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Page Two THE TAIi HEEL Thursday, February 28, 1929 ijt: ar Leading Southern College Tki . 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, $2.00 local and-$3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Walter Spearman George Ehriiart .... Marion Alexander Editor .... Mgr. Ed .. Bus. Mgr. ' EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Harry Galland . 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. O. Eagles Browning Roach ' J. E. Dungan D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon W. A. Shelton E. F. Yarborough II. H. Taylor J. D. McNairy J. P. Huskins Henry Anderson B. W. Whitton George Dannenbaum . BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff B. M. Parker .......... Asst. Bus. Mgr. Leonard Lewis ! Adv. Mgr. Sidney Brick Asst. Adv. Mgr. ti. N. Fatterson . Uollection Mgr. T. R. Karriker Asst. Col. Mgr. Gradon Pendergraft Circulation Mgr. Ben Aycock Subscription Mgr. Advertising Staff Y. Harry Latta H. Merrell H. Jameson J. Schulman Jim Harris J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr. Tom Badger W. G. Boger Thursday, February 28, 1929 PARAGRAPHICS Another result of mass education is evidenced by the fact that even our burglars now select the Bull's Head Book Shop for the scene of their rob beries. When Officer Blake wanders about Memorial hall watching Wigue and Masque rehearsals, wer, wonder if he is looking for lost boys and girls in stead of lost autos. The Mangum Medal contest for seniors might be excellent practice for those graduates 'who are going out into the world to sell real estate, bonds, and insurance. Our campus cynic declares that Dean Paulsen ordered copies of "The Dial" for the Smoke Shop, under the. impression that it was the latest radio magazine. . - ' These prevailing k ! ebruary rams and the proverbial March winds may not bring forth any May flowers in the arboretumf or a long time, but perhaps they will produce a few more collegiate April fools. Due To the Degrees on the Seas - - ' f : Now that . the Floating University has announced that it will grant de grees for . academic . work done on board ship, . we picture vividly the first graduation exercises on the high seas. The candidates, for degrees march across the deck, dressed in nat ty sailor suits and caps instead of the traditional cap-and-gown. The baccalaureate sermon is delivered by an admiral employing all, the latest nautical phrases. "Integer vitae" is sung by a lovely chorus of mermaids splashing about in the foamy depths. Diplomas are written not upon or dinary sheepskin but upon the dried skin of a mighty whale. Such de grees as B. A. and M. A. may be interpreted to mean Boat-Artisan and Master of the Atlantic. Parents drop in for the ceremonies by means of their newest airplanes, and all con gratulatory messages are received over radio. A degree from such -a university must undoubtedly carry with' it the suggestion of a broad and varied back ground to the routine of study which would at one and the same time light en the moriotont of academic work and deepen the impression made. Who could fail to be interested in the literature of Europe and the Orient while .visiting Paris, Berlin, London, Shanghai, Tokyo? Who could help absorbing the romance of geography and commerce when travelling from Singapore to Bangkok, f rom ' Jeru- salen to Jericho, from Cyprus to Smyrna? Ancient history takes on a new appeal if studied in-the shade of the Pyramids, among the ruins at Rome or in the heart of Athens. The latest degree to be. off ered is B. W. A. (Bachelor of World Af fairs). And certainly a more suit able ' opportunity for studying inter national relations and observing governments, customs, and peoples of various countries .could scarcely be found than a university which tours the world, travelling, studying, and investigating as it goes. St. Abraham ' Washingtine's Birthday This being the last day of the month of February, we are just in time to spike what bids fair to be a serious movement to curtail, if not our lives, then our liberty and happiness.x A The. insidious campaign has its roots in New York, in the offices of the New York World, to be exact. There a columnist, Frank j Sullivan, is quietly but firmly launching an idea which, if, adopted, will . affect every North Carolina school and col lege and student, to say nothing of those of the other 47 states. The plan-is briefly and simply stated, and therein lies its strength. It is easy to pass over it in the press of the day's work. Thus the waveof indignation which, we feel sure, would greet the plan if many people knew about it is neatly sidestepped. -' Mr. Sullivan's idea, in brief, is that there are too many holidays in the month of February.- To alleviate this condition, he would telescope the three holidays of St. Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, and Lin coln's Birthday, into one holiday to be known' as St. Abraham Washing tine's Birthday. , y We feel sure that Mr. Sullivan was young once, w e Know iois ox peu pie who were, and there is a good chance that the World's columnist is among the ranks of those who can look back upon a youthful past. If this is the case, then. Mr. Sullivan also once attended school. His bright young face must have beamed with joy like those of countless other stu dents when the teacher or professor announced that there would be no class the next day because it was a holiday. Mr. Sullivan must have ex perienced that joy, and yet he would deprive the students of the future of two legitimate grats. For shame, Mr Sullivan! Here in North Carolina not too much attention is paid to Lincoln's Birthday, there being talk hereabouts occasionally of a little fracas 'some time ago in which that gentleman was implicated. When . Washington's Birthday rolls around, there is no mail delivery,, and we catch classes as us ual. With St. Valentine's Day the mail is augmented, or should be, and that about lets that holiday - outv Where, then, is our kick, if the three holidays become (we shudder to say it) St. Abraham Washingtine's Birthday Simply this. We can see the not far distant future when all our major holidays will be sandwiched into one. And then there is the possibility that we shall have our cherished Spring holiday massacred, and find ourselves forced to be content with a curtailed Chrispring Vacation. It is terrible even to think of it! ' , H. T. G. learn to smile a great deal, which bring sthe line of the nose to a sud den end. Or they can work on their complexions. ' On the other hand, if their smile is a trifle toothy they can learn to register pleasure by keeping . their, mouths shut and twitching ; their nostrils. Or they can smile and close their mouths quickly before it is very noticeable, Then they can go into things awfully energetically. And they can get their, mothers to have the crowd in quite frequently and use a few pretty girls as decoys. If they are artistic they may, even get to look exotic, like something off a Grecian urn, and thus provoke curiosity. On the other hand, if "a not too pretty girl and her family decide it is not worth the effort the girl can take : up something unusual and worthwhile like anthropology or the kidy of insects. If she keeps at it long enough she is sure meet some man who is wrapped up in anthropol ogy or the study of insects, and he will not have had much experience with girls and probably will be un conscious of the distinction between pretty girls and not so pretty girls. He will regard her more in the light of a specimen, and a girl may be a very good specimen without being very pretty. So unless she is par ticular she can have the man and they will live happily ever after, and she can have no end of fun making his slides and complimenting . his scientific papers. , In fact, the outlook for all sorts of girls is most encouraging, and there isn't the least reason for mak ing themselves and their parents un happy by wishing they had never been born. Baltimore Sun. Sea-Going College v Men Get Degrees For the first time in the history of American education regular academic degrees will be conferred on the high seas, according to announcements from the home office of the Floating University. A revised charter en ables the Floating University to con fer degrees, beginning with the col lege year 1929-30. Accordingly the University will of fer programs of study leading to the B. A., M. A., and B. W. A. degrees. The B. W. A. (Bachelor of World Af fairs) is a new degree, not conferred elsewhere, and is based' on the con cept that the study of history, govern ment, economics, and sociologyon a world-wide scale is valuable training for the student planning to enter public affairs or consular services - To win the B. W. A. the student may take his first two years of college in a land institution and spend his junior and senior years in an inten sive study of the courses in the World Affairs division of tlie Floating University-curriculum or he may spend all four years with the Floating Uni versity. N Latin Contest To Close March First The Campus , By Joe Jones Theirs is undoubtably the first and most obvious voice of spring on the campus. Some folks call them Pick ering's hylas. Some folks call them spring peepers. Some folks call them frogs. In appearance they are like minature frogs; but hyla, is the cor rect name. Their immediant native heath is the shallow pool in the lot back of Graham memorial. There is also a colony in the low ground just to the right of Pittsboro Road about 200 yards past the Carolina Inn, another group calls from the lowlands of Battle Park, and there are a few in the Arboretum Brook. However they prefer still water even stiller than the Arboretum brook when the caretaker forgets to turn the water on. Probably everybody heard their full-chorused peeping during the balmy days of last week, but who can say when they started- It was cer tainly some weeks ago, perhaps those scattered first warm days of Janu ary; for the hylas are extremely early. t They emerge to begin their invocation ; of spring before the red bird whistles his first lyric, before the Battle Park chipmunks awake from their winter sleep, even before sweet-breath-of-spring makes the Arbore tum fragrant with its bloom - on the third successive warm day, They prefer to peep all day and far into the night, and the frigid ' ice storm of last Thursday failed to hiish them completely. True, the ones about the eastern section of the cam pus grew silent on clear, ice-crusted Thursday night, but there were at least two quavering vioces coming from the Pittsboro Road group as we went up nearby McAuley street about 7:30. Courageous two pipers! Just try to catch one ! In the first place, you probably won't be able to see a singleone, though the muddy ground be noisy with them. Ap proach, and the voices vanish. Stand notionless for; some minutes, 'and a tiny piping s cry may begin at your feet. Remain quiet, and presently the voices are lifted shrill and loud on every side. In vain you carefully ex amine the reverberating surroundings inch by incn; not a peeper is to be seen. You will be annoyed if baffle ment annoys' you. Thousands of peo ple have heard the spring peeper for every dozen who've seen him. Some think they are birds. Science Academy Offers Prize To fligh School Men The North Carolina Academy' of Science made announcement today of ; apprize to be awarded this year for! the best essay written by a bona fide high school student on any subject in j the field of Botany, Zoology, Geology, or Physiology. The announcement j was made by Dr. II. T. Totten, secre-1 tary-treasurer of the academy. - j Essays are to be sent to Prof. R. N. Wilson, Duke University, Durham, not later than April 20. Judges will be selected by the High School Science Committee of the academy,' and the winner will be announced at the an nual meeting of the academy about May 1. The academy expects to present the prize to the winner at his or her school's commencement. General regulations for the con test show that it is not necessary that a student be registered in the subject in order to compete in the contest. Students may receive aid from in structors only in securing materials. Essays will be; limited to a maximum of 2,500 words, must be submitted in typewriting on one side of bond pa per 8W by 11 inches, and must be ac companied by a title page carrying the subject, the writer's name, the name of the school, the class to which the writer belongs, and the courses taken in science. - -; The contest last year was for the best essay in the field of Chemistry and Physics." The silver loving cup offered the winner was won by H. E. Biggs, Jr., of the Greensboro high school, for his essay on "The Relation of Chemistry to Health and Disease." , Engineers To Meet In Phillips Tonight There will be a meeting of the A. I. E. E. tonight at 7:15 in 206 Phillips hall. Y The program includes a talk by H. W. Arlin, personnel di rector of the Mansfield Plant of the Westinghouse Electric and Manu facturing Co., and one by Henryt J. Wheeler on "Student Engineers with the 'General Electric Co." '.y At the Carolina - Clipped TODAY'S BEST EDITORIAL ;.' -' Girls . x - y Girls may be roughly divided into those who are pretty and those' who are not so pretty. Pretty girls haven't so much to worry about be cause they can get a good deal of attention and all they have to do is to look up and bat their eyes and say, "Do you really mean that?" ' But though the problem of not so pretty girls is' greater, it is not in soluable. They and their families must fiifst make up their minds whether it is worth the effort. If they decide it is worth the effort the girls can; begin to develop personality. If their (noses are too long they can March 1st has been set as the closing date for the state high school Latin Contest, being conducted by the Extension . Department. All superintendents and principals who intend' to enroll any of their students in the 'fifth annual University of North Carolina Latin contest must register the names of their student with E. R. Rankin, secretary of Ex tension Department of the University. Only high school sophomores, jun-i iors, and seniors will participate in the contest. The winners last year were Eugene Conn6lly of Roxboro high school. Sam Byrd Winstead of the same school was awarded honor able mention for placing second. Both Connolly and Winstead are freshmen at the University here this year. ' The scope of the ; examination will include three things: a passage from Caesar's Gallic War ; questions on Latin, form and syntax, and a sight translation. The papers will be grad ed' by instructors in the University Latin Department. Freshmen May Try Out for Davidson Forensic Contest ' ! The executive secretary of the De bate Council, Professor George Mc Kie, has asked that all freshmen who are interested in trying out for the coming triangular debate with David son and Wake Forest lsee him at 210 Murphey in the near future. In a triangular debate of this kind each of the three schools represented chooses an affirmative team and a negative team Usually, the affirma tive remains at home and the nega tivev goes away to meet the affirma tive of one of the other two schools. All members of the freshman class who passed as many as two courses last quarter and who have not repre sented Carolina in an intercollegiate debate , are eligible for the team. Well, he's not much bigger than a bumblebee, and he' is rather drab colored above; and he often sits with only his head and shoulders above water. But when piping he inflates his throat till it looks like a tiny white bubble; which is about the only thing that gives a person the ; slightest chance of spotting him. , Probably these rowdy little fellows who have reversed the well-bred "seen and not heard" maxim got their name from the Hylas of Greek my thology, who also was heard but not seen in his watery fastness. This Hylas was a beautiful young boy of whom Hercules was yofond that he once took him along on a journey, One; evening Hylas was at a. spring drawing water, when the nymphs, see ing how beautiful he was, became en amored of the youth and drew him under. Hercules came seekip;g and calling in vain. In his rage and grief he- swore to devestate the land unless the inhabitants thereof should find and restore his young friend. The people went through the forests call ing for Hylas. They seemed to hear a faint answer near the fountain, but they could never find the boy.' Per haps the nymphs proved better com pany than mighty Hercules. How ever, this pretty analogy - may have to be stretched rather taunt to reach to the hylas in the pool, back of Gra ham Memorial and in the Arboretum, even though they are heard and1 not seen in the haunts of the water nym phs. - " - The terrible price a woman is will ing to pay for youth and happiness after she has let them slip by is shown in ' "Marriage by Contract," the Tiffany-Stahl special production based upon the theory of companion ate marriage, showing today at the Carolina theatre. Lawrence Gray and Patsy Ruth Miller are the featur ed players and the cast includes Ro bert Edeson, Shirley Palmer, Ralph Emerson, J ohn St. Polis, Claire Mc Dowell, Ruby Lafayette, Duke Mar tin and Raymond Keane, directed by James Flood. .' Cercle Frankais To Meet Friday Night The Cercle Francais will meet Fri day evening in the social room of the Episcopal Parish House at 7:30. A program consisting of readings, dia logues, and solo singing has been pre pared. . " Y $50 REWARD $50 $50 Reward for information leading to the recovery of a platinum watct with the initials E. S. P. inlaid in golc4. in the back, taken from 24 Steele, . : r- --."". E. S. PENN. Manly Dorm Men To See a Free Movie Manly dormitory men will be en tertained at the Carolina Theatre, ac cording to an announcement of Mana ger E. C. Smith, on Saturday at the 7 o'clock show. , The occupants of the dorm are requested to be at the door on time with their president. i t' . W t I I SPECIAL CIGARETTES ' Per Catton, $1.15 2 Large Packages for 25c CANDY BARS, GUM v and COUGH: DROPS 3 for 10c CHOCOLATE DROPS 17c per pound The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. WILL TRIAL MARRIAGE CHEAPEN WOMEN? TODAY "MARRIAGE BY CONTRACT" ' : ' with' - Patsy Ruth Miller Vital, Heart-Stirring Drama in the Story of a Companionate Wife who thought she was lucky to have a modern Marriage Contract But found the human equation made it worse than the old-fashioned mar riage certificate. - - Pathe News Added ' 1 V Mermaid Comedy Perhaps the grammar-school boy's composition on , the frog would suit them better. No doubt most of us have read it. It goes like this: "What a wonderful bird the frog are; When he sit he almost stand; When he hop .he almost fly; . ' He almost ain't got no tail; ' When he sit lie sit on what he almost ain't got." .' y ' ' FRID AY- GEORGE , O'BRIEN True Heaven" S M ORE ay-A-iamDa uvm 5c and up , : - ears, Miami fin. J. Distributors Durham ' Meanwhile the spring peepers peep on with a sound which, once happy and spring-like, begins to grow, a bit tiresome in its day and night same ness. Spanish Club Will Meet Tonight 7:30 The regularmeeting of the Spanish club will take place at the Parish" House at 7:30 tonight. The program will consist. of a musical rendition by Miss Gil. Evershair enclls AT HALF PRICE and S;S poncUsf' Vr plalcc!' siIver' Waterman's Fountain Pens at Half Price 1 A -." iLiLeirsona,;: :1mm
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