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Tuesday, March 1, 1927
PARAGRAPHICS
"The Smiths are It'," says a
headline. Gosh, what a bunch
of Its. - .
The South Carolina Game
cocks have proved to be the
"dark horses" of the tourna
ment. Who are going to be the
"white mules ?"
The souseingly poetic Dliter
atus has put one over on us. We
expected to learn his identity
When he came to settle his
wager, but he mailed the price of
one "dope" to us from "around
the weli." y
Mencken, in his "Notes on
Democracy," defines politics as
"the trade of playing upon its
(the majority's) natural pol
troonery of scaring it half to
death, and then proposing to
save it." There, you naughty
politicians.
campaign in the News and Ob
server. One1 of the answers Sun
day was "The arboretum at
the University of North Caro
lina in early May which is not
only a place of beauty but also
an inspiring demonstration of
what man can do as a co-laborer
of God." ,
SLASHED APPROPRIATIONS
This is the last one on 'AT.
We happened to be in the Bet
ter Annual office a few nights
ago and saw that Cap was mak
ing plans to place the pictures
of four alumni on each page in
the Alumni section of the book.
We asked why this was being
done when only two had been
gracing a page in past years. Al
retorted that he was going to
have his way about one thing in
the flatter book.
It is interesting to note . the
large number of things pertain
ing to or being a part of Chapel
Hill and the University that
have been given as answers to
the question, "What are the ten
most beautiful things in North
uaroima 7" Miss Nell Battle
Lewis has been conducting the
The amendment to the Perma
nent Improvements bill, which
would cut funds for that purpose
for state institutions of higher
learning to half the amount rec
ommended by the committee, will
come up for a vote on the floor
of the House today.; Represent
ative J. H. Folger of Surry of
fered the amendment during the
debate on appropriations in the
House Saturday.
Basing his position on the be
lief that the University, colleges
and institutions supported by
the state should suffer this dras
tic slash in their funds for per
manent improvements in favor
of the equalization fund for rura
schools of pauper counties, Rep
resentative Folger delared to the
House :
I love the University; I love
the North Carolina College for
Women; I love State college;
love'every institution in the state
of higher education, but I am
compelled by my own conception
of duty to ask you to let these
appropriations rest awhile and
instead of building a six hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollar
library for the -University of
North Carolina, let it rest so the
people can get a breath."
The question from Mr. Fol
ger's House speech gives utter
ance to wellrdefined feeling a-
mong some of the citizens of the
state. This is expressed in my
opic mutterings that the Univer
sity is getting the hog's share of
state appropriations. Some nar
row-minded and niggardly tax
payers, with dwarfed vision,
cannot see the necessity of
spending over one hundred
thousand dollars for a library
building and alt the equipment
that is put therein. This is not
a sophisticated slap at the "folks
back home" by a Mencken or a
smart aleck come to town. Dis
gruntled alumni and friends of
neighboring institution.
whose material worth has been
increased hundreds-fold by a na
tive of the state in perpetuating
his name and philanthropy, aver
that the University's demand
for more funds is but an attempt
to compete, openly and commer
cially, with that institution. Such
jingoism is to be condemned.
These charges could come only
rom the haunters of hinterland,
when it is evident that the Uni
versity of North Carolina is one
of the greatest public service
institutions in the state and
feeds annually more to the fur
therance of the interests of the
rural schools and communities
than any other state service or
department in proportion to its
cost.;;. . i'
When the Surry Legislator de
manded that the University Li
brary fund rest "so the people
can get a breath," he did not
take cognizance of the fact that
there is. no "rest" in progress.
It is axiomatic that individuals
and their institutions move
either forward or backward. If
he were conversant with the
blatant lacking in library facil
ities here at the present, the mat
ter xf. resting with, this project
would seem far less practical.
The library is the laboratory
of laboratories of a university
or college., That the University
of North Carolina might contin
ue its service to the state and
the rural school at the present
standard and its position among
the greater institutions of this
country, the funds for the li
brary and other permanent im
provements are needed.
Frc-a the Sfcte Presi
A Impossible Operation ,
t. nAcle in the house of
representatives Saturday . when
serious consideration was given to
& nronosal to apply a flat 50 per
snt reduction to. institutional ap
propriations for permanent improve
ments liehts up the mental no less
than the legislative jam the house
has allowed itself to get into. Weeks
earlier it could not have happened;
or if it had happened, the sneer
blindness of the idea would have
hwn understood more clearly. The
clearing, of sights over the week
end may be, as it ought to be, such
that further consideration this week
will be baaed at least upon an un
derstanding of what such a proposal
would mean. The house came to it
self sufficiently Saturday to postpone
action. . ' '
Behind the immediate proposal was
offered the necessity for taking care
of the public schools. That is a pri
mary problem which can notv be
evaded. The fact that it has been
evaded during the greater portion of
the scheduled legislative period, of
fers some evidence of, the unwilling
ness to approach it in the manner a
question of such admitted importance
to the state deserves to be approached.
Less than two weeks from the time
when the general assembly ought to
be through that body found it neces
sary, or judged it wise, to admit that
it would have to begin all over again
in the effort to build up the equaliza
tion fund. Since then the disposi
tion has been to go back to some of
the various proposals originally
made. That was to be expected. But
what was not to be expected is the
continued postponement and behind
that the patent inability to take hold
of the problem until an hour when the
burden of legislative work is such as
to make all consideration far more
difficult
Here is the background for the
placing in opposition of public
schools and public institutions of high
er education. In the house debate
last week, to judge by much of the
comment, the two stand in rivalry.
To try to meet the necessities of the
one would mean to starve the other.
Both could not be fed and therefore
one would go without.
This-is to perform a major opera
tion in the educational system of the
state which would eliminate one or
the other, something after the manner
of removing an appendix or tonsils.
It is not so simple as that. No opera
tion in the power of the general as
sembly can cut off one part of the
educational body without inflicting
serious wound on the ' body itself.
Slashing the higher institutions is a
fine way to slash the public schools
and cutting the heart out of the pub
lic schools isa certain method of
bleeding the higher institutions. The
two are inseparable. They cannot
be attacked as individual units for
the simple reason that they are not
apart but are organically together.
In calmer, clearer moments the
house will come back to an under
stand of an essentially simple truth.
The type of mind that would attempt
to nourish the public schools by tak
ing the nourishment of the higher in
stitutions is the type of mind that jn
the end would do most damage to
the public schools. Everybody is will
ing to admit now that finding funds
for education presents all the diffi
culties any, general assembly can
handle. But it does not simplify the
matter to attempt to fatten half the
body by. robbing the other half it
complicates it unto ultimate death
Greensboro Daily News.
Patronize the Tar Heel ad
vertisers. They are reliable.
of big men composing the State Uni
versity . faculty without coming into
more intimate touch with them than
is the opportunity and privilege of
the average North Carolinian.
The University of North Carolina
is big, not because of tis fine and
ample buildings, and library and
grounds and equipment, but because
it has on its faculty such men as Dr.
Archibald Henderson, , Dr. Edgar
Knight, Dr. E. C. Branson, Dr. D. R.
Hamilton, and many others whose
names could be mentioned. The time
has never been, and never will be,
when a great school is not about what
some one defined it to be when he
said that, a great school is a great
teacher on one end of a log and
bright student on the other, or words
to that effect.
These physical equipments are all
right AH schools must have them.
but what really makes a great school,
or a great college, or university, are
great instructors and bright and alert
pupils. Stanly News-Herald.
HOLMES PLEASES
CYRANO AUDIENCE
interpretation of Cyrano De
Bergerac Is Fourth Play
maker Reading.
A Great University '..
Edwin Bjorkman (we don't know
what you pronounce it) who spent a
day or two at the University at Chap
el Hill last week, paid a very high
tribute to the instructors there. Mt.
Bjorkman has been a resident of this
State for about two years. He is
living at Asheville and is a well known
writer and critic.
"There is. far more literary talent
in North Carolina-than most people
realize," he is quoted as having said.
arid he attributes this largely to the
influence of the State University
which he says is the most outstanding
eaucauonai institution m the South,
That's a pretty nice compliment,
and is well merited, especially view
ing it as this well known writer does.
He jgays the faculty members are
known in other sections of the country,
tar better than the teachers in any
other southern institution." And there
Mr. Bjorkman hits the key note. Alr
ready this, paper has long ago ex
pressed the same opinion. 'f
"I doubt," says this critic, "if the
people of this state fully appreciate
the gTeatness of their University.
and so do we, for no judge of men can
really appreciate the rather long list
(De C.)
Montfleury, fat . actor ; who
hasn't seen his knees in all these
many years; Ragueneau, good
hearted shop keeper who feeds
poets in return for their poems
and is naturally doomed tp finan
cial ruin; . Le Bret, friend of
Cyrano; Roxane, beautiful and
charming lady ; Christian de
Neuvillette and Cyrano de Ber
gerac who together produce the
world's perfect lover; all these
characters lived again Sunday
night in the Playmaker Theatre
and told once more, in the form
of Professor Holmes' excellent
reading of Jdmond Rostand's
Cyrano de Bergerac, the tragic
story of Cyrano's love for the
beautiful Roxane.
Pictures of the different
scenes were flashed on a small
screen which was on the left side
of the stage, and due to this
and to the explanation of the set
tings by Professor Holmes one
was able to clearly visualize the
complete action of the play.
Professor. Holmes succeeded
in cutting the play so that none
of the plot was left out and only
the high spots read, nevertheless
it did seem a crime that the wit
ty dialogue between- Comte de
Guiche and Cyrano that took
place while the wedding of Rox
ane and Christian was being per
formed had to be omitted.
Professor Holmes' interpreta
tion of the different characters
stood out distinctly and this to
gether with his natural instinct
for acting the parts kept the
reading from being the least bit
dull or uninteresting as a great
many readings have been;
Professor Holmes had the nec
essary conceit to make Cyrano
an outstanding figure in the first
act in the Hotel de Bourgogue,
which proved to be one of the
best read of the five acts. In
the scene by the balcony of Rox
ane Professor Holmes had his
worst moments and later in the
same scene he rose to , great
heights holding his audience
spellbound. The stand of the
Gascogne Cadets against the
Spanish in the fourth act was
well read and at times with great
gustos In the last act, at the
convent where Roxane has lived
for fifteen years, Professor
Holmes shows good taste and
some of his best actjng talent in
his reading of the last several
speeches of Cyrano.
'( The Playmaker readings this
year have been of the highest
type and have pleased the audi
ences which have gradually in
creased at each reading. These
Sunday night readings ,.have
proven to be some of the. most
enjoyable affairs that the Play
makers have sponsored.
.Man and woman can get a
long nicely, as life partners if
they can avoid being bridge par
tners. Waterbury American
OPEN FORUM
Editor of Tar Heel:
I regret very much that
have been late in fulfilling my
part of the contract, recently
made with you concerning the
Poem recently published by you
and signed "Dliteratus," and
would like to 'explain that I have
had quite a bit of trouble in col
lecting from the party of the
third part, namely: the man who
lost.
I am enclosing the price of one
"dope." Let us hope you do not
have occasion to use "said" dope
as a chaser, if you get what
mean.
Souseingly poetic,
ILLITERATUS
Hobbs In Atlanta
At Meeting of the
1 Conference Officials
a
Dr. A. W. Hobbs, Chairman of
the Faculty Committee on Ath
letics at the University, has
gone to Atlanta to attend
meeting of the Executive' Com
mittee of the Southern Intercol
legiate Conference this week
end. '
The chief matter to be dis
cussed is the question of wheth
er or not graduates of junior
colleges may play on ' varsity
teams in "their first year at
Conference institution. As it is
now they come under the gen
eral rule that prohibits any stu
dent from playing until his sec
ond year.
The graduate of a junior col
lege who enters the University
of North Carolina is' qualified to
become a member of the junior
class. Under the one-year rule,
therefore, he has only one year
to participate in intercollegiate
athletics before graduation.
Several of the junior colleges
have voiced objections to this
imitation. Mars . Hill, North
Carolina, is one place where the
students want to be relieved
from the operation of the rule.
Get Free Candy ' r:
G. W. Byrd and J. Hamlet
were the winners of the candy
given away Saturday morning
by the Book Exchange. Each
of the winners received a box of
Nestles candy containing 24
bars.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
TODAY
7:15 p. m. Di Senate, Di HaM.
7:15 p. m. Phi Assembly, Maainr
Hall. 1
7:30 p. m. Episcopal Parish House.
Monthly meeting of Philological Club.
Dean Royster will present a paper oi
"A. Chaucer Controversy in 17J5.
Graduate students are especially in
vited. 8:30 p. m Phillips Hall. Dr. K.
S. Lashley will deliver Sigma Xi Lee!
ture. . , - '. , . ; ,
9:30 p. m. Student vestry meets
in Episcopal Parish House.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
8:30 p. m. Phillips Hall. Dr. K.
S. Lashley will deliver Sigma Xi Lee
ture. THURSDAY, MARCH 3
8:30 p. m. Phillips Hall. Lecture
by Edgar Wind on "Styles of Archi
tecture from the Egyptian to the
Gothic Period."
7 SATURDAY, MARCH 5
8:00 p. m. Tin Can. High School
basketball finals.
Frosh Harriers to
Meet Charlotte Highs
The University freshmen will
stack up against Charlotte High
School on March 12 in their
first track event of the 1927
season.
Charlotte High comes with the
rather; remarkable record , of
three state championships in
three consecutive years. Track
is one of their strongest points,
and they are looking for a win
over the freshmen. Coach Bob
and Assistant Coaches Ranson
and Belding are especially de
sirous of all freshmen who are
interested in track to come out,
they said yesterday. With the
meet only two weeks off, actual
practice in preparation for the
event will begin at once.
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