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Published daily during the college year except Mondays and except Thanks giving:, Christmas and Spring Holi ' days. . The ofScial 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 in the basement of Alumni Building. W. H. Yarborough, Jr Editor Jack Dungan ..Mgr. Editor H. N. Patterson... Bus. Mgr. H. V. Worth......Circulation Mgr. Assistants This Issue EDITORIAL K.C.Ramsay Vass' Shepherd Charles Rose G. E. French George Wilson Hugh Wilson E. C. Daniel, Jr. J. G. Hamilton J ack Bessen W. A. Shulenberger BUSINESS Harlan Jameson . John Manning Al Olmstead ; Jack Hammer Bernard Solomon John Barrow Tommy Thomas John Cooper John Simms Saturday, September 20, 1930 Greene Condenses The Honor Code Both old and new men here hear much concerning the "honor system." Student govern ment lectures are given in the fall to incoming freshmen. Periodically, someone writes that the "honor system" is a failure or a glorious success. Editorially the Daily Tar Heel has its say-so and sometimes class periods are devoted to dis cussions of honor. We detest the word "system" when applied to honor. It de notes a racket of some kind. And the great American game is trying to "beat the racket." One doesn't attempt to beat honor. It is entirely too per sonal a matter for one to treat as something to beat. Here we have a definite code of honor. Students accept that code when they enrol here just as they accept other conditions. Otherwise they are not wanted. The most condensed and pos sibly the best definition of Car olina's code of honor was given by President Greene yesterday morning when welcoming the student body he said: "In order to understand and uphold the honor system you men must re ly upon those qualities within you which , are the highest and npblest type. In following your high and noble qualities you will have no trouble in maintaining the proper individual conduct and helping us to preserve and perfect our honor system." We do not think that it is necessary to add to those two sentences. They contain all the Daily Tar Heel has to say at this time about Carolina's code of honor. New Magazine For The South The Agora, "the magazine of the South," made its initial ap pearance this month. Its edi torial board, headed by Richard A. Chace, includes a number of the best-known and most cap able authors that the University campus has known in the last four years. Its advisory board is made up of no less persoriages than Paul Green, Addison Hib bard, Gertrude Wilson Coffin, and Margaret Vale. Its patrons, those who have contributed to the support of the new venture, are equally as pro minent in the cultural activities of the State and South as the editorial board is on the campus. Furthermore, The Agora lists as its contributing editors whose number it hopes to enlarge stu dents from other universities and colleges. With the assis tance and the contributions of these last-named, the publica tion, which is intended, inciden tally, to offer to the young writ ers of the entire South "a field for their earlier development," hopes to make its scope truly South-wide. Thus,The Agora, appears well equipped for itsjindertaking. It has or will get, the best of the student talent in the South and an advisory board which might be improved only with difficulty. The. first issue promises much for The Agora. It is a worthy objective that Editor Chace states there : ". . . we intend that the material chosen will give our readers "iood for reflection and delight, hoping not only to sti mulate the pen to write and the mind to enjoy." And even in the first issue may be found a near attainment to this stand ard. The material which ap pears therein is both entertain ing and instructive. If its editors and authors will but answer the t 'challenge to the New South" given by Addison Hibbard in this issue, The Agora can be, as it aspires "a repre sentative estimate of the young South." E. C. D., Jr. The junior J. G. Hamilton is wanted at the office of the Daily Tar Heel. It was he -who, with that charm and assurance that only a Baron Munchhausen or the editor of True Story maga zine could possess, originated the story that J. Elwyn Dung an, managing editor of this newspaper, had been obtained by slick methods and a tremen dous salary by the Kansas City Star, apaper with over a million circulation. x The story, of course, was unfounded. What he should have said is that Dungan, with the heavy weight and responsibility of his present position, merely purchased a Ford in Rochester, New York. f t f It is hoped that more people will note, favorably, upon the fact that an eight page issue of the Tar Heel was "on the street" by Friday, the first day of school. But it is more to be hop ed that the readers will remark that in spite of the temptations that so beset the editors, they courageously and manfully ,re fused to print a sery about "Freshman Week." No sad sighs for good old Freshman Weeks nor any playful comments about the ignorance of the neophytes. It shows intelligence may be one of the tools of issuing a paper after all. t t t , Ray Farris is in town, just trying to be helpful along politi cal lines. . Being strictly non partisan ourselves, we wonder just how much value there will be to the Democratic party in having Ray hang around here. The thinking students who are eligible to vote, need not be told, except by scientific explanations, as to who or why to vote. The lethargic voters are rarely vit alized by a drummer-up of votes. And the only other class of students, viewed from this angle, are the dumb ones, and they're faithful, ardent Demo crats, anyway so, what's the use Ray?- - t t f After all, there's just as much joy in telling what you did dur ing the summer as it was in ac tually doing . it. Which serves as an introductory statement to one of ' the funniest stories, if i : Pen Points ... THE DAILY true, told in any of the buli-ses-ions held last night. One of the several North Carolina students who went, to Europe this sum mer was in Paris for three days just before embarking on the boat-train which would carry him to Cherbourg, and thence on to the steamer to home. There is a statement recorded in some very ancient document that the key to a man's character may be had if you find out what he does-in Paris the first night he is there. ' The student in question would, we now, prefer not have his character read from his Paris ian activities for ; they were, from the very start, nothing but a round of drinks. In short, aft er three days of Paris, he could no longer stay up. He was lift ed on the train at Paris, carried off at Cherbourg, and literally poured on the transatlantic boat. And for three days he continued drinking and remain ing in the comotose state in his cabin. With the fourth day at sea, a tremendous storm came up and for two days there was nothing but the pounding and breaking of tremendous waves to be heard. AH the deck chairs were broken, parts of the ship carried away, life-boats smash ed, and the boat looked in quite a bad way. All this served to sober up the Tar Heel to a cer tain degree, and he managed to crawl up stairs to the promen ade deck only to see this terrible state of affairs chairs broken, window panes shattered, lamps swinging idly with no attache ments, etc. Mournfully, yet with a note of panic to be seen, the Carolina student 'proceeded to the purser (he's sort of the secretary-treasurer of the ship) and told him, "I know I must have been mighty drunk the past few nights to do all that damage, but if you'll tell me what the bill is, I'll pay it." F. J. M. NEW YORK TIMES LAUDSNX BOOK Hobbs' "North Carolina: Eco nomic and Social" Used as Textbook Here Commended. Although S. H. Hobbs, Jr., has been using his book, North Caro lina; Economic and Soeidl as a textbook in his classes all sum mer, The New York Times Book Review first printed a review of the book two weeks ago on Sept ember 7th. It is of interest not only for its criticism on the book, but also for its comment on the University. The University of North Carolina is unique in its pos session of a' department of rural, or home-State, social economics which was founded fifteen years ago by Professor E. C. Branson, an enthusiast in the conviction that .thoroughgoing knowledge of one's own State is an essen tial of competent citizenship. The author of this book has been associated with him in the facul ty of this department ever since it was organized and for the greater part of that time has taught a course bearing the same ground as this volume. The wide interest in it is indicated by the fact that he has given it to students in residence, by cor respondence and through exten sion classes. And he notes in his preface that a similar course is to be included hereafter in the public school curriculum of the State. It is an interesting edu cational movement, and the rap idity with which it has made its way in North Carolina illustrat es theMgorous influence .which can be exerted by a state uni versity when it seeks to meet a real need of the community. Professor Hobb's book stands out among books dealing with lo calities , because of its author's frankness, his desire to set forth the exact truth and his deter- TAB HEEL v. ruination not to admit into his text rhetorical patches or pa triotic outbursts. His many years of research into the social and economic conditions of his home state have given him com prehensive knowledge of them, and his purpose in this book is to set it all down wih scientific accuracy and impartial state ment, whether creditable or otherwise. He writes of the State's physical resources land, soils, water power, minerals, cli mate, forests, resorts, fishing, hunting of its agriculture, pop ulation, industry, education, public health and welfare work, State and county government, wealth, transportation, farm tenancy, typography, social and economic characteristics of its several regions. A wealth of classified and tabulated statis tics and of maps and charts makes a solid foundation for the work. But much lucid, humaniz ed and illuminating text de-1 scribes and discusses the social and economic conditions which they outline. '' McINTOSH FINDS HUGE STONE FACE C. E. Mcintosh of the Univer sity's school of education saw something on his recent vacation trip to the mountains. Many things,, but something in parti cular. He tells about itin the following communication: "My brother, J.W. Mcintosh of Lenoir, invited meyto bring my family to his camp at Edge mont for a wee's vacation, and also sent down to Lincoln county for my; mother and father. We bathing of Wilson's creek for afternoon several of the party took a stroll up Rainbow Trail, into the heart of Pisgah Forest. The' trail is a government road, having been blasted from the who is in charge of the govern ment's reservation there. 1 "As we walked along a cliff near Edgemont, I saw on the side of one of the large rocks as fine a likeness of a soldier as Gutzon Borglum will ever carve on Stone Mountain. Knowing that I had taken nothing calcu lated to stimulate the imagina tion, I asked the other members of the party to look around them and see if they could find any thing remarkable. Each one present found the 'man in stone in a few moments, and all marvelled that a likeness so perfect could result from a mere accidental blast of dynamite. "At a distance of 50 or 75 benignant American general. The drooping mustache, shaggy eye-brows, piercing eyes, and officer's hat are all perfect. As one approaches the rock ; on which the figure appears, the mouth " becomes less attractive, until it finally gives the im pression of extreme anger. The figure remains visible, however, within some six or eight feet of the stony face. "The face appears to be some thing like jtwo feet in diameter and is not 'more than seven feet from the ground. Yes, it is there and any of you who chance by may take a look at my dis covery entirely without charge." A magistrate remarked -last week that marriage means the end of a man's troubles. He didn't say which end. The Humorist. Dr. J. P. Jones Dentist TELEPHONES Office 561 Residence 5716 Office Over Cavalier Cafeteria A New Boarding Place Eat With MRS. TROTTMAN Good home-cooked meals 18.50 and $22.50 Per Month STUDENT MANAGEMENT 157 East Rosemary St. IV, Former Carolina Man Is Now Tree Surgeon s By Louis Graves When I heard a few weeks ago that Thomas W. Brown, a former student here, known on the campus as Tom Brown, had become a wandering tree sur geon, I wrote to him and asked him to tell something about what he was doing. "When Tquit college and said I was going to be a tree sur geon," he writes, "my friends shook their heads sadly and in timated that I was ruining my life. "I did not say much about what I was going to do because I hardly knew what it was all about myself. However, I board ed the train one night in the summer of '28 and the next night I found myself in Kent, Ohio, ready to begin the training required before I was sent into the field to work as a tree surgeon.-Previous to this trip to Ohio, J had been outside of N. C. only once, and that was on a trip" to Atlanta. "I have now been doctoring trees 2 1-2 years. In checking up on a map I find that I have been in 23, states and up, into Ontario, Canada. I have worked in Detroit, Newport, R I., Niagara Falls, N. Y., St. Louis, a dozen central Illinois towns, including7 Springfield, Danville and Peoria Davenport, la., Birmingham and northern Alabama, and last but not t least, Westchester county and New York City. While I was in Alabama we were caught in a flood and were cut off from the rest of the world for nearly two weeks. ; v N "Last winter I was called in to our headquarters to attend the DaveyNInstitute of Tree Sur gery. This school is the only one of its kind in the world and is run by tho Davey Tree Ex pert Co. for their employees. : "The thing that has impressed me most is the friendly manner in which people have accepted me everywhere I have been. It THE BETSY ANN SHOP Featuring Dresses Shown in the New York Fall Openings The Waffle Shop ASKS FOR A TRIAL If Our Food Isn't Delicious Tear Up The Check I . -Z AN E GREY'S Greatest Romance of the Southwest "LAST OF THE DUANES" with George O'Brien Ride in the saddle , with Buck Duane. Experience the feelings of a hunted man the 'adventures of a daring outlaw the emotions of a lover with romance just beyond his reach. " . x With a price on his head a notch on his gun he boldly rode into town to square his debt with the law and woo the girl of his dreams. OTHER FEATURES Mack Sennett Comedy-1-" Average Husbands" and Audio Review Monday Nancy iroiyiguddy Saturday, September 20, 1930 seems that almost everyon I loves trees and flowers and ev In the grouchiest individual will open up and smile if you get him out and show him that you now some thing about nature. "I like my work. I like to be out in the open with the birds and flowers and trees. Our work brings us into close con tact with the highest, most re fined class of people ?nd takes us into the most exclusive of estates. " Most people know in a more or less general way, I suppose, what tree surgeons do. Few peo ple srealize the knowledge and skilt and care that is necessary to treat and care for a tree prop erly. It requires much training ana mucn coucenuauuu uu practice for the student really to become ja tree expert. "If all my plans work out I hope to get a short vacation late in the fall and run down to Chapel Hill for a few days at home before I receive my orders for the winter season." THREE SPEAKERS OPEN UNIVERSITY AT CONVOCATION (Continued from page one) should h a ril ace where we mav "develop excellence without snobbery, democracy without vulgarity." In his concluding remarks, Mr. Graham devoted, a tew minutes to the problem of mastering the mind and the body, of learning to live "a mastered life. . . '. Your life here is toy be the fruitage and the flower of what's in you. . . . It's your life, your tFniver sity, and your opportunity. No American pioneer ever faeed an adventure more thrilling than that which calls to you from this University, along the frontiers of 7 your unmastered life and the frontiers of our yet unmastered civilization. May your hearts be stout as you face the trail to wards the great tomorrow," Mr. Graham concluded. . ' ' addressed to the new men. NOW SHOWING , Rogers in 'Follow Thru' """""" Wmm ""tJF jfy. I WW;
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