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VOLUME XXXVIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930
NUMBER 145
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C6ritestl8aue& "By Raoliiii
Secretary of Debating Union
Announces Plans For Eigh- -teenth
Annual Contest.
TO BEGIN THURSDAY
High School Representatives To
To Discuss Proposed Amend
ment, Authorizing Clissifica
ticn of Property for Taxation.
Final touches . were being ad
ded today to preparations for
the "welcome that is to be given
224 -youthful debaters from 56
North Carolina high schools who
are expected here tomorrow to
take part in the final contests
to determine the winner of the
Aycock Cup for 1930. Y
The 56 schools that are en
tered emerged as winners in the
triangular contests held - in
March, in which 194 schools
competed.
E R. Rankin, who is in charge
of arrangements, estimates that
the events will bring hundreds
f visitors to Chapel Hill.
The girl debaters, who have a
115 to 109 majority over., the
T)oys this year, will be entertain
ed in the homes of the faculty
members and townspeople, while
the boys will stay in the dormi
tories and fraternity houses.
Dean N. W. Walker will pre
side at a general meeting of all
the contestants Thursday after
noon at 2 o'clock, at-which time
the debaters will draw for one of
the 14 sections into which they
will be divided.
The first preliminaries lead
ing to the .final contests for the !
Aycock cup will get underway
Thursday nignt - at 7 o'clock.
They will be held in the 14 . sec
tions in different buildings over
the campus. From each of these
sections the judges will select
one negative and one affirma
tive team to participate in the
semi-finals to begin at 10 o'clock
Friday morning. .
In the semi-finals all the af
firmative teams will meet in
competition, as will all the nega
tive groups. From these two
groups' the judges will select a
best affirmative and a best neg
ative team to enter the final
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contests in Gerrard hall Friday
night at 8:30 o'clock.
The 56 schools which are to
send teams are Altamahaw-Os-sipee,
Aurelian Springs, Ayden,
Benrenue, Bethel,- Black Creek,
Bragtown, Candler, Chowan,
Como, - Copeland, Creedmoor,
Curry, Edward , Best, Elizabeth
City, Emma, Evergreen, Forest
City, Gastonia, Glen Alpine,
Gibson, Goldsboro, Granite Falls,
Green Hope, Greensboro, Grif
fith, Harris, Hendersonville,
Hollis, Lake Landing, Leggett,
Louisburer. Lumberton, Marsh-
,
ville, Morven, Newport, North
Brook, Old Town, Pantego, Paw
Creek, Pikesville, Randleman,
Rockingham, Roseboro, Ruther-
f ordton - Spindale, Salisbury,
Scotland Neck, Tarboro, Troy,
Wakelon, Washington Collegiate
Institute. Weaverville, Weeks-
ville, Wilkesboro, Wilton, WoodT
land, Olney. -
Azalea Gardens Opea
By the courtesy of Mr. and
Mrs. H. Walters, and under the
auspices of St. Andrews' Epis
copal church, the azalea gardens
at "Airlie," Wrightsville Sound,
Wilmington, will be opened to
the public on Thursday, April
17, and Saturday, April 19, from
noon until 6 p. m. A small ad
mission will be charged.
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Call For Applications
By order of the Publications
Union -' Board meeting last
night all candidates for ap
pointment as business mana
gers of campus publications,
as well as managing editor of
The Daily Tar Heel are re
quested to , file applications
for 4 the positions with Mr.
Lear in Bingham hall not later
than noon Thursday, April 17.
The candidates for: the bus
iness managerships will also
have to report to the Journal
ism room Thursday night at
seven o'clock for auditions
with the board. The candi
dates for the managing-editorship
will not be called be
fore the board. .
COURT ROOM BIG
PSYCHOLOGY LAB
University Professor Addresses
; Pre-Law ; Association Blonday
' Night On Personal, Elements
Of Trials. ,
"Nowhere that I know of are
more psychological factors to be
found than in the court room,"
declared Dr. J. F. Dashiell, of
the psychology department, in
an address before the Pre- Law
Association 'Monday night. He
pointed out the- numerous per
sonal elements to be considered
iii viewing the composition of
the court and the participants in
legal encounters. There are the
two parties to the suit, with
varying degrees of intelligence,
bias, and tendencies, extending
to the actually subnormal and
insane individuals. The two
counsels are likewise influential,
it being said until recently that
"you can't convict a hundred
million dollars." Witnesses are
notoriously inaccurate in their
testimony, a point emphasized
by Dr. Dashiell with the reading
of an editorial from the Greens
boro Daily News. The jury is
composed of not one but twelve
men with varying interests and
biases. Judges pass different
sentences upon identical actions,
being influenced by personal
preferences and prejudices. -.
Dr. Dashiell showed that court
cases are composed of three
phases : . the actual maladjust
ment causing the case, the legal
side of the question, and the
psychological Nf actors involved.
In connection with-the techni
que of psychological investiga
tion of criminals comes the de
tection of lying by the psycho
galvanic reaction.
At the conclusion of the talk,
two members of the audience
were selected to act as subject
in an experiment to demon
strate the functioning of the lie
detection methods. After the
experimental procedure, the au
dience voted as to the guilty sus
pect, a small majority voting
correctly. -
Harmon Using Extra ,
1 Helo At Swain: Hall
For High School Week
Swain half is! all' prepared' to
feed the crowds expected today
for the exercises of High
School Week. Obie Harmon,
the manager, has checked all his
dishes and silver and has re
plenished the supply from the
storage rooms.
SUPREME COURT
CONSIDERS STATE
BAR STANDARDS
Dean McConnick Urged By State
Jurists To Support Blove
For Higher Standards.
The proposed move to raise
the standards for admission to
the North Carolina Bar has been
communicated to Dean C. T. Mc
Cormick and the faculty of the
University of North Carolina
law school and has their warm
est approbation and support.
The matter will be taken up
before the Supreme Court on
Wednesday. Judges James S.
Manning and L. R. Varser, for
mer s members of the Supreme
Court, and Judge J. Crawford
Biggs, as a committee of the
North Carolina Bar Association,
appointed by President Kenneth
C. Uoyall, will present a motion
to the . Supreme Courtto raise
the. standards.-, . J(
The present standards for ad
mission in North Carolina re
quire ,( no academic preparation,
not even a high school . educa
tion, but merely two years' study
of law, which may. be, in . anr of
fice or. in a law . school. ,
Mr. A. B. Andrews, of Ha
leigh, formerly President of the
North Carolina Bar Association,
in a report to the Association,
says that North Carolina ranks
39th among the states in its re
quirements, and that in North
Carolina doctors, engineers, den
tists, and other professions and
specialties, all have very much
higher standards for admission
than lawyers.
' In his statement on behalf of
the law school, Dean C. T. Mc
Cormick declared that "The
members of the law faculty are
very hopeful that the Supreme
Court will find it desirable to
nlace the matter of admission
to the legal" profession on the
same high plane attained by the
other learned prof essions in this
state and by the legal profession
in other progressive states."
Play Of Eighteenth
Century Presented
Playmaker Theatre
Susan Centlivre's "The Won
der" was presented last night as
the farewell presentation of the
Jitney Players at the Playmaker
Theatre. The principal roles in
this play, originally produced at
the Drury . Lane Theatre in
1714. were filled by Richard
Skinner, Harrison Dowd, Fran
cesca Bruning, . Ada ; Caf agna,
Douglas Rowland, and Alice
Keating, the widow of late Bush
nell Cheyney, who founded the
Jitney Players seven years ago.
The play was of a harsh father
who insists that his beautiful
daughter marry a man of his
choice, regardless of her wishes.
The daughter, preferring death
to this sad state of affairs, hurls
herself from the chamber win
dow, only to land in the arms of
a young British officer. This
daughter has a friend who is the
daughter of a merciless father,
and with this friend she seeks
refuge. .-This creates a misun
derstanding between her . friend
and her friend's suitor. Other
characters become involved and
the affair is ended happily in the
thjrd act.
-The costumes and scenic ef
fects were accurate in every de
tail and the stage presented a
faithful picture of the at
mosphere and setting of the 18th
century. ,
ntertaiiimerit Committee To
: Hold Straw
Townspeople, Faculty Members,
Anil Ctnants A T1 Poc I
Ballots For Choice of .Enter-
tainments From List of Thirty
Features ,
From a list of several hun
dred attractions which were
available, the student entertain
ment committee has selected 30
of the most outstanding and
worthwhile features" for consid
eration by the students, faculty,
and townspeople. The selected
list is here printed in order that
those interested in the programs
may express their preference as
to the entertainment which will
be secured. , c
The committee is desirous of
obtaining as large an index of
opinion as possible, according
to Dean Hibbard, chairman of
the committee, and he urges
that numerous and carefully
considered preferences be regis
tered. Cost, variety and sched
uling are factors to be consid
ered in the final decisions as to
the program! and there is con
sequently a possibility thai the
features receiving the highest
votes may not be included. Yet
first consideration will be given
the, suggestions,, either on or off
this list, meeting with the most
popular favor. , ' :-,
The members of the commit
tee are Professor F. H. r Koch,
for the drama; H. S. Dyer, for
music ; Dean Addison t Hibbard,
Bill Adams and Glenn Holder,
for the A. B. school ; and W. R.
Curtis, and F. A. Jones for the
school of education!
Personnel of the committee
for next year is to be announced
soon.
Students Asked To
House High School
Visitors In Dorms
Grady Leonard ' announced
yesterday afternoon that there
were quite a number of visiting
high school boys who had not
been placed in a room, and said
that any boys who could pos
sibly' make room for an extra
occupant in their dorm to call
by the Y early this morning and
sign up someone from their
home town. If your home town
is not represented take someone
from somewhere else.' " He said
that the only way that the Uni
versity had of giving the visitors
sleeping quarters : was to place
them in the rooms of those stu
dents who are willing to accept
a guest for a few days. '" The
students will not be responsible
for entertaining the boy.
University Band Plays
At Shelby High School
The University Band appeared
last night in the Shelby high
school auditorium, under the
auspices of the Shelby high
school music department.
Today will be spent in Char
lotte where the local - high
school music department there
has arranged for three concerts
to be given by the band.
The first will be this morning
at the junior high school the
second i this , afternoon at '2
o'clock before the senior high
school; and the final concert of
the tour will be at-8 o'clock to
night, also at tlie senior high
school.
All programs will be much
; like that one presented here by
! the band last Sunday.
'Vote This Week
TC"f POTTRT QT?QQTn"M
pAUbili Vt JJIAIH
OF JUDGE'S MOTHER
Because of the death of his
mother, Mrs. C. U. Hinshaw, of
418 . East, Harvey. Baleigh,
which occurred suddenly . Sun
day, morning, Judge C. P. Hin
shaw of Chapel Hill postponed
the regular. Monday session of
recorder's court this. week. Cases
on the 'docket will be neard next
Monday. . , 1 .
A large number of Chapel
Hillians attended the funeral of
Mrs. Hinshaw Monday morning
in Raleigh. She was 60 years
of age. :
YMOTINETALP
ON ANIMAL SENSE
Zoologist Tells Class of Intelli.
t gence Demonstration With
Fresh Water Animal. -
Since -time immemorial, men
have been speculating on the
possibility of the lower animals
having any degree of intelli
gence. However,' man wishing
io hold his supremacy, has been
prone to discredit and take with j
a pinch of salt all evidence that
tends to prove that they are
thinking and reasoning being.
Dr. J. M. Valentine, while lec
turing to his nine-thirty class in
zoology 2 the ! other morning,
cited 1 an experiment that had
been made by the famous Euro
pean biologist, Nussbaum, wlyle
experimenting with the Hydra,
a small microscopic fresh-water,
animal. The hydra is simply a
small cylindrical "sac -with a
mouth at one end surrounded by
six or eight tentacles, and at the
other a basal disk by which it
attaches itself to objects in the
water. The walls of its body are
made up of three layers, the out
side layer being the protective
covering, the middle layer serv
ing some such purpose as to
hold the other two together, and
the inner layer which is the di
gestive organs. Nussbaum was
able to turn this animal wrong
side out. He wished to see if
the inner layer and outer layer
would pass through the middle
layer and assume their correct
positions or whether they would
change, the outer becoming the
inner and' the inner becoming
the outer. However,; the next
day when he looked at it he dis
covered that it had done neither
but had turned itself back right
and was living as normal as ever.
He turned it again and passed
a straw through the walls of its
body, making it seemingly im
possible for it to right itself
again. Dr. Valentine illustrated
this step by taking a paper bag
and passing a stick through
from one side and out at the
other. When Nussbaum looked
at his hydra the next day he
lound to his surprise tnat m
spite of the straw it had righted
itself and was still living with
the straw passing through its
body. ' ' ' '
Any one wishing to test his in
telligence with that of the hydra
can do so by flattening put a pa
per bag and piercing it with a
stick. If he succeeds in turning
the bag wrong side out or vice
versa in twenty-four hours he
may give himself a grade of one
hundred. The hydra did not
have that long in which to figure
out its problem.
APRIL1SSUE OF
JOURNAL APPEAR
Articles by. Babcock, Coltrane,
Trabue, Bleyer, And Harrison
Feature High School JouroaL
The April issue of the High.
School Journal has been recently
issued from the press and is be
ing mailed to its subscribers
throughout the state and nation.
Its tardy appearance is due to
the attendance of the majority
of the members of the school of
education at the recent meeting
of the North Carolina Education
Association' at Raleigh, work on
the Journal being temporarily
suspended for that purpose.
The current issue . contains
several articles of general in
terest besides the special col
umns. In "Direct Moral Train
ing," Mr. Lyndon Babcock dis
cusses the failure of the public
school to train scholars in "at
titudes and desires" as well as in
subjects, commenting in - this
connection on the increasing
number of the nation's youth
among the criminal classes. : He
cites as an example of the utO
ity of character training the
work in Detroit of the Pathfind
ers of America, functioning as
an auxiliary agency to the Board
of Education in that city, and
explains the ways and means by
which such work may be car
ried on.
Superintendent E. J. Coltrane
sets forth the need of interpret
ing and relating the school to
the people and emphasizes the
consequent value of a continu
ous publicity program with this
object in view. Dr. M. R. Tra
bue presents the results of the
high school senior examination
given in 668 high schools
throughout the state last year,
with an analysis of the data se
cured. Mr. S. G; Noble gives an
account of the work of the' Na
tional Committee on State His
tories of Education during the
past year arid a half,, in connec
tion with the evaluation Of exist
ing "stateistories of education
and the stimulation of the pro
duction of hew histories for
those states inadequately sup
plied. ; The committee has, for
this latter purpose, suggested
specifications for the prepara
tion of new ? histories, has pre
pared an annotated bibliography
of local materials- dealing with
the subject and has - - sought
means "of promoting the publica
tion of new texts. Mr. H. ' D.
Myers describes 1 the - organiza
tion, extension, and the activi
ties of the Camp Fire ' Girls
throughout the country, and
stresses the need for competent
and trained leaders in this work.
In "Pioneering in New Fields"
Miss Margaret Harrison dis
cusses the spread of the use of
radio in rural schools.
The special departments in
clude the Latin column, by J. M.
Gwynn; the French column, by
Hugo Giduz ; the Science col
umn, by C E. Preston; the
English column, by P. C. Far
rarj the History column, by A.
K; King; the f Music eolumn, by
H. S. Dyer; Notes from- the
Field, by A. B. Combs J and Book
Notes and Reviews.
Sketch Club To Meet
The Sketch Club will gather
this afternoon in the neighbor
hood of Button's to do outdoor
work. -
Mrs. W.. E. Caldwell requests
that members hand in their ex
hibits for the flower show by
the end of this month.