VOLUME XXXIV
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY; MAY.., 192.6
NUMBER 79
Golden Fleece Taps
New Men To-night
In Memorial Hall
BEGINS AT 8:30
Eight Active Members Will Par
ticipate in the Mystic
Ceremonies.
DR. RONDTHALER TO SPEAK
Speculation Is Rife As to Who Will Be
.Accorded the Greatest Distinc
tion Offered by Carolina.
The campus is all set now for the twen-ty-forth
annual tapping of the Golden
Fleece which is to be held tonight at
8:30 o'clock in Memorial Hall with Dr.
Howard E. Rondthaler, president of Sa
lem College, as the principal speaker.
Speculation has been rife as to who
would be tapped for membership in the
honorary order tonight. Various lists
have been made, verbal if not written,
and the usual amount of disagreement
over condldates has been threshed out
without getting anywhere in general or
reaching any definite conclusion. Tonight
and not until then, will the thing be set
tled once and for all when the twelve
acting member of the Fleece make their
choice known through the two hooded
and masked figures who will tap the men.
It has been thought in the past that
ten men would be taken in each year,
three seniors and seven juniors, but actu
al figures belie the assumption. Only
twice in its history was the Fleece tapped
ten, once in 1911 and again in 1923, the
other years recording anywhere from
five to thirteen men.
The very uncertainty of the number
of men to be tapped and especially
their identity has served in previous
years to draw more students to Memorial
Hall than any other event of the year.
It has been the custom to get some speak
er of note and ability to make the prin
cipal address, former tappings having
such men as Governor Cameron Morri
son, Federal Judge John J. Parker, and
last year, -Dr. Edwin Mims, of Vander
bilt Univeristy.
The securing of Dr. Rondthaler for
tonight is in keeping with the custom
of having only the best of speakers for
the occasion. His subject has not been
announced, nor has a definite program
for the tapping been released for publi-
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INSTALLATION OF
SIGMA PHI SIGMA
Alpha Phi Completes Final Cer
emonies Saturday Night.
I N S T A LL AT ION DANCE
' Number of Visitors Attend Installation
of Twenty-fifth National
. Fraternity. v
Amid Buttering confetti and colored
steamers a throng of dancers celebrated
the establishing here of Sigma Phi Sigma
at the installation ball given in the Caro
lina Inn Saturday evening. The ball
came as the final event of the installation
ceremonies which have been in progress
since Friday afternoon for installing
Alpha Phi, local fraternity, as the Caro
lina chapter of Sigma Phi Sigma.
The dance was attended by large num
bers of visiting girls from all over the
State, which made the occasion one of
the most enjoyable given here lately. A
number of girls remaining over from the
Delta Sigma Phi dance held in Durham
Friday night added to the interest. The
knllnmnm of thf Tnn ws.1 decorated in
the fraternity colors. Streamers of gold
and white draped around the walls came
together over the heads of the dancers in
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COLLEGE "Y" STUDENT
- OFFICERS MEET HERE
The Student Officers' Training Con
ference of North Carolina, of which Em
mett Underwood Is president, will meet
at Carolina on May 7 and 8 for its see
ond annual meeting. At this confer
ence, all of the Student Young Men's
Christian Associations in the state will
be represented, which will include every
college in North Carolina except. Wake
Forest. '. ' ' ' '?"' " " ' ' v-
The conference is designed to give in
structions, Ideas, and training to the
newly-elected officers of the Student Y.
M. C. A.'s for their duties at the colleges
for the coming year. Both the past of
ficers and present officers of the asso
ciations will attend.
Last year the conference met at Duke
University, and accomplished much to
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Henderson Talks
On Relativity
Dr. Archibald Henderson has
returned from the University
of Virginia where he conducted
a seminar on April 26, 27, and 28
on "The Theory of Relativity and
Its Applications." While he was
there he delivered a public lec
ture before the studnt body on
'Science and Contemporary Civil
ization." He delivered these ad
dresses through the Southern
University, Exchange Foundation.
EDITORS AGAINST
FACULTY CENSORS
College Papers of State Must
"Exercise Judgment."
MOORE GIVES ADDRESS
n:
C. Collegiate Press Closes Success
ful Session At Guilford.
VARSITY TO PLAY
STATE COLLEGE
THIS AFTERNOON
Dope Favors Visitors to Win in
Annual Clash Today.
GAME ON EMERSON FIELD
Poyner May Pitch for Carolina Kyser
and Other Cheer Leading
Entrees to Perform.
In what gives promise of being one
of the most interesting games on the
Tar Heel schedule, the State College
Wolfpack will clash with Coach Duke
Duncan's Tar Heel baseball aggregation
on Emerson field this afternoon ut four
o'clock.
It is not definitely known who will get
the hurling assignment for the Duncan
ites, but in all probability Bill Poyner
will be called upon to occupy the mound.
Bill's performance against the. Virginia
Cavaliers on Emerson field will long be
remembered in Carolina baseball his-1
tory, and he should be able to duplicate
his feat against the hard-hitting Tech
men today. Should the "Duke" fail to
call on the big "right-hander, "Lefty"
Westmoreland stands next in line for the
hurling position, and with a little, steady
pitching, should produce a victory for
the Tar. Heels.
The Duncanites have a little edge on
the dope considering the contest be
tween the Tar Heels and the Duke
University Blue Devils compared with
the exhibiting between the Techmen and
the Blue Devils. The Wolfpack handed
Hugh Whitted's cohorts a walloping in
Raleigh last week, and pulled one of
the biggest upsets of the season. Dope
sters had it all figured out that the Tech
men were in for an awful licking, but
the fighting Tech aggregation thought
otherwise and sent the Blue Devils
cantering home with the small end of a
very small count.
The contest between the Blue Devils
and the Tar Heels needs no review. It
is sufficient to say that for five long
innines "Lefty" Westmoreland had the
Duke boys eating out of his hand, only
to be forced to retire in the fifth be-
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WINNING PLAY TO BE
GIVEN IN NEW YORK
State Prize Winning Winston-Salem
High School Play "The Valiant,"
Enters National Contest.
At the meeting of the North Carolina
Collegiate Press Association, which was
held at Guilford College May 1, the
principal address delivered ,at the busi
ness meeting of the body was made by
the president, E. G. Moore. He stress
ed the importance of sound judgment
in the newspaper field and spoke of the
problems confronting the college news
papers of today. ''.'..''.
"I think we should restate our posi
tion firmly denouncing faculty censor
ship", he said, "hut ,ot the same time
it behooves us to remember just what
it means to do this. We raise a loud
cry for the privilege of editing our own
papers. We have asked that the faculty
censors be relieved of their duties so
that they may attend the sewing circle.
And yet I wonder if we realise the sig
nificance of the thing we 'are asking
for? Above all things it will call for the
exercise of judgment."
Mr. 'Moore spoke of his experience as
a college newspaper editor and gave
the new editors who were present at the
meeting many valuable suggestions as
to how to make their college papers suc
cessful and useful to the community.
"One of the greatest factors for suc
cess anywhere is judgment", he said.
"It is especially true with newspaper
editing. Be sure you have the truth
before you make any rash decisions, and
remember that truth, as Dr. Brooks says,
'is facts in their right relationship to
other facts'." ,
Among the problem that Mr. Moore
declared were facing the college news
papers of the present time are includ
ed athletics, student government, col
lege curriculum, and "giganticism",
which he explained as "herding high
school boys and girls into college willy
nilly ' ; -
College newspaper editors and report
ers from every section of the state were
present at this meeting of they North
Carolina Collegiate Press Association. J
T. Madry and H. L- MePherson repre
sented the Tar Hkei.
CHASE'S POLCIY
IS ENDORSED BY
SCIENTIFIC BODY
States Scientific Academy Up
holds Stand of the Univer
sity and Wake Forest.
TOTTEN MADE SECRETARY
JUNIOR COMMENCEMENT
DEBATE DECIDED UPON
committee composed of representa
tives of both the Di and Phi societies
decided last Wednesday night the ques
tion for the Junior debate which is to
be held at commencement. The Phi has
the affirmative and the Di the negative
side of the query, Resolved, That the
Jury System in North Carolina should
be abolished and the Court of Three
Judges instituted in its place.
The Winston-Salem high school play
"The Valiant", which won the State
Dramatic Contest this year at Chapel
Hill, is to be taken to New York.
This play was well received by
large audience when it was produced
here during the State contest and won
Hie State championship for Winston
over Wilson's play "The Ghost Story",
It was written by Hall and Middlemass
and tells the story of a convict just be
fore his execution.
The Winston-Salem Dramatic Club of
the high school is taking the play to
New York to enter a national contest
which is being held under the auspices
of the Little Theatre. This is the first
time that any North Carolina high school
has entered a national dramatic contest
and the outcome of their trip is being
watched with a great deal of interest
throughout the dramatic circles of the
Stute. At New York the North Caro
linians will compete with players from
nineteen other high schools from every
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Freeman Will Deliver
Commencement Address
Resolutions Say That All Hypotheses,
. Theories, Laws, and Facts
Should Be Studied.
One of the principal resolutions pass
ed by the North Carolina Academy of
Science at a recent meeting was an
indorsement of the policies of President
Chase of Carolina and President Poteat
of Wake Forest.
A two-day meeting of the Academy
was held at Wake Forest Friday and
Saturday, April 30 and May 1. This
was the twenty-fiffh session of the So
ciety. .
The program begun at 10:30 Friday
morning and during the day twenty of
the fifty papers on the program were
presented. One of the outstanding pa
pers was read by Dr. Poteat of Wake
Forest College on "In Praise of Ignor
ance . Me said that ultnougn modern
scientists had made great progress and
many important discoveries, there was
still a great amount of uncertainty and
ignorance abounding in the realm of
science.
Friday afternoon a general business
meeting was held at which the new offi
cers were elected for the coming year.
They are: President, Dr. Bert Cunning
hum, of Duke University; Vice-Pres
ident, Dr. F. E. Rice, of State College;
Secretary, Dr. II. It. Totten, of the
University of North Carolina; Member
of tiie Executive Committee for three
years, Dr. J. W. Nowell, of Wake For
The members of the Academy were
honored with an elaborate dinner Fri
day night, w hich was followed by a so
cial meeting. At eight o'clock Dr. Po
teat delivered the address of welcome
in Wingute Memorial Hall and it was
responded to by President Gilver of
the Academy.
Saturday's program consisted of the
reading of papers dealing with the re
sults of research work in the fields of
chemistry, biology, physics, and mathe
matics. ,, :
The membership of the Academy in
cludes about two hundred teachers of
science in the colleges and the univer
sities of the state. Forty-eight new
members were taken Into the Academy
at the last meeting.
The resolutions passed by . the Acad
emy of Science are as follows: "The
North Carolina Academy of .Science de
sires to reiterate that if the present rate
of progress and enlightenment of the
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Senior Dance Will
Be Held May 14
Seniors are. urged to begin in
viting all girls possible to a
dance to be held in the Bynum
gymnasium Friday, May 14, from
9 to 1, according to the senior
class officers. ; : ,
With the Southern Conference
track meet and progress during
that week, the Grail dance Sat
urday night, May 15, and two
fraternity dances, also on the
week-end, the dance schedule fair
that time, will be well filled. De
corations and refreshments will
be a feature of the senior dance.
Hal Kemp and his orchestra will
furnish the music for the occa
sion. .
CAROLINA TRACK
TEAM IS AGAIN
STATE CHAMPIONS
Wins Meet for Fifth Consecu
tive Time With
98 Points.
FORDHAM MAKES RECORD
Spurlock . of Lenoir-Rhyne Is High
Scorer of Meet State College
Second Best.
FROM JUNE 4-9
Use Dix Class Reunion Plan for
First Time.
COMMENCEMENT DAY JUNE 7TH
Dr. Tucker, Rector of St. Paul's Rich
mond, Va., to Deliver Bacca
laureate Sermon,
PHI BETA KAPPA INITIATION TOOK
PLACE LAST NIGHT IN THE DI HALL
Twenty-three Men and One Woman Acheive Highest Scholastic
Honor Dr. Soper of Duke University Delivers Address
Dr. Wilson Says Average Grades Unusually
High This Year.
The formal initiation of the new Phi
Beta Kappa men took place last night
This is one of the most important events
of the college year and comes as a recog
nition of those men who have done out
standing scholastic work throughout their
college career. ,
The address to the Phi Beta Kappa
men was delivered last night in Gerrard
Hull by Dean Edmund D. Soper of Duke
University. After the address the formal
initiation of the new men took place In
the Dialectic Society Hall.
In making public the names of the men
who have made Phi Beta Kappa Dr. Wil
son, tha registrar, said that the average
was unusually high this year. Twenty-
three men and one woman acheived the
Phi Beta Kappa goal this year. They
are:'..' i '
John Lucas, 1927; Paul Augustus
Clement, Jr, 1926; Norman Shannon
house Elliott, 1926; Esmarch Senn Gil
reath, 1927; John Frederick Kistler,
1927; Charles Staples Mangum, Jr,
1927; Estelle Ray Mann, 1927; Clarence
Edmund Miller, 1925; Daniel Killian
Moore. 1927; Richard Beverly Raney,
1926; Herman Allen Rhinehart, 1927;
Gertrude Samuels, 1926; Walter Bailey
Sellars. 1927; Allen Kendrick Smith,
1927: Carl Theodore Smith, 1927; Thur
Hton Smith. 1927: Albert Newland
Spencer, 1927; Witcher McDonald Wat
kins. 1927; Henry James Wheeler, 1927;
Leo DeSota White, 1927; Glenn McDon
ald Wilson, 1927; Austin Roaber
Wright, 1927, Frederick Stafford Wright
Albert Hazel Zealy, Jr, 1926.
The Phi Beta Kappa officers for the
coming year are: president, R. B. Raney;
vice-president, C. T. Smith. The sece
tary will be elected at the beginning of
the fall quarter next year by those mem
bers of the fraternity who are In school.
Mr. Raney, president of. Phi Beta
Kappa, has achieved the rare distinction
of finishing all his prescribed courses
for graduation in three years and of
making "A" on every course.
Another election of members to Phi
Beta' Kappa will be held at the end of
the spring quarter and all those who have
raised their averages to the necesary
grade will then be taken into the honor
ary fraternity. . "
This year, 1926, is the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
Phi Beta Kappa. It was founded In
1770 by a group of students at Williams
and Mary' College. This first fraternity
in America has since that time grown
to be one of the biggest and very probab
ly the best known of all college frater
nities. It has 99 chapters in every sec
tion of the United States and includes" in
its membership many of the most promt
nent men of the country.
The University of North Carolina
chapter was established in 1904 and since
that time has Included In Its list of mem
bers North Carolinians prominent in ev
ery phase of state and nation activities.
The Carolina track teum won the an
nual State track meet at Raleigh Sat
urday for the fifth consecutive time.
The University's superiority is clearly
evidenced by the fact that she piled
up 98 points while her closest oppon
ent, State College, was only able to pile
up only 46 points. Duke, Davidson,
Lenoir-Rhyne, Wake Forest, and Elon,
the other entries in the meet, trailed in
the order named.
Four new State records were estab
lished by the athletes of Carolina, State,
Davidson, and Lenoir-Rhyne. The most
outstanding feat of the day, however,
was Jeff Fordham's tremendous heave
of 181 feet 11 inches in the javelin
event. The former Stute record was
174 feet. Fordham's throw will go down
as a new University record, Bettering
Abernathy's record by one foot eleven
inches. His toss also establishes him
as one of the foremost left handed jave
lin throwers of the country. McDowell,
of Stute, raised the high jump record to
six feet 5-8 inches. Goodykoontz, of
Davidson, lowered the 440 record from 52
seconds to 51 7-10 seconds. Spurlock,
the one man team, of Lenoir-Rhyne, set
a new distance in the broud of 21 feet
10 inches. This same Spurlock was the
highest individual scorer of the meet
with 19 points, the results of three first
places and a second. He took first in
the shot put, the discus throw, and the
broad jump, and second pluce in the
javelin.
About four hundred fans turned out
in the hot sun to witness the meet, and
were rewarded by a sterling exhibition.
The heat aided the athletics rather (bun
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EVANGELIST STEPHENS
DELIVERS CHAPEL TALK
Word comes from the Persldent's of
fice to the effect that Dr. Douglass
Southall Freeman, editor of the Newt-
Leader of Richmond, Va., will deliver
the annual Commencement address this
yeur, while Urr Heverley Uanbrkige
Tucker, Jr., rector of St. Paul's Church
of Richmond, Va., will deliver the bac
calaureute sermon.
Commencement dutes this year are
from June 4-7, inclusive, and a plan
bus been adopted whereby the program
will be carried out during the week-end
instead of the first mirt of the week
us has been the custom in the past.
Such a plan necessitates a chuuge in the
order of the program, mid the new pro
grum for Class Day, Friday, June 4,
Alumni Day, Suturduy, June 5, bacca
laureate' sermon and vespers Sunday,
June A, and Commencement Day proper
Monday, June 7.
No doubt this promises to be the
greatest reunion year in the history of
the University. The Dix schedule, which
goes into full effect this year, provides
for the reunion of thirty-two classes in
stead of the usual ten or twelve. Un
der the new plan members of a class '
will come back as members of the classes
thut were in college with them, instead
of five year intervuls, as has been the
custom. ' The clusses holding reunions
this yeur are those of 1861, 1863, 1863,
1866, 1867, 1868, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1886,
1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1896, 1897,
1898, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1911, 1912,
1913, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1923,
and 1925.
Dr. Freeman, the Commencement
speaker, is very well known In Chapel
tUU, he was here the past winter and
addressed the North Carolina Press As-'
sociution. Me is a native of Lynchburg,
Va. He received his A. B. degree from
Richmond College iu 1904, and in 1908
he was awarded his Ph. D. from Johns
Hopkins. Washington and Lee, Wil
liuin and May, and Richmond College
have conferred on him honorary degrees.
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FINANCE BILL IS
REPEALED BY PHI
Members Absent from Former
Meeting Cause Repeal
of Measure.
Singing of Visiting Quartette and the
Whistling of Mr. Stephens
Pleases Audience.
In Chapel Monday there was present
ant of the most varied and interesting
program of" the year. Rev. George T.
Stephens, the eminent Evangilist, togeth
er with a group of real musical talent
attracted an unusually large audience.
Rev. Stephens, with his humor and
natural eloquence, spoke of his pleasure
in coming here and then introduced the
members of his organization.
Mr. George Dibble, assisted by Miss
Birdie Loes at the piano, led the group
singbig with pleasing results. His own
rendition of "The Trumpet'1, was a thing
of beauty. A quartette composed of
Messers., James Heaton, George Dibble,
William Stephens, and Anton Cedep
holm, acheived an organ-like quality in
their combined voices that was received
with favor. A sacred hym, sung by Mr.
Cederholm, followed by the striking "In
the Garden of Tomorrow", whistled by
Mr. Stephens, ended the program.
The Rev. Stephens then delivered Jils
message. He said that we must be fear
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PHI GOES TO NEW EAST
Adopt Plan to Withhold Courses Un
til Dues Are Paid.
The Phi Assembly Saturday night was
possessed of an unusual enthusiasm. Al
most the entire discussion centured
around the question of the finances of
the Assembly.
The finance bill, assessing each mem
ber two dollars, which, was passed dur
ing the last session, met with hearty dis
favor among members absent from that
meeting. Mr. Noe introduced the fol
lowing motion: "Whereat, The Finance
Measure Passed at the Last Meeting Is
Unnecessary and Untimely, Be It
Moved by the Phi Assembly That the
Suid Measure Be Stricken from the
Books. Be It Further Moved That the
Treasurer Be Authorized to Deputize
Assistants, Who Will Help to Canvas
the Campus to Collect All Monies Ow
ing the Assembly.
"Mr. Owens t vigorously endorsed this
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Chappell Speaks About
Fraternity Weaknesses ,
S. G. Chuppell, newly elected pres
ident of the student body, has returned
from a conference of the Southern Fed
eration of Southern Colleges which was
In session at Washington and I.ee Uni
versity on April 23 and 24 and which
was attended by representatives of fif
teen southern colleges and universities.
General curnpus problems such as stu
dent life, drinking, regulations of dances,
and fraternities were discussed. Chap
pell spoke on the "Detrimental Fea
tures of Fruternities" a subject which
was chosen for him by the convention.
Last year this meeting was held in
Florida while next year's session will go
to Kentucky. The conference was held
here two years ago.