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A. B. FRESIBIEN MEET WITH DEAN GERRARD HALL 10:30 r sf ED HAZIER SPEAKS ON Y. 21. C. A. WPTF 5:15 TODAY' , H ill II! V t t y . T If? s -- g& - . y V VOLUME XXXIX Y.M.C. A. STARTS DRIVE FOR RELIEF OF COUNTY POOR . Three Cabinets, 250 Strong, Will- Canvass Campus for Thanksgiving Offering. Plans for a Thanksgiving drive for funds from the Uni versity campus to be employed for poor relief in Orange county were presented to each of the three Y. M. C. -A. cabinets Mon day evening. The "Thanksgiv ing offering" of the students will be turned over to the county wel fare department to be used as the department finds need for it. Explaining the plan before the cabinets, Mr. H. F. Comer, secretary of the Y, declared that suffering 'f rom disease and un dernourishment in the spring could be reduced considerably by relief m tne early, winter j months. Unemployment, . in ! Orange county as elsewhere, is n aaaress at tne at its peak this year and the ' University Monday night, v poverty of the community de-1 Dr. Holmes was the second mands immediate relief. : j speaker on the general subject It is the intention of the more!of "Modern Management" than 250 members of the Y j which has been chosen by 1 the. cabinets to begin a systematic j Taylor Society as its subject for and thorough - canvass of the,the year. General Rees, assis campus beginning promptly : at tant vice-president of he Ameri 9:30 next Monday night. The 'can Telephone and; Telegraph bell in South building will be ; Company, was the speaker at rims" at that time to notify the,tne "rst meeting. - w campus of the beginning of the campaign. A business meeting for the freshman firendship council, an open forum discussion of foreign relations and Germany's re parations, debt, and -.a- series-of committee reports for the jun ior-senior cabinet, were the regular programs for the three groups. PLANS FOR FALL DANCES OUTLINED BY GERMAN CLUB Officers of the German Club announce that there will be five Thanksgiving dances on Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29, in Bynum gymnasium. The set includes dances Friday after noon, and night, Saturday morning, afternoon, and night. Weidemeyer's orchestra from Huntington, West Virginia, will play. i , The German Club usually stages the dances in Swain hall because of the large number of visitors in for the Thanksgiving game. Since the Carolina-Vir ginia game will be played in Charlottesville, the place of the dances is changed to the gym nasium. The hall will be embel lished in Thanksgiving colors, the decorations being, arranged by a local firm. At a meeting of the German club earlier in the fall, Clyde Dunn was elected leader of the set with Edward Wood and Henry Anderson to assist. Rob ert Carmichael will lead the so phomore hop with Arlindo Cate and Elliott Newcombe assisting. Will Yarborough, treasurer of the club, announces that the members may get their tickets from him at the S. A. E: house. He will be there directly after supper and at chapel period. NO UNIVERSITY SERMONS W. D. Toy, professor of Ger man and chairman of the facul ty committee on University ser mons, has announced that there wiU be .no sermons this year. There have been no sermons for the last two years, although it was the custom previously to have several delivered each year h distinguished clergymen. A. B. Seniors 'All seniors in the college of liberal arts whose last name begins with.W, X, Y, or Z, must report today to Dean Hobbs office, 203 South, be tween 9 a. m . and 5 p. m. to make application for a degree. TAYLOR SOCIETY HEARS HOLMES ON '- t ,:,. : - , v" . . Government Agricultural Chief Tells Society of New Meth ods in Farming. 'The machination of cotton and wheat production has caus ed a revolution in the cotton and wheat industries," Dr. C. L. Holmes, chief of the division pf iarm management and cost of o oiviuij of Agriculture, told the Taylor j 'The Technique and Econo mics in the New Farm Manage ment" was the subject of Dr. Holmes' talk. , He divided agri cultural communities into those which produced for commercial purposes and those which pro duced for home consumption. The South has always been of the former type, he said, as the South has produced principally htobacco and cotton from the ear liest days. With improved machinery in other productive regions the Southeast had been forced to undergo a period of . transition caused by changes, in technique ; more production with less man power "was the aim of efficient managers, he said, and , the more machinery employed the more land the individual was able to cultivate. A sifting of the rural popula tion similar to that which oc curred among the V industrial population of England during the . industrial revolution was caused by the machination of the cotton and wheat industry, Dr. Holmes stated, y Only those employing efficient methods would survive this revolution which is underway.: , He said that what was happening in the United States was also hap pening in Russia. i : Dr. Holmes discussed the corn belt and the result of the intro duction of machinery there. ABERNETHY FREED BY STATE COUNCIL Milton Abernethy, State Col lege student on trial for misrep resenting facts in a newspaper story ab"out college cheating, was acquitted Monday night;, by the State College student council. Dr. Carl Taylor, dean of. the graduate school, acted as Aber nethy's counsel. He said 'that the action of the council in re commending Abernethy's sus pension ten days ago, was in fluenced by his unpopularity on the campus ''' ' i Editorials from papers from all sections of the state, severely criticizing the council and Dr. Brooks, were read to the council by the defense at the trial. ' CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, CITYrlflANAGER'S ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS INTERESTING STATISTICS Student Population Equals Number of Permanent Residents in Chapel Hill; Fraternities Number Fifty, With Property Valued at $500,000: :s r ' o - : The city manager's report for the fiscal year ending June 1, which was read at the last board of aldermen meeting, revealed information that there are just as' many students at- the University as there are people residing in Chapel Hill the year round. The assessed valuation of property in the town Is but little in advance of the value of the University property ; the town's property is valued at $3,680,000, while the University property is worth ' $3,500,000. The bonded indebtedness of Chapel Hill is $394,000 ; this amount, howeyer, is being de creased each year. This year the town is paying' $34,000 of the total sum owed. The -tax rate ih Chapel Hill is quite low only $1.40 on every $100. ; There are six churches which own property in Chapel Hill. They are: Baptist; Christian, Presbyterian; Methodist,! Episco pal, and ' Catholic. The total property- valuation of all the churches is $800,000. -The two banks, - Bank of Chapel' Hill and Bank of : Carrboro, have-assets totaling $1,500,000.- The NChapel Hill Building & Loan Associa tion has assets of $300,000, with over $600,000 outstanding; . The clubs and lodges of the town . are; Community Club, Rotary - Club, Kiwanis Club, American Legion, Junior Order United 'American Mechanics, Knights. Of Pythias, Masonic Order, King's: Daughters, Red Cross Society, ; and , fifty "colle giate fraternities. The total property value of the , f raterni- STEENE ADVISOR OF ARTISTS' CLUB Nationally Known Painter' Will Serve as Critic for i New Organization. : ; T With twenty-eight prospec tive members present, the Art Students Clul?, a newly organiz ed art class consisting of mem bers of the student body and in terested persons from Chapel Hill, conducted its first active meeting yesterday afternoon. The group , convened in the rooms located in Person hall wjhich have been donated by the University for the use of the Art Club.- :L'r- Y .". Bobbie Mason, art editor of the Buccaneer, and chairman of the committee for: the organiza tion of the club, presided over the meeting. E.-Gibson, a stu dent of the, University who has also been yery active in this work, outlined the plana of the organization and its probable costs. A constitution and by laws, drawn up by the commit tee, was accepted by the: mem bers present. W. M. Steene, nationally known artist of Chapel Hill, has offered his ser vices as the active critic and in structor of the class.., Mr. and . Mrs. C. R j Strudwick of HiUs- boro, both well known artists of this section, were present at the meeting, ; and have volunteered their criticism and aid. .- ; Dean F.'F; Bradshaw gave a short talk on the possibilities of such an organization in the Uni versity, prophesying' that V with the proper development and suf ficient interest among the club's (Continued on v pagi two) : ties is $500,000. ' The University of North Caro lina, the Chapel Hill graded school, each with 'a property value ' of $3,500,000, and the Chapel; Hill Business School are the ; three educational institu tions 1 in the. town. There are two parks ih the vicinity of the town,: Battle Park, 1,000 acres, and the arboretum on the Uni versity campus. , ' T - The ; town and University water supply comes from a pro tected watershed owned by the University.1 : The Avater is in spected often, and is carefully purified so as to reduce to a minimum the hance of disease. Electricity is supplied to the town by ther Duke Power Com pany and the - University of North Carolina plant. r vThe fire department is headed by John L. Foister, t chief, and three firemen; the division con sists of two' paid, truck drivers arid' seventeen volunteer ; fire men. The 1 -quarterly inspection of the business district is ; made by the fire : chief and ' the two paid firemen: ; For the fiscal year the ' fire department has an swered forty-eight clls which resulted in a fire loss of $24,500. Most of the alarms have' been for automobile fires. The low property loss is due to strict in spection of the business district, and fraternity and residential houses;-- ' -:? :-.,; ... The' division of police-is-headed by L. B., Lloyd, chief.: He is assisted , , by, - two patrolmen. Each officer is on duty twelve (Continued on page, two) ' COLLEGES AIDING RELIEF OF POOR Two Carolina r Students Contri bute Fifty Dollars for Milk i Fund. .: Colleges . and institutions all over the country are helping in some way or other in alleviating the results of the business de pression. , Northwestern University has Offered to ; contribute $100,000 to the relief fund in 'Illinois, provided .that : the Notre Dame Northwestern football game will be played in Soldiers' Field, Chi cago , where many more people can be taken care of than in the Notre Dame stadium. Union Theological Seminary in New York City has adopted 100 unemployed families for the winter. They have given up their gymnasium put cots in it and through a $1,000 a month subscription raised from the fa culty and student body of 200, they are able to feed them. The American1 Legion in Cha pel Hill obtained money through a Sunday movie to help care for the needy ex-service men in this county.- 7 ' ' " A sniair fund is set aside by the recorder's court here for use of the poor in Chapel Hill or in the vicinity of five miles. The -King's Daughters have been active in cooperating with the. welfare office in bettering the .situation! ' .r; " " Two students walked into the welfare? j'ofiice last 'week with fifty dollars-, which was partly used ' in paying a dairyman for delivering milk to needy fami lies. v ' " ' 1930 Freshman Chapel All freshmen in the college of liberal arts will meet Dean Hobbs in Gerrard hall this morning at 10:30. The commerce freshmen were sup posed to have met Dean Car roll this morning, but the meeting has been postponed. There will be no regular chapel. ACTIVITIES OF Y SUBJECT RADIO TALIiBYHMIER Second Presentation of Campus Life by University Leaders to Come Over WPTF Today. Ed Hamer, President of the Y. M. C. A., will broadcast over station WPTF this afternoon at 5 :15 in the second of a series of weekly programs concerning student activity on the Univer sity campus. Hamer will record the workings of "The Y. M. C. A., what it is, and its relation to student life at the Univer sity." In the talk he will outline its purpose, history, program, type of leadership, status on the campus, and what the "Y" is doing in an effort to bring the students into broader spiritual and cultural living. Red Greene, president of the student ; union, who instigated the weekly talks last Wednesday with an .explanation of . under graduate organizations in gen eral, will preside at the program this V afternoon. Next Wednes day! Archie Allen, former presi dent of the athletic association, and captain of the boxing team, will speak on athletics at the University. This will be follow ed the next week by a discourse on student government by Red Greene, and an outline of publi cation activities by Will Yar borough and Jack Dungan will conclude the present series. Greene has received several letters already which congratu lated the aims of the program, one from New Bern high school saying that student government and the honor system had been put into effect at their school. He says that his primary pur pose of the talks is to get the high schools throughout the state to adopt student govern ment and to assist in perfecting their other activities. Most of the letters received are from high schools, and inquire about the organization of undergrad uate activities at Carolina. HONOR STRESSED IN CHAPEL TALK Dean FT F. Bradshaw talked on honor and honesty before the freshman chapel yesterday. He gave several examples of honesty throughout the world. He stated that in a certain country a re ligious sect had been formed many years ago whose large plan of religion was honesty. He stated that this sect was still in existence and - that the British government recognized the group as one of the best business groups in the world. The sect has never been known to deal dishonestly with any other bus iness "group. The whole religion is based on truth and honor; He took several more examples and stated that students should try to copy this group asy honor should stand above, everything; He stated, "It is better to re ceive failing grades and do your work honestly than to make good marks otherwise." NUMBER 53 RULES GOVERNING CAMPUS DAM TO BE ENFORCED German Club Invests Its Power In Student and Faculty Executive Committees. The German Club, ruling body which has control of all dances presented at the University, has announced the rules which will govern the dances of the forth coming year. In order to be able to hold a dance, permission must first be obtained from the Chairman ofk the Faculty Committee on Dances. Every dance must be conducted only on Friday or Saturday evening, except by special permission of the Faculty Committee, and must be under the auspices and regulations of the German Club. Any organi zation giving a dance shall se lect three of its members who (will become responsible for the keeping of order at that parti cular dance, and who will con vene with the Executive Com mittee of the German Club at the next meeting after the dance. Failure in this last duty will en gender suspension from giving dances or receptions for a period of two years. Chaperons for all dances con ducted under the auspices "of the German Club shall be y selected subject to the approval of the Chairman of the Faculty Com mittee on Dances. Any organi zation giving a dance which in the judgment of the Executive Committee is not up to their standards shall be prevented from giving any dances over a period to' be fixed hy the Ger (Continued on page two) H. J. LASKI WEIL LECTURER IN 1931 The University has obtained Dr. H. J. Laski, professor of political science at the Univer sity of, London, to deliver the Weil Lectures this year. Though no definite time or sub jest has yet been announced, they will be 1 given sometime during the spring quarter. Dr. Laski, who is also vice-chairman of the Brit ish Institute of Adult Education, has . made a number of lec tures in this country. He will; come here after delivering a series of talks at Yale Univer-, sity. These lectures were establish ed by the University in the. years 1914-15 and have been made per manent through the generosity of the families of Mr. Sol Weil and Mr. Henry Weil. The gen eral topic is American citizen ship. President Graham Leaves Hospital President Graham's condition has improved so much that on Sunday he returned ta Chapel Hill from Watts Hospital in Durham. Although his health is good, it is not known whether an operation will be necessary in the future or not. He is not at work, but is spending his time resting at his home and at Watts Hospital in Durham for further examination. ; It is not certain when he will be able to return to work. v v ; v .. Community Club .Mrs. W. A'. Olsen, secretary of the; Community Club, an nounces that there will be a general meeting of the club Fri day afternoon, November 21, at 3:30 o'clock in the Episcopal parish house. ' A
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