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THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915 PAGE TWO Ifie Daitu clar &d The official newspaper of the Publications Union of the Unrrenxty of North Carolina at Chapel Fi, where it u printed daiiy, except Mondays, examinations ana Teaon penoas. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel mil, N. under the act or March 8. 1879. Subscription price Is 95.00 for the college year. Complete Leased Wire Service of United Press ROBERT MORRISON WESTY FENHAGEN EDDIE ALLEN BETTIE GAITHER CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor -Business Manager Circulation Manager EDITORIAL. STAFF: Bay Conner, Fred Jacobson, Dorothy Marshall, Gloria Gaotier, Mort Sneed, Dick Korai, uicm. owm. NEWS EDITORS: Bob Levin, Jack Lackey, rvtpv vniTnR : Bill Lamkin. pwpnPTKfi?; B4t Green. Jo Posh. Frances Halsey. Janet Johnston, Mary H21 Gaston, Bettie Washburn, Gloria Bobbins, Sam Summerlin, Elaine Patton, Miekie Derieux, Gene Aenchbacber, John Uiies, xtoiana uiauz, uariey Locnner, trosej .bmeison, faizaoeui oara. SPORTS EDITOBS: Carroll .ropiin, xrwin Small wood. SPORTS STAFF: Howard Merry, Frank Miller, Clark Stallworth, Mel Cohen, Bob Fried- lander, Baddy Gotterman, jo rams, Jim juuuz. ADVERTISING MANAGER: Bill 8elig. ADVERTISNG LAYOUT MANAGER: Ann Thornton; Assistant, Don Shields. BUSINESS STAFF: Suzanne Barclay, Natalie Selig, Claude Ramsay, Strowd Ward, Bar- ATitrvo'Tisrun STATU'. Adelaide McNarty. Both Gav. Virginia Wilson, Pegrey Cates, Sarah Wood, Gene Heafner, Bettie Cheatham, Nancy Westbrook. Jean Youngblood. m tt ., nj.Tira Mnnin. Ann Geohesran. Tii Clarke. Hal Dickens. Zeb Little, Eddie Owens, Mary Widener, Fay Maples, Marianne Brown, Jane Slaughter, Mary Jo Cain, Ann Cobb, Louise King, Jeanne uriseoli, Betty Lamb, jMoogy mcuee, jo jncmuian. To The Editor: Art Students Advocate . Sounder Architecture Dear Sir: A great gift has recently been made to our University. We do not intend, in this letter, to criticize this gift, nor the fine and generous spirit in which it is given. Briefly, we merely want to protest against the building in which the Morehead art collection and planetarium will be housed. As far as can be gathered from f the architect's sketch in the FOREIGN SERVICE INDUCEMENTS The proposal to offer double pay and free transportation for families to troops serving overseas, raised by Representative Carl Vinson, Georgia Democrat and Chairman of the House Naval Committee, seems to be a motion in a good direction. But characteristic reaction of the Army to innovation is fore cast by members of the House Military Committee, who in in- problem to an architect never HiWf mmtatinn Pvnpct. "the Armv would fierht the plan vieror- having seen a Georgian or clas- VAA JL. W V W V W ' paper, the new building will "fit in" with other anachronistic ad ditions to our campus, for the plan calls for a rectangular building (probably red brick) with an assortment of pillars, cornices and sculptural detail. It isn't a new type of architec ture to Carolina students. At a glance the planetarium might be mistaken for the Raleigh capitol, the Institute of Government or Graham Memorial with a dome on top housing the planetarium that dome obviously posed a ously." An outstanding unfortunate trait of Army headmen has been quiescence in the matter of pay and general situation of men in the ranks. Securing the taxpayers' dollars for benefit of en listed men has scarcely been a concern, especially during peace. This is noticeable when it is recalled that mere privates have been paid as low as $15 per month since World War I. Ad ministrating officers' schemes, it can be observed, involved a steady effort to gain enlistments which would call for more of ficers and consequently promotions for officers of senior ex perience. ' A modicum of opportunity and genteel family life has been offered by the Army to its officer caste. While calling for addi tional enlistments now, the Army itself is not the source of most of the schemes for making its conditions more liveable for the common man. If the Army's plea for more men is justified, it may become necessary rather than merely desirable to pay more and to allow more freedom and self-respect to the enlisted men. Reflection of wage rises in the country may be felt in fewer enlistments nowadays, and a continuing full employment would be a strong force against enlistments, supposing prices do not gallop too far ahead of present dollar values. Among proposals for changing the style of foreign duty is another with less official backing so far: special uniforms for sic planetarium. Well, they sketch the planetarium with a dome on top hoping perhaps the whole would resemble Monti- cello. Why should it look like Monticello? Why, squeeze 'the whole thing into a copy of a copy of a revival of what was the latest in Athens about twenty five centuries ago? Not having been to any seances recently we are m no position to quote Thomas Jefferson, but from a quick look at Mr. Jefferson's rec ord of progress in his own time it is safe to assume that he would take a dim view of the new build ings erected on our campus with in the last thirty years. We do have beautiful old structures at Carolina. South Building was and still is a fine piece of archi tecture. Old East and West, the Playmakers' Theater, all were built according to the needs and customs of their day- they rep resent progress because they were new in their time. They re- Censor Publicity Wins Popularity For 'Scarlet Street9 troops to serve under a separate branch of the Army. There is a fleeted new and vital ideas and good irerm here, for while an attacking or conquering Army were built to the limit of powers can well look its part, a police force can very well be expecteoT to construction and engineering - I l . T H T IIM.V. M i mivprsTT.v UK : ll j? ij. 4. T-C TTUJ vr4-; I " w" ' . appear easily recugiiizauie vr ius part, xx tiie uiuicu iatiuiw shall maintain order by use of United States troops and others, it shall be a good policy to send the troops in a distinctive uni form under a United Nations flag. Doubtful is the wisdom of sending national uniforms and flags on combined international missions. So far, the United Nations council has made no display of any uniforms or flag. These ought to be chosen by the World's people as their emblems. Perhaps the designing is a task for the Art Department here in Person Hall. The draft still is taking men of college age. If incentives for foreign service should be installed on one side, and if wages continue to rise on the other, what shall be the path of the pros pective college student, even with return of enlistments to volun tary? There is a strong likelihood that he will come ahead to college in increasing numbers, because general lack of money in the lower economic class has been truly the big deterrent. The dissemination of education has been widening for 150 years. There is no obvious reason to expect a reversal. Families long have sacrificed immediate gains, even "necessities," to long term educational gains. R.W. SPRING HOLIDAY The powers that be have finally decided that the students will get a spring vacation this year. A vacation of four days duration was all that the University could see its way clear to granting but even that will come as a welcome relief. In grant ing the short holiday, registration officials have saved them selves the headache of mass late registration, the inevitable re sult of such a hard-hearted action as scheduling registration immediately after exams. The natural question that arises is why a regular spring re cess was not granted this year, now that the University is once more back on the quarter system. Spring holiday of a week's duration at least has been a regular feature of the University's academic schedule since time immemorial until the advent of war and now with every hand being turned to returning our school to a normal, peacetime basis, what could be more ap propriate than restoring the normal vacation periods to which ' we have been accustomed? A four-day holiday is better than hone, but where is that normal schedule we've been hearing so much about from South building? -W. F. A ours should reflect of their great as progress. The veneer of "style" found in classic pillars of a layer of red brick isn't Carolina tradi tion. If it were, tradition would be a humbug. Tradition lies in growth and growth is embodied in progress. Why deny that our planetarium is a wonderful new machine age miracle. Why should it be impossible to house it dramatically, fittingly, in a building which suits its need, adapts itself to the most useful form and does not deny its func tion? TUT . "I . 1 1 J ivioaern , arcnitecture means more than chromium and glass blocks. It can mean sensible science buildings (Phillips Hall?), quiet naturally lighted classrooms (could that be ap plied to Saunders?). Modern architecture on this campus needn't stick out like a sore thumb. Granted it wouldn't be of the same period as South Building. Saying that modern gue spired a quartet of Carolina architecture won't fit on this campus is like making the state ment that the music of Stravin sky and Beethoven cannot be played on the same programme. Thomas Jefferson and Frank Lloyd Wright are years apart but they do have in common an appreciation of the element of progress, the ability to discard the old if something better comes along: Why sacrifice service to style once more and get a build ing with narrow stairs, small windowed rooms and faulty natural ventilation? Students know how things are run. No one See LETTERS, page four i By Bob Finehout The ridiculous censorship, and attendant publicity, that "Scar let Street" has received will probably make that somewhat ordinary picture one of the box office hits of the year. Bosley Crowther, writing in The New York Times, says "You can bet that the public's interest in 'Scar let Street' has been enhanced 100 per cent by the suggestion of the censors tnat it shouldn t be shown." The film was finally passed by the New York state A a censors alter minor deletions were made. The Gotham's Cri terion theater, where the picture is now being shown, reports that business is brisk. . . . Betty Hutton has been given the starring role in "The Perils of Pauline," a filmization of that indestructible heroine of the an cient chapter-plays, Pearl White. . . . Hunt Stromberg is adver tising Jane Russell as "The World's Most Exciting Bru nette" for her yet unreleased picture "Young Widow." . . . Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitz gerald are to be co-starred 'in "O. S: S.," a dramatization of the part the Office of Strategic Services played in the war. . . . The Italian picture, "The Open City," which is soon to be shown in this country, is receiving the acclaim of the critics as a power ful epic in realism. The Vatican was so impressed with "The Open City", that it asked for a print of the film to be placed in its very exclusive motion pic ture library. ... William Powell and Irene Dunne will portray Mr. and Mrs. Day in Warner Brothers' version ot Lite with .bather. Bing Crosby and Barry Fitz gerald are to be starred together in "Welcome Stranger." From the President Student Council Explains Its Veto Of Vandalism Bill To The Student Body: A bill which makes vandalism on any campus by a Carolina student a statutory offense against the Honor System was re cently passed by the Student Legislature. The bill provides that any student duly enrolled in the University who is caught with any materials which could be used for vandalism would be presumed there for the purpose of vandalism and would be suspended from school by the Student Honor Council. Your Student Honor Council, acting upon its executive pre rogative, has yetoed the bill and returned it to the Legislature. This action was takten only after serious and lengthy discussion, and we feel that each of you should know exactly why this was done. Therefore, we present the following reasons for the veto : I. Vandalism already comes under the jurisdiction of the Honor Council, and such cases have been tried with proper punishments having been imposed. However, we do agree with the proponents of the legislature bill that the students are not sufficiently informed of the outcome of previous vandalism cases and we plan to better publicize the Council's stand on vandalism in the future. II. The bill, by providing that the Council suspend anyone found on another campus with vandalistic materials in their possession makes it impossible for the Council to take into con sideration the factors concerning particular cases and thereby deprives the accused of a completely fair trial. Much of the success of the judicial part of our Student Government depends on the integrity of each Council member. We have no written laws other than the Honor Code and the Campus Code. The Council lends its own interpretation of these Codes to each case individually. In vetoing the legislature bill, we feel sure that we have acted to protect first, the Campus Code and the Student Council's right to the freedom of interpretation of the Code, and second, each student who is now on campus and future students of the University. The Student Council Exposure of Army Incidents Misleading and Lack Proof By Tom Eller In the past week, a great deal of conglomerate reading matter has been disseminating itself in national as well as campus circles regarding the extremely controversial issue of the extension of selective conscription. During the course of these discussions, certain criticisms of the whole Army system have been made which are lacking in substantiating proof and are grossly mis leading. Lest this humble efforts- be taken as an all-out advocacy of the extension of the conscrip tion law, let it be understood that it is more specifically an at tempt at a broad-minded defense of the Army, the machinery of which has torn us from the clutches of one enemy, or an as sociation of enemies, and which may well find it necessary to rescue us again from enemies as yet undefined. What many observers seem to have forgotten is the fact that the success of any military ma chine depends upon the principle of the subordination of the in dividual for the good of the mass, it is axiomatic that no one should crash through a stop signal in the business section of the city to satisfy his whims; by the same token no soldier can be given individual privileges of conduct so as to please his par ticular whims. If it is possible to condemn a whole system because of isolated faults, then it is possible to de clare that the American gov ernmental system is inadequate simply because we are able to cite certain positive deficiencies in the manner in which some of its processes are executed. While it is true that our Army is ac countable for a myriad of mis takes and may be justly criti cized for them, and while it is See EXPOSURE, page four The Ram Sees --- An By Old Goat Rameses announces: Charlie "how to become popular in six easy lessons" Vance is number one hit on the Sigma Nu enter tainment parade. His whiz-bang musical ability finds coeds, guil ty of date desertion, lolling about his piano stool. Vance ain't so dumb! . . . Blackie Black's "Scoop," just a news hound at heart, ranks second only to Charlie in personality rating at Carolina. Little Bits of Nothing Harrison Tenney, speaking disparagingly: "He's a throw back that nobody caught! . . . There was NOBODY at Hogan's Lake this week-end while at Shorty's cabin Brent Woodson and Tish , Andrews were chug- -a-lugging MILK, honest to goodness milk by the quart full. . . A backfiring love letter, fit to be tied m blue ribbon, is a current laugh topic in Roticee circles. . . . Man-about-town Lee Wylie is making Chapel Hill his headquarters during between terms at Princeton. Welcome home, Lee' . . . What happened to the button on Meadie Mont gomery's fur coat? . It's truth or consequences at the Pi Phi House . . . A guy, a feminine traveling companion, and a Carolina co ed ! Eugenia Paf e fell in the lat ter category when her "big mo ment," having been granted spe cial courting privileges, came calling from afar Art Lamb with his CREW cut leads the military fashion boat for spring coiffeures P. J. (Tag) Mon- tegue displays big time operator tactics in home territory. It was four for one as lone wolf Monte gue squired a quartet of Carolina coeds to luncheon in "Winston" Saturday. Davidsoning An epistle informed Katherine Norvell that she had been se lected sponsoree for Davidson Phi Delts. Her photograph will grace the pages of the David- sonian annual, "Quips and Cranks." . . . Virginia Smith mid-wintered at a school named Davidson while Betty Black also week-ended there, visiting Grandmother. The Call of the Lib Patty Harry spends many of her evenings in the library. 'Tis explanation sufficient for the sudden studying urge with which so many of Carolina's fav orite gentlemen have been seized. Battle's Shame Ken Powell's misfortune wii Battle's shame. A desnicable culprit lifted twentv-TiinA Hol lars from Ken's dormitory room. Rameses needs few. words to convey general campus feeling m regard to this occnrrpnrp Millie and Her Joe Mississippi Maid Millie Schlat- er has linked fortune with that of Pennsyl vanian Joe Landis they'll hear a silver wedding bel tmkhng someplace, someday.
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