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courses and are behind in their work;
those students who progress rapidly
and graduate early. While the plan
would probably tend to lessen failures
in the University and to bring up
standards, it , would, at the same
time, penalize those students who work
earnestly but who have not the ability
to pass all of their courses. This, as
we see it, is the main objection to the
plan. We believe, however, that the
advantages of this plan out-weigh
the disadvantages and that the
faculty would be justified in its adop
tion. .
" -T JOHN MEBANE.
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Tuesday, April 2, 1929
Justifiable
Taxation
At the next regular meeting of the
University faculty the question of
charging students a fixed price for all
subjects taken above the minimum
three will be taken up. The plan to
be considered, it is understood, is that
of levying a fee of $4 for half courses
and a fee of $8 for whole courses, with
the exception of those curricula
which require courses in excess of
three a quarter for the degree. If
passed,, this proposal will affect the
students in the College of Liberal
Arts, the School of Commerce, the
School of Education, and the School
of Applied Science.
Such a plan will probably meet
with the disapproval of the casual
peruser. It seems as if the plan
would be merely the levying of a tax
upon ambitious students who desire
to take more than the three required
courses. However, there are a num
bpr of reasons for the adoption of
such a plan set forth by the faculty
committee " headed by Dean Addison
Hibbard.
The most salient of these reasons,
it seems, is that students carrying
extra courses are a real expense to
the University and cost the depart
ment heavily each year. Often it has
been found necessary to add extra in
structors in certain subjects on ac
count of the over-crowdedness of the
classes. Then, again, students, often
start a fourth course and drop it, by
their whim proving a burden to the
University. It frequently happens
that such students deprive regular
three-course people of a place in a
class section. Sometimes students are
about drowning courses
through excessive absences simply be
cause they can take a fourth course
some subsequent quarter and make
up the lost course without penalty to
themselves. ,
Tlie fact has also been brought out
that a fair number of students, by
taking four courses a quarter, gradu
ate in three years, thus-depriving the
University of legitimate fee3 toward
the expense of their education. This
plan, if adopted, would require all
people taking .thirty-six courses to
pay approximately the same amount,
whereas now, people progressing at
the pace of four courses save some
thing like $75 on their fees.
This fee will affect those students
who enter deficient in courses from
uirrY, t';- t.linsp. who have failed
The Fee
Goes Up
Three courses are generally con
sidered sufficient for the ordinary
student to take each quarter , if he
wishes to obtain a diploma from the
University of North Carolina. Three
courses" will get you by And the
majority of students, interested in
getting out of school in the quickest
possible time and with the least pos
sible amount of work, will take that
number each Fall, Winter, and
Spring.
There are students, however, who
are not satisfied with merely getting
by. They are here primarily to
learn. . A sheepskin is to them but a
symbol, and not the be-all and end-all
of four years of work. They are in
terested in their education. Profes
sors smile benignly upon them and are
glad to have them in their classes.
For such students; we are told, the
University exists.
These, then, are the college men and
women who take four courses of work
when only three are required. They
evince an interest in their studies.
And now, we hear, they are to be
penalized for that interest.
Students in the College of Liberal
Arts, the School of Commerce, the
Through Russia," which will be
screened here, tomorrow night in. il
lustration of Miss Branham's lecture,
is a first-rate production. It has
been exhibited in the big metropolitan
movie palaces at stand-off prices.
In her capacity of Secretary of the
American Society for Cultural Rela
tions with Russia Miss Branham has
done some notable work. This orga-
nization, formed to promote cultural
intercourse between the two nations,
lists among its members such persons
as William Allen Neilson, president of
Smith College, John Dewey, famous
Columbia philosophy professor, Floyd
Dell, the writer, and Horace Live
right, nationally-known publisher.
The Chapel Hill A. A. U. W. chapter
is to be commended upon bringing a
lecturer of Miss Branham's' calibre
here, and that without expense to the
public. In all probability a large
crowd will hear Miss' Branham.
GLENN HOLDER.
cabbage, Graham Memorial and a
great lassitude, : - : -:".y.
You can have this to wow them at
the clambake by paving a ten percent
royalty to the author.. We made it
out of some old cigar boxes and a glass
blowing machine from the attic. It's
brand new. : '
Boom ! went a flashlight gun in a
darkened room, hideaway of a
Czechoslovakian bandit. The bandit
leaped on a. photographer, bound,
gagged him; called the police.
"What's the charge?" asked the
cop. ' "
"Trying to flash a bad Czech," an
swered the bandit, making a fast
getaway through a broken windowr
Phi Assembly Will
Argue Lawyers Vs.
Business Men Bill
Brushwork
By Whitewing, Jr.
Soon will our mailboxes be flooded
' with temntmsr offers from alum-
l A
mum ware, hosiery ana orusn manu
facturers. Soon hardy souls will be
courageously deciding to Earn Some
Money during the summer. -
For those whose mirrors have told
them that they lack the beauty, the
sex appeal, the sales personality in
cident to successfully bearding the
savage housewife in its native den,
we modestly offer some suggestions.
We strive to be interesting, entertain
ing, instructive. '
: The prime factor of a good job is
the absence of labor. For. character
development the undergraduate's sum
mer work should also throw him more
or less on his own. Keeping these
essentials in mind, we have the fol
lowing: Pushing Hoops
Pushing hoops in a well-founded
American occupation. One goes to
a .ten cent store and buys modest
looking hoops solitaires and the like.
School. of Education, and the School of These hoops, or rings, as they are cal-
There will be an' important meet
ing of the Phi tonight at 7:15 ac
cording to an announcement by the
speaker. The chief business on hand
is a reading and discussion of the
rules made at the last meeting in re
gard to the joint session of the Di
and Phi, which will be presided over
by Speaker Graham of the House of
Representatives ; of North Carolina.
This joint session will ' mark the
climax of the year's activities of the
two forensic, societies.
Another feature of tonight's ses
sion will be a discussion and voting
on a bill presented by the Ways and
Means Committee : ''That the Phi As
sembly go on record as f avoring
the resolution that men skilled in
business are more capable of carry
ing on the affairs of, our national
government than are lawyers."
This bill is of particular interest,
according to its sponsors, because of
the fact ;hat the nation has recently
called to its head a business man,
while a great majority of presidents
heretofore have been lawyers. This
bill should be of especial interest to
the members of the Phi who are now
in the Law School and it is to be
hoped that a good number of the
future "Clarence Darrows" will be on
hand to ; uphold their profession, of
ficials of the society said yesterday.
Applied Science, according to reports,
will be required to pay an extra $8
for each full fourth course, and $4
for each half -course. No reason has
been given for making the charges.
Transfer students from other col
leges and universities who have lost
credit by changing schools and must
therefore take extra courses will also
be affected by the new ruling. We do
not understand why, if there is a need
for funds, the money must be taken
from the pockets of the very type of
student the University strives most
to help, financially and otherwise
the serious student. J
, There must be a reason in back of
it all. We are waiting with interest
to hear.from the authorities just what
it can possibly be. 1
H. J. G.
Russia
"As Is"
Russia is probably the most mis
understood country in the world
Although probably possessed of great
er potentialities than any other na
ion, the Russian people-are regarded
by the average . American as a wild-
eyed race of bomb-throwing fanatics,
living in a continually chaotic condi
tion. ' . " .
Tomorrow night in Gerrard Hal
the University students and Chape
Hill townspeople will have an oppor
tunity, free of charge, to hear of the
Russian "as is" and not as cartoon
ists and sob sisters depict him. Miss
Lucy Branham, Secretary of the
American Society for Cultural Re
lations with Russia, will lecture under
the auspices of the local chapter of
the American Association of Univer
sity Women on "Social and Cultura
Life in Russia."
Miss Branham is one of the most
outstanding of American authorities
on Russia. She is intimately acquaint
ed with the social and economic con
ditions in that country, having served
as a Famine Relief investigator in
1921, as a member of the Committee
on Investigation on Russian Women
in which capacity she attended the
Ten Years' celebration of the Rus
sian Revolution in 1927, and as Secre
tary to the American Delegation to
Russia headed by Dr. Thomas Woody
of the University of Pennsylvania and
.
Dr. Kenneth Matheson of Drexe
Institute.
Incidentally, "Ten Thousand Miles
led by the public, should be stamped
"10 K" to plainly show their origin
ten cents from Kress. After a
ittle practice one becomes quite pro
ficient, using the corner of a small
chisel, and a light hammer. Some
operators have stamps made, to ex
pedite the work. Then the hoops are
well polished in flour, which gets in-
;o the set and improves the lustre of
he stone.
Then one puts on old clothes, and en
trains for the corn and cotton belt.
One approaches a gullible and pros
perous looking hayseed on the side
walk at night. It seems that one has
lost one's- job, has tubercular sisters,
and has been robbed. All but the
family ring, worn around the neck on
a string, has been taken. It is neces
sary to leave town immediately to take
a good position. The' hoop is care
fully manipulated,' and underva street
light should look very promising. Sell
it for what the buyer will give. Even
such a rediculously low figure . as
twenty-five dollars will do. After
all, one has more hoops.
This is an ideal occupation for a
college man, well versed in the intri
cacies of psychology. Operators re
port that they travel extensively, and
that the work keeps them on their
toes. Indeed, as one slangily. said:
'.'While I was in. the hoop racket I
got my heels cooled just about twict a
week."
Lighters
For one of means and refinement,
a profitable summer may be had near
any cigar store in the larger towns.
One simply offers to pay five dollars
to any smoker he sees lighting a cigar
ette" or cigar if the smoker's lighter
works at the first flick in return, of
course, for the privilege of accepting
five dollars if the lighter does not
work the first time.
It has been our experience that
quite a bit of capital is necessary.
We. tried this for one day, and lost
twenty-five dollars. As the field did
not seem very profitable, we gave it
up. However, other operators report
average earnings of three hundred a
week or more
For those seriously contemplating
entering the racket, we will provide
copies of the above lecture, with ad
ditional instructions couched in equal
ly elegant language. We are also in
a position to give graduate instruc
tion in the art of "casing the note"
an operation netting one twenty dol
lars at every successful conclusion
and the means by which ten-bills are
made eleven, without the aid, of any
outside party. Federal and state
punishments are given with each. Ad
dress Box "Q" Tar Heel.
Does anybody know why the giving
of instruction is accompanied by such
verbiage? Only a poor whitewing-
but eye the preceeding potent pleon
asms. It follows as naturally as foot
notes and pedantry, corned beef and
Will Discuss Query
For Virginia Debate
The first discussion of the query to
be used in the Carolina-Virginia de
bate will be held Thursday in 201
Murphy Hall at 7 :30. In considera
tion of the fact that the debate has
been set for April 25, the discussion
will not be limited either to the af
firmative or to the negative side of
the question. Professor Garfield, who
has been secured to direct the dis
cussion, will attempt to give the class
a general outline of the query: "Re
solved, That national advertising as
now carried on is socially and eco
nomically harmful."
Professor Garfield, of the Depart
ment of Economics, is very much in
terested in the field of' international
and national relationships. He will
attack the question from the stand
point of a student of national Economics.
All Freshmen who are interested
in trying for the two teams toTepre
sent Carolina in the coming. Freshman
debates with Davidson and Wake
Forest are requested to be present at
this meeting. The query to be used
is: Kesolved, That the jury system
should be abolished in civil cases."
Says Radiators In
Quadrangle Are Of
an Inferior Grade
Officials of the University Building
Department have found that the ra
diators which are used in the quad
rangle dormitories are of an inferior
quality. This : report was substan
tiated by a recent happening in
Grimes Dormitory. A piece about the
size of a man's Kand blew out of the
radiator in room ; 211", thus, flooding
all of the second floor of that build
ing and a considerable part of the
first floor.
Those connected withthe depart
ment claim that the radiators in the
quadrangle dormitories give more
trouble than those of all other build
ings on the campus.
Plan to Establish a
Nursery School Here
Perhaps Chapel Hill will have a
nursery school for children from two
to" four years of age in the very near
future.
Miss Anna S. Gladding, who was di
rector of the Thomas school at Row
aynton, Connecticut, last year, will be
in Chapel Hill next week. Several of
the village parents are to discuss the
merits and demerits of the 'matter
with her. If enough of the Chapel
Hill parents want to put their child
ren under her care it may be that
Miss, Gladding- will come herer-next
fall to establish' such a school. She is
a Vassar graduate and has had
thorough training for her werk.
Orient Lends
Exotic Touch
(Continued from page one) '
William A; ' Graham, University
graduate, Secretary of the Navy, sent
with Perry and the American Squad
ron in 1852 a party of botanists and
geologists who stayed in the Orient
four years making scientific investi
gations and collecting plants and ani
mals, after which they returned to
the United States in 1857. The
Japanese plants were turned over to
the government nurseries, with the
exception of a few which were given
to the University by James Dobbin,
another University graduate who suc
ceeded Graham as k Secretary of the
Navy in 1853. Dobbin was keenly in
terested in his Alma Mater and did
all he could in aiding the development
of scientific research here.
Forty New Species -Forty
new species of Japanese
plants were brought, to this country
by the Perry Expedition, according to
the foliowing letter from Dr. James
Marrow, agriculturalist of the Japa
nese Expedition, to Hon. Lewis Cass,
Secretary of State:
"Sir: I enclose two sheets of
notes from Professor, Asa Gray, of
Cambridge, Mass. (who has had
charge of getting the very best des
cription of these plants that could be
procured in the scientific world) in
reference to publication of this addi
tion to science, of one hundred pages,
describing'forty-one. species" of plants,
and one genus, with no expense to the
government."
To the plants given by Secretary
Dobbin a few more Japanese species
were added in 1860 as a gift from
Lieut, James Iredell Johnson, a native
North Carolinian. Lieutenant John
son was executive officer of the
Powhatan which brought the first
Japanese-embassy as far as Panama.
He brought with him many seeds and
a few plants which were given to the
University.
Flourished on Campus
Perry's and Johnson's plants were
set out over the campus and flourish
ed, producing a dense undergrowth of
briars and shrubs, only a few traces
of which remain, as President George
T. -Winston had them cleared away
in 1891 and 1892. However, some are
preserved in the Arboretum under
care of Dr. Coker, head of the Botany
department and director of the Ar
boretum. Occasionally a few wild
plants from the original stock can be
found in the surrounding woods.
A queer little plant, growing close
to the ground like the strawberry and
resembling the strawberry in stem
and leaf structure, was found just
south of the campus last spring by a
botany student, Kenneth B. Raper, of
Welcome, N. C.
Young Raper was puzzled at find
ing such an exotic specimen in these
parts, and, not knowing the plant,
took it to Dr. Coker for information
as to its origin. Dr. Coker also was
puzzled.
Discovery of Shortia
The discovery caused much inter
est and speculation : among the pro
fessors and geology students for a
week or so, until Dr. Collier Cobb of
the Geology Department told of how
shortia came here in the Perry collec
tion of 1857 and that President Kemp
P. Battle .had shown him in 1877 the
same patch of shortia found by the
botany student. ,
Another of the Japanese plants now
practically exterminated in America
is a diminutive green rose bush which
has a bud or flower, the petals of
which are as green as the leaves and
thorny stem. The last of the green
roses in Chapel Hill died yeaTs ago,
but there are still one or two left in
Hertford county. :
"It surprised me a great deal when
I was in Japan the last time to have
tea made from green rose buds served
me," said Dr. Collier Cobb. "I had
just been talking to Marquis Okuma
five times prime minister of Japan
aoout the little plant. And, my gra
wUU. luav mgui, j.or supper .my
nusiess servea green rose tea. The
good man and his wife explained be
fore the meal that supping this tea
was considered a sacred rite in Japan
I hesitated to drink it as I had been
ittiuiiia.i. wiLn uie piani . ior many
years. But one of the daughters, who
was educated in Boston, whispered in
my ear that I needn't drink unless
carea to but just pretend. I pretend-
and reddish flowers of five petals and
five pistils.
Of the spirea genus, the specie
Thunbergii is used here at the Univer
sity for decorative hedges.
The wistaria, Florinbunda, of the
Caprifoliaceae family, with beautiful
white and lavender flowers and long
drooping racemes, has just begun to
bloom and' cover Dr. Coker's arbor
that stretches across one end of the
Arboretum. Of the many species
there are only two found in the east
ern United States; the Floribunda is
the most common.
One of the most hearty, glabrous,
high climbing Japanese shrubs is the
specia Sempervirens of the honey
suckle genus, which blooms from May
through September. This trumpet
honeysuckle with a yellowish-orange
flower is one of 'the plants brought
over here from Japan and has become
naturalized in many places in Eastern
America.
- Fruitless Japanese Apricots
Japanese apricots, Mume, known to
the Japanese as plums, are planted ex
tensively for their beautiful early
bloom which is killed here in Febru
ary by severe weather and never bears
fruit. After this plum appeared in
America it became known as Japa
nese apricot, the Japanese" name hav
ing been attached as its specia appel
ation. The tree is much smaller than
the common apricot, though the flow
ers of both varieties are hardly dis
tinguishable, and its yellowish-orange
i fruit is much smaller than that of
he common variety!
Of no lesser importance is the Japa
nese plum,, which is in the prunus
family .with the apricot. It is a strong
growing small tree, cultivated only
for its yellow delicious fruit.
Because of Ihe striking beauty of
a few Japanese flowering cherry
rees found here, the senior
class of 1929 has ordered a large num
ber to set out along the Senior Walk
as a gift to the University. More of
hese, the same as those beautifying
the parks in Washington, D. C, will
be planted here next spring, accord
ing to Dr. Coker.
. Amazing Influence of Orient
In addition to these the Japanese
have given a great many other decora-
ive plants, including a magnolia, Um
brella tree, Japanese yew, crabapple,
Amaryllis, and a rhododendron, all of
which have spread throughout the
State of North Carolina and over the
South.
Not only shortia, now scattered
sparingly over the state, but nearly
all Japanese plants brought here in
the sixties and' later have influenced
and added more beauty to southern
flora.
The influence of the Orient on
America is amazing, said Dr. Coker.
And even Professor Asa Gray, famous
Botanist of Harvard who visited
Chapel Hill and toured the state as
early as 1886, was struck with the
resemblance of North Carolina's
plants to those of the Orient. He re
marked that the plants of Japan were
strikingly like those of North Caro
lina all the way from Wilmington to
Asheville. .
ed.
Other Japanese Plants
xne Deaumui creeping Japanese
Boston Ivy, Tricuspidata, covering the
Maes ana Buttresses, of Memorial Hal
and adding a touch of color to the
DieaK octagonal structure, is one o
4V. j. l ...
wxC giants Drought here in the early
sixties. At present one finds this
same ivy on Old East, Bynum Gym
nasium, the Playmaker Theatre, and
Memorial Hall. South Building was
FxcxlCauy covered before it was reno
vated m 1926. '
AnnfliAH It. t
"uuu"5l wen Known ornapnQ
shrub found here and throughout the
aoutn is the spirea, a hearty decidu
ous nlanf. Tnrol,,'
t- .xwj aiueu uy irost and
.eie coia weather. If is a decora
ive, unsexual plant with white, pink
(
Mary D. Wright
Debate on April 8
The Mary D. Wright Debate, which
is the annual forensic fray between
the two literary societies, will be held
in Gerrard Hall on the night of April
8. The query to bexdebated is: "Re
solved, That the Volstead Act should
be modified." The Dialectic Senate's
team, Calvin Graves and Beverly
Moore, will uphold the negative side
of the proposition, while E. H. Whit
ley and R. M. Albright of the Philan
thropic Assembly ave been chosen to
uphold the affirmative end of the
matter.
The Mary D. Wright medal will be
presented to the best speaker of the
winning team. The winning team as
well as the best speaker of that team
will be chosen by a set of three, or
five judges.
Booker's Plan of
Government Under
Fire on the Campus
The plan recently offered by J. M.
Booker for reorganizing student gov
ernment at the University of North
Carolina is truly under fire. This
matter is being discussed at length by
the student body at large.
Although it is referred to as
Booker's plan, the plan is really the
same as the one which has been
brought to light at various times dur
ing the last ten years. Dr. Booker is
connected with the plan in that he
has revived interest in the- matter
again.
Booker's forces and those who op
pose the plan are expecetd to reveal
the true nature of the plan when the
Di and Phi meet in joint session on
the night of April 9. Speaker Graham
of the North Carolina legislature will
preside at this meeting.
Winter weather in Japan has abol
ished short skirts.