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NORTH CAROLINA CLUB
MEETING
: MONDAY NIGHT 7:30 P. M.
VOLUME XXXVII
CHAPEL HILL, N. (V SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929
NUMBER 43
LARGE NUMBER
HIGH SCHOOLS IN
DEBATE CONTEST
175 Schools Are Already Regis
tered; Rankin Sets Date;
World Court Is Subject.
Miss Cobb and Dr.
Noble Do a Dance
Of Unknown Origin
Sedentary Spectator of Journalists'
Daice Becomes Lion of Evening.
Dates for this year's annual High
School Debating Contest were an
nounced here today by E. R. Rankin
of the University Extension! Division
as April 5 for triangular prelimin
aries throughout the state and April
18 and 19 for the finals to be held, ac
cording to the usual custom, here at
the University. ' -
One hundred and seventy-five high
schools of the State are already en
tered, and additional entries will prob
ably run this year's number compet
ing to, well over two hundred and set
a new high mark and make this year's
contest perhaps the best ever held.
The subject for this year's debates
is "Resolved, That the United States
should enter the "World Court."
The Extension Division, which
sponsors the contest each year joint
ly with the Dialectic and Philanthropic
literary societies oi. the University,
has compiled an inclusive handbook
outlining arguments and giving 'full
bibliography; on the subject, and
copies of these books have been
mailed to all schools entered for the
use of their debaters.
This year's handbook was compiled
by Mr. Rankin. It contains 104
pages, and includes besides general
references, affirmative references in
the form of writing and excerpts
from Claude A. Swanson,
Some uncertainty exists in the
minds of the guests of the Uni
versity of North Carolina at the
Chapel Hill Country Club Thurs
day night as to whether the dance
was . a specimen of the "highland
fling or a demonstration of the
"blackbottom," but either, or
both, it was a spectacle of con
siderable magnitude when Dr.
Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble,
was enticed from his place on the
sidelines by Miss Beatrice Cobb
and .incited to dance.
Dr. Noble, along with about 50
members of the faculty of the
University, assisted President H.
W. Chase in entertaining the
members of the Press Institute at
the club. After the barbecue an
old-fashioned square dance was
started by Oscar Coffin, head of
the Department of Journalism,
and it came near to making the
members forget the night session
of the Institute.
Until Miss Cobb fetched him
on the floor, Dr. Noble was a
sedentary spectator. After that
he was the lion of the evening,
for all that he was a somewhat
breathless lion.
Miss Margaret Vale
To Present Awards in
Dramatic Tournament
Newspaper Institute Closes
With Address by H.G. Connor
Some one hundred hard-boiled news-!
paper men and a few ' scarcely less
hard-boiled newspaper women packed
up their grips and decamped from
Chapel Hill yesterday, afternoon af
ter days of intensive discussion of
their problems. The delegates to the
Fifth Annual Newspaper Institute
aired the troubles of their own pa
pers and heard the solutions worked
out on other North Carolina newspa
pers in the numerous round-table dis
cussions. ; One of the high-lights of
the Institute came yesterday morning
when H. G. Connor, lawyer and legis
lator of Wilson, spoke on the "North
Carolina Press In Its Public Rela
tionship." Aside from the business of the In
stitute, which consists of addresses
and discussions on almost every con
ceivable phase of newspaper work, the
annual gathering is in the nature
of the representatives of the craft
rom all over the state. The Insti
tute which closed yesterday was pari
icularly marked by the emphasis
Announcement has been made by
Charles the North Carolina Dramatic Asso
Evans Hughes, R. O. Everett, Irvine ciation that Miss Margaret Vale of
L. Lenroot, A. Lawrence Lowell, Presi- Chapel Hill will again present awards
dent Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and at the finals of the annual tournament
Manley O. Hudson, and negative ref- 0f the association. The prizes will
erences from William E. Borah, Hiram be given for the best originally de
W. Johnson, James A. Reed, William signed and executed stage set model
Hard, The Manufacturer's Record, entered in the contest, the best
David Jayne Hill, E. M- Borchard and originally designed and executed
The Outlook. e ; staere costume entered, and for the
A f ulTBblibgTaphy' of designed and executed
firmative, and negative reterences make-up entered
makes the handbook of utmost value Prizes will be given in a special
to debaters in preparing arguments, poster and program contest submit
The handbook also contains rules ted under the previous rules of the
for the debates and lists the Harding- organization.
Hughes Reservations under which At the same time prizes were an-
affirmative speakers will advocate nounCed the rule prohibiting the entry
United States adherence to the World 0f any piay n the play contests of
Court. the association next spring that has
Finals of the debating contest will won a first prize during the past three
come during High School Week, an years. The following plays have been
annual affair at the University. Oth- placed upon the taboo list: "The
pt attractions of the time will be the Boor." "Dawn," "The Deserter,"
Seventeenth Annual Inter-Scholastic "Figureheads," "Good Medicine,
Track Meet and the Fourteenth An- "Jazz and Minuet," "The Last of the
mml Tnter-Seholastic Tennis Tourna- Loweries." "The Man Who Died at
ment for high schools of the state. Twelve 0 'Clock," "The Rescue,
Trial," "The Valiant," "Walnut
Air Marker. Placed Boards," and "Where There Is Love,"
On Roof of Theatre
Dri Robert E. Coker, Professor of
Zoology will again this summer have
charge of the Allegheny School of
Natural History. This school camp
is located in western New York state
in the midst of the Allegheny State
Park which comprises 65,000 acres
of forest streams, mountains, and val-
eys making an ideal location for
such a school. This is an outdoor
nature school and offers courses in
field zoology, botany, , geology, bird
and nature study. The school is uni
que in its field. Each subject re
quires one whole day a week, much
of the time being spent out of doors
in the study of plants and animals in
heir natural 'habitatr"W6rlr"out ' of
class requires two or more days each
week for each, study. College credit
or courses taken in this school is
given by the University of Buffalo
with which it is affiliated. This is
not a sectional school, students from
all sections of the country being en
rolled.
Slippery Pavement
Causes Auto Smash
Beacon Is Done in Yetlow against a
Background of Black.
Engineers to Give
Dance In February
The students in the engineering
school will stage a dance on, February
22nd at the Carolina Inn, according
An air marker has just been com
Dieted on the roof of the Carolina
Theatre to inform passing aeroplane tcplans formulated at a joint meet
pilots of their location and of the hng 0f the William Cain Civil En-
nroximitv of Chapel Hill's airport and trineerW Society and "the student
-w - I O '
landing field two miles away. chapter of the American Institute of
The beacon is done in yellow against Electrical Engineers which was held
hackirround of black. From its lo- last Thursday nignt.
ration on toD of the theatre it has A committee composed of members
a very wide range of visibility. Let- of both societies had been appointed
ters four feet in height make up the to work out the details for the dance,
words "Chanel' Hill. N. C." Along- and it made its report at the meet-
M of this lee-end there is a circle ing. Nothing other than the date and
twelve feet in diameter with an ar- place has been definitely arranged
row nnmtinc toward the airport. A yet, however, since the negotiations
wo" ftt the point of the ar- with various orchestras have not yet
j: 4 v jjcfonco in miles, been . completed. More details will
TOW lllUlcaico nic visjicj., " i : - -
The circle indicates that a landing be announced at a future meeting.
mav be made on the field from any The dance will be attended by al
angle.
students in the engineering schpol
who will be assessed a fee to cover
expenses, and will be formal.'
Carolina Debaters To
Meet Texas Team Tq Giye I1Iustrated
A team representing the Univer
sity of North Carolina will debate a
team from the University of Texas on
Lecture on Brick
Mr. Griffin of the American Pav-
the night of March 2 at Chapel Hill, ing Brick Association will give a talk
The Tar Heel team has the afiirma- at two-thirty this afternoon on tne
f? ba nf h mierv. "Resolved, manufacture of paviner brick. It is
That the United States should enter understood that Mr. Griffin will have
the World Court without reserva- his talk illustrated by means of slides
. . n il J I rni 1. 1 ' r 1 J
tions." The first meeting oi me ue- ine puDnc is invueu.
bate squad for a discussion of this
subject will take place in 201 Mur-
phey, oa the night of February 7.
A bibliography of the question has
already been posted in the mam a-
To Attend Meeting
A large number of the members
of the faculty of the School of Engi
m .i I ;n i j.1 j. a
brarv The executive secretary oi tne neering wm aixeuu me joint meeting
Debate Council urges that all men of the North Carolina section of the
who ar imterested in this debate be- American Society of Civil Engineers
onn their etudv of the question at and the other engineering societies
once, as the debate itself is near at within the state which will be held
haT,r in Raleigh on Friday, January 25th
placed upon the social aspect of the
affair. In place of the usual Thurs
day night banquet; the delegates aban
doned themselves to an old-fashioned
barbecue supper at the Country ClxiS.
Par-boiled managing editors lost
some of their ferociousness as the
newspaper folk devoured barbecue and
listened to "plenty of old-time negro
vocal and instrumental music.
Yesterday morning's program was
taken up with a discussion on "Cul
tivation of the Circulation Field,"
led by John B. Harris, editor of the
Albemarle Press, and 'Mr. Connor's
address.
One. of the features, of the Institute
was the rebellion of "Colonel Oscar
Coffin, of the University Journalism
Department, against the appellation
of "Professor and Doctor." "Pro
fessor and Doctor" Coffin became quite
heated when the - delegates, many of
whom have been his. companions and
cronies for many years, insisted upon
addressing him by that title.
Law School Makes
Entrance Changes
Now Have the Option of Taking Five
Courses in a Single Foreign.
Language.
Coker Again to Take
Over Allegheny School
s Located in New York State; Stu
dents Registered from all Sections.
Exhibit of Etchings
On Display in Smith
Will
Be Open for Inspection from
Now until End of School.
To slippery pavement was attri
buted the cause of a collision shortly
after, noon Thursday of a Ford coupe
driven by B. W. Lacock of Lacock's
Boot Shop and a truck driven by C.
D. Olinger of Benfield Bros., Carr
boro. The accident occurred when
Olinger, driving east on Franklin
street, attempted to turn the corner
at the Post Office while Lacock was
approaching from the opposite direc
tion. Upon seeing the other each ap
plied the brakes, but too late to avoid
the collision. ,
Lacock sustained slight injuries a-
bout the head and arms, while the fen
ders and fear wheel on one side of his
car were smashed in; Olinger es
caped without injury. Both men
stated that the accident would not
have occurred had it not been for the
slick pavement. Lacock's car, ac
cordinsr to eye-witnesses, slid some
fifteen or twenty feet before striking
the truck.
Chapel Hill Women
Go To League Meet
A number of Chapel Hill women
left here today to attend the meet
ing of the State League of Women
Voters which convenes in Raleigh to
day and tomorrow.
Mrs. Frank W. Cameron, Mrs.
Clarence Heer, Miss Mary Smith,
Miss Josephine Sharkey, Mrs. Robert
H. Wettach, and Mrs. E. R. Mosher
and several others will attend.
Mrs. Moshef' is chairman of the
committee on education and will re
port for her committee at Thursday's
session.
Quite an attractive program has
been arranged for the gathering.
Thursday will be the big day with
reports of officers and chairmen of
committees taking up the majority of
the time. A luncheon at noon and
dinner in the evening lend attractive
ness to the social side of the pro
gram. Defensive War: One in which you
shoot - Brown because you know hell
act nasty . about your stealing his
horse. ,
An exhibit of etchings by Mrs.
Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, of Charles,
S. C, will be on exhibit in the Gradu
ate Club Lounge, Smith, Building, to
day, according to Tom Bennett who
is in charge of the display.
Among the many etchings that will
be on display are "Cat Fish Row"
(Porgy's old home), . "In the By
Ways," ".Philadelphia Street" (sec
ond state), "St. Michaels," "The Old
Tavern," and "Church Street." .
Mrs. Verner, whose work has re
ceived much ' praise "throughout the
country, was the first woman invited
by the University to' give one of its
lectures on xt. She spoke here last
year, on "Art in the South and Etch
ing." . ;
Mr. Bennett says that Mrs. Ver-
ner's etcnmgs are on sale ana wm
be on display every Friday and Sat
urday from now until the end of the
school year. An open invitation is
extended the public to attend.
W. H. Webb Addresses
Engineering Society
The William Cain Engineering So
ciety held its . regular meeting last
Thursday night in Phillips hall. The
program was exceptionally interest
ing and caused much comment and
discussion among the students at the
meeting, which was well attended.
The methods of operation of the
Charlotte sewerage disposal plant was
explained by W. H. Webb. He went
into details about the operation of the
plant, which has a reputation for its
sanitary methods of operation, and
told of its disposal system. R. M.
Walford had a prepared paper
"Methods of the Department of Con
servation and Development," which
was rendered. A moving picture,
"From Coal to Electricity," was then
shown. This picture attracted much
comment on account of the revela
tions of the manner in which coal
is converted into electricity. ,
After the program, the meeting ad
journed to meet, with the A. I. E. E
for the purpose of discussing a pro
posed dance.
Nelson Kennedy to 1
Give Organ Recita
There "will be an organ recital by
Nelson O. Kennedy at the Chapel o
the .Cross tomorrow evening at 7:30
The program is as follows : Largo
Handel"; Cantilena, McKinley; Sonata
No. 5, Guilmant; Allegro Apassinato
Adagio; Scherzo; Recitativo; Chora
and Fugue; The Infant Jesus, Yon
Vorspiel to Loghengrin, Wagner
Fire Magic, Wagner.
Toy Will Speak
About Mohammed
Dr. W. D. Toy will speak on the
life and beliefs of the prophet Moham
med at the Epworth League service
next Sunday evening. The speaker
has made a careful study of the grea
leader of Islam and of the movemen
which he started. The study wil
deal primarily with the very colorfu
and interesting personal history oi
Mohammed. The service will be a
7 p. m. in the Methodist church.
Officials of the Law School have
recently effected changes in the
requirements, for the A.B., L.L.B.
course. Previously the require
ments of the Law School have
made it necessary for candidates
for this combined degree to take
three courses in each of two for
eign languages, making a total of
six courses in foreign language.
The faculty, has recently author
ized a change, however, whereby
law students have the option of
taking five courses in a single
foreign language. It is thought
that this change will render the
course more attractive, and that
students will find it much more
desirable to acquire a high de
gree of knowledge of one lan
guage than a rather superficial
knowledge of two languages.
In response to rather frequent
inquiries from students as to
what courses it would be most
desirable to select as electives
the Law School has suggested the
following among desirable elec
tives: English 6, 17, 21, 22, 23;
Psychology (Legal Psychology)
38 and 40 ; History 59 and 60 ;
Economics 10, 11, and 40; Soci
ology 10 and 12.
Bureau of Community
Drama Serves Large
Number of Schools
PUPPETEERS TO
PRESENT TWO
REVIEWS TODAY
Is Not on Student Entertain
ment Program; Separate
Tickets Necessary.
The Bureau of Community Drama
on the third floor of South Building
is the source of information for ama-
eur organizations all over the United
States. When organized it was plan
ned to give advice to North Carolina
dramatic clubs, just because of the
nation-wide reputation of the Play-
makers the scope of the Bureau has
been widened of necessity. . -
The Mac Players of the MacKinney
High School of Honolulu, Hawaii, are
the latest to enlist the aid of the
Bureau in the solving of their prob-
ems. Last week an inquiry was re
ceived from Arizona requesting in
formation regarding the correct dress
of a mountaineer boy. A request
came from out of the hills of our
state Monday for information about
piracy.
Miss Nettina Strobach, executive
secretary of the Bureau, was engaged
last fall, after the resignation of Miss
Mar jorie Morris, to serve as adviser
to the amateur dramatic organiza
tions of the state.
Dr. Tigert Advocates
Curricula Curtailment
Dr. John T. Tigert, president of the
University of Florida, in a recent dis
cussion of educational problems,
stated that education, like legislature,
may become too highly detailed for
general use and efficient operation.
Curtailment of the curricula of edu
cational institutions is advocated by
the educator as one of the ways to
eliminate wasted expenditure. He
further recommends earlier entrance
and graduation, of students and the
operation of educational machinery
on a business oasis. American stu
dents, he says, are graduated two
years later in life than those of Eu
rope. " ' .
Democratization of junior education
is another feature ' pointed to by Dr,
Tigert as wasteful. "We have as
many as 60 or 70 courses in our high
schools, and our system now is articu
lated with industrial order," he as
serts.
Engineers to Hear
Hydraulic Expert
Mr: Allen Hazen, nationally pro
minent hydralic and sanitary engi
neer, will speak to the engineering
students this morning at eleven o'clock
in 206 Phillips hall.- Mr. Hazen is
here on a visit, and Dean Braune has
secured him to talk to the students
in the engineering school. The en
gineering students are urged to come
out and hear him.
Freshman Wanted
For Rifle Team
This afternoon and evening the
Yale Puppeteers will have possession
of the Playmakers Theatre at which
time they will present two separate
reviews, one for a juvenile audience
at the matinee and the mature pro
duction at the night performance.
No season passes or tickets will ad
mit to the performances as this num
ber is not on the guaranteed program
of the year. Admission to the
children's matinee in the afternoon
will be twenty-five cents for children
and fifty cents for adults. For the
evening performance the price will be
seventy-five cents.
Few persons today think of pup
petry in any other connection than
the far-famed Punch and Judy shows
that were prevalent in England and
France some two or three hundred
years ago. However, the predeces
sors of Punch' and Judy date as far
back as the dark ages, and cover. in
scope the geography of almost every
country of the world. Aristotle,
Xenophon, Dore, George Sand, Goethe,
Crevantes, and countless others have
written for puppetry. Goeth's "Faust"
was adopted by him from a marionette
play by an unknown writer.
The art of puppetry has been most
highly developed by Japan. In fact
so great has been the influence of the
puppets that the actors in the living
drama of the nation model their
gestures and manners after the an
cient marinettes. In the oriental pup
pet drama the operators . appear in
full view of the -audience, while in the
European and American plays the
operators are hidden. --
The shadow play is a modification
of the puppet show. It is thought to
havo originated in Ghina, although it
has been a favorite entertainment in
all of the oriental lands. It was intro
duced into France during the seven
teenth century and has been very
popular there ever since.
Harry Burnett and Forman Brown
the leading figures in the Yale Pup
peteers returned to this country
last fall after spending more than a
year in Europe studying the marion
ette theatre. Their interest in mario
nettes has led them all over the
United States, and to the Orient, in
addition to Europe. When they give
their children's performance this
afternoon they will tell their audience
just how puppets and marionettes are
made. It is interesting enough to
note here that the two words are not
interchangeable. Apuppet is a figure
which is operated by moving the
thumb and fingers, the limbs of
which are never seen, while a mario
nette is operated from above by
strings attached to the arms, limbs
and back of the figures.
Wilson Attends Meet
Of University Profs
Was Elected as New Member ef the
Council; Fiftieth Annual Meeting.
All candidates for the TTreshman
rifle team are asked to report Mon
day at 4 p. m. at Memorial hall.
Practice must begin at once for
several meets are being scheduled.
Previous experience is not required.
At the. recent meeting of the Amer
ican Association of University Pro
fessors Mr. H. V. Wilson, Kenan Pro
fessor of Zoology at this university,
was elected "as a new member of the
council. This was the fiftieth annual
meeting of the association and was
held at Columbia University. At this
meeting a resolution was passed au
thorizing a special, committee to co
operate with the American anti-evolution
legislation and other efforts to
restrict the freedom of teaching of
science.
A similar resolution adopted by the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science as a whole, said:
"We are convinced that any legis
lation attempting to limit the teach
ing of any widely accepted scientific
doctrine is a profound mistake which
cannot fail to retard the advancement
of human knowledge. It is only by
the maintenance of freedom of teach
ing that we can create conditions un
der which truth comes most rapidly
to prevail. Therefore we wish to
make our most earnest protest against
all legislation and administrative in
terference with the presentation f
facts and theories of science."
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity aa
nounces the pledging of Wade Gillies
Brown of Flushing, Long Island. Mr.
.Brown's father is connected with the
Rockefeller Foundation in that city.
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