FROSH BASKETEERS VS.
BINGHAM, TIN CAN
FRIDAY 8:30 P. M.
Interdenominational Party
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
FRIDAY 8 P. M.
VOLUME XXXV
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1927
NUMBER 53
Carolina Defeats Wake
Forest By 32-26 Score
Tuesday's Game Ties
Heelers and Deacons
State Championship Crown Is
Left Hanging: In the
Balance.
Deacon Frosh Lay Out Tar
Babies, 26-19.
OUR MISTAKE
There will not be a wrestling
match Wednesday night as statA
ed in the calendar of the Tar
Heel Tuesday. No match with
Davidson has been arranged at
all. -
The largest crowd that ever
witnessed a basketball 'game in
North Carolina crowded within
the walls of the Auditorium in
Raleigh Tuesday night and
watched the Tar B,eels defeat
Wake Forest, 32 to 26. The 4000,
who packed the auditorium came
with the intention of viewing
the basketball classic of the year
and they were more than sat
isfied. By virtue of the Carolina
victory, the state basketball
championship is left hanging in
the air as each institution now
enjoys one win over the other.
The Flying Phantoms got off
to a whirlwind start and zipped
field goals galore into their bas
ket before the Baptists were
fully conscious of the situation.
The first half was almost an ex
act reproduction, of the first half
of the Carolina-Wake Forest
game at Chapel Hill a few weeks
ago, when the Deacons' staged
a glorious comeback and nosed
out the Tar Heels 29 to 23. The
Tar Heels' offensive and defen
sive work Tuesday night was
almost perfect and when the gun
sounded for the intermission, the
Phantoms were resting on the
safe end of a 20 to 7 count. Cap
tain Bunn Hackney and Carr
Purser were responsible for the
lion's share of the 20 points,
while the floor work of the whole
Carolina aggregation a was the
best exhibition of -the year.
Wake Forest apparently found
itself in the second half and
started an offensive drive that
pulled it at one time to within
4 points of the winners. But
the Phantoms were not to be
denied and field goals by B.
Hackney and Morris put the Tar
Heels far enough out in front
to be safe from the fighting
Deacons.
Dowtin was the big gun for
the Deacons in their impressive
second half comeback. He was
guarded as closely as the United
States treasury, but three beau
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FRESHMEN HEAR OF
DIRTY POLITICIANS
AND THEIR TACTICS
Fordham, Chappell, and Jimmie
Williams Issue Warning
About Local Tammany
Rings.
Two or three machines are al
ready organized, bartering: of
fices, and working hard on the
campus this year is the sincere
opinion and knowledge held by
several politicians and ex-poli
ticians who were present at the
Meeting of the Freshman Dis
cussion Group Tuesday in Dean
Bradshaw's Office.
Confessions of complicity in
campus frame-ups, admittance
that political organizations or
"machines" have dominated the
annual elections here, and cita
tions of bartering in votes by
fraternities and other organiza
tions featured the meeting of
the Freshman Discussion Group
in the Dean of Students' , office
Tuesday night. Sid Chappell,
student body president,' Jeff
Fordham, graduate student and
former president of the student
body, and Jimmy Williams,
prominent senior and self-con
fessor "member of every campus
political frame-up in the past
three years," frankly stated
their experiences in local poll-
tics during the two-hour session
Several members of the Dis
cussion Groupwhich was organ
ized by - Dean F. F. Bradshaw
last fall from a selected group
of freshmen, expressed them
selves as startled at the preva
lence of "machine politics" at
tested to by the men last night.
A Blind Boss
Jeff Fordham traced campus
politics through political bosses
in recent years. He told of
such men as Sam Cathey, a blind
student in the Law school, who
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Bull's Head Shop Sells Books -
in Easy, Non-Compulsive Way
(By Bull Gardner)
-The Bull's Head Book Shop
has become a reality. Its sign
swings out on the second floor of
Murphey building. The office of
Dr. McKie and Mr. Jones has
lost its- former air of staid for
mality and erudition, and has be
come the lounging place of those
readers and lovers of books, who
have often wished that they
could be comfortable, could
smoke, could read the newest
books, and could "bull" about
books in the University library.
To those who enjoy glancing
over the newest books in a wide
field of interests from Durant's
Story , of Philosophy to The
Hardboiled Virgin and The Cap
tive, this book shop is a godsend.
The Shop will obtain for you any
book that ' is in print, ranging
from It to Latin "ponies." The
books on the shelves are free
to those who will read them in
the Shop. Then after beginning
a book, if you like it you may
buy or not at your wish. No
one will try to sell you anything.
Come in at your pleasure
throughout the day. Doubtless
you will find something of in
terest. You may read the entire
book without obligations if you
wish. . , ,
The Shop has already been
provided with a number of com
fortable chairs and sofa-pillows,
and " the atmosphere, thank
gawd, is informal and without
a bit of the taint of a commercial
book store. Many men have al
ready taken advantage of it to
obtain books that would feel ill
at ease in the Book Exchange
and that the "authorities" would
not want the freshmen to find
in the Library. Drop in for a
moment and look over the small,
but growing, shelves. You will
like the "feel" of the place, when
you' realize that all it intends to
do, is, to make bare expenses.- A
number have already discovered
this, because, the Shop, but two
days yvold, has already sold
eighteen books. -
Di and
Phi Discuss Carroll's Political Idea
KENNETT-SHOHAN
DEBATE TEAM TO
MEET GAMECOCKS
Query Is on Alcoholic Drinks;
Clash Will Be Here Satur
day Night.
At tryouts held Monday night
in Manning Hall, Lee Kennett,
'27, Pleasant Garden, and Judah
Shohan," '29, Greensboro, were
selected to represent the Univer
sity in the South Carolina de
bate to be held Saturday night.
The subject was, Resolved: that
the Volstead Act should be so
amended as to permit the state
controlled sale of beverages con
taining not more than 2.75 al
cohol. The judges were Profes
sors F, B. McCall, William Olsen,
and M. D. Taylor. R. B. Noe
acted as chairman and time
keeper. ,
The try-outs were quite close,
with the exception of Kennett,
who was outstanding. This
makes his fourth inter-collegiate
debate, and he has been out
standing in forensic activity for
several years. Shohan, a soph'
omore, will be engaging in his
initial intercollegiate effort Sat
urday night.
H. S. Hays, Gates, was chosen
as alternate. The others trying
out were: J. E. Merritt, Chap
el Hill ; Mack Covington, Lin
den ; Nash Johnson, Tarboro ; E
A.. Cameron, Manly.
The winning contestants will
uphold the affirmative side of
the question in the finals against
South Carolina which are to be
held at 8 :30 this Saturday night,
at Gerrard Hall.
Limited Number of Stags, Solo
Waltzes, and Special Stunts
Is New Dance Policy of Grail
At the .last Grail meeting a
radical change of policy was
brought about concerning the
dances of that organization
which should fulfill the inten
tions of the members to make
their dances more enjoyable by
the f innovation of features di
rected toward raising the stand
ard to a more distinctive plane
of entertainment. The new pol
icy will go into operation Sat
urday night when the Order will
stage its second affair of the
winter in Bynum Gym.
" Each dance hereafter will
have decorations to add to the
atmosphere of festivity. Special
acts of entertainment will be in
troduced. There will be solo
dances for the Grail men and
other organizations which will
suspend the whirl of breaking
for the girls. It has also been
decided as a definite rule to limit
the number of stags and at an
hour to be announced no more
unescorted men will be admited.
SENIOR HELPS TO
INSTALL A STILL
He Does Part of Venable Hall Job for
$170 Less Than Contractor's Bid.
PRELIMINARIES FOR
FROSH-SOPH, DI-PHI
DEBATE COME TODAY
The tryouts for the annual
freshman-sophomore debate will
be held tonight for both Di Sen
ate and Phi Assembly. The sub
ject will be, Resolved : that the
State of North Carolina should
enact a workman's compensation
aw providing accident insurance
by the employer for the em
ployee ; constitutionality conced
ed. The Phi Assembly fresh
men will uphold the affirmative
side, and will be opposed by the
Di Senate frosh negative team.
On the other hand, the Phi soph
omore team will debate the nega
tive side of the query, and will
be opposed by the Di Sophomore
affirmative team defending the
proposition.
The tryouts for the Dialectic
teams will be held
7:30, Di Hall
tonight at
Notice for Tar
Heel Subscribers
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living in Chapel Hill who
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amounts to one cent per
copy. '
(By Tom W. Johnson) :
The fact that all Carolina stu
dents do not wait until they have
received their degrees before
they begin their struggle for
prominence was unearthed here
recently when a member of the
Chemistry faculty was relating
the story of the installation of
the big Standard Distilling
Water System in Venable, Hall.
This large still with a capacity
of, 50 gallons per hour is block
tin lined throughout. It may
be adjusted to give either' aerat
ed or non-aerated water.' The
apparatus is equipped with two
large storage tanks of 400-gal-lon
capacity each. Both of the
tanks are also block tin lined.
All went well with the installa
tion of the equipment until the
time came for laying the 750
feet of 3-4 inch block tin pipe
to conduct the distilled water to
the various laboratories through
out the building.
- According to the professor,
block tin is a commercial tin cast
into blocks, partially refined, but
containing various quantities of
impurities, such as copper, lead,
iron, arsenic and others. The
joints for the fixtures of this
sort of pipe have to be made by
hand. It is very tedious work
due to the fact that the tin is
soft and melts very easily and
is hard to keep from leaking
where joints are made.
Local and out of town plumb
ing concerns were asked to sub
mit bids for laying the pipe and
the prices ranged from 250 dol
lars up. Several men from local
concerns tried to work with the
block tin lines, but after some
days the job was given up. G.
W. Harrison, a senior in the
Chemistry department, became
interested in the, project arid the
TULANE-CAROLINA
DEBATE TRY-OUTS
COME ON FRIDAY
Justification of United States
Nicaraguan Affair Will Be
the Question.
Senate freshman and sophomore department officials allowed him
to go to work on the job on an
hourly basis. 'He laid the pipe
on the large steel beams that
support the building and in this
way effected a tremendously
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Simon Summons Staff
Fred Simon, business mana
ger of the Tar Heel, announced
this morning that there will be
a, meeting of the business staff
of the publication tonight at
8:0 in the Tar Heel office. "We
expect everybody there as the
discussion is to be of vital im
portance to the entire staff, in
dividually ' and as a whole," ' he
said, i ! " ' '
TODAY'S READING
This afternoon at 4 :30 in Mur
phey 215, Dr. Pains will read
from Paul Bunyan. - -
Try-outs for the Alabama-Tu-lane-Carolina
debate triangle
will be held Friday, February 18,
7 o'clock, at the Di Hall. The
subject will be, Resolved: that
the foreign policy practiced by
the United States in the Nicar
guan affair is justifiable. Two
men will be chosen to uphold
each side of the query. The af
firmative team; will debate Tu
lane here, and the negative team
will take on Alabama at Ala
bama. On the way south the
team will debate South Carolina,
and possibly Emory and Henry.
This triangle is the outstand
ing debate of the year, as all of
the involved schools are noted
for strong debating teams. The
long trip will probably be the
goal of many aspirants, but the
debate here with Tulane is of
great importance, as Tulane has
one of the best records in debat
ing of any school in the south.
The finals will be held March 1.
Those trying out will be allowed
seven' minutes for their first
speech and four minutes on re
buttal. The debate council has also
announced that tryouts will be
held March 8 for a debate to be
held with Johns Hopkins here on
the subject, Resolved: that Con
gress should be given the power
to establish uniform marriage
and divorce laws. Only one team
will be picked, Carolina uphold
ing the affirmative here.
PLANS WILL BE
MADE AND VOTED
ON BEFORE LONG
Tar Heel Writer Will Expose All
Hints of Embryo Political
Frame-ups in His Column.
Open Public Forum
Next Week So As To
Talk Political Dope
Dave's Would Be Plan Is at
Present Based on "Drift
wood" Article.
VALENTINE PARTY
The Young Peoples' Interde
nominational Union will give a
Valentine social party in the
Sunday school rooms of the
Presbyterian church Friday
night from 8 to 10.
The Union is composed of the
different young peoples' societies
of the local churches.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
LIVING IN CHAPEL HILL
If you do not get the Tar Heel
or other Carolina publications
by seven o'clock on date of pub
lication, please notify the circu
lation - management, - basement
Alumni, or No. 6 Battle, giving
address. Only through your co
operation can we make the cir
culation what. we want it, and
what it should be. This .cooper
ation will be greatly appreciated.
In a special joint session held
Tuesday night, the Dialectic Sen
ate and the Philanthropic As
sembly gave Dave Carroll's pro
posed two 'party system built
around the two organizations a
thorough airing. No vote was
taken, as the meeting was mere
ly a special get-together of the
two societies to investigate the
idea, but sentiment seemed to
be pretty well divided between
rather warm factions. The prog
ress of the meeting was greatly
impeded at times by endless
quibbling over minor parliamen
tary details.
All business was completely
eliminated due to the extraor
dinary session of the organiza
tions. Senator Carroll, in intro
ducing the subject, quoted at
some length from his column,
"Driftwood, Jr.", in the Junior
issue of the Tar Heel.
Driftwood
"For the past ten years, at
least, the campus has been horri
fied by the rolling of corrupt
political machines over the necks
of uninfdrmed 6r too gullible
voters. It is'tr'ue that there
has been Some objection to this
evil, but the campus is yet un
responsive. .'
"Machine politics in itself, of
course, is too worldwide and nat
ural to be condemned. If ma
chines support the most deserv
ing candidates, they are justi
fied. But when a coterie of honor-seekers
meet in a seret cau
cus to exchange candidates and
barter for support with little re
gard to a man's qualifications,
their kind of machine is an in
sidious menace to student prog
ress."
If it were not for the support
a man receives before election
through secret caucuses, he
would have to rely on merit.
Wholesome Suspicion
Now, this bi-party plan would
do away with secrecy. "Oppon
ents who deny this are speaking
from a standpoint of the past,
and in accordance with past
methods." In the future, with
open methods of politics, secret
caucuses would be impossible.
Anybody who would attempt to
advance themselves by secret
caucuses within the Senate
would endanger their own
chances for advancement, as
this would be made public by
their opponents. There would
exist, Senator Carroll declared,
"a wholesome spirit of sus
picion." This arrangement would
ensure continuity of responsi
bility. In the past, political
leaders have been individuals, in
control merely for one year. The,
Dialectic Senate, for example,
could never be ruled by one man, t
and thus there would be a con
tinuity of responsibility. The
organizations would be respon
sible at any time for past mis-
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