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i TIIj P2 TT7D T 5 eel Published daily durirz the college year except Mondays rind except Thanks giving, Christmas and Sprmg Holi days. The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. O. Subscription price, $4.00 for the col lege year. ' Offices in the .- Building. basement of Alumni jniade to apply to the student' body as a T?hole. But T?e won der if the action of the faculty isn't based more on individual professors' and instructors ex periences with empty seats and less on their desire to improve the general scholastic standing of the University. The theory of liberalness has been discussed. It would be use less to say that abolition of op tional attendance would be retro gressive. Those who think ,so iwill continue to do so. Those who hold differing opinions can not be convinced. Similarly it would be useless to describe the move as a step backwards, for such descriptions are theoretical as are most the arguments for and aerainst both optional and compulsory attendance. But practical or theoretical romnulsorv attendance is a nuisance. It is unnecessary. The time and red tape involved in fulfilling the requirements of a compulsory attendance system do not justify such a system. The honor roll for the past quar ter indicates that the students are progressing nicely under the rjresent system. If we are seek- W. H. YARBOROUGH.-Editor JACK DUNGAN Mgr. Editor H. N. PATTERSON . -Bus. Mgr. H. V. WORTH. Circulation Mgr. EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor Charles G. Rose City Editors a E. French Ben Neville J. M. Little W. A. Shulenberger Peter Hairston E. C. Darnel Billy McKee George Wilson Editoriaf Board Beverly Moore. Associate Ed. J. C. Williams. ...Associate Ed. E. F. Yarborough W. M. Bryson V. A. Douglas Wex Malone SDorts Staff Snnrfa Editor Assistants ig mechanical perfection per nnn Shnpmflkfir Jack Bessen haos it would be wise to vary Librarian our system until we discovered Sam Silverstein one which would make us me- . v News Men chanically perfect. But if we Andrew! are educating let's eliminate T..H. Broughton some of the red tape and get T. W. Hta&ffi d0Wn t0 P. Alston Mary Buie Otto Steinreich E. M. Spruill Frank Hawley George Malone E. E. Ericson Charles Poe W. E. Woerner Bob Betts And Now Jack RHey mv rri.-f--.-- nanarfmpni I XIIC Alio lll J AViu&biuvtiv BUSINESS STAFF The Younger Generation is not Ass't. Bus. Mgr. as infantile as college pictures -Asst. Bus. Mgr.X , ij v, at iTTis i MJ4 1 w m v w saM am i . Pendelton Gray.. Advertising Mgr. believe. They have a hard, brit- Harlan Jameson John Manning.. Bernard Solomon W. C. Grady Ass't Adv. Mgr. Aaa't Adv Mar lie OUUOOK oil nxe aiiu buucij ix Collection Mar. o-eneral. Thev are not mere stitution of collegiate rank is not to be compared with a house, which can be neglected when half completed, the building process being resumed later without any considerable loss. This university cannot stand still, there must be advancement in one direction or the other. Damage incurred irom one year's operation on too lean an allowance will require perhaps ten years of constructive labor to regain lost ground. This University must compete with the largest and best of the United States for its professors. Salaries paid the present faculty are already ridiculously low. The result of a cut in existing sal aries is too obvious to be men tioned. Great credit is due Governor Gardner for his untiring efforts in attempting to bring relief to the people of the state. There can be no doubt that he has the interests of the University at heart. His failure, however, to recommend securing increased revenue from such institutions as the Duke Power interests to bridge the present very grievous emergency is worthy of note. The fact is that the Univer sity of North Carolina cannot operate without funds. The people of the state are not fully aware of this truth. High school teachers throughout the state are making mediocre salaries at present. Lowering of their sal aries cannot help but result in a corresponding decrease in the number of competent persons who will enter the teaching pro fession in the future. Money must be had, or the aggregate results will outlive the narrow ken of the present. J. C. W. OPEN FORUM T TT ?,berLL- BrtSid K: youngsters to be imposed upon. c p Simms""" " Frank S. Dale And furthermore the best way S 9- CumminES Mwujr to handle them in colleges and t r Tur.MiUaTi .Tr .Tas. M. Ledbetter pHnpational institutions is to X. XJ, -t. - - 1 v A. H. Fleming, dr. "Irrin Burchard Tucker Sunday, January 11, 1931 place with them the t responsibil ity for the successful culmina tion of educational policies as1 they relate to students exam- Our Brief for matrons, etc " . Optional Attendance Thus it is that the Honor Sys- ; Final action on optional class tarn o adnoranv n me xoung attendance will be taken in the er Generation ,n theory and m near future we are. informed, actual practice where faculties Before the holidays the. faculty wholeneartemy supporx iu 1 made decisions which practically University of North C-ohmv- abolished optional attendance, ww.w T, T Z 5 As we understand it each de- P'edgfi to uphold the ideal of partment was to decide for itself the Honor System Any organ its attitude towards optional at- "fd disregard for that jdeal on tendance. Instructors in the de- the part of either party is a partments would be governed by break in good faith. TheTar lu. . r ... Ari Heel is forced to lament the de- : v, -fo.if,, wQ cision of the history department a 4- -rJof the University which would the system employed last quar- refuse o take the word of pie dge ter. Now final action is expect- f students that they had ac- , tually read outside reading, and 6 . . , , ' which demands of them that Ueneral misunderstanding nas existed since the holidays as to they must outline each page of what attendance is Discussions have been held classes both before and since the holidays and a number of con ferences between members of the faculty and students have been held recently. Altogether --both faculty members and stu dents are beginning to under stand t.hp. orraosiner noints of view. Recently the administrative council of the student body adopted a plan to confer with the faculty on the subject. This was a wis"e move and undoubted ly this committee will present the consensus of student opinion. Final ation is expected within the next few days. Frankly, the Daily Tar Heel has always been and probably will always be opposed to com pulsory attendance. , As long as the Daily remains under present prfitnrifll control its OOlicV will be to agitate for optional attend ance, regardless of the action of the faculty. Some of our arguments will not bear investigations. They are based on personal reactions to the idea of being forced to at tend classes. Arguments based on personal reactions cannot be T reading in detail to prove that required, i . 4irtWn onri mon' nf On I. J ., . ii honor, or ratner, ano aciuany, as they are viewed dishonest chil dren incapable of being trusted. JACK D. We Must v Have Money Quite naturally, Governor Gardner's proposal to further cut the salaries of all state em ployees is meeting with con siderable discontent throughout North Carolina. High school and college teachers will probably be hit harder by the cut than any other groups Perhaps, the cut in salaries is essential. Yet the fact is that the harmful results which this and other educational institutions will suffer are great ly to be lamented. The tax payers of the state are justified in complaining of high taxes, for real estate has fallen to the level of worthless ness. The University of North Carolina, however, must have money from some source if it is to maintain its present rating among the universities of the na tion if it is to render the state of North Carolina, the service that it has done for a long num ber of years. An educational in- The Russian Trial Professor Calvin Hoover of Duke University, in his address on Russia in Gerrard hall Wednesday night, made a state ment concerning the recent sen sational Soviet trial of eight pro fessors and engineers accused of plotting against the Russian gov ernment that is the echo of hun dreds of similar' editorial com ments in American newspapers during the past few months.- Mr. Hoover asserted that the trial was a dramatic sham; a theatrical spectacle for the Rus sian people. The, Communist party needed some alibi for the recent food shortage that has beset the nation, and so it used these men as scapegoats, and accused them of bringing about this crisis by the use of sabotage. General opinion in this and other countries regarding this trial has been of the same na ture. The Russian people are fond of the dramatic, so they were given this play. The trial was planned in advance, and all t.hp roles were carelully re hearsed. The eight "actors" in the "play" were cautiously coached for their parts. And the play went over with a flare. The eight men were merely unfor tunate puppets controlled by strings held in the hands of the Communist party. So runs popular opinion. But, somehow, we do not think this was the case. The accused men were men of the highest type of character and intelli gence. We do not think that any amount of money or punish ment could have made them sell their souls and lowerjthemselves so deeply into the mud. We think they were too fine to truckle to the government and utter the false testimony they have been accused of doing. What could they have gained by doing this? At the least, ex ile in the far North or many, long years in a Russian prison, and the hatred of millions of their countrymen for the re mainder of their lives. Would it have been worth is? We do not think so. P. L. FR03I THE FACULTY To the Editor of the Tar Heel: In the fall of 1928, 124 fresh men entered one of the schools of this University. At mid term of that quarter eighty eight of these men had failed to do passing work on one or more courses. At the end of the quar ter forty-four of the 124 (less than thirty-six per cent) passed all of their work. Twenty-eight men (twenty-two and five-tenths pen cent) passed two courses and the same number passed one course. The other twenty-four (nearly twenty per cent of the class) did not pass any work at all. It is true that in this list of twenty-four men there were sev eral who had withdrawn, some who because of illness could not take the examinations, and some who absented themselves from the examinations. The stark fact remains, however, that only a little more than fifty-eight per ent of the work for which this frpshmnn class registered in September was passed at the end of the quarter, and that a very high percentage of the work that was passed received the grade of D, the lowest pass ing grade. The resume that the men as- ed for their failures in cluded the following: loafing, twenty-one; poor preparation, fourteen ; a lapse of one or more I years between high school and college, thirteen ; time spent in football practice, seven; time spent in self-help work, six; mis cellaneous reasons twenty-seven. Among the latter group many said that thev had missed quizzes by being absent from school at week-ends. Does this record bear out the contention that just because a man has been accepted at college he is, therefore, able to direct his own affairs? To me it indi cates that he needs guidance of a very positive nature, and I presume to suggest a program that I believe would help materi ally. I give below the plan that I would like to see tried out. The Plan 1. Set aside a group of build ings on the campus for fresh men and provide that all fresh- should observe study hours, say from seven-thirty to eleven o'clock each evening. 9 Provide study halls for all who were deficient in any work and place in charge of these halls men both able and willing to help the freshmen with their problems. 3. Install a system of Satur- day morning quizzes tor an freshmen and excuse no fresh man from these quizzes except for the most urgent reason. 4. At the end of the fall quar ter, grant to all freshmen - who had made the average of C on their three courses the right to move out of the supervised build ings. 5. Make class attendance op tional thereafter so long as a student should maintain an aver age of C. 6. When a student should fall below the C average, remand him to the supervised program, no matter to what class he might belong. Such a program would seem to meet the demands of both (students and faculty. All the faculty is contending for is that students shall do the work for which they are sent to college. all the students should demand is a reasonable amount of free dom, and the above plan would seem to give freedom to til &b!t to use it in a right manser. Suppose the students give their reactions to the above sug gestions. A FACULTY MEMBER. COBDIUNITY CLUB REVIEWS WORK OF PAST SEASON (Continued from preceding page) several books reviewed and has discussed current magazines in its meetings. Une of the pro grams was on Vergil with an address by Professor Georg Howe of the University faculty. Mrs. Ralph Trimble has had charge of the home department which has studied primarily sub jects of interior decoration. The music department, led by Mrs. F. H. Edmister, has pre sented programs of Scandina . . vian and American music. Special attention waa paid in the first program to the selec tions of Grieg and in the latter to McDowell. The garden club was organi2- ed late, but under the leadership of Mrs. L. A; Koonts, the club has met several times for con centrated study on specially ar ranged programs. Mention The Daily Tar Heel -when buying. Let Us Put A R A D I O IN YOUR ROOM Complete lectric & Watc T7V 1' jf J iivision University Consolidated Service Plants Laugh and Grow Fat! MARIE DRESSIER in 66 REDUCING $9 with Polly Moran "Talk1 about your Hollywood diet! Here it is just a thousand laughs, cne after the other! ; "Girls, if you're fat it makes you thin if' you're thin ' it makes you shapely! "It reduces the blues, and gives you what we belieye to be our funniest talkie. "You must come over! 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