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UL Pzzq Two fje Wail? Car $eel 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 ...... ......... ..Editor Will Yarborough. Mgr. Editor Marion Alexander......Z?ws. Mgr. Hal V. Wowm...Circulation Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebane Harry Galland 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. Dungan Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITOR Henry L. Anderson ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS Browning Roach J. G. Hamilton, Jr. REPORTERS ' Holmes Davis Louis Brooks Charles Rose Mary Price J. P. Tyson Nathan Volkman E. C. Daniel Kemp Yarborough Clyde Deitz George Sheram Frank Manheim B. H. Whitton J. M. Little Bill Arthur "W. A. Shulenberg er Hugh Wilson CJ. E. French William Roberts W. W. Taylor Vaas Shepherd Harper Barnes M. M. Dunlap Howard JM. Lee George Barber Craig Wall Jim Harold Cone Jack Bessen Everard Shemwell Ted Newland Jack Riley John Patric J. J. Dratler Henry Wood Charles Forbes Moye . BUSINESS STAFF Ashley Seawell Tom Badger John Jemison , Harry Latta Bill Speight ; Donald Seawell COLLECTION MANAGERS J. C. Harris A T. R. Karriker B. C Prince, Jr. Stuart Carr Sunday, March 30, 1930 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY One life; a little gleam of time be tween two .eternities. Carlyle. - .' PURLOINED PARAGRAPHS "U. S. Senate has many problems," the head-line suggests. To be xact, it has just ninety-six of them. Pe king (China) Leader. Some of the wets talk as tho they had had several drinks and some of the drys talk as tho they, . needed them. Detroit Free Press. "Mr. Borah," says a Washington analyst of the political situation, "is himself again." But that doesn't make it much .clearer. Detroit News. Some of the wets talk as though they had had several drinks and some of the drys talk as though they need ed them. Detroit Free Press. Tar Heel Topiqs Add to similies of the season: As good as the Chi Omega dance. Thoughts of a senior at the beginning of the spring quarter: "Just three more courses to go only f orty-frve more class days how beautiful is life in the spring-time, tra-la!" The Missouri prison mutiny is evidence of the fact that even prisoners will kick 1ip a devil of a row when their "vittles" aren't up to par. Chapel Hill boarding house proprietors and Swain hall authorities please note. News item from the Press and Standard, Waterloo, South Caro lina: The whole community was made sad last Friday night old man Jack Hartshorn had breathed his last at the supper table just after he had drunk too much buttermilk and fell over on the floor and never said another word except 'where is my hat?' he will leave a large family with two mules and a mortgage his loss was expected as his blood pressure went up when cotton went down last fall." Moral: don't become a cotton farmer. Making Shakespeare Interesting' Last night's performance by the Shakespeare Players marked the first appearance of a pro fessional dramatic organization on the University campus in many years. And-the audience was delighted with the players and with their presentation of Julius Caesar. High school courses in the drama have produced in most of us a decided prejudice against Shakespeare. The traditional pedantic methods of dull analy sis and dreary lecture have de stroyed all the beauty of Shakes peare and other dramatists for us : m its rightful place lingers memories of long, boring hours of dispirited class room discus sion by teachers without enthu siasm for their subject and of wearying reports by students to whom the disinterest of the in structors had been transmitted. It is not unnatural that these memories should produce in us an actual abhorrence for Shake speare and other literary fig ures studied in a similar man ner. Likewise the beauty and stimulating intellectual . quali ties of the works of the great poets have been effectually de stroyed for most of us by faulty methods of instruction and in competent teachers. The- organization which ap peared here last night is mak ing a praisewarthy en ort to pre sent the vital, stimulating works of Shakespeare in all of their artistic beauty to the high schools and colleges of the coun try. Theirs is a rather thank less task. Receiving very little financial remuneration for their work, they have been appearing at high schools - and colleges throughout the country for the past three years. Attendance at a single Shakespeare perfor mance by competent actors is mOre beneficial to the student than innumerable classroom re citations and lectures of the dull, academic sort usually in cluded in high school courses in the drama. Students over the entire country would profit considera bly if formation. Of other organ izations similar to the Shakes peare Players were encouraged and performances presented fre quently by the mat every high school and college. These per formances would do much to sup plement courses in-the drama and make them interesting and stimulating, rather, than the painfully listless periods of scholastic drudgery that most of them now represent. Oh, Ye , ' Delicious Fables! . That the affairs of men are today governed largely by a j knowledge of cold and scientific facts, rather than by beliefs in such half -shadowy things as fables and legends, is no doubt fully realized by all of us. Yet there is a great deal of this myth stuff still figuring in our lives. Which of us did not take pleasure in hearing our local DrOmgoole legend for the first time? What a delightful book Dr. Odum has written about the story of John Henry's driving the steam drill down ! Such things are everywhere about us, in some way affecting the life and beliefs of even the most sceptic college man. They make life more livable. They still help make history, too. It hasn't been many years since the Angels of Mons made history. If you don't remember their story you might take time to brush up your memory on it, one of the most sensational of all the World War traditions. It goes like this: In the summer of 1914 the shattered British troops were falling bad? through Belgium and northern France before the invadincr Germans. The British --t, were greatly outnumbered, there xi S was no relief in sight, their ar- tillery couldn't begin to cope wun me uerman artillery. It looked as if the whole armv' would be chased into the Eng lish Channel. Then a strange thing happen ed. The soldiers noticed that they had a new rear guard. Shadowy, gigantic figures ap peared in the battle rack from nowhere to smite tb.e advancing Germans with invisible arrows. The German pursuit was delay ed. The ghostly defenders gave the British time to reform their lines, and a seemingly inevita ble defeat was averted. The story went all through the British army. The "Angels of Mons" were taken on faith by hundreds of Tommies, to say nothing of millions of people back home. Divine intervention was believed to have saved the British army. Now Colonel Friedrich Her zenwirth, formerly of the Imper ial German Intelligence Service, says it was only a trick of the German Intelligence Service, which miscalculated the results rather badly. He declares that German airplanes carrying movie projectors hovered, oyer the British lines and projected their pictures on the cloud banks, in the hope that the ghostly apparitions would fill the British with terror and com plete the route. The same stunt, says Colonel Herzenwirth, work ed beautifully on the Russian front; but in Flanders it back fired, and instead of making the British run away it strengths ened their morale enormously, making them feel that angels from above were fighting for them. He inay be right: for all we know, and he may ! be wrong; but really, it doesn't matter very much. The truth of a legend, the mechanics of its origin, is never important. All that counts is the legend's . effect. Men have lived by a great many strange stories ; and we do not need to track these stories down to their starting points. Hard facts don't amount to so much as we suppose. It is what we believe that is important. The Angels of Mons served their turn. It doesn't make the slightest difference whether they were caused by German movie cameras, simple halluci nations, or imaginative war cor respondents. They lifted men's hearts for a while. That is all we need to know about them. J. The Proposed Student Federation For several months nOw the proposition of a North Carolina Federation of Students has been considered informally by the student body officials of Caro lina, Duke, and State.' Al though no definite official ac tion has been taken as yet in this or any other institution of the state, recent public statements made by the student body presi dents of Duke and State indicate that these institutions are will ing to cooperate with Carolina in organizing the federation in the near future. The federation movement got underway definitely at an in formal meeting Tuesday night, which was sponsored by Ray Farris, president of the student body, Ralph Greene, president of the senior class and John Lang, speaker of the Phi As sembly. The merits of the pro posed intercollegiate organiza tion were discussed at length, the decision being reached to call an ' organization meeting about April 28. The proposed North Carolina Federation of Students grows! out of a need which has been . tual problems which they will en greatly enlarged by the phenom-j counter in prison work. 1 At the enal growth of the colleges -and conclusion of the training course universities of the state in re- officers are assiener? tn-nno nf cent years. The f-do-nfon will vuii jcaioi x. iiKZ l u faff 0rd a medium for h- d SOUS- i'AK HEEL sion of problems which are com mon to all the collegiate institu tions of the state. " I wwn-ig t-u mc lack uia tne colleges of North Carolina are close to each other, it is quite natural that rivalrv between them should be very keen. This is especially true of Duke and Carolina, which are separated by the short space of twelve miles. Both are leaders not on ly in the state, but in southern and national circles. The pro posed federation would enable leaders of these and the other colleges of the state to get to gether and "thrash out" prob lems which would otherwise de velop into hard feelings and bit terness. This is the prime idea in the proposed organization. . The success of the recent Duke - Carolina conference at Chapel Hill, which was sponsor ed by the literary societies of the two institutions, has lent con siderable impetus to the idea of the federation. Similar meet ings at which all of the colleges of North Carolina will be repre sented will, it is believed, solve the problem of undesirable rival ry. "A family of colleges' work ing for the betterment of -educational conditions in North Carolina" is the motto of the sponsors of the federation move ment. We heartily endorse the move ment for a North Carolina Fed eration of Students and antici pate a resultant betterment of intercollegiate relationships. .C . w. Readers' Opinions OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PRISON SERVICE Editor the Daily Tar Heel : Plans are being made to pro fessionalize the Federal prison service py enlisting high grade Lofficers and by establishing a system of professional training and promotion on merit. In the belief that college-trained men may be interested in this type of work the leading colleges and universities in the . country are being circularized. Any, under graduate or graduate who wishes to consider the possibil ity of entering the service is re quested to write the Superinten dent of Prisons, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. Prison work has long repre sented a career for college trained men in European coun tries. It calls for intellectual and moral qualities of a high or der. It offers opportunity for advancement to positions which are better paid than most college professorships. There are nu merous other important posi tions to which a man of ability can rise with experience and training. It is the purpose of our pres ent training program to pre pare men for these positions as weir as for that of guard. An officers' training school has been established in New York City. All men enter the ser vice as guards and are sent to the school for a four months' course, iiere tney receive in struction in such subjects as the ' - TT t - mental and physical characteris tics of the criminal, the causes of crime, the operation of pro bation' and parole, the develop ment of modern penology, etc. They are also instructed in the use of firearms, boxing and Japanese wrestling. The aim of the course is not only to give officers a broad so cialized viewpoint on the theo retical aspects of penology but also to prepare them for the ar the Federal penitentiaries at XContinued on page four, Campus Life Careful nob to be earned OEPTH, byth& ORirroP ; -pen joints By H. J. Galland Nowhere, said, the profession al troupe of Shakespearean Players after their performance of Julius Caesar here last night in the Playmakers Theatre, have they met a finer group of his sers,' booers, and general mem bers of the crowd than the supers enlisted from the .' stu dent body for the production here. The Carolina extras hiss ed, they said, almost profes sionally. Is that, we wonder, news for the Duke Chronicle? According to the genial Dr. Collier Cobb, Chapel Hill weath er is about as variable as any you are likely to find anywhere. Last week the violets warily peeped out, and finding the weather warm and ' favorable, pushed aside their much-vaunt ed shyness and appeared in pro fusion in many parts of the cam pus. And then along came snow during the early part of this week. It's a tough life the violets lead in Chapel Hill. Just about now is the time when freshmen are looking over their goods and chattels in search of something pawnable with which to pay their frater nity initiation fees. Let them follow the worthy example of an ex-President of the United States. One Calvin Coolidge, citizen, was initiated into a fra ternity at Amherst. When his son followed him there and into the same fraternity, Cal wrote the boy not to get a pin. The President had put his away for just such a purpose more than thirty years ago. We are in formed that the rumor that Mr. Coolidge was in danger of being evicted from his college because of having been found tight is not true at least not' the kind of tight you mean. Mr. Louis Graves records the fact that Mr. Madry of the News Bureau has two hats exactly a like, one to be worn while the other is at the cleaner's. We have an item more important even than that Prof essor How ard Mumford Jones electrified the campus recently by appear ing m a new hat. Commenting on the alleged I Scnday, fllareh J SO; tyiw x A sOzr hard-heartedness of Engineering professors, the Chapel Hill Weekly asks "Are these engi neering teachers shot through with a cruel streak? Or is it that any young man, after be coming accustomed to the ordi nary undergraduate course, which a half-wit can conquer with a fair degree of applica tion, is overpowered by the dis covery that . when he enters a professional school he has got to buckle down to real work?" No, Mr. Graves, it isn't that. Granted that any half-wit can conquer an undergraduate course, provided he isn't too half-witted, its the chain-carrying that breaks the engineer down. Ask any member of a chain-gang, Mr. Graves, whether he is working for University credit or "wukkin' fo' the State," and you'll find that the reason for the haggard looks lies there. "Chapel Hillians Should Go To Hed Early," headlines this journal. If its early in the morning, 'we agree. Lenten Season Daily Devotion Sunday, March 30 Topic of the day: "The Quiet Place." (Read Matthew 4: 1-11) Key verse: "Then was Jesus led of the spirit up into the wilder ness." . - v Meditation : "We are in our annual observance of the six weeks which Jesus spent in the wilderness. It has been called the period of temptation. But it was more than that; it was a period of preparation a time of concentrated thought and calm meditation. Never were quiet hours more nedeed than they are today! 'Whirl is king is truer than when Aristophanes uttered the Words. Our minds have been likened to a railway I - iuum wnere petyic """" iiiwiici aim unuier axe as sembled. It is hard for our dis tracted minds to attain unity of "purpose and to select a destina tion. There is an old Russian custom according o which a person before starting on a journey sat down and spent half a minute in silence. We need daily quiet times that we may reduce life to order, and reflect on whither we are going." ' Prayer: "Eternal God, who dpst reveal, thyself to those who earnestly seek thee, let our hearts be still'that we may hear thee speek and may discern tljy Wise and holv rmincpl for oiir lives this day. Amen."; '
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