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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, September 28, 1929
)t Datlp &ax If eel
Published daily during the college
year except Mondays and except
Thanksgiving, Christmas and
Spring Holidays.
The official newspaper of the Publi
cations Union of the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
, 3.00 out of town, for the college!
year.
Offices in the basement of Alumni
Building. -
Glenn Holder Editor
Will Yarborough... Mgr. Editor
Marion Alexander Bus. Mgr.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John Mebane Harry Galland
ASSISTANT EDITORS
J. Elwin Dungan J. D. McNairy
Joe Jones B. C. Moore
Dick McGlohon J. C. Williams
SPORTS EDITORS
Joe Eagles Crawford McKethan
CITY EDITORS
E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay
Elbert Denning Sherman Shore
Thursday, September 26, 1929
Tar Heel Topics
"What makes the Yo-yo yo?"
inquires a Chattanooga paper.
Which is a perfect example of
the dam-fool questions some
newspapers can ask.
One of our professors re
marked yesterday that Chapel
Hill is a most delightful place
for an undergraduate to live. If
profs and exams were prohibited
here we would agree with him
most heartily.
The New Highway and
The Billboard Battle
One of the most important
events in the history of Chapel
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-ma occurred recently wnen
state highway 54 was officially
opened to traffic. Not only
does the new , highway greatly
decrease the distance between
Greensboro, Raleigh, and Chap
el Hill, but it also provides one
of the most pleasant drives that
the ; motorist may encounter in
the entire South.
Traversing the heart of the
Piedmont plateau, the road af
fords views of some of the
most delightful scenery that the
state has to offer but the scen
ery is not the most pleasing at
tribute of the new highway. An
almost complete absence of bill
board and other forms of adver
tising displays, the curses of
North Carolina's otherwise ex
cellent highway system, make
the new road unique.
Within the next few weeks,
however, a monotonous succes
sion of signs will be erected
along the road, if no action is
taken by the highway author
ities to prohibit them. The
usual likenesses of underclad
flappers will arise to admonish
the motorists that "It's Toast
ed," or "Not Even Your Best
Friend Will Tell You."
For many years newspaper
editors arid civic organizations
have agitated for removal of the
uiautni, uxiiDoaras tnat deface
highways and detract from the
joys of motoring in this coun
try. Their efforts ' have been
singularly unproductive of re
sults, although they have suc
ceeded in arousing considerable
public opinion against highway
advertising.
California has contributed the
most important bit of work in
the battle upon the obnoxious
signs. The Standard Oil Com
pany has removed all of its ad
vertising boards from the high
ways in that state.
If all the companies would fol
low the example of the Stan
dard Oil concern, they would lose
nothing that would be of value
to them in the fierce competi
tion of modern business and in
dustry. Highway signs often
irritate the motorist and preju
dice him against the products
which they advertise, rather
than induce him to purchase
these products. -
The authorities of Alamance,
Orange and Wake counties or
the state highway commission
will establish a precedent that
may be of inestimable benefit to
the American 'riding public if
they legislate against advertis
ing boards along the new Nelson
to Graham highway.
Self -Help Students
Need Pork and Beans
- . The news columns of our
paper have reported the fact
that never in the history of the
University has there been as
persistent and as urgent a need
for employment by some very
worthy students who will leave
this University and possibly col
lege life altogether unless they
find the wherewithal to continue
here. "
, Bulletins are sent every appli
cant for admission detailing in
glowing terms . the easy manner
in which a new student can
"earn all or part of his expenses
while at Carolina." We imagine
that hundreds of students come
here believing on the strength
of this advertising that they
will be able to . earn their way.
But it only takes a few days of
making the discouraging rounds
of all possible places of employ
ment to prove to them that there
are five . times as many men as
there are jobs. .
It is an. unfortunate fact,
from the standpoint of employ
ment, that the University is sit
uated in a village. The law of
supply and demand, coupled
with abundant colored labor,
dictates that college men here,
no matter whether they be grad
uate students or freshmen, shall
be paid a "two-bit" piece an hour
for common labor. This fall
there seems to be a shortage in
even this highly profitable work.
As for more highly skilled
means of earning one's way,
search as you will, you can not
find them, that is, after having
dismissed a few political sine
cures, which are out of average
reach anyway.
The president's office under
the direction of Executive-Sec
retary House does an admirable
work in helping relieve this con
dition in the awarding of tui
tion grants, but this is a small
part of the amount needed. In
this connection we will not over
look the work done by the Uni
versity loan funds, but here
again the amount needed and
the amount on hand show a de
cided disparity.
The Y. M. C A. self-help bu
reau under Grfady Leonard is
doing its level best to keep sev
eral hundred students in "pork
and beans" but it hasn't enough
to go half-way around.
We sometimes forget that
there are 13,000 alumni of our
University because we only hear
of them at graduation and
through the Alumni Review.
Other state universities have
great loan funds, and numerous
scholarships fostered and donat
ed by their alumni.- Ours are
entirely inadequate. Literally
nunareds of boys m the past
decade have left Carolina disap
pointed and disillusioned because
of failure to earn their way
They would have increased the
prosperity and wealth of the
state ten times over had they
been able to finish their colle
giate, work.
ouxeiy mere must oe men
among these 13,000 alumni ap
preciative enough and interested
enough to donate funds, for the
establishment of one hundred
loyalty scholarships carrying
stipends of from seventy-five to
three hundred dollars a year
each. The Daily - Tar Heel.
while appreciating the work of
our alumni in the past, firmly
believes that the establishment
of funds can be no longer de
layed. r J. E. D.
The Extra
curricular Problem
The problem of extra-curricular
activities and their relation
to scholarship is one which is
ever-present on the campus of
this and other universities. We
believe,. however, that the un
usually large number of' organi
zations at the University of
North Carolina warrants the
contention that the extra-curricular
problem here is of even
greater pertinence than in the
case of the average university.
Although the problem is as
yet only in the process of being
solvedthe theory that indul
gence in outside activities is
detrimental to scholarship has
at last been relegated to its
proper place among the. worn
out fancies and superstitions of
educational philosophy. It is in
teresting to note,, that public
opinion on the matter is in di
rect opposition to the facts.
Within the last three years the
Sociology Department of this
university produced statistics
which showed that - those stu
dents who are most active in
extra-curricular activities rank
highest in scholarship.
The reasons underlying the
aforementioned discovery are
not difficult to conceive of. In
the first place, it is only the ca
pable student who can get
through studying soon enough
to have any time left for outside
activities. In the second place,
the student who cannot make
good grades is seldom capable
of succeeding in the extra-cur
ricular field. In the third place,
the presence of an ambition to
succeed in any given 'field of en
1
aeavor is usually accompanied
by an ability to achieve some
measure of success in that field.
In lieu of this it is therefore
obvious that, all things being
equal , the same student wil
rank high both in scholarship
and m extra-curricular under
takings. .
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xne wxiter contends tnat a
correct division of time between
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dcauemic unaertaKings and
those not included in the curri
culum cannot be accomplished
without giving full considera
tion to the ability of the student
concerned. Participation in the
one does not necessarily lower
efficiency in the other. The
matter is one which must be
solved by the individual student
and one which can be correctly
solved only in the lis-ht of rpr..
sonal ability and personal situa
tions. J. C. W.
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Fred Wardlaw, sophomore of
the University, has been con
fined to McPherson h
Durham, with sinus trouble.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Huske of
Fayetteville have been spending
a few days in Chapel Hill visit
ing their daughter, Miss Addie
Huske who is a student in the
University.'
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. McCorkle
entertained Tuesday evening at
an informal reception in honor
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dyer.
Mr. Dyer is connected with the
music faculty this year.
John Redding, Ed Hedgepeth
and Bill Morgan stopped over in
Chapel Hill to visit friends on
their way to Philadelphia where
they will attend the medical
school of the University of Penn
sylvania. The Episcopal women stu
dents were invited to be guests
of honor at a supper given by
St. Hilda's Guild of 'the Epis
copal church with Mrs. D. II.
Lawrence at the rectory. The
new students as well as the old
ones were welcomed during the
evening by Mr. and Mrs. D. H.
Lawrence and Kitty Wells, pres
ident of the woman's associa
m0m
tion.
SCOTCH PLAIDS
(By Dick McGlohon)
Dear Liz, ,
Guess you are surprised to
hear from me so early, but that
doesn't matter. I just had to
write. It's been July since I saw
you the time the old man
chased me out the house and you
beat on his chest with your deli
cate little fists and pulled him
back until I could jump the
fence and sell out. Many things
have happened since then and
now it's my first chance to write
and tell you all about the Uni
versity and how I feel like some
body since I got back up here.
I'm really a sophomore. Can you
believe it? ,
But come right down to it,
I don't know whether I'm a
sophomore or not. You see I
passed five courses last year and
had to argue like the devil with
the math instructor for a D on
the fifth course. Frankly, I -guess
I'm a "Bull rat." That's what
they called them at V. M. I.
when I was. up there year before
last and got shipped. .My old
man calls them "damned fools,"
but he don't know what he's
talking about.
Sophomore or dam fool, I'm
goingN to see Ben Aycock, who
is president of the sophmore
class, and see if I can't , get in
on the sophmore dance, if they
have one. Then I'm going -to
see Ray Farris and see if I can
get in on the Grail, dances. I've
just got to learn to dance some
how, although my old man says
it's a sin to dance and that he
doesn't want any of his jack
spent at these "public hugging
parties." But this is my second
year and I've got the old check
book. I'm going to spend my
week-ends raising hell and Sun
day mornings in bed no more
ounaay scnooi classes lor me,
you bet.
Last year I was green, just as
green as you make 'em. I bought
free hair tonic tickets and went
to Dean Bradshaw for "sky
hooks" to use as a tool in put
ting my bed together that some
sophomore had wrecked by re
moving half the springs. I called
President Chase's home to find
out where the arboretum was
and I bought an armful of tick
ets to the bath room.. I thought
that Rex Beach was a magnifi
cent summer resort and didn't
know the difference until rriv
, j
sophomore room mate told me
better a few weeks afterward,
after all the boys had had all the
fun they wanted.
But, even at that, I was not
so dumb, compared to some of
these up here this year. Thev
tell some mighty hot tales on the
freshmen this year, I mean they
do. In a bull session the other
night in my room a bunch of us
sophomores and a few freshmen
were telling jokes and asking
each other conundrums. Of
course "the freshmen were green
and didn't catch oh very fast.
In the conversation one sopho
more used the word expectorate.
and I turned to freshman John
and bet him he didn't know the
meaning of the word. "Oh. yes,
I do. You can't eret m n 0
w via VAlUb
It means to look forward to."
They tell another tale around
here about a freshman from one
of the lower counties, perhaps
Hyde. When he was unpacking
his trunk the second night up
.here, some sophomores observed
him taking a couple of lamps
out. They became inquisitive
and thought that they'd kid the
boy along a little asked him
what the hell lamps were for.
"Why I'm goin-' to use them at
night," he replied. 'The fresh
man handbook said that Caro
lina students should put at least
two hours a night on each sub
ject and in order to do so. had
to burn midnight oil."
front of South the first day I
was ud here . and asked me where
the A. B. school building was.
He said that he had been walk
ing all over the campus and
couldn't find it.
Well, Liz, I have just about
wrote out. Let me hear from
you as soon as you can tell me
all the news from N. C. C. W.
Wish you would send me a copy
of the Carolinian, too.
With love, ,
MACK.
Faculty
Elects Officers
The faculty at its last meeting
elected the following new offi
cers: Professor M. T. Van
Hecke, Ph. B J. D., and Pro
fessor Harrer for, a term of
three years ; Professor Mackie,
Ph. D., was elected for two
years. These officers succeed the
following who retired this year :
Professor A. W. Hobbs, Profes
sor W. M. Dey, Ph. D., and D.
D. Carroll, M. A. The following
officers continue to serve for an
other year : Dr. Mangum, Pro
fessor Knight and Professor
Prouty, Ph. D., who will serve
as chairmen of the committees,
and Professor Van Hecke, who
still retains the position as sec
retary. STATIONERY
Personal printed and embossed sta
tionery at reduced prices.
Ask your dormitory store room clerk
for samples.
ARTCROFT PRESS
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Letters written on Old Hampshire
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The paper is rich, crisp, substan
tialit h?s both class and quality.
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Carolina Play maker Shows
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Glee Club Tryouts
The deadline for tryouts
for the Glee Club has been
set at 4 o'clock this after
noon. All interested must
observe this deadline. Ap
proximately 150 aspirants
have reported so far.
First Year Lawyers
Select President
O. A. Warren was elected to
the presidency of the first-year
law class at the first meeting of
the year in the law building
Wednesday morning. William L.
Marshall, Wadesboro, was chos
en vice-president of the group,
while Dave Craig wTas named
secretary-treasurer.
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