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PLAYMAKERS 8:00 P.M. TONIGHT PLAYMAKERS 8:00 P.M. TONIGHT VOLUME XXXIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY S, 1925 NUMBER 65 WINSTON TAKES HIGH HONORS IN CONTEST FINALS Win Decision In One-Act Play and In Original Play Thursday Night. BAILEY PLAY- COACH Twin City High School Presented "Fixin's" and "Green Paint" and Outclassed Opposition. In the two. contests conducted Thurs day nighb by the State Dramatic asso ciation at the annual meeting here, both championship awards were won by the Winston Hi Players who were directed by J. O. Bailey, a University graduate of last year. In competing for the high" school cham pionship the Setzer Dramatic club of the Chapel Hill ; High School, directed by Miss Nellie Graves, put. on "The Wonder Hat," and Winston-Salem produced "Fix in's" by Erma and Paul .Greene."' In the original play contest the High School Dramatic club of Seaboard, directed by Miss Bernice Kelly, put on a play, "Old Lishe," a play of colonial days by one of the students, Miss Aldie Kinnin. "Green Painty by D. Pierson Ricks, a Winston High School Junior, gave a delightfully real picture of a group of typical village characters- in a cotton mill town. The play had an excellent setting of a village grocery store; the costuming was splendid and the acting unusually realistic But the marvel of the production was in the fact that the play itself was full of wit, clear-cut char acterizations, and interesting complica tions of plot. It was undoubtedly a good play. - .; ; , . Loretta Carroll , was perhaps the most delightful of the characters in her por trayal of the village gossip, Mrs. Ben- bow, who was always right and charac teristically referring to the times when she "was a gal." Abe Urban as the lit tle ' newsboy did an excellent piece of work. The characterization of the old storekeeper by Homer- McCoan was scarcely inferior to that of the old gos ,sip. ' 1"k 1 1 . 1 .. 1 T other so superbly that the production was entirely consistent. . The voices were excellent and the diction practically per fect. The play was replete with humor showing a rare combination of freshness t and sophistication. It was a comedy that moved with rapidity and ease. Except (Continued on page four) ctai f iW GDI? A UQ TO STUDENTS HERE Author of "What Price Glory" Talks to Journalism Class and to Class In Modern English. A few favored members of the cam pus had the unique pleasure of hear ing, on Monday, a man who has writ ten a successful war novel, collaborated In "What Price Glory," which has been called the "greatest play of the season; and now holds the position of Literary Editor of the New York World. Law rence Stallings, Wake Forest, 1915, was induced by Mr. Gerald Johnson to talk to his Journalism class and by Dr. J. F. Royster to speak to his class in Present Day English on the same day. Mr. Stallings spoke informally to the journalistic aspirants on the thesis, "Don't consider metropolitan journalism the whole cheese of the newspaper pro fession, when in truth, it's only the smell of it." He spoke on the troubles of journalism as especially related to .va rious phases of unofficial censorship ex erted by various religious labor, and fi nancial controlling elements." "The code of journalistic honor as to agreements with news sources Is now so strong lhat the great repertorial feats of fifteen or twenty years ago are gone," he said. "They will return but now they have dis appeared under the pressure of various interests.' , He pictured New York as flooded yearly by about ten thousand students, coming with the intention of doing one or all of three things; to write a play, be a play critic, or a literary editor. After discovering that 99 percent of the play successes are such because of pure unadulterated chance, rather than of any merit of 'their own; the aspiring writer finally also comes to the realization that there are only about a dozen literary editors or dramatic critics in New York today. "And," he added with character istic wit "Nnne of them are ready to give ug their jobs to anybody, and I'm perfectly certain that none of you shall ever have my job, I like it too well myself." He discussed columnists, edi torial writers .and magazine writers; In terjecting various humorous Incidents and comments. '. , In his talk to the class in Present Day English his especial Interest was in the vernacular, especially what he called (Continued on pagt four) HOW THEY HIT . (Through the Elon Player AB, Bonner : Coletrane . Stanton Coffey .... Jones Sharpe Sides . Johnson Finch Gibson Hatley Ferebee i Poyner Thomas . Holshouser Dodderer Green .' 68 9 65 56 33 21 36 : 63 4 69 72 n 13 18 77 18 6 1 Game) . H. Aver. 25 .368 3 .333 21 .323 17 .304 .10 .303 . 6 .286 10 .278 17 .270 1 .250 17 .246 17 .236 .231 .222 15 .195 ' 3 .167 .167 .000' Team 629 170 .270 TWO TALKS MADE BY JUDGE FAVILLE Is Chief Justice Iowa Supreme " Court. TOURING WITH EVERETT Spoke to Law School and Before His r Law Fraternity. Judge Frederick H. Faville, chief jus tice of the supreme court of Iowa, spent last Tuesday at the University and de livered two addresses while here. He is being conducted on a short . tour of North Carolina by R. O. Everett, prom inent lawyer of Durham. The Judge talked to the law students assembled in Manning hall Tuesday morning and to the Phi Alpha Delta fra ternity, of which he is a member, at a luncheon at the Carolina Inn. The noted Iowan offered the law stu dents a great deal of encouragement to gether with admonitions and warnings. He gave statistics which showed that a large percent of the prominent men have been lawyers at some time in their life. Of the 30 presidents, 25 were lawyers, and of the 96 senators, 69; of 'the secre taries of state, 47; of the 435 congress men, 227. The total number of lawyers in the country is 12,300. North Caro lina has 1,500, and Iowa 2,000. Judge Faville has a strong belief that the present generation of lawyers will play a big part in the future. He stated that our country has the oldest and least unchanged government in the world; the richest people and the greatest integrity in the courts. . At the Phi Alpha Delta luncheon, he declared that North Carolina and Iowa have much in common, both physically and in mental attitude. It was this sim ilarity that helped to promote the friend ship between Mr. Everett and himself while they were traveling ' together in Europe last summer. Mr. Everett, in introducing the speak er, paid high tribute to the work he has done for the American Law Institute. President Chase, Dean Ferson, Straton R. Coyner, head of Phi Alpha Delta fra ternity, and Prof. R. D. W. Connor also gave short talks. ' Judge Faville and Mr. Everett were on their way from Washington, where they had been attending the sessions, of the American Law Institute. They left here for Martin county to attend a bar becue Mr. Everett is giving. AWARD BE GIVEN UNUSUAL STUDENT Liberal Arts Faculty to Vote On Men. F O R DISTINCTIVE WORK Names Put On Bronze Tablet In Gra ham Memorial. Final announcements concerning the. Distlnctive'Studcnt Award, proposed by the faculty of the-College of Liberal Arts, have lately been given out by the Dean, Dr. James Finch Royster. About three months" ago the faculty accepted the report brought in by the committee on the Distictinve Student Award plan which recommended mak ing suitable recognition of unusual work done by-students. A committee of five appointed by Dr. Royster will recommend names of stu dents and the faculty of the college of liberal arts will vote on the names sug gested. A two-thirds vote will be neces sary to give the student or students the honor. .. . - ' The names of those who have shown unusual Intellectual distinction will ap pear on a bronze tablet to be placed in some suitable place on the Campus, pre sumably in the Graham Memorial build ing. The standard for the award will be very high. DISTORTED VIEWS GIVEN THE PUBLIC TODAY, SAYS MIMS Realists Victimizing People Through Harping On De structive Forces in Life. PRESENT "SINGLE PHASE Great Majority of People Unlike Those Presented in the Modern Novel and Far Better. "The American public of today is the victim of too many , writers who in seek ing to be realistic are continually harp ing on the destructive forces in life to the utter disregard of the wholesome and the good," declared Dr. Edwin Mims, professor of English in Vanderbilt Uni versity, in the second of two public lec tures which .was given Tuesday night. The result, he stated, is a" distorted view of life. He referred to such books as "Main Street," "Babbit," and "Spoon River Anthology." , Dr. Mims went on to say that while he agreed that there are such men and women as the characters of these books, there are others just as typical who have entirely different points of view and manifest entirely different characteris tics. '!;"' v.- :'' ' V" .' ' The subject'of Dr. Mims' address was Two Tendencies in Contemporary American Literature." He ' took the view that there are "two well-defined points of view in contemporary thought and that there is an irrepressible con flict between these two points of view. On the other hand, we have worldliness, indifference, materialism, ' determinism, pessimism, and cynicism; on the other we have a high seriousness, a tempered optimism and reasonable -faith in the ultimate realities of the spiritual life, in a word, idealism. "On the one hand, we have a litera ture that expresses in different form and in various styles the unrest, the disillus ionment, and the positive chaos of the present moment; on the other hand, we have an equally characteristic literature that interprets life and the universe and God in the light of traditions and stand ards that have become the priceless her itage of our race and of our country. It is my purpose to analyze as well as I may the first of these tendencies and then to suggest to you why I believe with all ( Continutd on page four) PLAYMAKERS TO PERFORM AGAIN N. C. C. W. Dramatic Club Will Present "Will-O-The-Wisp" Again Tonight. The Carolina Playmakers will repeat their last night's performance tonight, giving three one-act folk-plays in addi tion to the guest performance, "Will-o'-the-Wispj," being presented by the N. C. C. W. Dramatic club. The curtain will rise at 8:00 p.m. instead of 8:30. The University players returned early Thursday morning from a ten-day tour of the western part of North Carolina. Wednesday night they closed their tour with a performance in Greensboro, in spite of a near calamity when the spe cial bus in which they were riding at tempted to plunge over a cliff. "The Thrice-Promised Bride" by Chen- Chin Hsjung, formerly a student here, is the most elaborate play ever staged by the Playmakers from the point of costumes and lighting. It was considered last year at the readings but the produc tion of it was postponed until this year due to the great amount of work and time necessary for its staging. j Tonight's performance will open with the visiting play which won second place last year in the National dramatic con test held at Northwestern university. This play will last for about half an hour and the regular Playmnker program will begin immediately following It. "Old lines," by Ray Heffner, opens the per formance and will be followed by "The Thrise-Promised Bride." Bill Cox's pop ular "Scuffletown Outlaws" will be pre sented here again and is the last play on the program. Scouts Tearing Down Advertisements The local Boy Scouts, under the direc tion of the Chapel Hill women, have been doing 'good work in tearing down the signs which have defaced the high way between here and Durham. The Durham and Chapel Hill women decided upon this move some time ago, and at a joint meeting here last Monday the visitors promised to try to get their Scouts out to work on their side of the county line. The boys report the hearti est co-operation from the owners of the land on which the objectionable sign9 are posted. The Country club is giving a dance at the club house tonight at 9 o'clock. EPISCOPALS WILL DEDICATE CHURCH ON TUESDAY A. M. Ceremony to Be Conducted by Bishop Cheshire. 109TH YEAR' OF PARISH Bishop Penick Will Assist in Conse cration, Dr. Henderson to Deliver An Historical Address. An important occasion is scheduled for Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock when the new Episcopal church is to be opened and consecrated. The occasion will also include the gathering of the delegates to the Diocesan Convention, to which about 150 are expected. v' The consecration ceremony and special service,--which promises to be one -of the most-Jmpressive, will be conducted by Bishop Cheshire, assisted by Coadjutor Bishop Penick and the record, Rev. A. S. Lawrence. The church will be complete ly ready for the consecration except for a few stained windows which have been ordered from England and are now in the Customs House in New York. Work has been greatly rushed during the past week in installing the organ, pews, and altar. The organ is a three manual Skin ner, and it is one of the best church or gans in the state. Special music for theoccasion will be rendered by the choir with Miss Henrietta Smedes at the organ. Bishop Cheshire will preach. The convention will continue in session during the 12th and 13th. This is the first time the convention has been held in this parish since its founding 109 years ago. The program will be taken up with business of the diocese. On Tuesday night, after the bishops have made their annual addresses, Dr. Achibald Hender son will deliver an address on the history of this parish. This should be of peculiar interest to students because the history of this church Is intimately related to the University. In fact, the towns owes its name to it. The church, originally a parish of the Church of England, was first called New Hope chapel, and the present site of the University was known as New Hope Chapel Hill until some time later . when the first words were dropped from the name. Dr. Battle, former president of the University, was for many years a vestryman of the church. v (Continued on page four) JONAS IS CHOSEN HEAD OF COUNCIL Chappel and Cooper Are Other Officers of Debate Council Plan Debates Next Year. In its meeting Wednesday night, the new Debate Council got right down to work. It elected C. R. Jonas, president; John F. Cooper, vice-presidentr- with regular duties as publicity officer, and S. G. Chappel, secretary and Treasurer. These men succeeded John G. Deyton and M. M. Young, former president and secretary-treasurer respectively. The of fice f vice-president with duties as publicity officer is a new one; and it is hoped that its creation will help to keep debating squarely before the ' student body and get a creditable attendance at debates so that the speakers will not have to go into extensive research before saying, . "Ladies and Gentlemen". The Council moved forward the date of the Oxford Union debate with State College on "Birth Control" It will be held May 21 unless a conflict develops. The' query wording was changed to read, "Retolved, That dissemination of knowl edge concerning birth control by contra ceptive methods should be legalized throughout the United States." This de bate will be held in Chapel Hill; and as the subject is of great interest, it should bring out a good crowd. The finals of the Junior Oratorical Contest, an inter-society affair, will be held, not May 21-22 as previously an nounced, but May 26-29, the exact date to be announced later. Two Triangles for next year are defi nitely arranged already one with Tu lane and Sewanee, and the other with Johns Hopkins and Washington and Lee. It is almost certain that there will be a triangle next fall with South Caro lina and William and Mary, which will probably start off the year. Not only this, but a dual debate has been sched uled with West Virginia. As the Mor gantown institution has one of the strongest teams of the country, this con test is of great interest and may be termed the classic of the year.' - Plans for next year are going forward rapidly, and with several big debates al ready scheduled and more to come later, it looks as If 1925-26 will be Carolina's biggest year In this activity. A son was born In Richmond, Va., Saturday, to Dr. and Mrs. A. C. How ell. WATCHJYOUR STEP A little piece of yellow copy pa per was left in the Tak Heel of fice during the wee hours of Thurs day morning announcing the fact that a "Yellow Journal" Is soon to make its appearance on the cam pus.' The little piece of yellow paper was headed with the sinister warn ing "Watch Your Step" and fur ther down the author interpreted it as a warning to all evil-doers on the campus to beware lest their sins be openly flaunted before the public. " It was also announced that the "Yelbw Journal Club," which Is to issue the sheet, had purchased all publishing rights to this year's Gilded Fuzz which means that the Tab Heel will be cheated out of one of its time-honored features. The notice was unsigned but stated that the "faculty 'needn't worry" as the Y. J. wouldn't be half so bad as the Harvard Lampoon and 1 would be guaranteed not to shock Boston or Mrs. Lawson." SOUTHERN TENNIS TOURNEY FINALS Singles At Ten O'clock This Morning. DOUBLES IN AFTERNOON Carolina and Tulane Remain in Dou ble Contest. : " The finals of the Southern Intercol legiate Tennis Tournament will be run off Saturday. At 10 o'clock that morn ing the singles will be played between Murray, of Tulane, and Grant, of Geor gia Tech; and at 3 o'clock that after noon the doubles championship will be decided. It is probable that the doubles will be fought for by the teams of Caro lina .composed of Solomon and Fuller, and that of Tulane, composed of Murray and Chamberlain, So far the dope has been correct. Mur ray, who has won the southern champion ship in singles for the past three years, has gone right through his racket with out meeting any opposition worth notice. In the other bracket Grant, of Georgia Tech, has shown up very well and will meet Murray. The indications are that Murray will beat Grant, though a good fight is expected of the Georgia man and it is possible that Grant will win one or more sets from bis opponent, ' Carolina stands her best chance to gain laurels in the doubles, since all of the men playing singles have been leminated. Murray and Chamberlain, while both very good singles players, do not team together so well. They found consider able difficulty In defeating Carolina's second team, composed of Poole and Whitaker, so it is not too much to hope for a victory at the hands of Solomon and Fuller. ,. While the members of the Carolina team offer no alibis, it is evident to any one who has ever played tennis that they have gone through a terrific strain. It is too much to ask of men to go through one tournament and enter a sec ond immediately upon the conclusion of that one. During the first four days of the tournaments, these are the numbers of games played by the members of the team: Solomon 199, Fuller 178, Whitaker 131, Kelly 99, and Poole 61. It is evi dent that the men have worked too hard, for tournament tennis is one of the most gureling contests that an athlete can enter and five days running, with two or three matches a day will drag down even the best players. - The team will leave on its northern trip next Monday to be gone for a week or ten days. ' 1 v Murray Is one of the best players in the south and has never lost a set to a man in any collegiate contest. He plays with the least effort possible through a perfect sense of court position. There seems to be no part of his game which he has left undeveloped. Rorehand and backhand, volley and smash, all come equally .easy to him. His high forehand drive and low volley are two brilliant and effective shots. If one were to put a finger on any part of his game which needs improvement, it would be his ser vice. He does not get his first service in more than two times out of five, even though he doesn't serve many doubles. This is not a serious fault, but Is the one part of his gamewhich is locking in efficiency. He is one of the most un emotional persons that has been seen on a court in this part of the country. Whether the point is won or lost, he never expresses pleasure or disappoint ment, but continues playing in such a manner that one is reminded of a ma chinerunning perfectly without human weaknesses. ' ' The scores of the meet are as follows i First round singles: Murray (Tulane) (Continued on page four) TAR HEELS BURY CHRISTIANS UNDER AVALANCHE, 20-5 Ferzerites Turn Game Into a Track Meet Pitchers Ascend. HIT TWO HOME RUNS Visiting Twirlers Are Hit Hard While Team Gives Them Poor Support, Making Eleven Errors. The Tar Heels put on a track team on Emerson field Wednesday afternoon and swamped the Elon Christians under an avalanche of hits and runs to the tune of 20 and 5. The entire team snapped out of its trance and fattened its batting and scoring average at the expense of the Elon pitchers. The game started off in the first inn ing with a pep and snap that the play ers did not hold. Holshouser retired Elon on two strike-outs and h puny hit ball that dropped in front of the plate. Bonner opened for the Tar Heels with a single, but was out at second when Lindley madCa beautiful stop of Hat ley's grounder and started a swift double play. Jones was out, second to first, to end the frame. Carolina scored twice in the second and twice in the third. They tallied again in the fourth when Bonner hit to left-field and circles the bases before the ball could be returned to the diamond. Fogleman, Elon twirler, did not start his ascension until the fifth. Seven singles, two triples, two walks, and a fielder's choice sent seven men across the rubber for the Tar Heels in that Inning. Fowler took up the pitching burden for the visitors when Fogleman went to get his shower, and was able to stop the Fetzerites for two innings; but In the eighth Bill Fetzer's own "Murderers' Row" took another fit of killing the bull and drove out a single, a double and a homer. These, with the aid of three free passes and two errors, sent in eight more runs. Johnny Johnson's homer In this inning was his fourth hit of the game and his sixth hit out of his last eight trips to the plate. Coach Fetzer used 15 men in the game, four of them being pitchers. Holshouser worked the first five frames. Only 13 men faced him in the first four innings, and he allowed the Etonians only 3 hits. The visitors scored once in the fifth and four times in the seventh. Box score and summary: Carolina Ab R II Po A E Bonner, c. - Green, c. Hatlcy, If. Jones, 3b. Gibson, rf. Dodderer, rf. . Coffey, cf. Stanton, lb. - Johnson, ss. Thomas, 2b. Sides, 2b. L. Holshouser, p. Poyner, p. . ,. Finch, p. 4 1 5 7 3 1 4 5 5 3 3 3 - 0 (Continued on page four) 2 13 4 2 TRACK ARTISTS IN TRIANGULAR MEET Engage Maryland and Navy Teams Today. CLOSE MEET EXPECTED Gobs Good In Weights and Terrapins In Distances.- The University cinder men left Thurs day night for Annapolis, Md., where they will encounter the University of Maryland and the U. S. Naval Academy track teams in a triangular meet , this afternoon. ' The Marylanders have a good squad and will give the Tar Heels trouble In the middle distance events. The Mid-1 shipmen have been - going strong this year, having won out over some of the best northern teams. They recently de feated Pittsburgh and West Virginia in a triangular meet, scoring 6 points out of a possible 126. The Middies are es pecially strong in the two mile, and the weight events. The Tar Heels have made a most en viable record thus far, and will do their best to come through the season with fly ing colors. They have had little trouble in winning previous engagements, but the competition in this afternoon's meet will be much keener than that met with in the dual meets, and they will be com pelled to exert all their energy In order to come out victorious. The following men made the trip: Captain M. D. Ranson, Ambrose, Bell, Barber, Buchanan, Corbett, Edwards, Fardham, Giersch, Goodwin, Jonas, Mc Pherson, Moore, Parker, Purser, Smiley, Watt, Woodard. The team was accom panied by Coach Bob Fetzer and the manager.
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