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GO TO THE POLLS TODAY
AND VOTE ON THE
PROPOSED DAILY TAR HEEL
VOLUME XXXVII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1929
NUMBER 48
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ED DAILY TAR- HEEL' TODA
Y
PLAYMAKERSTO
PRESENT A NEW
BILL OF PLAYS
Will Present First Bill of Ori
ginal Plays of Season Friday
and Saturday Nights.
Tomorrow and Saturday night the
Playmakers will present "their first
bill of original plays this season. The
ipieces to be enacted are three: "O
Promise Me," a college comedy of so
phomoric philosophy and love; "Grave
yard Shift," a tragedy of mill work
ers in California; and "The Family,"
a domestic comedy. "The Family"
is the only play on the bill that was
written by a local person being the
work of Mrs. Catherine Nolen Wilson.
The cast selected for "0 Promise
Me" is composed of Howard Bailey,
Neona Sturgeon, Ann Lawrence and
Fred Greer. The actors in "The
Family" are Charles Lipscomb, Eli
zabeth Farrar, Gillis Brown, and
Mela Royall.
Leading parts for the play, "Grave
yard Shift,", are being filled by Mrs
Catherine Wilson Nolen, Helen Dort-
ch, Whitner Bissell, Nettina Strbbach,
S. A. Rothenberg, L. L. Miller, J. B.
Ellison, and T. P. Harrison are sup
porting the cast.
As is usual with Playmakers pro
ductions the casts of the three one
act plays have been, very diligently
drilled on the lines of the plays as
well: as to theatrical business and
j- ; -i n l 'H -r
stage appearance ana m-e dux rn
day. and Saturday night will be as
polished as any that the group has
ever presented nere. .rroiessors
Frederick H. Koch, Hubert Heffner,
and Samuel Selden have worked hard
to make the forthcoming bill the most
the University.
Seats for the plays Friday and
Saturday night have been on sale at
Sutton's Drug Store since "Monday.
AH persons holding season passes to
the theatre -productions must reserve
seats for whichever night they desire
to attend. Single tickets sold to non
subscribers will be one dollar each.
ROBBER ENTERS
GOOCITS CAFE
Thieves Not Confining Them
selves to Town But Are En
tering Dormitories and Fra
ternity Houses on Campus.
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STUDJENTS WILL
VOTE IN ORDER
OF PREFERENCE
Plan Receiving the Highest
Number of Votes Will Be the
One Used for Financing the
Proposed Daily Tar Heel.
1 eet GM 1
Progress or Retrogression?
For the past two weeks Chapel Hill
has been besieged by a series of
robberies that has not been equaled
in recent years. These robberies are
not confined to the business institu
tions of the town; clothing, watches,
and various other articles have been
reported stolen from the dormitories
on the campus.
Monday night Gooch's cafe was
entered and robbed of approximately
$125. Tuesday morning when the
place was opened up, the cash drawer
was standing open and completely
empty except for a few cents in
change. The drawer contained prac
tically all the money taken in during
the day, and the robber made a clean
sweep of it. Entrance was evidently
gained through the back door by
means of a skeleton key, as that door
was unlocked Tuesday morning when
the place was opened for business.
On Tuesday night the high school
cafeteria was robbed, but the amount
taken in this case was not so large,
somewhere around twenty-five or
thirty dollars.
In addition to these, three suits, one
a tuxedo, two watches, and other
articles have been stolen from Steele
dormitory. The situation is growing
serious, but so far no clues have beeiH
obtained as to the identity of the
mauraders.
Today every student who casts a
vote, whether he votes for a daily
Tar Heel or not, will check the four
plans of financing the daily in order
of preference. Thus if he favors
simplification of the Yackety Yack
above the other three plans, he will
check it 1. He will check his second
choice 2, and so on. The ballots will
be counted first to determine wheth
er a majority of those voting favor
a daily Tar Heel, and then to determ
ine which financing plan is most
popular.
If the Yackety Yack simplification
plan is favored, the alumni section,
Vanity fair section, faculty section,
humor . section, and probably other
non-revenue producing sections will
be eliminated. Other minor reduc
tions might be made in the annual.
The two dollar cut of the student pub
lications fee that now goes to the
Yackety Yack will be reduced to a
dollar and half, thus providing a
fifty cent slice of the student fees to
provide for the extra cost of the daily
Tar Heel. Most of the annuals select
ed as the best in the country in re
cent years have been much smaller
and more simple than the Yackety
Yack. In fact, the Yackety Yack is
one of the most elaborate college an
nuals now published in this country.
If the Buccaneer plan is passed,
the comic publication will be abolish
ed. The fifty-five cent cut that the
publication now receives from the
student fees would be sufficient to
provide for the daily.
The Magazine plan provides for
combination of the literary publica
tion into a supplement to the daily
Tar Heel. This supplement would
appear every other Sunday morning,
and would contain only material of a
literary nature. The two supple
ments . xnat wouia appear every
month would provide about the same
amount of space that the , Magazine
offers in its present format. The sav
ing through utilization of news print
instead of gloss paper and through
printing the supplement with the
Tar Heel would be enough to cover
the increase in cost of the daily over
the present tri-weekly.
The reapportionment of all publi
cation fees and utilization of the sur
plus now in the Publications Union
treasury plan would result in cuts in
William Cain Chapter
Will Hold Meeting
The William Cain chapter of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
will meet tonight at 7:30 in room
319. Phillin Hall. The feature of
the program will be a ; talk by Mr
Ferebee, of Milwaukee, on the con
struction of the Milwaukee Sewage
disposal plant.'
The charter for the University of
North Carolina was granted in 1789.
GERMAN CLUB
DANCES WILL
START FRIDAY
Gay Week-End Expected With
German Mid-Winter Hops
and Other Social Events On
Program.
the sums going to each of the other
publications. Next year the Maga
zine. Buccaneer and Yackety Yack
would all be slightly smaller, if this
plan is the one selected. In addition
the surplus that has been built up by
careful administration on the part of
the Publications Union Boards is held
in reserve for a bad year with its ac
c6mpanying deficit on tlie part of all
the student publications, would prob
ably be materially decreased, if not
wiped out altogether.
The mid-winter hops of the Ger
man Club will get under way tomor
row after.noon when the first dance
is held at 4:30 in the gymnasium.
With the other social events in Chapel
Hill for the week-end and the large
number of girls who have already
made arrangements to be present both
adding to the festivities, this set
should be very successful.
The dance schedule will be the
same as that of the Thanksgiving
dances held last fall. The first dance
begins tomorrow afternoon at 4:30,
and the series closes with the final
ball from ten to twelve Saturday
night. There will be two dances to
morrow, the first from 4:30 to 6:30
in the afternoon, and the second from
ten to one that night. Three dances
will be held Saturday. The first is a
morning dance from 11:30 to 1, the
second, an afternoon dance from 4:30
to 6:30, and the final ball, the climax
of the set, that night from 10 to 12.
Other social events scheduled for
this week-end are dinner dances by
both the Gorgon's Head and the Gim
ghouls, and a house party by the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. The
Gorgon's Head dance will come to
morrow afternoon during the , inter
val - between the afternoon andnight
dances of the German Club, and the
Gimghouls' dance will be held at the
same period Saturday evening. All
of these events will add greatly to the
social activities' this week-end. Hol
lins, Salem, Converse, and other col
leges in this state and other states
will be represented, and a large num
ber of .girls from Sweetbriar will
come down after their dance Friday
night.
The decorations will be done by
Baron Holmes and Frazier Glenn, who
were successful in their work for the
Thanksgiving dances, and will con
sist of a draping dome of white and
light blue colors, the Carolina colors,
which will be shaded with soft flood
lights. A large German club will be
artistically worked into the dome.
Joe Nesbitt's Orchestra, of Columbia
recording fame, has been engaged for
the dances. This orchestra comes
here highly recommended, having
played over the state during the
Christmas holidays, and expectations
are that it will be more than pleasing,
The figure for the ball Saturday
night will be led by Mr. Bill Webb,
with Miss Mary Lou ' Farrell, of
Petersburg, Va., assisted by Mr. Nel
son Howard, with Miss Madaline Jen
kins, of Tarboro, and Mr. John An
derson, with Miss Hallie Williamson,
of Fayetteville.
Mrs. C. T. Woollen will be chair
man of the chaperone committee for
the dances. Mrs. R. D. W. Connor,
Mrs. W. M. Dey, Mrs. W. S. Bernard,
and, Mrs. J. H. Anderson will assist
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(EDITORIAL)
Today the students of the Uni
versity go to the polls to approve
or disapprove a plan that is po
tentially one of the greatest pro
gressive steps ever undertaken by
a student body here. If passed
and successfully put into opera
tion, the plan will doubtless de
velop into the most notable
achievement of the present stu
dent generation. .
At the outset, it should be un
derstood that the proponents of
a dily Tar Heel are merely seek
ing a chance to prove to the sat
isfaction of everyone concerned
that a daily paper here is feasible
and desirable. ' Any number of
arguments for and . against --. the
plan might be advanced, but the
only way conclusively to demon
strate its practicability or im
practicability is actually to put
it into operation for a year.
That is all the present Tar
Heel staff is asking a chance
to prove that it is capable of
putting out ait efficient daily.
The arguments for a daily TarN
Heel far outweigh the rather
puerile ones advanced against it.
There are a larger number of
reasons why a daily Tar Heel is
practicable. Chief among these
is the fact that the daily would
furnish a service that it is im
possible for the tri-weekly to of
fer a service that will present
the news while it is still "hot,"
the morning after it happens.
Everything that happens up to
eleven o'clock at night will ap
pear in the daily the next morn
ing. The Tar Heel is at present one
of the very few factors that
tend toward unifying the student
body. With the steady growth of
the University there has come
an ever-increasing tendency on
the part of the student body to
break up into small groups that
have few" contacts and practically
no interests in common with the
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VOTING TO TAKE
PLACE INSIDE OF
Y.M.C.A. BUILDING
Polls Will Open at Nine and Will
Close at Six P. M.; Will Be
Final Opportunity for Stu
dents to Register Their
Opinion for or against a Daily
Tar Heel; Operating Plan
Explained.
Delta Tau Delta To
Send Delegates To
Nashville Convention
The Southern Division of the Delta
Tau Delta fraternity will have a con
ference meeting at Vanderbilt Uni
versity, Nashville, Tennesseee, on
February 15th and 16th.
Mr. H. D. Meyer of the Sociology
Department of the University of
North, Carolina will preside over the
meeting as the National Vice-President
of the Delta Tau Delta frater
nity. Kermit Weavy will represent , the
U. N. C. chapter at this conference,
and several delegates from the Duke
chapter are expected to attend.
There are about twenty chapters
of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity in
this division, and a large number of
delegates will be expected at the con
ference. Carolina Playmakers
Give Second Author's
Reading of the Year
Four Plays Selected Out of the Six
Reworked Ones Read to Audience.
Daily Tar Heel Is Approved by
Large Majority in Joint Session
Of Di Senate and Phi Assembly
Tuesday night the Dialectic Senate
and the Philanthropic Assembly met
in joint session for the very definite
purpose of discussing the : proposed
plan of issuing the Tar Heel six times
per week. For many years it has
been customary toehold a joint meet
ing once each quarter. The rather
widespread contentions of various fac
tions regarding the matter convinced
officials of both societies that the
proposition should be considered by
the Di and Phi in joint session.
Representative Harrell pointed out
to the audience the intention of
making the daily Tar Heel a morning
paper carrying both local and na
tional news. The representative also
made it clear that there will be no
increase in fees. ,
In behalf of the plan Senator
Brown continued that those who are
advocating the plan have in mind a
mere experiment which could be dis
continued by the student body at the
end of a year if such should be de
sirable. In an attempt to clarify the matter
somewhat Senator Dungan reminded
the Assembly and the Senate that'
the Publications Union has in mind
the creation of a community paper.
The senator contended that a daily
Tar Heel would be instrumental in
getting publicity for the University.
He stated very ' emphatically that
there would not be any increase in
fees resulting from a daily Tar Heel.
"Don't abolish the Buccaneer, for
that is sometimes read," said Repre
sentative Lewis in connection with the
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Carolina Playmakers
To Broadcast . Over
Radio Station WPTF
Next Monday afternoon between
4:45 o'clock and 5:45 o clock the cast
of the Playmakers production, "Job's
Kinfolks," will broadcast the play
over radio station WPTF in Raleigh.
The; persons of the play (Will be
introduced by Samuel Selden, techni
cal director of the - group. Hubert
Heffner, associate director of the
Playmakersj is replacing Morgan
Vining, regular University radio an
nouncer, and will give a short talk
on the work of the Playmakers.
Bernard Writes Article
For Chinese Journal
Last Monday night the Playmakers
offered their second author's readings
of the "current year. Six new or re
worked plays were read by the au
thors, from which four were selected
by the play committee for production
the nights of April 5 and 6.
The authors whose works will be
given in April are: Miss Helen Dortch,
whose "Companion-Mate Marriage
was selected by the committee, Miss
Louise M. O'Connell, whose "The Lie'
is a reworked version of "Annanias
and Saphira," read earlier in the fall,
Miss Loretto Carroll Bailey's "Kizzie1
the same being a sequel to her "Job's
Kinfolks," and Mrs. Gertrude Wilson
Coffin, whose "Magnolia's Man" ap
pears to be the strongest of the lot.
Mrs. Coffin will be remembered for
her much discussed "Shotgun Splic
in' " produced last spring.
The play committee was composed
of Professors English 'Bagby, W. E.
Caldwell, Carl Prouty, and Lawrence
Gidus, and the Reverend Alfred S.
Lawrence and Mrs. George Howe.
Two plays were read but failed to
place. They were John Wessell's
"The White Ha'nt," and 'Alice' Hold-
ship Ware's California play, "The
Beard of Moses."
Phi Beta Kappa
Elects Secretary
Joseph W. Holt of Greensboro was
elected secretary of Phi Beta Kappa
at the meeting of the fraternity last
Tuesday night in the Episcopal parish
house. Frank P. Graham, Robert B.
House, and J. Minor Gwynn were
chosen as faculty members of the
executive committee of the society.
Dr. Wilson, as delegate to the Phi
Beta Kappa national convention, made
his report. The main discussion of
the 'eveninsr was over considered
changes in the by-laws and rituals of
the society. '
In the issue of the China Critic for
January 3. 1929 there appeared an
article which was written by L. L,
Bernard, Professor of Sociology at the
University of North Carolina. This
article was entitled "The recent
national election in the United States."
The China Critic, which is perhaps
the leading journal of the entire
Chinese nation, is published at Shang
hai, a town of approximately two
million inhabitants
In his article Professor Bernard
discusses the various factors of the
election which when combined result
ed in the choice of Herbert Hoover as
president of the United States. He
dwelt at length on the break up of the
"Solid South" and by way of clarifi
cation explained the many things
which caused the break up.
Carbine Is Dance
Leader for Sophs
At a call meeting of the sophomore
class, leaders for the dance to be given
by the class this spring were select
ed. At the same time President Pete
Wvrick appointed a committee to
make arrangements for the affair.
Bill Carbine was elected leader with
Pete Wyrick as first assistant and
Henry House as second assistant.
President Wyrick announced that
the dance committee would consist
of Will Yarborough, chairman, Evan
Vaughn, and Malcolm Seawell. This
committee announced . following the
meeting that the dance would be held
during the spring quarter, probably
about the middle of April. :
Bernard Is Preparing
Article for Social
Science Encyclopedia
L. L. Bernard, Professor of Socio
logy in the University of North Caro
lina, is at the present time preparing
one of the long articles for the Ency
clopedia of the . Social Sciences which
is to be published in fifteen volumes
at an expense of $750,000. E. R. A
Seligman, editor of the work, is of
the opinion that the encyclopedia
will be completed six years hence
Professor Bernard's article is to be
entitled "The social sciences as dis
ciplines in the United States."
"WifVi Vio nnonino' nf tVio nnllc af"
nine o'clock today will come the final
opportunity for the students of the
University to register their opinion
on a daily six-times-a-week Tar Heel.
The voting booths will be set up in
side the Y.M.CA. building on the
first floor and will be open until six
o'clock.
The plan for a daily paper has been
set forth in full in the columns of
the Tar Heel. The Student Activities
Group has met and passed the plan
unanimously.
Details of the four projected meth
ods of financing the augmented paper
will be found on another page of this
issue. The vote today will be on
whether a daily is desired, and if so,
which of the four choices for financ
ing it is preferred. In no case is the
regular student publication fee to be
increased.
The idea" of a daily, issue of the
Tar Heel is part of a progressive
movement which includes all forms
of student activity. The Tar Heel
now holds a high place among South
ern college papersand is attempting
to improve and give better service to
the Carolina student body. - It was
with this purpose in mind that the
plan was originally conceived and
presented to the leaders of the stu
dent activities and the faculty heads.
The proposed make-up of the staff
of the daily includes an editor-in-
chief, and four or five assistant edi
tors, who will conduct the editorial
policies and devote their attention to
the editorial page. A managing edi
tor will be in charge of head-writing
and copy-editing, with three assis
tants, one man will handle the for
eign news service, one will act as as
signment editor, and thirty reporters
will wnrle in shif fa rvf fifteen each-
If the student body votes fop the plan,
the make-up of the staff will be ex
perimented with until the most
feasible method of running the paper
is found.
If the daily Tar Heel does not
seem to be a complete success upon
reasonable trial, the issue will re
turn to three times a week. Today's
vote is the final indication of the
wishes of the student body with re
gard to the conduct of the newspaper.
If adopted, the plan will not go into
effect until September, 1929.
Order of Grail Makes
Plans for Next Dance
Big Week-End Planned for February
. 23rd; Four Dances Scheduled.
The Grail will stage its next dance
on Saturday njght, February' 23rd.
The dance will come on a week-end
when several other dances are to be
held here, and a large array of girls
should be present. The Law school
and the two student chapters of the
Engineering societies will both give
dances on the Friday night preceding.
The music will be furnished by
Alex Mendenhall's Tar Heel Boys,
and will be unusually good. This or
chestra is composed of students here
in the University, and it has a wide
reputation. The Grail was unusually
successful in securing this orchestra.
The decorations will be in connection
with those of the Law school dance
which will be held the night before
in the gymnasium. With both of
these societies combining their efforts,
the decorations should exceed those of
the former dances.
This will be the second dance to be
given this quarter by the GraiL It is
customary for three dances to be
given each quarter by the Grail,
which are placed at convenient in
tervals during the quarter. The first
dance was held on January 19th, and
the last one will be held on March
9th. - '
The Commencement of 1854 at the
University, was afflicted by rain and
cold so that fires were necessary.