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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, October 10, 1929
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.
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$4.00 out of town, for the college
year.
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Thursday, October 10, 1929
College Reforms
And Reformers
Recently the pages of maga
zines in this country have been
-flooded
suggestions for reforming the
colleges and universities. Most
of these articles have attacked
the methods of instruction and
"student indifference."
The would-be reformers seem
to have lost sight of one signifi
cant fact however: higher edu
cation has been popularized to
such an extent that the modern
student body represents nothing
more than a typical cross-section
of the American commun
ity. A few generations ago all
.college students came from fam
ilies with a cultural background,
excepting a few individuals who
cause of an inherent desire for
knowledge.
In sharp contrast is the mod
ern student body, which con
sists to a great extent of indi
viduals whose only qualifications
for a scholastic career are the
ability to pass a perfunctory en
trance examination or the pos
session of an easily, obtained
high school degree. We Ameri-
uctiio ctxe iiuLunuus ior our lacic
of interest in the cultural as
pects o life: the averae-e col
lege student reflects this nation
al tendency away from culture
to a marked degree. The petty
social activities of the week
ends, fraternities and athletics
attract by far the greater por
tion of the undergraduate's in
terest. As an inevitable result of the
modern system of mass educa
tion, the college student body is
characterized by an inert sort of
meuiocmy. iseiore any really
effective reform can be accom
plished in higher education, we
believe that one of two things
is necessary that rigid en
trance requirements be estab
lished, or that the rank and file
of American citizenry adopt an
active interest in cultural af
fairs. Excessive Expenses
In a College Town
College towns should be the
cheapest places in the nation in
which to live; however Chapel
Hill seems to be one of the most
expensive places in this state,
if not in the entire nation in
which to exist. While prices
here may not be excessive 'in
comparison with those in the
larger cities, no effort is made
to reduce the cost of living in
order that more and more stu
dents may 'attend the Univer
sity. A conscious effort is be
ing made by University offi
cials to get more men here, much
is done toward helping the hard
working fellow earn his way
through school, but little or
nothing is done toward decreas
ing the general cos't of living.
Recently the price of hair cuts
has been advanced in the village
to fifty cents, while in all the
other cities of the state only
forty cents is the charge. For
dry cleaning a suit one pays one
dollar here while in many of
the nearby cities one pays only
fifty cents for cleaning a suit.
The University operates a sup
posedly profit sharing dining
room, but the board . there is
such that the majority of the
students are forced to go to pri
vate and more expensive board
ing houses in order to get satis
factory food. In many places in
Greensboro board and room are
furnished the teachers for
twenty-five dollars a month,
even yo-yos cost twice as much
here as they do in neighboring
towns.
If the University would un
dertake to operate under effi
cient management' a large dining
room on a real profit-sharing
basis then good board could be
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now charged; if the University
would operate stores on a profit
sharing basis, then many
articles could be bought much
cheaper than at present. The
University could operate other
concerns and furnish the stu
dents with necessities of life at
a reduced rate.
Nothing has ever been done
to encourage industrialism in
Chapel Hill ; the ideal is to make
this place a University town
and nothing more. If the Uni
versity is the only thing here,
thenwhy should not the Uni
versity operate on a cost basis
all the business concerns and re
duce the cost of living instead
of allowing a large number of
people to live and grow rich
from furnishing necessities to
"hard-up" college boys ? J.D.M.
Regarding ;
Free Tuition
The suggestion that the Uni
versity of North Carolina grant
free tuition to all students who
are natives of tlie state is by no
means a new one. - Although
there has never been any" or
ganized student movement look
ing in this direction, a large
part of the student body is in
favor of the idear ; '
Several state universities
scattered throughout the United
States give free tuition to all
native students without any ob
ligation whatsoever. Prominent
among these are the University
of Ohio and the University of
Minnesota Regardless of the
fact that the practice is a? yet
inu the experimental stage there
are several advantages which
accrue to state schools which
collect iuition charges from
"outsiders" only.
It is advisable, all" things con
sidered, for people who are go
ing to live in any given state to
be educated in that state. In
the case of the state of North
Carolina, many students attend
institutions in other states' who
would come to the University of
their home state if it had "the
free tuition attraction to offer
to all students. Thus the state
loses many young men and wo
men who have received their
elementary education at the ex
pense of the North Carolina tax
payer. There is no university or col
lege of importance which does
not have a considerable element
of students from foreign states
in its student body. Most of
this element habitually settle in
the state where they received
their advanced schooling. The
writer believes that better stu
dents would be attracted to the
University of North Carolina
from other states if .they had to
pay a tuition charge from which
native "far Heels were exempt.
To the resident of North Caro
lina the free tuition inducement
would be strong enough to pre
vent his leaving the state to at
tend a college or university lo
cated in a "foreign" state ; to the
resident of any other state the
fact of having to pay a charge
of seventy-five dollars v more
than native students, would be
of great enough significance to
eliminate those who contem
plated attending the University
of North Carolina without any
definite purpose in mind.
The fact that students of this
University who are enrolled in
the school of education are given
free tuition gives rise to a com
plication which is destructive to
the aim of the school. Many
students enter the school of ed
ucation merely' to get free tui
tion and without any intention
of ever teaching in the state. If
the function of the aforesaid
branch of the University be to
train teachers, then the free tui
tion attraction is self -destructive.
It not only attracts stu
dents who intend to teach and
who are not financially able to
pay tuition charges, but it
causes many to enlist in the
ranks of the "prospective teach
ers" who have not the slighest
intention of entering the teach
ing profession for even a short
time.
The writer believes that free
tuition for all North Carolina
students at the University
would remedy this evil, for
all branches of the institu
tion would then have the draw
ing card which only one branch
has at present. Then there
would be no point in enrolling in
the wrong school of the Univer
sity. J.C.W.
TO ALL FELLOW YO-YOERS :
Ave! And Hist!
Hey! Hey!
"'The time has come the Wal-
rus said,
'To talk of many things :
Of snoes and ships and seal
ing wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have
wings"
With this gentle reminder of
the Serious Things' of Life so
admirably expressed by " Mr.
Lewis Carroll, let us give our
undivided attention for a few
moments to this Enemy in our
midst, this Philistine who has
come upon us wielding the jaw
bone of an Ass to smite two
thousand men.
From his article in the Daily
Tar Heel of , Tuesday, October 8,
all the world may read and un
derstand thecontempt, the bit
ter irony, and the gross "misun
derstanding which he has of us.
Blood Brothers Bound by the
Sacred Cords of Yo-Yo, what
terms does he use to describe us?
From the presumptuous height
of his intolerance, he hurls at
us adjectives like puerile; ac
cuses us of ravings; and, blas
phemy of blasphemies, hints that
our chosen instrument' is not ad
equate to our needs.
But hark!
Out of his own mouth he con
victs himself, as the purely rea
sonable always do, of the most
bewildering logic. He stumbles
headlong into one of those inex
tricable mazes of fallacy where
Gentle Fancy's children are nev
er known to trip. We are told
that we have a complex--a
juvenile one, and that ths crav
ing remains unsatisfied by the
little Spinning Wheel. Now, far
be it from us to cast aspersions
even on the rational processes
of a Philistine, but in the . very
same sentence he thus describes
our instrument : - "That peerless
(italics ours) medium of expres
sion for puerile tendencies" !
Blinded by prejudice and un
lighted by any spark of Divine
Fancy, he sees in the Y6-Y0 only
a pacifier for fools and infants!
But Brothers in Yo-Yo, let us
not banish this Lost Soul from
our midst with never a touch of
Christia'n Charity and Sweet
Reasonableness. Let us under
stand him. He is doubtless a
Readers' Opinions
Man with a Mission, a Serious
Somebody, who is out for the
Finer Things of Life. Doubtless
he is a Practical Person who al
ways sees the corner but never
around it. He thinks that Life,
even its Larger Moments, can be
comprehended in a column of
statistics, and he doubtless
opines that Death is the Immi
nent Disaster.
Perhaps we should educate
him, he seems literate; it's only
his logic that is cock-eyed. We
shall place in his hands a copy
of Andre Siegfried's America
Comes of Age, where he will
learn from this witty French
man, in his last chapter, that
one of the unhappy afflictions of
American civilization is that:
"Anyone who turns- aside to
dabble in research or diletantism
is regarded as almost mentally
perverted."
Perhaps we could lead him
finally to that truly cultured
point of view expressed by Mr.
Waldo .Frank in his little essay
"The Machine and Metaphys
ics"; a point of view wThich ad
mirably comprehends and under
stands the Real Meaning of the
Yo-Yo in "Modern: Life: "Only
when the individual worker ex
periences . ... that the elements
of life in the machine fuse ... . .
together with his own into a uni
tary act alone then will "his
spirit in participation 'be able to
go out through the machine, so
that it and the whole mechan
ized world may once again, in
his joy, in his beauty in his
human pride, express him."
If he were tractable, if he still
endured after a period of pre
liminary apprenticeship in the
great Brotherhood of Yo-Yo, we
might lead him eventually to the
heart of our secret and let him
read in the original French, the
statement of our Faith by that
distinguished aesthetician, Elie
Faure : (We quote from the au
thorized translation of The
Dance Over Fire and Water by
Mr. John Gould Fletcher) "It
is the precise role of the artist.
It is in the energy which Michael
Angelo possessed in order to
realize, between intelligence up
lifting itself, and matter tend
ing 'to drag it down. . . ..It is
in the drunkeness of Shakes
peare, conciliating in lyric indif
ference the contradictory move
ments of the drama of passion.
It is in the power of Rubens
twisting in every sense, as clay
in the flame, the universal forces
released by the current of a
river, by the flow of sap, the pul
sations of blood and will. It is
in the supernatural magic of
Beethoven re-uniting in the or
chestral multitude the multiform
voices of God."
No. 1. We have synthesized
the Hebraic mythology and
Mr. Matthew Arnold's epithet.
- JNo. z. we do not Yo-Yo.
No. 3. Professor Archibald
Henderson will discuss the
curvilinear mathematics and
torque implications of the Yo
Yo in relation to the fourth
dimension, in a forthcoming
monograph.
One of our research assistants
is now engaged in working out
the relation of the Yo-Yo to the
"Ractional Sex Life."
(Signed) Ko Ko
Nanki Poo.
Research Group Is
Is Studying Failure
Tobacco Association
(Continued from page . one)
ciations. Although the board
has the power to subsidize agri
culture through a system of sur
plus control, they have refused
to do this, preferring to have
this function performed by the
farmers united in associations.
In adition it has set a policy of
lending money to the industry
only through members of farm
associations. Thus, to secure
the full benefits of farm relief
it is essential and desirable that
the farmers form into unionized
groups.
College Life
V
Letter Explains .
Novel Creation
Continued from page one) -sects
that crawled over Pan-Ku.
To illustrate the story, Rev.
Hallock enclosed in the letter a
printed copy of the features of
Pan-Ku. He appears as a stock
ily built individual with short
horns. He is wearing a skirt of
leaves and has a ring of leaves
about his neck.
; He has his hands extended
above his head and is holding in
each a sphere, one red, the other
yellow: His face is oriental.
There are the narrow eyes, rais
ed at the outer extremeties, the
long, drooping moustache, and
the very dark eyebrows.
Beside him, on what appears
to be a stump is the axe with
which he made the world, and
i n. j t .
auuve tne entire drawing are
three groups of Chinese charac
ters. "
The version of the creation as
given by this letter is sub
stantially as follows : "Yang and
Yin gave birth to Pan-Ku, who
grew at the great rate mention
ed before. Somehow he got hold
of an axe, and with that he
managed to 'k'ai-p-ih t'ien di' or
hew out the universe. From what
he cut it is not known.
He was 18,000 years doing this
work, and in order to complete
his work he had to die. His
head became "the mountains,, his
breath, the winds, 'and clouds:
his voice, the thunder ; his limbs,
the four quarters of the earth;
his blood the rivers; his flesh,
the soil ; his beard, the constella
tions ; his skin and hair, the
herbs and trees; his teeth, bones.
and marrow became the metals,)
rocks, and precious stones; his
sweat, the rain," and most sug
gestive to the evolutionists; "the
insects creeping over his body
became human beings!"
Ilev. Hallock says in his let
ter, "I hope we are proud of our
ancestry t- The Chinese speak of
three kinds of insects that de
light in man's "fellowship," the
"crawlers, the jumpers, and the
smellers." I asked a Chi npsp tn
which race he belonged ? He
said that he did not know, but
that 'the foreigners must belong
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"In finishing the earth Pan-Ku
failed to put the sun and the
moon in their proper places, and
he is shown holding them in his
hands as mentioned before. The
sun and moon went down into
the sea, and the . peoples were
left in darkness. A messenger
was sent to ask them to go back
into the sky to give light. They
refused, Pan-Ku was called and
at Buddha's direction wrrote the
character "Zeh," sun, in one
hand, and "Yuin," moon in the
other and going to the sea, he
stretched out his hands and call
ed the sun and the moon re
peating a charm devoutly seven
times. Then they ascended into
the sky and gave light, day and
night. ' '
In the creation Pan-Ku made
51 stories, or floors ; 33 for
heaven, and 18 for hell, below the
earth. If one is very good he
will go to the 33rd heaven and
be worshipped as a god, if he is
very bad, he will go down to the
18th floor of hell.
Marquette will meet two east
ern teams this year, Holy Cross
at Worcester and Boston college
in Mihvaukee.
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