North Carolina Newspapers

Pa;re Two THE 7T A It JI E E L Leading 'Southern College Tki - Weekly Newspaper the college year, and is -the official . newspaper of the . Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel -Hill, N. C. Sub scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. - Clfficexs in tliA basement of Alumni Building. 7 J Walter Spearman George Ehrhart ... . Marion Alexander ....... Editor .... Mgr, Ed ... Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Harrv Galland Assistant Editor r Glenn Holder John Mebane : Will Yarborough Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Sports Editor , M. Broadus Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn J. C Eas-les J. P. Jones A. Shelton C. B. McKethan J. C. Williams fE. 'Wilson Gil. Pearson ... B. W. Reporters w - J. E. Dungan D. L. Wood Dick-MeGlohon J. Q. Mitchell B. C. Moore Kv C. Ramsay ' E. F. Yarborough H. H. Taylor E. H. Denning J. D. McNairy Whitton BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff BM. Parker-'-'.. Asst. Bus. Mgr. H. N. Patterson Collection ' Mgr. Gradon Pendergraph Circulation Mgr. T. R. Karriker....r..lssf. Col. Mgr. Advertising Leonard Lewis "Harry Latta iBen Aycock Kermit Whearv : ' ' - - r Staff Milton Cohen Siditey Brick s H. Jameson H. Merrell Jim Harris Tuesday, January 29, 1929 PARAGRAPHIAS. "To Give Illustrated Lecture On Brick" headlines our favorite' cam pus newspaper. Sounds like a very restricted speaker's platform! Another objection fro these airplane -weddings like the one just celebrated in Chapel Hill is the difficulty the audience experiences in trying to throw rice and shoes at the newly married couple. ' ' Judging from the number of Open Forum letters coming in about this daily Tar Heel proposition, it will be easy enough to fill a daily newspaper. Seventeen University of VN Missouri students are going abroad this summer . as mule tenders just another example -of what some members of this genera .tion will do to get a kick. We haven't heard anything new about the next Wigue and Masque production in several days the mem bers must be living up to the title: "Mum's The Word." - With the installation of complex machinery In the new library, it is rumored that books wilt be dished up and served cafeteria style. No doubt business will be. increased. Physical Follow-Up One of the first -contacts a fresh man makes with the actual world tip-?; . . o of theT University is his physical ex amination in the gym. There . his eyes, ears, lungs, heart, knees, fingers and jill the rest are tested under the direction of Dr. Lawson and student assistants, f igures are-" set . down upon papers and cards, row after row of them attesting to the physical con dition of each .new student. But what, vwe ask, is done with these statistics after that day? So far as one can see, they are relegated to the obscurity of some office, or elset to the gym nasium attic or cellar. True, if ad man's eyes are too weak for him to study, he is usually advis ed to go home rather than try to en ter the "work of the University. But what if his eyes, his heart, or his lungs need constant attention? What if his stooped shoulders 'need regular directed exercise? Of course, if he happens to be the sort of man who goes out for varsity athletics, he will be cared for. Unfortunately, however, those men whose physiques most need attention are those who fail to' get. it. While the mental side of education is being stressed, the . physical side remains neglected. The system of roll call, quizzes, examinations, and ! graHes sees toxit that' at least-a cer tain amount of mental discipline is incurred. In the meantime, nothing is being done for" the body. Compul sory gym for freshmen is, perhaps, one way of going about the problem. That at least provides for one year of systematic'exercise. It should also serve as a habit former for later years; but, in actuality, it seems to work the other way in rebellion from compulsory freshman gym most so phomores and may upper classmen shun the gymnasium as they would a classroom. The recent substitution of track and field events for ordinary gym work is an excellent plan, and is no doubt proving successf nL There still Temains much to be done in this line, however, and, the attempts should no longer be postponed to the future.' The severest handicap at present is probably the absence of a gymnasium with sufficient space and equipment to provide "for extensive physical education and also the lack of enough funds for a much more thorough check-up on the physical condition of each student" as he goes through college. Two things are necessary before any marked improvement in this state of affairs can come about: first, it is essential to the welfare of the Univer sity that .funds be- set aside by the legislature of North Carolina for the construction of an adequate gym nasium and for the carrying out of a thoughtful, consistent J?lan , of; physi cal education; and second, that more attention be paid by the 'University officials to physical' needs of students and more time be spent in considera tion of this phase of student life and development. . ,,. v : To Pass, " ' '"' ' Or To Learn? : " Routine classwork, as assigned by a majority of professors - here, gen erally effectively gets $ class through the work specified in the catalog. Gets them through the exam, that is After that, no man can say how much of the knowledge handed out by the proiessor is retained, But -we can guess, and the guess makes it very, very little. The system in effect now makes cramming for exams a very necessary evil. A certain amount of work is assigned each day, and generally per functorily looked over or allowed to Slide until two days before the ex amination, when the entire course is surveyed. Sufficient information sticks for three hours to enable the student to pass the exam and receive the satisfactory information at ' the Registrar's office that he has "gotten another one off." Beyond that, little of value is retained. By the time a college student has reached his Junior year, he ought to be somewhat interested in his educa tion. Without someone to stand oyer him to see .that he does his work, he ought to be willing to dig for himself a' ol-for even merely pickup the in formation he sees spread out before him, if it will be of value. Few, very few, professors believe that the average college student will do this if given the chance. When they do have a little faith in the seriousness of purpose of their stu dents, however, they cautionsly try the plan of allowing the students to read for exams. ' A certain number of books on a particular subject is as signed to be read during the week. The class is told to read them for themselves and is not required to at tend class during the period of read ing. There is opportunity . for de veloping a Jittle original arid genuine interest in the work, and the necessity for cramming is -minimized. One is not required to give back only the opinions of the professor in the quiz book. And" the change makes the work more interesting! to all con cerned. ? Modified systems1 of ' reading for exams have been going on success fully at Oxford for generations. Here and there, in this university a pro fessor is trying out the plan. Will it be successful with a majority of Seniors and Juniors? Try us, Pro fessor, and see.-r-H. J. G. w ; The great prmciple of human satis faction is engagement. Paley. Open Forum TAKES ISSUE WITH A. M. To the Editor: ' .We should like to take issue with the long-winded "A. M." who on Saturday took a perfectly good column arid a quarter of Tar Heel space to give obviously inadequate and faulty reasons for not having a daily paper on the campus. We take up his major objections in order. There is a bountiful supply of news on the campus for a daily paper. Mr. A. ;M. never Shaving worked, oh the Tar Heel speaks whereof he knows 'not. Whole galleys of copy are left out every printing night news' which should be run for which there is no" room. Every story has to be cut short to the minimum. Still other news has to be left out, because in the interim of a non-publishing day fhis news grows old and is supplant ed by newer, stuff. Still other news in the form of worthwhile feature stories is never written because the writers know there will be no room for it. Professor Oscar Coffin, head and foot of the Journalism department, has expressed the opinion that there is plenty of news on the campus for a daily paper; Professor Coffin is a conservative of long experience as, a managing editor; . and we would con sider him much more an authority on whether there is news enough than Mr. A. M. - ; We will pass over Mr. M.'s attacks on the journalism quality of the Tar HeeL We will say that Mr. M. could never be a fair judge in the light of his rejection experiences with the Tar Heel. It must be remembered that a student paper can not be ex pected to ihaintain the standards of a professionally edited daily, but the Tar Heel stands out as one of the best tri-weeklies in the country. Mak ing it a daily would be a boon to draw ing out more and better reporters and would be the beginning of a new and better Tar Heel. V Chapel Hill news, national high lights, -and feature cuts "from other colleges would be of interest to the vast majority of students. Certainly students are" not so narrow in their interests as to confine themselves sole ly to their University news. Finally Mr. M. does not under stand the proposed financing plan at all. Circulation is to be extended to the townjn proportions large enough to open new fields of advertising' local stores, garages, building 'esta blishments, etc., which draw their patronage not from students but from townspeople, which would be 'glad to advertise in the Tar Heel if it had a material circulation in town. Na tional -advertising will automatically be increased by the college agencies, and by having a town circulation new lucrative fields of national advertis ing will be opened up, as the profi table automobile advertising. Despite all respect for Mr. M.V superior knowledge, we say once again "He speaks whereof he knows not. A daily will work no extra burden on local advertisers, because new adver tising fields will be opened up. There will be no increased student fees.' Giving students a daily will merely mean giving them more for the publi cations fee they now pay. The plan is highly practical for the present. It will mean great things for the future. Let's have a daily Tar Heel. ' . ' M. R. ALEXANDER. CRITICIZES PRESENT TAR HEEL newspapers. Is or is this custom re stricted to sport events alone. Last Saturday's paper was- just full oi clipped fillers. I refer especially to the back page. Will a daily Tar Heel mean that we will have more "Flu Situation Causes Changes in Ventila tion" and "Splendid Work in Planting of Trees" type of stories ? The re port of the Carolina-Georgia game is plainly a desicated account of an ar ticle in some other paper. From all reports that game should have been written up for the " excitement that it contained, if for -no other reason. The most elementary training in journalism would teach reporters to put the four iW's, who-where-when and what, in the first paragraph and then amplify and explain in the fol lowing paragraphs. How many sports articles really written by Tar Heel reporters or other than sports either observe this first principle Are six poorly written articles better than three? Let the present paper be first improved as to quality and then there might be a possible excuse for wanting more quantity. , : - j. ; - K. S. AN ANSWER TO A. M. The advocates of a daily Tar Heel would have us believe that we would have a mixture of the New York Times and the Daily Mirror with' a dash of the Police Gazette thrown in for good measure. The real question, however, is: Would the quality of the campus news be improved ? For that is what the students are primarily interested in. Most of the other ar ticles are more or less fillers. -I am especially interested in sports " and sport news, and have asked myself how a daily Tar Heel would improve sports reports. As far as I can see, there would be no improvement. The Tar Heel has been very mysterious about its plans for a daily, but it is natural to suspect that no staff is going to stay up half the night get ting out the morning paper, and that the deadline would be, as now, late in the afternoon. At any rate it would come too early to allow reports of sports events of one evening to be written up in the next morning's paper. The situation is obvious. We would be getting stale news ! six times a week, instead of three as at present. ' " " As a matter of fact, it is unnec essary to abolish the Buccaneer or change the Magazine to get "clip service." Many of the reports of sports events at present ; are either partially or wholly copied from state To the Editor: I saw in the Open Forum columns of this paper Saturday a letter sign ed A; M. '29 dis-f avoring a daily Tar Heel. The writer of that letter made a number of apparently good points. But an analyzaton of these points will show the fallacy "of A. M.'s reasoning. Evidently the writer of that letter has not investigated the situation with any degree of profundity. , A. M.'s first point is that a daily Tar Heel could not bve filled with legitimate campus news. He further states that the paper is "hard up" for material now. To enlighten A. M. might state that at the time this letter is being written there are f ivegalleys of copy set up at the Orange Print shop for the next Tar Heel which comes out m two days. , Moreover, there is an. abundance of copy on the hook in the office of this publication Further, there is seldom a day that some copy for the paper is not left over. A. M. wants us to, consider next the inanity of some of the feature stories, "colyums" (I presume" he means "columns" y-v and dramatic criticisms that "clutterup" the present journal. He describes them as "twaddle pure and simple." "And the colyums !" he cries out, "Lord deliver us from an increased riumberof Hash and Moth balls type." j. He then continues: "As for Merely Meandering just take a look at Tuesday's Tar Heel. Has anyone ever seen punker puns and less humorous -attempts at humor?" In answer to. this last question I can say that I have truly seen a number of "punker puns" (which is clever alii teration, by the way) than have ap peared in -these columns. And I saw all of them in a "colyum" which Mr. A. Metz '29 submitted to the Tar Heel and which happened to be rejected, A. M.'s second point is that stu dents are not interested in Chapel Hill news and thatN Mr; Grave's paper covers thatfield better than the Tar Heel could. I take issue with-this argument ana contend tnat tnere is quite a bit of Chapel Hill; news in which students are interested. Take, for example, the recent decree which the mayor of Chapel Hill made con cerning burflming, or the arrest of a favorite bootlegger. C Furthermore, these bits of village news will be in cluded in the Tar Heel without ad ditional cost, and the - Chapel Hill Weekly is not given "away. The third point that A. M. lists is that the promised picture- service would be out of place and 'that one could, see it much better in a news reel. " His fourth point is that there is no necessity for a "clip" service, and that' one may get such news more cheaply and more quickly by going to the library. May" I ask A. M. how he proposes to get it more "cheaply" at the library? "And if this service Were offered in the Tar Heel, there would be no necessity for going to the lib rary for news every day.. His f if tl point is that he is just as strongly for economy in the news paper as he is for it in the year book. May 1 ask him if he knows exactly what he" meant to say? He argues in the sixth place' that it would be hard on the advertisers, and that the Tar'Heel could not increase local advertising enough to justify a daily paper. I wish A. M, would glance again over the four plans sub mitted ' If two of the plans are adopt ed, the Tar Heel will greatly increase advertising. And I believer that A. M has forgotten to -take into account national advertising. ' A. M.'s final point is that there are only eight or ten men who are major ing in journalism in the-Arts school. Consequently, A. M. believes that there would be bnlyi a few men con nected with the staff who would know any thing , about news principles. Another fallacy. The majority of reporters on the present staff are men who have had ' sufficient high school experience to justify their be- ins? placed on the staff. Further, it is not" necessary that a student major in journalism in order to be able to write a news story. - A. M. is in favor of simplifying dhe Yackety Yack whether any ' other chansre is made or not. If the year book is simplified, we have the solu- t;vr frv mir f inanHal "nroblems. vi- dentlv A. M. wants to do., himself out of something. Personally, this sim plification of the Yackety Yack seems the best plan to vote for.' We would then still have all of our -publications, and we might continue to use them as laboratories in which interested stu dents may experiment. JON. A BULL TALKS Tuesday, January 29, 1929 Tne reader knows the type I mention The -class is bored. The" , instructor. ' M he isn't fooled, is likewise irritated by sucn conuuci. Rnt nprhans this drivel is justifiaKu f a fp.vnrable psycholosrical imDrpc sion can be made on the professor. Yes that may be true; put x Deneve n the psychological interests of the class be considered by, the offenders, we will hear less from them. FRANKLIN LITTLE. OVERCAME HARD LUCK To the Editors ' I've never paid three dollars for the permission of having a chance to go to Durham, but I have heard of those who have, and seen those that forced them to pay. What a marvel ous ordinance . it is, because you see, it deprives lots of the poor, broke col lege boys of some of their psysic in come as well as others of their real income. It also lifts the immortal strain which has caused many of poor Chapel Hill drivers to become- ut terfy exhausted from shell-shocked nerves received in keeping from hit ting some dastardly bum - that stood in front of all the cars to beg a ride to Durham.' Well, these Chapel Hillians aren't satisfied with the laws provided by the Sovereign State of North Caro lina to protect our morals. After the4 state ays that we shall not seex a good vaudeville act; that we shall not haver a social game, of pool, etc in Chapel Hill, theh it is ruled that ye shall not leave our good city to in dulge in such, unless you pay a dol lar uncover charge to get out arid get back to Chapel Hill again. .Take it from me, boys, we.have the people on our side, and that's that. Prohi bition! oh how we love it! There is a rumor afloat that CliaperHill, N. C. is going to petition the State of Tennessee for permission to write "Tenn." after. Chapel Hill in stead of writing N C. They tell: me that the reason the city wants .to change its name to 1 Chapel : Hill, Tenn., is that there is a coincidence in the laws of both places. Then, even if the" Charlotte ministerial band did fail to adopt the Tennessee anti-evo iution laws in this state, we may have them in our school. Mayor Council may call the city court to gether and pass an ordinance to that effect; Wouldn't that make us out- standing, though? '- x Therefore, dear children, , desist' from the nefarious practice of solicit ing transportation to uncivilized lands. , . A BULL " - ; ' v EXCESSIVE VOLUNTARY CLASS DISCUSSION - Plaving irithe Philadelphia section al qualifying round for the national nublic links championship, Ted Reilh sliced his drive into a thorn tree. The ball landed m a crotch formed l three limbs and stuck there. , He had to climb about fifteen feet up the tree and tap the pill out with a put ter. He made it up on the first at tempt and eventually got a four for the hole, only one over par. Boston Globe. People are warned against green . . 11 ' ' i. TI -4-1 1 , apples; out xney eat an umer Kinas of reen fruit. A place ought to be set aside for roysterers to make a noise in instead of the streets. is a r ins bmoiie Aids Artis To the Editor: Some weeks ago there appeared in the columns of the "Open . Forum" an j article by a student, protesting the excessive voluntary class discussion on the part of some few members of a class." The gentleman's argument j was promptly rebutted in the follow ing issue, the context of the Rebuttal being arguments based on the fact that the average student asks ques tions of the instructor in class in a sincere manner and not for the pos sible favorable results of a good im pression made. s I hope I may be pardoned for. stir ring up the fire again, -but I offer no ! apology for protesting against the in tolerable classroom boredom caused by the persistent "discusser." This type of student will enter the class room, conspicuously place himself on a front row, make certain to .greet the instructor; with a pleasant, "good morning," and endeavor to engage the instructor's attention for the large remaining part of the period. It does not sfflm to matter so much how the professor's attention is gained. 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