TRY-OUTS FOR
: BLACK AND WHITE
3:00 and 4:30 , . Today
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB,
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7:30 Tonight
VOLUME XXXIV
CHAPEL HILL, N; C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926
NUMBER 41
GUILFOHDIANS BOW
TO TAR HEELS BY
SCORE OF 44 TO 20
Quakers Put Up Fighting Game
and Give Carolinians
Hard Scrap.
BOXERS GIVE EXHIBITION
Cobb and Hackney Tie for Scoring
Honors Smith Is High Scorer
for Visitors.
The Guilford Quakers came, saw and
were conquered by Carolina's Southern
Champion basketball team here Saturday
night by the score of it to 20. The
soore does not tell the story of the fight
ing game the visitors from the west put
up, for they gave the Tar Heels their
hardest scrap of the 1926 season. The
airtight live man defense that formed
before the Quaker goal held tight when
the Carolina attack advanced, and the
Tar Heels deserved every goal they got.
Both teams got away to a slow start
in the scoring end of the gume. The
Itoorwork was fast, and the passing game
was beautiful to see, but the players
could not get their sights on the basket
and the game wag several minutes old
before Cobb's field goal dropped through
for the first score. The Carolina record
was held Intact, for not a team met this
year has scored the first point of the
game on Carolina. ,
Guilford came back and tied the score
at three-all and again at five-all, but six
markers represented the best efforts of
the visitor! during the first half which
ended with Carolina leading 24 to 6.
Hackney, with 9 points, and Cobb with
" 10, were the big guns in the Carolina
offensive during that half.
"Shirt" Smith, mound ace of the Guil
ford baseball team and captain of the
Quaker basketeers, found a luck piece
in his dressing room between halves, or
Coach Doak whispered some charmed
words In his ear, for when he came back
after intermission he began shooting
long goals and before the Carolina guards
could spike his guns he had tallied eight
points. These, with some fast work by
Griffin Smith's dimunitive running mate
at-forward, ran up the Guilford score
and the count of the last half points
revealed that Carolina only lead the
Quakers by 18 to 14 during that period.
Cobb and Hackney kept up their ha
bit of starring and tied up for high scor
ing honors of the night with 16 points
each closely followed by Captain Smith
of Guilford with 12 counters.
The big boys on the boxing team got
their chance- tonight ' between halves.
Captain Ad Warren and Grayden Shu
ford, heavyweights, and Roy Proffit and
Alex Shuford, middle weights, furnished
the. competition in the two exhibition
bouts between halves of the game. This
was the second exhibition at basketball
games this week, and they are popularly
received , hy the crowds . that see the
basketeers in action. X
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LAW AND PRESS IS
WETTACH'S THEME
Law School Professor Ad
dresses Newspaper Insti
tute Thursday Morning.
PRESS FREEDOM LIMITED
Three Wy in Which Freedom of
Press Controlled by Government
i Given to Newspapermen.
"Freedom of the press docs not mean
license" proclaimed Prof. Robert H.
Wtttach, member of the University Law
School Faculty, who addressed the Thurs
day morning session of the Newspaper
Institute ' .
Pointing out some of the limitations
of the constitutional guarantees of the
freedom of the press, Professor Wettach
discussed the law of libel, referring to
other limitations of the press. It was
Pointed out that holding a newspaper ed
itor in contempt of court Is among the
limitations of the freedom of the press.
"In case in 1925, an editorial in the
Goldsboro Record criticised a judge after
sojournment of court to the effect that
the judge played setback every night and
always got drunk, and went to sleep on
the bench, etc. It was held "that this was
M a case for contempt proceedings as
the courts had adjourned, but that it
w ap Individual matter between the
Judge and the editor.
"A number of regulations of the press
uder the state police power are here
hown. Examples are the law against
lotteries, which would seem not only to
Prohibit the publishing of advertisements
f lotteries, but also, of various trade
tttensions campaigns,, selling schemes,
'tc-i in which the element of chance is
Present The Volstead and Turlington
Acts forbid the advertising of any liquor
f "tenslls for making liquor. Similar
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a
Chi Omega Holds
Annual Initiating
Chi Omega Fraternity an
nounces the initiation of Misses
Elizabeth LCalvert of Raleigh,
Augusta Andrews, of Raleigh,
Margaret Bridgers, of Tarboro,
and Ethel Crewe of Pleasant Hill.
The initiation was. held Satur
day night in the Gorgon's Head
Lodge. Immediately following it
the members of the fraternity
entertained the new initiates at a
supper held in the Chi Omega
House.
Alumni and visiting Chi Ome
gas present for the occasion
were: Misses Mae and Kate Cul
pepper of Fayetteville, Georgia,
Annie Leo Graham of Durham,
Geneieve MacMillian of Winston
Salem, Annie Lou Renfrow of
Charlotte, Annie Laurie Weir of
. Athens, Georgia.
3X
NEWSPAPER MEN
HEAR GOV. M'LEAN
Governor Comes Over Unex
pectedly and Gives Address
EXPLAINS BOND CHARGES
Says- State Not Responsible for Re
construction Tax Issues.
Governor Angus W. Mclean gave the
Newspaper Institute a pleasant surprise
Friday morning, when he came over to
pay the gathering his respects, as he ex
plained. Previously he hod found it
necessary to decline an invitation to
make an address for one of the sessions
of the Institute, but Friday morning
he found that he had a few spare mo
ments in which he could come over and
participate in a part of the Friday morn
ing session. Unheralded, and having no
formal address, the governor took oc
casion to discuss and explain some of the
problems that had been recently troubling
the administration.
Touching upon the recent financial pol
icy of his administration, Governor Mc
Lean stated that contrary to recent and
persistent rumors, the financial condi
tion is sound and his fiscal policies are
such that will dispel all doubt of them.
He said that he thought that these
policies had been fully vindicated by the
sane progress made by the state since
that time, and cited the recent quick sale
of bonds, which he said have already
been absorbed by the investing public in
record breaking time, a notable tribute
to the piesent financial policy of the
state administration.
Fear of Old Bond Issue Dispelled
Referring to "the groundless recon
struction bonds," the governor stated
that such a charge revised by some
"outsiders" every time the state places
a new bond issue on the market in order
to make the investing public reluctant to
buy North Carolina bonds and to bridle
our march towards our goal of having
, (Continued on page four)
ORGAN RECITAL GIVEN
" AT CHAPEL OF CROSS
Harold D. Philips of Pinehurst Gives
Worthwhile Rendition of Classic
Selections Sunday Afternoon.
Another worthwhile musical event was
offered to the Carolina students when
Harold D. Phillips, M. A., F. R. C. O.
jf Pinehurst gave an organ recital in
the Chapel of the Cross Sunday after
noon. Mr. Phillips performance was
mainly notably for competent handling
of style variations. Leading off with
Dach's stirring D Minor Fugue he fol
lowed it first with a soft, flutelike melo
dy entitled In Summer and then passed
quickly in Bird's utterly dissimilar Ori
ental Sketch. This work made excellent
use of strange minor chords and totally
unexpected combinatios of tone. No other
number on the program quite equalized
its appeal. Mr. Phillips then played his
own organ arrangement for Beethoven's
Andante eon Moto from the Fifth'Sym
phony. Its thunderous refrain and cres
cendo effects sounded well on his chosen
instrument but considered as a whole
the effort was a little disappointing.
The second division of the program
opened with Spring Song and Dawn, two
selections kindred in theme and treat
ment. Both featured pipe obligate and
hushed, accompaniment but Dawn rose
to the stronger climax. Toerato by Mail
ly was very loud and insistent j Its in
describable clamor killed all possible
charm. The list was concluded with
Elgar's Pomp and CircumUante wheh
masterfully combined a stately almost
tragic moments with an Interlude of
brisk spontaneity.
JOHNSON WANTS
PRESS FREEDOM
Tells Institute Freedom of
Press Is Conditional
Privilege.
METHODS GIVE TROUBLE
Says Ideal Newspaper Would Be One
Written by Intelligent Men.
In an address to the Thursday morn
ing session of the Newspaper Institute,
Gerald W. Johnson, professor of Journal
ism, declared "Freedom of the press is
a conditional privilege. The American
people have established it lest a worse
thing, namely, the suppression of all lib
erty, befall them," he said, but it is not
a principle deeply ingrained, or the es
pionage act would not have met with
ready acceptance." Elaborating further
upon the winning of that freedom and
the militant alertness that it will require
to keep it, Mr. Johnson continued, "It
is the business of the press thoroughly
to establish the principle in the minds of
the people in time of peace that they will
hold to it in time of war. '- ;
"Every newspaper man is exasperated
by the criticism of slovenly thinkers who
would have him suppress the news. Such
people do not realize that it is not the
material of the newspaper, but its meth
ods, that are subject to attack. To crit
icise the newspapers for telling unpleas
ant facts is idiocy; but to criticize the
newspapers for telling any facts un
pleasantly Is 'fair and justifiable criti
cism, t
"The filthiest story ever dragged in the
newspapers without offense, through the
courts can be printed, but it cannot be
done easily. The reporter who can ac
complish such a- task must have ingen
uity, resourcefulness, command of Eng
lish and fine judgment in short, he
must be a man of high intelligence. But
the ideal newspaper would be one written
by men of high intelligence. Therefore,
the nearer newspapers approach to the
practise of ideal journalism, the less (
ground there will be for criticism. The '
press must keep jealous guard over US'!
own reputation, as every honorable pro
fession must do.
"I therefore propose an ideal, and if
it is unattainable that is merely another
way of saying that it is very high. It is
this: eternal resistance to any sort of
restriction of freedom of the press that
is, or may be, imposed from without j
and from within, the most ruthless cen
sorship that the press can' devise for
itself." ;
SPRATT COBB
"Spratt" Cobb, who is now playing
his third year on the Carolina basket
ball team, has lost none of his old-time
prowess in tossing field goals. In the
Guilford game Saturday night this AU
Southern star vied with Hackney for
scoring honors with a total of 16 points.
CAGET
BAP
E AM MEETS
ISTS NEXT
Expect Close Game Front First
Big Five Engagement.:
CLEAN SLATE TO DATE
Team Has "Point a Minute". Record
In 218 Points for 200 Minutes
of Play.
With five scalps hanging on the lodge
pole, one of them counting toward the
state title, the Tar Heel basketball war
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INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SOCIAL
SCIENCE HELPING STATE AND SOUTH
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation of Three Year
Grant of Hundred Thousand Dollars Is Being Well Used
More Than Thirty Research Surveys and Scores of
Important Manuscripts Underway.
11 jl Jon R. Bobbitt, Jr.
A little over a year ago when the Lau
ra Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Found
ation decided to come into the south, to
a school which was already making pro
gress in the study of social sciences, it
came to the University of North Caro
lina. Since that time the foundation has
been fully justified in granting $100,000
to the Institute for Research in Social
Science here by the results which are now
becoming evident.
The purpose of the Institute, now op
erating at full speed, is to conduct a long
time research program In the social
sciences of North Carolina and the
South. At present there are more than
thirty research surveys underway. The
list of these includes problems relating
to such Important Items as: the Coun
ty, Municipal Government and Affairs,
Social History of North Carolina, Folk
ways in Central North Carolina, Social
Industrial Relationships, and Studies of
the Southern Negro. ,
In cooperation with the University of
North Carolina Press, the Institute has
available or in preparation more than a
score of Important manuscripts. A glance
at the list of books and pamphlets shows
several that would undoubtedly prove
good reading, even to the ordinary lay
mind. The Negro Bad Man is the title
of a study by Howard W. Odum of the
less attractive side of the negro, and we
are told that Mr. Odum goes into some
detail describing the bad man of litera
ture and song, as well as case studies of
negro criminals. Dr. Odum, who is sec
retary of the Institute, has several other
books listed to his credit Including South
ern Minstrehy and Workaday Songi of
the Negro.
The City Newt paper, by Glenn John
son, and The Country Neuipaper, by
Malcolm Wllley, furnish studies of the
various types of newspapers In the south
from the viewpoint of the socialization
process. The entire tout of publications
which the Institute has been instrumental
but the five mentioned above serve as
in getting out is too long for this story,
fair representatives of the type of work
being accomplished here.
Rockefeller Foundation
The Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Foundation Memorial is the lengthy
name of the organization which has made
the research conducted by the Institute
possible. The foundation was founded
in 1918 by John D. Rockefeller in honor
of his wife, for whom the memorial is
named, that humanitarian activities might
be forwarded throughout the world.
The University was lucky enough to
receive in September, 1924, a three year
grant of approximately $100,000 from the
foundation. Only seven schools in the
world have been given this award so far,
these being Columbia University, Uni
versity of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Rob-ert-Brooklngs
Graduate School, of Wash
ington, D. C, and the Landon School of
Economics, London, England.
Officials of the Institute are hopeful
of retaining the Rockefeller Foundation
after the expiration of the three year
term.
Institute Organization
The Institute Is fully equipped to han
dle the mass of data and clerical work
necessary In the formation of the sur
veys. A board of governors, composed
of members of the University faculty
with President Chase as chairman, con
stitutes the governing body. Research
assistants, who work under the direction
of members of the faculty, bear the brunt
of the work and carry on the principal
work of the Institute. The Central office
provides clerical service and facilities In
any way it can, the work of those car
rylng on research.
The present Board of Governors Is
Continued on page four)
PLAN SCHOOL OF
RELIGION HERE
Rev. Walter Patten Has Creat
ed Interest for Proposed
School.
THREE TO FIVE COURSES
Ministers and Professors Would Teach
Classes in Churches.
For the past few years there has been
in the minds of several individuals of
Chapel Hill a desire to institute in the
University a School of Religion. Rev.
Walter Patten, of the Methodist church,
has been especially active in effecting in
terest among the ministers and in formu
lating the plans for the proposed school.
It has been one of his chief programs for
the churches in their inter-relation with
the University since his nine years of
ministerial service here.
The plans for a School of Religion are
merely in the rough and will require
some time before they are completely
developed. However, the primary ideas
have been defined and given enthusiastic
support among all. the ministers. - As
yet the plan has been only of Church
consideration with the favorable com
ments of some of the professors, but the
ministers hope to enlist the backing of
the University officials in Its proportions.
It is a strictly non-sectarian movement,
receiving the unqualified support of all
the churches. Its purpose is to offer to
the students wholesome courses in
theology.
Between three and five courses have
been suggested in the general outline of
the plans. The courses will probably
deal with certain phases and periods of
theology, such as a treatment of the life
of Christ and of Paul., It is the inten
tion to include course credits or half
course credits in the feature, if the pro
posal meets, with the University authori
ties', approval. It is suggested that the
classes meet from three to four times a
week with the length of the periods the
same as in other courses. The classes,
either as a temporary or a permanent
plan, will meet in the churches. As to
the teaching element, there are the min
isters and professors from which effec
tive and worthwhile instructorship could
be drawn, with, of course, the possibili
ties of - securing additional professors
from without. The financial considera
tions should in truth be of little consid
eration because the expense attached to
the promotion of this School of Religion
would not be great. The churches here
have an estimated figure of $700,000 tied
up in property and buildings which ad
mittedly should effectually touch more
Individuals, and the clerics are willing
and anxious to back this proposed sys
tem. A School of Religion Is grounded on
substantial plans and purposes. Rev.
Patton says that there is evidence that
there are students interested in theology
who would like to further their interests
by taking courses in this all-embracing
subject. He explained that the Univer
sity library is rather replete with theo
logical books, which adds to the stability
of the courses. There is further reason
for instituting a school of this nature.
Not only is there hope for the recognition
given her? In that field, but a recognition
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AUTHOR'S READINGS OF
PLAYS HELD TONIGHT
Three Plays From Half Dozen Read
ings Will Be Selected for Pro
duction by Playmakers.
Authors' readings ' of new. Carolina
plays will be held in the Playmakers
Theatre tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Five
plays are to be selected for the readings
from the number of good ones which
have recently been written in English 31,
the playwriting course. Among those
plays which will probably be read are)
A satiric fantasy, The New Moon, which
was written by Telfair Peet and which
calls for elaborate and fantastic cos
tumes; a new play by William MacMil-
lan, Blackbeard't Blue Wife, which is a
ballad burlesque; a college comedy, El-
bowl, by Walter Kelly ; a farm tragedy,
which has not yet been named, by David
Hodgin; a comedy of college life, The
Coop, by Helen Leatherwood ; and The
Marvelou Romance of Wen Chun-Chin,
Chinese play which was written last
year by Mr. Hsiung, of Nankang, China,
who was a student . here for several
years. From the five plays which will be
read, three will be selected for presenta
tion by the Playmakers on March 11,
12, and 13. The Pluy Committee which
111 make this selection will be announe-
later.
Try-outs for three plays which will
selected will be held Thursday after
noon and Thursday evenings at the
hours of 4:30 and 7:30 respectively.
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ed
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TAR HEELS BEAT
CLEMSON TIGERS
BY 50-20 SCORE
South Carolinians Swamped by
Getting. Late Start
In Game. -
ROWE'S BOXERS PERFORM
Entire Fourth Team Plays Last Part
of Melee Cobb, Hackney, Devin, '
and ,Dodderer Star. ' ?
The "White Phantoms" opened the full
force of their attack against the Clem
son Tigers here Friday night and swamp
ed the South Carolina Invaders under an
avalanche of . points, running up the
hightest score of the 1926 season and
defeating the visitors by the count of
60 to 20. The Tar Heels jumped off to
an early lead that the Tigers never
threatened to overcome throughout the
game. -
While the Carolina band blared tlie
notes of "Hark the Sound" and "Here
Comes Carolina," the Tar Heel tossers
took the eourt and limbered up for the
nassacre. Soon after the first' whistle
t was apparent that the Clcmsson ag
gregation were out of their class when
they tackled the Southern Champions,
and during the entire game the Carolina
five outplayed their opponents in every
department of play.
Showing some of the fastest passing
ever seen In the Tin Can, not excepting
even .the days of Carmichael and Mc
Donald, and with an unerring eye for
the basket the Phantoms dropped goal
after goal through the netting and ran
up a lead of 23 points before a Clemson
player ever found the basket. '.
Billy Devin broke the ice after a few
seconds of play when he dropped a long
shot through without touching the hoop.
Cobb dittoed Devin's shot on the next
round, and Hackney . sped under the
basket and dropped a short one through
for the third two-pointer in less than a -
minute of play. Captain Dodderer scored
on another long chance, and it only re
mained for Neiman to score to make it
one round for the Tar 'Heel five.
The scorekeepcr and timer compared -results
at the seven minute mark, and
It showed that the Carolina quint hud
rung up 17 points in seven minutes. It
was ten minutes -gone when Hinder
broke through for a Clemson score, toss
ing a field basket and a foul goal In
quick succession. The half ended with
the Tar Heels leading by 31 to A.
Immediately after the second semester
started Coaeh Sanburn began running in
substitutes, and Clemson. opened up their
heavy artillery and began dropping the
shots through from' long range. Five
long shots off the finger of Roy and
Newman and a couple of foul shots
raised the Tiger total to striking dis
tance of the Carolina score, but Jack
Cobb got loose for several shots and the
Tar Heels went out in front again. '
When the game ended the entire fourth
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K YSER TO PRODUCE
BLACK AND WHITE
"Kike" Plans Rare Entertain
ment for February
25 and 26.
TRY-OUTS HELD TODAY
Show . to Consist of 21 Scenes and
Use 90 People.
Something which Is different in the way
of entertainment for Chapel Hill will be
offered on February 25 and 26, when
Black and White will be presented. The
show is to be strictly a Review not a
minstrel and It will be given under the
auspices of one of two or three local or
ganizations, which organization this will
be being as yet undetermined. , Although
it will be produced and directed per
sonally by "Kike" Kyser, the review will .
be under the supervision and censorship
of a faculty committee composed of
Messrs. II. F. Comer, E. V. Howell, E. :
V. Kyser and one representative from
the organization under whose auspices it
will be given. .
The presentation of this revue will
mark a departure from the usual type of
shows given here. "Kike" spent two
weeks In New York City, buying scenery,
costumes and properties with which to
put his ideas across; and he has planned
a show which will be almost incredibly
artistic and elaborate. Indeed, when a;
Tar Heel reporter registered doubt as.
to the actuality of his plans, Mr. Kyser
stated, "It Is m aim to give a clean,
artistic, spectacular and entertaining
show and I will exert every effort to.
accomplish this. I realize that the cam-J
pus will probably not believe statements
ln'the Tar Heel and In advertisements of
some of the scenes I am attempting, but
I can assure them that I will advertise
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