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! . "---, 4 Ivy vt PENN STATE MEET EMERSON FIELD 2 P. M. TODAY PENN STATE MEET EMERSON FIELD 2 P. BI. V TODAY VOLUME xxxvm SCHWENMNGTO SPEAK TO CI VIL ENGINEERS TODAY Dean Braune and Professor 3a ville Also Attend Engineers' Meet In Greensboro. Professors G. T. Schwenning, Thorndike Savflle and Dean Braune are attending the spring meeting of the North Carolina section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which is be ing held at Greensboro. Mr. Schwenning, who is pro fessor of business administra tion in the school of commerce, will present a. paper before the group this morning on the sub ject "Corporate Finance and the Engineer." - The talk by Mr. Schwenning is directly connect ed to the general topic being dis cussed at the meeting, Engineer ing Contracts and Specifications. During ,the two days of the meeting, papers covering: every phase of the. subject; ihs which engineers would be interested will be presented. Mr. Saville, who is professor of hydraulic and sanitary- engin eering, is secretary-treasurer of the NorthCarpHharsectrcof the Society, and as such is attending the meeting;. Mr. Braune, dean; of the school of engineerings at theUhiversity, attended the meeting; held yes terday, but did not remain for those to be held today. SHIPS DONTWANT CffllfiTiBlJMS f """" 1 1 1 Men Planning To .Work Way Across Atlantic Are In For Hard Time. Cleveland 0., April 17 (IP) If you have tears , prepare to shed them for those ambitious youths who have visions of "bumming their way"; across the Atlantic this summer, for if re ports are authentic, the high school and college boys planning to work their passage to the other side, when class room doors close again, are going to find themselves out of luck up on approaching the sea employ ment agencies. Always considered prizes by youthful adventurers bent, on making the horizon their desti- nation the jobs aboard sea-go ing ships are so scarce this Spring, according to employment bureau reports, that with white colared shore workers, too, bid ding for their places 'even 'ex perienced' seamen are glad to take what they can get. For that reason the employ ment men are not handing out jobs to unexperienced men who are just out to see the sights. Not realizing this, students are flooding the shipping and em ployment offices with applica tions. Those who can, call at the agencies in person. The others write. Practically all, however, are told that they hav en't a chance unless they intend to follow the sea permanently, and then only a slim one. This one thin hope lies in the possibility that when the-great Lakes and river shipping get un der way in earnest, the present over-supply of men will be less ened. Public improvement work and farming may also absorb some of ' the drifters. In either event the boy who aspires to go to sea will have a better chance. What are these berths aboard ship into which the greenhorn New Managing Editor . t -- -, . , Jack Dungan, elected manag ing-editor of The Daily Tar Heel by the Publications Union Board will assume his duties with Tuesday's issue. Dungan has served the Tar Heel in practically every ca pacity for two years and now ranks second on the editorial staff. - AIRPLANE WILL WAGE WAR UPON LOGALJNSECTS Aerial Attack Upon BowHnsr Creek With Paris Green So lution, Sponsored by City. Use of an airplane in dusting a fans green solution onto swamps and streams near Chapel Hill to abate the mos quito nuisance, is planned by Dr. S. A. Nathan and E. W. Constable, the latter a biochem ist, of. the North Carolina state board of health. In making the survey of local conditions in June, 1929, Con stable found that most of the mosquitoes here were surface feeders in the larvae stage, and experiments have shown that they will be poisoned by Paris green and soapstone dust spread onto the surface of the water in which they live. Charlie Martindale of Mar- tindale and Fritz, flying from the local airport, have sonified a willingness to cooperate at vir tually no cost to the city. The experiment has proven success ful on a large scale elsewhere in the country. Plans call for dusting Bowl ing Creek from a point one mile above the bridge on the old Hills- boro road to a mile below the bridge at the foot of Strowd's hill on the Durham road. Some swampy areas have been drained, and steps are be ing taken to cope with flies. The latter, however, breed consider ably in leaf mould and will be difficult to fight. Yale Engineering Students Visitors - To Zeppelin Works Akron, O. (IP) Details of the ZRS4, world's largest diri gible airship, under construction for the United, States Navy at the Goodyear Zeppelin Corp. hangar at the Akron Municipal Airport, were explained to 80 Yale University engineering stu dents here recently. As the students, who came here in a special train from Pittsburgh, inspected the 133 foot master ring girder of the new ship,, which V recently was raised into an upright position in the hangar, Commander Ze no Wicks explained construction details of the aerial dreadnaught, comparing it with the former naval ship, Shenandoah ; the present navy ship, Los Angeles, and the German ship, Graf Zeppelin, all of which it eclipses in size and efficiency. CHAPEL HILL, N. SATTJRDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 Y OFFICIALS TO BE INDUCTED AT MONDAY rIEMNG Ed Hamer And Incoming Cabi net Will Be Inaugurated By "Parson Moss." The annual inauguration of the newly elected Y officers will be held Monday night in the Y at the time of the usual meet ings. Jimmie TVilliams, the retiring president, will make a short farewell address which will be followed by a talk by Ed Hamer, the in-coming president. In his talk President-elect Hamer will outline his plans for the com ing year. "Parson" Moss, of the local Presbyterian church, will conduct the induction ceremon ies. The new officers will take up their positions immediately. The retiring of ficers are: Jim mie Williams, president ; John A. Lang, vice-president ; Joe Eagles, secretary ;and Ed Ham er, treasurer. The newly elect ed: officers are: Ed Hamer, president ; Sam Gorham, vice president; Harry Finch, secre tary ;. and F, M, James, treasurer. All of the cabinets will meet in a joint meeting for the cere monies and the presidents of the different cabinets urge that all members be present at the inauguration. Georgia Tech Gets r Guggenheim Fund Atlanta Three hundred thousand dol lars have been given by the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aerohau tics, to the Georgia Institute of Technology here' for the estab lishment of an aeronautical en gineering school, to be a center for such work in the south. The gift is the last act of the fund which has given away ap proximately three million dol lars for the promotion of flying in the United. States and abroad. ' Georgia Tech was picked from 27 southern educational institu tions as the most logical place for the aeronautical engineer ing school. Some time ago $350,000 was given by the: fund to, the Cali fornia Institute of Technology, which was the; largest single; do nation made by the Guggen heim fund. Mrs. Lonnie Merritt Dies In Burlington Jack Merritt, who, when he was a Carolina football star, was ifTinwn as "Buttnr Ram," is mourning the loss of his mother, Mrs. Lonnie Merritt of Burling ton. But 55 years of age, Mrs. Merritt was stricken with par alysis at two o'clock Wednesday morning, and passed away seven hours later. Funeral services in Burling ton were held Friday afternoon, and. interment followed in the Merritt cemetery near Chapel Hill. : ; . . . House To Speak At Enfield Tomorrow - R. B. House, executive secre tary of the University, will speak Sunday at a meeting of the union service of the Sun day schools of Enfield. This meeting is sponsored by the Masons of Halifax county. The subject of his speech will be "Religion as Experience." fflBBARD PRESENTS CUPS TO ACADEMIC CONTEST W I NNERS Academic contest cups were awarded to the winning high schools last night by the exten sion division of the University in Gerrard hall at the completion of the debates. The presenta tion of the cups was made by Dean Addison Hibbard. The interscholastic track championship cup was awarded Charlotte high school, which won the state title in this sport last year also; Charlotte was also victorious in the relay race event held in yesterday's track meet and was awarded a cup for that victory. Other 'awards were made to Greensboro high, French con test winner, Durham high, Latin contest winner ; and Albemarle, winner of the Spanish contest. Some Negroes Are i Worthy Of Praise 1 Believes Hinshaw '"You know," said Judge C P. Hinshaw to the writer as the former was working at his April job of taking tax reports, "this business of being- judere of the recorder's, court gives a fellow a wrong, outlook on the negroes, and it takes, something like, this to right it , again, and show him that negroes can be as deserving of praise as some can be blamed." v "What do you. mean," Judge?" "Well, sir, here's a man just made out his tax report. Jim! Come over here." ; -', A., negro man, appearing to be about 40 years old, stepped nearer the judge. "Yessuh?" "How, old are you?" " 'Bout seventuh-two, ah reck ons, boss." "How many children have you.": . . . -, "Seventeen, suh. Eight boys an' nine girls." .. .... "Any, of 'em dead?" "Yessuh, two's daid, but sev- enteen's livin'." "Ever been sick, Jim?" , . 'Nosuh, 'cep' when muh ahm huht once." "Ever been in court?" "No suh, 'cep' ah'ft been a wit ness." "You work over on the cam pus. How long you worked there?" "Oh ah reckons evaday fo' 'bout thuhtah-two yeahs." "Now," said the judge to me, "there's a man that's a credit to the community. He's got one of the finest little farms you ever saw-7 here's the tax report of what's on it. Jim used to come in to a store I ran once, on Sat urday nights, with ajl his chil dren, and for some of them he'd buy a nickel's worth of chewing tobacco and for the one's that didn't chew, a nickel's worth of candy. How many of your chil dren chew, Jim?" "Qh, 'bout half, ah reckon." "How old do they start chew ing?" "Well, suh, muh littles' boy, he staht,chewin 'bout when he's bawn, ah reckon de doctah sajd 'twan't huhtr-an 'en he brothah seen de chewinV and he stahted, too. But ah don' chew none." Dealer Declares Gar Sales Are Below Par Strowd Motor Company, hav ing sold 30 new cars during the first quarter of 1930, is 28 per cent less than normal in busi ness volume, according to Bruce Strowd. Goldsboro Victorious On Both Sides 'Of State Debate Query Extra Meeting Of Tar Heel All reporters, city-editors and editorial writers are re quested to report to the managing-editor of the Daily Tar Heel between the hours of three and five o'clock this af ternoon. ENGINEERS HOLD ELECTION; HEAR TALKBYHOEFFER Anniversary of American So ciety of Mechanical Engin eers Observed. At the meeting of the Univer sity student branch of the Amer ican Society of Mechanical En gineers held Thursday evening in Phillips Hall, the following officers were elected to serve during the next school year: R. G. , Plummer, rising senior, pres ident; Frederick Knoop, rising junior, vice-president; Allen Mc Lean, rising sophomore, secre tary;, and R. A. Parsley, rising senior, treasurer. 'Iff addition to the election of officers, the program of the meet ing consisted of an illustrated talk by Professor E. G. Hoef f er, head of the department of mechanical engineering, on the fiftieth anniversary meeting of the society which was held in Washington recently. Mr. Hoef f er, who attended the meetings in Washington, told of the vari ous events at the convention and showed slides of scenes there. Phonograph reproductions of talks by officers of the national society were presented at this meeting. These talks were esj pecially prepared by the presi dent and secretary of the na tional organization for presen tation to members of the society who were unable to attend he meeting in Washington. The fiftieth anniversary meet ing of the society was held in both New York and Washing ton. The firs two meetings were held in New York. Then the convention; adjourned- to Hobokent to witness a pageant representing various scenes in the" history of the society, which was founded at, Stevens Insti tute, Hoboken, in 1880. The convention . then ad journed for-the week-end, and the last of the series of meetings were held in Washington. At the convention a series of ab stracts of papers summarizing engineering work in 16 differ ent geographical divisions of the world were presented. These papers not only told of present engineering work but also esti mated what would be the prog gress of engineering work dur ing the next few years. "MACBETH" 1 0 BE READ HERE SUNDAY Professor George McKie, of the English and public speaking departments; will give a reading of Shakespeare's tragedy "Mac beth" Sunday night at 8 :30 in the Playniakers Theatre. This is the regular play read ing for April, and is the sixth reading given this season under the auspices of the Playmakers. The date was placed as near as possible to the anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday, which comes on April 23. NUMBER 148 First Time Since 1926 That One School i Has Won Oh 'Both Sides. WIN AYCOCK TROPHY CUP Goldsboro high's negative team was awarded the Aycock Memorial cup last night as a re sult of winning the judges' de cision in what assumed the as pects of an all-Goldsboro affair, both negative and affirmative teams of this institution sur viving the two preliminaries. This makes the first time since 1926 that two teams of the same school have been pitted against each other in the final debate, Winston-Salem high having set the precedent in that year. The Goldsboro team, which brought, the Aycock cup to its school for the first time since the inauguration of the annual debate contest in 1913, was com posed of Eleanor Bizzell and Ezra Griffin. Their school-mate opponents were Edward Outlaw and Billy Crow. Individual medals were awarded to each of the four debaters by the Univer sity. A large crowd of high school and; University students were in attendance at the final debate last night, which brought to a close another successful annual high school week. Dean Addi son Hibbard of the school of liberal arts presided over last night's colorful affair, and "E. R. - v ( Continued on last "page ) TWO PROGRAMS SCHEDULED FOR END OFQUARTER Only Cincinatti Chamber Or chestra May 1 0, and Lor ado Taft May 19, 20, and 21 Re main on Entertainment List. The Cincinnati chamber or chestra will appear here May 10 under the auspices of the student entertainment commit tee as the second number on the spring program, i The; orchestra, under the di rection of Walter Herrmann, is recognized to be one of the best in the country. It has had nuiherous . engagements and has everywhere received the most favora'ble of press comments. : The committee expects that the program will be well liked since previous programs by chamber orchestras have had large and appreciative audiences here. Last year the famous Flonzaley quartet, which has now disbanded, gave a concert in Memorial hall to one of the most enthusiastic audiences that an entertainment program has ever had here. It is believed by the committee that the Cincin nati chamber orchestra will be equally well received. In. addition to the program scheduled for May 10, the com mittee, has a lecture by Lorado Taft slated forr this quarter. Mr, . Taft, a sculptor who ha received "Wfide acclaim, will give three lectures, May 19, 20 and 21. He is a fluent and easy speaker who never fails to in terest his audiences with his in structive and entertaining lec tures. or the' past several years there has been no speaker in Chapel Hill on the subject of art. Mr. Taft's stay here is therefore looked forward to eagerly by . students and Chapel Hillians interested in art. (Continued on page three)
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