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VARSITY vs. MARYLAND 8:30 TONIGHT TIN CAN VARSITY vs. 3IARYLAND 8:30 TONIGHT TIN CAN 1 r ii F ! i i ! I r VOLUME XXXVIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930 NUMBER 103 Ly s '-r )lxx it PLAYERS PRAISED ON YINTER TOUR Carolina Playmakers Received With Enthusiasm In Appear ance In Spartanburg. The Carolina Playmakers, now on " tour through ;North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, have been received with enthusiasm at their first few performances. Friday night they appeared at Albemarle, N. C., and the next night at Spar tanburg. Last night they played at Atlanta. The critic for the Spartan burg Herald characterized Ger trude Wilson Coffin's comedy "Magnolia's Man" as "the most natural interpretation of west ern North Carolina mountain eers yet offered." '. Mrs. Coffin's acting in the role of Mis' Tish, the village dressmaker, was highly praised. Holmes Bryson was rated as the star of "The No 'Count Boy," Paul Green's fantastic comedy of negro life. In the role of an imaginative negro minstrel he won favor by numerous songs on his harmonica. Hubert Heff ner was lauded j by the critic for his work as the mill hand in Loretto Carroll Bailey's play "Black Water," a sequel to "Job's Kinf oiks," and for his interpretation of the widower in "Magnolia's Man." An editorial in the Spartan burg Herald on the Playmakers said of the organization, "Their work shows a finish and an ar tistic touch in text' and inter pretation as they perfect their art in the portrayal of the folks we know so well in this part of the country. "Mrs. Loretto Carroll Bailey in her own plays Job's Kin folks' and 'Black Water' is classi cal in her character and support ed by a cast that contributes to the sketch fine talents. "It is a delightfully refresh ing field in which the Play makers are laboring." The tour will end with a per formance at Rocky Mount on February 26. DIALECTIC SENATE TAKES IN 4 MEN The second regular initiation meeting of the Dialectic Senate was held last night, at which time the following candidates were admitted to membership : R. M. Fleming-Jones, J. R. Wil liams, Henry Wood and Law rence Flynn, The president announced that at some time in the coming week a joint meeting will be held with and under the direction of the Philanthropic. Assembly, when a bill dealing with the rela tions between Carolina and Duke will be discussed. It is tenja tively planned to invite the de bating societies of the neighbor ing school to participate in the meeting. r ... Before adjournment the pres , i dent appointed Senator Shreve to represent the society on the debate council. Math Seminar Today At the meeting of the math seminar this afternoon, Dr. E. L Mackie will finish the presenta tion of a paper on "An Isoperi metric Problem in the Calculus of Variations" which he began at the meeting last week. Tneta rm iraternity an nounces the pledging of Walter H. Stone of Henderson and Wm T. Crutchfield of Wilmington. Senior Notice AD senior superlative pic tures will be taken this after noon between 2:30 and 3 o'clock in front of the Yack-ety-Yack office in Alumni building Pictures not taken at this time or not already handed in will not be included in the annual. II7T! f T lnnyrri ttv ?1. J.IAJUlIU. JR. WINS HIGH HONOR Carolina Alumnus Becomes As sociated With Root, Clark, Buckner, And Ballantine Law Firm. William J. Cocke, Jr., of the class of '25, of Asheville, recent ly accepted an invitation to be come associated with Elihu Root's law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine, one of the most outstanding law firms of the English speaking world. Mr. Cocke returned to the United- States last fall following three years spent in the study of law in Merton College, Ox ford University, England. He went there as a Rhodes scholar following his graduation from the University with highest hon ors. . . . . : .... The Asheville boy, for he is still yet a boy, being only 24 years old, won, second honors at Oxford, a distinction that is ac corded to few of the 4000 or more students in attendance at he English institution. He was recently called to the English bar and is now an English bar rister and a member of Gray's Inn, a position which entitles him, by a recent decision, to the privilege of practicing law in New York state without 1 going through the formality of an ex amination. The Root law firm has offices in New York, London and Paris. It was while in New York and Paris that Mr. Cocke met mem bers of the Root firm. They be came so impressed with him and his record as a student at the University and at Oxford that the invitation to become associ ated with them resulted. Mr. Cocke entered Oxford three years ago. Two years later, in June, 1928, he won his degree of bachelor oi arts m jurisprudence, taking second honors. Because of the record he made as a student, he was given the privilege of pursuing his studies toward the degree of bachelor of civil law, which he obtained this past June. As a rule, law students in England study three years at a University and then attend the Inns of Court for three years before being called to the bar. Mr. Cocke, however, not only took the regular Oxford examin ations in law but the examina tions given by the Inns of Court, which were held over a period of three years. In other words, Mr. Cocke did in three years what it usually takes law students in England six years to accomplish. He was so suc cessful in his examinations in the Inns of Court that he be- came an "utter barrister," a position next to King's Counsel. Before going to Oxford, he spent five years at the . Univer sity of North Carolina. He took four years of academic work, receiving the degree of A. B., and. a year in law. While an undergraduate student he was president of Phi Beta Kappa, president of the student body, and Golden Fleece. DISCPtBUNATION IN TAX LAWS IS SUBJECTARTICLE John H. Anderson Writes In Law Review On Advantages Of Incorporating Business Elsewhere. That it is advantageous from a taxation viewpoint to incor-1 porate North , Carolina enter prises outside the state is the subject of an interesting study of corporation taxes contained in the February tissue of the North Carolina Law Review. The discussion opens with a statement that promoters delib erately select the state in which they will incorporate their busi nesses because of lack of uni formity of state laws in respect to taxation. Naturally the state with the most favorable tax laws gets most of the corporations. The author of the discussion, John H. Anderson, Jr., demon strates his conclusions by charts which indicate the actual amount of taxes payable by representa tive enterprises incorporated in North Carolina, Arizona, Dela ware, Florida, Maine, Maryland; Nevada or New Jersey, the states being selected because of low tax rates, scope of corporate powers allowed or the liability of corporation laws. Maryland and Florida have the lowest fig ures on the chart. There is a discussion of two subjects of the greatest interest to corpora tions, the taxation of intangible property of foreign corpora tions, of the theory of "business situs" and the taxation of domes tic corporations on the basis of the "corporate excess," that is, the excess of the market value of capital stock outstanding over the assessed value of other tax able property of the corporation. These matters present enormous difficulties and there are appar ent discriminations in the law and variations in the practices of tax assessors. Mr. Anderson concludes his article as follows: "Although the figures submitted in the ac companying charts are of course not wholly accurate and are sub ject to adjustment for specific cases (and while the advantage shown would be less or even neg ligible for small companies) , the investigation establishes the fol lowing general conclusions : The North Carolina enterprise doing its entire business within the state may realize substantial economy through foreign incor poration insofar as local taxa tion of intangibles of foreign corporations is not attempted and as the corporate excess tax is enforced against domestic corporations. In addition, the tax upon net earnings attribut able to business without the state to business without the state may be avoided through foreign incorporation where ! such for eign business is within states not taxing corporate net incomes. Comparisons of less substantial powers appear from the tables. From a public point of view, the possibility of complications upon insolvency, receivership and liti gation make it desirable that North Carolina tax laws be more nearly equal to those of other states to the end that the company whose practical busi ness head-offices and plant are in the state be also domiciled here." Sigma Nu announces the pledging of Wingate Underhill of Louisburg. Edgar W. Knight Are Managers Under the title "Our Teach- j ers: Managers of Our Biggest Business," Professor Edgar W. Knight, of the School of Educa tion, has an article in the cur rent issue of the Outlook and Independent on public school superintendents of the United States, who are holding at the end of this week their annual convention, in Atlantic City. After pointing out some of the criticisms often heard of these public school managers Knight says: "The critics should turn their eyes to Atlantic City the last week in February when that popular resort will welcome to its convention halls and board walk the annual meeting of the largest and probably the most influential body of educational workers tne world nas ever known. Few of them have ever taken or ever could take first prizes as bathing beauties or glorious 'Apollos, although some of them are not lacking in show manship. But en masse they are an impressive body. Most of them appear to be tireless in industry and intelligent in lead ership, some are almost aposto lic in fervor, and many of them seem to be marked by a quiet willingness to be forgotten. "In outward appearances they do not differ markedly from the members of other national or ganizations which hold annual conventions, whether they . are religious or secular, learned or unlearned, bond or free, ecclesi astical or merely political in character. Few of the delegates 9 . have the lean and hungry look of Cassius, but on the contrary seem to sleep well o'nights, al though they and perhaps a few UNIVERSITY TO OFFER FRENCH OVER RADIO Instructors To Give Series Of Twelve Lessons As Part Of University Radio Hour. A series of 12 lessons in ele mentary French will be broad cast as part of the University radio hour from station WPTF, Raleigh, every Friday evening from 6:30 to 7 o'clock, accord ing to Morgan Vining, director of the radio hour. The first lesson of the course, which will be called "Radio French X," will be given February 21. This is the first of a contem plated series of instructions in modern languages to be given by the University. The course will be offered by the University ex tension division under the di rection of Dr. W. M. Dey, head of the department of romance languages. The four instruc tors who will give three lessons each during the course are Pro fessor U. T. Holmes, T. J; Wil son, III, J. C. Lyons and Hugo Giduz. This series will give to radio listeners the essential features of a short course in beginner's French. It is aimed to present a minimum requirement of French grammar with emphasis on pronunciation of words in popular use. Radio listeners will be requested to write to the extension division for a synopsis of the 12 lessons which will be furnished free of charge to those requesting it. Those who com plete this course satisfactorily I will get a University certificate. Says Teacher Biggest Business others may believe that they are addicted to much thinking. "They laugh not inordinately although they have seen many funny things in their day. They are cheerful of countenance, their hearts made merry by the happiness of the millions of chil dren who troop at their call. "Most of them are modish in haberdashery, as well as in ped agogy, and otherwise prosper ous looking, if occasionally some do appear to lapse mom entarily into pagan ways. A respectable majority smell de lightfully of tobacco. They swap anecdotes and stories, carefully collected from the four corners of the profession and presently to be made current among the laity in the provinces by way of Rotary and the Lions ; and in the exchange, the art of pedagogical exactness almost al ways runs high while that of suggestion may sometimes run low. They tip dining car wait ers with liberality and eclat, as delegates to conventions of the Bottlers' Association or the Tax Dodgers' League, and are kind to the Pullman porter, usually yclept George.. "A keen observer can easily discover, even unaided by the show of watch charms and breastplates, that many of them pay homage to illustrious poten tates and semiannual dues to grand keepers of exchequers. In this respect the school workers are not unlike thirty millions of their fellow adults who have esoteric mystic knowledge gain ed by membership in one or more of the several hundred mystic societies. But whether the school superintendent is tip- (Continued on last page) Playmaker Notice Elmer Hall, technical direc tor of the Playmakers, has requested that all students in terested in the construction and painting of scenery, who have i any time free during the day, and who would like to help get out the sets for the next production, please re port on the stage at the Play makers' Theatre at their earliest convenience. The crew for the western tour will be selected from those who work on this next production of one-act plays. STUDENTS ATTEND Y CONFERENCE AT CHARLOTTE TODAY J. E. Dungan, K. C. Ramsay and Lee Richardson left Chapel Hill yesterday to attend the state Y. M. C. A. convention being held , in Charlotte today. H. F. Comer, secretary of the Y, leaves this morning for the meeting. Ramsay is representing the junior-senior cabinet, Dungan is delegate for the sophomore group, and Richardson repre sents the freshman friendship council. The conference is held an nually and is attended by dele gates from all the student and city associations. The program is composed of a fellowship breakfast, a general business session this morning, a meeting of the student group in the af ternoon, and the closing banquet tonight. The irrouD will return to Chapel Hill late tonight. STRONG SPEAKS ON GOSPLAN TO TAYL0RS0CIETY "Long-Range Economics Plan ning In Russia" Assured. By Economics Professor. "Long-Range Economic Plan ning in Russia" was the subject of a talk given before the Uni versity branch of the Taylor Society last night by Professor E. D. Strong of the school of commerce and economics. In his talk Professor Strong described the organization of economic activity in Russia un der which practically every f phase of production, distribu- ...... tion and consumption of eco nomic goods is controlled by the direction of a central commis sion which plans the country's activities for several years in advance. To show that governmental control of economic activity is not entirely outside the realm of possibility, the speaker present ed a summary of the results of the first two short periods of communistic control. Under the direction of a central commis sion which planned all activity, Russia far exceeded the expec tations of the planners and the entire plan had to be cast aside and another embodying greater objectives was adopted. Communism came to Russia at the worst possible time, stat ed Professor Strong, for imme diately after the war, production was at its low ebb, there were no trained leaders and the man power of the country was de pleted. Under this plan, how ever, he said, the condition of Russia has steadily improved, and a practical reconstruction is taking place. Under the centralized control by which 50 per cent of the basic capital and 80 per cent of the industry is governed, it is possible for the group in author ity to plan ahead, making prep arations to meet all require ments for the execution of the (Continued on last page) PHI VINDICATES ACTIVITIES OF Y . The Philanthropic Assembly, at its regular meeting last night, defeated the resolution "Resolv ed: That the University Y. M. C. A. is not performing its nec essary functions on the campus" by a margin of one vote. The ballot of the members of the assembly resulted in a deadlock, and Speaker John Lang voted against the resolution. Several recounts were necessary before the exact vote was determined. Representatives M o n tgomery and Carr favored the resolution. The opposition was led by Rep resentatives Greer, Vann, Mc Duffie, and Kornegay. Speaker Lang read a resolu tion which he proposed be sent to the Dialectic Senate in re gard to the invitation of the Duke societies to be held Tues day. A letter from the presi dent of the debate council con cerning the appointment of a representative from the assem bly on the council was read. Speaker Lang appointed Repre sentative Hamilton Hobgood to the position for the coming year. The speaker named a committee to be composed of Representa tives Baldwin, Carr, Hobgood, Speight and Yarborough to meet with a committee from the Di Senate and discuss the joint session.
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