VOLUME XXXVII
UNIVERSITY HAS
COLLECTION OF
RABE OLD BOOKS
Many First Editions of Pam
phlets Printed in North
Carolina-
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1923
NUMBER 22
Coach Collins
There is in the possession of the
University Library; a collection of
rare and, first edition books. First
editions are very valuable and the
Library officials are in no position
t& release accounts of these books but
there is another group known as , the
North Carolina Collection Which . is
very interesting. '
The most outstanding book of this
collection is the first book ' that was
printed in North Carolina. A Collec
tion of All the Public Acts of the As
sembly, of the . ! Province of North
Carolina was printed by James Davis
at New Bern, N. C. in 1751. The
first press in this State was the one
set up in New Bern by James Davis,
who was aided by the state legisla
ture and it passed an act encouraging
printing in! this state.. The act al
lowed Davis an annual salary and
gave a copyright to print all legis
lative journals and proceedings, the
laws,-proclamations and other acts of
government for the use of public of
ficials and members, of the Assembly.
Another outstanding book is A
Collection of .All the Acts of the As
sembly of the Province of North Caro
lina, which was also printed by James
Davis, official printer for the state,
in 1764. This book is the rarest col
lection of the early North Carolina
laws.
The University recently acquired
this book by purchasing it , from a
famous private collector. It is con
sidered the rarest of early revisals.
There are several other revisals in
this group; Davis, 1765; Davis, 1773;
Iredell, 1791; and. Martin, 1804. 7
The most interesting book of this
Continued on page four) K
Chapel Hill Rotary
Club Entertains
Affair Is -Gala Event; Featured by
Various Forms of Entertainment.'
Coach Chuck Collins, who will run
a much crippled team out on Kenan
Field , today to battle with the South
Carolina Gamecocks. Several of his
men have been taking light workouts
this week, and. it is probable that
they will see action.
THIEVES INVADE
TWO FRAT HOUSES
Unusual Robberies Cause Much
Speculation Among
Students. --, - -
At one of the most brilliant af
fairs of the season, the Chapel Hill
Rotary Club entertained Wednesday
evening from 7 till 12 at a banquet
and dance in the ball room of the
Carolina Inn in celebration of Ladies
Night. Dr. Eric Abernethy, president
of. the Club, presided at the affair,as
sisted by E. Carrington Smith, man
ager of the Carolilna Theatre and
chairman of the program committee.
Honor guests for the evening were
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woollen, Mr.
and Mrs. Wade : Marr of Raleigh and
Dr. and Mrs. Chase. Dr. Chase, pres
ident of the University, is also hon
orary president of the Rotary Club.
The entertainers for the affair in
cluded a number of students from the
University. Carl Griggs," a fresh
man here from Winston-Salem, per
haps created the greatest sensation.
He arrived, accompanied by' Donald
Wood, Junior here, impersonating
ic dancing at Vassar College. Profes
sors fell for .this girl with appeal, and
their wives , were right there to see
: that no Vassarite would alienate af
fections. Mr. Griggs", in an extremely
' feminine voice sang several numbers,
accompanied at the piano by Donald
Wood. Then, L at a request from the
Club did a solo dance with Dr. Aber
nethy. ;:
Jack Wardlaw and His Banjo Boys
appeared next and performed the
famous Eddie Peabody stunt, now re-
x leased over Vitaphone. Pat Brown,
real old-time vaudeville headliner,
was present and gave a burlesque
black face act. He was accompanied
on the piano by Bill Abernethy, also
a student in the University, now play
ing with Alex Mendelhall and His Tar
Heel Boys Orchestra.
After dinner speeches emphasizing
the value of Rotary International
were given by Messrs. Charlie Ketch
urn of , Greensboro, and Wade Marr
of Raleigh. Their talks, short and to
the point, were well delivered and
were features on the progranu
Music during" the banquet and for
the dance which followed immediate
ly after was rendered by the Caro
lina Theatre Orchestra, directed by
nf Greensboro. The pro
gram of dance and concert prepared
especially ;for the " occasion was
snappily played and much enjoyed by
those present. About . sixty-five
couples were present for the affair.
Second Grail Dance
of Year Tonight in
Bynum Gymnasium
The" second Grail dance of the
year will be held tonight at nine
o'clock in . Bynum Gymnasium.
The music will be furnished by
- the Carolina Buccaneers, who
plan to present an original selec
tion of pieces. The decoratiens
' will be quite different from those
of the other dance given by the
order this year, and the lights
will be regulated so that their ef
fect : will harmonize with the ,
music. . . ;.
AH who plan to attend as stags
are urged , to buy their tickets at
eight-thirty in the back of the
gymnasium, since there will be
only a limited number of people
admitted to the floor and no tick- ;
ets will be sold after the dance
begins. The usual rules in re
spect to conduct will be enforced,
and no freshmen or spectators
will be admitted. No girl who
leaves the floor while the dance
is in progress will be readmitted.
The dance will end at twelve
o'clock. ;
Coach Laval
Chapel Hill was recently invaded
by a thief or thieves who escaped with
quite a valuable amount of booty.
Several of. the fraternity' houses here
were invaded but none of the private
residences were entered. Evidently
the thieves possessed some motive for
choosing the Greekmen as victims.
. The Sigma Epsilon fraternity on
McAuley street sustained the heaviest
.losses. One overcoat, two tuxedos of
which one had never been .worn, one
pair oi shoes, and six shirts were
missing from this house after the
robbery. ,- . : -
. The Theta Kappa Psi fraternity
which is next door to the Sigma Ep- j
silon house also reports a loss - of -i
several articles of clothing. One top:
coat and a suit were taken from this
house. The Lamda Chi .Alpha fra
ternity reports the loss of three tuxe
do shirts. , " . v
The thieves not satisfied with this
invaded Steele dormitory and ran off
with a tuxedo, two suits of clothes,
and one sweater.
Robberies are very unusual ... for
Chapel Hill and this one has caused
quite a bit of commotion and specu
lation among the students and towns
people. ' ; ... ' . .-' : :,
Five Debates Are
Planned for the
Winter Quarter
Officials of the Debate Council'have
not scheduled any more debates for
this quarter. Probably as ; many as
five contests ;will take place, however,
during the Winter and Spring quart
ers. Three of these are expected
to be with Emory University, Univer
sity of Alabama, and the University
of Virginia. :.. '
Mr. George McKie, executive secre
tary of the Debate Council has map
ped out a program of lectures and dis
cussions which will take place before
the class begins working on the next
query. ; The first lecture will deal
with the scientific phase of organiz-
ine: facts, or methods of using the
mind. Officials of the class hope to
secure Dr. Bell of the Department of
Chemistry for this lecture.
. The second lecture will deal with
debating from the standpoint- of a
historian. The sneaker chosen for
this discussion will show how his
torians investigate a situation and
arrive at ' their conclusions. : :
The problem of delivering the , third
lecture will fall to some lawyer, who
has not ; been selected as yet. The
speaker will tell the class how the
legal mind behaves in the presence
of facts.
Annual High School
Debate Will Be Held
At the University
Secretary-E. R. Rankin of the Cent
ral committee of the North Carolina
High School Debating League has an
nounced that, the annual debasing
contest staged by some two hundred
high schools from practically every
county in the state will be climaxed
by finals at the University this spring
on Thursday and Friday April 18th
and 19th.
The subject that has been suggested
for. the. forensic contest this year is,
"Resolved: That the United States
Should Join the" World Court of Arbi
tration." Last year two hundred high school
students came to the " University to
contest - f or their schools"' in the e
bating. championship of the state.
They won the right to compete here
after eliminating six, hundred other
students;. The state championship
was-awarded to Washington Colle
giate of Washington, N. C. They
will compete again this spring in, an
endeavor to hold the Aycock Memorial
trophy which is given each year to
the twinning team. At the end of ten
years the cup will be given , perman
ently to the school that . has been
successful in winning it the greatest
number of . times. '
Faculty members will judge the
contests this, year as they have in the
past.. . .. v.
Sigma Delta announces the . pledg
ing,, of Sam Wiley, Greensboro, and
H. N. DeWick: New Haven, Conn.
"Billy" Laval, coach of the South
Carolina Gamecocks, has made; quite
a name for himself in Southern foot
ball by turning out several outstand
ing teams at Furman. " This year, Ms
first at the South Carojina University,
he has made good and has startled
the South with his team's victories
over Chicago, "Virginia, and Mary
land. 1 ,7. 'fh
S.Ei. DELEGATES
ARE INCREASING
Conference Will Convene Here
Thursday and Run through
Saturday. '
'Additions are being made daily, to
the list of delegates that will convene
here next week as the first assembly
of the Southern Educational Con
ference. Yesterday afternoon the
registration of President A. N. Ward,
chief executive V of Western Mary
land State Teachers College, West
minister Maryland, was received; by
the extension department of the Uni-
versity-. ... x.J..r:. -.i
Among the men registered this
week are the following: T. E. Brown,
School of Education at: N. C. State;
President and Mrs. J. M. Pound of
Georgia State . Teachers . College;
Dean Theodore Jack of Emory Uni
versity,' Georgia ; Dean Zebulon Judd,
Polytechnical Institute; Dr. and Mrs
A. D. Browne, of the Peabody Col
lege, Nashville, Tenn.; Dean James
P. Kinard, of , Winthrop College,
Rock Hill, S. C. ; President ' W.v B.
Edwards, Chowan College, Murfrees
boro; Dean Winslow S. Anderson, of
Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla,;
Dean Harris Webber, of the Geor
gia State College of Women; Dean
S. B. ,Scofield, Western Maryland
State Teachers College, Westminis
ter, Maryland, and Dean A. Ml Isan
ogle, of the same institution.
Playmakers Will
Present Program
On Tuesday Night
The second bill of the season's
program of performances will be
offered the Play maker subscribers
next Tuesday and Wednesday eve- "
nings, when the local theatrical
unit presents its , northern tour
bill. This production will be
staged for the subscribers only.
No. tickets will be sold at Sut
ton's Drug Store. Reservations
may be made there for the per
formances until seven o'clock each
night, after which the remaining
seats will be .available at the
theatre office to the season ticket
holders that have not then re
served their seats. v :
The three plays to be presented
the University audience" are two
of Pa,ul Green's best comedjes
and Loretta Carroll Bailey's
"Job's Kinfolks."
NORTH CAROLINA
CLUB WILL MEET
MONDAY NIGHT
Mrs.
H. P. Brinton Will Make
Talk on 'the Country
Newspaper.
OUT OF STATE
STUDENTS .ON
THE increase;
Jhirty States Represented; Sev
eral from Foreign
Soil.
At the meeting of the North Caro
lina Club on Monday, November 12,
Mrs. H. P. Brinton will present a pa
per on "The s Country Newspaper."
This is the third of a series of studies
dealing with country life and country
institutions in North Carolina.
At the last meeting of the. North
Carolina "Club the following officers
were elected: J. W. Williams, Presi
dent; . S. B. Hunter, "vice-president;
M. R. Alexander, Chairman of the
Publicity Committee: and W. E. Uz-
zell, Chairman of the ; ( Membership
Committee. . There was a splendid
attendance at the last meeting, and
all s"who -were present thoroughly en
joyed the address by Judge Winston.
It is hoped that there will be just as
large an attendance Monday , night to
listen to and discuss the paper to be
presented by Mrs. Brinton. :The meet
ing will be held at 7:30 in Saunders
Building, Room 112f. i , - i ';
HUD GINS RECEIVES
SULLIVAN AWARD
The Honor Was Given at the
University for the First
Time This Year. s
Herbert Hoover is National
Choice of College Students
Tabulation of Straw Vote in All
The Colleges: of the Nation
Shows That the Republican
Candidate Carried Thirty
MAJORITY IS 3 TO 1
Smith Carries Two More States
than He Did In the Na
tional Election.
Sigma Zeta Fraternity announces
the pledging of James L. Coley of
Wilmington and teo Brown Skeen of J
Biscoe, sophomores, and Elmer-Wallace
Owens of Leaks ville, freshman.
Herbert Hoover received a two to
one vote over Smith in the-straw bal
lot conducted in 1,104 American col
leges by student publications and
other organizations before the national-election
on the sixth. Hoover
carried thirty eight states and the
District of Columbia while Smith
carried only ten states in the colleges,
two more than he actually carried in
the election.'
There were 544,585 students in col
leges at the beginning of September;
of these 195,462 were men and 348,123
were girls. Politicians see in this
army of young voters the hope of
America. Most of them have never
voted before. , .- . .
In the East Hoover carried Maine,
New .Hampshire, Vermont, Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticutt,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyla
vaniaand Delaware. He received the
largest vote in Connecticut, nine to
one! Smith made his best showing in
New York where the -vote ' was four
to five for Hoover. The total vote
of the, eastern states gave Hoover a
three to one majority. V
(Continued on page four)
ATTENTION FRESHMAN
; All Cheerios will form at
Memorial Hall at 1:45 o'clock
this afternoon and will attend
the game in a body. Everybody
be present and let's get in shape
for the Virginia trip.
BILL CHANDLER.
Engineering School ;
Is Awarded National
Honorary Fraternity
Announcement of the awarding of
a chapter of Tau Beta Pi, national
honorary . engineering fraternity, to
the engineering department of the
University, was made Wednesday.
The petition of the local department
was successfully . passed upon at the
national convention held recently in
St Louis. . A.;,vr..V'.v.";.: . ' .C .
Tau Beta Pi fratrnity is comparable
in the engineering world ti Phi Beta
Kaooa in the scholastic world. Mem
bership in the fraternity rests upon
the high scholarship and personal' of
the individual. ,
The engineering fraternity - was
founded. in 1885 at Lehigh University
It boasts of sixty Chapters located at
the principal engineering -schools in
the United States. Approximately
14,000 prasticing engineers are alumni
members of the fraternity..
The awarding of the charter to the
local school was made, it was announc
ed, : in recognition of the high stand
ards maintained in the engineering
department. ;
TV J. Wilson, Jr., registrar of the
University, announced yesterday af
ternoon that despite a marked de
crease in the total enrollment in the
kj xxx v .x ci c jr iao u jr ax txx xxuxxxxvizx aiiu -
also the percentage of students en
rolled in the University from outside-'
the state has shown . the biggest; in
crease of any advance made within the
past few years. The total enrollment
of students from states other than:
North Carolina is 444 as opposed to
318 last year. Leading the list again ,
this year as it has for several sea
sons is the state of South Carolina
which has eighty-nine students re
gistered here. A close second is New
York state which sends eighty-four
men, mostly, from New York City.
Virginia, the state that has sent the
greatest number of students oyer the
whole period of the University's hist
ory runs a poor third with 31 .men
in the tabulations of this year.
The , tendency of the past four or
five years has been a steady increase
of enrollment of ', students from the
northern and eastern states, parti
cularly New York, Pennsylvania, and
New Jersey. Of interest is the gra
dual inclusion also' of most of . the
far western states on the lists of the
registering students.
That the University of North Caro
lina has a genuine drawing power is
exhibited by the fact that men have ,
wme this year from as distant points
as Russia, Italy, -the Phillipines, and
Cuba, the last country having two
representatives hereV Within the
United States students have register
ed from New Mexico, South Dakota",
Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and .
Oklahoma. ........ .-.
' Other states' have, representatives
here as follows: New Jersey, 25;
Georgia, 29 ; Pennslyvania,18 ; Ten
nessee, 17; Florida, 19; Texas, 13;
Connecticut, 13 ; Alabama, 12 ; Mas
sachusetts, 10 ; Kentucky, 9 ; District
of Columbia, ' 9 ; Maryland. 8 ; West
tl o . Til.' . . o . ' ' - -
v irginia, . o ; unnois, a , Kjmo, n;
Mississippi, 5; Louisiana, 4; Wiscon
sin, 2 ; Indiana, 2 ; New Hampshire,
2; MaineJ 1; Missouri, 1; and Michi
gan, 1. ' ; -
ROYSTER IS U. N. C.
DELEGATE TO A.A.U.
Ed Hudgins President of the. stu
dent body, has recently been awarded
the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award
of the New York Southern Society
by a committee composed of R. B.
House, executive secretary of the Uni
versity, "Dean Hibbard, and Dean
Bradshaw; chairman, '
The award consists of a bronze pla
que, a suitable engraved, certificate,
and a volume on the life of Algernon
Sidney Sullivan, first President of the
Society. It may be bestowed annually
upon one man and one woman of the
graduating class. Those - who re
ceive it shall have demonstrated their
worthiness to typify a spirit of broth
erly love. ' .
The object of the New York South
ern Society establishing" this award is
ti perpetuate the influence-of life
that exemplifies the t highest type of
manhood and to encourage in others
these characteristics. ' - " " " "'
The ajward is based not upon scolar-
ship, athletics, or other collegiate at
tainments, but upon that quality which
is best described as a desire to be of
service, to help men in combating
the problems of daily life.
According to Dean Bradshaw the
Award Bulletin will be found in the
University t library, and he suggests
that students familiarize themselves
with the requirements for eligibility
in receiving such recognition. -
The University is one of the fifteen
American institutions in : which the
Sullivan Award has been established.
The award was made for the first
time this year. ".; ; f
POLITICS FOR FLAPPERS
Members of the British Parlia
ment are puzzled as to how flappers
in their territories may be taught
the first rudiments v of . politics, so
that the young voters will 'know
what to do on election day. One
cynic has suggested ; that the central
offices should start by holding beauty
contests. .
To Investigate Claims of Universities
As to Eligibility in Organization.
y Dean J. F. Rbyster of the graduate
school will serve as the University
of North Carolina delegate to the an
nual meeting of the American As
sociation of Universities to be held
November 15, 16, and 17, at the Hotel
Chase in St. Louis, Mo.
The Dean was delegated by the As
sociation to tour some of the southern
colleges and" universities two weeks
ago for the purpose of investigating
the claims of certain southern uni
versities to eligibility in the Ameri
can Association of Universities.
Membership in the organization is
held by but twenty-six universities in
the United States and two in Canada,
and is purely invitational in recogni
tion of superior scholarship. North
Carolina and Virginia are the only
two southern universities in the group.
Royster will report, to the. assembled
delegates at the convention, his re
commendations as to whetLer any of
the other, southern colleges should be
voted into membership by ttje associa
tion at the St. Louis convention this
fail. . "v;". -v '
Engineering Frat
Adds New Members
: W. B. White, of Townsville, W.,C.
Burnett of Tryon, and W. B. Sharp
of Greensboro, University engineering
students, have been tapped for mem
bership in Phi Zeta Nui honorary en
gineering fraternity.:-,.; -
The fraternity was founded at the
University in 1919. It has five mem
bers in the faculty," Profs. Parker H.
Daggett, E. G. Hoefer, J. E. Lear,
George . W. Smith, and Thomas B.
Smney, ana seven active student
members, ,W. N, Michael, . . Canton;
Joseph W. Holt, Greensboro ; W. B.
Massenburg-, Warrenton ; F. R. Toms,
Norfolk, Va.; E. D. Rykendall, Chap
el Hill; G. M. Rose, Charlotte; and
T. E. Griffin, Monroe.