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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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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.
Subscription price, $2.00 "local and
$4.00 out of town, for the college
year.
Offices in the basement of Alumni
Building.
Glenn Holder . ..- .Editor
Will YARBOROUGH.Jfflrr. 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, October 3, 1929
Tar Heel Topics
Here is an excellent illustra
tion of the undergraduate atti
tude in both high schools and
colleges : A member of the Chap
el Hill high school grid squad
was asked yesterday morning
why he was not at school. "Aw,
it's too wet for football prac
tice," was his rejoinder.
A Burlington man went to
sleep with his head on a rail
and was struck by a passing
train, according to a dispatch
from the Alamance metropolis.
' The story states that he escaped
with nothing more serious than
a scalp wound. ( Evidently they
produce mighty durable heads in
Alamance.
"Governor Gardner Smiles at
New York Times Interview"
headline in the Greensboro Daily
News. So did a great many other
people when they-saw the gov
ernor quoted as favoring drastic
reductions in working hours,
higher wages and abolition of
the tenement houses in the tex
me industry, xne governor
owns interests in several textile
mills himself.
A Double Service
By Swain Hall
After a lengthy discussion, of
the Swain hall situation with
authorities, our opinion that
conversion of one-half of the big
dining hall into a cafeteria is
practicable as well as highly de
sirable has not been altered.
Just where the 'money is com
ing from to purchase the neces
sary equipment and to renovate
the building is another question.
Unlike other state-supported
institutions in North Carolina,
the university does not provide
funds for the operation of a
student dining hall. The admin
istration's attitude is that pri
vate capital is providing eating
establishments which care for
the majority of the students, and
that as long as this is the case
the limited funds at the univer
sity's disposal should be em
ployed in meeting more pressing
needs. Swain hall is being op
erated on a self-supporting basis
for -the benefit of students who
cannot aff ord to eat at the higher
priced private establishments.
In other words, the university is
maintaining Swain hall as a
weapon to keep the boarding
houses and cafes from extorting
"exorbitant rates . from the stu
dents who patronize them.
. Without doubt Swain haU is
fulfilling an important obliga
tion now by providing food for
the students whose finances do
not permit them to eat at the
more desirable but higher-priced
private establishments. But a
still more important service
would be performed by the uni
versity if it supplied at cost food
of as great variety and delec
tability as that dispensed at
the better private boarding hous
es here. Of necessity the prices
would be somewhat higher than
those charged for board at Swain
hall now, but they might be con
siderably less than those pre
vailing at Chapel Hill cafeterias
and boarding houses.
The -Daily Tar Heel believes
that funds should be secured for
conversion of part of Swain hall
into a cafeteria as soon as pos
sible. Contributions from pri
vate sources would be the most
desirable method for obtaining
these funds, but such, donations
are not easily secured. Probably
state appropriations offer the
only means of securing the nec
essary money.
Swain hall would perform a
double service to the campus if
a cafeteria were operated in
conjunction with the regular
dining hall. Every effort should
be exerted by the powers that
be to make this double service
possible.
Dispassionate
Collegians
Dean Hibbard in a. recent ad
dress before the junior class
made the statement that there
is not one intellectual issue of
which the undergraduate campus
is aware. Howard Mumf ord
Jones in his address before the
freshman class last year asked
why it is that one year of col
lege takes all the passion and
fire out of a student Editor
Holder of the Tar Heel in an
editorial last year characterized
the typical student as a "lazy col
legian" who spends most of his
time playing bridge .and recuper
ating from wild parties.
All these statements negate
the common conception of col
lege life'as the period of highest
intellectual activity. Far. from
being a place of enthusiastic
learning, college often becomes
a refuge for banality. ;
The fashionable policy among
professors is to blame this state
of affairs upon the "dumb" stu
dent who is more interested in
social activity than learning;
perhaps he is, and who wouldn't
be when knowldege is shown to
be so "dull, flat, and unprofit
able" while social life is so at
tractive? Yet it is not upon the
students that we can lay the
greater part of the blame. Upon
the shoulders of the professors,
professional dispensers of
knowledge, must rest the respon
sibility for the low ebb of in
tellectual activity.
As a typical example of the
deadening influence an instruc
tor exerts, we cite a recent oc
curence which came to our
notice. In a class of English
poetry the instructor prefaced
his remarks on the first day with
the statement that "we shall not
go into this study with any of
the good old eighteenth century
lyrical enthusiasm." Immedi
ately after the class a number
of students paid, fifty cents to
the business office for the privi
lege of dropping the course and
taking up something else. Many
are still sleeping under the dron
ing lectures of an instructor who
talks about English poetry with
about as much enthusiasm as we
are prone to exhibit for the
present rainy weather."
Many professors openly de
clare their Drofound conterrmt
for the undergraduate mind and
all that is accomplished by the
undergraduate student. Such as
these are responsible for the low
ebb of intellectual enthusiasm.
Before the students are
blamed too much we should in
vestigate the intellectual . stim
ulus offered by the professors,
we should attend a class con
ducted by a man who is more in
terested in some research prob
lem he is studying than in the
class, we should see what is the
challenge and example thrown
out by the professors. Then we
will understand in some way the
dispassionate collegian whose
ranks are enlarging every day.
J. D. M.
Carolina-Virginia
Radio Debate
Last spring the university of
North Carolina and the univer
sity of Virginia participated in
the-first radio debate ever to be
held in the south. Resultant of
this is the proposition that this
contest be made an annual af
fair. For forty years Carolina and
Virginia have been vieing with
each other for supremacy in
every phase of activity. It seems
to us only fitting that these an
cient and honorable rivals should
be linked up annually in a bat
tle of the air. We feel that the
proposition is worthy of the
consideration of the student body
of the university.
Radio debating has definite
advantages which are not to be
overlooked in this connection.
In the first place, many more
people can be reached. Since the
purpose of intercollegiate debat
ing is coming more and more to
be that of educating the public
on subjects of national and in
ternational importance, radio
debating should be of great ad
vantage by virtue of reaching
more people.
Regardless of arguments for
and against an annual Carolina
Virginia radio debate, such an
affair would create a great in-
ous poses by a motion picture
camera. A typical subject took
nine different poses in the course
of about eight hours sleep and
shifted from one position to an
other 33 times. All of the pre
ferred positions required some
supporting strain and the exper
imenters discovered that about
half the time is spent in postures
which are minor-images of oth
ers, thus resting the muscles
that have been strained in pre
vious poses.
After a thorough test made
under actual playing conditions,
officials at Oklahoma A. and M.
college are convinced that night
football will be a success.
Two weeks before the open
ing game the giant flood lights
were turned on Lewis field after
dark and a dozen players dressed
in uniform held a light infor
mal workout while the coaches
and several hundred fans looked
on.
The amount of light shed on
the field from the dozen lamps
was a distinct surprise to most
of the spectators. Every punt
and forward pass stayed within
the lighted region and players
agreed that the light did not
hurt their eyes.
Even the stands on Lewis field
were well lighted and spectators
seated on the top rows were able
to read newspapers.
The giant poles which support
the flood lights are set 14 feet
out from the sides of the field
and had a wheel base of about
140 inches.
The fossil was dug up in Sioux
county Nebraska. Only two of
the giants have ever been dis
covered, the other being smaller
than the university specimen.
The pig, scientifically termed
Dinohyus hollandi, lived during
tlie late oligocene or the early
Miocene age, which would give
him an antiquity of some twelve
million 'years.
NORMAN FOERSTER'S NEW
BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE
so there is no danger of players
terest in intercollegiate debating j colliding with them when a play
not only on the campus of the
university but in statewide cir
cles also.
The purpose of the writer in
this editorial is that of bringing
the proposition to the attention'
of the student body with a view
to arousing an interest in Carolina-Virginia
forensic relations.
J. C. W. -
Intercollegiate
goes out of bounds.
The fossil skeleton of a giant
hog which stood seven feet tall
has just been mounted in Mor
rel hall at the university of Ne
braska. The terrible pig in his
prehistoric day was as high as
the tallest modern automobile
Those looking forward to Pro
fessor Norman Foerster's new
book, American Scholar, will be
glad to know that it is now on
sale. It may be obtained from
the university of North Caro
lina press, by whom it is pub
lished, or from the Bull's Head
book shop.
"Have our literary scholars
lost sight of their, proper ob
jects of study by an all but com
plete surrender to the mechan
ical age and to the sensational
and commercial spirit of Amer
ica ?" This is the question faced
frankly in the American
Scholar.
In his criticism of the modern
types of educators and their sys
tems of education, Professor
Foerster writes trenchantly yet
moderately. His book closes j
with a plan of education calcu-j
lated to attract rather than repel
promising young scholars and to
train them rather than to mis
shape them.
Professor Foerster is a well
known scholar and author of
today. His recent books are the
Reinterpretafion of American
Literature, which he edited for
the modern language association,
and American Criticism which i
was included in the League of
Nations list of 1928.
Thursday, October 3, 1929
ARBORETUM WEATHERS
RAIN WITHOUT MISHAP
Chapel Hill's beautiful arbore
tum was put through a crucial
test during the week's heavy
rainstorm, and has emerged tri
umphantly from the natural
forces w7hich tried again to re
claim the picturesque area as a
swamp.
Landscape architects who first
converted the lowlands into a
versatile garden, were inspired
into the placing of proper drain
age in the arboretum which
would meet just such tests of
water as the section has just
withstood.
For the most part, the bulk of
the flood water which gathered
during the two-day period of sev
eral inches of rainfall, was prop
erly and quickly drained out of
the' arboretum before its action
! damaged the property. How
ever, the sides of some of the
slightly elevated sand walks in
the garden were washed away.
Yet at only one place was it
noticed where water flowed
across a sand walk and the
pedestrian had to ford the re
sulting little stream. This branch
was caused by a stoppage of
leaves in a drain, culvert.
LAST TIMES TODAY
JOAN CRAWFORD
in
"Our
. Modern Maidens"
Added Features
"FARO NELL"
All Talking Comedy
Paramount Sound News
. Professor E. D. Hay of the
mechanical engineering depart- i
ment at Kansas university an
nounces that the K. U. flying
course is almost under way. Ar
rangements have been made with
a Kansas City flying , school to
handle the students and as soon
as 15 students can be signed up
definitely for the course a school
will be established. At a recent
meeting sover 20 enthusiastic
students were all ready to start
conquering the air and fifteen
said they would take the course.
All interested persons were
asked to deposit their down pay
ments of $200. Instruction will
be given morning and evening
at the field.
" From an enzravine of
the time in Harper's
i Weekly
Because they violated the rules
against "paddling" of new re
cruits, the two pep organizations
of the university of Oklahoma
were abolished recently, at a
meeting of the board of regents,
and 59 male members were sus
pended.
The organizations were known
as the "Ruf-Neks" and the "Jazz
Hounds." The action came as
a result of recent paddlings ad
ministered to freshmen. sThe re
gents were called into special
session to consider the action.
A ut
Movies taken of sleepers in
dicate that the greatest possible
relaxation occurs when the indi
vidual coils himself like a kitten
and when he-sprawls out like a
swimmer. This new evidence on
sleep is announced by Professor
S. R. Hathaway of Ohio univer
sity and Dr. H. M. Johnson of
the Mellon institute, who are
conducting a lengthy investiga
tion of sleep at the institute.
Sleepers who took part in the
experiment were blindfolded to
avoid disturbance from light
and were photographed in vari-
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CJq JHILE Yale and Princeton were battling to a
KxJ . tie at Hoboken, New Jersey, a small group
of scientists, directed by Thomas A. Edison, was busy
at Menlo Park, only a few miles away. On October
21, their work resulted in the first practical
incandescent lamp.
Few realized what fifty years would mean to both
electric lighting and football. The handful who
watched Yale and Princeton then has grown to tens
of thousands to-day. And the lamp that glowed for
forty hours in .Edison's little laboratory made
possible to-day's billions of candle power of elec
tric light. In honor of the pioneer achievement, and
ot lighting progress, the nation this year observes
Lights Golden Jubilee.
Much of this progress in lighting has been the achieve
ment of college-trained men employed by General
Electric.
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