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THE daily tar heel Wednesday, November 27, 1929 Published' daily during the college vear except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. . The official newsnaner 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.Jffirr. Editor Marion Alexander.:...J?ms. Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebane t Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS -J. Elwin Dungan . J. D. McNairy Joe Jones B. C. Moore J. C. "Williams - CITY EDITORS E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning ' Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITOR : Henry L. Anderson ASSISTANT Joe Eagles SPORTS EDITORS Crawford ,Mehn , REPORTERS Howard Lee,;, . Holmes' Davis' Louis Brooks Charles Rose . Kemp Yarborough ' Mary Price." : J. P. Tvspn . Browning Roach " Al Lansf ord ' t: : Peggy Lintner . E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenberger G. E. French , Frank Manheim Mary M. Dunlap Clyde Deitz George . Sheram Robert Hodges .''John Latnanf. , , B. H. Whitton Nathan Volkman George Stone Jack Riley ' T. E. Marshall George Wilson J. S. Weathers Bernard J. Herkimer Jack Bessen J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr., G. Cohen Browning Roach . Russell Williams Sadler Hayes Stanley Weinberg Wednesday, November 27, 1929 Tar Heel Tbpics , - Chairman Burch of the Safety Committee announces that a sec ond violation of the new traffic laws will incur a $50 fine. Any body wanna buy a go well, a Ford cheap? We gather from the press notices about the new football song called "Carolina Go" that it is a self-starter, not to men tion a good chaser and an ef fective means of drowning out the sound of breaking glass and gurgling fluids. All of which should combine to make it a nifty for the game tomorrow. The new small paper currency is "holding its own" and wear ing well,-according to W. S. . Broughton, ' federal treasury commissioner in charge of cur rency distribution. Right you are, Mr. Broughton, especially as far as we are concerned. We certainly can't keep the new short gre&n long enough to give it any wear. s Middle Class Unintelligence One of the most amazing as pects of the economic transfor mation which the South is un dergoing at present is the atti tude of the middle class busi ness ,and professional men toward' the efforts of labor to improve its standards of living.' Throughout the Gastonia, Marion and Elizabethton affairs the Rotarian brethren have been almost unanimously in sympathy with the capitalistic cause. Recently a large mail order concern established a branch in Atlanta and announced that its regular wage scale would be ob served in employing clerks. Im mediately the Merchants Asso ciation set up a mighty wail that the new establishment was de stroying the local labor market. If comparatively high wages were paid by the mail order con cern, would not every merchant in the city be compelled to pay ruinous wages in order to pre vent his clerks from securing employment at the new retail establishment? As a result the officials of the mail order house were induced to lower their wages to the prevailing scale. : When the Bamberg-Glanstoff corporation, opened its mills at Elizabethton, a wage scale - was adopted similar to that pre vailing in Northern, mills. Mill owners throughout North Caro lina and Tennessee protested vehemently, declaring that high wages would prove ruinous to industry in the South. Even the Elizabethton business and pro fessional men voiced emphatic disapproval of the high wages. The officials of the new mills saw the light, and the pitifully low wage scale prevalent in other Southern textile establishments was substituted for the tDriginal salaries. " In both instances the mer chants and professional men ar gued that high wages for the laborers would be fatal to busi ness and industry. They pur blindly disregarded the fact that increased purchasing power for the workers, with -the attendant improvement of living condi tions, woulcT result in a great acceleration of buying. Retail stores, industrial establishments all branches of business ac tivity would have benefitted had the .wage earners been enabled to increase their purchasing power. " A The Atlanta and Elizabethton cases are illustrative of the gen eral attitude of the middle class- es throughout the South and this attitude is a serious indict ment of the intellectual level of the middle class mind. Instead of silly prattle about communism and anarchy,' charges of "insur rection and rebellion- support of the forces of capitalism in their stubborn determination to yield not a whit tothe demands of organized labor for a decent living, the middle classes would do well to approach the new Southern industrial problem in a sane and constructive light. 1 ' 1 ' " . This Question Of Religion The very naive but utterly, unconvincing letter publishedin The Tar Heel Sunday and signed "A Freshman" is illustrative of a fundamentalism which now seems almost an anachronism. Such epistles bring to mind those . days in the early nine teenth century when religious pamphlets and periodicals were circulated containing touching moral stories of faith and di vine love and righteousness and any number of other virtues. But in the modern world such fables . and admonishments for purity are absurd; there is now no place for monastic, seclusion of a fanatical sort, for the as cetic with the aspirations of Galahad, for the sternly dog matic Puritan or the sober, sad faced Quaker. Religion is being infused more and more with common sense (in spite of the combative forces of the pulpit, some of the occu pants of which seem to wish for the members of the congrega tion to remain in medieval ig norance and superstition). We have now lifted ourselves from the morbid fear of Hell ; we have now ceased to draw such strin gent lines between good and bad. No longer is there the terrible world of the fanatical Puritan's ruthless righteous ness, nor the superstitious world of the priest-ruled clans in the day when The Cloth was symbolical of mental stagna tion and intellectual barrenness. Instead, there is the modern world of sane religion and a spirit of tolerant understanding. Of course there are the absurd disputes between Fundamental ists and Modernists, between one Protestant denomination and another; there is the anachron istic fear of a Pope-controlled catholic civilization which seems to be still current among a cer tain class. Of course there is the big business church (what a group this comprises!), in which financial pillars of the congregation and the town are the leading voices, the con trolling spirits. Religion will never be the idealistic . dream one pictures in childhood. There are" too many subjects for dis sension, and back of all there is weak human nature, quarrel some, trivial, petty, intolerant, unthinking. But at least there is sanity and tolerance of a social sort; no persecution, no hypocritical ostracizing, no excommunicat ing. The world has finally! reached that stage of wisdom and discretion where it minds its own business m part, at least. No longer is an atheist a curse on a neighborhood ; an "infidel" is not now subject for gossip and the wagging tongues of hidebound, prejudiced- nin compoops. Slowly but surely the world seems to be creeping nearer the light of a tacitly ac cepted code of ethics, acknow ledged to be right, with religion as a beautiful but rather doubt ful ritual in the background. Ministers still exert an undenia bly powerful influence, : . of course, and rightly so in most cases; but under an intelligent survey. the awful trappings and the mysteriously malign influ ences that have come down with Christianity from the mid dle ages have vanished. '- Our ideals, our .codes, our sense of morality, our conceptions of sin even, have all undergone a change ; there has circulated among our civilization aTspirit of inquiry, ; removing much of the sham from religion and leaving its beauty, its austerity. its innate goodness. And our souls have been the better for this glow of reason and common sense ' permeating them. Far from undermining the forces of morality this awak ening has adapted religion to the modern world, this -age of 'civi lization in which the people who of a previous age and genera tion would have been sober with a dull repression, fearful, wretchedly narrow and intoler ant, now accept life candidly; they view existence as a joyous struggle and set about living under no illusions regarding monstrously elaborate sin or ar chaic sobriety of fanatical Puri tanism. Their attitude is nei ther pagan nor atheistic nor is their outlook that of the ag nostic. Whereas religion was fed to the peoples of the prev ious centuries, arbitrarily, as a puzzle which they accepted with meek submission, unquestioning, the twentieth century forbears, consuming what is offered until it is examined in the light of reason and the doubtful, the trivial, the unnecessary, re moved, then the way is clear. R. H. Even Yet There Are Honest Men Dr; Horace Williams is in the habit of asserting before the chapel assembly once each year that there is not an honest man in the University, or rather his classes voted that there is not an honest man here. But of course the classes take Dr. .Wil liams' definition of honesty in making their decision. In his opinion an honest man would not tell a lie even if the life of his own father depended upon it. So fast are our ideas and con ceptions of every virtue and at tribute changing that any broad statement concerning any ab stract quality has little real meaning. " If there is not an honest man in the University today, then there was not an honest man here yesterday, for human nature is essentially the same always. According to someone else's standards, there may not be an honest man here, but by our1 own standards there are many. One may define any charac teristic in s,uch a way that he eliminates all men from the po session of it, and then proceeds to bemoan the fate of the Mod erns and to sigh for "the good old days when men were men." One cannot set up some stand ard to which no one conforms or can conform and still be human, and then expect any man to live up to it. If there is not an honest man in the University, then surely, Dr. Williams, something is wrong with your definition of honesty. We are not poor be nighted heathens ; we may be proud sinners going our way to perdition, but by all modern hu man standards, there are still many honest mfcn in our univer sity; there are still sincere men, and loyal men, and profound men. D. IN THE WAKE OF NEWS J. E. Dungan ( It is rumored of William Sweet, ex-governor of Colorado, who is to lecture here next quar ter,, that he still calls Mrs. Sweet sweetheart. - Strangely enough, interest in the newly organized Esperanto club has waned since the an nouncement that .every member must- pay one .dollar for ' the grammar;' This is one sign that needs no interpretation. -' ."'' ' Rule 5 of the Kansas Health Board Kissing rules says "Be careful about kissing in crowded places." In fact we will add, be very capful in kissing in crowd ed places. That is a sure enough way to get permanently mar ried to some frail or worse yet to ahereafter. , K The Boys Were Whooping It Up Down In Old I Monday night when in came the law. Four teen experienced poker players slid fourteen hands of cards and chips into convenient drawers and started discussing the rela tive merits of cake races and tag football games. Sodom and Gomorrah, my sonsL According to a survey made by one of our enterprising young! reporters, the campus has a predilection for confession story magazines. If this is a true story, I must confess that going to college doesn't raise the lit erary taste of individuals much. While on this subject a learn ed professor on the campus here, renowned for his erudite schol arship has confessed privately and not for publication, of course, that he is fond of the Tarzan series, while another equally noted gentleman pre fers detective stories. Found at last: A PANACEA FOR ITCH Colt automatic' The editor is making a modest bid for the fame attached to the title of Most Forgetful Student. After a long trip in his faithful lizzie to and. from the press con vention in Hickory last week, Editor Holder drove up to the Y to attend a meeting Sunday night arid failed to remember lizzie s exposed condition until 2:00 P. M. Monday, when ye ed discovered his favorite vocabu lary developer was decorated with numerous tags. Don't go east out Cameron avenue after dark because THE GIMGHOULS WILL GET YOU IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT! Cy Edson laments the fact that the Tar Heel has carried his name in its stories but three times during the past week, which is certainly an example of transitory fame. ' . For all thorough going woman haters The Woman Haters Club at the University of Kansas will have a genuine -appeal. The winner of a recent oratorical contest on that campus spoke on The Uselessness of Women. The College donor System ARTICLE II Editor's Note: This series of art icles on the Honor System is being printed simultaneously in all the col lege newpsapers in the United States. A series of five short articles dealing with matters pertaining to the Honor System will follmc. This release w being made by the committee on the Honor System for the National Stu dent Federation of the United States of America, with a hope that the stu dents' of this country rvill give seri ous thought to the problem of student honesty in our colleges, and that they will send to f he Fifth Annual 'Con gress of the National Student Federa tion representatives who have well-thought-out ideas concerning this mat ter. The Fifth Congress will meet at Stanford University on January 1, 2, 3, U and 5, 1930. These articles were prepared by James Theodore Jackson, chairman of ine eommiziee on me tionor sysiem, The writer xvoidd be glad to hear from students concerning this problem, Please address him at P. O. Box 958, University, Alabama. - ' The history of The Honor System Four colleges claim the honor of having been the initiator of the Honor System. William and Mary College claims to have be gun' the use of the system in 1779. South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) claims to have begun the use of the Honor System at its founding in 1801. The University of Virginia claims to have initiated the system in 1842. Finally, Washington and Lee University puts forth claims to having been the originator of the Honor System, their claim dating back to the administra tion of General Lee as president. It is impossible to say exactly which of these colleges is in fact the mother 'of ihe Honor Sys tern. Probably William and Mary College did have some kind of system under which the students were placed - upon their honor, and under which an Honor Sys tem prevailed in spirit. Perhaps the honor of the students was appealed to at South Carolina College from the time of its in ception. But the preponderance of ' the evidence seems to show that the University of Virginia was the first institution to make definite plans for an Honor Sys tem, to draw up an honor code, and to adopt a definite plan of legislation, control, and system of penalties. V Washington and Lee's claim dates back to the administration of General Lee, following the Civil War. Therefore, the Uni versity's claim antedates that of Washington and Lee by a score of years or more. However, Washington and Lee can indis putably lay claim to having the oldest complete student Honor System in the United States, f Qr at that institution the. Honor System embraces every phase of student life. The Honor System originated in theSouth. It spread slowly at firsts because it was a marked departure from the Old World idea of governing students: it was a pioneer step in the educa tional field, taken in a pioneer period of a new country the United States by pioneer spir its in the realm of education and progress. It is a significant fact that the system originated in this new democratic country. After the Civil War the-Honor System spread faster. Many other Southern colleges began to adopt the system, and many colleges in other sections of the United States began to recognize its values and to institute it. From 1860 to 1890 the number of colleges using the system in creased greatly. From 1890 to 1910 the number increased, still faster. In 1911 more, colleges adopted the system than in any other year up to that time. From 1911 to the present .there Ijas been" a steady increase in the , number of colleges that have 'adopted the Honor System. At the present time approximately 39 per cent of the colleges and universities of the United States have it. The system as we have it to day is the product of a process of evolution. As conditions have changed, the mechanism and means of enforcing the Honor System have had to be changed in order that pace might be kept with progress. Today no two do or can have exactly the same Honor System on account of the varying conditions -that are found in the different colleges. The system, as it was inaugu rated at the University of Vir ginia, came as a solution of the problem of handling the stu dents. A laxness had grown up I in the University with regard jto student hoiiesty. The Honor System was greatly needed. It evolved.' It was the product of the lonc-visioned idealism and j J 7 WAV I the formidable courage of Thom ! as Jefferson, who was chairman of the first Board of Visitors of the University. When differ ences between the faculty and stuaents were reierrea to tne Board, under the leadership of Jefferson that body usually was very lenient with the students. In short, the system was able to be inaugurated at the Univer sity of Virginia on account of the arrangement of the build ings, Jefferson's ideals of school management, the existing social conditions in the South at that time, and the strong Christian character of the professors at the University during its early history. Can there not be great worth in an institution that has ex isted in many excellent institu tions for nearly a century? Ober Fellowship The Robert Ober Fellowship, founded by the G. Ober and Son company, is now held by A. E. Hughes, who is working under the direction of Professor Cam eron, at whose instigation the fellowship was founded. -Mr. Hughes' project is the absorp tion of sulphur dioxide by nat ural phosphites. The immediate object of the investigation is. to obtain scientific data, which is expected to be utilized for work ing out a new commercial meth od for making the phosphoric acid soluble in the natural phos phate rocks without using sul phuric acid. k Frosh Notice The freshman class of the Engineering School will not meet today at noon because of the Thanksgiving holidays. IS ' SAWYER'S Rainwear FROG BRAND SLICKERS SAWYER'S Frop Brand Slicker, have estab , li'hfd a lasting reputation on the campus among wrll-dmsed roll ?e men and women whore rain garments of Rood appearance a well as Ion); life are essential. Sawyer slicker are all good-tonkin?, roomv, well-eut garments, guaranteed to keep you absolutely dry and warm and are to be had lined or unlined. bullous or clasps as you prefer, in a wide tarivty of styk-s for every purpose. Your choice of colors. Shs every where carry them. H.M. SAWYER & SON EAST CAMBRIDGE. ' MASS. Nr. York N. V OUrn Chmco. IN. Si. 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