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"THE FIRST YEAR"
l'LAYMAKER Theatre
Monday Tuesday
VOLUME XXXIV
CHAPEL HILL, N. C;, SATURDAY, JANUARY ao, 1926
NUMBER 46
"The First Year" Will Be
Presented By Play makers
DOMESTIC PLAY
Represents 'The First Year' of
a Married Pair.
FRANK CRAVEN AUTHOR
It is the First Play by a Professional
Playwright to Be Given in the
Playmakers Theatre.
Frank Craven's The First Year, which
will he presented by the Playmakers
Monday and Tuesday evenings, is the first
anil evening performances, is the first
play by a professional playwright to be
given in the Playmakers Theatre. Com
menting upon this fact and upon the
play In general, Professor Koch has is
sued the following announcement:
"Besides producing their own Caro
lina Folk-Flans, ; the Playmakers have
presented each season plays representing
different types of dramatic literature.
" 'The most enjoyable comedy of the
year' observed the critic of The New
,York Time in reviewing the' New York
premiere of Frank Craven's The First
Year at the Little Theatre on October
20, 1920.
"The author, Mr. Craven, is himself
an actor. In the original production of
the play he created the part of Mr.
Livingston with refreshing reality. He
knows his people and his theatre. With
him character is dialogue. It is in his
observant phrasing that he proves him
self 'a wooer of the homely chuckle",
the sort of humor that Booth Tarking
ton . has called the 'promptings of
memory.' " , ;
"Here is an authentic domestic come
dy a representation of American middle-class
life. The naturalness of its hu
mor and its pathos will appeal to any
audience. Here is the first year of the
married life of Grace and Tommy Tuck
er in Joplin, Missouri. But it might well
be the first year', .of any wedded pair
in your own home town.
"To those who have had their 'first
year', and to those who still look forward
to theirs, and surely this includes all of
us the play speaks ' with Tindeiiliible
truth. 'You two are just suffering from
matrimonial measles,' Dr. Anderson
wisely avers, troubles that look terrible
but don't amount to anything. Every
body has them and, like measles, it's bet
ter to have them young and get over
them. Years from now you're either go
ing to laughat this or cry over it. If
you let it take you apart, you're going to
cry so let's laugh at it. ; What do you
say?' And of. course we all choose to
laugh."
In order of their appearance the char
acters of the play ares Mr. Livingston,
taken by C. T. Hawkins j Mrs. Living
ston, by Margaret Ellis; Grace Living
ston, by -Helen Leatherwood; Dr. An
derson, by M. L. Radolf; Dick Loring,
by Tom Rollins, Jr.; Hattie, by Thclma
Moody; Thomas Tucker, by Harold G.
Gabriel; Mr. Barstow, by James King;
and Mrs. Barstow, by Sarah Boyd. ;
The scenes are as follows: . Act I,
Training Quarter at the Livingston
home, Reading Illinois. (The lights will
be lowered in Act I to indicate a lapse
of a few hours). Act. II,. The Ringside
at Tommy's apartment, Joplin, Mis
souri. Act III, The Knockout at the
Livingston home. ,
83 Delegates at
Alumni Gather
PHI ASSEMBLY TO
DISCUSS MERGER
Proposition Will Be Thorough
ly Debated Tonight.
SPEAKERS ARE PREPARED
Heated Arguments Are Expected From
. Both Sides of Question. "
The regular meeting of the Phi As
sembly will convene at 'even o'clock to
night. It cannot be said that the meet
ing will be held, for all indications point
to the most bombastic meeting of the
year, ' ,-"
The most important of all propositions,
tM of the merger of the two societies,
Will be fought from start tq finish. In
the prepared speeches nobody's feelings
will be spared; so anyone wlio can.iot
take must be prepared to give. -When
he motion is read, the discussion will
DeKin at We since the. introduction was
completed last meeting.
The motion was discussed to some ex
tent on last Saturday night, and at that
time the affirmative seemed to have the
Pipe pn the negative. Inflamed by this
ntl the very move, itself, the negative
Will fight tonight for all that it is worth.
The motion will in all probability
ad the same as the one on last Satur
day which ran as follows i Moved That
each society elect a committee of five,
whlcli with a like committee from the
otl'er shall draft a detailed plan by
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More than four 'score alumni
have come from all parts of the
state to take part in the alumni
conference and School. The com
plete list of delegates runs thus:
Luther II. Hodges, Spray; James
C Holmes, Spray; J. Y. Jordan,
Jr.,' Asheville; Maxcy L. Johns,
Laurinburg; W. M. Andrews, Jr.,
Greensboro; J. Dewey Dorsett,
Siler City; W. P. Stacy, Raleigh;
R. A. Doughton, Raleigh; Fran
. cis D. Winston, Victor Young, E.
B. Lewis, William ' B. Umstead,
Durham; Foy Roberson, Dur
ham; B. H. Miller, Durham; Mar-
ion Bowles, Durham; A. T. Allen,
Raleigh; John L. Harriss," Ra
leigh; Henry M. London, Ra
leigh; J. W. Bailey, Raleigh; O.
S. Thompson, Raleigh; Daniel L.
Bell, Roxboro; W. R. , Thomp
son, Pittsboro; J. W. Umstead,
Jr, Durham; E. Earle Brim,
Greensboro; J. 0. Harmon, Chap
el Hill; Allan Weil, Goldsboro;
A. K. King, Chapel Hill; A. R.
Newsome, Chapel Hill; Perry E.
Seagle, Raleigh; N. W. Walker,
Chapel Hill; O. J. Coffin, Raleigh;
C. P. Spruill, Jr., Chapel v Hill;
G. H. Leonard, Hickory; J. O.
Hester, Oxford; Allan J. Bar
wick, Raleigh; John R. Carr,
High Point; W. F. Carr, Dur
ham; Louis Graves, Chapel Hill;
. W. N. Everett, Jr, Rockingham;
C. T. Woollen, Chapel Hill; F. F.
Bradshaw, Chapel Hill; Robert
F.Phillips, Raleigh; Robert Mad-,
ry, Chapel Hill; F. R. Lowe,
Winston-Salem; W. Grady Prit
chard, Chapel Hill; L. R. John
ston, High Point; J. Ralph Wea
rer, Chapel Hill; J. Frank Wilkes,
Charlotte; T. B. Turrentine,
Greensboro; Jas. B. Patton,- Jr.,
.. West Durham; R. X. WConiww,
Chapel Hill; R. E. Coker, Chapel
Hill; R. H. Lewis, Oxford; O. G.
Caudle, Oxford; J. Legrande
Everett, Jr., Rockingham; J. C.
Rengar; Wilfred B. Shaw, Uni
versity of Michigan; W. V. How
ell, Chapel Hill; Ira M. Hardy,
Kinston; R. B. House, Raleigh;
Julian S. Mann, Middletown; J.
Y. Joyner, Raleigh; and Leslie
Weil, Goldsboro.
GRAPPLERSMEET
CONCORD TONIGHT
Coach Quinlan's Team In Sec
ond Meet of Season.
FIRST MEET SUCCESSFUL
New Men Got Baptism of Fire Against
State Outfit.
Concord Y. M. C. A.'s grappling team
will come to the "Hill" tonight to fur
nish the competition for Coach Quinlans
Tar Heels in their .second meet of the
1926 season. The Tar Heels started
their schedule with a win over the Tech
men from Raleigh by a heavy score, and
the prospects for the remainder Of the
schedule are much brighter than, at the
same time last year.
The Concord team may prove a sur
prise to the Tar Heels in their meet to
night, for they have several former col
lege stars on their roster this year and
put up a classy brand of wrestling. The
Concord outfit has appeared on the Tar
Heel schedule for both of the last two
seasons, and always the matches, have'
been hard fought. The Carolina mat
men have won each time by large scores,
but the individual matches were always
close and won by the Tar Heels only
after an Interesting scrap,
Just who Coach Quinlan will start In
each of the weights Is not known. He
follows the policy of holding new try
outs before each separate meet and no
man who wrestles in one meet is sure
that he will get into the next meet. All
of the men in the N. C. State meet
showed well for the opening encounter,
and they will give any rival for their
place a tough time.
Heafncr, a regular frpm last year, will
probably get in against Concord in the
il9 pound division. He lost to the State
light weight man, but only after a close
decision. Motsinger and Thompson arc
yery near evenly matched in the 129
class. Thompson wrestled against the
Techmen, but Motsinger, a veteran from
the 1925 team, will be scrapping for his
old place in the coming meet.
Abbott i nd Clemmons,vin the 139, and
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SHAW ADDRESSES
ALUMNI INSTITUTE
Brings Stirring Message To The
. University Men "'
OPENING BANQUET AT INN
University Faculty Are Hosts At Din
ner Thursday Night. ' '
The Alumni Conference School ; te-
ceived its send off for "the greatest and
most successful gathering of alumni In
the history of the association" at the
Opening Meeting, at dinner, in the ball
room of the Carolina Inn, Thursday evening.'"'-'
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More than four score alumni from ev
ery nook and corner of the state have
gathered here for the three-day Univer
sity Alumni Conference "to reconsecrate
themselves to the welfare of their alma
mater.'' . The meeting, beginning Thurs
day evening, will terminate this after
noon. , University faculty were hosts at the
dinner at the Inn, Tlmrsday evening, and
Pres. W. P. Stacy, of General Alumni
Association', presided. President H. W
Chase, welcoming the former students,
stated that theaiumni came not with the
view of rushing to the rescue of the
University, as they have done many times
in the- past, but witli the purpose as Pres.
Chase expressed it, ltOf getting a sym
pathetic touch and understanding of what
is going on atthe University and to wit
ness at first hand some of the new ways
in which the institution is branching
out."
"Gathering like this," President Chase
declared, "make for a common basis of
understanding because they are based on
facts and a frank interchange of opin
ion. It is to be hoped that there will
come out of this conference a firmer
bond of understanding, and the feeling
that we are driving forward a single
gnat objective. If' the University comes
to a fruition of its power it will be be
cause its alumni understand it. There
never lias been a time wrn University
alumi have not rallied about the insti
tution in nlisolute loyalty arid devotion."
The principal address was delivered
by Wilfred B. Shaw', alumni secretary
of the University of Michigan, and in
point of service the "dean" of his pro
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WINTER PRACTICE IS
GETTING UNDER WAY
Lectures Are Given In Murphy Hall
When Weather Is Not Suitable ."
For Outdoor Work.
PHANTOMS DOWN
ELON 40 AND 25
After Listless Start Tar Heels
Come Batk Strong.
Students Will Ballot On
Change In Council Friday
COBB AGAIN HIGH SCORER
Under the tutelage of coaches Bob
Fetzer and Runt Lowe the winter foot
ball practices have been progressing reg
ularly. '' '
Lectures are held in the Murphy Hall
auditorium on days when the weather is
not suitable for outdoor work. It is
planned to illustrate the lectures with
pictures, and to invite coaches and au
thorities frm other institutions to de
liver addresses. On days when practice
is confined to the lecture room candi
dates .are expected to report at five
o'clock.
Recently the weather has permitted the
coaches to drill the men on the fresh
man field. Especial emphasis is being
placed on punting, passing, and the ele
mentary fundamentals of the game.
The percentage of attendance has in
creased appreciatably during the last
few days of practice. The coaches ex
pect to attain a considerable degree of
success in moulding the rather , inex1
pcrienced material into varsity prospects
during the winter and spring months.
On days when the weather is fair
practice begins at four o'clock en the
freshman field.
Kelly and Bock, Old Durham High
Players, Elot Stars. 1
The Tar Heel baskcteers kept up their
point-n-mihute record Wednesday night
when they romped over the Maroon and
Gold quintet from Elon to the rollick
ing tune of 40 to 25. The Christians
came to the "Hill", fresh from a. hard
fought game with the Techmen at Ra
leigh, knd with their reputation built up
by that close defeat proceeded to show
the Phantoms that someone else besides
Carolina's Southern Champions could
toss the old basketball around. They
proved this point so well that during
the first half the score was none too
encouraging to the Tar Heel adherents.
For the second consecutive contest the
Tar Heels started the game without the
services of Captain Bill Dodderer, and
whether that was the cause or not, the
white-jerseyed outfit played a listless
brand of basketball during the entire
first half. Elon took advantage of their
opportunity and tallied goal for goal
with Coach Sanburn's men, knotting the
score at half-time at I t to It.
Devin Draws First Blood
Newcomb, Carolina's lanky sub-center,
tipped the ball over the visiting pivot
man to Cobb, and Billy Devin dashed
down the sidelines clear to take a swift
pass from "Sprodie" and arch a beauti
ful - goal through the netting without
touching the rim. Devin rung this point
within ten seconds after the first
whistle, but the Tar Heels could not
hold the lead for long.
George Kelly and Garnett Bock, form
er Durham High School stars, took the
warpath and rung, up three , goals in
quick succession that gave their team
a four point lead. Then Artie Newcomb
found out where Carolina's basket was
and decided to' take a hand in the game.
Three times in almost as many minutes
he came down the floor and found the
gonl for long shots. ' ,
Between halves Coach Sanburn dosed
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SEVERAL FIGHTS ARE
PENDING FOR BOXERS
Negotiations For Matches Are Being
Made With Some of the Leading
Schools in the South.
Freshman Society
To Meet Monday
i The Freshman Debating Socie
ty is successfully underway again
with H. N. Brown, of Chapel Hill,
as President. The second meet
ing of the winter quarter was
held last Monday evening.
At the meeting last Monday
evening two questions were dis
ed. They were: '(Di'the advisa
bility of making Governor Al
Smith of New York the next
Democratic nominee for the pres
idency of the United States; and
(2), the advisability of levying
a property tax in order to sup
port the eight-month school term
in the public schools through
out North Carolina. The last
topic was of especial interest to
Phi freshmen, as it is the query
for the Phi inter-society debate.
Discussions in the Freshman
Debating Society affords practice
for Phi and Di debates as well
as for inter-collegiate debates.
The resolutions to be discussed
at the next meeting are: Re
solved, That the Freshman De
bating Society go on record as
favoring the governing of the
United States under the present
constitution; and Resolved, That
the Freshman Debating Society
go on record as favoring the pas
sage of an act that would re
quire a small levy of taxes from
the present tax-exempt . bonds.
The next meeting of the So
ciety will be held Monday even
ing, February 1, at 6:45, in the
Phi Assembly Hall. Not only are
old members urged to be present,
but new members .are extremely
desirable. If any members of the
class of '28 are interested in de
bating, they are urged to attend
the Monday meeting.
Coach Crayton Rowe is putting his
squad of boxers through a stiff work
out every afternoon in preparation for
the first meet of the season which will
probably be held sometime within the
course of the next two weeks. Rowe
has a fairly large number of candidates
out for his team but isvery anxious for
a larger number to come out, especially
freshmen.
No meets have ns yet been definitely
scheduled but Manager Wilson announces
that several matches are pending with
some of the lending schools in the south,
among them being the University of
Virginia, Virginia Military Institute,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Univer
sity of Georgia and Georgia Tech.
There is keen compitition between the
men who are fighting for a berth on the
team and it is going to be a rather diffi
cult task for Caorh Rowe to pick out
the fighters in each weight. Among the
outstanding men are: Heavyweight G.
Shuford, Sapp; Light Heavyweight,
Warren, Black; Middleweight, Proffit,
Jenkins, Twiford;" Welterweight, A. Shu-
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Di Senate To
Die-Will
Refuse To
Act Tonight
The Dialectic Senate will refuse to die
when it meets tonight in Its'weekly ses
sion. Not. only will It refuse to surren
rW the ancient Dialectic fort in New
West building, but it is expected to re
fuse by a unanimous vote. .
The outcome of the merger project
In the Philanthropic Assembly is con
sidered as problematical. Some say it
will pass; others say no. Certain Di
Senate men are sure it will never get
bv In the "rival" organUation and some
even say that impeachment on the
grounds of treason Is probably await
ing the speaker-elect of the Phi Assem
bly who started the campaign for a
union.
In case either the Dialectic Senate or
the Philanthropic Assembly should fail
to agree to a union of the societies, the
plan as now suggested will automatically
fall through. In sueh an event, the oc
currence of which is considered certain,
the formation of a student body forum
of consequence and influence will be
forced to proceed through a different
channel.
It has been explained by a Di Senate
man that tin' resolution presented in that
body last Saturday night was In reality
a proposal tQ consider the proposed
proposal, It Is even said that the Di
Senate never had any intention of con
sidering the plan seriously: it rather was
seeklnjf to stir up discussion and per
haps bolster up the attendance.
The average attendance at th Di Sen
ale meetings has been placed by one of
its members at 40 men. The average
number that weekly attend the Phi As
sembly is estimated as not exceeding
that of the Di. Based on these figures,
approximately 80 men in the student
body of 2,200 arc active members of lit
erary societies.
BASEBALL SQUAD
WORKING INDOORS
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Tar Heel Pitchers Training
Daily in Bynum Gym.
LEGRANDE IS COACHING
Remainder of Carolina Tossers Will
' ' Start Practice in March.
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Baseball talk is again in the air, for
Cap" LeGrande, who has coached the
Tar Heel batterymen for the past two
years rolled in the first of the week and
started the candidates for the 1920 Tar
Heel mound crew to working daily in
Bynum Gymnasium. While the weather
and conditions of the ground will not
permit outdoor work for some weeks;
Coach IGrande is conditioning his men
to stand the grind of hard work when
outdoor practice starts thcfirst of
Marcn.
The Tar Heels will feel 'the loss of
three veteran hurlers when April issues
in the opening games of the 1926 season.
Bill Ferebee, who has turned hi his share
of the victories during the last three
seasons will be gone, along with Homer
Coletrane and Herman Holshouser. The
old Carolina men will not soon forget that
May day four years ago when Bill Fere
bee turned in his first big victory over
Virginia. The game was played on a
mud soaked field, in Greensboro, but Fer
ebee curved that wet ball around the
Cavalier's necks with all the ease that
the ordinary hurler handles a perfectly
dry and new ball. The score was 2 to 1.
Another picture that will not fade for
some time is that of the lanky Holshous-
er standing out in the middle of Emer
son Field last year against Duke and
turning back man after man by way of
the strike-out route. He struck out 11
men in the first five innings and held
them to one hit in the same tirrffe, but it
was not writ that he should win that day
and he gets credit for a loss, but he made
a great sight Just the same during those
opening Innings. But both of these men
are gone and with them the ever depend
able "Cole" Coletrane. Now the task of
"Cap" XeGrande is to unearth some like
ly successors.
Several Good Prospects
Although the old men will be missed
there are several good prospects out for
berths. Bill Poyner, who wears a letter
and a star for service on the mound will
be putting them over again this jtear,
and two or three new men look good to
come through. Mackie and Westmore
land, of the 1925 Tar Babies, and Routh
Whisnant and Brown, of last year's
scrubs, may deliver the goods this spring.
Ed Mackie, diminutive south-paw hurl
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ACTION MONDAY
Plan to Be ExplainedBoth
Sides to Present 'Views
GIVE MORE CAMPUS OFFICES
Vote of Student Activity Group Tues
day Night Explained As Having
' Been 6-5 Against Change.
The quest ion of a change in the pres
ent method of appointing class presi
dents as representatives on the student
council will be. voted upon hy the en
tire student body next Friday. The
affair will be threshed out during chapel
period Monday morning and speeches will
be made in fuvor of and against the
proposition.
; It has been proposed by a group of
students that the offices of class presi
dency and student couneilshlp be made
distinct and separate. Under the pres
ent custom, a man is elect d class presi
dent and is automatically given a place
in the student council. The plun to be
passed on next week requires each class
yo elect one of their number for the
council duty and thus entirely separate
the office from that of class president.
Agitation for its adoption by the stu
dent body was commenced by the prin
cipal exponents o the plan,' Taylor
Bledsoe, S. G. Chappell and Jim Wil
liams. ..'..'
: At fl meeting of the Student Activity
Group held Tuesday night the matter
ivus subject of a lengthy discussion. Ac
cording to J. B. Fordliam, President of
die Student body and chairman of the
group, the official vote of the group was
3-5 against the change.
The men sponsoring the plan claim
that under the existing system a class
president is overworked. According to
iheir Idea a man cannot lie expected to
Jo his best on two equally Important
ItF !J I. 1 1! I.. , ,
ihii-cs; ii uio omen iime is piaceu on one
Jie other is bound to suffer and if- an--.
attempt is made to divide the time the'
results jrilL be mediocre In both phases
i)f his work. The basis of their argu
ment is tliut a man can only be a good
class president, a skilled organizer and
a worthy maintainor of class spirit by
devoting his entire tlfne to it. He should
not assume any other duties, especially
any duties that are as Important . and
exacting as those of a student council
man. They a6 make a point of the
fact that a class president is usually a
man who is prominent in athletics, de
bating or some other form of outside
activity which serves to keep him busy.
To keep the presidents from being
swamped in work and to obtain more,
efficient' organisation they Insist that
a man of judicial ability who Is not
otherwise tied up .should be chosen from
the class nt large to serve on the council.
; Those opposed to the plan object
principally on the ground that such a
change would be altogether contrary to
past custom and would be a needless
flouting of long established precedent.
The point to (he fact that student
government at the University of North
Carolina has had a lengthy and wholly
successful career. The student council
has always handled student affairs in a
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MONOGRAM CLUB
ELECTS OFFICERS
Interesting Meeting Is Held by
Wearers of "N. C."
ELECT JONAS PRESIDENT
Program Is Filled With Speeches from
Members and Coaches.
A meeting of the Monogram Club was
held in the University Cafeteria , Wed
nesday night at 6:15. Forty-six members
of the organization were present.
The first event on the program was
the serving of an elaborate feed pre
pared by the Cafeteria cooks. In a
short space of time the last morsel had "
disappeared, and Jack' Colb, rc'iring
president of the club, arose and an
nounced that nominations were in order
for a new set of officials.
Charlie Jonas was elected president
for the ensuing term by unanimous bal
lot. 'The vice-presidency was con
ferred on Mr. Red Whisnant. The office
of secretary and treasurer fell by unani
mous vote to Red Barber.
The first speaker on the program was
Coach Bob Fctzer. Activities of the
Monogram Club on the University cam
pus was the chief subject of the address.
Mr. Fetzer called attention to the fact
that among the wearers of the "N. C."
ace found representative leaders in
every form of campus activity. He
urged the men to muke the organization
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