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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SEPTEMBER 25, 193
Kl)t Car Heel
The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where
it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving,
Christmas, and Spriner Holidays. -Entered as second class
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Robert C. Page, Jr. ...
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r..Editor
.-..Managing Editor
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE : WALTER HARGETT
Tuesday, September 25, 1934
PARAGRAPHICS
One solution to the problem of govern
mental finance would be to plow under every
third FEJRA worker.
Upton Sinclair's program for California
may be EPIC, but it sounds suspiciously like
a Hollywood movie blurb to us.
; A textilist is the only ' man who has a right
to go fishing and come home happy because
he didn't get a single strike.
require the time and trouble of others in reveiw
ing them. For the sake of fair trials and speedy
justice, we hope that the advisory board's recom
mendation to the president will establish the
precedent of discouraging such groundless
appeals. . - ...
Spirit of
College Humor
When in the course of the humorous events
that have recently transpired on this campus,
it becomes necessary to resort to etymology to
Century
Of Progress
Farers at Swain hall in particular and at the
dining halls of other colleges in general may
take heart from a recent article in the New York
Times entitled "Better Food for the College
Man." "A new idea has been set up in most col
leges," says the writer; "it aims at sound health
and mental and physical efficiency built in part
upon the right combination of foods and their
preparation." v
The food at college dining halls has improved
enormously compared with the early days of
our American institutions of higher learning.
The Times recalls "the good old days." Early
Harvard students revolted against unclean hasty
pudding and mackerel too nearly au naturel.
Breakfast for more than a century, we are told,
was bread and beer, "both often sour," while din
ner consisted of salt beef and supper of bread
and milk. At Yale in 1828 occurred the Bread
and Butter Rebellion, on the occasion of which
a student penned the following eloquent distich:
O who, some with a quaking heart,
e'er looked
On wormy cabbage ; though by Homer
cooked.
Even the most confirmedly dyspeptic student,
in face -of this testimony, could not stare down
rrovide a comic monthlv with a name, there is
something in this declaration of independence the ffct that there has been, gastronomically
from its former status that strikes us as being
very, very amusing.
We are by no means opposed to Editor Pat
Gaskins' choice of "Finjan" for the name of the
"new" maerazine that will surjulant the Bucca
neer. To us, in fact, it suggests a college comic,
which is highly desirable in so far as it purports
to be the name of a college comic ; and, without
groping for a simile, we should say off-hand that
it is every whit as euphonious as, for instance,
the Alabama Rammer-Jammer.
But leaving this idle speculation, we resume
the course of humorous events that have fol
lowed in the wake of (alias) the Buccaneer.
From the student council's unfortunate, though
--T J- j 'n 1 1 " 1 t j i
rigmeuus, encounter witn xms puDiicaiion to
the administration's sleepless nights over its
contents, the career of the late Buccaneer has
been one long laugh. Yet even this is as it should
be, for what else is the purpose of a monthly
humorous magazine if it is not to make its audi
ence laugh ?
Our only query now that the status of the
magazine has been settled apparently to , the
satisfaction of all concerned, is : Why was it
necessary to change the name of the magazine
at all? Why should its declaration of indepen
dence from filth have required a change from
Buccaneer to Finjan? -
Our' only answer finds its roots in the thor
oughly human desire to put a new label on a
cracked bottle. "Buccaneer" is a horrid old
word, suggestive of lurid cartoons and sexy wise
cracks. But "Finjan" what else does it con
note but the purest of intentions, the most docile
of humor, and sweetness and light?
Fewer Appeals
For Justice's Sake
At its first meeting of the year the student
welfare board made a recommendation to the
president of the Greater University that should
prove a far-reacning precedent in the matter of
the appealing of honor cases tried bv the stu-
jdent council.
This decision was prompted by the fact that
the student council had recently tried a student
for cheating and had unanimously found him
guilty. The student was tried twice, once by
the committee of the student council which
passes on routine cases, and once by the entire
council, a trial which the student accused can
demand if he protests the decision of the com
mittee. In both instances, we repeat, he was
unanimously found guilty. Yet that student de
sired a further appeal, and the substance of the
welfare board's decision was that it should, not
be granted.
This recommendation to the administration
also advised against appeals in general. In the
past they always have been a source of trouble;
the so-called boards of appeals have only had a
temporary, appointive status ; , and dissatisfied
students have abused this privilege by prolong
ing unnecessarily what was often a clear case
of guilt. Furthermore; a disgruntled student,
suspended from school yet remaining in Chapel
Hill on the something-for-nothing chance that
his case may . be cleared, can do the student
council a great deal of harm by questioning its
judgment. .
We do not mean to say that , new evidence is
not grounds for an appeal ; the student council
has always recognized this as only fair. But
past experience has proved that most appeals
cases have no legs on which to stand and only
speaking, a century of progress.
Pardon Our ,
Southern Accent
Grant and Lee and all the old boys would
really be tickled to death to glance down the
roster of University students ; there, besides the
names of a considerable portion of Carolina's
student body, they would find home ports listed
from far and beyond, that fickle Mason and Dixon
line, home ports whose local sons have trekked
southward to the land of the Tar Heel to mix
and mingle and be educated.
Northerners and westerners, with brogues and
accents and drawls and twangs, flock to this cam
pus for a multitude of reasons: financial, intel
lectual, social, adventurous, and nebulous. And
what they are doing to the element of the south
land when they bring their customs, their opin
ions, and their habits is interesting in its very
effect not only on the southerners but on them
selves also. s
To become truly Tar Heels, they should shuf
fle their way along, drawl slowly, consume the
least possible amount of energy, and drowse
lazily in the warm southern sunshine. And for
the Tar Heel to become a true Newarkite, he
must snap about importantly, look busy, master
the commanding brogue, and consume every pos
sible amount of energy. But neither the north
erner nor the southerner has any idea of for
saking the traditions of his race, so each adopts
a part of the other's repertoire and the result
is amazingly satisfactory.
Tar Heels polislTup the shuffle into a walk of
almost decent briskness, while Hoboken slows
down to a respectable trot; drawls snap into an
intelligible diction while brogues mellow them
selves into pleasant tones; southern faces look
even intelligent and northern countenances un
wrinkle and appear sublimely oblivious of the
weight of the world; the Carolina gentlemen is
now a half-breed, Tar Heel born, Yankee fed,
and when he dies, he's a dual personality gone
the way of all good American citizens.
This heterogeneousness is a healthy condi
tion. It's a wise and provincial bird who knows
he's from Schenectady nowadays.
Profitless
Kidnaping '
Arthur W. Roebuck, attorney general of Can
ada, has conceived a trenchant means of stop
ping kidnaping before it gets started. Canada's
first major kidnaping, the abduction of John
Labatt, millionaire brewer, may be said to be
the "start" of this insidious racket in that coun
try. Roebuck is determined to put a stop to it
before it gets well under way, and his means
of doing it is, to say the least, unusual.
The attorney general plans to ask the next
Ontario parliament to pass a law which will
prevent the payment of ransom. Canadians may
follow the letter of their laws more closely and
more conscientiously than Americans, but from
this country's experience with laws that seek to
counterpoint private liberties, notably the pro
hibition law, our own judgment would be that a
law to prevent ransom payments would be a hard
one to enforce. In the hysteria that follows a
kidnaping and the anxiety on ttie part of rela
tives to do all in their power to secure the re
lease of the kidnaped, it will be arrjr oblem to
prevent.
While it might entail some relinquishing of
its vaunted freedom on the part of the press,
our own consideration of the matter leads us to
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believe that soft-pedaling the
fact that ransom payments are
made would be a more effective
means of discouraging the in
cursions of new-comers into the
racket. At least, the .kidnaping
of Labatt, whose release was se
cured through the as yet un
proven statement that no ran
som was paid, shows that kid
naping, through the co-operation
of the press, can be advertised
as an unprofitable business. .
FLYING SQUADRON
CLASSES LIST 110
(Continued, from page one)
perienced at the work here,
read the placement theme Mon
day after the examination while
seven individuals were reading
and scoring : the Barrett-Ryan
standardized quiz in grammar,
sentence structure, and punctua
tion. Results of the examination
were submitted to the office of
the dean of students at 6 :00
o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
The median of all tests scores,
the upper 100, and the lower 75
were computed by officials to de
termine the high, middling, and
low sections. ,
Placement testing has con
tinued all during the past week
for late-comers, after the first
scheduled examination Monday.
It is calculated that the total
registration in freshman Eng
lish for the colleges of liberal
arts, applied science, commerce,
and pharmacy will run to ap
proximately 730 students by the
end of the registration period.
Phil Hammer Resigns
Position As Club Head
( Continued from page one )
will be heard over station
WDNC in Durham wilT be spon
sored each week by different
campus organizations under the
direction of the junior organi
zation. Committees were appointed
to take care of the various func
tions planned for the quarter.
Each of the committees is un
der the direct supervision of a
member of the executive board,
consisting of Frank Willingham,
Jack Clare, James Craighill,
Jake Snyder, and Lester Ostrow.
Willingham is in charge of
the inter-school relations com
mittee of which Billy Yandell is
chairman, and the game commit
tee, headed by Al McAnally.
Glare supervises the radio com
mittee, Snyder heads the com
mittee on arrangements, and Os
trow is the chairman of the
Cheerio committee.
Presbyterian Reception
To introduce Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Stewart to the commun
ity, the Presbyterian church will
give a reception on the church
lawn Friday night from 8:00 to
10 :00 o'clock. Members of th
faculty, their wives, and the peo
ple of the community are" cor
dially invited.
Oriental Symbols Bring
Ghosts of Pharaohs
(Continued from page one)
birth, figures prominently in the
decoration of Miss Barlow's ori
ental room. Embroidered on
one of her sofa pillows, it forms
part of the copy of a pattern
commonly found on the walls of
Egyptian tombs. A second pil
low is a representation of the
wall of an Egyptian temple and
pictures one of the pharaohs rid
ing in a chariot. The kings of
that early civilization are often
used to decorate rooms, accord
ing to Miss Barlow.
The deep concern of the
Egyptians over their after-life
is in evidence even down to the
decorative features of the small
est piece of bric-a-brac. A hint
of the elaborate ritual prescrib
ed in the mystic "Book of the
Dead" is contained in the figure
of one of the eighteenth dynasty
pharoahs (about 600 B. C.)
which stands in the center of
Miss Barlow's desk. It was the
custom, she relates, to put these
figures on possessions in the
royal tombs possessions buried
with the deceased owner in or
der that he might have all his
property with him in the "King
dom Beyond the Seas." Had one
of the kings failed to identify
himself in this way, he would
have remained propertyless in
the other world.
The wood on which this curi
ous little statue stands came
from the supporting beams of
the tomb of Tutmoses III. Cast
in bronze, the pharaoh minia
ture wears the familiar head
gear of ancient Egypt.
On either side of the statue
are two small lamps which Miss
Barlow found on the edge of one
of the largest cases in Egypt,
the Fayoum. Curiously enough,
these lamps are made of mud.
They were once used to lighten
the gloom of desert nights, but
now have been converted by
Miss Barlow into attractive
bookends.
Weapons used for ornamenta
tion in the room are curious wit
nesses of African lore. At one
side of the entrance to Miss
Barlow's room are two steel
spears and a silver Soudanese
dagger. The dagger's sheath is
made of crocodile hide, which
stands for strengthen the minds
of the natives according to Miss
Barlow; interwoven with it is
gazelle leather, representing
swiftness. ,
"The spears are used in a
strange African' custom," ex
plained the co-ed. "Two men,
standing about 25 feet apart,
throw them at each other in a
sort of duel. They defend them
selves from the deadly throws
only with a kind of 'shield' in
reality a stick about three inch
es wide and three feet long. If
one is wounded, his family
brings suit against the thrower
since the honor of the wounded
man would be degraded if this
was not done. The British
courts have had no little trouble
with these suits for what they;
term 'blood money.'
Miss Barlow sometimes wears
a crude silver Soudanese ring.
"Native women wear from one
to two rings like this one on
each finger," she remarked hum
orously," and use them for both
ornaments and weapons of de
fense. One of the oldest forms
of the brass knuckle there is, E
suppose!"
Strange customs and strange
workmanship go hand in hand
with what seems the almost il
limitable number of decorative
objects that Miss Barlow has
brought with her from Egypt.
A Persian belt from Teheran, a
mirror of Arabic design these
and many other curios from the
Near East make the co-ed from
Egypt "at home" in Spencer
hall, where Kipling's twain, of
all places, choose to meet.
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