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. .,iwai Boca U. N. C. vs. RICHMOND HOPE VALLEY 2:30 P.M. JUNIOR CLASS MEETING GERHARD HALL 7:30 P.M. VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. O, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933 NUMBER 131 : . - A : III rf"- V"V ' I I ''X. "V S. I i SENATE MEASURE TO ABOLISH FREE TUITION PASSED interesting Fisrures Given to Show Many Students With Cars Get Scholarships. As a result of the passage of a measure to abolish free tuition an investigation is being con- included fourteen applications ducted to determine the number for the Graham Kenan f ellow of free tuition students who have ships in philosophy. Awards cars in school. The survey is will be made April 1. being conducted by the presi dents of the various dormitories and fraternities through the efforts of the student council. This will determine the validity of statements concerning the bill to abolish free tuition in the state-supported schools of high- er education. The bill, which was approved by the Senate Tuesday night, would abolish all free tuition in the state schools. In discussing the bill Senator John Sprunt Hill stated that the passage of such a bill would force many students to drop out of school. Senator R. M. Hanes then said that many students were receiving free tui- tion who were fully able to -pay their way through school. He continued that he knew of cases where students were benefitting by the policy in order to keep cars in school. . Interesting Figures Interesting figures relating to the number of students in the state-supported schools who re- ceive free tuition were brought out "by one of the introducers of the bill., He said that there were 4,156 students who now receive free tuition. These were divided among the institutions as fol- lows: University of North Caro- (Continued on page three) MUSIC CONTEST TTR ACTS MANY STATE1 OTTTTYCTTVTTO lAlHi MUDlimO Musicians From Twelve Towns Already Entered for Contest Here Tomorrow. Students from twelve towns throughout the state have al ready entered the annual contest for student musicians and young artists to be conducted here to morrow, beginning at 10:30 o'clock in Hill music hall, Mrs. Eric Norden of Wilmington, state chairman of the Federa tion of Music Clubs' contest, an nounced yesterday. Entries from a number of other towns are expected before the contest begins, Mrs. Norden said. Prominent musicians from orth Carolina are to act as Judges - for the competition, hich will be held in voice, piano, srgan, and violin. Winners to Represent State Winners in the various classi fications of this contest will be automatically elected to repre- tiT-.. . .i "Liwin uaronna in me auum Atlantic Federation district con- tec v. l ij i tt , r test, to be held the first week in Iay between competitors repre- sentinrr0 Zia twTi thp. ri. AAt.;. 4.4- wm travel to Minneapolis about the middle of May to compete in the national final contest. Those who win in the compe tition at Minneapolis will be awarded $1,000 in cash and a Performance' sponsored by the Schubert Memorial Foundation ith any major symphony or chestra in America. ; MANY HAVE FILED APPLICATIONS FOR GRADUATE PLACES Dean W. W. Pierson Announces Re ceipt of Over One Thousand Applications. Six hundred and twenty-one applications were - received by Dean W. E. Pierson of the grad- uate school for university fel- lowships for 1933. This number It is estimated by D ean Pier son that the entire number of applications for fellowships, scholarships, positions of assist- ants, and research appointments in the institute for research in social science well exceeds a thousand. The applications for the latter appointments have not as yet been checked. Nearly every state in the country was represented in the batch of applications, and also several foreign countries, includ- ing England, France, Syria, and Canada. Twenty-six University fellow- ships are available, and are open only to men. TELEGRAM SENT TO LEGISLATURE BY PHI SOCIETY Assembly Also Favors by Overwhelm ing Majority Nine Day Vaca tion Beginning April 15. - By an unanimous vote the Phi assembly Tuesday night passed a bill to send a telegram to the state legislature commending the action of the House in its fight for education in North Carolina. The telegram was dispatched Tuesday night to Mr. Reginald Harris, speaker of the House of Representatives, and read as follows: "The Philan thropic Assembly of the Univer sitv of North Carolina unani- mously went on record tonight as commending the action of; the iouse m lts ngnz Ior in North Carolina. It House in its fight for education IS our Sin cere hone that the Senate will 4. continue this far-sighted atti tude toward education." A special bill, Resolved: That the Phi favor a nine-day spring vacation beginning April 15, and extending through April 23, was passed by an overwhelming majority. This bill was dis cussed so that the opinion of the Phi could be given to the Union Forum which convened Tuesday night to discuss the question of a spring vacation. Don Seawell, newly elected speaker, delivered his inaugural address, in which he urged a drive for better attendance and better parliamentary procedure. All students desiring to join the Phi assembly should attend the initiation ceremonies next Tuesday. Dormitory Smokers Resumed William Medford, president of the interdormitory council, an- nounced vesterday that smoKers - - . - which those dormitories for which no smokers were neia scheduled for the near ter Q scnea uiea ior future. Beginning next weanes Steele will be entertained on sue- , j i-n ITraTiATTl cessive vveanesuayo Memorial. . Engineer Business Staff A WiPAtinir of the Carolina En gineer's business staff will take place tonight at 7:uu m me se nior electrical engineering room. Candidates for staff positions will present their applications. MRS. BEARD WILL ADDRESS .WOMEN. GRADUATES SOON Noted Authoress Will Help Women Organize at Special Dinner Monday Evening. Mrs. Mary R. Beard, recog nized as a leader of women's ac tivities, will address the gradu ate women of the University at a special dinner meeting of the group at 6:30 o'clock Monday night in Graham Memorial. The subject of Mrs. Beard's talk will be "A Changing Intel lectual Climate for Women." Mrs. Beard is co-author with her husband, Dr. Charles A. Beard, of the Rise of American Civili zation and author of A Short History of the American Labor Movement and On Understand ing Women. Graduates to Organize The purpose of the meeting is to consider an organization for graduate women of the Univer sity as a division of the Wo man's Association and as a com pact group to further their own interests. This movement was started several weeks ago upon the suggestion of Mrs. Beard and at the meeting Monday the group will consider organiza tion. This idea is not new, for it has existed on the campus for some time. In fact, the present Wo man's Association was first formed by graduate women and later extended to undergrad uates in order to perpetuate the association's identity. Later, the undergraduates became the con trolling spirit of the group, leav ing a lack of organization and interest among graduate co-eds. Feeling that there is a lack of integration of graduate women in University life, the students have made plans to organize. At the meeting Monday a com mittee chosen for the purpose of studying phases and plans of or ganization will make a report. Juniors Again To To Name Commencement Marshals Class Will Elect Marshals for Was Wrested From German Club as Result of Wide Spread Protest by Student Body Last . Year. o In electing marshals tonight, for this year's commencement program, the junior class is once more exercising a privilege of long-standing. This will be, however, the first time in five years that the class has actually availed itself of this prerogative. The present re-assumption of this power is the culmination of a long struggle between repre sentatives of junior classes and the German club for the right to select the marshals. Some five years ago the jun ior class, through an oversight, neglected to elect marshals for the finals, an act which had been traditionally within the power of the group. It was not real ized that this had not been done until a week before commence ment of that year, whereupon the German club took over the filling of offices and appointed men to the coveted positions. Duties of Marshals Marshals at the dances are, so to speak, walking bureaus of in formation. They arrange the dance figures, explain to the alumni their places in the fig ures, and participate in one of their own, together with the Ball committee of the German NEGRO SPONSORS TO ASK AID FROM STATE ASSEMBLY Continuation Will Be Asked for Case Before Judge Barnhill in Dur ham Superior Court. Negro supporters of Thomas Hocutt, Durham negro desiring entrance into the University pharmacy school, have decided to drop their case now pending before the superior court, and resort to aid from the General Assembly now in session in Ra leigh. A continuation will be asked tomorrow afternoon when Dr. Thomas J. Wilson, Jr., Univer sity registrar, is scheduled to ap pear before Judge M. V. Barn- hill in the Durham superior court wrhere Wilson must show why a premptory writ should not be issued compelling the Carolina officials to admit the Negro. Those backing the movement to raise the ban against negroes at the University are drafting for presentation a bill which would authorize the state to pay the tuition of negroes in out-of-state institutions for courses which cannot be obtained in the North Carolina schools for the negro race. Since the suit was started only last week, the University admin istration have not yet made any official statement. DANCE LEADERS WILL BE BE ELECTED TONIGHT The junior class will meet to night at 7 :30 o'clock in Gerrard hall for the purpose of electing eight commencement marshals and six dance leaders for the junior-senior dances which this class gives annually in collabora tion with the senior class. This meeting was called by the executive committee of the class which met last week and decided to go ahead with plans for the annual dances. Accord ing to present plans the set of dances will be given on the week-end of May 12 and 13. Exercise Power First Time in Five Years; Power club. They also wear a distin guishing unitorm, a sash re splendent with gold tassels, in the manner of the dress sash of commissioned officers in the army. In addition to their dance duties, marshals usher at the Baccalaureate service, the alum ni luncheon, and other events at which there is a need for stu dent direction. A position which affords the individual considerable social prestige, the post of marsha has long been viewed as one of the most desirable elective of fices on the campus. German Club Takes Charge Once the filling of these of fices had passed to the control of the German club, it remained there, for a number of years there wras little opposition to the organization's selecting the com mencement marshals. Through out this period the general at titude toward the few objectors was one of indifference. However, when the German club was placed under fire last year by the Daily Tar Heel as a "social dictator" of the cam pus, the question of the election of marshals was re-opened. Jack (Continued on last page) ouse Fails In Reaching Vote On Second Reading Of Substitute Measure Playmakers On Tour Play at Elon, Qneens-Chicora, Camp bell, and Ellerbe High. The Carolina Playmakers left yesterday for their four-day spring tour of western North Carolina, in which they will play at Elon College, Charlotte, Campbell College, and Ellerbe. The three casts and the three plays to be presented are the same as on the first tour of this year. The productions will be Davy Crockett by John Milhous, Four On A Heath by Foster Fitz-Simons, and Stumbling In Dreams by George Brown. According to schedule, the Playmakers gave their first per formance at Elon College last night. Other performances will be presented at Queens-Chicora College in Charlotte tonight, El lerbe high school tomorrow, and Campbell College Saturday night. APPOINTMENT TO GOVERNMENT JOB NOT YET DECIDED Democratic Leaders in State Support ing Mrs. L. A. Cotten for Place In Administration. The appointment to the posi tion of commissioner of civil ser vice, for which Mrs. L. A. Cot- en, assistant secretary of the Friends of the Library associa tion, has been prominently men tioned, is yet to be made by President Roosevelt. Mrs. Cotten has the support of virtually every democratic leader in North Carolina, and many letters indorsing her candidacy have been sent to congressmen. These letters will be approved by them and pre sented to Postmaster-General Farley, who will in turn confer with President Roosevelt about the final decision. Senator Bailey of this state also intends to per sonally see the president in or der to further Mrs. Cotten's chances. Among the many women who are seeking this appointment are Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross vice-chairman of the national Democratic convention, Mrs Emily Blair, well known Demo cratic woman leader, and a num ber of other important women. Since the first appointment of 1 A T- ?J A a woman Dy tne late jrresmeni Wilson, women have continued to fill this position. Senate Backs Holidays and Denies Editorial Partiality With but one dissenting vote, the bill, Resolved: That the Uni versity allow its students a spring holiday to extend prefer ably from Saturday, April 15, to Monday, April 24, was passed by the Di Senate Tuesday night. Another bill introduced at the meeting was defeated by a ma jority vote. It stipulated that the editor of The Daily Tar Heel be condemned for partial ity in the policy of the paper. Field Artillery Class The 316th field artillery troop school will meet in Davie hall to night at 7 :30 o'clock. All reserve officers and interested civilians are invited to attend. These classes will be devoted to study and instruction in the army extension courses. Barden-Cherry Substitute Pro posal Withdrawn after Heat ed Floor Discussions. CONFUSION MARKS SESSION Pete Murphy Offers Amendment To Increase University Ap propriations to $832,240. North Carolina's hard-pressed House of Representatives, un able to resolve itself into any semblance of working order, abandoned all legislative efforts and the expected second reading vote last night to lend an atten tive ear to the histrionics of Messrs. Pete Murphy and Tam Bowie. The oratorical battle ground was the cause of the Uni versity of North Carolina, with the venerable gentleman from Rowan at his best and the pro tagonist of "economy" shivering the rafters in ardent avowal for his proposed slashes. The House was plunged into disorder early in the evening when Barden and Turner, ad ministration manipulators, join ed forces with Gregg Cherry to present an amendment to the amendment to the Bowie-Cherry substitute to the original appro priations bill. The legislative mess, ensuing set the entire house to some serious head scratching, since no one was able to interpret the new .bill nor trace the maze of legislation leading to its introduction. Like a good fellow, Representative Barden then withdrew the bill. He yielded his position on the floor a minute later to Represen tative Walter Murphy from (Continued on last pagej LAST RITES FOR DR. ABERNETHY THIS AFTERNOON Former Head of Infirmary to Be Conducted to Last Resting Place at 2:00 O'clock. Funeral services for Dr. Eric Alonzo Abernethy, for thirteen years University physician, who died instantaneously Tuesday night from a self-inflicted bullet shot, will be conducted in the University Methodist church at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon. Reverend Walter Patten of Southern Pines, assisted by Dr. W. A. Stanberry of Durham, Reverend C. E. Rozzelle of Le noir, and Dr. Albea Godbold of the local Methodist church, will have charge of the services. In terment will take place in the local cemetery. Pall bearers will be S. M. Gat tis, Jr., of Hillsboro, M. E. Ho gan, F. O. Bowman, John Urn stead, W. S. Roberson, Dallas Pickard, Dr. S. A. Nathan, and Collier Cobb, Jr. There will be no honorary pall bearers. Dr. Abernethy, who had de voted the major part of his life to the University, having served on the board of trustees and as University physician until forced by ill health to retire in January, was a popular figure on the cam pus and with alumni and his death is mourned here and throughout the state. Payment Schedule for Fees All students who names begin with P-S are scheduled to pay their bills for the spring quar- ter at the business office today.
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