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Mm '(r REMEMBER THE, RED CROSS REMEMBER THE RED CROSS VOLUME XXXIII CHAPEL HILL, N, C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12,' 1924 NUMBER 16 NEW SCHEME TO BE TESTED SOON IN DEBATE HERE Oxford Union Plan Will Be Used In Meet With State College. . AUDIENCE TO BE JUDGE Carolina and State Will Have One Man on Each Side in Debate on December 8th. An entirely ' new Innovation in inter collegiate debating for the University will be tried' here in a scheduled debate to take place with North Carolina State .college on Monday night, December 8, in Gerrard hall, according to announcement by M. M. Young, secretary of the debat ing council. The query 1st "Resolved That the proposed amendment to the Federal Constitution, authorizing ' the regulation of child labor, should be adop ted." ' The debate is to be held under the rules of the Oxford debating union, tend ing thereby to eliminate the scramble for judges' decisions which has In the past . motivated many intercollegiate debating teams, according to followers of this sys tem. . ' .Under the Oxford union plan, Carolina will be represented by only two men, one man upholding each side of the query. Carolina's affirmative speaker .will debate with a State affirmative speaker as his colleague, opposed by a Carolina man and a State man on (he negative. . Time limit of the final speech es will be IS minutes, with the exception of the first affirmative speaker, who will represent Carolina, and who will have a 10-minute first speech and a five-minute rebuttal. No set rebuttal speeches will be allotted to the other debaters.' Following the debate, the audience is granted the privilege of asking questions concerning the query; the questioner ask ing any man on either team that he or she so designates to answer the question. The questions will be held within a two minute limitation. Following this open forum discussion, the audience will vote its convictions as to whether the affirma tive or negative side should be upheld. - The preliminaries to- select Carolina's speakers will be held Wednesday night, November 19, in the Fhi hall, giving contestants only a very short time to prepare. This, it is stated, is rendered necessary by reason of the comparative ly short time before the final debate is held. .; ,, ' ; It is also announced that judges in the preliminaries will inaugurate a slightly new system this year, whereby prelimi nary contests may be thrown out and declared null and void by the judges, if they are of the opinion that preliminary. preparation is not up to standard. Con sequently, the council urges men who try out for the debates this fall to put forth a great deal of effort in their prepara tion. In the preliminaries for the State de bate, the first speeches will be seven min utes in length, with each speaker having also a four-minute rebuttal. The council is also planning a regular IntefeaUegiate triangle debate before Christmas between South Carolina, Will iam and Mary, and North Carolina, but the query has not yet been selected. It will be announced within the 'next few days, along with the dates of the final debate and of the preliminary. It is announced that efforts will be made to announce the queries for the Washington and Lee-Johns Hopkins tri . angle and for the annual debate w!th West "Virginia before the Christmas hol idays, giving the men at least two months in which to prepare. The "big" tri angle will probably be held in the win ter quarter, with the West Virginia de bate coming either in the winter or early spring quarter, followed by the triangle between Tulane, University of the South, and North Carolina during the latter part of the spring quarter. , Tar Babies Play Virginia Frosh Here The freshmen will play their fourth game of the Intercollegiate series with the University of Virginia freshmen next Saturday on Emerson field. The Tar Babies have played three games, winning two of them and tieing the third. They beat their first game, with Bingham, by a score of 20 to 0, and also defeated the University of South Carolina freshmen 19 to 7. The third same, with State college, resulted in a 7 to 7 tie. The team Is in the best of shape, and with no one seriously Injured. Bo Shep ard, captain and quarterback, was on tfie sick list for a while but is now call ing signals again on the first team. The team has shown a good brand of football during the whole season, and the coaches have been drilling it relent lessly In preparation for the coming bat tle, ' MADE PRESENT OF MANNING PICTURE Law School Receives Portrait of Former Head. NOTABLES ARE ON HAND Life Sketch of , Manning Given by - ' Justice Adams. Before an audience of notable state officials, including Justices Clarkson and Adams of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State Everett and Attorney General Manning, the University law school re ceived Thursday night, a portrait of Dr. John Manning, former head of the law school, from the hands of one of his descendants. Justice Adams delivered the principal address of the presentation. , He was followed by short talks by President Chase and Dean Ferson. B. S. Gay, president of the class, accepted the por trait in behalf of theJaw school. Seven of the eight living sons and daughters, and a grandson of the late professor, were present. . r . , - Justice Adams gave a complete record of John Manning's life, from his early days in Edenton until he became head of the University law school. He entered the University as a sophomore in 18iT, and made excellent grades while here. He was a member of the Phi society and , was regarded as one of the best debaters in school. Two years after he came here he graduated wfth a class of 25 members. After receiving his diploma he went with his father to South America, but soon came back and took up the prac tice 'of law. He had' no political ambi tion and refused time after time the offer of public office. . They wanted to make him secretary of state or judge of the superior court, but he wouldn't con sider either. At the beginning of the Civil war he joined the Chatham Rifles as a volunteer and was elected first lieu tenant. '' He was promoted to adjutant and while with the regiment at Yorktown was appointed received under the Se questration acts and this position he held until arms were finally laid down.' He took an Important part in the proceed ings of the Secession Convention which met in Raleigh on May 20, 1861, urging that force be metjrith force. Follow ing the war he returned to his law prac tice. ' " , In 1870 he "was elected a member of the 41st Congress to fill out the unex pired term of the Hon. Robert Gilliam, who had died. In the next Congress he was succeeded by Sion H. Rogers of Wake county. ; He was elected a dele gate to the Constitutional Convention of 1875. While a member of the general assembly in 1881 he took an active part in security for the University its first annual appropriation. He became head of the University law school by unanimous election of the board of trustees in 1881 and retained the position until his "death. . Speaking of Dr. Manning, Justice Ad ams said: "Mr. Manning's outreaching influence was refining; his moral energy com manded respect; his life was a rebuke tpl injustice and wrong. For the de mands alike of the office and the forum he was thoroughly furnished by nature and training. He was qualified for achievement by the texture of his mind, by the honesty of his purpose, by his power of concentration and his capacity for research, by his personality, his con science, and every Impulse of his nature. "He treated the law -not as a "wilder ness of single instances,' but as a branch of systematized knowledge. For the wholesome traditions of the- bar he had profound respect. He could tolerate Mr. Bumble's assertion that the law is a ass, a idiot' only in case it 'supposed' that which It never supposes; and his exalted conception of ethics was a sharp condemnation of Charles Macklin's asper sion, 'The luw is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket.'"' - - Dr. Chase In his tolk said of Dr. Man ning: V. "There are few men in the history of this institution who have been held in such affectionate memory by their stu dents. A life like that is a perfect thing within itself. ' It sets the Ideal of those who come after us as a stimulus to fur ther achievement. t "Dr. Manning was more than a teacher of law, more than a scholar; he was a man. who In troubled times had faith that through education there would come a way out. His interest in the Univer sity was by no means confined to the law school. He had always been Inter ested In every phase of the work of the institution. So it is but natural that the student body now holds him In affec tionate regard." The Odd Number chapter of the Sig ma Upsilon national literary fraternity Initiated the following men last weeki W. N. Cox, Rowland; M. M. Young, Durham; C. E. Miller, Providence, R. I. Statistics V. M. I.-U. N. C. Game Carolina Yards gain line ,Yards lost line... Yards gain end Yards lost--end........ ' Yards gain passes... Punts average yards Punts yards returned .... Fumbles Fumbles recovered..! Penalties yards v.m. i. : v ; "v Quarters -SSS 1st ' 2nd Ird 4th V.M.I. Yards gain Jine 20 . 25 12 5 62 Yards lost line. .. 1.8 1 1 5 Yards gain end 0 ' 10 17 17 44 Yards lost end.. 6 -2 0 0 8 Yards gain passes 0 , 0 0 22 22 Passes attempted. 1 B 7 2 ' 7 Passes completed - 0 P 0 i l Passes grounded. ! '2 0 0 3 Passes intercepted 0 "1 11 3 Punts v. 8 ;4 2 1 10 Punts average, yards...... 39 88 37 40 36 Punts yards returned.... 10 , 29 27 20 86 Fumbles ....:.. 0 ; 0 ,02 2 Fumbles recovered... 0 . ( 0 " 0 0 0 Penalties yards ......V.... 10 '' 20 0 5 35 First downs .....;:..Jf........ 1 1 1 1 4 Note First downs by penalties not included. FLYING SQUADRON'S WINGS CLIPPED ON TAR HEEL GRIDIRON WHEN JACK .MERRITT PUTS ACROSS THE GOODS Fast Fallback Remembers Richmond and 1922 Hackney Kicks Winning Field Goal Matthews and Bonner Spoil Virgin ians' Air Attack Whole University Team Plays Up and At Them White Is V. M. I. Star. v The Carolina Ram, both human, and otherwise, proved too much for V. M. I. last Saturday and the cadets from Lex ington went down in defeat by the score of 3 to 0, a dropkick by Hackney from the 20-yard line at a bad angle bringing the score after Mejritt, the human bat tering ram, had carried the ball for SO yards around end to bring it into scor ing distance. Merritt played the stellar game of the day and brought back mem ories of Carolina's great victory over V. M. I. at Richmond in 1922. The teams were very evenly matched and fought on a par most of the time. Carolina, however, was a little the bet ter and the score about tells the mar gin of difference between the two. The first downs were 8 to 6 with -the Tar Heels having the larger number. . It was the first game for the new Car olina mascot, Rameses II, and he nobly performed his duties and brought good luck and a win to the team. The Tar Heels played by far their best game of the season; they were up on. their toes and fighting every second of the contest Several breaks went to them, but It was more because they created the breaks and took advantage of their chances. Merritt proved to hi the star of the game. It was his great work through the line ana around the ends that ena bled the Tar Heels, to overcome their opponents. His punting was exception ally good and slightly outdistanced that of White, his rival. . The Carolina line proved a terrpr on defense; the great White, six feet three inches ' of great football material, was unable to gain any appreciable distance through the line or around end. .Whenever he received the ball there were four or five men to hit him at the same time. It was the rush ing of the line that forced him to hurry his punts so that he could not get the distance that he had in practice before the game. ' The Cadet aerial attack that has been going good all season failed against the Tar Heels. Of their seven passes only one was made-good, while three were intercepted by the Carolinians, Bonner grabbing two and Matthews one. The Fetzerites only attempted one pass and It was unsuccessful. Matthews displayed the same hard fight and speed that has characterized his play all season. He was down under the punts as usual and sent the V. M- I. backs to the ground time and again for no gain. . Epstein also played a spec tacular game. The Carolina lin which appeared weak at the first of the season has developed into one of the best in the South Atlantic. Robinson,- who played his first entire game Saturday, looked especially good and appears to have won a permanent berths Hogan also both started and fin Ished his first game. ' r. " , : . ' Total Quarters , rains 1st' and ird h - U. N. C. 6 14 19 18 57 0 0 2 0 2 20 " ,1 ; 42 13 76 23 1, 0 0 24 0 .0 0 0 0 0 ( 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 i 0 0 1 0 0 : 0 0 0 8 4 4' 4 4 IS 40 ; 45 85 44 41 7 3 0 0 13 0 1 . 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 20 0 15 45 1 0 ; 2 2 5 Dfvin, who was at quarter most of the time, generated the team well and at a critical time broke loose for a 40 yard run that perhaps saved the game from being a three all tie. In the last few minutes of play it was Carolina's ball on their own 10-yard line and the third down. V. M. I. would have prob ably received the ball close enough for White to send over one of his long-distance place kicks, but Devin on a fake play slipped through the' line and awiy for 40 yards before he was downed.. It gave the Tar "Heels first down and the game ended before they lost the ball. The. Carolina cheering was the best that has been heard on Emerson field since the days of Scrubby Reeves, which is saying a great deal. During the half the Carolina freshmen marched out on the field and formed a living V. M. I. and then turned it into a U. N. C. First Quarter At 2:20 the Carolina team came on the field led by their new mascot and ran through a short signal drill. Five min utes later the Cadets rushed out and went through a short warming up. V. M. I. won the toss and elected to defend the east goal. , Merritt kicked ' to Caldwell who was downed on the 12-yard line. On the third play after the Cadtts had failed to gain the center threw the ball over White's head and over the goal line. The Cadet fullback recovered and returned it past the goal line, but Carolina was offsides and was penalized five yards, giving V. M. I. first down. Two tries at the line netted five yards and White punted. Carolina was again offsides and was penalized five yards. It was V. M. I.'s ball on the 30-yard line ;. , Harmeling gained two yards but on the next play the Cadets were penalized 10 yards. White punted to Carolina's 35-yard line to Devin who returned seven yards. Merritt carried the ball 18 yards around right end. Three tries gained four yards and Devin tried a drop kick that was short. It was V. M. I.'s ball on their 9-yard line. O White punted to. Devin on the 50-yard line. Merritt gained three yards. Devin went through the line for two yards. On an end run Merritt was thrown for a 20-yard loss. Merritt kicked to Fos ter on the 30-yard line. He returned 10 yards. The Cadets could not gain, and. White punted, the ball rolling over the goal line. Carolina's ball on the 20- yard line. Two tries brought no gain and Merritt punted to Caldwell who was downed on the 12-yard line. Harmeling made five yards off tackle, Foster three yards through the line, White plunged for first down. End of quarter, V. M. I.'s ball on Carolina's 47-yard line. Second Quarter " A pass was Incomplete. Foster moxle (Continued on pape four) PLAYftlAKERSOFF FOR STATE TOUR Eight Eastern Towns Are to Be Visited. ONE NIGHT STANDS ONLY Three New Plays to Be Taken On Ninth Trip. The Carolina Playmakers will Inaugu rate their ninth state tour when they leave Chapel Hill today for Wilson, where the first performance will be given. From Wilson the Playmakers will journey to Goldsboro, then to New Bern, Fayetteville, Red Springs, Dunn, Pitts boro, and. Raleigh. Thus eight towns will be visited in all, and the trip will last eight days. In addition to the reg ular cast of the plays, Professor Koch, Ersklne Duff and Dougald Cox will go on the trip. Traveling will be by bus, in Jordan's newly purchased "Karolfna King." The scenery, all of which is new, and the elaborate - lighting equipment which the Playmakers have just pur chased, wiM be transported in three-ton trucks.' On the Playmakers' return from the tour the plays will be presented in Chapel Hill. The program and casting of the plays is as follows: "The Honor of Bonava," a picture of Reconstruction days in the old South, by Judge Robert W. Winston, the cast of which is as follows: Colonel Pettigrew, master' of Bonava George Denny; Jane, his daughter Margaret Jones; Dick, his son George Winston; Ned Wilson, his deceased wife's brother Robert Proctor; Rev. William Curtis, Jane's fiancee William Cox; Aunt Char lotte, house servant" of Bonava Louise Sawyer; Sheriff Bell, a carpet-bagger Ben Hicks; Cuffee, formerly Col. Pet tigrew's slave Brook Todd. ' "Politicin' in Horse Cove,", a comedy of a mountain village on election day. by Martha Boswell. Cast: Rainy For tune, a mountaineer J. E. Farrior; Mrs. Fortune, his wife Louise Sawyer; Sally, their daughter Frances Gray; Hannah, a neighbor Irene Sherrill; Zero Warren, Nat, and Joe, politicians L. II. Wallace, Brook Todd, B. C. Wilson. "The Scuffletown Outlaws," a tragedy of the famous Lowriei band of Robeson county, by William CoJ Cast: Henry Lowrie, leader of the outlaws William Cox; Steve Lowrie, his brother B. C. Wilson; June Lowrie, their sister, Fran ces Gray; Rhody Lowrie, their mother, Louise Sawyer j Luke, in love with June L. H. Wallace; John Sanders, a "white man" Robert Proctor; Donna hoe, a deputy sheriff P. L. Elmore. UNIVERSnr'GEniNG INTO THE LIMELIGHT Manufacturers Record and Menckins Devote a Little Attention to the N. C. State University. The recent election of the University to the presidency of the American Asso ciation of Universities is interesting to note in connection with the following clipping from the November issue of the Alumni Review: "Mencken puts the University down, until quite 'recently as a, 'fourth-rater.' The Manufacturers' Record of Balti more rates Carolina more highly, thus: " "The University of North Carolina is one of the most progressive and aggres sive educational Institutions in this coun try for stimulating the people of that state into improved farming methods and to awaken them to full utilization of their limitless resources. " 'Some other colleges and Universities in the South are following a somewhat similar line, but so far as we have been able to learn, none of them are doing the work on the same broad scale as the University of North Carolina. It is, indeed, an educational institution for the people of the entire state and for every class, rich and poor alike. "'Would that every other Institution of learning in the South were doing the same work with the same energy.'" Town Mystery V Is Solved At Last Students have often' wondered what the building with only the foundations laid between Jack Sparrow's place and Sutton and Alderman's was Intended to be. The mystery has been solved and future plans made. Mayor Robinson, the owner, has placed a contract for the steel of this building with a Greensboro firm and the building will soon be com pleted.: The former plans were to make a hotel or a theater or a combination out of the building, but plans now are to make room for three stores on the first floor and fraternity rooms on the second floor, if there are demands from frater nities. The Junior Order of Gorgon's Head announces the initiation of the following: G. G. Frazier, R. P. McClamrock, L. E. Watt, Pembroke Nash, John Redwlne, John McKie, Sidney Dowd and William Hadley. FAMOUS PIANIST LECTURER GIVES RECITAL FRIDAY Comes Under Joint Auspices of University Lecture Commit tee and Music Department. EXPLAINS AS HE GOES Plays Passage and Then Informally Explains to Hia Hearers in Simple and Understandable Language. ' v A piano lecture recital will be given at 8:30 Friday night in Memorial hall by Professor Daniel Gregory Mason, of Columbia university. Professor Mason is being brought here under the joint auspices of the University lecture com mittee and the music department, and his recital will Im free to the public. Professor Mason comes from one of the best known musical families in this country. His grandfather, Dr. Lowell Mason, was the first teacher of music in the public schools of America, and was the father of this movement which has spread all over the world; he was a composer of renown, being the author of the setting of the frequently used hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee." . Pro fessor Daniel Gregory Muson was born in 1873, was graduated from Harvard university and has studied under some of the most prominent teachers in this country and France. i Professor Mason is known as one of the leaders In popular education In music in America. He Is the author of fifteen volumes on music history, music form, and instrumentation. His five volume series on the appreciation of music -is recognized as an authoritative work; his book, "From Song to Symphony," has been adopted as a text by the Na tional Federation of Music Clubs. As a lecturer and recital artist Profes sor Mason is known all over the world. He has published a large number of compositions for piano, string quartet, and symphony orchestras which have been produced by the most prominent artists in this country and abroad. In his recital Prof. Mason sits it the piano, plays a few notes here and a longer passage there, analyzes- and plays a whole composition, and takes his audi ence Into his confidence as to how music is made. His explanations along this line are noted for their simplicity and freedom from technicalities. , The invariably large audiences that he attracts Is certainly to be regarded as a good tribute to his popularity. ARJHSTICE DAY DULY OBSERVED Exercises Held in Memorial Hall in the Morning. PROF. CONNOR SPEAKS Boxing and Wrestling Exhibition Given for Benefit of Local Post The University, the American Legion and the town combined to do reverence to the time when the great world war was brought to a close. The University, the townspeople and the American. Legion combined In an Armistice Day exercise yesterday morn ing in Memorial hall at 10:30. The children of the Chapel Hill school, headed by their band, marched In a body to Memorial hall to attend the exercises of the day. The members of the Amer ican Legion also marched to the exer cises In a body. Reserved seats were waiting for both the school children and the ex-soldiers. A good sized crowd at tended the exercises. The principal event of the morning was the address of Dr R. D. W. Con nor, of the University department of history. His address was excellently fitted to the spirit of the occasion. Sup plementing this address on the program was the reading of the roll of dead among University alumni and citizens of the county. The audience stood while this list was being read. Last night the American Legion held an exhibition of boxing and wrestling for the benefit of the local post of the Legion. Several fast bouts made quite a hit with the spectators. Gallegher showed up well In his bout. The wrest ling matches also proved interesting. Shirley Waters and Poindexler both at tracted a good bit of comment. A number of students and townspeo ple attended the performance and the local post was given a good boost In Its finances. ; i m , The editorial board of North Carolina Commerce and Induttry will be enter tained Wednesday evening at Winston- Salero by W. T. Rltter, who is a member of the staff. Members Of the faculty who will attend the meeting are Profes sors Murchlson, Brown, Zimmerman, S. H. Hobbs, Snell and Matherly.