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GRAIL DANCE BYNUM GYM 9:00 TO 12:00 P. 11. - DAILY TAE HEEL OPTIONAL ATTENDANCE STRAW VOTE TODAY J I : r- r : x i I ! N ! j i 1 j; VOLUME XXXIX DISCUSSION 0 FEATURE STORY ENDSINSTITUTE John H. Wheeler Makes Address To Newspapermen on Closing Day of Conference. Featured by an intensely in teresting address by John.N. Wheeler, president of the Bell Syndicate and president-elect of the North American Newspaper Alliance, the seventh annual Newspaper Institute, sponsored hy the North Carolina Press' As sociation and the University, was brought to a close here yes terday. . s - Injecting a good deal of sparkling wit, Mr. Wheeler gave j a highly entertaining talk on his experiences in securing syn dicated features. He told of his many trials, and tribulations covering a period of several years, in securing the General Pershing feature now appearing. "The feature story is an in dispensable factorjn newspaper publishing," he asserted. "Ro mance, health, and money are three fundamental subjects for features, and of these the highly romantic is the most important in its reader appeal." . Ben Sronce, editor of the North Wilkesboro Patriot, pre sided over a discussion of the weekly group on the subject of, features. He stressed the impor tance of the home-made feature, or column, in connection with the everyday affairs of the rural community and small towns. 0. J. Coffin, head of the Uni versity department of Journal ism, and Louis Graves, editor of the Chapel HUl Weekly, contri buted to this discussion. Editor Graves took occasion to explain that the reason he took a two week vacation at Christmas time was not because he was lazy, as some of the brethren had al leged, but because the plan suited (Continued on page two) DATE IS SET FOR 1931 MAY FROLIC Seven Fraternities Plan Dances To Be Held May 8 and 9. At a meeting Thursday night of the committee of the May Frolic, plans were discussed for the dances to be given during the spring quarter. Definite dates were set for May 8 and 9. The committee , is negotiating with orchestras but an engage ment has not yet been made. The May Frolic is an annual affair staged by several frater nities on the campus. This year the seveh fraternities who will present the set are : Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta - Kappa Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, and Zeta Psi. Arthur Sickles, representing the Sigma Chi fraternity, is chairman of the dance commit tee and has as his assistants a representative from each of the six other fraternities: Dail Ferness, D. K. E.; Willis Hen derson, Sigma Nu; Tom Follin, geta Theta Pi; John Jemison, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Buck Snow, Zeta Psi; Clyde Dunn, Kappa Sigma. Last year the dances were given during the week-end of ay 2 and 3 in Bynum gym nasium with music furnished by the Florida Rythm Ramblers, dances were given by several other fraternities during the Weekend. ' John N. Wheeler John N. Wheeler, president of the Bell Syndicate, of New York, who addressed North Carolina editors and publishers at the closing session of the seventh annual Newspaper Institute at the state University Friday morning. DUKE PROFESSOR TO READ MARCO'S MILLIONS SUNDAY Eugene O'Neill's Satire Fourth Monthly Play maker Readings. Is At eight-thirty tomorrow night in the Playmaker Theatre, Mr. A. J. West, professor at Duke University, will read Eu gene O'Neill's satire, Mateo1 s Millions. This is the fourth of the readings which the Play makers present once each month. The first of these readings was on October 12 when Professor F. H. Koch rendered Shakes pear's. Hamlet. As a second pre sentation Paul Green read his own play Tread the Green Grass, November 9. The last of the fall quarter readings was Professor Koch's rendition of Dicken's, Christmas Carol, December T In this work O'Neill shows the character of the Venetian ex plorer as it really was, and not as the romantic writers have pictured it. The cause for his going to China was primarily in order to make money. With him business came first. When the Chinese princess fell in love with Marco, he catered to her only so long as it did not interfere with his money making schemes. ' The scenes of the play are laid along the route from Italy to China, on the junk, where the love scene takes place, and en route back home. The opening action of the story occurs in various places in Italy. The king makes him a general in the Chinese army. His shrewd ness in defeating the enemies ot the then ruling house makes him a popular hero with the com mon people. He, accomplishes these feats by employing mo dern American methods. This" bit of satire is some of the best to be written by the present day authors. Another of the choice bits of comedy in the story is the epi- Hoi-Lode on the junk. Marco Polo is entrusted to take the princess to the young prince, m another part of the kingdom, for the wedding ceremony. On the trip the princess, who is really in love with Marco makes advances to him, but he is either too dumb or too money-minded to realize this. TVia nrincess safely delivered and a few more exciting events having taken place, the adven turer returns to his native land .with great riches. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931 Optional Attendance Ballot (Check one of each or all propositions and leave ballot in ballot box at the Self -Help desk in the Y or at the edi torial offices of the Daily Tar Heel.) 1. Do you favor complete 'optional attendance for juniors and. seniors? Yes ( ) No ( ). 2. Would you favor meetings each quarter of students and faculty to consider such mutual problems? Yes ( ) No ( ). 3. Are you in sympathy with the instructing methods employed in -all your classes? Yes ( ) No ( ). 4. If not, to what cause do you attribute your lack of in- terest? Methods ( ) Yourself ( ) or a lack of interest on the part of professors? ( ). 5. Do you believe (if you are not getting all that you ' want from your work here) that there should be a general survey of educational methods and curriculum? Yes ( ) No ( ). STATE Y CABINET CONVMES TODAY Hon. J. Stitt Wilson to Be Main Speaker of Meeting in Raleigh. Ed Hamer, president of the state student-Y. M. C. A. cabi net has called the second 1930 31 meeting for today. The meeting will be held in Raleigh at the State College "Y". The morning sesison starts at 10:30 o'clock and will be opened by Dr. E. McNeal Poteat, pastor of the Pullen Memorial church in Raleigh, leading in the devotional period. The busi ness session will follow along with commission reports. Then there will be a' discussion of the specific problems facing the dif ferent campuses. The delegates will be the guests of the State College "Y" at a luncheon at one o'clock. The Honorable J. Stitt Wilson, ex mayor of Berkley California, will be the after-dinner speaker. The president of each indi vidual "Y" and the general sec retary of each college "Y" are the only ones eligible to be pres ent. If there is no general sec retary, one member of the f acul- jty of the college may attend. Mr. Harry Comer and Ed Ham er will represent Carolina. ) As special guests at the meet ing all the officers of the Y. W. C. A. there may be present. Josephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, has also been invited. GEORGE ADE TELLS OF COLLEGE LIFE IN THE 'GRAY' EIGHTIES "As I check over the primitive conditions and the limited op portunities of the far away eighties, I can think of only one great privilege we' enjoyed which is now denied the student of any inland college," reveals George Ade in his article on The Gray Eighties in the Febru ary College Humor. "We were given the best that the theatre had to offer and the expense was trifling. Music, the drama, food, stimulation and tobacco, all rounded out an evening of rio tous living, for a grand total of four bits ! But student life, outside of the class work and the literary societies, was just plain starvation. We had tne Y. M. C. A. and a Scientific Society (to which I contributed a paper on "Cellular Structure of Seed Coats") but any one who classes them as thrilling diversions from the dull routine of the curri culum is either imaginative or crazy. "In the eighties it was the fashion for young men to go out serenading at night standing around in the moonlight, singing INFIRMARY SICK LIST DECREASES Only Twenty-Four Cases in. In firmary and Eighty-Five On Sick List. Latest reports from the in firmary show that there has been a great , decrease in the illness prevalent on the campus in the beginning of the week. At the first of the week rumors were circulated to the effect that school would be closed down, as in the "flu" epidemic of 1928, because of the number of ill per sons. There were, fifty-nine persons confined to the infirmary, at the first of this week, and over 100 on the sick list. The report from the infirmary yesterday showed that there were only twenty four cases in the infirmary and eighty-five names on the sick list. No one seems to know the cause for the sudden cloud of illness which . descended upon Chapel Hill during the last week. The attendant in one of the town drug stores stated that there was more medicine sold and more prescriptions filled during this week than at any time since the influenza epi demics of '18 and '19. Persons have diagnosed their ailments as cold, grippe, influenza, asth ma, pneumonia, etc. When the circulation of ru mors in regard to an epidemic was at its height the infirmary received many calls from out in (Continued on page two) very sentimental songs to young women who were concealed be hind curtains above. As I look back upon it, it strikes me that this nocturnal practice never led up to anything worth talking about and was simply another evidence that we were not half as devilish "as we thought we were. -. "I am going to wind up this discourse with the story of what the average soph or junior real ly did in one day back yonder. He arose from a straw tick in a most unattractive room at about seven-thirty a. m. and ran to a boarding-house where he ate a frugal breakfast, consisting- largely of oatmeal. Soon after eight o'clock he went to a recita tion and at nine he went to an other and at ten he attended chapel ! Usually he had a third recitation in the morning and ate dinner about twelve-thirty. He did most of his lab or shop work in the afternoon. When that was over he was practically through for the day. "Along about sun-down he (Continued on last page) J. A. Parham J. A. Parham, managing edi tor of the Charlotte Observer, who presided over a session of the North Carolina daily editors at the Newspaper Institute at the state University Friday morning. J. STITT WILSON " IS GUEST OF T DURING WEEKEND Ex-Mayor of Berkeley, Califor nia, to Make Address in Methodist Church The Honorable J. Stitt Wilson, ex-mayor of Berkeley, Califor nia, will speak here tomorrow, under the auspices of the local Y. M: C. A. In the morning he will talk at eleven o'clock from the pulpit of the Methodist Church. That evening at 7:30 he will make another speech in the Methodist Church. Afterwards there will be a combined recep tion and forum meeting in the dining room of the church build ing. For the past ten years Wilson has been a lecturing professor from the University of Southern California. He has spoken at various universities throughout the country, and has spent two years in Russia. He is recognized as an authority on the customs and habits of the Russians. He was one of the big f our of the Detroit Y. M. C. A. conven- ti His speeches were the most interesting and entertaining of those given according to the opinions of the five members of this student body who attended the meeting. To have been re cognized as outstanding along with such speakers as Norman Thomas, Reinhold Niebuhr and Dr. George Coe is sufficient proof of power and ability as a proficient speaker. The outstanding features of his addresses lie in the field of social problems, politics, philo sophy, and religion, ethics and the European unrest. Registration For Quarter Is 2621 To date a total of 2621 stu- dents have been registered in the University for the winter quarter. Although this is a larger number than that of last winter it is far below the fall quarter registration of 2764 students. Before the students left for the Christmas recess there were 985 upperclassmen registered and on the second of January 1306 freshmen and sophomores reeistered makinsr a total of 2291 in the academic school and 104 in the Law school. Since then 226 students have registered late making, the total of 2621 for the quarter. NUMBER S2 FIRST DAY'S VOTE FAVORS -KEEPING CLASS PRMLEGES Voting to Continue for Two More Days to Determine Student Feeling on Situation. After one day of .voting on the current campus questions, the students yesterday showed themselves strongly in favor of optional attendance for juniors and seniors, only one vote be ing cast against it. Over ninety per cent of the persons voting were dissatisfied with the pres ent method of instructing, while a still larger number advocated faculty-student meetings as one means of clearing up the situa tion. Many were also of the opinion that a survey of the educational j methods and curriculum would help the matter. Out of the en tire ballots cast only two admit ted that the lack of interest in the class work was due to them selves, compared to five placing blame on the professors. Yesterday was the first day the ballot has been run in the Daily Tar Heel, hut it is the plan of the managing-editor to i publish it for the next three is sues of the paper. In this way a more accurate result will be se cured. It is, of course, under stood that the members of the student body are on their honor not to "stuff the ballot." , The final result of this campus wide straw vote will be turned over to a committee, who will give the final decision on the question. The Daily Tar Heel has sent such similiar question aires to many of the leading uni versities and colleges in the country, and the replies from these will also be turned over to the committee with the final tallies of this campus vote,. Students who have not yet cast their ballots on these questions are asked to do so immediately, as the final scores will probably have no little influence on the members of the committee to de cide the. question. TAR HEEL STAFF MEETSTOMORROW Meeting of Editorial Board at 5 P. M. and City Editors At 7 P. M. The staff of the Daily Tar Heel will hold its regular weekly meeting tomorrow night in room 104 of the alumni building at seven-fifteen. The editorial writers will meet at five p. m. The sports and city editors will meet for a short session at seven o'clock. - In accord with the new cus tom which has been inaugurat ed the evening will not be oc cupied with reviewing the errors made by the staff during the previous 'week, but the whole session will be devoted to an address by a prominent and ex perienced journalistic figure. At the last meeting of the staff Professor R. D. W, Connor, former editor of the Tar Heel made an informal, but inter esting and instructive, talk to the group. Members of the staff who are unable to attend tomorrow's meeting are requested to obtain an excuse from the managing editor before the meeting. All not receiving such will be mark ed absent. Two consecutive un excused absences automatically drop one from the staff.
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