Published daily daring the college
year except Mondays and except
Thanksgiving, Christmas 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
- $4.00 out of town, for the college
year.' ''
Offices inthebasement of Alumni
Building. Cx' ' ' '
Glenn Holder:.: . ... ..... ..Editor
Will YARBOROUGH..Jrr. Editor
Marion Alexander....2?ws. Mgr.
Hal V. Worth.. Circulation Mgr.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John Mebaue
Harry Galland
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ASSISTANT EDITORS ,'
J. Elwin Dungari ' J. T. McNairy
Joe Jones . B. C. Moore
J. C. Williams
CITY .EDITORS
E. F. Yarborough C. Ramsay
Elbert Denning Sherman Shore
SPORTS EDITOR
Henry L. Anderson
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS
Joe Eagles Crawford McKethan
REPORTERS
Howard Lee
Holmes Davis
Louis Brooks
Charles Rose
Kemp Yarborough
Mary Price "
J. P. Tyson f
Browning Roach
Frank Manheim
Mary M. Dunlap
Clyde Deitz
George Sheram
Robert Hodges
John Lathan
B. H. Whitton
Nathan Volkman
George Stone
Jack Riley
T. E. Marshall
George Wilson
Al Lansford
Peggy Lintner ,
E. C. Daniel
W. A. Shulenberger
G.E. French
Bernard J, Herkimer
J. S. Weathers
Jack Bessen
Browning Roach
ussell Williams
Sadler Hayes Stanley Weinberg
J. G. deRv Hamilton, Jr.,
Sunday, December 8, 1929
A Unique Plan for
Traffic Safety Promotion
It is difficult to conceive of a
traffic cop "who approaches
motorists in a friendly manner,
compliments ' them upon their
careful . driving, and shows his
appreciation by presenting them
with theatre passes, yet such a
personage appeared in Chapel
Hill yesterday.
Most traffic officers are pug
nacious individuals, addicted to
severe reprimands and caustic
comment. It . is , indeed a relief
to meet a few of the blue coated
brethren who adopt an attitude
of friendly cooperation instead
of belligerent coercion. Chapel
Hill policemen have completely
altered their methods of promot
ing traffic safety since Friday.
This transformation has been
brought about by City Manager
Foushee and E. C. Smith, man
ager of the Carolina theatre.
Mr. Smith supplied the novel
idea for promotion of careful
driving "while Mr. Foushee
placed it in operation. In the
brief space of 24 hours the plan
has already demonstrated its
practicability, and we predict
that it is destined to spread to
every section of the country.
A Few Well-Deserved
Plaudits for the News Bureau
During the football season
which the Tar Heels brought to
a brilliant termination .with the
devastation of the Duke Blue
Devils yesterday afternoon, the
University News Bureau staff
produced a prodigious ; amount
of copy. Indeed the Bureau has
been directly responsible for
for most of the publicity re
ceived by -the team.
Very few persons realize the
important part an efficient news
bureau plays in the develop
ment of a great university. In
the intense competition of mod
ern educational institutions for
funds from state, private and
"foundation" sources, wide pub
licity of an unassuming nature
is requisite to the maintenance
of a first-rate college or univer
, sity. But the utmost finesse
and journalistic discreetness
must be employed in preparing
the copy; it must not -be too
blatant, it must not constitute
mere free advertising for the in
stitution. College news bureaus
must be real news gathering
agencies if they are to fulfill suc
cessfully .their purposes; a repu
tation for honesty in treating
the news,, without distortion or
exaggeration, is essential.
Newspaper men throughout
the south are unanimous in the
opinion that the University of
North Carolina News Bureau is
one of the- most efficient news
gathering agencies in the entire
section. They do not hesitate
to publish anything that Direc
tor Madry and his corps of , well
trained journalists produce, for
they are confident that the copy
is accurate and has real news
value. - x
The News Bureau is perform
ing a service of inestimable
value to the University. Func
tioning without ostentation in
the process of developing a uni
versity of international impor
tance here, the news bureau
staff is making a highly signifi
cant contribution to the Univer
sity's advancement.
Intercollegiate
Rivalry 5
For a number of years the
JJniversity of North Carolina
has been a participant in
numerous 1 sectional meetings
and conferences of all sorts and
descriptions. It is only right
that it should be. Faculty and
student body alike are benefited
by the lessons learned from such
contacts and affiliations. With
out question the students of this
university should life their eyes
beyond the pale of the campus.
They should diligently seek to
inform themselves of student
movements elsewhere. Inter-is
collegiate rivalry is helpful so
long as it does not go beyond
these limitations.
On the other hand, when col
leges or universities enter upon
policies of "lording it over"
their rivals, then the real aim
of education is smothered by the
lust after fame and recognition.
We believe that in the majority
of cases intercollegiate rela
tionships bring about construc
tive and enlightening under
standing. At the same time,
however, even the most casual
observer cannot fail to recognize
the constant growth of factors
which tend to accentuate feel
ings of rivalry which spring
from the dark recesses of ig
norance and flourish in the
minds of those who cannot see
beyond their own limited sphere.
Colleges and universities were
never meant to be operated on
a" competitive basis. We make
no reference here to forensic,
dramatic, athletic, .or other
types of intercollegiate relation
ships. Their value is so, well
recognize as to warrant no
comment.
To . be- specific, the writer
feels that the tendency to intro
duce competition and bitter
strife into the relationships of
the colleges of this state is en
joying an alarming develop
ment. Such "cut throat" rival
ry, we contend, is a hindrance to
educational advancement.
C. W.
Readers' Opinions
IS RELIGION BUNK?
Mr. Editor:
May I break in from my posi
tion of a peaceful reader to the
circle of religious warfare? I
think that this subject (reli
gion) is a rather dangerous one
to be discussed in a newspaper,
but when one possessing such
radical opinions as does "A Dis
illusioned Senior" begins to flay
the people who have held sway
over the nations of the earth for
centuries, and are still growing
and expanding despite his ar
guments that they do not pos
sess the ability to think it is
time for those who still believe
in .God and the power of prayer
to take a hand.
Firsjt, I wish to say that, in
THE DAILY TAR
my opinion, the whole troub'le
with "A Disillusioned Senior" is;
not the change that has taken
place so he says rin religion,
but the fact that a mere insig
nificant Freshman dared to ex
press his beliefs and to criticize
the upper classmen who might
be involved in his charges .
"The idea of a freshman, a mere
babe in arms, trying to preach
to his mentally superiors it
was rediculous." Mr. Senior, I
am quite sure that the entire
freshman class realizes and ac
knowledges the high and migh
ty position that the upperclass
men occupy, that they should be
mere ornaments in the life of
the school, and that, when they
have successfully passed all
freshman examinations, they
will suddenly be transformed
from the "babes in arms" to the
rank of the "mentally super
iors." Have you progressed so
far on the road of mental ac
complishment that you can no
longer learn or be criticized? Or
have you become so narrow-
minded" (I take it that you were
once more broadminded, than
you appear to be now) that you
cannot stand for people to tell
you where they think you are
wrong and wherein you may im
prove yourself,- even though
those people may be so unfor
tunate as to be in a class lower
than you ? When we get to the
place that we can no longer
learn, then all progress ceases!
"Some people can't seem to
realize that the days of purity,
self-sacrifice, ideals .and all that
bunk are gone forever." No, Mr.
Anior T tVmnir HnH
that
they can't ! Do you really think
that such a thing has come to
pass ? True, the generations
that have gone by were often
greater dreamers than we of to
day are, but did the morals
change when one generation re
placed tne otner is mere no
more purity and self-sacrifice?
Look to your mother would
you stand by indifferently while
someone slandered her and her
purity? Where would you be to
day if she had not slaved -and
sacrificed for you? It may , be,
as is the case with many stu-
S dents here, that your parents
are denying themselves the very
necessities of life to keep you
in school. Again I ask: Have
we lost all our purity and self-
sacrifice ? And as to the ideals
of the modern people : I grant
that they (the ideals) are not
what they should be. But, Mr.
Senior, look at the men of today
in whose hands rests the leader
ship of our country and of the
world. You will find that the
majority a very large majori
ty -of them possesses ideals of
the highest type, and 'that it is
because of these ideals that they
have been able to accomplish so
much. But consider the man of
today who is absolutely without
morals or ideals : At first, it
may seem a bit hard to find him
but if we are diligent, we shall
succeed. We discover him be
hind prison bars, sentenced to
the electric chair and to life im
prisonment for deeds that he
has committed because of his
lack of high ideals. He is the
murderer, the thief, the black
mailer, and the' criminal in gen
eral. "We are living in a mod
ern world a world of 'get out
of life what you can and let the
devil take the hindermost.' "
It is the "Modernists" that are
raising the jnost disturbance to
day a small crowd making a
big noise ; the "hindermost,"
those who . possess the innate
ability to thinkalso possess the
majority in numbers. When
we come to the point where we
rush madly into Life to get out
of it what we can, no matter at
whose expense, then the devil
will not only take the hinder
most he . will take v the entire
lot of us! Let us not forget the
history . of other nations which
have forgotten God and turned
to barbarous living. They head-
j (Continued on last page) .
HTCL
By H. J. Galland
In an old, abandoned cabin on
Laurel Knoll we came upon tan
gible evidence not long ago that
the times have changed. In
cluded in a mass of old papers,
bills, receipts; and ancient yel
lowed calendars illustrated with
pictures of befurred and hatted
ladies with piles of hair, there
was a copy of "A Memoir of the
Rev. Elisha Mitchell, D. D.,
Late Professor of Chemistry,
Mineralogy and Geology in the
University of North Carolina,"
a memorial containing resolu
tions, and a full account of the
Professor's tragic attempt to as
cend Mt. Mitchell on the 27th
of June 1857, and his death on
the mountain near its summit.
There, too, was found a pam
phlet, containing "Obituaries,
Funeral and Proceedings Of The
Bar in memory of the late Hon.
Wm. H. Battle, printed at Ral
eigh, 1879," and two copies of
the University Magazine for
1890 and 1891. It is the maga
zine which chiefly supplies food
for musings and pulling of remi
niscent gray beards.
In 1890, the Magazine was is
sued by four editors, two from
the Di and4 two from the Phi. It
was published six times a year,
and a subscription cost one dol
lar. In the back of the maga
zine are rules and regulations
concerning discipline. One of
them is a copy of the Appli
cant's Contract, which runs as
follows : "In presenting myself
as a candidate for admission to
the privileges of the University,
it is with the agreement that so
long as 1 may be a student in the
University, I shall make good
use of my opportunities for edu
cation, and shall conduct myself
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YOUR INSPECTION IS INVITED
25 Discount on Stock Clothes
Christmas Delivery on Gar
ments to Your Order
PRITCHARD-PATTERSON
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INCORPORATED
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"University Outfitters'
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in a manner that is friendly to
its interests. This is not in
tended to be a pledge of honor,
but a contract, the breaking of
which shall be a forfeiture of
all rights to membership in the
University.
There were 18 men on the fac
ulty roster in 1890. Attend
ance at prayers-; was required,
and the hour was 8:45. Classes
began at 9. There was a special
charge for rooms in South build
ing,, but all others were free to
those who paid the entrance fees.
Law, medical and special stu
dents might occupy rooms with
out joining the : societies -all
others had to.
Jefferson Davis was eulogized
in an article in the 1889 issue,
and biographies of the Univer
sity's Confederate dead were
still being run. This advertise
ment appeared: "D. McCauley
would respectfully call the atten
tion of the young men of the
University to his Elegant Stock
of Clothing', - Hats, Shirts, Col
lors, Cuffs and Shoes. He is also
Eat Where
Feel At
One meal here and you . sense immediately a
feeling of geniality and fellowship pervading
our whole dining room. It makes you feel at
once that you are one of the gang, "at home."
And it makes a difference.
We
UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA
Six 5.50 Tickets for $27.50
December 25
Mark that date down on your calendar. 'Christ
mas demands a new suit and topcoat, because
you'll want to go home looking your best.
To get the best is the problem demanding quali
ty material, fit, style, and that vague thing we
call correctness.
Will Answer Your Problem Perfectly.
Sunday, Beceraber S, 1929
prepared to take orders for air
kind of Suits of Clothing
will guarantee a fit."
Forty years in the life of a
University in Europe is not a
long time. But here in the Unit
ed States, where a college 200
years old is considered ancient
forty years is a long period. Xo
longer is the University small
enough ta allow the Magazine
to run personal items with the
assurance that every member
of the. class will know the boy
mentioned. We have pro
gressed, but sometimes we be
come a bit doubtful about some
of the progress. It is then that
sighs of regret escape, and the
Old Grad begins his "I remem
ber when. .. ."
Tea Postponed
The student tea held every
Sunday afternoon at the Episco
pal parish house will not be held
today but a special Christmas
tea will be held 'next Sunday,
December-15. All students are
cordially invited to attend.
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