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THE TAR HEEL Thursday, Starch 23, 192$ ft i 14 4 '- - i 1 f: ' -? 'Mi .1 : Iff I i i III mi 111 111 i i i 1 i if i ; i i ? i V t rMtl Leading Southern Collegs Tei--Weekly Newspaper - Published three time3 every week of the college year, and is the official newspaper of the ' Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N, C. Sub scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for-the college year. THESE POLITICAL PREACHERS Offices t in the Building. basement of Alumni J. F. Ashby....4--..'Editor W .W. Neal, Jr. eBusiness Mgr. Day Carol. .. Associate Editor , EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing .Editors ' Toil W. Johnson.. Tuesday lsaue George Ehrhart ........Thursday Issue JOE R. Bobbitt, Jr::-... Saturday Issuv Walter Spearman.!.... Assistant Editor Andy Anderson -.UJJ.C.C J. Editor Andy Anderson Oates McCullen Calvin Graves Glenn P. Holder D. E. Livingston Dick McGlohon Harry J. Galland James B. Dawson W. H. Yarborough Staff Wallace Shelton J. Q. Mitchell John Mebane Louise Medley F. G. McPherson B. A. Marshall J. J. Parker James Rogers W. K Marshall Donald Wood Katherme Grantham : George Coggins . BUSINESS STAFF M. R. Alexander -.Asst. to Bus. Mgr. Moore Brysonl .-.Advertising Mgr. R. A. Carpenter Aist. Adv. Mgr. Advertising Staff . II. Y. Feimster J. M. Henderson Ed Durham R. A. Carpenter Robert O. High . ' John Jemison Leonard Lewis G. E. Hill....-- .Collection Manager H. N. Patterson... sst. Collection Mgr. B. Moore Parker Henry Harpers-Circulation Manager Clyde Mauney David McCain Gradon Pendergraft Thursday, March 29, 1928 PARAGRAPHICS Latest reports have it that it is not known just when "Graham Memorial building will be completed. One good thing we would like to emphasize about this issue of the Carolina Magazine it at least ap pears on time. ' We are advised that the severe electrical storm which visited the state Monday night was not affected in any way by the presence of Senator Jim Reed. ' It is to be hoped that Coach Dale Ranson doesn't set the pace for his European tourist party as fast as that of the track team Tuesday, against the Duke team. , - Those who understood, like us, that nominations were to be made today will please read the editorial, in the Tuesday issue of this worthy journal and substitute the date "Tuesday" for that of Thursday. With apologies to Editor Andy An derson, we wish to request that any one who has any old shoes for the editor will please call by the Tar Heel office this afernoon between the hours of three, and five. SENATOR REED SCORES Dav Carol Elsewhere in this issue is an ac count of a political controversy start ed by the organization of an AI Smith club at Wake Forest. Obviously the Charlotte ministers, alarmed by efforts to substitute inde pendent thought for traditional big otry, have loosened the venom of a false Christianity. Those ministers who would thus tyranize campus thought are worse than witch-doctors. They possess just enough education to be, dangerous, just enough influence to - make .their extermination a benefit to public wel fare. , One day they drool of brotherly love; the next finds them calling col lege boys "cat-brained" and "suly-minded." Now if these Baptists were setting out to utter truisms, they might well remark that college students are gen erally , "cat-brained" and "silly-minded." But ministers of the gospel are not sworn servants of ) manifested truth; they are merely agents' of a moralistic philosophy which millions have found comforting and to which a fanciful few have ascribed a sort of divinity. Hence, as advocates of one ethical theory, . they present a clownish exhibition when they quib ble over rival ' doctrines like Catholi cism and Protestantism. But after all, ministers and college students ' should not cross swords. They are blood brothers in the great fraternity of ignorance. , In the Wake Forest case especially, there seems to be little cause for min isterial interference. Will the Bap tists of this progressive state deny a college full of yotfng men, some of whom are already of voting age and others of whom are destined for polit ical, office, the privilege of organizing partisan discussion groups? All worthwhile forums center attention on some individual man or issue. Sure ly men of God cannot prate of civil liberties one day and grant 'them only to anti-Smith movements the next. Let it be observed here that in politics a non-Smith club is simply an anti Smith subterfuge. It is strange that many students at Wake Forest have disclaimed mem bership in the Smith club as though it were a leper colony. We trust that a; 'grasshopper has not stampeded a great ' herd. This seems to be the tap-root and top-wig of the Wake Forest trouble: A growing school which hears and re sponds to the appeal for public en lightenment on a national problem finds itself saddled by a board of di rectors numbering not only the trus tees but also" the most intolerant graduates. ' The ' alumni of the ihsti tution, unfortunately dwarfed by un wholesome early training, turn to the younger crop of collegians and deny them the privileges which may lend color to their education, truth to their, sermons. Dogma is in the saddle, and is riding hard. , The authorities at Wake Forest ay squelch the Smith club. Theirs the authority; theirs be the high duty of renouncing that power for pursuit of a nobler course. Humbly we suggest that they refuse obeissance to child ish, pestiferous alumni. Surely there are in all Baptistry a Caleb and Joshua who will not falter. And yet, if Wake Forest officials are as gullible and timid as most of their clan, they will bow to the .bluster of alumni who threaten to withhold ap propriations. They will accept Big otry as their , faculty. Ignorance as their creed. Like Essau, they wil sell their souls for a mess of pottidge nized a3 of the very first rank. The man's authority., is unquestioned, his industry is amazing. - His recent vol ume on the life of Left Wing Gordon, "Rainbow Round My Shoulder," al though not itself bearing the imprint of the university press, is one of the most- remarkable and stirring books of the year, and i3, so far as the Daily News is aware, the sort of thing that has never been attempted before. Un less we are greatly mistaken it will be read and discussed. . What is not so clearly brought out by The Nation is the work of the whole press, which under the leader ship of its director, Louis R. Wilson, has built up its present high stand ard. Its material , seems unlimited, partly because of the spirit at Chapel HilL where, Dr. " Mims pointed out, everybody seems to be writing or to have completed another book, and partly because the press has draw its authors from everywhere. The result, which is not always sung, is one of the most striking achievements of the state in recent years. Greensboro Daily News. The gratifying thing about Senator "Jim" Reed's speech in Memorial Hall Tuesday afternoon is that, aside from being here arid speaking before the University audience, he paid his bear era a distinct compliment by deliver ing what is declared by the state press to be 'the best address of those- he made in North Carolina this week We would have been happy to see and hear the Missourian senator but when he, to quote one correspondent, came "to the climax ' of. his North Carolina campaign" here the Tar HeeiT feels that he vhas complimented his Chapel Hill hearers in a memorable manner. Such & figure in the nation's pub lic life does, not often go out of his way to speak twice within ahalf doz en hours. Because of this the honor that Mr. Reed has paid the Univer sity is appreciated and felt more keenly. Being a man of much vigor great force and extraordinary effec tiveness, the senator literally 'won' . his audience by the power of his speech and the magnetism of his per sonality. Memorial hall, crowded ! to capacity, held gathering that heard one of the best " addresses that has been made here in many a day. Again the Tar Heel wishes .to state that it is proud of the compli ment paid the University by Senator Jim Reed in delivering that excellent epeeeh, and it is hoped that sometime the senator can come back," because tha brief visit Tuesday assures him of a hearty welcome here in the fu tire," . " ' '' :: CLIPPED A STRIKING ACHIEVEMENT Sidney Blackmer To I Attend Conference Word has been received here by Professor Frederick H. Koch, director Sf the Playmakers, that Sidney Black mer will attend the Eastern Regional Conference on the Drama to be held here April 4 and 5. Mr. .Blackmer is a native of Salis bury and is perhaps the outstanding North Carolinian on the stage today. He graduated from the University in 1915. V "I am honored and happy to receive your invitation," the letter from Mr. Blackmer said. "The Playmakers have developed wonderfully and have be come quite famous. I have een many groups in all sections of the country and the Playmakers aire surpassed by none. T take greater pride each day in my honorary membership." LIGHT.FROM CHAPEL HILL Elsewhere on this page is reprinted today an editorial article from The Nation relative to the work of the University of North Carolina Press It is one of those tributes which make additional impression on the native not only because of the fact that it comes- from a j ournal of high stand ing but because it is the long distance fview of those who having a some what comprehensiye outlook on' the whole country turn to North Carolina for an unusually -interesting, achieve ment. ,Iri any. light it is evidence of the penetration already accomplished by the university press. Barely half a dozen years old, and with so little financial backing that less courageous souls would have been deterred from any effort whatsoever, the press has already become a national institution. ' The tribute of The Nation deals chiefly with social studies which have other reason to know, that the group come out of Chapel Hill; and there is of published works on the negro has played a valuable "part stimulating real" interest all over the country in that subject. "- In work of this kind j the influence of Howard W. Odum has 'been steadily and increasingly reccg- A university press would not be fulfilling its promise if it did not make possible the publication of spe cial monographs for which there was no commercial call. But our academic iterature as a whole is much-less in teresting event to specialists that it might be, and to the lay public it. is dull. The universities need not pop ularize their knowledge or even trans- ate it. But they could have a plan, a purpose, behind their books an imaginative coordinated conception of certain fields to be expertly explored. The monographs are random and un inspired;" they do not build up , big enough structures of theory or fact. Of the North Carolina Press at Chapel Hill this cannot be said. The university there nchiefly, we under stand, under the direction of Howard W. Odum has- done a surprising amount of excellent and interesting research and report: Its publications are conceived as serial contributions to subjects, in themselves 5f great general importance. And the subject of greatest importance is the educa tion of North Carolina. That state has 230,000 native adult illiterates, 100,000 of whom are white. The uni versity expects to reduce this number quickly through . the circulation of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morris's readers for grown-ups, whieh; in Buncombe coun ty have already brought 4,000 adults to the point of reading and writing. But the literate population in North Carolina, as in any other state, needs educating, too. Mr. Odum has planned a social study series which will throw more light on the condition of the negro, than has been thrown, we im agine, from any other source to date. Three volumes already issued, "The Negro and His Song," "Folk Beliefs of the southern Negro," and "Negro Workaday Songs," have given excit ing promise-of work to be done in the analysis of the negro imagination; and a recent" monograph on "The North Carolina Chain Gang", ought to have been read, if it was not (and -it probably was not), by a majority of the state legislature. Then there are to come a study of the negro woman in the south, following Mr, Odum's method in "Rainbow Round My Shoulder"; a full-length portrait by Guy Johnson of John Henry, the in credible Hammer Man who, with that Black Ulysses, "Left Wing" Gordon belongs now to all black America; a study, again by Guy Johnson, of mu sical abity in negroes; several col lections of spngs and superstitions; and at least two studies of the pres ent relations, violent or otherwise, between blacks and whites in the south. "White North Carolina its folk-lore, its education, its industries, its social history, its politics, its read ing habits, its culture as influenced by cotton and tobacco, its welfare and poor relief, and its labor problems in mill villages will be examined with equal care. Nor does the press stop there. There is to be an inter-American historical series consisting of 15 volumes of West Indian and South American his tory translated from the Spanish and the Portuguese, and to this series will be added an atlas the first in exis tenceof Hispanic American history. There is also to be a library of south em history and . biography; and we mentioned in a previous issue the projected "Billingual Series" which when under way will present the best works of European literature in text and translation. For the enterprise and enlightenment of Mr. Odum and his associates there can scarcely be to much praise. Other universities cannot do precisely the same sort of thing that is being done by the Uni versity of North Carolina; but if its example were taken to heart in sec tions of the country which are com monly called more up-and-coming than the Carolinas, this would be a more civilized republic The Nation. To Prospective Bachelors of Carolina Even though you are able to pass safely through Leap Year, and figure you'll nev er have dependents, think of yourself 35 years hence. Adequate Pilot protection suggests itself. v ----- K Talk it over with "Cy." . Cy Thompson's Carolina Agency "YOUR i Life Insurance PILOT" A man has little to do going around censoring all those "nifty looking" bathing suits. "At the present time I am playing London riow has 500 miles cf eew in province. R. I. I shall return to ers, and claims that they are tha be; New York within the next fortnight. I shall attend the Conference with a whole heart and keen interest. 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