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i - j 4. uatJ 1 DAILY TAR REEL Wednesday, October 9, 1929 Oje )atlp Car ! eel Published daily during the college year except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, Christmas " a n dJ Spring Holidays. The official newspaper of the PublP 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 HoldePw... ... ......-Editor Will Yarborough. M gr Editor Marion Alexander....5ws. M gr. 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. CL Ramsay Elbert Denning Sherman Shore Wednesday, October 9, 1929 The Lamentable Demise Of Tha New Student Recently "the Neiv Student, organ of intercollegiate opinion, ceased publication after seven years of existence. Edited by college students and recent grad uates, the magazine was a unique venture in the publishing field. : The passing of the New Stu dent has many interesting im plications. A dearth of intel lectual interest among under graduates, a woeful disregard of the vast potentialities offered by student discussion on a national scale of the problems of higher education, a lethargic attitude toward the "goose step" methods prevailing in the American col leges and universities all these are indicated by the suspension of the New Student. In sharp; contrast to the fail ure of the most outstanding jour nal of undergraduate intellectual opinion is the increasing pros perity of College Humor and other frivolous publications cat ering to "collegians." A com parison of the subscription lists of College Humor and those of the defunct New Student offers excellent explanation why edu cators are continually complain ing of intellectual laziness among ''undergraduates. Three or four years ago a publication was launched by a group of serious-minded stu dents here that was similar in many respects to the New Stu dents. It was called The Faun, and it attempted on a local scale the type of endeavor carried out on a national scale bv the New Student. After four issues it passed into oblivion to which most undercradnatA inollopfnol e . w uvvi4Vvvuui enterprises seem fated at mod- dm l'noti'fnlinnci -P Vi i VU ,- 1 ing. The Fawn's demise fore casted the eventual failure of the New Student. The outlook for the future de velopment of American higher education in the true sense of the term is indeed pessimistic, if the lamentable lack of i nt.pr. est exhibited by present day stu dents in such publications as the New Student is an augury. It is to be hoped that other literary ventures modeled after the JVew Student will spring up in the near future, and that they will succeed in overcoming under graduate apathy. ... We wonder whether that col lege professor whohas assembl ed and classified 507 "known an noyances" included the person who collects useless statistics? Philadelphia Inquirer. A New York contractor tele phoned his barber to come to Europe and give him a hair-cut. We thought Europeans knew all there was to be known about trimming Americans. Augusta Chronicle. ! IN THE WAKE OF NEWS i ! J. E. Dungan .: One of the arguments ad vanced by an acquaintance of ours as a reason why a certain freshman should join his frater nity was that the foundation of his house was built to carry 14 stories, which to our' way of thinking is a genuine example of forward looking policy. The Tar Heel carried a story last week of the antics of our freshmen, but when it comes to dumbness the Duke frosh have it all over our boys. An aspir ing candidate for the degree of A. B. at the tobacco plant in writing home to his parents ex plained his not making a fra ternity in the following way, "Aw, I could have made a fra ternity,; for that matter the best one here, if I had wanted to. The boys at the Phi Beta Kappa house had me around, but I couldn't dance so they didn't bid me." - We wish we could tell you all about the two female boot-leggers we have on the campus this year, but there have been too many investigations going on of late and so this hot bit of gos sip will have to smoulder untold. One of the local drugM chess pie, and writing ' paper empori ums advertised last week that "STATIONERY - needs no tongue." Aye, but what ; about the' postage stamps? "Virginia has big " boys at tackles. Virginia is relying up on the services of a fistfull of big tackles this fall, ,says Coach Abell." There'll evidently be no Tom Thumbs in this fistfull. uuKe university school oi Law Has 16 Top Students,' chronicles our paper, and bear ing this in mind we can see why it is that so many I)uke students can spin such yarns about the excellence of their athletic teams. The Springfield, 111., Republi caw told last week of a certain James H. Kirby, aspirant for a senatorial sinecure ,at Washing ton, D. C, whose campaigning program is based on two evils he wants to see eradicated high heels for women and liquor drinking. The senatorial candi date proposes to do away with drinking by shooting to kill al those persons found drinking liquor, which policy, we imagine, would be extremely effective. Li Ching Yun, the oldest man in the world, aged 252 years, attributes his longevity to herbs The news dispatches failed to re mark, however, whether any of the herbs contained opium which, as you know, is a power f ul stimulant to the imagination. France is to spend $100,000, 000 on fortifications along her eastern border, but paradoxi cally and simultaneously com plains that she is too poor to pay her last war's debts due to the United States. The "cabbage king' of Bengal will erect a status in mnrhlA r& picting himsejf as seated among his vegetables holding a cabbage in one hand and a carrot in an other, which reminds us that the senior, class might well build a statue of "Boss" Hill holding a pair of Ray Farris' trousers in one hand and a coat of John Mebane's in the other. The good people of Kinston are divided into two camps this week over whether they should whole heartedly endorse Eugene Wood's "cat washing contest" scheduled to be staged at; the fair that community is to have. Mr. Wood gave this pronuncia mento to the press last week "Forty-three boys all equipped with cats, have filed their en- tries, but I hate to do anything to annoy the ladies." I'm tell ing you gentlemen that when you annoy the feline population of a community, there's trouble in the offing. The Women's Christian Tem perance Association of the Old Line state, according to the col umns of the Baltimore Evening Sun, has created a department to be known as the Department of Non-alcoholic Fruit Products. Mrs. Doran, wife of the Chief of the United States Prohibition Bureau, spoke tp the society. "We must teach the people," said Mrs. Doran, "what delicious drinks cafr be made from pure fruit juices. We must invent some new non-alcoholic bever ages. Do you know, some peo ple haven't an idea that you can make really good punch without a- kick?" Yeah? But that's where the punch comes in. The Reverend f. E. Skilling ton, speaking as a representa tive of ''the Methodist Board of Temperance and Morals, told the Rock River Church confer ence last week via the Downers Grove, 111., Press that the board was "sorry that prohibition de prives the moderate drinker, as it was not aimed at him. If some one will show us a better way, we will be glad to give up prohibition." Shades of Wayne B. Wheeler! S: Bull-etin (Chicago Tribune) Appleton, Wis., October 2. "Little 1-year-old Mary Brouil lard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Brouillard, was struck by the engine, of a fast moving Chicago and North Western1 pas senger train and thrown into the air yesterday. The gir! turned over eight or ten times in the air before striking the ground, but after an examination by wit nesses of the accident was found to be uncut and . unbruised." All of which is as good as one of Bull Gardner's stories. " Readers' Opinions THANKS Editor of the Tar Heel, May I congratulate you and the Tar Heel on a good begin ning in editorial policy. Your statement this morning concern ing the textile industry is thoughtful and balanced in its viewpoint. Your editorial in re gard to hazing the other day had the same characteristics. To write vigorously " and emphati cally without unfairness to either side is a difficult task and requires more maturity' of feel ing and thought than most stu dent editors can command. My best wishes for a satisfying year to you. FRANCIS F. BRADSHAW. The Old Grad's Opportunity In his statement accepting the headship of an alumni com mittee which has tackled the big task of securing contributions from 13,000 former University students, Leslie Weil, of Golds- boro, says: : 1 "It is now the move of the alumni. Every effort should be made to get the alumni to real ize that systematic, consistent income from private sources, in addition to state funds, is neces sary if. the modern state univer sity is to be adequately financed. The Alumni Loyalty Fund, managed by alumni, has set out upon the v final step in establish ing a financial policy for the university which will take into consideration comprehensive pri vate support. The words "final step" are used because other im portant steps have already been taken. The state has increased its appropriation in recent years ; student fees have been increased; the educational foun dations; such as Rockefeller ny Qarnegie, have added their con- siderable gifts, the most recent one being a grant of $100,000 toward the establishment of a school of library administration. "It is now the "move of the alumni. " - Regular, systematic income from each of the above named sources has been found neces sary by most successful state universities. Before entering the undertaking of increasing our income from alumni, the Alumni Loyalty Fund Council has worked out details of appro- ! priately correlating any increas ed income from the alumni with that being received from other sources. Our purpose is not that of displacing any of 'j the above named income, but to stimulate and supplement it. "After all, alumni giving is theystrategic center of success ful university finance. Impor tant in' itself, it is bound to stimulate income from the state and from the educational foun dations, and finally it will in spire new friends." We shall watch with interest the result of this practical ap peal made to the alumni by President Chase in what must be regarded' as the idealistic spirit. For alumni are rather strong on banquets,- speeches, songs and playing the demon at athletic contests, and quite short on anything that tends to sub ject a patriotic love for Alma Mater to a business test or to a pledge in the nature of a tax. That- kind of obligation the alumnus is apt to accept most readily when it comes to build ing a new house for the old frat or 4 sometimes kicking in on a financial enterprise to see that the football team is not wholly lacking for material. Perhaps Doctor Chase and his committee can bring home this higher obligation they are en gaged in stressing. Certainly it would be a good thing for the university and for all other col leges if such a purpose could be carried out. For there is no getting, over the fact that col lege equipment in faculty and plant is demanding money far beyond any reasonable appro priatidn coming from the state. The expansion has definite limits, which - can be met only by endowment, which is practi r ri .jjm : W m All fountain pens are guaranteed against defects, but Sheaffer's Lifetime0 is guaranteed unconditionally for your life, and other SheafFer products are forever guaranteed against defect in materials and workmanship. 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