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THE T A R HEEL
Saturday, march HO, I 23
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tells the story how on Easter Monday
some number of years ago he caught
in a steel trap which he placed in
shallow water in a pond west of the
greatly stimulate literary interest onl village . a huge fish weighing about
'Cc' u the b-sement of Alumni
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Saturday, March 30, 1929
Onions That
Grow in the Grass
While flowers are commencing to
bloom and the grass is springing up
even in the newly planted spots, the
policy oi campus beautmcation is
doing splendidly. The present seniors
have made their contribution, and
cherry trees are to be planted along
the paths from downtown to Old
West and Old East dormitories.
But along with this welcome
growth of improvements comes the
most unwelcome growth of onions
scattered thickly through many of oar
grass plots. "Regardless of whether
or not North Carolina raises more
onions than Bermuda itself (as we
have heard from some enthusiastic
booster of this" state), the fact re
mains undisputed that the campus of
the University "is not the best' place
to exhibit the fertile soil Of North
Carolina as an onion-producing land,
the campus. Debating, the Glee Club
and the Band all the forms of
extra-curricular activity are flourish
ing. Popular opinion on the campus at
tributes the lack of interest in the
tieCuions kills year to an exceptionally
strong political line-up. It, is quite
true that practically all the fraterni
ties were united1 in one big frame-up.
Taylor Bledsoe, king of all political
bosses at Carolina, sings his swan
song in this election. . He graduates
from the Law School this spring, and
it is quite natural that he should at
tempt to crown the fruits of four
years of successful politicing with one
grand coup. And he has seemingly
succeeded.
But the real cause of the clean
sweep effected by the machine does
not lie in effectiveness of the frame
up activities. If there had been more
than one strong candidate for a sub
stantial number of the . offices an op
position machine would have been
formed, composed of the supporters
of the candidates not backed by the
original frame-up. The real cause of
the almost totally unanimous election
lies in the dearth of material this
year for the offices. More men than
ever before are taking part in extra
curricular activities, but entirely -too
few of them' are willing to buckle
down to the long three-years grind
that is a necessary preliminary to
efficient filling of a major office ""here.
Laziness and not machine politics is
the fundamental cause of the unani
mous elections this year. '''"
The outstanding characteristic of
the modern collegian is his almost
inhuman capacity for indolence.
GLENN HOLDER.
twelve pounds. When he took the
fish f ram the trap to examine itj he
saw that it had four short legs and
webbed feet. Many other stories
equally as believable hare been told
about fishing around Chapel Hill. Yet
and it is seldom that one goes on a
real, honest-to-goodness fishing trip
.joints
By H. J. Galland
Unfaable Report txiven on
ookerslan of Government:
Gommittetroposes New One
The committee appointed by the
Dialectic Senate to investigate' the
feasibility of the new plans of Stu
dent Government as proposed by Dr.
J. M. Booker, submits the following
report after four weeks of ex
haustive research, during which time
interviews with interested -students
and faculty members have been freely
resorted to, in addition to which your
committee has drawn upon the ex
periences in student government of
important colleges and universities
diately following the receipt of the throughout the entire United States,
news, a number of aspiring profes- anc having resource to mature
sors buried their high hopes of ad- judgment, and. given weight to sound
Biggest News
The biggest, news of the week was
undoubtedly, the announcement of Dr.
Chase's decision to continue as Presi
dent of the University. A sigh of
in these days of long automobiles and vancement to the top position under reason, beg to report the following:
short skirts. .
Easter egg hunts, too, have lost
their popularity. It seems as if the
modern generation is losing faith in
the Easter bunny. And the" grass is
kept so closely mowed that even if
bright smiles, and the campus relaxed -. , That it is the 0Pin0n of the
to its usual normal stride. rTnifw hnf rhanere -which would
After 8:30 provide a medium for greater expres-
A rule has just been laid down at si0n on the part of the student body
the Co-ed Shack to the effect that at large in the administration cf its
no drinks will, be' allowed after 8:30 government and enterprises is more
in the evening. State editors . with urgently needed at this time than has
any . trouble discovering them. So
phistication is a great evil.
JOHN MEBANE
the eggs were hid, one wouldn't have visions of headlines to the effect that ever been the case before. The niim-
'Ban Is Placed On Liquor To Curb ber of able," deserving, and even bru-
Girls' Drinking At-U. .N. C." may liant administrators and leaders reg-
subside in their swivel-chairs and istered at the University is more
pull their eye-shades an inch lower than twice the number of student of-
on their foreheads. They will find ficials at present. It is the judgment
no story worthy of "busting the front 0f the group that the apportionment
page wide open" in this item. It of student officials has stood constant
merely means that the too-frequent 0ver the last period of years, while
trips of the motorcycle from Sutton's the student enrollment and number
with "dopes" will be stopped after 0f enterprises have both vastly in-
that hour, so that a little more study- creased.
Open Forum ,
FORTUNATE STUDENT BODY
ing may be done.
To the Editor:
Ilhope that I will not be asking too
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Your committee has therefore
seriously considered the plan of Stu
dent Government drawn up by Dr.
JVM. Booker and presented by him
for consideration by the Dialectic
Senate arid Philanthropic Assembly
Another item of interest from the
much if I 'ask for a few inches of domains, of Spencer Hall is the rule
space in your Open Forum to place a that there must be no telephoning af
little idea I have before . the minds ter 11 o'clock. It seems that certain
of the students of the University of young ladies were being rung up because of the fact that his plan pro
North Carolina. . ' from Durham and other places at vides for an unusual increase in the
The state papers for today have night after the ordinarily prudent number of campus officials. We find
borne the news that our most beloved co-ed is safely tucked in bed, ana
(I think that I may put it this way) that long conversations of a some-
Prpsldent is croins- to remain with us what . saccharine nature followed.
the Booker Plan impractical, however,
for the following, reasons:
a. It would abolish the Di and Phi
We believe
each caVuIly with the present
tern, the cumSttee feels we!! . .
fied to recommenuHefolIo-srir.r:
a. That the present" vstcm
kept intact rfuh. the excepi.- cf
some changes outlined below,
that, above all, the unwritten ccn:j.
tution of the student bdy rt.
tamed.
b. That all class offices be aUl.
ished in favor of offices estate : sr. j
within the jvariousj. colleges r.f tk.
University. It is the opinion c' j.-.r
committee that the division cf
modern, up-to-date, and growing
versity, such as the University ('
North Carolina is, into purely artifi
cial groups such as the frcshnu-.
sophomore, junior and senior cla.c
is an unnecessary and detrim, r.ta!
cleaving of the student body into ur.
natural groupings. Since studtr.t
are better acquainted with those stu
dents enrolled in their own particular
school than in their entire class, t'r.cr
would be better qualified to chr,-se
officers from the smaller groups. . Ia
addition to this, there being r.ir.e
practical divisions of colleges, tfcrre
would be work for thirty-six capable
men. Added to this fact, social evert
could be very easily carried out lj
schools, thus increasing the number
and intimacy of such events. This
committee respectfully calls attention
to the fact that this idea is already
in partial operation under the pres
ent system. Student Council meir
bers are chosen by the Pharmacy,
Law, and Medical schools; the Law
school elects its own officers; and
the Engineering and Law schools
both have yearly dances. This step.
then, would 6nly be the carrying cf
the present system to its logical con
clusion.
In regard to the student council,
instead of taking a position which is There was advice to "sleep tightly, in their present forms.
far better than the one he now holds dear" and 'aont reaa in oea, aarimg, that the long and honorable existence
from the standpoint of remunerative youH ruin your eyes" and well, you 0f ' the two organizations needs pre
returns. I" feel sure that the greater know the kind oi stun. Ana now, gerff an(j especially at this time,
sart '-of the student body can appre- when you dial 4181 or 4ZUi or 4zub j : f inCreaSed interest in
jciate this step from the standpoint of to whisper sweet nothings after H, the affairs of the two groups. We
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the 'University and their own welfare,
yet there may be a few who do not,
and it is to this group that I am
addressing this letter. '
I do not wish to be dogmatic to
he extent of saying that ' Dr." Chase
So we make" one., plea. 'Can't the
grounds committee or Dr. Coker
or the-meri-who-work-about-the-cam-pus
start a movement to eliminate the
pestiferous onions from the Campus
Beautiful? At this time of year par
ticularly they offer too much competi
tion to the growth of the grass and
the fragrance of the lilacs!
Lazy
Collegians "
Have University of North Carolina
students heeded the doleful lamenta
tions of the academic calamity howl
ers and shifted their attention from
extra-curricular to scholastic activi
ties? Results of the nominating
caucuses here Thursday evening and
Friday morning seem to indicate such
a state of affairs, but we seriously
doubt the validity of these indica
tions.
Only one candidate was nominated
and thus automatically ' elected for
thirteen out of the fifteen class
offices and nineteen out of the thirty
three campus offices. Included m
the unanimous list were all of the
more important campus offices: stu
dent bodv resident, editors of all
the campus publications except the
annual, and president of the Athletic
Association. An unprecedented state
of affairs but does it indicate a lack
of interest in extra-curricular activi
ties ? The answer is easy it doesn't
All of the campus publications are
at a higher stage of development than
they have ever been before. The
The University
"&es South?
Time was, and not ' so long ago,
when young America's favorite ambi
tion was to follow Horace Greely'?
admonition to "Go West, young man."
But the wild" and wooly days of In
dian fighting and Jesse Jamesian ex
ploits have faded into dim antiquity,
and flaming youth has turned to other
fields to satisfy its" longing for ro
mantic ad veniur e. . .
Modern sages advise "Go South,
young man.'.' And the wise youth
realizes the greater opportunities
that the New South offers. 1 ' ; '
When Bingham Hall was opened
Tuesday morning it marked an epoch
in the University's develoDment
Steadily the University has expanded
southward in the past few years. The
construction of .Kenan Stadium shift
ed the campus center a little more
to the south; the new commerce
Duiiding represents another major
step southward in campus develep
ment. With the official opening of
the new library next fall, the space
between it, Venable, Bingham, and
South "will in all probability become
the' real center of the campus.
In effect the University has s fol
lowed in its program of expansion the
example of modern industry and the
advice of the successful business
man to the younger generation: "Go
South, young man, go South."
GLENN HOLDER
Fish
Stories
On Easter Monday it used to be the
custom for the folks of the village to
declare holiday, assume gentle smiles.
and go fishing. Long, supple bamboo
poles, a hook and sinker, an old toma
to can, filled with "bait worms," and
a bite or two to eat was all the equip
ment needed. Fishing is a most de
lightful sport perhaps not quite as
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thrilling as wild-game hunting or a
game of 'golf, but nevertheless just
as amusing and a bit more restful
Less interest, however, seems to be
taken in fishing these days than pre
vailed some few years ago. Golf, base
ball, and tennis have supplanted it.
! The lunch baskets , have been pii
also feel that the primary objective
of the , Di and Phi is . forensic, and
that were the two societies to be
abolished in favor of campus wide
legislative bodies their ; real pur
pose would be entirely lost.
b. The plan, while excellent ! in
you will get only a stony silence.
'S tough, isn't it?
Take Your Choice
Cutlines under a photo on the
front page of this eminent joinal an
nouhce " that Mile. Gina Pinnera,
is1 the best President that he have French-English-Italian soprano, will
had for we have been very fortunate appear nere next moimay uuy. theorv. would be verv difficult to nut
in that respect, yet at the same time now, which is it, anyway? Does she into operation on accounV of the size
I am afraid that there are some who sing'em air three sit once, or is she f.-the;; two bodies which would have
fail to realize just what' he means to a woman without a country a def-Uome three hundred members a nuni
us: A State University needs ' some mite one? Ur is the Mile. Tencn, feer which" represents -one-third of the
the "Gma" English, and the ?m- electors- particibatine- in elections on
nera" Italian i uouotiess Memorial
Hall will be packed Monday' 'night
with people eager to find 'Out what
is what. ' '
The Random Spearman ordinardy ; . . . , - -f...
one to engineer it i such a way that
it will, be able to withstand the re
buffs to which a prdgressive institu
tion is inevitably heir. Furthermore,
such an institution needs to build for
itself a prestige among other insti
LUL1UUO WW LV-W wiv fe w - -.v i I wi
the casual observer these things have serving as Editor of this paper has usiness'v
i,v, 1 nn ntid lpft-nss this Week-end. He ...
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the Hill.
c. Further, the system would be
unwieldy were the plan finally in
augurated. (It is quite, generally
d.' It would provide large assem
bliess with little work to do. This
in reality they mean ' a' great deal, thought he'd fool everybody by leav
. . -. . . . Lixir-A w i Lit 1 1 1. ii w ill iv i ,i 1 1 1 1
n. Viooo's enooMsba in tlipsp linps ms & couple of extra - editorials to I .;, o.i ..
""-r , w - . woum eventuauy kui interest in gov
a nAf'Ta fn WniaTT im T iii at. aooear in this and Tuesdays issue . .'., .- , - . .. ...
" , , r: w ernment tnus deieat the very
asK vou to recall inem ai your leisure. "vj tt vwav
Prinf r.haa nceAtA ' in folded his tent and gone forth. But I v. , , , .-. .:, .... ..-
- - . . me svstem dv exnonents or tup Knnk-pr
turnine the rebuffs that he has en- now you know, anyway, that he isnt 1m .. t. , ,.,- :.
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. 1., 'i I fVioftl Hill of Hza rrocn-nt TnATYIPTiT. I
COUJliereu mw ,8 " . . , : . -x V e. To foster a campus spirit is
mng his way to tne top m tne eyes y , . wise
n-r. 1,0 npnnlA' nf TTnitpH States, state that we were m nis nome town
The belief of your committee
I ic Vi q 4- "rliTr'i piam r- V A 4
w . i nrAlr POUT fhfl TVfilircnOrkDT rT I
m this progress, ne has at no time v." wards or precincts for1 the election of
failed to carrv the University with nee he has a job in. Right next door . , ... A ... . ;
urinWi is a, oool-parlor. And on the other
we have never enioved before and the side is a barber shop, lbese are two
greater part of the credit belongs to indispensables of a newspaper mans
our President hie. so tne jmi ; is--getting reai tram-
Now that we have been so fortunate ing. He is also doing a little plain
candidates : to the legislative' depart
ment under the Booker Plan would
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mean an unwnoiesome ai vision m
campus solidarity.- The other alter
native presented by advocates of the
plan is that the members be elected
and fancy visiting during the week- fraternities and - dormitories
end. ' ?- j. :"- " ' i'j-- iii , - .
like for us to stop for just a moment
and take stock, so to speak, of our
good fortune.
FRED G. GILREATH
Geology Department
To Give Summer Tour
The department of Geology in co
operation with the Extension division
of 'the ' University is of f ering f ive
weeks of camping and travel by auto
mobile through Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and New York begin
ning June 17 and ending July 20,
1929. , '
This trip which counts two full
courses in Geology is open to all male
Since a considerable number' of fra
ternity members live in dormitories
it would be impossible to make this
division. In addition, fraternity mem
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uers nave expressea tnemseives -as
c.
of
It Must Be So
In one of those advanced English
composition classes in which every
one turns out tragedies, generally
reflects on the futility of this and bemg very heartily opposed to any
tl ' - , , , , i move aimed at isolating: them from
V.o- a nn'ort oyi HKlor? o Qontonpo Tn 6 nielli XX UU1
, , , ' j j 11. 1 xcou ui tire stuueut ooav.
wir",: ..v,! u. rMfl f. Since the Booker Plan aims at
"Life is one fool thing after another sweeping abdication of practically
-Love is two fool things after each a11 facuJty supervision of student gov-
other" : ernment, your committee feels that
' Nominations a very stronS point against the plan
Yesterday's nominations' in Me- is that he ctinnity of student gov-
morial Hall were about as neat a erninent would be very laTSV broken
demonstration of the working of a up fon year to year due to loss by
niit.,vl machine as is to he '8een in graduation of seasoned legislative
a campus lifetime. A nice spirit of i?aders' ad tha the stabilizing ef
we-should-worry. prevailed, among
feet of sane and wise faculty guid
ance would be entirely lost under the
Booker Plan,
g. Lastly the plan would renuirp
students of the University who have
completed one course in Geology and the thirty or so boys, mostly pros
to all other men who have credit for peCtive candidates, gathered to hear
one course in Geology from a college Ly,- President of the Student Bodv
or university of accredited . standing, call f0i nominations and announce uon, were it to be
No provision can be made for women. oniy Dne candidate for office after pat tre? uP.n the government of
The structure, physical geoerranhy, nfflr-P Thpre was no cheerine-. no tne umtea ates. Since one of the
and stratigraphy of the Applachians j excitement, no campaigning nothing I p"me reasons for the outstanding
will be studied in particular. In ad- to be seen except a group of Fore-f" - . e versity of - North
gone Conclusions stalking through Vdro"n m tne realm of student
the Hall and seizing various positions government has been the fact that
of trust. ' we have had an eminently success-
:' ;' - : fnl government in the past based on
All Freshmen and Sophomores are an unwritten "constitution, we submit
requested to remember that the first that ,it is entirely justifiable to con
regular chapel period of the .spring tinue without a written constitution,
quarter will be held Monday morning. 2 In view of the fact that this
No announcement regarding the pro- committee has considered the Booker
gram has been made. Plan and some five other foims cf
-. ' '": : . " " " -tudent ' government for more than
Advertise in the TAR HEEL. four weeks past, and has compared
dition to numerous visits to mines and
quarries the glacial ' phenomena of
Southern New York will receive
especial attention.
Any person who is interested in the
matter should see Dr. Gerald Mac
Carthy who is in charge of the pro
posed tour. : ' ' - ,
Official figures show that the Mex
ican government owns property worth
bout $90,000,000.
it is recommended that the plan
electing members to the organization
by schools be carried further than
at present to include the nine practi
cal divisions of the University. It
is further felt that the high efficiency
of the ; Student Council in regard to
the judging of immorality and drunk-
eness fully warrants the complete
releasing of the control of two addi
tional forms of student breach of
ethical conduct: namely, the issuance
of bad checks, and cheating. This
point is very strongly urged upon
the faculty for consideration. It is
the sense of this group that there
is too much cheating being commit
ted, and that were the students them
selves sharing more actively in their
own judgment and punishment a
more proprietary interest would be
taken in tiiis phase of the honor sys
tem. ' ' ' ' . .
d. It is recommended that a vice
president' of the ' student body be
elected to serve in the absence or
incapacity of the president and to be
chairman of a Campus Cabinet of
twelve " members to replace the pres
ent unwieldy1 Student Activities Com
mittee. e. As has been suggested in the
preceding article, this committee sees
a need for abolishing the cumbersome
and unrepresentative Student Activi
ties Committee in favor of a group
of twelve men elected by the student
body directly for the purpose of
serving as a check upon the man
agement of student affairs and offi
cials. For instance, this group could
very easily do the following:
1. Receive financial statements
for the purpose of maintaining t -ffi-ciency'from
all persons. or organiza
tions receiving and spending student
money in campus enterprises.
2. Review the work of all other or
ganizations not receiving or disburs
ing money with the idea in view of
checking up on laxity.
3. Serve as an advisory and recom
mendatory group to consider the ad
visability of measures needing cam
pus wide opinion for a decision.
4. Sit as a court of impeachment
in case officials cf the student h nly
government should ever, unfortunate
ly, become unrepresentative of the
campus will. It is understood that
in such an exigency the action
of the court 'of impeachment wuld
be purely recommendatory. A
decision having been reached, a cam
pus wide ballot ' on the question of
retaining or unseating the official
in question would "be held.
F. It is believed that the dignity
of elections would be further en
hanced by the election annually of
three students of integrity to serve
as an official Election Board of Com
missioners to conduct and supervise
all elections under the Australian
Secret Ballot used at present.
H. To make the government a'
Carolina even more responsive than
it is at present, we suggest the adop
tion of such political measures as the
recall, by which inefficient or cor
rupt officials could be deprived of
their offices by a campus wide vote;
the initiative, by which the students
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on page four)
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