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Saturday, January 17, 1931
"Pay Day
Has Arrived"
In Thursday's and Friday's
issues of the Daily Tar Heel
there appeared certain editorial
comment bearing upon : North
Carolina's most perplexing prob
lem of taxation. The Thursday
editorial brought forth" clearly
the need of tax revision with
the view of taxing those most
heavily who are able to be so
taxed. The Friday editorial
went further and suggested as
a possible remedy the levying of
. higher inheritance taxes on
large fortunes and of higher in
come taxes on large incomes.
We shall, in this issue, at
tempt, not to. propose a panacea
for the evils of and conditions
resulting from our present taxa
tion system, but rather to take
another step in outlining specific
remedies. There can be no ques
tion as to the inadequacy of
present funds. We feel it the
more keenly here because the
University is almost entirely
dependent on the state; it is the
child of the state and must have
the necessities of life with which
all fathers must provide their
children if they are to be
healthy, growing beings; it is
not which so many politicians
imagine a plaything of the
state, to be given only, such sus
tenance as (to put it glibly) can
1 be afforded. The University, to
remain healthy and to continue
its growth (which state of
things is essential to both the
intellectual andv cultural devel
opment of the people and the
future eminence of the state),
must be endowed with the ma
terial resources adequate to the
furtherance of its activities.
If, as Governor Gardner lias
suggested, "pay r day has ar
rived," the University must not
be made to pay. It is clearly the
problem of our legislators to dis
cover some means of revenue by
which the state's indebtedness
maybe met, some plan by
which state institutions
and we mean not only
the educational institutions,
but also those for the care, of J
the naturally dependent will
not have to suffer. It seems to
us that the solution might be
found in the levying of taxes on
luxuries, and by luxuries we
mean primarily tobacco and talk
ing pictures. During the war
an amusement tax was levied,
and why should we not in North
Carolina now, when our educa
tional institutions are being
threatened, take such action?
Why is it not also just that such
a tax be placed upon tobacco
consumption? It seems, by all
indications that the manufac
turers of cigarettes are not suf
fering from financial relapse.
The tobacco factory and the
moving picture theatre, their
owners and patrons, these con
stitute a considerable element of
the group which at the present
time is most able to bear the
brunt of increased taxation. The
state must have additional reve
nue and it should not hesitate to
call upon those who are reaping
profits from the sale of luxuries.
Such a tax would, we believe, go
far in solving the problem.
B. M.
Crown Them
With Laurels
A local professor recently
made the statement on class that
the student body of the Univer
sity was not articulate. In ex
plaining this he said that there
was too little reward for a good
teacher on this campus to jus
tify a member of the faculty in
taking a real, active interest in
his teaching; This situation ex
ists, not through any fault of the
administration, but' of the stu
dents. At present, the only pos
sible way in which the adminis
tration can judge a man's ability
is according to the research
work he does and the books he
has published. Under such cir
cumstances a man is economical
ly bound to devote his time to
these things rather than to his
teaching.
This state of affairs is caused
by the inarticulacy of the stu
dents. Very few, if any, ever
articulately give a teacher credit
when he has presented a course
in a stimulating and intellec
tually interesting manner, or has
given his students something in
addition to the cut-and-dried
routine of the course. The man
who gives "crips" is known all
over the campus, but the man
who really gives his time to
teaching and makes something
of a course is usually avoided as
one who "works the hell out of
you."
This situation is. certainly de
plorable. Perhaps many of our
best teachers will go on for
years in subordinate positions,
and others who would be good
teachers feel themselves forced
to devote their time to other ac
tivities in order to gain recogni
tion. The remedying of this condi
tion lies with the students. If
they boost the men.- who are
teaching well, these men will re
ceive the recognition they de
serve. A good teacher, will re
ceive as much credit as a good
author. Certainly the standard
of instruction on the "campus
will be raised. H. B.
Our Straight-Line
Students
In spite of everything that Dr.
Coker and the grounds com
mittee of the University can do,
many of the students are fast J
making the campus as ugly as is
possible with the effort that they
intend to put forth. Intelligent
planning of the pathways on
the campus has produced a net
work which is both strategic in
its placement and symmetrical.
Students going from the Book
Exchange seem to think . that
the paths are not quite strategic
enough in their placement and
most of the time tsave them
selves ten steps by cutting
across the grass plot to Saund
ers. They save themselves pro-
THE DAILY
bably ten steps and utterly ruin !
the grass plot. In dozens of
similar places the students show
that they know that the straight
line is the shortest distance be
tween two points. They also
show that they care very little
about the appearance of the cam
pus and about the feelings of
others. .
The charm of Chapel Hill and
the University campus is in its
informality. Beauty is entirely
consistent with informality but
not with f carelessness. Those
who take pride in their sur
roundings do not like to see
carelessness as glaringly evi
dent as it is on the campus at
present. We owe it to ourselves
and to the University to take
more pride in' our surroundings
for it is largely from this source
that the best in citizenship will
come. O. W. D.
With
Contemporaries
The Quarterback
Behind You
Football would be a complete
mystery without him. He should
have been a radio broadcaster,
for at every game he makes a
play-by-play report with ges
tures, explanations and illustra
tions. He sees everything and
describes it with loud expletives
and choice selections from foot
ball history. He beat : George
Washington out of the full back
position on the Army team in
1779. He made the winning
touchdown against Oxford in the
War of 1912. ...
If someone fumbles the ball
during a play, you know within
the next three minutes who was
responsible, how he happened to
do it, and i just what the coach
ought to do to him. When the
opposing team threatens to
score, he shouts down that they
are going to pass, that the ends
should spread out, : that the
tackles should rush the play, and
that everyone else should cover
his man. When the local eleven
approaches the goal line, he an
nounces that a touchdown is cer
tain if they use a fake kick play.
They fail to score by a pass and
he shrieks, "I told you so!"
With this expert in action,
there is little need to watch the
game. Like the noble ladies of
ancient Rome who would rather
have their slaves describe the
chariot races than take the
trouble of watching them with
their own eyes, the spectators
seated about this man would
rather listen to his eloquent and
stirring account of the game
than to see it for themselves.
Perhaps the athletic authorities
might provide this man with a
loud speaker, so that the entire
audience of some fifty thousand
might understand football for
the first time in their lives. A
salary and a title might be ap
propriated. At least such oblig
ing service ought to be reward
ed by a silver-plated megaphone
or a cigar large enough to com
pletely fill an extra large mouth.
When Greek meets Greek
there is but one thing asked:
Did your house make a C aver
age? Minnesota Daily.
Gone ,.'
The Golden Gullet
In these days of crisp and clip
ped speech, one must cross the
Atlantic or trek into the Middle
Western hinterland to locate a
university in which debating has
not lost its former high stand
ing as the aristocrat of all the
arts. . Here in the East, campus
enthusiasm, more fickle than a
woman's heart, has long been oh
the wane with regard to an acti
vity which once evoked the as
pirations and admiration of
countless undergraduates.
There was a time when debat
ing societies flourished on every
Campus. Freshmen gifted with
silver tongues were noted by
TAR HEEL
every rushing committee and re
ceived the same solicitous at
tention that is now accorded to
football luminaries. While col
lege men who evinced an inter
est in music, drama or painting
were viewed askance, debaters
basked in mingled sentiments of
wonder and envy. The golden
gullet ranked with the educated
toe.
All has since been changed.
Whether countless after-dinner
orations have dulled our appre
ciation for the somewhat florid
and unrestrained expression of
college rhetoricians, or whether
we simply are indifferent about
hearing two teams argue a ques
tion which usually has no inter
est for us, it is difficulty to say.
Only in the cloistered halls of
England's colleges does the old
tradition seem to be cherished.
Many a parliamentary career
has had its roots in the training
afforded by an Oxford or Cam
bridge debating team. Yet on
Columbia's Campus, artificial
methods must be used to restore
this old activity to a robust life.
It is to be hoped that the attrac
tive encounters scheduled with
foreign teams together with the
proposed tour of the Middle
West will help in drawing new
blood to a venerable activity.
Columbia Spectator.
DISCUSSION OF
FEATURE STORY
(Continued from first page)
both advertisers and readers.
Presiding over a discussion
for the daily group, J. A. Par
ham, managing editor of the
Charlotte Observer; asserted
that no standard daily news
paper today can hope to get
along without features. Broadly
speaking, he thought habit-forming
features those that - dis
appoint readers when omitted
were the best. Were he limited
to one feature, he would select
the funniest comic strip obtain
able. He thought much "so-called
news" could be eliminated " to
make room for features where
space was tight.
The Institute closed at one
o'clock.
INFIRMARY SICE
LIST DECREASES
-. (Continued from first page)
the state inquiring as to the con
dition of affairs. Several calls
came from anxious mothers who
wished to know whether their
sons had fallen prey toT the 'epi
demic." One mother went so far
as to have an ambulance sent to
the University to bring her son,
who was confined to the infirm
ary, home. x
At no time was the situation
out of hand and now that things
are changing for the - better it
is especially safe to precdict that
before long the infirmary will
be functioning on its old basis
with three or four people on' the
sick list at the maximum.
Red Cross Asks Town
To Raise Relief Fund
John Barton Payne, national
chairman of the Red Cross sent
a telegram Thursday to Joseph
Hyde Pratt, chairman of the lo
cal chapter, requesting that
Chapel Hill raise $600 for. the
relief of drought sufferers. The
national fund is to be $10,000,
000 and is to be devoted to aid
ing the farmers whose crops
were destroyed by last summer's
drought.
A few days ago farmers in
Arkansas marched into a town
and demanded food for their
starving families. Such inci
dents bring the drought problem
forcibly before the public's eyes.
Governor Gardner alluded to this
incident the other night in his
speech here before the news
papermen. Contributions to this fund may
be made at Eubanks' drug store,
at the M store, or to Maurice
Hill, Red Cross treasurer, at the
Consolidated Service Plants.
VARIED PRO GRMiS
ARE PLANNED FOR
PRESENT QUARTE
Entertainment Committee to
Bring Spanish Dancer Here
February 6th.
Many entertaining programs
in - various fields have been
scheduled during the coming
months at the University and
at other places in the state.
The two events of interest for
concert, to be played by Prof es-
sor Nelson O. Kennedy in the
music building, bunaay at
, i . j r
o'clock, and the violm concert to.
be presented by Professor T. President Hibben of Prince.
Smith McCorkle, Sunday, Janu- ton has just confirmed rumors
ary 25, at 4:45. (that he will resign from the
In February, two organ pro- presidency of the university next
grams will be presented. One of .year. His successor has not
the guest series concerts will be ' yet been named,
given by Frederick S. Smith on In the nineteen years that Hib
the 7th, and Professor Kennedy ben has been president at
will play his third vesper con- Princeton the endowment of the
cert on the 15th. The entertain-. university has increased more
ment series will present Carolya than four-fold, the faculty has
Goya in "The Spanish Dancer" j almost doubled in number, half
in Memorial Hall on the 6th, and again as many buildiags have
Bruce Bairnsfather will deliver been added to the campus, and
a lecture February 20. On the the enrollment has grown more
traditionally unlucky day of Fri-than 700.
day the 13th, the South' Atlantic
Glee Club contest will be held in I
Aycock auditorium of N. C. C.
W. On Wednesday, the 18th, the ; the country club of - the na
University symphony orchestra tionv He has done a great deal
will present one of the two pro- to rest0re emphasis to the col
grams it will play this year. Alege as an institution of learn
piano concert to be played by T.'ing and has put social and
Hays Barker ; on the 25th will letic aspects of university life
round out the entertainment for in better perspective.
February. The university endowment,
.March will bring a great which totaled alittie more than
variety of programs. The glee ?5,ooo,000 when Dr. Hibben
club will open up the month with tQ0k office in 1912, has reached
a concert at Southern Pines on the $23,000,000 figure. The en
tile first of the month. On the tire budget of the university the
second, the entertainment series year he took office was approxi.
will present Gay McLaurm. A mateIy $83(),000, while the bud
guest series program will be : get :tnis year totaled $2,700,000.
presented oy ts. r . james on
Wednesday, the 4th, followed by !
another vesper concert to be pre-1 f rom 182 f10"1:
sented on the 8th by Professor f".d ass'snts 'n 1912 to 331
Kennedy. George M. Thompson ;thl yr. The present faculty
. . , , i contains many scholars of na-
will play the second program,!,. . . ,
Tn.d9v 9A Tn fiVtfA -nti i tl0nal reputation and some of in-
, , . mi
the entertainment series will
have the Kedrof f quartet in
Memorial Hall; on the 31st.
April promises the greatest
number of programs of any
month. The final piano recital !
will be given by T. Hays Barker
on the first day of the month.'.
bring its programs to a . clos
with "Agna Enters" to be pre
sented on the 7th. On the next
day, a student piano and organ
recital will be offered. On the
10th, the concerts will be played
by Edwin Steckel. Thursday, 16,
an unusual treat will be waiting
when the University band will
play the only program it has
scheduled so far. Professor Ken-
nedywill present another of his
vesper concerts On the 19th, and
on the 20th a general student
recital will be played.
The symphony orchestra will
present its last program on May '
IS. The last vesper concert will
be played by Professor Kennedy!
on the 17th of the month, and ',
the final organ recital will be 1
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Open Forum Policy
The open forum is not to f
used for the purpose of caa.
vassing the campus for politi
cal elections, stated the of.
ficials of the Daily Tar Heel
yesterday, after receiving se?.
eral letters concerning the re
cerit freshman elections. x0
such letters will be printed on
any occasion.
HIBBEN TO RESIGN
FROM PRINCETON
Educator Has Held President
; nf TTmVprsifv fnr Nin. '
Years.
! - '-vcn
It is said that Dr. Hibben is
! largely responsible for destroy.
imr the inusion that Princeton W
The faculty has increased
ternational reputation
, ,
Of the
seventy-one buildings on the
Princeton campus, twenty-nine
have been erected during the ad-
; ministration of Dr. Hibben.
The general trend of senti
ment at Princeton seems to in-
dicate that a
Princeton man,
the atmosphere
imbued with
j traditions, and spirit of the uni-
t versity would be the most de
sirable man for the position.
The difficulty which Princeton
university is now experiencing
in regard to choosing a presi
dent has been experienced on
our own campus when the trus
tees were looking for a man able
to capably - fill the position va
cated by Dr. Harry W. Chase.
Princeton seems to agree with
ithe policy of the University in
ltiiat they also deem it essential
that the new president be an
alumnus of .their university.
given by B. F. James on May
20. In addition to the above
events, - the community music
club will continue to hold its
weekly programs..
Bru Co.