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Di Senate, New West Build ing, 7:30 -P. M. Tonight. Junior Class Vice-President Election, Voting Today 10:00 A, M. to 5:00 P. M. VOLUMETXXXV CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1926 NUMBER 16 Campus Expected to Return to Normalcy; Greek War Over CLOSED LAST NIGHT Speculation Rife As To Choice Desirable Freshmen Will Make PLEDGE DAY WEDNESDAY 'The Freshies Also Are Subject to Concern. .. Last night the bell in Old South tolled the knell of the 1926 rushing season for Frater nities on the campus by usher ing in the Period of Silence. 'Conversations, or rather mono- Jogues on the part of Fraternity men, were cut off unfinished by the strokes of the bell. ; Earnest entreaties, convincing argu ments, were stopped short. The bewildered Freshmen were left in peace. Silence reigned, except for the laments of some luckless -Greek ejected from the company of his Freshman roommate by the iron clad rules of the Inter Traternity Council. The rush ing season, which for the last five weeks has consumed the time, money, and energy of Fra ternity men, is ended, but the campus is still in the throes of intense, excitement. The Period -of Silence offers quite a contrast to the turmoil and confusion of the last minute rushing, however the condition of nervous inacti vity which prevails at present :is not allowing much peace of mind, to anybody. The anxiety "will end Wednesday " when the coveted Freshmen will wend their way to the Fraternity of their choice. Silence reigns over the tongues "but turmoil rules the minds of a large portion of the student body today. Fraternity men are torn; Iby doubt and conjecture as to their favored Freshmen NOTICE TO ALL FRATERNITIES All letters sent -out yes terday to the effect that there would be individual pictures taken for the fra ternities are to be disre garded and photo engage ments for fraternities are not to be made. 1 The usual plan of group pictures for fraternities will be followed again this year. ---':';wv STATEMENT WILL END ARGUMENTS Chief of Police Says that Both Parties are Misinformed SCHOLARSHIP IS ENDOWED HERE In Memory of Popular Carolina Boy Who Met Death in Re cent Auto Accident GIVEN BY . HIS FATHER $5,000 Is the Sum Endowment of the GIVES FACTS IN CASE A Tar Heel reporter inter- in finding out the exact details of the controversy which has been carried on in the Open Fo rum columns of the Tar Heel investigated the matter in re gard to the law student who was expelled by the Student Council on charges of being drunk, and learned that the writers of the letters dealing with the matter were both misinformed of the facts. - According to Chief Featherstone the happenings of Saturday night were carried on in the orderly manner with which all similar cases are dealt with in Chapel Hill. Chief Featherstone has been They questioned so often in regard to gather in excited groups to dis cuss what chances, if any, they have on certain boys. The real struggle is going on in the mind of the Freshman. He is called "upon to make a decision which will vitally affect his college ca reer. For these men the silence will allow a chance to think the Continued on page four) HACQUETEERS ARE IN FALL PRACTICE tarings Are nnounced for Season's Play Fall Meets Scheduled. The Fall tennis season is near at hand, and during the past "week some fifteen prospective racqueteers have been otft on the courts preparing for a good sea son. The material is only fair, with but one letter man from last year's team back. Captain the way the action was report ed to have taken place that he has given below a statement of the facts just as they happened on the Saturday night of Octo ber 9. ' "As it happened I never met 3happell until the night after the Grail dance," says Mr. Feather stone. "We were standing near Gooch's Cafe shortly after I met him when I noticed the student, over whom the controversy oc curred, go in and take a seat at one of the tales in the cafe. . He appeared to be . under the in fluence of whiskey. ; While he and I were talking, Mr. Chap- pell also observed his actions at the table. . Chappell asked a stu dent, who was standing near, the name of the boy. The student said that he would find out, and went into the cafe to ask some one. He came out and said the boy was afflicted, but Chappell Mr. C. W. Toms, of Durham and New York, has presented the University with a check for $5,000 to establish a scholarship which is to be known as the George Newby Toms Scholarship in memory of his son, George Toms, who was killed in an auto mobile accident about two weeks ago. ' . The principal of this scholar ship is to be invested perman ently and the income is to be awarded to worthy students, preferably students from Dur ham and Perquimans Counties. George Newby Toms was a ju nior at the University when the fatal wreck occurred. " Early Sunday morningj October 10, Toms was returning from Dur ham, where he had driven after the Grail dance 'of Saturday night. His companion in the car said that they both must have fallen asleep and so lost control of the car, which turned over an embankment near Sparrow's Filling Station, a mile out of Chapel Hill. The death of Toms resulted from the puncture of his lungs by a piece of glass; His death came as a severe blow to his many friends at the University.'"" TAR BABIES LOSE THRILLING GAME TO S. C. FROSH Old Liners Administer 14-6 Licking on Carolina Eleven Game Is Lost In Last Seconds of Play North Carolina Un able to Stop Aerial Attack WHISNANT CAROLINA STAR Mans Does Good Passing and Kicking The Extension Division of the University has just received a letter from Postmaster-General Harry S. New in which he' said that he had appointed Mr. Wit liam Wood to represent the Post Office Department at the News paper Institute to be held here January 5, 6, 7. A football game that had all the earmarks of a fairy-tale or a dime novel classic was played at" Columbia, S. C. Saturday be tween the freshman teams of the University of North Carolina and the University 1 of South Carolina. The final score of 20 to 16 in favor of the Biddies, came as a dash of cold water to the three thousand fans who watched the game a contest that every follower of sport dreams about witnessing. Ho ratio Alger, Jr. in his moments of wildest imagination could hardly conjure up a more thrill ing, breathtaking battle between two football teams, than was pulled off by the two f rosh elevens. - With the whistle hanging in the referee's mouth and only a few seconds before the game was over, Adams, Biddie end, snatched a 20 yard forward pass from Rhame, Biddie quarter back, and toppled across the goal line for the touchdown that gave his team the victory. The refe ree puffed his whistle almost be fore the receiver of the winning pass could fall to the ground with the precious ball clasped in his arms. A few minutes before the end of the game, the score was 13 to" 6 in favor of South Carolina. North Carolina ball on their own 40 yard line. P. Jackson and Charlie Smith started on a ram page, and on short end runs and line plays carried the ball right on down the field, one first down (Continued on page four) Elgin has arranged a ladder in order to give the best men a;made the remark that he looked chance to get on the team. The like he was drinking, and went present rating is : JMgin, xno. i , in to find out hia name- While Dalyrymple No. 2, Blaylock No 3, Cone No. 4, Matthews No. 5, and Covington No. 6. The sche dule this Fall includes a match with Virginia on Thanksgiving, he was inside" I had. other duties to perform and left the scene. I did not see Mr. Chap pell any more that night. During the conversation Mr. . Chappell and a trip to Pinehurst where did not influence me in regard tne team will enter the Annual to the arrest of tnis or any stu. Fall Tournament there. that is held The Pi Beta Phi sorority an nounces the pledging of Misses Sara Purrington, Scotland Neck ; Mary Margaret Wray, Raleigh; Margaret Bland, Charlotte ; Katherine Johnson, Eustis, Flor ida ; Virginia Lay, Beaufort ; Grace Duncan, Beaufort ; Lenore McFadden, Chapel Hill ; Whitney Holt, Duke; Marion Ross, Bos ton, Mass. dent. After I returned to the vicinity I saw the boy leave the cafe with the appearance of be ing more intoxicated that when he went into the cafe. His ac tions after coming on the street were responsible for his arrest." Mr. . Featherstone further says : "If I have made any state ments that would draw conclu sions other than what has been set down in this statement, it was unintentional," East-West HighwayiThrough Chapel Hill Is Programme JUNIOR VICE-PRES. ELECTION TODAY The final election for vice president of the Junior Class will be held today, from 10:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m., at the Ballot Box at Gerrard Hall. Charles Rouse and Ed Avent are the candidates to be voted up on, the other candidates, "Mutt' Evans, and Hoyt Pritchett having been elim inated in the election ; last week. THRILLING CONTEST Gus McPherson Carries Ball 93 Yards from Kick-off for V Carolina's Only Score SNYDER MARYLAND STAR Shuford, Schwartz and Schuler Are Tar Heel Stars A LARGE CROWD AT PLAYMAKER READING SUNDAY Paul Green Reads His New Play "In Abraham's Bosom" DEALS WITH NEGRO LIFE From time to time the ques tion of a highway outlet from Chapel Hill, both to the east and to the west, has been agitated by different groups and inter ests. For those in the east a highway from Chapel Hill di rectly to Nelson cuts the dis tance to Raleigh 28 miles, or to from 55 minutes to an hour. The saving in time is greater than the saving in distance, due to traffic congestion in Durham on the present highway: On the west there is no outlet except in fair weather. Highway No. 14 from Chapel Hill to Hills boro is maintained by the State Highway Commission, but it has not been widened sufficiently, or graded, as to make the safest travel under any conditions, par ticularly when there is a con gestion during public events at Chapel Hill. During the rainy season this road is not safe. A western outlet can be provided either through having the road to Hillsboro improved, or by heading -further west and com ing out at Graham. In the long run there seems to be little ques tion that the- Graham outlet is preferred. It is to be observed that none of it at present is maintained by the State Highway Commission, save about 4 or 5 miles from Chapel Hill on the west to where the road forks, one going to Hillsboro and the other by Sax- ..." H apahaw and on to Graham. This combined project has been considered at length, and discussed with some of the High way officials. The general pro gram is to ask the Highway Commission to look forward to the time when the entire stretch from Graham to Nelson may be under its supervision. The reas ons for this, of course, are ap parent in the light of increas ing public interest in the Univer sity and its many programs which draw a wide attendance. Due to the policy of the Uni versity of playing its athletic contests on home grounds, -and its present project for a stadium seating more than 30,000 peo ple, it is easily apparent that congestion is going to increase at an unreasonable rate. In ad dition, all people are interested in making the University as readily accessible to all people of the state "as it is possible to do. The project, therefore, is not one to be measured by traf fic load alone, but can legitimate ly be influenced by the desire to do everythig possible to facili tate the University's work. The State Highway Commis sion will meet on the 29lh and take up the questions of build ing this highway. Interest in the outcome of the meeting is watched with the keenest in terest by students and alumni in the west. Paul Green's new play In Ab raham's Bosom was read to a large and appreciative audience Sunday night in the Playmaker building. Mr. Green's new play deals with the life of a negro, Abra ham, who tries first to educate himself and then to educate his people, and is, in short, a charac ter" development "of this negro. The struggle in the play is the attempt of the negro to rise and the constant tendency of his own people to pull him back to their level and throughout the play one sees the white man's atti tude and opinion towering over and dominating the life and ac tions of the negro. The play is the most finished thing that Mr. Green has yet written. It is built up in a man ner that keeps one interested all the time. The play is in seven scenes, the first showing the negroes working in the woods of one of the old southern gentlemen and later the beating of the negro, Abraham, by the master because the negro crossed him. Even in this early stage Abraham is seen working with his books and de siring a school house in which the negro children could be taught. The second scene is three years later and Abraham has now married Goldie, a mulatto, who is the only person who sticks by Abraham during the whole play. They are barely making a living due to Abraham's thirst after knowledge. A baby is born to them and shows signs of living, other children before this one had died while only a few days old. The old master fear ing death and wishing to do some noble deed, gives Abraham the deed to the land he now live3 on and fixes it so that he can have a school in which to teach the negro children. With great (Continued on page three) In a game marked by sensa tional runs, the University of Maryland defeated North Caro lina 14 to 6 at College Park on Saturday. All . three touchdowns were made in the initial quarter fol lowing long runs and one for ward, pass. Before 3,500 spec tators, "Gus" McPherson, dim inutive Tar Heel back, received Maryland's kick-off on the first play of the game and, aided by spectacular interference, raced 93 yards through the entire Terrapin team for North Caro lina's only score. Hackney failed to kick goal. Receiving the ball on their own 40-yard line shortly after wards, the Old Liners, on their first play from scrimmage, exe cuted a triple pass which appear ed to bewilder the Tar Heels and which enable Snyder to lope 60 yards down the field for a touch down. Kessler added the extra point which gave Maryland a one point advantage. One minute later Maryland was again threatening the Car olina goal after a long march through the Blue and White line. At this juncture Carolina stif fened and held the Terrapins for downs. Block, punting from his goal line, was rushed by the Marylanders, and kicked thirty yards up and thirty down. Maryland was in possession of the ball on the Tar Heels' 20 yard line. Two line plays were unsuccessful, but a pass from Kessler to Snyder netted the Old Liners a second touchdown, which proved to be the last one scored in the game. Kessler drop-kicked goal to complete the final score. (Continued on page four) ACHEERI-0-SHOW AGAIN ON FRIDAY Arrangements Completed for Greatest Pep Meeting in History of University PICK WILL CLOSE EARLY Football Championship Series Is Arranged The Executive Committee of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association met here yesterday in E. R. Rankin's of fice at 2 :00. The purpose of the meeting was to make ar rangements for the high school football championship series, the last game of which will be play ed in Chapel Hill on Emerson Field. The Cheerios will present their second Cheeri-O-Show of the sea son on Friday night of this week in Memorial Hall at 8 o'clock sharp. This is the night before the State game and preparations ' are being made for a huge work out. The Pick will start in time to be out at 7 :55 P. M. and the Weil Lecture will be held at 8 :50 P. M. so that the Cheeri-O- Show will have forty-five min utes to strut its stuff. Then comes the premier stunt of the evening. Led by the coaches and squad, the student body will be led out into the street where they will be met by the band, the Cheerios, and the school officials. Right then is when Carolina will witness a stunt that has not been pulled in these parts for some time. More will be told about this in Thursday's issue. Cheerios are reminded tq meet in Gerrard Hall on Wednesday night at seven o'clock for a rehearsal of this stunt. No excuses accepted.
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