Wm wml CIRCULATION xThis Issue: 2,400 Answer The Red Cross Roll Vol. XXXII. Chapel Hill, N. C, Nov. 23, 1923 No. 19 SEMI-FINALS IN CHAMPIONSHIPS BEING PLAYED After This Week Only Four Teams Will Be In the Running FINAL GAME DECEMBER 8 The semi-finals of the High School Elimination Series for the separate championships of the East and West will be played today (Friday) and to morrow (Saturday) by eight teams, fierce for glory and proud of their records. Every one of these teams has been playing superlative high school foot ball and will work at fever heat to win its game which will put it in the finals for the championship of its section. Last year's finalists for the state championship (Newbern from the East, and Asheville, State Cham pions, from the West) are among the contenders and seem to have a good chance to meet in the finals again. In the East, New Bern, who re cently tamed the fast squad from Wilmington, will meet Rockingham at Kaleigh who swamped Ellerbe on Friday) Henderson, winners from Ox ford by a 9 to 0 score, will play San ford, with her Harry Frazier who got away for a seventy yard run against Sntithfield, on Saturday at Chapel Hill. In the West, the mighty Char lotte eleven, that piled up the 108 to 0 score against Gastonia and has just licked Spencer, will play Ashe ville, State Champions and victors over Statesville by a 39 to 7 score, at Wilston-Salem Saturday; Greensboro, the recent swampers of Leakesville will play Monroe, the squad that beat Shelby 13 to 7, at Monroe Saturday. STUDENT WINS A PRIZE In an essay contest recently initiat ed by the building -committee of the 'new Durham Hotel, W. T. Couch, a junior in the University, won a ten dollar prize for writing the second best essay on Why Durham Needs a New Million Dollar Hotel." The first prize of $20.00 was won by a Durham citizen. Mr. Couch wrote his essay under auspices of the Chapel Hill branch of the Durham Secretar ial School. Cross-Country Team Competes At Trinity Captain of the cross-country team, Dale Ranson, will head four other men in the cross-country run at Trin ity Saturday when Carolina journeys over to Durham to run against Wash ington and Lee, State College, Wake Forest and Trinity. Carolina will take two teams over for the meet. The freshmen will be lead by Captain Andrew Bell, of Greensboro, who was recently elected. The varsity will be probably com posed of Ranson, Thatch, Milstead, Scarborough and Wessells and the freshmen will include Bell, Bird, Dan iels, Raper and Brooks. It is thought that others will go to Durham, but only ten men will count. The race will start at three-thirty, during the halves of the Newberry Trinity game from Hanes Field and will end at the same place. The course is three miles, three-fourths of which is dirt road with one quar ter being on concrete road. The winners of the first five places will be given individual medals do nated by the business men of Dur ham, and the winning team will re ceive a loving cup. This is by far the best team Caro lina has ever had, and should Wash ington and Lee have a mediocre day, Carolina should give them a fight, but they are slated to win, as they are conceded to be the best in the Southland. The State Cross Country will be held in Raleigh on Dec. 8th, and every college in the state will take part. State College was the winner of last year's meet. The consummation of three months courtship on the part of Dan Gaster, of Jonesboro, culminated Saturday night, in wedlock with Mrs. Loma Gardiner, formerly of West Durham. The parties concerned, accompanied by a few friends, motored to Durham Saturday. They visited the Metho dist Parsonage, and at 10:00 P. M. the Parson tied the knot. Mr3. Gas ter has been with Gooch for the past three years, and Gaster for three months. FRESHMAN TEAM OFF TO VIRGINIA Game With Old Dominion Ex pected to be Hard Fought Throughout Coach Johnston and twenty-three men of the first year football squad left Friday morning for Charlottes ville for the annual game with the Virginia freshman team. This will probably be the last game of the sea son for the Yearlings and will also be among the hardest. The Virginia team has been through the season undefeated up until last Saturday when they met the little Flying Squadron of V. M. I., the re sult of which is not known here. The Old Dominion team has been under the direction of Coaches Thomas and Fenwick, former varsity players. The contest is being looked forward.-to because the systems of the two var sity teams are in use by the young sters, and the game may prove to be an indication of the style of play that will be employed by the varsity teams in the big Thanksgiving game next Thursday. The Carolina team goes to Char lottesville somewhat handicapped by the loss of Marks, a fast back, who was called home on account of his mother's death. Nims, captain of the young Tar Heels, who had his leg hurt in the game with the South Car olina freshmen, will be in the game but will not be able to punt. His sixty and seventy yard punts will be sorely missed but Coach Johnston Ins had Dill and Grimsley practicing up on their punts since the South Caro lina game. The Virginia line-up will probably be as follows: Dick, right end; Tyler, right tackle; Bariesas, right guard; Reynolds, center; Mackall, left guard; Hayman, left tackle; Ahner, left end; Reider, quarter back; Laird, right half back; Mudhy, left half back; Rowe, full back. Coach Pritchard, who leaves to night for Charlottesville tonight, gave the following line-up to the Tar Heel as the probable team that will take the field tomorrow.. Pearsall and Atkinson, ends; Beam and Potts, tackles; Whisnant and Warren, guards; Clont, center; Hackney, quarter; Dill and Nims, halves; and Shuford, fullback. Substitutes who will probably get in are: Hicks, Pad gett, McMurray, line; and Steele, Grimsley, Branch, and Schlitz, backs. FIRE DESTROYS GARAGE Monday morning between three and four o'clock, flames completely de stroyed a wooden garage that stood behind the negro "Pickwick" on Main Street. The Chapel Hill Fire Department answered the fire alarm at 3:45 A. M., but were unable to stop the ravaging flames, which quickly demolished the structure. The garage belonged to Henry Guthrie, colored, and had four cars stored within it: one new Chevrolet, two practically new Durants, and a Ford. A Ford skeeter and a truck in front of the garage had all their combustible parts burned. i I I X .if X . V i ; i I BILL DEITRICK Left end, well remembered on the Hill for his great work as short stop on the Old Do minion baseball team. FRONEBERGER MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT Cheer leader Froneberger gave further information to a Tar Heel reporter concern ing the plan announced in the last issue of the Tar, Heel for the cheering sec-, tion Thanksgiving day. All students will hold up white card boards, which will be , placed in their seats before , the game, excepting those . students who will form the U. N. C. These men will : hold up blue cards at a giv-; en word from the cheerlead er, making a white back ground for the blue letters.! "It is very important," said ' Froneberger, "that every student co-operate in mak-"' ing the new plan a success. If worked right it will . be , the prettiest sight ever wit-'j, nessed on Emerson field.",' This formation will, be fur-y ther explained at pep meet- ; ings, and on the afternoon ' preceding the game, it will i be given a tryout. PUSHBALL GAME I DURING HALVES Big Crowd at Thanksgiving Game Will See Champion-J ship Contest I More than one highly important game will be seen on Emerson Field Thanksgiving day. One of these games will be the championship game of the intra-mural pushball contest. The victorious dorms in the two main groups into which the dorms have ! been divided will pjay between halves of the Virginia-Carolina game in or der to decide who has the best push ball team. The New Dorms, (Battle, Vance, and Pettigrew) are already the vjin ners ' in' their1 group, and the repre sentation of the other group will be decided when Ruffin and Carr play. A silver loving cup given by the Laundry will be presented on the field to the winning team This will be the first time that intra-mural sports have been actually seen by the people of the State. On this occasion the immense I'orongs will view the result of the intra-mural athletic committee's wovk. The championship pushball game will probably become the order of the diy at every Virginia-Carolina game af ter this provided that this one oroves to be the success that it is expected that it will. The TAR HEEL will publish a spe cial blue and white Thanksgiving is sue, giving all information regarding the game, players of each team, and all events of the week end. The TAR HEEL for the alumni will be put on sale Thursday morning. The Circu lation Department needs some help for the sale of this issue. Apply in person to the Business or Circula tion Manager immediately. 3 Y THOMAS Coach of the Virginia freshman team which will play the Carolina first year team on Lambeth Field Saturday. THE FRIENDSHIP COUNCIL WILL AID STRANGERS Members of Friendship Council to Serve as Traffic Di rectors Thursday WILL HELP VISITORS MUCH The 90 members of the Freshman Friendship Council have set four "trunk lines" of service to help han dle the immense crowd due in Chapel Hill Thursday for the Carolina-Virginia game. The freshmen are deter mined that every visitor to the cam pus on that day shall be treated with the fullest courtesy and extended as much aid and information as possi ble. The plans worked out are: In the first place a TRAFFIC GUIDE de partment to see to it that all get a safe parking space. To this end they drafted a design for mapping and chalk-lining all the parking space jnto "pockets," so arranged that no car shall be tied in behind another, thus facilitating movement from the campus after the game. Fifty fresh men, to see that every car parks squarely into a chalked-off "pocket" when it arrives. The University took this idea up and agreed to have the "pockets" lined off, and traffic cops furnished in addition. Then the Carolina Auto Association took it all over from the University, and went still one better, by sending men to make a diagram of all space, do the lining off of spaces, and in addition sending out scout cars over all roads leading in to Chapel Hill next Monday and Tuesday to make a diagram of the roads, and to send out through all daily papers and special circulars, in formation as to the condition of all roads into the Hill, how to miss the bad points, how to come into the Hill and the general section of the cam pus in which cars from any given di rection should park. The Carolina Auto Association is to furnish traf fic cops, and will use -in addition the 50 freshmen which the Friendship Council has assigned to the TRAF FIC GUIDE Committee. A committee of 15 freshmen will operate a large INFORMATION BOOTH by the Old Well, not only an swering all questions but will furnish guides to visitors over the campus, and for finding students whom the visitors would like to look up. In the third point of service, 8 freshmen are to operate a LUNCH ROOM by the Well, selling 50c lunches in regular lunch boxes so that alumni can come in groups or pairs, or singly, (Continued on Page 4) Dr. Small, of the University of Maryland, was in Chapel Hill last week representing the "Presidents Committee of Fifty on College Hy giene." Dr. Small investigated in struction in Hyginene, student health service, and physical education. He had talks with Dean Bradshaw, Dr. T. J. Wilson, Dr. Walker, Coach Fet zer, Dr. Manning, Dr. Bullitt, and Dr. McNider while here and gather ed a quantity of information. BENNY ARNOLD Switched from halfback to quarter; he kicked a field goal from the 45-yard line in the game against V. P. I. n z. i ".:'.VV SANDERS TALKS ABOUT PRISONS Gives Very Interesting Facts Regarding Prisons to N. C. Club The North Carolina Club held its fortnightly meeting Monday, Novem ber 19, in Saunders Hall. After the regular business of the organization had been transacted the members listened to a very interesting talk by Mr. W. B. Sanders on "County Pris ons." The information given out in this talk was gathered by an investi gation that the department of Rural Social Economics conducted through the prisons of the state. Question naires were sent out to forty-nine rep resentative county prisons seeking in formation as to the conditions exist- ant in the jails. Also individual questionnaires were sent to three hundred and six prisoners in the va rious county jails. The results of these question sheets were given out by Mr. Sanders, and they shed an in teresting light on the prison condi tions in the state. It was found that sixty-two per cent of the inmates of the jails were either totally illiterate or could bare ly read and write; 62.3 per cent were under thirty years of age. As to the offense for which they were charg ed, 31.1 per cent were convicted of violating the prohibition law; 27.2 per cent for crimes against property, such as stealing, larceny, burglary, etc; 22.2 percent for crimes of vio lence, such as murder and assault; 7.8 percent for sex crimes. As to the prisoners' religious affil iations it was found that 50.3 per cent did not belong to any church; 46.1 percent belonged to some church; 3.6 percent had formerly been mem bers of churches but had withdrawn for some reason. Concerning the health of the prison inmates, it was learned that 25.4 per cent either had venereal diseases at the time the questionaires were sent out or had formerly been afflicted with some form of venereal disease. Interesting . facts were learned about the condition, sanitray and oth- (Continued on Page 2) F. H. TIIESMAR Who is now playing his second year as varsity cen ter for the Cavaliers. i I: .'At. 1 9 V k'fa sir r r , i j - - - ,i i ; V , r " j..-. - ' 'i " : ' -. .; . f , ' - s.-yt. i - I- ' v ? i I - "V i RED CROSS WILL CONDUCT ANNUAL CALL FOR FUNDS Every Student and Citizen of Town Will Be Asked to Answer Roll Call GIRLS TO SOLICIT FUNDS November 23rd to November 27th is the time set aside for the annual Red Cross Roll Call in Chapel Hill. During that time every person in town and every student will be asked to answer the roll call of the Amer ican Red Cross with a membership fee of at least $1.00. Girls attired in Red Cross costume will solicit the sale of the buttons indicating you have done your bit. There will be four booths for this sale: at Swain Hall, the Post Office, the "Y," and the Pickwick. Plans for a thorough canvass of the campus were made at a meeting Wednesday presided over by Dr. Odum, Chairman of the Chapel Hill Chapter of the Red Cross. Those present at that meeting will act as a campus committee. They include: Wm. D. Harris, Dean Bradshaw, the "V" C,...t...r 1M nnna W IT Holderness, W. W. Gwynn, John Pur ser, J. O. Harmon, Jack Allsbrook, and Miss Frances Venable. Wm D. Harris will serve as gen eral chairman for the campaign in both town and University. W. W. Gwynn, president of the senior class, will head the campus committee, Mrs. Walter Patten, president of the Com munity Club, will be in charge of the drive in town. Miss Minnie Harmon, Executive Secretary of the Durham Red Cross Chapter and representative of the Southern Division, will assist in the drive. She made a talk at chapel this morning explaining the work of the Red Cross and the purpose of the annual roll call. The splendid and immediate re sponse of the American Red Cross to the need of Japan after the great earthquake the past summer is just .such work as gives the Red Cross the united support of all good citizens. Here in North Carolina in the past year at New Bern after the great fire and at Wendell after the destructive cyclone, the Red Cross lent tremen dous assistance and did relief work for several months. Student Section To Have No Outsiders No outsiders will be admitted into the student section 1 Cheer leader Froneberger says that this is final and will be strictly adhered to at the rame. It has been reported that a number of students have been get ting tickets from other students for parents, or girls in the student cheer ing section. Those who do this will be much embarrassed when they will be barred from the cheering section on the day of the big game. He says that guards will absolutely keep out all but students from the cheering sec tions. Sections for students who have girls or friends down for the game and who wish to sit with them will have special sections at the side of the student section for this particu lar purpose. The guards will not be embarrassed in the least by barring outsiders from the student section. This measure is necessary on ac count of the cheering. A break in the cheering section will greatly hurt the cheering for the game and upon that depends much on the outcome of the game. The cheerleaders ask that all students attend the pep meet ings which are scheduled in another part of the TAR HEEL so that the yells and songs may be practiced. The band will be on hand at all these pep gatherings and it is desired to have as large an attendance as pos sible. iHORT STORY CONTEST A contest in Short Story Waiting open to all students enrolled during the fall of 1923 in any college or Uni versity in the state will be conducted by the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Raleigh, N. C, for a prize given by Mrs. Edith Van derbilt, a copy of the works of O'Henry. This contest will be open until April 1, 1924. Envelopes should be sent to the Superintendent with the words "Short Story Contest" writ ten on it in addition to the address.