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WW W 'i in "TECH vs. "VIRGINIA" 3:30 TODAY KENAN FIELD "TECir vs. "VIRGINIA 3:30 TODAY KENAN FIELD i f mm f i 1 1 "-y: j w - - . 'iiiim mm ' volume xxxvni RULES ANNOUNCED FOR CONTEST ON THE COMTITUTION Limit Of 1500 Words Now Re places . Former 10 Minute Restriction. FIRST PRIZE IS $1500 Many changes have been made in the rules governing the 1930 national intercollegiate oratori cal contest on the constitution, according to a statement made recently by the director of this year's contest. The' ten minute! limit has been abandoned and a word limit of 1500 words set. The amount of the prizes remains $5000, the lowest prize being raised to $400, but the first prize remains at $1500. A new list of subjects, more in keeping with the maturity of college men and women, has been announced. The 1930 sub jects are : The Constitution of the United States, Constitution al Ideals, Constitutional Duties, Constitutional Aspirations, The Constitution and the Supreme Court, The Place of Constitu tional Law in American Life, The Constitution and National Progress,! The Constitution and Contemporary Executive Prac tices, The Constitution and American Economic Policies, Constitutional Incentives to In dividual Initiative, Constitution al Guarantees to All American Citizens-, The Constitution and International Affairs," American Youth and the Constitution, The Constitution and Its Founders. This contest was inaugurated and is conducted by the Better America Federation of Califor nia. Last; year 542 colleges and universities entered the contest. Every college student in Amer- ica is eligible to compete. The finals will be held June 19 at Los Angeles. The entries close March 25 and each college or university .should have selected its orator by April 15. Infor mation concerning the details of the contest may be obtained from P. Casper Harvey, contest director, Liberty, Mo. Fire Threatens Tau Epsilon Phi House Tau Epsilon Phi's home, one of the few remaining f rat houses on Fraternity Row, experienced a slight fire, early yesterday morning which might have end ed its existence in the same man ner as most of the other houses on the Row. Due to the titanic efforts of Artie Marpet, varsity basketball guard, and Phil Sher of Blue and White fame, the fire was smothered before serious damage occurred. The fire was discovered about 4 :30 a. m.,' when the ' heavy smoke awoke most of the Tep fellows. While Marpet and Sher labored to extinguish ; it, Dave Neiman and several other f rat ers garbed themselves in Sun day array, prepared to lose their evervdav clothes but by no means their best. Before the local fire truck arrived, the blaze was out. As a result of the fire, which left several large gaps in the floor, the Tau Epsilon Phi house today has a better ventilating system, it is believed, than any other frat house on the campus. . ' Economics Notice There will be an important meeting of economics majors Thursday morning, February 6, at 10:30 in 113 Bingham hall. A Third Paity Is Of Oo en.IDebate yoodkoiise Held Last Night In Gerrard Hall; Principle Point Is Whether A Third Party Can Be Created More Quickly Or Reform Brought About In Existing Parties. (By K. C. Ramsay) In the Williams'Woodhouse debate of last night in Gerrard hall on the question, "Resolved: that there is need of a third party in the United States," the principal point of discussion,was whether or not a third party powerful enough to be influen tial in elections could be or ganized quicker than needed re forms could be executed in the present parties to correct the ad mittedly existing evils. II. Y. Williams, secretary of the League for Independent Political Action, declared that the old parties have been tried and that they will not enact legislation for handling such matters as unemployment, gov ernment controlled power facil ities, labor disputes, and the like. 'He contended that they took such steps as were neces sary to maintain the party strength, but that the leaders, being Industrialists and support ers of big business, failed to get at the root of things and try to settle such matters properly. He maintained that the farm er is being carried along in the present system only by relative ly unhelpful action as compared with what could be done along this line with more liberal poli Week End Dances Two dances will feature the week-end, the Law School af fair Friday night and the sec ond Grail dance of the quar ter Saturday night. Elaborate plans have been made by the two organiza tions for these dances. The Law School dance has be come an annual affair while the Grail gives nine dances throughout the school year. HILL WILL DELIVER ILLUSTRATED TALK TO LOCAL A. S. C. E. H. O. Hill, a senior in the school, of engineering, will de liver an illustrated lecture on Mississimri Flood Control" at the meeting of the William Cain student branch of the A. S. C. E. to be held Thursday evening in room 319 Phillips hall at 7:30. The lecture to be given by Mr. Hill is one of a series of three that have been prepared by the national office of" the American Society of Civil Engineers for presentation by student mem bers before meetings of the stu dent branches. In the lecture, which is to be illustrated with lantern slides, Mr. Hill will present the prob lems that have to be met in un dertaking to control the flood waters of the Mississippi, and will show what has been done to meet these problems. This lec.ture is the second of the Ihree to be presented before the William Cain Society. The first was given by C. C. Howard four weeks ago on the subject of "Flood Control in the Miami Conservany District." The last of the talks will be given later in the quarter. , ' Charlie Waddell, president of the society, announces that re freshments will be served at this meeting. i CHAPEL HILL, N. C .WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1930 ti eject i etwee And -Williams tical regimes in force. He also emphasized the need for better international relations, particu larly stressing the need of a great reduction of armaments, recognition of the Russian gov ernment and the Soviet policy of outlawing war. Professor E. J. Woodhouse agreed with Mr. Williams on the points stated about needed social and international reform, ques tioning only the recognition of the Russian government j be cause he believed that Russians in general do not approve of the present Soviet government. Mr. Woodhouse stated that concentrated political thinking as was greatly in evidence dur ing the colonial : days and up to shortly before the civil war, but that people are now allowing themselves to be guided by poli tical bosses, instead of leaders and thinkers, and are not find ing and developing such leaders as Jefferson, Hamilton, Jackson, and many others of that period. He further stated that at pres ent we are living on the fine work 'done by our country fath ers in forming our constituton, instead of solving the present problems. Professor Woodhouse stated (Continued on page , two) Faculty Executive Committee Issues Quarterly Report Following its usual custom, the faculty executive committee has issued its quarterly report through its chairman, Dr. W. F. Prouty. According to Dr. Prouty the committee has hand led the following cases of stu dent discipline during the fall quarter of 1929: Case No. 1. A first-year pharmacy student suspended for fall quarter for violation of the honor system in connection with a chemistry 1 quiz. Case No. 2. A seconds-year law student placed on probation for balance of school year 1929- 30 for creating a disturbance and breaking university prop erty while under the influence of liquor. Apologies and reim bursements had already been made. , Case No. '3. A freshman, commerce, suspended for fall and winter quarters, 1929-30, for violation of the honor sys tern in cennection with a class theme in English la. Case No. 4. Two freshmen, college and pre-medicine, re spectively, suspended for fall quarter, 1929 ; and three fresh men, college, commerce and pre medicine, respectively, denied credit for French 1 in fall quar ter, "1929, for violation of the honor system in connection with a quiz in French 1. COMMUNITY CLUB MEETING At the meeting of the com munity club literature depart ment last night in the social j rooms of the Methodist church, Mrs. Howard Mumford Jones reviewed "The Life of Georfre Meredith" by ; Robert Esmond Fencourt. The Sketch Club will hold its weekly, meeting thsi afternoon at 3:30, 412 Rosemary Lane. UNEMPLOYTtHMT IS ECONOMIC FAULT SAYS DILH. WOLF University Professor Addresses Taylor Society On "fllanage ment And ' Technological Unemployment' "If we accept the doctrine that a man has a moral right to an opportunity to earn a livelihood for himself and his family, the responsibility for unemployment rests on society as a whole for having built up an economic or ganization accompanied by un employment," stated Dr. H. D. Wolf in an address before the University student branch of the Taylor Society last night. Management is particularly responsible for the problem, said Dr. Wolf later in his talk, which was entitled "Manage ment and Technological Unem ployment." v Management has this . responsibility because the entrepreneur is entrusted with the capital, labor and land to produce goods and services ef fectively, and if there are men unemployed the production . is being done inefficiently. The problem of unemploy ment is one of the easiest ones ! of solution today, stated Dr. Wolf, but o the three types of unemployment cyclic, seasonal, and technological the last is by far the hardest of solution. Instead of arising from a con dition of depression as is usually taken for grante.d, this problem of technological unemployment springs up in periods of appar ent prosperity. It arises simply from the introduction of labor- saving machinery, but the prob lem created by the unemploy ment of replaced workers is one of prime importance. Presenting data from "several studies of unemployment, Dr. Wolf showed the length of the period of unemployment varied from zero to oyer a years and also that the wages rates re ceived by the worker when he obtained employment in another trade were lower than those in the original work in almost half of the cases investigated. The speaker presented several plans which have been, applied in cases where unemployment has been caused by the addition of new machinery. Some of the means used to relieve the situa tion of the discharged worker were payment of a" dismissal wage and payment of an insur- ance fee. Dr. Wolf had no definite pro gram to present for the solution of the problem, of technological unemployment, and he stated that the fact that there was no apparent solution was the sad dest part of the whole matter. After showing that the prob lem had been a subject of in vestigation by the government for only a short period of time and that very little serious con ai deration had been given the matter by governing bodies, he stated. ' . . . . "I believe that the problem, of technological unemployment is the most difficult, problem of it all, but if we get to work we can solve it. and I am sure we can solve the others." Engineering Notice The meeting of the University student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers which was to have been held Thursday, has been postponed nntil the evening of February 13., - :" Americanism Not Matter Of Birth Says Rabbi Wise In Talk At Methodist Ghu 4 30 MEN TO MAKE GLEE CLUB TRIP Represent University In The V Southern Inter-Collegiate Glee Club Contest At Greenville, S. C, Friday. " " The final selection determin ing those who will compose the University glee club in the south ern intercollegiate glee club con test at Greenville, S. C, Friday night has been made. ; " The group, thirty strong, will leave tomorrow morning for Gastonia, and will appear there that night in a program of se lections chosen from their regu lar fall tour repertoire. Those making the trip "are: Professor N. O. Kennedy, pianist; E. S. Clark, student di rector; C. C. Duffy, S. A. Lynch, Jr., M. P. Park, E.-L. Swain, W. T. Whsett, George Winston, Ernest Midget, Bill Petty, Wil liam Barfield, W. L. Boynton, J. C. Connolly, H. I. Lyon, Jr., J. W. Slaughter, J. H. Stewart, F. P. Stimson, L. I. Hammond, T. W. Bremer, A. H. Fleming, Jr., Wofford Humphries, C. B. Over man, T." C. Reynolds, W. G. Brown, P. S.' Carter, J. E. Mil ler, F. M. Prouty, J. P. Scur lock and A. J. Stahr. : J. C. B. Ehringhaus Chosen As Speaker At Senior Smoker The speaker for the coming senior smoker which will be held Thursday night and which will be the most important smoker of the year, has finally been selected. ; ' ' "-:--He is J. C. B. Ehringhaus of Elizabeth City and is one of the most influential men in the state. At" the University Mr. Ehring haus has an enviable record. He was editor of the Tar Heel, a member of the Phi Society, Gim- ghoul, and chief ball manager. Mr, Ehringhaus is a lawyer of great repute and was a mem ber of the legislature from 1905 to 1907 and solicitor of the first judicial district ,f rom 1910 to 1922. He is at present a Uni versity trustee and has a re markable political record. He figures prominently as candidate for the governorship of . North Carolina in 1932. 9:30 Classes To Be Over At 10:10 Today In order to give students time to attend the talk by Rabbi Wise at 10:15 in Ger rard hall, all 9 :30 classes will be dismissed at 10:10. The 11 o'clock classes will con tinue at the usual time. t Rabbi Wise r:- . .;.::-:;- I i - " r " - ? u -- - y. X S r '.:. .. NUI.IBER 3 Declares That Americans Are Self -Blade And That Ances try Is Not Important. AMERICANISM AN IDEAL An American Is One Who Lives For That Ideal Says Noted Zionist. "Americanism is not a matter of birth and ancestry," said Rab bi Stephen S. Wise last night at the Methodist church when Vision of America." , He went on to say that Americanism is not a birthright-privilege, but, instead, "it is a lifelong respon sibility." Continuing, the speak er stated further that America is not a place, a region, but a locality; ft is an atmosphere, an ideal, a vision as vet unfulfilled. Taking up the point of Amer ica as an ideal, Rabbi Wise said that an American is one who lives by and for this ideal. "The basis of this ideal of American ism is the duty of each to all, the responsibility of all to each,", he continued. He was of the opinion that the best way. to reveal the soul of America to a foreigner is to bring him the majesty of the American ideal of liberty under law. "Let it never come to pass," said Rabbi Wise, "that we have laws for the poor and law yers for the rich." ' . In closing the speaker stated that no man was an American who does not place America first. "He is no American who cherishes prejudices, whether these be social or racial or reli gious, who thinks foreign-born Americans as 'filling the European liners with human freight', " said Rabbi Wise. Rabbi Wise will speak again this morning in chapel at 10:10 in Gerrard hall on the subject of "Jew and Christian : Agree ments and Disagreements." All 9:30 classes will be cut short 25 minutes so that the speaker will have more time for his address. This lecture is not for students -alone ; townspeople as well " as faculty members are invited to attend. spite . of the small size of Gerrard ball, it is hoped that a great many will take the opportunity of hearing probably-one of the most prom- ' inent Jewish Rabbis in the United States. Rabbi and Mrs. Wise are here as guests of the Y. M. C. A. Winsor To Present Paper At Seminar Dr. Arthur Winsor, associate professor of mathematics, vwill present the second ; part of a paper, "A Discussion of the Changes in Shape and Position of a - Triangle Whose Vertices Move in Given Directions With the Same Velocities,'' before the mathematics seminar this after noon. - Dr. Winsor p'resented the first part "of this paper at the meeting of. the seminar last week. r - Magician At Hi School Bunker, man of magic, mys tery, and fun, will give a per formance tonight at 7:45 p. m. in the high school auditorium for the benefit of the athletic fund. Sleight of hand, illusions, mind reading and blackface comedian assistants will feature, th8 versatile program.