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TONIGHT SATURDAY
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VOLUME XXXVII
CHAPEL HILL,
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929
NUMBER 70
DELTA TAU DELTA
SEEKS TO ANNUL
VIRGINIA CHARTER
Alleged Charges of Drinking
In Fraternity House Causes
Trouble; Aldermen Makes No
Comment But Matter Will Be
Given Immediate Attention.
Carolina Debaters
Deari J. L. Newcomb, of the Uni
versity of Virginia, said Tuesday that
university authorities had no state
ment at that time on the reported
action of the Delta Tau Delta frater
nity seeking removal of its Virginia
chapter for alleged violation of the
fraternity's by-laws and the univer
sity's rules in regard to drinking. He
indicated, however, that the matter
would be given immediate considera
tion and that a statement would be
forthcoming when the proper action
was determined. '
Frank S. Hemmick, traveling secre
tary for the arch chapter, or national
organization, recently visited . the
Iota chapter of the fraternity here
and reported to the . national frater
nity that liquor was used in the chap
ter house. He has now written
alumni of the Virginia chapter an
nouncing the institution of proceed
ings by the arch chapter looking to
the 'withdrawal of the local charter.
The proper procedure, . according to
this letter, is for an investigation by
alumni with a report to the arch
chapter.
Curtis F. Cuddy, of Roanoke, presi
dent of the undergraduate chapter
here said today that the chapter had
not defied the adminsitrative authori
ties of the university in regard to
drinking. The chapter in common
with many other fraternities here he
said had signed an agreement forbid
ding the use of liquor in the frater
nity house.
Mr. Cuddy said that this had been
done several weeks ago and that as
far as he knew it was satisfactory to
the authorities. . - Cuddy, a . football
player and a senior, said that he con
sidered an interference by the arch
chapter of the fraternity unwarrent
ed if the situation in the chapter was
satisfactory to university authorities.
LENOIR fflPH
WINS CONTEST
Miss Hazel Beard Submits Best
French Paper to Win Cup
for Her School.
Lenoir high school,, with the paper
submitted by Miss Hazel Beard, was
today announced ' as the winner of
the University of North Carolina's
fourth annual French contest for
North Carolina high schools. '
The contest was held throughout
the state March 15. A record num
her of 1,762 students, representing
104 schools, took the tests. Standards
of. papers were uniformly high and
.gave evidence of substantial prepara
tion, according to Dr. T. J. Wilson,
III, of the department of romance
languages, who selected the winners.
Miss Catherine Cox and Miss
Prances Quinn, of Kinston high, sub
mitted the second and third best pa
pers. James F. Smith, Central high,
Durham, and Rose M. Best, R. J.
Reynolds high, Winston-Salem, made
the fourth and fifth highest grades.
Papers adjudged as best after fifth
.and given honorable mention were
submitted by Alta McLamb, Dunn
high: Alice Sanders, Shelby high;
Xaura White, Hugh Morson high, Ra
leigh; Sue Hester, Roxboro high; Pat
Abernethy, High Morson high, Ra
leigh; Katherine Moses and Julia
Watson, Curry high, N. C. C. W.;
Katherine Winstead, Roxboro " high;
Mabel Kluttz, Lenoir high; Lula Fish
er, Davidson high; Alma Hastings
and Thelma Bostic, Rockingham high;
Jack Matthews, West Durham high;
Grace Curtis, Greensboro high; and
Marian Williams, High Point high.
Other schools whose students aver
aged well, according to announce
ment of results' from Dr. Wilson, were
.Aulander, Washington, Morganton,
Stanfield, Mills high of Louisburg,
Elizabeth City, Asheville, Chapel Hill,
Boyden high of Salisbury, Oxford,
Albemarle, Statasville and Roanoke
Rapids.
The Mexican rebels will never win
any battles as' long as they allow
the federals to write the official re
ports. San Diego Union.
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Here are the three University of North Carolina debaters who met a
team of three men from Harvard University in a contest here Tuesday
night. They argued the query: "Resolved, That loyalty is the curse of
the American college." Carolina argued "the negative side of the question.
Reading left to right, they are H. H. Hobgood, of Bunn; Taylor Bledsoe,
of Asheville, and H. N. Brown, III, of Chapel Hill.
Carolina and Harvard
Discuss College Loyalty
PLAY GROUP TO
MAM ANOTHER
TOUR APRIL 15
Ten Students Included in Cast
of Plays to Be Taken
West.
Small Audience Hears Debaters
In No-Decision Contest Here
Tuesday Night; Both Sides
Put up Good Argument.
Ten student actors will be sent on
the annual western tour that the
Playmakers will conduct beginning
Monday, April 15. As usual, F. H.
Koch, Hubert Heffner, and Samuel
Selden will accompany their charges.
The itinerary of the trip will be
as follows: Spray, N. C, April 15;
Morganton, N. C, April 16; Asheville,
N. C, April 17; Johnson City, Tenn.,
April 18; Nashville, Tenn., April 19;
Tryon,, April 22; Statecville, N. C,
April 23; Hendersonville, N. C, April
24; Gastonia, N. C, April 25; and
Greensboro, N. C, April 26.
The plays that will be ; taken on
tour will include "The Lie", (in a re
written form), "The Miser." "Quare
Medicine,", and "The Man who Died
at Twelve O'Clock," the last three be
ing the latest plays by Paul Green,
who is being featured this year by the
Playmakers. "The Lie" will be used
in the towns in which "Quare Medi
cine" has been shown before.
The cast of "The Lie" has these
actors: Reverand Blanton, Howard
Bailey; Alexander Blanton, Lawrence
Miller; Captain James Wrenn, Whit
ner Bissell ; Captain James Hindle,
Peter Henderson; Mistress Rachel
Blanton, Elizabeth Farrar; Lieut.
Mix, C. M. Edson; and Sergeant
Smellers, Marvin Hunter.
In "The Miser" the parts will be as
sumed by : Hubert Heffner, who will
play the part of Old Wash Lucas;
Helen Dartch, who will play the part
of Ida; George Ehrhart, who will
enact the role of Tim; and Pendleton
Harrison, who is scheduled to play
the part of Parry.
In "Quare Medicine," Hubert Heff
ner will be Old Man Jernigan; Pen
dleton Harrison, Henry Jernigan;
Helen Dortch, who will play the part
Howard Bailey, Dr. Immanuel.
Hubert Heffner, Helen Dortch, and
Howard Bailey have been chosen to
interpret the roles of Uncle January
Evans, Sally Evans, and Charlie Mc
Farland respectively.
Alumni Secretaries
To Hold Convention
...
J. Maryon Saunders Will Represent
University; To Meet in Toronto.
North Carolina universities and
colleges will be well represented in
June at the annual convention of the
American Alumni Council, according
to Richard E. Thigpen, of Duke Uni
versity, treasurer of the council.
International interest surrounds
the convention this year, as the coun
cil 'will meet for the first time since
its organization in 1913 out of the
United States. The sessions are to
be held at Toronto, Ont., on June 25
and 26. Several hundred specialists
in alumni work, representing scores
of the larger universities and colleges
of the country, are to attend.
From North Carolina, the following
will attend: J. Maryon Saunders,
Carolina) Tal H. Stafford, North
Carolina State; Richard E. Thigpen,
Duke; Clara Byrd, N.C.C.W.; and
Ernest Milton, Davidson.
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There is but one political party in
Russia the Soviet.
PUMA'S VOICE
CLEAR BUT LACKS
DRAMATIC EFFECT
Reviewer Says Her Interpreta
tions Are Conventional and
Without Character.
Admittedly, one of the best de
bates held on the campus of this Uni
versity within recent years took place
Tuesday night when Carolina met
Harvard in Gerrard Hall on the
proposition that loyalty is the curse
of the American College. The Har
vard team, composed of Norman
Winer, John Harding, and Gerald
Harrington, upheld the affirmative
side of the question: the Carolina
team, composed of Taylor Bledsoe,
Henry Brown III, and Hamilton Hob
good, presented the case of the nega
tive.
All things considered, the crowd
was large. The joint-session of "the
Di and Phi on the same night made
it necessary to hold the debate at
nine o'clock. . The lateness of the
hour together with the fact, that the
joint-session ended long after the de
bate had started undoubtedly de
tracted somewhat from the magni
tude of the audience.
No decision of any kind was ren
dered, the debate being entirely an
open forum affair. Indeed, the no
decision type of debate is, rapidly
gaining popularity all over the coun
try. The Harvard team appeared to be
debaters of considerable experience,
presenting the issues of the question
in clear and concise form. They pre
sented the case of the affirmative
largely in terms of the contention that
loyalty as shown in the average Amer
ican College is destructive rather than
constructive, is detractive rather than
attractive. The Harvard debaters
contended that the loyalty which is
manifested in the American College
is clearly differentiated from the loy
alty of the outside world. They were
of the opinion that the loyalty of the
American College should be condem
ned on the grounds that it defeats
the very purpose of its existence in
an attempt to accomplish that pur
pose namely, it centers the attention
of the student on formality.
In upholding the position of the
negative, the Carolina team enter-
preted loyalty in terms of an emotion
al state of. .feeling. They contended
that the type of loyalty manifested
in "I die for dear old Rutgers" is bet
ter than no loyalty at all. They
maintained that athletic loyalty leads
on to a realization of what an insti
tution really stands for. The Caro
lina debaters were of the opinion that
loyalty is the very soul of the Ameri
can College.
Y.M.C.A. Installs
Its New Officers
The new officers , of the Y. M. C. A.
were installed at the cabinet meeting
Monday night. J. W. Williams is the
new president, John Lang, vice-presi
dent; Joe Eagles, secretary; and E. D
Hamer, treasurer.
Devotional exercises were led by
Wyeth Ray. Doug Potter, Clyde
Dunn, and J. W. Williams then made
talks on the importance of attending
the Blue Ridge Conference held this
year from June 14 to June 24.
Arrangements for placing the high
school boys debating here next week
were discussed. Grady Leonard,
secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was given
charge of this work.
The meeting was concluded by re
ports of the various activities of the
"Y" cabinets, and a short talk by the
new president
ooker's Proposed Plan
Of Government Favored
By Milton Greenbla tt
Gina Pinnera, soprano, gave a re
cital in Memorial Hall Monday night,
under the auspices of the Student En
tertainment Committee. , '
Miss Pinnera has a clear, fresh
voice, with both the upper and lower
register enforced. However, there is
little else to say of it other than the
above, for it is utterly lacking in
dramatic quality, and is colorless and
monotonous. Her, voice is a pleasant
one, but quite uninteresting. It J is
small without any quality or bril
liance to it.
Not much can be said for Miss
Pinnera's art. Her interpretations
are conventional, and without charac
ter. The shortcomings of her voice
were amply displayed in the two
Verdi arias, Pace, Pace, Mio Dio,
from "La Forza Del Destino", and
Ernani Involami from "Ernani".
These she sang with utter listless
ness and spirit. "
The program was mediocre. It
opened with a Gluck aria from Iphe
genie en Tauris during which the
singer showed slight sighs of nervous
ness which she soon overcame. She
then sang a group of lieder Who Is
Sylvia, Schubert; a short song by
Grieg, and two beautiful pieces by
Brahms. Miss Pinnera's diction is
generally quite clear, and it seemed
best in these' German songs. In the
third group were four American
songs. Then came the two Verdi
Arias, and as encore, The Cry of the
Valkyries from Die Walkure. Miss
Pinnera should never have attempted
Wagner, for she does so with disast
rous results. The magnificant Cry
of the Valkyries can not be sung by
any but a first-rate artist, and cer
tainly Miss Pinnera is far from being
one.
As a concert artist Miss Pinnera
is not particularly good, but she
might do capably in oratorio, as her
voice would probably recommend ' it
self to that type of music. But I fear
that she can never attain the ranks
of grand opera, for she has neither
the voice nor the art.
Let us hope that next year's pro
gram of the Entertainment Committee
will be better than this year's. They
have announced fine talent available,
and it will only be lack of judgement
and poor taste that will prevent them
from havinsr a good selection of
artists.
Anne Majette Grant
Will Give Reading
Mrs. Anne Majette Grant will read
John Drinkwater's Mary Stuart be
fore the Playmaker Sunday night
audience, April 14, beginning at
8:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Grant is a graduate of the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts,
and has been an extremely active
Playmaker during the time that she
has lived at Chapel Hill, during which
time she has read The Fountain of
Youth, a Spanish play by Cuyntero
as well as acted in several Playmaker
productions.'
In the play, Mr. Drinkwater pre
sents the long discussed Mary Stuart
in an unusual and sympathetic man
ner. In fact, he explains all of her
inperfections by saying, "Mary
Stuart was a queen of love, but she
had no subjects. She was love's ser
vant, but she found no lord" And
the amazing part of it. all is that he
makes you feel, too, that this is all
important even as it was to Mary
Stuart.
Mrs. McCorkle
Goes to Virginia
Mrs. T. Smith McCorkle,' wife of
Professor McCorkle, of the Univer
sity Music faculty left Tuesday after
noon for Williamsburg, Virginia, to
be the guest of the William and Mary
Girl's Glee Club and special piano ac
companist in the Virginia State Glee
Club Contest in Richmond today. The
William and Mary Club is directed
by Mrs. Catherine Hipp, who is head
of the Music department there.
The new Jones law increasing fines
and time to be served in durance vile
is playing hob with bootleggers. The
Joneses always are doing something
that changes life in the neighborhood
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Hampton Quartet
Sing Here Tonight
A splendid program was an
nounced here today for the con
cert which the famous Hampton
Institute Quartet -will give in
Memorial Hall here tonight.
There are to be 18 numbers in
all, and University lovers of folk
songs are highly pleased that it
is a program of all negro spirit
uals, with the rendition of which
the quartet has won such wide
renown. .
The Quartet has always drawn
a large audience here, and Thurs
day night's concert, to be given
under the auspices of the Uni
versity Y.M.C.A., is expected to
draw a capacity audience for ,
spacious old Memorial Hall.
NEW OFFICERS
ARE INSTALLED
Hudgins and Farris Urge Stu
dents Not to Change Their
Student Government.
Passed Di and Phi Assemblies
In Joint Session Fifteen to
Six; Speaker Graham of Hills
boro Presided over Meeting.
In their addresses at the installa
tion of the newly elected student
government officers Tuesday morn-
ing'at chapel, both D. E. Hudgins, re
tiring president of the student Jbody,
and Ray Farris, incoming president,
urged the students to continue the
present form of student government
at the University. -
In his farewell address, retiring
president Hudgins stated that the
present form of student government
is a flexible one -and should not be
done away with. "I urge you, if it
comes to a vote, to vote against any
changes in the present form of stu
dent government. The organization
now in use is a flexible one, and the
student council decides each case in-
pendently. ,There is no reason to
have a legislative body that will pass
laws which will bind the student
council and prevent its judging each
case on its own merits." .
"I sincerely hope that you will
fight any effort to radically change
our present form of student govern
ment," said Hudgins in concluding
his plea for the present flexible form
of government.
In his installation address presi
dent Farris thanked the student body
for the honor it had conferred on
him, and in speaking of the student
government at the University, . Farris
said, "Our student government is a
unique institution in the country.
Our student government has no con
stitution and is flexible, the judges
deciding every case on its own merits.
It is not facing a crisis; it is success
ful; and I shall endeavor to see that
it continues on the same high plane
that it has functioned before."
On motion by president Farris the
students gave a rising vote of thanks
to the retiring president Hudgins
and the officers that have worked
with him. Then continuing his ad
dress, Farris stated, "Student gov
ernment here is a heritage. In the
words of president Chase it is no more
the government of the student coun
cil than it is the government of the
faculty. Student government is a
factor of student interest and self
responsibility, and I feel that with
your cooperation student government
will have a successful year." 1
After his address President Farris
presented Bill Chandler, representa
tive of the rising senior class, Prince
Fussel, representative of the rising
junior class, and Craig Wall repre
sentative of the rising sophomore
class. Jimmy Williams, president of
the Y. M. C. A. explained the policy
that the "Y" will follow during the
next year. John Mebane stated the
policy that the Carolina Magazine
will follow as a supplement to the
Tar Heel, as an effort to make the
Magazine readable and at the same
time to maintain' the same high
standards that are now kept up.
Travis Brown, editor of the 1930
Yackety Yack, stated his intention
to give the students a better annual
than has ever been done before, and
Glenn Holder, Editor of the Tar Heel,
stated that the daily Tar Heel could
be made a success if the students have
the right attitude toward this publi
cation. Cy Edson, whose duty will
be to edit the Buccaneer, stated that
the policy of this publication will be
a bigger and better Buccaneer with
a bigger and better Buccaneer.
Tuesday night the Di Senate and the
Phi Assembly met in joint session in
the Phi Hall to discuss the plan of
fered by Dr. J. M. Booker for reorga
nizing student government at the
University of North Carolina, the Di
Senate being the guests of the Phi
Assembly.
After having introduced Alexand
er H. Graham, Speaker of the North
Carolina House of Representatives,
June Crumpler, speaker of the Phi
Assembly, turned the meeting over to
him. Speaker Graham presided over
the meeting, expressing his opinions
on the matter only for purposes of
clarification.
After heated discussions had en
sued both from the proponents and
the opponents of the plan, it was pas
sed by a vote of fifteen to six. The
small number of votes was due to the
fact that visitors were denied the
privilege of voting. -
The advocates of the plan presented
their contentions in terms of the claim
that the present council system of stu
dent government used at Carolina is
ineffective and in terms of the worn
out slogan, "taxation without repre
sentation." -
The opponents of the measure point
ed out that the system of student
government now in effect at Carolina
is very effective and called attention
to the contention that the system of
government provided for by the Book
er plan would be entirely too cumber
some to be efficient.
On the whole, it can be said that
the measure was favored by the Phi
Assembly and opposed by the Di
Senate. In consideration of ' this
state of affairs the next meeting of
the senate will be devoted to an open -forum
discussion of the matter, to
which the entire campus is cordially
invited.
METEOROLOGIST
TO LECTURE HERE
To Give Popular Talks on the
Weather; Will Be Illustrated
With Slides.
Dr. W. J. Humphreys, Meteorolo
eogual physicist of the United States
Weather Bureau, will give two lec
tures at the University this week
under the auspices of the Society of
Sigma Xi. As Dr. Humphreys says, .
"both will be illustrated with lantern
slides and each story told in the in
telligible English of the drawing
room, and not the cryptic jargon of
the laboratory but it will be none
which will be on The Air and its Ways
will be given Friday evening at 8:30.
In this he will. take up the origin of
the atmosphere, the discoveries of its
known constituents, the relative
amounts of these elements and the
roles they play; the physical state of
the air at all levels and how and why
the wind blows and storms are form
ed. The second lecture which will be
given on Saturday evening at 8:30
will be on Fogs and Clouds in which he
will discuss the formation and classi
fication of fogs and clouds, and cer- -tain
of their associated phenomena
lightning, corona and the rainbow.
Our already great interest in
weather forecast has been greatly in
creased by the recent advances in
aviation so that these lectures will
be of interest o all.
Both lectures will be held in Phil
lips hall and the public is cordially in
vited to attend.
Dr. Humphreys is a world wide au
thority on present weather conditions s
and a very interesting speaker. He
has held prominent positions in vari
ous Universities, has been a director
of research in weather observatories;
is an associate editor of the Journal
of the Franklin Institute, a member
of a large number of scientific socie- -ties
and the author of several books.
A Correction
By mistake it was stated in Tues
day's Tar Heel that 4 false fire
alarms had been turned in during the
past week, when, in reality, only 4
have been turned in for the whole
school year.
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