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BASKETBALL FRIDAY
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Tin Can 7:30 P.M.
SATURDAY
Varsity Baseball Meeting
Tin Can 10 P. M.
VOLUME XXXVI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 192S
NUMBER 53
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D
inamite Senate Splits in Twain As
Presidential ProsDeets Are Mentioned
Pandemonium Rages as Mem
bers Swing Chairs; Senate
Battles to Bitter End for
Favorites; Carroll, Gory, Falls
Murmuring "Arbitration."
By Gollywog
The monthly meeting of the Dina
mite Senate was held in the basement
of the Playmakers Theatre Tuesday
night and ended in a most unseemly
and unphilosophical brawl. Politics
proved to be the subject that turned
an intellectual gathering into a Max
Reinhardt mob scene.
After the Internationale had been
chanted the meeting opened quietly.
Panurge Kartus read a diverting pa
per on the mysticism of Frank Crane,
Absalom Anderson gave an illustrat
ed lecture on a trip to South Carolina
and the usual number of men was
balled. There was a lull, and in an
effort to stimulate discussion Ruling
Janus Carroll mentioned the fact that
a man named Smith would very much
like to become President of the United
States. Pandemonium reigned and
when it reigned it poured.
There is no way of recording who
was the first to speak, for every Di-
namiter was instantly upon his feet
and there was a babble of tongues,
taunts and' temperament. The Ruling
Janus, calm to the bitter end, restored
a semblance of order and gave the
floor to Shylock Crew who had already
been talking for several minutes. It
developed that Mr. Crew did not care
for ;Mr. Smith. He had never met
him,' but he had read things in -the
newspapers which impressed him un-
favorably. He declared viciously that
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ELLIOTT MAY BID
FOR BIGLAURELS
Carolina Track Star Receives
Invitation to Enter Philadel
phia Track Meet.
Galen Elliott, outstanding Carolina
track star and one of the South's
most promising candidates for the
American Olympic team this spring,
may enter one or more of the indoor
track and field meets . to be held in
New York and Philadelphia during
the next few week's. He has already
received one invitation to compete in
the Northern meets and others are
expected.
Elliott is almost certain to accept
the invitation already received to com
pete in the "John Overton , Memorial
Mile" at Philadelphia, February 21.
This is one of the feature events of
the Meadowbrook Athletic Club's an
nual" indoor track and field meet and
each year draws many foreign stars
aAd most of the country's greatest
middle distance runners.
The "Overton Mile," as it is called,
is a memorial to Johnnie Overton,
Yale's great middle distance star,
who was killed during the World War.
Elliott' will be handicapped in this
race due to the fact that it marks his
debut on indoor tracks, but his nat
ural ability and phenonemal speed
will make him one of the most feared
entrants.
He holds the Southern Conference
. record for one and five miles, and the
Carolina records at intermediate dis
tances. He gained All-American hon
ors last y?ar by finishing second to
Ray Conger, Iowa star, in the nation
al meet at Chicago last June. He was
also on the All-American college squad
in 1926 as a reward for his mile rec
ord of 4 minutes 21.2 seconds in the
Conference championship run over his
home track here on Emerson Field.
Besides the above achievements, El
liott was Captain of the Carolina cross
country team which won the South
ern Conference hill-and-dale title last
fall.
WEAVER TO LECTURE
Prof. P. J. Weaver will give
the third of the Appreciation
Series of lectures in chapel this
morning. Mr. Weaver's talk
will deal with the Appreciation
of Music and is the second talk
that has been delivered on that
subject.
Talks scheduled to be given
tat the chapel period in the fu
ture will take up archaelogy,
literature, painting and other
arts.
Varsity Baseball
To
earn
Varsity baseball practice will
begin Saturday morning under
the supervision of Coach Ash
more. All pitchers and catchers
who expect to -go out for base
ball are urged to be present at
- the meeting to be held at 10 o'
clock Saturday morning in the
Tin Can. At this meeting plans
will be made for regular daily
workouts.
Coach Ashmore stated that it
would be absolutely necessary for
all candidates for the pitching
and catching corps of this year's
varsity nine to attend these daily
workouts. Later plans will be
made for all candidates to work
Student Volunteers
Conference to Be
Held at Duke U.
The University of North Carolina
will be represented by ten or more
delegates at the State Student Volun
teer Conference to be held at Duke
February 17-19. Representatives
from practically every college and in
stitution of higher learning in the
state .will attend. Attendance is ex
pected to 'aggregate over two hundred
in addition to the thirty colored dele
gates from the negro colleges in the
state. . .
A number of prominent speakers
have been placed on the program. A
mong them are: Edmund D. Soper,
Dean of the Duke School of Religion;
and W. Y. Chen, a gra'duate of Cor
nell University and a member of the
Detroit Student Volunteer Conven
tion. J. D. Stokes, of Duke Uniyer
sity, recently elected chairman of the
Social Committee, stated that no ef
forts would be spared to make the
conference a success.
Elon College was the meeting place
of the group last year. Leadership at
the convention will be given over
largely to undergraduates in the vari
ous state colleges who have been al
ready notified. a
The following delegates will attend
from the University: Aubrey Per
kins, Wyeth Ray, Roger Walker, H.
G. Brainard, George Henry, George
Hamer, Hargraves, Albright, Misses
Noel -Walker and Vance Thompson.
The meet will be brought to a close
Sunday afternoon.
PLAYMAKER TOUR
BEGINS TOMORROW
Three Plays on Bill to Be Pre
sented in Eastern Part
of State.
The Carolina Playmakers will leave
Friday for a fourteen-day tour of
eastern North Carolina. The Play-
J makers' are taking three of their ori
ginal plays which have not previous
ly been in the eastern section of the
state. The plays - taken on tour will
be "Lighted Candles," a tragedy of
the mountain by Margaret Bland;
"Mountain Magic," a Carolina folk
play, by Edith Daseking, and "The
Marvelous' Romance of Wen Chun
Chin," a Chinese folk-play by Cheng-
Chin Hsiung of China.
The company will play Fayetteville,
Dunn, Nashville, Spring Hope, Sea
board, Murfreesboro, Rocky Mount,
New Bern, Beaufort, Wilmington,
Red Springs and Southern Pines. The
Playmakers will travel by Jus.
Those making the trip are Misses
Josephine , Sharkey, Katherine Dar
ling, Enita Nicks, Helen Dortch, and
Marilee Shaw, and Messrs. Charles
Lipscomb, Howard Bailey, Sheppard
Strudwick, T. P. Harrison, Harry
Russell, Leonard Lewis, Tom W. John
son, -Richard Carpenter, Charles
Bland, Allen Heath, and Professors
Frederick H. Koch and Hubert Heff
ner. The sets taken on tour were design
ed and executed ; by students in the
course in Play Production under the
supervision of Professor Samuel Sel
den. Mrs.. Marvin H. Stacy attended a
reception, at N. C. C, W. Saturday
evening. She was accompanied by her
niece Miss Elizabeth Ward of Duke
University.
Practice is
Saturday Morninj
out, but at present only pitchers
and catchers will work.
Last year Carolina enjoyed one
of its most successful seasons and
with nine lettermen at a nucleus
of this year's nine, the prospects
are exceedingly bright for anoth
state title. The diamond aggre
gation will confine its conference
games to teams of North Caro
lina, Virginia, and Maryland.
These three states form . a tri
state league in which the south
ern conference teams play each
other for the championship. ,
The coach of freshman baseball
has not yet been selected but an
announcement . of the mentor is
expected in the near future.
Carolina Debaters
To Meet Virginia
The "team to represent the Univer
sity in her coming debate with the
University of Virginia on the query,
Resolved, "That the increase of Fed
eral power as shown in the United
States during the last decade indi
cates a favorable tendency," was se
lected by a preliminary contest last
Monday night. D. E. Hudgins, Jr.,
and Taylor Bledsoe will represent
Carolina on the negative side of this
query. Both men are experienced de
baters. Mr. Bledsoe has had former
intercollegiate experience against
State College and other schools, and
Mr. Hudgins enters the intercollegi
ate field with a rich background from
his inter-society debatesr and his pub
lic speaking experience as president
of the Senior Class. The 1 debate
promises to extend the traditional
rivalry existing between these two
universities to still another field. The
final will be held here in Gerrard
Hall, February 22nd.
TAR HEEL QUINT
TO MEET STATE
TOMORROW NIGHT
Will Be Last Appearance of
White Phantoms on the
Home Court.
Tomorrow night in the Tin Can,
Carolina will be at home to N. C.
State for the second meeting of those
two teams this seasoiC and the next
to the last appearance of the Heels
before their departure to enter the
Southern Conference Tournament at
Atlanta. . ,
By virtue of a win from the Red
Terrors earlier in the season, and a
superiority in basketball that ap
proaches tradition, the Heels are ex
pected to take the coming game with
little trouble. On several occasions
State has pulled a surprise, and may
do that tomorrow. In 1926 State lost
to the Heels in the Tin Can 31-21, the
same score of the game this year. In
a later game in Raleigh, the result
ing score was 17-8, with State atop.
In that contest, the Rajeigh boys
worked up a tight defense in the final
half to hold their visitors to one
point, which has very seldom , been
done. Several years before that, one
of the greatest teams ever to repre
sent Carolina swamped State in the
first game 62-10, probably the biggest
margin they had piled up in any
game, but in the second game of the
same year, that very team lost to
State, 32-31. -: - .' -
However, with all possibility of
surprises, the Phantoms are picked as
the winner tomorrow. The whole
squad is in shape to play, and have
mastered the art of working together
to a degree seldom seen in this vicin
ity. Only one defeat is registered a
gainst the outfit which is favored to
win the Southern championship again.
That loss was to Tulane during the
holidays in New Orleans. The Heels
took the other two of a series of three
games to more than even things up.
State has not made such an im
pressive record this year. Duke de
feated the red suited boys by a small
margin in the only game played so
far between those institutions. Geor
gia got away with State after losing
here. Although State may do the un
expected here, the Heels, will very
likely have things their way after the
custom usually followed.
JONAS ANNOUNCES
APPOINTMENT OF
NEYCOPUnEES
Three Important Bodies Named
By Central Administration
Council.
Announcement of the appointment
of three important committees by the
Central Administration Council has
been made Hay Charles Jonas, presi
dent of the student body. The three
committees are to handle questions
pertaining to student government, a j
budget, and reputed abuses of Univer
sity property and the campus.
The Student Government Committee,
which will meet Monday night at 9
o'clock at the Y. M. C. A., is composed
of Robert W. Wilkins, chairman, Nor
man Block, W. H. Strickland, Daniel
K. Moore," Aubrey Perkins, and Nel
son Callahan. The; committee is to
have the power of selecting five addi
tional men to augment the original
committee of six.
The plan is to hold open meetings
in Gerrard Hall, to which any person
on the campus interested in the vari
ous problems which may arise from
time to time is invited to take part in
the discussion. Those who are inter
ested are asked to watch the Tar Heel
for announcements of the dates of the
meetings and the questions to be
brought up, so that they may be pres
ent to help discuss them, President
Jonas stated yesterday.
The Budget Committee, as announ
ced by the student body president, is
composed of Judson Ashby, chairman,
Caesar Cone, and Henry Lay. They
are to investigate and recommend
means of financing the student gov
ernment. , '" -
The Campus Committee will inves
tigate abuses of university property
and particularly of the campus. Jack
Davis, chairman, Charles Nelson, and
Pat Patterson, are on the committee.
The appointment of the Student
Go vernment committee is the outcome
of the resolution offered by Norman
Block and accepted last spring, call-
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DR. CHASE WILL
ATTEND THE NEAR
EASTCWERENCE
J. Elmer Long Will Preside ;
Many Prominent Speakers
on Program.
Dr. H. W. Chase will attend the
conference of volunteer workers for
the Near East College Association
which will be held in Durham tomor
row. Representatives from practical
ly every county in the state will be
present.
J. Elmer Long of Durham, chair
man of the committee, will preside
over the business sessions while Jose
phus Daniels of Raleigh, former sec
retary of the navy, will act as toast
master at the luncheon to be given
at the Washington Duke Hotel.
Among the prominent speakers who
will participate in the program are
Albert W. Staab, American Director
of the college campaign; Dr. John W.
Smith, pastor of the Trinity Method
ist church; Miss Loulou Eastwood of
Pinehurst; Dr. John Barclay of Wil
son; Captain Claude W. Hopper, in
charge of the campaign in the south
ern states; and Mr. Daniels. Dr. W.
P. Few, President of Duke Univer
sity, will be a guest at the -luncheon.
Henderson Speaker
At A. B. C. Club
A real democracy, one that gives
freedom to the creative and initiative
instincts of men, is the ideal of Dr.
Henderson, university of North Caro
lina professor, ' scientist mathemati
cian, and literary historian, in an ad
dress yesterday afternoon at the
luncheon meeting of the . American
Business club.
Dr. Henderson declared that he was
afraid, however, that the present me
chanistic and industrial age is put
ting serious inhibitions upon the cre
ative instincts of men, and that there
is a danger in men becoming slaves to
the machinery that they create. In
this connection he emphasized the im
portance of industrial leaders evin
cing a greater humanitarian regard
toward" their workers, for if this is
not done, he avers, our civilization
will be placed in grave jeopardy.
ees Greatly
evenue From Sales Tax
Debate Squad Will
Meet Tonight at 7:30
The first meeting of the De
bate Squad will work in prepar
ation for the Alabama-Tulane
Debate on the question, Resolv
ed, That Governor Smith of
New York should - be elected
President of the United States,
will be held at 202 Murphey, to
night, 7:30 p. m. Professor
Edward J. Woodhouse, of the
Department of History and
Government, former mayor of
Northampton, Mass and a
delegate to the Democratic Na
tional Convention which met in
Madison Square Garden in 1924,
will lead the discussion. The
Debate Council desires that all
persons interested should regis
ter with ' Professor McKie at
once.
DELTA TAUDELTA
PLANS EXTENSIVE
SOCIALPROGRAM
Various Forms of Entertainment
Planned for Delegates to
Southern Division Conference.
An extensive program for the en
tertainment of the delegates who will
attend the Southern Division Con
ference of Delta Tau Delta, which will
convene here Thursday night and con
tinue through Saturday, is being plan
ned by the local committee.
The conference will open Thursday
night with a general get-acquainted
smoker. The night's program, will
consist of a few stunts, and a negro
quartet. '
Friday
Morning Business session.
Afternoon Second business session.
Night Attend the N. C. State
Carolina basketball game as guest of
the Athletic association. After the
game the delegates will attend the
German Club Dance.
Saturday
'Morning Third business session.
Noon Conference picture to be
taken at Carolina Inn.
2:00 Theatre Party. Guest of Mr.
Smith, manager of the Carolina thea
tre. 4:00 German Club dance in honor
of Southern Division of Delta Tau
Delta. ;
6:30 Model initiation.
8:30 Banquet at Carolina Inn.
The model initiation is for the pur
pose of taking Mr. Hugh Chatham, of
Winston-Salem into the fraternity. '
Mr. Chatham was a member' of the
Rainbow chapter of the fraternity at
Vanderbilt, which later became the
Lambda chapter of Delta Tau Delta.
He graduated in the class of 1899, but
failed to return to be initiated.
The initiation will be . put on by na
tional officers and delegates.
FOLK PLAY READ
OVER THE RADIO
National Drama Week Observed
At Regular University
Hour.
Professor Frederick H. Koch gave
a short talk and read the first Caro
lina folk play, "When Witches Ride,"
by Elizabeth Lay, over radio station
WPTF, Raleigh, Monday from 5 to 6.
The Durham Life Insurance station
has been running the University hour
for the past five Mondays. It was
especially fitting that Professor Koch
deliver a talk at this time as this is
drama week throughout the nation.
Professor Koch read "When Witch
es Ride," due to the fact that this is
the first time a complete play has been
broadcastrom a radio station in the
state and this play is the first one
written and produced by the Caro
lina Playmakers.
: The University hour each Monday
is being put on through the courtesy
of the University Extension Division.
Work has been started on a new
medical building which is to be con
structed at the University of Vir
ginia. The building is to be complet
ed by the end of the college year and
is .to cost $1,000,000.
Increased
Professor Derrick of University
Faculty Shows Both Sides of
Question In Address to North
Carolina Club; Reaches Class
of People Who Pay No Tax.
North Carolina would collect three
and one-half millions of dollars more
in revenue each year if it had a coh
sumptioi excise tax on tobacco, soft
drinks, chewing gum, and other lux
uries of the same nature, according
to Prof. S. M. Derrick, who spoke here
last night at the fortnightly meeting
of the North Carolina Club on "The
Use and Possibilities of the Sales
Tax." He is professor of rural social
economics in the University.
"There are many good arguments
both for and against this sales tax on
special commodities," Professor Der
rick said. "But after viewing both
sides with considerable care I can't
see that it isn't just as fair and legiti
mate a source of revenue as the prop
erty tax, the income tax, or any of
our present ;taxes."
Reviewing the arguments in favor
of a consumption excise tax, the
speaker pointed out that it not only
served its original purpose of raising
a revenue, but that it also reached a
class of people who otherwise paid no
tax. He was referring to the tran
sient populace that owns no property
and pays no tax, but does use tobacco
and other minor luxuries.
"The tax is a fair one because no
one is compelled to pay it," he con
tinued. "You -only pay if you want
the luxuries. It is, in fact, paid un
consciously by the "consumer. From
the administrative viewpoint it is
Continued on page four)
MID-WINTER HOPS
TO BEGIN FRIDAY
Five Dances Will Be Given ;
Oliver Naylors Orchestra
to Furnish Music
Tomorrow afternoon the impatient
ly awaited mid-winter hops will get
under way in Bynum Gymnasium.
Social news points to a large crowd
of girls, visitors and alumni being on
the Hill for the week-end of dancing,
ancj all indications are that the dance
will be successful.
Oliver Naylor's Orchestra will be
gin its harmony about 4 o'clock in the
gym, and the first of the five hops
will begin at that hour. This initial
dance will be the Junior Prom, which
is to last until 6:30 o'clock. After
dinner Friday evening the dancing
will be resumed at 10 o'clock at the
. Gorgon's Head Ball, which will last
until one o'clock. The Saturday morn
ing dance, lasting from eleven-thirty
till one-thirty, will not be sponsored
by any campus organization, but the
dance .that afternoon from four until
six-thirty o'clock will be given by the
Delta Tau Delta fraternity, the south
ern division of which will be holding
its convention here at that time. The
last hop of the set will be the Ger
man Club Mid-winter Ball Saturday
evening from ten until twelve o'clock.
In addition to these German Club
dances the Junior Orders of the.Gor
i gon's Head and the Gimghouls will
! give 'dinner dances at their lodges on
Friday and Saturday evenings respec
tively. Elaborate decorations will grace ,
the gym for the dances. A color
scheme of white, green and red will
be worked out with a canopy, wavy
festoons and natural pines. Japan
ese parasols, lanterns, snowy' con
fetti, gay paper caps, flashing fire
flies, revolving spotlights, and a glow
ing yellow moon for the night hops
will complete the attractive decorative
plans.
Baron Holmes, Treasurer of the
German Club, announces that all mem
bers will please get their dance cards
from him at the S.A.E House this
afternoon, for by so doing much con
fusion and trouble will be saved at
the doors of the gym tomorrow.
NOTICE
All students that have not
been to the photographer's stu
dio to pick their proofs for the
Yackety Yack should go imme
, diately. If there are any nn
selected proofs left . by , this
week-end the staff will use its
own discretion in choosing the
print to be used.
BUS. MGR. YACKETY YACK