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Pzse Two THE TAR HEEL Thursday, April 4, 1929 Leading Southern College Tei Weekly Newspaper Published tri-weekly during the cbl--lege year, except one issue Thanks giving, the last two weeks of De cember (holiday period) and the last two weeks of March (examina- tion period and spring holidays). The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 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. editorial department Harrv Galland Assistant Edit aeTn Holder John Mebane - Assistant Editor Will Yarborough Sperts Editor Reporters Holmes Davis Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn J. P. Jones C. B. McKethan J. C. Williams E. H. Denning J. E. Huffman J. C. Eagles Student body officials discuss the honor system as it functions at var ious schools. Y. M. C. A. men meet those engrossed in the same work and may profit by mutual confidences. Athletics, too comes in for a" full share of conference attention. Base ball, swimming, tennis are provided for the boys and long hikes through out the surrounding mountains are the order of the day even to climb ing Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Rockies! And then there is the natural beauty of the landscape, the unsur passed lovlmess of those Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina. That alone is worthy of several weeks' vacation spent at the confer ence. The man who stands upon the porch of Robert E. Lee Assembly Hall and looks-out across the moun tains, the man who discovers all the beauties of Blue Ridge, is as for tunate as that discoverer of the Assistant Editor Pacific Ocean, "stout Cortez" who gazed -spellbound at the wondrous sierht before him. "silent, upon a peak in Darien." J. E. Dungan D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon George Dannenbaum BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff B. M. Parker Asst. Bus. Mgr. Leonard Lewis 1 Adv. Mgr. Sidney Brick Asst. Adv. Mgr. H. N. Patterson JL Collection Mgr. T. R. Karriker Asst. Col. Mgr. Gradon Pendergraft Circulation Mgr. Ben Aycock Sir-Esme E.F. Yarborough Speaks to the Class J DMcNairy The class of 1929 is fortunate. It J. P. Huskins will have many memories to look Henry Anderson fcack and treasu and not the least will be the memory of the ad dress by Sir Esme Howard at its Commencement Exercises. study light, and sharpening the pen cils, and perhaps attending a lecture or so for hubby when he was tem porarily indisposed. But somehow the unmarried students have gotten by without these helps. As a bachelor, if you can and will call a person of our age that, ,we have found it very possible to spend an unwasted evening or so. We can even make a little trip of five hun dred yards f rom the dining-table to the .'study-table, and still get some work done. In fact, we believe the unmarried student has the edgeT The marriage enthusiasts fail to take into account the time spent evenings with the baby. But then, we haven't given the real reason for going off the handle about this question of marriage for students. "Intelligence tests show that persons who get married have a higher intelligence rating," says the University of ' Oregon expert. Well, we-don't know. The very fact that the married ones heeded the call of the wedding bells is against them, we believe. H. J. G. th -nrnnnspd lan. - - And the man speaking x x m 1 TT:il -F 9- Tho Committee fParasranh e) old, for bU years in vnapw mu, V " " tt; objects to the division of the campus 33 years connecxea wiin me into wards or precincts, on the sity, for almost 40 years an alumnus -nA w STirh a division would of the University, and m all tnose u eiv"" I .. , , i rr- threaten the campus solidarity. But years he had never omu iu T didn't recommend' that . division, been asked to speak as an alumnus Realizing, that the successful unit of of Carolina. representation would be a' student in- spiration, ' I avoided - recommending Dr. Mangum took evident pnae in any unit. I merely mentioned sev- making his first talk as an alumnus eral nossibilities. The ward was not of his university; he told the boys among them; it came up in conver- new things about their, school, in a sation with the Committee as 'a pos- new way spoke to them of honor and sible unit. sportsmanship. And the boys were The unit of representation is the glad to listen to him, this man who most difficult problem in the plan, forty years ago made his letter m For instance, the comment has been football playing shoulder to shoulder made- by several who possibly don't care to be quoted, that a. ward unit of representation would 'insure the control of only one ward to the fra ternity group instead of the control of the whole campus, which that group is supposed to exercise -now. with the late Dean Patterson, tne great, quiet tackle. For thirty-five years Dr. Mangum has watched the student body of the University, and in his short talk Tuesday night he I told something of what he has seen. There are few men who know the Advertising Staff Harry Latta H. Merrell H. Jameson J. Schulman Jim Harris J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr. Tom Badger W. G. Boger Thursday, April 4, 1929 The president's office, from which goes forth the invitation to com mencement speakers, has always been Subscription Mgr. careful to seek men who are particu larly well-known and worth listening to. Recently, the invitations have been accepted by unusually qualified ti PARAGRAPHICS And now we may long for the i "good old days" when elections were elections and not pink tea parties. men. Walter Lippman, an editor of the New York "World," was recently a commencement bpeaner. And now the jump has been made from the newspaper world to the sphere of diplomacy. Sir Esme Howard is one of the most important diplomats in Washington. He is respected not only because of the importance of v his position as the . highest repre sentative of a great nation, but as a man who has achieved much more than the average public servant in the course of a lifetime. He is today perhaps the greatest influence for Anglo-American friendship. It was rumored about the campus The choice of the British Ambas yesterday that the "Bridge of San sador is undoubtedly pleasing to all Luis Rev" was iust another one of who are concerned with the Com- those weeklv pictures civen for the mencement program. He is a man Engineering School boys. o importance for an important func tion, and what he says will be Since Dr. Booker's plan of student WOrth while. The Tar Heel and the B60KER REPLIES To The Editor of The Tar Heel: Of course, I am very much pleas ed with the unlooked-for considera- ion given the bi-cameral plan of representative student government, and especially with the spirit in which the students have approached ;he problems it presents, as evidenc ed, for instance, by the recent Report of the Committee appointed by the Di Senate to investigate the student government question, Messrs. Dungan and Gilreath. Their Report, though unfavorable .. . , t n to tne Di-camerai pian, was au uue could ask in fairness, thoughtfulness, We sometimes enjoy siding with the minority, but in this set of elec tions there isn't even a respectable minority to become good losers. How can our campus leaders learn to be good sports if they aren't given a chance to lose occasionally ? government was rejected by the Di and Phi, we - suppose the campus is safe in retaining its present system. And here is an item of news value: the Playmaker production offered this week-end does not include a play by Paul Green! Go West, Young Man, And Discover Blue Ridge One of the treats of the year is the opportunity of spending a week or ten days "at the annual Y. M. C. A. conference of students held at Blue Ridge. There are gathered represen tative students from all the colleges of the South for a period of study, fellowship, and recreation. - Daily discussion groups and ad dresses go deep into the problems con fronting American youth of today and seek to offer acceptable solutions worked out by the young men them selves. For leaders, men of national repute in various fields are secured, men who have had wide experience in dealing with young people and who possess an understanding of their problems. By means o!f these thought-provoking discussions the men in attendance at Blue Ridge are stirred to a broader interest in the life about them and are awakened to a greater sense of ' responsibility as to their own duties. Study, however, is merely one phase of the conference. Of equal importance are the contacts made with young people from many dif ferent colleges and the give-and-take of personal experiences and individual interests. All the activities of the college campus are represented. Editor may talk to editor and thresh out his -own particular questions. campus as a whole appreciates the efforts of the President's office to secure men of the type of Sir Esme Howard to speak at the Commence ment Exercises. H. J. G Where Two Heads Make Better Grades Than One Not very long ago a report was printed in the Tar Heel to the ef feet that a certain college would alter, a given date, disoar married " men and women, from its classrooms And now we have"another report this time stating that "Marriage im proves . students' grades", and tha there is a greater tendency to settle down in the state of wedded bliss and attend more strictly to books. It all seems to boil down to a ques tion of time-wasting, lhe unmar ried students, say tne proponents o: marriage, fritter away their; time Professor Herbert Howe of Oregon wants all his students married. "I they were all married they would waste fewer evenings, and marriage would be for the betterment scholastic standing," he says. And there is the touching domestic scene painted by Tom Barnhart of the University of Washington, "If I have anything to do, I can do it around meal-time. At home it's just a case of moving one chair from the study table to the dining room." In fact, Tom finds that being married has raised his grades from C's to B's and B's to A's. There have been cases, howeyer, of unmarried students getting along beautifully, and even making a few A's. True, there was no wife to lighten the burden by adjusting the 1 1 don't know anything first hand University as does Dr. Charlie, lew about this phase of the whole ques- men who speak of its history as clear tion. " The unit of representation is I ly as he does. certainly a delicate matter; but it should be approached frankly and fearlessly and on the assumption that the fraternity group is ' capable of placing the good of the whole student He began his talk by , telling of the conditions here when he was a student in the late eighties, when the only three dorms were Old West, body above any contemporary politi-1 old South, and. Old East, each room Open Forum in Old South having an open fireplace and each room in the other two dorms having a stove, every boy having to buy his own stove, his own firewood, carry it to his room, and woe betide the man who roomed on the third floor. - Moreover, there were no facili ties whatsoever for bathing, and it that it aims at a sweeping abdication was an old saying -among the boys of practically all .faculty supervision that "an itch is part of the curricu- of student government. In the mat- lum." He told of the first intercol ter of supervision whatever super- legiate football game in North Caro vision there is the plan contemplates lina. played in 1888 at the Raleigh cal advantage it may now hold. Af- ter all, the fraternity men are the same stuff fundamentally that the rest of the student body Is made up of ; money and social glamor alter only superficially the decencies 3. The committee . (Paragraph f ) objects .to the plan, on the ground vital things he said: "This old place in its crudeness de veloped o loyalty and faith which has held on through the years. There's something here we don't often speak ofbut the men from this institution seem to have it to a pronounced de gree. Life on this campus has chang ed since the war; I see it everywhere, something that has weakened the fiber of the student body. It is largely a matter of sportsmanship, but I think it goes farther than that. This is the great difference in the student body as a whole there is a. lack of support of honesty! A stu dent recently told me that if he in formed on a man cheating, he him self would have to leave the Univer sity instead of the man doing the cheating. I believe he was about right. Deducing from what I've seen- and heard I believe the honor system here is working in re verse. Speaking officially I wish to; say that if you students don't do. something about these conditions the honor, system won't last out your generation on this campus. We have laid student government on: your doorstep, and you aren't uphold ing it. It has gone about as far as; self-respecting men can let it go." ' v! Large Number Of Young Poople Hear Dr. Bernard Sunday neither more nor less for the present than now exists. Paragraph II of my proposal says: "That the student body thus organized make and eke- Mil 1 cuxe tne laws governing its lite m all fields that may be relinquished to state fair, supposedly Carolina versus Wake Forest, but really Carolina versus Wake Forest and the town of Wake Forest. The center of Car olina's gridiron was where the gym now is, with a goal on the site of the it from time -to time by the faculty law building and the other where and trustees". Which says as plain ly as I can say it where the ultimate control of all University activities lies, recognizing, at the same "time, that student government, like all gov ernment, is not static, but dynamic, the Playmakers Theatre now stands. Dr. Charlie's talk led on to some thing else; here are some of the more Dr. W. S. Bernard , spoke to the Young Men's Bible class at the Meth odist church Sunday morning on the subject of "Modern Gods". He raised the question as to whether or not the people of today really worship God,, or other things as money, flesh and the devil. A large crowd was out to hear Dr.. Bernard. He formerly was teacher of this class and was very - popular in church activities. Because of ilL health he had to give up the class but now he has returned and will probably be with the class for the rest of the year. Current questions and topics will be discussed each Sun day morning. onil aat-tnacmaaa IT -nTOCfmtpn hftW- ever-to me, " at least-two tantaliz- fnduld b-8 adfstf to the caPa ing defects: it lacked documentation about as desirable in a fact-finding committee as is a voice in a singer; and it doesn't join the issues as I see them in three of its strictures on the plan. The Committee submits its report "after four weeks of exhaustive re search, during which time interviews with interested students and faculty members have been freely resorted to, in addition to which your com mittee has drawn upon the exper iences in student government of im portant colleges and universities throughout the entire United States, and having resource to mature judg ment, and given weight to sound reason." Quite unconsciously, I am sure, the Committee creates a bias in- favor of its Report, by passing judgment upon its own efforts- something that is customarily left to History. There, for instance, is where I am content to leave the ques tion raised in the Tar Heel as to the paternity of the bi-cameral plan. The Committee might have told us, instead, whom it consulted, which systems it studied, and what it found in them to base its corfclusions upon. 'Who does the approving or disap proving among our students and fac ulty members, for example, would make a considerable difference to me; and, to mention only one instance, the- results of a similar plan that, I recently heard, has been 'followed at the University of Texas would inter est me exceedingly. Documentation has its indispensable uses. Conscious, in my own case, of pos sessing a plentiful lack of facts about student government, I hope the Committee will supplement its Re port by giving the facts and the opinions, together with the names of those expressing them, that it collect ed. " .One of the serious difficulties m debate is the joining of issues. And in this I wish to acknowledge my full share of responsibility. 1: The Committee (Paragraph a) objects to the plan on the ground that it would abolish Di and Phi in their present forms, in which .forms their "primary objective" is "forensic." Leaving out of consideration now the matter of whether or not the debate of live questions is more or less "fo rensic" than the debate of hypothe tical problems, leaving out now the matter of possible benefits of the plan to Di and Phi, I wish to point out, as I pointed out to the Commit tee, that the plan could be put in op eration without drawing in Di and Phi, at all. I would have appreciat ed the Committee's reporting this among its findings; but, of course, the fault is mine; I should have di vided my proposal into two proposals first, that a bi-cameral plani be put into operation; second, that Di and Phi become the two chambers of ty.of the governed at any given stage J 1 1 1 vn ox tneir development. rnis princi ple is tacitly acknowledged by the ri . 'n i ., - i . committee wnen iz recommends m Paragraph c of its own plan that the University release to the Student Council the control of bad checks and cheating. The fundamental difference be tween the Committee and myself is one of political faith. It is revealed in a parenthesis of its Report (Paragraph c). Parenthesis are of ten the most revealing passages of a discussion. This passaere reads ("It is quite generally known that the smaller the group the more efficient and expeditive its business.") There you have it. The Committee wants expedition; I want participation. I thijik, with the Committee, that the smaller the body, the more expedi tious the business right on down the line to benevolent tyranny. But I believe, after the old-fashioned man ner of Anglo-Saxon particularism now dying out, that no achievement in, government is worth the stultifi cation and atrophy of a people's self- governing energies. The Committee recommends a modi fication of our present system of gov ernment. The same Tar Heel that carries its Report records the results of the' recent student election. The news columns, funny columns, and leaders supply all the commentary necessary on our" present system. I haven't a word to add to it. It shows that stultification set in long ago and atrophy has been now achieved. Government is. a matter of taste; Personally, I shouldn't want the mil lennium at that price. JOHN M. BOOKER in- A DOLLAR AT B ERM AN'S WILL GET YOU MORE QUALITY AND STYLE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE MAN'S DEPT. STORE BER iprintliiie Is Here And a young man's fancy lightly turns, etc. Well, it does. And here's the thing to do about it. There will be two dances here this week-end. Take your best girl out in a U-Drive-It and enjoy the warm spring nights. DAY PHONE 3861 NIGHT PHONE 5706 'i The Carolina Playmakers The Campus By Joe Jones n; The sophomores had a smoker in Swain Hall night before last. It was a good smoker; the expected music-; makers failed to show up, their ab sence was apologized for by President Wyrick,, the sandwiches and ice cream were happily eaten, being good and needing the apologies of no one. Class business was gotten to that is, the sophomores were told that their dance tomorrow night was to be for mal, but that if anyone didn't have a tux not to hesitate on that account, but to come on anyway in spite of his infirmity, and that "if you can't get a girl bring a co-ed." (Faithful quotation.) Then there came a part in the pro gram which set it above the usual pro grams of class smokers a talk by Dr. Charlie Mangum, a talk so inter esting that some 300 lit cigarettes drooped forgotten and unsmoken for long minutes in some 300 still hands. ANNOUNCE THEIR Final Home Bill OfFdlkRays "Companion-Mate Maggie," by Helen Dortch "Black Water-" by Loretto Carroll Bailey "The Lie," by Wilkerson O'Connell AYMAKER A Till? TFJI? FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS 8:30 O'CLOCK