North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME XXXIV CHAPEL HILL, N C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1)26. NUMBER 55 EXTENSION WORK IS GROWING WELL ALL OVER STATE Bureau Provides Instruction for More Than Half of Carolina Students. 3,000 STUDENTS LAST YEAR Activities of Extension Division Are United the University Campus and the State. Doubtless few are the citizens of North Carolina who have .ever given much thought to the part of the State Univer sity that is not in Chape! Hill. Doubt less the State will be amazed to learn that more than half the students en rolled in the University last year were non-residents of the town in which the institution is located. Yet it is a fact, and it is so far for the first time in the 131 years that have Intervened since Jliiiton James walked all the way from Wilmington through the muddy lanes to le the first student to enroll In the Uni ' versify. ' The dream of Winston and Venable and Graham, and doubtless the presi dents who came before them, that the University campus and the area of 62,- 286 square miles that comprise the phy sical State of North Carolina would some day he one, has literally come true. For the University now has hundreds of classrooms scattered throughout the State, and yet a mere handful of teach ers in comparison. . There Were 2,800 Extension Students Where are these classrooms? Their lo cation is variable. They may be almost anywhere, in any building in which the students and instructors may choose to meet. Most often they are in the high school building of the community, but where they are held matters little so long as the room is properly ventilated and lighted. To conduct these extension classes University professors go out from Chapel Hill two or three times a week and give the same sort of credits for work satisfactorily completed. 'Last year there were 1,406 enrolled in these classes,. nd twice as many, were .refused admission because of lack of money in (Continued on page tix) FOUR COLUMN PORTICO TO GRACE OLD SOUTH All External Characteristics of Build- ing Are to Be Retained Actual Construction to Begin Soon. Old South building, which for the last few days has acquired such a skeleton aspect, is soon to take on the appear ance of a building in the course of con struction ' rather than one in the course of destruction. Complete plans for the structure will be turned over to the T. C, Thompson Co., contractors, in the next few days and work will then go on at a rapid rate. Practically all of the building has been razed with the exception of the walls. A great deal of the back wall also had to be removed since the plans cull for a portico on the southern side of the build ing. The southern elevation will have much the same general appearance as that of the Law Building. There will be four columns on .a pediment, while the Law Building has six. Throughout the work the architects have always worked with the idea in view of retaining all the external char acteristics of the ancient structure. The addition of columns on the southern side will be the only variation from the idea. Especial care is being taken to preserve the form of the wooden cupola over the front door. The new one will be exe cuted in limestone. All of the windows 'e (o retain their old shape, but they will have to be replaced by new frames. The cupalo on the roof is also to be rer placed as near on the model of the old one as possible. The renovated South will not only be. a place around which will cluster old memories, but will be an edifice of exceptional beauty as well. Excavation for the basement proved luite a difficult undertaking since a great number of large rocks were in the way of the work, All of these had to be broken and removed by hand since dyna mite could not be used in such a peril ous position. Tills accounts to a great extent for the slowness. Great care had to be used in all of the wrecking since the foundations were rotten practically through and through. ' . The building will not be ready for occupancy until sometime during the summer. Although it will not be com pleted by commencement, it will have reached a stage of completion where alumni returned for the exercises will he able to visualize its final appearance. GLEE CLUB GIVES CONCERT TUESDAY Just Returned From Second Engagement of Week. WAS HI GHLY PRAISED Club Will Appear in Memorial Hall Tuesday Evening. """The Glee Club returned last night from a trip to Winston Salem, where a concert was given at Salem College by the organization. ' , This engagement at Salem College was the second appearance of the Club this week. On Thursday evening the men sang at Pinchurst, where they were &c- corded an enthusiastic reception by an audience that dared to attend in spite of the bad weather. In the program given at the popular resort, the organi zation presented as soloist T. Smith Mc- Corkle; violinist and music director in the University. The concert at Salem College included soloist numbers by Mt McCorkle and William Breach, whose ability as a baritone is well known to people in this state. This program was highly praised by several music-lovers prominent in the realm of criticism. The sucess of these engagements indicates that the organization should enjoy a sea son more brilliant than that of any preceding year. The concert here Tuesday evening will be featured by the tenor soloist, Theo dore Fitch, who is well known for his exceptionally clear voice and his former prominence with the University music de partment as vocal instructor. Mr. Fitch who will arrive in Chapel Hill Sunday, has recently been engaged in concert (Continued on page tix) FAMOUS ACTRESS TO APPEAR HERE Arna Heni Will Give Reading in Playmakers Theatre. IS GIFTED NORWEGIAN Production Will Have Appropriate ' Costuming and Stage Setting. Arna Heni, illustrious Norwegian ac tress, will give a dramatized reading, of Hcnrik Ibseh's Peer Oynt in the Play makers Theatre Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock;, Her, production will have ap propriate costuming und stage setting, and it will he accompanied by Grieg's music. . , Since she is a Norwegian, Arna Heni is able to bring to her interpretation of Ibsen a spirit so sympathetic that one sees the immortal drama in a new light. The play is-given in English interpre tations: and, since Madame Heni is a linguist of the highest order no part of the spirit of the play is lost through dramatic default. Arna Hem is an actress of brilliant imagination and temperamental-' flexi bility,' and in her 'interpretation of Peer Gynt she is the whole play! She' is more than" Ase, and Peer Gynt, Aslak, the smith, Solveig and her parents, Ingrid and Mad Moens and the whole com pany of wedding guests, more than the king of the strolls and the stroll pack! She is the spirit that animated Ibsen's nlav. the lusty play of Ibsen's youth, rollicking, gay by contrast with those that were to come from his maturer pen, an embodiment of the folklore of the mountain folk, hill-children of the ojd Vikings, who first found America. Brand, the Matter Builder and The Lady from the Sea are included in her repertoire, but Peer 0unSs her favorite. It is a part of the soil of Norway, which is somber and silent through the long nights, which is the mother of giants of troll, which is the lover of a fine tale beside a bright fire, and which is a re specter of a strong arm and of a strong glass.' This gifted Norwegian has taken ling- land as her own, and the great extent of her popularity there is shown in the following newspaper comments upon her performances: . "The presentation ot Ibsen's veer Oynt by Madame Arna Heni was a very vivid and clever one; the actress in her quaint native dress being able to adapt her pose and vary her tone admirably, so that the different characters to the dialogue could be readily distinguished." Central Somerset Gazette. 'She took advantage of her compa- triotism to show Peer Oynt as Ibsen meant him and as only a Norwegian who feels in his very bones the mysticism of the folklore whose atmosphere sur rounds the poem could show him.' Birmingham News. The tickets for this performance are on sade to-day at Sutton and Alder man's. Subscribing Members get a 10 reduction on the price of the tickets. CHASE REQUESTED TO REMAIN HERE Trustees Vote Resolution Ask ing Him to Retain Presidency. RETURNS FIRST OF MARCH Committee Appointed to Confer With ' Him On His Return. The executive committee of the board of trustees of the University, in session at Huleigh Wednesday, passed a reso lution asking that Dr. Chase remain at his presidential post at the University of North Carolina. While only seven mem bers of the board of trustees were pres ent it. is well known that they express not only the opinion of all the board but the state as a whole as well. The people of the state are fast be ginning to realise what president Chase lias meant to them while the Univer sity has been under his competent guid ance. Just such an offer lias been need ed to show the alumni, and others as well what alace Dr.. Chase has won in the hearts of the, folks of the State. The president's western tour of inspec tion has been the leading topic of dis cusion in Chapel Hill since his sudden departure three weeks )igo. Only a short time ago the faculty in full session passed a resolution asking him to con tinue his work in North Carolina. It now comes as no surprise that the trus tees should ask him to remain, because after all they are the men who are in charge of the situation. Since Dr. Chase's departure letters have poured into his office asking him to look, upon the Oregon offer with dis favor. He lias not reported how " he stands on the position offered him by the Pacific coast university. He will not he forced to give an answer to the western institution until two weeks later. The full ' resolution ' of the executive committee is as follows: "It is the sense of the executive com mittee of the board of trustees, in ses sion in the governor's office on the 17th day of February,, 192fi that, while ap preciating the recognition of the ability of Dr. Chase by other commonwealths, we. believe. imtw- v-siee-Hie-oonvietions- of the people of the state in assuring him our belief that his largest service can be rendered by continuing the mag nificent leadership which he has demon strated at the University of North Caro lina; expressing to him the approval of his policies and loyal support in the large expansion of the university which has characterized his presidency. "Further. That a committee, of which the governor shall shall he chairman, be appointed to confer with Dr. Chase and report the result of the conference to a future meeting of the board of trustees. "It is the further sense, of the executive committee that the governor be request ed to call a meeting of the full hoard of trustees on the 2nd of March, 1926"." Present: Governor A. W. McLean; Josephus Daniels; W. N. Everett; A. T. Allen; ' Charles Wheedbee; Lionel Weil; 11. M. London, secretary. Mesages were read from Walter Murphy,' Francis D. Winston, A. M. Scales, Haywood Parker and W. L. Long strongly urging retention of Dr. IJ. W. Chase. MADDRY TO DELIVER UNIVERSITY SERMON The February University' Sermon will be ..preached tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in Gerrard Hall by Itev. Charles K, Maddry of Raleigh, Corresponding Secretury of the Haptist State Conven tlpn. Dr. Maddry has preached a number of times at the University in ' recent years, having delivered the commence ment address here . several years . ago, He was also one of the speakers at the State Baptist Student Conference which convened in Chapel Hill last foil. More over, he is an alumnus of the University und a number of years ago was super intendent of the Orange County schools, FROSH FIVE WINS FROM W00DBERRY Annex Last Game On Trip Through Virginia. LOSE TO V. M. I. QUINT Tar Babies Are Outplayed By V. M. I, Quint. After having lost the first two games of the Virginia trip to Washington and Lee and V. M. I., respectively, the Tar Rabies came back strong Wednesday night and defeated the Woodberry For est quint by the score of 22-21. The game was unusually hard fought outfits. The two teams were about as evenly matched as possible and at no time dur ing the game did either qujnt have a large margin over the other.'. As a result of this, the outcome was in doubt until the referee's whistle had put an end to the contest. . , Rufus Hackney was easily the out standing performer for the Tar Babies, lie tossing in four field goals and play ing an unusually good floor game. -There were no individual stars for Woodberry, the whole team playing together as a unit. .A , An interesting feature of the contest was the fact that two brothers held down the stationery guard position for the opposing teams, Gordon G ray occupying this position for Woodberry and Bow man Gray for Carolina. Line-up and summary: Woodberry Forest Carolina Position Whisnant 1 Satterfield (C) R. F. Fenner Wall L. F. Jones (C) Hackney ' C. Nash - .'. Finlator R. G. Gray, G. . Gray, B. L. G. Substitutions: Weaver for Whisnant, Ivey for Penner, Oukey for Wall, Wall for Satterfield for Oakley, Field Goals: Fenner (3), Jones (3), Whisnut (2), Nash (1), Hackney (4), Oakley. (2), Satterfield (1), Wall (I). Folds: Jones (2-4), Whisnant (1-2), Hackney (3-4, Finlntor (1-1). Referee: Sunders. V. M. I. Game The Carolina, freshman basketball team was defeated in the second game (Continued on page six) Black AndlWhite Will Be Feature Of Production SKIT Jilack and White, which is to be pro duced under the auspices of the Di So ciety in Memorial Hall next Thursday and Friday evenings, promises to be' a most elaborate and colorful performance- Mr. Kyser's past productions have all had the pep and all the accoutrements which make for excellence in the type of show which he presents; but, since they were composed entirely of boys and since they were for the most part minstrel shows, they did not have many openings for either elaborate scenery or colorful and effective costumes. This year; how ever, the show is decidedly a revue. Be sides the many boys, Black and White has fourteen girls in its cast; therefore, many changes of scenery and costumes have been worked out. Black' and White will include eleven complete changes of scenery, and one hundred and forty costumes will be used. Prodigious and unbelievable as this state ment may seem, the performances on next Thursday and Friday will confirm it in detail. Much of the scenery and many of the costumes were bought by the producer while he was in New York; however, some of tach are being made here.' In the opening scene of the show, the black scenery Witli its while stripes,' the girls with their black and white sport suits, and the boys with their black suits trimmed with white and their wh.te suits trimmed with black form a very effec tive picture and one which is most ap propriate for the opening of this show. The feature of the scenery used in the first act is the set which is employed in "The Lady of the Silvery Moon". This set is being constructed with silver me tallics on canvas and will give a quite unusual silver effect. Many beautiful lighting effects are being worked out for this scene. Miss Leutherwood, dressed in silver and coming down from the moon to do a fantastic dance in this beuutiful setting, will produce a picture both beautiful and artistic. Miss Miriam Sauls and Mr. Bozy Hor ton in their act, "Who", have the next change of scenery. This set is made of amaterial which, with the aid of lights, can be made to change into several dif ferent colors. A pretty girl, good sing ing, novelty dancing by the Charleston ing team and effective scenery make this a well balanced act. In "Dumb I Mean, Dumb!", the fea ture comedy skit of the show, a "patch work" drop is used for the first time in Chapel Hill. This set is novel as well as appropriate; and, together with the crazy costumes, does much toward put ting the act across. (Continued on page tix) PHANTOMS MEET DUKE AT DURHAM Tar Heels Will Be Out to Re venge Tech Defeat. MAY BE A CLOSE GAME Coach Sanburn Probably Starts Same Team Used in North. ' , Smarting from the defeat ot the hands of the Red Terrors from Slate College the Tar Heels will go to Duke tonight to meet the Blue Devils in the second game of the year between the two teams, and it will be a quintet of raging fighting Phantoms that takes the , floor in the Methodist's big gym. - The team was badly off in their game with the StateCollege outfit, and as a with the State College outfit, and as a Heels in every phase of the game. Since that disastrous game Coach Sanburn lias been sending the team through a course calculated to remedy the ills in thut contest, and tonight it will be a rejuve nated team that carries the Light Blue and White into battle. , Although the win by the T,ech five Thursday night gives them the cham pionship 'beyond a shadow of doubt it i still does not rate the Tnr Heels down very much in the dope for a third Southern Championship, and they will be out tonight for a sweet revenge for that terrible night. Tonight's contest has no bearing on the Conference per centage, but a loss to Duke would ma terially lessen the estimation ' of the basketball public for the Tar Heels, and it is just that they will be fighting for. It is worth a great deal to the team when they go to Atlanta to have the confidence of the folks back home in he Old North State. The dope gives the Tar Heels the edge on the Methodist tosser.s due to their season record. The bwo teams met once before with the Carolina outfit winning over the Blue Devils on the Tin Can court by a top-heavy score, but the Duke team will have the advan tage of their home court and crowd in this second game, so they may pull an upset of the dopesters carefully . pre pared plans. The Duke team will probably start their regular five, , with Captain Pete Moss at center, Harkness and Bullock at forward, and Kelly and Weaver or Bennett ut guard. Couch Sanburn will probably sjart Cobb and Dodderer at forward, Vunstory or Newcomb at ceil' ter, and Hackney and Devin at guard. TAR HEELS FALL BEFORE TECHMEN THURSDAY NIGHT Red Terrors Win Game From Carolina By Score of 17 to 8. FIRST YEAR MEN ARE ENTERTAINED Members of Phi Beta Kappa are Hosts to Freshmen LOCAL CHAPTER RULINGS Guests Are Informed of Requirements For Membership. Wednesday night at 8:30 at the Rpiscopuf Parish House the members of the Phi Beta Kappa f ralernity were hosts to the freshmen at the University whose grade placed them on the hon or roll for the fall .quarter. The pur pose of the meeting was to Inform the guests of the aims und purposes of the fraternity and explain the requirements for memberships. Dr. Wilson, the Register of the Uni versity, explained to the freshmen pres ent the rulings of the local chapter in regard to attaining membership. He stated that there are four times during a student's college career at which he may be initiated into the fraternity. He may be initiated at the spring meeting after the winter quarter of his Junior year, at the commencement meeting af ter his Junior year, or at either of these meetings during his Senior year at the University, Aa these meetings he must have passed 24, 27, 33, or 36 courses respectively. The average grade required for mem bership is 92.0.- In averaging the grades of students a regular mathematical scale is used. On VA" Is given the value of 97.S, a "B" Is 92.5, a "C" S5, a "D" 73 on "li" (i,5, and un "F" 30. Any student who makes an "P." or un T" on any course after his freshman year is ineligible for membership, and lie may make'' only his first year. At the time of his initiation he must have completed ail his required courses, in cluding the Sophomore electives. Mem bership in the local chapter is entirely automatic. The student attaining the highest average on all his work at the completion of the winter quarter of his Junior year is automatically elected (Continued on page tix) WINNER IS 1926 CHAMP Phantoms Fail to Break Through De fense of West Raleigh Aggregation. $ " The loving cup, emblematic of the North Carolina Intercollegiate Basket ball 'Championship, bus rested on the shelves of the Tar Heel trophy room for. six years, but the foundations had grown mighty shaky by the middle, of the game wilh N. C. State at Raleigh Thursday night, and when the final pis tol cracked to signal the end of the con test the cup fell with u resounding crash. It was saved from utter destruction by the dashing Stale College Terrors who earned the right to save It by their 17 to 8 triumph over the Tar Heel tossers. It was a fighting bunch of rcd-Jer-seyed Terrors thut come out on the court of Frunk Thompson Memorial Gymna sium for the first whistle, and they be gan the game with a grim determina tion to give the Tar Heels us good as they sent and more, if they could. And could they do itP Better ask any one who saw the game did they do it. For the first half of the contest it was as pretty a scrap as any follower of the hardwood courts could wish for, but the last half was all red. ( The Techmen presented a well nigh impregnable defense that turned every drive of the Tar .Heel forwards back into the Carolina territory to result time after time in a State score. The State guards, Wutklns und McDowell, put up one of the finest games ever een in North Carolina. The floorwork of Jack McDowell was a beautiful thing to see. His dribbling has been equalled in the past only by a few of the superb exhibitions put up by "Monk" McDonald and Cart Cnrrnichael, Caro lina aces of several years past, . ., ,. Gresliam, Stale's midget forward, fa.ll (Voulhiued on page six) LEATHER PUNCHERS TO SHOW WARES TONIGHT Only Appearance of Boxing Team on the Hill This Year Will Determine Personel for Virginia Trip. Tonight ut 8:30 in the Tin Can the boxing team will put on its first exhibi tion of the year In which all of the bouts will lie fought to u decision, The purpose of the exhibition is to pick, by elimination, the men who will make the Virginia trip with the team. Coach Howe has been working big men out every afternoon in the Tin Can since his arrival ut the beginning of the quarter. There are a number of promis ing prospeces on the squad and the meet tonight will contain lots of action.. All t lie candidates buve been showing up well and the men who will fight tonight are the pick of the squad. There are six bouts on the card, wilh a possibility of seven.: : Carolina begins its second season of boxing with two meets on the schedule so far. These meets are both away from the Hill so there is a possibiltiy of tonight being the only time the stu dent body will have a chance to see the teum in real action. The team leaves Monday night for Charlotte, where they will box the University of Virginia on Tuesday, Fcbruury 23. . They will re main in Virginia until Saturday night, when they box V. P. I. at Blackburg. The outcome of these two meets will probably affect materially the decision as to whether or not boxing will be made a letter sport at the University this year. Coach Howe has high hopes of getting the coveted monogram awarded to his team, sence such great interest has been shown in the new sport. The bouts on the card for tonight are as follows; Jarrull vs. Bobbitt 119 pound class. Show vs WykeI29 poung class. Bullitt vs. Teimey 139 pound class. Alec Shuford vs. Butler 149 pound class; Proflitt vs. Jenkins 16t pound class. "Ox" Shuford vs. Black Unlimited class. Captain Warren, star heavyweight of the team, will assist Coach Rowe and there is a possibility of his fighting sev eral rounds. . . The Duetsche Vereln will hold Its regu lar meeting next Thursday at the Episco pal Parish House. -