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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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dexter, W. M. Cochrane, Nelson Lansdale.
CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Walter Hargett, Don
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TELEGRAPH EDITORS Stuart Rabb, Charlie Gilmore.
DESK MAN Eddie Kahh.
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Jimmy Morris and Stuart
Sechriest, co-editors, Tom Bost, Lee Turk, Len Rubin,
Fletcher Ferguson, Lester Ostrow, Ira.Sarasohn.
EXCHANGES Margaret Gaines.
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REPORTERS Bill Hudson, Jhn Smith, J. F. Jonas,
Lawrence Weisbrod, Hazel Beacham, William Jordan,
Morton Feldman, Ralph Sprinkle, Newton Craig.
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: IRVING SUSS
Wednesday, April 3, 1935
PARAGRAPHICS
"Journal Carries Faculty Writings." Which,
no doubt, were a mite heavy.
Dr. Lederer told us why Germany had a dic
tator, but we still can't figure out why they've
got Hitler.
.Pledge Gilmore says, "I do not know
Why only. God can make si tree.
Of this one thing I'm hopeful, though
May God keep His monopoly!"
Student
Questions
Thus far the student turnout for the program
of the Human Relations Institute has been on
the whole gratifying. It has been our observa
tion that the students were sincerely interested
in the various presentations from the platform.
But in the seminars the student participation
nas been slightly less intense. And one sug
gested reason is that the students have not al
ways .had a "chance to get a word in endwise.
- Faculty members and outside observers have
sprung questions at the conducting authorities
with alacrity but on the whole students have not
registered much of an opinion or an incjuisitive
ness. That they have not had the chance is, of
course, not the only reason. Most students, no
matter how well versed they are in a subject, are
hesitant about popping a question with so many
authorities in their presence. Consequently,
many questions are either left unanswered on
the students' lips or asked after the session,
which is both inconvenient to the leader and re
tarding to the Institute seminar program.
- We can only suggest that more students who
attend seminars because of their interest mani
fest this interest by asking those questions
which will help clear up any point in doubt. We
daresay the student will find the opportunity of
doing this just as easily as the faculty member
if the question is previously formed and ready
for delivery. That faculty members are more
advanced in a subject than the inquisitive stu
dent is no reason for the student to eschew his
personal expressions in the form of questions.
After all, the institute , is for mutual education
and we imagine the speaker gets as much of an
idea of what the public thinks of his theoras
from a student's question as from one asked by
an authority in the field.
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Greyhounds
Are Coming
We have not given up hope for the poor Grey
hounders in their fight to get a hearing before
the state utilities commission. For some reason
or other we believe that sooner or later the At
lantic Greyhound Lines is going to run a bus
through Chapel Hill, with Raleigh on one end of
the line and Greensboro on the other.
The Durham chamber of commerce, we under
stand, is doing -a noble job in cahoots with the
Carolina Coach Company and have been feeding
me uichuuhu attorneys luusier out 01 season,
or something, so that they repeatedly have
stomach-aches and other minor disabling infirm
ities. But even the best of us slip up and maybe
the -hearing will be granted, after all.
, In the meantime, the Carolina coaches go
blithely crashing from Durham to Chapel Hill.
Remnant of ,
Baby Days v -
There was a time when fraternities depended
on a good deal of mystic.-flubdub to maintain
their prestige as secret orders. .That was in
their infancy. Now, however, - the fraternity
stands alone as having a definite 'place on the
American campus.
Still, our "so-called hell week persists a rem
nant of those pap-and-teething days that is as
infantile as it is ridiculous.
Only two fraternities we know of have had
the insight to recognize that fact. The initia
tions of the rest of them vary in degree, but
most still retain the prevalent cUjStom of pad
dling, with all the childish trimmings.
There is a lot to be said for the two non-hazing
lodges' move, in giving up all kinds of horse-play
as a feature of fraternity life that detracts from
its purpose and significance. Our interest, how
ever, is confined to seeing the fraternities make
the small sacrifice of paddling. Let them keep
the harmless sort of stunts, but not the un
conscionably stupid habit? of paddling their
pledges. No justification of it has ever been
shown, for there is none.
Fraternities, to be sure, are not the only or
ganizations guilty of following this unreasoning
convention. The social orders of the sophomore
class, for instance, useless as they are, help to
perpetuate it. But it is not too much to expect
that these would follow the example of frater
nities once they showed they: were in earnest
about abolishing paddling once and for all. Soon
er or later, it must be done. .
Negroes
And Juries
The Supreme Court of the United States has
granted two alleged. Negro assaulters another
chance at freedom and upheld once more the
right of every accused citizen to an impartial
jury trial. The Supreme Court decision reopens
the Scottsboro case on the grounds that in the
two previous trials Negroes were excluded from
the juries and the "due process of law" clause
thus violated.
The case will be tried for the third time in the
state courts of Alabama, if the. state, authori
ties choose to continue proceedings against the
seven Negroes who are accused of having at
tacked two white girls on a freight train. Since
1932 has this case dragged itself out in the courts
of the state of Alabama.
The existence of such flagrant violations of the
Constitution is a travesty on American justice!
While we sit and discuss interracial relations,
members of a race comprising ten per cent of the
population of our nation are denied the rights
which are guaranteed all in the sacred Constitu
tion of our country. Of course, the situation has
been corrected by the action of the Supreme
Court, but itis deplorable that there should be
such a situation for the Supreme Court to correct.
Looking Backward
One and Five Years Ago .
Today in the Files of
the Daily Tab Heel.
April 3, 1930
Though-wells are being sunk
near- Havelock in the eastern
part of the state, Dr. Collier
Cobb repeats insistently, "There
is no oil in North Carolina" . . .
584 drinkers and 380 non-drink-ers
decide fc for ' repeal in the
Daily Tar Heel prohibition
poll . . . Gas installation for
Chapel Hill is probable . . . And
politics? A fellow named Har
per Barnes is running for
sophomore Student Councilman.
April 3, 1934
"Boss" Hill, well known tail
or, is sick at home and,.asks stu
dents to call by for their pants
. . . Graham Memorial reports a
profit of $124 for the preceding
six months. . . "In the spring a
young man's fancy" f or cam
pus poets meet with Phillips
Russell . . . Meanwhile, says a
headline, "FERA Employees
Fertilize Trees." s
Banquet for Sze
The alumni of Cornell Univer
sity have arranged a banquet
for Dr. Alfred Sze at 6 p. m.
Saturday at the Carolina Inn, it
was announced yesterday.
Reservations for the Chinese
minister's dinner may be secured
from Dr. W. E. Caldwell.
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Woman's Glee Club
The weekly meeting of the
Woman's Glee Club will be held
from 5 to 6 o'clock this after
noon in Hill Music hall.
All girls, expecting to take
part in the spring concert must
attend all these meetings.
It is very important that all
members be present on time,
since pictures will be taken for
the Yackety Yack.
Infirmary
The following students were
confined in the infirmary yester
day: M. K. Kalb, Robert Van
Sleen, W. F. Clark, Abol Hussan
Fotouhi, David Wishney, Elea
nor Lockhart, Mary Ross, E. A.
Novich, James Idol, and O. R.
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Roots of
Dire Evil
A feature story in yesterday's issue of this
austere newspaper informed the campus-at-large
that one Charlie Gilmore, '38, had, as part of a
fraternity initiation, counted all the trees on the
campus and found that there were 2,164 trees
over two inches in diameter.
While the incident itself looks somewhat in
significant and pleasant enough in itself- albeit
somewhat irksome for Pledge Gilmore there is
nonetheless a great deal of significance attached
to it by campus cognoscenti, who, in keeping with
their policy of staying en- courant with news of
all sorts, read only last week in the departmental
journal -of the biology department, "Amoebae,
Just Amoebae," sometimes known as "Apollo
Delphikos, Zeitschrift f uer Allgemein lebens u.
Kulturstudien," that and here comes the point
of this editorial, hot from the Underwood the
Census Committee of the Friends of Dogs, Joyce
Kilmer, Arboreal Kesearch, and the Princeton
Library (an obscure campus learned body) had
completed in March a count .of the campus trees
and found them to total 2,165, no less.
' The Census Committee numbered among its
members three professional tree-counters ; on
the other hand, Mr. Gilmore, whose total our
more astute readers will notice was one in num
ber below that of the committee, tells us that his
family has been intimately connected with trees
from time immemorial. Since the result of either
investigation could not be doubted with an open
mind, it is obvious that one of our trees has with
in the past two weeks been lost, strayed, or
stolen.
Obviously, the effect of this discovery will re
verberate over all the campus. Its repercussions
may mean anything, and an investigation must
take place at once ; furthermore, anyone who can
not present a cast-iron alibi should be jailed at
once.
When we lose a slice of the budget, it's bad
enough. But when we begin losing our trees
Heaven forbid . . . we're sunk. For the sake of
our trembling souls, we suggest that Mr. Gil
more make a re-count. He might have erred
before.
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