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TAR jL.IiIEILi The Leading Southern College Semi-Weekly Newspaper The Leading Southern College Semi-Weekly Newspaper OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Volume XXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1921. Number 27 THE NEW THREE-STORY FINALLY UNDER WAY This to be Most Modern Dormitory in University Outside Re sembles Old East. WAS VERY BADLY NEEDED Work on the new dormitory under construction is progressing rapidly and at a rate which will make com pletion by early June probable. This building will add 36 more rooms to the dormitory facilities of the Uni yersity and will be the forerunner of the several buildings of its type which are contemplated for con struction in the near future if pro posed legislative appropriations are successfully carried. Details of the new dormitory, as given by P. L. Burch, field superin tendent of the State building com mission, indicate that the building will surpass in appearance any of the dormitories on the Hill at pre sent. Stretching 119 feet to the south and 40 feet east and west, the new building will provide room for 36 rooms 14 feet by 16 feet each, and will rise 3 stories above the ground and basement room beneath. The foundation work will be of solid! brick, and the superstructure will be built of interlocking tile faced with brick veneering, a construction not ed for its strength and good insulat ing qualities. Present plans provide for three entrances of limestone and granite fashioned after the Georgian period. The building will be prac tically fire-proof throughout having iron stairways and a steel trussed, asbestos shingled roof. Individual heating will be employed for main tenance of hot water, but the build ing will depend upon the central plant for heat, this having been prov ed the most practical plan. Middle rooms will contain two three and one-half foot windows while the corner rooms will contain three windows. Individual shower and toilet will be provided for every two rooms and the rooms themselves will be so constructed as to permit them to be turned into suites of j two or used individually as condi tions may demand. In the furnish ing of each room it is planned to 1 1 A. A 1 he plans were drawn by J. A. Salter, State architect and the con tracting firm of Salmon Shipp & Poe, of Durham have charge of con struction. GIVE CONCERT ERIDAY Noted Contralto Opens Series of Recitals by Famous Stars in Durham. Mm. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the greatest contralto on the Ameri can concert stage, will open in her recital . on Friday, January 14, the All-Star musical series to be given this season in the Academy of Music, Djrham, under the auspices of the American Legion. Mme. Schumann Heink has long occupied a peculiar and enviable position in the musical world, and her successess abroad have been somewhat in the nature of triumphal ' tours. With the possible exception of Farrar, she is recognized most read ily by the layman throughout the length and breadth of the Tand as a singer at once sympathetic in inter pretation and careful in her selection of songs that manage to please each and every element of the crowded houses that one associates with her very name. During the war she won the name of "mother" from the thousands of enthusiastic dough-boys who heard her in the camps, and she has receiv ed several recommendations of thanks from posts of the American Legion. And along with it all, she has an unfailing sense of humor and that elusive charm of personality that always makes one of her con certs memorable. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, the 17th at Blacknall's. Prices range from $1.00 to $3.00. t oeu!l, lwo cn.noniers, two The Old Man of Eden tables a center light, and two ton Paul Green bracket lights. The Rights of Man .. Hubert HefFner TAR HEEL CONTEST OPENS TODAY Several positions as Associ ate Editors of The Tar Heel are now open, and an open contest to fill these positions begins to day and lasts through Satur day night, January 22pd. Any one in college, except Fresh men, is eligible for the position Df Associate Editor. All material should be turn ed in to the Tar Heel office in the Y. M. C. A. building on Wednesdays and Fridays be tween 7:30 and 9:00 p. m., or dropped through slot in doo", if it is brought at any other hour. ' There are no specific regula tions as to the sort of material, or length of articles that are entered. This is left absolute ly for the several entrants to nandle as they deem best use your own initiative. News sto nes, feature articles, human interest stories, opinions, etc., may be entered. We should prefer that entrants enter more than a single sort of ar ticles. Every man will have a chance in this length of time to show his proper quality. If there are further ques tions that any entrant should like to ask, see Editor, Manag ing Editor, or either of the Assistant Editors. The successful candidates will be announced in Tar Heel on Tuesday, the 25th. Turn in Some Material For Each Issue Until the Contest Closes. BUDDING DRAMATISTS TO READ NEW PLAYS The Carolina Playmakers an nounce an Author's Reading on Wed nesday night at 8 o'clock in Peabody auditorium. Three of the six plays read will be selected for presentation during the first week in February. The tryouts for these plays will be held on Thursday and Friday im mediately following the reading. Further announcements concerning the tryouts wiil be at the Authors Reading. These plays were written during last quarter by the members of FWlish 31 selected for reading from the follow- ing list: Farm vs. Mill ..... Legette Blythe The Miser Paul Green The Light of The Moon D. R. Hodgin The Vamp Bill Royal The Moon Fiddle. Wilbur Stout The Reaping John Terry VARSITY BASKETBALL New Teams on List of Nineteen Games Long Northern Trip Planned. The completed schedule of the Carolina 1921 basket ball team as announced by Graduate Manager Chas. T. Woolen and Manager Joe Person, carries nineteen games. Two of the dates are open and a game with Wake Forest in Raleigh, Janu ary 29, is pending.- This year Caro lina plays several new teams among which are South Carolina, which is the opening game of the season, Jan uary 14, the Army, Rutgers, Navy, and the Elk's Athletic Club of Lynch burg. This is one of the best schedules that Carolina has had. On February 1 the team starts on a northern trip with Virginia and ends the trip on the 10th with the Elk's Athletic Club, after playing Wash ington and Lee, V. M. I., George town, Army, Rutgers, and the Navy. Below is the complete schedule: January 14 University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill. January 19 Elon, Chapel Hill. January 22 Open. January 26 Trinity, Durham. January 29 AVake Forest, Ra leigh (pending). February 1 University of Vir ginia, Charlottesville. February 2 Washington and Lee, Lexington. February 3 V. M. 1. Lexington. (Continued on Page Three) COACH BILL FETZER TO DIRECT PHYSICAL IT Has Long Coaching and Playing Record, and is Familiar With Conditions. BROTHER TO ASSIST HIM William McKeithan Fetzer, one of the best known Southern coaches who has' an enviable and long coaching record back of him, and his brother, Robert A. Fetzer, who has become prominent as a coach in Virginia where he is recognized as an athlete and coach of the first quality, both of Concord, North Carolina, and Alumni of Davidson College, have been secured by the University ath letic authorities as Director of Ath letics and Assistant . Director of Athletics respectively. Robert A. will not report for duty until the opening of the 1921 football season, and at this time William McK. has not been able to say whether he can report immediately, or whether it will be necessary for him to wait until the fall. It is hoped here that he will be able to report at once; and hoped to the point of a firm be lief that he will be able to report soon. This is the beginning of what is generally believed to be the success ful execution of an athletic policy that the University adopted in 1916, and which was started with Coach Campbell who in two seasons with the University registered so many victories over Virginia, but Camp bell was kept away from the Univers ity a greater part of the time in service, and finally when he was able to return it was only for the foot ball season of 1919. The University has long since recognized the need of a thorough physical education j department which shall unify the entire outdoor life of the whole student body; and in which the coach ing of the first year reserve teams will be incorporated as a part of the varsity coaching system. Coach Wm. McK. Fetzer finished at Davidson College where he played end and half-back on the football team; and also second base on the baseball team. His coaching record has been general and successful and includes several years work in coach ing football and baseball at Fish burn Military School at Waynesboro, Virginia; one year of coaching both of these major sports at Staunton I Military Academy, at Staunton, Vir ginia. Later he coached several years at Davidson, having charge of (Continued on Page Three) FACULTY STOP GRJTS BUT GRANT Fall and Spring Dances to Be Held During Thanksgiving and Easter Holidays. "' That a day for the North Carolina State game, five days for Thanksgiv ing, and six days at Easter, besides the regular Christmas holidays, will be the holidays of the University in the future was the decision of the Faculty at a meeting Thursday after noon. The day for the North Carolina State game has been officially grant ed as a holiday, after a somewhat general recognition of it as such by both faculty and students for the past two years. The five days for Thanksgiving were granted with the requirement that the fall dances be held in . this period, and that no further leave be allowed the students at this time. The holiday will begin with Wednes day and will continue through the following Monday. The Easter recess will begin with the Thursday and will continue through the following Wednesday. The spring dances must be held in this period as is the usual custom. In granting these holidays the faculty is trying to remove the cause of so many of the unexcused ab sences of the past, and they were granted with the understanding that unexcused absences, or "grats" as they are genrally called by the stu dents, will be dealt with more severe ly in the future. ! Milkniuni Not in Finality, But The Pre: en t Great Emphasis on Education is Only Natural Outgrowth, and State Will Ultimately Have Complete Sys . tem May be Delayed, but Cannot Be Defeated for AH Time. (By DANIEL L. GRANT.) j (First of two articles) I Sitting where I am, I can, with a twelve inch ruler in my left hand, open the window of the room, with i another in my right hand I can cut I out the light by throwing a switch I on the right wall, or, if I could grasp I the knob with the end of the ruler, j I could open the door of the room. I can raise up and touch the ceiling above me (and I am less than 6 feet tall). From this position I can lay down upon my bed by taking only one step ; by taking two further steps I can touch the fartherest corner of my room. This is where I am living. I left the University dormitories to come to this room. And today, I am m comfortably located than a great cent of the students of the Univer y of North Carolina. In a few days, I shall have com pleted the work I am doing here, and shall leave the State in order to con tinue my studies. Leave why? . Because North Carolina does not furnish what I seek, and I am seek- j ing nothing unusual. ' It is because I am located here as I am; and because I must soon' leave the State, that I write this paper. This is not a personal plea. It is no a plea for the University, Trinity. . and E., Meredith, Wake Forest, he North Carolina college for WOiiiPn. It is a plea for North Carolin self, that the State do justice self, that it prepare the way foi a fuller life and a nobler civilization, and the immediate jus tiothat she need do herself in an educational justice. North Carolina as a conscious group of organized society has been existing for more than two centuries. What has she done for herself? What contribution has she made to the pro gress of the world? What has she done that will live on and on, and on? Has she immortalized herself? Has she shown any tendencies toward the capacity that makes for im mortality? No, North Carolina (nor the South) has not even shown healthy tendencies, which is far less than actually accomplishing anything. It has been charged, "If the whole of the late Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect upon the civilized minority of men in the world would be a little greater than a flood on the Yang-tse-Kiang. It would be impossible in THVIRATE CAROLINA SPIRIT Three Seniors Remain to Task While Companions Give Themselves to Levity. The customary mid-year exodus complete, the little pastoral village of Chapel Hill was confronted on Wednesday, December 22, with the formidable fact that it had lost half of its population in the short space of three days. However, the Yule tide migration of the peasantry to town with the intent of effecting their Christmas bartering with the mercantile barons, prevented a sud den depression of the markets, and sustained the morale of the village business life for a few more days. But all foresaw that the inevitable crash must come, and on Monday riotous confusion in the financial district, brought forth the statement that all banks of the village would close their doors 22 hours a day, from 12 m. to 10 a. m. The commercial magnates, in ut ter despair, realizing the futility of attempts at exchange, began to look themselves over in inventory fashion, and began ascertaining the number of deceased roaches in the dill pickle jars, the number of pairs of golf stockings and monocles on hand, and I placing an estimate on the quality of j their nutmegs and cheesecloth, and raising the prices of the same to compensate for depreciation in qual ity. But turning to a consideration of the dear University, a picture so sad 1 (Continued on Page Four) Education As A Through Education' all history to match so complete a drying up of a civilization." Other civilizations existing more than two thousand years ago, have made contributions that will last for ever. They have a permanent place in the life of the world. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Hebrews, all did omething distinctive something that must live. As yet, the South, and North Carolina have done nothing but merely exist. We have sung our own song of praises, until today when we go to take stock we find nothing here. What have we contributed to art, to science, to literature, to the content of religious consciousness? What are potentially preparing to contribute that is still in the blind future? How many not supremely great, but even great men has North Carolina produced? None. We have made no contribution. I am not unappreciative of our past, nor do I mean to depreciate what has been done. I am merely trying to place an estimate upon what we are, have, and have done. Our original forefathers made a sort of original contribution of the form of rganization of society. This we have been barely able to perpetuate. We have carried it no further. North Carolina has produced men great enough to carry on the affairs of State, to build some respectable busi nesses, but as yet, the State has not gone beyond itself. It has done no supreme thing. During all of her history, North Carolina has been conservative. Per haps ultra-conservative.' Why," is of" just here. But just a few years ago the upset brought on by the war broke the crust in a physical way to be sure, but this breaking opened the way for an educational and civic bet terment awakening that is without parallel in the whole history of the country. North Carolina becoming conscious of itself, and its needs started to move. The first thing it demanded was an educated citizenry. And so today we have the great emphasis on the need for education. And this emphasis is not misplaced. This particular intense interest has been made possible by the past al most super-shortcoming in education al facilities, and today we are plac ing such emphasis on it as if its com- (Continued on Page Three) BEPARTMENT BE PLANS WIDER Department Has an Extensive Pro gram for Recitals Throughout the Winter Quarter. The Music Department is planning a more extensive program for the j ensuing quarter than was conducted ' during the fall quarter. A violin i teacher has been secured and he will ' give instruction in violin on' Tues-' day forenoons. This is the first in-1 struction that has been given in ' violin in the history of the Univer-' sity. j A regular series of Sunday after-I noon recitals will also be given on ' the first Sunday afternoon of each month. This series of recitals will be similar to the one given last year, and they will be given by the Glee '' Club, The Orchestra, and members of I the Music Department. I A very great attraction in The Letz Quartet has been secured for a performance early in February. This is a male, string quartet and is com posed of two violins, a viola, and a 1 cello. An engagement with Daniel Gregory Mason is pending. Mr. 1 Mason is one of the greatest pianists of the present time, and also a very great composer. He is head of the Department of Music at Columbia I University. The theme of his lec- ture-recital will be "The Listeners Share in Music." PHILLIPS PICKED AS NEW Y SECRETARY Phillips Elected by Y. M. C. A. Ad visory Board After Sudden Resignation of Wunich. ELECTION NO SURPRISE Charles W. Phillips, '21, takes the place of W. R. Wunsch, resigned, as general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Phillips will act in the capacity of Student-Secretary and not as a full time one as was Wunsch. Wunsch found it necessary on account of con ditions at home to resign his office on short notice, leaving for his home in Louisiana just before the Christ mas holidays. At a meeting held by the Y. M. C. A. cabinet before the holidays Phillips was elected to ! the Kprretarvshin. Phillins has hp on on the Y. M. C. A. cabinet every year he has been here, being up to the time of his election to the Sec retaryship Vice-President of the As sociation. No one has as yet been se'ected to fill the office of Vice President left vacant by Phillips' se lection for the Secretaryship. The new Secretary entered the University with the class of 1920, but Uncle Sam claimed his services for one year and he is now a mem ber of the class of 1921. Phillips will take up the work where Wunsch left off and will carry it on until the end of the school year. Phillips is from Trinity, N. C, graduating from the Trinity High School before com ing here. He is a self-help student, working in Swain Hall during his Freshman year and for the past 2 1-2 years has been assisting in the Library. He is a member of the Student Council, Epsilon Thi Delta, Sigma Upsilon, and the Di Society. In his Sophomore year he made class basketball and the Varsity football squad in his Junior year. He is also a member of the Magazine Board. He will live in the Y. M. C. A. and wants everybody to feel at home. He desires the co-operation of every one to help keep the "Y" at its max imum of service. The retiring Secretary, Wunsch, graduated with the class of '18. He was secretary of the "Y" during his Senior year succeeding Francis Brad shaw who held the position the two years, preceding. Wunsch has been secretary since the Fall of 1918. He, while here, made his way into the heart of the student body and many expressions of regret have been made at his decision to leave the Campus. EMYANIC BUSINESS MEN TB MAKE SURVEY U. S. Bureau of Education Conduct ing Survey Through School of Economies Brooks, Chairman A business survey of North Caro lina from the point of view of the State's actual industrial life and pro blems to the end that ihe State's' educational system may be moulded to train for the local business needs will be made by the United States Bureau of Education acting through the school of commerce at the Uni versity of North Carolina. An nouncement to this effect has been made by Dean D. D. Carroll. Heading the survey, which is a part of a general survey in many states, will be Superintendent of Public Instruction E. C. Brooks, E. D. Pusey, superintendent of the Dur ham schools, and Dean Carroll, but the actual survey will be made chief ly by students in the University school of commerce. As director of the field work Dean Carroll has been named a special collaborator in the Bureau of Education and joins the ranks of the "dollar-a-year" men. He will continue as dean of the school. The industrial report on North Carolina is part of the plan of the Bureau of Education to find out what are the leading businesses to suggest for the State's schools. "As soon as the committee has interpreted the economic data to be secured," says Glen L. Swiggett, of the Bureau, who is in charge of the work for the (Continued on Page Four)