DI vs. PHI DEBATE
.8 P.M.
GERHARD HALL
DI, PHI MEETINGS
7 P.M. ' -NEW
WEST, NEW EAST
SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS
VOLUME XLIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934
NUMBER 66
DI, PHI DEBATERS
TO HOLD WRIGHT
CONTraTOMGHT
purf ee and McAnally of Phi,
Kendrick and Mullen of Di to
Debate Govt. ControL
ALL MEMBERS TQ ATTEND
Debating teams from the Phi
and Di societies will meet to
night at 8 o'clock in Gerrard
hall for the annual Mary D.
Wright 'debate. '. y-J
Winthrop Durfee and Albert
Mc Anally of the Phi- Assembly
will take -the negative, and J. W.
Kendrick, and Robert Mullen of
the Di Senate, will' support the
affirmative of tle'" question Re-
solved: That thelederal govern
ment assume control oi Lne uic
industries in the-United btates.
joint meeting
r a. m m a
Both societies win aajourn
their regular meetings in time
for the members to attend the
debate. " "
Last year, the team from the
Phi Assembly won the debate,
and the Mary D. Wright medal
was awarded C. W. Griffin. I
The Phi will convene tonight
. i
at 7 o'clock in New East, Speak-
er Smithwick announced yester-
day, and the regular quarterly
election of all officers except
treasurer will be held. Newly
elected officers will assume office
immediately after their election,
he said.
HOLDS OUTLINES
CLASS PROGRAM
Freshman President Emphasizes
Plan to Familiarize Class
With Honor System.
bpeakmg last night at the
final meeting this quarter of the
Freshman Friendship Council,
Pete Mullis, freshman class
president, outlmea a tentative
program for the class for the
jyear, emphasizing a plan for
the formation of a committee or
council to better acquaint fresh-
men with the honor system.
Mullis' suggestion that devo
lionals at freshman assembly be
conducted by freshman them
selves rather than by outsiders
as received favorably by the
council, which will probably be
in charge of the opening exer
:ises if they are turned over to
3he class.
"Must Gauge Class Opinion
Announcing that the first
freshman executive committee
meeting will come tomorrow,
Mullis stated that one of the du
ties of the committeemen will be
io Keep uie ciass imormea oi its
activities and to determine class
opinion.
For this purpose the . fresh
man class has been divided into
several groups ; each member of
the committee will be responsi-
TlJfc 1111
me lor communicating witn tne
-iresnmen in nis group once
1
every two weeKS.
According to Mullis there will
probably be a class smoker next
quarter and pernaps a aance in
the spring term. ' '
Drew Martin was unanimous-
ly elected representative of the
council on the freshman execu-
tive Committee.
The activities of the Univer-
sity extension division will be
discussed in freshman assembly
10:30 o'clockfthis morning by
. M. Grumman, director of the
division.
Debate Group
University's Speaking Activities
To Be Discussion Topic.
There will be a meeting of the
debate group at 9 o'clock tonight
in Graham Memorial.
The subject for discussion
will be "Speaking Activities at
the University."
7 Suggestions will be made for
the improvement of these activi
ties. HOUSE REVIEWS
RfTITRF
Dean Advises Student to Pursue
Interests, Summarizing "In
tellectual Life Course."
Dpti "R. "R. TTrmsA TifpsprifpH a
I
was adjusted to break
Wallop,,! Hfr
at freshman assembly yesterday
morning.
9
Keviewmg his series of talks,
Dean House asserted that the in-
tellectual life began with char-
lacter and winds up with think
ink. "Wnen we analyze life,'
he said, "we find two things,
thought and action."
Causes of Progress
In connection with his state-
ment that all progress was the
result of thinking, Dean House
told that 90 per cent of the peo
pie who visited the World's Fair
in Chicago the last two years
were earning a living from in-
dustries that had sprung up
(since 1880.
Warning against spending a
college career and later life "in
pious hope and vain
regrets,"
Dean House advised that action ries cf experimental produc
ts taken now on the subjects tions at the theatre this after-
which interest individual.
Dean House also suggested a
list Of books "Which Should be
added to the personal library or
at least read." .
They were "Self Cultivation
in English" by George Herbert
Palmer ; "The Art of Thinking"
by Ernest Dimnet; "rom a uoi-
lege Window" by Arthur Chris-
topher Benson; "Essays of Arn-
old Bennet; and "The Art of
Thought" by Graham Wallace.
WEAVER CLOSES
WAR DISCUSSIONS
Sophomore Y. M. C. A. Considers
Work of League of Nations.
Closing the series of Y. M. C.
A. programs on war and Dpace.
Fred Weaver, sophomore from
Aberdeen, led an informal dis-
cussion on the League of Na-
tions in the sophomore Y. M.
C. A. cabinet last night.
The members of the junior -
senior cabinets concerned them-
selves with making plans for
the winter quarter.
Weaver presented a back
ground of the league, showing
the need for international pro
cesses of justice and explaining
why the United .States refused
to ratify the Covenant.
Th monW ion Tainted ont
w
ui,0 ltniP anrl the
'I
chances of the United States' be-
Comimr a member of the organi-
zati0n.
Members of the soohomore
cabinet nresent at the meeting,
in addition to Weaver, were
George MacFarland, George G.
Alln jr.t Charlie Daniel, "Eli
.Tovnei- Dnn MrTTee. and Ed H.
I AiJ 31 XI ,ttvnAW unniAi"
ALLenuing uie juiuui-ohuui
meeting were: President J. D.
Winslow, Phil Hammer, Francis
Fairley, Billy Yandell, J. C.
Grier,, Tom Bos t, Claude W.
Rankin, Henry Allison, Harry
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"Uby Did T&3- Lights Go Out?"
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Burned Bearing in Carolina Plant and Automatic
Switch Throw Village Into Darkness.
By Stuart W. Rabb
"Where were you when the
lights went out?" is the current
question of greeting. And the
follow-up question, of course, is
"Why did the lights go out?"
The first question is not so
easily answered, but the answer
to the second is easy, especially
to J. S. Bennett, superintendent
of operations of the , University
Consolidated Service Plants.
Duke's Fault ?
"The lights went out," he told
a Daily Tar Heel reporter yes
terday, "because the automatic
switch at the Duke Power sub
nation when the load exceed
ed 1,000 kilowatts.
"The usual procedure," he ex
plained, "is to Use Our own power
until 1 o'clock in the morning,
thereof taking care of the peak
load which comes between 6 and
rr 1- J AT -C4- ff
t U C1UC.K. 1X1 cue ill LCI I1UUI1.
A burned bearing in the ma
chinery used by the Consolidat
ed to generate its own power, he
said, made it imperative to use
STUDENTS STAGE
SIX PLAYS TODAY
Original Dramas Will Be Pre
sented at Two Performances
At 4 and 7:30 O'clock.
The Carolina Playmakers will
present their 24th and 25th se-
n0On at 4 o'clock and tonight at
7:30 o'clock.
The f1avs that are to he nre-
i -
sented have been written, cast,
and directed by students in the
University courses in playwrit-
Uns . English 55 and 225.
Program
Included in the selected plays
are: The Passer-By," a play of
Carolina village folk, by Ralph
Lyerly; "Ancient Heritage," a
play of New England aristocra
cy, by Philip G. Parker; "Con
fidentially Speaking," a satire
on true-story writing, by Wilbur
Dorsett
"Octagon Soap," a country
comedy, by Nancy Lawlor;
"Damned Idealist," a college
drama, by Charles A. Poe;
"Ra-
tions," a mountain folk comedy,
by Catherine Threlkeld.
The stage settings were de
signed by students, under the
supervision of Samuel Selden of
the Playmakers staff. Alton
Williams, of the Playmakers, is
in charge of the stage manage
ment.
Casts
The casts for the plays in
clude:
"The Passer-By" : E 1 o i s e
Sheppard, Margaret Wallace,
Lawrence Cheek, Burr Leach,
Sarah Seawell. '
"Ancient Heritage" : Mildred
Howard, Jean Ashe, William L.
Bonyun, Walter Terry.
"Confidentially Speaking":
Christine Maynard, Alan Wa
ters, Joyce Killingsworth, Ver
mont Royster.
"Octagon Soap" : John Walk
er, Frances Caffey,, Juanita
Green, Carl Thompson, Felix
Hamrick.
"Damned Idealist" : Larry An
derson, Vermont Royster, Law
rence Cheek, ' Fred Howard,
Robert DuFour. .
"Rations": Dave McCachren,
Juanita Green, Mildred Howard,
Harry Coble, Carl Thompson.
ly after 6 o'clock Friday, the cur
the Duke current. When, short-
rent exceeded 1,000 kilowatts,
the ? switch in the Duke station
threw itself, plunging the town
into darkness.
''.' Duke to Rescue
It was necessary to keep one
half of the town circuit in dark?
ness in order to supply the other
part of town and the campus,
until" the Duke electrician from
Durham arrived. He then ad
justed the switch to take care
of the current load.
A burned out transformer on
the main street circuit was re
sponsible for keeping one half of
that thoroughfare in darkness
for 45 minutes Saturday night.
. . At 1 o'clock Monday morning,
darkness again descended upon
tne eartn. Anotner switch m a
substation that failed to alarm
when it threw itself i was the
cause for the trouble this time,
Bennett explained. :
. i "After a year of almost per
fect service," said Bennett, "all
the trouble seems to come at one
time."
UNIVERSITY FERA
WORK SUSPENDED
To
Allow Student Workers to
Prepare for Exams.
All FERA work will be sus
pended during this week prior
to examinations, . according to
Edwin S. Lanier, head of the
FERA organization at the- Uni
versity.
Exceptions to this rule are
permissable where conditions
are satisfactory to the student
and to the department head con
cerned. In regard to FERA work dur
ing the holidays, Lanier stated
that, "So far as we know at this
time no FERA work may be
done during the holidays."
The pay-month for this fed
eral aid work will continue, how
ever, until Saturday.
DI WILL SELECT
LEADERSTONIGHT
Executive Session's Naming of
Officers to Conclude Work
Of Fall Quarter.
The Dialectic Senate will meet
tonight at 7 o'clock in executive
session in New West to elect of
ficers for the winter and spring
quarters.
A president, secretary, clerk,
and sergeant-at-arms will be
chosen for the winter quarter,
and a j president will be selected
for the spring term.
Eligibility requirements for
officers, in keeping with the con
stitution, were read at the last
session of the senate.
To Hear Reports
Reports from standing com
mittees will be made at the con
vocation for the senate's ap
proval.
It will be necessary that all
members of the organization be
in attendance at the meeting, it
was announced yesterday by A.
Mason Gibbes, president. ,
"Absentees will be fined 25
cents and put into the status of
inactive members until a suffi
ciently valid excuse is given the
sergeant-at-arms or the presi
dent prior to the meeting,"
Gibbes said.
The session will be the last
meeting of the fall quarter.
Drive to Get Funds
For Student Peace
Delegate Continues
The drive for funds to send
Phillips Russell, the University's
delegate, to the Student Anti-
War Conference at Geneva is
progressing steadily.
Students, faculty members
and others interested in the
movement to stop war may make
contributions at the Graham
Memorial director's office.
Contributors may telephone
their addresses to the office if
they wish a collector to call for
their contributions.
Contributions may also be
made to Arnold Williams, 303
Smith building.
President Orders New
Anti-Crime Machine
Roosevelt Calls on Experts to
Co-ordinate Agencies of Law.
Washington, Dec. 10. (UP)
President Roosevelt tonight
called on the nation's crime ex
perts to create an administra
tive structure that will tie to
gether every crime-preventing
and law-enforcing agency of
every branch of government
federal, state, and local. '
Koosevelt, tormally opening
the crime conference convened
by Attorney-General Homer
Cummings, told the 600 assem
bled delegates that their problem
was two-fold.
First, he said, "I ask you to
plan and construct with scien
tific care a constantly improving
administrative structure 7 Y V
I Second, he added, "... do all in
your power to interpret the
problem of crime to the people
of this country. They must
realize the many implications of
that word 'crime1
Barnes and Pool Attend
Union Conference
Convention at Indiana U. Consid
ers Administrative Technique.
Harper Barnes and Jack Pool
have returned from-a meeting of
the National Student Union As
sociation held at Indiana Univer
sity, Bloomington, Indiana.
The chief purpose of the meet
ing from the standpoint of the
directors was to consider tech
nical aspects of running a union.
The use of federal funds in aid
ing a union was also discussed at
this meeting.
Colleges represented at the
meeting totaled 29. Texas and
Carolina were the only southern
colleges represented.
y ackety-Fins Shrink
Game To Supplant Rose Bowl Classic
, 0 :
Repeated Taunts by Fearless Tar-Mags Challenging Sissy Yackety
Fins to Combat Are of No Avail; "After Two Weeks of
Roistering We'll Be Right," Say Stars.
o-
Chapel Hill, Dec. 10. (PU)
As hard as the fearless Tar
Mags have tried to get the sis
sy Yackety-(now) Fins to meet
them in bloody combat, it's
snow use. .
At a late hour last night the
mentors of the two teams, Uncle
William Xavius McDade and
"Wooden" Barnes, disrespective-
ly, met in executive session over
three mugs of ale (making five
mugs, at the meeting) and de
cided that the annual Ink Pot
classic between the Journalistic
Jaguars and the Yackety-(now)
Fins should be universally re
garded as the climax to the foot
ball season instead of the Rose
LEAGUE COUNCIL
FINALLY SETTLES
BAUmpiSPUTE
Little Entente Cracks Whip over
Delegates; Hungary Tendered
Luke-Warm Censure,
HUNGARY ORDERED TO ACT
Belgrade, Jugoslavia, ; Dec.
10. (UP) The resignation
of Foreign Minister Jevtich is
believed imminent here to
night because of his failure to
obtain a stronger condemna
tion of Hungary by the repre
sentatives of the nations of
the world at the League of
Nations Council.
Geneva, Dec. 10. (UP)
The League of Nations Council
reached a complete agreement"
tonight on a solution for the Ju
goslav-Hungarian dispute b y
indirectly censuring Hungary
for the alleged harboring of ter
rorists. , ' -
The resolution was unanim
ously adopted, the text of the
bill stating that there was "a
certain responsibility of the rel
ative act connected with the
preparation of the crime."
The resolution referred to the
assassination of King; Alexander
I of Jugoslavia last October 9
as the "crime." t
Demands Punishment
It added that Hungary must
take immediate and appropriate
punitive action against any of
its own authorities .whose iruilt
may be established.
The completeness of the vic
tory gained by the. Jugoslavian
delegation came as a surprise to
the assembled delegates. It had
been assumed that Great Britain
and Italy, would prevent the
adoption of any measure which
might censure Hungary.
The decision shows the
strength of the Little Entente
Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, and
Roumania, backed by France.
Jugoslavia had previously blunt
ly threatened to resign her seat
in the League of Nations Coun
cil if the council did not condemn
Hungary.'
Permits Necessary
Students expecting to register
in the pre-holiday period begin
ning Thursday must obtain per
mit cards tomorrow at 8 South
building. All miscellaneous mat
ters, such as books over-due at
the library, must be settled be
fore permit cards can be issued.
From Encounter;
Bowl game.
To Climax Season
Result: the famous classic will
follow the Alabama-Stanfora
game and will be played after
the Christmas holidays.
"Overflowing" Poole, star
hunchback of the Yackety
(now) Fins, expressed his ap
proval of the decision and re
marked, "Boy, after giving me
two weeks to get well lubricated,
watch me' strip their gears."
"Hit-it" Hammer, "Pussyfoot"
Page, and "Bungler" Bostick im
mediately took off for the frozen
wastes to get accustomed to play
ing with snowshoes and Whis
skis.