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G&e'Daflp Ear $eel - 'mmmmmm Published daily during the college year except Mondays and except Thanks- - yi 1 r TT 1? giving, c-nrisxmas ana spring nou days. - The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $4.00 for the col lege year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. - W. H. Yarborough, Sr.. ... Editor Jack Dungan ... Mgr. Editor H. N. Patterson ..Bus. Mgr. H. V. Worth. Circulation Mgr. BUSINESS STAFF Harlan Jameson...Ass, Bus. Mgr. John Manning.. Advertising Mgr. Al Olmstead Ass't Adv. Mgr. Jack Hammer Collection Mgr. Bernard Solomon Assft Col. Mgr. John Barrow ..Subscription Mgr. C. P. Simms W. C. Grady John Cooper Tommy Thomas W. G. Roberts Frank S. Dale Zeb C. Cummings H. A. Clark Wednesday, September 24, 1930 Are Cheerleaders Becoming Obsolete? N The honor and glory of being head cheerleader at the Univer sity apparently departed when Kike Kyser packed his instru- toatit.q an1 nwOisef-ra Vkvtra vF-P 'n o ioo u At o- ,. i i slciuuii. oince nis xime mere hasn't been a cheerleader here who added to the distinction of leading student cheering. ?It wasn't so many years ago that everyone knew the cheer leader just as they knew the cap tain of the football team and one or two other campus notables. Now the spectators at the games must ask about who is leading the cheers and then they are lucky if they find a student who knows. Of course cheering at the games has diminished consider ably during recent years. Too many of us are in a huddle try ing to decide who just made that fifty yard run, or we are peer ing: high above the surrounding heads in an effort to attract the attention of the girl in the green hat. Cheering seems confined to the over-enthusiastic,; the drunks who emit loud whoops every now and then, and those who happen to be observing the cheerleader at the time he calls for a yell. But mass cheering is on the down grade. We haven't any rea son to offer for this, but it is apparent to everyone who at tends the game. Perhaps with a high scoring team this fall cheering will pick up ; but we're inclined to think that cheerlead ing must regain some of its lost glory before we are to have spontaneous and good cheering. Serve Carolina Extra curricula work is one of the most enjoyable and re munerative phases of univer sity life. While every man should join some outside activity, such participation should never be carried to the extent of over indulgence or be permitted to interfere with other duties which are, after all, the primary rea sons for attendance here. Honor, character, experience, and self-satisfaction are the com pensation offered to the active members of this institution for their efforts. All these re wards and, perhaps other . . re munerations go to the student in possesson of initiative. The re compense for such service is of ten not a medal, a letter, or any thing tangible, but is the acquisi tion of experience and character. Service for the University is not forced upon us. It is some thing that we, ourselves, must decide to render. Those Caro linians with sufficient loyalty J to the alma mater to induce themselves to participate in any of the various teams, clubs, and societies of the Tar Heel organi zation, surely find themselves amply repaid in the end for their efforts in immaterial, yet none the less precious form. M. P. H. OPEN FORUM WORD PICTURE Editor the Daily Tar Heel: Davie Hall, picturesque, typi cal of "Carolina's" treasure store of traditions, nestles gracefully among the innate branches of green and golden shrub. With in earshot of the arboretum it has for decades been the silent sentinel for romantic Youth, whose whispered vows oi en raptured emotion have so re peatedly floated up to its wait ing ears. Faithfully it has kept its secrets and always shall. - Impressive in its firmness and stability, it has lured within its walls endless numbers of us who loner to delve deeper into the mystery of living things. Venerable, because of the men of science it has housed, men whose love of nature has gained them superior knowledge, whose love of humanity has sent them here to give to others the reap- iners of their years of tireless effort. Priceless store house of zo ological treasures, it has be come, containing, as it does, m numerable specimens of scien- numerable specimens tific interest. Colorful, with its background of Immortal college history, it stands a firm memorial to men of undeniable courage and per severance, whose inspired vis ions of a great educational in stitution have materialized into a systematic mass of structure and edifice, combined with a greatly diversified selection of academic possibilities. Dedicated, in honor of the "Father of the University," General Richardson Davie has a worthy memorial for his life of sacrifice and self-denial in the furtherance of the progress of the institution. Clothed in such a wealth of glory, Davie Hall should stand an object of interest and respect to every student, and an object of admiration to the most casual passerby. W. T. LASLEY. HENDERSON PICKS TEN GREATEST MEN Who are the immortals of to day? Who are the men and wo men now living that future generations will remember as those who have presented the world with some superlative achievement? By what criterion shall they be selected? , In Contemporary Immor tals, a book, released from the press of D. Appleton and Com pany, Dr. Archibald Hender son, of the University of North Carolina, distinguished author and biographer of . Bernard Shaw, attempts to answer these questions. The volume has already ap peared in syndicated articles in this country and abroad, is de dicated to Albert Einstein, one of the "immortals," who is re garded by Dr. Henderson as having "the most intricately or ganized intellgence of our era." Ten men and two women are selected by Dr. Henderson for his brilliant gallery of immor tals : Einstein, Gandhi, Edison, Mussolini, Shaw, Marconi, Ford, Paderewiski, Kipling, Wright, Jane Adams and Madame Curie. "It may well be," Dr. Hen derson writes, doubtless with the magnitude and unique nature of his undertaking in mind, "that in choosing contemporary immortals we are only designat ing temporary immortals. We are not posterity : nor is our judgement, with any assurance THE DAILY of finality, the verdict of his tory. It requires hardihood to venture upon such a choice. since it is a form of prophecy the vainest and most fruitless of all human activity. "And yet! the human mind is endlessly avid of the forbid den and the impossible, and ir- repressibly craves to do what has never been done before. In spite of all the arguments a gainst the likelihood of accurate identifying human genius and greatness, and there is one unan swerable argument in favor of maikng the attempt. That argu ment, in one word, is: idealism. It must be in this spirit of idealism that.Dr Henderson nominates for immortality such antipodal characters as Gandhi and Mussolini. One will be re membered forever for his doc trine of non-resistance, the other just as long for his doctrine of blood and iron. Doctrines com pletely polar in their antithesis will place the Indian and the Italian in Fame's eternal hall along with Aristotle and Napo leon, in the judgement of Dr. Henderson. ADAMS SPONSORS 'WALDEN' EDITION (Continued from first page) clearing in an otherwise pri maeval forest, Thoreau had a fronting on the road between Concord and Lincoln. He re minds the reader that Thoreau entertained, visited, went to town, ate the "remnants of Sat urday's baked beans" with far mer "Hosmer. "The neighborli ness of the Walden experiment and the hopeful buoyancy of Thoreau have been forgotten while partially judged and but half understood, the author of Walden has remained to most readers the stoic of Emerson's biographical sketch. . . His pecul iarities, his paradoxes, his non cooperation, the lack of qualifi cation in what he said convinced the villagers and the readers of Walden that he was a carping critic of life, a whining Rous seau." Dr. Adams in his Preface advances the idea that Walden was a happy experiment taken more seriously by the world than the experimenter ever intended. It is not news to announce that a debunker has smashed an idol; but it is news as welcome as unprecedented to say that a debunker has worked backwards and made a dead man more agree able than tradition and precon ceived opinion would have him. Dr. Adam's Preface to Walden satisfies in that it convinces; it pleases in that it paints youth. The 1854 edition of Walden was "physically a sombre book with a murky cover releived but sligthly by the lemon yellow end papers." That book matched the stoic of the biography. The ar tist Ruzicka has made the new edition to match the new Thor eau. The cover promises revela tions. Ruzicka has done the illu strations in black and white with thin pen marks that make etch ings of drawings. The format, the Preface, and of course Wal den itself make a volume that the great writer Walter Pri chard Eaton described to Dr. Adams as a "grand job all around." - Merritt in Florida James E. Merritt, who was a graduate student working for his Ph. D. degree here last year, is now teaching in the high school in Bluntstown, Florida. His position is that of assistant principal and director of ath letics. Coach Chuck Collins, getting things lined up for his fifth year as head football coach at Caro lina, has few worries in the right halfback sector. Three fleet, hard-running, shifty leftermen, for as many backfields, are back in camp. Captain Strud Nash, Rip Slusser and Chuck Erickson. TAR HEEL Carmichael Writes Thesis On Freedom A thesis entitled "The Nature of Freedom," which in the opin ion of Dr. Horace Williams, head of the department of phil osophy, "will surprise the ultra- scientific, excite the conserva tive, and will appeal to the philo sophical," has recently been published by the University de partment of philosophy. The author, Dr. Peter A. Car michael, who' is a native of Georgia a graduate of Johns Hopkins, and has a master's de gree, from Columbia, holds a doctorate in the philosophy de partment here. He states in the foreword that "the writer was motivated by a desire to find out what freedom meant, not with respect to conventions, 'rights,' and legislative arrangements, but with respect to the free be ings as such and to the other things from which he is free." "I wish to know," he says, "not only what it meant for man and other creatures to be free, but also what it meant for God or the universe ho be free." The thesis is published in pamphlet form and divided into six sub-divisions, "The' Meaning of Nature," "The Universal Relation," "The Individual," "Free "Will," and "Freedom." Dr. Carmichael is a holder of the Graham Kenan fellowship in philosophy and at present is engaged in research work here at the University. UNIVERSITY HAS GIVEN START TO JAZZ ORCHESTRAS (Continued from first page) York's most fashionable hotels, and is still familiar to the older men around the campus as a shining example of personality and showmanship. His musi cians were forced, most regret fully, to desert many interest ing classroom problems of to day and yesterday, and to face many others of today, possible a little more interesting, and most certainly more engaging. There have always been men in Chapel Hill anxious to fol low in the footsteps of these un doubted geniuses, but this year there seem to be even more wor shippers of the unnamed god of jazz than usual, and it is al ready a very familiar experience to most students to be startled in the dead of night, or much worse, early in the morning, by weird and grotesque noises, which possible in later years will be the golden tones of masters. A dormitory is indeed fortunate which' does not have more than two or three of these ambitious musicians to the floor, and a f ra ternity house without even one must be a paradise. With the large am6unt of tal ent available this fall, the cam pus may look forward to seeing in the near future another or ganizaiton that will have the genius and the talent of the few that have gone before. He might also see some results from last year's orchestras, two or three of which are returning to school after summer engagements, which did quite a bit this past summer toward making prog ress. An event which deserves particular notice along this line is a recent combination of last year's two leading orchestras, the Carolina Buccaneers and the Carolina Tar Heels, both of which have just finished summer jobs. The Buccaneers were un der the management of the Na tional Broadcasting Company, and the Tar Heels were at Myr tle Beach, S. C. The name of the orchestra will be, or, rather, has been the Carolina Bucca neers, and it promises to be a satisfactory arrangement of more or less gifted students, if not the best dance orchestra in the state, and has already be gun to issue doubtful sounds from the neighborhood of the Back From Europe L, J. Bell of the Germanic language department has recent ly returned from Europe -where he spent about two months of the summer quarter. Mr. Bell went over on the new North German - Lloyd liner, "Europa," which is the largest, fastest boat in the world and which covered the distance from New York to Cherbourg in four and one-half days. Mr. Bell spent the major por tion of his time in Budapest, Hungary,- where he studied the language and the customs of the people. Before going to Hungary he made a flying trip over Ger many, visiting Bremen, Berlin, Munich, the passion play at Oberammergau and thence to Minchen. Flying from Minchen to Budapest he had a most excit ing experience. His plane, en countering a heavy log, was forced to make a blind landing in the mountains. But never theless he says that he enjoyed it immensely. In Budapest, during, the time ofj the revolutionary and Com munistic upheavals, Mr. Bell got in a mob of Communists who were making a demonstration in the streets against the regent of Hungary. As this notable passed by, the German profes sor snapped his photograph. At once he was seized by the police and thrown into jail. After quite a bit of red tape he re ceived his release along with profuse apologies. Mr. Bell says that the thing that struck him most forcefully during his trip was the attitude of the various countries toward America. "Far more friendly," says he, "are the countries we fought against in the last war in comparison with those which were our very allies. old Beta house. Besides this organized com pany, the town will doubtless be afflicted with four or five small combinations which will spring up and disband with the same regularity of the proverbial Chapel Hill eating places. ubanks Prescription SINCE ' An astounding talking picture! From the Harvard Prize Play .by Cleve Kinkead ' GG C LAY 33 Starring CONSTANCE BENNETT Tully Marshall Beryl Mercer " ADDED FEATURES 'Barnacle Bill" A Krazy Kat Cartoon Paramount Sound News NOW WEDNESDAY IP JOHN McCORMACK "Song of My Heart" Wednesday, September 24, 1930 Dyer Seeks New Men (Continued from first page) The glee club last year made a very enviable record in compari son with other clubs throughout the country. It won the southern championship, and made a strong bid for the national, and promises to do at least as well this year since there are quite a few of the old men returning. There are always vacancies, how ever, and anyone interested has Dr. Dyer's assurance that the best men fill the places and that the next best will have a chance. Last year there were two fresh men who made all three trips, taking the jobs away from ex perienced upperclassmen. In the national contest in New York last year five freshmen were in cluded in the lineup.' The officers for this fall are: Steve Lynch, president; Charlie Duffie, secretary; and A. J. Starr, librarian. The president has been closely observing some singing organizations in Europe this summer, and has several new ideas which he hopes to in corporate this term. For the first time, there is also a good chance for a club com posed entirely of freshmen. Di rector Dyer states that he sin cerely hopes that there will be enough new.material at the first meeting to enable him to begin work on the combination as soon as possible, and thus fit them for the "varsity" next year. If, however, there are not enough men, competition on the club will be open. ENGINEER CO-OPS ASSIGNED DUTIES (Continued from first page) of the Engineering school E. L. Midget is with the University of N. C, C. F. Bullard wth the Caro lina Heating and Engineering Co. ; and -A. W. Dunbar with the City of High Point. In the department of electrical engineers, J. M. Duls will be with the Duke Power Company in Charlotte; S. A. Barham with the R. H. Bouligny Company in Charlotte, and E. F. Frisby with the Tidewater Power and Light Company of Wilmington. Drug Co. Specialist . 1892 PLAY THING - - - IIA OP THE NEW YORK SPEAKEASIES! "A speakeasy drab, am I? Well, you tell them about the speak easy and I'll tell them about your home! One's as bad as the other! The people dance to the same kind of music!- Drink the same kind of liquor! Do the same terrible things! "Only in your case it's all under cover!" PLAYING WEDNESDAY
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