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ATHENS, GA„ TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1928,
A. B. C. Paper. Single Copies 2'Cents. 5 Cents Sunday.
Hirsch Heads Alumni; DeLoach Delivers Address
ALUMNI TAKE STAGE TUESDAY
FINAL EXERCISES
N WOODRUFF ILL
10:49
EDNESDAY A.
Wednesday will bring
the 127th commencement
at the University to a
close, when the large se
nior class will be awarded
degrees at Woodruff Hall
at 10:45 o’clock.
The Board of Trustees will also
meet again Wednesday morning
and transact what business re
mains to be disposed of and then
attend the final commencement
aerrises.
The commencement program in-
cludes the baccalaureate address
by Dr. Charles H. Herty, distln-
roished scientist and alumnus of
•In- ttninstHBr of Goorgia, who is
adviser to the Chemical r ounds
Delivers Baccalaureate Address Here
DR. CHARLES H. HERTY, distinguished American Chemist, alum
nus of the University of Georgia, who delivers the baccalaureati
address'Wednesday at Woodruff Hail. His subject will be, “Geor
gia's Potential Wealth." i
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tion. New York City. Dr. Herty l
•ill siso be awarded the degree of
Doctor of Laws Wednasday.
Joseph K. Heyman, Atlanta, it
the valedictorian. Govtmor L. GV
Hardman will make the report for
the committee on roaearch, and
the diplomas will be delivered by
Chancellor C. M. Smiling.
The procession will form m
front of Memorial Hall twenty
minutes before the commencement
exercises and match to Woodruff
Hall. The program calls for the
following line-up:
The procesilon will form by
twos In front of Memorial Hall
with its head at, the entrance to
Memorial Hall, and will march to
Woodruff Hall. The head of the
procession will halt at Woodruff
Hall, face inward, and allow the
rear to pass through, and into
Woodruff Hall firat. It will form
in the following order:
The Sheriff of Clarke County:
the Senior Class; Alumni, by
Classes, youngest firat: the Board
of Visitors; the Chancellor and
Faculty; the Board of Trusteoai
the Minister with the Orator; the
Governor of Goorgia with the
Chairman of the Board of Trus
tees. The procession will for n
under the direction of Major A, T
Colley.
The commencement program
Wednesday foliowa:
Wednesday, Juno 20th
10:45 A. M.—Graduation Exo
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Mexican aviator , iinnucn nun photic
1& FORCED BACK
BY HEAVY FOG
MITCHELL - FIELD, L. I—
(UP)—Captain Emilio Carranza,
Mexican “goodwill" flyer, who
took off for West Point at 1:14
o’clock Tuesday morning in an ar
my amphibian plane, was forced
to return 20 minutes lstcr by
thick fog.
THREE CHILDREN
ARE BURNED TO
DEATH TUESDAY
MILWAUKEE, Wts. —(UP)—
Three small children were burned
to death in a fire at the home of
Albert Geiger here Tuesday.
The dead are: Jerome, 8: Mar
vin, 7: and Alkn 6 months.
A live coal is believed to have
fallen from tho kitchen range,
starting the firs. Mrs. Geiger had
gone to a grocery store.
denies report
ATHENS, Greece.—(AP)—The
Greek foreign office Tuesday de
nied reports published in Vienm
of a communist revolution in Ath
ens, stating that they were tota,
ly untrue and ‘
Science Points Back To Genesis
And St. John For Expression Of
Eternal Truth, Says Dr. Northup
Oneness of Universe, With One God, Confirmed By
Discoveries of Astrophysicists, He Says. Satan,
or An Evil Deity, and Fall of Man Are Not
Tenable. Man Not Lost Save in Morass
of Ignorance, Speaker Asserts.
Recent discoveries have forced the physicist, the astronomer, and
the biologist “back to Cental* and the Gospel of John for expression
off 1 .*™* 1 truth,” Dr. Clark S, NArthup, professor of English in Cor
nell University declared Monday night in the annual Phi Beta Kappa
Oration delivered in the University chapel.
While these discoveries
ute fo the conception of tho-uni
verse as one and indivisible*-"and
tho Idea of one God, they at^tha
“ thi
pame time sweep away the bos is
for belief in the dualism of nature
and the Devil, or “Prine* of
Darkness,” original sin or tl*
Fall of Man. “Man is never lost
LD CONFERENCE
IT
WASHINGTON —(UP)— The
Californian and the Kansan who
make up the republican presiden
tial ticket, will spend Tuesday af
ternoon on n back porch planning
their campaign.
Senator Charles Curtis, the vice
presidential nominee, and one Kaw
Indian, arrived here Tuesday and
made an appointment for what is
probably the most important con
ference of the campaign, with
Herbrrt Hoover, tho presidential
nominee, on the hack porch of
Hoover's S Street home.
Both Hoover and Curtis hove
refrained from mskingjnfblic any
i confer-
of their plans pending
Curtis was met at the train,
when ho arrived at 8:35 a. m. from
Topeka, Kansas, by Hoover's see-
retary. George E. Akeraon. Hoo
ver's big auto took Ourtii to the
home of his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs- Edward Gann.
r. at. L.. lit,..,! a* *ha Hunn’i
was absolutely quiet.
Curtis has lived at the Gann’s
that everything modest house on Macomb street
save in the morass of ignorance/
Dr. Northup said, and the “Fall
of Man is a term to apply to tho
individual who yields to the tomp-
tot'on and allurements of sense.”
Dr. Northup spoke on “Stars and
Folkways.” He pointed out that
the discoveries of the-astrophysj-
Cisis. Driiiviualiw **nuu«2.
IIUUVLII - fillU UUIIIIU X«Srm«i proof of tho
lUR 700: 733 1-3 NEEDED
WASHINGTON.—(UP)—Followers of Governor
Al Smith Tuesday hailed the lb votes oe Mary!_nd
ceded by Governor Albert Ritchie as assuring t
nomination of their -nHidate at Houston next week.
_ Maryland's IS votes will gh
Smith more than 700 on the first
J»Hot, they claimed. To nominate
733 1-3 votes at* needed, and the
ethers will b* fotbeoming, it was
raid.
Ritchie has not been an avowed
Candidate, but his campaign for
totm right* and his outspoken
disapproval of prohibition, h»»
™nod him a nationwide reputa-
tion. The Maryland democratic
'invention instructed the dslf
t«ea for Mm and in the early
rtages of the campaign, before
■ mith gained strength, there were
*»ny who believed this old style
Jeffcnonisl democrat would make
> beter vote getter than the New
rn * governor.
T»entjeiour democratic dele-
f* , «, the last to be named, are
he selected Thursday in Vir-
and Smith men Tuesday
forelsw'^bdTties of a landslide
ofthe proportions of Hoover’s in
the Kansas City conrention if
Smith gets roost of the Virgin d
ootes. However, it was generally
believed that the followers of
of Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri,
would carry thrtr fight to theeon-
vention balloting before quitting.
Possibilities for the vice presi
dential nomination at Houston
came to the fore Tuesday in the
wain- of Ritchie’s announcement
at Baltimore. . ,
Ritchie has no hope of obtain;
it, and would not accept it if .ten
dered; if Smith is named the
democrat, are exported to turo to
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ainee the death of Mrs. Curtis last
year and expects to stay then
while in Washington.
Hoover and Curtis were
meet at noon for luncheon at Hoo
ver’s home, after which they plan-
nod to sptnd the afternoon to
gether. ■■ 2pn
Curtis is expected to start tour
ing the country in a few weeks
It was indicated that the Hoover-
Curtis campaign plans might be
made public in part later in the
week. He is to concentrate on the
farming west, according to tenta
tive plans.
CELEBRATION
VALLEY FORGE, Pa—(AP)-
The 150th anniversary of the evac
uation of Valley Forge by George
Washington and his army »
observed here Tue»u»y. ».,e a
event on the program was the
laying of the cornerstone of the
New National Washington Memo
rial Church, which will cost, 310,
000,000 when completed-
Weather Forecast
constitution or recreation of the
atom, "means that tho universe is
in a continuous, cyclic process of
creation; the atom dissipated into
energy; energy with unearthly
might reconstituting the atom.”
Nature Is One
"Nature, the universe, including
all therein, is one and indivisible.
From the center ef my being to
the remotest bounds.of the Infinite
universe, the tame forces are at
work, engaged in the act of crea
tion, that have always been ti
work," he said.
"From tho facta which the astr ,-
physicist has revealed to us,” Dr.
Northup said, "certain inferences
seem to me inescapable. As tho
reconstitution or recreation of the
does not merely happen, it must
be the work of one and only one
Creator”—“We art an integral
part of this creation. In the most
literal sense we sprang from the
soil and were made from tho
dust. Easth is our Great Mother,
who bring* us forth, nourishes is
for the allotted season or cycle of
years, and than receives us sgain
into her bosom. Two things ws
know, and this is the corner-stone
of my argument of today: on.-,
that we are a part of this contin
uous creation, made up of atoms
just as truly as tho remotest star
or nebula; the other that we are
creatures of mind and with mind i,
of spirit and with souls, possess-
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PLANS OF MABEL
BOLL SHROUDED
IN MYSTERY
AIMED AT ALUMNI
RECORD ARTICLE!
TABLED BY ALUMNI
HARBOR GRACE. Newfound*
land.—(AP)—The plans of Miss
Mabel Boll for future flying,
trans-Atlantic or otherwise, seem*
ed clouded Tuesday.
The disappointed loser in a race
to be the first of her sex tc oross
the ocean, was reported to be «on#4
•mariner a. flight direct to Romo|
and a return trip in juiy. one (
also was said to be contemplating
taking her monoplane, the Colum
bia, to Europe by steamer and then
trying the difficult east to west
flight hack.
Miss Boll declined to discuss her
plans and Oliver LeBoutillier and
Arthur 4t£l es > her co-pilots, were
equally reticent.
CORONER’S JURY
ACQUITS WIFE OF
BLAME FOR DEATH
OF HUSBAND HERE
Henry Payne, negro, who was
killed early Monday, was shot i>y
Ms wife, Rosa Payne, and the
shooting was justifsbk, a core-
ner’s Jury found Monday. Testi-
found Monday. Testi
mony was to the effect that Payne
tried to attack his wife with
stick, and threatened to hit his
child ovsr the head with a chair.
He ia said to haws been drinking.
Payne asked Mi family to pray for
him after be waa shot and told
others that his wife was not to
blame for the shooting.
The coroner's jury, in addition
to Judge Shepherd, comprised J.
P. Williams, foreman; H. F. Erta-
iliftSCH IS ELECTED
Harold Hirsch, Class of 1901,
Tuesday, was announced as the
new President of the Society
of tho Alumni, the choice of
members -in the election con*
ducted recently. Mr- Hirsch,
noted Georgia lawyer, and
friend of his Alma Mater, suc
ceeds Dr. Frank K. Boland 1 ,
Atlanta; Marion Smith, Atlan
ta, waa re-elected member of
the Board of Trustees of the
University by tho AJumni.
Paul S. Blanchard, Columbus,
1912, was elected first vice-
president; Alvin W. Neeley,
1907, Waynesboro, second vice
president; D. R- Bower, 1004,
®ainbridg.\ third vice prehi-
t. Sym “ ‘
dent. Sylvnnus Morris, record-
cesds Pope F. Brock, Macon,
on the Board of Managers, and
Harvey M. McCleckley, Augus
ta, 1924, succeeds W- I. Mein-
tire, ThomasviUe, on the 'Board
of Managers. The members
who hold over are Robert B.
Troutman, Atlanta; Fonville
MsWhortor, Atlanta; Blanton
Fortson, Athens; and Craig
Barrow, Savannah.
A discussion of the policy of the
Alumni Record was precipitated
in the ibusincsa eVssfon of tin
Alumni Society Tuesday, when
Judge E. C. Kontz, of Atlanta, in
troduced a resolution calling for
a policy of wisdom, justice and
moderation in the articles carried.
He took exceptions to an arti
cle which he said cast aspersions
on the religious beliefs of a large
number of pcopb in the state and
did not tend to win favor from
members of the legislature and
etlierz that the University should
desire as fritnds thcovg.iout ths
state- He also took exesption to
u recent article appearing in the
liut-rd, which he end maligned
the cha i cter of Ri'.-'t Toombs.
L. C. Slade, Columbus, member
of the class of 1893, took issue
with Judge Wonts and said, that
the Alumni Record sb.-th, bo un-
fi-tered a: ary resolutions ar.d left
open tor controversial canlriiiu-
Barred from new lands where he might rehabili
tate himself economically, if prevented from obtain
ing a livelihood in his own country, it remains for tho
American farmer to face and settle the age-old Issue
delayed when people of the Old World sought a refuge
in the American wilderness in order to escape eco
nomic oppression, Dr. R. J. H. DeLoach declared in
the annual Alumni Oration delivered Tuesday at the
University of Georgia chapel.
cn/iiTu • inincBC m 1 at s™ s' 1 by
ulvll IH. LlMUliiu IU *** ‘
Workmen Leave Jobs
To Greet Amelia
Earhart Tuesday
berger, W. J. Teat, J. W. O’Keiley, me alumni.
W. J>. Head, T. A. C. McMahan, ’ , J Mley of Mansgrrs.
and H. T>. Huff, bailiff. I , Ju ,dg-‘ f.Ianton Fortson explain-
led that the Alumni Seeierar.v was
[ instructed last July, when he was
j elected, to throw the columns of
the Record open for controvorsial
articV.e i
WOOLSTON, England.—(UP)—Miss Amelia Ear-
hart’s airplane Friendship landed in the water here _. KA ^ S ^ S c . rnr ’ m«- —( up .L—
at 7:20 (eastern standard time) Tuesday, after mak- ove^ad^tlmui thoSmUSi of acre!
ing a 135 mile flight from Burry Port in 2 hours and j ?■£
3 minutes. J Tuesday with littH prospect of a
let-down in the situation for sev<
and carried a notice in
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WEATHER FORECAST
HOUSTON, Texas —(UP)— A
fresh pine -board convention -hail
and an eager southwestern met
ropolis Tuesday awaited the com
ing of the Brown Derfbjr Battalion
from New York.
, Headquarter! for Governor A)
Smith were set aside on ths mez
zanine floors of the Rice Hotel op
posite the rooms of Senator James
A. Retd of Missouri. The Smith
leaders are due ben- Tuesday
night. - The R:ed people have n
head start.
Ruth Elder Sends
Congratulations To
Amelia Earhart
PARIS—(AP)—Ruth Elder, who
failed to fly the Atlantie last year
and waa rescued from the sea,
Tuesday telegraphed this message
to Miss Amelia Earhart, first wo
man to fly the Atlantic:
“Congratulations on your his
tory making flight. I was wka
you in spirit throughout the jour
ney. I appreciate the exploit bet-,
ter than anyone, I feel, and I an
wonderfully glad that the first
woman to cross
American girL?
tion between state departments, a
state board of finance interested
in the welfare of tho state as a
whole, and research embracing tho
business and sociological ns well
Dr. D&Looch, chemist wi-.h :he
Armour Research Laboratorie-i,
Chicago, zpoke on “Georgia—An
Enconomic Interpretation.”
His address was ono of the fea
tures of Alumni Dny, ulwnys a
most colorful, perhaps the- most
lively event on tho commencemenu
calendar. An alumnus of the class
of 1898, former teacher in tho
State College of Agriculture, and
native Georgian, Dr. DeLoach has
had a varied carter and spukq
from a wido experience and knowl
edge of agricultural 'and indus
trial problems.
Ho reviewed tho transformnth
of Georgia in the last tvrtnty-f
C rs from an agricultural rt
ono in which industry has
taken the lead. He declared that
in 1900, Georgia was primarily an
agricultural state, but in 1928,
it is primarily an industral state.
"The most rapid change*,” ho
_jld, l.'ook plans between 1920
and 1025, when tho state actually
parsed from an agricultural to a
manufacturing economy. The cen
sus of 1925 did not classify as
rural tho farm laborers and thsir
families living in and around cit
ies—while tho census of 1920 did
zo classify them. Unless allow
ance is made for this, figures
seem contradictory. The 1928 ab
stract of tho census shows accord
ing to the 19213 classification 58.2
per cent’ of tho total population of
tho state in 1920 to be rural, and
in 1925 only 42.2 per cent rural—
Smfcly was an the first published figures show-
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Only fi1*o minutes ih fore its
perfect landing the Friendship
htd been sighted rising over the
northwestern horizon and making
with its super-marine se^iianw in
(he lead, towards the landing
spot.
A littl. crowd had been waiting
for hours in the plane. As the
time for the ship’s approach near
ed, thro crowd had -become a
Workmen rushed from all over
the surrounding area during their
lunch periods and school children
turned out in • body.
tor bus parties
nearby eon
■ minute.
IVoolston sc rocs to Southampton J eral days,
for lunch hut none went Tuesday. I Gniy clouded skies and unset*
Nows that the flyers had left I ‘H '“'•‘her greeted disheartened
i> . , ,. - section!, long-wearied by annual
Bury Port was dissim.inated by the flowl , which wuh ou t crops in tbs
United Press. The crowd converg-1 lowlands.
ed on the Imperial Airways land- Weather forecasts for Missouri,
ing stage, bringing the first of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas,
many cheers from the crowd. centers of the flooded areas, prom-
The Frienship canto down gent- ided only unsettled weather for
ly in Southampton water, 600 the next two days.
yards off shore, amidst a continu-
ous roar of cheers from pereona
ashore end in boats and the din of
hundreds of ship sirens and whis
tles from the great dock district.
Stalls st the controls, taxied tbs
With the-rivets, for. the most
part, rising gradua)y, ample warn
ing has been given so .that no loss
of life from floods has been re
ported thus far. The only death’
toll, now
piano 800 yards np to the Imperial recorded
'orkmen usually ferry from Airways seaplane dock, [Saturday,
’ standing at
in Oklahoma’:
.’s tornado o*
KING’S BAY, Spitsbergen. — (UP) — General
Umberto Nobile and his group, awaiting rescue on
ice in the north, again watched relief approach and
depart without their position being discovered, it
became known Tuesday.
Captain II. Riiser-Larsen and
Lieutenant Leutsow Holm, flew
within tko kilometers of the ice
encampment Monday, but failed to
sight Nobile and his five aides.
The planes were sighted by Nobile
however. ' v 'JTN
The two Norwegian flyers re
turned Tuesday morning to the
Steamer Brnganza after scouting
over the district where Nobile's
tee refuge is floating. They bad
been unable to sight Nokilo al-
though they were within two kilo
metres of the lost teen.
radio
advices, that
1 the flyers just as ho
that Nobile had
them as they passed over
his position Sunday.
After a night long vigil by tlid
entire population of King’s Bay,
it was believed at 10:00 a. m.
Tuesday that Roald Amundsen.
South Pole discoverer, had flown
direct—690 miles—from Tromsoo,
Norway, to.General Nobile’s poxi,
tion, instead of coming h re.
Amundsen ami Lieutenant Diets
richscn arp in th? French Lathant
Later, it was learned, through seaplane of Cvmnjandet figUfeM*