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VOLUME XXXVII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929
NUMBER 88
Local Radio Men Operate Own
Broadcasting Station on Campus
Smiley, Rose, and Griffin Oper
ate Station as Part of Naval
Communication Reserve.
Although many of the features of
the University have had quite a bit
of publicity, there remains one that
is relatively well known to' radio ama
teurs but which has had little or no
rpress notice. The reference is to
;amateur radio station, W4WE, which
lias been in communication with sta
tions in all the continents and in 50
countries. The station, which is
operated by T. B. Smiley, instructor
in electrical engineering, and George
Rose and T Griffin, graduate stu
dents, has carried on two way com
munications from latitude 65 degrees
.north to latitude 79 degrees south and
all the way around the world. This
includes the majority of the earth's
surface, and the only reason there has
laeen no exchange of messages with
stations in the rest of the world is
that there are no stations there.
Not only is the station known be
cause of its activities in long distance
-work, but it is also one of the few
stations which operate on all of the
amateur wave bands. The station has
a license from the Federal Radio Com
mission, which gives it permission to
work the bands of 160, 80, 40 20, and
.10 meters wave length.
The station is a part of the Naval
Communication Reserve, and Mr.
; Smiley holds the rank of Lieutenant
in the Naval Reserve. This reserve
was created by the government to
serve the nation during time of war.
Mr. Smiley has charge of the fifth
section of the fifth district, fwhich in
cludes North Carolina, in which there
are four 'station members of he
Radio reserve.
Last winter the Radio Corporation
.of America gave the University sta
tion a 200 watt transmitter, and a
generator to operate the set. This
. transmitter has an arrangement
-whereby the wave length can be in
stantly changed to any of four dif
ferent ones by turning a lever. It is
also so arranged that it can be used
as a C. W., an A. C. W., or a tele
phonic transmitter.
The latest addition to the station
is a television set, built by T. Griffin,
one of the operators. With the set it
is sometimes possible to see the images
of the people at. the broadcasting
station. As yet the set has not been
very successful, but when one con
siders that television is still in its in
fancy, such as radio was 20 years ago,
expected.
extremely successful results cannot be
Mr. Smiley stated that in its present
form television will never be a success,
but that probably someone would dis
cover a radical change which will
make it practical. As an example of
this same thing he cited the invention
of the vacuum tube, which revolution
ized radio and made the present-day
.sets possible.
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Notice
There will be a meeting of all
men interested in applying for
positions on next year's , business
staff of the Buccaneer tonight at
7:15 in the Buccaneer Office in the
basement of Alumni Building.
H.N.PATTERSON,
Bus. Mgr. Buccaneer
FR0SH COUNCIL TO
BANQUET TONIGHT
Annual Banquet Will Be Held
at Methodist
Church. "
DANCE COMMITTEE
SUSPENDS THREE
ORGANIZATIONS
Executive Committee of Ger
man Club Takes Action
Against Student Organiza
tions for Not Reporting.
RUSSELL FAVORS
ADULT EDUCATION
President of Association for
Adult Education Speaks Tues
day to Meeting.
The annual banquet of the Fresh
man Friendship Council will be held
at the Methodist church at 6:30 to
night. Prof. H. D. Meyer of the So
ciology department will be the chief
speaker of the evening.
This banquet serves as the climax
to the year's work and is one of four
held each year. Music will -be fur
nished at the banquet by the Fresh
man Council quartet which is com
posed of: W. F. Humphries, J. C. Con
nolly, Steve Lynch, and J. E. Miller.
This quartet has filled more than
thirty engagements during the past
year and has sung over several radio
stations? Its members have also serv
ed as an important addition ,to the
Y. M. C. A's deputation teams.
. Retiring officers of the year are:
Clarence Phoenix, president; Glenn
Mock, vice-president, L. T. Gupton,
secretary, and J. E. Dungan, treasur
er., The officers for next year are:..
J. E. Dungan, president; F. M. James,
vice-president; J. D. MacNairy,
secretary; Craig Wall, treasurer; and
W. M. Bliss, critic. .
Tickets for the banquet are on sale
by members of the Council, at the Y.
M. C. A. and by Harry Finch at 213
Old West, who is serving as chair
man of the committee. v
Murchison Receives Aid
From Science Council
At the Tuesday night meeting of the
executive committee of the German
Club following a week-end of unusual
social activity on the Hill, a regret
able number of cases involving breach
es of German Club decorum were
handled.
Due to the failure of its dance com
mittee to report to the German Club
officials, the Acacia fraternity was
forbidden to sponsor any social
functions during the next school year.
The committees of the Senior
Dance and the Triangular Prep School
Dance have been suspended until a
proper report of their functions have
been made.
s
In the case of individuals under the
influence of intoxicants, four were
suspended until January' 1, 1930;
three were suspended until the spring
quarter of 1930; and one through the
final dances of 1930. These suspen
sions are inclusive of all dances given
in Chapel Hill. '
FORDHAM LEADS
YOUNG LAWYERS
Greensboro Student Wins Schol
arship and Law Review
-.w Prize. : ;
First Presentation of "Rip Van
Winkle" To Be Given Tomorrow
Night by Carolina Playmakers
C. T. Murchinson, professor of
economics in the School of Economics
and Commerce, who has received a
grant-of-aid from the Social Science
Research Council and the Institute for
Social Research, will spend the sum
mer in New England doing research
work on the reason for the decline
of the textile industry in New Eng
land. The Social Science Research Council
is an organization supported by
several wealthy people for the pro
motion of research" in problems of
social science, and the Institute of
Social Research, is an organization at
the , University with practically the
same purpose as that of the Research
Council.
Eleven Members of Glee Club
Given Awards for Year's Work
$
Weaver Makes Talk ; Club Sings
Before Convention of Ameri
can Association of Adult
Education.
The University Glee Club, at the
-conclusion of its rehearsal on Tues
fday evening, devoted the last quarter
.of an hour to the presentation of
.awards. x Paul John Weaver, director
of the organization and head of the
University music department, deliver
ed a short talk complimenting" the
imembers on their loyalty to the club
-through -the past few years and as
suring them that the University was
deeply grateful for the interest which
they had manifested and the name
the Glee Club had made for the Uni
versity in its tours throughout the
United States. The requirements for
the winning of a Glee Club, key are
two years service in the Club and par
ticipation in at least two major trips.
The following men were awarded keys
as a result of their fulfillment of
these requirements: Harold Glascock,
Raleigh; Frank Howell, Fayetteville ;
John Idol, High Point; Frank Jacocks,
Tarboro; Thomas Kesler, Salisbury;
Franklin Little, Tryon; Alan Metz,
Denver, Colorado; George Penning
ton, Tarboro; F. P. Stimson, States
ville; Alston Stubbs, Durham; and
Donald Wood, Kinston.
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Legal Fraternity
Selects Six Men
The Battle Senate of Delta Theta
Phi, national legal fraternity, form
ally initiated the following men Mon
day night: W. W. Speight, of Spring
Hope; J. C. Williams, of Linden; O.
A. Warren, of Gastonia; T. B. Rec
tor, of Asheville; Lawrence Lancas
ter, of Vanceboro; and Roy Mclnnis,
of Gastonia.
Delta Theta Phi, the largest of the
three legal fraternities of the Uni
versity, is one of the leading legal
orders of the United States. There
are sixty-six chapters of the frater
nity located in colleges and universi
ties throughout the country. Most of
these are in the North and West
some of the most powerful of the
chapters being located at Yale, Uni
versity of California, University of
Iowa, University of Wisconsin,
George Washington University, Uni
versity of Minnesota, and the Uni
versity of Southern California.
The fraternity as it is" now con
stituted represents a combination of
three legal fraternities, this com
bination having been effected in
1902.
The present membership of the
local chapter is eighteen.
Jefferson B. Fordham, Of Greens
boro, a senior in the Law School, led
all comers at the Law School Asso
ciation dinner, held Saturday night
at the Carolina Inn, when he was
awarded a" certificate in recognition 6i
his work as student editor-in-chief of
the North Carolina Law Review dur
ing the past year; was granted the
George Watts Hill prize of fifty dol
lars for the best consistent work by
any of the student editors upon the
current volume; and was elected to
the national honorary law-school so
ciety of the Order of the Coif, along
with Miss Susie Sharp, of Reidsville,
for having led the present senior
class, in scholarship, throughout the
three-year course. Two days pre
viously, Fordham had been notified of
his appointment to a Sterling Fellow
ship at the Yale Law School, for 'next'
year, at a stipend of $1,400. He will1
go to Yale in October to do research'
in commercial law. j !
Chief Justice W. P. Stacy, of the!
State Supreme Court, was elected to
honorary membership in the Order
of the Coif, the first to receive that
award from the North Carolina Chap
ter, because of the distinction he has
attained upon the bench.
The Phi Delta Phi prize of a set of
North Carolina statutes, given an
nually for the best single student con
tribution to the Law Review during
the current year, was presented to
Henry Brandis, Jr., of Salisbury, a
second-year student and assistant
editor. Allen K. Smith of Raleigh, was an
nounced as the faculty's choice for
student, editor-in-chief of the Law
Review for 1929-30, and John Ander
son and J. H. Chadbourn, as assis
tant editors. These appointments are
made upon the combined bases of
scholarship, demonstrated ability to
write, and capacity for handling the
student staff.
The winners of the first-year com
petition for membership on the Law
Review staff for next year, out of
eighteen who entered, were named as
follows: P. B. Abbott, Jr., L. W.
Armstrong, Moore Bryson, J. H.
Chadbourn, W. S. Jenkins, H. B. Par
ker, C. E. Reitzel, Y. M. Smith, T. W.
Sprinkle, T. A. Uzzell, and J. A.
Williams.
The following received certificates
of membership on the Law Review
staff during the current year: J. B.
Fordham, editor; Henry Brandis, as
sistant; and J. H. Anderson, J. W.
Crew, D. M. Field, A. W. Gholson,
J. F. Glenn, Walter Hoyle, J. B.
Lewis, A. C. Mcintosh, C. S. Man
gum, Jr., A, B. Raymer, Harry Rock
well, C. F. Rouse, A, K. Smith, "J. N.
Smith, N. S. Sowers, and L. H. Wal
lace. These awards, honors and prizes
came late on a program mainly de
voted to an address by Justice W. J.
Brogden, of the Supreme Court, and
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The greatest opportunity for edu
cation today "lies in the improvement!
of workers for service through adult
education," James E. Russell Dean
Emeritus of Teachers College, Col
umbia University, and president of
the American Association for Adult
Education, declared here tonight in
his presidential address at the fourth
annual meeting of the Association at
the Carolina Inn.
The Great Decisions of -life," the
speaker said, "come long afte;r school
days. The mode of dress we wear,
the kind of foods we eat, the type
of house and home we live in, the
way we earn our living, the use we
make of leisure, the choice of friends,
the religion we profess, the political
duties we assume the whole round of
daily life is one everlasting struggle
between lower and higher, or better
and worse in the realm of morals
of economics."
All this is the field of adult edu
cation. It is occupied by pulpit and
platform, press and stage, school and
vocation, but, still there is no notice
able overcrowding of wholesome edu
cational undertakings.
"Peace' and contentment are social
rewards to those who habitually
choose ' to follow intelligent leader
ship, while prosperity accrues to all
from the creative deve,Iopmtnlj-0"ex
pert service. Theny gtop iearn.
ing ? " he' asked. ln an eloquent plea
for adult education. .
"Our problem," Dean Russell de
clared, "is how to train leaders and
followers in one and the same insti
tution; how secure that docility and
contentment with one's lot in life so
ncessary to that maintenance of civil
order and social well-being, and at
the same time develop that righteous
discontent with things as they are
which leads to new vistas of being."
. American education, he found, is
unique in that it is education "of the
people, by the people," to an extreme
to which no other nation goes. What
ever its faults, it has done one ihing
well: "It has developed initiative in
American youth." But leadership is
not artistocratic nor limited with us.
It is open to all, and there is such
opportunity for everyone to be a lead
er in some field that there is little
difference between training to follow
and training to lead.
"Leaders and followers, therefore,
are scions grafted on the same stock.
Any person may he at once both, or
either, or neither, according to his
native endowments and the use which
he makes of his talents." There is
no paradox, Dean Russell said;
schools can train leaders and follow
ers at the same time.
He declared that "a living wage and
the possession of property are the
foundations on which conservative
citizenship . rests" and expressed the
opinion that the loss of the individual
worker's identity as a worker and the
loss of desire for independent owner
ship of productive property was "the
greatest danger to American democ
racy." "
Awards Night
Ray Farris, President of the Stu
dent Body, announces that the an
nual Awards Night Exercises of
the University will be held in
Memorial Hall on Monday, May
27th, at 8:30 P. M. Arrangements
are under way to procure an influ
ential State figure to speak for
the occasion. 1
. Awards Night at the Univer
sity marks the culmination of re
ward in all fields of student extra-curricular
activity, when mon
ogram certificates are awarded to
varsity athletes and charms are
given to board members of campus
publications and similar student
organizations. .
Last Production of Year to Be
Given in Open Air Theatre of
Playmakers ; Heff ner to Take
Lead.
SENATORS ELECT
WILLIAMS PRES.
New Officers for Next Year
Picked at Meeting of Di
Tuesday Night.
Frosh Speech Series
Will Be Given Each
Year Says Bradshaw
The last two of the series of talks
by faculty members on the general
topic of "Understanding Contempor
ary North Carolina History" will be
given next Monday and Tuesday
when Dr. E. W. Knight will speak on
"Education," and Dean D. D. Carroll,
of the School of Economics and Com
merce will deliver a lecture on "In
dustrial Leadership."
The series this spring has included
talks on "The Workmen's Compensa
tion Act" by Prof essoi Frank Graham,
"North Carolina History" by Profes
sor R. D. W. Connor, "Democratic In
stitutions in North Carolina" by R. B.
House, and "Literature of North
Carolina" by Dean Addison Hibbard.
Dean Bradshaw, who has had
charge of this series of talks, said
yesterday that they will be repeated
each spring, in an effort to acquaint
the freshmen with the state in which
they live.
Alfred E. Smith is to write the
story ' of his life for The Saturday
Evening Post. We hope he charges
the Post enough to get some compen
sation for what it did to him in the
last compaign.
The meeting of the Dialectic Sen
ate Tuesday night wa the last of
the quarter. According to constitu
tional provisions tMg wa gtrictly a.n
executive session. Ilamediateiy upon
being called to order by the retiring
president, John Norwood, the senate
proceeded to the selection of officers
for the fall quarter of next year.
For the position oi president the.
choice of the senate fell upon Sena
tor J4 C Williams, who had served
previously in the capacity of clerk
and president-pro-teffi. Williams is
a member of the rising senior class.
Senator Garland McPherson, the re
tiring treasurer, was elevated to the
office of president-pro-tem. . McPher
son has also served as clerk of the
senate.
For the position of clerk the senate
cast its choice for Senator -Tv B.
Rector. This is the first time that
he has been chosen to represent the
senate in official capacity.
After considerable deliberation on
the part of rival factions Senator G.
A. Kincaid secured the office of critic
over his opponent.
In the final balloting Senator Mar
cus Simpson defeated his opponent
for the office -of sergeant-at-arms.
H. N. Patterson was elected at an
earlier meeting to serve the senate
all of next year in the capacity of
treasurer; Patterson succeeds Gar
land McPherson both men being
from High Point.
The new officers will be formally
inaugurated at the first meeting of
the quarter next fall. The inaugura
tion ceremonies will be conducted by
either the present president of the
senate, or the highest ex-official of
the senate present.
With rehearsals going steadily for
ward, the scenery being completed by
Sam Selden and his workers, every
thing is taking final shape for the
presentation of "Rip" Van Winkle" in
the Forest Theatre Friday and Sat
urday nights by the Carolina Play
makers. The University Faculty Or
chestra is tuning up to furnish music
at the performance. With the weath
er man promising fair weather the
show bids fair to draw a large crowd
This is the -last performance of the
Playmakers for the season.
Hubert Heff ner will play the lead
of the whimsical old Dutchman, the
role that Joseph Jefferson created and
made famous while he played it for
three generations of Americon theatre
goers. Miss Nettina Strobach will
play the feminine lead, the part of
Rip's wife. "History" Brandon will
do Deerick Von Beekman, Pendleton
Harrison' will play Nicholas Vedder,
Lawrence Thompson and. Charles Yil
brandt with alternate in the role of
Hendrick; Al- Kahn is Cockles, Cyrus
Edson does Seth Slough, Nelson How
ard is Jaco,bj tein," . Miss Eleanor
Jdne Nell Edwards will play,
Meente JfUltlft JEth - ood In the'
role oi Kitchen completes the cast.
During the rainy" weather the 'first
part of the week the cast rehearsed
in the Tin Can while the boxers
punching the bag and ths basketball
players practicing furnished a little
interference'in'thi way'oi noise. The
east hag Worked hard and steadily, Is
well trained, aiid promises to present
a creditable performance -
Professor Koch who is directing the
production saw Joseph Jeff ers6il in
his farewell tour of the play in Bos
ton twenty years ago. He has directed
the cast in the way that Jefferson
staged the .play.
This is the annual production in
the Forest Theatre. Last year Profes
sor Koch and his players staged
Shakespeare's "Tempest."
Engineers Will Not
Hold Open House
The School of Engineering will not
hold open house this year as it has
done in the past two years. The
reason for not holding the affair
this year is that it. is too near the end
of the school year and everyone in
this school is verV busy finishing up
his work. . '
It is expected that in the future
open house will be held only every
other year. During the evenings
when open house was observed, the
entire department was open for in
spection, and the operation -of all the
equipment in the laboratories was
demonstrated to the visitors.
Students Adopt Unique Form
Of Dormitory Government
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School of Religion
Holds Last Meeting
The School of Religion which is be
ing headed by Parson W. D. Moss,
during the winter and spring quarters,
held its last meeting of the year at
the Methodist church last night.
Parson Moss, who has been speak
ing during the past two quarters oh
the subject, "The Story of Religion,"
last night answered the question,
"What is Christianity?"
The School of Religion of Chapel
Hill was organied three years ago by
the various churches, in the town and
the University Y. M. C. A. For two
years the school was headed by a full
time professor, but this year courses
have been offered by different Chapel
Hill ministers.
This year the School of Religion
brought Dr. W. L. Poteat, president
emeritus of Wake Forest College, to
speak, in a series of lectures on
"Christian Ethics." The lectures in
cluded three talks, "Social Aims of
Jesus," "In Search of a Moral Dy
namic," and "Regeneration of the
Social Order." These three talks have
recently appeared in book form.
Correct this sentence: "I'm not
conceited," said he, "but I want my
child to act and believe as I do."
Dormitories Becoming Self
Governing Through System
Used on Campus; Has Been
In Existence Six Years.
By R. W. MADRY
Recently a number of colleges uad
universities of this country have given
up student government in despair.
Changing conditions, these institu
tions have reported, - have rendered
student discipline by students inef
fective and 'therefore unsatisfactory.
They have placed the old system in
the discard and in most cases have
gone back to faculty control.
The University of North Carolina
is not one of those institutions. It
has not abolished nor is it even think
ing of abolishing student govern
ment. But, on the other hand, in order
to meet the rapidly changing con
ditions since the World War, parti
cularly those resulting from greatly
increased enrollments, University
students have found it wise to dapt
their self-government to the new con
ditions. Carolina' Dormitory Club
A unique plan has been adopted.
Through it the dormitories are be
coming self-governing communities by
a natural process of evolution. The
plan is headed up by an organization
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