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VOLUME XXXVIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1930
NUMBER 179
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PAPERS COSTING
STUDENTS ONLY
TffiKD-CENTPAGE
For $5 Each Person Receives
Twenty Pounds Of Printed
Matter.
For the $5 that a student pays
for publications at this Univer
sity he receives a daily news
paper, tne uauy Tar Heel; a!
literary magazine, the Carolina
Magazine; a comic, the Bucca
neer; and a yearbook, the Yack
ety Yack.
Counting- the- pages of print
ed matter that each student re
ceives, the various publications
cost only 1-3 of a cent per page.
One hundred and eighty-four
numbers of the Daily Tar Heel
are issued a year with a total
number of736 pages. Fifteen
issues of the Carolina Magazine
are put out a year with a total
of 120 pages. The Buccaneer
has 256 pages, put into eight is
sues and the Yackety Yack has
392 pages. Thus a total of 1504
pages are given to the student
for $5, which amounts to only
1-3 of a cent a page!
Turning now to how many
pounds of paper $5 buys. There
are 24 ounces of Buccaneer ; HV2
pounds of Tar Heel, 24 ounces
of Magazine, and about five and
a half pounds of Yackety Yack.
A total weight of 20 pounds at
two bits a pound!
DOBE OF TEXAS
TO TEAGH HERE
Author Of Stories of Southwest
To Lecture During Summer
School.
Tar Heel Meeting
The final meeting of the
year of the Tar Heel staff
will take place in the base
ment of Alumni building to
night. City editors and mem
bers of the editorial board
will convene at seven o'clock,
and the regular reportorial
meeting will follow promptly
at 7:15. Work of the past
year will be reviewed briefly,
and some plans for the com
ing year will be discussed. ...It
is particularly important that
all members of the staff be
present.
Managing Editor.
SAVILLE WILL BE
TAYLORSPEARER
Tuesday's Lecture On 'Tower
Plant Management" Is Last
Of Year.
Sheriff Overman
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J. Frank Dobie of the Univer
sity of Texas will give two
courses here during the second
session of summer school. Ac
cording to a member of the
English department here, Mr.
Dobie is a very interesting char
acter, having started life as a
cowboy on a cattle ranch in
southwestern Texas.
The American Mercury and
several of the Curtis publica
tions have carried stories by
Dobie on the Southwest. In ad
dition to contributing to maga
zines, Dobie has written a num
ber of books on this country,
where he spent his childhood,
and has become quite well known
as a writer and story teller of
the Southwest. At present he
is secretary of the Texas Folk
lore Society. '
One of Mr. Dobie's most in
teresting books, A Vaquero of
the Brush Country, is in the
University library. The volume
is bound in imitation rattlesnake
skin, and its contents as well as
its cover give one a good idea
of this unusual personality who
is to be a member of the sum
mer school faculty. As a lec
turer, the" University, of Texas
professor has entertained many
large audiences in his own state
and others.
One of the courses which
Dobie will give is English lit
eraturea survey of English
literature of the romantic period
with especial attention to the
srreater poets. The other course
is the literature of the south
taking up the development of
Ti in the South ana
Southwest. "' . ' ," .
President Hoover is expected
to snend a month this summer in
the West, mostly fishing in the
Glacier and Yellowstone parKS
Thorndike Saville, professor
of hydraulic and sanitary engi
neering and chief engineer of the
state department of conservation
and development, will speak on
"Power Plant Maagement as a
Problem of Industrial Manage
ment" at the meeting of the local
student branch of the Taylor
Society Tuesday evening at 7
o'clock in Bingham hall.
In his talk Professor Saville
will point out and7 briefly discuss
some of the considerations en
tering into a decision on the
power source of any industry.
There are two ways in which
power can be furnished an in
dustry : it can be purchased out
right from a public utility or it
can be produced at the plant.
Because of the great increases
in motorization during recent
years, electrical power is be
coming the greatest in the field,
and only this phase of power
will be considered in the discus
sion which Mr. Saville will pre
The decision on which source
of power to use to obtain it in
the most economical method is
extremely complicated, requiring
a detailed analysis of many fac
tors on the part of the industrial
engineer and the best available
experts.
Professor Saville will present
a brief impartial discussion of
the merits of both types of super
supply, purchase, from a public
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Senior Week
All seniors are asked by
the president of their class
to take notice of the fact that
this week, Monday, May 26,
through Friday, May 30, is
the official Senior Week.
Executives of the senior
class request that all seniors
do the following: -
1. Wear the senior regalia.
2. Attend talks by various
members of the faculty each
evening at 7:15 under Davie
Poplar. In case of rain talks
will be made in Gerrard hall.
3. Attend the free show,
starring Dolores1 del Rio, for
seniors only at the Carolina
Theater, 11 p. m., Thursday,
May 29.
4. Cooperate to make Sen
ior Week a success.
Sheriff Jack Liverman (above) is one of Eastern North
Carolina's best known snake-bite doctors.
SNAKE BITE DOCTORING PiEMAINS
LUCRATIVE BUSINESS IN CAROLINA
Eastern Carolina StillSwears By" "Old Doc" Liverman Who
Has Received Calls, For Aid For More
J; Thjm-.Fifty;
utility and production at the
place of consumption.
Professor Saville as chief en
gineer of the, department of con
servation and development has
had supervision of about 20
power plant investigations that
have been conducted by the de
partment in the past ten years.
He has also been retained as
consulting engineer on power
plants by various' public utility7
companies.
The meeting Tuesday evening
will be the last one which the
Taylor society will hold this
year. During the past two quar
ters the society has held regular
meetings at :. which various
phases of scientific management
have been presented by outside
speakers and faculty members
Circle To Serve
The Laura Mangum Circle
of the Methodist Church will
hold a Brunswick Stew supper
MayJ 29. This meal will be
served in, the dining-room t of
the church from Gr to 7:30
o'clock. Reservations are to
be made through Mrs. R. B.
House.
(By Dick McGlohon)
Swamps miles of black la
goonstall cypress trees bog
gy lowlands where copper head
ed moccasins crawl lazily about
among slim reeds and bask upon
cypress "knees."
Like another garden o long
ago, the Eden that stretches a
long the Carolina coast has its
serpents. But fortunately for
many people in eastern ' North
Carolina and Virginia, the old
fashioned snake-bite doctor, still
works his ancient 7magic with
herbs from the" nearby swamps.
This is the time of the year
when Sheriff Jack Liverman be
gins making his annual pilgrim
age to the lowlands jn search of
a secret snake weed which he
uses in his summer's practice.
It was exactly 50 years ago
that Sheriff Jack took up snake
bite doctoring. During the half
century that has intervened, he
has won the gratitude and re
spect of hundreds of people in
this section by his successful
ministration to the suffering and
afflicted.
"I have had more snake cases
than. I can ever count," says
Sheriff Jack. "I have traveled
all over this country to look
after my patients. I even went
a hundred miles to doctor one
man. I tell you, there was plenty
of snakes that bit folks in them
days.
"But somehow there ain't as
many snakes now as there used
to be. When I was a young man,
snakes was plentiful. Why,
they was all a-lying out along
the river, banks in the sun and
crawling under people's houses.
Knows His Snakes
"We've got more snakes in
this town now than we want and
then some. But, daggit, they
just ain't as thick as they used
to be. These new concrete high
ways and automobiles have
brought lots of people into this
section and the snakes have hit
ANNUAL CAPERS
LAST EVENT ON
PLAYMAIiER LIST
Thirty Receive Awards For Dra
matic Endeavor In Midst Of
Night Of Hilarity. '
Fun, friendship and frolic
marked the annual Carolina
Playmaker Caper held last night
at the Playmaker theatre. The
large crowd in attendance was
treated to a rollicking good time
with the clever antics of the
Playmaker performers. The
audience was composed mainly
of students, faculty and towns
people who have either this year
or sometime in the past had some
connection with the local dra
matic group. v
The Caper program contained
almost every device known to the
theatre, ranging from drama,
melodrama, and comedy to the
singing of ballads, tap dancing,
and poem reading. Both the
actors and audience lent them
selves to the spirit of the occa
sion, creating an air of levity
and gayety.
During the course of the eve-
During the last college year nin 35 Playmaker gold masks
the Phi Assembly, led by Speak- w,re awarded to various mem-
ers Lang and Carr and Presi- bers ot tne rouP for outstand-
dent Pro -tern Albright, has mg work during the year in,
passed many important bills. playwritmg, acting and stage-
Th'fi Phi nrnmafpH Cratt' ln0Se receiving the
friendship and understanding awards 'were: for acting-Pen-
xt li eiope Aiexanaer, rvicnmona
PROGRAM OF PHI
UNUSUAL SUCCESS
Lang, Carr, And Albright Have
Led Assembly In Record
Year.
IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED
for the swamps where there is
not so many people and noises.
Civilization has sure run the
snakes away from here.
"And these snakes that still
hang; around are naturally bad
and dangerous. I tell you these
are had snakes we have to deal
with nowadays and they don,'t
fail to "peck the kids when they
gets the chance. No, Sir, not
when careless boys are turned
loose with careless snakes, and
this town's got both. But even
at that, there was twice as many
people bit by snakes thirty years
Has Mid-Night Calls
The snake-bite business was so
good in the old days that Mr.
Liverman had a full practice the
summer, long and gathered herbs
for his medicine during' the
springtime in order to be pre
pared for emergency cases and
urgent calls. Frequently he . was
called out at the most unexpect
ed hours ,sometimes at night,
sometimes in the early morning.
"I have got my medicine sat
chel out at mid-night on several
occasions and hustled off to doc
tor some person that was bit byJ
a highland moccasin or a flat
head adder. I was called away
at mid-night not so long ago to
doctor a colored gal that was bit
on the heelby a highland moc
casin when she walked out in the
yard in the dark. Lucky they
called me when they did; I had
her walking again in four days."
This case was comparatively
easy to some that he describes.
Many years ago a girl, who was
bitten by a rattle-snake pilot,
was turned over to him for
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treatment. The village doctor
had pronounced her well and
sent her back to school. But
Sheriff - Jack tells his own end
ing of the story. "You know,
that gal's . foot swelled up again
and I had a terrible time with it.
But I had her walking again in
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Carolina. The Phi sponsored a
measure to have the representa
tives from the two Duke soci
eties discuss in a joint session
better relationships between
Duke and Carolina. This meet-,
ing was quite successful and re
sulted in a better understanding
Bond, Holmes Bryson, Lois
Buell, George F. Cole, Eveland
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SENIOR WEEK TO
BEGIN ON MONDAY
between these two neighboring Regalia, Addresses Under Davie
Poplar, and Free Movie Will
Feature Events Of Graduat
ing Class.
colleges'.
This start resulted in a state
wide organization of colleges.
, u o 1 T jTa.1. Although commencement does
-D,. , . 'j 4. -c 4.1. not begin until the class day ex-
state iederation. " .i-n t .. .
wm uegin us iareweii activities
Under bpeaker Carr tne As- tomorrow, the first dav of Sen-
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semoiy nas conLinuea its wofk ior Week Ag has been th
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anu iiiaimesLtJU great intertjsnii in ppmcr vPOrC tlio .qtv,w,o
an Dins suomittea ior approval. wm again be-dotted here and
une oi tne Dins passea oy tne there with diOTlified seniors
Phi recommended Josiah W. proudly wearing the regalia, this
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uaiiey ior tne senate, ims qui year a white sleeveless sweater
was paaseu uy an unusual m- 0n. . which the Carolina colors
jority. ' hare ninnpd .
the Phi also entered the Pro- Senior Week will last officially
hibition discussion but, failing five; "days, Monday through Fri
to pass a bill in favor? of it, day, May 26-30. According to
voted down the bill presented by custom, those who are expecting
a large maj ority. Its next am- to receive in the near future
portant step amazed many con- their hard-worked-for sheep
servatives when a measure was skins will rule with dignified
passed admitting co-eds to mem- sway over the campus iff gen-
bership. It failed to pass a 1 eral.
measure suomitteo oy nepresen- The opening event?" of the
tative Nazareno of the Philip- week will be an address by Presi-
pmes asking tor independence dent Chase under Davie Poplar
of the Philippines. This was the at 7:15 Monday evening. Only
last measure to oe considered, spninraarp psVpri affn aw,
The next meeting was devoted talk and those on the following
to the selection of new officers, evenings, arid for them5 seating
Speaker Carr presided at , the J arrangements will Je provided.
election. The Assembly selected On Tuesday eveninsr at 7:15
Mayne Albright for its next under Davie Poplar the second
speaker. Speaker Albright upon of the addresses to the seniors
taking office expressed conn- will be given by Dr. R. D. W.
dence m the officers chosen with Connor. Speakers for each of
him and predicted a great year the three following evenings
for the Phf.
Magazine Deadline
The deadline f orthe last, is
sue of the Carolina Magazine,
which will appear May 31, is
12 o'clock tonight. All, copy
must be, in, the hands of the
editor . by that time.
Magazine Editor.
will be announced later through
the Daily Tar Heel. In case of
rain the evening meetings will
be held in Gerrard hall.
Through the courtesy of the
management of the Carolina
theatre all members of the class
of, '30 will be entertained at a
theatre party to be given at 11
p. mi Thursday. The title of the
of the picture is "The Bad One,"
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