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PERIOD OF SILENCE
COMMENCES
MIDNIGHT MONDAY
ID
PLAYMAKER READING
PLAYMAKER THEATRE
SUNDAY 8:30 P. M.
VOLUME XXXV
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1926
NUMBER 15
Greeks in Furor of Activity
As Period of Silence Nears
TWO DAYS REMAIN
Freshmen are Harassed with Ex
traordinary Favors Ton--.
; goes are Well Oiled
RIVALRY GROWS INTENSE
Fraternity' Men Are Deeply
Concerned
The annual : turmoil of Fra
ternity rushing which has oc
cupied the thoughts and time of
;a large portion of the campus for
the last five weeks has at last
reached its height. The atmos
phere is charged with excite
ment The rushing, which up to
.a day or two ago, ambled along
;s!owly and quietly, is becoming
intense, desperate, and in many
cases bitter. With only two more
(days before the tolling of the
bell in Old South Monday night
brings in the Period of Silence
; and muffles loquacious tongues of
. Fraternity men, separating them
.from certain harassed Fresh
men, indications are that this
wifl be a hectic week-end. Fresh
men are being: escorted with ex
traordinary courtesy, are the ob
jects of all kinds of attentions,
are being "duked" and flattered
to the nth degree, are being af
fectionately greeted and persua
sively urged until there is little
blame for a boy who loses his
head, sense of direction, and flees
from these surroundings to es-J
cape it alL Most of the men be
ing thus treated, however, are
having, the time of .their lives.
Free picture-snows, free drinks,
(Soda Fountain), free rides, au
to trips gratis, come only once
In a lifetime. This is the only
situation in a boy's life compar
able to a girl's choosing a hus
band from a flock of suitors for
her hand. v
The Fraternity men are al
most if not more peturbed than
the Freshmen. I.. Relations be
tween certain Fraternities are
strained almost to the breaking
point. Rivalry over certain men
has become intense. There are
cold stares, suspicious glances,
veiled conversations, vague ques
tions, indefinite answers charac
terizing the behavior of oppos
ing Greeks. Some of them, how
ever, are not speaking to each
other at all. The whole campus
:1s affected. Books go from day
to day unopened and Professors
'become more and more intoler
;ant Midnight visits to pros
, ::ective pledges' rooms are not
conducive to perfect recitations.
Monday night the ringing of
the bell will bring an end to it
11. The abnormal season of
'. Fraternity upheaval will be
'Over for this year. Everybody
"will rejoice, except, perhaps, the
twner of the Pickwick Theatre.
Anyway the Period of Silence
will bring rest and peace to many
:& weary soul. ' ; .
JUNIOR ELECTIONS
RUN OFF TUESDAY
Ed Avent and Charlie
Rouse received the highest
number of votes in the elec
tion Thursday for vice
president of the , Junior
class, thereby requiring an
, other election which will be
held Tuesday, October 26
Mutt Evans and Hoyt Prit
chett were eliminated from
the contest. The failure of
Artie Newcomb, originally
elected vice-president, to re
turn to school made neces
sary the election to fill the
office. The balloting, which
brought less than half the
Juniors to the polls, was as
follows: Charlie Rouse, 60,
Ed Avent, 54, Hoyt Prit
chett, 34, Mutt Evans, 18.
WEIL LECTURES
BYMACCRACKEN
BEGIN ON FRIDAY
Purpose , Is To Instruct in the
: Duties of American
Citizenship
GIVEN BY WEIL FAMILY
Lectures to Continue Through
Friday and Saturday Nights
Survey Card Issued
.Students Urged to Co-operate
Getting Correct Tabulations
in
With the distribution of the
survey cards to the freshmen
and sophomores in chapel yes
terday morning, the Tar Heel's
survey of the distribution of the
students time got underway.
Dean F. F. Bradshaw urged the
-students to keep them carefully
for the next week, and to leave
them in their chapel seats next
Friday, Oct. 29.
"I think that the survey will
be a good thing," the Dean said.
"It will give a -true record of
how your time is spent or misspent"
; The Weil Lectures for this
year will be delivered by Dr.
Henry Noble MacCracken of
Vassar College, in Memorial Hall
the nights of October 29, 30, 31
"- These lecturse have become an
established occurrence at the
University. They were inaugu
rated in .-1914'-' and through the
generosity and interest of the
Weil family of Goldsboro have
since been a yearly event. . Usu
ally they "are held in the spring
quarter, but this year they come
during thefall in order that the
lectures and other attractions
may be more evenly distributed
throughout the entire school
year.
Dr. Howard W. Odum serves
as chairman of the Weil Lecture
Committee, which is responsible
for securing such notable men
as Dr. MacCracken as lecturers.
During the history of the Weil
Lectures the following eminent
speakers have lectured here : ex
President Taft, George B. Mc
Clellan of Princeton University,
Mr. James A. MacDonald, Ed-,
itor of the Toronto Globe, Jacob
H. Hollander of Johns Hopkins,
Hon Robert Goodwan Rhett, ex
President of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States,
William B. Monro of Harvard
University, John Huston Finley,
Associate Editor of the New
York Times, Fabian Franklin of
New York City, Edward A. Ross
of the University of Wisconsin,
and William A. White, Editor of
the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette.
The purpose of these lectures
is to instruct in the duties of
American Citizenship, and these
lectures have well carried out the
spirit of the Weil Lectureship.
President MacCracken's ad
dresses will concern training for
public service, the general sub
ject being "John the Common
Weal", the title taken from an
old English play. The first lec
ture will be "The Complaint A
gainst the Times"; the second,
"Leisure and Loyalties" ; and the
third, "Neighborhood".
RUSHING SEASON
CLOSES MONDAY
All
Bids Must Be in to the
Council Secretary By :
Monday
NEW RULES OUTLINED
The 1926 rushing season for
fraternities at the University of
North Carolina will come to an
end Monday night at twelve o'
clock when the tolling of the bell
in Old South will usher in the
Period of Silence and separate
fraternity men and freshmen un
til the actual pledging on Wed
nesday afternoon. With only
two more days of open rushing
the Inter-Fraternity Council
wishes to take this last
opportunity to emphasize the
rules and regulations regarding
Silence and to impress both
freshmen and ' upperclassmen
with the importance of strict ob
servance of them. This is the
second year that this system has
been Used and the authorities are
expecting the same success which
characterized the Period of Si
lence last year, no violations hav
ing been reported. Severe pen
alties on all parties concerned
will follow ony breach of the
rules and students are on their
honor to observe them.
The Inter-Fraternity Council
will enforce the following rules :
1. A Period of Silence will be
gin at midnight Monday, Octo
ber 25, at which time Fraternity
men and t reshmen must part
company immediately, .
.2. Each Fraternity, must sub
mit a list of those 'whom it wish
es to bid to Ed Hudgins at the
Kappa Sigma house by midnight
on Monday, October 25.
. 3. During the Period of Si-
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PAUL GREEN WILL
GIVE PLAYMAKER
READING SUNDAY
. In Abraham's Bosom" Which
. Is to be Produced in New
York Will Be Read
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APPEARS IN FEBRUARY
Second of
; duced
His
.This
Plays
Year
Pro-
j The first Playmaker reading
of the year will be given Sunday
Evening at 8 :30 o'clock in the
Playmaker Theatre when Paul
Green will read his new play.
In Abraham' 8 Bosom, a negro
play which will be given in New
York sometime during the month
of February by the Province
town Players.
In Abraham's Bosom will be
the first of two of his -,' plays
'which will be produced this year
in New York, the other being
The Field God which was read
here last year.
Paul Green is heralded in New
York as the Eugene O'Neil of the
South and many think that in
the next five years he will make
even greater strides in playwrit
ing than O'Neil. He is consid
ered throughout the country as
one of the most promising of
the young playwriters. Mr.
; Green wrote his first play in the
course in playwriting given at
this university.
In 1925, Mr. Green's play,
The No 'Count Boy won the
Balasco cup as the best short
play of the year. Two volumes
of Mr. Green's plays have been
published, The Lord's Will and
Other Plays and The Lonesome
Road and Other Plays. Samuel
French has also published a num
ber of his plays' for dramatic use.
A Colloquy in 1935
( From the Chapel Hill Weekly)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The following colloquy was
written by Mr. Louis Graves,
and was published in the Chapel
Hill Weekly of this week. The
"ar Heel thinks that it contains
too much real humor, and that
it would be a calamity if it did
not' reach the University stu
dent body, of which but few,
naturally, read the Weekly. It
is advisable, therefore, to give
this explanation before proceed
ing with the dialogue.
In this latter end of October,
1926, the University atmosphere
is fairly crackling with excite
ment over a newspaper contro
versy. A new weekly journal,
the Faun, has appeared, with
Julian S. Starr, Jr., as editor.
It is severely critical of Univer
sity life as exemplified here of
the conduct of athletics in par-
ia orange-and-blue. Greetings of
long-parted friends, lively talk,
laughter.
,. Two alumni, Julian S. Starr
and J. T. Madry, meet near the
fireplace at the east end of the
lobby., Starr is a manufacturer
of textiles, in Rock Hill, South
Carolina; Madry is one of the
editors of the Charlotte Ob
server. Starr: Hello there, Madry!
Madry: HellopStarr! When 'd
you blow in? '
Starr: Came through last night.
Pretty slow travel never saw
the road so crowded:
Madry : The highway commis
sion is rotten. They ought to
have had that road widened to
60 feet a year ago.
They drop down into chairs
that happen to be vacated just
then by two other visitors.
Starr: What the hell is the mat
ter with the coaches this year?
Tar Heels Meet Maryland In
Annual Battle There Today
JAMES N. ASHMORE
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"Jim" Ashmore, Varsity basketball
and baseball coach first gained fame
as a three letter man at the Univer
sity of Illinois twenty years ago. Be
fore the war he played professional
baseball and coached at James Milli-
ken University and the University of
Colorado. He came out of the service
and took up the coaching duties, at
the University of Iowa and then went
to Depauw University. At all of
these institutions he coached football,
basketball and baseball. He has. al
ready proved himself a valuable assis
tant to the Tar Heel football mentors.
TAR BABIES WILL
MEET BIDDIES IN
COLUMBIA TODAY
FAVORS MARYLAND
Tar Heels Expected to Launch
Fierce Running and Passing
Attack Against Them
SQUAD IN FINE CONDITION
Both Teams Have Upset Dope
Bucket
Whisnant, Maus, Ward and Fred
erick Make up Strong Back
field for Freshmen ;
CAROLINA LINE IS LIGHT
Belding and Pritchard
Coaches of Team
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ticular. And it attacks J. T.
Madry, editor-in-chief of the Tar .Seems to me they've got plenty
Heel, as the upholder of a la-of good material. Lettin' David-
mentable status quo. Mr. Madry son tie 'em again ! You fellows
delivers a vigorous counter-at-jon the newspapers keep up with
tack. Letters flow into the Open these things. What's your idea
Forum columns of the Tar Heel, about the chances today?
condemning and defending. The Madry: I don't know much about
campus ia all stirred up.
Scene I ,; , , .
Time: , Thanksgiving Day,
1935. Eleven o clock in the
nornina. The Carolina-Virginia
football game is to begin at 2:30. down the field and then have
Place: The lobby of the Caro
lina Inn. A jam of men and
women of all ages, some seated,
some standing, some moving to
and fro. Blue-and-white ribbons
on lapels and bodices, with an
occasional glimpse of the Virgin-
it. Haven't paid any attention
to sports since I took over the
real estate and financial pages.
All I see is that the team doesn't
seem to have any drive when the
pinch comes. They take the ball
n't got the punch to put it over
the line. (He pauses). To tell
you the truth, Starr, I've sort
o' lost interest. Can't get up
much excitement over who wins.
Oh, I howl with the rest of 'em
(Continued on page three)
The rivalry between the Uni
versity of North Carolina and
the University of South Caro
lina will be resumed this after
noon when the freshmen football
jteams of the two ' institutions
clash at Columbia, S. C. The
Varsity teams of these Univer
sities have already settled the
question of supremacy for the
year 1926, and today the yearl
ing aggregations will fight it out
to determine whether the South
Carolinians will avenge the de
feat of their big Varsity broth
ers, or the North Carolinians will
uphold the precedent set by the
victory of theirs.
For the past five weeks the
Tar Babies have been working
out daily on Frosh and Emerson
fields and, by the help of contin
uous scrimmages with the Var
sity team, have reached a stage
approaching mid-season form.
Almost every afternoon this
week, some freshman team, from
the first to the fifth, has paraded
out on Emerson field to do bat
tle with the Varsity men. The
Freshies did not ' manage to
score frequently on their heavier
more experienced opponents,
but they presented a powerful
offense that swept around the
ends on numerous occasions for
nice gains, and a defence that
caused a great deal of trouble
to the Varsity backs.
Two years ago the Tar Babies
conquered the Biddies at Colum
bia. Last year the Biddies con
quered the Tar Babies at Chapel
Hill in a game that is still re
membered with chagrin by foot
ball fans in the State. This
year it is the Tar Heels' turn
(Continued on page four)
Twenty-seven University of
North Carolina football players
were given a rousing send-off by
fellow students when the team
left Chapel Hill at 7 o'clock
Thursday afternoon for Wash
ington. Hotel New Ebbitt, at 10th and
G street in Washington was
headquarters for the squad un
til today. This morning Collins
and his men will journey to Col
lege Park, where they meet the
Maryland Terrapins in gridiron
togs at 2 :30 o'clock.
The Tar Heel squad is in ex
cellent condition, and is prepar
ed to face the Old Liners with
the same determination and
fight that confronted South Car
olina on Emerson Field two
weeks ago.
Sport authorities predict a
win for Maryland in view of the
Old Liners' heavier and more
experienced team. Two touch
downs is the margin by which
most critics favor the College
Park team.
North Carolina, on the other
hand, .has already ridiculed the
predictions of dopesters on one
occasion during the present sea
son, and sports scribes are not
so emphatic in forecasting bad
news for the team from Tar
Heelia "
End runs and passes have
been especially , stressed by
Coach Collins of Carolina in pre-,
paration ; for ' today's contest.
It is not probable that many
plays will be attempted through
the center of Maryland's heavy
line.
The following men, accom
panied by Coaches Collins, Cer
ney and Fetzer, and Manager
Van Ness made the trip: Block,
Dill, Eby, Ellison, Faulkner, Fer
rell, Foard, Furches, Gresham,
Howard, Hackney, Jenkins,
Josephs, Lassiter, Lipscomb,
McDaniels, McMurray, McPher
son, Morehead, Presson,.
Schwartz, Shuford, Shuler, Sup
ple, Whisnant and Young.
Terrapins Dig In
The Marylanders have been
working hard for their first big
home battle of the year. They
have lost three games in a row
and feel that they can regain
much prestige if they can push
the Tar Heels into the valley of
defeat. Fumbles have been large
ly responsible for the poor show
ing of the Old Liners to date.
The Maryland aggregation is
(Continued on page four)
R.
N. C. Club Monday
E. Newcomb Will Deliver Paper
"Training for Public Service"
The regular meeting of the
North Carolina Club will be held
Monday evening at 7:30 in room
112 Saunders Hall.. The discus
sion will last one hour, and the
meeting will be adjourned
promptly at 8:30.
R. E. Newcomb will present
the paper, and he has selected
as his topic "Training for Public
Service." This subject is one
of a series which will be given
throughout the year dealing
with the problems of democracy
in North Carolina.
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