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She - Library, v-w - VARSITY BASKETBALL TONIGHT TIN CAN 8:30 P. M. A U I I ! U"' Ml i , i I f t it SI r FRESHMAN BASKETBALL THIS, AFTERNOON TIN CAN 4 P. M. VOLUBIE XXXVII CHAPEL HILL, Jf. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929 NUMBER 39 66( orty Jtsr ancn JtLlecte To -"Head;;Frsh!iiian''Clas Uzzell Gets Vice-Presidency ; Seventy-four" Percent of the Freshman Class Voted; Up perclass Takes Large -Vote as Good Sign of Much Interest In Elections during Spring Quarter. ' ; "Shorty" Branch, Freshman foot ball idol and popular young man from Charlotte, was elected ' president of the class of '32 Tuesday at the first balloting that the Freshmen have en gaged in. Branch received a substan tial majority for the office of leader of his class, his total being 257 votes. Clarence Phoenix, Greensboro track star, polled 114 votes and Worth Mc Allister, football star from Winston- .Saiem, (6 votes. , In the case of the vice-presidential candidates no majority was received by any one man, although an unprece dented situation was brought about by the fact that William Uzzell, of Louisburg received as many votes as Harry Finch and Tom Badger, 1 the other two candidates, together. Need ing only one more vote to receive a legitimate majority, Uzzell, was de clared the winner after the withdraw al of Finch. "Sonny" Graham, of Chapel Hill, tennislman and son of the late Ed ward Kidder Graham, . president of the University, was elected secretary of the class over Jack Farris of Charlotte, the other candidate, by the narrow margin of three votes. Neither C. Craig Wall, of Lisles ville or Steven Marsh of Marshville received the required number of votes to give them the office of treasurer, and so j an especial run-off election will be held from 10:30 to 4 o'clock at the regular polls m front oi tne Y. M. C. A. building. The other can didate for; the office of treasurer, Horace Penningtop. of Greensboro, will not run again. ; , The election was remarkable on ac count of the fact that 444 out of a total of 600 Freshmen in school this (Continued on page four) NEWSPAPERMEN TO HEAR CONNOR Will Appear before Institute On Friday Morning, January 25. "If I have ever been able consistent ly to meet any large part of the obligations of my craft," said Oscar Coffin, head and foot of the journal ism department of the University, who is lending such xf his auspices as are " essential to the holding of the fifth annual Newspaper Institute here, next week, "it has been due to my critics. Many of these have been generous, some honest and intelligent and others simply nasty; but all. have been help ful. - ' ; "So in using what, personal in fluence I may have to get H. G. Con nor, Jr., of Wilson to come over and address the Institute on v (the North Carolina press in its public relations I was more anxious to see how my wn sins of omission and commission appeared to an understanding and courageous fellow citizen than to call somebody in for the purpose of mak ing his meaningless manners to -the Fourth Estate in these parts. "I've watched Tobe Connor work at the practice of law and as a mem ber of the Legislature. . He always comes in, when he is ready, under his own power. As a trial lawyer and as a man who has placed as much in telligent application on the job of lawmaking as any I ever met, he has had a splendid opportunity to view the use and abuse of news stories and editorials in connection with the ad ministration of justice and in the passage or defeat of good, bad and in different legislation. "If he tells us newspaper folk that 4 we've done our share of the job, we can believe that he believes it. If he point3 out wherein we have fallen short, we can feel confident that there is ground for his conclusions. He is singularly free from, personal bias or mental or moral astigmatism, and never, so far as, I have ever heard even a mutual friend report, has been "misquoted" or "mistreated" by. a re porter or editor." Mr. Connor appears before the Institute on Friday morning, January 25. Rushing Rules To Hold Good During Winter Greek War With the beginning of the new quarter the cut-throat war of the Greeks will begin over again, only on a much smaller scale. CJarl Ven ters, president of the Inter-fraternity council announces that the same set of rushing rules will apply this quar ter as applied last fall. All students entering the University for the first time -whether they are freshmen or are transferred from other institu tions come under these rules. Rushing- started o the first day of classes, that was Friday, January 11, and will continue for twenty-six days,- until midnight of February 5, when the period of silence will start and last until the twenty-eighth day, February . 7 at six o'clock. - President Venters asks that all fra ternities abide by the rules laid down by the council. He wishes to call at tention especially to the fact that freshmen may be taken to shows only on Friday night. Y Deputation Team Completes Plans for Winter Quarter Tour 1 - According to announcements just given out, the Y.M.C.A.- Deputation Club has completed arrangements for the first trip during the winter quar ter. The Club will leave for Wil mington January 31, and will stay un til February 3. This trip is conducted under the auspices of the Hi-Y club and the Y.M.C A. Included in the group will be a quartet composed of John Miller, bass; W. F. Humphries, -baritone ; T. E. Marshall, 2nd tenor, and J. G. Con nolly,, 1st tenor. There will be three speakers for the occasion, ' Aubrey Perkins, Mac Gray, and one other who has not been chosen yet. Dr. McNider Delivers Talk to Harvey Society Dr. W. B. McNider, of . the school of Medicine, delivered , one of the an nual Harvey Lectures before the Har vey Society of the New York Acade my of ' Science Tuesday night. . The subject of Dr. McNider's ad dress was "Urine Formation During the Acute and Chroic Nephritis In duced by Uranium Nitrate and a Consideration of the Functional Val ue of the Protinal Tubule." Dr. Mc Nider is well known throughout 'the medical world for his work in the study of " the kidneys, their protec tion against injury and Bright's dis ease. " . ; Dr. McNider is the sixth prominent man to deliver a Harvey lecture this year. The five preceding him" were : Prof. C M? Child, Professor of ' Bio logy f University of Chicago; Dr. Wade H. Brown, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re search; Dr. C.. La vaditi, professor of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Pa ris; Dr. Walter Straub, professor of Pharmacology, Pharmacological In stitute, University of Munich, Ber lin; and Dr. -d'Herelle, Director Council of Sanitation, Alexandria, Egypt. Jones Will Read To Bull's Head Gatherings Howard Mumford-Jones, professor in English, will assume the role of reader to the informal audiences that have been gathering in the Bull's Head each Thursday afternoon from four-thirty to five-thirty o'clock' since the beginning of the fall quarter to listen to selective readings. Jones has chosen Mark Twain's "Captain Stoundf ield's Visit to Heaven" as his first reading. During the hour that he reads, smoking will be permitted. " Russell Potter,an'other English pro fessor, read to the Bull's Head group and their friends during the past quarter. . . ' . - Spanish Club To Meet The Spanish Club will meet tonight at 8:30 at the Episcopal Parish House. The evening's program will include a talk by Armando Mendez on his recent trip to Cuba. Visitors are al ways welcomed. CO-EDS TO GIVE WINTER DANCE v FRIDAY NIGHT Affair Will Be Formal and Ad mittance Will Be jOnly By Invitation. The Woman's Association of the University will give a dance at Spencer Hall Friday night, January the 18th., from ten to one o'clock. The dance will be formal and admittance will be only upon the presentation of invitations at the door. Myla Roy all, president of the association, an nounces that each, woman student is permitted to invite to the dance one friend and in addition there will be present a few stags. v The. , co-eds give a dance every quarter and the dance Friday night is the official dance of the Winter quarter. - Plans are being made to make Friday night as enjoyable as past affairs have been and the hos tesses urge those invited to attend the dance on time so that it will "get go- ing" ai soon as possible after the lecture given by Count Von Luckner. Jack Wardlaw and His Orchestra will furnish the music. Urges New and Old ' Members to Take a. New Interest in Phi AGER PREDICTS MORE ATTRACTIVE HOMES FOR FARM Social Economics Professor Finds That State Is Back ward in Agriculture. Wyeth Ray, Speaker of the Phi Assembly, made his inaugural speech at the regular meeting -held Tuesday evening, January 15. He gave ,a brief history of the Assembly during the last four years, describing the struggles that the (Phi has had dur ing that period, and stressing the importance of voting in any organ ization. " Speaker Ray , said: "As one gene ration profits from - the mistakes of previous generations, I hope to build on the virtues of previous speakers, and eliminate" any errors which they may have made with the hope that my successors , may do the same. On this principle we can ever build for stronger institutions." Owing to the vast importance of public speaking in the public life of today, he urged both new and old members to take an active part in the Phi, and make it one of ;their chief activities. In concluding, he urged the mem bers to rededicate themselves to the Phi, "which he described as an organ ization with a glorious past, useful present, and an unlimited future. The election of the Speaker for the Spring quarter . was held and June Crumplerwas elected in a close con tests - T : Speaker Ray appointed a publicity committee composing Linwood Har rell, chairman, Jim Harris and June Crumpler. Artillery Class to Meet Tonight There will be a meeting of the Ar tillery Class in the annex of Davie Hall tonight at 7:30. The meeting will be conducted by Captain Hunter. All army reserves, and C. M. T. C. men are urged tp be present and everyone else is invited. There will always be room in agri culture for the Master Farmer, des pite all predictions of a capitalist-wage-earner regime of large " scale, specialized production in agriculture, according to Dr.; Paul W. Wager, of the University Department of Social Economics., Dr. Wager made an intimat survey of "North Carolina Farm Homes" in a lecture before the fortnightly meet ing of the North Carolina Clubihere last night. He found North Carolina farm homes to be far below the standard for the whole cation and North Caro lina agriculture to be generally back ward. Still, he said, conditions are improving and there is ample reason to hope that the individual tenant will remain and farm homes will continue to be the pillar of strength of the nation. " . ; ' " "Some of the economies of large scale production and marketing can be accomplished through cooperation as well as through a corporation, thus preserving the independent proprie tor," he declared. a "There will always be room in the agricultural industry for the Master Farmer,- the man of unusual managerial- ability. On the other hand there will always be poor farmers, for a family satisfied to live 1 on a sub sistence level can do so with less exer tion on a farm than anywhere else. ; . "Everything considered," he predict ed, "we may expect more attractive farm homes in the' future than there has been in the past, at least in North Carolina. ' " "The automobile, the telephone, electric current, and the radio make it , possible to introduce comfort and convenience into a rural home. The schools health conditions are better; libraries, movies, and recreational centers are in reach. , "Part of the present agricultural depression is not that the farmers have less money than formerly but that they are ; demanding a higher standard of living and haven't money enough to provide it." I am glad they are demanding it." Dr. ?Wager specif ically( quoted figures to show that North Carolina is backward in' its farm homes and generally backward in agriculture; "Value of buildings is $811 per farm in North Carolina, -$1781 in the United States as a whole- Value of implements and machinery averages $202 Ah North Carolina, $557 in the wliole country. Value of all farm property averages $4,634 in North Carolina, $12,804 in the United States. Farm wealth produced per farm worker is $984 in, North Caro lina compared with over $2,000 in 24 states. Forty states make a better showing in this respect." E. R. Froneberger, President of the Gaston County Club, . announces that there will be a meeting of that or ganization Friday at 10 p'. m. in one of the social rooms of the Y.M.C.A. Mayor Council Increases skates To Durham for Collegiate Bums Three dollars is a mighty lot to get to Durham, and then not to get there either. Or at least three dollars is a .whole lot of money to pay for the privilege of standing in the street a few minutes. ' Fifteen boys learned the sad truth that no one ds sup posed to stand in the streets while "bdmming" rides out of the vil lage. , And now that they have paid for the knowledge they are telling their friends to beware. All the trouble originated when the citizens of the village com-, plained, to MayorjZeb Council that they did, not like to be bothered by students cluttering up the streets and hailing every car that passed. The city council passed an ordinance stating that all peo ple soliciting rides out of Chapel Hill must stand on the curb. But the ambitious young college travelers would not pay any at tention to a little hindrance like a law. What does, an ordinance matter when a ride to Durham is at stake? So the streets were " continually cluttered up, and com plaints kept coming to Mayor -Zeb. Then he decided it was highN time to, do something about it. Monday morning when the usual exodus to Durham started, there was a policeman on the street to see who would obey the law and who would not. Fifteen ' unsuspecting criminals were ' caught by the law and had to ap pear in police court and "tell it to the judge." The judge said three dollars. And three dollars it was. But then the illicit "bum ming" failed to stop. Three more fell before the onslaughter of the law Tuesday, and $ two more Wednesday. " Mayor Zeb declares that, he will continue the arrests as long as the law is violated. He is hoping that the students will soon learn through experience that the. ordinance must needs be obeyed or three more dollars will be ex tracted from the erring student's pocket. aily. Tar Heel: Proposal Goes Back to Committee Ernest -Fowles To SpeaK Here Soon On The Student Entertainment Com mittee announces' as the extra fea ture which will be given on .this quarter's program of entertainment a lecture by Ernest Fowles, F. R. A M.. ULr. Fowles, who is one of "Eng land's most distinguished- musicians today, will speak upon the subject, "A Bird's-Eye View of Musical His tory" on Monday evening, January 21, in Memorial Hall. He will illus trate his lecture by playing several selections on the piano. v The University is fortunate in be ing able to secure Mr. Fowles for. this lecture. He has been- honored in both English' and American music circles, is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Musicians, and is thor oughly acquainted with the subject about which4 he is to talk. At pres ent he is on a lecture , tour of the United States, having just returned from engagements in New Orleans and Atlanta. Only through a change in his speaking schedule was the en tertainment Committee able to secure him for an appearance here. Admission to the lecture may be had through the "purchasing of sea son tickets which . are sold at the Business office of the University, Tickets for the single , performance may. be purchased at the door on the night of the entertainment. Stu dents who are in the A. B. and the A. B. in Education , schools will be admitted upon the presentation of the Entertainment card which was given them upon 'registration. Theta Phi Fraternity Petitions Delta Phi Founded7 at Union College; Third . Greek-Letter Fraternity in , United States. The Theta Phi fraternity, a local social ' organization, is petitioning Delta Phi in hopes of reinstating the Kappa chapter at the University of North Carolina. " The Delta Phi fraternity was found ed at Union College the x- birthplace of fraternities, m 1827, and was the third Greek-Letter organization to appear in the United States. Twenty- eight years later, in 1855, a chapter of this fraternity was founded atthe University of North Carolina. This installation marked the appearance of the fifth Nationarfraternity on this campus. The life of Delta, Phi's new chapter was rather short, for, like chapters of many othervNationaL fra ternities in 1 the South, it became in active at the outbreak of the Civil War. Since the Civil War the re-, organization of Delta Phi at Caro lina has not been effected. Theta Phi was organized in 1924, and is one of the, oldest local fra ternities on "The Hill." The active membership of this fraternity is com posed of the following: W. A. Bax ter, Greensboro, N. C; H. J. Hines, Jr., Clinton," C; W. N. Michal, Ann Arbbr, Mich.; W. B. Sharp Greens boro, N. C; B. F. Wade, Roxboro, N. C; W. J. Wortman, Morganton, N. C; K. E. Alspaugh, Taylorsville, N. C; W. C. Burnett, Tryon, N. C; W. H. Dry, Cary, N. C. ; J. S. Kirk, Mocksville, N. C; L. L.'Rhyne, Dal las, N. C; W. B White, Townsville, N. C; E. T. Gross, Jr., Norfolk, Va.; C. P. 'Hayes, Jr., Asheville, N. C; C. A. Hensley, Jr., Morganton, N. C; J. S. Newsom, Sandersville, Ga.; R. C. Plummer, Wilmington, N. C; F. E. Redus, Memphis, Tenn.; R. J: Ruble, Elkins, W. Va.; R. M. Sawyer, Boston, Mass.; J. H. Barrett, Bay City, Mich.; R. T. Burnett, Tryon, N. C; W. O. Southerland, Charlotte, N. C; A. C. Brown, Concord, N. C. Freshmen -Now Have New Chapel Monitor The freshmen now have a new chapel monitor checking up on their chapel attendance. The new man is H. F. Turner, a sophomore from Teacheys. He is filling the place made vacant by H. C. ColwelL who has long been an expert at spotting empty seats in chapel, but who gradu ated from the University at the end of the last quarter. s "The other chapel monitor, G. P. Carr, a junior, is also from Teacheys. He, , like Colwell, is an experienced hand at the chapel checking business. Student Activities ' Committee Favors Daily Tar Heel But Consolidation of Carolina Mag azine With Newspaper Causes Disagreement; Much Senti-. ment Injected Into Discussion By Former Editors of Campus Literary Organ. , The whole question of campus publications, which has gradually in- and has this year developed 'to an unprecedented degree, came to a head Tuesday night at a meeting of. thev Student Activities Committee and threw that august body into , turmoil for the better part of a protracted three hour session. Want Daily Tar Heel r The plan for a daily Tar Heel, submitted by a committee composed of Walter I Spearman as chairman and O. J. Coffin, George Ehrhart, Marion Alexander and Glenn Holder and providing for incorporation of the Carolina Magazine into a bi-, monthly "supplement to the newspa- N per, occupied a major portion of at tention and provoked most of the disagreement. The group was in unanimous agreement as to the de-' sirability of establishing the Tar ' ! Heel upon, a daily basis, but was in decided disagreement as to the de sirability of combining the Magazine with it. . 1 Opposition to the supplement idea centered around John Marshall, edi tor of the Magazine. He declared that the proposed supplement would t have little of the strictly literary tone now existing in the Magazine. He was warmly supported by Dr. W. S. Bernard, editor ofthe Magazine some twenty-eight years ago, R. B House and Dean Bradshaw. The supple ment idea was just as ardently championed by Dean Hibbard, Tay lor Bledsoe, Dr. John Booker, and the members of the committee who " submitted the plan. Dr. Booker was ' I of the opinion that the idea was the salvation of the Magazine that it would make the publication more pop ular in its appeal and create more literary interest on the campus by drawing a class of writers who do not care- to write for the Magazine in its present form., The proposal was approved by the (Continued on page four) UNIVERSITY TO CONDUCT TOUR - - , Will Be to France and under the Supervision of the, University Extension Division. The University will conduct a French residential tour next summer, according to announcement today by Russell M. Grumman, director of the University Extension Division, under the auspices of which the tour is be ing organized. Designed especially for students, 'teachers, and others interested in travel and study abroad, the Univer sity tour this year will concentrate on the study of French in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, famous Pyrenees resort. Here the summer school of the University of Toulouse is held and members of , the group will be offered the oppor tunity of attending summer courses of this university if they so desire. ' Courses in French, granting college credit, will be" given by Dr. J. C. Lyons, director of the tour and Uni versity faculty member. Such work is open to all members ofHhe group but is not obligatory, v- The itinerary of the tour for this year is an unusually interesting one, including stops in places of greatest interest in France, Belgium, Switzer land, and England. During the three weeks' residence in Bagneres-de-Bi-gorre optional trips may be taken into neighboring Spain. Opportunity is . afforded members of the tour for an ideal summer of travel and study under experienced guidance. Sailing from New York June 14 on the S. S. Rotterdam of the Holland-American Line, the party will return to New York on the same vessel, arriving August 22. As membership in the tour is nec essarily -. limited, those interested are , urged to register without delay. Those interested in information regarding details of the tour should address University Extension Division. '