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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, April 23, 193 Km The official newspaper of tlie Publications Union Board of the -University j of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it i3 printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. En tered a3 second clas3 matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N, C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.60 for the college year. - , Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building . - . - Claiborn M. Carr. ThosH. Walker.-..-. R. D. McMillan, Jr.. . i ........ ...,.,.....-..Editor .. Managing Editor :....Business Manager CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: NELSON ROBBINS Saturday, April 29, 1933 You Can't Get Blood Out of a Turnip ,The recent criticism - which has been hurled against the University for what has been termed "useless' extravagance" has been direct ed not only at the administration but at the cam pus, at large. During the recent discussion iri the state legislature of the educational appro priations bill,' heavy condemnation was heaped upon the University for its inability to live within its means,' '"and especially upon the stu dents for their reckless1 expenditure on dances and other ! entertainments. The answer which the campus has made' to these statements is that the money does not come from the . state but from the pockets of the students giving the dances arid that if they choose to spend their own money it does hot behoove Representative Tarn Bowie or Senator Larry Moore to say to them no. Such a reply is indeed a valid one; and in. the cases of the May Frolics7 and the German club dances, where the dances are given by stu dents who can afford them and desire them, no reasonable objection could be made. The junior-senior set, however, present a dif ferent front. .Here the dances are not given by an isolated group of wealthy; students- but by the entire classes, the wealthiest and the poor est. They want their dances, therefore; they should have them ; but there are many who can- riot afford exorbitant fees and it is unfair to them that they should be excluded.' The mem bers of the classes have already paid $8.50 for class dues out of which the money for the dances is supposed to come." Having made plans for a set costing around 1600, the executive commit tees of the two classes, finding that they were short of funds' and, without consulting the class es, attempted to levy an extra ' dollar',1 without the payment of which no member of either class would be admitted. " : Such rank dictatorial powers was obviously outside the "rights of the executive committees and in addition the move was grossly unfair, Many students would have been unable to pay the additional fee and hence' not only unable to attend the dances but would also have lost the benefit of the part of their $8.50 which went to pay for the other students' pleasure. Such' a furor was raised by the members of the classes that the executive committees ' beat a Hasty retreat and removed the levy 4 subser vient to future actions of the classes as" units. Now the committees propose a fifty-cent 'levy. But the action came too late. In 'the audit of April7 13 it was revealed 'that,' while the junior class had a surplus of $876, the senior class had a deficit of $15.33. Yet in the face of this they planned to snend $800 as their share of the dance expenses. . - - - . - : Just what attitude is shown by such a -condition is doubtful, but at the least it displays poor judgment on the part of class leaders. V.C.R. The Gold From The Dross After sitting through a tapping ceremony con ducted by the Order of the Golden Fleece brie can 'Hot'-fail to be impressed with the lofty ideals which' dominate" the purpose of that imminent fraternity, nor fail to 'recognize the high honor which inception into; it bestows upon the initiate. Yet, to the student who-is acquainted with the new meriibers, there can be no conjecture as to the source from' which membership in this order derives its honor. ' It is derived from the ultra selective process ?by 'which new members are chosen, by the limited ' number who are selected for membership and by the qualifications which they must possess. r ' " It is hot enough that a student have an en viable record as a scholar; though that is one requisite; it is not all-important that he have a long list of campus, positions to his credit," nor that one be a general, favorite on the campus. AH these things blended, together with "ideas, ideals, and the capacity for work," as Governor Ehringhaus put it,' are necessary for member ship in the Order of the Golden Fleece. The men who were inducted Thursday night do not fall short of any of these requirements ; not one of them can be classed as ordinary men -When the roll of this venerable society, is called those who respond will' be recognized as the ones, who have labored to make the affairs of this campus, this state; and the i' nation, run smoothly and have ' succeeded T and "the ones who will be at the helm of the civilization of tomcrrow. W.A.S. Too Much Jetsam "You can't limit a man's participation in ac tivities." That was the answer given to an edi torial, appearing Wednesday, which advocated a point system for rating campus offices and imiting the number of points which an indi vidual student might hold. .... But the fact that a small group of students monopolize and, incidentally, are themselves monopolized by extra-curricular activities is not the only evil of the campus system. There are too many organizations. Too many useless organizations. Too many organizations that duplicate each other. The names of these or ganizations cannot be mentioned without mak ing their members angry,- but if some of the most avid joiners on the campus will take stock of their membership cards, they will see readily how little the whole batch of them is worth. Let the student council, or some specially cre ated body, be given the power to investigate existing organizations on the campus. To those which appear unnecessary or, superfluous let an ultimatum to do or die be issued. And when any new organization is proposed let the gov erning bodyjnvestigate its purpose, and its pro posals. Then, if it is thought to be a worthwhile venture,, let a charter to be issued to it, No club or society fraternities excepted -should, then, exist on the campus unless it is chartered by the organization-governing body and unless it fulfills the provisions" of the charter under which it came into existence. E.C.D. Steady, Parents and Grandparents J u- ' . Several weeks ago a letter - appeared in the Raleigh News arid Observer ' from a woman in Rocky Mount. She mourned the return to the Old North State of that contaminating' fire, that omnipotent, satanic fluid, that 4 originator of all evil, beer. One part of-her letter read as fol lows. "Instead of sineriner: 'Carolina, blessed hv Heaven students of the future will be singing, 'Nobody knows how drunk I am.' We must do all that lies within our powers to quell this evil flood of spirituous beverage before it is too late. We must fight, fight, fight to save the lives and reputations of our brothers, our husbands, our sons." h: -r-v !--yr She wrote 'on, much'more, concerning the ter rible consequences of , beer not only upon the state and the world, but especially upon the stu dents at Chapel . Hillr . This obviously sincere, but sadly deluded woman forgets in her fanat icism that before 1908, we not only had beer in North' Carolina, but every other form of ; liquor as well, and yet Carolina continued to turn out some of the finest men and women that this country is capable of producing. ' Human nature has not changed to such a great degree as to make something that was allowed twenty-five years ago, a deadly sin today. ' - She forgets that for thousands of years the younger generation was bound for places incon- duci ve to human happiness, nd that for thou sands of years, it had extricated itself from the mire to lead on to greater and nobler heights. She forgets that in nearly every University town in. the country, beer is allowed the thirsty col lege student; and before prohibition,' was quaffed in large quantities, but that that didn't' prevent these universities from turning out men who rose above all others that had lived in many years. ' -. ,; " - ' ' This crusader forgets that not only beer, but corn, and applejack, and many other liquors are procurable in and about Chapel' Hill in sufficient quantities to drink the whole state of North Carolina into a state" of supreme intoxication: If then, with all this liquor readily to be had, since we' are not on a continuous drunken spree, since one may walk the streets of Chapel Hill on almost any evening and see hundreds of per fectly sane, "sober students,' is" it likely that 3.2 beer will lead to a gradual-hut 'complete degen eration of the world in general? (I may be wrong, but my humble opinion is that such an ideals not only far-f etched,' but to say the least, foolish and unworthy of a mind beyond the stage where it takes statements for granted without serious contemplation of the matter to be con sidered.) -; ' -' ' ' v: : -v - By the time a man is old enough to go to col lege, he is ready to realize that the course to be persued by him is not one of continuous revelry, but of sane and sober consideration of the paths that lie before him. So we say to those who worry over our fate: Have confidence in us as your fathers ' had confidence in you a generation past. W.H.W. ' Already a device has been patented by an Ohio State University professor, which auto matically corrects certain types of examinations and calculates their scores. This is the last straw, If we're to be graded by a machine-monster, let's demand a 'mechanical instructor, too. Oklahoma Daily (N.S.F.A.)..:; : .: ;r. , This year's annual at the University of Ken tucky will contain pictures of the ten most nomi Iar professors instead of the ten "most-popular ladies, as h'as been the custom heretofore. ' Speaking Ihe Campus Mind To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Can't we hear the despairing voices of Mr. and Mrs. Taxpay er as they listen to tales of how some merry band of revelers came to Chapel Hill, and, to the insipid tune of $1600, danced us off our feet? Possibly we may not have taken very, kindly in the past toward letting forces outside of Chapel Hill , govern our actions concerning money and play. Pos sibly not. But then, our profes sors salaries naa not oecome a mockery, bur libraries: had not become almost static, and our abs. and research department had not landed on the, rock' of cold despair, owing to inade quate funds.1. Then, too, ; this state did not have thousands of people suffering1 from unemploy ment, frozen assets, depleted in come's arid increased taxes. No, people talked, they soon forgot as they opened their mail-order catalogues to search for some thing they too could buy and en joy. : v . Conditions now, however, have reached a stage where even the slightest semblance of wealth is looked upon enviously and with mixed emotions. " If these classes are so naive as to shower money upon sheer van ity, there must be truth to the stories that our institution has no sense of the value of things about us. Will a feeling arise that appropriations are still too high? Do we wish to be a tar get for further reductions? Our fellow citizens Iwiii see. the ob vious only. They, will read about how we shall , dance in ecstasy beneath soft lights, and in an at mosphere of incense and high priced decorations. ' We've been the object of ad verse criticism too long. It's time we united upon a funda mental, understanding with our fellow citizens Let's show Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer that we are conscious of . his burdens, and that we wish to help him by means of the - education and training we receive at Chapel Hill. Let's not flount such a childish display as a "toy" band worth $1100 at him with the re mark that "we'll do as we please." Let's keep together to fight this depression, and re frain from exciting the envy of the entire state. F. G.. Class of '34. dance that will surpass those which the fraternities give then we should bury our faces in the ground." Is such a just cause? This same official also stated: "If we do not carry out our plans you will lose the money anyway." . - It seems to me that such rea sons are not justifiable when the University, is already being fed on its last straw and that it is riot sure of getting all of the last straw." " 1 ' " "As has been, pointed out, the cost of the dances can" easily be cut in half. If we have, a sur plus of money it is not necessary to give it, to Mr. Lo wn who is several hundred miles from this campus j ust look out of any window on the University 'cam pus and many things can be seen that the money could be used for and would be appreciated. Will not the gentlemen yield and uphold the University ", and the morale of the student body? J.P.T., '34. To the Editor, ; The Daily Tar Heel: Much more valuable and ap preciative material could be used in the Tar Heel than the articles which have been appear ing in regards to the junior-sen ior dances. However, the situa tion has been brought before the members of the junior and senior classes, and it is not only a situation that concerns the members of the two classes but deeply concerns the University. It was not long ago that the stu dents aided the University, but now the executive committees of the two upper classes have wan ed and will iri jury the Univer sity in the eyes of the State Legislature by staging a series of junior-senior dances that are to cost $1,600. It has been asked of the com mittees to show Cause why it is necessary to have the dances at such a cost, and from where did they get their power to make such arrangements and. keep concealed for so long a period their plans accidentally "leaked out. They have hot made nub lie any statement in regards to the questions. However. . . otip official of the junior class stated to'a- fellow-member this : "The junior and senipr classes are the strongest Organizations "on ' this To the Editor, . ' -The Daily Tar Heel : -; From articles which have ap peared in the later issues of the Tar Heel and from talks of the members of the junior and sen ior classes it appears as an es tablished fact that the junior senior dances are to cost $1,600. We know that our parents are only too glad to do anything, in their power to aid us in remain ing in the University; we also know that they i are depriving themselves of some necessities not mentioning anything that one could call a luxury in order that they may be able to send us funds to pay board and tuition with. A savinsrs of ' one or twn dollars would contribute much to their cause. We perhaps re ceive that one or two dollars to pay into class fees that are used for such gala occasions as the on coming junior-senior dances. We have this amount to contribute because the executive commit tees say so. We must pay all class fees! - ' Where do the executive com mittees get the power to dictate to their fellow-members what they shall do?: It comes from authoritative sources in the University that the executive committees have acquired these dictatorial powers by their owii venturing and assumption : and not by the vote of the members of the classes or from any other authority. . The board of trustees of the University would call down the President of the University if he went beyond the boundary of his authority. The executive committees of the two unDer A. A classes have now gone bevond their boundary; therefore, it is it the two classes to call tnia, down. T.H.,'34. To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Why did the student body, including the members of the junior and senior classes, gather for a mass meeting in Memorial hall and listen favorably while their spring holidays were being postponed for an indefin ite period? Why did the same group gather a few days later and agree to write home in ap peal for the folks at home to make a plea to our legislators in Raleigh for the very existence of the University ? Why are faculty members and other em ployees of the University having to take a twenty-five per cent cut in salaries this week? Why are .-we working for part of our expenses and borrowing from the student loan fund to pay the reriiainder? We are doing so because, throughout this state and nation the financial condi tions are such that the people are having to fight for a bare existence, and we likewise are having, to fight for the very existence of the University and for us to be able to remain here in school. We have carried on and tried to make the best of a bad situa tion, but aren't we somewhat in consistent if we allow a dance sponsored by the junior and sen ior classes of the University, to cost $1,600 as a maximum fig ure ? The orchestra alone i 3 costing $1,100. . Is there any reason why it should cost so much, since things are as they are, when we could secure or chestra known both in the na tion and state for $500? It might be breaking down a so-called Carolina tradition to get a cheaper orchestra, but Other Carolina traditions may be broken down if the state leg islature learns of what is about to take place here on the cam pus; .therefore, in the face of the conditions at home and throughout the nation in gen eral, it seems that it would be wise to seek less expensive dances, for this year at least, and the remaining money in the treasury of the two classes could be used as the members of the classes see fit. At least it is something worth thinking over and the classes , as a whole should express their opinion, either through a petition or a mass meeting. Furthermore, SENIORS, according to the last meeting of the executive com mittee it is either do this or pay an additional dollar. Which shall it be? .M.T.C., '33. 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