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CHEERIOS MEET TONIGHT
GERHARD HALL
7:00 P. M.
Buccaneer Staff fleets Tonight
AT ALUMNI
9:00 P. M.
VOLUME XXXVI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927
NUMBER 12
X-COUNTRY TEAM
TO BE SELECTED
ROM FINE SQUAD
Tryouts Being -Held; Elliott and
Pritchett Are Outstanding
Runners.
MEET DUKE NOVEMBER. 5
WIGUE-MASQUE
TRYOUTS ATTRACT
MUCH MATERIAL
Tentative Cast for Production
of "Kalif of Kavat Has
Been Chosen.
HOUSE TALKS TO
N. C. CLUB ABOUT,
TAX PROBLEMS
Traces History of Forms of
Taxation In North Carolina
From Colonial Days.
Truce is Declared in Annual
Verbal War of the Greeks
The tryouts for the varsity cross
country team are being held this
week. The team this year, will be
built around Elliott and Pritchett of
last year's team with the addition of
several of the most promising: men
from last year's freshman outfit.
The most promising candidates at
present are Elliott and Pritchett, star
distance men oi last year s cross
country and track teams; Henderson,
who was out of school last year, but a
member of the 1925 cross country
team; Coxe and Brown of last year's
varsity team; and Barkley, Fisher,
Wrenn, Lowry, Gallagher, Parlier,
Miller, Taylor, and Summers of last
year's freshman team.
Henderson is showing wonderful im
provement over any of his past per
formances and bids fair to be a close
running mate of Captain Elliott and
Pritchett. Several of the new men
show promise of eivinsr some real
competition to last year's letter men
Barkley, Wrenn, Fisher, Gallagher,
and Lowry all show considerable im
provement over last year's work..
The first real test of the team's
strength will come in' the Duke meet
here on Nov. 5. Duke probably has
the strongest group of distance men
'that the Tar Heels will meet this
year.
The Southern conference meet to
be held here November 19 will bring
' togther the cream of the South's dis
tance talent as all the conference in
stitutions will be represented. This
meet will be the. greatest ever held in
the Southland will be-a classic in the
annals of cross country running.
Rehearsals for the "Kalif of Ka
vak," the musical comedy on which
the Wigue and Masque is now work
ing, are well under way, with the
third rehearsal and the selection of
the cast last -night. '
There are more men out for Wigue
and Masque than ever before, and
there is a greater abundance of good
material, according to a statement
made by Paul John Weaver, who is
directing the production.
The play itself is a -revival of the
one which was given by the organiza
tion five years ago. The book from
which theplay is taken was written
by Ernest Thompson, a former Caro-
ina man who is now doing profession
al theatrical work. This production
is said to be one of the cleverest
plays ever produced by Carolina tal
ent: its oriental . treatment allows a
great range for sparkling wit and
laughable situations. The music is
by Parker H. Daggett.
The tentative cast of .the produc
tion, as chosen last night, will be an
nounced by Mr. Weaver at a later
date.
Silence Period Began Last Night at Midnight; Tomorrow the
Rushees Will Don Pledge Buttons.
At the last meeting of the Sopho
more Council, held on Monday night,
a committee was appointed to aid
the dormitories in their discussion
groups. This advisory committee is
composed of J. A. Lang, J. B. Con
nell, Calvin Graves, and Guy Hill.
I believ,e that the members of the
dental profession are the only men
who can tell a woman to open or
close, her mouth and- get away with
it. Chicago Daily News.
Revised Bummers' Catechism
Or, A Dozen Rules 'of the Road
Easy Bumming Elucidated in
in Twelve Simple Rules;
Results Guaranteed.
(By George Ehrhart)
"Durham!" "Greensboro!" "Char
lotte!" sounds like a railroad con
ductor calling the stations, doesn't it?
Well, it doesn't happen to bethat. It
is just the modern collegian making
his way to and from his studies or
' rather college on his way home, or
to a date with his girl in some dis
tant feminine institution. And with
this method of hailing the passing mo
torists, aided by a few other rules
known to the college boy, he usually
. reaches his destination, on time with
a few cents more than he start
ed with. How this financial gain is
accounted for is hard to explain, ex
cept to say that "cash on hand and
not any spent is cash gained." This
saving of "cash on hand" is accom
plished by beating rides, sleeping in
the cars of garages, and eating wher
ever the opportunity offers itself.
' After a careful survey of the sit
uation and with many interviews with
some of the most experienced "Col
legiate Hoboes" it is found that a
few rules have been formulated which
are adhered to by the majority of the
boys who use this method of trans
portation. Following are the rules that have
been compiled by the young "knights
of the road":
1. Remember that all modesty and
pride should be thrown to the wind
in bumming, if haste is essential. Take
whatever ride you can get with dis
regard to race or color.
2. If the trip is to extend over a
period of several days, get a paper
and see what the weather report will
be for the next day or two. If there
is a possibility ofrain take a yellow
slicker along with you, for this will
be a great aid in helping to catch
rides. If yu are not u rst year man
borrow a freshman cap. This article
of wearing apparel will carry you
further than a ten-dollar bill. It is
supposed to represent a "dumb, driven
and perfectly harmless individual." '
3 Great care should be used in se
iTWting a pjace along the state's high
ways when you go out to catcE'a ride.
Onegood place is at the top of a
steep hill which naturally retards the
speed of a car. The bend of a sharp
curve is also another good position.
(Continued on page four)
BUCCANEER STAFF
MEETS TONIGHT
IN NEW0FF!CE
Important Meeting for All Ex
pecting To Do Work
On the Comic.
REFRESHMENTS SERVED
There will be a meeting of the en
tire editorial and art staffs tonight
at 9 o'clock in the Buccaneer office in
the basement of Alumni. The office
was completed the -first of the week
and will be the permanent home of
the comic. For the convenience of
both staffs, typewriters, copy paper,
drawing paper, and exchanges will be
placed in the office. This is expected
to facilitate "the preparations of ma
terial. ,
The editor requests" that all men
who expect to do work on the Buc
caneer this year in either the editorial
or art line to be present at this meet
ing. If there are any new men who
wish to try ouffor the staff, they
also are asked to attend.- As this will
be the first official meeting of the
humorous staff this year, it will be an
important one. The editor will ex
plain the policy of the remaining is
sues of the Buccaneer, arrange dead
lines, and assign bits of work to cer
tain men of the staff. There will be
a prize of one dollar given each month
for the best piece of art work and one
dollar, for the best joke or piece of
copy submitted.
It was reiterated by the editor that
this meeting would be for the members
of the staff and'all prospective mem
bers. He said that a few men had
signed up for the staff last year but
had not submitted copy so far and
tnat these men were urged to be pres
ent also if they wished to make the
staits oi the Buccaneer. The deadline
lor the next issue of the monthly
comic will be October 29th, but the
staff may obtain dead lines for the
remaining issues from the bulletin
board in the Buccaneer office. The
editor said that light refreshments
would be served before the meeting.
.The Johnston County Club wil
meet ,Jtonight at nine o'clock in the
North Carolinians are 'discarding
the old, widely prevalent mode of re
garding taxation problems in a hap-j
hazard, unscientific manner, R. B.
House, Executive Secretary of the
University, asserted Monday night at
the first meeting of the North Caro
lina Club this year.
"Taxation presents a problem that
can be solved only when it is con
sidered impartially," Mr. House" said.
"Stated, in simple terms, taxation is
an investment of the people for their
common welfare, and the whole prob
lem is a scientific question of econ
omy." Outlining the history of taxation in
this state, Mr. House declared that
the early tendency in America was for
everybody to get out of paying as
much of their tax as they could.
This condition resulted from the be
lief that it was unfair for so much
of the colonists' money to go back I
to England, for which they could per
ceive no direct return. -
"Colonial history was a series of
squabbles over taxes," he said. "There
was continual trouble over the duties
charged on the exports and imports
of the colonies, which resulted in the
Revolution which was in fact a
peasant uprising that was fought over
certain disagreements that for the
most part concerned revenue,"
The speaker showed that by 1835
the people of North Carolina had
come to some agreement on the tax
question, and by 1839 some of the tax
money was going into schools, and
other things besides a jail and a
schoolhouse. Then came the bank
ruptcy after the; Civil War. Until
then the State had been operated on
what was something like an endow
ment plan. Governor Bickett came
into office in 1117 and between that
time and 1919 he had begun to show
the State how to study the tax ques
tion with, a degree of science. From
that time on we have known some
thing of impartial revaluations.
Monday night s meeting was 1 the
first of the regular fortnightly meet
ings of the North Carolina Club,
which was organized by Dr. E. C.
Branson more than thirteen years ago,
The Club is composed of faculty
members and students of the Univer-
sity, and it annually brings here a
number of prominent men in the life
of the state and nation. Its purpose
is to study impartially and scientific
ally the problems of the state and to
attempt to evolve solutions of them.
This year- the subject of the Club's
studies will be in the taxation prob-
em in North Carolina.
(By Bill Marshall)
The 1927, rushing season is over.
Last night at twelve o'clock theTelI
at Old South put an end to the verbal
strife which has held the campus in
its relentless grip for four long,
weary weeks. , ,
As the last notes of the clapper
pealed out fraternity men and fresh
men parted company for- two days.
Final appeals, warnings, and advice
were breathlessly put into weary ears,
and the frosh groped their way to
their rooms still wondering what it
was all about The Greeks retired to
Wl2H' respective houses and spent
hours in' vain speculation as to the
reward of their efforts.
Today and tomorrow will be spent
in watchful waiting. Tomorrow af
ternoon comes the real test, when
the Greeks will assemble at their
lodges and see who really does
choose to join their flock.
These days of silence will be only a
partial relief to the majority of
iiwmucu.-. a lie actual comusion is
over, but turmoils of indecision still
hold sway in the minds of many. A
fortunate few have escaped this pa
thetic situation by carefully making
up their minds before silence. The
others, however, are still trying to re
member just what did happen on that
last night and are vainly attempting
to collect their blasted thoughts.
Throat-cutting, as usual, has had some
effect, and the frosh are wondering
if these things they have been told
are true. They should bear in mind
that such a policy is a contemptible
one, and that the fraternities which
resOrt to it usually have the least to
offer. The frosh should forget the
heart-rending appeals and lectures to
which they have been subjected, and
should do a little thinking of their
own.
Early tomorrow afternoon they will
go to Memorial Hall and will make
their decisions. They will receive
them into their brotherhoods. Some
will be disappointed in not receiving
the bids they desire, but the material
ization of their hopes may come later
in the year. '
TAR HEEL LINE
TO BE RELIED ON
IN TECH GAME
Line from Tackle to Tackle Has
Proved Impregnable; Changes
In Backfield.
CHEERIOS TO BE
AT STATE GAME
Peppy Organization Seeks INIore
Members; Will Meet,
Tonight.
Seats for 250 Cheerios from the
University of North. Carolina have
been reserved at Riddick Field, Ra
leigh, for the State-Carolina game
which will be played Saturday, Oc
tober 29. . , L .
The Cheerios, under the leadership
of Petty Waddell, are making exten
sive plans for the game. Their pro
gram will follow along the ,lines of
that given at the Virginia game last
year. At present the group is learn
ing State's Alma Mater, and several
yells. It is possible that a special
train will be reserved for the Cheerios
and the student body. Plans are also
under way for the frays with Duke
and V. M. I.
A call had been issued for new men
by the Cheerior leaders to fill the
places of. several members who have
dropped out. There will be no limit to
the "enrollment in his organization,
and all the men who sign up Will be
taken to the games. The chief cheer
leader states that a large group of
students are needed to make a noise
in the new stadium. All old men and
those who wish to join are to attend
the meeting tonight at seven o'clock in
Gerrard Hall.
COMIC OPERA TO
, BE IN DURHAM
"Beggar's Opera," First To Be
Written in English, To Be
Given in Revival By English
Company.
When the University of North Car
olina football squad invades Grant
Field in Atlanta Saturday to battle
Georgia Tech, the Tar Heels will pin
their' hopes of success on the sturdy
shoulders of a great forward wall.
That word "great" is the only ad
jective that describes the Tar Heel
line, for from tackle to tackle the big
blue forwards "have presented an a!- '
most impregnable front throughout
the season. The flanks have been well
guarded, but theyplay of the ends has
been below the par level set by the
other five linemen. -
And there lies one of the biggest
problems that face Coaches Collins,
Cerney and Fetzer this week as they
lead their proteges into action against
the conquerors of Alabama. , For four
years the Crimson Tide washed vic
torious over every southern foe, but
last week Thomason and Mizzelle, two
brilliant Yellow Jacket backs, turned
that Tide of victory.
In that game the Tech stars circled,
'Mama's ends for many nice gains,
and the Tar Heels must prepare to
stop that end running threat. How
ever, McDaniel and Sapp, the Caro
lina f lankmen, ..have proven stronger
on defense than on offense.
Behind the line lies the dther prob
lem. ' All during this 1927 campaign
there has been a lamentable lack of
coordination in the North Carolina
backfield. Finally in the Maryland
game the mentors seemed to have un
earthed a working quartet in Whis-
nant, Ward, Young and Ferrell; and
now that combination is broken.
Ferrell, brilliant fullback, suffered
a severe leg injury in the South Caro
lina game and will likely be out for
two weeks or more. To make matters
worse Ward, the most effective run
ning back, has an injury to .the nerve
centers in one arm that may keep him
from battling the Jackets. To date,
with only three days practice remain-
All arrangements have been com
pleted for the presentation of "The
Baggar's Opera" at the City Audi
torium in . Durham, on the night of
the twenty-seventh, as was learned
today from Paul John Weaver, pres
ident of the Durham-Chapel Hill Con
cert Association.
The production is the first of a
series of three for which this Organ
ization has let contracts. The play
itself is over two hundred years old,
being written by John Gay as a satire
on the corruptness of English politics j ing, no reserves have been uncovered
Reviewer Finds Buccaneer
Above Average First Issue
Jokes Are Even Funny; One Cartoon Called "Hellish;" "Buck, Jr.
Continues High Standard Set Last Year ; Work
( of Editor Praised.
o -.' .
(By Joe Mitchell)
The, first Buccaneer has tiptoed in.
In more than one way it is far above
the average run up by the last edi
tor. What I mean, it actually is.
Stupid cartoons strewn over the
pages lower, the quality of the blessed
sheet, but the jokes- are not too bad.
They are very good. Most of them
hit a wee bit above the level set by
disgusted' travelers1 in smoking com
partments, which is all very well if
one likes that kind of a joke. Few
people don't. But what I want to
say is this: this is the very best first
issue of a college comic-sheet ever
published on this, campus, and even
though a timid superlative, it means
something. -
Several stories have ; slithered a-
cross the muddy walks concerning the
cover design. One man casually
hinted that it was the best cover the
dear magazine's ever had. Well, it
isn't. Not by any means. A wood
nymph with "the conventional one-
piece and tasseled pumps. Maybe it
isn't a wood-nymph. - Perhaps it is a
fairy, or a goblm. it looks like a
nightmare to me. And the cartoon,
"A Freshman's Idea of Hell." Last
year all the college comics ran it as
"The Freshman's Conception of Hell."
It's hellish anyway.
It's positively vexations. What
this chap, Buck, Jr., doesn't know
about wiramen' is nobody's business.
Just ask him, and he'll tell you. But
it doesn't mean anything. Brown
Derby, as usual, is the best thing a
bout the magazine. That and the ad
vertisement on the inside back-cover.
Both are by the same gentleman I'm
quite certain. He's the one to re
ceive the usual accolade, which. isn't
anything bad. Merely a tap on the
shoulders with the flat blade, of a
sword.
The editor of this year's Buccaneer
is an experienced editor, and his work
is noticeably fine. That is, it stands
above the usual college work. His
make-up is splendid, and the designs
are precisely placed. And if certain
of the decent, clean-living Carolina
men with the usual puritanical ges
ture, fail to make a stab at the edi
tor's penchant for broadness, the
magazine stands in line for a very,
very successful year.
of the time. In its present form, the
play is a revival which has some
changes, but it is still quite risque
and bold in its treatment. In its
revival all efforts have been made to
keep as much as possible of the ori
ginal flavor and atmosphere.
"The Beggar's Opera," as it will
be seen in Durham, is being played
by an English company which has
just arrived in the United States af
ter a successful four year run. in Eng
land. The company is making a trans
continental tour and will come no far
ther south than Durham, starting for
the Pacific coast from there.
An interesting feature of the pro
duction, is the music carried by the
company, lhe original music is used
as far as possible and several orches
tra instruments of the period are be
ing used ; among them, the harpsi
chord, viol d'amous,, arid viol de gam-
ba, all of which have never been
heard in this part of the country.
Seats for the play are on sale in
Mr. Weaver's office. The prices range
from a dollar and a half to three dol
lars. - ;
to fill their shoe. It may be that
some man will be shifted from the line
to work with the offensive troops.
Only one thing is clear, and that is
the Tar Heels face a hurculean task ori
Saturday.
A list of the students in the local
infirmary is being reported daily on
the bulletin board at the entrance to
the Y. M. C. A. This list is secured
each morning by the Sick Visitation
Committee of the Sophomore Cabinet.
This has been one of the regular
duties of this group, and the service
is very helpful to students.
MEN FOR HARVARD
TO MEET MALCOTT
Professor D. W. Malcott, of Har
vard University, assistant Dean of
the Graduate School of Business Ad
ministration, will be in Chapel Hill
next Saturday, October 22, for the
purpose of meeting any students cf
the University who are contemplat
ing doing Graduate work in the Har
vard Business School.
Any student who wishes to talk
the matter over with Mr. Malcott must
make an appointment. Miss Brown
will take the names of any one desir
ing such an appointment, at the office
of the Dean of the School of Com
merce, 116 Saunders. It is requested
that all engagements be made as early
as possible. . -
Seven graduates from the "Univer
sity of North Carolina attended the
Harvard , Business School last year.
Six of these finished here in 1926.
Three of these men, Thomas S. Cam
per, A. S. Solomon, and W. B. Pip
kin were graduates from the School
of Commerce. The Remaining four,
Charles W. Gold, James H. Lineber-
ger, A. A. Shuf ord, and James L.
Coker, were from the A. B. School
ELIGION SCHOOL
OFFERS COURSE
FREE ON BIBLE
The School of Religion is offering
instruction in three courses of Bible
stuay tms quarter. Two of these
courses require three hours a week
and the other only two. There is no
tuition charge for these courses which
are open to any student attending
the University of North Carolina. M.
T. Workman is Dean of the School of
Religion.
A course in Old Testament history
is given Monday, , Wednesday, and
Friday at twelve o'clock. At this time
a discussion of the history related in
the chapters of the numerous books in,
the Old Testament of the Bible is be
ing taken up. '' ' ,.
On the same days at four-thirty
o'clock another course is gien deal
ing with the New Testament. This
is a study of the life and teachings
of Jesus Christ.
The study of the Hebrew prophets
which is offered on . Tuesdays and
Thursdays at four o'clock p. m. com
pletes the list of courses given in
this school during the fall quarter.
Vesper Services
In Gerrard Hall .
Evening Vesper Services are being
held each day at seven o'clock p. m. in
Gerrard Hall for all students who
wish to attend. This practice of daily
worship has become a regular part
of campus life for the students who
are in the habit of meeting for the few
minutes that these services are held.
The Bible reading which opeas the
meetings is followed by a discussion
of the selection, and the assembly
closed with hymns and prayer. For
the past week various members of the
Sophomore Cabinet of the . Y JH.C. A.
have been conducting the group. To
night's service will be lead by Ralph
Greene, and Lynwood Harrell will
take charge tomorrow.
Club' rooms of the Y. M. C. A.4--