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I -4 " , -STAFF IIEETING J Sunday, January 4, 1931 a .Editors, 7 :C0 ; Reporters, 7 :15. :VTY I : STAFF-IIEETING " .:; . .. ; ... - j Sunday, , January 4, 1931 :- j Editors,.7:00;: Reporters, 7:15. f .- i ! i Ml; M sit lis. 1 1 VOLUME XXXIX TY.tT-. i FIVE UNIVERSITY MEN TO ATHM) NSF A Carolina Delegation to Carry Endowment Money to At lanta Congress. The congress of the National Student Federation of America is scheduled to assemble in At-! lanta during the Christmas holi days from December 29 through January 2. To this conference will come the student officials and leaders from all over the country. The program for the meeting at present, calls for speeches and debates at this meeting by Owen D. Young, ex governor ' Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Senator Joseph Grun dy of Pennsylvania, Bobbie Jones, Coach T. T. Alexander of Georgia Tech, and. Governor Hardman of Georgia. Definite steps will be taken at this meeting to inaugurate an extensive program for the work of the N. S. F. A. during the coming years. Action will be taken at this time to place N. S. F. A. in as prominent a position as that held by similar federations, such as the. Ameri can Federation of Labor. In the sessions of this nation al congress the North Carolina Student Federation is planning Jo.occupy.a..prominenLjposiiion. The North Carolina representa tion at this congress will consist of J. A. Lang, president of the federation ; W. D. Murray, of Duke; Mary Jane Wharton, N. C. C. W.; Elizabeth Kapp, G.C. ; Irene Thomas, Meredith; Dan Paul, State ; R. C. Greene, Mayne Albright, Pat Patterson, and John Idol, all from Carolina. At the executive meeting of the state federation here - last Saturday night, the North Caro lina delegates to Atlanta drew up prujecLS wmcn uiey mteuu to present to the national meet-, ing this year. There are seven of these main projects which the North Carolina delegates hope to inaugurate into the program of the N. S. F. A. They are: 1. The encouragement of greater interest in national and international politics and public affairs. 2. The establishment of a na tional student publication which is to act as the literary, organ for student opinion. 3. The establishment of stu dent scholarships and loan funds for the purpose of encouraging worthy students to pursue their studies through college. 4. The encouragement of aca demic and athletic perfection among the students of this coun- try by offering awards, conduct ing surveys, and arranging schedules. t 5. The strengthening - of. the machinery of the N. S. F. A. by -consolidating all student federa tions into the N. S. F. A., and by permitting membership in this organization to colleges and schools having any; form of stu dent government. 6. A reorganization of the personel of the N. S. F. A. by placing its major officials on a two-year term and placing them n a decent salary basis. 7. The establishment of an endowment for the work of the S. F. A. In order to place this work on extensive and ac ff, (Continued on last page) .9 Body i UNIVERSITY RADIO TALK POSTPONED There will be no rarim next Wednesday as pro- was announced recently. J. C. Wil liams, scheduled to delivery the next of a series of talks over WPTF in Raleigh, will conduct the first program of the coming winter quarter on the subject of debating. . Williams, a member of the Di Senate, won the Mary D. Wright medal last year and is to uphold the affirmative in the University debate with Cam bridge. The last program of the quar ter was given by Will Yar borough and Jack Dungan, edi tor and managing editor re spectively of The Daily Tar Heel who spoke on "Campus Publica tions." This was the fourth pro gram of the year. DEBATERS SHOW GREATACTIVITY Ten Important Encounters Al ready Scheduled for Balance Of Year. ; The varsity debate squad de cided, in its final meeting in Murphey hall Thursday . night, upon a policy of having ten home debates during the remainder of the collegiate year. This num ber is many times larger than tjiejiumber that has been at tempted in the past. The squad also discussed a plan of doing away with com petitive tryout for places on teams to compete in intercol legiate contests. The idea of having meetings of discussion groups of men who are interest ed in' any particular question before the selection of the team, and then having the debaters chosen from these groups was considered, and will probably be ! tried. . Arrangements are underway for meets with Northwestern, Texas, Boston, ' Pennsylvania, New, York, Georgia Tech, and Tennessee Universities, and challenges have been " received from many schools : in this and neighboring states. ' The -University- of Porto Rico, and the University of Florida have also challenged the - varsity. Porto Rico will meet Carolina here in the spring quarter and a team from here will probably be sent there next year. An exchange debate with N. C. C. W. on a question of state interest is also being arranged. Overman Was Trustee Lee S. Overman, junior sen ator of North Carolina, who died in Washington, D. C, early yesterday morning, after brief illness, . served at one , time as trustee of the Univer sity and . ajso of Trinity Col lege, his alma mater, as well as receiving the doctor of laws degree from the University . Davidson, and Trinity. Senator Overman was a well-known figure in -North Carolina political life, being United States senator for twenty-seven years and serv ing in the state legislature for five terms. An after-dinner trick: your friends cannot make sugar burn by lighting it with a match, you can by first touching your ciga rette, ash to it. CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930 GRMIMTALKSAT CLASS iilEETM Carolina - Duke Relations and Working1 of the' Honor Sys tem Discussed. .Special meetings of the three upper classes" took the ; place of regular chapel programs Wed nesday,: Thursday, ! and Friday mornings.. President-elect Frank P. KGraham , and the presidents of the senior, junior, and sopho more classes addressed the groups. ' The senior class met under the direction of its : president Pat Patterson who made a short talk preceding the address of the Uniyersity's president. Theron Brown,: president of the junior class introduced President-elect Graham to the group Thursday morning, while Stud Henry made several remarks in troducing President Graham when the second year men con vened. At each: qf the meetings, President-elect Graham congratu lated the classes on the way they had conducted themselves at the Duke game and pointed out the necessity of continuing friendly relations with the near-by uni versity. The speaker next launched in to the subject of the honor sys tem, calling upon the members of the classes to support the tra ditional "self-government ' of the University in this particular. He drew a number of instances from personal experience. . These special chapel programs were arranged under the direc tion of Red Greene, president of the student union, and the dif ferent class executive commit- DEBATERS FROM CAMBRIDGE AND CARMAMET Emergence of Women from the Home To Be Discussed in Gerrard Hall. The first debate between Cam bridge University and the Uni versity of North Carolina takes place tonight at eight-thirty in Gerrard hall. The time has been changed to this earlier hour in stead of nine-fifteen as given on the posters. V " x Albert Edward Holdsworth and Geoffrey Crowther, the Cam-j bridge representatives, are to arrive in Chapel Hill this after noon, coming from Winthrop College, S. C. The debate with Carolina tonight makes' their fifth in six days. The men de bated Emory University at At lanta, Georgia, December 8; Kansas College at Decatur, Geor gia, December 9 ; the University of Georgia at Athens, .Georgia, December 11 ; and Winthrop College, S. C, December 12. Four queries are being debated by the Cambridge team on this tour. On three of them the two debaters upheld the , same side, but in the debate with Carolina tonight they split, each man hav ing as his colleague a Carolina representative. The subject for the debate is, Resolved : That the emergence of women from the home is a regrettable 'feature of modern life. Crowther of. Cam bridge and J. C. Williams of the University debate on the af (Continued on last page) ALU IM OFFICER BmOEIAILED Harvey and - Haines Are Made Candidates for Association Presidency. C. Felix Harvey, class of 1892, of Kinston, North Caro lina, and Robert M. Hanes,. class of - 1912, - of , Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have been nom inated for president of the Gen eral Alumni Association of the University for next year. Ballots have been mailed to Carolina, alumni who have paid their dues, and are to be re turned not later than December 29, so that the new officers may be announced soon after the new year begins. Nominees for first vice-presi dent are Kemp. P. Lewis, 1900, of Durham, and Junius G. Adams, 1906, of Asheyille, North . Caro lina ; for second vice-president, W. D. Carmichael, Jr., 1921, of New York, and T. C. Taylor, 1921, ol Raleigh; and for repre sentative on the "athletic council, Claude W. Rankin, 1907, of Fay etteville," "and Frank S. Spruill, Jr.,. 1920, of Rocky Mount. . The nominations were made by a committee composed ' of Judge J. Crawford Biggs, 1893, of Raleigh, " who acted, as chair man ;T. Holfc Haywood, T907, of Winston-Salem ; and Herman G. Baity, 1917, of Chapel Hill. ' The Alumni Assembly has also announced the reelection of John W. Umstead, Jr., 1909, of Chapel Hill, and the election of Charles W. Tillette, Jr., 1909, of Charlotte, and A. Li Purrington, 1921, of Raleigh, as directors-at-large to the Alumni Association Board of Directors for three year terms. DEMOCRATS NEED STRONG SENATOR AVERS KENDRICK N. C. C. W. Professor Speaks on Future of State Democrats Before Polity Forum. Professor B. B. Kendrick, of the North Carolina College for Women addressed the students of the University last night in Gerrard -hall. His address was sponsored by the Polity Forum which made his visit to the Uni versity possible. Professor Kendrick spoke on the future of the Democratic party, putting special emphasis on the possibility which Gov ernor Gardner has in aiding the party by the appointment of a man in the late Senator Over man's place who is capable of handling the problems facing the party at present. Professor Kendrick began his address with a resume, of the Republican ad ministration in 1920 and point ed out the mistakes it made. He devoted particular attention to showing the political causes and possible remedies of the present economic depression The Re publican administration ... under Harding made the mistake, the speaker said, of reducing taxes considerably and allowing the war debt to continue unpaid. This resulted in lack of prepara tion for the depression which was inevitable for the govern ment was faced with a decreased income and a large war debt. Thus the government was unable (Continued on last page) Tn) 0 t?7 TTi j? iiUliii . J&E31g . -T " - 2M iscovery Gomes- After A Nation Morgan P. Moorer MADE AT SYCHOLMEET Reactions to Caffein and High School Tests Subjects of Re- search Described. At the regular monthly meet ing of the Gamma chapter, Al pha Psi Delta, held in the psy chology building Wednesday, two very interesting reports were made: Mr, N. W. Lyon, teaching fellow in the psycho logy department, reported on "A Study of the Conditioned Reac tions of Caffein", a study which he made at Columbia University last year. " The problem consist ed of an attempt to study the difference between the effects of regular and decaffeinated coffee. Mr. Lyons offered no conclusive results of a quantitative nature, but pointed to a very important element " in such "an experiment, namely, the large " number of cohtr ol factors necessary for ob taining reirable results. DM M. R. Trabue," director of the bureau of educational " re search, reported on "The Re sults of Tests on High School Seniors." For several years .Dr. Trabue has directed the giving of these tests to high school seniors m tms state, approxi mately "14,000 taking the test last year. Dr. Trabue has made a; study of the results of ; these tests comparing age of the in dividuals taking the test, size of the senior class, and many other interesting factors. ' Perhaps the most interesting feature of the study is the high degree of pre dictability of success- in college work. - Graham Leaves President-elect Graham leaves this morning for Baltimore and New York, where tonight at the former place he will address the North Carolina Society and on Monday night he will speak to the New York Alumni Associa tion of the University-of North Carolina. Staff Meeting The first meeting . of the Daily Tar Heel staff for the winter quarter will take place Sunday night, January 4, at seven o'clock for: editors and seven-fifteen for reporters. All staff members i are re quired to attend. The first is sue of the paper will be pub lished Tuesday, January 6. - i "u iiii.ni ii iipmwpw i ii imWM.ui Ml - , ' - ' w . ::::-::-:-:-: . - v-v-v :::::-:::::.-. v V.' v.-.w . '':vv REPORTS NUMBER 70 - Wide Searei MOTHER ONEWAY FOLLOWING NEWS OF FINDING BOY Presence of Bullet Hole and . Pearl Handled' Revolver Sup ports Theory of Suicide. By Charles G. Rose The skeleton of Morgan P. Moorer; who mysteriously disap peared from the campus last February, was found by three geological students; while mak ing a topographical survey four miles southeast of Chapel Hill late Thursday afternoon. Glenn Holder, and Frank Parker, close friends of the missing boy, identified the bones to be-those of Moorer by means of a belt and a. pistol which, were found with the skeleton. C. S. Maurice,: A. R. Monroe, and E. R. Scott,, the three stu dents whofound, the remains of the missing young man, were surveying in the neighborhood of the rifle range Thursday, when one of the lines of their survey had to. be made through a clump of thick undergrowth. In order to clear the brush, one of the students chopped away the growth with an axehuman bones being revealed. . :' The students immediately" came to town and reported to Dr. S. A. Nathan, county coro ner, who with a small band went out to the spot. The skull of the body had rolled down the small knoll on which the skeleton lay, and was found at the bottom of the hill with a pistol ball through both temples. One shot had been fired from the pearl handled revolver which Jay by the remains. The clothes, were in shreds, and a belt bearing the letter "M"":was around the skele ton. After some little difficulty the. name of an Asheville tailor firm was. distinguished on what was left of the label in the coat. The skeleton was - unquestion ably identified to be : that of Moorer. Mrs. Eva Moorer, mother of the boy, -was immediately noti fied. Mrs. Moorer, who is at present working with the gov ernment in Washington, D. C, believed her son to be alive until she received word yesterday by a telephone call from President elect Graham, of the discovery of the bones. She Is on her way here now, and will probably ac company the remains, which are now in Andrews funeral home, to Asheville, where she lived at the time of the boy's disap pearance. Moorer, a freshman in the t University, was' staying out in 1 a residence' in town when he was last seen. On February 28, 1930 he'left his Tooming-place without leaving any word as to where he was going or when' he would return. For some days, Mrs. Moorer said later, she had received no word from her son. When he left, however, a letter was found on a table in his room addressed to his mother. The only things which were found missing were a pearl- handled pistol, and a flashlight, both of which were found with his bones. A light blue-serge top coat together with his daily (Continued on next page)
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