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THE TAR HEEL
Record Nuiiiber of Freshmen
Apply for Entrance Here
,
The number of freshmen ap
plying for entrance to the Uni
versity of North Carolina each
fall shews a substantial increase
over that of the previous year,
and the applications this year,
according to ' figures given out
today from the office of Dr. T.
J. Wilson, Jr., registrar, are
proving no exception to the rule.
. Six hundred and seventy-six
applications have already been
filed, and many more are pour
ing in daily. , This number corresponds-
to that received Au
gust 18 of last year, and exceeds j
the 1925 applications of the cor
responding date by 120. '
Judging by the aplications,
indications are that the total
student body will near the 3,000
mark. The number enrolled
last year was 2527.
Four days, September 19 to
22, have been set aside as fresh
man week, when the incoming
men will be 'shown the ropes."
Registration for freshmen takes
place September 21 and for up
perclassmen September 22. Class
work for the fall quarter will
begin Friday, September 23.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORKERS MEET
AUGUST 9 AND 10
Orange County Association
Gathers East of Hillsboro
Prominent Men Attend.
It was announced yesterday
by officers of the Orange Coun
ty Sunday School Association
that the annual County Sunday
School Convention 'will be held
on Tuesday and Wednesday,
August 9 and 10, in the new
Sharon Methodist Church, four
miles east of Hillsboro, N. C.
Taking part on the program
will be the following -well known
Sunday School workers : D. W.
Sims, Raleigh, General Superin
tendent of the North Carolina
Sunday School Association, and
Miss lore Alverson, Raleigh,
Young People's Division Super
intendent of the North Carolina
Sunday School Asociation. -
In addition to these outside
speakers, several of the best
known Sunday School workers
in the County will have parts on
the program. The Convention
is interdenominational, and wor
kers ffom all Sunday Schools in
the county are invited to parti
cipate in the work. The Orange
County Sunday School Associa
tion under whose direction the
Convention is being held, is one
of the units pf the North Caro
lina Sunday School Association.
: Each of the 100 counties in the
i State is now organizeed into a
county Sunday. School Associa
tion. In charge of the arange-
' ments for the convention are E.
C. Liner and Henry Smith,
President and Secretary of the
County Sunday School Associa
tion. These officers are request
ing the co-operation of all-, pas
tors, superintendents and other
Sunday School leaders in the ef
fort to make the convention a
sucees.
Following a custom, inaugura
ted sevefal years ago, the offi
cers have announced that again
this year a pennant will be pre
sented to the Sunday School
having' in the convention the
largest number of representa
tives, sixteen years of age and
over, according to the number
of miles traveled. It is expected
that there will be much friendly
competition for the pennant a
mong the Sunday Schools of the
County.
Farm boys attended from 10
a. m. to 3 p. m. a recent four
weeks' special course conducted
by the agricultural instructor of
Arcadia . (Wis.) High School.
Classes were conducted in arith
metic, English, farm shops,
feeds, and feeding; and an hour
was devoted to physical train-ing;
About 1,200 adult students,
many of them professional men
and women, were enrolled for
study during the winter term
in one or more of the 22 courses
offered by the New School for
Social Research of New York
City. The school is now in its
eighth year.
BOOK REVIEWS
The North Carolina Chain
Gang, by Jesse F. Steiner and
Roy M. Brown, Price $2.00,
University of North Carolina
Press,. Chapel Hill, N. C.
The Carolina Press and the
1 Institute for Social Research are
at it again. In the North Caro
lina Chain Gang, just published
by the local press, Dr. Steiner,
formerly prof essor of sociology
at the University1 and Mr.
Brown, Research Associate, have
furnished the first authentic ac
count of convict road work in
any southern state. , The book
is the first to appear in a series
of studies that the Institute is
making of crime in North Car
olina. Full of human interest,
the volume is a careful, scien
tific work based on inspection of
thirty-three camps in twenty
counties with statistical studies
of 1600 Negro arid 800 white
convicts.
( Among the phases treated in
detail are the history and devel
opment, types of camps, prob
lems of organization, adminis
tration, health and sanitation,
maintenance of discipline, eco
nomic aspects, and case studies
of typicarcriminals.
As the writers well say "it is
a-discouraging picture that is
1 presented, for there is evidence
on every hand , of mismanage
! ment; inhumanity, and futility.'
1 "Their chief responsibility, as
i the officials see it, is to keep the
i prisoners, at hard work" and to
1 prevent escapes. No thought is
given to the education of the il
literate or to the reformation of
those not yet hardened to crime."
;The goal of the system is the
exploitation of the prisoners in
the interests of good roads, but
the chapter by Mr. Brooks goes
far - toward proving that road
work by convicts is an econom
ic loss except where modified by
the honor system and the use of
machinery.
In many counties the' men are
locked over night, Sundays, and
Saturday, afternoons in movable
steel cages, eighteen feet long
and seven feet in length and
width, eighteen men to a cage, i
The pictures drawn of health,
sanitation, and discipline are
particularly depressing, Con-i
finement on ' bread and water
diet and flogging are the reliance
for punishment and the shot gun
and the ball and chain the main
preventives of escape.
In its history the autohsr show
that the road gang is the pecu
liar product of the complex of
crime during Reconstruction, the
presence of the Negro, and the
j mild Southern climate. Once
authorized by law in most of the
stafes' the' system has been re
tained only in the South.
To the layman the most inter
esting chapter of the book is the
case histories, of three typical
Negro convicts, written by Ar
thur. Raper, Tom Simpson,
church organist, choir director,
self-styled "Shaw University
graduate" was regarded by his
church as one of their, "best
workers' but they just couldn't
1 keep him off the roads. -Tom,
i serving his third sentence, was
convicnced that the devil had a
hoodoo on. him and character
ized himself fitly when he said,
"I am no fool ; yes, I am ft fool,
too!" Ham Taylor is an illiter
ate, feebleminded dope fiend and
"cocaine peddler"- with a police
record of eighteen charges rang
ing through the whole decalogue.
Bob Johnson, on for murder i to
tally illiterate and with a men
tal age of less than seven years,
completes a trio of portraits pre
sented with much insight.
The statistics of, prisoners
show that Negroes commit rel
atively more crimes of violence
and larceny white white men are
prone to check flashing, offenses
against morality, and violations
of prohibition laws. One thing
that stands out is the large num
ber of young offenders on the
roads. Another is that seventy
four per cent of - the prisoners,
both black and white, are too
illiterate to read a newspaper.
Dr. Steiner and Mr. Brown
have done an original, careful
and painstaking piece of work
vhich reflects credit on the Uni
versity and should be of value
in helping to formulate policies
concerning a most vexing social
problem. Heretofore, the pub
lic, even if interested, has been
forced to rely upon sensational
newspaper exposes of floggings
and occasional outrages. This
book offeres the intelligent citi
zen an opportunity to "draw
nearer he facts. .
The. writers advocate that
North Carolina follow the lead
of her sister Southern states,
Virginia and Maryland, and
abolish the whole medieval sys
tem. The book closes with a
vigorous quotation from former
Governor Bickett: "As for thei
county chain gang system, it is
hopeless. The only thing to do
is to cut off its head."
Old Tree Must Come Down
, One of the old oak trees on
what used to be called, in Civil
War times, the Fetter place
now the home of Vernon Howell
is being destroyed. This is
because pf the attack upon it by
borers, and ts consequent decay.
The axemen have had a delicate
job to perform, because the tree
stands near the house, and if
it were felled in the usual way
it might fall oh the house and
crush it in. Therefore the limbs
have been cut away one by one.
The trunk still stands, but it will
probably come down before long.
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9:45 Sunday School
11 :00 Morning Services
7:00 B. Y. P. U.
8:00 Evening Services
CHRISTIAN
B. J. Howard, Pastor
9:45 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Services;'
7 :oo Christian Endeavor
8 :00 Evening Services
METHODIST
Walter Patten, "Pastor
" 9:45 Sunday School
11 :00 Morning Services
7 :00 Epworth League
8 :00Evening Services
PRESBYTERIAN ;
W. D. Moss, Pastor
11 :00 Morning Services
9:45 Sunday School
.7:00 Christian Endeavor
Glee Club Gives Radio Concert
(Continued from page one)
concert scheduled, at the Ameri-.
can Club, London, for August 12.
Two other concerts will be given
in London during the week;
one at Aeolian Hall and the oth
er for . the Queen ' Alexandria
Memorial. One of the foremost
among the events of the musical
program will be a concert at
Stratford-on-Avon, the birth
place of William Shakespeare, in
the interests of the Shakespeare
Memorial Foundation. N . '
The Club will sail for France
on August 21, and will spend a
week in Paris before their first
concert at the American Cathe
dral on August 28. On Septem
ber 4, they will sing, a vesper
service at St. Luke's, Paris, and
that night will give a concert at
the American Students and Art
ists League. This will be their
final European appearance, for
on September 6 they will sail
for home from Bologne. The
Club will disband in New York.
Public Welfare Institute ;
, Acclaimed Great Success
(Continued from page one)
sistent and tell the child to do
one thing, and let him see you do
another." .
On Friday Dr. W. S. Rankin,
of Charlotte, Director of . the
Hospital and Orphan Division of
the Duke Endowment, spoke be
i fore" the Institute.
"There arc 49 counties" in
North Carolina without a hos
pital bed,", he said. "We have
one bed for every 517 persons,
whereas the average for the
country, is one for "every 291."
"Only a small per cent of peo
ple go o ' jail or to insane
asylums, but sickness is a social
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sidering sickness a punishment
for sin must be forgotten, since
sin and sickness do not run in
parallel lines.. -Chicago has the
highest crime rate in the coun
try, and yet they have one of
the best equipped health depart
ments and one of the lowest
death and sickness rates."
The program of the Institute
for Friday was devoted to phas
es of organization and adminis
tration. Dr. Rankin's address
was followed by a discussion of
county hospitals, led by Mrs. W.
B. Waddill, of Vance, and J. M.
Hall, of Halifax, and addresses
on county organization of social
forces by A. W. Cline of For
syth, Miss Lucile Eifort, of
Moore, and Miss Helen Dunlap,
county supervisor of Edgcombe
schools.
In the afternoon, -Edwin
Bridges, Pardon Commissioner,
addressed the group on parole
work, and the Institute was
brought to a close by a burlesque
dinner given at the Carolina Inn,
at which K. T. Futrell, retiring
president of the North Carolina
'Association of County Superin
tendents of Public Welfare, pre
sided. It was at this meeting
that the new officers were elect
' Thursday, July 28, 1927
Honor Students from Eng
; land to Study at U. N. C.
(Continued from page one)
This is the third annual group
of commonwealth fund awards.
Counting the new students with
the forty commonwealth fund
feellows now in this country, the
total number is 63. The institu
tions elected, besides the Univer
sity of North Carolina, are Har
vard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell,
California, Chicago, Johns Hop
kins, Princeton, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, Stanford, Michigan.
Illinois, Minnesota and Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Second Sumner School of
Law Has Been Opened
(Continued from page one) "v
University of Pittsburgh law
school ; Leon Green, of the Yale
law school; an,d A. C. Mcintosh
and Albert Coates of the Univer
sity of North. Carolina, are
teaching1 in the second term
which will last until August 26.
. Trusts is the subject of Mr.
Madden's lectures. Judge Con
nor's province is mortgages. Mr.
Green continues instruction in
torts; Mr. Mcintosh is teaching
code pleading, and Albert Coates
real property.
This summer, for the first
time, 'the law students in the
University are able to take a full
schedule of regular work for the
law degree.
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