North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO Ctie Batlp Car eel The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel HiH, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving:, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. (X, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. Business and editorial offices: 204-207 Graham "Memorial . Telephones: news, 4351; editorial, 8641; business, 4356; night 6906 v circulation, 6476. Allen HerriiL Wffl G. Arey. CI en S. Humphrey, Jr. Jesse Lewis 1 Editorial Board Voit Gilmore, Tom Stanback, DeWitt Barnett, Walter Kleeman, Ray mond Lowery. Reporters Morris Rosenberg, Jim McAden; Carroll McGaughey, Jesse Reese, Bill Rhodes Weaver, Donald Bishop, Miss Louise Jordan. , v Columnists' Laffitte Howard, Miss Lucy Jane Hunter, Adrian Spies. Technical Staff Cm Edttob: Charles Barrett Assistant: Miss Carroll Costello. News Editors: Martin Harmon, Ed Rankin, Bill Snider. Night Sports Editors: Fred Cazel, Gene Williams, Rush Hamrick. Associate News Editors: Edward Prizer, Ben Roebuck, Bob Barber. Feature Board Miss Gladys Best Tripp, Sanford Stein, Louis Connor, Larry Lerner, . Sam Green. Cub Reporters Louis Harris, Miss Doris Goerch, Miss Dorothy Coble, Jimmy DumbeH, Miss Jo Jones, Arthur Dixon, Charles Gerald, Fred Brown, Tom Dekker. Sports Staff . - Editor: Shelley Rolfe. ' . Reporters: William L. Beerman, Leonard Lobred, Billy Weil, Richard Morris, Jerry Stoff, Frank Goldsmith, Jim Vawter, Roy Popkin. Assistant Cibcdlation Manager: Business Staff Local Advertising Managers: Bert Halperin, Bill Ogburn, Ned Ham ilton. Durham Advertising Manager: Gilly Nicholson. Durham Representative: Andrew Gennett. Office Managers : ' Stuart Ficklen, Jim Schleif er. Assistant Office Manager: Bob Lerner. Local Advertising Assistants: Bob Sears, Alvin Pattersonjrv Fleish man, Floyd Whitney, Warren Bernstein, Bill Brunner, Tom Nash, Mor ton Ulman, Floyd Whitney.. Office Staff: Mary Peyton Hover, Phil Haigh, L. J. Scheinman, Bill Sterin, Charles Cunningham, James Garland, Jack Holland, Mary Ann Koonce, Lan Donnell, Dave Pearlman. 1 For This Issue: NEWS: CHARLES BARRETT SPORTS: GENE WILLIAMS To The Legislature .if -. : ' ". . . ' t ' ' - Out of a blanket income coming largely from tax-burdened North Carolina citizens, the legislature, forced to abide by the unbreakable laws of the multiplication table, hears on the one hand cries from the people of the state to burden them any further with increased taxation or1 indebtedness, and on the other hand it listens to appeals from state Agencies, such as the highway commission, the secondary v : schools, and the. Greater University, for more necessary funds. - f The Chapel Hill unit, in pleading its cause to the legislature itself, in making known its needs to the people of the state through contacting the people at home, bears in mind the relative poverty of funds in the state treasury, yet must make itself heard, must make the legislators in Raleigh aware that if the Appropriation " Committee's recommenda tion is adopted that a crippling blow will be dealt the University which Mark Ethridge called the "capital of the Southern mind." The general scene in Chapel Hill includes a rapidly growing stu- ' dent body 3,400 strong, tweleve new buildings and annexes emerging through the aid of federal funds, and an intangible but not less real concentration of the richest fruits of Southern thought, all placing the little village in an unchallengeable position of leadership in the education world, and particularly in the South. Yet, in order to maintain the rate of upward progress, many struggles are occuring behind the scenes. At least sixty professors have refused a total of $600,000 in salary inpreases in order to remain on the faculty, and among the members of the Association of Ameri can Universities we rank at the bottom in salary levels. Among these Universities, the North Carolina state appropriation for the individual student ranks far below the average, and, at the same time, among 54 state institutions in 48 states, we rank fourth from' -the. 'top in matriculation charges imposed on resident as well as non-resident students. Although comparative statistics are not available, endowments are meager to the point of not being significant, the most noteworthy being the various Kenan funds of twenty years ago that have aided, for example, in holding faculty salaries above the subsistence level. The University is operating this year on a 81 per cent basis of the 1928-29 figure, and yet it accommodates 138 per cent of the number of students of that year. In the face of a growing student body, a number of new build- ings, a new medical school to equip, and an unreasonable salary scale, there should be added, according to the appropriations committee, a seventy-five dollar increase in out-of-state tuition that places us fifth .from the top. among f if tyrf our state institutions. There will, of course, ' be a margin of non-resident students who will not return next year to feed the University income, and the low appropriation would make reciprocity agreements unlikely. - The appropriation committee, as pointed out by Dr. Graham, in tends for the University to operate not only on lessthan last year's figure, but on less than the figure recommended by the Budget Com mission. . Out of the confusion of recommendations and figures, however, emerges the proposal of Mr. Sutton to increase this year's appropria tion of $717,226 by $53,000 for salaries and $33,000 for the medical school equipment, a total of $804,226 for the year 1939-40. With the endorsement of the administration and the support of the . student body, it is that figure which the University, as the standard bearer of education in North Carolina, asks the members of the leg islature not to ignore. -Editor. Managing Editor -Business Manager .Circulation Manager Larry Ferling. THE DAILY Letters To Over 100 Words O CORRECTION To the Editor, ' Dear Sir: Please let me correct a misprint in today's Letters to the Editor. From "Joe's" postcard as quoted by me, the typesetter apparently telescoped out the words I italicize in the sent ence that read, "I am still of the opinion that no clear-thinking student, let alone a clear-thinking athlete, would register for one of your courses." Incidentally, this omission left my effusion, which refers to "Joe's" clear-thinking student not to his clear-thinking athlete without any particular reason for existence. and with the wrong implication that athletes were increasing in -my courses. Very truly yours, John N. Booker. O NOT THE LAST WORD To the Editor Dear Sir: - So many "last words" about the current Buccaneer have been turned into type-slugs that Editor Pugh could print a full-sized and : highly entertaining February issue with them, and still have enough left over to weight him to the bottom of any convenient lake, when and if futility ceases to be a "literary" subject and becomes a vital one for him. I should regret contributing to the fatal weight around sq, god a rhetorician's neck; therefore I repress the natural desire to join the Sir Oracles. Anyway, the points of both sides, and of the f ence-perchers, have been stated with fairly equal adequacy, even thought not with equal rhetoric (for the anti-Mid-Victorians have a greater number of guaranteed-effec-tive labels to sling). Everybody can now consult his vanity and follow the pointing of its inexorable finger. If he is ashamed to appear as a "campus saint" among the "forces of righteous ness," he can strike a proud and ro mantic posture of despair and hug his lonely disillusion in delicious lime light. On the other hand, if it appears more original to renounce as adoles cent the morbid thrill to mortality which he felt alike at "Dawn Patrol," at the boxingmatch, and at .Page Twenty-one, he can practice wrinkling a grave brow before, the miriror and join the "students . . . genuinely con cerned." The concern of this letter is not with the Buccaneer's merits, but with 1 freedom- of--expression by such non-1 student leaders of campus thought as "our ministerial friends and their henchman," attacked in Wednesday's letters column for deserting their "proper place on the pulpit"' and pro ceeding "to blast with full force," etc. "For the benefit of the campus saints," the attacker suggests that the "ministers confine their opinions to interpretations of the gospel," and that "those same ministers and a few students who have evidently led 'sheltered lives' move up into the' twentieth century." J The absurdity of the first sugges tion, and its inconsistency with the second seem so obvious that to point them out may look like the gleeful laboring of a minor point made by an unrepresentative spokesman. But these suggestions come as a climatic summary to the writer's arguments; j he believes that he "expresses the opinion of a great many who pay for ! the Buccaneer;" and his pose of au thority has been confirmed, in a' few cases, by Buccaneer stock-holders whom I myself have heard objecting to clerical . participation in the con troversy. To put the case on the writer's own terms, it would be inconsistent for a minister who held twentieth-century concepts of the clergy's social re sponsibility to make his sermons noth ing but biblical commentaries. And this social responsibility is, for good or bad, undeniably at the base of modern concepts of religious leader ship. Perhape the writer's own life has been too sheltered, and he doesn't know about these things. Anyway, if he himself would "move up into the twentieth century," he would not de limit the province of religious lead ership as he has done. This, however, is only to dispose of the anti-preachers letter-writter; his "constituency" have committed .no overt inconsistencies in resenting what they call ministerial interference with purely student activities. The wrathful independents among them, confusing criticism with censorship, say that an outsider has no right to meddle with the editorial policy of a campus literary officer. Their allies, the amused scoffers, say that the clerical labor has brought forth a mouse, that there is no issue in the TAR HEEL The Editor Subject to Cutting present controversy large enough to warrant preaching about. The wrathful independents need to he reminded that the strongest attacks on the Buccaneer, made by Mr. Stew art, were in the form of suggestions offered directly to the student body. That these suggestions have been acted upon by the student council ought to be, for these believers in student independence, sufficient proof of their legitimacy and pertinence, for the council members were elected by the processes of student govern ment. v The amused scoffers are not well informed. Mr. Stewart, against whom most of the criticism has been direct' ed, made his first reference to the Buccaneer merely in passing, as an illustration in a Sunday sermon. The issue was forced upon him by the op position, and his subsequent recom mendations were made in reply to their raising of it. Sincerely yours, Bill Hudson P TUITION BARRIER : To the Editor, Dear Sir: The entire University was rightous-j ly indignant -over the proposal of raising the tuition of students from the state of North Carolina, but now that the only danger is out of state students, the situation is either ignor ed or accepted with indif ference. This selfish attitude can not be denied. However, the effects of increasing the tuition of out of state students are of such a deep and serious nature as to merit thoughtful and immediate consideration- There are many reasons, vital and all too clear, why the tuition of out of state students should not be raised. In the first place, the out of state differential is already relatively high among state universities. Further more, it is delusive to think that the average "foreign" student is bet ter off financially than the average "native" student. Such an increase in differential would be in effect a pro tective tariff, cutting off income rather than providing it, for out of state enrollment would be inversely proportional to the increase in tuition. As pointed out in the Tar Heel, the scholastic attainments of out' of state students are a greater credit to the University than those of North Caro lina students. It must also be remem bered that the fusion of the ideas and ideals of "foreign" students with those of "native" students is a chief means of preventing the sectionalism and narrow provincialism that prohibits liberal thought. Then, too, our out of state alumni are among the most loyal supporters of the University, and they certainly could ho. nothing but indig nant at such an unwarranted and thoughtless aggression as such fur ther discrimination would amount to. And if, for the moment, one would forget other consequences and consider out attainments in the field of sport, he would be forced to admit that many of our outstanding athletes are out of state products. Next, consider the importance of graduate studies and research, which is the basis of intelligent outside evaluation of the University, and the fact that about 40 percent of the 450 students in the Graduate School in the fall quarter, 1938, were out of state students. And, finally, we can hardly overlook the in consistency of the present rapid physi cal and intellectual expansion of the University in view of the recent threat to the free flow of students and talent from "abroad." At this time, when the final de cision of the legislature has presum ably not been reached, it is proper and imperative for both out of state students and state students to unite and prevent a serious blow to the Uni versity's prestige, standing in Ameri can education, and intellectual health. Urgently yours, Bernard R. Swan. BIRTHDAYS TODAY (Please call by the ticket office of the Carolina theater for a com' plvmentary pass.) Tunstall J. P. Ward, M. M. Williams, Lafayette. Kerbough, S. L. Russell, E. L. Ballentine, Anna Margaret. Ball, D. L. ' "Bell, Victoria Ellen. Browder, N. C. Hall, Madeline Elaine. Dumbell, J. M. Howard, R. W. Nicholson, H. G. Morrow, Thomas Lacy. Local Students Win Raleigh Bridge Game RALEIGH, N. C, February 9 Four University of North Carolina students, Robert J. Lovfll, Jr., T. C. Duncan Eaves, J. Donald Dial, Jr., and N. G. Sims, participated in the Raleigh Bridge club game here Tues day evening. Lovill and Eaves won first place in a 12-pair Howell section, with a score of 58.18 per cent. They will be award ed twelve National Rating points each and their choice of cups or Congress cards. Dial and Sims ranked four in the same section. Out-of-town players are invited to participate in Raleigh Bridge club games, held on Tuesday evenings at 7:45 at the Raleigh Woman's club, 314 Hillsboro street. The card fee is 35c. Eaw-Med Dances Open In Tin Can (Continued on last page) with "Sarah Sutton, from Raleigh? Joseph Eittner, with Sue Johnson, Ninety-six, S. C; J. Nathaniel Ham rick with Mrs. J. Nathaniel Hamrick; James H Howell,.- Jr., with Miss Clover Johnson; Edward B. Clark, with Daisy Mae Scragg, from Skunk Hollow; Harry McMullen, with Anna Dean Burks; Emery Raper, with Adelaide Winslow; Lacy A. Dalton, with Helen Wilson of Durham; Allen Merrill, with Miss Elizabeth Shew make; James K. Dorsett; Thomas Ravenel; Joseph B. Chesire, with Anna Turner Knight; and Fred M. Parrish, with Katherine May of Ra leigh. GUESTS The faculty guests from the Law school include: Dean M. T. Van Hecke, Albert Coates, J. P. Dalzell, Miss Lucille Eliot, Frank W. Hanft, Mrs. Helen M. Lumpkin, D. W. Mark ham, Breck P. McAllister, and Fred B. McCall. A tea dance will be held tomorrow afternoon, while tomorrow evening the official Med school dance will be held. Freddy Johnson and his or chestra will play at these functions. The committee, jointly chosen from both schools, in charge of the dance, is composed of Emmett Spicer and Tom Thurston of the Medical school, and Jim Carr, Claude Hobbs, and W. R. Shelton, from the Law school. Students Plan For Lobby (Continued from first page J commission recommended. He pointed out, however, that this recommenda tion was based on the assumption that tuition for all students would be in creased to bring in additional revenue of approximately $400,000 to the three units. Actually, a $75 tuition increase was placed on out-of-state students only, accounting for the misleading figures. "I am basing my requests upon the Sutton figures," Dr. Graham said, though he declared that the Univer sity actually needed at least $960,000. SUTTON FIGURES The Sutton figures for the Chapel Hill unit would provide $717,226, plus $53,000 for salary increments and $33, 000 for one year only for improve ments of the medical school, Dr. Gra ham said. He urged the students to impress upon "the people back home" the need for the salary increments and medical school improvements. He asserted that the University is morally obligated to increase the salary of instructors after three years' service, but that this is impossible without the appropriation. He cited numerous examples of faculty mem bers who have been offered sizeable increases by other institutions, but who chose to remain here because of their attachment to the University. The two-year medical school is in danger of losing its standing with the American Medical association unless improvements are provided for, he said. The value of two-year schools, especially in the South, has been proven, Dr. Graham declared. New Candidate Enters Race (Continued from first page) statement: "At the request of many friends, and feeling the need of a more democratic campus, with a Presi dent of the Student Body represent ing the majority of students, I here by announce my candidacy for President. I do not proclaim to be a politican fordefinitely I am not. But I do believe in fairness, and I think the President of our Student Body should be elected rather than appointed. I'm not a radical; I be lieve the students should be allowed to express their opinions, especially on such matters of great concern. "(Signed,) 'Bill' Pearson." FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, iD LOOK ATMS.. By WALTER KLEEllAX As you see from tfc f-.--. Mr. Sutton's bill mentions aa Vn in the professors' salaries, other thin Whnf - o - - &s UVZ. front page was that Mr. Ma!U uiuuuucea a nether v.t proposing that the legislators series be raised 50 per cent, from $5.39 session to $900, and that the cn of the legislature have their While it is our opinion that the h ter has a better chance of our fervent hope is for the of both. As another bit of a sidelight q the proposed increase in out-of. tuition; The estimate of $75,000 a made on the basis of 1000 out-sutet but there are only 975 in school Tij may seem small but each one cf thaj would pay the University $325 jj fees; the total for 25 is the tidy g. of $8,125. And that only holds true if all them come back. Some of them wont be able to come back; some of thea haven't that much money. Take $325 off this figure for every one tb: doesn't. Just saying this doesn't mean any. thing; but if you out-of-state's fill o this blank and send it, bring it, or mail it to the Tar Heel office it migh do some good. Will you be able to return to school next year if the out-of-state tuition is increased $75 ? Yes. ( ) No ( )(Check One) Dances, Parties Are Planned (Continued on last page) per will be given at the lodge on Cameron avenue before a formal ,j v:,!. :n u : iv. tt.. uautc, wuku win vi; givcu at um nope Valley country club, and at which Freddie Johnson and his orchestra will play; following a hayride tomor row afternoon, members and their guests will attend another dance at the country club, at which Norman Bennett and his orchestra will fur nish the music. About 150 members and invitee guests will attend . the, affairs. The lodge and club will be decorated ii tne iraternity colors of black aw gold. In charge of , the event are: Court Dawson, president; Phil Gun- ther and Allen Truex. Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Erickson, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lear and Mr. and Mra Don Martin, all of Chapel Hill, wiE be chaperones. DI-PHI DANCE The Di-Phi dance will be given at the Carolina inn tonight from 9:30 to one o'clock, with Ted Ross and his orchestra performing. A formal f if ure will be presented during the even ing. The tradition-covered activity Is expected to draw about 250 member: and guests. The Sigma Chi's will honor their pledges at a house dance tomorrow night. Jere King and his orchestra will play for the affair. Colorful dec orations have been planned to carry out the lodge's colors of blue and goli Chairmen of the committees are: Dan ny Deaver, pledges; Tom Kirkpatrick, finance; Bill Williamson, decorations; and Paul Roseman. invitations. The group will be assisted by John Hutt and Peter Carr, who had charge of the party last year. Kappa Epsilon, Pharmacy girl'5 sorority, will give an informal dance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ealps Weaver at 152 West Franklin street following the Carolina-Duke base ball game. Decorations and refresh ments will carry out a. Valentine motif Arranerine the nartv will be Misses Anna Dean Burks, Margaret Uoji Altajane Holden, Elizabeth Weaver, Rose Stafv. T?1nTirli Rnrrus. Sari Halt, Lucille Gillespie, Jessie V Smith, Josephine Eldridge and Conn DuBose. Miss Alice Noble and mem bers of the Pharmacy school faculty will be chaperones. In 1923 the University was admit ted into the Association of Americas universities. JUNIORS-SENIORS Official Class Rings Available Price Range $14-$25 See Bill Robertson 112 Mangn Pick Theatre TODAY POWER YOUNG; i 1 r I