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Pase Two ar peel Leading Southern Ccllecs Tsi wehkly nzwspapi3 Published three times every week of the college year, and 13 the official newspaper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina. Chanel Hill. N. C. : Sub scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in -the Building. basement of Alumni Walter Spearman . . .-.JZditor WT TXT -XTeat Jt RMM'Qe Mnr J. R. Bobbitt .Z. Associate Editor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Mnnnnittn TZrLif.nrsi John Mebane Tuesday Issue Cwwnp. Ehrhart.. Thursday Issue Glenn Holder..-...,..;..: Saturday Issue Harry Galland ..... ,VilLYarborougb.. Assistant Editor -..Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF M. R, Alexander 1. Asst. to Bus. Mgr. Moore Bryson ......Advertising Mgr. R. A. Carpenter ..... Asst. Adv. Mgr. - Advertising Staff U. Y. Feimster J. M. Henderson Ed Durham R. A. Carpenter Robert O. High John Jennson Leonard Lewis G. E. HilL...... -, ..Collection Manager H. N. Patterson...ils8t. ColUetixm Mgr. Henry Harper... ...Circulation Manager Clvde Mauney David McCain Gradon Pendergraft Saturday, April 28, 1928 PARAGRAPHICS WHO CARES ABOUT THAT ? . Thursday night GerrardHall wit nessed the annual initiation of, those students who had maintained the scho lastic average of 92.5. Furthermore the occasion was graced by no less a personage than Pr. Archibald Hender son. The attendance was as follows: New initiates Old Phi Beta men Officials and Speaker Faculty members Parents . Those who just missed Phi Beta" Curious women All other audience ,36 8 4 5 2 4 8 9- 79 ; -Total attendance Judging from -the above statistics, carefully noted, there:, are evidently very few people, students or faculty, - who are interested . enough in the achievements of scholarship to attend the initiatory ceremony even when the address of the evening is delivered by a speaker of note. , The question "Who cares about that" is easily answered. SCHOLARSHIP HOLDS ITS OWN The old adage that appearances are deceptive is still true, if one concludes from the Phi Beta Kappa election Thursday night that University schol arship on the . whole is improving. ! Thirty-six initiates were taken into - the honorary fraternity, the, greatest number in the history of this institu tion, leading one to believe that cam pus' grades are improving. .'; But the size of the student body has alsa grown from year to year, and more ' rapidly tnan ever since the World War. Back in 1909, when there j : were arm roximatelv 700 ' men here. nine ot tnese were taken into fm tseta Kappa. - Now, with requirements for membership at the same minimum of yz.D, it is only natural in a student body of 5800 that the number of ini- . tiates . should be quadrupled. The quota runs about the same, roughly one percent. It is surprising that the percentage i has not decreased. What with week end trips, the abuse of optional class . attendance and more diverse amiiser "icuko liic au,cuuic acuuiai ; iuxa lit tle chance for ; intensive study. In . this time when it is so easy not to study educators are encouraged that some students remain who delight in making a good grade men who rea- any great recommendation. It's what is done there that counts. Phi Beta Kappa is at least holding 'its own? f.ViA tnlr-fxr-ciiY lnifiotoa oro rt ' ' - J - - -" - J ....... 4i.vwwu - V v be congratulated. .-,' . ' R. B. Jr. Musical Program A special musical progfain will be given at the Christian church tomor row morning at 11:00. ; - Mr. Holmes will render a solo, and a quartet will give several selections. Compositions by Simper Brackett, De Reef, Gaul, and Geiber will be sung by the choir, Grmany borrowed ; nearly 3,000, CO,C0O marks from the U. S. last year 1 A 1 MM"',tVjV"1 4 f. . .. to t i i OPEN FORUII CONCERNING THE BUCCANEER Editor of the Tar Heel: This morning the last issue of The Buccaneer was left on my door-step. say the "last issue: I refer only to the date of issue. I have no hope that it is really the last issue. I should like to believe that it were at least the last issue of this variety of humor. This number of The Buccaneer found me in a mathematical frame of mind. I tabulated the "jokes" un der five heads : Sex, drink, love, cam pus humor, and "all others" (a mis cellaneous item). I secured the fol lowing results: there were fifty-one which turned on sex interests eleven on drink, eleven on love, thirteen on j possible campus incidents,, and fifty one were in the "all, others" class. This leaves unaccounted for, one lone j witticism which my brain was unequal to classifying - since I could find no '. point to it at al. I presume, how ever,, it would be safe n the basis of the other evidence, to classify' it as sex. it tms were aone, re wouia mean that there was an elmost equal division between sex subjects and the ''all , others" group, leaving '"drink" and "love" and "campus" humor as also . rans. In the minds of many people : "drink" and "love" are. not so very remote from-"Sex" interests and if these are added together we find seventy two. of that ; sort and only sixty-four left for -the two other types. Now. the point I want to raise is this: do the students of the University of North Carolina find that this state of affairs seriously attracts them? I should be glad to have an expression of opinion on this subject through the Student Forum column. Personally, I believe that most students read The Buccaneer, but that they do so simply because the fee charged them brings the publication to their door. I don't believe that opinion by and large sup ports the sort 'of, thing The Buccaneer prints. . ; You will note, I -hope, the complete absence in this letter of any charges of immorality. 1 believe that even immorality has a certain standing and dignity which mere cheap dirt can not hope to attain.) I do not pay The Buc cancer tte compliment oi arguing that it is immoral. I do argue that it is cheap and tawdry. It is, I hope, an insult to the intelligence of the usual Carolina student. And my rea son for writing this letter is my hope that I am not mistaken in my impres sion of the intelligence level of stu dents -here, that some students will share with me the damnation which this protesting letter will call down upon my head from our eternal sopho mores and our self -nominated intelli gentsia. - - I take it that the prime justifica tion for a college comic is its presen tation of campus humor. I know there is plenty of comedy and real wit on this campus, but I see very little of it in our humorous publication. Only thirteen out of one hundred and thirty-six alleged witticisms in thi issue by an stretch of the imagination can be considered campus humor. Does it mean, then, that a new type of sex magazine has grown up on our cam pus to compete with "True. Stories" and "I Confess" ? If so, we ought by all means to recognize it; but it is a question in my mind ' whether we should recognize it through a fee im posed on students. So far-as I know there is now no question of faculty censorship or of suppression. Certainly, the recent Magazine case, argues that the facul ty is not hasty in either one direction or the other. What I'd like to find out through this letter is the extent to which student opinion supports its college comic. Is my attitude just an other instance of an "all-out-of -step-but Bill" logic? I'd really like to know. ., Apd one thing more. I don' - sub scribe to The Buccaneer. An indul gent Publication's Union fails to dis criminate between the Tar Heel for which I pay and The Buccaneer for which,. I don't. They leave me both with a generous tolerance which seems to place both journals on thesame level.. Or, perhaps, it . is bargain day and. one who pays for the Tar Heel has The Buccaneer thrown in. After all, this ' may , be the explanation for which I have been seeking that The Buccaneer is simply a bit of extra measure to show .the Union's good will. But what a way to show good will! - - ADDISON HIBBARD Graham to Speak Professor Frank K Graham, of the history department, will speak to. the Methodist Sunday school tomorrow morning at 10:00. "North Carolina's Next Step" will be the subject of Dr. Graham's address. . NEW LAW REVTEVi COmESOTPRESS English Classes Are Selling Bookplates For Famous Theatre By Judiciary) The April issue of the North Caro lina Law Review, which has just come from the press; contains 120 pages of material which rivals in interest any thing which it has published. Its con tents consist of two leading articles by G. H. Robinson, professor of Law at the University of Boston, and by Charles T. McCormick, dean of the Law school of the University of North Carolina", sixteen shorter discussions of recent cases by the student editors, several book reviews and a scathing criticism of the Justice of the Peace in "North Carolina by Kemp D. Bat tle, attorney of Rocky Mount. He closes his article as follows: ' j "At the risk of being tedious let1 me summarize. ine- administration of the public business in the courts of Justices of the Peace has become a scandal. The trouble arises not from unworthy individuals here and there but from a system whose necessary tendency is to include the unfit and to exclude the fit. , To introduce young lawyers to their first actual acquain tance with the practice of law by pitching them headlong into magis trates' courts as now conducted has a debasing influence upon their con ception of professional ethics and the dignity of the law and upon their stan dards of personal conduct. The older lawyers, though the shoe does not pinch their feet; have a duty to per form in the protection of the public and in the preservation of their pro fessional traditions and standards. An informed public opinion and an inter ested bar, working through a legis lature awakened to the need of re form, can easily remedy a situation which now cries aloud to Heaven." Charles "WVTillett, Jr., attorney of Charlotte, begins his spicy review of John M. jZane's recent bookTie Story of Law, as follows: - "Jethro (the father-in-law of Mos es), so the. author remarks in the course of his splendid chapter, on Jew ish" Law, is the first on record of those curious animals who can sit patiently in a court room all day hoping for something to happen which may be interesting. This is one of the count less side remarks that the author puts into his" narrative as he takes us rac ing - through what he accurately en titles 'The Story of Law.' "It is quite obvious that he has read the story and the philosophy and the history not only of law but of social development generally. " But he has read it witlra chuckle always pretty close to the surface, and he . shares many such with the reader. It is also quite obvious that he is a corking good trial . lawyer, or rather that he has been such. The title page describes him as LL.D. and Litt.D., and we don't suppose y an active, ground-scuffling jury lawyer would, while he was still active and ground-scuffling, ever get those entitlements. He has all of that thing called punch that anyone is look ing for and take it from us, he doesn't fail to use it when occasion demands." The article by Professor Robinson is entitled "Duty of a Public Utility to Serve at Reasonable Rates: The Valuation War." . In discussing the recent ; O'Fallon case, he points out that the biggest lawsuit in history is in the offing, for the difference be tween the value of the nation's rail roads as a whole calculated on snot reproduction, as compared with their value on the theory taken by the, In terstate Commerce Commission is from ten to twelve "Billion dollars. Dean McCormick's article concerns the Fusion of Law and Equity in United States Courts. Probably the most interesting stu dent contribution is A. L. Butler's note on Worthless Check Laws, a mat ter of great interest generally. The student contributions are signed and constitute the backbone of the Law Review,'' and the part in which North Carolina lawyers are most interested. The recognition which the Law Re vievj is obtaining from lawyers and judges may be gathered from the fact that the North Carolina Supreme Court has cited it twice in, recent de cisions. ' ' " - WHAT'S HAPPENING . TODAY ' 9:00 a. m. to 1:00' p. m. Phillips rfall. Meeting of the North Carolina Academy "of Science. ; V :V; - MONDAY 7:15 p. m. Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinets in the Y. M. C. A. 8: 30 "p. m. The Forest Theatre. Playmaker production of Shake speare's "The, Tempest." , '." Teaching of geography, history, and civics in schools and universities of Salvador by other than native-born teachers is prohibited by a recent law. NKY KE'S Inkle ts , "Seventy five co-eds but for traek" headlines an exchange. Well, the practice will come in handy, seeing as how summer school is nearly ready to start. - - Which reminds us of the old saying that every emotion has its price, and if we want to enjoy it we must pay for it. We are continually hearing the ex pression about the "Honor System as it is practiced at Carolina." It is rather hard to interpret that remark, but we take it for granted that it is meant, that, as usual, Carolina has a superior product, if such is possible with 'honor.' We notice that Student Body Pres ident Ed Hudgins and the Student Council are promoting a "Revival of the Honor System" campaign. We venture to sa that they will have the hearty support of the Math depart ment, anyhow. . According to newspaper reports the Epworth -League is going to hold, an Open Forum on the liquor situation It is said that it will not be a propa ganda session, but rather an effort to do some constructive thinking ona subject that is puzzling "the most sober minds of the country." We wonder what is troubling the minds of the less sober ones? A paragraphic of the Favorite Try Weekly states that if the weather for the playmakers production in the For est Theatre is like that of High School week, there w(ill be no necessity for settings or imitation storms Nature will suffice ! Not quite, Mr. Editor. This is fine pneumonia weather, so we would advise carrying a yellow slicker and an umbrella. . "Big 'A' Day Promised for Next Week-End" headlines "an exchange. Look out, Mr. Chem. Prof. We advise a few bars to be put on the chemistry lab windows. "Student" Voters Favor Wet Man" reads a headline. Probably the stu dents are in their second childhood. -.. Pity the poor graduate who thinks that just because he can keep a girl in suspense is a good sign that he can support her. X Sign on the wall: "Do not spit aim lessly about on the floor. Try to hit a crack or some definite object." Inky Ike says darn a man who will ask a girl for a kiss an tlien wait for it. ' .. They say that love is the essence of life. Well,it may be, but Lord, what seasoning ,? ? ? ' . All Air V "Marshall is Next President of Band," headlines the favorite Try Weekly. It should read thus "Mar shall to Head Wind Blowers Organi zation." . A flea certainly has a bright outlook on life; he knows that eventually he will go to the. dogs. ' Once upon a time there was an ar tist's son who had . designs on a girl, but she was an architect's daughter and had other plans So ends our part oi me swry. y - J XT J Sign in a Cafe : Your Face May Be Good, But it Will Not Fit in the Cash Register. . - . ; We heard a man say the other day that he could read his wife like a book. It may be possible, but we ven ture the assertion that he can't shut her up so easily. "' - -. The Gold Digger believes that beau ty is as beauty doughs. "Natures Mistake The Engineer , . Art Student Voices Comment" . . Headline Come on, Engineers, there's some more mistakes on the campus. Show 'em up. ' It is noticeable that the clinging vine is increasing on ' the campus.. The trouble-is, they don't cling at the same place very long. -, . i . . Inky Ike is, about convinced that times are changing. He heard one of the Old Boys say the other daythat in the good old days the gal chiles stayed at home when they didn't have anything to wear. . ' - . '. j: " We would like to see Water Polo in stalled at . Carolina, v The weather in the future being the same as in the past. ...V ' . . ' . 'V, A woman , may be outspoken but never out talked. ID'S MEN LEAD WHEN RAIN HAL'KTOIJRNEY Match Play Is Postponed Until May 25, When State Tourna ment Will Be Played Here." Match play in the state Intercol legiate Tennis tournament has been definitely postponed until May 25, After a single day of elimination se ries, rain interfered; and the conse quent wet courts prevented a contin uance of play. I The tourney will be resumed on the Carolina courts in thejsecond bracket of play to which the participants had progressed when the officials were forced to call the meet off. A group of stellar netmen were assembled for championship matches and those who remained in the running were show ing excellent form. All of ' the Tar Heel entrants had survived the first day's elimination and advanced three doubles teams and four singles play ers into the next department of play. Wilson-Waddell, Norwood - Scott, and Merritt-Covington were the win ning combinations'. Waddell, Coving ton, Wilson, and Merritt remained to represent Carolina in the singles. Runner-up honors went to North- Car olina State, qualifying two doubles and two single entries - for further play. Wake Forest had two doubles teams and two singles men left. Dav idson was represented by one team in each division, and Duke remained with but two singles contestants N for championship honors. With, the expectation of a rather difficult encounter, Coach Kenf ield's proteges engaged Wake Forest abroad on Wednesday, but the Tar Heels won all their matches with little trouble to annex a 4 to 0 victory. Captain Wad dell. was forced to match sets, as was Wilson of the Carolina varsity. Cov ington and Merritt took their contests m straight sets. The matches had to be stopped after the singles play, when darkness - robbed the doubles pairs of a chance to show their wares. Only one court was available for the engagement, which fact accounts for the number of matches run off. A match scheduled for today with the University of Maryland has been canceled. The next intercolleeiate play will, take place here on Tuesday with7 Wake Forest in a return' meet. This will be the last time the Tar Heels will appear on their home court before leaving for an extensive south ern invasion, culminating in the southern Uonterence Tournament at New Orleans. 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