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CROSS COUNTRY MEET 2:30 TODAY KENAN STADIUM CROSS COUNTRY MEET 2:30 TODAY KENAN STADIUM ; iy j ' x 'J XMP I J ( Pi! M i'l1 i ! I i - - .- v.- . - . - -Jl VOLUME XXXVIII CHAPEL HILL, N. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 23- 1929 NUMBER 56 BOOK PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASED "The Virginia Plutarch", By Philip Bruce, Attracts Much Favorable Comment. First copies of "The Virginia Plutarch," a book of biography and history by Philip Alexander Bruce, were released by the Uni versity Press yesterday. Of ficials of the Press were greatly pleased with the appearance of the exterior book itself, declar ing it to be probably the most beautiful of the volumes that they have published thus far, in addition to being one of the best book values of the year. The work, in two volumes, is excellently bound, illustrated, and packaged. The author is a Virginian and has for many years been one of the leading authorities in his field of colonial, and particular ly Virginia, history and institu tions. , Hes research work has been of much aid to historians. Of the man himself we learn from various sources that he is known most widely for his au thorship of numerous volumes I of history, biography, and social research. He was born at Staunton Hill, Carlotte County, Virginia, March 7, 1856. Con- 'cerning hs ancestry : he was the son of Charles Bruce, a Virginia 'planter. His grandfather was a captain in the Revolutionary Army, and his father held a command in. the Confederate' Army. His wife was a sister of James A. Seddon, Confederate Secretary of war. He served in the Virginia Senate for many years. At the University of Virginia, where he received, his higher education, he was Drominent in a great many activities, being a jdebate medallist, a member of jseveral forensic societies, an editor of the University Maga zine, and a member of the D. K. E. Fraternity. He was also a member of the mother- chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at William and Mary College. Following his career at Vir ginia he was made a bachelor of laws at Harvard in 1879. He has lived for many years at Rich mond, Norfolk, and in Europe, where he was engaged in journa lism and other; activities. He holds the degree of LL.D. from Washington and Lee University and from William and Mary Col lege, and is a member of many historical societies. One of his accomplishments in the latter field was the establishment of the Virginia Magazine of His tory and Biography. He married Mrs. George H. Newton, daughter of Captain J. Saunders Taylor of the United States Navy. They have one daughter Philippa Alexander Bruce. The family now lives at the University of Vrginia, with which Mr. Bruce is connected. (Continued on page four) Special Matinee Manager E. Carrington Smith of the Carolina theatre announces that a special mat inee will be held this morning of George Bancroft in "The Mighty." The proceeds of the show are to be given to the poor of the county in the form of Thanksgiving baskets. Chil dren of school age will be ad mitted free if thev bring a hgift of food. Mr. Smith asks i that the food be of the non Perishable kind if possible. Sophomore Election President Ben Aycock of the sophomore class an nounces that the election of the vice-president of the soph omore class will take place at the business meeting of the class- in chapel Monday. George Buchan, regularly elected vice-president, did not continue in school this year. The class meeting will com prise the chapel exercises for that day, and all sophomores must take their assigned seats. UNIVERSITY MEN ATTENDRIEETING Professors King and Adams Address District Education Conference. -The annual session of the Northeastern District teachers of the North Carolina Educa tion Association, which was held in Elizabeth City yesterday was attended by Professors A. K. King of the school of education, R. W. Adams of the English de partment, and I. C. Griffin, ex ecutive secretary of the Univer sity summer school. Both Professors King and Ad ams addressed departmental groups of , the gathering. The subject of Mr. King's address, which was given before the his tory teachers' group, was "Pro posals for Revising the Present Course of Study in Social Study in North Carolina." Dr. Adams' talk was made before the coun cil of English teachers. This session brings to a close the seventh annual series of dis trict meetings of the North Car olina Education Association, association, which have . been held -throughout the state this fall in such centers as Wilming ton, Asheville and Raleigh, pre paratory to the general meeting of the association next spring. The meeting of the. Raleigh dis trict, which includes Chapel Hill, was attended by practically the entire staff of professors in the school of education, as well as by several other members of the the University's faculty, and by the teachers of Chapel Hill high school. The statewide extent of the work and influence of the cUniversity's school of education is attested by the fact that mem bers of its staff took part on the programs of all of these meet ings. RECORD CROWD TO BE HERE FOR GAME With approximately 20,000 seats already sold, and the Thanksgiving game still about a week off, predictions are that the largest crowd ever to attend a football contest in North Caro lina will be on hand Thursday. Telegrams from alumni and other fans requesting seats are steadily pouring into Mr. Wool len's office in South building. If the remaining 4,000 tickets go as fast as is expected, bleach ers will be erected behind the goal posts to accommodate en thusiasts who are unable to se cure seats in the stadium. The state highway patrol has been commissioned to handle the traffic, and if things are man aged as well as in the past, there should be no great delay nor con gestion. The new state high way No!" 54 "from Raleigh to Greensboro via Chapel Hill and Graham will divert many cars from going around by Durham. - II A. L E. E. AWARD TO BE PRESENTED Will Be Given To Freshman In Engineering School For Excellent Work. At the last meeting of the University student chapter of the A. I. E. E., national electri cal engineering organization, four talks on electrical plants were given by seniors in the de partment of electrical engineer ing v D. A. Nims spoke on "The Mountain Island Hydro-electric , Station," F, D. Kuykyndal on "The River BendJ3team Plant," F. R. Toms on "The Badin Aluminum Works," and t J. S. Kirk on "The Norwood Hydro electric Station." These talks were reports of the plants visited by the mem bers of the class in electrical en gineering on October 24 when they returned from the state meeting of the A. I. E. E., which was held in Charlotte. At the meeting Thursday eve ning announcement was made of an award to be given to the freshman student in electrical engineering who has at the be ginning of the spring quarter the best record in scholastic and extra-curricular activities. A committee consisting of James Duls, sophomore; F. E. Drake and F. D. Kuykendal, seniors, and G. W. Smith, mem ber of the faculty, will select the winner of the award, which is to be a slide rule. 1 1 . in- 1. 1 in No Mass December 1 Mass will not be held the Sun day after Thanksgiving for members of the Roman Catholic church of the University and of Chapel Hill. However, after that the regular arrangement of holding Mass the first and third Sundays of each month in Ger rard hall will still be followed. Even Wasps Occasionally Get Drunk And - (By J. P. Tyson) How would you like to devote the greater part of your spare time, for six month, in studying the wheres and wherefores of the wasp kingdom, living with them, petting them, and inviting their barbarous stingers to feast upon your tender flesh? The average reader may shud der but one University man has done this. He is E. G. Boys worth, a senior in the school of pharmacy last year. These re searches were not an idle whim but were efforts to discover the secretions of the wasp clan. At first thought this seems a very dry arid uninteresting field, but closer investigation shows it to be very lively and interesting. The wasps are well equipped by Dame Nature to protect themselves. The female has a very sharp stinger to protect her baby wasplets with. This sting er is absent in the male, he hav ing only a pair of claws which are not very effective. The degree of effect in the female sting is determined by the type of food eaten.. Some foods produce a very painful sting while others a practically harmless one. Ripe peaches and brown sugar cause intense pain while cane sugar, being too com plex to be digested, causes prac tically no harm. Mr. .- Boysworth fed female wasps diff erent foods and then allowed them to sting him on his CITY MANAGER PLANLAINED Professor Woodhouse Talks On City Government To Asheville Club. x Advocating the city manager plan as a cure for many of the ills of present day municipal government, Professor Edward James Woodhouse, professor of government and director of the municipal and county govern ment research bureau at the University, Wednesday spoke before the Asheville Civitan club at., the George Vanderbilt hotel. "Although the city manager plan is the best form of munici pal government that we have to day," Prof essor Woodhouse said, "there is one difficulty about it. That is that comparatively few men have been found very well fitted for the job of city mana ger. - - . "As President Wilson so apt ly said, government is a govern ment of men and not of faws. That is, if the officials are effi cient, honest and qualified, we will have that kind of govern ment for they will make a good government. It is the man rather than the machine that counts. No government is any worse than the voters permit it to be. One of our greatest needs is the . education of voters to want better government." Tells Methods of Changing Explaining the methods by which a city or town may revise its old charter to adopt a new one simply by a majority vote at an election which may be ini tiated by the governing body or by a 25 per cent majority of voters, Mr. Woodhouse contin ued: "The city manager plan, as it is generally called though it is more accurately described as the commission-manager plan, .Continued on page Jour) Engage In Whoopee arm. This was not done for just a few times but many times. Wasps are supposed to be very fond of fish but Mr. Boysworth's investigation revealed that they were too discriminating to in dulge in it. It is especially in teresting to notice the attitifde of the older wasps to the young. They 'are enslaved and are made to perform all the menial tasks. And now we come to the part which demands collegiate atten tion. Wasps get drunk and how! Alcohol reacts on the wasp very much in the same way that it does the human. They are very funny while under its influence. They stagger, play and roll around like a typical drunk collegian. The main dif ference is that the wasp dies within six hours after taking his dram, while the "collich boy" gets over his with a slight hang over and lives to pull another. The male odor is very naus eating while the female has a chemical odor similar to that of solol. The outstanding charac teristics of the male and female are: the male has no stinger; it has seven segments and the female six; they are colored dif ferently and have a different odor; and females have formic acid and males do not. Since the average individual cannot distinguish between the potent and the non-potent wasp, the experimenter's advice is to leave the wasp alone. Conference Harriers To ' R un Here This Afternoon RESPONSIBILITY TOPIC OF TALK Bradshaw Speaks In Chapel To Freshmen About Student - Problems. Dean F. F." Bradshaw spoke briefly in chapel Friday on the way in which the students should meet certain problems with which they must contend. These problems concern the breaking 'of dormitory regulations, steal ing, walking on the grass, etc. things which, as Dean Brad shaw explained, have been more or less widely discussed in the Daily Tar Heel and elsewhere. Dean Bradshaw attempted to impress the freshmen with the fact that questions of student conduct are matters of concern both to the individual and also to the whole. He stressed par ticularly the point that it is by the control of such matters that students are to develop the abil ity of self-government and to display the growth and advance ment they shoulcfhave attained. The dean of students voiced the caution that college students should not regard school affairs as having a vague connection with life. . ; Students for years have solved their own problems of corporate living, he said by way of en couragement. Dean Bradshaw said the present student body might face its problems by doing nothing, by unauthorized or mob action, or by due process of law. He advised the latter as the bet ter plan. He urged each man to accept his responsibilities and not in parasitic fashion to pass them on to someone else. Dr. Wager Attends Chicago Conference Paul W. Wager, professor of sociology at the University, at tended the conference on improv ing government, which was held in Chicago last week. Mr. Wager presented an address on the manager plan adaptable to coun ty government. He was appoint ed chairman of a committee of the national Municipal League for the study of the county man ager plan, and has recently com pleted a survey to determine the need and prospect for county managers throughout the United States. He found a demand for a strong county executive in practically every state in the Union, and in 32 states a senti ment favorable to this plan. At present there are only six coun ty managers in the country. Four in Alamance, Davidson, Guilford and Robinson counties are in North Carolina. The committee is engaged in drafting a model county manager law system for the guidance of legislatures in terested in adopting this plan. The national Municipal League is made up largely of govern ment teachers, city managers, and a directory of municipal re search. Professor Wager took his doctor's degree at this Uni versity in 1927 and is the author of County Government in North Carolina, one of the few books written on this subject. R. C. Green, president of the senior class, announces the ap opintment of J. C. (Red) Wil liams to fill the vacancy on the class executive committee occa sioned by Ned Giles withdrawal from the University. . Southern Championship In Bal ance as More Than Hundred Runners Prepare For Race. v. P. I. FAVORED The day of the Southern Con ference cross country meet finds more than a hundred harriers from all parts of the South anx iously awaiting the whistle which will send them on their five mile trek for the conference championship. The V. P. I. Gobblers are being named as favorites, because of their vic tory over the title-holding Tar Heels earlier in the season. In the dual meet in the early part of the season, the Tech harriers administered a beating to the Tar Heels by a score of 24-28. Miles and Farmer, who are counted on to place among the leaders, led both Barkley and Baucom, the Tar Heel's best men. Young of Georgia and Simmons of Duke are also be ing named among the leaders, with the former favored to win inidividual honors. According to latest reports ten schools, including Carolina, will take part in tomorrow's meet. These are: V. P. I., Clemson, Georgia, Florida, Sewanee, Washington and Lee, Georgia Tech, N. C. State, Duke, and North Carolina. Many of these teams ar rived . on the campus yesterday morning and were shown the course late in the afternoon. The teams which arrived late last night will be taken around the course at 10 o'clock this morning. The run, which will be over a five mile course, will begin at 2:30 this afternoon at Kenan stadium and will finish at the stadium about 25 minutes later. Loud speakers in the stadium Will be used to keep the stands informed of the progress of the race. As a preliminary to the Con ference run there will be a meet between the Duke, N. C. State, and ' Carolina frosh harriers for the state championship. Dav idson, will also have a lone con testant in this meet. Indica tions point to a Carolina victory, since the Tar Babies have al ready beaten Duke and State in previous meets. While the Conference run is on, there will be various sprint events on the field, in which Farmer, Smith, Case, and Mar land will take part. COMMUNITY CLUB IN BUSINESS MEETING The Community club held a general business meeting yester day "afternoon in the parish house of the Episcopal church. The program schedule has been rearranged so that there will be no meetings during the Thanksgiving week. The club is planning some programs for the near future which should be of special interest to all. Ex-Chemistry Professor ' Finishes Study Here Dr. Charles W. Dabney, for merly president of the Univer sity of Tennessee and also of the University of Cincinnatti, who at one time taught chemis try in this University, left Chapel Hill, where he has been working for the past month in the University library on the problem of education in the South, for Florida, where he will spend the winter.