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Page Two THE TAR HEEL lEIic Car 5)rel Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association ' Published three times every week of the college year, and is the official newspaper of the Publications Un ion of the University of North Caro lina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscrip tion price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Telephone 403. J. T. Mabry..:......1....-.........-v-..o'" F. F. Simon..... Business Manager Editorial Department Managing Editors " J. F. AsHBt...... ... Tuesday Issue Byron White .......Thursday Issue L. H. McPhersoN ......Saturday Issue D. D. Carroll .Assistant Editor J. R. Bobbitt, 3t.....Assignment Editor Staff " J. H. Anderson W. P. Perry J. M. Block ' .J. P. Pretlow J. E. Coggins T. M. Reece Walter Creech D. T. Seiwell J. R. DeJournette S. B. Shephard, Jr. E. J. Evans. J. Shohan D. S. Gardner - F. L. Smith Glen P. Holder W. S. Spearman T. W. Johnson W. H. Strickland W. E. Kindley, Jr-. Wmv H. Windley Alex Mendenhall H. A. Wood ; H. L. Merritt J. O. Marshall Business Department W. W. Neal, Jr. Asst. to Bus. Mgr. W. M. Thomas..- Collection Mgr. G. W. Jtay..- ----- - Accountant Managers of Issues Tuesday Issue M.- E. Block Thursday Issue James Styles Saturday Issue . Worth Eby Advertising Department Kenneth R Jones .......Advertising Mgr. M. W. Breman Local Adv. Mgr. Edward Smith.. . ..... National Adv. Mgr. William K. Wiley " Ben Schwartz Charles Brown W. R. Hill G. W. Bradham Harry Schwartz Circulation Department . Henry C. E&rpev.. ..Circulation Mgr. R. C. Muldet .Filer of Issues C. W. Colwell Tom Raney Douglas Boyce W. W- Turner You can purchase any article adver tised in the The Tar Heel with perfect safety because everything it advertises is guaranteed to be as represented. The Tar Heel so licits advertising from reputable concerns only. - , , Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Qffice, Chapel Hill, N. C. Saturday, October 23, 1926 PARAGRAPHICS Co-ed Cora says some men are hopeless in love, but most men are hopeless anyway. . . The question today is, can the Tar Heels repeat last year's per formance with the Old Liners? The score last year was the big gest surprise of the season. . At last Carolina is to have some kind of day at a football game. Many other colleges have set aside one ' day as "Dad's Day." October 30 ' is - to be "home-coming day." The University of Pittsburgh's "Cathedral of Learning" is to be 29 stories high, instead of 52 as originally planned. Still too high for professors to be drop ping students from classes. satisfied with the pre-game showing. Nothing unusual a bout that. Subscribers of student papers in Dalhousie University (Cana da) and the University of Alber ta will compose the audience for a printed intercollegiate debate. The debaters have been selected for "combined debating ability and journalistic skill," the text of the debates appearing simul taneously in both college papers. They have nothing on ,us. Our Open Forum columns have car ried on acrimonious debates for the past several issues. THE SURVEY ISQN A copious supply of articles have been written in magazines throughout the country during the past several months concern ing the value of a student's time spent in college. H. G. Wells has said in emphatic terms that "The Four Years In College Are Wasted.". " ' ; :''--:r-'- Realizing the seriousness of the charges, the Tar Heel,- in cooperation - with the Dean of Students, has begun' a survey of conditions on the campus to de termine the distribution of stu dents' time. -Record cards were distributed among the freshmen and sophomores in chapel yes terday morning and these men were requested to keep an ac curate account of the time they spend during the following week. Many accusations have been made against various campus organizations as being detri mental and parasitic to student life. Do athletics usurp time that should be used in scholastic attainments? Do fraternities cause a student to waste time that should be used in other pur suits? Are publications, dra matics, bull sessions, shows, and various other time-takers get ting more than their rightful portion of students' time? These and numerous other . questions are to be answered by the peo ple who apportion , their time among activities and who are in position to know.. , Such surveys hiave recently been made in the leading colleg es and universities of the coun try r and resulted in many inter esting discoveries which have led to important reforms and ad vances in organizations and stu dent life. To make the survey thorough and effective, it is absolutely es sential that each student fill out his card accurately. It is to this end that we plead. The seniors don't appear as thrifty as might be expected. The Business Manager of the Yack ety Yack says very few, have taken advantage of the. reduc tions offered by having their beauty struck early. - V The state automobile license plates for 1927 will be red num erals on' a gray background. A story from 'Raleigh says "the state initials will not be used and North Carolina will not imi tate the University of -.; North Carolina varsity sweaters." Aw come on. Don't hurt our pres tige like that. The Frosh also get into action today on foreign territory. Vari ous rumors and reports have em anated from the frosh field re garding the possibilities this year. Some had it that there is a "wonderful" backfield. Now the coaches appear pessimistic and say that they are not at all Dr. Howell Delivers Keynote Address At School Centennial Dr. A. . C Howell has gone to Austenburg, Ohio to attend the Centennial Celebration of the preparatory school, which he at tended in his "prep" school days. The Grand River Institute, the school to which reference is made, is a unique survival of the old-fashioned boarding school with its quaint culture and colo nial beauty. In addition to be ing the school of his boyhood days, it is further endeared to Dr. Howell as being the school which hia mother and two sis ters attended. Dr. Howell will deliver the keynote address of the exercises. There will be three other speak ers; these will deal mainly with the historical ' aspects of the school under past administra tions and with the traditions of the school. Dr. Howell will con fine himself, largely to contem porary affairs, taking as his sub ject "The Fallacies of Modern Education." He will analyze the various types of men in col lege and certain extra-curricula activities upon the American college campus. Open Forum. Alpha Lambda Tau announces the initiation of .the "following men: L. A. Wilson of Norwood. - and S. W. Davis of Greensboro. Editor TAR Heel: r ., The recent fiasco between the Stu dent Council and members of the Carolina Magazine staff should reach a culmination. It seems quite likely that certain points have been em phasized way out of proportion to propriety and importance. I do not propose to discuss the much praised and much deprecated article, Slaves. The normally lethargic student body, by some peculiar turn, was pricked to a sudden spurt of productivity, re sulting in a steady stream of articles which. have helped filled the barren sheets of the Tar Heel. In these ar ticles, if praise was not the keynote, it was an attempt by the writer to explain in the strongest terms the insidiousness of this epoch making ar ticle. I feel, that much breath has been wasted in this respect ' Person ally, I liked the article and welcome more. The case was admittedly ir regular. It is more than probable that had the homo been white in the cohabitation instead of one of a dark hue there wouldn't have been a syl lable of protest. While certainly more objectionable to. those of a. dedi cate nature, I have yet to be con vinced that white, black, yellow, red, green, ' or any color determine the morality or obscenity of literary mo tivation. "f-: We prefer in our damna tory strategy -to fool ourselves and our readers into believing . that we are trying to maintain an ethical stan dard, when in reality we are petting the conventional cat But enough of this! - ' - . . - ',' Few, if any, seem to know the rights and powers of . the Student Council. It seems certain that the Council is not yet awake to them. Student Gov ernment, as I conceive it, is that" pol icy wherein the main features : per taining to -student life and .regula tions are lodged within- the student body. ' . The Student Council is the organ through which the student body centralizes authority "and functions. It appears to me that the Student Council is the servant of those who put them in officein other words the students of the University. The Stu dent Council I am sure does not pre tend infallibility, even if some mem bers of the "right attitude" policy like to think of it as such. It functions well at times, and then again it hasn't functioned at all, and still . again it has outfunctioned its function. The Student Council, I believe, should real ize some distinctions in the conduct of. their business. . In matter involv ing specified provisions, such . as the conduct of every student in a gentle manly fashion, with especial reference to the drinking problem in this" the Council should see its duty. I am not acquainted with the facts in the Council's" recent action towards one of the students ' f ound in a state of inebriation, but I believe that the Council was justified in its- decision of suspension of the student The Council's duty is fairly clear in this respect If this University ruling is not ethical or is too drastic, why not raise a rumpus? The student body should kick, buck, and rear if they think a change necessary.' It -is not for the Student Council to set aside the ruling. -..Law should be flexible. Let the student body make, it so. . As to my second distinction, I be lieve that in those things which carry bout them the halo of individual judg ment, opinion, and taste, the student body whose voice, calling in the wil derness, should be given ear to. There are innumerable things which you can not apply the rule of dogmatism to. Mr. Wilde, in being tried for the in sidiousness of his products declared that literature and art are neither moral nor immoral "it is unmoral." However this be the degree in which we measure literary contributions is larely a matter of attitude and opin ion. There will be other things of this nature . confronting the. CounciL The student body's opinion cannot be represented by a few men in a body called the Student Council, when even the Council cannot be of one mind on many questions. At least if they have' individuality about them, they cannot The . Carolina Magazine is also a property of the student body. It may be that the great mass of stu dents are in accord with the student council. I doubt .it And especially do I doubt their harmony if we rule out the freshmen, whose loyalty al ways exceeds their reasoning. But if the student body Conscientiously condemns such an article in the local magazine, then it is proper for the student council to act. This brings me to the belief that such matters should be referred to a plebiscite of the student body to determine their will to the conduct of their govern ment. . Student government must not mean a name. The spirit exists not in the student council; it exists in the stu dent body. The council is an expres sion. BEN EATON, JR. Editor of Tar Hefx; I noted with much interest the two letters in Thursday's issue of the Tar Heel, both of which took considerable exceptions to the facts that I present ed in the case of the Law Student shipped for drinking on October 14th. -It was not my desire to enter into further controversy concerning the matter, however, my self respect de mands that I should correct such statements by these gentlemen which infer that 1 have entered into un truths. "; - Mr. Waters and Mr. Rhodes, in their unsigned letter, oppose my state ment that Mr. Chappell acted as ,a policeman on the night of October 14. The only facts that I am able to of fer to prove my statement is the fact that Mr. Chappell" was present in front of the window at Gooch's for some minutes after one o'clock in the morning, and was manifesting consid erable interests in the actions of those in the Cafe. My statement was also greatly influenced by the fact that Mr. Chappell told a certain student that he went down town after the dance to see that there wasn't any "cain" being raised. If Mr. Chappell does not. recall such a conversation, I shall gladly refer him to the man to whom he made such a statement ; If these facts are not conclusive enough, then I will admit that' I didn't know what I was talking about.- , ; Mr. H. McSwain particularly con sidered my criticism of Mr. Chappell unjust because of niy statement that Mr. Chappell had a conversation with Chief Featherstone after he obtained the name of the boy in the Cafe. For the information of Mr. Swain, Chap pell, or any other interested parties, I'll state that I got -this information from Chief Featherstone himself. If Chappell still denies my "Statement, all that I can say is to just ask Feather stone as I did. Then, gentlemen, be lieve whom you want to. Yes, Mr. Editor, I too, call for truths and facts. ' Hooray for ChappelPs Hill! . A S. KARTUS. To the Editor: . . - The general tendency seems to be to use the "Open Forum" as a battle ground, on which to fight out the legitimacy of Slav es. Because of this, this article may seem 'strange;, how-, ever, it may take someone's mind off this rather degenerate subject and thus be beneficial. . ; V The subject of this discussion is the system - of quizzing f reshmen in history. Personally, I believe this system is unfair. I do not under stand its object, unless it be to dis courage first year men, but the sys tem seems-toibe to give a student, who is accustomed to the slow form of studying advocated in high schools, about a hundred pages of history in two weeks and then have someone other than the instructor, who has likely not studied the book for four years make out a quiz by merely run ning through the book and glancing at the marginal notes." To make it worse, the questions are either ex tremely general or- about something so unimportant that the instructor has not even mentioned it in class. This is not necessarily: a personal view. I have not yet heard of a fresh man who does not hold practically the same , ideas. I have also heard his tory instructors voice the same senti ment. .... Wi A. S. Editor of Tar Heel: . At the opening of the fall term of the University Law School, our own Student Body President, S. G. Chappell entered that school as an aspiring barrister. Shortly afterward, he dropped his law work and re-entered the academic school. I do not know Mr.'Chappell's reasons for his actions (he possibly thought e nough of law anyway), but the steps he has subsequently taken as the guiding force of the Stu dent Council indicate that he is sadly in need of large and indis criminate doses of both criminal and civil procedure. What right, beyond those of a mere student, has S.: G. Chappell to question the official movements of the edi tor of the Carolina Magazine? Who's running this campus' ac tivities ''anyway Chappell, or the students ? The Magazine's editors derive their authority from the same source as dor (the members - of the Student .Coun cil; one group edits the maga zine and the . other tries viola tions of the Honor System, and the Council's action is as unwar- ' Saturday, October 23, 1926" ranted as would be the Publica tions Union's suspension of a. student for theft or drunken ness ! Next thing we know, the omnipotent Council headed by the puritannical Mr.'S. G. Chap pet will have out an injunction against the collegiate institution of week-ends, letters from unre lated females, College Humor, and even Coeds, as "degrading and corrupting to the morals of the University and its students." Or 'perhaps the Council, nnder the efficacious guidance of Mr. S. G. Chappell will try faculty members for violation of pet council rules? Will the Council care to extend its jurisdiction to the trial, of west coast crim inal cases? Perchance we shall have classmates as . makers of history, and the Almighty Coun cil deciding questions of the World Court, eventually. "Chap pell Issues Warning" "would cer tainly . look well in the London. Times! Seriously, Mr. Starr and Mr Fowler erred in discretion in even deigning to honor the Coun cil's presumptive and asinine in quiries with attention and res ponse. The editor's actions came under the possible jurisdiction of (1) the Publications Union,., and (2) the Faculty Executive Committee. Or else let's do present a petition to the town fathers to change the name of Chapel Hill to ChappeU's Hill! I don't really -believe that up at our sister institution, N. C C:. W., (where Mr. S, G. Chappell may be quite popular) that the girls ' would be so unversed in self-government as to commit the breach our own select group--of- policemen did. N. C C. W probably knows more about gov ernment than ice do anyhow by supposedly intelligent vote last spring we modeled our ad ministration after theirs L BYSTANDER, A. K EAST MEETS WEST BETWEEN FLOORS IN JAPAN. Every day in the Mitsukoshi Depart ment Store of Tokyo Otis Escalators are refuting Kipling's'positive statement that "Never the twain shall meet.". Rather, Otis Escalators emphasize that "There is neither East nor West" for conveniences of modern civiliza tion and progress. .- ''The escalator is applicable wherever it is necessary or advisable to keep a large number, of people moving con stantly, rapidly, and without fatigue. The chronological and numerical record of escalator installations in a few typical department stores is an impor . tant chapter in merchandising history. R. H. Macv & Co., N. Y 4 in 1904; 1 in 1911; 2 in 1922; 18 in 1923. Boston Store, Chicago-7 in 1905; 2 in 1912; 10 in 1913; 4 in 1926. A: Hamburger & Sons, Los Angeles 1 in 1908; 7 in 1923. T. Eaton & Co., Ltd.,Toronto 3 in 1913; 2 in '1916; 2 in 1919; 3 in 1924. Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan 6 in' 1919 i 1 in 1920; 4 in 1925. O T I S E L E VAT O R Officei in !! Principal Gtlei of the Worid C O M PAN Y
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