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if H TT f U j . Ci Mary I. Wrisht Debate TONIGHT 8:30 P. M. Gerrard Hall Tryouts for Ala.-N. C Debate TONIGHT 7:30 P. M. 202 Mcrphey VOLUME XXXVI CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1928 NUMBER 5S TO . n 'Wit 11 f ! t I 1 7f SENATORS FROM EAST DISCUSS H0N0RSYSTEM Resolution to Abolish Present Honor System Downed By Unanimous Vote. "Besolved, that the Honor System be abolished from the University of North Carolina." The Philanthropic Assembly, at their regular meeting in New East Building at 7:00 p. m. Tues day evening started the ball rolling in the way of discussing this ques tion which bids fair to become one of prominence within the next few weeks. The Assembly voted against the meas ure, but the main idea was for the discussion of a probable means to wards remedying the present viola tions of 'the honor system on the cam pus. ' Representative Lewis introduced the bill by stating that since the honor system is not working, it should be abolished. He was immediately fol lowed by Representative . Parker who stated that he.had been here for seven years and he had never in all that time seensa particle of cheating. He claimed that the fault of the present code is that those who see cheating going on will not. report the matter and have it corrected. Representative. Wilkinson brought out the fact that there is cheating on practically every examination and written lesson, and he was challenged (Continued on page three) - U, S. ARMY BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Famous Play Organization Will in , Raleigh Next Saturday - Saturday, . the - twenty-fifth, -the United States Army Band will play two concerts in Raleigh. This band is one of the foremost military bands in the world and the official representative, of the United States Army., The organization grew out of the numerous bands formed in Prance during the war to establish and maintain "Doughboy" morale and good spirits. The band as ' it now stands was organized by General Per shing in . 1922, directly after his re turn from "Over There," and is made up of the finest military musicians who crossed the waters with Amer icans troops. , Since its formation, the band has come into nation wide fame, having broadcast more often and been heard farther than any other military band ever organized. It has become fam ous for its forceful marches, dreamy waltzes, and compelling overtures. The organization has been made the official band for a number , of social, diplomatic, and State Occasions in the capital city, having led the Lindbergh home-coming celebration, the Cool idge Inaugural parade, and the fun eral procession of the late President Harding. u lique" of France. " Tickets for the concert may be pro twroA at the Universitv Music De partment offices. . .. . marFd?wr& debatonight Annual Contest Between the Di and Phi Societies Winner Receives Medal. The annual Mary D. Wright de bate between the Di Senate and Phi Society will take place tonight at 8:30 in Gerrard Hall. The query is one whieh has aroused much interest, and is a question of the moment: "Resolv ed, That the Governmental Policies of Mussolini are for the Best Inter ests of Italy." W. T. Harkrader and H. J. Galland will uphold the affirmative for the Di and J. A. Wilkinson and W. W. Mor gan the negative for the Phi. The Wright debate has been held each year for a number of years be tween the two societies. Many men now prominent as speakers and in public life have appeared as Mary D. Wright debaters. The best speak er on the winning team is awarded a medal known as the Mary D. Wright debate medal. This medal was won by Bryce Parker of the Di last year and by J. W. Crew , of the Phy the preceding year. The debate is open to the public. Democratic Glub Organized Among Students; G. O. P.Y Expected To Follow Suit Taylor Bledsoe, Celebrated Cam pus Character, Elected Chair man; L. H. McPherson, Secretary-Treasurer. Representing every section of the state, delegates from Murphey to Jacksonville answered the call of their party Tuesday night, created an en thusiastic fracas in Gerrard Hall and organized the Carolina Democratic Club.' The purpose of the assembly, as stated by the chairman, was to perfect a machine to foster and fur ther the principles and ideals of the democratic party. : L. Taylor Bledsoe, celebrated cam pus character, was elected chairman of the group, . while the lot of secretary-treasurer fell to L. H. McPher son.' The aggregation, confidently feeling that the democrats can muster large majority on the local campus, plans to create a bit of political agi tation on the Hill. The assemblage strongly disapproved of several meas ures and policies being set. forth by the Republicans. The committee is contriving to se cure a number of Democratic speakers to visit the campus, and make address es. Mayor James Walker, of New York City, recently stated that it will be impossible for him to talk here at this time, but hopes are looming that Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, whose possibilities as a Presidential candi date are causing quite a bit of discus sion and comment, will accept the in vitation which has been extended him. The final arrangements for the per f ection of the party organization will be completed by the executive com mittee. Plans are also being made to hold a straw vote in the spring quar ter in order to determine which party has the majority of supporters at the University. Rumor has it that those who have -Republican -tendencies: wHI 'tmbine soon in an effort to combat the op position, and to- protect the welfare of their party.' There are a number of staunch G.O.P.'s on the Carolina campus who will probably contest the statements and propaganda scattered about by their enemies. Undoubtedly, , the campus is des tined to witness a political flare and and outbreak of forensic strife. Per tubation has already been aided through means of the literary socie ties and the publications. Casts Selected for Spring Productions Of Original The tentative casts for the spring production ';. of original plays by the Carolina Playmakers have been select ed and rehearsals are now under way. Two of the plays, Shotgun Splicin', a comedy by Mrs. Oscar Coffin, and A New: Eve, a play of the future by Mary Dirnberger, have been cast and thevthird play Day's End, by Alice Pierrat, will be cast on tour. -Those held for parts in Shotgun Splicin are Jim Shore and J. W Blackard for Fate, Walter Spearman for Pink, Mary Margaret Wray for Dicey, Edwin Day and Jim Shore for Ben, and Moore Bryson for Hopping Amos. The cast for A New Eve is Mary Dirnberger as the Woman, Charles Lipscombe as the Man, and Harry Russell or Hubert Heffnfcr as the Prophet. . " Class In English Uses Princeton Plan A new plan is being tried in the English 59 class which Dean Hibbard teaches. This plan has been tried by Princeton and has proven to be .very successful there. It is, in brief, the division of the class into; six separate groups. One group each day meets with the , professor and discusses a certain amount of required material. For these meetings each member is required to write a theme of some length and present it before the group. Thus, not only will each student not have to come to class but once a week, but he will also cover the same a mount of work as he would ordinarily, and he will receive the benefits of individual instruction which is not possible in a class of a large size. This plan is being tried as an ex periment with the-view towards ex tending' it to . the other departments of instruction on the campus if it is successful. A soft tire doesn't turn away wrath. Brockvie (On.) Recorder.- RHODES SCHOLARS ELECTION TO BE HELD DECEMBER 8 Application; , for Scholarship 'Must Be Filed Before October 20. The election for . Rhodes scholars this year of which Carolina is en titled to one will be held December 8, according to an announcement sent out by Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College, and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. All applicants must file their petitions be fore October 20 with the secretary of the State Committee of Selection, H. S. Hilley, president of Atlantic Chris tian college. The Rhodes Scholarships are the most highly prized awards that under graduates can obtain. These funds are provided for in the will of the late Cecil Rhodes, an Englishman who made a fortune in South African dia monds. He set aside a portion of his estate to send -American students to Oxford, for the purpose of creating more friendship and better feeling be tween the .United States and the mother country. No examination is required of the winning candidate for this benefit, but the ' record made by the student throughout school and college is con sidered, as well as other mental at tainments and physical ability, as shown by participation in athletics. However, these gifts are not made chiefly on account of outstanding suc cess in athletics, regardless of other merits. AllUhodes scholarship means three years at Oxford University, England, and a sum of 400 -pounds, about 2000 dollars per annum. There is no re striction whatsoever on the studies that may be taken up. For eligibil ity, a student must be male and un married, between nineteen and twenty-five years of age, a citizen of this country, and must have finished his sophomore year of college by the time he leaves for England. Students elected the coming December will go to Oxford the next October. V More information on the subject, and application blanks, may be ob tained from Dean Addison Hibbard, or Mr. Aydelotte, at Swarthmore, Penn. ' There are at present two Rhodes scholarship men on the University faculty. These are .Professors T. J. Wilson, III, and C P. Spruill. At Oxford now is W. J. Cocke, Jr., who finished here in 1925, and went over on a scholarship. V " March Number of Magazine is a H Says Reviewer 0 Marshall's Versatility Buoys Issue Considerably; Cox's Play En tirely Too Long; One Sketch of Mitchell's Good; Material Well-Written But Magazine Not Varied Enough. . . - - o- by Andy Anderson The March issue of the Carolina Magazine scores practically one hun dred per cent and immediately falls to zero. Conflicting statements are not usually easily explained but the Magazine contains some very excel lent material in this number but it is heavy-laden. Look: John Marshall gives us a well-written article on the futility of college. Aside from the slightly platitudinous subject matter, it is highly . informa tive and goes to the point. Not ex tremely pedigogical in his diction, Mr. Marshall proceeds to tell us the how and why of certain fallacies in the System' and "he approaches very nearly the truth. He vents his wrath on the - Honor Group system but the remainder of a student's collegiate career might well come under his ex pository tirade. There are holes in this process of obtaining an education and in Try Again, Dean these holes are brought more clearly into the light. Futility: Sophomore Year, the fron tispiece poem by Mr. Marshall ex presses adequately that which many a student wishes to say. Clever and approaching Dorothy Parker in text and stylei the poem , advances stead ily to a needle-point of . cynicism and Elliott Wins Second Place in Mile Event Wins Third in Baxter Mile, Feature Event of New York A. C Galen Elliott, , Carolina track star, won 2nd place in the "Over ton Sleraorial Mile" at Philadel phia Tuesday night. Lloyd Hahn, ; Boston A. A. star, took first place and thereby earned the Rodman Wanamaker trophy. Hahn's time Was" 4 minutes 17 1-5 seconds., - This was the fastest Imile race of the current indoor season and Hahn clipped three-fifths of a . second off the previous record for the event made by Joie Ray. It Da! rym pie, of the Boston A. A. s was third. This race was the feature event of the Meadowbrook Athletic Club's annual track and field meet. f Monday night in New York, lElliott took third place in the Baxter Mile, feature event of the ;New York Athletic Club's indoor carnival. Lloyd Hahn romped to victory in this race for the fourth ' time in five years. He lead by 25 yards Sid Robinson, of Mississippi A. M. College, who barely beat ' : out Elliott in a . finishing spurt. This was a slow race and Hahn won by the unimpressive time of 5 minutes 21 4-5 seconds. M HEEL PUGS TO LEAVE TODAY Will Be Last Match Before En tering Southern Conference Tournament. Coash Crayton Rowe will throw his Tar Heel aggregation at Florida next Saturday night. This scheduled af fair is the last intercollegiate match of the season for the Carolinians raid, incidentally, the first for the 'Gators Only the Southern Conference tourna ment at Charlottesville, Virginia, re mains on the Heel card after the Flor ida match. Why the Florida team has not been fighting in collegiate ranks has not been explained. They have been con testing independent and Y.M.C.A aggregations around Gainesville for the entire season, and as this is the case no line can be drawn on , the Floridians as to their possible strength. .However, the Tar Heels won an overwhelming 5 to 2 verdic over them last season here. It is known for a fact that the Gainesville, team will enter the South ern Conference tournament, so the Tar Heels may expect stiff competi tion from their last foe of the sea son. : Coach Rowe has not announced his starting lineup as yet, as the starting fighter in one or two of the bouts will be determined by developments this week. The team will leave Thursday on their long jaunt, either by way of bus or train. . " perfection and, on arriving at, the point, stops exactly where it should. Peter Gray gives us O Lawd, a po etical study in optimistic pessimism. Rather well done but not quite as readable as some of Peter's poems in preceding issues. , A play, eighteen pages long should never be run , in as small a magazine as the literary organ on the campus. Almost half the magazine devoted to a play eighteen pages of a ; forty page magazine ! A story running to this length, would be out of place ; and certainly a play, which is much slower than a short story, is almost unheard of. But we hear of it, and lament the fact that it was run. But W. N. Cox in writing Below A Hun- dred did a fair piece of work. His description is good and the' action rather well motivated. His charac ters are fairly clear but are burden ed with a few characteristics that appear superfluous "to the reviewer. It has possibilities of being highly dramatic, but only at the apex of the climax. If the reader does not know tobacco barns, then the play is appreciated much more for the turn ing point centers on the temperature at which tobacco while curing, must be "kept. .,V.:- (Continued on page four) White Phantoms Close Perfect Season Defeating Wake Forest; Will Leave For Atlanta Today GRADUATE CLUB MEETING The Graduate students are hereby reminded of the Graduate Club meeting which is to be held in the Episcopal Parish House Friday evening, February 24 at 7 :30. President Chase is to ad dress the. Club. Members of the graduate fac ulty of the University are invited to attend this meeting of the Graduate Club.! -. HEELETS DOWN DEACWFIOSH Tar Babies Cinch Second Place In State Championship Race. The Carolina Tar Babies cinched I second place in the state freshman j basketball championship race by handing the - Wake Forest Frosh a ' "44-28 setback here Monday night. Duke's Blue Imps again won the title though not as easily . as last year. The . Duke Frosh boast two victories over the ,Carolina . Frosh, two over Wake Forest, and one over State's Baby Terrors, against " one. defeat which the young Terrors handed them early in the season. The Tar Babies have two defeats chalked up against them, both at the hands of the Blue Imps. The . game Monday night between the two freshman teams was only a sample' of what was to come, for both games were the roughest seen on the Carolina Court this year. How ever, the Tar Babies fared better than the varsity," for none of its members were injured while two varsity men were taken from the contest on ac count of injuries '." : - ' -: - - The Young Phantoms clearly out played the Baby Deacons throughout the contest. In fact toward the end of the game Coach Belding began to run in substitutes. The scoring of Marpet, Brown, and Neiman account ed for the Tar Babies high score. These, three scored 28 points while the entire Wake Forest team was on ly able to equal that number. In this game as in previous games the Carolina Frosh showed its air tight defense and kept the Baby Dea cons covered throughout the contest. The Wake Forest team on the other hand experienced more trouble guard ing the Tar Babies. Brown and : Neiman with ten points each and Marpet with eight led the Carolina attack, while .Captain Quil len and Taylor were the big guns in the Deacon offense with seven points each. Playjnakers Receive National Recognition The work of the Carolina Playmak ers, of Frederick H. Koch, and of Paul Green, have recently come into national publicity through Arthur Hobson Quinn's "The History of the American Drama." The author de votes one whole chapter to this sub ject. He brings out the fact that although the Carolina Playmakers) deal with the material around them, with the people of North Carolina,! they could 1 be, and are, produced iu 1 other states and environments. 1 He mentions the plays of North Carolina life, by North Carolina peo ple, that have appeared on the New York stage from 1923 to the past season. One of these is Hatcher Hughes' "Hell-bent fer Heaven." Quinn also gives a short outline of the work and accomplishments of Pro fessor Frederick H. Koch, first at the "University of North Dakota, and then at the University of North Caro lina.' Of 'Paul Greeny the author says he is in fact a creative artist, and tells of his having won the Pulitzer prize for the past season. This work of Arthur Hobson Quinn is in two volumes, and is published by Harper Brothers.' The author is pro fessor of dramatic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and is one of America's most noted dramatic his torians. BASKETBALL PARTY The "young people of the Methodist Church are staging a unique social affair' on next. Friday. , The feature of the evening is to be a radio report from the N. C vs. La. State game in Atlanta. The function will begin at 8:00 p. m. Invite your friends to be present and .come yourself. Tar Heel Quint Shows Less Pep Than at Beginning of Season; Teamwork Poor When Com pared With Preceding Games. DOWN DEACONS 29 TO 17 Dodderer and Purser Both Injured; Out of Game Until Monday. The Tar Heels closed a perfect rec ord for the year in the state by de feating Wake Forest 29-17 Monday night in the Tin Can, but Carolina's hopes for another Southern title were lessened more than a little, both by the poor showing by the Heels, and the injuries which put Big Bill Dod derer and the lanky Carr Purser out of the came, and will nrobablv Tire- I vent their participation in the first serif the tournament play- me siump intu wmco me jrnaji- toms seem to have fallen towards the end of their regular season was con siderably more evident in" their last game. Their teamwork was poor, compared to that shown in preceding games. The margin of victory was several points less than in the first game with Wake Forest played in the city auditorium in Raleigh. The Heels also showed less ability in their last game with State, holding them' to the same score as in the first game with that institution. ' i The firt score Monday night was made by Scarboro, of Wake Forest. Morris evened up with another field goal, following a bit of the cooperation which has marked the work of the Carolina guard for the most of this season. Vanstory. fol lowed with another goal, giving his team the lead, which it kept through out the remainder of the game. The half ended 14-8. It was daring this period that Dodderer twisted his an kle and had to leave the game, being replaced by Red Price,, who played a fair game. . In the second half, Satterfield and Hackney both dropped goals to run up four points before the Deacons en larged their score any." Here Owens got a free shot, after being blocked by Hackney. Two goals by Hackney, after one by Price ran. up the lead even further. The .gun ended the game at 29-16, but 5 the Demons took advantage of a foul committed just as the game ended, and added a point to his team's showing after " the crowd had started leaving. It was during the final seconds of this period that Purser, scrambling with Dowtin for the, ball, landed on the floor with his ankle twisted, and had to be helped to the bench. Dodderer and Purser wilK both make the trip, according to the latest reports received, but will hardly get in the game before Monday. They were still in the infirmary yesterday, with every effort being made to re lieve the swelling and pain in their jeints. Of f the two, Dodderer shows promise of being able to get back Into action sooner. Carolina drew for her first opponent, Louisiana State Uni versity, which is a tough assignment, (Continued on page four) TOURNARIENT FOR WRESTLES HERE Southern Conference Picks Car olina for Mat .Tourney; Slated for March. The University will play the part of host to the Southern Conference a second time this year when the south ern mat stars gather here on March 2 and 3 for the annual wrestling tournament. ; Last fall the cross-country meet was held here and at the meeting of the conference last Decern-, ber the wrestling meet was awarded to the University. Coach Fetzer nrged all members of the Conference to make special ef forts to .have full representation of their institution here for the tourna ment. Full information concerning the meet has not been released, but will be done at an' early date. The Carolina director of athletics expressed the appreciation of the Uni versity in being awarded the tourna ment and stated that University of ficials would do all in their power to make the meet a success. However, he stated that the full cooperation of all conference teams is needed to in sure a successful meet.