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The Library, City, BASKETBALL TONIGHT CAROLINA vs. VIRGINIA TIN CAN 8:30 L3 iiw: VOLUME XXXVII n BASKETBALL TONIGHT CAROLINA vs. VIRGINIA TIN CAN 8:30 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 1929 NUMBER 44 D IPG I A tuae Fo Gtiase Brais Gpyriinient Was Principal Speaker at Junior Class Smoker Held Last Fri day Night; Third Year JUen Elect Officers. "Student government here N is no more government by the Student Council than by the, faculty," Presi , dent Chase declared in a speech de livered at the Junior Smoker in Swain Hall Friday night. "The success of any government depends upon the co operation of the governed. . l "We have here at the University one of the most successful govern ments that exists in any body of peo ple in the world. The percentage of violations of the rules of government 'are as low as can be . found y any where. The .University- is a coopera tive institution, and everyone, stu dent, faculty memberalumnus or citi zen of the state, must do his part if it is ' to be ,. worthwhile and T not de scend to the level of mediocrity. "The University is an insurance taken out by the citizens of the state to safeguard the future. It repre sents an investment of fifteen million dollars. The student here pays only about a fourth of the actual cost of his courses. The rest is borne by the taxpayers of the state and contributed through private gifts.' ' , After President Chase's speech the Juniors elected Jimmy Conneir dance leader for the class prom, which will be staged in the spring quarter, and Bud Eskew and Ralph Greenfc as his assistants. Henry Sinclair was elect ed secretary of the class to fill the vacancy caused by .the failure of Sonny Tilghman to return to school this quarter. ' Mad Gray made an appeal for the members of the class to help in' beautifying the campus by ceasing -the practice of making unsightly paths. ' across the grassed portions, pi tne campus and playing tag football and baseball ron the grass. ' , Ray Farris, president of the class, presided at -the smoker. Music was furnished by the Carolina Tar Heel Boys.. guest of Manager E. C. Smith of the Carolina Theatre at a special mid night show. ; Visiting Engineers Address Students Civil Engineering Men Hear Ideas on Changes of Dam Construction. Flonzaley Quartet Will Be Here Friday v f- ': The famous .' Flonzaley. Quartet, Victor recording artists, will ap pear in concert before University students and faculty and ...Chapel Hill folk here Friday night, Feb ruary 1, as the third number on .the winter quarter student enter--tainment program." v The string quartet are artists of renowned standing and their con cert is being looked forward to here with much interest. 7 0-EDSTOHAYE ROLES M NEXT MUSICAL SHOW Wigue and Masque Will Give Next : Performance on March 4 and 5. BOOK EXCHANGE EXPLAINS METHOD OFPRICINGB00KS Much Comment ' By Students In the Past Causes. Manager Hinson to Make the Following Report Public. K Open forum letters in the Tar Heel, a debate m the Di senate and num erous discussions on the campus re garding the prices charged 4 by the Book Exchange have prompted Mr. Hinson, manager of the x Book Ex change, to make the following report to the president of the student body. First no book is sold at. more than the publisher's established price; (even if it could afford to do this it would not be , allowed by some cus tomers). From the established price publishers allow a discount varying from 8 to 33 1-3 per cent, averaging around 20 per cent. But this discount is not all profit. Before any profit is realized the costs of operation must be deducted ; ex press, interest, drayage, insurance, selling expense, heat, light, supervi sion; and overhead x which include a considerable item in the way of books left on hand which are no longer Wigue and Masque, University dra- ftnatic organization of the lighter type, j has announced plans for the staging of this year's annual spring revue, to come out March 4 and 5 under the of ficial ' cognomen "Mum's the Word." Those in. charge would not reveal the exacf nature of this year's edition. The same campus geniuses who scor ed; such a big hit in the last year's revue are 'at work on' the new show, and plans are laid for the most expen sive, elaborate and magnificent musi cal comedy ever attempted locally. " Al Kahn, of Cleveland, 0., wrote he lyrics for last' year's production, "Whoops M'Dear," and this same stu dent has written book and lyrics-for he new production, which has'its plot woven around college life. Wex Ma- one, of Asheville, is again doing the music, ana Mary- Dernbererer. of Chapel Hill, is taking care of the costuming! Co-eds will again feature this year's attraction. For a long time Wigue and Masque scorned the fair sex and gave its female parts to im personating and elaborately-gowned males.' Co-eds were introduced to the cast last year, and the innovation ad ded so much to the show that they will be used again ' this year. Try outs for parts will be held February 4, and rehearsals will be begun im mediately. , YALE PUPPETEERS PLEASE STUDENTS Operators Give Lecture on Con struction of Puppets and Operation of Marionette Theatres. , After the smoker the class was thetf . an musXh? packed and Allen Hazen,- eminent consulting engineer of New York City and E. E. Lockridge, Chief Engineer of Spring field, Massachusetts, accompanied by W. M. Piatt, of Durham, and C. E, Waddell, of Asheville, consulting en gineers to the water departments of their cities, visited the University last Saturday as guests of the En gineering school. On Saturday morning Mr. Hazen addressed the students in civil engi neering on changing ideas in dam con struction. That afternoon the visi tors inspected the laboratories of, the Engineering school. They expressed themselves a very much impressed with the laboratories, especially with those of hydraulic and sanitary en , gineering.; Professor Thorndike Sa ville, of the Engineering school, enter tained the visitors, together .with the professors in the Engineering school and other members of the faculty, with a luncheon on Saturday. ' They were guests of Dean C. E. Braune Saturday evening, and left Chapel Hill Sunday morning. Debate Class Meets Wednesday X Night ... V ; ,."';'"". ' The debate class will hold its week ly meeting Wednesday night instead of Thursday night. Mr. Saville, of the school of engineering, will (discuss the question of hydro-electric power from the engineer's point of" view. This is the last time that the .debate squad will consider the question be forethe try-outs, which will take place Monday night, "February 4 in "201 Murphey at 7:30. j NOTICE , The proofs of all Yackety Yack photographs taken before January 25th and not yet returned to the Wootten-Moulton Studio will be chosen by the Yackety Yack staff, unj less they are returned some time to day. ' ","": .":'. J. G. ADAMS, JR., Editor. reshipped to the publishers, or more costly still those which the publish ers do not accept for returns and which must be sold to second hand book dealers for a small fraction of their cost, and the loss absorbed. Publishers get out new editions of a text, and immediately the old edition is dead stock and a total loss. "In structors may make a change in a text. Sometimes the publisher will take them' all back, sometimes only 20 per, cent of them and sometimes none at all. j During the last seven years the total business of the Book Exchange has been $647,382.31 ;' its total net profit for that seven years has been $ll,288.45lr an average of $1,612.63 per year or less than 2 per cent on an average business of $92,482 per year, The following are a few examples ' (Continued on page four) Executive Committee Reports Decisions The Executive Committee reports the following decisions in cases which have come before it: Case Number 7. A first year stu dent. Dishonesty on final examina tion m Economics A. Admitted re ceiving aid, but did not ' sign the pledge and "pled this as an extenuat ing circumstance. Suspended in definitely from the University. - Case' Number 8. Thjrd year man Defacing library material, mt on strict conduct probation and required to pay for replacing the defaced ma terial. Case Number 9. v First year man Irregularity Spanish 1 quiz. Denied his guilt, but evidence was' considered as conclusive by the Committee. Sus pended from the University for the winter term. D. D. CARROLL, Chairman NOTICE Bill Marshall, secretary and treas urer of the German Club, announces that he will be at the Sigma Nu house each afternoon from this date unti the day of the" winter quarter Ger man Club , dances to receive all dues that are outstanding. i Persons desiring to apply for mem bership in the organization may do so bv filing their requests with Marshall between now and the dance STUDENTS SUFFER RIMOR INJURIES IN TOIL SATURDAY Five Wake Forest Boys Spend Night in Local Jail ; Both Cars Demolished. University folk had something slightly different in the way of en tertainment here yesterday. ' The Yale Puppeteers brought their ma rionette show to town and put on en joyable performances afternoon and evening inf the Playmaker Theatre, with the Carolina Playmakers doing the sponsoring. . 1 mi l m ine aiternoon penormance was primarily for the children of the town, reduced rates being given, and forty puppets performed to the delight and ecstasy of a large group of young sters. The operators, Harry Burnett and ,Forman Brown, former students under the famous Yale professor" of dramatics, George Pierce Bakery gave a lecture on construction of puppets arid operation of marionette theatres. The evening show was well attend ed and the performance was of more mature type. The operators showed a ? remarkable facility in making their puppets react with the most complicated gestures. The pro gram consisted of a number of sketches,,, including one from the Latin play, "Pyramus and Thisbe," a Chinese fantasy, "The Gooseberry Mandarin," and a playlet with Af rica as its locale.-. rV';'' Mr. Brown and Mr. Burnett j the operators, are on tour of university centers with their show. They first became interested in puppetry while studying under Professor Baker at Yale, and - afterward studied the ma rionette theatre in Europe and the Orient. They hope some day to es tablish a permanent theatre in New York City. V- ;V , Will Attend Meeljing Of Advisory Board of Agriculture in Raleigh Professors , S. H. Hobbs, Jr., and E C. Branch, of the University faculty and members of the Advisory Board of Agriculture, will attend the meeting of that Board in Raleigh to day at' 11:00. According to announcement of the Executive Committee of the Board the meeting will be devoted to a dis cussion of a plan for increasing re search and for using the warehouse fund as an endowment for research in cotton, of the best means of securing pure seeds and purebred live stock for North Carolina, of the needof a state-wide agricultural program, and of the need of county organizations for improving agricultural conditions First:- Plan Explained for ' Financing Daily Tar Heel A Whippet coupe loaded with five intoxicated young gents, some of them Wake Forest students, failed to hold he road on the first bad curve leav ing Chapel Hill on the Durham road Saturday" night about 1:30 o'clock and crashed a Chrysler, coupe, occupied by three' Carolina students enroute from Durham.. Both cars were seriously damaged, but by a break of luck there were no serious injuries. ' , ? The Carolina boys inJhe Chrysler were Paul Horton, owner, L. M. Mc- Kee, arid Boyd Harris. McKee was untouched, but Horton and Harris suffered minor cuts about the head rom flying glass. .They were both patched up by Dr. Toy in his office. The Wake Forest boys and their companions were even luckier when it came to escaping injuries, but. not he local calaboose. Dean Howell of the Pharmacy school who lives near by heard the crash and had the police force, pride of the village, on the scene immediately. The result was the corraling of the "five Whippeteers" in the bastile for a night's.stay. All five were released the following day, being excused as college students and therefore irresponsible, when they promised to pay damages sus tained by the Chrysler. Damages were considerable. The whole side of the Chrysler was knock ed in, including front and rear fen ders, running board and door. The ; Whippet presented an even more de jected appearance. The front end was almost completely demolished, with one wheel knocked down, windshield broken, and , steeringy wheel driven back into the seat. : , Dean Howell, who was on the scene immediately, heard the Whip pet pass his house at a high rate of speed just before the wreck and said that he expectantly awaited the crash. The tracks of the two cars showed exactly how the J thing happened. The Chrysler had run clear off the road on the right side in an effort to evade the other car, but the Whip pet's speed was too great to make the curve and it ploughed into the Chrys- er on its left side. - Pilot Takes a Wife From High Altitude Aerial Marriage Staged Here Sunday ,for Ed Brockenbrough; Many, Spectators. Miss Lucile Hogan, Orange ' ; county girl, and Pilot E. ' H. Brockenbrough of the Chapel Hill airport were united in marriage here Sunday afternoon in ! the newest way la airplane. A"- thousand or more people looked on from the ground be low as Reverend W. B. Carr, Baptist minister and University student, performed the marriage ceremonies. " , It was a gala affair, rather an air circus and marriage combined. Several visiting planes dropped -in for the marriage, and just be fore Reverend Carr began the-., ceremonies Barney G. Rowe made a parachute jump to let the people below know the - course of , events on high. Among the visiting pilots were Lewis S. McGinnis and Reid La than, of Winston-Salem; and Jim Stewart, of Raleigh. The-bride is the popular young daughter of Clay Hogan, Orange county planter. Mr. Brocken brough has been connected with the local . airport for several months as flying instructor. Mc Ginnis piloted then plane in which the marriage was performed. In the plane besides the bride and groom was Harry Hogan, brother , of the bride. v ' Large Number See Parachute Jump Local Airman Has Much Difficulty Leaving Plane During Wet ' Weather. An incident of unusual interest took place at the local , airport Sunday afternoon .when Barney C. Rowe who won first prize at Miami Beach for parachute jumping, made - a parar chute jump. A cold rain had been falling most of the afternoon, but in spite of that there was C;uite a num ber of people out to witness the ex- nibition. Kowe is tamed as a jump er, ; but in this instance he received more thrill than the crowd. At a height of 1500 feet heclimbed out on the wing rendered dangerously slip- Wnrkprc nnd TrninincrLPy by the freezing rain, and crawl " . J . 1 led down to the axle of the plane. He Miss Sydnor H. Walker has issued attached the parachute all right, but a book. "Social Work and the Train- wnen ne starxea to cut tne release irig of Social Workers" through the cor? ms numDea lingers were unaoie Universitv Press that is elieitino. fcon. to grasp xne. Kmie, ana it leu to tne Miss Walker Writes Book on the Social siderable praise for its excellence. The jacket of. the book carries the explanation, "No field of modern con cern needs clear analysis or critical study more than social work. . Since Miss Walker is not a social worker and has never been one, her ' study happily lacks any semblance of special pleading and avoids narrowness that occupational disease of the specialist." ' )After the preliminary chapters dis cussing the backgrounds, the chara cteristics and , motives and the objec tives of social work and the source of its financial wqrk the author , sets f ourth in clear lucid style the charact eristics activities of the work. The distinctive feature of the book is Miss Walker's discission of the very unsatisfactory relationship exists ing between social - work and social sciences. Each of the Four Proposed Plans For Financing Daily Tar Heel Will Be Presented to Students In Following Issues of This Publication. NOTE: " The student vote - on the daily Tar Heel proposal is scheduled for February 7, one week from this coming Thursday. In each issue of this paper through next Tuesday an article will appear dealing with one of the four plans for financing the daily. This is the first of the series of articles. The issue appearing on the day set for the vote will sum up all of the proposals. ground. Fortunately, he had another knife, and swinging, by his elbow to the axle, he fished it out and opened it with his teeth. By this time he had passed the field, but the "cold was so intense he was unable to make another circle, so he let go anyway. By care ful maneuvering, he managed to land in a small cleared space sur rounded -by tall pine trees. When questioned about the jump, he said, "This, is the worst jump I ever made, and the last one I'll ever make under such conditions." Law" Students Will Have Hectic Week Competitors for J Mangum Medal To See Dean Hibbard With the beginning of examinations yesterday, students in the law school begin one of the most hectic weeks the they must experience in their prep aration for the par. Today marking the , close of the first semestert the coming week will mean almost inces sant work for the future legal wizards. AH examinations will be given in Manning Hall, and according to the Competitors for the Mangum med- posted schedule, there -will be some- al to be awarded again this year to thing going on daily from eight-thirty the best orators in the annual contest, in the morning till late into the af must notify Dean Addison Hibbard, ternoon. Each examination will last head of the college of Liberal Arts, fr0m three to four, hours, and in of their intention of competing as many instances even more.1 The last well as the titles of their speeches, exam wilftake place next Saturday, not later than February 1. ' with registration following Monday, Only seniors in the College of Lib- February fourth erai Arts, tne cjcnooi oi Appiiea If the Buccaneer plan of f inancirig the proposed daily Tar Heel receives the majority of the student votes, it - will -mean that the fifty-five cents that the comic : magazine receives from the publications fee each year will go toward financing the daily paper. Estimates of the committee which drew up the plans for the daily show .that this slice of the student fee will cover the increased cost af ter the increase in advertising is taken into consideration. The Buccaneer is the third major coriiic publication that has appeared on the University campus. The first was the Tar Baby, an unofficial publication, which appeared vevery month during the college term for several years This was in the days before the creation of the Publica tions Union, and subscriptions to all the campus publications were secur ed by the efforts of the business staffs. . There was no guaranteed circulation for which advertisements could be contracted for in advance. The difficulty of securing subscrip tions in tlis nlanner and poor busi ness management were too much for the Tar Baby and it died an untimely death. The next year the second comic, , the Boll' Weevil began publication. It was founded as a result of the be- ' lief among a number of students and faculty members that the University . should have an off icial comic maga- ! zine. It soon became - entangled in financial difficulties, - however, for the business manager, one L. J. "Steve" Brodie, insisted upon repre senting to the advertisers that the ' publication had a circulation of five thousand when less than half that number of copies were actually print ed. Brodie was shipped. The comic was no longer an official publication of the University, but Brodie re mained m Chapel Hill and issued the Boll Weevil as a private enterprise. The faculty executive committee and a group of student leaders corre- 4 sponding to the present Student Ac tivities Group issued an ultimatum that no student of the University could contribute to the Boll Weevil " and 'remain a student. Thus the de mise of the Boll Weevil was sudden and violent. In 1924 the combined efforts of Dean Hibbard, twp or three other , faculty members and ( several stu dents were successful in initiating the third of the University comic publications, the Buccaneer. It was startedas an official publication of the Publications Union, and most of the business shoals upon -which the . Boll Weevil had been beaten to pieces were eliminated. v -' Dissatisfaction with' the quality of the Buccaneer copy was voiced the year it began publication, but ho se- -rious threat against its continued existence appeared' until ' last year when Dean Hibbard wrote an Open s Forum letter to the Tar Heel in which he classed nearly all the jokes appearing in the Buccaneer as per taining to sex, and most of these as highly indecent. "He urged aSblition of the comic, stating his belief that Carolina students had proven them selves incapable ,of issuing a really -. humorous r publication that did not violate the laws of decency. v - Criticism of the Buccaneer has been rather widespread Jthis - year, and many campus leaders have ex pressed themselves as favoring abolition of the comic. ' the School Science, -the School of Engineering, and the s School of Commerce, are eligible, to take part in the contest. Grading pn the examinations will be done on the same basis as is cus tomary in the law school: A 80 and above, B 75 to 79, inclusive, C 67 through 74, D 60 through ,66, and F 79. and, below. Courses which run PrMonf TTnrrv W. - Chasft will lUTOUgn DOin semesters wm umy F . I ..ci " snoalr rha-nrt this morning The have hour quizzes, wiin tne regular subrect of his talk has not been an- examination taKing place at xne ena nouneed. - , - of the year, Chase to Speak in Chapel Red Head Club to Meet The Red Head Club will meet to nigh in the Parish - House of the Episcopal Church" at seven-fifteen O'clock. ' Bill Carbine, president of the or ganization; urges all members to at tend. Entertainment will follow the meeting.