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VOLUME XXXVIII
IMY D.YRIGHT,
DEBATE TONIGHT
M GERRARD HALL
Smoot-Hawler Tariff To Be
Discussed,By Di and Phi
Speakers.
The annual Mary D. Wright
debate will be held tonight in
Gerrard hall, beginning at 8
O'clock and lasting for approxi
mately one hour an a half .
The query which will be de
bated is ; "Resolved, that the
Smoot-Hawley. tariff bill should
be passed as introduced to the
special session of congress
which convened last June." The
representatives of "the Phi as
sembly, R. E. Stanton and J. C.
Harris, will uphold the affirma
jtiveside of the issue: J. C. Wil
liams and C. A. Shreve, repre
senting the Di Senate, will pre
sent the case of the negative.
The coveted Mary D. Wright
medal will be awarded to the"
better speaker of the winning
team. "Last year it was won by
B. C. Moore of the Di senate.
Both the Di and Phi will at
tend the debate in a group.
Three faculty members will
judge the contest, picking the
winning team and the better
speaker of that team, in addi
tion. Chase and Walker
To Attend College
Conference Today
The North Carolina College
conference, which is to be held
today and tomorrow at King
Cotton hotel in Greensboro, will
be attended by several members
of the University faculty. The
regular representatives of the
University are Dr. Harry W.
Chase I and Dr. N. W. Walker,
who aire respectively president
and secretary-treasurer of the
conference. As officers of the
conference, Dr. Chase and Dr.
Walker have been engaged for
several weeks past in the prep
aration of the program.
Other faculty members who
will be present include Dr. M.
R. Trabue, who is to take part
on the program, and Dr. T. J.
Wilson, Jr., registrar, who will
attend the meeting of the North
Carolina Registrars' Associa
tion. The Registrars' Associa
tion is to be held jointly with
the conference and immediately
following it, on December 11.
Scrooge Lives Again MTiile
Koch Reads Dickens Story
(By Louis Brooks)
The stage was gloomy. Christ
mas trees bordering either side
reached back into an impene
trable darkness. t The only fur
nishings were a table and a
chair. On" the table burned a
single candle. . ?
Marley was dead. The distinct
voice of the man seated at the
table reading aloud had carried
the fact to the mind of every
member of the audience. How
ever, the gloomy setting seemed
nmu :u i1flannpflr -
ance of the ghost ' of the de-
.....j Th.reimar-
inative of the audience momen
tarily expected it.
Then the ghost came. If the
audience didn't see it at first, at
least the terrified Scrooge was
well aware of the sinister pres
ence. Scrooge didn't like the
affair at all, and didn't hesitate
to say so, though he made a pass
at being pleasant to the visitor.
Condition Notice
All students who wish to
remove conditions this quar
ter must make their applica
tions to the Registrar's office
this week. This is the last
opportunity for those who re
ceived an "E" in any of their
courses last December to re
move it.
MEMORIAL HALL
DECLARED UNSAFE
Building To Be Torn Down Or
Rebuilt To Prevent
Collapse.
Historic Memorial hall, the
large auditorium which is used
for chapel exercises, commence
ment and other public exercises,
hasbeen pronounced unsafe for
use, Dr. Harry W. Chase, presi
dent of the University; declared
in a statement issued Saturday
night. , ,
A thorough investigation over
a period of weeks has led to the
conclusion that the building
must either be rebuilt practically
from the ground up or torn
down to prevent collapse, Dr.
Chase's statement said. '
Memorial hall was completed
in 1883 during the administra
tion of President Kemp P. Bat
tle and was so named in com
memoration of the illustrious
dead of the University.
A month ago, on the advice of
engineers, the building was or
dered closed,- pending a complete
investigation. Since then the
University has been without an
adequate auditorium for public
exercises. ! '
Dr. Chase's announcement
came as the result of a long
series of investigations under
taken by the building committee
of the University trustees since
weakness in the structure was
discovered early in the fall. The
hall has been examined not only
by the University's engineers,
Atwood and Nash, but by Sher
wood Brockwell of the state in
surance department and by Pro
fessor Thomas Gregory, head of
the department of civil engineer
ing at Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, a recognized national con
sultant on such matters. Uni
versity authorities have been
exceedingly slow to reach a con
clusion because of the historic
importance of the structure,
which the engineers agree, must
(Continued on last page)
While Scrooge and the ghost
were settling the question not
M-lv o Scrooere's liking the
sound of Christmas carols added
realism to the yuletide setting.
The singers were Mr. and Mrs.
George Lawrence and Mr. and
Mrs a. A. Harrervand the
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place happened to be the Play
maker theatre, but it might have
been London at any ' Christmas
time.
It was the last stave. Scrooge
had seen ' enough to soften the
iheart of the most
confirmed
miser. Spirits had come and
eone, and the ghost ol Mariey
why the ghost of Marley had
turned into . . . a bed post!
The reading, Sunday after
noon was Professor Frederick
Koch's 23rd reading of Charles
Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
Judging from the enthusiasm of
the crowd that filled the Play
maker theatre the story never
grows old. '
CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929
Erroneous
:IWedica
ScBgo
All "Stiffs" Are Not Electrocuted; No Man Can Sell His Body
And Then Spend The Money; Respect For
Deceased Is Required, v -
One of the main points of in-
terest to the first vear man is!
the so called "stiff room" in the
medical building. The majori
ty Of the students do not know
what procedure i gdne through
by the medical school and conse
quently imagine many wierd and
untrue things.
There is a common' belief that
all of the bodies are those of
criminals electrocuted by the
statev This is untrue: Only a
small majority of the bodies are
of those who have been electro
cuted. '"'
An undertaker takes an un
claimed body at his own risk,
to his shop and keeps it there
at least ! four or five days.
Meanwhile he is required to at
tempt to. find relatives or
friends o the deceased, then if
at the end of that period ihe
body , is still unclaimed the
undertaker is required to bury
the body at his own expense or
to- notify the department of
public welfare that he has an
unclaimed body. That depart
ment then notifies the school and
the school negotiates for the
body. The average body in
good condition sells for fifty or
sixty dollars.
There is a common idea that
a person may sell his body -to :
i-medical school and then spend
the money. This is a very
false one.
When a body arrives here it
is put into a preserving fluid
which is made up of formalde
hyde, borax and salt. It re
mains in this fluid for a number
Staff Changes
Several changes in the Daily
Tar Heel staff organization
were announced by Editor
Glenn Holder at the regular
weekly 'staff meeting in the:
Tar Heel office Sunday night.
Robert Hodges of Winston
Salem was promoted f rom the
reportorial staff to ah assist
ant editorship, succeeding El
win Dungan of Chapel Hill,
who becomes a city editor.
Dungan replaces Sherman;
Shore of Winston-Salem, who
will be out of school for the
remainder of the quarter. J.
G. deRoulhac Hamilton, Jr.,
of Chapel Hill was promoted
from the sports reportorial
staff to assistant sports edi
tor. He takes the place left
vacant by the resignation of
Crawford MacKethan of Fay
etteville. ' Several beats were' reas
signed and two men dropped
from the staff for failure to
perform their duties satisfac
torily. Theatre passes for excellent
work during the past week
were awarded to City Editor
K. C. Ramsay of Salisbury and
Reporters Louis Brooks of
Greensboro, Jack Riley of
Chapel Hill and Assistant
Sports Editor J. G. deRoulhac
Hamilton, Jr., of Chapel Hill.
"Buccaneer Notice
There will be a meeting of
the Buccaneer staff tonight
at 7:30. This is the final
meeting before the holidays.
All staff members are re
quested to be present.
Cy Edson, Editor
ressions Of :
Corrected
of months "and is then placed on
a table for dissection. After
dissection the remains are col-,
lected and placeu in a coffin and
buried by the University. Some
of the bones are cleaned and
kept for purpose of instruction.
x A class is divided into groups
of six and sub-divided into
groups of three students. These
two groups then begin dissec
tion on a single body, one group
beginning at the abdomen, the
other beginning at the neck and
head. One half of a body is
thus dissected by a group - of
three in one school quarter.
At the beginning of the winter
term new bodies are placed on
the table and the groups re
verse sp that at the end of the
winter quarter each-man has as
sisted in the dissection of an en
tire human body.
Most of the bodies that the
University gets come from this
immediate section : Durham,
Raleigh, Sanford, and occasion
aly Winston-Salem and Greens
boro. A number come from the
state prison at Raleigh. Most
of those electrocuted are obtain
ed. '. .,'
The students in medicine are
instructed and required through
out the course of gross ataiiomy
to maintain a respectful atti
tude toward the subject on
which they work. Medical stu
dents soon learn to work in a
mechanical way and .conse
quently they do not view their
work with the gruesome aspects
associated with it by the . lay
man. V
Meyer Says Scout
Seminar Successful
According to H. D. Meyer of
the University department of
sociology, the North Carolina
Boy Scout executive seminar
held Thursday, Friday and Sat-.
urday of last week was a great
success. Mr. Meyer was m
charge of the program of the
seminar, acting in this capacity
as a member of the regional edu
cational committee.- Although I
he was absent from the Univer
sity during Friday and Satur
day, the work of the seminar
was well directed by H. F. Com
er of the Y. M. C. A. and Mor
gan F. Vining of the extension
bureau, he said.
The program for the year's
work for "The Growth of the
Scout Executive" provides that
another seminar, also giving 12
hours of credit,, shall be given
in the month of February. Other
educational activities of the
scouts, which are being spon
sored by.the University, include
a patrol leaders' encampment
during the first term of the Uni
versity summer school.
Regarding the publicity giv
en the seminar by the Daily Tar
Heel, Mr. Meyer said that copies
of the paper, would be sent to
university and scout officials in
Georgia and South 'Carolina en
couraging them to sponsor simi
lar activities in their states.
Engineering: Meeting
All chemical engineering stu
dents are asked to meet in room
201 Venable hall Tuesday eve
ning at 7 o'clock. This meeting
is for the -purpose of organizing
a student chapter of chemical
engineers.
Reservation Notice
Today is the last day that
room reservations will be ac
cepted by the Cashier's office.
Hereafter rooms will only be
obtained as assigned. ,
E F. COMER TALKS
T O SOPHOMORES
Sex Problems Are Ta Be Solved
Rationally Says Y Secretary
In Chapel.
That sex probleffis &t& to he
solved by considering1 them from
a rational viewpoint and iii the
light of certain known facts, Js
H. F. Comer's answer to cer
tain questions which students
felt were left unanswered by Dr.
Seerley and Dr. Gray", recent
speakers at the University on
sex problems. ,
- Speaking to the sophomores
in chapel Monday morning, the
Y. M. C. A. secretary outlined
his opinion under three ques
tions that have been most fre
quently asked by students on
the subject of sex. To his ques
tioners he replied ' that all sex
problems are to be faced and
solved. Neither for "mental
fear," pure neglect, nor for any
other reasons are they to be ig
nored: It is his contention that
a rational -consideration of such
matters will usually clear away
one's difficulties.
Mr. Comer cautioned against
the confusing of natural and ab
normal impuls.es, the latter of
which is, apt to develop from the
former." The failure to deal
properly with matters relating
to sex, he said, may result in an
abnormal condition of the im
pulses that will hamper greatly
the effectiveness of one's ef
forts in his business, profession,
or other interests in latter life.
Clock Installed
In New Library
The University library has re
cently installed an electric clock
over the middle doorway leading
from the main circulating desk
on the second floor to the stack
rooms.
This clock was specially de
signed for the library by the In
ternational -.; Time Recording
Company. The face of the clock
is of polished Tennessee golden
grain marble. The hands and
figures of the' dial are made of
statutory bronze.
This clock is operated in con
nection with 'the other clocks on
the campus, and is included in
the system operated from South
building. -
What's 1 lappenirij
TODAY
10:30 a. m. Group picture of
Di senate to be taken in front
of law building.
3:00 p. m. Play-off between
New Dorm, dormitory cham
pions, and Beta Theta Pi, fra
ternity champions, for campus
intramural tag football title,
Kenan stadium. -
5:00 p. m. Meeting of all men
interested in track, 103 Bing
ham hall.
5:00 p. m. Meeting of Esper
anto club, Murphey hall. -
7 :00 p. m. Meeting of all chem
istry students, Yenable hall.
7:30 p. m. Meeting of Bucca
neer staff, Buccaneer office,
basement Alumni building.
7:30 p. m.- Elisha Mitchell
. scientific society, Professors
T. F. Hickerson and Collier
Cobb will speak, Phillips hall.
NUMBER G7
AIRPLANE MODEL
IS ON DISPLAY M
PHILLIPS HALL
Machine Is Used By Curtiss
Wright Ground School In Ral
eigh; Jhreadgi!! Also Here.
A great many students have
been attracted to the vicinity of
Tn9 -SnSineerinfr laboratory in
Phillips hall, by a very interest
ing ffiadiin3 .which is ori display
there through Me courtesy of
the Curtiss-Wright flying ser
vice located at Raleigh.
The machine consists of a
flying model airplane operated
by full controls such as are used
on a full-sized plane, the con
trol surfaces being worked by
cords running through the plane
to the control stick and mdder- ,
bar, which are located in a cock- -pit
back of the model. The
power is furnished, by a one
horse-power electric motor, op
erating a fan in a wind tunnel
which gives the same effects as
a propeller blast on the plane.
Within certain limitations this
model has all the reactions of
a real airplane. It takes off and
lands, does turns to the right
and left, just as a larger plane
would do.
This model is a part of the
equipment of the Curtiss-Wright
ground school being conducted
at Raleigh. It is used in the
class room to demonstrate the
action of the propeller blast on
the various control surfaces, and
is said to be as instructive as
it is interesting. It was brought
to Chapel Hill through the ef
forts of Professor Neil P. Bailey
of the mechanical engineering
department of the University.
With the machine is Henry
Threadgill of the sales depart
ment of the -Curtiss-Wright fly
ing school. Applications are
being received by Mr. Thread
gill for enrollment in the new
ground school class at Raleigh
which begins tomorrow.
Professor Bailey and Mr.
Threadgill have extended an in
vitation to the public to visit the
engineering laboratory and see
this machine , at work. Co-eds
and ladies of the community are
also invited.
Di Picture Notice
The group photograph of
the Di Senate will be taken
this morning at the chapel
period immediately in front
of the Law Building. Every
member of the senate is re
quested to be present.
7:30 p. m. Philological 'club,
Howard Mumf ord Jones will
speak, Graduate club:
8:00 p. in. Annual Mary D.
Wright debate between rep
resentativesof Di senate and
r Phr assembly, Gerrard hall.-
.. WEDNESDAY
3:00 p. m. All classes in gym
which meet at 4 :30 or 5 : 00 on
Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day will meet at Emerson
field.
7 :30 p. m. Regular ' monthly
meeting Sketch club Mrs.
Wallace E. Caldwell, 412 Rose
mary lane. - ;
7:30 p. m.Alpha Delta Psi
meeting, Mrs. R. H. Wettach,
Dr. J. F. Dashiell and H. W.
Crane will speak, New West
building. f , , -
8 :00 p. m. Carolina vs. Raleigh
Y basketball team, Tin Can. '