North Carolina Newspapers

Mm CIRCULATION This Issue: 2,506 Guilford Tonight Vol. XXXII Chapel Hill, N. C, Jan. 15, 1924 No. 25 PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL PASS DRASTIC RULE No Pledges Will Be Allowed in Houses Except at Cer tain Hours :nine men initiated Fraternities at the University add ed nine new initiates last week. IL is rumored that Dr. Wilson's rec ords kept quite a number of others from wearing their colors. This last initiation was for the most part con fined to men of advanced standing from other colleges. Several mo'i will be initiated after the results from the coming law exams are reported. Fraternity initiations this year, un der the new rules, will be frequent. The high standard set for those to ibe initiated is keeping quite a num ber out, but should be an incentive for better grades. A report from thj freshmen class grades coming from Dr. Wilson is very discouraging. large percentage did not pass even one course. Still more only have one course to their credit, and the pres ent outlook is that many pledged will never be initiated. The Pan Hellenic Council has taken steps to help the freshmen improve their records. No pledges will be al lowed to be in fraternity houses ex cept at certain hours of the day, and for special occasions. From one to three in the afternoons, and from five-thirty to eight at night are . their hours at the houses. This does .not apply from the last class Satur day up to nine o'clock Sunday night. Every night freshmen pledges must be in their rooms after nine o'clock. Other rules of a similar nature have been passed by the Council and will be mailed to each fraternity. The list of the newly initiated is here given as nearly accurate as pos sible. If there are any names omit ted they will be published immediate ly if the fraternity will let the Tar Heel know about it: Delta Kappa Epsilon, C. F. Smithson, Jr., Rocky Mount; Phi Delta Theta, Wallace Chamblee, Zebulon; Sigma Chi, Steve Davis, Charlotte; Beta Theta Pi, -Sheppard, Winston-Salem, Kappa Alpha, Joe McGee, Spartanburg; Ed gar Love, Lineolnton; Sigma Phi Epsilon, E. S. Avery, Morganton; Sigma Nu, J. P, Mosely, Orangeburg, S. C; Delta Sigma Chi, E. O. Crow, Raleigh. ' About Thirty Studes Pull Big Bonehead Unsophisticated freshmen and : sophisticated upperclassmen, number ing about 30 students of the Univer sity, were guilty at the beginning of this the winter quarter of an old :time registration "bonehead", accord ing to information obtained at the of fice of the University registrar. No less than 30 students put their registration slips in their pockets and walked around the campus, attending -classes, shaking hands, and studying, 'blissfully ignorant of the fact that they had not registered. To their surprise professors called not their names when running over the rolls; to all intents and purposes :they were not students. Worried, they sought out the registrar. Upon investigation, he found that they were not registered, and the recalci trants, following a period of agon izing scrutiny on the part of the reg istrar, were re-admitted to good class :standing. Moral: a man is never too old or too sophisticated to be ignorant. Work On Gymnasium Has Been Completed Work of remodeling the Bymim Gymnasium is now completed and students are again enjoying gymna sium privileges, according to an nouncement from .the offices of At wood and Nash, University architects, who were in charge of the remodel ing work. Tho rnnf of the gym and the gal- lory, used as a track by track men and also used within recent years to house basketball crowds, have both been greatly reinforced. With the erection and opening of the new in door athletic field, however, the gym will probably not be so crowded as .it has been heretofore and will provide -more - opportunity for .physical edu cation classes. DEAN BRADSHAW MAKES REPORT Half of the University Student Body Took Part in Athletics Half of the University student body participated in some form of athletics during the fall quarter, ac cording to a report submitted by F. F. Bradshaw, Dean of Students, to President H. W. Chase. Athletes who were in training for intra-mural, Varsity, and Freshmen athletics total at least half of the student body, Dean Bradshaw states; and he looks upon this fact as a sig nificant reminder that mass athle tics here has more than proved its woith. The results of the first quarter's work of the Intra-mural Sports De partment of the Dean's office, accord ing: to the report, follows: Number of men registering in one sport only 484 Number of men registering for two sports 170 Number of men registering for three sports 48 Total number registering 702 Of this number 299 were fresh men and 403 were upper classmen. The number registering in each sport follows: Push Ball V .... 254 Track 250 Tag Foot Ball : 467 Approximately 100 men who regis tered for the track event did not take part. Deducting this number from the registration shows that ap proximately 600 men took part in dormitory athletics during the fall quarter. Statistics compiled upon investiga tion showed that dormitory football teams, in addition to playing then- regular games, practiced on an aver age of 17 times during the autumn, thus giving all participants approx imately two and one half afternoons per week practice. The report expresses the belief that these statistics fully justify intra mural and mass athletics and that this dormitory competition is giving rise to a healthy form of dormitory riv alry. During the quarter prizes were donated to dormitory champion teams and athletes hy the University Laun dry, the Book Exchange, merchants of Chapel Hill, the Order of the Grail, and ladies of the community. The work was largely under the direction of John R. Purser, Jr., Manager of the Intra-mural Athle tic Department. THE DEAR OLD - INN TORN AWAY Old Landmark Razed to Make Way for Raising of Gra ham Memorial "Gee, but don't it look funny over that way?" ! Questions similar to the one above have been asked over and over dur ing the past few days, as students walk down the path from the Post office to the Quadrangle. It does look funny over in the direction of the site of the Old Inn. No wonder. The Old Inn has been razed. For the past several decades of student generations the Old Inn has been a landmark here. Students have been told of the history con nected with the building. Alumni regarded the Inn as a place equally as rich in tradition as the "dear old well" and "dear old Davie Poplar." Somehow the past few generations of students could hardly get the sen timent connected with such an ugly old structure. To them it was an eye-sore and a disgrace to the Uni versity. The sooner removed th better it would be for the whole com munity. Threats were heard after nearly every big athletic victory hat the Old Inn would serve as a means of celebrating the victory. Two years ago the Old Inn proper, for the part being torn away is but the annex, burned down. It was oiv; day just after dinner. Everybody was coming down to get the mail when someone spied the flames that were rising up from the roof of the building. In a short while the whole building was aflame. The dry wood burned with such ease that the town fire department and others who were fighting the fire soon realized that the best that could be done wAild be to save the annex. The same spirit that accompanies the present raziiv "(Continued on Page 4) PROFESSOR KOCH RETURNS FROM NEW YORK TRIP Dramatic Professor Saw Sev eral Plays While In the Big City GIVES SEVERAL LECTURES Professor Frederick H. Koch, Pro fessor of Dramatic Literature and Director of The Carolina Playmak ers in the University, returned recent ly from New York and vicinity, and relates a very interesting account of his impressions. His primary pur pose in going to New Yorjc was in the interests of his Department, and his mission was to deliver a ser-e s of lectures at Columbia University. Two lectures were given in the Columbia Institute of Arts and Sciences on "Folk Playmaking in North Carolina," illustrated with lantern i sli'es of scenes from plays produced hy The Carolina Playmakers. , Professor Koch found a very interested audi ence, and his lectures were well re ceived. Aside from his lectures, a vast portion of his time was spent in attending the theatres and renew ing old acquaintances. The most re markable feature of his visit was that within the eight days that compris ed his sojourn, he saw a total of fourteen plays. He was particularly impressed by the creditable number of North Car olinians, migrated from the Univer sity and elsewhere, who have made a place for themselves in the sun of the theatrical and literary world. With these personages, including Hatcher Hughes, Sidney ; Blactmer, Elizabeth Taylor, Lula VQllmer, and Harold Williamson, he was chiefly concerned. i 1 Professor Koch was very favorab ly impressed with Hatcher Hughes' "Hell-Bent for Heaven," which he saw as a trial preformance in Tren ton, New Jersey, and which is now running on Broadway. It is a power ful dramatization of the heroic moun taineers of North Carolina, and con trary to the usual run of plays of this type, deals with the better class of mountain folk. Hp AnjwiiujJ "an excellent play, and said tnat Hatcher Hughes may be looked to for more plays of this nature, i Mr. Hughes is a native of Western North Carolina and a graduate of the Uni versity, and is very proud of the fact. He has a deep interest it the University and the work The Carolina Playmakers are -doing. "Hell-Bent (Continued on Page 4) Physicians Are the ; : Speakers at Session Dr. McPherson of the Med School and Dr. Nathan, County Health Offi cer, each made talks to the joint meet ing of the Community Club and Par ent Teacher Association last week. Their talks took the course of health among the community and especially the school children. Dr. McPherson spoke on anti-tox ins as a curative of dipththena and vaccinations as a preventative of whooping cough. He also brought out the danger of transmitting dis eases and symptoms, and advised the calling in of the physician on very occasion, as the disease may always be worse than anticipated. Dr. Nath an followed Dr. McPherson's talk, with a discussion of quarentine. Ho advised that every disease be repot t ed to the quarentine officer. Even the case should be reported to the quarentine officer, when no donor is Held, if the case be of communica ble nature. Dr. Nathan reports that a colored . 11 , A- It . .4.-. nurse nas Deen aaoeu to uw a-unij Health staff. Her work will he an-.ong the colored people, teaching them san itation and preventatines for diseases. The salary for the new nurse, who bsgins work January 1, is financed by the sale of Red Cross Seals, with the colored people making up the dif ference. The health department of the Community Club is fostering the move. This is being done in a:i at tempt to lower the death rate from tuberculosis, in the County, which ranks 11th from the top, in deaths. N. C. C. W. claims the distinction of being the first college in the South to introduce the English game of soccer. The news item that announces the first game of the popular Eng lish sport also gives out the infor mation that there will be practices every Tuesday afternoon. TO MAKE CHANGE Latecomers Without Sufficient Excuses Will Be Taxed Five Dollars Late registration by students of the University will hereafter be dealt with very severely, according to new regulations promulgated, discussed, and adopted at a meeting of the Fac ulty, held last Tuesday. Henceforth all students who regis ter late, upon returning from Christ mas, Easter, or any other vacation period, will be put on probation, no matter what may be their excuses. No excuses will be acceptable, it is learned, not even death or sickness in the student's family. In addition to being put on pro bation, all students who do not of fer sufficient excuse will have an ex tra fee of five dollars tacked to their bills for registering late. Students with sufficient excuses will not have to pay this fine, but all will be put on probation. These drastic steps, it has been an nounced, were taken as a result of the large number of late arrivals who tri-yearly roll into Chapel Hill and register for classes a day or two after classes begin. It is estimated that 300 students arrived late after the Christmas vacation this year; these same 300 students are said to have registered late and thereby greatly paralyzed the working ma chinery for the first couple of days of the winter term, it is declared. Hereafter, during the regular school year, all Junior and Senior students will register for their fol lowing quarter's work before leaving for home on their vacations, Fresh men and Sophomores will be register ed in the manner they now are, viz., following their return from vacation periods. Juniors and Seniors will not be con sidered registered until they attend classes on the day following regis tration, and if they are absent from these classes will be put on proba tion as also will Freshmen and Soph omores. According to the new plans, but one day, instead oi tne customary tration purposes. LIBRARY GETS VALUABLE GIFTS Historical Set of Newspapers and Interesting Album Comes Into Hands of Librarian The Library, 'as a result of Dr. Wilson's correspondence with the Public Library of Indianapolis has received an important gift from that institution. The gift comprises sixty or more bound volumes of newspa per, covering the years 1876-1878. They include the most important pa pers of that day, and are chiefly im portant because they give the senti ments of the whole North towards the reconstruction period in the South. Of the seventeen papers in the gift, only one is a Southern organ, but istpeaks the views ot the boutn as against the other sixteen of the North. They, all together, give much good historical data pertaining to the country at that time. The following are the names of the seventeen papers: Baltimore Amer ican and Commercial Advertiser, Bos ton Daily Advertiser, Boston Post, Chicago Times, Cincinnati Enquirer Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.,) Daily Post (Pittsburgh Pa.) Detroit Free Press, Evening Gazette, Even ing Post, The Gazette, (Montreal,) Light of Truth, News and Courier (Charleston, S. C) St. Louis Repub lican, Springfield Republican, Toledo Morning Commercial, and The N. Y. World. Another gift comes to the Univer sity from Wm. E. Maverick of San Antonio, Texas. It is an autograph ed album belonging to his father, Wm. IT. Maverick, who finished at tins University in the class of 180'.), and died in Texas last December. The album contains a list of W. H. Maverick's classmates in March, 1809. With each name is given the college organizations, professional courses, home addresses, and senti ments of each, together with a host of mottoes and poems. The album has two chief points of interest.. It adds to the already large collection of autographed al- ( Continued on Page 4) SENIOR CLASS MEETING Senior Class meeting Wed nesday, Gerrard Hall at Chapel period for the pur pose of electing commence ment ball managers. MISS KNOX TO PLAY THURSDAY "Carolina's Favorite" Comes Here for Fourth Successive Season Miss Emily Rose Knox, "Caro ina's favorite," "the greatest living American woman violinist," is to play at 8:15 in Memorial Ha 1 Thursday, r-very season for the past four years Miss Knox has given a concert for ti;e University and at each succes sive time that i-he has made her ap pearance she las bejn gien a great ovation each year grea than the $ i.i before. The general admission u 75 cents vh;lo there ivi 300 reserved seats at $1. Miss Knox's general managers are Arthur and Helen Hadley of New York while the Wigue and Masque are in charge of the local concert. Miss Knox is an artist in the. highest sense fo the word. She is the possessor of a magnetic person ality which blends with h ?r playing till the two are well nig?: indistin guishable. She but whips her bow across her instrument in a few mng nic passes and she has he ' audience half bewitched with the story that her violin tells for her. Leopold Alley, the mast" teacher of the violin, ;irr Miss Knox had studied under h'm for thrwo years, said that he h lieved she would soon be the "greatest living American wo man violinist " Even the great Auer piaises her! Miss Sue Kyle Southwhrc who has played repeatedly at Chapel Hill, is Miss Knox's accompaniast. It is seldom that an artist as young as Miss Knox reaches th-i position CUt quite jJliaaiuij fi- .!"" claiming manner have ha J much to do with her success. At the close of her past cor.cc.-rt Miss Knox came out on the steps of Memorial Hall an.l played unaccom panied various popular ai'M whilo Hundreds of the students gathered abound her. The story is told that last year af ter she had finished playing on the .'tops of the Hall she continued to one of the Fratenity houses, and there, in the crowded and brilliant ly lighted living room, she stood and p'ayed while her audience gathered about her. The adjoining rioni wan dark and one of the group stepped into it to turn on the lienL In the dark he stepped on some ono. When the light was finally on it ma found that nearly thirty men had crawled in through a side door and were ly-in-; on the floor listening to the mu sic. President Chase On Southern Trip President II. W. Chase is absent from Chapel Hill this week on a seven-days' tour of the South, and while on this trip he will make several ad dresses bcfoie various organizations of Alabama and Georgia, according to word obtained from the President's office. Thursday afternoon Doctor Chase addressed the President and Trus tees' Section of the Southern Agri cultural Workers Convention, held at Birmingham, Ala., while on Friday morning he addressed the students of Agnes Scott college, at Decatur, Ga. Friday night he was the principal speaker at a dinner given by the Uni versity Alumni Association of Atlan ta, and carried Carolina's tidings Southward to the Gate City graduates jf the Tar Heel institution. Dr. E. C. Branson of the Depart ment of Rural Social Economics who is now in Paris, will return to Chap el Hill about the middle of March. Dr. Branson has been studying rural conditions in Europe for the past four months and some interesting ar ticles concerning his observations have appeared in the state newspa pers. Mrs. Branson and their daughter Elizabeth will not return until June. CAROLINA TEAM MEETS GUILFORD TUESDAY NIGHT Line-Up Will Probably Be the Same as That Which Start ed the Mercer Game WILL BE SECOND GAME Jubilant over the 35-23 defeat ad ministered to Mercer in the form of a season-opener, the Carolina basket ball team will attempt to duplicate the trick when they meet the Guil ford quint down in the "Tin Can", tonight. Little is known about the Quakers with the exception that they are reported as having a strong team and much hope of setting the Tar Heels back a pace. The mist of uncertainty that has hung over the team since the begin ning of the winter quarter was great ly clarified over the week-end by the announcement that neither Sam Mc Donald nor Johnny Purser would be able to grace the court this season. Both of them annexed too many of those detested sixth letter of the al phabet. Billy Devin also failed to make Phi Beta Kappa grades but it was announced Saturday that cer tain hindering conditions will, in all probability, be removed before to night and that Devin will be in uni form. Bill Dodderer, who injured his knee in the Mercer game was unable to at tend practice last week and may hj unable to play tonight. In caso of continued disability on his part, eith er Lineberger or Devin will take hi.) place at guard. In other respects the team is in prime condition, and with the possi ble exception of Dodderer, the line up will be the same as in the Mercer contest. FACULTY FAIL TO RATIFY BY-LAWS Refuse to Ratify Amendments Proposed by Southern Inter- Refusal to ratify two proposed amendments to the by-laws adopted by the Southern Intercollegiate Con ference at its last meeting, at Wash ington December 7 and 8, marked n session of the University Faculty held Wednesday. i The amendments turned down by Carolina would make all new rulc3 of the association operative imme diately after passage and would lim it the number of games played by freshmen football teams to five, not m .re than two games of which wee to be played away from home. Under the old ruling, new confer ence rules go into operation imme diately, but may be suspended, if af ter 60 days fifty percent of the fac ully body of the institutions repre sented have not ratified. The )ro pofed new ruling would make alll new rules cpeintive immediately after passnge, for at least one year when, if ns many as fifty percent of th; faeuHy b-dies had failed to ratify, they would be brought up for recon sideration. The amendment limiting the num ber of freshmen games, whether or ( Continued on Page 4) Freshmen Have , Scribblers Club An organisation which made its initial appearance last fall among the Freshman English classes is the Freshman Scribblers Club. Thi Club which is made up of those Freshmen who are interested in writ ing and other things which have to do with English meets every two weeks in Murphey Hall. The mem bership at present is about ten. The organization of the Club is very unique. Its executive commit tee is composed of three members, who have charge for three meet'ngs. Each member of the committee pre sides at one meeting. When each member has presided over one meet ing a new committee is chosen, which goes on in the same manner. Tlu'it are no permanent officers. New mem bers are admitted only on the presen tation of meritorious piece of writ ing, which is to be judged by the committee in charge at the time. The members of the Club are enthusias tic and it is expected to be both a helpful and entertaining project.