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U.U.C.- . . City, CAROLINA-DUKE BOXING DURHAM 8:00 P. M. I I i y5? " 'M CAROLINA-DUKE BOXING DURHAM S: 00 P. M. VOLUME XXXVII CHAPEL HILL, N. O, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929 NU3LBER 53 Scholastic Statistics f or ; Fall Quarter Sliow.Goed .Frat teaclie All Greeks Averages of All Fraternities Show Improvement Over Last Fall; Sophomore Class Has Highest Average in Four Course Men. . X , Statistics . recently given out con cerning the grades for the fall quar ter show that a larger percentage of work was passed by sophoniores, ju niors, and seniors , who took four courses than by members of those classes who took three courses. The sophomore .class,' with the smallest number of students taking four courses, led with an average of 95 per cent, of work passed by stu dents taking this number of courses. The general ' average of the class shows that only 78 per cent of the work was passed. The junior class was next with an average of 90 per cent, of work passed by students with four courses as compared with sl gen eral class average of 85 per cent. 86 per cent, of the work taken by seniors with four courses was passed, while the average for the class was 84 per cent. ' " , Among the 'fraternities on the Hill the averages were all raised . over those of the fall quarter last year. Only eight Greek lodges Tanked . be low the grade average of the entire student body as compared with fourteen last year. In arriving at the standings listed Continued on page four) PHI MEN WILL , ARGUE ON BIRTH CONTROL BILL z ' Reorganization"; of Pi and - Phi, Fertilizers at Cost, and Other Questions to Come up. All-American Tackle Stops in Chapel Hill . John Smith, Grantland Rice's choice for All-American tackle in 1927, was in Chapel Hill the past week-end. Smith and his wife were enroute to Pinehurst, North Carolina,x and Charleston, South Carolina, with Mr. and Mrs John Frazier of Rydal, Penn. DEBATERS TO GO ON BIG JOURNEY Sewanee, University of Ken-, tucky, and Other Blue Grass Schools Will Be Invaded. V " Officials of the Phi Assembly made public yesterday a revised and length ened program of topics for discussion in the meetings of that body for the next few weeks. Following the policy of presenting both campus and general subjects for debate, they state that they are endeavoring to put forward a well rounded schedule for future meetings. The program is as follows : 1. Be it resolved, that no class dances should be allowed to be formal. 2. That birth control is essential to the progress of the United States. , 3. , That fertilizers should be bought by the state and sold to the farmers without prof it. 4. That there should be a reorgani zation of the Di and Phi. 5. That the Phi Assembly go on re cord as favoring further employment of state prisoners a3 'suggested by Pou. 6. That Phi Assembly go on record as favoring increased compensation for employees. Casting Committee Selects Players ' For Spring Tour Announcement was made by Prof, Frederick H. Koch on behalf of the casting committee of the casts for the three plays that, will be presented Plavmaker tour this soring. In the play "Companion-Mate Mar-Ld Mr Weisiger states. All of the rt. of the colored- eirl. ! The Debate Council has made de finite arrangements for a debating tour to. begin the week-end of March 1. On the night of March 2 the Caro lina team will debate the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky, on the night of March 4. Debates will be staged with other colleges of Kentucky on the nights of March 5, 6, 7, and 8. , . The query-which will be debated in all of these engagements is "Resolved, That the public should own and ope rate the hydroelectric power plants of the United States." The Tar Heel team will uphold the affirmative side of the proposition in the debates wth the University' of the South and the University of Kentucky. It is pro bable that theHeam will agree to shift to the negative in some of the debates of the tour. , -The men. who are. making the trip are J. C. Williams of Linden and E. H. Whitley of Pantego. Both of these men are experienced debaters. Last year -Williams paired with Taylor Bledsoe in the debate with Alabama and later with Bryce f Barker in the debate with Emory. In both of these frays Carolina, was victorious. Both Williams and Whitley were members of the team which defeated the team representing the National Union of Students (British) last fall quarter Whitley is. also a member of the team which will represent the Phi in the Mary D. Wright Debate which is to be held in the near future. Seniors Who Want To Work May See Phone Man Today Mr. Kendall Weisiger of the South ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Atlanta, will be in Chapel Hill today to interview Carolina seniors - interested in work with the telephone company after their gradu ation-in the spring. Mr. Weisiger will be accompanied by George W Wray of the Carolinas division of the company, Charlotte, C. N. Thibaut of the American Telephone and Tele graph Company, Atlanta, and Herbert W. Dean of the Bell Telephone Com' pany of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. These men will have their headquart ers at Prof. P. H. Daggett's office in Phillips hall. The opportunities for work through out the Bell system are greatly vari riage ' the part oi tne , coioreu- gui, Marguerite, will be. filled by Helen Dortch. J. C. Wessel, Penelope Alex ander, Frank Howell and Tom Bad ger have been selected to portray the parts of Lee, Kate, Ira and Wilbur. Seven persons will be needed for the Revolutionary play, "The Lie." The part of David will be played by Howard Bailey and that of David's wife by Elizabeth Farrar. The other characters, Alex, Wrenny Captain Hindle, Private Smelers, and Ser geant Mix, will be interpreted by Lawrence Miller, Whitner -Bissell, Peter Henderson, Marvin Hunter, and C. M. Edson. : - Mrs. Loretto Carroll Bailey has written another play around the same set of characters as those used in "Job's Kinfolks." She will fill the role of Kizzie, the . grandmother. Nettina Strobach will again enact the part of the mother. Lois Warden was award ed the part of Katherine, the wayward daughter. Carl falls this time to Peter Henderson. Danny, the villian of the new piece, is to be acted by Lawrence Thompson. companies represented in this group are interested in getting good - men, and at the same time they are in a po sition to make recommendations to the other companies in the system ... - .' ' Jxi i.1 wmcn operate. m connection wim me American company in New Ytrk. Contrary to the opinion of most students, there are positions open for graduates who have not studied en gineering, and a great many college men now with the company have either A." B. or Commerce degrees. Mr. Weisiger states that he would, like to interview men from these schools during his day on the campus. Men selected by the company's re presentatives will begin work' about July 1 in a general training course after which theyswill be assigned to various departments for permanent duties. - v v , There are now 25 Carolina gradu ates employed in the Bell System. Men from the class of '28 include C. R. Jones, D. M. Holzhouser, J. D. Mc Connell, W. W. Neal, C. F. Seyffert, W. E. Stewart, and F. A. Urbson. PERFORM BEFORE CONCORD AUDIENCE Negro Spirituals Particularly Well Received ; Tryon Is Next Stop. ot Air Artists Stage Heated Debate Against the Marquette University Forensic Warriors (Special to the Tar Heel) Concord, N. C, Feb. 18 The Uni versity of North Carolina Glee Club arrived here this afternoon in their special chartered bus and gave a con cert tonight in the High School audi torium. They were enthusiastically applauded by the capacity audience. Repeated requests for encores were received at the conclusion of every number. "The negro spirituals were particularly popular, and proved a relief from the singing of the classi cal selections in the other groups. The program was well1 grouped, the folk songs of England, the French and German Christmas carols, and the songs from the Russian liturgy, all combining to make a well bal anced program. The songs by Wes ley Griswold, baritone soloist . with the Club, and the piano selections by Professor Kennedy were also well re ceived, i ) v The Glee Club leaves tomorrow for Tryon, to be followed on the next night by a concert in Athens, Ga. From the number of applications from alumni for permission to enter tain the students here it was decided by the Club to place only two mem bers in each home. The officers of the Club were given rooms in the hotel. .. .- ' Socially Inclined Will Have a Big Time This Week-end Chapel Hill will be the scene of much social activity this week-end. There are three dances scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights. The students in the Law "and Engineering schools will both stage dances Friday night, and Saturday night the Order of the Grail will stage its second of a series of three dances for the quarter. The Law school dance will be held in the gymnasium, with the Carolina Buccaneers furnishing the music. 'The figure for the dance will be led by Phil Whitley, assisted by Charlie Rouse and Ray Armstrong. - Admis sion will be limited to those who have procured cards for, themselves and their guests. The school of Engineering students will stage their annual ball at the Car olina Inn .Friday night. This affair is held annually under the direction of the two student chapters of the en gineering societies, and is formal. Jack Wardlaw has been engaged to play. The Grail Saturday night is to be open to all students except freshmen, and will be held in the gymnasium. The Law school and the Grail plan to co-operate in designing the ' decora tions, which will be used for both dances. . The usual rules of conduct will be enforced at the dance, and no freshmen will be admitted. Smoking will be prohibited in the gymnasium. Alex Mendenhall's Tar Heel Boys will furnish the music. Engineers Meet at Chapel Period Today ' ; The entire student body of the Engineering School is requested . by the dean to meet in room 206, Phillips Hall, this morning at chapel period. The purpose" of -this meeting is to discuss the plans for the Engineering dance to be held Friday night. SCHOLARSHIPS ' ARE1WARDED Holt Committee Designates One Man in Each Class to Receive $125 Scholarship. I The Holt scholarship committee, composed of Dean Walker, Mr. Grady Leonard, Dean Carroll, Dr. Bell, and Dean Hibbard, met Saturday and awarded the four scholarships to M. M. Matthewsin the freshman class, T. B. Douglas in the sophomore, Wil liam R. Curtis in the junior, and D. R. McCain in the senior. There were eleven applicants ; th committee made its decision after holding a conference with each student. ' , ' ' Each scholarship is worth $125 and is awarded to that student who is the most needy and most deserving j one is given in each of the . four . classes every winter quarter. . Labor Mistreated In This Country, r Says Tom Tippett .. "There will always be labor agita tion so long as employers can't answer labor when it points to poverty among American workers, the great number hr accidents in' industry, the large number of women and children work ing, and war which grows out of these conditions," Tom Tippett, New York labor worker and professor in the Brookwood Labor College, 'declared in an address here Friday. , Speaking before a large number of University students in economics and labor problems, Professor Tippett, who for many years was a mine work er in Illinois, declared' that "labor unions have developed out of the treat ment labor has received." "American industry," he said, "has grown in such a way that labor has been mistreated all along and labor unions, have sprung up as a result." The situation has greatly improved, but much is yet to come, he said. It is better now because unions have taught mine workers to ask for more. "Miners how believe they are entitled to rugs, to curtains, to education, to all the things, that other people are this is the key to the whole thing," he said. What is true of the mining in dustry is equally so of every other industry, Prof essor Tippett declared, Professor Tippett was introduced by Prof. A. T. Cutler, of the Econo mics department. The New York pro fessor is touring the South in the inj terest of organizing workers' classes. Syncopated Strains of Mad , Musicians Set Campus Feet - Dancing and Hands Clapping Ambidextrous Centipede Fandango Chorus is Nifty; Dirty Half Dozen Look Good and Sound Plenty Warm as "Mum's the Word" Cast Practices. ' o - - i By Joe Jones -Coming from behind during the last few minutes of "Mum's the Word" practice last evening the Dirty Half a Dozen gave a spectacular exhibition of how to play pat-a-cake-pat-a-cake with their hands and legs, accomplish ing this jjnusual feat in perfect time with the music from Wex Malone at the piano. This Dirty Half a Dozen, also known as the six Misses -Smith, also known as the Misses Emily Mc Clelland, Celeste E dgerton, Virginia Payne, Kelso Currie, Julie Altizer, and Margaret Carlton are getting to be so good that they appear to be ambidextrous in feet, legs, eyes, arms, and hands while going through their six-hearts-beat-as-one act. j - Just "previous to this the members of the men's . chorus, coats off. and vests unbuttoned, had ended their thrilling centipede fandango in a blaze of masculine glory. These boys are Speight, Hobgood, and Harris Uphold Negative End of Hy-do-Electric Question ; for Carolina. . LARGE AUDIENCE APPLAUDS WORK OF PLMAKERS Spartanburg Folk Pleased With Plays; Critic Lauds Carolina Players Highly. Last night in Gerrard hall one of the most .interesting forensic clashes staged in Chapel Hill in recent years took place between teams representing the University of North Carolina and Marquette University. At the time that the Tar Heel went press the decision had not been ren dered. ' ' . . - The Tar Heel team composed of H. H. Hobgood, W. W. Speight, and J. C. Harris upheld the negative side of the proposition that the public should own and operate the hydro electric power plants of the United States. , The visitors chose to uphold the affirmative. A rather large crowd witnessed the debate. ' The visiting team attempted to es tablish the case of the affirmative by maintaining that public ownership and operation will result in lower prices on electric current to the peo ple as a whole and would break up wild profiteering resulting - from private ownership and monoply. The Marquette team contended that pub- Llic ownership - of the hydro-electric power plants of the United States would do away withmuch of the pre sent system of duplicated management operating through the cumbersome processes of judicial procedure. More over, they were of the opinion that public ownership would substitute for private managements, which . more and more are becoming self -perpetuat ing institutions, managements directly responsible to a government represent ing all the people and, in part to non politic groups. On these grounds the Marquette . team claimed that public ownership would result in a benefit to all the people. . This, the visitors declared to be a legitimats function of government. V .. The Carolina aggregation defended private ownership in "terms of the the contention that the United States government has been habitually unsuc cessful in the field of progressive en terprise. They maintain that govern ment is stifling to individual initia tive and, therefore, a curse to the peo ple. The main contention of the nega tive aggregation centered, around the contention that the function of govern ment is to referee the game of busi ness rather than to play it. DEBATE TRYOUTS THURSDAY NIGHT Subject for Debate Is the World . Court Question. already fulfilling several dozens of Producer Kahn's expectations. Not only can they glide in perfect unison with themselves and Malone's jnusic, but when in a jocular mood they are able to dance to the sound of Flo Flo Farriday's fast-moving, gum-popping jaws, and she's some hot popper! ' The members of the girls' chorus, Misses Moore, McKinney, Falkener, Forester, and Lawrence, haven't been a bit slow in getting their -dancing muscles unlimbered, but they can also sing like Spanish nightingales. "And what music they do .have up there to demonstrate their abilities on! Al Kahn and Wex Malone wrote it every bit, and everybody who has heard it swears that those two young-fellers have written the best tunes and lyrics they have ever done together. Those who were " impressed wijh the music of last year's show should be shaken 'Continued on page four) The try-outs for the coming debates with the University of Texas and Emory University will be held Thurs day night, at 7 : 30 in fcOl Murphy. In consideration of the fact that both of these debates will be held at Chapel Hill officials of the Debate Council are as yet undecided as to whether to pick one team, for both debates, or one team for each debate. This will depend almost entirely upon the show ing of the candidates for the team. In both of the' aforementiond de bates Carolina will uphold the nega tive side of the proposition that the United States should enter the World Court without reservations. . Senior Engineers Visit Steel Plant The senior class in Civil Engineer ing visited Roanoke, Virginia, last Friday. and inspected the plants and shops of ' the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company in that city. The visiting students were shown through the jshdps, and the various methods and processes in operation were explained to them in detail They examined the machinery used in construction work and were given an opportunity to see much of it in operation. - They were conducted by employees of the company who dei scribed in detail many of the prob lems of construction. The Virginia Bridge and Iron Com pany is one of the largest organiza tions of its kind in the country, and has offices and plants in every section of the nation. It specializes in steel construction work. T,his trip was ar ranged through the efforts of Dean G, M. Braune and Professor G. Wallace Smith, of the School of Engineering. , By GEORGE EHRHART Staff Correspondent Greenville, S. C., February 18 The. University of North Carolina Play makers now on their twenty-second tour, arrived here from Spartinburg today after a two hundred and twenty 1 TTi X !! i 1 mne trip irom j ayettevuie mrouga fog and rain. ; Despite adverse weather conditions the North Carolina organization, played to a capacity audience in Spartinburg Saturday. . The three plays being presented by the group are all representative of Carolina life as it is lived in the mill sections and the rural districts of the Carolinas.' "Job's Kinfolks" included in the repertoire of the Play- makers, has been given the greatest ovation of the three that are being presented by the troupe. The casts of the three one-act plays have achieved unusual popularity with their audiences. Despite their short time on the road, fan-mail has begun to pour in for the individual members of the company. This clipping from the Greenville Piedmont illustrates the 'popularity the Playmakers are achieving on the tour: - ' . LITTLE THEATRE'Say, I sure would like to see three more plays like that." ; - " Continued on page four) COTILLION CLUB : Officials of Club Ask for s New: Members. A cotillion club composed of gradu ate students and instructors enter tained at a Valentine dance Saturday night in Smith building. The dance was held in the main lobby and the dining room of the building. They were" decorated with red streamers and artistic cuts of valentines. The. music for the dance was furnished by Jack Wardlaw and his Orchestra, and was especially ap propriate' for the occasion. " During the period of intermission, punch was served to the members of the club and their guests. This dance was the first to be held by the new club, which was only re cently organized among the members o the Graduate Club and the in structors. The club has made plans to stage two more dances during the remainder of the scholastic year. All graduate students and instructors who are interested in becoming mem bers of the club are asked by the of ficials of the club to see either D. R. Ergle, Charles Albert Moore, or Bob Linker in Smith Building as soon as possible. " - .. Dialectic Senators . Plan To Dance In ; A Splendid Fashion m The Dialectic Senate meets tonight to discuss the following resolutions: "Resolved, That the Dialectic Senate go on record as favoring the abolition of chapel for Sophomores." In-jcon-sideration of the fact that this bill has been on the calendar for several weeks interest in the matter is run ning high. Heated discussions on both sides of the issue are expected when the senators vie with each other tonight. , . At the last regular meeting of the society definite plans were laid for holding a dance on the night of March 2 in the Di Hall, New West Building. Bids are now ready for; distribution upon payment of the individual as sessment of one dollar, which the senate voted upon itseii to. partiauy bear the expenses of the dance. It is estimated that at least one hun dred persons can be accommodated by the Di Hall. From a standpoint of dress the. affair will be strictly formal. Honorary members of the senate will , be allowed to participate one dollar assessment. In addition, several honorary bids, will be given out. . ; . - Alex Mendenhall's orchestra will furnish the music.