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.THE TAR HEEL Tuesday, March 28, me I ,V The v - :, ' Leading Southern College; Tri-Weekly Newspaper. ' . ',, , 7 -,, Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association " Published three times every week of the college year, and is- the official news paper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. G Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for tne college year. Offices on (list floor of New West Building, Telephone 818-Red. Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C .JEditor H. N. Parker. j Harold Seburn....l?wsines Manager Editorial Department ,? i Managing Editor J. T. Madry .. Tuesday Issue P. N. Olive Thursday Issue P. P. Eller , : Saturday Issue C W. Bazemore U N. Byrd . Assistant Editor i ; Sport Editor J. O. Allison J. F. Aseby .. K. Berwick J. R. Bobbitt, Jr. 11. P. Brandis I). D. Carroll ? W. G. Cherry Ben Eaton '' Eunice Ervin R. K. Fowler C. I Keel, Jr. Staff J. B. Lewis R. R. Little , K. K. McKethan, Jr. L. H. McPberson W. W. NeaL Jr. A W. D. Perry W. P. Ragan I. N. Robbins C. F. Rouse S. B. Shepherd, Jr. A. B. White Business Department Sarah Boyd 'Ant to But. Mgr. T. V. Moore ' Advertising Department Chas. A. Nelson Advertising Manager Baron Holmes S. Linton Smith J. C. Uaaell, Jr. . ' Circulation Department Marvin Fowler Dick Slagle Tom . Raney ..':, Circulation Manager John Deaton Reg Schmitt You can purchase any article adver tised in The Tar Heel with perfect safety because everything it adver tises is guaranteed to be as repre sented. The Tar Heel solicits adver- - Using from reputable concerns only. . Tuesday, March 23, 1926 SECOND THE MOTION Dr. Coker has appealed to the student body for cooperation in im proving the looks ; of -the campus, When the renovation of South Build ing is completed, 4the construction work that has kept the central part "of the campus in a state of scenic turmoil ever, since the present col lege generation set its feet on this sacred soil, will come to end. " Now, according to Dr. Cdker, work can be begun that will count. And i he has not been satisfied with the mere saying of it, but walks have been laid out along the Avenue, grass has been planted and shrubs are be ing set out in front of Old East and Old West. The walks, until all the gravel has been' swallowed up by the mud, will at least be dry, the bushes are real onery, and the grass, we feel sure, will have the proper tint of green. Here's our vote of con fidence in the work vbeing done by Dr., Coker and it is with a cheer ful heart that we pass his call for cooperation on to the students. As to the ugly trails, the only cure we know for them is to catch substi tute walks. Students, with thirty seconds to catch a class under a tem pestuous eight-thirty professor, arn't likely to be halted by a two inch blade of grass when a six foot board fence wouldn't be able to hold them back. In other ways, a straight line is the quickest way, to get to a class on time and some of the ugly trails on the campus might serve 4s Valu able cues as to where walks would be most serviceable. ' Still this doesn't mean that we sympathize with the gink that walks across the grass from the mere plea sure of doing so. We have here the kind that'll walk down the grassy borders just because the customary thing to do is to use the walks. They're the same folks that deposit their private chewing gum where it will' become a fixture on the bottom! of their friend's favorite shoes. These are the students, we suppose, that' Dr. Coker desires to rally around and make possible a campus beautiful for the enjoyment of others, in case they care not for such a thing them selves. ' , ; ' , JUST GROUNDS FOR ' COMPLAINT Acting again as the buffer between the student ljody and the , official University, the Tar Heel is print ing in this issue of the paper, a let ter protesting against unnecessary crudity in .the registration ceremony. Much improvement has, been made in recent years in handling the vari ous occasions that require' indulgence by the entire student body. The two upper classes have received the bene fit of an extended registration period and . even the treasurer's office is handling its end of the business with a little more consideration for-the students. ,' The University has been in the registering business ever since Hin ton James walked from Wilmington, we suppose "we'll be told. Well, any how, we've made some progress since then and perhaps in another century a better system of registration for the lower classes will be devised. But the students who have to play Me morial Hall football for an hour or two at the beginning of each quarter have grounds for kicking. OPEN F0RUMj SOUTHERN TRACK MEET WILL BE HELD IN MAY Conference Meet Will Be Held in Chapel Hill On May 14-15 Many Schools to Enter. The biggest track event In the South will take' place on May 14 and 15 when more than twenty of the South's leading institutions are expected to send repre sentatives for the annual Southern Con ference Championship meet to be held here. The leading cinder path stars of this section of. the country will be seen in action and indications are that a rec ord breaking crowd will be on hand to witness the event. . There are twenty-two schools listed in the Southern Conference and it is probable that all will enter teams this year. Florida, South Carolina and N. C State were the only ones not repre sented at last year's meet. The follow ing are expected to enter: Auburn, Clem- son, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Ala bama, V. P. I., South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Washington and Lee, V. M.. I, N. C. State, Virginia, Louisiana, Ten nessee, Tulane, Mississippi A. & M, Sewanee, Mississippi .University, Van derbilt, and Kentucky. The meet last year was held at Se wanee, Tennessee, and ; was won by Mississippi A. & M. The Tar Heels, however, only missed first place by six points with a small squad entered. ' ORDER OF GRAIL TO PRESENT CUP Again Will Give Trophy to Best Freshman Athlete-Student. TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS Freshmen Numerals Will Also Be Given Awarded On Awards Night The Order, of the Grail will award again this year a silver loving cup to the member of the Freshman Class who stands out in the fields of athletics and scholarship. The purpose of the cup is to promote high scholarship among the first year athletes. Last year it was awarded to Bob Wilkins of Greensboro. The Grail will also give class numerals to the members of the various freshman squade who merit them. Both the num erals and cup will be given on Awards Night. ! Calendar , ; Tuesday, March 23 7:30 p.m. Author's Reading, New Folk Plays, Playmaker Theatre. 8:30 p.m. Freshman Friendship Coun cil, V. M. C. A. ' Wednesday, March 24 7:30 p.m. Social Science Siminar, Saun ders Hall. '..,'..''' " '; 8. -00 p.m. Community Dramatic - Con test, Theatre Building. , . Thursday, March 25 Dramatic Association Institute. 11:30 a.m. Opening Session, Carolina 2:00 p.m. Geology Club Meeting, New East building. , 3:30 p.m. Guest Performance, Carolina Paymakers, Theatre Building. . 7:30 p.m. High School Dramatic Con test, Theatre Building, y; Y , 730 p.m. Deutsche "Verein Meeting. Friday, March 26 7:30 p.m. Graduate Club Meeting, Parish House. 8:00 p.m. Collegiate Dramatic state championship. Theatre Building. Saturday, March 27 ' 2:30 p.m. All-University Field Day; Emerson Field. 8:30 p.m. Debate Carolina vs.Swarth more Gerrard Hall. To the Editor i As one who sincerely believes his sen tlments representative of the opinions held by a large portion of the student body, the writer requests the privilege of protesting through your columns against a system which he considers a disgrace to this University. : ' i Reference is respectfully made to the reception accorded a student who is so reckless as to attempt, with hundreds of equally determined aspirants who throng Memorial Hall on such occasions, to reg ister, on time. Our spring , football riot of last Saturday is impressive evidence of the miserable failure by University authorities to provide adequately for the rush made quarterly by undergraduates of supposedly the greatest University in the South. But surely the capable registration department could be guilty of no short coming in the discharge of its duties? Let's see. - The appointed hour for the admission of students to the registration "hall has arrived. Outside Memorial Hall a crowd of several hundreds is assembled. Per haps we see the doors flung open and boys pouring like ants into the build' ing but most likely we observe the horde of shoving, pawing students awaiting the arrival of sectionizers whose alarm clocks function thirty minutes late. Per haps it is fine weather," with no ;rain or mud. ; Spare my laughs, gentle reader. It is a well known fact that Jupiter Pluvius is in league with the devil on most registration days. ' But the fresh men and sophomores are forced to as sume all weather risks as they strive to form line before the building. Event ually those inexperienced ones who re main in line and those who are evidently opposed to all campus line-ups crash through the doors of the maltreated hall. Once inside, they swoop down upon ,a corps of sleepy and horrified professors. Then the fight begins at each respective table, while officials glare malignantly at the students and leap acrobatically about as chairs and tables are smashed. After the uninformed contestants have been directed to the proper bureaus, and those remaining have fought to exhaustion, ex asperated instructors begin the task of registering the men. However, 'the mob congregates at the table of each required course, where they go through the same procedure to the terror of professors and unsuspecting co-eds. New men who have failed to wear their old clothes cry out above the din for their collars, ties, and abused apparel. The files stampede, but fre quently sections are filled before thqse who awaits their turns reach their heav ens. For them, ("there ain't no justice". Boys "mangled beyond parental recog nition" finally paw their way through to professors, lean all over them, puff in formation with their eyes bulging from perspiring faces, and batter their pas sages out again. -Professors, it is ru mored, suspect athletes of registration assaults and flunk them in righteous re venge. ' Few students are ' satisfied or succeed in arranging satisfactory sched ules. Is this system worthy of an institution like ours? Indeed, we fear for old Mem orial Hall in this day of mass athletics. As for the students remember sturdy Hinton James, who underwent sqf brave ly his hardships as one of the first stu dents here. But our illustrious prede cessor didn't compete with twelve hun dred semi-maniacs. Believing as it does in the ability of registration officials here tq adopt methods as ' successful as those followed by many larger Universities, the student body, if afflicted by this ridicu lous system much longer, might well pro duce enterprising sophomores and fresh men who would appear triumphantly in Memorial Hall on well tested horses or mules. It is not for a student to attempt to suggest a remedy for so complex a part of the University's administration de partment. But most of us deseriously protest against a plan which we consider barbarously conceived and childishly ex ecuted. " . . D. D. C. LOCATION NEEDED FOR WEST VIRGINIA DEBATE City Must Be Found for Debate Easter Week, or Debate Council Will Postpone Event. . Bo" Shepard Honored At Military Academy Announcement has come here from the United States Military Academy that G. E. Shepard, star freshman athlete here last year and now a first year student at . West Point, has been awarded the army "A": for participation in basket ball. Shepard, who hails from Wilming ton, N. C.,made an excellent showing on the 1924 Tar Baby football team, be ing elected captain. "Bo" play quarter back on the 'gridiron md Is a fast and consistent guard on the basketball court. R. B. Talley and M. M. Sherwood spent the week-end in Randleman. . J. B. Nelson and P. C. Russell spent the week-end in Durham; ,' ';; ' : Miss Margaret Ellis, of Savannah, Ga. has returned to her home after a year's work In the University. Miss Margaret Rose, of Fayettevllle, visited Miss Susan Rose last week end. Wanted: A city in which to hold the West Virginia debate during the Easter holidays. That is the predicament the Carolina Debate Council is in. The West Virginia debate is scheduled for Thurs dayn night, April 8th. The original in tention was to hold it in Greensboro, but due to a "conflicting engagement at the N. C. C. W. auditorium, this has been, found impossible, ' The Debate Council is making tealous efforts to find a loca tion for the contest within the next few days. If this is not done the West Vir ginians will probably have to postpone their Tar Heel trip until the week fol lowing the Easter vacation. Carolina's team was selected about tert days ago in an open preliminary held in the Phi Hall. The Tar Heels are to debate the negative of the query, "Re tolved, That' Democracy, as a Political Ideal in the United States, is a Failure." Upholding .the University will be John W.Crew, Jr., of Pleasant Hill; Theo dore L. Livingston, of Asfceyille; and Malcolm M. Young, of Durham. It will be Crew's first intercollegiate contest. He has won two intersociety debutes, in cluding the Mary D. Wright debate medal last fall, and has shown much promise in all of his contests so far. Livingston has represented Carolina in eight and Young in eleven debates. All told, out of a total of, nineteen, they have turned in eleven victories. . With two experienced veterans working with a very promising 'third man Carolina is expected to put a fight to give the West Virgin ians their second consecutive defeat. Other men appearing for places on the team, in the preliminary were: W. E. ' Crissman, L. T. Bledsoe, M. H. Light, H. C. Greenwood, and F. P.: Parker. All of them made good appearances. Bledsoe was selected as the alternate. West Virginia has won two 'out" of three debates with Carolina. Three years ago they captured a unaninmous de cision in Morganton from C. A. Peeler, J. M. Saunders, and G. C: Hampton. They visited Chapel Hill two years ago and won. a 2 to 1 decision from M. M. Young, W. T. Couch, arid L. Q. Galla way. Last year C. R. Jonas, S. G. Chappell, and E. L. Justus turned the tables on West Virginia in Morganton and won a 2 to 1 decision. This will be the fourth annual West Virginia debate, consequently, and Young's second ap pearance in that debate. West Virginia usually has the best team in the East. Last year they won ten debates on a trip through twenty states before the Tar Heels aripped -them up in their own habitat. . B. F, CAFFEY Spanish Students Have Table at Swain Hall A unique departure from the usual Swain Hall . grab-it-and-growl system was innovated recently when a group of students and instructprs in the Univer sity Spanish department became united and rented a special table at which food is served only when asked for in Spanish. No 'word of English is allowed to.be spoken during the course of meal. If one does not know the word for beans, he patiently waits until some one else calls for beans or he does not eat beans. At first the table did not seem to be a success in-so-far as learning the Span ish language was concerned, as, the e pagnoles seemed to prefer the sign lan guage. Great progress is being made now, however, and Spanish signs which are fully as useful as the spoken language of the Spaniards. ,' . , s Only instructors and students' who have traveled In Spanish speaking countries are welcomed at the table.. Those now eating at the Spanish table are: Hoyle Hayes, Stampe, Crow, Redding, Thomp son, Whittaker, Fair, and Redford. The Deutsch Verein will meet Thurs day evening at the Episcopal Parish House. Benjamin Franklin Caffey, of High Point, a twenty-seven-year-old senior in the University, died suddenly at the home of John Hocutt Saturday afternoon of an acute heart attack. , " Mr. Caffey, who appeared in the best of health, quit work early Saturday afternoon and . went to his room in Mr.' Hocutt's home to prepare for a week-end trip to his home in High Point, While in the bathroom he was unexpectedly heard to groan; as there were no men in the house at the time, Lon Russell, a neigh bor, was called in. Upon rush ing into the bathroom Russell found Caffey lying on the floor beside the bathtub, gasping for breath, and, evidently in very much physical agony. Doubtless the attack had seized Mr. Caffey before he had completed his bath and he had managed to get out of the tub before the full force of the seizure had taken hold of him. Caffey never regained con sciousness after being found by Russell and ' died just before medical aid reached him, ten min utes after he was found. Upon examination of the body by Dr. Abernathy and Dr. Cal vert Toy, death was pronounced due t an acute heart attack. An inquest was not considered nec essary by the physicians. 1 ' Mr. Caffey had an enviable rec ord as a student and a hard, con sistent worker. He was a self- help student, his ' excellent made when he was given a val uable assistantship in the zoo logical department. He also helped earn his expenses by painting signs and advertise ments, in which he was particu lar proficient. : .: : The body was sent to Hanes funeral home, in Greensboro. From that city it was sent to his home, High Point, for buriaL A student honor guard composed of eight men accompanied the body on its trip to Greensboro and High Point. Mr. Caffey is survived by a wife, formerly Miss Alta Nor wood; his parents', Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Caffey two brothers, W. H. Caffey, of High Point, and J. W. Caffey, Jr., of Mississippi; three sisters, Miss Minnie I. Caffey, of High Point Miss Lula Hanes Caffey, of Normal Colege, East Stroudsburg, Pa., and Mrs. A. B. Spoon, of Greensboro. An indication of scholarship was SOPH CLASS HAS UNUSUAL SMOKER Gathering Is Featured by Local Talent Boxing Tournament. VOTE THANKS TO CHASE Class Shows Its ... Appreciation of President in Enthusiastic Manner. The Sophomore smoker which was held in Swain Hall Thursday night proved to be the most original and perhaps the most unique thing that has happened here in a long time. The sophs fur nished their own speakers, refreshments and orchestra. . Assistant cheer leader Hardee led In furnishing the pep and was ably assisted by six negro boys who staged a battle royal under the direction of Coach Crayton Rowe. . , Walter Kelly, vice-president of the class, presided in the absence of Manly Williamson who has been" confined to the infirmary. "Walt" started things off with a snappy little speech. The secretary and the treasurer read their reports, and then the fun began. The aforesaid fun furnished in a squared circle in the middle of the floor NOBLE GIVEN DEGREE BY DAVIDSON COLLEGE Honorary Degree of Doctor of Peda. gogy Conferred Upon Him At Trus- tees' meeting 8 Others Conferred. Prof. M. C. S. Noble, dean of the School of Education at the University, was one of, the nine men to receive hon orary degrees given by Davidson College at the last regular meeting of the board of trustees, according to an announce ment made recently by Dr. W. J. Martin, President of Davidson College. Prof! Noble was made a Doctor of Pedagogy! while the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon three, the Doctor of Laws given to four, and the Doctor of Science awarded to one. The men receiving the doctor's degree in divinity are; Rev. W. R. Coppedge, of Rockingham, prominent in church and educational work; Rev. L. L. Little, VI angvin, China, Presbyterian minister for 20 ars; 'and Rev. J. E. Purcell, of Chattanooga, Tenn., Chairman of the Church of the Southern Presbyterian assembly The following men were honored with the degree of Doctor W Laws; C. E. Diehl, of Memphis, Tenn., nresi- dent of Southwestern University; John R. Todd, of New York City, head of a great engineering concern, who has shown unusual interest in- Davidson Col lege and education In the South; Wade H. Harris, of Charlotte, editor of the Charlotte Observer; A. M. Scales,, of Greensboro, lawyer and financier, and head of the one million dollar campaign of the Presbyterian educational institu tions in North Carolina; Dr. A. J. Crow- ell, of Charlotte, head of one of the largest clinics in the South and a surgeon of international fame, was given the de gree of Doctor of Sciences. Request Nantes of Students Planning Vacation Aboard All students interested in going abroad this summer are requested to send their names to Charlie Gold or Harold Se bflrn. Information concerning ships, dates of sailing, etc, will be sent upon request of any student interested in spending the summer in foreign lands. Through the advertising agencies, the Buccaneer and the Ta Heei will be able to get special service for Carolina students in the way of prices and ac commodations. This service includes all steamship lines, and the student can make his own choice of line, reservations, itinerary, etc., according to individual preference. ' Miss Elizabeth Calvert snent the week end at her home in Raleigh. by a half dozen of the most handsome of Chapel Hill's male population of the type frequently referred to as "the Af rican brunette",- These young gentle men, known ' as Sambo Samuelson, -"Harry" Wills, Rastus Jefferson Lee, Jack Johnson, III; Slim Simpson, and Cornelius Confuscius, were brought into the ring by Coach Rowe, provided with boxing gloves and told to "get to it." And they didn't fail to obey the Injunc tion, either. The fight was fast and furious while it lasted, but it was only a few minutes before, Rastus Pefferson Lee was the only one left standing in the ring. ; When this tittle set-to was finished and the laughter had died down suffi ciently, the sophomores got down to the business of wrapping themselves around an excellent "feed", meanwhile enjoy ing a regular old-fashioned talk-fest. "Billy" Ferrel arose -to propose that the sophomore class tender a vote of thanks to Dr. Chase for his decision to remain at the University, and the re sponse was gratifying enough to please any king or university president. After a few more minutes of fun and revelry aided by the Sophomore Sym phony Sercnaders under the direction of Ale Mendenhall, a rousing' cheer for '28 was given and the class adjourned. y Qarolina Dry Qlecuiers , TODAY Bill Hollenbeck, Representative ....'.....,..... ..'....... ...':... '..'.'. 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