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The Library, City, rl TODAY Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society PHILLIPS HALL 7:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY MUSIC LECTURE Person Hall 4:00 P.M. VOLUME'XXXVI CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927 NUMBER 34 HEER CONTINUES TAX DISCUSSION REFORM. C. CLUB Points Out and Offers Remedies For Inequalities in Taxes Of Rural Counties. Buccaneer Deadline Calling attention to the wide difr ference that exists in local tax bur dens in various parts of the state, Dr. Clarence Heer, of the Economics De partment of the University, speaking before the North Carolina Club last night, declared that the only two ways to overcome the evil were to take some of the functions of govern ment away from the local units and have the state perform them, or. to provide the localities with money to carry on the functions through equal izing funds. Dr. Heer's talk was the fifth in the series that have been made be fore the North Carolina club this fall in connection with the study of the tax problem in the state that constitutes the program of the or ganization for the school year. A. B. House, Executive secretary of the University, Hon. A. J. Maxwell, Chairman of State Corporation Com mission and of the newly-formed State Tax Commission, P. M. "Wager, Secretary of the club, and Dr. Fred Morrison, Secretary of the State Tax Commission, are the others who have spoken before the club, which is open to all students and members of the faculty of the University. ; Points Out Inequalities Dr. Heer pointed out that the tax burden on the rural counties of the state is much heavier than that on the urban counties when what the two get for their money is compar ed. "Consider why this variation occurs." he suggested. "Some of it is due toAvaste, extravagance, and inefficiency in local organization, but even eliminating the variations due to these factors there would still be a difference in the tax burdens in relation to what the local units get for their money. This differ ence is due to the way in wmcn the state assigns functions to the local governments and to differences in the production of the sources of revenue assigned to the local units." The speaker compared the relation of the local units of government to the state to that of a selling agent to the home office of his concern. A certain sales quota is imposed upon the local selling agent with fixed re gard to the selling resistance and the purchasing power in his territory. In imposing its functions upon the i counties the state does not take into consideration the fact that the unit cost of governmental functions is not the same in various localities. Also the resources that the state gives to the localities to carry out the func tions. Unless the wealth is properly distributed to; carry on these func tions, their burden will be unequal. The cost of carrying them on in North Carolina differs tremendously because of differences in density of Continued on page three) Fraternity Men To See Movies Free . Management of Carolina Theatre Will Entertain One Fraternity Each Saturday. The dead line for copy for the January issue of the Buc caneer -will be the day after the date set for the termination of the Christmas holidays. , The cover and art work for this number has already been en graved and the only thing left to complete the issue will be the copy, editor Anderson ex plained. "' The above dead line has been set in order to give the staff, plenty of time to work on ma terial over the holidays. The January issue will be no special number but the .February Buc caneer will be a Travel Num ber and the March issue will be a Girl's Number. These last two numbers will be the only special numbers of the year. PLAYMAKER SHOW 'NOTHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT' Settings by Selden, Next to Play-Bill, Are Best Things About the Play. Ad Warren Will Begin His Professional Boxing Career With Lew Carpenter Tonight Dean Paulsen Predicts Sure Victory for Carolina Man at Durham Auditorium ; Fighter Trains with University Boxers Under the Tutelage of . Creighton Rowe. RELIGION SCHOOL ADDS COURSE TO WINTER SCHEDULE Registration Begins Friday; University Professors and Visitors to Lecture Each Tues day Night. TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM By William W. Pratt Playmaker Theatre December 9 and 10. . ' M. T. Workman, Dean of the School of Religian of Chapel HiH, announces that registration for the winter quarter courses in Religion will be held from Friday, December 16, through Tuesday, December 20, at the office of the School of Religion (second floor of Methodist Church). The office will be open each day from 9:00 A. M. to 3:30 P. M. In addition to those courses offered in the fall quarter, which will be re peated in the winter, an entirely new course has been planned which is ex pected to be of prime interest to the students and also to. the townspeople of Chapel Hill. This new course will meet each Tuesday night at 7:00 P. M. and is to consist of a series of special lectures by prominent faculty mem bers, together with lectures by Pro fessor Workman and seminar discus sion. . Courses offered for the winter quar ter are as follows: Religion 1 (Life and Literature of the Hebrew People) at 9:30 A. M. on Monday, Wednesday, Friday; Religion 2 (Life and Teaching of Jesus) at 12:00 Monday, Wednes day, Friday; Religion 51 (The Hebrew Prophets) at 11:00 A. M. on Tuesday and Thursday; Religion 3-103 (Chris tianity in the Apostolic Age) at 7:00 P. M. on Tuesday nights. . ; The new course, Religion 3-103, has been set at an evening hour (7:00 P. M.) so as to avoid any possible con (Contbiued on page three) ROFESSORS OF ECONOMICS MEET Economics Teachers and Visitors Have a Social Gathering; Was Carroll's Idea. By Joe Mitchell The Playmakers are becoming am bitious. Here they have waded into a classic period-play, and made it click almost perfectly. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room is honest hokum, and the Playmakers were, honest in their in terpretation. It is the very worst, of the old hocus-pocus dramas and there fore, the very best. Revivals are al ways tedious f or the producer and director. Endless survey of minor points in speech and scenery, in prop erties and xostume, makes is a dif ficult business. This onion-eyed dra ma of the purple jfif ties tapped the Playmaker timbers 'creditably. . That is all I can say. But, even at that it is not a bill to get excited about. The worrisome point about a play like this is. that no matter how stu pidly the cast comes through, no mat ter how much they overact or , falter it makes the show only that much more enjoyable. The poorest actor oftentimes deserves the flowers if applause it to be considered. And so, there were no terribly bad actors in this cast, altho to say this means less than nothing at all. Two of the charming actresses, Miss Holland as the innkeeper's wife, and Miss Rog ers as a , sentimental Yankee girl, al most failed to check. They played ragged , parts, and came frightfully close to cutting big, gaping holes in the peaceful revival. . . . They did their finest, though," bless their hearts, and the worst ham in the world couldn't seriously injure this terrible play. Early in the evening' the . audience went through the cast and made the mistake of picking out Mr. Russel, a bucolic tippler, as the comic lead. They laughed at him throughout, Continued on page four) Yackety Yack Wants Pretty Girls' Pictures The Car olinaTheatre will have as its guest each Saturday night be ginning after the holidays the mem bers of one of the fraternities on the "Hill," Mr. Carrington Smith, man ager, announced yesterday. Mr. Smith 'intends to get a com plete list of all fraternities on the campus and entertain one each Sat urday night, until the whole list has been taken care of. ' This is something of an innovation in the management of picture shows in Chapel Hill, and is strictly in keep ing with the plan which Mr. Smith bas followed as manager ever since the Carolina Theatre was opened this fall of giving students the best enter tainment possible. ' - Track Men To Meet at Five O'clock - Coaches Fetzer and Ranson have is5ued a call for a meeting of all var sity track men, candidates "and pos sible candidates, to-be held in Ger ard Hall- this afternoon at five o'clock. Plans for winter and spring will be discussed, and all men interested aie invited to attend. An informal gathering of teachers of economics and .business adminis tration from most of the colleges in the state' was held in. the Methodist church Friday evening. Dean D. D. Carroll conceived the idea, and had the invitations issued. The meeting started at seven o'clock with a turkey dinner in the basement of the church, and was then transferred to the social rooms, where several hours of informal con versation and discussion were held,. This was one meeting , at which no formal speeches were made. A few words of welcome by Dean Carroll constituted the only prearranged talk of the evening. In addition to the eighteen mem- the University's staff of in- struction in those courses, nineteen fvnm nthpr institutions were lliV IX vni. v - present. The visitors were : Prof. A S. lyeistler, N. C. C. W.; Dr. C. K Brown, Davidson; Prof. Duane Mc Cracken, Guilford; Dr. R. K. Wilson; Dr. E. J. Hamilton, Dr. C. E. Landon, J. H. Shields, Dr. C. B. Hoover, all of Duke; Prof. E. E. Stretcher, Dean R F. Brown, Prof. . Shulenberger, Pmf Cnehring. Prof. R. W. Green, Prof. R. O. Moen, Prof. G. W. Fors 4- tjtwP Elmer Wood, all of State College; and L. W. Rhyne, of Elon, Prof. C. J. Whelan,of Wake Forest wa Viskerf. and had signified his in tention of coming but was detained by illness. All students wishing to sub mit pictures for the Vanity Fair section of the Yackety Yack are requested to do so as soon as possible. These photographs should be left at the editorial offices of the annual in Alumni or handed to June Adams or Jack Pringle at the S. A. E. House. "K. O." Warren, noted Carolina football player and boxer, will fight his first professional bout with Lew Carpenter, Florida light-heavyweight in the City Auditorium at Durham to-night. This bout - is' being held under the auspices of the Durham American Legion. 1 K. O." has been the mainstay of the Carolina boxing team for the last four years. He was also a veteran wrestler and a star tackle. His box ing is one of the best grades seen among collegiate boxers in the South in the last few years. Recently he turned professional and secured as his manager Jimmy Bronson, noted boxing promoter .and one of Tunney's seconds in ' Philadelphia and Chicago. Warren is to report to him in New York immediately af ter. Christmas. The bout tonight, which is to be Ten Round Fight 4- . J 1 4-l 1 r,- "V r " has ever fqught. Dean Paulsen pre diets a sure victory for Warren. The collegian has been working hard at the Tin Can for the last few weeks His- workouts consist of bag-punching, sparring with the members of the Carolina boxing squad, rope skip- fn 11 1 1 - il iner, etc. lo-aaie ne nas no otner trainer than Coach Creighton Rowe of the Carolina boxing team. Carolina students are expected to turn out eh masse for Warren's ini tial professional encounter tonight. Dean Paulsen expects a sell-out of the tickets he has for the fight. At a late hour last night only a few were left. - Brown Fights' Appearing on the same program with "K. O." tonight will be . Char lie Brown, welter-weight on the Carolina boxing team, and Mill War ren, younger brother to Ad and a match will go four rounds under am ateur rulings, and will serve as one of the preliminaries to the main event. Other bouts in process which, War ren engages in before going to New York are with Frankie Lewis in Ra leigh and Joe Sigmond in Charlotte. As an amateur the Carolina fight er has had over forty fights. He has boxed in Philadelphia, Boston, Balti more, Cincinnati and many southern cities. He has never been knocked off his feet and has been outpointed but three times. Among his oppon ents have been Joe Monte of Brock ton, Mass.; Armond Emanuel, of San Francisco; .Marty Gallager, of Wash ington; and Chief Mayle of Fort Bragg. Last summer Warren won a newspaper decision over Mayle in Durham and in a return bout at Fort Bragg, knocked the Indian out in the second round. Y DELEGATES TO ATTEND MEETING OF VOLUNTEERS Carolina, to .Be Well Represented at -International Convention' of Students in Detroit. Notice A special non-credit course, "English CC," will be given in the winter quarter at 9 :30 for the benefit of men with "Com position Conditions." Students who satisfy the instructor in this course' will have their con ditions removed without exam ination. Students wishing fur ther particulars or desiring to reserve a place in this course should consult Mr. MacMillan (Murphey 203) or Mr. Thrall (Murphey 210) at once. JUNIORS-SENIORS REGISTER BEFORE XMASJOLIDAYS Registration Begins Friday and Continues Through Tuesday; Winter Quarter Opens Janu ary 2. The registrar wishes to call to the attention of all students to the sys tem of registration which .has been used at the University for several quarters. All students except fresh men, sophomores, and law students are required to see their deans and register before the end of the winter quarter. , Th following dates have -been as signed for juniors and seniors: Friday, December 16, those whose names begin with anitiais A-H ; Sat urday, Dec. 17, I-M ; Monday, Dec. 19, N-S; Tuesday, 20, - T-Z. . No freshmen or sophomores may register until after returning from the holidays, when registration for The Student Volunteer Convention which is held, only 'once 'in a student generation will " meet in Detroit, Michigan, from Decejaber 28 through January 1. This Convention will be attended by several Carolina students and professors. A minimum of six delegates from the University will travel to Detroit during the Christmas holidays to take part in this mammoth congress. These members will represent the local Young Men's Christian Asso ciation and the North Carolina Uni- versity Campus. This meet will be an international gathering of stu dents for the discussing of certain im portant problems and questions which' are arising in the present day. This will be the only opportunity to attend such an assemblage which will be of fered to classmen in the Universities and colleges of the country until llLl. Subjects pertaining to the follow ing outstanding problems will be analyzed and thoroughly discussed at the sessions: "Our Cultural Heritage," "Present Day Developments Affecting our Thought and Life," "Present Ten dencies in our Native Religion," "Problems Within and Without the Christian Church," "The Character and Amount of Future Cooperation from the West," and "The Youth of the Church in our Country and the Youth of the Church in the West." The convention will be five days in Detroit. The -total costs of the trip and stay in the city have been esti mated at approximately $85.17. The following is an outline of the costs.-Round-trip ticket, Durham-Detroit, $40.77; round-trip upper berth, $14.40; meals in transit, $8.00; hotel" in De troit (four nights), $8.00; meals. in Detroit, $8.00; Registration fee, $6.00. Tickets for the trip will be on sale at the Y. M. C. A. from December 24 to the 30. Mr. H. F. Comer, general secretary of the local Y will be glad them will be bandied as usual in Memorial Hall on Monday, January ! to talk over the proposition with any- 2, 1927, All students who wish to take ex aminations that were missed with per mission, or" for removal of the grade of E, should make arrangements in the registrar's office immediately. Carrie Jones, 77, Conducts A Unique Private School Here for Colored Children -o- Local Negress, Active and Mentally Alert Despite Her Age, Has Made Name for Herself Among Her Race as Religious Leader and Educator. . . .:,. O ' ' ' By Katherine E. Grantham j Beginning her fifty-first year in teaching Negro youth, Carrie Jones at 77 is still actively conducting her private school here in Chapel Hill. Children and grandchildren of her first pupils are among the forty boys and girls who this fall come to the school room in her home. Though. handicapped when she was a young woman by a dislocated hip, Carrie has been an educational force among , her race since she came South with the family of A. D. Ledoux, former pro fessor of Chemistry at the State' Uni versity. For almost ten years she was a teacher in the public schools of Orange, Alamance, and Chatham counties, but had to give up this work when she was injured. - "At any time I looked' out of my window, I could see many colored chil dren running loose in the roads. -1 realized how much they needed edu cation, and decided to use the one room of my house as a school room." At that time there were not adequate provisions for education of white chil dren. Negroes were almost altogeth er neglected." This is her explanation of the modest beginning of her private school. - ' Y BANQUET WILL BE TENDERED TO FULCHER'S GROUP Hundreds of Students Take Part in 4 Religious Discussion Groups Just Ended. one interested in the Convention. Dr. Floyd Black To Lecture Tomorrow President of Sofia American Schools of Bulgaria to Discuss Near ' East Problems. ' During the forty ' year since, she has taught around 1,500 to read and write. Carrie was unusually well trained for a Negro woman of " her day. She always had a bent towards study and declares, "I read parts of the Bible before I was four." Her father, a teacher; and leader of his race in his day, and her first teacher, an Englishwoman living at that time in Pennslyvania, encouraged her. . "I have never gone to college," she ex plained. "For there were almost no opportunities for a woman of my race in those days. However I was "for tunate enough to be employed as a servant in the homes of cultured .peo ple. These gave me the privileges of their libraries and the magazines in the home." Her work has been rec ognized by the public schools, and children leaving her enter the fifth grade in public school with no ques tions asked. Still Mentally Alert No one hearing her alert remarks as she teaches would guess that she is almost eighty. She walks with difficulty, using a crutch, and because of her injured hip, is bent badly, but the force and energy expressed in her Continued on page four) The Dormitory Discusssion Groups which have been sponsored by the Y. M. C. -A. were brought to a suc cessful close last Monday' night at at nine o'clock. The, discussions this quarter far surpassed those of pre ceding years. There were 26 groups on the cam pus which met every Monday night for five weeks to discuss present-day campus problems. There was an av erage attendance of 15 members in each group and a total average week ly attendance of 416. The total at tendance for the series of five meet ings aggregated 2,080. ' The group on the first floor of Grimes Dormitory presided over by H. M. Fulcher will be awarded a ban quet for having the highest percent age of "any of the 26 groups. " Points were awarded according to the num ber of students available on each floor, number enrolled, number in at tendance at each meeting, and the addition of new; members during the course of its meetings. The winning floor had s an enrollment of 25 boys and an average attendance of 22. The banquet will be given either .tonight or tomorrow. , There are two other groups which were, given honorable mention. The first of these is the second floor of Ruffin under the leadership of Dan ny Davis, which had an average at tendance of 19. The other is the first floor of Carr, with G. M. Untz, leader, having an average attendance of 17. An account of the proceedings of each of these meetings was written up each week and handed in to the Y. M. C.A. , A record was kept of the Continued on page four) Lt.-Gov. J. Elmer Long of Durham, who is chairman of the Near East College Association, IncM southern di vision, has made arrengements for Dr. Floyd H. Black, President of the Sofia American Schools of Burgaria, to visit the University tomorrow. Dr. Black will 'talk to students and faculty members of problems of the Near East, at Garrard Hair during the regular chapel period, chapel ex ercises having been discontinued on account of examinations. Institutions which are. members of the Near East College- Association are : Robert Col lege, Constantinople; American Uni versity of Beirut, Syria ; Constanti nople Woman's College; International College, Smyrna ; Sofia American Schools, and Athens College,- Greece. These colleges constitute the princi pal cultural contact between the Ori ent and Western culture. Dr. Black's talk concerning their problems should be interesting from the point of view of diplomacy, as well as education in general. Weaver Continues His Weekly Music Lectures Second of Series on Symphonic Music To Be Given Wednesday. , The second lecture of the symphonic music series, "Earliest' Symphonies," will be given in the lecture hall of Person Hall tomorrow afternoon at four " o'clock. One of this series of lectures, given by Paul John Weaver, head of the music department of the University, will be given each Wed nesday afternoon during the next few months, and the lectures are open to anyone who is interested in music. The first lecture, given last week, was a preliminary" discussion and ex planation of symphonic music in gen eral. The second of the series, will deal with the symphony in its earliest forms, with special emphasis on the I work of Hayden and Mozart.