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VOLUME XXXIX
CHAPEL HILL, N. .C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 23, 1SC0
NUMBER 6
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The Martin Will Be the Latest
Addition to the Bantam
Field.
On the heels of the nation's
current mania, miniaturism,
comes the first edition of the
Martin, "pee wee" vehicle which
is expected to make its' debut in
Chapel Hill in February. B. W.
Lacock, of the Lacoek Shoe Re
pair company, will have "the
agency here.
From preliminary observa
tion, the power plant of the pint
sized automobile will be "of the
same dimensions as an Ingersoll
watch movement, although the
agent avers that the motor be
neath th hood will breathe
through four lungs and will be of
the air-cooled motorcycle type.
Popularly known as the "Mail
'Order Car," the tiny vehicle
livesup to its cognomen and may
be purchased through mail from
the home offices of the manufac
turing concern, located in Wash
ington, D. C. $220 will bring the
car, boxed in its own garage, to
your dormitory steps. The Mar
tin weighs only 600 pounds and
consumes only one gallon of gas
for every fifty miles of use. '
Publicity circulafs claim that
the car will travel "fifty miles
an hour across plowed ground."
On this basis, the Tom Thumb
machine should make Cannon
Ball Baker look like a terrapin
on -the open road.
Two passengers may occupy
the seat with ease and with
every manner of comfort enjoy
ed in a regulation sized car.
There is no chassis, no springs,
no axles, and the shock absorb
ers are constructed of rubber.
One of the most commendable
features of the Martin is its no
bility in traffic. It can be vir
tually parked on a dime and can
weave in and out of traffic while
larger automobiles are forced to
remain within the dimension
and stay within the prescribed
lanes.
LARGE INCREASE
THIS YEAR AMONG
SELF-HELP MEN
The Chapel Hill of yesteryear,
when un-hurrying, un-worrying
Southern gentlemen exposed
themselves to education through
contagious effect of pedantic
professors, without thought of
aiding in the -process, seems to
be changing.
The new year, with its pinch
of "hard times," has developed
a new studentry. The , idle
Southern gentlemen of the story
books are gone. Students this
year are not only studying but
afso fighting and working for an
education !
The University drew a record
number ofy freshman applica
tions this year, but the self-help
bureau did an even more rush
ing business.
Secretary Edwin Lanier, in
fact, estimates, that the percent
age of students doing self-help
work is larger than ever before,
a fact which is readily obvious
from a glance at a few local- es
tablishments. Friendly cafeteria is probably
the biggest employer of self
help students. The popular eat
ing place employs 12 students
regularly, and C. V. Cummings,
remembered as a former Caro
lina boxer, is i new student as
sistant to Manager Cooley.
The other cafeterias and
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Playmaker Tickets
Season tickets f or the seven
Playmaker productions will be
on sale Monday, September
29, at the Book Exchange and
Students' Supply Store. In
accordance with the past pol
icy of the Playmaker organi
zation, only 900 of these
tickets will be sold... New fac
ulty members are , warned to
purchase their tickets early.
The popular ptice of $1.50 re
mains. ' ,
DR. PROUTY GIVEN
'LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Many Changes Made in Geology
Department. .
Dr. Prouty is on Kenan leave
for the fall and winter quarters.
He is engaged in some important
investigations of the Triassic
and is writing a book on engi
neering geology.
This being Dr.. Joel H.
Swartz's sabbatical year he is
spending the year in geo-physi-cal
investigations for the bureau
of mines. He has had charge of
their field party in Kentucky
during the summer and has
made some important dis
coveries. He has been assisted
in this work by W. T. Holland
who holds B. S. and M. S. de
grees from Carolina. r
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Dr. Swartz's position here is
taken by '.Dr. W. C. Morse, A. B.
and A. M. of Ohio State, student
at Chicago, Ph. D., Massachu
setts Institute of Technology,
assistant 'instructor, assistant
professor, Ohio, Washington
University, St. Louis, and assis
tant geologist on several geologi
cal surveys during his summers.
He comes very highly recom
mended by Waldemar Lindgren,
professor of economic geology,
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. Professor Jefferson Bynum is
on leave studying at Clark Uni
versity. He has spent the sum
mer in the field with Dr. Cla
rence E, Jones of Clark, and will
shortly go on a field study of
Caribbean lands. His place is
taken by Irving L.Martin, who
has been teaching fellow in geo
logy for the past three years,
and is now raised to the rank of
instructor. ..
' Miss Glass, assistant in hu
man geography has gone to a por
sitio'n with the U. S. Geological
Survey, and her place is being
taken by Kenneth'Byerly, a gra
duate of the University of Min
nesota. - -. -
The registration in the de
partment is unusually large in
spite of the limit put on most
of the classes. Whereas there
were ten men registered last fall
in Geology 3, the number regis
tered this fall is twenty-eight.
In one section of Geology 1
forty-one were. registered last
fall and seventy this. The total
fall term registration in the de
partment is 370 against 300 last
year. t . ,
Among the graduate students
in the department Chicago, Cor;
nell, Leland Stanford, Michigan,
Minnesota, Princeton, and Duke
are represented.
FATHER MANLY SECURED
FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH
According to an announce
ment received at the Tar Heel
office yesterday, Father John
Manly has been secured as chap
lin of the local student Catholic
church. Father Manly comes to
the campus from the Nazareth
Orphan Asylum in New York.
An Address
To The
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Student government has come into the colleges and univer
sities of North Carolina to stay. A government by the students,
of the students, and for the students is the most practical and
effective type of government that
tectji and develop correctly all phases of student activity. Until
a student has learned to govern himself properly, he is unpre
pared to cope with the fundamental problems of life and it, there
fore, unworthy of a college degree.
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In order to promote the growth and development of student
government throughout our state and to improve the relations
between our various student bodies, the North Carolina Federa
tion of Students was founded. Since this is the first year of the
Federation's existence, this organization will be subjected to many
difficult situations and intricate problems. Knowing this fact,
the Federation officials realize that they must have the united
support and cooperation of every student body in North, Carolina
in order to succeed in making this student union a real and vital
force in the life of the state and nation.
I, therefore, as president of the North Carolina Federation of
Students and as the spokesman for its staff of officials, call upon
the students of this great state to join our new movement for
a more effective and stable student government in all our colleges
and universities and for more friendliness and cooperation between
our student hpdies in all kinds of athletic and scholastic contests.
The success with which the Federation shall meet in carrying on
this much-needed work depends largely on the way in which each
student in this state discharges his personal responsibility in this
state-wide undertaking. It is now up to the students of this
state to make this new student movement a state-wide success.
I sincerely hope that the coming of this Student Federation to
this state marks the dawn of a new day for a greater and nobler
student government in all our collegiate institutions and for the
most friendly cooperation betweenall our student bodies of North
Carolina, v
v Signed: JOHN A. LANG,
President, N. C. Federation of Students.
PLAYMAKERSGIVE
PLANSOR YEAR
Three Tours to Be Made This
, Season; Monthly Read
ing of Plays.
The Carolina Playmakers will
officially open vtheir 1930-31
season with the reading of new
plays in, the Playmaker Theatre
Tuesday night. Tryouts will be
held October 6, and the first pro
duction will be presented Nov
ember 6, 7, 8.
A busy but promising season
stands before them. Five major
and two studio productions
make up the frame of the sche
dule. Three, and possibly four,
of these will be full-length pro
ductions including one or two
American comedies! Last year
"The Show-off" wis presented
with such excellence than an ex
tra performance was presented
to satisfy demands. - It is evid
ent that local sentiment leans
strongly towards this .type of
play. A play chosen, from a
significant period will be reviv
ed and presented some time dur
ing the lattr part of fhe year.
In June the annual outdoor pro
duction will be staged in the
Forest Theatre.
The big surprise and, one that
will undoubtedly focalize the in
terest of the state, is Loretta C.
Bailey's newest play, which is
basedv upon the recent North
Carolina strike agitation in Gas
tonia. ', The author shows sur
prising familiarity with the
subject. It is 'a vivid, tragic
portrayal of life under the poten
tial strain of circumstances of
which current news has given us
but only the surface. Those who
have read it agree that its char
acterization alone would make it
"good theatre." The play is de
void absolutely of 'propaganda
and prejudice one way or the
other.- With a genuine design
and a wealth of characteriza
tion, it will evidently bring a
large share to the success of the
Playmaker's year. In the recent
National Play waiting Contest'
conducted by the Drama League,
Miss BaUey's long play, "Job's
Kinf oiks" won second place.
- Three interesting tours are
scheduled. The Northern tour
this quarter wilr take with it the
first bill of plays presented.
During the winter quarter they
will tour the west and in the
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Students of North Carolina
can be instituted' to guide,' pro-.
CO-EDS REPULSE
BLOND INTRUDER
Various Theories Are Offered as
To Means of Entry and
Motive. - -
Inmates of Spencer hall were
rudely awakened from their
slumbers last" night when a
lone member of that species com
monly referred to as "male"- de
fied convention and arrest,
climbed to the back 'porch of the
dorm and indulged in a . little
eavesdropping and detecting on
his own hook. The fair damsels
who discovered him were startl
ed but not frightened on no,
a mere male .cannot frighten a
Chapel Hill co-ed, and it is to be
confessed that the main thing
the girls remember is the fact
that the1 intruder was a blonde.
Four girl were assembled in a
midnight bull session.. One of
the quartet looked out a window
quickly, came back to her seat
calmly, and continued the con
versation casually.. One of theJ
others asked, "What's : out
the
window ?" Neither fixed nor
falling stars could have produc
ed" the facial expression that
provoked the question. The an
swer was "Nothirig," but there
were footsteps on the tin roof of
the kitchen4orch a few feet be
low the window. Something
passed a window, arid at that
point one guest and one hostess
passed to more thickly populated
regions. One fair damsel look
ed out and Jnto a manV eyes.
She screamed and dropped to the
floor. Another saw the man
turn, and one more paleface bit
the dust. The shreik brought in
vestigators amused, ; annoyed,
frightened, or curious. Then
they experimented withf the
scale, and there were two score
soprano screams, separately
pitched with no regard for har
mony. A few well ordered
screams brought a sturdy re
presentative of the law and an
inquiry that would shame Scot
land Yard resulted. - a
"Yes," one-told Officer Blake
who was summoned to the scene
in a more or less tate of dishab
ille, "I went to the window and
gazed right into his piercing eyes
and blonde curly hair."
"And what did you do then?"
The law spoke, hitching his belt,
with a gesture that said "justice
will triumph." : - : :
"I dropped to " the floor and
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TO MEMORIZE YELLS
Freshmen learn all the yells
and songs before pep meeting
at 7 o'clock Friday night in
front of Phillips hall.
CAROLINA PRESS
; PLANSfCREASE
Number of Books to Be Issued
This Year Is Tripled.
"The University of North
Carolina Press is publishing al
most three times as many books
this year as in any previous
year. The following books will
be off the press by January 1.
y A Newton Among Poets,
Shelley's Use of Science in Pro
metheis, by Carl Grabo; A
Changing Psychology in Social
Case Work, by Virginia P. Ro
binson ; New Schools For Young
India, by William J. McKee;
Our Educational Task, by Wil
liam H. Kilpatrick; A Brief His
tory of The Schools of North
Carolina, by M. C. S. Noble The
Negro Sings A New Heaven, by
Mary Grissom; Folk Culture on
St. Helena Island, C, by Guy
B. Johnson; A Social History of
The Sea Islands, by Guien Griffis
Johnson; Social Laws, by Kyung
Durk Har ; Illiteracy in The
United States and Its Social
Significance", by Sanf ord R. Win
ston ; Criminal Procedure in
North Carolina, by George "R.
Sherrill ; The State Highway
System in North Carolina, by
Cecil K. Brown; Constitutional
Development in The- South-Atlantic
States, by Fletcher .M.
Green and Nonnulla, by Bishop
Joseph Blount Cheshire. .
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Playmaker Lecture
To Be Given Friday
An illustrated lecture by Pro
fessor Frederick Koch entitled
"Our Adventures in Playmak
ing" will-officially open ,the thir
teenth season for "the Carolina
Playmakers tomorrow night at
7 :30 P. M. The lecture will be
given in the Playmaker build
ing. jOne hundred stereopticon
slides of Carolina Folk-Plays,
Forest Theatre productions, pro-
rauctions of professional plays,
and scenes of the Playmaker
tours will be shown. All stu
dents and members of the facul
ty interested in participating in
the work of the Carolina Play
makers are especially invited,
but the lecture is open to the
public. Professor Koch will give
a short discussion of plans for
the year. All those interested
in any phase of dramatic work
may consult with Professor
Koch, Mr. Seldon, and Mr. Wes
terman at the conclusion of the
lecture. The first reading of
playsjsvill be held Tuesday night.
FIRST OF GRAIL
DANCES SATURDAY
The order of the GraiPwill in
augurate its social program for
the year with a dance at Bynum
gymnasium Saturday night,
fromj) to 12. Jack3Vardlaw and
his. Carolina Tar Heels have
been engaged to furnish music
for the affair.
The series of nine dances
wnich are given by the Grail
during the year is in keeping
with the purpose of the order to
create ways for better relation-!
ships between -fraternity and
non-fraternity men.
The opening dance promises
to be a big success owing to the
fact that a large crowd will be
in Chapel Hiil over the wee.k-end
for the Wake Forest game.
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MUSIC TEiJ
Dedication Ceremonies for New
Building and Organ to
Come Soon.
The new music hall, the ren
novated historic old library, was
opened in part, for use at the
opening of the school year.
This building, in its enlarged
form, comprises classrooms, ad
ministration offices, seminar
and practice rooms, and in the
new wing, a magnificent recital
hall capable of seating 900 peo
ple. The main building has been
completely rebuilt to meet the
needs of the University music
department. The. rooms haye
been made soundproof, and ade
quate space for the growing de
partment has been provided.
A new and more beautiful en
trance has been built, and on en
tering, one finds stairways lead
ing to the balcony which over
looks the lobby, which is itself
circular in shape.
The stage of the new audi
toriumjiaff been designed to seat
a chorus of 30Q people, an or
chestra of 60 pieces, and yet pro
vide ample space for pianos and
the magnificent new organ con
sole. This organ, built at a cost
of over $30,000, is equipped with
an electric elevator, making it
possible to raise it to the level
of the stage or to lower it into
the pit below the stage, in which
position, it will, be used for prac
tice. The sound escapements
are placed behind magnificent
grill work which serves a3 a
background for the stage. The
hall is lighted by means of ten
lamps placed on the walls in ad
dition to the six magnificent
lights hanging from the ceiling.
These lights have been con
structed so as to produce a color
effect of French gray. - '
According to Director Harold
S. Dyer, dedication ceremonies
for the console and building will
be held in the near future. In
vitations will be sent out as
soon as dates can be decided
upon
Henderson Speaks i
To Math Graduates
Dr. Archibald Henderson,
head of the department of math
ematics and nationally known
writer and speaker, presented a
study of the bi-quadratic equa
tion when the four roots are in
geometric progression at the
first mathematics seminar held
in Phillips ' hall Wednesday af
ternoon? The mathematics seminar,
composed of members of the
mathematics department and
graduate students working - in
the 'department, meets every
Wednesday. It is a clearing
house for mathematical ideas,
and in the meetings candidates
for degrees give reports on
theses. -
Last year severamembers of
other departments on the cam
pus addressed the seminar and
showed the connection between
mathematics and other subjects.
The subject that Dr. Hender
son spoke on was a study of the
bi-quadratic equation when the
four roots are, in geometric pro
gression and is not, as far as is
known, treated in any text book.
Graham to Speak to Sophomores
President Graham will speak
before the sophomore class in
a chapel exercise tomorrow
morning. y
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