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SATURDAY NIGHT.
Volume XXIX
Chapel Hill, N. C, Friday, February 25, 1921.
No. 41
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DEFEAT TRINITY QUINT
IN SECOND OF SERIES
Game to Decide ' State Champion
hip to be Played in Raleigh
March Fifth.
HANBY'S WORK FEATURE
(By JAKE WADE)
"Fats" Hanby went wild in the
Trinity game Wednesday night,
shooting twelve court goals, allow
ing Moore, whom he was guarding,
to make good only a single shot, and
playing all over Jthe court, through
out the contest. . His brilliant play
ing was instrumental in the over
whelming defeat, by the score of
41-19, administered the Methodists
by Carolina.
Hanby's wonderful playing was out
standing from the "beginning of the
game to the final whistle. He was
down the court on every toss, craft
ily becoming a clever forward when
Carolina possessed the ball, and as
fast as the other members of the
team fed the ball to him he would
drop it in. "Cart" Carmichael was
probably his most able assistant,
passing the ball in his usual clever
tricky style, and giving it to Hanby
just under the goal, where the lat
ter's steady hand never missed put
ting it in the basket. But Car
michael was not his only assistant,
the whole team making it a point
to get in a combination with Hanby
as often as possible, and by good
steady passing somehow Hanby man
aged always to get the ball under
the basket and subsequently in it.
Trinity was almost Carolina's
equal in the first period, guarding
well, and passing nicely. The Meth
odists scored first, Crute making a
foul shot good, but Carmichael's
pretty goal shortly after, and his
two subsequent foul shots put Caro
lina ahead, never to be passed or
even tied. The Blue and White
quint was tricky and clever all the
time, continually sucking Trinity
down the court and passing with
ease. The first half ended with Car
olina only- seven points in the lead,
however, the score standing 17-10.
In the second period Carolina
jumped in with a snap and vigor that
took Trinity off her guard, and she
never got on it again. Hanby shot
goal after goal, keeping Moore; his
Trinity forward, continually follow
ing him instead of trying to get the
ball himself and shoot. McDonald,
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ENAL PLANT
AMAZES DR. PR0UT1
Paulownia Tormentosa Now on Ex
hibition in New East
Museum.
A most phenomenal shoot, called
Paulownia Tormentosa, was grown
upon the property of Dr. Prouty dur
ing the past season which measures
in height 21 feet, 6 inches and has
a circumference at its base of 10 j
inches with 24 interlodes, i. e., spaces !
between the leaves. One of the
leaves measured in the latter part
of last July was 34 inches in largest
dimension. This shoot grew on the
South side of a shed on the property
occupied by Dr. Prouty last year
next door to the Methodist church.
The soil on the property is a clay
loam residual from granite, and is
near a garden spot, but the soil has
not been enriched in the immediate
neighborhood for several years.
Those who are competent to know
consider that this shoot has attained
a most phenomenal growth for one
season. ' A report will be made to
the next meeting of the Elisha
Mitchell Scientific Society by Dr.
Prouty as it is of such unusual na
tural growth that it has created much
interest among those interested in
such matters.
At the last meeting of the North
Carolina Academy of Science Dr. B.
N. Wells described "A Phenomenal
Shoot" which grew near Raleigh dur
ing the season of 1919. This shoot
grew from the stump of a beheaded
tree of Paulownia Tormentosa. The
shoot described by Dr. Wells was 7.75
inches in circumference at the base,
had 20 interhodes, and was 19 feet,
6 inches in length. This shoot was
supposed to have grown in one
season.
The shoot grown by Dr. Prouty is
on exhibition in the Museum in New
East building and is open to the public.
ELIKKER'AND
GITY NEGROES MIX
'White Lightnin' " and City Negroes
Cause Small Riot at Pot
ter's Field.
Carrborb and Potter's Field exper
ienced excitement of the western
frontier variety several days ago,
when four or five young negroes,
atcing upon the inspiration of the
popular extract of corn, "shot-up'
the neighborhood.
The negroes entered a restaurant,
obviously in a state of mild intoxica
tion or what is generally described
as "feelin' pretty good," and pro
ceeded to order various and sundry
viands for the sake of internal im
provement. All went well until the
presentation of the toll, then the
inebriate ones became very excited
and unlimbered their artillery with
little discrimination as to direction
or range. The proprietor forsook
them and fled, while the chief cook
hastened to call Chief of Police
Long.
The chief arrived but during the
interim the party had "shot up" the
whole neighborhood and departed for
parts unknown. After leaving the
restaurant the negroes went up and
down the street firing their pistols
and terrifying the inhabitants. Chief
Long failed to elicit any information
as to the identity of the rowdy ones
due to the timidity of the residents
of Potter's Field in the matter of
giving information against such
desperadoes. However, it is thought
that the negroes were from Durham
and were bent upon showing up
"country niggers."
PLAYMAKERS STAGE
REAL 'POSSUM HUNT
The Carolina. Folk-Characters Get
"Close to the Soil" Satur
day Night.
With a possum hunt booked for
Saturday night, the Playmakers re
fused to be outdone by the "in
clemency of the weather" and made
their trip, a basketball game, a lec
ture on Plato, and a dance, notwith
standing. The party assembled at Pi Kappa
Phi house where overcoats were dis
posed of, the impedimenta divided
of transportation, and instructions in
winding wrap puts given to certain in
experienced comrades. Then led by
Ruben, a lantern, and 3 hound dogs,
the company headed south in column
of twos. It was a real hunt in spite
of the pseudo-glee club effervesences
which seemed impervious to rain and
mud. In the black jack country
Rush, Rounder and Ruler got on the
job and provided all the possums the
party was looking for, not to mention
one mink.
After extensive ; and intensive
ramblings over country, the geo
graphy of which was known only to
Ruben, the skirmisher on the peak
ran into a clothes wire, and present
ly other signs of civilization emerg
ed from the stygean darkness. For
dramatic purposes it began to rain
about this time, that is to say to rain
harder, so a little after mid-night
lunch was served in some country
gentleman's barn.
WHAT'S TO HAPPEN
WHEN.
AND
Friday Night:
State Student Voluntary
Conference at Trinity College.
Dr., Knight faculty adviser
in Sanctum from 5-6.
Saturday Night:
Virginia vs. Carolina at 8:00
in Gym.
Sunday:
Parson Moss at Presbyterian
church.
Presiding Elder Plyler at
Methodist church.
Mr. Baskin at Baptist.
Mr. Lawrence at Episcopal.
Mr. Howard at Christian.
Sunday Night:
Parson Moss's Bible Study
Group, 8:30, Presbyterian
church.
Monday:
Robbins Lowe presides in
chapel.
Dr. Carroll in chapel.
Mr. Howard in Sanctum as
adviser to students from 5-6.
Tuesday:
Dr. Odum in sanctum from
5-6 as adviser to students.
CITIZENS PLEAD FOR
EDUCATION PROGRAM
I Public Hearing Held Before Joint
Meeting of Appropriation and
Finance Committees.
' A public hearing before the ap
propriation and finance committees
of the Legislature on the six year
twenty million dollar educational
urogram for the State educational
and charitable institutions was held
in Raleigh Wednesday night, Febru
ary the twenty-third. The meeting
excited great interest among the
citizens of North Carolina and a
citizens movement was organized
through which hundreds of North
Carolina citizens were in Raleigh in
attendance.
Chairman A. M. Scales, of Greens
boro, of the Association for the Pro
motion of Education, received many
letters from . citizens throughout
North Carolina expressing their in
terest in the meeting and their de
sire to attend. Because of the great
interest around Greensboro and in
that city, a special train was run
Wednesday afternoon from there to
Raleigh and back, from Raleigh to
Greensboro that night.
Chairman Scales and Mrs. C. C.
Hooks, of Charlotte, President of the
North Carolina Federation of Wo-.
man's Club, were the principal speak
ers for those who supported the ap
propriation. This movement of the
citizens in behalf of the appropria
tion was essentially a citizen's move
ment and was backed by the alumni
of the University. The State College
of Agriculture and Engineering, The
North Carolina College for Women
and other State institutions.
This meeting is highly pleasing to
that mass of citizens throughout
North Carolina who are anxious that
the proposed program be enacted by
the Legislature.
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SUCCESSFUL TRIP NORTH
Team Plays Good Many Games, Win
ning from Oak Ridge, Woodberry
and Virginia Freshmen.
Losing only to Augusta Military
Academy, and winning from Oak
Ridge, Woodberry Forest, and Vir
ginia freshmen, was the record of
Bill Carmichael's freshman quint on
their four days trip in Virginia.
The first game was easily taken
from Oak Ridge, the freshmen roll
ing up a score of 58 to 40, and were
never in danger of defeat. Wood
berry Forest was played on the day
following their victory over Wake
Forest College varsity five, but suc
cumbed to the freshmen by the score
of 39 to 23. The lone defeat the
freshmen suffered was a victory up
to the last few minutes of play when
Augusta forged ahead and won by
a margin of three points from the
freshmen. The score was 39 to 36.
Virginia freshmen, defeated by
both Woodberry and Augusta, before
the meeting with the freshmen, were
easy prey, and the Carolina team
won the contest by the score of 39
to 23.
Green at forward and Wright at
guard were the individual stars on
the trip, though the whole team
played well. A total of 161 points
was made against opponents 120
points.
Bernard Wright, guard, was elect
ed captain of the team just prior to
the trip in Virginia.
STUDENT CONFERENCE
TO MEET AT TRINITY
A conference of all the student
Missionary Volunteers of the State
will be held Friday night, February
25, at Trinity College. The State
volunteers are members of an inter
national organization in the United
States. The University will send ten
men to represetn her at Trinity Fri
day. The meeting is mainly for the
volunteers but men who are interest
ed may go, provided they are sent
by the University as representa
tives. Most of the colleges in the State
have from fifteen to twenty men to
represent them, but the University
has only one. This is accounted for
by the fact that most of the other
State colleges are denominational
colleges. Most of the college volun
teers of the State are organized into
voluntary bands.
The conference will last through
Sunday. It is a branch of the Des
Moines Conference that Carolina men
attended January, 1920.
PRIZES FOR SOLUTION
OF MATH
izes Offered by Southern - Engi
neering Co. to Encourage In
terest in Mathematics.
Prizes for the solution of two
math problems are being offered
through Dr. Archibald Henderson of
the Mathematics Department by the
Southern Engineering Company of
Charlotte, N. C. These two prizes
are one of five dollars and one of
three dollars, and will be given to
the two men who work out the first
two problems that were put up at
the Thursday evening meeting of the
Mathematical Club.
The Southern Engineering Com
pany, which is a company construct
ing steel buildings, is giving these
two prizes in an attempt to encour
age interest in mathematics and to
find out just how many men in the
University really think of such sub
jects. The problems are those such
as engineers encounter frequently
while in the field, and it is one of
the conditions of the contest that the
problems must be worked by algebra
or simple math. Only a preliminary
knowledge of higher math is needed
to work them.
Dr. Henderson already has two
checks and they will be given to the
first ones to complete the solution of
the problems. A pledge must be
signed certifying that no aid has
been received or given, and the exact
time the work is finished must ac
company the solution. This is done
in order that the men who work the
problems first will get the prizes.
The contest started last night at the
conclusion of the Math Club meeting.
It is a tribute to the University
that the Engineering Company
thought interest would be manifest
ed in such a contest here. In the
letter Dr. Henderson received, the
manager of the Company signifies a
desire to get in communication with
the winners of the two prizes, pre
sumably in regard to work with the
Company.
CO-ED BASKETEERS
TO MAKE FIRST TRIP
Team Is to Play Lenoir College
Hickory and the Charlotte
Y. W. C. A.
After a strenuous months practice,
the Co-ed basketball team will make
its initial trip this week-end, playing
the girls of Lenoir College in Hick
ory Friday night and the Charlotte
Y. W. C. A. Saturday night.
The. members of the team are re
ported 'to be in excellent condition,
and though not too confident, the
coach is satisfied with the develop
ment which has been made. The
line-up at Lenoir College will be
Misses Bradshaw and Gattis, for
wards; Pickard and Bacon, guards,
and Lay, center. This game will
be with the one line ruling, by which i
only the centers are allowed to play
all over the court and only the
wards may throw baskets. At Char-
lotte the game will be played accord
ing to the three division rules and
Miss Batts will be used as the neces
sary side center. Miss Louise Wil
liams will be used during the trip.
Miss Bacon is team manager. The
party will be chaperoned by one of
the high school teachers who will
also act as referee.
According to plans now being
made, a game will be played with the
Trinity Co-eds at Chapel Hill in the
near future.
BROKEN DRAIN PIPE
MAY CAUSE DAMAGE
A clogged up drain pipe has caus
ed a large amount of water to col
lect under the parish house of the
Episcopal church, and it cannot be
used until the drainage system is
fixed. Evidently the water has been
collecting for quite a while, but it
was not noticed until several days
ago. A large pump will be necessary
to draw it off and this has been
ordered from Durhav.
So far no damage has been done
by the accumulated water. If it is
not drawn off immediately, it may
rust the furnace and cause a large
amount of damage.. It is impossible
to run the furnace at present and
no services can be held in the parish
house this week.
The parish house was built four
years ago at a cost of $5,000. Mr.
Littlejohn, a New York architect,
planned the building. His grand
father built Trinity church in New
York City.
ERNMENT PLANS
LABORAT
E
Hydraulic Laboratory to Be Estab
lished by Government on Mor
gan's Creek Near Here.
That the government is planning
to construct a model hydraulic labor
atory on Morgan creek near Chapel
Hill which will be the most complete
in the entire South, was announced a
few days ago by Major Warren E.
Hall, supervisor of the United States
Geological Survey for this district of
which Asheville is the headquarters.
The plan will be first carried out
in a small way immediately, and
Mr. Hall will come to Chapel Hill
soon to select a site for an automatic
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power. This will be the first time, . , ., .
the government has done this work
in small streams, heretofore confin
ing its work to the rivers and larger
streams.
The gauge will be. placed on Mor
gan creek primarily for the students
of hydraulic engineering in the Uni
versity. Much ot the work of in
stallation will be looked after by Pro
fessor Thorndyke Saville, hydraulic
engineer in charge of the North Car
olina Geological and Economic Sur
vey. The machinery used in the
gauge is very expensive, but is of a
convenient size for students to work
with.
Heretofore students of hydraulic
engineering in the State have been
forced to go North to finish their
training in the subject. It is hoped
by Prof. Saville that one gauge after
another will be erected on the streams
near the University and that ultimate
ly North Carolina will have the most
complete hydraulic laboratory in the
Southern states.
P. HETTLEMAN FLATS
CAMPOS DRUNKENNESS
Demands That Student Council Ex
hibit Moral Courage and Sup
press Liquor Evil.'
Speaking in Chapel Tuesday morn
ing, Phillip Hettleman, business man
ager of The Tar Heel denounced the
morai conuiuon oi me campus, as
among the worst in the , history of
the University. . He demanded
stringent action on the part of the
Student Council to stop the spread
of disregard of law and order. The
liquor evil was the principal topic
of his talk.
"It is a fact," he said, "that one
student will report another student
for stealing and yet will not report
him for drinking." "Until that ideal
state is reached," he went to say,
"when every student will consider
it his moral duty to report even his
own room-mate the Student Council
must take adequate steps to catch
the drunkards personally and then
ship them from the campus."
He emphasized the fact that it is
a practical situation with which we
are dealing and not
cold and ab-
stract theory. This
situation he
for-jwould have met with practical ac
tions by the Student Council. He
said that it was not a spy system
that he advocated, but that he want
ed the Council and the students to
have the moral courage to face the
facts as they are, and .employ direct
action to keep the disorderly element
on the campus down until an ideal
point of view is reached by the stu
dents that will make such action un
necessary. To reach this ideal he
thought one of the principal steps
would be to put the Honor System
in running order. Advocating this,
he spoke in favor of abolishing the
pledge system, which we now have
and which he claims is against the
very fundamentals of the Honor Sys
tem. Owing to the bold outspoken char
acter of the speech, its plain indict
ment of campus conditions, and its
demand that the Student Council
virtually take upon itself the role of
a police force, quite a ripple of ex
citement was created among many
students.
TENNIS CLUB FORMED
BY BAPTIST STUDENTS
(N. C. Collegiate Press News
Service)
Wake Forest, Feb. 19. Following
the organization a tennis club four
new tennis courts are being con
ducted for members of the club.
All students are eligible to member
ship of the club upon payment of
three dollars which entitles the payee
to all privileges of the Club during
his career at Wake Forest. J. C.
Keller, of Thomasville, is president
of the Club and J. L. Memory, of
Whiteville, manager.
T MEETS
Students in Mass Meeting Decide to
Have Game Here Instead of
Raleigh.
WILL CHARGE ADMISSION
Tuesday night, representatives of
the student body, gathered in Gerrard
Hall, voted to have the Virginia
basketball game held at the Bynum
Gymnasium, provided Manager
Woolen saw fit. The question was
not decided off-hand, but after a
lengthy and windy debate. To off
set the financial loss to the team a
cents was decided upon.
"Ratty" Ransom and "Bully"
Massenberg were the first speakers
after F. Robbins Lowe, president of
the Athletic Association, declared
the meeting open for discussion.
They both spoke in favor of holding
the game here. Dr. Mangum follow
ed and told of the advantages and
the disadvantages of holding the
game in Raleigh. He said that it
would be to the financial and moral
gain of the University to meet Vir
ginia on the Raleigh court on ac
count of the interest which the
alumni would take in Carolina Ath
letics and on account of the larger
crowd. Of the disadvantages he
spoke of the "hoodoo" which is said
to hang over the Auditorium court.
For a time it seemed that the stu
dents were going to consent to have
the game played in Raleigh. Ransom
and Massenberg rose and stated that
after having seen the light that they,
of course, were in favor of having
the game in Raleigh. If a vote had
been taken at this juncture it is not
to be doubted that Chapel Hill would
have lost the pleasure of observing
Virginia in action, but B. C. Brown
fired the opening gun for the Ilillites
and was ably seconded by W. E.
Horner in a short sarcastic spurt of
genius. Then Carlyle Shepherd,
captain of the team, told how much
greater the probability of beating
Virginia on the local court would be;
I and the tide was turned. The stu-
denta- decision was manifested from
thia noint on
R. L. Gray made a brilliant at
tempt to stem the tide of opinion,
stating that Carolina could beat Vir
ginia in Kalamazoo, and Joe Person
dwelt at length upon the disadvant
ages of the Bynum Gymnasium and
the possibility of the gallery col
Iasping. He stated the financial sit
uation of the basketball team. After
this a vote was taken, which resulted
almost unanimously in favoring the
local game. A telegram was dis
patched to Manager Woolen inform
ing him of the students' decision and
asking him to have the game trans
ferred. Although, as things stand now, the
profits of the game will not be as
large as if they were held in Raleigh,
there will be no loss, because tho
contract with Virginia calls for one
half of the gate receipts and each
student will be assessed twenty-five
cents, which will cover Virginia's
half of the bargain. The team is con
fident of a decisive victory over their
ancient rivals on the familiar floor.
DATES ARE ANNOUNCED
Dates of the Beginning of Examina
tions and Registration for Spring
Term Announced.
The dates of the beginning of ex
aminations and registration for the
Spring term have been announced
from the office of the Registrar.
Examinations will begin on Friday,
the 18th of March and the Winter
Quarter will end on the afternoon
of Thursday, the 24th of March.
Then the Eastern holidays will be
gin and will continue for seven days
or until the morning of the 31st on
which day classes will begin.
There is a dance scheduled for the
night of the 31st which causes a
conflict between the arrangements
which have hitherto caused the dances
to end on the night preceding the
beginning of classes. This will be
worked out by the committees who
have the dances in charge and the
faculty, doubtless.
Registration for the Spring term
will be held before the holidays and
during the week of the examinations.
This in the eyes of the authorities
will prevent the late returning for
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