North Carolina Newspapers

Parre Two THE TAR HE E L "T7 T,- .... .. nn BULUXiiilV, -L'cuiuuy ly29 Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper , 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, $2jD0 local and $3.00 '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. tions and stuffed with knowledege; he is a fellow human being who en joys the same pastimes, is bewildered by the same problems, and is seeking to prepare himself for life in the same manner, A subtle sort ofinfluence foreign to bare scholastic contacts is born. Books' have played their due part in classroom instruction. Now let per sonalities have a chance at molding other and younger personalities. A friendly bit j of advice handed out in man-to-man fashion from pronto stu dent- as 4hey sit before the fire will hit the spot when all .manner of fatherly admonition from the lecture platform falls upon unhealing ears. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Harry Gallattd "Assistant Editor Glenn Holder Assistant Editor John Mebane Assistant Editor Will Yarborough Sports Editor Reporters M. Broadus Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn J. P. Jones C. B. McKethan J. C. Williams E. H. Denning J. E. Huffman J. C. Eagles Browning Roach J. E. Dungan D. L. Wood Dick McGIohon W. A. Shelton E. F. Yarborough H. H. Taylor J. D. McNairy J. P. Huskins Henry Anderson B. W. Whitton George Dannenbaum BUSINESS DEPARTMENT . Executive Staff B. M. Parker Leonard Lewis .. Sidney Brick H. N. Patterson T. R. Karriker . Asst. Bits, . Mgr. .......... Adv. Mgr. Asst. Adv. Mgr. ..... Collection Mgr. ...... Asst. Col. Mgr. Gradon Pender erraft Circulation Mar. Ben Aycock ......... Subscription Mgr. Advertising Staff Harry Latta H. Merrell H. Jameson J. Schulman Jim Harris J. G. deR. Hamilton Jr. Tom Badger " ' W. G. Boger Saturday, February7 23, 1929 PARAGRAPHICS Now that the snowand sleet have melted,away.:,and allowed the spring sun out again, perhaps we shall soon be able to do our "outside" reading really outside. ien otnts A j ) By H. J. Galland When our headline writer declared that "Glee Club Men Are Not Flam ing 1 Youths On Trips," we began to wonder whether he was trying to in fer that thejt were "not so" hot." State College student have boycot ted their laundry because they claim the manager gave the boys rough treatment. Over here it's the shirts 'that get the rough treatment. If the special "fight" bus to Florida were to be filled up with some of our Carolina pugilists, they might teach Sharkey ; and Stribling . a few tiricks of the trade. The only difference between a fresh man and a senior is that the fresh man admits there are still some few things for him- to learn. ."We still wonder what' would hap pen if a redhot irrestible co-ed met a v - cold, immovable collegian." Old Gold and Black. Open House Sunday Night ' An attractive picture to. us now existing only in the7 imagination is of small and intimate Sunday night gatherings at homes of various pro fessors. Students drop ' casually in, - i r sometimes one by himself, sometimes a group. The professor welcomes them in a manner not commonly as sumed in the classroom, one charac terized by certain warmth and in formality entirely dissociated with history, math or languages. On winter nights they sit about the fire together, lights turned low and only pipes and cigarettes glowing in the semi-darkness. . No matter what the topic of conversation it may range from a philosophical discussion of comparative religions to the res pective advantages of Fords and Chev rolets, from searching questions as to the functions of education to a re harshing of the best Buccaneer wit, from wild tales of past events to puz zled wonderment at the future. In this genial conversation student draws closer to professor. Teacher be comes man; and communion impos sible for the classroom seems perfectly natural with the home as a back ground. Pupil is no longer merely one who must be quizzed with ques- On Sipping Facts "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to . discharge," once declared that eminent English philosopher, Her bert Spencer. . There is probably doubt in many minds as to what Spencer meant by "complete living." The functions of education have been and probably always will be disputed. This process of. acquiring an edu cation, however,' certainly n involves more than the - mere absorbing of facts. If the professor does not, at least ,to a - certain extent, stimulate thoughtin the minds of his students he does but little for them. One of the greatest objections to classroom work is that some profes sors resent interruption by the stu dent. .Lectures, brilliant and learned though they may . be, are of small value unless they are understood by the students for whom they are pri marily intended. Many students, con sequently, have become afraid of ask ing questions in the classroom. They have adopted the belief that by in terrogating the instructor, they "dis play, not . their eagerness tov under stand, but. their ignorance. So they allow the bare facts to soak in, mem orize notes, and repeat quotations j which they do not comprehend. ' Lectures are often dubbed "dry" because the student does not under stand them: arid he is afraid to in terrupt the professor and ask for an explanation of points about which he" has no knowledge. - The mere reading of a lecture, even a simple one which can be compre hended by the entire class, proves of little worth unless it stimulates the students to think about it. Sure ly education is more than the sipping of facts; it should help one to be able to judge for himself, to reason, and to develop ideas of his own. One may splash gently into sci ence and learn who Voltaire was; one may taste of literature and discover that Louis Couperus was a Dutch writer and that Rossetti was a pre Raphealite; one may indulge ginger ly in the study of medicine and ex amine a cadaver or two but unless he has learned to think for himself, his education has been of little "avail JOHN MEBANE Boy Scout Leaders Are Meeting Here A Boy Scout Seminar, under the aus pices of the- University Extension Division got underway here yesterday and will close today. This is the sec ond Scout Seminar that has been held here this year. The first was held last fall. ; Many of the Scout, Executives of the state are attending the Seminar. , A large number are well known at the University and several are Alumni. The programof the Seminar fol lows: Dr. Harry Crane of the Psychology Department, and Dr. ,A. W. Jordan of the School of Education, delivered addresses Friday afternoon: Friday night Dr. W. E. Caldwell of the History Department and Dr. Car roll of the Economics Department ad dressed the Seminar. Saturday morning: Dr. E. C. Bran son and Dr. Meyer of the Sociology Department will speak. Saturday afternoon the executives will attend the winter football game between "Georgia Tech" and "Vir gmia." Saturday night the convention will attend the basketball game between the . University and V.M.I.,Nas guests of the Carolina Athletic Association. The University of Oregon has start ed a drive to raise $25,000 which will be used to start work immediately on a new fine arts building. Fair and Warmer There's no telling what is going to happen these tlays. You may wake up to find yourself in tropic sunshine and warmth, or among the ice fkes of the frozen North. The recent turn in weather provided some of the pret tiest scenes we have come upon in Chapel HilL The sun shining through he ice covered trees, glistening and sparkling and white, was a sight to remember. But then, as usual, there was the aftermath, or after mud. Chapel Hill for; once surpassed itself and turned out bigger and better sup plies, of soft, clinging mud than usual, and that is a big order. As the gal who sings the ditties for the records puts it, "If you want the rainbow, you must have the ra-a-in!" N. Assistance Department The impending Spring holidays will make the following bill of directions helpful to many anxious parents. We have taken it from Mr. Parke Cum- mings, and .give it space in this col umn with our Usual bright and help ful spirit. The title, is "How to Tell if Your Son Is Home from College": Look in your gas tank. If tank is empty son is home. Wire to college offering him one hundred dollars. If no .return wire of acceptance within an hour and a half, son is home. ; Leave quart of -rye on dining room sideboard. If bottle is full the next morning vacation hasn't begun yet. Ask neighbor's daughter. Set alarm for five A. M. Get up and look in son's bed. Watch papers for notice of college vacations. . - ' Watch papers for notices of traf fie violations. Watch wallet. Honest Ed Butler, while coaching the box ing team one afternoon recently, stepped a round or two with a mem ber of the squad. Ed clipped the fighter on the side of the jaw and broke his ankle. No, ma'am, we haven't had a drop in some time. But it happened. We saw the fellow it happened to hopping around on crutches. Apparently he tripped as he either fell or ducked backward, and there it was a left to the jaw and a broken ankle! . Familiarity and Contempt , Our own soon-not-to-be tri-weekly headlines the results of the recent Marauette-N. C. debate as follows: "Hot Air Artists Stage Heated De bate Against , Marquette University Forensic Warriors." Now, the ob vious conclusion is that the "forensic warriors" stepped all over the "hot air artists." They didn't, however. Carolina won handily. We are merely too familiar with our own team, and dazzled .by the fact that the opponents came from Wisconsin all of which is another thirty-second , sermon in something or other. .. . Affairs " The Senators and Representatives are at it again. With the longest and most honorable histories behind them of any organization on the campus, the. Phiand Di continue to insist on the most trivial of subjects for dis cussion. There is an excellent chance to air campus problems anddo some thing of valueto the University, but instead the two bodies solemnly argue over birth control and whether or not Carolina co-eds are flappers. Well, it all makes interesting reading the next morning in the Tar Heel. Again, Hot Stuff Another fire this week provided some amusement for the confirmed fire hounds who think nothing of jumping out. of bed at three in the morning to follow the little red Ford truck and its larger sister to the scene of the excitement. There was the usual sudden and unexpected f oun tain from a broken section of hose, but the real feature, for us, was the insistent honking of a car with a lone occupant which tried to get through the fire lines. One of the town cops, flashlight in hand, stood in the middle of , the road and signalled for the car to stay, back. The car came on, still honking, and nearly hit, the in dignant cop, who jumped out of the way at' the last minute. It was Chief Foister, Commander of the Chapel Hill Fire Department. , v We've Been There, Too The McGill "Daily" has our sym pathy. Somebody seems to ' have been saying nasty things about it, for they print an editorial headed "In Defence of 'Copy'," Doubting Thom ases,, they say, call their paper, "A good blotter" and continue with "The paper at blank used to have some humor in it," pn.: ' . o v ?bout some- VELM. DEAN'S- PLAYERS HERE MARCH 8 AND 9 Dean Is Famous Movie and Stage Actor; Manages the Town Theatre of Columbia, South Carolina. Clipped t The Town Theatre, Little Theatre of Columbia, South Carolina, is pre paring to present their most finished production, an interpretation of Rachel Crother's "He and She," be fore a Chapel Hill audience in the Playmaker Theatre Friday and Sat urday nights, March 8 and 9. Together with the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse, the Dallas Little Theatre, the Lobero Theatre of Lob- ero, California, and the Cleveland Playhouse, the Town Theatre is one of the five most outstanding ama teur groups in North America. William Dean, manager of the Town Theatre, is a brother of Basil Dean, famous Englisn actor. William Dean has had the following engage ments in America : with George M. Cohan, A. L. Erlanger, ; the Selwyns, Augustin Duncan, the Shuberts, B. Iden Payne, Frank Reicher, Lupino Lane, the Fox Film Company, Fam- .ous -fiayers-LiasKy uqrporation, Charles Dillingham, and -, Mr. and Mres. Charles D. Coburn. The cast of "He and She" is as fol lows : Tom Hereford; a sculptor, Mr. G. E. Whitehead ; Ann Hereford his wife, Mrs. Julius Taylor; Daisy Hereford, his sister, Miss Eppes Jones; Millicent, his daughter, Miss Sarah Quattlebaum; Doctor Reming ton, his father-in-law, Alex Majrtin; Keith McKenzie, his assistant, Mr. Edwin Pritchard; Ruth Creel, his wife's friend, Miss Lutes Robertson; the maid, Miss Daisy Powell. They kre amateur actors of the University of South Carolina and residents of Columbia. The plot of the play has to deal with woman's rights and responsibili ties in addition to duties and respon sibilities' that a woman owes to her husband. The play has a 'delightful bit of romance and much wit and humor. It entirely escapes the sor didness that is found in some measure in problem plays. The play is con sidered the best that RacheJ Crothers has ever written. - The Playmakers announce this pro duction in lieu of the American com edy that they guaranteed to the sea son ticket subscribers last fall. ( Tick ets will be ready for exchange Mon day, March 4. Hubert F. Hef f ner, associate director of the Playmakers, warns all season ticket holders that contrary to usuage in the past no block of seats will ; be reserved for them, but those who apply first will be served. Single tickets will be sold at one dollar each. Reservations are to be made at Sutton's Drug Store as is the case with all Playmaker productions. Not wishing to overtax the facilities of their building, the Playmakers will sell only a small number of standing room privileges at fifty cents each. " TODAY'S BEST COLLEGIATE EDITORIAL . Co-Eds Go "Dutch" About once in every college gen eration someone gets the idea that he can get the co-eds to split fifty fifty with him on dates. This idea, as old as co-education, always seems new to thepropounder of it, and so the college world has a succession of Dutch date epidemics of cold in the head. Such, an epidemic has begun again. Whether it began at . Minnesota, Northwestern, Washington, Ohio ; or Calf ord no one probably knows, but before it Teaches Oregon, we might glance with edification at the editorial comment it has drawn from our con temporaries. V At Oregon State: "The men at the University of Washington have per sisted in training their debutantes in doing a certain thing and have won. In keeping with historical tradition, the jponquered entertain the con querers and in this instance the co-eds pf the UT of W. entertain the men with a formal dance at which all ex pense is paid by the fair ones. "At this same institution last year a girl even went so far as to start a young riot endeavoring to start the Dutch date "idea by crying all over the place, 'Come on girls let's start something.' If the men at the Uni versity of Washington can accom plish such a feat,, why not the men of other sympathizing institutions. Oregon State included. So, the Wash ington" co-eds' battle-cry might be adopte.d and applied to this campus as 'Come on fellows, let's start some thing'." Barometer. " And on the other hand: "An attempt at Northwestern to establish a 'Dutch' system of dating ' where men and women would share equally in the ex penses resulted in two, poorly attend ed dances." Oregon Daily Emerald. Dr. Voight To Preach To Lutheran Sunday Dr. A. L. Voigt, president of the United Lutheran Theological Secii. nary at Columbia, S. C, will deliver the weekly sermon touthe members of the University Lutheran club in Ger rard hall tomorrow morning at 11. Dr. Voigt has expressed himself a5 desiring' to meet those Lutheran stu dents at the University who are study ingr for the ministry. $50 REWARD $30 $50 Reward for information leading "to the recovery of a platinum watci. with the initials E. S. P. inlaid in gol in the back, taken from 24 Steele, ' ' E. S. PENN. TODAY Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Slade Sing Mexican Songs for Rotarians f i J An Epic Drama of Brawn and Love in a Coal Town Where Men Spend Their Lives in Darkness That the Rest of the .World May Have Light. Added Comedy Novelty MON. "Show Folks" i iTe .Pinesi is the favorite rendezvous for Club Gatherings, Bridge" Luncheons and Fraternity get-togethers. We solicit this kind of patronage, feeling certain that everyone will be highly pleased. Mrs. Tickers has the happy faculty for assisting in the preparation for such functions and will cheerfully render her as sistance to make such gatherings a huge ' success. For those as sociations and organizations which like to have dancing as a feature of their program we offer our dance floor. For a simple luncheon or a banquet, The Pines solves the problem. THE PINES TEA ROOM Chapel Hill Boulevard 4 Miles from Chapel Hill DAILY SERVICE ''i;. :!--'.v.ur.of:-v-iv:. -.i. : DEVELOPING & PRINTING KODAK FILMS On Sundays Get and Leave Your Films at Sutton's Drug Store : . University Book and Stationery Co. (SUTTON BUILDING) At the regular weekly banquet of the Chapel Hill Rotary Club held in the ball room of the Carolina Inn Wednesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Slade presented a group of Mexican folk- songs. Their perfor mance was immediately preceeded by a short explanatory talk by Mrs. Slade in which she told the signifi cance of the Mexican costume which she ore and told of a few occasions when the national costume of Mexico is: always worn by the women. The first number was "The Soldier's Song" sung by Mr. and Mrs. Slade, Mr. Slade accompanying on the guitar. The second selection was "The Two Roses" in which a lover compares his sweetheart to roses arid asks which is the more beautiful. It is a Mexican love song, and was sung by Mrs. Slade.- .; -". -:; The third song was a lament, The Exile's Song. It is coneerned.with the exile who is banished by Mexico and forced to spend the rest of his life in foreign countries. The fourth num ber was purely a folk song' with in numerable verses, similiar to the old American tunes such as "The Old Cow Died" etc.. It was entitled "The Tree Jell." thing snappy?" We've heard all that before, too. We just know how you feel, and don't blame you for getting on your ear about it, when you are doing your best. .But look what hap pened to us they voted to change the terrible Tar Heel from a three-times-a-week paper to a daily. . Let 'em kick, McGill. Your readers will be asking for morning and evening edi tions soon, in between cusses. Standing of Coot estaots At the Close of the First Voting: Period February 20th in the Carolina Dry Gleaners COUPON CAMPAIGN 1st Mrs. John Burroughs 2nd O. B. Herring 3rd G. E. Boudreau " 4th Theodore Best, Jr. -5th James Fowler 6th Henry Brown 7th Dorecy Watson 8th Bill Suggs 9th Guy Hill 10th Miss Bessie Beck The net Voting: period ends Wednesday Night, March 6th efolp r riePd et in first place and stay there by buying coupon books from him or her. ' Carolina Dry Gleaners ' CAMPAIGN DEP'T. Over Sutton's Drug Store i