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?ae Two ' THE DAILY TAR HEEL t)e Datlp "Sat Ifeel Published daily during the college year , except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays, The official newspaper of the Publi s cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. ' Subscription price, ?2.00 local and $4.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. " " - . Glenn Holder....,,. Editor Will Yarborough. Jf grr. Editor Marion Alexander:. .Bus. Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebane Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS J. Elwin Dungan J. D. McNairy Joe Jones B. C. Moore J. C. Williams - CITY EDITORS E. P. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITOR Henry L. Anderson ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS Joe. Eagles Crawford McKethan REPORTERS Howard Lee Frank Manheim Holmes Davis Louis Brooks Charles Rose Kemp Yarborough Mary Price J. P. Tyson Browning Roach Al Lansford Joe Carpenter Peggy Lintner E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenberger li. Xj. t rench Stanley Weinberg Mary M. Dunlap .Clyde Deitz George Sheram ': Robert Hodges John Lathan B. H. Whitton Nathan Volkman George Stone George Vick Jack Riley T. E. Marshall R. T. Martin J. S.: Weathers Sunday, November 17, 1929 Tar Heel Topics We noticed in the papers the other day that eight bandits robbed an Omaha bank of $15,000. At last the renowned "wild and wooly west" is passing-, for in those days bandits worked alone. Or else this is another form of a syndicate. bia, or any other co-educational institution for the age old pur pose of tracking down a man'. As for some of the' finishing schools, the sole objective seems to be to finish off the young lady's four years with both a diploma and a "splendid" match. There be some and Thank God for them who take uni versity and college life seriously. The haven't come ; to college with the avowed intention of in creasing their earning capacity, but would like in their four or more years' of knowledge seeking to acquire a cultural background by which they may flive more happily. " And when these , matriculate, they find that the membership of American institutions, being overcrowded as. it is, that be cause of the lack of application of most students during their secondary preparation that the first two years are entirely void of cultural stimuli. The valu able first two years become ex aggerated high school years. With few exceptions the subjects treated are . continuations of secondary work. This leaves the man who through lack of funds can go no further than the acquiring of an A. B. with but two years of genuine j college work. Two short years .'to become master of a field. In secondary schools the cry is "Push them ut as fast as you can in order to save the tax-payers money and save our own jobs."' In college it seems to be "Give them an urban touch, a good coat of veneer, and enough college spirit so that they will contribute to Dear Old so that in the end we too A North Carolina youth re cently announced his intention of heaving his home in Spring Hope to stowaway on an air . plane to Hawaii. Probably it would have been better if he had sent the sponsors of the flight an engraved announcement to that effect. V The following appeared in the Greensboro Daily News: "C. Q. Rhyne, driving a Ford car, at tempted to beat a freight train across the tracks at Kings Moun tain. , A passenger train which he had not noticed approaching from the opposite direction reached the crossing at the same time the Ford arrived. The pas senger train knocked the auto mobile, golf -like, about seventy- r 1 t m m nve yams uuwn uie iracK wnere the freight train caught it on a bounce and made a perfect re turn to the passenger train's path. The passenger train then booted the car out of bounds and . it landed in a nearby field." We suggest that a Rules and Regu lation Committee be formed to determine which train won the decision. Six Years For An A. B ? ' Year after year the college population of the 'nation in creases, gaining each, ' twelve months on the general increase in total population. Every man's son in the country goes to college, if he and his mother can persuade "the old man" that it is the thing to do. This is commendable. The millenium certainly would -be reached if the world were composed of highly intellectual and cultured citizens. The trouble with the huge enrollments today is sim ply that a large percentage of the sons and daughters of the land registered in, the higher institutions of learning are there merely to avoid having to earn their own bread and butter for another four years, or in the have in very many cases gone off to the University, of Ken tucky, Illinois, Michigan, Colum- can keep our job's." Any general picture is; unfair to the exceptions. There, are countless good teachers and masters but they are entirely too few. The English have been laughing for years at our mad scramble to turn out A. B.'s and M. A.'s from our educational mills, and rightly so. It can't be denied that our colleges are turning out the best crop of dilettantes that any nation has, nor can it be said that they are jnot most excellent schools for ettiquette and mannners. Most every. Tom Dick and Harry who has been, off to Princeton, Har vard, or Leland Stanford can certainly tell you whether it is proper to ask the little girl from Oskowie, Iowa, up for the Prom, especially if her father 1 . a. i ii i nappens to De a outcner or a general-storekeeper. Tired professors worn out by eundite,' research or the struggle to keep the intellectual climbers in their place have a rather pro found contempt for the under graduate mind. A great many are poseurs with a picture to up hold before the world. Some have drifted into the profession feeling wrongly that after the struggle for the Ph. D. is'over that the life would be as easy as that offered by some ministries. , As for the students, they are there to earn more money, to avoid getting down to work, to hunt a mate, or as in the case of a small minority to acquire a little culture, which it is im possible for them to do in two years. , ' v ' - , The only possible r solution seems to lie in raising the re quirment for the degree of A. B., making the course a six year one. The other alternatives would be compulsory attendance for two years ,at acredited pre paratory schools upon being graduated from high schools and before entering college, or of fering some higher degree in place of the Ph. D., stepping honors down M. A. to replace the A. B., and the A. "B. degree to be given for four years work, the significance of the degree being practically subordinated to that of M. A. so far as liter ary and pedigogical require ments are concerned. J. E. D. Sunday, November 17, 1929 Readers' Opinions j : A LESSON NECESSARY Editor The Daily Tar Heel : A scrawled message was found Saturday written on the fly leaf of one of the more popular novels at the Bull's Head Bookshop. There has been a great deal of talk recently about ; the vandal ism committed on library books. It is hard to believe that this spirit would extend to the de liberate defacing of books in a semi-commercial library such as the Bull's Head, which is' kind enough to let even the ikkle boys and girlies turn in and jus' wead and wead. But children must learn that the fly leaves of re cent hovels are not the place for notes to neighborseven im portant notes like "I , want to meat your friend." sThe offense hereafter, it has been very sane ly suggested, should be punished by sending the scribbler to bed for the rest of the day and giv ing hini" only oatmeal or mush for supper. R. M. WALLACE. J. C. W. REACHES APPOMATTOX Editor the Daily Tar Heel : J. C. W., eminent assistant editor of the Daily Tar Heel, has come to the defense of the South land in the bathos and bombast characteristic of that esteemed XI ' XT 1 . genueman. ne aepiores m a dolorous vein the criticism of a native southerner made public in these columns some time ago under the heading The Stagnant South. ... ' ' With all due respect to J. C. W, let, us proceed to a. careful scrutiny of the Progressive South. Mr. W. advances the proof that the Southland is possessed with culture and to prove the statement claims that southern hospitality is a manifestation of a unique culture. We might mention for Mr. W.'s edification that there are certain peaceful tribes in the South Sea Islands which welcome with open arms and no canibalistic intent what ever visitors who v. happen to come to their shores. Hospi tality, a very commendable trait, is by no means a sign of culture, but is rather a sign of an easy going life and abject laziness. The- very learned senator, the Honorable Tom Heflin of Ala bamah, by gohd, suh, pointed with pride at the progress of his state university at a4time some few years ago when the foot ball department of that cultural institution was so fortunate as to have won a mythological title the national championship of the United States and marked with evident pride and pigeon- breasted pomp the doubling of the enrollment of the institution at that period, never realizing that the fall of the football team would result in an inevitable decadence. ; While the writer of this learned treatise acknowledges the fact that some southern uni versities go north for their pres idents; he points to the fact that . : 1 1 i . many vaiuaDie proiessors in northern universities come from the South ; he overlooks the fact that possibly the South un derpays these valuable profes sors, besides smothering them with narrowness," bigotry, dog matism and stagnancy. Speaking of the infant statre of .the development of the roads in the South, J. C. W. waxes jubilant over the fact that "great highways have found their way across the hitherto well nigh untraversable sands of this and other southern states." If this be culture, it is certainlv nil. . . -- ture in an embryonic stage, 'par ticularly in the states of Missis sippi,. Alabama and South Caro lina. The point is, however, that some people do not consider j roads and buildings as evidences 1 of intellectual culture. The Southland has always made mucn 01 tne fact that its people are composed of 100 per cent Anglo-Saxon blood. We might respectfully suggest that this is an absolute proof of stagnation- For instance, Alabama, the home of the first capital of the Confederate States of Amer ica, ranks fourth in illiteracy, in the United States, first honors going to Louisiana, and sec ond place going to South Caro lina, the home of the first Ku Klux Klan, the original 100 per cent Kult. Of course, "the Sunny States including our own North Caro lina hear the roar of the cotton and tobacco mills," but this roar is punctuated with pistol shots and the screams of murdered men and defenseless women, and to the acute ear these roars are drowned by the cries of hungry children hungry be cause the culture of the South land has moved the cotton mills South. "Lives there a man" out of the depth of illiteracy who would not say "This is my native land, the Stagnant South ?" True, Southerners were once great in the realms of education, politics, commerce, law, and the fine arts; But as to the present, Tom Heflin, Coleman Blease, E. Y. Clarke, Governor Bilbo, and Thomas Blanton of Texas, the cream of Southern diplomacy, fail to thrill us; we cannot think of any one prominent in edu cation ; as to commerce, we ad mit of the great traffic in boll weevils, fruit flies, and cotton fleas, but maintain that a one crop civilization is stagnant. The .. fine arts alone show . any hope of a rising cultural level. No one denies the worth of James Branch Cabell, Walter Lipmann, Julia Peterkin, Anne Preston Bridges, and others. In journalism we find Josephus Daniels, Julian Harris, and edi tors pf papers like the Birming ham News, New Orleans Tiroes Picayune, , Macon Telegraph, Montgomery Advertiser and Jackson (Miss.) NewszNi viru lent and active examples of in tellectually minded persons. Mrt W. reminds us that "peo ple are prone to forget the fact that the South hasnot fully re covered from the disaster of the Civil War." When then, if ever7 will the South recover? Sixty five years is a long time to spend recovering from a war, and we should say. that rather ' than "chaotic" the .South was apa thetic until a few years ago. The South may be "enamoured of her part in the development of the. American nation of to morrow" but some of we south erners are interested in the South's development of today. Naturally, "our native land is a recognized part of the Union and as such lays claim to a posi tion in the affairs of the nation and of the world which is never accorded a stagnant region" ; so too is the Death Valley of Cali fornia a part of the Union, but its aridity and stagnancy hard ly command a position in the af fairs of the nation. To a lesser degree "our native land The Stagnant South," has small hold on the affairs of the nation. It is time for all loyal Southerners to open their ears to criticism, and their minds to progress and bend their efforts" toward a gen uine and progressive South. Any civilization to exist must have as a keystone culture. JACKSON - LEE ien 3Otnt0 By H. J. Galland - Lay Goes to Greensboro '' George W. " Lay leaves to day to join the staff of the Greensboro Daily News. . He has been staying with his parents here for the past several 'weeks and working in Durham, with the Herald, going to and 'from Durham each day. At least one professor in this university has been forced to use unusual methods for making his students learn their stuff. The professor is Howard Mumford Jones. He doesn't come to class armed with brickbats, nor does he attempt coercion with daily quizzes. Instead, he awards a penny for particularly good reci tations. "Sfact. The moral- pointing rights to this incident are uncopyrighted and free for all. As for us, we feel no urge to , point a figurative finger to the decline of learning for the sake of knowledge. We're mere ly going to register " in Profes sor Jones' class. . .. Copious attempts were made last Thursday to crash the con certs' of the Marine Band, which may be taken as a compliment to that organization, if you want to construe the crashing of the last means of desperate and true music-lovers. But the music lovers didn't stop at crashing. While the concert was on, some one took the Marine insignia from Captain Branson's coat col lar. Captain Branson was not in the coat at the time. He was bn the platform conducting, and his coat was m room. A problem of considerable difficulty suddenly arose to dis turb two serious thinkers , Fri day night. They were uptown in a car, and decided that, due to various causes, it would be seem ly to ride down Franklin street, around the stop light, and all the way back to their fraternity housein reverse gear. They did so, but couldn't- decide on which side of the street they ought to be. - If they drove on the right, they were obviously proceeding in the wrong direction; '.-'and. if they proceeded backwards on the left, they were on the wrong side ot the street. Solhey drove backwards' down the middle of the street, and let it go at that Mid-term marks have beeii posted, and one' more hurdle lias been jumped. Our thoughts turn pleasantly now toward the finals, and we suppose it's about time to begin nowto brush up on the notes we scribble so light. heartedly during the courses and oil the mental equipment, if any. Or, as the eminent Dr. Sherlock Holmes said, speaking of exams, "Quick,Watson the needle!" ' We learn from the Tar Heel that the marimba is the national instrument of Guatemala, or is it Peru? We like the efforts of jthe make-up men in searching for bits of knowledge which will be useful to the readers, when ever they are in need of a two or three line filler. Following this idea, we think you would like to know that Persian cats can be sent out for dry-cleaning, that elephants are entirely vege tarian in dietjthat the -shortest last;name inNew York belongs to Mr. George' F, Of, that hand writing readers will' tell you that if your S's are open it means that you are a hypocrite, that we think all this is nutty too, and that Walter Winchell, who gath ered the facts, vouches for their truth, v Dr Henderson doesn't know who gave him the, wild goose which was left on his doorstep recently, but we think it was his neighbor, the President. We hesitate to suggest this, for peo- the dressing Die miorht orp.t in rallincr him Wild ' I X C3 0WW WMt.... AAAAAA If liU Goose Chase. Fletcher Whitted Dead Fletcher Whitted, more famil iarly known as "Fletch," colored headwaiter at the Coop Eating Club for the past ten years and likewise a well-known character in Chapel Hill, died suddenly at his-home last Saturday morning. Heart-failure was the direct cause of his death. - Many of the boys whom he had faithfully served in life paid their respects at his home prior to his funeral which was held Sunday af ternbon. -f 1 7V 1 $ " . "Love 'em and leave 'em . that's me! Kid 'em along ! Fool 'em and for get 'em!" , The Saturday night kid! Her technique is marvelous! When the t"It" girl makes up her mind to make trouble, you're in for fun! HOURS OF SHOWS: 2:00 3:10 5:20 ., 7:00 8:45 (UK MONDAY, Clara Bow "The Saturday Night Kid" with JAMES HALL and JEAN ARTHUR , . All Talking! 1 . While she's running wild, she's wonder ing when real love will come! When it does her kid sister vamps the man! Then's wnen LJara does her stuff! The stuff vou Her snappiest role! ADDED Charlie Chase All-Talking Comedy ? "CRAZY FEET" Vr . Also a " VITAPHONE VAUDEVILLE ACT - - - - . : Pathe News TUESDAY Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in rurwara Jrass love! ; . 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