to depth of over twelve
inches, passenger traffic to and from
the village was not seriously inter
rupted, and the mails were not great
ly delayed. The sidewalks were
cleared in record time bv the town's
new tractor snow plow, so that walk
ing was not so difficult.
The various costumes adopted by
students and faculty members and
their wives, as well as the towns
people, as being fitting to the occa
sion presented a wide and pic
turesque variety. Army breeches
and high, laced leather boots were
more in vogue than anything else,
CAROLINA AND N.C. STATE MEET
IN RALEIGH AUDITORIUM TONIGHT
WITH TAR HEELS IN GOOD SHAPE
Play Are Exceptionally Good an J Asserts That There is no Royal Road
Hold Audience From Beginning
to End; Set New Standards.
to Success It Must Come
From Work.
COMBS ACTING FEATURE ' SHOWS STUDENT'S DUTY
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BY ELECTRICAL STUDENTS
Machine Patented 1896 Brought To
Life After Years of ' Idleness
Wire Entire Laboratory.
Resurrected from the junk - pile,
cleaned, overhauled, varnished and
mounted, the first electric generator
ever owned by the University now
stands in the laboratory in the base
ment of Phillips Hall, in good con
dition, and to the casual observer, a
new motor.
The generator was resurrected
some three months ago, dragged in
to the hall, and the work began.
Students have made it look like new,
and today it .runs like new. It is
mounted on a concrete base, and
varnished with gray Valspar. There
is very little virbation when it runs. ;
This machine bears a patent mark
of 1896, and was bought and install
ed in 1901. It is a direct current
generator of 25 kilowatts, for a time
furnished all the electricity for the
University and Chapel Hill. It was
replaced by what was thought to be
the enormous alternating current
generators of 200 kilowats in 1909.
All the wiring in the laboratory
has been done by members of the
department, either students or fac
ulty. The same can be said of the
bases on which the motors rest. The
plugging board was designed by Pro
fessor Lear. All construction work
done in the laboratory has been done
by members of that department, and
with all, around $2,500, has been
saved for the University, and at the
same time the students have receiv
ed practical training. It is the plan
of the department to overhaul every
motor, for they claim that a student
can work on a clean motor and get
more out of his work than he can
on a dirty one.
FIRE DEPARTMENT PUT
TO TEST DURING SNOW
Emergency Call to Durham and Lo
cal Call Shows that Department
ia on the Job.
FRESHMAN STORY CONTEST
Stories entered in the Sigma
Upsilon prize contest may be
submitted any time between
now and the final date, March
1st.
The contest is open to all
members of the present fresh
man class' irrespective of the
course they are pursuing. The
prize is a cash award of ten dol
lars. The judges will be se
lected by the fratejrnity and
announced in the next Issue of
: The Tar Heel. No story shall
be of more than 3,500 -words.
Further information relative to
the contest may be secured
from any member, or from the
secretary, J. J. Wade, to whom
all contributions should be ad
dressed. Simultaneously with the
freshman class contest Sigma
Upsilon is Also conducting a
like contest among the high
schools of the state.
Thfr local fife department has been
put to test during the past week.
An emergency call to Durham last
Thursday, and a local alarm Friday
morning, when some 12 inches of
virgin snow lay upon the streets, rep
resent the extent to which the ability
of the department was tested, and
in both instances it came through
with the goods.
When Chief Foister received a
call from the chief of the Durham
department last Thursday that the
Lincoln hospital was burning and that
the entire negro settlement of Haiti
was in danger, he lost no time in
responding with his company. The
actual run of thirteen and one half
miles was made in nineteen minutes,
and although the truck arrived just
after the flames had been gotten well
under way by the Durham hosemen,
the local department renuered valu
able aid in clearing up tquipment
and making sjre that the flames
would not spread to the negro set
tlement. Professor Kibbard's chimney was
responsible for the alarm Friday. The
chimney caught in the base'and burn
ed out with such a roaring sound
that it led the members of the house
hold to believe that the house was
on fire. The truck, in going out for
this run, was stuck at Andrews' cor
ner, but was lifted out in a jiffy
by bystanders. The actual run was
made in quick order, and the truck
was halted at a hydrant sufficiently
near to enable the laying of hose to
the Hibbard house, had such been
necessary. At the hydrant however,
the engine mired up, and it took corps
of men with shovels some time to
dig it out,
The fire company here is on a
wholly voluntary basis, and its pres
ent personnel consists of twenty
men. The engine was purchased
jointly by the town and University,
each contributing one half, but all
expenses of operation and mainten
ance are born by the town alone.
Presenting the same program so
successfully used on the recent state
tour The Carolina Playmakers
achieved another triumph Saturday
evening at the Play House when they
showed before a large audience the
plays, "The Miser," "In Dixon's
Kitchen," and "Trista."
The plays were better than ever,
better acted than they have ever
been in Chapel Hill, and the large
audience seemed wrapped up in them
from bginning to end.
"The Miser" was perfect, the act
ing was perfect, the stage settings
were perfect, and the audience mar
veled again at this excellent piece of
dramatic work by Paul Green. It is
beyond question the strongest play
ever brought out by the Playmakers.
Wilbur Stout's brilliant little com
edy, "In Dixon's Kitchen," being pre-
sented for about the fifth time in
Chapel Hill, delighted its hearers as
only real fresh and natural humor
can.
Although there is evidently "some
thing wrong with" the play "Trista,"
it met with fair success and brought
out some unusual acting. It seems
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High School Campaign to Be Put on
This Week Committee Awaits
All Contributions.
Murphy Club Meets
The Murphy Club met in the au
ditorium of Peabody building Wed
nesday night for a very interesting
meetinflr. Prof. M. C. S. Noble made
a talk on the leading events in North
Carolina education up to 1860. Af
ter this, Prof. E. W. Knight spoke
on the education extension in Orange
county. The meeting was v ery well
attended.
The next four meeting promise
t tt verv interesting. At one of
them Superintendent Brooks ' will
speak. A. T. Allen mu speajt at
anbther( the Roanoke film will be
shown at another, and L. H. Jobe
will present a paper on the results
of the mill testing.
News from the Woodrow Wilson
fund headquarters in New York re
ports that throughout the entire
leneth of the land only two colleges
refused to cooperate in the move
ment. It is desired at headquarters
that the matter be not hurried but
that every person who wishes an
opportunity to join in the tribute
fund may do so. It is expected, how
ever, that reports will be ready in
most cases in a week or two more.
The final work of the University and
Chanel Hill committee has been de
layed on account of providential rea
sons, but will be completed next
week.
OI special interest to all will be
the plan of the Chapel Hill graded
school. Superintendent Morrison
has requested Mr. Odum to present
the matter to the school Wednesday
morning, after which the school folk
will organize among themselves for
voluntary support. It is planned to
offer every child a chance to con-
tribute. Of similar interest is the
Dlan which Prof. Edgar Knight has
suggested to the county schools, in
which every child is given an oppor-;
tunity to contribute to the amount
of one penny.
This is in accord with the Uni
versity plan: namely, that it is the
number of subscribers and not the !
amount of money that is most valued.
A letter from Chairman Duggan of
the National committee says: "We
would rather have a hundred students
each contribute a quarter than five
students contribute five dollars
each."
Mr. Claude Currie in the presi
dent's office will be glad to have the
name and contribution of any who
so far have simply neglected to carry
out their intentions to subscribe. It
is known that ouite a few among
faciiltv and students have expressed
themselves in favor of making a
small contribution whose names have
not yet been received.
The tmrttose of the fund, to found
an American public service award,
to that individual or group that has
rendered "meritorious service to
democracy, public welfare, liberal
thought, or peace through justice" is
one which will mark an epoch in the
history of American institutions and
democracy.
Continuing the series of prominent
men to present trie various profes
'sions, W. P. Stacy, associate justice
' of the supreme court, spoke on law
ias a profession Thursday morning in
f chapel. This was the first time Judge
Stacy has spoken to the student body
since he became associate justice last
year. Judge Stacy outlined law in
its biggest phase and told ox' it from
state and national point of view.
Judge Stacy opened nis address by
saying there is ho royal road to learn
ing, and if one would become edu
cated one must worship at the snrine
of knowledge. "J-.earhing exacts a
heavy toll, but it pays a good re
turn,'' said Mr. Stacy. He toid the
students tnat tney were here in re
sponse to a call, ior education, and
that they must Keep alive tne quick
ening sense ox youtn. We compared
men to trees, snowing that some grow
large and magiiiricent whde otners
are small, yet wortny tree iie said,
"Trees are but rooted men and men
walking trees."
Judge Stacy, eminent lawyer that
he is, impressed tne students with
this one fact deeply tnat tney could
render high service to their state
and nation by equipping tnemseives
properly at Carolina. And he declar
ed that this was tne most critical time
in our history outside of tne war
period. We are faced with a spirit
of unrest, of new ideals, and ol new
social standards in the United States
he further stated.
"For this spirit of social unrest,"
he declared, "tne panacea for our
ills to be more Americanism, more
unity and higher purpose." He il
lustrated that our governitttmt is ' a
government of law and not of men
as in some countries. The law is su
preme here, he forcefully expressed
himself.
He spoke of immigration and the
restriction of immigration in this
country, if we would adopt here a
TRACTOR SNOW PLOW.
Not content with a white way
and a genuine speed cop the
town of Chapel Hill has lately
become even more citified with
addition of a snow plow to its
list of municipal equipment.
The plow, which is rigged up
out of boards in the shape of
a triangle and attached to the
front of a caterpillow tractor,
appears to be a very efficient
one. The streets and sidewalks
were cleared so well of the snow
that pedestrian traffic was prac
tically normal after noon Fri
day. The tractor exhaust sounds
very much the same as a low
powered airplane motor does,
and the outfit attracted consid
erable attention as it plied its
way about the village streets.
Over Ten Days of Rest Well
Spent By Fetzer's
Team.
BUILT UP STRONG DEFENSE
Carolina Should Have An Easy
Time of It Tonight Meet Trin
ity Saturday Night.
TONY SARG'S SHOW IS
Will Be in Gerrard Hall on Next
Friday Evening Instead of Wed
nesday as Advertised.
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"Carolina Chemist," Published by
Students of Chemistry Department
Dedicated to Dr. Venable
Nearly Two Hundred Schools
Triangular H. S. Debate, j
On hundred and eighty-nine
schools enrolled in the high school,
debating union, have been arranged
in groups of three for the prelimi
nary debate! beginning March 24th.
Eabh school will present two teams,
one for each side of the query to
ha debated, and the winning teams
will contest for the Aycock Memorial
cup to take place here in April.
The December number of the Car
olina Chemist, published by the stu
dents of the Chemical Engineering
Department of the University, con
tains a large amount of interesting
material. The book is dedicated to
Dr. Francis Preston Venable, "our
former leader, our teacher, and our
friend," to whom the editor, J. A.
Bender '22, ascribes high praise in
his editorial entitled "Just a Passing
Tribute," in which tells of Dr. Ven
able unswerving, unselfish, and
memoriable service to the Univer
sity, in connection with Dr. Ven-
able's resignation as head of the De
partment of Chemistry.
The subject matter of the Chem
ist deals chiefly with the outlook for
the student of chemistry after grad
uation. "The Chemist of the
Future," by Dr. Stroud Jordan, 09,
gives advice to the men of the South
to open up new industries. "The
ChemiBt May Be Down But He's Not
Out" by S. C. Smith, tells of the im
mediate prospect in the chemical in
dustry. A. C. Howell also tells why
courses in English are included in
the B. S. in Chemistry requisites.
Other features are the account of
Dr. Frank C. Vilbrandt, who has
been recently added to the chemistry
faculty; Dr. Wheeler's account of
his trip to the Montreal and New
York chemical meetings; E. DeW.
Jennings' account of the activities of
Alpha Chi Sigma, the chemical frat
ernity. George Murphy '24 tells of
the "Doings of the Faculty During
the Summer" and of the "Chemistry
Feed," while I. V. Giles portrays "The
Long, Long Trail" in chemistry.
The magazine is concluded by a
humorous account of the mistakes
made by freshmen on chemistry
quizes.
The next issue of the Chemist will
be published in March, since it is
published the last month of each
quarter, and will deal chiefly with
chemistry in high school. H. D. D.
The coming of Tony Sarg's Mari
onettes to Chapel Hill has been post
poned from Wednesday night to Fri
day night of this week, and the per
formance is to take place in Ger
rard Hall instead of the Play House
as previously announced.
Mr. Denny, manager for the Caro
lina Playmakers, under whose aus
pices the Marionettes will appear
here, has changed the place of per
xormance because of the increased
number of spectators Gerrard Hall
will accommodate as compared to
the little theatre in the Chapel Hill
school building.
The company of people accom
panying the Marionettes, who will
not be seen on the stage, but who
handle the dolls from above by means
of invisible strings, will not include
Tony Sarg himself.
, Seats will be reserved and will
range from fifty cents to a dollar,
depending on their situation. Many
children are expected to attend be
cause of their natural love for dolls,
but Tony Sarg's puppets are not for
children alone. They have been put
on in three different theatres on
iroadway, and their appearance
there was as well attended even
better by adults than children. The
prices for admission to New York
performances run as high as two dol
lars and fifty cents.
The puppets perform on their own
stage, which is carried with them.
They are unusually clever in their
actions and speech, and act as well,
if not better in the opinion of
Ralph Bloch of the New York Trib
une than real people.
BIBLE CLASSES WILL BE
Leaders Meet and Decide to Change
Hour of Classes From 12:30
to 5:00 P. M.
Friday night the dormitory Bible
class leaders met at the home of L.
A. Williams to discuss plans for
stimulating interest in the Bible clas
ses the coming quarter. During the
discussion it was brought out that
the leaders have been working under
handicaps which have tended to lower
the enthusiasm in Bible study. .While
the classes have been fairly well at
tended as a whole, disinterest on the
part of the leaders, and the incon
venient hour for the meeting of the
classes, have been the cause of the
gradual decrease in attendance. Last
quarter the classes met every Sunday
at 12:30, a time when the majority
of the students prefer to spend their
time in meditation or writing let
ters, and after attending church or
Sunday school they are "fed up" on
religion for the morning. To remedy
this the leaders decided to change
the hour to 5 in the afternoon. Also
it was agreed to have the leaders
meet in one group at the "Y." under
Rev. Lawrence instead of having two
separate groups as formerly.
Ten days of rest, caused by a rath
er poorly arranged schedule, has been
the lot of the Carolina basketball
team, which this week will play three
games, two of which have a direct
bearing on the state championship,
and from then on faces a full pro
gram. Tonight in Raleigh the Tar Heels
meet N. C. State, and should have
an easy victory, barring all upsets.
However, when local basketball fol
lowers recall the surprising State
game of last year in the Raleigh
Auditorium, confidence is somewhat
shaken as to the outcome of the con
test. Following the game with N. ' C.
State Tuesday night, Carolina will
meet WofTord in Chapel Hill Thurs
day. Then, on Saturday night the
first of the Trinity series comes off,
and this is the game to which all
eyes are turned, in order to get
a real line on who will capture state
honors for 1922. So far this season
Trinity has defeated both Wake For
est and N. C. State, and is consider
ed the probable candidate, along with
the Carolina quint, for the state
championship. Carolina defeated
Wake Forest by two points less mar
gin than did Trinity, and has not
played any other of the Btate college
teams.
Although this has been a period of
rest for the Carolina squard, so far
as actual games are concerned, the
team has been far from idle. Each
night stiff practices have been held in
preparation for the important games
this week, and the difficult schedule
that faces the team from then on.
Coach Fetzer has said little from
the side lines, but the square is com
posed of men of such experienced
calibre that they know their weak
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CAST FOR COMIC OPERA
SELECTED AND AT WORK
"Chimes of Normandy" . to Be Pre
sented With Best Musical Tal
ent in Town. .
The cast for the "Chimes of Nor
mandy" has been selected and the
rehearsals for the production are
showing that an unusually large num
ber of excellent voice are to aid
in making it something worth while.
The comic opera is to be presented
in Memorial hall on the evening of
Wednesday, February 8th. The en
tire company consists of over 45
members.
The lighting system has been al
most completed in the hall, the stage
has been enlarged, the settings are
rapidly being erected and the entire
company is fast getting down to per
fection with rehearsals every night,,
and special coaching of principals,
during the day.
The costuming for the opera- prom
ises to be one of the most attractive
features of the production. The en
tire set of costumes is being rented
from Fischer, of Philadelphia, who
costumes over 75 per cent, of the
college productions this side of the
Mississippi.
Mr. Weaver, head of. the Music
department, under whose direction
the opera is being put oh, says that
they are doing their best to make
prices popular. Reserved seats for
the performance are to sell at 75
cents and all others at 50 cents. Only
a few of the very front seats are
being reserved.
The cast which includes the best
talent of college and town, is as follows:
Serpolette. . .Beatrice Barton Risley
Germaine. ....... j .Dorothy Russell
Gertrude i . . .Aline Hughes
Jeanne ........ . Marguerite Ghent
Suzanne Martha Hamilton
Henri .Charles' Siewers
GrehTclieux .Albert Hewitt
Caspar d ......... LeGrand Everett
Bailiff. i .... . . William Coxe
Notary Tench Coxe
Registrar Glenn Bard in
Assessor .......... .John E. Baker
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