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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wednesday, February 12, 1930 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 . ... .lL.....Editor Will Yarborough: Mgr. Editor Marion Alexander......!? Afflrr. Hal V. Worth. Circulation Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebaae : Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS , " Robert Hodges J. D. McNairy Joe Jones B. G. Moore J. C. Williams ;-. . , CITY EDITORS - ; E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning J. E.Dungan SPORTS EDITOR ' Henry L. Anderson1 ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS Browning Roach J G. Hamilton, ;Jr. REPORTERS Holmes Davis Louis Brooks Charles Rose Mary Price Kemp Yarborough Clyde Deitz George Sheram . "rank Manheim J. P. Tyson iJ. H. Whitton Nathan Volkman J." M. Little E. C. Daniel Bill Arthur W. A. Shulenberger', George Wilson G. E. French Harold Cone Sadler Hayes Jack Bessen W. W. Taylor Everard Shemwell Vass Shepherd - Ted Newland B.H.Barnes Jack Riley M. M. Dunlap John Patric Howard M. Lee ' - J. J. Dratler George Barber ....... Henry Wood BUSINESS; STAFF Ashley Seawell Tom Badger John Jemison : Harry Latta Bill Speight Donald Seawell COLLECTION MANAGERS J. C. Harris . T. R. Karriker B. C. Prince, Jr. Stuart Carr Wednesday, February 12, 1930 A THOUGHT A DAY Life has no special purpose none that is demonstrable. There is noth ing to life but the living of it. W. E. Woodward,, ...... f.. Until we heard about , this "parrot" disease, we never knew exactly what was wrong with Congress. Cincin nati Enquirer. The Soviet may 'put a better face on things after all. ; It has granted a concession to a razor factory. New ark Ledger. "Wives don't tell! their husbands everything," says Judge Crawford. After all, there are only 24 hours in each day. Punch. ' Tar Heel Topics They don't seem to have any regard for tradition at State College. They've even started hazing sophomores over at West Raleigh. . President Hoover reports that he landed a 45-pound fish, seven feet long, day before yesterday. Evidently the prexy is no ex ception to the general rule that all fishermen are disciples of Ananias -. , r---.-;.. .. Alas, a labor strike is - immi nent : in ' Chapel Hill ! ; The lino type operators at the print- shop inform us that they are going to walk out,' quit flat, if they have to set the "I" dorm bas ketball team lineup again, what with such names as Turchiarelli and Leibowitz. In an article in the current issue of the Journal of , Adult Education Professor Edgar W. Knight writes of Phillip Melan cthon, one-time , professor of Greek in the University of WitT tenberg "He was not content tq spend all of his time chasing digamma or exposing the in famies of gerundives." Which is all fine and dandy, according to the Greek, scholars here abouts, except for the rather important facts that there are no gerundives, in . the Greek lan-.guage. PURLOINED PARAGRAPHS "Holier Than . Thou?" In last week's issue of the Duke Chronicle the Carolina student body receives a merited verbal lambasting for its con duct at the Duke-Carolina game February 1. Herbert O'Keef, Jr., sports editor of the Duke paper, writes that " . . . we would like to see better relations between the two schools, but when any student body lowers itself to the point of hissing and booing at a rival team, we do not feel like lowering ourselves to such a plane. "The TL N. C. players showed as fine a spirit towards an op posing team as we have ever witnessed. But, we must say that the spirit shown by the students of that same institu tion was. perhaps the rottenest we have ever been forced to witness. "We would like to see. better relations "between Duke and .Carolina. But, please remem ber this, "Charity begins at home," and so does good spirit ! "VVe fmeant this as constructive criticisni ; we nope that it will be taken as such." Sports Editor O'Keef had am ple justification for his editorial animus. All that he says con cerning the conduct at the game here is correct and then some ! During the past few days we have discussed the past history of the University's athletic re lations at length with several alumni. Some rather startling revelations were made in these discussions. In fact, they con vinced us that Carolina students are not exactly the only "simon pure" gentlemen after all. For instance, one loyal alum nus declared: "When I was a student here we were always beefing about . how rotten Vir ginia's athleties were, and we finally cancelled with them in the spring of 1906 because they would not adopt a 5-month rule. I do not express my opinion as to which was Tight in the con tention, but merely mention the fact that we wanted our way re gardless, though we continued to play other schools that did not observe the rule." Another staunch supporter of the University teams gave us a new slant on the old; State-Carolina rivalry "We fought State College (then A. and M.) quite as bitterly as we now scrap Duke, and broke relations , with that institution in the , fall of 1907 because they had a man on their team who according to our reckoning was ineligi ble. Six years later we, played V. P. I. at the old fair grounds in Raleigh. State- college boys came over in great numbers and yelled lustily for us, though we were getting the tar , beat out of us. Immediately the Universi ty renewed relations with State, and the following spring we beat them in baseball. How does that look? We now meet State in generous rivalry, but it was State that made the advance, and not us- not on your life." Every alumnus with whom' I talked had similar views. In substantiation, we have heard persistant reports from Atlanta during the annual r basketball tournaments that all the specta tors were deriding the Carolina team because it had not been a modes winner in the past. It is apparent to the most hide-bound and prejudiced of ob servers that Carolina should re ceive at least an even break when the blame for past un pleasantness is distributed. In our opinion the ancient and un justifiable "holier than thou" attitude, manifest here for many years, must disappear before any material progress can be made in, improving the Univeris ty's relations with other insti tutions. The conduct at the game here February 1 was atrocious in several instances, although it is probable that a small group of spectators contributed the ma jor portion of the hissing and booing. There are always a few boorish individuals who cannot enjoy an athletic contest unless they hurl personal insults at the opposition. But it must be ad mitted that the game repre sents another black mark on the University students' far from unsullied "sportsmanship" record. Duke lias expressed its wil lingness to forget the past and proceed on amicable terms. We should at least meet them half way. Saturday night we are scheduled to play Duke on their floor; this game will offer Caro lina students an opportunity to partially make amends by exem plary conduct for the unfortu nate exhibition here. Shared -Accomplishments Not many days ago the papers carried tall headlines telling of Rear-Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expedition's being trapped in the polar sea by an immense floe of ice: . . The reports stated that Byrd and his men were behind a vast area of ' drifted ice through which no ship could pass, and that there was grave danger of their being forced to face another Antarctic winter with an insufficient supply of food. "the whole of America, which a few weeks ago had rejoiced at the news of Byrd's success, was cast into gloom upon reading the dark news. People every where, watched and listened anxiously for the daily reports. The thoughts of everyone turned with trepidation toward the lit tle party of Americans caught at the frozen bottom of the world.y North Carolina no less than her neighboring states was fearful for. the safety of the ex pedition; Chapel Hill was as much aroused as other towns and cities. . -', But up on Pittsboro street is a house whose occupants hailed news of the expedition with more personal concern than any group of people in Chapel Hill. On the wall of one of the rooms of this house hangs an auto graphed picture of Richard Evelyn Byrd,' and the boys who live there call him one of the brothers, because he, like each of them,' is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. They are proud of him. They were proud of him when he flew over the North pole ; they were proud of him when he flew the Atlantic ; when he pushed off from New Zealand for the Ant arctic ; and prouder still when a few weeks ago he was the first man to fly across both poles. All of which may seem to have no special point. But there is a point. It seems to us that the feeling of kinship these boys have with Byrd and his achieve ments is an example of the workings of one of the most valuable things membership -in any fraternal organization can give a man. We are speaking of that unselfish feeling of shared accomplishments which men who are bound by a com mon tie have for each other. It is something that makes success more worth striving for this thing of knowing that there are others besides your own selfish self to take pride in and share with you the glory of achieve ment. J. J. The University Progresses Plans were laid for the one hundred and thirty-sixth ses sion of the University of North Carolina under circumstances which were decidedly unfavora- ble. The prevalence of hard times is still causing the Board of Trustees and the officers of s : t j j.: ii auramisirauon consiaeraoie wor- ry and uneasiness. Reports from the office of the registrar show, however, that the present enrollment is in excess of that of a year ago. This is positive proof of one thing the state of North Carolina is progressing. The progress of its university is, of course, in direct proportion to the success of its people and their interest in the cause of higher education. That the scarcity of money and the lamentable agrarian dis content have placed a damper on the progress of the state can not be denied. But be this as it may, the fact of the present large enrollment proves con clusively that the spirit which underlies the activities of the people of 1 the state has not been materially adulterated. True it is that appropriations for the University have been cut down, but this is undoubtedly a tem porary measure devised by the people of the' state in a time of depression. It is yet far from time to - think that the people of North Carolina have lost any of their interest in their state university. Although the progressive spirit of the people has been a potent factor in steering the University through the present period of depression, great praise is due the administrative officials of the institution. Their efforts in securing gifts from wealthy alumni have served a very worthy purpose that, of supplementing state appropria tions. When the people of the state of North Carolina cease to back their university, it will decline from year to year; but as long as they stand behind it some provision will be made to sup plement small ( appropriations, and material growth will be a certainty.. J. C. W. DOWN WITH USELESS ORGANIZATIONS Editor Daily Tar Heel : I have been on the University campus for five years, and dur ing the course of that time I have had an unusual opportune ty to watch the mad scramble for collegiate honors, the un reasonable effort; oh the part of a number of otherwise sane stu dents to sell their hours of study for a mess of pottage. Extra-curricular activities in themselves are admittedly harm less. Yet I have never seen the campus which did not overdo them, or the student who, once caught in the swim, was not well-nigh drowned. In the rush for honors, with their attendant list in the Yackety Yack at the end of the year, the sense of values is lost. Perfectly good time is given up to join this, be come a member of that, expend hot air here, and attend endless meetings somewhere else. ; There is something in the idea of ; contact with other stu dents or with; faculty advisers of activities, but these contacts can be made just as readily in the classroom or , study. The training of which one hears is negligible, and in. fact ; non-exis-tant in the case of honor organ izations. " Perhaps it would be a good idea for the campus if all such activities were abolished for a time. A welcome breathing space in which we 'could re-evaluate activities would be gained, and many useless organizations swept away. Such activities as the news organs of the campus should be continued, of course, for they serve a recognizable purpose." A clean sweep of a few of the more parasitical ac-i tivities and organizations might serve to raise the standards of 'scholarship. If this can complished, then surely the idea: . .... . t is not wnolly without value Lucretia B Readers' Opinions ENDORSES MARGARET VALE'S LETTER Editor The Daily Tar Heel: Just a word of hearty endorse ment to the letter in your Sun day edition by Margaret Vale. It is with difficulty I have re pressed the desire to congratu late Mr. Mebane on his breadth of vision and penetration as so clearly demonstrated in every thing he writes. Only the reali zation that such people revel in being on the wrong side of the argument and in being denounc ed by the masses has prevented my saying something before. I hope the accusation of childish ness didn't perturb John's phlegm. That would be asking too much. G. W. CONCERNmG AN "OLD MAIDISH" CRITICISM ; After reading "Embers of the Gleam" in the recent edition of the Carolina Magazine, Ii.was very pleased with its , fluent verse, delicate.4iction, and. beau tiful description. . But I . was no more pleased with these than J was spiritually enlightened by the story itself.. . The Worst was yet to come, for when I read a criticism in the Sunday Tar Heel an ele ment of disgust came over me. I was disgusted because I thought no one could look upon a beautiful portrayal of such a wonderful thing, as a "sugar coated pill", to be inadvertantly swallowed by the reader. I had thought ; this ; viewpoint might be held by an old maid in a small New England town, but . even then I would give her enough credit to allow that it was pure ly hypocritical. , This supposedly destructive critic admitted the beauty of description in this tale, and not only denied the real subject's beauty, but called it repulsive. He said, "the 'innate is al ways genuine, the superficial 'affected.' Since beauty is the main object and since all the beauty seems concentrated around the 'superficial,' we may designate 'affectation' as the main characteristic of this tale." Then he asked if the . innate should not always be the more beautiful. . My answer, in agreement with the critic, is yes. But why does he not see- the beauty of the in nateness (the natural human be havior) in this story? Judging from all he said, I blame it sole ly on the fact that he himself cannot see any beauty in nature for if he could why does he not see it here? Is he one who clamors for the bright spot, the clear color, forgetting, that it is the shadows in the picture that make it so mysteriously lovely? He contended, "it is impossi ble to associate : beauty in its pleasurable excitement of the heart,' without a certain sense of distaste." Alas . a : spark of life! Here he contradicted him self . , First he told us i that he could not "swallow the mil." then he admitted that , it is beauty "in its most elevated form' Is. it that hp bear the frankness of the story ? If . so, he might better join the -w . VMtA4V.V old : maid in New England : and perhaps discuss it in a low whis per so that none but they' could Hear. If the author had intend ed this story to give merely "a pleasurable excitement of the heart," why did he not describe the happenings in the room that night? I dare say it would af ford some (since I have dis covered there are such) much more ' "pleasurable excitement." Certainly if he were capable of portraying " ethereal beauty" (to use the critic's own words). he would be capable of handl ing, and handling well, a more delicately risque angle of the subject. , . - If one extracts from this story its exquisite 'diction, and Continued on last page) IN THE WAKE OF NEWS J. E. Dungan " We Are All Just Children of the Moon" say the Play Likers of N. C. C. W., and as for the male population of the University they too say 44 We are all just children of the M0ON." The student council says it ; the student body presi dent says it. . It must be so. With apologies to Frank Man heim, whose ability , we do not mock,, beginning with this issue it will be the .policy of this col umnist. to print THUMB-NOSE SKETCHES. Our first is a sketch of Ubem Lister Schnitzel fritzner who, if he hadn't eaten weinerwurst at the early age of six months would never have come to Chapel Hill, because as he was eating the weinerwurst he was told that professors in Chapel Hill always eat weiner wurst and Ubem liked weiner wurst with all his heart. . . . Ubem received his LL. B. from Harvard in 1918, his Ph. D. from the , University of Luck now in 1920, his M. A. from Sayonara , Business College in Tokio, Japan. As for his A. B. . . : Schnitzelfritzner says that he has just never gotten around to getting off the requirements . ...what with papers to grade, the theatres in Durham and the arduous demands of Chapel Hill society he just hasn't the time. Ubem likes socks with holes in them . . . he just can't abide ties, home ties or any other kind of ties. . . . As a boy he was queer about foreign languages his old man tried to teach him his native tongue, German, but Ubem replied, in the best San skrit, that Greek was the only tongue. . . , He plays peek-a-boo with his wife on Friday's . . . and he just can't stand lobsters . . . in fact, he once said "You Big Lobster, get out of here!" . . . Although Schnitzelfritzner has often, been accused of being conceited, he, it quite as modest as Archibald Henderson. . . . He doesn't vote since he is not a citizen of the country although he claims this as his native land. He just hasn't gotten around to it. . . . Ubem is a regular sport . . . he will wager any sum up to fifty cents, but he prefers to bet. on the. Duke, football games because he thinks our team has a better chance to win. ... On a tramp he made through the streets of Lucknow he accident ally fell into a sacred pool and it was several hours before his fraternity brothers found him sitting;at the bottom of the pool reading a book of verse. . Although he much prefers fo teach languages, he has chosen to teach astronomy because he has an ardent desire to learn something about astronomy. Ubem's most vivid : experience, to .his mind, was the trip he once made on board a tramp steamer accompanied by Joseph Conrad, who profited, by contact with Ubem to the. extent that Ubem suggested: the matter of prac tically all of Conrad's tales of the sea. . . . Schnitzelfritzner is at present working on an idea that Daniel Boone really stole the honor of his discovery and exploration of Kentucky from the Schnitzelfritzner. family and if successful in his research intends to prove that the loess of China far exceeds that of Siberia in weight . . ;': ' L : . ; . A group picture of this year's male initiates of the Wigue and Masque will rbe taken on the steps of the Law Building some time next week. All members must be on time.
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