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Thursday, January 12, 1928 Page Two THE TAR HEEL Wht Car fM Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper - WW -Y cultural, professional and technical needs, not alone to the ... sinall group composing its student body, but to the mass of the state's population as well. The University is the people's in every sense of the word. , , Both being progressive leaders, there should exist between the press and the University the closest cooper ation in their work. ' The gathering of the directors of the state press here Published three times every week of offers the newspapermen an oppor- the college year, and 13 tne prnciai Uunitv to become more intimately ac- r at T. L. 1 4- M r nwsraner ol trie ruuucauuiia TTnirm nf the . University of . North i Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub-, scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for tne college year. Offices in the Building. basement of Alumni quainted with the work and the pro gram of the University. SENIOR SUPERLATIVES NOW POLITICAL PLUMS J. F. Ashby . .Editor W VWV Neal, Jr. Business Mgr. Dav Carol It is with regret that the Tar Heel learns that the choice of senior super latives has descended to the mire of campus politics. A well-founded re rnrf nriH t.Vie work of zealous propon- .. Associate Editor ents lend credence to the rumor that these senior honors,' representative of ability, accomplishments and reliance, are being bandied about among the EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editors m TTT T m . n n. . 1 T1 m- r4 n nw i O f'l f 3 TOM V. JOnnBUW uxwU lifinc: JeE R. BBrT jR.'Z."".Satwrda Issue Whether there was a time when such honors carried weignt ana were Walter Spearman .. Assistant Editor accepted at their full worth, it is hard to say. Yet it is generally understood Staff ' that the election of a senior superla- Andy Anderson George Coggins Mercer Blankenship Calvin Graves Glenn P. Holder D. E. Livingston Dick McGiohon Harry J. Galland James B. Dawson W. H. Yarborough Miss K. E. W. L. Marshall Grantham BUSINESS STAFF M. R. Alexander Asst. to Bus. Mgr. Moore Bryson . Advertising Mgr. R. A. Carpenter Asst. Adv. Mgr. ' Advertising Staff Mi Y. Feimster J. M. Henderson Ed Durham R. A. Carpenter Robert O. Hieht John Jemison Leonard Lewis G. E. Hill Collection Manager Wallace Shelton tive carries with it the mark that is Oates Mcuuuen , ,. . , .j f r,rwilTp. J. O. Mitchell 0-1-- " . John Mebane ment. If these positions are mere pol- Louise Medley itical plums and pawns, then god- F. G. McPherson ST)eed and crood luck to the politicians B. A. Marshall I , . , .,. TTnw James Rogers ever, n tne superlatives are xo De rep resentative of the various qualities and accomplishments that the name of each implies, then honor (if any under the present circumstances) should be conferred through spontan eous acknowledgement of those quali ties that makes the member of the class the recipient of the position to which he, or she, is . elected. It may be said that this politicking and working for certain individuals for certain positions is not of the usual campus frame-up sort. A horse That H. N. Patterson Asst. Collection Mgr. Henrv Harper . . Circulatierk.M ana ger of a different color, as it were. Marvin Fowler Asst. Circulation Mgr. jt js weu for some men to look ahead, consider the most fitting senior for citizens whose only offenses are their marriage and incompatibility, report ers and editors alike pay little heed. By glutting the reader with bar barities, the newspapers blind him to more malicious influences. And while public attention is fixated on spas modic violence, less noisy but more dangerous criminals rise to the very administration of our government. When blades were being whetted in 1917. who cried out for blood? Those guardians of the public welfare, the editors. At last in these days of peace, be it said, a few Daniels have come to judgment on . our club-footed imperialism. But most of these writ ers compromise their peace program by tolerating or sanctioning militar ism in their supposed - refuges of idealism, the .colleges. On Armistice Day, who writes of peace? Maudlin patriotism is the vogue. , v ' Companionate marriage, a startling and significant relationship of the sexes, has been gaining strength for years. Yet, the other day reporters "discovered" it, misinterpreted it, and editors made its appearance the oc casion for puerile wit. Hence, editors are little better than their charges. They pretend to lead the people, but they have" precious little tosay of birth control, political and criminal reform, marriage laws, and sociological movements of the day. They generalize about crime waves, but they know little of crim inal psychology and obstinately care less. Instead of truths, . reporters give us saucy or fantastic stories; instead of treating us to the soft, sad music of humanity, they assail usv with ver bal pyrotechnics. Editors are timid disciples of convention, pontiffs of the platitude. ' Yet, though the priesthood of letters be misrepresentative, we must follow it; for among the blind, a one-eyed man is king. But magazines are bet press agents of public activity than are newspapers. TRY-OUTS FRIDAY FOR NEW FLAYS Copies of Plays to Be Produced in r Winter on Reserve at Library. The three clays : selected at the Playmaker reading Monday evening for production thi quarter 'are Spicy, a mountain comedy by Mrs. Oscar Coffin, Addie, a mill story by Mrs. Osier Bailey, and Day's End, a play of the California Mountains by Alice Pierrat. The California play will be read this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Theatre. Those wishing to try out for parts should hear the reading. Tryouts will be held Friday after noon at the Playmaker Theatre at 4:00 o'clock and at 7:30 o'clock. The plays are now .on reserve at the li brary for those who wish to read them. 1 The . plays , were considered among the best read here for some time by the play committee which was com posed of Professors W. E. Caldwell, G. L. Paine,. Frederick H. Koch, Hu bert Heffner and Samuel Selden. The plays read Monday night besides those ! selected were Come in, Love, by Mary Margaret Wray, The Queen Has Her Face Lifted, by Alvin Kahn, Under a Hundred, by William Cox. Every unit elementary schools, high schools, and colleges depends upon the other units, and weakness m one produces weakness in all. There must he a complete circle. In welcoming the delegates to the Institute, which is held under the aus pices of the North -Carolina Press Association and the University, Dr. Chase stated that the . Institute was as much a part of the yearly calen dar of events here as the Virginia Carolina football game or Commence ment. A. L. Stockton, managing editor of the Greensboro Daily News and pres ident of the North Carolina Press As sociation, officially opened the Insti tute and presided over the initial ses sion last night. Mr. Lowrance delivered an "Analy sis of the Press," in which Jie sur veyed newspaper conditions in - the state. He predicted a banner year for the publishers. x Mr. Parham stated "that "One of the outstanding developments in the field of American Journalism in the last few years has been the rapid increase in the number of syndicate features produced and used by the daily newspapers." He outlined the Thursday, January 12, 1928 PARAGRAPHICS each superlative, and to lay plans for the election of the . student, may be admitted. The Tar Heel believes in the Boy Scout motto (Be Prepared). Add to startling news of the day: Yet the Tar Heel is not credulous student directory for the year of I to the extent that its hope will be 1927-1928 is just off the press. realized to the extent that bartering and compromising will, and can, be Prodded for an estimate of his total eliminated from the drafting of a wealth, Henry Ford said, I don t ticket, or a list of seniors who most know and I don't give a damn." Well, j if your uncle Hank doesn't, we don't. "The fire had spent, most of its force," states the Tar Heel reporter in writing of the Pickard Hotel fire. And it had also spent most of the property of the owner. The Tar Heel holds its own opin ion as to who is the prettiest senior co-ed, but is afraid to make any an nouncement until after the senior su perlatives election . tonight. logically meet the qualifications of the sought honor. Bartering and com promising go hand in hand with cam pus politics. The honor of being chosen a senior superlative is . decidedly dissipated when the bestowed glory comes through the efforts and machinations of political friends. THE AVERAGE NEWSPAPER: A PERVERSION Seeing as how about everybody is slated to speak at the Jackson Day dinner, we are at loss in remember ing whether The Senator will orate on the "unavailability" of Al. PHI DISCUSSES MARRIAGE LAWS Bill Tabled at Initial Meeting of Philanthropic Society. Chase Delivers Welcome Address "" (Continued from page one) is about until the last paragraph, while the American reporter writes his whole story in the first sentence. The front pages of English newspa pers are mostly made up of adver tisements while the important news is crowded ,to other pages. The Eng lishman reads his newspaper as he drinks his tea with -his- entire at tention given over to it." President Chase contrasted the Eu ropean idea . of education . for the wealthy only with the American sys tem of education for the masses. He cited the report of the University self help committee to show that over 800 boys, or a third of the student body, is earning all or part of their ex penses here. "Such a thing would be impossible in Europe," he declared. The manner in which any system of education in any country is unified as a whole was stressed by Dr. Chase". causes back of this increase and anal yzed the typesof stories used as fea tures, v x NEW VICTOR RECORDS RELEASED EVERY FRIDAY UNIVERSITY. BOOK & STATIONERY CO. (Sutton BIdg.) x ' V FOR SALE . Rooms on Campus tz 'l-2.room-.214 Mangum g 1-2 room........ .....311 G H 1-2 room . ......319 F H 1-3 room 303 Old West ft a Apply at Room No. 311, S G Dormitory, or Theta Kappa Nu House 8 tt ttttt it imtttt't'f'Mttiitnnn?? Says the favorite tri-weekly, "Flo renz , Ziegfeld, asked recently to act as judge for the Vanity Fair section of the Yackety Yack, has accepted the task." Poor diction, we calls it. "Marion Man Causes Uproar at Baltimore," headlines a daily. Pos sibly this Tar Heel was a member of .the party that climbed Mount Mitchell with the mercury around 20 degrees below to shoot firecrackers. WELCOME NEWSPAPERMEN It is peculiarly appropriate that the newspapermen of North Carolina should gather annually here at the state university for a three-day dis cussion of the profession. : - The fourth Newspaper Institute, under the joint auspices of the North -Carolina Press association and the University Extension Division, has promise of being the most successful of the annual' gatherings. With a large attendance, a varied and bal anced program, and instructive enter tainments, the Institute has every ear mark of success. The , program is quite balanced between the general, theoretical, practical and technical phases of newspapering and is spiced with a performance by the Carolina Playmakers. As stated by President H. W. Chase in his welcoming address to the In stitute two years ago, the press and the University have two vital things in common: the dissemination of in formation and the pursuit of truth. It is well that the newspapermen of the state should meet at the Univer sity to. analyze the phases of their business, to study improvements, and for a general recapitulation of the duties and service of the newspaper. The University of North Carolina is one of the most important public util ities, if not the most important, of the state. Its duty is. to serve the people of the state by supplying their DavCarol Newspapers have always pro nounced themselves agents of truth; but one may well trust that their claim is false, that their pictures of human activity are counterfeit. ; With no view to arraigning journal ism in this state especially, where readers are comparatively fortunate, we make bold to bring indictments against the great newspaper as it ap pears throughout the country. For the greater part, the news pages are a hodge-podge of lurid ex aggerations. In the presentation of cheap monstrosities, significant events are stifled. Freakish incidents prop erly discussed in grocery store anec dotes occupy seats of honor on the feature pages, whence they challenge the reader's credulity. Yet, the men who report these human antics,- or sometimes even animal feats, profess 1 to print important news. What care we if a crazed man mur ders an entire family? Is the vio lence of his ; act, morbidly set forth on page one, exemplary of the times or the essence of his crime? Society can gain little by offering maniacs a wealth of - publicity. Why not trace the degeneracy of the wretch, rather than gloat over his sudden emotional orgy? The story of every crime, if it is to be enlightening or beneficialj should be a miniature psychological novel. Few editors would allow their re porters to present details of sex orgies ; what moralistic sophistry per mits them to dispatch every whiff of the latest gruesome murder? The publicity given fiendish vio lence, such as . Hickman's, has done much to obscure the true enemy .of society. If an ordinary gunman slays any. sort of human being, head-line writers seem to go":n a dry drunk. But if hundreds of invalids and in fants are poisoned by several years of milk grafters' corruption, we hear lit tle of it. If a rapist goes' to life imprison ment,' the newspapers set forth his fate in huge somber letters. (Often The initial meeting of the Philan thropic Assembly for the winter quar ter was held Tuesday at seven o'clock in the meeting rooms in New East. The question, Resolved, that compan ionate marriage would be better than our present marriage system, was briefly discussed. Ralph Noe, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee introduced the resolution, giving the ideas and opin ions of JudgeBen B. Lindsay of Juve nile Court fame, on companionate marriage to support his beliefs. Fred Parker took issue with Mr. Noe on the grounds that such a form of marriage would only legalize pros titution. Mr. Parker declared em phatically that it was "the greatest fraud ever pulled over the nation's eyes.", John Lewis ' questioned the speaker as to whether or not compan ionate marriage was already in ex-, istence. Parker replied that although it existed in a way that it was as suredly not legal, and that by keeping what we know covered we may lessen it.. ;' v. Af. the" conclusion of this speech a motion was made and passed that the, bill be tabled until next meeting. ,- John Mewborn, president pro-tem, read the query for the Mary D. Wright debate which will be held in the last part of February. It reads: Resolved, that the governmental pol icies of Mussolini are for the best interests of Italy. The Philanthropic Assembly will debate the negative side of the query while the Di Senate will discuss the affirmative. A , constitutional committee of Ralph Noe, Nash Johnston, and John Mewborn, was appointed by the speaker to revise the present consti tution of the Society, and to report at the next meeting. Ralph Noe of the Ways and Means Committee stated that local campus questions will be discussed more dur ing the. present quarter, than during the past.. The meeting was adjourned early on account of the boxing match. SPECIAL RATES ' ON PRESSING O'KELLY TAILORING CO. PHONE 3531 PICKWICK "Almost a Part of Carolina" j Shows: 2:00, 3:45, 6:45, 8:30 J I THURSDAY and FRIDAY " ""I j -with- ! I MAY McAVOY and i Is Your Education Worth Whatit Costs? i . Your education you plenty but is costing it's worth every cent it costs. Why not guarantee that this investment in brains will not be lost through sickness or accident? Here's the way: "Sec Cy" Cy Thompson's Carolina Agency Pilot Life Insurance Company "YOUR V Life Insurance PILOT" MAY McAVOY and CHARLES RAY Comedy Charley Chase in "Sting of Stings" f i aiiiiiiiiiiiiiia JOHN MILLS TO SPEAK BEFORE ENGINEER MEET w&wm ..'...'"'' SOMETHING NEW SOMETHING DIFFERENT v . - ..... SOMETHING HOT Durham North Carolina 9 k odiav T" Mr. John Mills, Director of Publi cations of the Bell Telephone Re search Laboratories, will speak on the subject of 'Telephone Research" in a public meeting of the local branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on Friday night, January 13, at eight P. M. The meeting will be held in room 206, Phillips Hall. In addition' to the talk, Mr. Mills will interview the members of the Senior electrical class for the pur pose of selecting men for research they follow him to his electrocution j Work. The Bell Telephone Company and dramatize a horrible death.) But t has for the past several years select if states like South Carolina elect to ed several of the University gradu force a worse form cf .slavery upon ates in Electrical Engineering. 9 to 2 THAT'S YOUR LUCKY DAY Professional director and cameraman will turn ballroom into movie studio. Come in costume depicting: your favorite actress or actor it may mean money in the bank. If you can't come in costume, come anyhow. You'll have the best time of the season. MERRY MUSICAL MIRTHFUL MYSTICAL ADMISSION, $2.00 LADIES FREE DON'T MISS IT STil"!!t'!!Mfn!IHn!f',!?''?!'lfl,Hi,!!M,lli'!i!iMtiiuiti.nMt.1... - sS
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