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-io Libr TT. . . t Chapel HiU? c"a Carolinat "MUM'S THE WORD" TONIGHT MEMORIAL HALL VOLUME XXXVII Vyiir Viix iO'iii. Tirol's THE WORD TONIGHT MEMORIAL HALL CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929 NIBIBER 62 SAYS JUDICIAL SYSTEM CUSSED ON EVERY HAND Tells Law Fraternity of the Failings of the Legal Profession. W. J. Brogden of Durham, Asso ciate Justice of the Supreme Court -of North Carolina, was chief speaker at the meeting of the Phi Alpha Del ta law fraternity, following its ini tiation exercises, which were held "Thursday night.. Judge Brogden began his talk, with the statement that today we hear cussings on every hand concerning -our judicial .system. They cuss the courts: they cuss the judges; they cuss the juries and everyone else con nected with the judicial system. "Our courts in North Carolina to day offer the most simple and con cise system that can be obtained. One party simply files a paper stating "that another has done him wrong. The other files his paper denying the charges, and then the parties proceed to trial. "We are today in an age of stand ardization; men and women must have a degree. The high schools, colleges, and law schools are all made to con ; iorm to a certain standard. "There is a difference in law ob servance and law enforcement. Our trouble today is a ' lack of law ob- servance. "Delay in the proceedings of the law is criticised. The reason is con gested dockets. One remedy that has been suggested is to limit the right of appeal. Some states have already taken a step towards this, !; butt in North Carolina we grew up with the idea that every case, no matter how small, should be tried by the same tribunal that hears the highest cases . "Another suggestion is to increase the number of judges. In. 1889 our Supreme Court1 heard .508 - appeals. Now we hear 800 per year. "During the year 1926-27 there were 13,892 criminal cases tried in North Carolina. Of this number only about eleven per cent were acquitted. This makes the odds are nine to one against the man who defends. , ! "Stand by the courts of your state. They must not yield too much to the pressure from the outside. They must stand as an unchanging guaran ty that the humblest as well as the greatest may, with equal deliberation, and with equal justice, share the ma chinery of the law together with its progress. Preserve, hold to, and cher ish the ideals of justice." Appropriate Funds To Improve Campus The Legislature last week passed a bill which gives the grounds committee of the University $30,000 to be used in work on the campus during the next two years. The larger part of this, says Dr.(W. C. Coker of the com mittee, will be used on South Campus, and the work will soon be begun on this area. Grading will be done, the railroad tracks will be removed, and a labyrinth of paths connecting the buildings will be laid out. The grounds committee has just had some of the unsightly footpaths on the campus dug up and planted in grass, and Dr. Coker says that he hopes this will be the (last time this work will have to be done. However, he is not optimistic over the prospects, for these trails are replanted and worn smooth again about twice a year. Greensboro Girls To Hear Dr. Chase Dr. Harry W. Chase will go to Greensboro today to speak to the stu dents of N. C. C. W. at their chapel hour at twelve o'clock. His subject has not yet been announced. It is expected that a large number of Greensboro people in addition to the college girls will be present to hear Dr. Chase. , Scientific Society Will Hold Meeting The Elisha Mitchell Scientific So ciety will meet tonight in Phillips hall at 7:30. Dean G. M. Braune, of the Engineering school, will explain the recent tests on the Yadkin river bridge. Professor J. F. Dashiell, of the Psychology department, will speak on "The Effect of Emotional Excite ment upon Rational Behavior." Phoebe Harding ill ::. ; Ws.-.v.',rs y, X---. Y yyyyyy.-fi-yyyyyyyyyy.yyyy Drawing by Skinner Phoebe Harding, who as Gloria Dane, is the heroine of "Mum's the Word,"new Wigue and Masque pro duction which will be given in Mem orial Hall tonight. GLEE CLUB IS GHLY PRAISED Give Concert at Meeting of , Southern Musical Educa tion Conference. Debate Over Radio , The University of North Carolina, Glee Club, just recently returned from their second appearance in Asheville during the last two weeks, left in their. wake much enthusiasm among the Asheville townspeople and visitors over the concert which they gave there on Wednesday night. Appear ing jointly with Mieczyslaw Munz, masterful Polish pianist of the Cin cinnati Conservatory of Music, they called forth much applause and com ment among the large crowd of na tional musicians gathered for the bien nial Southern Musical Conference. In cluded in the number of invited guests that thronged the hugh Civic Audi torium were 400 " music teachers, re presenting every southern state, 400 high school boys and girls from all the states of the South, and 75 of the most prominent musicians of the north and middle west. Owing to the length of the evening's program, ho encores were given by the Glee Club, although many were, demanded! Other high lights in the conference which the Glee Club attended were the All Southern High School Orchestra and Choral Meetings which featured Fri day night's program. The former or ganization included 150 juvenile musi cians and the latter 265 voices of ex cellent quality. Among the speakers on the week's program were Profes sor Paul John Weaver and Dr. N. W. Walker, both of the University of North Carolina, Dr. Walker spoke on "Music Credits in the Colleges and Universities in the Southern States," while Professor Weaver spoke on "A Revised High School Music Credit Plan." Alpha Psi Delta To Ifold Meeting Alpha Psi Delta, Psychological fra ternity, will hold its regular monthly meeting in New West building at 7 :30 Wednesday evening. Dr. L. ,L. Ber nard will present a paper on "At titudes and Redirection' of Behavior"; Dr. Rupert Vance will review the symposium on emotions which . was held at Wittenberg College last year. Two book reviews will also be given.1 Mr. G. B. Dimmick will discuss "Studies in Deceit" by Hartshorn and May; Mr. L. M. Brooks will review Pavlov's work on conditional reflexes. In addition he will give a biographical sketch of this scientist. , " Delta Theta Phi Takes in New Men There will be a radio debate between" the University of Vir ginia and the University of North Carolina in Richmond dur ing the last week in April. The query is "Resolved, That national advertising as now carried on is socially and economically harm ful." ...No decision as to which side Carolina will take has yet been reached. ' Besides this radio debate, which will be the first for Carolina de baters, the University also has a debate with Harvard scheduled to be held here April 9. BAGBY TO TALK TO DEBATE SQUAD Will Discuss Psychological As pects of Loyalty in Ameri-r can Colleges. ; The Delta Theta Phi legal frater nity announces the initiation of the following men on Friday, March 8: Dallas L. Russell, Hickory, N. C; Alvin T. Ward, Asheville, N. C; Edi son E. Collins, Waxhaw, N. C; Hor ace S. Hayes, Gates, N. C; and Mar tin Kellogg, Jr., Sunbury, N. C. Notice All freshman candidates desiring to try out for the freshman baseball team are asked to report at the stadium Tuesday March 12 at 3 p. m. Andy Mcintosh i mi, yWyyyymmW - : - t y h W- '.V.. "-. Professor English Bagby, of the de partment Of Psychology, will speak at the regular weekly meeting of the debate class Thursday night in 201 Murphey at 7:30- Professor Bagby will discuss the psychological aspects of the proposition that loyalty is the curse of the American colleges. In consideration of the fact that this will be the last meeting of the class before the try-out for the team which will meet Harvard, he expects to con fine his address almost entirely to the negative side of the proposition. The Carolina team will uphold this side f of the argument. j The squad which will represent Carolina against Harvard will be chosen on the night of March 28. The competitive system will be used. The team will be composed of two men. The usual debate squad requirement will.be enforced; that is, no student shall be eligible for the team who is not an active member of the organization.- Law students are eligible for the team. ' Harvard's . unrivaled prestige Hn forensic activities together with the fact that Carolina and Harvard have not met in a debate for a number of years has created a great deal of in terest in this particular debate which will be held in Chapel Hill on the night of April 9. . Anthropologist Pays Visit To University Dr. Paul Kirchoff of the North American Department of the State Museum of Ethnology at Berlin, Ger many, has been at the University of North Carolina for the past few days. Dr. Kirchoff came to the United States in December of the past year for the purpose of studying the Indian Life of North America. He is con nected with the Rockefellow Founda tion and is travelling through the southern part of the United States in search" of material on Indian life. He recently visited the Catawba Indians of South Carolina and is now inter ested in the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. Dr. Kirchoff 's work is along the line of cultural anthro pology. Dr. Kirchoff arrived in Chapel Hill Saturday, afternoon and is stay ing for a few days for a view of the life of the University of North Caro lina. Debate Council To , Hold Business Meet There will be a business meeting of the Debate Council Wednesday night, March 13, at 8:30 ; in 201 Mur phey. The purpose of the meeting is to formulate plans for next year's program of debates. . At 9:00 there will be a meeting of all men who are interested in de bating. The meeting will be held in the same room. The president of the Debate Council is anxious to get in touch with all students of the Univer sity who intend to take any part in the forensic activities of the Univer sity during the collegiate year 1929 1930. Thief Is Caught Robert Guthrie, colored, was ar rested Friday for housebreaking and larceny of a ham and a crate of eggs from. Mrs. Daniels' boarding house. The evidence was very conclusive, and Guthrie was bound over to Superior court. ; The scarcity of work in this section has led to an outbreak of petty thiev ing, and many other thefts of house hold articles have been reported. Drawing by Skinner Andy Mcintosh, who plays the part of Bull, the president of Beta Beta Beta, in "Mum's the Word," new Wigue and Masque production now playing in Memorial Hall. MAKE PLANS FOR Athletes Will Gather - at Uni versity April 18-19. Announcement has been made by E. R. Rankin of the Extension Divi sion that the Seventeenth annual inter-scholastic track meet for North Carolina high schools will be held at Chapel Hill on April 19, and the fourteenth annual inter-scholastic tennis tournament will be held here on" April 18 and 19. The events of the track meet and the tennis tourn ament will be open only to members of the High School Athletic Associa tion of North Carolina. No man may enter more than four events in the track meet. No school may enter more than one in the ten nis singles and more than two men in the doubles. Suitable trophies will be awarded the schools winning the tennis tournament and the track meet. Individual awards will be made to the participants of the track meet. The same eligibility rules, that ap ply to the Southern Collegiate con ference will be enforced in all the contests. Schools entering students in the contests must file entrance blanks with, the executive secretary showing that the students are in good health, have passed over half their academic work, and are bona fide students of the schools which they represent. To the school winning the greatest number of points in the track meet there will be, presented a large tro phy1 cup: First ,, place in a contest will count 5, second place 3, third 2, and fourth 1. The relay race will not count in the scoring. The track events w"hich will be held are: 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard run, 880-yard run, one mile run, 120-yard low hurdles, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, 12-pound shot ' put, discus throw, javelin throw, and relay race. Many High Schools In French Contest Over 100 schools have entered over 1500 students in the annual state high school French contest which will be conducted by the University Ex tension division. Papers, have been sent out to the schools entering and the contest will be given Friday. The school submitting the best paper will be, given a loving cup by, the Exten sion division. Those schools submit ting the next best papers will be given honorable mention. The pa pers will be graded by the professors in the French department here. Date Changed Dean Addison Hibbard, chairman of. the entertainment committee,- an nounced yesterday that the date of the Gina Pinnera engagement has been changed from April 4th to April 8th. ' Pretlow Visits Campus Pat Pretlow, of Wilmington, was a visitor on the campus, Sunday. Pret low was prominently connected with campus, publications and the Play makers while at the University. He is now working in Kingsport, Tenn; Order of Grail To Give Four Dances In Spring Quarter The Order of the Grail will hold four dances during the Spring Quarter, according to an announcement made recently by Winfield Crew, president of ; the Order. These dances will be held at intervals of two weeks.from April 6 to May 18. -The first dance will be held; on ; April 6, the second on April . - 20, the third on May 4, and the fourth and laston May 18. It has been the custom of the Grail . to stage only three dances dur ing each of the quarters, but one of the dances scheduled for this quarter was postponed on. account, of the proximity of ; the final examinations for the quarter. ' The dance which was postponed will be included in the program for the Spring Quarter. EDUCATION PROFS PRESENT PAPERS Knight and Trabue Attend Big Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. At the regular meeting of the Na tional Association of Superintendence which was held in Cleveland, Ohio, last week, Professors M. R. Trabue and Edgar W. Knight, of the School of Education, presented papers on educational history and the value of research. Mr. Knight, addressed the National Society of College Teachers. of Educa tion, a division of the National .As sociation of Superintendence. :;.His address concerned certain phases of American educational history, and centered around the work of Stephen B. Weeks. Weeks is a graduate of the University, and connected him self with the United , States Bureau of Education, and specialized in his tory. His collection of historical ma terials is at present in possession of the University. Mr. Trabue presented a paper at the fourth general - session of the Society. The paper dealt with Uni versity research work and its value to public school administration, and described the methods by which this work is enabled to aid the public schools. Mr. Trabue, in his paper, asserted that the University through its conduct of research work renders great service to the people of the state. This convention was composed of a large number of educators from over the country. A large number of persons connected with the Uni versity attended the convention. Those present declare jthat the varied program was especially good. Bernard To Talk at Washington U. L.. L. Bernard, of the Sociology de partment of the University of North Carolina, has recently accepted an of fer to teach at the Summer School of the University of Washington, at Seattle. . , - . Mr. Bernard will leave immediately after delivering two lectures at the University of Utah Summer school on June 11 and 12. At the first 'term of the Summer School . at Washington, Mr. Bernard will conduct classes on European So ciology and Personality. During the second term he will teach courses on American, Sociology and1 Institutions. Alumnus Pays Visit Ralph Cain, of Winston-Salem and a graduate of the University was a recent visitor here- Cain will be re membered by his many friends in the University, as being one of the most prominent of, Carolina's former students. He was president of the Pan-Hellenic Council, and president of the Glee Club. Cain has recently been transferred back to Winston Salem front Birmingham where he accepted a position immediately upon his graduation from the University. Teachers Notice AH person? who plan to leave the University at the close of the Winter Quarter and who intend to teach or who will need the as sistance of the Teachers' Bureau are requested to see either Dean Walker or Mr. Macintosh in Peahody Hall before they leave. STATE STUDENTS PAY IN CASH FOR CUTTING CLASSES Recent Ruling of Faculty Causes Much Adverse Criticism from Techmen. That every student who misses a class without an excuse shall be re quired to pay a fine of fifty cents was a plan adopted by the general faculty of North Carolina State Col lege at a meeting on March 2. It is hoped that the scholarship of the in stitution will be raised thereby. The plan also rules that a student shall either make up or receive a zero pn all written work missed for any reason, the make-up work to be done under the supervision of an ad vanced student or an instructor ap proved by the department that the work is in. Furthermore, a fee of fifty cents will be charged for the make-up unless the absence is ex cused by the dean of students, and this fee will be one dollar if the stu- dent fails to present himself for the work, unless the absence is excused by the instructor in the course. There has been much adverse criti cism of the plan, the students are radically opposed to it, and some have , even said that they would leave the school if such a plan was put into effect. It appears that they will have to leave, for, according to Presi dent Brooks, the plan will go into effect at the beginning of the third term, March 14, 1929. Chase To Address Carolina Alumni 5 In Rocky Mount Dr. Harry W. Chase of the Univer sity, will go to Rocky Mount Friday night where he will speak before a gathering of Carolina alumni at. a dinner sponsored by the Rocky Mount Alumni club. Dr. Chase will speak on the subject of the "University's Next Ten Years." The dinner will take place at the Benvenue country club. There will be in attendance Caro lina alumni from Tarboro, Nashville, Wilson, and Rocky Mount. Fred L. Carr, of Wilson, will introduce Dr. Chase. J. Maryon Saunders, alumni secretary, will attend the meeting and will make a short talk. Doc Wimberly, '25, is president .of the Rocky Mount club; Cam Arring ton, '22, is vice-president; and Tom Pearsall, '27, is secretary-treasurer. Graham Talks to For sythe Alumni Professor Frank P. Graham spoke before the Forsythe county Alumni club at a banquet held in Winston Salem Friday night at the country, club. Over sixty University alumni were present from Winston and sur rounding territory. The ' election of new off icers took place following Mr. Graham's address. Those elected were John C. Whitaker, '12, president, John E. Norf leet, '23, vice-president, and Bailey tiiipf ert, '22, secretary and treasurer. The outgoing president W. F. Shaffner, '90, presided at the meet ing. ' McCullen To Speak Here This Morning; Mr. . J. B. McCullen, equipment en gineer of the New Jersey Bell Tele phone Company of Newark, N. J. will speak in chapel this morning , on the subject "The Type of Man Business Is Looking For." Mr. McCullen is at present visiting the different colleges interviewing men who may be interested in going into the telephone work. He was at Duke Saturday, and yesterday he had interviews with several Carolina stu dents. ' . The chapel exercises today will be the last until the beginning of next quarter. Weaver To Attend. Music Conference Professor Paul John Weaver leaves today for Philadelphia, where he will spend the remainder of the week at tending the Eastern Music Super-; visor's Conference. While there he will read a paper prepared for the oc casion and confer with officials of the organization, ' relative to the Music Supervisor's Journal, of which he is editor, and which is the journal of the conference.