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WKESTLING U. N. C. vs. V. P. L 3:00 TIN CAN BOXING U. N. C. vs. V. P. I. 7:15 TIN CAN Us VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933 NTOIBER 84 WORD WOOD AND J. H. GRAY SPEAK TO MUM GROUP Banker and Economist Point Out Need for Uniform and Stringent Bank Laws. COMMITTEE WILL HEAR PLEAS FOR APPROPRIATIONS Representative of University Will Speak to Joint Committee of General Assembly. Word H. Wood, University alumnus and president . of the American Trust Coimoany, and Dr. John H. Gray, former presi dent of the American Economic Association, lectured Thursday night in Gerrard hall on "Money -and Banking." This lecture was the second of a series of eight sponsored by the Open Forum discussion group; Both speak ers showed the need for federal -control of banks through the Tederal Reserve System. The Charlotte banker, speak- stated that the last XXI & l"""J three years had been the most unusual that banking had ever seen, for "the bankers, both good and bad, have had their pride ttalten from them." He showed -that our present banking trou bles are not new by quoting from two English bankers of over a hundred years ago who were having the same troubles that the bankers of today are having. 'These English bankers attribut ed the failure of banks to mal administration, which, according to the speaker, is just as true today. This mal-administration is due to poor executives who -may be eliminated by examina tions similar to those for phy sicians and lawyers. "For a bank to be sound," said -the speaker, "it must keep at 'least fifty per cent of the depos itors' money in liquid reserves, Jot the prime purpose of (Continued on last page) Hearings will be granted the University of North Carolina and other state institutions of higher learning in the state next Tuesday by the joint legislative appropriations , committee of the general assembly. A representa tive for the University will ap pear before this committee to present the University's case. Numerous other state depart ments and bureaus have ap peared before the committee al ready, in most cases arguing that the items in the budget ap propriations bill are inadequate. The joint group will revise or authorize the various depart mental appropriations and pre sent them at a later date to the General Assembly for ratifica tion. In his budget recruesi last month President Frank P. Gra ham, of the University, asked for $691,924 as the annual state ap propriation necessary for the maintenance of the University. The budget commission, how ever, recommended that the Uni versity's annual appropriations for the biennium'beginning June 30 amount to only $390,570. DR.H.W.0DUMT0 SUCCEEDJACIiSON Dr. Odum Appointed Head of Commission on Interracial Cooperation Thursday. I Succeeding Dr. W. C. Jackson of the school of public adminis tration, Dr. Howard W. Odum, of the Institute for Social Re search, was elected chairman of the North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation com posed oi more than duu mem bers. At the meeting in Raleigh Thursday several papers were read before the commission, in cluding the report of the retir ing chairman in which' Dr. Jack son reviewed the progress of the negro race during the last sixty- five years. Dr. Jackson suggested that everything should be done to aid the negro, to see that every MUSIC GROUP TO PLAYMURHAM Carolina Salon Ensemble Will Appear at Duke University Sunday Evening. The Carolina salon ensemble will make its first out-of-town appearance of this quarter at the Duke Memorial church in Dur ham, Sunday evening, January 29, according to an announce ment by Thor ' Johnson, conduc tor of the ensemble. Dr. H. S. Dyer, head of the lo cal music division and musical director of the Durham church, has arranged the concert as one of a series of special musical re citals which he plans to offer each month. Johnson will present a pro gram of classical and serni-class-ical compositions ranging in date jot composition from the eigh- GITIZENS CALLED - FOR DISCUSSION OF CRISIS ISSUES Winston-Salem "Journal Calls Meet ing at Raleigh to Discuss Edu cational Problems. Colonel Santford Martin, edi tor of the Winston-Salem Jour nal, issued an announcement of a citizen's mass meeting to be held in Raleigh January 31 for the purpose of considering the present crisis in public education BUCCANEER STAFF PROPOSES CHANGE IN ELECTION PLAN Members of Publication Move To Place Power of Election of Editor in Hands of Staff. At a meeting of the Carolina Buccaneer staff Thursday night, a motion was made and passed by a unanimous vote of the art white child, ana negro child be ! teenth century to the present. Featured on. the program will be a duet by David Bennett, flut- given every opportunity to gain enhancement, ur, uuy a, viunn- the Infirmary List Drops For the first time since the Christmas holidays' the infirm ary; list dropped to its normal average with only nine confined. Those confined were A. A. Block, Tom Walker, R. A. Berman Wal ter Graham, W. R. Allsbrook, R. B. Hardison, Lewis Barnes, D. A. Brown, and Edith Wladkowsky. son of the Institute of Social Re search mentioned in his paper the effects of the depression upon the negro. One interesting fac tor which Dr. Johnson brought up was the fact that the' ma jor- (Continued on last page) TAR HEEL STAFF ENTERTAINED AT ANNUAL SMOKER Shoemaker Is Toastmaster; 01 sen Speaks; and Staff En joys Picture. Charleston Newspaper Man Says Nation Needs Competent Leaders o "William Watts Ball, Editor of Charleston News and Courier, Is Strong Advocate of Provincialism ; But Sees Need for Revamping Present Machinery. -o isti and Paul Schalert, horn play er, with accompaniment by the entire ensemble, and a composi tion of the American composer Clokey, Grandmother Knitting, which has been arranged for the ensemble by Herbert Hazelman. COUNTRY PAPERS WILL TARE NEW PLACETS BALL Editor of Charleston Daily De livers Final Address at Last Session of Institute. before the. Thursday night ses-'and editorial departments of sion of the newspaper institute that publication that a change which held its mid-winter meet- be made in the present plan of ing here during the past week. . .electing the editor of the humor The announcement reads : I magazine, so as to place the elec "A group of citizens called by tion in the hands of the staff, the North Carolina Parent- The proposal was formally Teachers association for the pur- drawn up and two copies made pose of considering the present one being sent to the president crisis in public education hereby of the student body and . student issues a call to the people of council, and the second appears, North Carolina to attend a mass elsewhere on this page, meeting to be held in ' Raleigh According to the motion the January 31, at 2 :30 o'clock." - present arrangement of selecting President : Frank P. Graham the editor of that publication is appeared before the Press InSti- f both unfair and unsatisfac tute meeting, giving information : tory." It further declared that' concerning the present situation j "the staff members are in a bet at the University and the pro- j ter position to decide who should posed cuts in the state budget as control this publication than the related to higher education. Members of the state legisla ture will be invited to the meet ing in order to gain a popular view of the situation-confront-, ing education in the state. ; the (By Don Shoemaker') William Watts Ball, LL.D., is a true Charlestonian. It is re flected in the editorial pages of his famed Charleston News and Courier. It shines forth in his masterly case for the democracy of South Carolina, The State That Forgot. As a man he is a living example of the spirit of old Charleston, or such it ap peared in an interview with the Daily Tar Heel in a drawing room at the Carolina Inn yester day morning. An exponent of provincialism (in the geographic sense) in the south and defender of its intel lectuality, Ball is nevertheless a patriotic American. He sees de mocracy with both the big and little "d" in a state of chaos due U lack of leadership and string ent adherence to the altruistic tenets of statesmanship. : South Needs Leaders ... "The south," he said, after we had been courteously invited to draw up a chair and forewarned that this was his first "interview, "is looking for a man to lead her out of discontent and despair. We suffer from a lack of political opinion. There are, -of course, a few men in congress who are statesmen. The rest are worry ing more about federal appoint ments than the condition of the country." Dr. Ball or "the Golonel," as his colleagues term him, "has no panacea for the cares of state. He points out .no specific cure, as his editorial declaim, but he feels that the way to good gov ernment lies in the release of the office holder from the predatory voting public. "We mob our representatives," he stated, quot ing specific incidents of massed interference of the citizenry in this and other states against legislature of which it was en tirely ignorant. "One mbve to ward individualism on the part of our solons brings the cries of the voting mob to the fore." Journalistic Training Questioned as to education for journalism, a moot question for all inveterate newspapermen, Ball reiterated the views of his colleagues of the Newspaper In stitute in believing that a cul tural background should eclipse the training of the journalism school. "Individualism in jour nalism," he stated, "is fearfully lacking. It can best be develop ed in a groundwork of the type of culture offered in liberal arts colleges." Colonel Ball is a living ex ample of all he professes.. Gain-j ing his start in the newspaper j game in 1890 through the pur- j chase of a small weekly news paper, he turned less than three years later to the daily field and launched the background for his career which has culminated in the editorship of the Charleston News and Courier. He was at one time professor . of journal ism at the University of South Carolina, the institution from which he graduated. Over two score members of the staff of the Daily Tar Heel attended their annual smoker in the Graham Memorial last night. Professor W. A. Olsen, who teaches public speaking in the English department, was the speaker of the evening. Olsen was introduced to the audience by Don Shoemaker, toastmaster. Sandwiches, punch, and cigar ettes were served. Following the gathering in the Student Union building, the newspapermen were guests of E. Carrington Smith' at the Carolina theatre. Guests at Movie Hot Pepper," the show which will be on the screen today, set the entire group in convulsions at the antics of Quirt and Flagg and of El Brendel, Swedish dia lect comedian. Additional interest has been evinced in the show due to the fact that Laurence Stallings, creator of the famous head men of the show, Flagg and Quirt, is a native North Carolinian. Stallings, now a New York newspaperman, is the author of many highly successful war dra mas such as What Price Glory. Flagg and Quirt have been preserved, as in the original, though their activities lead them into new channels. Quirt is still getting the dames and Flagg the air. They charge down Broad way, no more in the uniform of (Continued on last page) A new' typ of civilization "in which the country weekly and the small town daily, in their totality, will outwelght the large ! town and city press as a factor in state and national affairs" was foreseen here yesterday by Colonel William Ball, editor of the Charleston News and Cour ier, who delivered the principal address at the final session of the ninth annual North Carolina Newspaper Institute. Colonel Ball, who spoke from the experience of one in the newspaper game for forty-two years, as country editor, city edi tor, managing editor, journalism professor, and editorial writer, said the changed conditions Which he foresaw would be the natural result of a "back to the land" movement which is al ready under way. "Steam engines are not long er drawing the people together in a few cities," he declared. "A thousand horsepower is now dis tributed over a thousand square miles. Anybody's acre is a fac tory site, whether it be on the river bank or by the shoals or not. Diffusion of Population "If the republic is to last, it must be re-ordered, and the re ordering processes are already going on," Colonel Ball asserted. "The upshot is that the reorder ing of the republic means in the ( Continued on last page) few individuals who boss nomination of candidates." According to Editor Bobbie Mason, the Carolina Buccaneer is the only humor publication of any size in the country which still elects its editor by popular vote, all of the otbers haying loiig ago The condition of Mrs. English, abolished that method of selec- Raffbv. who underwent a mm'nr tion. Mrs. Bagby Improving operation in a Durham hospital The practice of having the THE BUCCANEER'S PROPOSAL The art and editorial staffs of the Carolina Buccaneer, realizing that the present system of selecting an editor is both unfair and unsatisfactory, move that the staff members be allowed to determine their own editor. We feel that this method will guarantee the election of the proper editor, since' the staff members are in a better position to decide who should control this publication than are the few individuals who boss the nomination of candidates and the student body at large which votes without knowing the merits of those running for office. BOBBIE MASON. Tuesday, is regarded as slightly editor of publications other than improved, it was learned yester-jthe humor magazines elected hy day. Although still in a serious ; the staff is practiced quite .ex- condition, Mrs Bagby showed a perceptible change for the bet ter early Friday morning. tensively in many sections of the country and is a rather standard practice in the middle west. James H. Fur ay States Importance Of College Education Is Cultural : O- Vice-President of United Press Believes That Young Men Planning To Enter Journalism Will Be as Much Benefitted by Culture as by Practical Courses. (By J. J. Sugarman) All things being equal, the graduate of the journalism school would receive a position from James H. Furay,' vice president of the United Press, in preference to a candidate with a non-academic background. "He'd know the fundamentals at least," said Furay in an inter view with the Daily Tar Heel yesterday. However, in his opinion these fundamentals of news paper work are less important to the aspiring journalist than the acquisition of the broadest cultural background possible. For this reason, lie advocates a thorough liberal arts training before entering a school of jour nalism. Schools Improve Newspapers Admitting the value of prac tical teaching by experienced professors, Furay believes that the schools of journalism, which are still in their infancy, are operating on r principles which will deliver to the newspaper world " a superior product. In addition to instruction in the routine work, they inculcate in their students a higher ethical standard. "The business is becoming more gentlemanly," he comment ed. "Thirty years ago it was a common belief among newspap ermen that they couldn't "write unless they drank. ' To-day that has all changed. We dismiss men for drunkeness, because we demand accuracy and speed which they give only when in ex cellent condition. The fellows who- were writing when I broke into the game were masters of what we call "fine", writing,' but they have had to give way to the simpler and better expression of the present time. In their drunk en condition they often failed to give the facts of a story, a prac tice which is now fatal; to jour nalism. We sacrifice everything for facts." Longer College Training Returning to what is evidently a iavonte theme with him, fu ray remarked that Latin and Greek were as valuable as any university studies to embryonic newspapermen. It is his belief that while practical knowledge is gained after the close of a col lege career, the opportunity for increasing cultural contacts di minishes. Accordingly, he would insist upon as long a general preparatory period as possible. He viewed with favor the move made by the Pulitzer school of journalism at Columbia requir ing three years of collegiate work prior to admission. His only quarrel with schools of journalism centers around a certain, not frequent type of professors. Too often men with virtually no practical experience attempt to instruct. One of the most important services to be rendered by a journalism teach er is that of presenting the stu dent with a graphic, realistic picture of the profession that he hopes to enter. 1
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