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CAROLINA vs DAVIDSON VARSITY WRESTLING I TIN CAN 4:00 TODAY CAROLINA vs V. IL L VARSITY BASKETBALL TIN CAN 8:30 TONIGHT I t f ' S . v VOLUME XXXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1931 NUMBER 112 j ifv r r ii Bill To Curtail Activities Of Book Exchange Brings To Mind Its Usefulness To The Campus - Organization Began as Place for Students to Exchange Sec-ond-Hand Books. BEGAN PRIOR TO 1914 Michigan Librarian Visits L. R. Wilson The bill now under the con sideration of the state legislature to curtail the activities of the University Book Exchange call3 to mind the many years which this organization has served the campus. About twenty years ago the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. con sented to operate a book ex change, where the students of the University could trade books with one another. After the Uni versity became too large for the students to get along by trading books, the book exchange filled the position of a sort of clearing house where books might be purchased second hand. In 1914 John W. Foster, a student, received an option for operating the book exchange. Under Foster's management the book exchange began to sell pencils, pens, paste, ink and other small articles. For his services Foster received a small commission. Following closely upon Fos ter's policy of expanding the ser vices rendered by the exchange, the name of the organization was changed to the Student Ex change; and as an added service it sold new books. The organi zation was run on a profit-shar ing basis and at the end of each month rebates were granted from the profits remaining after the overhead expenses had been paid. Previous to 1920 the Student Exchange had been situated in the west parlor of the Y. M. C. A., but in this year the cabinets of that organization voted to have the service store moved to the rear of the building. In 1923, because of a deficit in operating this service, Mr. C. T. Woollen was called in to re- valuate and reconsider the pro position of running the Book Exchange. Mr. Woollen said that as the organization was a stu dent enterprise he would prefer to have the students decide for themselves what should be done about the matter. A committee composed of Y. M. C. A. Cabinet ' members in vestigated and found that the students of the University were greatly in favor of the con tinuation of the exchange. As a result of this committee's investigations, and as the pri vate enterprises, which for 130 years had undertaken to provide the service which the Book Ex (Continued on last page) English Cartoonist Presents Picture To Entertainment Body Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, English cartoonist and lecturer, Poke before an audience of stu dents and faculty members last ffight in the new Memorial hall auditorium. His subject for ad- W. W. Bishop, librarian of the University of Michigan and re- puted one of the country's most eminent men in library affairs, wa$ a visitor in Chapel Hill last week. He and Dr. Louis R. Wil son, came from Nashville, Ten nessee, where they were attend ing to business for the American Library Association. A tea was given in honor of the visitor by the University library staff. Bishop told the company of his expedition to Italy, a year or so ago, to help recatalogue the library of the Vatican. EXHIBITION WILL INCLUDE PICTURE BY DAMERFIELD Painting of Carolina Mountains Will Be Shown at Artists' Meeting. "Federal Liquor Investigation Considered According to information received from reliable sources late last night, the Daily Tar Heel learned that the govern ment of Chapel Hill has under consideration an invitation to federal prohibition agents to investigate the violation of the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment in frater nity houses and dormitories on the campus. The action it is thought, prompted by recent raids at the University of Michigan and other uniyersities in the coun try, has been under consideration for several days. At the Michigan institution, five fraternity houses were raided, padlocked and a large quantity of liquor was confiscated by federal agents. Though no general cleanups have been attempted here, several entrances upon fraternity houses with a similar in tent, have been effected during the last few years. University Officials Point Out Usefulness Of Service Rooms In Dormitories To Legislature LARGE GROUP OF LAW SCHOOL MEN ON' HONOR ROLL Proportion Much Higher Than That in Liberal Arts School For Last Quarter. ENGINEERS' FIFTH ANNUAL BALL IS WELL ATTENDED Annual Social Event Given By Engineering Societies Takes Place in Gymnasium. Local Y Will Bring Negro Quartet Here The University Y. M. C. A. has recently completed arrange ments with the Hampton Quar tet (colored) for a program of negro spirituals on the evening of March 6 in Gerrard hall. This quartet is said to have won a lasting place for itself among Chapel Hill music lovers. Wainwright's deep bass is con sidered the crowning thrill in the program; he has been per forming this part for the or ganization for more than thirty years. When not traveling and singing with the quartet he is Professor of plumbing at Hamp ton Institute, Hampton, Vir gmia, wnere all the musicians come from. Woollen, Comer, and Williams Represent Service Organiza tions Before Committee. dress was "Old Bill and Me." The lecture was illustrated by fcllaes which the artist frawn especially for the pur se of his lectures. At the of the performance he drew a krge picture before the audi nce and presented it to the en chainment committee. Bairnsfather, a well-known lecturer in England and on the tinent, has for 'the past year or two' been speaking in Ameri 04 n wartime subjects. Included in the exhibit of the North Carolina Association of Professional Arts, which is to be on exposition in Chapel Hill in April, will be a painting of the North Carolina mountain country by Elliott Daingerfield, one of America's celebrated artists. The artist, though not a na tive' of this state, -but of Vir ginia, came, to Fayetteville when he was two years old and spent his youth there. He conducted a summer class for paintinsr in his studio for many years at Blowing Rock. His first wife, Roberta Strange was from Wil mington. As a young man he studied drawing and painting under pri vate tutors in New York and at the Art Student's League. New York has been his chief home since that time. ' He expressed in a letter his keen interest in the develop ment of art in North Carolina and is quite pleased to have one of his creations at the April ex hibit. The mural paintings of the Lady Chapel in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York were done by Daingerfield. Among his most notable paint ings are "Madonna and Child" in the Haley Fiske collection, "Slumbering Frog," in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and "The Story of the Madon na," which won a prize at the National Academy's exhibit in 1902. His "Madonna of the Hills" is in the Blowing Rock church. Charles Baskerville, another North Carolinian in New York is also expected to Be represent ed at the exhibit here. The exhibit which will open here April 23 and continue for about a week, will be given in the University, music building Arrangements are already pend ing for the hanging of the pic tures. The National Association of College Publicity Agents will have its convention here the latter part of April and will doubtless have one of its social gatherings at the exhibit. The University Law school! administrative department has just released the honor roll of that school for last semester. The law school has an enrollment of ninety-five students, twenty one of which are on the honor roll, thus giving the Law school almost twice as great a percent age of honor students as the un dergraduate schools of the Uni versity combined, who had but twelve percent of the students making B averages or better. In the Law school six of the twenty-one students on the honor roll averaged A while twenty-six of the 305 honor stu dents of the undergraduate schools achieved the same high scholastic standing. From the consideration of these statistics the belief that graduate students make better grades than undergraduates seems to be well substantiated, as twenty-two percent of the honor students in the Law school made all A's while only eight percent of the undergraduates could rate the same grade. The scale of marking in the Law school is -very different The annual - ball given by the engineering school took place last night from nine o'clock to one in Bynum gymnasium. Jelly Leftwich and his orchestra pro vided the music for the occasion. The gymnasium was decorated, each of the four engineering: societies having its emblem illu minated with lights. This, the fifth annual ball to be given by the engineering school, was well attended. The chaperones for the evening were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lear, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hoefer, Mr. and Mrs. R . F;' Stainback, and Mrs and Mrs. H. G. Baity. The annual ball is practically the only social activity given by the engineers, and due to this fact, they always make an effort to have the ball considered the highlight of the social life on the campus. The ball was spon sored by the William Cain chap ter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the local chap ter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Uni versity branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the local chapter of the SUBSCRIPTION TO RED CROSS FUND IS $85490 HERE S600.00 Will Go To National Fund and $254.00 Will Re main in County. from that in the undergraduate American Institute of Chemical school. In the undergraduate ' Engineers. school the scale of grades is as follows; 70-80 is D; 80-90 is C; 90-95 is B; and 95-100 is A. The grades in the Law school are: 60-67 D; 67-75 is C; 75-80 is B; and over 80 is A. The students who received all A's for term marks with their averages are: J. H. Chadbourn, 89; H. B. Campbell, 85; H. L. Lobdell, 85; J. M. Little, 82; T. C. Smith, 82; and Edward Scheidt, 81. Those students who made B's are: W. T.i Covington, 79 ; J. G. Edwards, 78 ; Dallas McLennan, 78; Wex Malone, 77; T. T. Brown, 77 ; G. P. Boucher, 77 ; W. J. Adams, 77 ; R. M. Gray, 77 ; Naomi Alexander, 76; J. O. Moore, 76; Peyton Abbott, 75 ; G. T. Davis, 75; H. L. Lyon, 75; C. E. Reitzel, 75; and M. R. Alexander, 75. Manning Points Out Requirements For Study in Medicine Dean Isaac H. Manning of the University medical school gave a talk to the sophomores in chapel yesterday about the medi cal school here, outlining the ne cessary entrance requirements as well as the desired persona qualifications for the work. He pointed out the need of willingness to work hard and mental efficiency combined with an average brain and that no one should enter the profession of. medicine unless intensely in terested in the work. This, ac cording to Dr. Manning, is a prime requisite for a successful career in the profession. SITUATION EXPLAINED According to Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, chairman of the lo cal chapter of the American Red Cross, the total amount raised 1 - " TTM1 jm Dy inapei mil ior renet was $854.90, of which $600 was for the national fund and $254.90 for relief in Orange county. Total contributions to the na tional drought relief fund Feb ruary 17 totaled $8,376,342. Be sides these contributions, many carloads of food have been do nated: in Idaho, sixteen; Texas, three; South Dakota, four; Minnesota, three ; Washington, two; Oregon, one; Colorado, eleven; Nebraska, twelve; Kan sas, two; Iowa, thirteen; Illi nois, three; Wyoming, one; and California, two. Wednesday evening Mary Pickford broadcasted over the Columbia broadcasting system accepting in the name of the Red Cross five carloads of citrus fruit given to the drought suf ferers by California fruit grow ers. In Oklahoma, 44,269 chil dren are being served hot lunches and in Arkansas, 61,702 The pupils in the sixth grade of the Columbia School in Bell ingham, Washington, donated $6.68 to the Red Cross relief fund. This is the money they had collected to buy valentines. A seven year old boy in Ver mont presented himself to the Westminister branch of the Central Windham Chapter with ten cent contribution to th Legionnaires To Give Supper The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion will have their annual supper Friday night, February 27th, at the Episcopal Darish house. Members of the local auxiliary will be guests. Class Attendance Clause President Frank P. Graham has called the attention of the Daily Tar Heel to the fact that the new attendance regula tions, adopted by the undergraduate faculty 'last Friday with the approval of the president, as reported by the Daily Tar Heel contained a clause which was not adopted by the faculty, to-wit: "No student shall be given credit in any course in the University unless that student has attended at least seventy five percent of the class meetings of the courses during the quarter in which it was offered." This clause was presented to the faculty and was inad vertently reported as having been approved by the body. a Red Cross relief fund, and said: "I want to help the Red Cross you know, those little children who are so hungry. I sold my sled for thirty cents. The kids that bought it. couldn't pay that much down, but they'll pay the rest by the week. I'll be around pretty soon with some more money." James L. Fieser, vice-chairman of the American Red Cross, who is in executive charge of the task of feeding the people in the drought areas, on his re turn from a visit to part of the area, said that he was glad that the federal and state loan funds are being set up for "theuture depends upon them ' and the weather, the opening up of em ployment, the re-establishment of normal credit facilities, and sheer human, grit." There has been considerable discussion for the past two years in university circles on the sub ject of the dormitory service rooms and their functions. This agitation has been fanned into a flame by the recent introduction of a bill before the North Caro lina legislature by the North Carolina Retail Merchants As sociation designed to abolish thoroughly and absolutely the existence of such organizations. Thursday a group from the University composed of Mr. H. F. Comer, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., C. T. Woollen, Univer sity business manager, and J. A. Williams, superintendent of the dormitory clubs, went to Raleigh to appear before the senate com mittee as representatives of the interests of the self-help stu dents. The Honorable W. A. (Sandy) Graham, a leading member of the board of trustees of the University, acted as chair man of this group. Mr. Graham made a prelimin ary explanation of the situation pointing out the fact that the Merchants' Association has ap pealed once before to the board of trustees of the University in an effort to abolish the service rooms. The appeal was rejected then and now it recurs this time before the Legislature. Mr. H. F. Comer was intro duced Thursday to give a short history of the service rooms, their evolution, and their func tions. He also undertook to pre sent the self-help interests. Comer drew a distinction be tween the old type of dormitory store, which was an actual nuis ance, and the dormitory service room as it exists now. In the old form both the buildings departs ment and the self-help bureau worked jointly together either to abolish or radically alter them. In the absence which followed their removal, however, the evil of constant interruption of stu dents' studying by sales agents caused the demand for relief from, this annoyance. The self help students naturally protest ed against being deprived of a legitimate means of earning ex penses. And another group de sired the convenience of pur chasing necessary articles at their doors rather than do with out them or make a trip to town. Still another factor entering into the establishment of the service rooms was the growing number of thefts occurring and blamed upon the laundry and merchants' deliveries. These de liveries brought about innumer able complaints of stolen suits or other articles which soon pre sented a delicate problem. It was on account of these causes, then, that the self-help bureau, buildings' department, and the dean of students col laborated to solve this problem in the idea of having all commer cial transactions conducted through the service rooms. The service room was formed from an enlargement of the old tele phone monitor's room in order to incorporate this telephone ser vice with the others. An infor mation bureau was also set up in this centrally-located base of dormitory life. Comer gave the various de partments of service rendered (Continued en last page)-
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