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VOLUME XXXVII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929
NUMBER 75
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Paris
ruder Lauds
Peace Treaty
Admi
The
In Chapel" Address Here
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"Stormy Petrel of Navy' Sur
prises Audience by Stating
"I am Apostle of Peace'
T5y MARION ALEXANDER
"That the pact of Paris is the great
est step yet made for world peace,
was the unqualified assertion of
Rear Admiral T. P. Magruder in an
address in Memorial Hall yesterday
jnorning. . - -.
The Paris treaty, declared Admiral
"Magruder, "is going to be a land
mark in the world's history. It is
going to have a much' greater in
fluence, in the f uture than we -.think
now." And he explained that it was
the greatest step for world peace "be
cause it gives the people the right to
exercise their influence with their
governments for world peace."
Admiral Magruder's eulogy- of the
Pact of Paris came unexpectedly. He
came, here advertised as the "stormy
petrel" of the Navy, a fighting man
decorated for gallantry numbers of
times during his 40-year service. The
large audience oi students,' faculty
and towns-people who gathered in Me
morial Hall to hear him were expect
ing to hear a fighting message, the
"'bigger and better navy" type.
It was a complete surprise, there
fore, when Admiral Magruder calmly
stated at the outset that "I am an
apostle f of peace, because I have seen
"war at first hand," and followed by
pointing to the horrors of the last
war, expressing the view that another
war would be the end of civilization,
and proceeding to eulogize the much
discussed, and oft, criticized Peace
.Pact. .
Peace was the central theme of the
admiral's address. He did stress sea
power and its vital import to the
.nation, showing how all through his
tory and dominent nation had always
controlled the seas. But his argument
for a powerful navy for the United
;States was solely to protect our
fights and the freedom of the seas
-when warring nations threatened
. them, as in the World War, and to
make us self-sufficient in carrying
;and marketing the great volume of
,our products throughout the world.
Beyond this the fighting man urged
peace, briefly sketching the movement
for world peace and centering his at
tention on the recently signed Pact
pf Paris.
"The Pact," he explained, "means
that we have renounced war as a
course of national policy, that any
dispute we have we must settle by
pacific means."
There are those in America who op
posed the treaty, he said, because they
feared the wording of the treaty meant
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Junior Prom Will
Be Battle of Music
A stiff "Battle of Music" will be
one of the features of, the Junior
Prom to be held in Bynum Gymna
sium Friday night, May 3, from
9 till 1, according to Dick Win
borne, Chairman of the Junior
Executive Committee.
Jack Wardlaw. and his Orches
tra and Alex MendemhaH's Tar
Heel Boys will vie with one .an
other for honors at the gala affair
which promises to be one of the
best dances on the Hill this seasons
For the past twelve months, since
the organization of these two or
chestras, there has been bitter
rivalry between them and the
showdown will come when they
lock horns at the formal affair of
the Juniors'. Both are confident of
victory.
The officers of the Junior Class
are making every effort possible to
put the dance across in a success
ful manner and urse that all
Juniors cooperate; by inviting girls.
RADIO DEBATE
WITH VIRGINIA
Will Be the First Debate over
Radio to Be Staged in
This Section.
CONTRACTS LET
FOR FRAT HOUSES
Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa
Phi Will Build New
Houses.
The Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa
Phi fraternities, national social fra
ternities, have recently let contracts
for the erection of two large frater
nity houses. These houses are to be
situated on route 54, . the . Pittsborp
highway, and will form the nucleus
of a proposed new fraternity row.
Construction was begun on the houses
a few days ago.
The Phi Delta Theta house will pro
vide accomodations for forty boys,
and the Pi Kappa Phi house will ac
comodate thirty-five boys. Plans call
for completion about - September 15,
in time for the opening of the fall
session. -
The two fraternities exchanged
their lots on the old fraternity row,
which is located on the edge of the
campus, with the University for the
two lots on the Pittsboro road. These
exchanges were brought about at a
recent meeting of the trustees com
mittee in charge of the land and Pro
fessor T. F. Hickerson, representing
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and
D. D. Carroll, representing the P.
Kappa Phi fraternity.
Faculty to Take Action
On New Frat Regulations
Frank Graham
Tar Heel and Cavalier forensic ar
tists meet in .Richmond Thursday
night to stage the first Carolina-Vir
ginia Radio Debate ever to be held.
Indeed, this will be the first radio
debate to occur in this section of the
country: The program will be broad
cast by station WRVA from 7:30 to
8:30.
J. C. Williams, of Linden and W.
W. Speight, of Spring Hope, repre
senting the University of North Caro
lina, will uphold the affirmative end
of the proposition that national- ad
vertising as it is now carried on is
both socially and. economically harm
ful. Both of these men have had con
siderable experience in the field of
forensic activity. "Williams broke in
to debating ranks at Carolina - last
year when he and Taylor Bledsoe de
feated the University of Alabama
team by successfully upholding the
affirmative side of "Resolved, That
Alfred E. Smith is preferable to Her
bert Hoover for the presidency of the.
United States." This will be his
ninth debate for Carolina. Speight
made his first appearance in the
Carolma-Marquette -Debate - jas
quarter in which the Carolina team
successfully upheld the negative side
of t "Resolved, That the public should
own and operate the hydro-electric
power plants of the United States."
Should this radio debate prove suc
cessful it is probable that the annual
Carolina-Virginia Debate will be
broadcast from Richmond every year.
There are some who think that thie
would make the debate more inter
esting due to the keen rivalry which
exists between the two" institutions
There will be no audiesce for the
debate in RichmoncU.Ea6'h .6f .the
four speakers of the debate will be
given ten minutes in which to deliver
a constructive speech. Then one
speaker from each of the two teams
will be given six minutes for a re
buttal speech. The entire . program
will not last for more than an hour.
ROANOKE RAPIDS
WINS DEBATING
CHAMPIONSHIP
Team Composed of Two Boys
Wins Aycock Cup by 3 to
2 Vote over Goldsboro.
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Committee on Fraternities Will
Request Action on Several
Proposed Regulations.
Professor Frank Graham (above)
of the history department, who has
recently done some notable work in
connection with the passage of the
Workmen's Compensation Act and
yitih the cotton mill strikes. He
spoke in chapel on the Compensa
tion Act last week, and he will ad
dress, Phi Alpha Delta, law school
fraternity, May 1.
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GRAIL HONORS
NEW MEMBERS
Absence of Disorderly Conduct
Features Best Grail Dance
of Season.
OyeiModesty Almost Cost Halifax
Youths the State Debating Crown
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High School Boys from Roanoke Rapids so Sure They Had no
Chance to Win in Semi-finals That They Went Joy-Riding
and earned Good News Almost Too Late.
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How' over-modesty almost cost the
two high school youths the state
championship in debating was re
leased here today.
The two slender lads from Roanoke
Rapids, winners of the Aycock Cup
in the finals at the State University
last Friday night, were so confident
that they would not win out in-the
semi-finals that afternoon that they
left the hall as soon as they had fin
ished their speeches and drove to
Durham to see some friends. It was
about an hour later before all the
teams competing in their section had
finished and the judges were ready to
pick the winning team on the affirma
tive side,
And lo and behold! the two youths
who had been selected could not be
found anywhere in Chapel Hill. Their
coach, Miss Powell, and supporters
frpm down in Halifax became almost
frantic as the hour for the final de
bate approached and there still was
no sign of them.
Meanwhile Floyd Adams and
Shearod Crumpler, the two boys who
won the Aycock Cup, had met in Dur
ham some friends from ' the "home
town" and were riding around having
a big time, with no thought that ariy
pf those judges would ever pick
them to enter the final debate that
night. There was no need to hurry
back to Chapel Hill, they thought.
Arid they might have been riding
around in Durham when their names
were called for the debase in Chapel
Hill that night had not they chanced
upon friends who had just come from
Chapel Hill.
"Well, who won out?" the Roanoke
Ropids youths inquired, almost dis
interestedly.
''Well, you ought to know," the
friends replied, thinking the Halifax
youths were pretending.
When Messrs Adams and Crump
ler were convinced, however, that
they had really won the right to com
pete in the finals that night, they
were almost flabbergasted and could
not fret back to Chapel Hill fast
enough.
They found their coach and well
wishers on the verge of sending out
a general alarm. Here it was almost
time for the last lap of the race to
begin and they had been galavanting
around Durham instead of getting
crood rest and being fresh for the
final effort that night! Holy smoke
How could any such folks ever hope
to win anything!
"We're sorry," the two youths ex
plained, "but after hearing the de
baters who preceded' us we didn't
think we had a chance in the world
to win: and that's why we left town
and didn't hurry about getting back."
Shearod Crumpler and Floyd
Adams, of - Roanoke Rapids, won the
high school debating championship of
North Carolina and the coveted Ay
cock Cup in the finals of the seven
teenth annual contest held in Memo
rial Hall Friday night. The victory
was the first for Roanoke Rapids.
The two Roanoke Rapids boys put
up an exhibition of excellent debating
to emerge as victors from the 780 de
baters from 195 North Carolina high
schools which began the first pre
liminaries of the contest a month ago.
The query of this year's debate
was: "Kesolved, That the United
States should enter the World Court."
Crumpler and Adams upheld the ne
gative side of the question.
The Roanoke Rapids team won the
Aycock Cup by virtue of their vic
tory over Edward Outlaw and Eleanor
Bizzell, of the Goldsboro High School.
The final vote of the five judges was
in favor of Roanoke Rapids by the
count of 3 to 2.
Dates Announced
For Completion
of Graduate Work
In a bulletin issued April 17 the
Graduate Office of the University
called attention of Department heads
to the dates set for the completion of
graduate work this spring as they ap
pear upon-the calendar of the Gradu
ate School. The last day of the
period for written examinations for
the degree of Master of Arts is set
for next Saturday, April 27. May 1st
is the last day for the submission of
theses by candidates for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy, and all Mas
ters' theses must be submitted on or
before May 11. This date is also the
last day on which written examina
tions for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy may be taken.
The Grail dance given in Bynum
J,Gymtiasium Saturday night in honor
of the new initiates of the . Order of
the Grail was considered the most
successful of the year by officials.
This was chiefly due to a strict limit
ing of the number of stags admitted,
and to the unusual number of girls
present for the affair. There was a
good crowd of out of town girls as
well as a great many co-eds and
Chapel Hill girls on the floor. .
. The affair got started shortly after
nine o'clock with Jack Wardlaw's or
chestra playing fast music and with
a fair number of dancers ready to go.
Couples continued to pour in stead
ily until about eleven.
The no-break period for Grail mem
bers came soon after the intermission,
at which time a surprising number of
old and new members were on the
floor with their partners.
Complete absence, of disorderly con
duct was a marked feature of the af
fair, it being one of the smoothest
running dances held here this sea
son. The officials experienced no
trouble whatsoever at the ticket booth,
at the door, or in the hall.
At the next meeting of the faculty,
the Committee on fraternities, com
posed of W. M. Dey, Chairman, W.
S. Bernard, F. F. Bradshaw, J. C,
Lyons, J. F. Royster, ani T. J. Wil
son, Jr.,. will request action on the
following proposed regulations
governing fraternities :
I. Scholarship: In order to be al
lowed to initiate new members in the
spring quarter, fraternity must at
tain a 3.50 (between C and D) aver
age in scholarship the preceding fall
quarter; if, however, any fraternity
does not attain such an average in the
fall quarter, it will be on probation
the winter quarter to raise its-aver
age to 3.50; and, provided this aver
asre is attained, may initiate in the
spring quarter.
II. Rushing of Freshmen: 1.
There shall be no rushing ei any kind
from the time that the freshmen ar
rive in Chapl Hill until one week
after the. first day of classes. (This
first period of silence includes, then,
what is commonly called "Freshman
Week," in addition to the first week
of classes.) 2. The period of rushing
shall extend from the beginning of the
Second week of classes (i.e., Sept. 27,
1929) to midnight, Oct1. 16; that is to
gay, a period of twenty days, 3. There
shall be a second period of silence ex
tending from midnight, Oct. 16 to
6 P. M., Oct, 18. 4. Rushing shall be
restricted to the fraternity houses and
it shall be limtied to the hours of 2
to 9 P. M., except on the last night of
the period of rushing (Oct, 16), when
the time shall be extended to midnight.
No freshman shall be allowed in fra
ternity houses and no fraternity man
hall be allowed in a freshman's room
outside Of 4h "abpve-mentioned hours.
In view of th fact that these pro
posed rules governing ffaternitjr rush
ing will be brought up at the next
meeting of the faculty, the following
information secured by the dean of
students in regard to fraternity
scholarship, are of interest:
I. When fraternities could not in
itiate freshmen and some rushing
continued through the entire freshman
year fraternity scholarship was some
times below and sometimes slightly
above the academic average. Since
the abandonment of the "one year
rule" in the fall of 1923 the frater
nity average has always been above
the academic average. The difference
in favor of fraternity average has
fluctuated in amount but has gradual
ly increased during the six years, the
increase usually being accelerated
each time the rushing period is fur
ther shortened. This fall quarter the
fraternity average was higher than
in any other fall quarter during the
decade save one (fall of 1925).
II. One hundred and three colleges
and universities having fraternities
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LOCAL MEN TALK
AT COLLEGIATE
PRESS MEETING
Graves and Hibbard Deliver Ad
dresses; Jarrett of Davidson
New President of Association.
Concluding a three day .session with
Greensboro College as host, the North
Carolina Collegiate Press Association
brought its nineteenth semi-annual
convention to a close Saturday with
the election of Robert Jarrett, editor
of the Davidson Chameleon, school
magazine, as president to succeed
Walter Spearman. Lenoir-Rhyne
was selected as the meeting place for
the twentieth convention of the group.
Other officers elected were William
Dixon of N. C. State as vice-president,
Miss Margaret Blanton of Queens,
second vice-president, Eleanor Cov
ington of Meredith, secretary, and
Garland McPherson, business mana
ger of the Buccaneer, treasurer.
Louis Graves editor of the Chapel
Hill Weekly was the chief speaker at
the closing session Saturday. He told
the group some practical things about
running and editing a small town
weekly paptr. Leaving the matter of
opportunities for public services, the
power of the press, and the chances to
mould nubile oninion to the other
speakers, Mr. Graves dealt with labor
problems, advertising, typesetting,
typography, property values, and the
types of news. He told of some of his
experiences in making his weekly suc
cessful. f ,
Dean Addison Hibbard was the
chief speaker at the meeting Friday
morning when he discussed the place
of criticism on the college campus,
Mr. Hibbard plead for a little more"
thoughtfulness, a little more tolerance,
and a little more profoundness in col
lege criticism, "Too ofteth" he said,
"we have the campus politician id tbi
criticism, have the college esthete
write the sport stories, and leave the
editorial work to whoever will do it."
Mr. Hibbard classified most college
criticism as impressionistic. This has
no intrinsic value, he thinks, as the
majority of college students do not
have a sufficient background for their
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Grail Members Drive Visitor From
Initiation Banquet When He Begins
To Denounce Order and University
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Aubrey Perkins, Ray Farris, Mac Gray and Several Others Get All
Het up" and Insult Speaker When He Assails
the Grail and the University.
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By Henry Anderson j
The final get-together banquet of
the Order of the Grail, held at the
Carolina Inn last Saturday evening
was suddenly changed from a gather
ing of harmonious spirits to one of
verbal and near-physical encounters
when several members took exception
to remarks of a faculty member of a
northern university, who had been
visiting the University of North
Carolina for the past week, and who
had been invited to speak to the or
ganization. The guest was forced to
withdraw from the meeting because
of alleged insults by students.
The visitor, whose identity is not di
vulged, by request, was introduced by
Dr. Horace Williams as a gentleman
whose interest in the work of the Uni
versity of North Carolina and the
spirit of the student body had brought
him to Chapel Hill to study the stu
dent body and the various student or
ganizations on the campus.
Preceeding this introduction the
newly initiated members of the orga
nization had recounted their acts of
clowning on the campus as part of the
initiation " horse play."
The visitor, Col. , prefaced his
talk with expressions of friendliness
and appreciation to his hosts, but his
expressions were immediately turned
to what the students considered the
opposite extreme. He quoted as say
ing "The name of your University
and the work the Grail is striving for
on this campus has brought me to
Chapel Hill. But frankly and al
though you may not like nor appre
ciate what I ami -going to say I have
been thoroughly disappointed.
came here intending to ask your help
m beginning a work, on the cam
pus of my University similar to your
efforts here, of. which 1 had been in
formed, but if the spirit and the acts
of these new men in "shining" and
making asses of themselves on the
campus is typical, I want none of such
an organization. . What are you men
here doing for the campus just at
a-time when other schools are draw
ing away your best men, when a near
by university is threatening your
eminence? It used to be that you had
big men here, but you are fast losing
them. What have you now to offer?
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REVIEWERS LIKE
BILLS PRESENTED
BY PLAYMAKERS
Nashville and Asheville Critics
Praise Work of Carolina Play
ers on Annual Western Tour.
The Carolina Playmakers now on
their twenty-third tour, gave a ma
tinee ad evening performance in
Nashville, Tenn., Friday night. The
group was forced to travel all Thurs
day night in order to get from John
ston City to Nashville.
In reviewing the performance the
Nashville Tennessean praised the
group as the "true torch bearers."
Concerning the acting of Hubert
Heffner, associate director of the
Playmakers, who played the leading
part in "The Man Who Died at
Twelve O'Clock" the paper said, "The
moment he made his staggering en
trance into the cabin and laughed the
senile cackle of ribald old age, the
audience knew that an actor was at
hand.
"Heffner dominated the scene.
When he yelled for mercy, the crowd
rocked. His was no slapstick comedv.
It was genuine portrayal of what we
have all seen the superstitious negro
do and have laughed at. - -"Helen
Dortch made a convincing
granddaughter, and Howard Bailey
rwas a properly frightened lover, but
neither gave any promise of what they
were to do in later plays. Heffner
held the stage, and properly so."
"The Lie" the first play by. Wil
kerson O'Connell, the paper charact
erized as "interesting not as drama,
but as lore. The blunt speech, the
Continental dress and the stark situa
tions which often confronted the re
volutionary colonists were presented
in minature.
The Tennessean continued: "The
climax of the evening came with Paul
Green's second play, 'Quare Medicine.
If Hubert Heffner was good as a ri
bald old negro in the first show, he
was excellent as Old Man Jernigan.
"Howard Bailey, who had already
been a nigger boy and a preacher,
was a most convincing faith healer.
He was wise and he was solemn. He
was perfect after his kind."