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Page Two THE Pi vfi Leading Southern College Tei "Weekly Newspaper 4 " Published three times weekly during 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 1 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Walter Spearman Editor George Ehrhart Mgr. Ed Marion Alexander - Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Glenn Holder . . Assistant Editor John Mebane ..... Assistant Editor Harry Galland Assistant Editor .Will Yarborough Sports Editor Reporters M. Broadus Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn J. C. Eagles J '. P. Jones W. A. Shelton C. B. McKethan J. C. Williams E. Wilson Gil Pearson - . B. W. J. E. Dungan D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon '. -J. Q. Mitchell B. C. Moore K. C. Ramsay E. F. Yarborough H. H. Taylor E. H. Denning , - J. D. McNairy Whitton , . BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff B. M. Parker Asst. Bus. Mgr. H. N. Patterson Collection Mgr. Gradon Pendergraph Circulation Mgr. T. R. Karriker.... ...: Asst. Col. Mgr. Advertising Staff Leonard Lewis' Milton . Cohen Harry Latta J Sidney Brick Ben Aycock , H. Jameson Kermit Wheary H. Merrell Jim Harris y Tuesday, January 15, 1929 PARAGRAPHICS Latest addition to the Tar Heel is a cricket in the corner. All the edi torials are now written to music. The only nasty remarks we have yet heard about the Playmaker's Twelfth Night was the question "But why do the call it Revels? Today is the day when freshmen as sume unwonted importance in the eyes of their associates elections are held. The bright and shining lights of our' first year class come forth from beneath their bushels and per- form. Wake Forest is waging a fight against the present extensive student use of toothpicks sort of picking out the faults,as it were.- The approaching Carolina-Texas debate will, no doubt discard all al lusions to "Democratic principles" and substitute references to the "Grand Old Republican Party." Present vacancies in the Glee Club might well be filled by some of our consistent and insistent weekend-mid night-songsters. If this thing of finding dead men in the Tar Heel office every night continues, our editorial sensibilities will become so calloused that nothing can disturb our poise ! The trouble is, however, that "dead men ten no tales --so oi what use are they to a newspaper? The Path of Least Resistance College should be strengthening to one's character, we" are told. It should teach the student novice, that the rough and rocky way is always the best way, that primrose paths lead but astray, . that minds - are toughened and deepened by choosing the best trail to knowledge instead of the shortest. , Latin is good for mental exercise ; mathematics furnishes an excellent wrestling mat for gymnastics of the mind ; philosophy may lead through tortuous and devious twistings, but it clings to the claim of brain-trainer. And fine indeed these are,proving as they do that the student' must not weaken in his search for ( educational light but must follow the paths as they are laid out. And if there is no short cut to learning, if the paths laid out for our training "are best, if we are to be made ;tronger and abler by following tne rockbound trails why then, we ask, j does there exist that well-worn, that' unsightly, that inexcusable, that heinously atrocious path running across the grass from the side of Bat- le Dormitory to the north end of Old East? Sheeplike student feet are follow ing the path of least resistance to the defacement of the campus and the sapping away of their own. will power. A Student Clearing House , The Student Activities Group, which meets tonight to discuss the present status of publications on the campus, includes within its member ship men representing every phase of student activity on the campus. Student government, publications, athletics, Y. M. C.A., literary so cieties, and classes all send their re spective leaders to meet in open forum parley. - When- this group is gathered to gether, it is competent to serve as a clearing house for any campus prob lem. 'Its members may declare them selves proponents or opponents of any proposed plan, and they will be voic ing the opinions of a considerable por tion of the student body. The pro posed plan for a daily TAR HEEL, the question of editorial responsi bility, problems of student" govern ment the inter-relation of student or ganizations, the accountability of or ganizations to . the students who financially make them possible all these and many other matters find proper attention before the Student Activities Group. - - ' In an institution which has grown too large for frequent assemblies of the entire student body in which such assemblies are too unwieldly to ac complish' anything of merit, it is fit ting that a group of representative campus men meet together for frank discussion of prevalent problems. Service Plus and Minus "Service" is a pleasant word, ' i harmless word, and sometimes an in spiring word. But "there are times wnen it can arouse wratn and in- J 5 I XTT1 " ' " aignation. w nen it is used and abused, and flaunted as a standard which is not reached or maintained, tnen tnat simple word "service" is as a red rag to a bull. , The Bank of Chapel Hill has just put up a neat electric sign which is the first thing seen as one enters the place. It reads "We Serve the Com munity First." The letters shine forth with an obviously white light but their effect on many is an crim son as any cloth flaunted in the ex cited face of a raging animal. bituated in a college town, the Bank of Chapel Hill is confronted with problems not met with by the ordinary town bank. But even con sidering J the facts that students wil carelessly or even v very occasionally intentionally pass bad checks, that the amount of their checks is not large, and that a good many of them are amateurs in banking matters, the Bank of Chapel Hill does not try to serve in the way it should. - Arbitrary rules are concerned. An unusually large fee for handling an account is charged. Statements are heavily for it3 services, fender state ments when it considers it the proper ime to do so, and stay closed when there is an unusual need for it to open for business. It will continue to do so but if it does, it will lose the confidence of the student body even more than it already has. "We Serve the Community First" -perhaps, but four words should be added to that legend. "When It Is Convenient." H. J. G. - Tuesday, January 15, 1929 i " - " Open Forum - . i WHY DO THEY? To the Editor: Why do students shun American debates? Well, consider some of the too too (sic) common types of debater: Pompous strutters, lime-light hounds, and wind-bags generally, booming out the , strained literary twaddle. ' ., The "I; Contend" boys, pugnacious and scowling, "who think "sportsman ship" is a disease. The droning opiates, quoting miles of statistics in a. monotone, like a steady drizzle of rain" and as -de- pressing. The maniacs, frothing at the mouth, victims from the cradle of dementia foresica ear splitters, who should be ducked in ice-water for a wek, Tne piece-makers' singsonging along, looking for a pat on the head; first they go "upsie go," then they go down -isn't it pretty, and "learned" so perfectly. Then the mushmouthed, over-serious boy, who has his subjects right by the tail, who almost dug the foundations out from under the library in-his re search, and of whom Stephen Lea cock says: "He should be taken some where and given a glass of beer and a sausage." The fault, Dear Brutus, lies not with the public, but with the curse of artificiality in debating. - of here and so there was, of course, no rush to desert the old place during the week-ends. You altogether, a greater fraction of the whole stu dent body was within touch of each individual. , ; That old "Hello" was not a tradi tion. You couldn't help it.- The very atmosphere squeezed it out of you. But in the completely changed en vironment that we now have on this hill the "Hello" idea is ridiculous. It does not belong. ? To maintain it would require the constant high pres sure of a group of -well meaning "hello-minded" fanatics who , them selves, because of their ieal, might hand down the tradition to their suc cessors. At its best it would be , one of these alas! too frequent imposi tions from above which run so against , the nature of our weary spirit. J. J. SLADE, JR. CONCERNING CLASS SCHEDULES Not moreadvertising, butmore sin cerity, more reality, more clearness of purpose is what debating needs. But, of that more anon if the subject proves interesting. ' William A. Ols en. ' . - IIELL-0! not rendered unless a certain number of checks has passed through- the hands of the bank, often seriously in conveniencing the student who must know just where he is financially. These are minor faults. There is an other which was occasioned just re cently by a crisis which the bank made no attempt to meet. When the University was closed suddenly because of the prevalence of flu, the need of students for money with which to get , home became acute. The merchants of the town rose splendidly to the situation and cashed checks and loaned money to the very limit of their -abilities. But the supply f cash was quickly ex hausted, and many students were forced to stay on the Hill after the evacuation order had been given." .." There was a direct need for the bank . that night, and it remained closed. It was not its duty to open at seven at night. It would merely have been a service. The bank will continue to charge To The Editor: "Hello, hello," said I, almost out of breath. "Hello, hello," answered the scurry ing passers-by. "Hello," called someone to my left. "Hello," said I turning my head to see him but just in time to miss seeing who it was that cried "Hello" to my right; but I "shouted a hello to this last one, and to let him know it was for him, I waved my arm in his direction. My books dropped on the gravel -and my papers flew about. When I had picked them up I real ized that I was on the edge -of the quadrangle near the, well and that the L bell was ringing. From north, south, east, and west the stream of classmates poured. "Hello hello, hello," I said. "Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello," "they answered. A I rushed on, and the crowd surged on by me. "Hello, hello, hello. . ." they said, their eyes riveted on me, their teeth bared in a friendly grin, waiting for my answering hello's. I did the best I could, but there were too many of them; J was hold ing up the traffic; a crowd gathered around 'me of those who waited to exchange a hello with me. "Hello, hello, hello," I shouted, and my breath gave out. I turned and ran. The mob was on me. From all sides I could see rushing towards me those' who had not yet said hello. "Hello, hello hell-ow, woW, YOW!" I screamed and dived into the well. But there was no well and my head struck something hard. I woke" up and found myself sprawling on, the floor beside my bed. Hurriedly I gave fervent thanks that it was only a 'nightmare; that the Tar Heel advocated "hello era" had not yet arrived. , : - I meditated. I am really not an old timer, for my memory takes me back only seven years into the past of this campus; but in that short time the change I see is astounding. V All classes were held in the group of old buildings that more or less cluster about the well. The students sauntered lazily from one building to the other; they passed classmates at low rates of speed; they drawled out a spiritless "Ha-ey"; then mean dered on. The only fraternity houses were those of the "row"; none had a thing in the way of pretension, and all seemed quite content, The stu dent body barely passed the 1000 mark. Then there were no roads out To The Editor: I'd like to suggest in reply to Mr. H. J. Galland's editorial in last Thurs day's Tar Heel that there is one very important reason for the haphazard juggling of programs of which he made no mention. I refer to conflicts, and the necessity for taking "some thing else" because two or more courses which a student needs and wants come. at the same hour. I es pecially wish to criticize the English department, becauseit seems, worse than any other, on looking over the schedule this quarter or any oth er quarter since I've been ; in school, for that matter. Take a look at the schedule of Eng lish courses. . You will find sixteen sections . of English 1, not one of which comes at 8:30 or 11:00. There are ten courses in sophomore Eng lish 3, 4, and 5), none of which may be taken at 9:30, 12:00, or 2:00. There are four sections of English 4 alone at 1:1:00, and only one at 8:30; none at any other hour. In the ad vanced English courses, consider the first two hours in the morning. There is only one, and that in drama, given at 8:30 and four the next hour. ' I used to think, back in the dear dead days of. innocence, that .courses were given for the . convenience of the student. Here is a very obvious case, I think, where they are given at the convenience of the English faculty. WTiy hasn't someone called attention to it before ? It's not too late to change even this quarter. Some of the instructors must teach both freshman and sophomore Eng lish. Why can't they switch their classes around so that at least one of. the sixteen 'freshman sections of Eng. 1, and of the ten sophomore courses be given each period ? It would simplify our programs, it would make it unnecessary to take unnecessary courses some of which probably exist only on this account, and it would make the mad scramble both at registration time and after the beginning of the quarter much more sane. In fact, the only sufferer that I can see would be the business office, which would lose a great many of the twenty-five cent fees they charge for adding or dropping courses. But who cares about that? : V J. M. Hash and Mothballs' By Joe Jones During the recent soul-trying week of exams there was one building on the campus whose inmates took their ease and never cracked a book. This was the -infirmary, and, strange to tell, it was, during that week, full of mildest, most gentle, most soothing cases of Spanish influenza it has ever been any exam-shy student's good fortune to fall in with. According to a verbal symposium of that noble roup of young gentle men who managed to attain "and re tain the coveted ninety-nine degree temperature throughout exam week, a more pleasant spot than the in firmary would be hard to. find. The days passed over in idleness, in jesting, : in music-making, in bridge-playing, in partaking of good Swain Hall food, and last but not tritest, in - having one's temperature taken, and one's bed made up, and one's ice water refreshed by a couple of the sweetest, prettiest little nurses the University could find for the emergency. v Take the case of ward 3, for in stance, wherein lay four congenial, unalloyed, native-born ' Southerners unperturbably missing their exams : By 7:30 A. M. they are,all awake and awaiting the arrival of James, colored. At about eight James enters with a breakfast of scrambled eggs, buttered toast, corn flakes,- and coffee, and, delightful enough, a morning's copy of the Durham Herald sent with the compliments of the Carolina ' Dry Cleaners. ' . CLIPPED COLLEGE PROFS HOPE TO MAKE MONKEYS OUT OF ANTI ; EVOLUTIONISTS We hope that the recent decision of the American Association of Uni versity Professors to fight for the right to teach evolution is more than I a paper resolution. If, as the mem bers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science declared, "evolution in some form is accepted Lby practically all competent men of science the world over" and "no one can pretend to have a liberal education who is ignorant : of its general im port," then the university professors should carry their fight into the enemy's camp. They are sure of their ground and the fundamentalists are a most engaging target. There are a half dozen ways in which tfes schol ars of the country " could make the anti-evolutionists look even more ridiculous ' than they seem today. They could, for example, invade the jungle States of Arkansas, Miss issippi, and Tennessee with lectures and literature: f they could v actively campaign in any ' State where the fundamentalists threaten the freedom of teaching by more anti-evolution laws; they could discipline any alleged scholar in their ranks who failed to protest against the fundamentalist gag; they could refuse to recognize any degree in science granted by schools which emit from their cur ricular this most essential, theory of modern science. Milder measures have failed to stop the fundamentalist ad vance, which now threatens, the Soon after - breakfast the lovely chestnut-haired nurse from Morehead City comes in smiling, saying good morning, and taking temperatures; most of the latter usually ranging a fraction of a degree above ninety eight and six tenths. Presently she returns and begins making up beds. She is an expert at this, making them up with the boys in them. As she makes each bed the boys in the other three watch her intently; especially when she stands on one side and reaches across to the other. She chatters gaily, or sings' "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder." She says that working in the U. N. C. infirmary is an easy and pleasant-job. All the patients like her fine. When she goes out the four talk about her in glowing terms. Soon, however, they turn their attention to the stack of magazines and books of fiction lying about; and all is quiet for a time. Then somebody's roommate comes in with a promised deck of cards, and they fall to .bridge-playing. Except for a delightful interruption when "she's-got-it" takes the ninety- nine degree temperature again, bridge is played assiduously till James brings lunch. ' " After lunch the four jolly Souther ners take a nap and after about an hour's undisturbed sleep they awake to the pleasant sound of someone picking upon a banjo. The music is by none other than the master, Jack Wardlaw, who is taking his exam- week antidote in the adjoining room. He renders darn good banjo music for about two hours, then when he grows tired the nurses obligingly play the victrola in the parlor across the hallway. ' . ' - Try-Oefs Will Be Held This Week For Tar Heel Staff Several places are open at pres ent n the Tar Heel staff for stu dents who are interested in news paper work. Those wishing to try-out for -the vacancies may do so by dropping by the cfSce, base ment of the Alumni building, any day this week- Students who have had previous newspaper experi ence in prep or high school and those who are registered in the University's School of Journalism are asked to .try out. First Grail Dance Of Winter Quarter On Saturday Night The first Grail dance of the winter quarter will take place Saturday night in Bynum gym nasium. Dancing will start at nine o'clock. Jack Wardlaw and his orchestra will furnish music for the occasion. ; Y A large number of girls are expected to attend. Present in dications are that it will be one . of the best social affairs of the quarter,. , ) : Business Staff Of -Yackety Yack Will Meet This Afternoon -All men on the - Business.xStaff of the 1929 Yackety Yack will meet in the Business Office this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Please be present if you intend to hold your place on the staff, as there are some Very, impor tant matters to be taken up. G. E. HILL, Bus. Mgr. DI CALENDAR The following items appear on the calendar of the Dialectic Senate: 1. Resolved, That the- Dialectic Senate go on record as approving the plan of issuing the Tar Heel six times per week, Y 2. Resolved, That the Dialectic Senate go "on record as approving the plan offered by J. M. Booker for re organizing student government at the University of North Carolina. ,3y Resolved, That ' the Dialectic Senate go on record as advocating the abolition of chapel for Sophomores. Send the TAR HEEL home. $3.00 per college year. . FOR RENT Furnished Rooms for Light House Keeping. Steam heat, shower, bath. Tel. 3496. Mrs W. G. Pridette, 303 McAuley St. FOR RENT Furnished .bedroom. Steam heat, shower , baths. 303 Mc Auley Street. TODAY When supper . is - finished there is reading, and bridge, and good conver sation. " Friends drop in bringing highly welcome mail, and telling tales of how stiff the exams are. A couple of the patients get frisky, and begin chasing each other across the beds. The hilarity grows, till that doggone good lookin' little old night nurse comes in and sends them scampering and laughing into their beds. When she is gone -an , old argument is re vived as to whether she is prettier than the day nurse. Three of the boys are asleep by ten o'clock, but the fourth sits propped up-in bed till mid night to finish his book. The next day is Wednesday, exams are over, and high temperatures miraculously disappear. The four patients improve rapidly. One by one throughout the day they bid the little chestnut-haired nurse goodby, and depart with many, happy memo ries. ; ' ' schools of several Southern and Mid western States. In this connection we note the plan of the American Institute to establish in New York a "science theater" to dramatize the story of man through the ages. The nation. . y , , A novel five-year plan will be in augurated . next fall at Northeastern College, Boston, when the college stu dent body will be divided into ?! five classes Freshman, sophomore,' mid dlers, junior, and senior. . - .ft m BEBE DANIELS - in . " . "WHAT A NIGHT" -with-- NEIL HAMILTON Something happening every minute! More laughs! More excitement than a hundred headlines! Bebe as a star newspaper -reporter. Com peting ' for "Hot News" honors. v Added Attractions Confessions of Chorus Girl Comedy Picture My Astonishment" NOVELTY, WED. Joan Crawford m "DREAM OF LOVE" 4 ... , if
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