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Pase Two THE TAR HEEL Tuesday, April 23, 1929 Published tri-weekly during the col lege year, except one issue lnanKs 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, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices . in the basement of Alumni Building. '..'. Glenn Holder Editor George E hrh art............ ...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. C. Williams J. P. Jones J. P. Huskins . Sports Editors J. C. Eagles ' C. B. McKethan Reporters Holmes Davis George Dannenbaum Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn E. F. Yarborough E. H. Denning Henry Anderson J. K. Knott Milton Greenblatt D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon B. W. Whitton J. E. Huffman Elizabeth Johnson Pat Pretlow BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff B. M. Parker ... Leonard Lewis Sidney Brick . H. N. Patterson .. T. R. Karriker ........ Ben Aycock Asst. Bus. Mgr. ... ... Adv. Mgr. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Collection Mgr. Asst. Col. Mgr. Subscription Mgr. Advertising Staff Harry Latta H. Merrell H. Jameson J. Schulman Jim Harris J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr. Tom Badger W. G. Boger Tuesday, April 23, 1929 TAR HEEL TOPICS Admiral Magruder, "stormy petrel" of the. United States Navy, revealed himself in a new role here yesterday when he made a strong plea for peace.. How about going up to Gas tonia and talking it over with these pugnacious strikers, Admiral? It wouldn't be a bad idea to put in a word now and then at State College, either. We stand corrected by Dr. Booker. We misinterpreted certain of his re marks relative to the relation of the faculty and student government, for which we humbly apologize. We still maintain, however, that student government is such in name only when three times as many men are shipped by the faculty executive committee for cheating as by the student council for the same offense. complex." Probably the answer to that one lies in the fact that most State College students suffer from a decided inferiority complex concern ing their school and not without rea son. , This particular type of inferi ority reaction usually results in a disdainful attitude toward other schools; doubtless the Technician's editorial writer was suffering from an attack of this reaction when he re ferred to the U. N. C. superiority and high-hat complex. "The University freshmen wear no distinctive dome-coverings and learn little of subordination." Quite true for which Allah be praised. The University student body has long since outgrown the typical prep school attitude of "to hell with the freshmen." When a freshman enters the University it is assumed that he is mature enough to shoulder his responsibilities in a man-like manner. There is no valid I reason why " he should be considered subordinate to the upper-classmen. Every student is his own master at Carolina; as a result he is self-reliant, and adopts an independent attitude that does much to enable him to meet the su preme test of after-college days the ability to earn a living. If it is this self-reliant attitude that the Technician editor refers to as "super iority and high-hat complex", he would do well to attempt o inculcate such an attitude in the students on his own campus, rather than con demn it at Carolina. Anyway, thank God for State College and Duke; whenever we consider them we realize that Carolina isn't so "bad after all. The Campus Returns to Barbarity For several days the campus of this university has witnessed what might be termed a return to barbarity- ' ' We find it very difficult to believe that intelligent college students view paddling as an essential part of fra ternity initiations. We are rather in clined to think that the practice, in its last analysis, is continued solely for traditional reasons and that fra ternity initiations unintentionally perhaps represent a sacrifice of pur pose for the sake of formality; Regardless of any opinions on the subject there are certain facts which cannot be overlooked. Some maintain that the horse play of initiations gives neophytes a sense of respect for the fraternity ritual which is obtainable in no other way. The absurdity of such a conten tion is without parallel. For the sake of argument let us suppose that a two hundred pound athlete is to be ini tiated into any one of the twenty score of organizations on the campus of this university. Do you suppose You see, I keep up with him very closely, almost watching his every movement. Before taking my last letter to the editor, I carefully sized up the situation, finally concluding that his avoirdupois exceeded mine by thirty or forty pounds. So I im mediately made a couple of hefty fel lows promise to help me in case of emergency. But fortunately it was not necessary to call out the reserves. I did not know at the time that Mr. Dungan was taking Mr. McFadden's "Extraordinary Course" in Develop ment of Red-Blooded Virile Young Manhood" or I certainly would have taken more drastic steps of precau tion. I don't feel inclined iust at the present time to have my left femur broken into three parts. By the way, this is a very good course for all embryonic prize fighters, black smiths, and writers. I started it my self one time, that is, I sent in the coupon. But in view of the facts that I have started a great reform movement on the campus advocating bigger and better criticisms, that I have influ enced my friend to go to church twice in one Sunday which is more than I usually go, that he can quote more lines from Shakespeare than I can, and that I am taking a lot of" space that could better have been used for some other purpose, I deem it advis able to bring this better-unwritten epistle to a close. Yours very truly, JUNE GUNTER. Brushwork By Whitewing Jr. L . 1 Net result of three hour's labor on the part of your favorite columnist during his agonizing efforts to enter tain you: BETTY $&lb ('$$$ " i betty now is the tunemr fr all goo men tocome Betty RHiNElander ttthree , si-ux niyun niyun BETTY that such a person wiuld acquire any And now Lindbergh, like most other J spirit of awe or reverence through popular heroes, has demonstrated that he has feet of clay. Upon his recent arrival in Washington he insisted upon spattering the crowd with mud splashed from the back-wash of his propellor. Nothing so remarkable in that, however. Lindy was merely in dulging in the great American pas time of mud-slinging. Members of the Grail drove a visi tor from their initiation banquet when he attacked the Order and the Uni versity. That was one occasion when it didn't pay to criticize. The visitor probably didn't know it, but he was following in the foot-steps of all the campus critics. It was all a joke, however. Mac Gray's expression when he discovered how he had been sucked in was probably a classic. Thank God for State and Duke An editorial in a recent issue of the State Technician advocates con tinuance of the custom of compelling the freshmen to wear red caps. That's all very well for State College but the following paragraph roused our editorial ire: "The University freshmen wear no distinctive dome coverings and learn little of subordi nation. By the time they are among the upper classes they have adopted the traditional U. N. C. superiority and high-hat complex." s' So we Tar Heels have-a "tradition al U. N. C. superiority and high-hat having his flesh pounded upon by striplings? Many fraternal orders tell' the most innocent of their initiates that paddling tests them for strength of character. The writer would be in clined to think, however, that the toughness of a man's posterior is no longer indicative of his moral stabil ity if, indeed, it ever was. Time was when the most civilized of men and women could sit and look at the fiercest of bull fights without any show of emotion or sympathy. We wonder how long it will be before the most civilized of human kind will shudder at the sight of a prize-fight and will bury forever the famous pad die of fraternity initiations. C. W. Open Forum , DUNGAN HAS TAKEN HEED Dear Editor: Congratulations to Mr. Dungan. After reading his review of Richard Halliburton's lecture, I feel that my time has not been spent in vain. It was one of the best articles I have read in several days. Really, it was. And I have read a lot, too. I was also glad to learn that my friend went to Sunday School the other Sunday where, in addition to hearing Dr. Bernard's talk, he had a very inter esting conversation with Taylor Bledsoe. AN OPINION In the very near future some two score " students of the University will be initiated into the august order of Phi Beta Kappa. Soon they will be wearing the coveted "key of knowl edge." These lads . who have done very superior" work on twenty-four courses of required material are to receive an honor which is not out ranked on the campus of the Univer sity. . - Time was when not more than six were awarded the honor annually. Although it is hardly fair to compare the present status of the University to a time when it was half its pres ent size, it is true that the propor tion of students who make Phi Beta Kappa at Carolina now is much larg er than at any other period in the history of the institution, There are many who contend that this condition is due to less rigid grading. This, however, is by no means the case. The student who makes Phi Beta Kappa grades at Carolina today accomplishes far more than the Phi Beta Kappa student of twenty years ago. The student of twenty years ago. The student of that day was not troubled by a host of extracurricular activities. In fact, there was very little to take his mind off the beaten path of study. Today the situation is re versed. On every side the student is tempted by the allurements of pleas ure. Numberless clubs, fraternities, and athletic games demand his atten tion. The student who makes Phi Beta Kappa grades at the University of North Carolina today does so un der circumstances which are by far more difficult than those which con fronted his father. x The increasing proportion of stu dents who make Phi Beta Kappa at Carolina is indicative of greater efficiency on the part of the teaching staff of the University and of a more studious spirit on the part of the stu dent body rather than of any less rigid policy of instruction. J. C. WILLIAMS. A BIT OF THOUGHTLESSNESS ON THE PART OF THE STUDENTS To the Editor: Let me call attention to a bit of thoughtlessness on the part of certain students that has resulted in incon venience to others. During the bas ketball season frequent complaints were heard from members of the high school basketball team to the ffect that' University students who were finding the School "tin can" more conveniently located with reference to their residence houses than the University "tin' can," were making a practice of using the floor of the former at times when members of the school team wanted it for their own practice, and were slow to act upon requests of the latter to let them have it. Since the baseball season has opened, there is some complaint that University students have used school grounds to the in convenience of the younger boys. For instance, it seems that during a re-! cent interscholastic game some Uni versity boys persisted in practicing golf shots within the playing field- between infield and outfield while the game was in progress. Attention need not be called to the question of whose playing floor and playing ground ,the high school "tin can" and high school athletic field properly ' are; but as a question of thoughtlessness that works some hardship on others, the matter would seem to deserve attention from the University boys living in the neigh borhood of the school. j. f; dashiell. There was a press convention last week. Believe it or not. We just heard about it today. But while we were there, we ran into Joe Jones, Campus Columnist and Poet, our esteemed colleague. Joe had one of those five cent maga zines. It contained, a story about Asiatic fanatics who wanted to con quer the world, do away with the color line, rule the earth. Their slogan was "Conquer and Breed. . That was Friday nopn. We haven't seen him since, but happening by the college Friday night we heard screams of fear, anger, surprise and delight. For an instant, outlined by a street light a couple of blocks away we saw a figure, a giant club in one hand. And we would almost be willing to swear that the cry a breeze brought to our ears was "conquer and breed!" Happy thought for people having ten million jar more: Economists tell us that property and inheritance, rights are failing. Inheritors are losing wealth to the State. We suggest that these im periled plutocrats buy themselves an island, or one of the vest pocket monarchies along the riviera some where. Then they could , inherit and beget comparatively unmolested, play in their own back yard, make their own tax laws. Besides their interests, things would be ever so much nicer if they didn't worry us poor devils with their plump presences. Just x about the time we become resigned to accept ing the paltry wages of a journalist somebody drives by in a seventeen thousand dollar car, and we have to close our eyes and say "Wealth doesn't bring happiness" twenty times to keep our self-control. And we never quite believed that soothing slogan of the middle classes. People with money are obviously so damned obviously having one hell of a good time. We do hope that these people will take our humble suggestion and at least get out of our immediate vicin ity; We are tired of worrying our pretty head over how to make a mil lion with a second hand typewriter, a pencil with no eraser and a pair of roller skates we got for Christmas. the participating counties have not yet been determined by the State Board of Equalization, it is expected ; that representatives from all the counties will be here. This biennium 90 counties participated in the fund and it has been estimated that next biennium 94 counties would come under the distribution. The only difference it will make, however, is that representatives from participating counties draw milage at the rate of 10 cents a mile and sus tenance while here at $5 a day and those from non-participating counties draw nothing. ' The legislative method of procedure is being followed that of having major topics considered by committees and then brought in for general debate. In the plans for the conference the whole field of administrative control will be considered. Each member of the State Board of Equalization has been furnished with a copy of the pro gram, invited to be present at each session, and to take such part in the discussions as may seem wise to him. Also each member has been tendered a place on the program. There will be no effort on the part of the conference to set up standards of cost. That is a duty which is as signed by law to the State Board of Equalization. On the other hand, the conference will, through its committee, undertake to develop and formulate certain principles of administrative efficiency which may serve as guides for the determination of more uni form methods in the business conduct of the schools. There is a committee of twenty superintendents on each big topic. These committees, working through the week, will endeavor to formulate and to state the best prac tices in the several counties to the end that each county may have the benefit of what is being done in the other counties. - Out the other evening to call on "our pet bootlegger. He keeps one of these roadside places. We drove up, saw ten or fifteen cars parked around. Our favorite came over to the car, obviously peeved. . "You boys come back later," he said. "I can't give you anything now. I got a picnic on my hands." "Legitimate trade, George?" asked one of us. "Yeah," George growled. "This gawddam legitimate trade is ruinin' my business." '"And so this," said the nice little girl who read "Sea Stories" as she came up the steps from the cabin on four hero's beautiful yacht, "this is what one calls the companionway." "Companionway, hell," laughed he. "This is the companionate way." Hurry, Grandma, Uncle Willie's going to tell us all about the Facts of Life. School Officials Meet to Discuss New School Bill More than 200 state and county school officials gathered in Raleigh yesterday morning for a . five day series of meetings to be held with State Superintendent Arch T. Allen for the purpose of learning about and discussing the much talked of school bill that was passed by the last legis lature. The meetings are being held in the Sunday School room of the First Baptist Church, across the street from the State Department of Pub lic Instruction. The first session opened at 10 o'clock in the morning. On the other four days meetings will begin at 9 o'clock. The , gathering of school officials was called by the State Superintend ent under mandate of the Hancock act, which provided a five-day meet ing of superintendents and , board of education chairman of all counties participating in the six and a half million dollar equalizing fund. As "Good Smoke!" Says Hubby "0. (." with Wife Brooklyn, N. Y. Larus & Bro. Co.; August 4. 1928 Richmond, Va., U. S. A. Dear Sir: . Going to take the pleasure and drop you a few lines to Fay that my favorite tobacco is your Edgeworth. I have been a user of it for the last eight years and find it's the only tobacco for a real good smoke. For the last five or six months I . have been trying several other kinds but I find Edgeworth is the only tobacco for me. If I am smoking any other brand my wife will tell me, as she likes the smell of only Edgeworth. When I'm smoking others she opens all windows and doors. 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