Friday, January 10, 1930 4 fc. THE DAILY TAP. IIEI2L )t ail? tpar Cjsel Published daily daring 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 crat of town, for the college year. . Offices in the basement- of Alumni Building . ''J? r Glenn Holder.. Editor Will Yakboeough Jf Editor Marion Alexander-E. Mgr. Hal V. YfORTn.-Circidation Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebaae . Harry Gall and ASSISTANT EDITORS Robert Hodges J. D. McNairy Joe Jones B. C. Moore J. C. Williams CITY EDITORS E. P. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning J. E. Dnngan SPORTS EDITOR Henry L. Anderson ? ASSISTANT SPORfs" EDITORS Browning Roach J. G. Hamilton, Jr. REPORTERS The "Queer" Undergraduate A college undergraduate is ob served by his fellows in the act of reading Schopenhauer, Niezt- shce, Kant and, marvel of mar vels, he admits that he is doing it not because some professor is prodding him on with the whip lash of scholastic requirement, but because he is fascinated by the clear logic, the philosophical theories of the men. Immedi ately he is dubbed a freak, is re garded with suspicion, for the rest of his college days. Another declines to. go to the movies with his associates, ex plaining his refusal on the grounds that "I can't afford it and even if I could I haven't the time to spare."- "Instead he ex pends what is to the average un dergraduate a considerable sum for the Fifth Symphony, goes to hisTraternity house late at night, when the Rudy Vallee and Helen Kane enthusiasts have de parted from the chapter room, and listens to the phonograph rendition of Beethoven's compo- siuuu iux nuui o. lie is qucci a "goof. the Arts and Sciences and then two interwoven. gradually expanded into a mod ern university including many branches, buildings were added as increases in enrollment dic tated. 1 The older buildings", therefore, do not even belong to the same century that the new ones do. The result is- a bunch of scattered buildings of differ- Holmes Davis Louis Brooks Charles Rose Mary Price J. P. Tyson , Nathan Volkman E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenbergef G. E. French Sadler Hayes W. W. Taylor Vass Shepherd B. H. Barnes M. M. Dunlap Kemp Yarborongh Clyde Deitz i George Sheram Frank Manheim B. H. Whitton J. M. Little Bill Arthur George -Wilson ' i 1 Harold Cone . Jack.Bessen Everard Shemwell Ted Newland Jack Riley it When - David Lawrence left high school in Buffalo for Prince ton University he left the local room of the Buffalo Express for the job of Associated Press cor respondent at Princeton. After graduation he stepped into the coveted position of member of the Washington Bureau of the ' The political character of edu- ent architectures and disorderly Associated Press. How well he arrangement in so far as any J performed his duties is testified definite scheme is concerned. This condition demands that there be a spacious auditorium centrally located with respect to the other buildings of the campus. Furthermore, the , town of Chapel Hill does not maintain a city auditorium, or any place of assemblage which is worthy of note here. The connection which exists between the Uni versity and the village of its lo cation is very close, and there is no reason why it should not be. The writer is inclined to think Friday, January 10, 1930 PURLOINED PARAGRAPHS We hear of an old lady who refused to ineet a. man 'described as a "strip artist," because she objected to paint ing in the nude. Punch. Soviet Russia has abolished Sunday. That's one way to get rid of the traf fic problem, at that. High .Point Enterprise. " A benevolent person of our ac quaintance, who used to send flannels to the Hottentots, is now mailing books to a friend in Boston in. plain wrap pers. Terre Haute Tribune. " f Tar Heel Topics' For the benefit of the Weather Man, we wish td state that this is the beginning of the winter quarter instead of the spring quarter. . ' Still another professes an ad mirationf or Shelley and Poe. That alone is not so unusual: many of his fellows ostentatious ly proclaim that they have had courses in which the works of these writers were taken up, and that "I don't think they are so bad myself." Very probably these men secretly regard Shel ley as a composer of dull, incom prehensible mush and Poe as a mentally deranged, whiskey guz zling dope fiend who wrote sillily insane rimes. But this particu lar student continues to read Shelley and Poe after he has completed the course covering their works, even purchases vol umes of their poetry. He is "a goof." ' y Most college students expect to receive an education in pre digested form. They are men tally lazy, unwilling to dig down into a subject, secure the essen tials and think about them until they have made them their own. And they exhibit ill-concealed contempt for the exceptional man who is willing to perform the hard labor and has the ca pacity for the thinking which is a requisite to the securing of real education. Respect for scholastic achievement is al most unknown on the college campus. that a large auditorium central ly located with respect to the University campus and the vil lage of Chapel Hill is indispens able to the fostering of the pres ent" spirit of intimacy and inter-relationship existing between the students and faculty mem- Ibers of the University and the townspeople. The Reds have left North Carolina and the "Greeii lias come. If the colors of traffic lights mean anything, labor will proceed to go places in this state. Clipped "Be a Friend in College" College spirit has aboul; dis appeared from yfe! 'American college campus, according to several recent articles in various publications, but any v under graduate will attest that there is plenty of it in.bpttles l Twenty women's social organ izations at Kinston have decided to forego refreshments at their meetings, diverting the money that might be siitoh salads and sweets to charity. At last Dame Fashion has become char itable! . ;-7 ' A Lehigh University under graduate broke his wrists, and while they were in splints, wrote an essay which won a $10,000 prize in a nation-wide essay con test. Freshman English instruc tors, might do well, to encourage certain of their students to jump off a housetop and land on their hands. ' Durham and vicinity have been . selected as the place to start the drive to organize hosiery mill employees in the south, according to an announce ment by the president of the Hosiery Workers' union. Re membering the Marion attempt, we have decided that our health demands the removal of Durham from our visiting list. We Need -An Auditorium At present there is nothing j which the University of North Carolina needs quite as much as a new, spacious, centrally locat ed auditorium. Although it ap pears that this need has been recognized for a long time, noth ing very definite in the direction of the erection of such a struc ture seems to adorn the horizon of this vicinity. Now that Memorial hall has been declared unsafe there is no building on the campus which is adequate to serve even in the capacity of a , tenf porary audi torium. Unsuccessful attempts to heat the Tin Can to the point of ordinary comfort have made it necessary to postpone one of the best of the student enter tainment programs which were scheduled for the collegiate year. ... Even before Memorial hall was declared unsafe it fell far short of meeting the needs of the student body of the Univer sity, to say nothing of the towns people, visitors, and alumni who are wont to attend tne impor tant ceremonies sponsored by this institution. It was built to meet the needs of the Carolina of the days of our grandfathers. Its present appearance, in addi tion to its other deficiencies, it is all out of keeping with tlje mod ern . structures on the campus. Owing to the fact that the University of North Carolina be gan as a very small college of A specious argument in favor of a college course is that col lege is a good place for making friends. This may or may not be true, depending largely upon the attitudes of winsomeness and repose on the part of all concerned, but the premise of ten holds a corollary which is far from lovely. Such friends, a man goes on to add, will stand him in good stead in later life; and with this value in mind he goes out to win the friendship of those who later will stand him in good stead. Not a lovely pic ture this of a man scurrying about the campus to stake out his claims before the best ones are taken. We instinctively feel that something is not fitting in such a picture, and a mo ment's analysis shows us why. Friendship, like the best values of life, must be sought as an end in itself, as something in trinsically worth while. The minute I realize that a man seeks my friendship for some ulterior end, true friendship be comes an impossibility. For the fullest give and take between us there must be - an unshakable confidence that friendship is sought alone for friendship's sake. Can" you imagine a worse college than one filled with stu dents who are each .struggling to make those friendships which will later prove to be most bene ficial in the ; active life after graduation? To be sure, college friendships often prove to be most helpful. But' such bene ficence should be expected as a by-product. Don't go to college to make friends ; a far truer aim ior a conege course is to De a friend. The Intercolleaian. by the watch he carries, present ed by Melville E. Stone for meritorious service. Assigned to Big Stories He was assigned to the big stories dynamiters in Calif or- nia, revolutionists m iuexico, the State Department and the White House, and then "lead" stories on international affairs of war days Lawrence marched his beat with the diligence of a sentry on duty, "always on the alert" for that "big story of the day." As his horizon widened, as his experience embraced Europe as well as North America,; and as he plumbed the economic strata that lie beneath the life, politi cal and social, of America, David Lawrence's reputation for depth as well as breadth of view spread among the leaders of American thought and action. His sources multiplied, his duties increased. But while he was persistent ly sticking to his task as a writ er, he was, like most newspaper men, nursing an ambition to have a newspaper of his own. Characteristic of his life was his dream, a unique publication, a newspaper not for a city, but for a nation. Not a record of pass ing happenings, but a daily story of the government, a de tailed picture of the mighty or ganization which shapes Amer ica's destiny and touches the' tap roots of each citizen's well-be-, ing. . Realizes His Dream So in 1926, supported by a little group of public spirited men and women representing every shade of political opinion, he galvanized his dream. The United States Daily appeared and began its growth, until to day 1 it brings the diary of the nation into every corner of our own dominions and to all the capitals of the world. David Lawrence does not con tribute to his own paper. Only official news authorized by the government finds expression there. But he is in close touch with its activities. His contacts have widened and his duties in creased, but he has never inter rupted his writing nor his study of America's daily affairs which his newspaper records and which his dispatch interprets. cational administration is cited also as a retarding influence. The chief state school officer and country school officers in many of the southern states are select ed on a strictly political basis. "Although he occupies poten tially a most strategic position for moral and educational lead ership, actually the state super intendent of schools is often practically as helpless as the Grand Kleagle of the K. K. K. would be at the Eucharistic Congress. "The southern states have ad vanced in education. They cer tainly needed to do that, but not one of them is yet an education ally advanced state, measured by national standards. These states need to make more prog ress, and the need is cumulative. The times demand an increased and increasing investment of funds and of trained leadership in education of all, white and black. But the Pollyanna boost ers will not help these states to attain to national standards. Already one of them has begun to pay the penalty for extrava gant praise and flattery. Last year some of its educational in stitutions were 'cut off with a shilling not because of their de linquency but probably because the members of the legislature believed these bedtime stories and that the educational task in the state was finished. The loud beating of the tom-toms about where the south believes it leads may stop its ears to the truth about where it actually lags. "Disguise the truth as w?e may," the article concludes, "throw on the twin calamities of the Civil War and the tragic era. of 1 reconstruction on "the predominantly rural character of the south, on the presence of the negro, on real or fancied poverty, on the climate, that is, on geography and therefore on God, no matter how we seek to excuse bur deficiencies, these re main obvious to even the most casual observer. And whatever the cause of the south's back wardness in education, the af fliction itself stifles industry, re presses effort, discourages enter prise, weakens the desire for ex cellence, and makes us satisfied with second-rate achievements." HUMAN RELATIONS INSTITUTE TO BE HELD HERE IN 1931 (Continued from first page) addresses and seminars oppor tunity is offered students for personal and group interviews with the visitors. Also an elab orate exhibit of books and other literature on the subjects of the program is prepared for refer ence and inspection during insti tute days. On the first day of the insti tute, Sunday, March 20, each of the five local pulpits was filled by one of the visiting speakers. Then at each morning chapel during the week one of the specialists made an address. Seminars in classrooms were conducted throughout the day, and each night at 8:30 a mass meeting was held. Such speakers as Kirby Page, editor of "World Tomorrow"; Arthur Rugh, foreign depart ment Y. M. C. A. in China; Josephus Daniel, journalist and publisher; W. L. Poteat, presi dent emeritus of Wake Forest College; J. J. Cornelius, profes sor of philosophy at Lucknow University, India, were on the program besides numerous oth er speakers and specialists. Knight Shows That South Is Lagging In Her Education On Research by several college professors has revealed that home-work is extremely bad for school children. Gonicfr quickly heals and re lieves the unpleasant and pain ful irritation caused by wearing athletic supporters. Also recommended for foot itch, ring worm, eczema, and certain skin affections. Keep a package handy, sale in Chapel Hill at: Patterson's Drug Store Eubanks Drug Store Andrews - Henninger Carolina Smoke Shop DAVID LAWRENCE ONE OF FOREMOST NEWSPAPER MEN t ' (Continued from page one) These two contributions to the newspaper-reading public are unique commodities in the world of journalism. They are in no way inter-dependent, but each serves as a perfect comple ment to the other. They have in common an unswerving non partisanship. ' The history of these two dec ades of newspaper achievement, beginning with sub-reporting and culminating in the v presi dency of two great news insti tutions, is the history of the ca reer of David Lawrence and of his life itself, so closely are the (Continued from first page) effort," as shown by the large number of schools, maintained in the section by outside reli gious and philanthropic agen cies! ' "Many counties, not only in Virginia but in other parts of the south, doubtless have con ditions similar to those Presi dent Hoover discovered near his camp on the Rapidan river in Madison county, where Ray Burraker took the famous 'pos sum. . . . If enough men as able and as kindly disposed as the President could be induced to establish summer camps in the south perhaps many, of the ob ligations which southern states have failed to meet fully could be discharged and the under privileged children couid be giv en the educational opportunity promised by their state constir tutions. If the educational re quirements of these constitu tions were properly observed little need would exist in the south for these numerous St: Peter's-in-the Mountains or St. Mary's-in-the Woods schools, Dr. Knight says. EdbanEss Brag Co. Prescription Specialists Since 1892 Three Registered Men in Charge It's The Thing To Do. For Eight Years---- t The University Cafeteria has consistently served the bulk of Carolina's "student 'lead ers. One trial, and you will affirm their judgment. DINE AT UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA Six 5.50 Tickets for 27.50