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FROSH vs. WAKE FOREST 7:00 TONIGHT TIN CAN VARSITY vs. WAKE FOREST 8:30 TONIGHT TIN CAN VOLUME XXXVIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1930 NUMBER 109 (0 v n 'Wrfo K .11' O RUSSIA SUBJECT TALK BY STRONG University Professor Will Speak To Taylor Society In Ger rard Hall Tonight. Professor E. D. Strong of the economics department will speak on "Long-range Economic Plan ning in Russia" at the meeting of the University branch of The Taylor Society at 7 o'clock this evening in Gerrard hall. In his talk Mr. Strong will discuss the Russian "Gosplan" under which the entire economic activity of Russia for a period of five years is under the con trol of a central commission. This plan, which was installed in the fall of 1928, has been in operation for more than a year, and the speaker will present the results of the first year's activi ties. Because of a visit to Russia in 1928, during which he visited the offices of the central com mission and discussed with some of its officers the work that was being done, Professor Strong is in a position to treat this subject adequately. The central commission which is charged with administrating the plan has complete control of all the economic institutions of Russia: It plans production, distribution and consumption of practically every article con sumed in Russia. Because of this centralized control, almost 50 percent of the total produc tion of Russia for the first year of the plan was turned into capital goods, stated Professor Strong. The speaker oi tne evening will present a summary of the results of the commission's first year of work and will contrast Russia with a country such as the United States in which there is practically no economic plan ning. This experiment with complete control of economic institutions in the hands of a central body is the outgrowth of a similar previous period of three years. This second period has been in stalled with more complete powers so that now. practically every phase of economic activ ity is under the supervision of one authority. The Russian, authorities re gard this second period of the "Gosplan", not as an experiment but as an application of proved system. The world as a whole, however, has looked upon the whole matter as a gigantic ex periment in which the theory of economic control is being given a supreme test, and naturally there has been considerable speculation over the results. In his discussion of the "Gos plan" Professor Strong will pre sent an outline of the plan and will attempt to show the results of the plan. The talk by, Mr. Strong is the fourth of a series of lectures to be given before The Taylor Society by faculty speakers. Others who will speak this quar ter are Professor Taylor and Dean D. D. Carroll. Community Club The literature department of the community club will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Methodist church social rooms. Mrs. Raymond Adams, , Miss Nora Beust, and Mrs. Urban T. Holmes will give a program of story telling. Duke And Carolina Student Leaders Stage Love Feast9 Representatives of the Duke and Carolina student bodies met at an informal dinner at the Carolina Inn last night. Tentative plans were made for joint class smokers and dances and for interchange of speak ers for freshman orientation week next fall, while prob lems relating to mutual use of library facilities, reciprocity of admission at athletic events and the functioning of student government were discussed at length. Ray Farris, president of the Carolina student . body, was master of ceremonies, al though the meeting was more of a general "bull-session" than a ceremonious occasion. The Duke representatives were Joe Savage, president of stu dent government ; Lee Davis, captain-elect of the Faculty Votes For Higher Scholarship At a meeting of the faculty on February 14, the following ruling was passed, "To be eligi ble for graduation a student must secure the grade of "C" or higher on at least half of his courses." As an interpretation of the ruling it was further stated that: ; (1) The rule will go into ef fect in September 1930 to apply to all undergraduate students for work passed subsequent to that date." (2) A student who completes thirty-six required courses but with grades which do not en title him to his degree will be allowed to take additional junior-senior courses until such time as he meets the require ment of the rule. (3) Transfer with advanced standing will come under this rule only for those courses pur sued at this institution. A large percentage of the uni versities of the country have this ruling in order to insure "a higher grade of scholarship among the students. Some of them require the average to be as high as 85. The ruling here requires an average of approxi mately 77. PHI ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS LOCAL Y The Philanthropic Assembly will meet tonight at 7:15 o'clock in New West building. The resolution "Resolved: That the University Y. M. C. A. is not performing its necessary func tions on the campus" will be discussed. . Speaker Lang an nounces that a number of busi ness matters will be brought be fore the assembly, and that the subject of the existing Carolina- Duke relations as a topic for the joint session will be discussed. No Chapel Today Mr. Bradshaw's office notified the Tar Heel late yesterday af ternoon that there would be no chapel this morning. Students are otherwise requested to ful fill their regular chapel obliga tions as usual unless otherwise notified in the Tar Heel. Esperanto Club To Meet There will be a meeting of the Esperanto club tomorrow afternoon at 5 p. m., in 109 Saunders hall. A full meeting is necessary as the new maga zmes have arrived and are ready for distribution. football team ; Jake Lippard, editor of the Duke Chronicle; Tom Stearns, president of the senior class ; John Shaw, man aging editor of the Chronicle; Bill Murray, student council man and member of the foot ball team, and Edgar Hocutt, assistant editor of the Chron icle. Carolina representatives in addition to Farris were Ralph Greene, president of tne sen ior class ; Strudwick Nash, captain-elect of the football team; John Mebane, editor of the Carolina Magazine; ' Pat Patterson, member of the stu dent council, and Glenn Holder, editor of the Tar Heel. A similar dinner was planned for the spring at Duke, and it was decided to hold similar "get-togethers" semi-annually in the future. , MANGUM MEDAL TO BE AWARDED AGAIN The present donors of the Mangum medal, unawarded last year, in a letter to R. B. House have urged that the contest be held this year at commencement. The debate council, having tak en the matter in hand, urges that all seniors who are inter ested in the contest see either Dr. George McKie at 210 Mur phey hall, or J. C. Williams at 105 "I" dormitory in the near future. . Rules of eligibility governing the contest state that the par ticipants shall be seniors in either the college of liberal arts, the school of education, the school of applied science, or the school of commerce. Sometime during the first week in May, or thereabouts, the preliminary will be held. Four of the con testants will be known as the commencement orators of the senior class. The Mangum med al will be awarded to the best speaker of the four orators. ENGINEERING SOCIETIES HOLD MEETINGS TONIGHT Two of the four student branches of the national engi neering societies represented on the campus will hold meetings Thursday evening, when the William Cain student chapter of the A. S. C. JE.and the Univer sity of North Carolina student branch of the A. S. M. E. will hold regular meetings. The program of the William Cain society will consist of talks by several junior members who will describe the cooperative work on which they are now working. These short talks on the different kinds of coopera tive work are being presented to acquaint-the sophomores with the characteristics oi each so that later in the spring the stu dents can choose the type of work they wish to do next year At the meeting of the Univer sity branch of the mechanical society, E. L. Lowery, senior, will present an illustrated talk on Deisel engines and Frederick Knoop, sophomore, will speak on the life of a prominent en gineer. The University branch of the A. I. E. E., organization of elec trical engineering students, wil meet Thursday, February 27. Buccaneer Meeting mere win be a meeting oi the art and editorial staffs o the Buccaneer tonight at 7 : 15 Cy Edson, Editor MEMORIAL BEAMS TORN TOJJROUND Largest Non-Supported Wooden Beams In World Brought To Ground By Steel Cables And Steam Engine. (By Nathan Volkman) Several hundred students and faculty members gathered round the ruins of Memorial hall yesterday afternoon to wit ness the most striking feature of the demolishing process thus far, the tearing down of the huge arched rafters which sup ported the roof of the ancient building. The brilliant rays of the sun lent glamour to the scene, lighting up the ruins aS a spotlight for the onlookers. , The work, of tearing down the arched rafters was begun early in the afternoon under the direc tion of W. E. Page, foreman of the wrecking crew. ; Human la bor was little needed except for preparing and putting in place the huge steel cables. Several Wirs of the strongest cables available were used in the work. These were tied to two rafters each time, and the strength of the double-action steam engine Used manifested itself gradually as the beams creaked and finally crashed to the ground. Only one mishap occurred : during the whole of the afternoon's labor- in the splitting of one of the cables. It was only the work of a few minutes, however, until the cable was repaired. Comments and suggestions as to the easiest, way possible to destroy the rafters were offered freely by onlookers. Dynamite, two-inch firecrackers, and even cannon were among the suggest ed remedies. Those in charge, however, were seemingly - un ruffled by these suggestions, as they toiled on pursuing their own plans. The work of destroying the beams was not finished late yes terday afternoon. Dr. English Bagby is to ad dress the National Association of Deans of Women at Atlantic City on February 20. Disciplinary Influence Of College Noted By Reporter (By Clyde Deitz) A most unusual, though none j the less genuine, example of the refining and disciplinary influ ences of college has been ob served by a comparison of the actions of sophomores and freshmen under the same cir cumstances. The occasion for the interest ing observations arose from the fact that no one was present to conduct a program in the last three sessions of chapel. The reactions noted are best ex plained by the following narra tion of events as they occurred : Thursday morning between 10 :23 and 10 :30 those of the freshman class whose names be gin with the letters A through L assembled as usual in Gerrard hall. At 10:30 mildly inquisi tive eyes swept the front of the hall for the familiar face of Dean Bradshaw, R. B. House or some other notable. Puzzled, perhaps disappointed, by the absence of any such person, each adolescent turned inquir ingly to his neighbor. With the last peal of the bell over South building, the group rose with one accord, as it were, and surged toward the doors. TT 11 99 "W To Play For Scramble Fellows All students who wish to submit photographs for the Vanity Fair section of the Yackety Yack must have the pictures in the office of the Yackety Yack in the base ment of Alumni bunding by February 24th. The offices will be open every afternoon from 2 to 4. The pictures may also be submitted to Bill Petty at the Sigma Chi house. HOLMES HOUSE AND COMER ADDRESS Y CABINET MEETINGS U. T. Holmes, R. B. House and H. F. Comer were the three speakers for the Y cabinets last night at their usual weekly meet ing. Mr. Holmes spoke to the sophomores; Mr. House talked to the freshmen, while Mr. Comer led a discussion in the junior-senior cabinet, "Comparative Religion" was the subject of Mr. Holmes' talk to the sophomore cabinet. He defined religion as "a feeling of humility before a great truth." Taking up the earlier religions the speaker talked of the three stages developed by religion. Speaking of Buddhism, he stated that there existed in the western part of the United States an organization, similar to the Y. M. C. A., which is called the Y. M. B. A. This or ganization is trying to convert men to Buddhism; it has its regular magazine and is trying to make many of the people con verts to this Chinese, religion. Preceding Mr. Holmes' talk, J. E. Dungan, president of the club, spoke briefly upon an Open Forum letter written by Ellis Fysal which appears in this morning's paper. Upon motion the cabinet endorsed Fysal's plan of aiding welfare work in the county. (Continued, on last page) On Friday morning, with the Other half of the freshman class present, there was an almost ex act repetition of the occurrence of the preceding morning, the final intonation of the bell again serving as a signal for imme diate departure. Quite a different story, how ever, must be told of Monday morning. Ten-thirty found the sophomores quietly seated in their places ; but, strangest of all, they were wont to remain so. The clerk had checked half the numerous absences before the slightest movement or turn ing was begun. Finally one bold individual (whether his action is evidence of leadership or linger ing freshman-like traits, the writer does not take it upon himself to say) arose in; the center of the hall and, hesitating to depart, donned his coat. One by one, the more daring stole toward the door. At last all, grinning more or less guilt- 1 1 1 3 A . 3 xi ; liy, naa Slippea out anu on meir way. Now the meager conclusions deducted from these facts are readilv apparent. To the reader must be left the quite possibly unlimited amplification of them. ir - - Mid-Winters German Club Officials Announce Orchestra For Annual Dances. TO BE IN BYNUM GYM Two Dances Friday And Three Saturday Will Feature Week End Affair; Cards Being Issued By Treasurer. (By "Chink" Davis) Members of the dancing con tingent in Chapel Hill are now looking forward to the mid winter set of dances to be held during the coming week-end.. The first dance will be held Fri day afternoon with four dances following, the final ball being held Saturday night. All dances will be held in the Bynum gym nasium. "Jelly" Lef twich and His Uni versity Club orchestra have been engaged to furnish the cords and discords necessary for the men to "swing their partners" in various and sundry fashions. Leftwich has gained quite a rep utation in his forming of dance orchestras. His University Club orchestra has been playing for numerous colleges and prepara tory schools. He has recently signed a contract to play at Wrightsville Beach during the coming summer Leaders for these dances were elected at a regular meeting of the German Club last fall. Steve Millender was elected to lead the set, while Art Sickles and, Bar ron Grier were chosen to assist him. - There will be a total of five dances. A tea dance Friday afternoon will begin the set. A dance will be held Friday night from 9:30 until 1, and three dances Saturday. The morning dance Saturday will be from 11 until 1, the afternoon dance from 4 until 6, and the night dance from 9 until 12. Decorations for the gymna sium are now being worked out by Barron Holmes and Frazier Glenn. These two boys have decorated for dances for three years, and an attractive set of decorations is expected. A new ruling has been passed by the executive committee 1 of the German Club tothe effect that. those attending dances will not be admitted after a certain time. According to this com mittee, the rule will be strictly enforced and couples arriving after the designated time will not be allowed to attend the dance. Cards for admittance to the dances can now be secured from Will Yarborough upon payment of the quarterly assessment of $5. He can be found at the S. A. E. house in the afternoons from 1 until 3 and at night from 7 until 9. HOEFER WILL ADDRESS FRESHMAN ENGINEERS E. G. Hoefer, head of the de partment 5 of mechanical engi neering, will speak to all fresh men engineering students Wed nesday at 12 o'clock. The talk by Mr. Hoefer will be a contin uation of a talk begun last Wed nesday when he presented to the freshmen an outline of the different fields included in me chanical engineering. This talk is one of a series of orientation and motivation lec tures being presented to the freshman engineers by the heads of the departments in the school of engineering!
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