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Leading Southern College Tbi
Weekly Newspaper .
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thecollege year, and is the official
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Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub
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Glenn Holder Assistant Editor
John Mebane - Assistant Editor
Will , Yarborough .. Sports Editor
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Saturday, March2, 1929
PARAGRAPHICS
We have never head of red-headed
Indian phiefs, but it seems "Chief
Titian" is calling a meeting of them.
If the latest issue of the Buccaneer
is really the Girls Number as
claimed, it gives indubitable proof
that questionable jokes are not manu
factured solely by the male sex.
And tonight that venerable Di Hall
which for so many years has rocked
- with oratorical applause will shake
with the impact of dancing senatorial
. feet. '
When E. H. Sothern reserved three
suites of rooms at the Carolina . Inn
and wired for a special limousine to
,De placed at nis disposal, the only
-conclusion is that he must.be royalty
travelling incognito or else a movie
i. .
; star. "
Sounds Do
Murder Sleep
Macbeth had his inning back in
Shakespearean days, but now when
it comes to the matter of slaughter
ing sweet,1 innocent slumber he is a
back number fit only to be placed
upon the shelf and his role of sleep
murderer, has been assumed here on
the campus by three potent agencies.
And now abideth orchestras, fire
alarms, and midnight shouts these
three; but the loudest of these is or
chestras. ' . .
Just about the time sane students
rptlro. wnrn sr( wpsrv from a loner
day's work, there issues"! orth from
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Gerrard Hall a raucous blast and a
jiarsn Diare announcing xne miamgro
entertainment of some- ambitious or
ehestra.. On and far into the night
continues the program and far into
the night do the occupants of Old
East, Old West, Steele and Smith
roll from one side to the pother of
their . dormitory beds and spend mo
ments sacred to Morpheus in cursing
the god of Music '
On these Occasional nights when the
the campus is fortunate enough to
have its many orchestras employed
elsewhere, the redoubtable Chapel
Hill fire alarm decides to try out its
lungular strength; and into the si
lence of the night is ejected a won
derfully strange and horrible noise,
compounded so imagine those whose
startled ears are frighted of seven
teen per cent collegiate flivver horn,
twenty-two 'per cent cannon shot,
nineteen per cent groan of dying
man, nine per cent squeak of chalk on
blackboard, , and thirty:three per cent
moo of lonesome sow parted from
loving calf.
The third dastardly disturbance
depends not upon brass instruments
or burning buildings for its existence
but Upon the revelry of chronic week
enders who consider it their bounden
duty to furnish this staid campus a
bit of nightly frivolity in the form
of mighty "Whoopees !" and rever
berating class shouts of 29" or "32."
Oh ! for a night when we may lay
us down to gentle sleep, to sweet
sleep, to deep and dreamy sleep,: with
the blessed assurance that no ungod
ly noise shall come out tif the dark
ness to interrupt our pleasant rest. V
Busted Boys -
And Dutch Dates
At Northwestern U. they do things
right. They are up and coming peo
pie, these students of Northwestern,
and they have good ideas. Listen to
their latest.) -f
Dating had become a problem on
the campus, The Northwestern wim-
men were too appealing, and the
Northwestern men, despite the nor
mal connation of the second part of
the adjective, were too weak.
So the gals, in the course of their
dating activities, pretty nearly
caused a complete shortage of usable
cash among theboys.
That, of course, was a terrible
situation. But it wasn't so terrible
as to cause the campus daters to
give up their occupations and resort
to studying. They thought out a
plan. And, not contentwith merely
thinking it out, they went and put
it in action.
Henceforth and from that time
forward, dates were to be cooperative
affairs. In other -words, they were
to be "Dutch." Elucidating fur
ther, the girl was to pay her own;
way.
An excellent idea, of , course, and
calculated to give every young man
a chance. The 1 girls ought to jump j
at it. It would mean more and bet-j
ter dates, and far less embarrass
ment for the boys. Surely the girls
would wish to prove their sportsman
ship. At last, Northwestern dating;
would be put on a sound "basis. Per
haps the system would spread among
the colleges of the land, Teaching even
Carolina.
So they tried out the system of go
ing "Dutch." It resulted in y two
dances", both very poorly, attended.
Northwestern, men are again broken
and badly bent, and Carolina girls
may breathe more easily. H. J. G.
Engineers Hear
. Wheeler and Arliri
Spoke on Details of Requirements of
Engineering Students, and
Methods of Work
Ben llomts
r-tr
By H. J. Galland
H. W. Arlin of theWestinghouse
Electric, Co., and H. J. Wheeler of the
General Electric Co., addressed the
members of tht student chapter of
the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers at their regular meeting
last night in Phillips Hall.
Mr. Arlin is personnel director of
the Mansfield plant of the Westing-
house Co., and visited the University
for the purposes of interviewing sen
iors in electrical engineering. Mr
Arlin's talk described the nature of
theearly broadcasting and the im
provements that have been made in
it in the last few years. Mr. Arlin
was, for five years the announcer
over station KDKA, the Westing
house station at Pittsburgh, and was
the first official radio announcer in
the world. His talk was frequently
interspersed with remarks about the
humorous side of broadcasting, and
aroused much .comment among, the
members of the society.
Mr. Wheeler is the son of Dr.
Wheeler of the , Chemistry depart
ment here, and graduated with the
class of 1927. He is at present with
Jhe General Electric Co., at Schenec
tady, N. Y. He described the work
of the student engineers with the
General Electric Co., especially those
With the regulation, department,
with which he is connected. He went
into details about the requirements
of engineering students, a.nd their
methods of-work with the company.
Yackety Yack Notice
All persons who submitted pictures
for the Vanity Fair Section of the
Yackety Yack are requested to call
at 112 Old East for them.
There will be a very important Glee
Club rehearsal Monday afternoon at
5 o'clock for all men who went on the
last tour and those who were chosen
as alternates.
Fever, And Not Spring
Somebody ought to do something
abou; thV weather. As Mark Twain
xmce pointed out, it is the most talked
of thing on earth, yet nobody does
anything about it. We have heard
more about the weather than about
any other six topics together, during
the past week. As far as we are
concerned, we'd pick a vacuum as the
perfect place to live. On rainy days
you just don't feel like working,
whereas when the sun shines and the
air is balmy,1 somehow or other you
don't feel like working. Professors,
we find, don't seem?to be affected at
all by the weather.
. The Senate
Professor Frank Graham was re
elected president of, the North Caro
lina Conference for Social Service.
In the course of an address he made
at one of the sessions, he pointed out
certain things that were wrong in
North Carolina. The report of the
meeting appeared under the head
"Depicts Glaring Evils in Social Life
of State." The Dialectic Senate was
quick to seize the opportunity for a
little welfare work. Across the page
in the Tar Heel ran the head "Sena
tors Will Dance Saturday."
Memorial
Last week Mr. Carter of the firm
of Atwood and Nash, architects, re
sponsible for the erection of Graham
Memorial, was noticed in conference
outside the still unfinished building.
We do not wish to raise any false
hopes by this simple report, but there
seems to be a vague possibility that
something may be done about finish
ing the Memorial. All inquiries as
to why, or why not, with regard , to
Graham JMemoriaI,"Jhave been ignored,
sidestepped, or buck-passed. We
understand the legislature is waiting
for the Alumni -to do something, and
the Alumni are waiting for a little
action from the legislature. Mean
while, we are waiting for the use of
the building.
Helpful Hints Department
This week's Jiint was discovered in
the hall of Alumni Building, framed
on 7 the wall in a dark corner. It is
a notice, and reads as follows:
"The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
"Section 1. That it shall be un
lawful for any student or students in
any college in this state, to engage in
what is known as hazing.
"Section 2. That for the purposes
of this Act hazing shall be defined
to be 'to annoy by playing abusive
or ridiculous tricks upon any student,
to frighten, scold, beat, or harass
him, or to subject him to personal in
dignity. ... -
"Section 7. This Act. shall not ap
ply to females. . . -r"
Here is a very nice legal justifica
tion for ducking quizzes. Practically
every one we have ever taken annoyed
us, frightened us, and harassed us
Most of them were' abusive tricks,
and ' practically all of them subjected
us to personal indignity. We advise
thatif you have been in the same
fix, you take no more quizzes. If any
one wants to know why, point out
that the law says it is not necessary.
No charge for the hint this week,
thank you!
Progress by Degrees
Following a long and intensive
campaign, the co-ed basketeers have
acquired uniforms almost. A jer
sey with a neat C and short sleeves
is being worn with the conventional
bloomers, the effect, our informant
says, being that "of a dashing young
girl-athlete of the gay nineties. It
seems that the shorter the bloomers
or trunks become, the longer and
greater the progress becomes. The
uniform does not affect the playing
of the team, however. They are still
winning games, and hoping for the
best in the matter of uniforms.
What-Is-It-All-About Department
Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, former
president of Amherst; contributes to
the weekly symposium on why there
is a college, and jf so, why we are
in it. "What do our teachers believe
to be the aim of college instruction?"
he writes. "Wherever their opinions
and convictions find expression there
is once contention which is always in
the foreground, namely, that to be
liberal a college must be essentially
intellectual. It is a place, the teach
ers tell us, in which a boy forgetting
all things else may set forth on the
enterprise of learning. It, is a time
when a young man may , come to
awareness of the thinking of his
people, may perceive what, knowledge
is and has been and is to be."
Bookmobile Visits
The University
The Bookmobile,Na,truck fitted up,
to display library catalogues and
equipment, visited the University Fri
day afternoon as a part of a tour of
the eastern seaboard states. The
Bookmobile is under the direction., of
Mr. Charles R. Brockmann, formerly
of Charlotte, assisted by Mr. George
W. Stewart.
These two men in their truck have
visited every school and public library
in Virginia since leaving New York
City on January 3. On their way
down the coast they have also visited
libraries in New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and the District of Colum
bia, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama,
and they intend to return to Washing
ton for the convention of the Ameri
can Library Association on May 13.;
The purpose of the Bookmobile is
to show to the librarians of the south
the latest methods and equipment that
are being used in libraries. The Book
mobile is touring under the aupices
of the National Association of Book
Publishers, R. R. Bowker Company,
Gaylord Brothers, Inc., The H. R.
Huntting Company, The H. W. Wilson
Company, and "the American Book
sellers Association.- '
High School Series
Is Nearing An End
Interest in the high school basket
ball championship race is reaching
a high point of interest with onlv
eight teams remaining in the Eeast
and the. same number in the West.
Faculty managers will meet tonieht
with E. R. Rankin, secretary of the
high school union to complete arrange
ments for the final eliminations -next
week. The title contest will be slav
ed in the. Tin Can on March 9 with
the champions of the two sections of
the state battling for honors.
The teams remaining in the West
are High Point, Winston Salem,
Mt. Olla, Candor, Asheville. J Char
lotte, Lexington or Denton, and
forest City or Shelby. The results
of the last two contests have not been
learned yet.
In the East, Durham.
Middlebry, Red Springs, Benson,
Roseboro, Wilmington, -arid either
Woodland or Edgecombe are still in
the race.
Phi Delta Phi's Hear
Solicitor Will Pless
J. Will Pless, solicitor of the 18th
judicial district, was speaker fat a
meeting of Phi Delta Phi fraternity
last night. Mr. Pless is president of
the second province of the fraternity,
an honorary legal organization. The
local chapter has just brought to a
conclusion ' the annual initiation
period.
Lutheran Students
; Win Hold Meeting
The Lutheran students in the Uni
versity will hold their first Holy Com
munion service in Gerrard hall Sun
day morning at 9:45. 1 Rev. J. Lewis
Thornberg of St. Mark's Lutheran
church in "Durham' will conduct the
service. After this service, there
will be a short Sunday school service
conducted by Dr.F. C. Vilbrandt.
Everyone is invited to these services.
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You will find only the
most approved street and
dress shoes in John Wards.
They Rave teen grouped here
cspeciallyfor college men.For
SO years, John Wards have
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MEN'S SHOES
See them "on display at
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Kluttz, Bldg., Chapel Hill, N. C.
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' 1 E Panama Canal diggers had
engineering brains and money
aplenty. But they were blocked by the
malaria and yellow-fever bearing mosqui
toes, which killed men by thousands.
Then .Gorgas stamped out the mos
quito. The fever was conquered. The
Canal was, completed.
The importance of little things is rec
ognized in the telephone industry too.
Effective service to the public is possible
only when every step from purchase of
raw material to the operator s "Number,
please" has been cared for.
This is work for men who can sense
the, relations between seemingly unre
lated factors, men with the vision to see
a possible mountain-barrier in, a mole
hill and with the resourcefulness
to surmount it
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