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8:30 TONIGHT
MEMORIAL IlALL
VOLUME XLIV
EDITORIAL reOKX 4151
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1936
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mJHBER 157
Outlines
'Candidate McRae
Gubernatorial Platf or
Woqld Tax Bachelors;
Repeal Sales Tax,
Absentee Vote
IS FORMER STUDENT
'Country-cured North Caro
lina ham in every eating estab
lishment of the state," and a tax
on "old bachelors who refuse to
marry," " were announced as;
planks in his gubernatorial plat
form by John A. McRae in Hill
Music hall last night.
Here as the third candidate
for state governorship presented
"by the Carolina Political Union,
Candidate McRae spoke for an
liour on the major issues of his
campaign for nomination at the
June 6 Democratic primary.
Planks
"Youth should learn the sac
redness of the ballot," the can
didate delared, swinging into a
serious discussion of his major
platform planks. He would
abolish the state's existing ab
sentee ballot law as a measure
to improve honesty in govern
ment.
"The sales tax is unsound in
principle and its only justifica
tion is as an emergency meas
ure," Mr. McRae believes. He
proposes abolition of it, if other
means of sufficient revenue are
discovered.
Alternative
At great length he presented
plans' for an alternate revenue
bill to replace the sales tax. He
-declared, however, that a "man
should not be chosen governor on
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TRYOUTS FORNEW
PLAYS TOBE HELD
Playmakers to Present Eight
New Experimental Plays;
Tryouts Tomorrow Night
PU BOARD MAKES
NEW KEY RULING
IN LONG SESSION
Publications Union Men Must
Work Two Years For Awards;
Provide Certificates
EDITORS' REQUESTS LARGE
WCUNC MAY QUEEN
The Publications Union Board
m a lengthy session Tuesday
night, decided, to stop immedi
ately the giving of publication
keys to students with only one
year's work on a University pub
lication. Two years work on the Daily
Tar Heel, The Carolina Maga
zine, The Buccaneer, the Yack
ety Yack will be required here
after before a student is given
his key. First year publication
workers, however, will be given
printed certificates.
Decision on the key awards
was made after a large total of
98 nominations for keys were
presented the board by editors
of the four publications.
Business Managers
Selection of publication busi
ness managers followed a long
series of interviews with appli
cants.
Eli Joyner was named Daily
Tar Heel business manager af
ter three applicants were inter
viewed. ' V
Four applicants were heard
for the Yackety Yack manager
ship before Ned McAllister was
chosen to that capacity for his
second year.
Herbert Osterheld retained
managership of the Carolina
Magazine over five other appli
cants. Three applications for
the Buccaneer were heard before
the selection of Niles Bond to
serve his second year as its
manager.
Tryouts for the Playmakers
next bill of experimental plays
will be held tomorrow night at
7:30 in the Playmakers theater.
Anyone has the privilege of try
ing out for the plays, as pre
vious experience with the group
is not necessary, announces Pro
f essor Koch.
Eight Plays
The bill will consist of eight
plays, written and directed by
students. Walter Spearman's
latest contribution to the boards,
an anti-lynching play, will head
the list. Other plays announc
ed are "Nigger Holiday" by
William Barwick, another anti-
lynching play by John Walker
"Birth of Twilight" Iby Gerd
Bernhardt, and Frank Durham's
"Fire of the Lord."
Three more plays will
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Sigmund Spaeth Appears
On Entertainment Bill
In Memorial Hall, 8:30
Miss Alice Dunlap of Albemarle who, as May Queen at
the Woman's College at Greensboro, will be the central figure
in traditional ceremonies held on the front campus at the
college Saturday afternoon.
Senior Rings
Tomorrow morning will be
the last chance for seniors to
order the official class rings
this year. The representative
will be in the lobby of the Y.
M. C. A. tomorrow from 10 to
12 and from 2 until 5 o'clock
to take orders for junior or
seniors.
Seniors must also be meas
ured for caps and gowns at
the "Y" this week.
Radio's Tune Detective
To Give Musical
Lecture
IS LAST PROGRAM
Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, radio's
versatile tune detective, will
present one of his musical lec
tures tonight at 8:30 in Memo
rial hall at part of the Student
Entertainment series.
Offering a program of wit and
wisdom, education, satire and
burlesque, musically illustrated.
Dr. Spaeth will attempt to live
up to his reputation of America's
most entertaining educator and
educational entertainer.
Author
Dr. Spaeth has a record of con
sistent success with every type
of audience. As the "tune de
tective" of radio, author of
many popular books on music,
writer for various newspapers
and magazines, maker of motion
"Fetzer Dav." in honor of Pictures, ana a stage personal-
Robert Allison Fetzer, director itv of the first order he is today
of athletics and track coach for one of the best known figures on
15 years, will be celebrated by the concert-lecture platform.
the Navy-Carolina track meet on Court Witness
May 9, at 2 p. m. in the new The tune detective work of
track stadium. Dr. Spaeth has recently spread
Under the leadershio of Pst the boundaries of the en-
Coach Bob," Carolina athletic tertainment field. Of late he has
PROGRAM AT NAVY
TRACK MEET WILL
H0N0RC0ACHB0B
"Fetzer Day" Will Be Observed
During Navy Meet; "Coach
Bob's" 15th Year
WILLIAMSON WILL RUN
Animosity Among Students
Caused Founding Of Fleece
High Honorary Order Created in
1903 to Promote Better Fraternity-Dormitory
Feeling
Admiral Archie
Regains Command
In Kentucky Navy
"Kaintuck" Governor Leaves
Town; Acting-Governor Re
instates 17,000 "Officers"
After two months of being a
Kentucky admiral, then not be
ing one, Dr. Archibald Hender
son is again in good standing as
a naval official of that inland
state, by a rescinding decree is
sued Monday.
A month ago Kentucky's newly-elected
attorney general ruled
invalid the commissions of
it
1 17.000 colonels, admirals and
be 1 other honorary aides appointed
but the titles have not
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been selected yet.
tussie ouesses:
The S. C. legislature is
worried about the mental
health of a college writer. It's
o. k. boys, we know plenty of
students who wonder if the
legislature is
not teched in
the haid.'
Warmer; prob
ably thunder-showers.
by governors in years past.
By that stroke of state, Dr.
Henderson, who was commission
ed last fall by then-Governor
Ruby Laffoon, was rendered
titleless.
New Deal
But last Monday Kentucky's
acting governor, in office be
cause Governor unandier was
out of town at a baseball game,
restored the horde of 17,000 to
good standing.
Attorney General Vincent,
whose action last month invali
dated the many titles, has de
clined to comment on the re-instating
order just issued by the
acting-governor. Since Vincent
issued his ruling in March, his
office has been flooded with let
ters from irate colonels.
The Order of the Golden
Fleece, which taps the campus'
most prominent student leaders
in Memorial hall next Tuesday
night, was founded in 1903 to
promote better relations between
fraternity and dormitory men.
At that time, there was a
fierce enmity between the
groups, which approached out
spoken hostility. Three young
alumni, Dr. Horace Williams, R.
S. Steward, and Robert Her
ring, conceived the idea of form
ing a group of the outstanding
upperclassmen to work against
this campus antagonism nd pro
mote a healthier relationship.
First Members
Consequently, eight prominent
students, including the late Uni
versity president, Edward Kid
der Graham, and the late Am
bassador to Greece, Eben A.
Alexander, were "tapped" and
the Order of the Golden Fleece
embarked on its career.
The fraternity-dormitory ani
mosity vanished in subsequent
years, largely due to the influ
ence of the Fleece. The order
has continued in a somewhat
different capacity, however. To
day membership in the Fleece
carries the distinction of having
attained the highest possible
honor which students can - be
stow on fellow students.
The tapping ceremony Tues
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Coff man Honored
Dr. George R. Coffman of the
English department was elected
to the advisory council of the
Modern Languages Association
of America at a meeting of the
association in Chicago Monday.
The advisory board meets
monthly in New York City. The
object of the society is the ad
vancement of languages and is
composed of about 4,000 mem
bers.
teams have won 37 out of a
been in constant demand as an
possible 119 Southern Confer-1 exct witness in court cases in-
ence championships.
Progress
When Coach Fetzer came to
the University in 1921, the
physical education plant con
volving musical plagiarism.
"Practicing what he preach
es, Spaeth does not put music on
a pedestal too high to reach. His
scholarship is evident, if you
care to look for it, but it is very
"Please" Si3ns, Plus
Self-Help Students, .
Help Campus Beauty
English Majors
English majors planning to
take the comprehensive exami
nation, scheduled for 9 o'clock
Saturday, May 2, in 201 Mur
phey, are asked to notify Prof es
sor Thrall of their intentions if
they have not already done so.
These students may see Pro
fessor Thrall in 214 Murphey.
Whole-hearted support has
been given the current move to
improve campus beauty by the
use of gravel walks instead of
crass-killing cross paths, ac
cording to Dean Francis Brad
shaw.
During the past week, NYA
self-help students have been
posted at frequently-used short
cuts to remind students to use
reerular paths. The pickets re
port that, so far, every student
reminded to use the regular
walks has done so at once.
"PLEASE"
A. A. Pickard, supervisor of
University grounds, is encour
aged by response to the drive for
beautification ; however, he will
soon post more Flease signs
and endeavor to extend the area
watched by NYA pickets.
Visitors on this campus have
recently been heard to draw un
favorable contrasts with Univer
sity grounds with those of Duke.
They have declared that more
interest is manifested by Duke
students in the beauty of their
quadrangle than is done here.
Officials hope for continued
abstinence from grass trampling
between buildings so that the
University's beauty will be cli
maxed during May.
The End !
sisted of Emerson stadium, By- pleasantly put says the Musi-
num gymnasium, ana z tennis America.
courts, in addition to the above,
the campus now contains the Tin
Can for indoor sports, 28 ten
nis courts, Kenan stadium, a
girls' athletic field, six intramu
ral, football, and physical edu
cation fields, and the new track
stadium. President Graham is
recommending to the trustees
that it be named "Fetzer field."
At present Emerson field is be
ing converted into a modern
baseball park.
The track team has lost only
one dual meet in 15 years to a
Southern Conference opponent,
and but four to intersectional
foes. During this time, the team
has won five outdoor and four
indoor Southern Conference
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William, the Spencer hall
cook, has a diploma in domestic
science. He even taught school
once when school teachers could
get as much as 60 per month.
Musing on the "rubbery gela
tin and sugary tomatoes" which
he read in yesterday's Daily
Tar Heel and the problem of
feeding Spencer co-eds, he said,
"Do you ever read Ham
bone's Meditations?
"Well," said William, "these
co-eds remind me of the educat
ed lady Hambone talks about.
They know all about what's in
books, but they aren't acquaint
ed with a stove."
Harlow, Gable "Tops" With Local
Theater-Goers, Says E. Carrington
Movie Magnate Holds Forth on Popularity of Stars; Crosby, As
taire, Dietrich, Cooper, Will Rogers Also Favorites; Thinks
Jean Should Have Remained Platinum Blonde
By Hazel Beacham
"Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
always pack the house" was the
answer that E. Carrington Smith
gave when asked which movie
stars bring the largest number
of students to the local theatre.
The names which draw Caro
lina students in by the hundreds
are: Ginger Rogers and Fred
Astaire, Joan Crawford, Mar
lene Dietrich, Bing Crosby Gary
Cooper and Will Rogers. ,
Of course; Mae West draws a
crowd everywhere, but strange
ly enough, Jean Harlow has
more fans on the local campus
than Mae West does.
Little , Shirley Temple packs
the house, but the crowd which
swarms in to see Shirley is made
up of . Chapel Hill residents,
farmers and children. Accord
ing to Mr. Smith, "The Univer
sity students just don't go for
Shirley Temple. She's a little
too young."
"They like Charles Ruggles,
too," he said, "but they don't get
many opportunities to see him."
Ronald Colman pictures are fa
vorites, but it seems to be his
stories, and not his personality
that they like.
Newcomer
Among the newcomers to the
screen, Rochelle Hudson receives
a bigger reception in Chapel Hill
than any of the others. Lionel
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