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GERMAN CLUB MEETING
I Memorial Hall
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Today 1 ' 1:45
VOLUME XXXIV
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1923
NUMBER 14
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Navy Band to Give
Two Concerts Today
In Memorial Hall
VARIED PROGRAM
Special Permission for Tour
Given by Chief Executive.
IS PRESIDENT'S OFFICIAL BAND
Forty-Piece Organization - of Famous
Musicians' and Soloists Will be
Chief Feature W Week.
, The United States Navy Bund and
Orchestra, one of .the1 most famous or
ganisations in the world will give two.
concerts here in Memorial Hall today.
The first of these entertainments will
be presented in the afternoon at three
thirty. In the evening at eight-thirty
an entirely . different program will be
given. Each '.concert will - consist of
numbers ranging from classical band
music to later and lighter creations.
Season tickets . will admit the holders
to either performance. , ,
The full significance of the announce
ment can be appreciated only when con
sideration is given the fact that this
is the first civilian tour ever taken by
the Navy Band. So rapid has been its
growth that Washington Has been be
sieged with requests for its appearance
throughout the United States. Until
now however, its official duties have pre
cluded any kind of systematized tour.
When it is realized that hundreds of
requests, backed up in many cases by
"all kinds of "pull", had to be disregard
ed in arranging the forthcoming tour, it
needs little imagination to see how for
tunate the University Is to be included
in the itinerary.
'' The Navy Band has achieved a place
in the world second to none, "and in a
scant seven years has become known to
over ten million people. This estimate
has been given by radio broadcasting
. stations which have put the band "on the
a air." Furthermore, since the programs
rendered at diplomatic functions include
airs native to the countries which are
represented! the body of musicians has
acquired unusual versalitility in playing
the airs of all the nations in the world.
Demands for particular selections to
be played on the tour have been plenti
ful, but leading them all has been a
demand for "A Day Aboard An Ameri
can Battleship," which proved to be one
of the most popular compositions played
by the band in Washington last winter.
Compiled by Lieutenant Benter, the
band leader, and arranged by Jean Man
ganaro, baritone soloist, this composi
tion runs the gamut of musical express
ion, and is peculiarly adapted for a mil-
' itary band. Because of the success with
which it met In Washington, W. L. Rad
cliffe, head of the Radcllffe enterprises,
manager of this tour, is endeavoring
(Continued on page four)
ID FOOTBALL TO
GET EARLY START
Application for Contest Must
Be in by Friday.
CHANGES IN ELIGIBILITY
Strong Teams This Year Indicate a
Tough Battle is Impending.
Applications are already beginning to
come in to Mr. E. R. Rankin of the Ex
tension Department from the various
high schools of the state for entrance in
the twelfth annual high school football
championship contest. , The final date
by which these applications should be
in the hands of Mr. Rankin is next Fri
' day.' . ' " ' '
During the early part of next week,
meetings of the representatives of the
various high schools will be held in the
east and the west. These district peet
fogs will work out the schedule of games
for the first several rounds. The elimi
nation contest will begin immediately af
terward. The first round games will be
played some time during the latter part
of next week.
' A number of strong teams are in the
field this year and a hot contest is ex
pected. High school scores have indi
cated that a number of strong teams
which are very evenly matched. Char
lotte and Winston-Salem are both being
mentioned as possible victors in the west,
while the teams in the east are more or
less of an unknown quantity. Last year
the West bowed to the East when Rock
ingham defeated Shelby for the state
honors on Emerson Field.
The rules for this year's contest show
a number of changes, most of which are
in the eligibility rules. Due to a desire
on the part of the .authorities to tighten
tiie whole set of rules governing the
contest and also partly due to some
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LIEUT. CHARLES BENTER
U. S. N.
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Lieutenant Charles Benter, U. S. N who
will lead the famous Navy Band in the
two concerts which it will give here to
day. Lieutenant Benter is a musician of
exceptional talent, and , is nationally
known as the organizer of the country's
greatest band.
STUDENTS DEBUNK
COLLEGE CATALOG
Harvard Crimson Carries Confi
dential Guide to Courses.
PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS
Freshman, Sophomore, and a Few Ad
vanced Studies Reviewed.
In a "Confidential Guide of College
Courses" the Harvard Crimton has pub
lished a criticism from the student view
point of 40 of the college catalog courses,
including most of the freshmen studies
and the most important ones open to
new upper-classmen.
For perhaps the first time in Ameri
can college history a group of under
graduates have seriously attempted to
evaluate their curriculum, from a pure
ly personal student point of view. The
reports are not intended as exhaustive,
final judgment on the courses but. as
personal impressions, given with the sin
cere intent of bettering methods of In
struction.'Some of the courses are warm
ly commended, others bitterly censured.
Here are a few selections from the
six newspaper columns of student criti
cisms! ,' V' . '"" '
Anthropology: Although anthropology
is technically the most human course in
college, the way it is taught deserves no
such high praise. Not that it Is inhuman
at all, for Anthropology 1 is one of the
most mediocre courses which are at once
the curse of the University and the back
bone of its moderately high level of In
struction. There is a bewildering mass
of miscellaneous facts 'to be mastered,
which from their very nature cannot be
too systematically co-ordinated. The
course will provoke, enthusiasm 'from
those few who have decided bent for this
sort of thing and from the rest the semi
boredom with which the majority of
students always regard a course so con
ducted as to demand much memorising
at the expense of creative thought
Philosophy x This course in elementary
logic probably does as much good for the
brain as swinging Indian clubs 'in the
Hemenway Gymnasium docs for the
body. And both forms of exercise are
equally exciting. The course consists of
parroting a number of logical rules-of-thumb
by which the valid may be distin
guished from the fallacious with as lit
tle thought as possible. At the begin
ning of the year, Dr. Sheffer supplied
(Continued on page four)
TAR HEELS MEET
MERCERITESNEXT
Game Will be Played in Hostile
Territory Saturday.
AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
.. . . .
Team Makes , Trip with Full Poster
Less tanner and Kevin.
' Saturday afternoon will find the Tar
Heels at Macon, Ga., engaging the Mer
cer Baptists on their home field. The
Mercerites are 'a more or Jess unknown
quantity to the Tar Heels, and Coach
Fetzer's charges will go Into the game
with no previous knowledge concerning
their opponents. I ,
Carolina, however, has been' gaining
strength with each new game on the
schedule, and the Tar Heels are now at
the top of their form. The dope gives
the North Staters a more than even
chance to emerge from the contest on the
winning end of the score. Still the un-der-dog
in a football game often upsets
the dope pot and spills the dope and the
other team all over the field.
. Coaches Bob and Bill Fetzer have
been holding their varsity men out of
the scrimmages this week, and limiting
the first string outfit's work to hard
signal drill and practicing the plays to
be used against the Georgia Baptists.
The team sustained no serious injuries
in the-State game, and they will go tp
the Georgia stronghold with a full ros
ter, leaving behind only Bonner and
Devin, who have been out for two or
three weeks.
'Rabbit" Bonner reported on the
field in uniform on Monday afternoon,
but "Doc" Lawson refused to allow
him to get Into the hard grind of prac
tice. He will not be likely to make the
trip to Mercer, but will probably be in
shape to. get in against the Maryland
Terrapins the following week-end. Devin
will be out for some time yet, and it is
doubtful whether he will be able to get
in any more games this season.
In the meanwhile the reserves have
been getting their chance. And right
nobly have they used their chance too.
Emmett, Underwood, Tom Young, Billy
Ferrell, Major Izor, and Jeff Fordham
have been shining lights in the victories
over Duke and State. Shuford, of course,
is a regular, but he is playing his first
year, and he has shown up mighty well
for a first year man on the squad. He
has been gaining .consistently , in all of
(Continued on page four)
Fundamentalists Making
World Safe for Orthodoxy
By Tom
The country is going fundamentalist.
No longer will the citizens of this great
republic be divided up into such groups
as democrats, republicans, socialists
and progressives. It must be divided
into fundamentalists and modernists,
and there is every Indication that the
former will be in the saddle. They are
going to make orthodoxy the test Of
rood citizenship in this" present world
as well as the passport to. . the one to
come.
Recently the Presbyterians have met
and highly resolved that modern science
must be driven from our state schools.
They are no longer content with having
the catechism taught in their own
knowledge factories!, they want their
notions of science, their theory of Sal
vation and damnation taught in the
schools of the state. .
The Methodists also convened and
the campaigning along fundamentalist
lines became so pronounced that an un-
circumscribed scribe, who had crept In
unawares, made bold to suggest that
BishoD Denny call in an evangelist ana
hold a revival for the,; benefit of the
clerics. This body has no legislative
authority, hence the Methpdist brethren
had to content themselves with the
election of some fundamentalist laymen
the aeneral conference. Of course
they resolved somewhat, mostly about
bridge, with perhaps a few well worded
remarks. about swimming. But the
Methodists areV getting ,"het up" all
right and will no doubt march shoulder
t" shoulder and ride boot to boot with
their Presbyterian comrades in the
faith, : ;
The Bantists. never content to bring
un the rear when there is 'to be a real
scrap, are putting on their war paint
has already been announced that
when they meet in Charlotte the battle
royal will be stagedA And when the
Baptists march the earth shakes and
the waters are troubled. Preacher
Barrett, Gastonia pastor, hat his reso
lutions already drawn up which look
to the ultimate ousting of President Po
teat, of Wake Forest. He called a band
of the faithful one day last week and
they spent the whole day In prayer over
FROST IS POET
OF; SIMPLE LIFE
Writes of Everyday Life and
w w ma
Simple Human xnemes.
LECTURES HERE OCT. 30
Interesting Not Only As Poet But A
An Individual.
, Robert Frost, poet in resident of the
University of Michigan, who will de
liver the first: of the University's series
of public lectures on Friday, October
30, has had an interesting life. His
life, is part and parcel of his poetry.
Mr. Frost was born Jn San Francisco
but the - West can not claim him, for
his prompt migration to New England
made him a true native of ,the East.
New England forms the background
of his verse, the country, nftrth of Bos
ton being the place of his residence
during the greater part of bis life and
furnishing him , with most, , of his sub
ject matter. Until recent years! all
his activities (with the exception of a
stay in England) centered both geo
graphically and spiritually in New
Hampshire and its neighbor states.
During the early part of his life he
was first a farmer and then b teacher
in one or another of the New England
schools. The five years which he spent
on a farm at Derry, N. H. gave to
him a personal insight into farm life, so
that it forms the warp a nd wopf , of
many of his poems. Later in his varied
career (from 116-20) he was associated
with Amherst College under President
Meiklejohn. More recently he has
been- called to the University of Michi
gan andis now-connected with that in
stitution. His real home address, how
ever, continues to be Shaftsbury, Ver
mont. Mr. Frost has no part in the modern
tendency toward eccentricity and vagary
in verse forms'.-. Neither has he written
verse speculating upon life in China or
the moon. ' His verse flows easily and
naturally for it is a real part of his
life. ; His poems about farmers and
things v of the farm are delightful
glimpses into life, for he, with the gift
of the true poet, has experienced deeply
where other men merely scratch the sur
face. .'Neither decoration nor gorgeous lan
guage have a place in the simple poems
which Mr. Frost writes. Yet he is
keenly . interested in the question of
' ' (Continued on page two)
P. Jikisok
at Raleigh for the purpose of getting
divine approval for what they are about
to do. No doubt they convinced the
Lord that their cause was just.
Since meditating over the various
proposals of the Lord's chosen, this
scribe has come to , the conclusion that
they are right. There is no reason why
there should not be a clean sweep while
we are at it. Let those who would dis
cover any new truth take, to, the ,tall
and uncut. -Let those who do not be
lieve the Book from "kivver to Mvver"
be anathema forever. We have made
too much progress now. Let us . get
back to the good old days wherein is
safety. We have, been giving tpa much
ground to these accursed scientists.
We should never have conceded that the
earth -1 was round, that the sun stood
still, that there are no witches. . It Is
time now to call a halt and get the mod
ernists on he gallop.
President Poteat ought to be fired.
Let the Baptists put him out and put
Preacher Barrett, John Kurfees or
Doc. M. Eugene Street , in his place.
Then they can turn Wake Forest in
to a seminary for sanctified preachers
and use no textbook but the Old , Test
ament. v :
Likewise it would be pieet and proper
to get rid of President Chase. We
could name the Hon. D, Scott ; Poole
president of Carolina and turn , the big
school into a veritable storm center of
the right sort of information. Then we
could turn out legislators who would
regulate our thinking for us.
It Is not written large that President
Few, of Duke, is in badv,wth ht elect,
but those who have kept up with events
know that Duke is a hotbed of heter
odoxy. They have been teaching biology
and geology oyej there, and tne Stu
dents have had their faith completely
ruined by losing faith in the story of
Jonah and the whale. Let Dr. Few go
with Drs. Poteat and Chase. W. B.
Cole would be the proper man to take
his place. Dr. Cole is thoroughly ortho
dox. He is a praying man, too, taking
up everything even such a small thing
as a killing with the Lord, and never
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German Club
To Effect
Foard Elected to
Pilot Frosh Team
, Edison Foard, of Charlotte, N.
C, was elected to lead the Caro
lina Freshmen through the re
mainder of their football season
at a meeting of the members of
the squad held Tuesday night.
Foard was the outstanding
man in the Tar Baby backfield
in the opening game of their sea
son, against the Maryland year-
. ings last Saturday afternoon.
He broke loose time after time
for long gains over the Maryland
outfit, and played a stone wall
, game on the defense.
He received his prep school
experience at Charlotte High,
where he i has . starred at half,
back for several years. Last fall
he was mentioned for halfback
on the mythical Alt-Southern
, high school eleven.
CAMPUS TRAGEDY
NOW IMPENDING
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Editor Couch Lampoons Inven
tor of Angular Motion.
DUPED INVENTOR ELATED
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When He ; Wakes Up Dire Conse
quences May Result. .
By R. K. Fowlkb
Although few people realize it, grim
tragedy is about to sweep down upon
our campus. And all because Mr.
Couch, ' editor of Carolina's journal of
literary endeavor has seen fit to ridi
cule and exploit the well meant rav
ings of Charles F. ' Bluske, Inventor
of ' a Power Generating Apparatus,
Authority on the Law of Applied Pow
er, and Teacher of Christianity by the
Example of Spirit-Power. As one can
see, the worthy Bluske is quite a power
ful character and when he learns that
hip sincere attempts to put people right
pn the evolution question have , been
treated with . lfvity and consigned to
the Magazine comic section a neat job
of homicide will undoubtedly result.
The affair had its beginning when the
facetiously inclined Mr. Couch read a
pamphlet by this hopeless prophet of
fundamentalism and in a burlesque1 re
ply agreed that civilization was a dis
gusting spectacle and that scientists
were ignorant morons. Such a confor-
mation of his statements brought down
a veritable storm of tracts and printed
harangues frpm Mr. Bluske, several of Derg to PV their dues by the appointed
which were printed in the last Maga- Wme November 10, will cause them to
sine to the edification, of the campus at he utqmatlcaUy dropped from member
large. The Inventor was elated beyond "".ip'roll, necessitating payment pf the
description and proceeded to make initiation fee of ten dollars to rejoin
Couch the recipient of his inmost secrets.- me C'UB-
He praised him in flowery terms for
taking his stand against the depraved
fools' who insisted that man at one time
"looked like a monkey, talked like , a
jack-ass and crowed like, a rustor".
. He seemed to develop a sort of pa
ternal fondness for his young tormentor,
saying that his photograph in the Yack-
ety yVack had the eyes and forehead of
a genius, but that' a picture of a silly
guy called President Chase in the same
volume showed no Spirit-Wisdom. .In
deed, he maintained that Chase had a
sickening look and bore the profane
stamp of the evolutionist on his brow.
He , waxed eloquent; he lauded Couch;
he cqngratulated him as a representa
tive of "the young rising generation
which is leaving the old fogies behind."
"I will tee that your name goes dpwn in
history", declared the , modern messiuh,
"so keep on publishing what X (end
you." . Only .yesterday a, ,telegra.m ar
rived to ie effect that . the Carolina
Magazine was a power in the great
crusade, a touching testimonial to a
publication that has Seen the light.
With all this evidence on hqnd as
to the thoroughness, with which our fun
lovipg editor hit puled he wop) pver
he. eyes, of the , trusting Bluske, can
one fall to see what Is impending? ,The
brilliant mind of the Father of Angular
Motion will eventually enable him to
perceive that he has been duped. ; In
righteous rage he will descend upon the
campus aqd rend. 'Mr. Couch limb from
limb. One can not insult and jeer at
a Genius with impunity. We greatly
fear that before long the staff of the
Magazine and a host of faithful frtnds
will be wearing wide bands of mourning
on their arms.
Augusta Andrews attended the
Wright-Everett wedding in Raleigh on
Wednesday evening.
Meets Today
Reorganization
PLAN PROPOSED
poor Financial Policy of Club
Source of Criticism.
A BUDGET) OF $5,000 IS NEEDED
Would Limit Membership to 300 Mem
bersFreshmen May Jon Be
, tween May 15 and 25.
At 1:45 today in Memorial Hall a
.meeting of all members of the German
Club will be held to '.pass on a plan
which has been for sometime employed
in sister institutions but which is new
to Carolina. It is urged that all mem
bers make It a point to attend this
meeting, as their presence is essential
to the success of the proposed system.
For many years the financial system
of the German Club has been a source
of severe criticism. Leaders of the
club have not felt it safe to arrange
for expensive , orchestras and decora
tions. Visitors and alumni have . been
charged regularly and heartlessly.
This policy has brought forth a long
and dismal howl. , It has been an ever
recurring habit for the club to full in
to debt on' the first set of dances, and
spend the rest of the year giving cheap
affairs to .make up this deficit. Under
the old system it was .Impossible to. es
timate any degree of accuracy the
ampunt of mpney that would be col
lected for the dances. Such a condition
can hardly be more than a deplorable
economic weakness. Such an impracti
cal system can not exist long in an In
stitution of Carolina's sUe and type.
The Plan
A budget pf five thousand dollars is
necessary to finance the fall, easter, and
commencement dances for a year. A
membership limited to three hundred
men Is a popular phase of thenew plan.
Formerly the membership has not to
talled this number, as non-members were
admitted to the dances on payment of
the entrance fees. With a full member
ship the yearly dues would be fifteen
dollars per member, which Is approxi
mately a seventy per cent, reduction
from the former charges for the three
sets of dances. Under the new system
the dues must be paid whether a mem
ber attends all the dances or just one
set. Dues must be paid In full by No
vember the 10th. An Initiation fee of
ten dollars will be charged ail new
members. This does npt Include pres
ent members of the club. The ton dol
lars must accompany applications for
membership. Freshmen, and freshmen
only, may Join between May 15 and
25 by paying the initiation fee of ten
dollars plus five dollars for admission
to, Commencement dances. Applications
for membership must be passed pn by
the executive committee of the German
Club, The failure of the present mem
A meeting of the reorganized German
Club will be held on, November 12 at
which meeting dance leaders for the
fall dances will be elected. Paid mem
berships in the reorganized German
Club will he prerequisite for attending
this meeting on November 12.
NOTED SPEAKERS FOR
STUDENT CONFERENCE
Delegates from Men's and Women's
Colleges of State Will "Attend Con
ference at Baptist Church.
Beginning October 30 and continuing
three days, a religious conference for
students will be held at the Baptist
church here.
Prominent speakers from several states
and students from various schools and
colleges of the state will be represented
on the program. Inspirational addresses
tay some pf the epuntry's greatest reli
gious speakers are scheduled, and the
students themselves will take part in
the discussion of their own religious and
moral problems. Among the speakers
whp will cqme to Chapel Hill for the
conference are Dr. George W. Truett,
of Dallas, Texas; Dr. W L. Poteat, of
Wake Forest , College, and Dr. Harry
Clark, of Furman university.
Delegates frpm all the Baptist and
state colleges in the state will come to
the conference. It is expected that at
least 200 representatives of boys and
girls colleges pf the state will be present.
Similar Baptist Student Conferences
for the state were held last year and the
year before at N. C C, W. In Greens
boro and in Raleigh, respectively. Last
year the attendance was nearly 300, ex
clusive of at least an equal number of
N. C C. W. girls who attended.
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