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RAMSAYTRACES
CAMPUS POLITICS
IN RADIO SPEECH
Declares Future Leaders in State
Get Training From Univer
sity! Political Factions.
"Students at the University
of North Carolina learn the
theories of . political science and
government from their history
professors, but it is not theories
alone they learn at the Univer
sity. Campus politics gives
them a practical slant on this
business of selecting capable
men to administer student gov
ernment," stated K. C. Ramsay,
retired president of the Publica
tions Union Board, in his talk
over WPTF yesterday in which
he gave a "History of Politics
at the University."
The speaker called attention
to the fact that the University
has sent out some of the ablest
political thinkers and leaders of
the state and nation. James K.
Polk, twice president of the Di
society, first got his taste of
politics at the University. It was
this' taste that carried him to
the highest position in the coun
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Other men, alumni of the Uni
versity who were prominent in
campus politics before 1900,
were William Rufus King, David
L. Swain, John M. Morehead,
Zebulon B. Vance, Charles B.
Aycock, and many others.
He also mentioned a number of
the twentieth century campus
leaders among whom were Pre
sident Frank Graham, Edward
K Graham, and Judge John J.
Parker.'
Beginning with the pre-World
War days, Ramsay stated that
campus politics was a fight be
tween the several classes includ
ing the fraternity and non-fra-ternity
groups. The retired pre
sident of the Publications Union
Board went on to say that dur
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Di AndPhi Discuss
Single Bill Apiece
The Phi and Di societies met
at their halls Tuesday night at
7:15, discussing one measure
each.
The Phi, after much delibera
tion, passed the bill, Resolved :
That the present prohibition
act should be modified so as to
legalize the sale of light wines
and beers. Representatives
Carmichael. Stallings, Greer,
Kelly, Simons, and Brown at
tacked prohibition and favored
the legalization of light wines
and beers. Representatives
vvhittenton and Barnhill argued
against the bill.
Speaker Havwood congratu
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lated Representatives Atwood,
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Whittenton and Worth on their
ork on the dance , committee
which worked out the plans for
the Phi dance given May 2.
The Di Senate discussed the
Dill, Resolved : That all candi
dates for degrees at the Univer-
fty be made to qualify accord-
tog to a certain fixed standard
ln at least four snorts. Sen
ators Medf ord and Malone fa
vored the resolution while Sen
ators Dungan, Deitz, and Little
spoke against the measure. - The
bill was , defeated by a large
vote.
After much discussion about
the election of a treasurer for
the Di. iha mAmViArs selected a
treasurer for the coming college
year. Charles G. Rose was cho3-
en to fill this nosition.
At this session Winfield Black-
WeN and Arthur Valk were elect
3 to membership.
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Emerson Gill
Emerson Gill, who will play
for the set of three dances spon
sored by the May Frolic which
will take place this week-end.
COLORFUL PLANS
MADE FOR FROLIC
Dances, Houseparties, and Ban
quets Are Set for Festive
Week-end.
With the weather man promis
ing a fair week-end, the campus
is preparing to celebrate the
second annual May Frolic, which
will take place Friday and Sat
urday of this week.
An' unusual brand of music
will be furnished for the occa
sion by Emerson Gill and his
Columbia recording orchestra
who is now broadcasting from
the Bamboo Gardens in Cleve
land over station WTAM.
The festivities will be spon
sored by the following fraterni
ties : Delta Kappa Epsilon,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa
Sigma, Beta Theta Pi, Zeta Psi,
Sigma Nu, and Sigma Chi, and
will be composed, of three dances
in the Tin Can, and one in Dur
ham. The dances in Chapel Hill
will be Friday night, Saturday
afternoon, and Saturday night.
There will be a luncheon dance
at the Washington Duke hotel
Saturday from 1 :30 to 3 :00
The "13" Club will be hosts
at a twilight dance Friday at
7:00, immediately following
their banquet.
The Minotaurs will present
their annual banquet Fiday
night, and the Order of the
Sheiks will give one Saturday
night at 6:30.
Gala Week-end
Elaborate plans, have been
made for a gala week-end of
festivities which will only be
rivalled by the Finals. The Tin
Can has been secured to 'insure
ample room for dancing, and will
be decorated for the occasion by
Breen, Greene, and Albright,
ballroom decorators. Black and
white will be the motif, and the
building will be divided into sec
tions; one large space in the
center for dancing, the end away
from the entrance will be the
tea garden, and along the left
hand side uppn entering will be
seating1 space, with each f rater
nity represented in the Frolic
having a separate section. The
orchestra 'will be placed on the
right. Evergreens will adorn
the entrance.
There will be many entertain
ments outside the dances, includ
ing buffet suppers, swimming
and horseback parties. Sigma
Chi will be host at a buffet sup-
ner Saturday evening at 8 :0U
while Kappa Sigma will have
one after ,the dance that nignt
Four Dances
The annual Virginia-Carolina
baseball game will take- place
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CHAPEL HILL, N. O, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931
F. J. Gorman Finds
Universities Favors Labor Unions
Trade Organizer and Human Relations Institute Speaker .Tells
Story of His Rise in Trade Work to Position as
Vice-President of National Body.
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"I find the attitude of college
students very favorable to labor
and labor organization," Francis
Gorman, first vice-president
of the United Textile Workers,
who spoke at one of the main
ectures and two seminars of
the Human Relations Institute
in an interview yesterday.
Gorman went on to maintain
that he had spoken at a number
of universities throughout the
country in connection with, the
duties of his office. At every
college, he said, he was well' re
ceived and students in general
seemed to be greatly interested
in the question of labor organi
zation. In the South, the Institute lec-
turer stated, the general attitude
is favorable also. This was not
true, however, several years
ago ; but within .the last two
years, there has been a marked
decrease in opposition to organi
zation,. Gorman has noted.
Gorman is considered one of
the leading textile organizers of
the country. At present he is
vice-president of the national
organization" of his trade, an of
fice to which he was elected by
representatives of textile work
ers throughout the country.
Columbia Spectator Fights For
Rights Of Student Body Opinion
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Northern Daily Founded in 1873 Upholds Traditions of Self
Government in Questions Arising Over Campus
Matters and Faculty Control.
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(By Bob Woerner)
(The following is the third in
series offered by the Daily Tar
Heel as testimonial to the suc
cessful development and influ
ence of ' some of the leading college-daily
newspapers through
out the country.)
The Columbia Daily Spectator
is the only college daily in the
country which employs the un
usual gothic type in its heads.
Few, if any, papers have done as
much for their respective insti
tutions as this publication has.
The editors of the Spectator
have adopted the plan of editors
of many other student papers
when they have tried to crystal
lize that indefinite something
which is vaguely spoken of as
student opinion. Often they
have been the pioneers in some
idea which they continually put
before the student body until it
has come to be considered the
opinion of the students them
selves. The editors of the Spectator
have assumed the roles of ste
wards and catered to campus
whims, using their columns as
the medium for expression of
student opinion, in a few cases,
Spectator, in presenting ideals
that emanate solely from its edi
torials, has been successful in
attaining them.
Flays Other Publications
The attitude of the Spectator
towards its fellow publications
in the college has generally been
a very critical one. Both the old
Columbian, the literary maga
zine, and the Jester, the humor
ous magazine, were continuously
flayed. The attitudes taken by
the editorials may be charac
terized as fair in their general
tenor, but as tending either com
pletely to ridicule or whole
heartedly to praise the work
done by other publications. ,
One of the greatest agitations
which ever shook the Columbia
Sentiment Of
He was born in England but
came to this country when thir
teen and went to work in mills
of Rhode Island, where he be
came active in the union.
When asked yesterday why he
was a labor organizer, he gave
the history of his connection
with labor organizations. At
the time he entered the mill, he
said, he joined the union because
it was part of his trade. He
became active in the work of the
union and received several
honors; he was sent several
times to national conventions af
ter being concerned in a dispute
and there gained national prom
inence. Since his election as
vice-president, his work has car
ried him all over the country.
Reasons for Unions
Later on in the interview,
Gorman pointed out the fact that
mill workers join together just
as do college students in their
clubs, fraternities, and - other
social groups. This is done for
two reasons, he said ; the first
was that it is natural for a man
to band with other men of his
kind and interests ; and the sec
ond that the individual can ob
tain better advancement by
group organization.
campus occured when, in the fall
of 1905, the4 authorities abolish
ed football at Columbia. The
said Spectator expressed itself
in no uncertain terms as favor
ing the reconsideration of this
drastic step. Mass meetings
were called for by the paper;
several petitions were signed by
a majority of the student, and
sent in to the officials. The
matter hung fire for a year or
two during which time the
Spectator ran its famous "fun
eral number." Heavy black bor
ders and thick inter-columnar
lines gave the paper a strangely
somber appearances. Two years
after that saw a partial victory
when inter-class football contests
were permitted. Matters drift
ed until 1915 when the game
again became a recognized col
lege sport although it was put
on trial. Finally the game was
restored, ana uoiumoia again
took her place as a contestant
for mythical championships.
Other important student prob
lems which the Spectator back
ed were : the erection of suffi
cient dormitories to house a ma
jority of the students and thus
make the school more unified in
spirit ; the erection of a stadium
to accommodate the crowds that
attended the athletic contests;
and the completion of some of
the unfinished buildings on the
campus.
Attacks Customs
Several of the editorial at
tacks on custom are rather hu
morous, and one in particular
stands out among these. When
the school was located at 49th
street, the beginning and ending
of classes was indicated by the
blowing of a whistle by the jani
tor from the center grounds.
Commenting on this an editorial
in an issue of 1879 says : "This
is a great nuisance for which,
in this time of collegiate pro
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A special call meeting of
the reportorial staff of the
Daily Tar Heel will take place
this afternoon at 5:00 o'clock
in 104 Alumni building. All
students expecting to work
on the paper next year are
requested to be present, as
no regular try outs are plan
ned for next fall. The man
aging editor will announce a
new assignment of beats.
There will be, beats available
for fifteen new reporters at
this meeting.
STUDENT COUNCIL
EXPLANATION
Albright Declares New Council
Will Punish Violators of
Campus Code.
In order to clarify recent ac
tion of the student council,
Mayne Albright, president of the
student union, of fers the follow
ing explanation.
"In dealing with the various
cases which arise, the student
council considers an offense
against honor much more serious
than any breach of conduct. The
council considers offenses which
reflect discredit upon the Uni
versity to be of a more serious
nature than any case which con
cerns the private morals of any
individual student.
"The new council has, in its
last two meetings, dealt with a
case which involved violations of
honor, and actions which were
endangering the good name of
the University. The action
taken was the only one possible
in the opinion of the council.
That five students were suspend
ed from the University in one
case was a regrettable neces
sity. Our student government
prides itself on the fact that it
deals with each case on its in
dividual merits and is not bound
by written law; but for viola
tions of the honor system, i. e.
lying, cheating, and stealing, the
council has but one course
suspension. "It has come to the attention
of the council that there has
been some counterfeiting of
dance tickets lately. The coun
cil considers an act of this kind
to be in direct conflict to the
principles of honor and of
gentlemanly conduct, and sin
cerely trusts that no instance
of such action will arise.
"Tentative date for admini
strative meetings have been set
as follows : Student Activities
committee, May 14; annual
awards night ceremony, May
21. -
"The Graham Memorial com
mittee, which consists of stu
dents, faculty, and alumni repre
sentatives, has begun its work of
organizing the student union
building, and will report its work
through the columns of this
paper. The student union pro
gram will be the keynote of the
Student Activities committee
meeting this spring."
(Signed) R. M. Albright,
President Student Union.
Council Makes Stand
Sijnce the new council has
taken over the administration of
student government it has been
found necessary to discipline a
number of students at the Uni
versity for violation of the Caro
lina man's creed of honor and
moral conduct.
This fact occasions mention
at this time that the new re
gime does not intend to be more
than extraordinarily critical of
the conduct of the students but
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Staff Meetin
NUMBER 161
UNIVERSITY GETS
VALUABLE CMS
FORMpCTION
Matthew Gilmour Donates Rare
Egyptian Relics for Ar
chaeological Display.
An unrolled and unidentified
Egyptian papyrus has been pre
sented to the University by M.
P. Gilmour, it was announced
yesterday by J. P. Harland of
the department of archaeology.
Gilmour is a senior in the de
partment of archaeology, where ,
he became interested in the Uni
versity's work along that line
and decided to make the gift
as a nucleus for a future collec
tion. ,
Along with the papyrus he has
given a string of beads, a
"sacred beetle" (scarab) of
faience, also a bronze mirror,
and a piece of wood with a long
mace-shaped compartment hol
lowed, out of it. The papyrus
is contained in this hollow, al
though the wooden receptacle
may have served originally as
a holder for some other object.
-These articles were acquired
by Gilmour's grandfather when
he visited Egypt more than forty
years ago.
, Book of the Dead
As yet, the roll, which is sev
eral feet long, has not been un
rolled ; consequently, it has not
been identified, but it is thought
that it is a so-called "Book of
the Dead."
Prior to the year 2000 B. C,
magical formulae by which the
deceased could escape the dang
ers of the next world and direc
tions for the ba, or soul, and the
sea, or the spiritual double, were
written on the inside of the
wooden coffin in which the
mummy lay. There the formu
lae and directions became so
lengthy that there was not
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Medal Contestants
Asked To Report
Seniors intending to compete
in the Mangum Medal contest
should see Professor George Mc
Kee in his office in 210 Murphey
hall at once, so that arrange
ments for the preliminary con
test may be made.
The Mangum Medal, which
was founded by the Misses Man
gum, late of Orange County, in
memory of their father, Willie
Person Mangum, class of 1815,
and is continued by his grand
daughter, Mrs. Stephen B.
Weeks, and his great-grandson,
Julian Turner, is awarded to the
member of the senior class de
livering the best oration at com
mencement. The winner of the Mangum
Medal in the graduating class of
1930 was John Albert Lang, now
a graduate student.
Tapping Tonight
Tau Beta Pi, national engin
eering honorary scholastic fra
ternity, will tap for the second
time this year at 8 :00 tonight
in Phillips hall. The men elig
ible are seniors and rising
seniors.
Membership in this society is
one of the highest honors which'
an engineering student can at
tain as it corresponds to the Phi
Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi in
other fields. The local chapter,
Beta, was founded in 1928.
Infirmary List
There were but two confined
to the infirmary yesterday. They
were Miss Frances Hampton
and Joseph T. Wilson, Jr.