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THE TA R H E E L Tuesday, April 16," 1925 4 AA1 ing, or any of the other fields of high school activities; it is interested in athletes only when they have proven hemselves worthy r in other respects Published tri-weekly during the col lege year, except one issue Thanks giving, the last two weeks of De cember (holiday period) and the last two weeks of March (examina tion period and spring holidays). The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina. Chanel Hill, N. G Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. - : a legislative body of 150 students"; and you ask, "How could, 150 men on this campus be prevailed upon to work for many nan mere display of brawn or am- hQurs each week on governmental pro- etic skill. In addition to these things, I blems? the Order is devoted to the encourage- It was easy for anyone to have miss- ment of freshmen here in order that ed cr forgotten my statement that I w -m Wmrip disrnnrad and used 150 representatives in illustrat- Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Glenn Holder ... .Editor George EmMAR?:Mgr.Ed. Marion Alexander ... Bus. 'Mgr. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Associate Editors ' Harry Galland Will Yarborough , John Mebane Assistant Editors B. C. Moore J. E.. Dungan J. D. McNairy J. P. Jones ; Sports Editors J. C. Eagle's C. B. McKethan A J. C. Williams J. P. Huskins Reporters Holmes Davis v George Dannenbaum Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn E. F. Yarborough E. H. Denning Henry Anderson J. R. Knott D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon B. W. Whitton J. E. Huffman Elizabeth Johnson Pat Pretlow Milton Greenblatt - BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff B. M. Parker .. Asst. Bus. Mgr. Leonard Lewis Sidney Brick ... H. N. Patterson .: T. R. Karriker Ben Aycock : Adv. Mgr. . Asst. Adv. Mgr. 1:.. Collection Mgr. ... Asst. Col. Mgr. Subscription Mgr. 1 Advertising Staff ' Harry Latta H. Merrel H.Jameson , J. Schulman Jim Harris J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr. Tom Badger ; , W. G. Boger Tuesday, April 16, 1929 TAR HEEL TOPICS Members of the North Carolina and South Carolina press associations wil go to Cuba next week. We had heard that these newspaper men thirsty crew. ' were governmental machinery." I advocate, i you say,' "creation of rushwork By Whitewing Jr. It does not con- the "right atti- ing the defects of our proportionate representation, and that 100 or any number the students settled upon would suit me. " And it was quite na tural for you V to conclude that be cause Di and Phi meet weekly, I want- very lew unaergraauaie organiza- , ., . tions in the country devoted to the that often. But, as a matter of fact, drop ,6ut of school. fine its interest to tude" boys alone The Order of Daviens is one of the few 'undergraduate organiza- j encouragement of prospective students and probably unique in that it does not confine this encouragement to j athletes4 It is one of the compara tively few campus organizations with a valid excu se f or exi stence. Paying the Student to Study H. J. G. - Wonderful and devious are the. ways by which educators lure students along the path of knowledge. Each year : sees some other Utopian ideas proposed to brighten the picture of college life. . .' Another plan has been brought for ward, designed to attract students to Steven's Institute. . The proposal is that outstanding men be paid accord- mercialized ing to the excellence of the records treatment of U. niversity they make for themselves during their grounds, buildings, and books; protec college years. Scholarship and extra- I haven't tried to settle these details; I wanted the students tp settle them. I agree with you that once a week is too, often for a -"student legislature to meet; once a, month would be near er right to start off with, until busi ness and interest grew. For that mat ter I. never - was" in a student organi zation that didn't, wear its members out with weekly, meetings. One thing our classes as well as our student activities need, ' I believe, . is ; fewer meetings and more preparation "for participation iri them. ' v What could-a legislature do? Con ceived as a prompter of students' thinking about how they live, as well as a delineator of the line between general and individual rights and a spur to progress, a legislative arm might well find, or form, and express in ilaws student majority opinion on such matters as, for example, com- athletics if any; the property curricular activity is to be taken in to account in refunding tuition, and in special cases the student will actu ally be paid for the time he hasvspent amassing .grades and keys. Apparently the possession of a de gree, with its attendent designation of scholarship and definite knowledge, is not worthy of effort any more. We must be paid to learn, else we refuse to improve ourselves. The desire to earn money, as soon as possible and as much as possible, seems to out weigh every other consideration. , Why waste time learning useless mathematics, or Milton's poems, or the dates of the Crimean War, when such knowledge is obviously useless in tion of the right to study in dormi tories; the use of cars wet and dry; pistol firing (which means, aside from the nuisance and the frontier atmos phere created, illegal possession of firearms, which may mean some fine day a fight with a pistol in it) ; par ticipation in college activities; patrio tic blanket fees a "matter of " taxa tion; and the Honor in the Honor System. ' - Why the Honor in the Honor Sys tem? Because upon the survival of one of the two conceptions now at variance, may depend the survival of the Honor System, itself. One school of thought believes that every stu dent should feel his social responsi bility as keenly as his individual res ponsibility, should report dishonorable actions, and should be punished as particeps criminis if he is convicted of failing to do so. The opposition school believes that a law requiring Dr. Billy Noble says that he has a mighty reliable dog; every time that it sits down it goes to sleep. ; First impressions of , the Hancock School Act jm the"part of the Univer sity's ' Summer School Directors were tha "they ain't done right by our lit tle Nell." Now indications are that the enrollment will be larger than ever before because of the greatly increasr ed competition for jobs and the result ant premium upon well-trained teach ers. Don't anyone vtell the legislators v that passage of the Hancock Bill gave the University Summer School a boost, or they'll repeal it. Y " the world of business?! No.v Either . , . . 1 the report of a breach of the Honor we ignore this -useless accumulation . -. , . , . , , of facts, or we must be given a good round sum to learn them and keep a Board of Trustees and running. V ': ' . This, it seems, is the idea of the First the French scientist's dis covery that love is a disease, and now the case of the firing of two Univer sity of Missouri professors ; f or . cir culating sex questionaires among their students! Soon no reputable in stitution' will be without its labora tory courses in the. art of love. v Campus Organization ' - Number 407 Last October another organization was added to the 406 already in exis tence on the University campus. That did not constitute news, since the iium . ber and variety of the already exist , ing organizations were such as V to render it impossible for, any individual to know even a small part of them. 4 But this' new organization has since demonstrated that it is not useless, that it is unique in its purposes and concrete In its achievements; .these things are news, Hence the Tar Heel gives some highly-deserved publicity to the Senior Order of Daviens in this . issue. ' ' : ". - The new Senior Order is composed , of 12 members Its purposes are to attract to Carolina -men who have demonstrated themselves to he good citizens in high school or prep sch6ol. It is emphatically not an Athletic Aid Society, according to the charter mem bers. On the contrary, it is devoted primarily to the encouragement of prospective Carolina men who have System is more honored in the breach than in the observance. Here is a -t v vital matter that needs a many-headed its College representative, and responsible stu dent agency for the finding, forming, and expressing of student opinion. creators of the new plan of paying firom iiminating frame-ups. and poli- students according to the amount of Jticians (which was never claimed for e-hod work thev lo in college. It it) , would increase the number of might be taken as' evidence of a sad frame-ups," as one wit expressed it l j. c ce ' n; cure, "uigger ana oetter irame-ups.' state of affairs, a state of affairs ' . . .. . , What I want is wider participation. general tnrougnoui, Americu. kju If the frame-up is in our blood, then contrary, it is absurd. Good work is frame away. Better "all of us at it still done for the sake of , acquiring thaha few.' That's living, anyway. knowledge, and nothing else. Students The blood s m circulation. ' We can Vov,ir, mo aescena to lower rungs ot the political , . ladder than that. Way, way below uian tne mea oi mery ; the 0 isHhe man who sur money later on by means of the facts renders his rights to him. The poli- they are given in the classroom.' And tician will.be always with us. But there are many, very many, who will keep him in his', place. He isn't the think this latest method of attracting captain of industry we've let him be- scholars perhaps tne most unworxny jjes a clerk yet proposed.' Open Forum- To the Editor: - . ,.V Thanks for your editorial recogni tion,. April 13, of the unequal repre sentation in the present Council sys tem of student government. That helps some. . , 0 -- ' You refer to "many other ideas" in the - proposed bi'-cameral system as "worse than useless," without further designation; but I have endeavored by induction to spot those that you resrard as particularly- worse. Sub ject to your correction : -", . 1. " The retention "of the present Student Council with the addition of a huge judiciary department and an im mense amount of red tape."- First un winding the red tape , as a proposal that not even the most enthusiastic reformer would ever seriously ad vance, I must then also reject the " huge' judiciary" as an inspiration foreign to both of the published state-; ments of the bi-cameral system. A curious error, since in the previous sentence, you had correctly observed that the proposed Student Court'cor responds" to the ' present Student Council (in matters of discipline, of course). They do correspond; exactly. However, no harm meant ; doubtless a slip of the editorial machete . 2. That the two chambers of the made good records in scholarship, Kicaraerai system,' also, would prove magazine or newspaper work, debat- 'a cumbersome impractical mass of ' JOHN M. BOOKER. P. S. The injection of new life into Di andPhi is "not my "primary con cern;" it is. the starting-point of my interest in this - question. I have divorced the issues, as shown in the two. Resolutions. ;, li ; HE WANTS A NEW GYM Editor of the Tar Heel: ; I was much impressed by the edi torial v of J. O. " A. that appeared in Thursday's - Tar . Heel. I agree with him when he says that most colleges and universities throughout the coun try are spending too much time and money turning out , crack athletic teams of ten or; eleven men and neg lecting the physical development of the greater part' of the student body. It is true that this University is taking a more- sensible ' attitude tow ard this situation but I have one com plaint. ( ' "... ; ' , ; For three "years I have vainly attempted- to obtain sufficient exercise in the worn out; dilapidated, old By num Gymnasium, with its ancient and obsolete equipment. I find that I am forever in somebody's way or he in mine. In the wintertime I shiver in the cold shower room where the water trickles, at infrequent intervals through the rusty spouts. In the summertime I ' sweat in an unneces sary manner as 'the sun beats down on the roof which is directly over the poorly ventilated main floor, I could overlook most of these terrible condi tions but for this, my particular gripe, that the University of North Caro lina with a student body of some Good morning, children. My ! Isn't it a glorious Sunday! Children, the text this morning will ' be William! Put down that hatchet! Is that the way for one of Jesus little Sunbeams to act? V r, , - '- As I was saying, children, our text this morning "will be7 taken from the Tar Heel, where it says that the firemen are just dropping dead from answering false alarms turned in by students. Now you needn't look so superior, children, you may be college students some day yourselves. ; Yes, William? Well I suppose so. But hurry back. You want some body to go with you? Very well. Clara, take William down the hall. Yes. children,' some day some of you will be college students. And be fore you graduate and "go out into the world and get tanding in the community and notes in bank grow up to be prime, smug little -- like your papas and mamas, some day you'll feel like turning in false alarms and kicking policemen in their Fan nies. j In other words, children, you'll do hings For No Good Reason, and just because you'll nave a heaving pain in your little tummies whenever any body savs anything about Common Sense and the Right Attitude. Oh, it won't last long with most of ou, and some of you it won't bother at all. Some of you precious little lambs will never know what - I'm talking about unless you remember, when you sober' up, that almost uncontrollable desire to trip up that student council man as he led the grand march at he fraternity dance you went to so infernally tight. ' ; That will be the nearest you'll ever come to doubting the great Bour geois Law of Common Sense, and the Right Attitude. ' : You can't argue against common sense, because it is common sense, and the right attitude is obviously, the right attitude. And, besides, the common sense thing to dp is to have common sense. It's safe for all you young real estate brokers. And you're all going to marry nice girls, and nice girls have lots of common sense. . - . - Egbert, you"ll inherit five millions, You won't have to bother ' about it, uyril, I'm airaid that you're going to grow up to be one of these Queer boys that read books and end up as thirty-dollar-a-week reporters. You won't have to worry about it. But from the rest of you, before you devote your lives .to bervice, teacher wants a promise. Promise teacher that you'll do something with a little more originality than turning in fire alarms. : - What did you say, Henry? You want, a story? All right, children, gather round close, and ( be quiet. Teacher '11 knock the hell out of. the first, one of you that opens his yap ,Once upon a time some very vul gar young men who were not at all the Right Kind of People got to gether in 2a room and started drink- ink gin.. One of them went up' in the attic why, I don't know and found a lot of boxes" with all the equipment of an old lodge in them. There were pretty uniforms, all gold braid and red velvet; and funny looking caps, and sabers and wooden guns to drill with, and an old base drum. So they all had another drink and put on the uniforms, and had another drink and put on the caps, and, well, children, you know how it goes. Anyhow, they started down town on parade, and they met some of their friends, and they, put : them under guard, and took them "back and put uniforms on them, and got them in the proper frame of mind, and then they all marched down town and pitched camp on the main drag, and got wood from somewhere and built camp fires, Then they posted sentries and every body sat down by the fire and sang Tenting JTonight on, the Old Camp Ground, and Clementine and the Dox ology and a lo of Hymns and The B King of England. And it was Saturday night and the Salvation Army was trying to get Converts just across the street, and they couldn't stand the compe tition, and they had to move away. And the sentries stopped" every body that came along and demanded the pass word and just laughed and laughed when nobody could give it to them. . ' ' -. '" And then the Salvation Army ap pealed to the Police, and there were some people that couldn't see any humor in being asked for a pass word on the main street on a Saturday night and they appealed to the Police, and those kind of people usually have a lot of pull with the Police, so they came. And the gallant captain stood in his headquarters by a fire plug and watched his meagre host being Sur rounded and outnumbered. Then with fitting gravity and-bowed head he marched to the police Sergeant and silently tendered his sword, tears streaming down his cheeks. : He ' turned and raised his "' arm for silence., "Men," he said. "Men " They waited for words that would ring down through history, words like : "We have not yet begun to fight," and "Don't cheer men, the poor fellows ': are- dying." - But the gallant , captain fell,1 the words unuttered. He had passed out cold, solemnly, reverently, his booy was lifted 7 into the patrol wagon. Jim Magner, Frank Fleming, , and Auburn Wright, pitchers.. We I mean they, children; followed in an orderly , manner, while the crowds cheered. What a ride that was, to be sure! Now if you . children can do some thing like that when you go to college, teacher will be proud of you. But, more than that, when you get to be old and have gout and your mort gages are all paid off and you realize what fools you've been for a long, long time with your middle class com mon sense and your sensible ways, youH;be glad you have lived" up tor teacher's promise. Because then youll be too old to go out much, and the only pleasure you'll have will be sitting in the cor ner and spitting at visitors and hear ing people say "poor old grandpa, he's nuts" and thinking about the things you did during the only in- teresting part of your existence, and if you've done things like what been telling you you'll have a" lot better time than if you'd pulled fire alarms and things like that. Dear, dear, I wonder where William and Clara have been' all this time. ' Canada's northern buffalo herd is 390 : miles from the' nearest railroad. Cosmos Fraternity Initiates New Men Last week Epsilon Phi Delta, in ternational relations cosmopolitan fraternity, initiated the following men: Charles Banner, Greensboro; J. C. Williams, Linden; B. Moore Parker, Raleigh ; " Calvin Graves, Mount Airy; Harry Galland, Brook lyn, New York; Jim Fagan, Cowan, Tennessee: and , Harry Grossman, Mebane.":;r ;;;v v . Epsilon Phi Delta is composed cf men who are especially interested in international affairs. The purpose of the order is to promote good will between the United States and the other nation of the earth. The organ ized function of the fraternity is to stimulate an interest in international affairs on the campus of the Univer sity.: ;; Canada's present about '9,400,000. population is You will find the finest leathers and most correct lines in John J7ard shoes. A wide variety of lasts, specially selected and de signed for college men's wear V- MEN'S SHOES On Display at STETSON "D" SHOP Kluttz Building Chapel HilL N. C. Dollar Degree - 2s twenty-five hundred members pro vides no adequate facilities for swim ming. Of course there is a hole in the basement of, the gym . but it is only about ten yards long, and there is never water in it. It seems to me that this sport in which everyone can participate and which is a major.sport at many colleges deserves some rec ognition here. ; 1 wonder how it happens that such costly affairs as the --Kenan Stadium, the clumsy Tin Can and the Co-Ed Building are considered of more im portance than a well-equipped gym nasium BILL CHANDLER. The dollar is a very versatile thing-. Hard to train. Always pushing and rushing- to get into another place. Almost like a red-hot fire-brand in the hands of many. V If you find it hard to keep the dollars you Ijave under control put them in the bank on savings. Start them to school after the dollar degree 4. Let them earn their way and pay, you for your managerial abil ity. .While the dioilar is working you are gaining in financial independence, in thrift habits, in credit standing you are getting ahead. - -.Cb it. B ank T Chapel Hill Oldest and Strongest Bank in Orang'e County
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