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Page Two THE TAR HEEL ;' , Saturday, . February 26, jg27 tEIjc Ear )itl Leading 'Southerk College Tri weekly Newspaper Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association Published three times every week of the college year, and is the official newspaper of the Publications Un ion of the University of North Car olina, Chapel Hill, N. V. subscrip tion price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. the audience, he bravely sang the first verse unaccompanied before he dismissed chapel. WHAT'S IN A NAME Paul has always been a nam 9 of more than passing signifi cance, for in biblical times we have Paul as leader of a f ac tion of the Jews, and later came John Paul Jones, the first Amer ican naval commander, and then Offices in the basement of Alumni paui Whiteman, and a thousand gauging, . fl distinguishe(j paujs haye J. T. Madry.........,.. ..:........Ilditor added glory to the ancient title, F. F. SlMONf..... ...... .Business Mgr. Even the University gains wide spread recognition through the Editorial Department Managing Editors J. F. Ashby .......Tuesday Issue Byron White. .: Thursday Issue L. H. McPHERSON........Saturday Issue activities of two more Pauls Paul Green and Paul J. Weaver, land it becomes more' apparent that the success which attends I t- 11 D. D. Carroll Assistant Editor name 01 ram maKes me ap- J. R. Bobbitt, Zt......Assignmerit Editor I pellation of such a nature that may be summoned only with Staff J. H. Anderson J. M. Block Walter Creech J. R. DeJournette E. J. Evans D. S. Gardner Glen P. Holder J. O. Marshall H. L. Merritt T. W; Johnson W. P. Perry J. P. Pretlow T. M. Reece D. T. SeiwelF S. B. Shephard, Jr. J. Shohan F. L. Smith W." S; Spearman Wia H. Windley : Business W. W. Neal, Jr.:... Charles Brown G. W. Ray Thursday Issue Saturday Issue. J deep solemnity, , Paul Green, with his play, ''In Abraham's Bosom," already moved to the Garrick Theatre and mentioned as a leading con tender for the Pulitzer award, Henry Lay and another of his works, "The Field God slated to open on Department ? TWdwflv sr. rlrflv Tin a Viooti Tier. Asst. to Bus. Mgr. i vv Am:,, na Collection Mgr. I J " Accountant secona ii;ugene u JNeill. raul J. Weaver, not content with his glee club's , gaining national prominence as one of the coun try's outstanding college choral organizations, seeks greater realms to conquer, and schedules a concert tour of England and for the approaching summer, tfoth men, besides Managers of Issues Tuesday Issual. W. R. Hill .James Styles ...Edward Smith Advertising Department Kenneth R. Jones Advertising Mgr. Young M. Smith Asst. Adv. Mgr. M. W. Breman r.XocoZ Adv. Mar. William K. Wiley Ben Schwartz Europe G. W. Bradham- C. J. Shannon J. H. Mebane M. Y. Feimster makim? enviable reputations for Walter McConnell A. J. McNeill themselves, are eaininir for the University advertising of a dis is there after a successful run at the Provincetown theatre for month and a half, and according to Percy Hammond,- dramatic critic of the New York Herald Tribune, stands an even chance of copping the azure Pulitzer riband as the leading American play of the year. This is a more distinctive honor because of the fact that it meets stiff compe tition in gaining preference over its more urban rivals Broad way, the Barker, Chicago, and others which have had an enthu siastic reception in Gotham. Mr. Hammond seldom errs - in his Pulitzer prognostication. BRADSHAW MAKES CORRECTIONS Circulation Department Henry C. Harper. Circulation Mar R. C. Mulder. ..Filer of Issues C. W. Colwell Tom Raney JJougias Boyce , W. W. Turner You can purchase anv article adver tised in the Tar Heel with perfect safety because evervthina it adver tises is guaranteed to be as repre- coaches, for each is developing a tinctive and valuable nature. Their work is evidence that dis credits the assertions of critics that American colleges and uni versities are built around sta dia, athletics, and high-priced vertising from reputable concerns only. . ' Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel HilL N. C. Saturday, February 26, 1 927 c PARAGRAPHICS All eyes are turned Atlanta. Watch the Phantoms fly. toward Flying As we walk through the cam DUS this week, we aTe vividlv and constantly of the second line mer'S. nting fr the club mem' cultural side of college life that reflects credit on the institution which he represents. The trip which Mr. Weaver has arranged for the Carolina Glee Club is the most extensive tour ever attempted by any Uni versity organization,, and under the patronage of the Honorable Alanson B. Houghton, United States ambassador to Great Britain, it should prove profit able to the club not only from a financial standpoint, but also should afford a delightful sum- bf "Gray's Elegy." bers in England and France at a minimum of expense. Since Paul J. Weaver's ad vent to the University eight years ago, to take charge of the department of Music, the depart ment has had a phenomenal We heard "Sheik" Moore call- growth- Under ms direction ing up the co-ed house the other numerous concerts, recitals, and night and he evidently thinks other sical performances thaat he is "It" to the opposite have drawn very good support sex. When the sheba answered from tne People of the town and The Illiteratus that got us to publish his athletic poultry has failed to live up to 'his bargain. The dope is still missing. the telephone, Cap said "this is, Joy-e-y." He may be joy to the co-eds but he ain't no joy to us. One thing rather singular about basketball this season is the way the double-headers have been divided. We don't recall a single time this season that the frosh and varsity teams both won their games on thesame night. The same thing holds good for double-headers in oth er colleges and universities. One team gives the other, a little consolation. President Douglas, of the Uni versity of South Carolina, was unknown as a soloist to "the Pal metto students until a recent chapel meeting. A dispatch says that few; students knew the hymn that was announced ex cept Dr. Douglas and those that started singing soon ' stopped. The president raised his 7 eye brows questioningly after the first few lines, and calmly dis regarding the silence which was broken only by hia voice arid a titter of amusement throughout from the . student body. The Sunday afternoon concerts have proven 'popular with local music lovers since their beginning. But the most important factor in his success seems to have been with the Glee Club. Growing from an insignificant group when he took charge, to a group of such im portance that its members were invited to Kansas City last year for the National Music Super visors Conference, it has made a reputation for itself that prob ably will not be equalled by any other club for quite a while. Paul Green matriculated here some years ago, a modest coun try lad. but ambitious and ener getic. He did extensive playr writing for the Carolina Play' makers, dealing-almost. wholly with the plots built around epi sodes of his boyhood, and in his New; York success he has not deviated from -his principle of dealing withj3ubjects with which he is thoroughly acquainted. He has two plays in New York now, one running on Broadway, and the other to open soon. His cur rent play at the Garrick Theater Dean Francis F. Bradshaw has written a letter to the Tar Heel to correct two mis-inter pretations which were in recent issues. One was concerning a paragraphic about the freshman discussion group, and the other was the report of the group's discussion of campus politics. In a letter to the editor, the dean elucidates as follows : 'May I correct one mis-im pression which may prove em barrassing to the members of the group, as well as to some men not members of the group, namely, the mis-impression that the group represents the fifteen or twenty 'most intelligent' men in the freshman class. It was not made up on this basis. Three criteria were used in selecting the men for it. The first was a position on the mental alert' ness score sufficiently high to make it reasonably certain that the time involved in the discus sions would not handicap them in passing their work. Most of the men were in the upper 10 per cent of the class on that 'men al alertness' test, so called. Some, however, are as far from the top as 60 percent. Since there were nearly 70 men in the up per 10 percent, you can see that we selected only a few of the men and not necessarily those with the highest score. Inter est in studies and student activ ities in high school was the sec ond basis of selection, and rec ommendation from teachers, up- perclassmen, athletic coaches and other people in contact with freshmen early inthe year con stituted the third. "I do not pretend to believe that men invited to join the group represent the best 20 men in the class for that purpose. They are merely 20 men who were clearly eligible for mem bership in such a group. Many others would have been equally as good and some possibly better. "Your suggestion for other groups made up at different lev els of scholastic ability strikes me as a good one. I plan next year to attempt three groups, meeting part of the time sepa rately and part of the time to gether, made up along the lines of your suggestion. , ; "May I, too, take this occasion to correct somewhat the atmos phere of a recent article con cerning the group's discussion of campus politics. The term 'con fessions' Was a misnomer as ap plied to the contribution to the discussion made by the upper-i classmen present. They merely described the procedures which have led up to the formation of the campus tickets as they have seen them. " There was nothing Unethical described, ' nor was there any implication that the processes of politics on'the cam pus have been essentially unethi cal, but that they have hitherto been merely concealed and under cover .upr' util the time for nom inations." , N The Tar Heel appreciates the commendation included in thfe letter. The dean says further 'j f "I appreciate very much your commendatory editorial on our freshman 'discussion group, ancl can assure you that it has prov en as valuable to me as your edi torial assumes. "Let me say, tioo, that I per sonally have found the' Tar Hjeel more newsy, and more readable this year than at any " previous time'. I do not know whether this is a true judgment or not, but I wish to, testify to it." OPEN FORUM Editor of Tar Heel: A fairly intimate acquaintance with the bad check situation on our cam pus and in Chapel Hill moves me to offer a suggestion which I trust ybu will see fit to publish. A construc tive purpose prompts this proposal Mv suggestion is that, with the students' sanction and support, a Uni versity bank be established a de Dositorv for ' the convenience and safety of the student body. The situation existent at present is, briefly stated, this: approximately ten percent of the student body give bad checks at one time or another during the year. Feeling that there is a responsibility involved which can not be evaded, the University , sets itself to the task of compelling a cor rection of the worthless checks. This work on the part of the University costs, so I am reliably informed, about eeventy-five dollars per month. This approximation does not, of course, , take into account the time loss to the students who are dropped from classes nor does it relieve the inadvertently ' guilty of the humilia tion imposed. "A first consideration, presumably, is that of the probable cost to the proposed bank's patrons the stu dents who deposit. The auditor for the University, Mr. L. B. Rogerson, who by the way believes some such scheme as this thoroughly practicable, estimates that the University could operate such a depository and serve the students eight hours per day at a nominal cost of twenty-five cents per month per depositor. This small per individual cost presumes a pa tronage' equivalent, say, to' a major ity of the student' body. A student depositor at the down-town bank pays, one dollar per month. ' There would be no other cost to the students, and there would be no teeth in the prop osition anywhere. A second - consideration which comes to mind is this: what would be the incentive or, advantage to the student body to patronize such a ser vice on the University's part? An libgical reply to such a question would be, why not patronize it ? It is pat ent that, after all, one gives a check in order to get money or its equival ent most often, it is supposed, for the , former purpose among the stu dents in Chapel Hill. Frequently it happens here that one has to give, say, two or more checks in order to secure enough cash to meet some im mediate need. ; The day before a holi day season always finds confusion and muddle because of the difficulty in se curing money for going home or else where. A depositor with the Univer sity bank would experience no such difficulty.- Anticipating his probable needs, he could, if he had a sufficient amount on deposit, secure the neces sary funds without trouble or worry. An immediate availability of cash for depositors would always obtain. ' The University would be ' able, through the revenue, derived from the deposit charge, to place an effici ent full-time man in charge of the student accounts. ' Eminently , satis factory service could be given. Every suggestion of. business-like method would be involved in such a plan, whereas at present there is no sem blance of economy or- business to be found in the manner of handling this matter. And this is no condemna tion' of the merchants of the town nor of the Student Council representative who labors to check the evil and ob viate loss to those concerned.' What about those checks which the merchants mights take despite ' the University's bank? A good question, to be sure, and to answer it my pro posal Would be to let them make the most of their folly. The University would relieve itself of any and all re sponsibility as between merchants and students. Such a service by the Uni versity would be useless to; the ex tent that student checks were accept ed outside. " But here sound business principles may be , seen as raising their heads, for there would inevi' tably be fewer and fewer checks fav ored out in towh'when the possibility of loss became a probability even in a few cases. What would the parents and guar dians at home say about such a prop osition ? The majority of both doubtless place on deposit for their sons and wards certain amounts of money 'fet regular intervals upon which 'the students check at , will, What would be the difference to those at home' between depositing with the University bank and the bank ; at home? ."The fee of, say; twenty-five cents would be perhaps the only per ceptible difference; but would this not be compensated for through the add- ded convenience of cash, at all times to depositors would, it seems, count eract any probable disadvantage ' ac cruing, r What about the solvency jof the proposed bank ? No loans would be made, which would insure the ready subjection of any deposit to demand at any time. The bank would be as solvent as is the University? ' is there need for reform here in this matter? ' Anyone doubting that the' situation at present is bad may have his doubts allayed by acquaint ing himself with the facts. These will, it is confidently believed, con-t vert the most skeptical. The problem, as it appears to me, grows larger each quarter. ' Measures, stringent in their nature and costly to. those who may fall a victim thereto, are said to be in process of formulation by the authorities. The student body favor, I dare v say, whatever means may be employed to eliminate the evil. But why employ stringency when, if the opportunity for making one's self amenable to disciplinary measures be reduced, the evil will necessarily be reduced and, may be, entirely eliminated? Even for those who are never troubled by having checks come back as worthless there is nothing to Jose, but convenience to gain '!'".: -v It is my hope, Mr., Editor, that if you think this proposal has any merit you will take it up through your edi torial page, open your columns to a discussion of the proposition, and urge an expression of opinion by the students. X BEN HUSBANDS. Pi Phi Dance Tonight The new initiates -of the Pi Beta Phi woman's fraternity will tonight give a dance in honor of the local chapter! The dance is to be a twilight affair in the Gor gon's Head Lodge. Invitations have been received on the cam pus. : . ".y-, -;: :;-. . v '.'' HOUSE FOR SALE 12-roonV house, on Pittsboro street adjoining the Carolina Inn,' for sale; 12 rooms; 3 baths; electric light ; hardwood floors. Apply to Mrs.' Wi Slorig.1'1'" ; DR. R. R. CLARK' . DENTIST Omef Over Bank of Chapel Hill Telephone 385 ORPHEUH Welcomes You Always The Home of Musical Com edy and Vaudeville 3 Shows Daily 5 Shows Saturday WHATS HAPPENING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 8:30 p. m. Playmakers Theatre Playmaker, Reading, Dr. U. T. Holmes will read "Cyrano de Bererac." MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 ' 7:15 p.. m. Y. M. C. A. Cabinet. Y. M. C. A. 8:30 p, m.-.Wrestling meet, Caro lina vs. Davidson, Tin Can. TUESDAY, MARCH 1 7:30 p. m. Episcopal Parish House monthly meeting of the- Philological Club. Dean Royster will present a paper on "A Chaucer Controversy i 1735." Graduate students are es pecially invited. 8:30 p. m. -Phillips Hall, Dr. S. Lashley will deliver annual Sigma Xi Lecture. 9:30 p. m. Meeting of the Student dent Vestry, Episcopal Parish House. THURSDAY, MARCH 3 8:30 p. m. Phillips Hall. Lecture by Edgar Wind on "Styles of Archi tecture from the Egyptian to the Gothic Period."- SATURDAY, MARCH 5 8:00 p. m. Tin Can. High School State Basketball finals. BOY SCOUTS DECORATE WINDOW AT FOISTER'S At attractive display of scout handiwork by troop 1 is shown in Foister's window. The ex hibit was arranged on Washing ton's birthday. A picture of the "scout's ideal"" is in the center. A boy scout's statue has been offered by E. M. Knox to the pa trol making the best record dur ing iyz7. A picture of the scout band and the Chapel Hill patrol is al so shown. ' LOST One' black Duofold Junior Fountain Pen with the ' name Byron White on it. 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