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ri LECTURES FEE VOTE j TODAY ' "'. POLLS OPEN 10:30 O'CLOCK EXAMINATIONS BEGIN MONDAY ONLY THREE MORE DAYS! VOLUME XXXVI CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, MAY 31, 192S NUMBER 92 w fi 7 . ' - -( v u 'fir -p Max Pendergraft Fatally Injured Last Night When Struck by Student's Gar Many Rumors Extant as to. Oc cupants of Car; Little Definite Learned Before Tar Heel Went To Press. T. C. BOWIE IS JAILED Rumored Three Occupants of Car But Other Two Could Not Be Located Last Night. Max Pendergraft, 13 year old son of Mrs. C. S. Pendergraft, of Pitts boro Road, was fatally injured short ly after six o'clock last night when he was knocked from his bicycle in front of the home of Dr. W. F. Prouty, on Pittsboro Road, by a Buick roadster owned by Tom C. Bowie, of West Jefferson, a sophomore in the Univer ' sity. , : . " According to the best information obtainable last night, the car struck the boy and did not stop. Bowie, one of the occupants of the car, was ar rested later in the evening and was being held in the Chapel Hill jail without bail at a late hour last night. Steve Furches, football star, was re ported to be an occupant of the car, along with another, man whose identi ty could not be learned. Furches dis appeared immediately after the acci dent, according to available informa tion. There, was some conflict in the stories current last night as to who was driving the car. It was said that Furches was driving, but Chief of Police Featherstone, of the Chapel Hill police department, could not be reached, before the Tar Heel went to press and no reliable statement was obtained. Young Pendergraf t was in the fifth grade in the Chapel Hill grammar school. -His father died about two and a half years ago, and his older broth er, ftoueii, was iimtu m a.u itutuinu bile accident about three months later. Feeling ran high on the streets last night concerning the accident. Crowds gathered about the jail on Columbia street, and considerable excitement , was manifested. It was said that the students in the car were under the in fluence of whiskey, but this could not be ascertained.' Bowie is the son of Tarn C. Bowie, prominent political figure in the state. Furches is from Statesville. EDITOR OF BUCCANEER PLANS SEVERAL CHANGES Next Year's University Comic Will Undergo Alterations if Perry's Plans Materialize. "Every editor - e- lect has many Ut- o p i a n plans, the major i t y r -i ! ox wmcnj never ma-1 terialized, and I am no excep t i o n," said Bill Perry, n e x t year's editor ' of the Buc c a n e e r. Andy Anderson, retir ing editor of the Buc caneer, whose shoes Bill Perry will attempt to fill next year. when asked by a reporter of his plans for next year. "There will be a number of changes in the Buccaneer next year of which I am sure," the editor continued. "More space will be given to skits, poems, and humorous prose work of short length. There will be a number of short jokes which will embody every type of humor. I would like to say here that my program of work was lined up before the recent Bucca neer controversy was started and it has in no way influenced my policy in either direction. Because I am mak ing a slight change of policy in another direction does not mean that I am not sympathetic with the pres ent editor's Buccaneer. I think it has been the most successful comic since I have been in college and I feel sure Andy Anderson has been a most ca pable and conscientous editor.. Continued on page six) ALUMNI DAY SPEAKER 4' ' ' 1 i&M"' t ' 2 A. B. Andrews (above) of Raleigh President of the General Alumni As sociation of the University, who will preside over the Alumni Luncheon Saturday, June 9. - The luncheon will be one of the features of the Alumni Day exercises, which is always one of the outstanding events on the an nual Commencement Exercise pro grams. EXTENSIVE PLANS MADE FOR BLUE RIDGEASSEMBLY This Summer's Conference Ex pected to Be Most Successful In History. Extensive plans are being laid to tiike this' 1 sumnierV conf ei enee rr al' Blue Ridge the most successful ever held, according to officials of the lo cal committee on arrangements. The conference will begin June 15 and last through June 25. Any student of the University is eligible to go, and the cost of the ten day stay is $32.00. All persons desiring to go are urged by officials to get in touch with the Y. M, C. A. office or any "Y" cabinet member. One of the features of the confer ence this year will be the vocational counselling division under the direc tion of President H. W. Chase, of the University of North Carolina, and Mr. Owen Pence, of the New York City Y. M. C. A. selected library on voca tional interests will also be available to delegates. : Interest groups will be held daily on such subjects as: "Men and Women Relationships," "The Church," "South ern Industry,":,; "Race Relations," "In ternational Relations," "Politics," "Science and Religion," ; "Campus Problems," "Vocational Guidance." These topics will be discussed by the conference leaders. Record Class of 346 Will Receive Diplomas In Annual 1 Commencement Exercises -o- .The 134th commencement of the University will get under way next Friday, June 8, and will continue through the following Monday. . A record class of 346 will be awarded diplomas. Class day exercises will be held on Friday. The seniors will form at the old well at 9:45 o'clock in the morn ing and march with the marshals to Davie Poplar, where the class day exercises will be held. At' three-thirty in the afternoon the Mangum Medal Contest is scheduled for Gerrard Hall, and a reception for the seniors and their guests will be given at Presi dent Chase's home from 5:30 until 6 o'clock. The senior . banquet is booked for Swain Hall at 7 o'clock, at which time the permanent officers of the class will be elected. Governor Angus W. McLean will be the principal speaker at the banquet. Alumni Day is - set for Saturday. At 10:30 o'clock in the morning a "Reminiscence Symposium" will bp held, and will be presided over by Judge Francis D. Winston, of Wind sor. The annual alumni luncheon comes at one o'clock. The toastmaster is to be A. B. Andrews, of Raleigh, BIG AND BETTER YEAR BOOK WILL COM OUT FRIDAY No writeups for Seniors; Thirty Eight Pages Devoted to Ath letics; Statistics of Juniors Are Listed. ZIEGFELD PICKS BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Individual Pictures of Frater nity Houses Appear for First Time. The Yackety Yack is scheduled to be de-T- livered to the stu-' dents Friday after-J noon, Saturday and o ' j' XT ;ii k puuuay. iiune wiu be delivered after Sunday. All students wish ing the year books will form a line on! the .South side ofj Alumni building and , file by the Yackety Yack window. The names of the students receiving an nuals will be checked off as the books are given out. -Each man can receive only his, copy. . The book this year is reported to be one of the best and most complete in recent : years. The color scheme used is blue, black and gray with in sert pages of antique laid paper. The cover is silver and blue. This" dolor scheme, withthe cover and novel in sert pages, makes the book as attrac tive as one could wish.' Eleven full page cuts of the most beautiful girls who have visited the Hill in the past year compose the Vanity Fair section. These photos were judged by Florenz Ziegfeld out of one hundred and forty entries. The names of the girls whose pictures ap pear in this section are being , held secret by the' editor and' no" one will be able to discover the secret until the Yackety Yacks are given out. Four teen pictures of girls are in the spon sor section for fourteen campus offi cers and athletic captains. For the first time activities of the Juniors are listed under their pictures. No writeups will be given seniors but a list of their' activities will appear. Thirty-eight pages are given over to athletics and the individual mem bers of varsities and each outstand ing athlete are published. The coaches and managers appear with their teams. Action pictures of all sport events are spread -throughout the section, thus making a larger sport section than before by eighteen pages. ' j : A sixteen page rotogravure section is nother feature of th6 book. Snap shots of all kinds will' appear depict ing the story of the school year. Pic tures of the Cheerios, initiations, and dozens of other phases of campus life will appear in the rotogravure section. The feature section this year di viates from that of last year and deals almost wholly with burlesques of campus types. president of the General Alumni As sociation. The 1903 baseball team will play a team from the faculty on Em erson ' Field in the afternoon. This promises to be quite an interesting en counter between some of Carolina's outstanding stars of former days and our faculty lovers of the national pastime. . The annual reception of President Chase to the alumni will be given in Swain Hall at S:30 o'clock, to be fol lowed by the Alumni Ball. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered Sunday morning at eleven o'clock by Bishop William A. Gerry, of Charleston, South Carolina. Bishop Gerry is bishop of the South Carolina Diocese of the Episcopal Church. The University Glee Club will give a concert at four o'clock Sunday af ternoon, and at 7 :30 o'clock Parson W. D. Moss, of the local Presbyterian Church will conduct the annual vesper services under Davie Poplar. Diplomas and degrees will be a warded in Memorial Hall on Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Arthur Wilson Page, editor, publisher, and vice-president of the American Tele , (Continued on page six) DEGREE MLL BE GIVENJN MUSIC New Courses Will Go Into Effect Next Fall First In South. An entirely new course leading to the degree A. B. in Music, was ap proved by the administrative board of the University in a meeting .Tuesday evening. . , The new courses will go into effect next fall, and preparations for giving the required work will begin at once, according to a recent statement by the head of the University music de partment. This step marks a new progressive ness in the University and meets a demand which has long been felt by the music department according to officials. This is the first men's school in the South to adopt such courses, which are being given in most of the reputable institutions for women. Each year the University has been forced to turn down appli cations for work of this nature, and has referred numbers of students to northern schools; quite a number have left Carolina to get such work also, it is stated in the recent report. "The result will be, I feel quite con fident, that a number of students will be attracted here who would not at tend otherwise," said Professor P. J. Weaver, head of the department. In regards to the course itself, it is planned in the freshman and soph omore years to have the student pur sue courses in history, English and language, puring the junior year, the candidate for the degree will take re quired psychology courses, a' major in music and a minor in some other field of his choice. Plans have also been approved for giving credit for appled work in voice, piano, pipe or gan, or violin, in connection with the music major requirements. CO-ED OFFICIALS TO BE ELECTED TODAY Lib Davis, retiring president of the Woman's Association, an nounced last night that elections for next year's woman's govern ment officials will be held this afternoon at 4:30 in Spencer HalK She urged 'that all co-eds attend The student government of the co-eds is carried on under the same plan as that under which the regular University student body government functions. Extra-curricular Work Is Rewarded in Usual Program For Annual Awards Night ELLIOT WINS MEDAL Track Athlete Is Awarded Pat terson Trophy In Ann.'JA- wards JNignt Jxerc - "iness Featured by the awardiw- the V Patterson Memorial Medal cel- lence in athletics to Gelen 53' of t-TT 1 1 O, tract and cross-country' teamsA wflsninoT.nn. srar mpmnpr t the presentation of the Grail Cup for the outstanding Intramural Athlete to Wallace Kelly, of Dover, and the Grail cup for the freshman athlete most outstanding in scholarship, to Burgess Whitehead, of Woodville, the annual Awrds Night exercises in Me morial Hall Tuesday night were at tended by an unusually small crowd. Awards Night is an annual event that was introduced three years ago and has since come to be regarded as one of the most important days on the University calendar. - Ed .Hudgins, president of the stu dent body presided over the meeting. Before the athletic awards were made Coach R. A. Fetzer, director of ath letics, stressed the view that "the ath letic field is truly a laboratory of character." . Coach Bob Speaks Reviewing the record of , athletic achievement for the past year, Coach Fetzer pointed out in detail many of the mental, moral, and physical bene fits to be derived from physical de velopment. "Education which neglects the phy sical man and disregards those manly traits ; of character instilled on the athletic field Cannot be complete," he told the students. . . . . ' Coach Fetzer' said that there had been larger squads in all sports than ever before in the history of the Uni (Continued on page four) Students Go to Polls Today to Decide Fate Of Entertainments Fee SHERWOOD ANDERSON Sherwood Anderson, (above) one of the greatest of contemporary au thors, who will probably speak here if the proposed Lectures Fee is pass ed in the balloting today. A number of such men as Anderson will speak here every year if the Fee is passed, in addition to the best of dramatic and musical presentations. Y.-M. C. A. Quartette Features University Program over Radio The University : radio program, broadcast from station WPTF, Ra leigh, Monday night, was featured by the singing of the Y.M.C.A. Quartette. Among the first group of campus songs were included: Carolina Boys, Medley (Kitchen Mechanic), Honey, Medley (Blue Ridge 'Mountains? TTiC second group of popular music con tained: Gypsy Love Song, Girl of My Greams, Among My Souvenirs; and Crossing the Bar. Members of this quartette are Graham Poyner, first tenor, Elbert Holmes, second tenor, William Downs, first bass, and Thomas Cornwell, sec ond bass. Leroy Smith is the pianist. At the close of the musical pro gram, Francis F. Bradshaw, Dean of Students, spoke on the subject, "Edu cation and Vocation." Pete Wilson Chosen New President of Wigue and Masque Pete Wilson, Chapel Hill; Jimmy Turner, Charlotte, and Leon English, Brevard, were respectively elected president, vice-president and secretary of. the Wigue and Masque at its meet- Tuesday ni?ht in Person Hall This meeting was the last of the term and was held in accordance with the custom of the organization to hold a meeting after each large production for the elections of new members. The new members elected for notable work in "Whoops M'Dear" will not be announced, but will announce them selves to the. campus by their queer antics and appearance. The initiation of the new men who were elected to membership Tuesday night will be completed Saturday night. - . i Finals Dances Are J Only Social Events? Left f This Year The annual set of final dances spon sored by the German Club is the only thing in the social line left to look forward to during the remainder of this quarter. ; As far as is known, no more dances or entertainments of any kind are planned for this year, but officers of the German Club state that the dances on June 11, 12, 13, should be the best in many years. Weidemeyer's Orches tra of Huntington, W. Va., has been engaged for the several dances. The decorations will be done by Doyle of Durham. Several house-parties have been planned, and it is reported that an unusually large number of girls will be "present. s ? i -:v.-.v.-"v.-,-. - ?y DO STUDENTS WANT TO HEAR REAL LECTURES? Many Prominent Artists Placed On Tentative Programs for Presentations Here. POLLS OPEN FROM 10:30 A. M TO 4:00 P. M. AT "Y" Between ten-thirty this morning and four o'clock this afternoon votes will be cast on the referendum as to whether students are willing to pay a fee of one dollar each quarter to secure better lectures, fine music, and drama. The campus comment on this sub ject seems to indicate that it is high ly favored by all and especially the students in the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Education. It is these schools that will pay the fee under the plan. Other students will buy season tickets if they wish to at tend, while arts students will receive their tickets on pfeyment of their quarterly fees. It is estimated that $5,000.00 will be secured to furnish such entertainment to the University and Chapel Hill, while this year only $500 was avail able for this entertainment. Approx imately $3,300 will be . secured from the dollar fees, $1,000 from the Uni versity, and from $400 to $800 from sale of season tickets, it has been es timated. Many outstanding artists have been placed on tentative programs. Lec- turers that can be secured on the part of the sum that can be used for that part of the program are Sher wood Anderson, author of many of the best modern novels; Count Felix Von Luckner, German U-Boat Com mander who raided allied shipping during the World War; Donald Ugden Stewart, well-known humorist and popular writer; Clarence Chamberlain, trans-atlantic flier; and Carl Sand burg, prominent American poet. Musical programs which can be se cured to make out that part of such a program are Paul Whiteman and his orchestra; Dice Howell, prominent concert singer; Rosa Ponselle, also a well-known singer in this country and abroad; and Mischa Elman, renown ed .violinist. The New York Theatre Gulid, which presented a program at N. C. (Continued on page six) REVIEWER LIKES PLAYS GIVEN BY ENGIMCLASSES "Cocaine," Bowery Bed-Room Play, Capably Handled By Harrison and Wrav. By Herbert Browne The annual studio production of the course in play-production was pre sented on Monday and Tuesday night3 at the Playmakers Theatre. The se lecting, casting, directing, and mount ing of these one act plays tras entire ly the work of the students in Eng lish 34, 35, and 36. The performance was not connected with the nlav- - x J makers. On Monday night, before an au dience of faculty members and in quisitive, skeptical, , students, three plays were produced. Of the three, "Cocaine,'' by Pendleton King, and "Brothers in Arms," by Merrill Den nison, took high honors as judged from the standpoint of audience opin ion. "Cocaine," the Bowery bed-room play, -was very , capably handled by Mary Margaret Wray and T. P. Har rison. Both characters, because of phy sical conditions unable to ply their trade; addicts to dope; disgusted with the world in general; bored, bored with the feeling of lonesomeness derived from an unfeeling world, decide to end life by means of gas. The gas jet is turned on darkness they wait -wait the audience, imagina tion aroused, smells gas not is a state of mind well -the gas has not been on, the audience breathes the actors had not even a quarter with which to buy death. Yes, the play was effective and well done. Director: T. P. Harrison; Actors: Mary Margaret Wray and T. P. Harrison. "Brothers in Arms," by Merrill (Continued on page six)