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f1 n . vr: FRIDAY V Production of -Ner Plays 8:30 P.M. Theatre LECTURE By Mrs. E. PettigTew Yerner S:30 P. M. Gerrard Hall 3 . . i f ' ' u r 1 CHAPEL HILL, N. O, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 192S NUMBER 50 VOLUME XXXVI V a - i J I ! . i I ' t CAROLINA QUINT HOLDS BIG EDGE IN DIM SERIES Tar Heels Have Won 17 of the 15 Gaines Played Since , 1920. FIVE MORE WEEKS LEFT FOR YMTER GRIDTRACTICE Raw Material Being Rapidly Whipped into Shape During Winter Work. RUSSIAN EE OP LE ARE THEATRE IIAD SAYS MRSJIURRAY Idea That Russia Has Entered a Period of Cultural Depression Is Wrong, She Declared. With a winning tradition, the Uni versity of North Carolina cagers tackle Duke's quintet in a return game in Durham Saturday night. This winning tradition is a product of nine seasons of play on the hard wood, and is the result of the com bined efforts of all the Carolina fives since the winter of 1920. " History shows that in nine seasons the Carolina tossers have won 15 games. Duke erstwhile Trinity in the same period has won two. - Satur day night the "Flying Phantoms," 1928 edition of the Tar Heel species, will endeavor to add another victory in the eighteenth meeting of the two institutions on the basketball court. Duke's victories came in 1920 and 1921. Both were by scant margins. After dropping the first 1920 engage ment 36 i to 25, the Methodists eked out a single-point 19 to 18 decision in the second 'meeting of the season. In 1921 the Trinity five won the first game 25 to : 22, but Captain "Pop Shenard's cohorts swept" to a 41 to 19 triumph in .the second game. Since that time the string of Tar Heel victories has been unbroken. Except far four occasions the mar gins of Carolina's wins have been heavy. In nine of the thirteen games between 1922 and the present, the Tar Heels have led by margins varying from eleven points up to twenty-three. Last Saturday night Carolina's "Flying Phantoms" piled up a 13 point advantage. They will hardly be expected to accomplish such a feat on Duke's own court this week-end, but they will enter the game with plenty of good intentions. Duke by the same token is working this week in effort to break an eight year chain of defeats. . Coach Collins and his assistants have only five weeks left to complete the winter football practice and with the approach of the close of practice no effort has been spared to drill into the large squad of players the rudiments of the game.. The squad has been "di vided into four ' teams representing four strong opponents of . the Caro lina eleven for 1928. Each team has individual coaches and plays, and games are played between the dif ferent teams every Wednesday and Saturday. ' To date three games have 7 been played and some estimate of next year's material can be made as prac tically every man on the squad of al most a hundred men has seen service. The squad ' consists of five centers, fifteen guards,; twenty tackles, nine teen ends, twenty-five halfbacks, eight fullbacks, and nine quarterbacks. A large number of these are from last fall's freshman squad, while there are a number who are out r for the - first time. There are only ten lettermen from the 1927 team working this winter. Saturday "South Carolina," coach ed by "Rabbit" Bonner and Grady Pritchard, former Carolina stars, will meet "Virginia," coached by Tom Young and George MeDaniel, 1927 varsity men. On the Palmetto team are Nelson Howard, veteran tackle, and Steve Furches, quarterback of the 1927 team. , Along vith these are several freshman stars and second string backs of last year's team. "Vir ginia."N has only one monogram man, Albert -Whisnant who alternated with Furches at quarter last fall, but has several men who were on the squad last .year ; and several; of ' Coach Beld- mg's freshmen to off-set the "South" Carolina" veterans. NEW PUBLICATION JUSTOFF PRESS Deals With State and Municipal Government ; Edward J. Wood house is Editor. , S; P. E. CHAPTERS TO HAVE DANCE To Be Entertained by Alumni Friday Night at Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh. D eath of W. N. Everett is toss To University ays President Chase "North Carolina Municipal Review" is the title of a new publication which has just been issued from its offices here. It is to be the official publica tion of the North Carolina Municipal Association and is edited by the secretary-treasurer of the association, Edward J. Woodhouse. The editor happens to be a member of the f ac ulty of the University, but the Re view is not a publication "of the Uni versity. . The first issue of the Review, which is to be published monthly, makes a highly creditable showing. It . com prises 36 pages and there appears to be enough, advertising to. make it a going proposition. The articles deal mostly with municipal government. The new publication, says the edi tor, in this first issue, "is to be de voted primarily to the many and va ried phases of city and town govern ment and administration . in North Carolina. ; He adds that when occasion demands national government and ad ministration also will be discussed. To a great extent it will follow the policy of the National Municipal Re view which has made quite a name for itself." r In trying to carry out these pur poses the Review "invites the active aid and cooperation of all public of ficials and private citizens and friends of North . Carolina," and solicits all items of interest in relation to the political or governmental machinery of : the state or municipalities. - Mr. Woodhouse, the editor, is head of the University Bureau of Munici pal and County Government Research, a section of the Extension Division, and is professor of government. A Virginian by birth and collegiate training, he practiced law in Nor folk for several years and then did graduate . work in Wisconsin, Chicago and Yale., . Before . coming here, he taught in Yale and in Smith College He was mayor of Northampton," Mass., in, 1924, and was a delegate to the Democratic national convention that year. . ; ' ' The only fraternity dance to be given before' the week-end of the mid winter German Club hops will be the ball given by the alumni of Sigma Phi Epsilon in the ballroom of the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh, tomorrow evening, Friday,. February , the tenth. The dance, which will last- from ten till two, is to be held in honor of North Carolina Beta and North Caro lina Delta chapters of the fraternity. . The figure will be led by Mr, How ard r White, - of Asheville, with Miss Margaret "Hughes, pi Raleigh, assisted by Mr. Wray Ward with Miss Blanche Wagner, both of High Point. Mickey Block's Buccaneers will fur nish the music for the occasion. Present day Russia is . theatre mad," declared Mrs. William Spencer Murray of New York in a talk given before a smair audience in the Play- makers Theatre Tuesday . morning. Mrs. Murray recently went to Russion as a delegate of the Society for Cul tural Relations with the Union "of So cialistic Soviet ; Republics and while there became intensely interested in the modern Russian drama. Accord ingly to Mrs. Murray the idea that Russia has entered a period of cul tural depression is but one of a series of American misconceptions due to newspaper prejudice and inaccuracy. Russia is ruled by the intelligent and appreciation of art and the drama is increasing rather than dwindling. The Society of which Mrs. Murray is a member was founded to further the interchange of cultural material artistic, dramatic, literary, and medical between Russia and this country. The Johns Hopkins Insti tute is making extensive "use of such interchanged material. , . Mrs. Murray was impressed with the fact that the Russian stage has advanced technically far beyond the stage of other nations. It has reached a high plane in the development of modern and eXpressionistic settings and has done away with many cum bersome, traditions. "Theatre activi ty and production were uninterrupted during the revolution," said Mrs. Mur ray, "because the 'Russians consider the ; drama an essential part ' of life and never wish to be without it." She told of seeing two Ballets, "Es meralda" in Moscow and "The Sleep ing Beauty" in Leningrad. The Mos cow Ballet surpassed uV scenic effects and the Leningrad Ballet featured as premiere dans ens e Gelka, a woman of fifty who appeared to be no more than twenty v The Russian no longer cares for the Ballet, considering it to be mid-victoriah and passe. Their interest is in the drama of the future. Before taking up this phase of their stage she mentionel a modernized in terpretation of Sophocles' "Antigone" produced by Tiernoff which combined classic Greek acting with modern Russian settings. , . . ' One of the ; most influential figures of the time is the producer, Meyer hold. Mrs. Murray was present at two of his productions, "The Eyes of the Village" and "Raw China." "The Eyes of the Village" was peasant propaganda advocating the use of modern farm 'implements in the rural districts. Its climax was the ' intro duction of a new Ford upon the stage. '-'The setting f6r this play was dis turbingly impressionistic," said Mrs. Murray. "There was no curtain, the action being divided by intervals of darkness. Durine these intervals a moving picture was shown abdve the stage." Classes Suspended For One Hour Today University classes will be sus pended from two to three o'clock this afternoon, during the fun eral of W. N. Everett, late Sec retary of State of North Caro lina, who died at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh Monday night. President Harry W. Chase an nounced that the two o'clock classes would be suspended as a mark of respect for Mr. Ever ftt, who occupied an important place in the life of the state, and was closely connected with the work of the University. Secretary of State, Carolina Trustee for Many Years, Devoted Alumnus Dies. 18THAMENDMMT DISCUSSED BY DI Senators Unable to Decide and Bill Was Tabled Until Next Meeting. Canada has 27 tracks for running horses.. The second play, "Raw China," a lengthy drama in seven acts gave the (Continued on page four) Dr. Thornton Whaling Delivers First of Annual McNair Series Of Three Lectures Monday Night .-v ' 'V- '-- . o ' Noted Professor of Systematic Theology Says That the Conflict Between, Natural Science and Religion Is as Old As Human Thought. "There can be . no real contradic tion between natural science and re ligion, as their fields are' distinct' and exclusive, and there can be no more war between them than between the multiplication table and the ten com mandments," Dr. Thornton Whaling, professor of. systematic theology in the Presbyterian . Theological Semin ary, Louisville, Kentucky, : declared Monday night, in Gerrard Hall in the first of .the annual McNair series of three lectures. : The conflict between natural science and religion is as old as human thought, Dr. Whaling pointed out, and it has. reached its most acute stage within the last hundred years; and its climax in the past decade. "This con flict," he asserted, "should excite no surprise, as divergence of . viewpoint and various schools of opinion" mark human' activity in J every ; realm." Dr.- Whaling has given fifty years of study and reflection'' under some of the ablest teachers of both the old and the new world to this and allied subjects. He expressed a sense of satisfaction in filling-the McNair lec tureship because of some peculiarity personal ' considerations. John Calvin McNair, the " founder of the lecture ship, graduated with Dr. Whaling from '.the theological . seminary - of which the latter was president for ten years. This'institution, the Pres byterian Theological - seminary, was the first in the country to establish a chair exclusively on the relation of science and religion. f President Harry W. Chase introduc ed" the speaker. ; Indicating that religion deals with moral and spiritual truth, while sci ence describes the external and ma terial universe, ' Dr. Whaling stated that "Unfortunately their disparate realms have not : always -had' universal recognition! Past ecclesiastical ob jections to astronomy, geology,- and some rbiological - teachirfgSf have been Continued "en 'page four) "' "On account of the great interest which . was shown on the resolution : "Be it resolved that the Di Senate go on record as. favoring of the 18th amendment to 1 the Federal Constitu tion and substituting an amendment which would permit the use of light wines and beers and ; provide for the state enforcement of the new amend ment," the Di Senate voted to hold the bill open for discussion until the next meeting. Immediately after the bill was read by the clerk, Senator Studdert rose to his feet to introduce the bill. He denounced the 18th amendment of the Icoristitution as a law which deprived the people of this country, of their liberties and pleasures. "It is," said the Senator, "a violation of the con stitution of this country of ours. It is the breeding place of a great men ace. It is very undesirable and is im practicable. . , Just as the Senator from Washing ton took his seat, Senator Helms of Charlotte jumped to his feet, produc ing facts and figures to show that the people of this country were in favor of prohibition "and that any move to abolish the 18th amendment would be detrimental to tne entire economic welfare of the country. "The' pros perity of the country depends on the strict enforcement of the amendment," quoted the speaker. Senator Cone of Greensboro fol- owed close in the footsteps of the Senator from Charlotte. .The entire Senate was now beginning to be an xious for an opportunity to speak for or against the measure. The speaker was forced b rap "for order as Sen ator Cone could not be heard in the back of the hall. The Senator from Greensboro' continued his praise of the Volstead Act and- pointed out that through its enforcement the prosper ity of the country was on a sound basis. Td this point the main issue of the bili had not been reached. Senator Hudgins took the floor and admitted that he favored the use of light wines and beers to take the place of. the rotten lye" which is being drunk all over the country at the present time In quick order Senators Gilreath, Bost, Eaton, ' Studdert, Kincaid, and Hudgins had a series of heated word. battles, but the arguments were stop ped as the i Senate adjourned and tabled the discussion until Tuesday, February 14th. Expressing the deep sorrow of the University community over the death of Secretary of State W. N. Everett, President Harry W. Chase of the University yesterday issued the fol- owing statement: "I can not ; begin to express the sense of personal loss that Mr. Ev erett's death brings io me. The man was my friend, and I loved him. Few men have loved the University of North Carolina as he loved it, and few men wrought so consistently for its development. His loss leaves a vacancy in University, councils that it will be very difficult to fill. But, with all that, I find myself thinking most about his great and friendly soul and his fine humanity. The Univer sity has lost a friend, and we shall sadly miss his counsel, his boUyant optimism and his sound and clear sighted judgment." News of the death of Secretary Ev erett was received ; at the University with deep grief. Classes will be sus pended on Thursday' from two to three during the hour of the funeral. Pres ident Chase and a delegation repre senting the faculty will go down to Rockingham for the funeral services. Secretary Everett's relations with the University have always been very close and intimate. He was a mem ber of the legislature of 1917 which passed the first bond issue for the enlargement of educational institu tions, and chairman of the Appropri- THREE NEW PLAYS ON PLAYMAKERS' MNTE1PR0GRAM Settings and Costumes Designed By Students Under Supervi sion of Prof. Seld en. The Carolina Playmakers will pre sent three new and original plays on their winter bill at the ; Playmaker Theatre on Friday and Saturday of this week at 8:30 o'clock. The three plays are "Job's Kinfolks," a tragedy of the mill ,f oik, by Loretto Carrol Bailey, "The Queen Has Her Face Lifted," a fantastic comedy, by Alvin M. Kahn, and "Mountain Magic," a romance of northern California in the adventurous days of forty-nine, by Edith Daseking, and written in Professor Koch's summer class at the University of California." The three plays have new stage settings, designed and executed by students in the play production course under the supervision of Professor Selden. The costumes for the plays were also designed by the students. All of the plays given this quarter are by new playwrights, two of which . were written this year in the play writing course. "Mountain Magic," a play which tells the story of a cultured German woman who makes the long journey to San Francisco to marry the hand some young German officer to -whom she had been betrothed for a num ber of years. He had come to Cal ifornia in the gay days of forty-nine to gain.a fortune and instead found hardships and " poverty. His fiancee does not recognize him, he has changed so much, and he has to take her to a simple cabin in Sanoma county. This ations Committee of the house in the Play shows the glamour and hard- legislature of 1921 which began the ships of California in the early days. large program for permanent im- Emta Nicks plays Annette, a Viennese provements now under way at the opera singer; Sheppard Strudwick, educational and charitable institu- a ld prospector; Helen Dortch, tions. - Annie, a neighbor girl; and Howard He has been for a long period of Bailey the preacher; (Continued on page four) I (Continued on page four) CAVALIERS LOSE Y. E(LA;TO MEET TO HEELS 26-22 IN WINSTON-SALEM White Phantoms Continue Their Honorable Charles Taft to Be Unbroken Line of Victories the Chief Speaker of Since 1922. the Occasion. Will Be Held April 5 Jonas Attending thC Republican Committee Meet in Greensboro Charley Jonas; president of the stu dent body, left yesterday to attend the ' Republican Executive Committee meeting which convened in Greens boro yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. During his stay on the campus, Jonas has been an active Republican, and was president of the Republican club in 1924. He was also instrumen tal in bringing to the campus several outstanding Republican speakers. His father is one of the foremost G. O. P. leaders of the state. Jonas, who is a law student here, will graduate in June, and intends to take an active part 'in the 1928 cam paign, supporting 'Hoover for presi dent : . V ' ' Carolina defeated its old rival, Vir- . The State Young Men's Christian ginia, again in basketball Monday J Association. Convention, will convene night at Charlottesville, continuing at Winston-Salem on February 20 and an. unbrdken line of victories since J extend over,. a, period.. of -three days. 1922. - . Officers of every Y. M. C. A. in North The Cavaliers made a hard fight to I Carolina are expected to attend , the break the long line of losses to their meet, The University will be repre- southern neighbors, ' but were not 1 sented by two or three members. quite able to make the grade. How- Honorable Charles Taft, son of the ever, they gave the Tar Heels a close former President of the United States, fight, and had the. largest crowd to J will be the chief speaker for the oc- witness a basketball game there this casion. Mr. Taft was prosecuting year believing that a victory was at attorney in the well-known Remus hand. A strong Carolina rally to- murder case which recently caused wards the end of the game altogether quite a bit of turmoil. He is also dissolved all. their desires and expec- a member of the State Committee of tations by coming from behind to pile Ohio and chairman of the Boys' work up sucn a score tnat a desperate spurt Committee of Cincinnati. from the home boys could not over- At the same time as the convention come. I Winston-Salem is tn rhristpn and ded- Bill Dodderer, who has been a large icate its new Y building. factor in the smooth playing of the WliiteThantoms so far did not make CaitipUS NominatidhS have a boil on his arm attended. The MarCIl Zv; JlileCtlOnS cooperation of the Heels was not up to their usual form according to ob servers, and members of the- team Following a meeting of the Central themselves. Both teams missed many Administration Committee Tuesday easy , chances at goals. The court af ternoon at three-thirty o'clock. - it was rather smalL and the referee was was decided that all campus nomina- the" strictest one experienced by the tions would be held .Thursday March visitors this, season.;. . , . : 29, at chapel. period. , , Virginia, started the. scoring with' a The elections will be held Thursday, rush, running up five, points before April, 5, from .nine , until six o'clock, the Carolinians had a one, Vanstory, Two polls will be arranged for voting, going in at guard for Fenner who had one at the Y. -M. C. A., and one at Dodderer's regular,: position,., got. in Battle dormitory.. The Australian bal- one free shot to begin his team's, scor. lot system will be employed as was in?- ,'I?ie Heels were behind, 11-9, at done last year., the end of the half. , ; ; ,The committee in charge of election Millen, for .Virginia, began the reg- plang composed, of Charlie Jonas, istering in the second .half with a foul student body ; president, Ed. Hudgins, but their opponents . showed more life DiUard Gardnerf and Judson . Ashby. and held them almpst entirely to t . shots of this nature. Hackney and TO GIVE LECTURE Purser were both sent to the bench. ( - . ? . - r; because of too many. fouls. Vanstory On Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock, went to center, Fenner to guard, and Jacques and Juliana, Busbee will give Satterfield replaced Hackney." These, a lecture on the Jugtown pottery at - with Price and Morns who were al- the Playmaker .Theatre under, the aus-, ready . in, took the. contest and in six pices of the Carolina Playmakers and minutes ran the score from 18-17 to the Art Department of the Chapel 25-18 in their. favor. The .Virginians, Hill Community Club. , - ; : : in the" last few minutes of play, perk- The lecture will be .illustrated by a ed up in turn and added four, points exhibit of t pottery and a . demons tra- tb' their side, but were unable to gel tioa of, howthe , pottery is. made will further, and the game ended with the be carried on. by two of their potters Heels just four ahead from Jugtown. V I