WEATHER FORECAST:
FAIR AND COLDER
TODAY
CONTRIBUTE TO
STUDENT LOAN FUNDS
THIS WEEK
VOLUME XL
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1932
NUMBER SS
SENIORS CHOOSE
SUPERLATIVES IN
CLASSJLECTION
Wednesday Night Smoker Dis
closes Class' Choice of Best
Athlete, Best Writer, Etc.
Once each year the seniors of
the University meet in jocund
mood and carnival spirit to
name certain of their fellows to
positions called superlatives.
This practice is patterned after
elections at Yale and other of the
older universities, where, how
ever, x this business of selecting
"the bests" of the classes is still
pursued in a terribly serious '
vein. Here the evening rarely j
calls forth more than half of the
tlass membership, the occasion.
becomes a testing ground for the
organized "f rame-up's" of the
younger politicians in which
those attending are called upon
to rally around political leaders
and their tickets, rather than
seriously labeling some of their
classmen as qualified in certain
fields.
The senior superlative elec
tions of 1932 were conducted in
Swain hall Wednesday night.
One , hundred and sixty-five of
the some three hundred and
seventy seniors were present.
The following were chqsen :
Best athlete, Rip Slusser; best
writer," James Dawson; best na
tured, Tom Rose ; most original,
Pete Gilchrist ; best looking,
Harry Finch; most social, Tom
.Watkins ; most dramatic, John
Sehon; most versatile, Clyde
Andrews; best speaker, John
Wilkinson; best executive, Hay
wood Weeks ; most influential,
Jim Kenan; most popular, John
Stallihgs ; most intellectual, John
Andrews ; best student, Harper
Barnes; best business man.
"Doc" Thurston; best dressed
man, Tom Alexander; most con
scientious, BobSchnell; biggest
politician, Hamilton Hobgood;
most beautiful co-ed, Eloise Bar
wick; most popular co-ed, Lillian
Hottenstein.
WOOFTER IS BACK
FROM NEW YORK
Sociology Professor Is Elected to
Board of Trustees of St.
Helena School.
T. J. Woofter, Jr., professor
of statistics in the sociology de
partment, returned Wednesday
from New York City following
his election to the board of
trustees of Penn school; Penn
is an industrial institute for
negroes located on the island of
St. Helena near Charleston, S.
C. Woofter is one of few south
ern sociologists to be elected to
membership on the board.
Having lived near Charleston,
Woofter has a knowledge of re
quirements at the school. Two
years ago he completed a book
upon the subject of the negro
and technical education drawn
from his own acquaintance with
Penn and its negro educational
system. The volume, entitled
Black Yeomanry, largely ac
counted for his recognition as
an expert in the field of negro
education and revealed his es
pecial fitness for the position
with Penn.
Penn school is the oldest negro
industrial institution in the
country. It was established in
1862 at the outset of the Civil
war by northern missionaries
for emancipated blacks and is
-at present endowed by wealthy
northern families.
Meyer Elected State
Chairman Of Scouts
At a two-day convention of
the leaders of the region six
Boy Scouts of America early this
week in Columbia, South Caro
lina, Dr. Harold D. Meyer of the
University sociology department
was elected state chairman of
that group.
Other officers elected were:
Paul W. Schenck of Greensboro,
regional chairman; Mell R. Wil
kinson of Atlanta, Georgia, hon
orary chairman of the executive
committee ; A. H. Bahnson of
Winston-Salem, vice-chairman ;
B. S. Coleburn, Asheville, W.
A. Finch, Wilson, and Owen D.
Page, Rocky Mount, state chairmen.
STUDENT SUFFERS
SEVERE INJURIES
IN STREET WRECK
Bert Flusser Seriously Hurt as
Motorcycle He Was Riding
Strikes Automobile.
'
Bertrand Arthur n Flusser, I built . in 1793, which was the
University junior of New York 'first home of Stevens and his
City, sustained severe . injuries i roommate Judge James R. Pat
late yesterday afternoon at 5:3(Kton, Jr., of Durham," records the
when he drove his motorcycle
into a Dodge coupe driven by
James Cotton, Chapel Hill negro.
xxi uuy was rusnea to tne
emergency ward of the
ary lor nrst aid treatment. lullj then it had eight hundred.
extent of injuries was undeter-;Stevens knew fully five hundred
mined last night, since Flusser
was hurried by ambulance to,
Watts hospital, Durham. The'
accident occurred on the corner j
of .Franklin and Henderson'
Streets in front of the post of- ,
Bones in both arms and a leg
were broken' in several .places, j
and his face was gashed by fly
ing glass beyond . recognition.
There was no time for a com-
plete examination of Flusser's
condition during first aid treat-j
ment at the infirmary, but dis -
covery of internal injuries at
the Durham, hospital is feared
by, Dr. E. A. Abernathy.
The owner of the wrecked
automobile is Theodore Craig,
negro, who was m the car with
Cotton. Neither was seriously
hurt.
The motorcycle struck the car
in the middle left side as the car jD. Battle, '09, Rocky Mount; the music for the event which
turned ' into Henderson from first vice-president, F. O. Clark- will take place in Bynum gym
Franklin street. Fenders and son,' '16, Charlotte, and R.VG. nasium between the hours of
running board of the automobile ( Stockton, '11, Winston-Salem; 9:00 and 1:00.
were damaged, while the motor- second vice-president, Hugh The second Grail dance of the
cycle was twisted beyond further
use.
Senior Dues
The following seniors have
failed to comply with the no
tice in Tuesday's Daily Tar
Heel concerning the settle
ment of class dues.' The final
list goes to the Yackety Yack
this afternoon and settle
ment must be made at the
business office today at chapel
period or this afternoon from
1:30 to 2 :3Q This notice is
absolutely final and no stu
dent's picture will appear in
the Yackety Yack who does
not settle today. In case there
is a mistake please bring your
receipted bill with you.
H L. Anderson, D. P. Beam,
T. T. Brown, W. G. Brown, A.
S. Cate, J. C. Coble, A. L.
Cochrane, B. D. Coffield, W.
S. Crouch, L. A: Dalton, A. K.
Davis, O. E. Duncan, D. H.
Eason, B. G. Gentry, C. W
Goodwin, J. O. Griffin, F. T.
Harper, A. M. Hicks, E. B.
Kidd, Jr., S. H W. Lea, D.
(Continued on page three)
LEGION COMMANDER LED IN SOCIAL
ACTIVITIES WHILE AT UNIVERSITY
0
Story of Undergraduate Days of Henry Stevens Told in Article
in February Issue of "American Legion Monthly."
: o r
Thes story of Henry Stevens enough to call them by their first
undergraduate days at the Uni-. names. He was a leader in al
versity of North Carolina, where most every University activity,
the 35-year-old national com-l "He. didn't go out for a great
mander of the American Legion 'many campus jobs, but he al
displayed qualities of leadership j ways got what he went - after,
that indicated the trend of his And he had the faculty of stir
later career, are told in an in-( ring up enthusiasm in whatever
teresting. article in the Febru- cause he enlisted. He wasn't
ary issue of The American Leg-. the sort who would go out for
ion Monthly.
The story, a graphic word pic
ture of the youthful Legion
head, from cradle to date, was
written by Philip Von Blon,
managing editor oi tne maga-
to North Carolina in December
to secure finst-hand material for
his subject. Von Blon snent
some time in Raleigh, Chapel
Hill and Warsaw.
"They will point out to you
today at Chapel Hill the ground
floor room in Old. East hall,
legion article.
"Later, Stevens "and
Patton
mrvvpH fit Ti a nlrl TTn nn n Sicrnrin
j f ratrnity house. Today the
infirm-jTjniversity has 3,000 students :
of his fellow students
well
ELECTION BALLOT
SENT TO ALUMNI
New 0fficers of Association to Be An-
nouncea adoui iuarcn a.
Ballots are being mailed today
to all members of the General
Alumni association from the
central alumni office for the elec-
tinn nf nfficp.rs for .the new vearl
( These ballots will be returned
to a tallying committee which
win count the votes arid . make
' public, the results of the election,
it is expected the new officers
wni be announced shortly after
March 1, the final day on which
ballots will be received bv the
committee.
The nominees for officers are
as follows: president, Kemp P.
Lewis, '00, Durham, and Kemp
Dortch, '19, Goldsboro, and J. quarter is scheduled in the" gym
M. Coleman, .'20, Asheville ; nasium between 9 :00 and 12 :00
representative to the University o'clock Saturday night. At this
athletic council, N. A. Town- time the Carolina Club orches
send, '05, Charlotte, and Ben tra will play.
Cone, '20, Greensboro.
JUNIORS TO MEET MONDAY
TO NOMTNATR rOTTNrTT.MAN
There will.be an important Ohio State university union and
meeting of the junior class in secretary-treasurer of the Asso
Gerrard hall Monday evening at ciation of College Unions, is vis
7 :30 p.m. to make nominations iting Chapel Hill for a few days
for the class representative to with Noah Goodridge, manager
the student council. of the Graham Memorial.
Theodore Dreiser And Upton
Sinclair
Are Contributing- Articles to
The Sunday Daily Tar Heel
"Restrictions on Freedom of Speech and of
The Press in the United States"
Dr. Charles D. Beers of the University zoology department is
presenting a scientific article written especially
. for The Daily Tar Heel
Watch For Other Sunday Features
Phi Beta Kappa, but there j
wasn't a better campus leader j
in school and he shone on social 1
activities. i
"There was the victory that I
made him leader of the German!
club ' dance. The "honor was
wiaiiUCU u um mciai.uui
Stevens defeated the organiza-
tion candidate by coalition be-
Lween nG irarernny anu non-j
X A.1 -T A. !l J. I
iratermty men mis in a aay'
when feeling between the two
groups wasn'talways as friend-
ly as it is toda He also as
chief commencement marshal,
the annual academic procession
to old Memorial hall.
"At last came that spring 'to
Chapel Hill that brought the
war. They have measured Ste-
vens' chest; he has done his
rmio-Vnncr Vn rpfloTPQ siv crnnri i
; 'Goodbye, Steve !' And his cheery
1 answer : 'Goodbye, boys, it'
wont be long before ril be hav.
ing dinner with old General
Pershing himself."
ENGINEERS' BALL
IS EVENT TONIGHT
Grail Dance Also Scheduled on Social
Calendar of Week-end.
Two dances, one tonight and
the other tomorrow night, will
be the major part of the social
events which will take place at
!th TTniversitv this week-end.
The annual Engineers' Ball
tonight will be sponsored by the
members of the four engineer-
ing societies the local branches
of the American Societies of
Civil Engineers, the American
Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers. the American Societv of
Chemical Engineers, and the
American Institute of Electrical
- Engineers. r Billy Stringfellow
nd his orchestra, will furnish
; MANAGER OF OHIO STATE
UNION VISITS GOODRIDGE
Edward S. Drake, manager oi
on
Gifts To Logn Fund
Yesterdays total $7,032.99
Benefit bridge, night 117.60
Di Senate ...... 25.00
Theatre programs 40.00
Campus, additional ... 18.35
Three faculty
contributors . 80.00
Four citizens " 15.50
Total to date $7,329.44
Thirty-six campus and town
organizations have thus far
contributed 100 per cent to
wards the fund. The ser
vants required for the tea and
benefit bridge parties Wed
nesday refused to accept pay
for their services, allowing a
higher total to the proceeds
for the loan fund.
SPEAKER SCORES
NATION'S COSTLY
IMPERIAL POLICY
.
Professor Woodhouse Blames
United States Partly for
Japan's Attack.
Discussing the Japanese-Chinese
conflict in his talk on cur
rent events in assembly yester
day morning, Professor E. J.
Woodhouse of the government
and history department declared
that "we people of the United
States are partly responsible;
for Japan's attacks upon China
today."
He explained that the United
States by "a long tradition and
practice of imperialism" has set
a bad example, the influence of,
which is now evidenced in the
present attitude of Japan. "Al- j
so we have led the way in spend-!
ing more than we needed and
more than we could afford on
our army and navy. . ...'And'
now the Vinson Bill, unanimous-!
ly approved by the House Naval j
committee and ready to be pre
sented to the House next winter,
if we shall have sufficiently re
covered from our depression to
seem to be in a mood to stand
such a proposal, sets up a ten-
year program for the navy to
build up to the limits allowed
us by the London Agreement.
If we go on in this orgy of
spending for increased arma
ment, how can we assure other
nations that we intend merely
to protect ourselves and not to
enter another campaign of im
perialism to seize for ourselves
everything in sight that we
think we want and can take?"
Justice Through Public Opinion
Woodhouse averred that the
(.Continued on page three)
Dad Contributes
During the past week a Uni
versity student from Newark,
N. J., appeared in Dean F. F.
Bradshaw's office with the fol
lowing letter received from
his "dad", in which the father
announced that he was send
ing a check for $25.00 to be
contributed to the Emergency
Student Loan Fund. The let
ter is published below; with the
student's permission:
Newark, N. J. ,
. February 1, 1932.
My dear son:
I Received your letter this
morning in which you tell me
about the financial difficulties
of some students and that you
contributed one dollar to the
Student Loan Fund. That is
nice of you, but I am enclos
ing a check for $25.00 for the
same fund and ask to please
give it, to' the proper authori
ties of the school.
(Coniinuea on last page)
BOARD TO MAKE
INVESTIGATION OF
CATiIPUSFINANCE
Student Auditors Will Examine
Books of University Organiza
tions Using Student Fees.
While the approval of the stu
dent auditing board at the polls
Tuesday, January 9, will not
empower this body to investigate
th,e financial condition of organ
izations collecting student fees,
upon the request of the inter
fraternity council, the literary
societies and other organizations
of a quasi-public nature, the
University Student Auditing
Board will be allowed to ex
amine for their own satisfaction
the books of these organizations.
Other of the organizations
who would forcibly come under
the mandates of the proposed
board have in time past irre
gularly published complete ac
counts of their financial trans
actions. While the athletic
council, so far as is known, has
never seen fit to account "to the
students any of its business deal
ings, despite a heavy athletic
fee. The Y. M. C. A. publishes
in most years a statement of its
financial condition.
In the case of the Publications
Union board which handles all
financial disbursements of The
Daily Tar Heel, Yackety Yack,
Buccaneer, and Carolina Maga
zine there is little opportunity
for dishonesty. All disburse
ments are by check, orders hav
ing to be endorsed by business
managers, a bookkeeper, and
the treasurer of the board, whose
accounts are in turn each year
audited by a firm employed by a ,
vote of the full board. This
audit is presented to the student
body.
While requisitions for any
funds of the class dues to be
spent must be signed by class
presidents and treasurers, no
regular audits are presented for
the satisfaction of students. An
audit would insure against ex
travagant or foolish expendi
tures. .
DR. BAGBY WILL
ADDRESSCOUNCIL
First of Vesper Service Series
-' Planned for Sunday Eve
ning in Gerrard.
Dr. English Bagby, of - the
psychology department, will
speak at the first of the series
of vesper services- planned by
the freshman friendship .coun
cil oi the Y. M. C. A. Sunday
afternoon at 5:30 o'clock in
Gerrard hall.
The service will be presided
over by Grady Leonard, former
self-help secretary of the Y. The
piano will be played by Lee
Sistare, a student. The' entire
program has been planned by
the committee of Locke Sloop
and J. D. Winslow' to last less
than half an hour.
There is another feature . of
the program of the council to
render worthwhile services to
the community. It was ' the
council which promoted the
Tuesday morning collection in
assembly for the University pen
sion fund for janitors.
Infirmary List
Students confined to the. in
firmary yesterday were: John H.
Mcllwnien, J. S. Young, C. A.
Rouilier, H. C. Rancke, Charles
Newton, ( Kenneth Wright, and
George Steele.