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P"3 Tl70 THE DAILY TAR HEEL. Wednesday, February is, 19 Gljc Datlp Ear fjeei Published dail? durirg the college year except Mondays and except Thanks giving, Christmas and Spring Holi days. The official newspaper of" the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $4.G0 for the col lege year. OSces in the basement of Alumni Building:. W. H. YARBOROUGH. -Editor JACK DUNGAN Mgr. Editor H. N. PATTERSON.... .BUS. Mgr. H. V. WORTH.. Circulation Mgr. has given the cue; now it is for us to go into action. "Even the University of North Carolina may be saved." " Prohibition And The Democrats From the statements of sev eral southern Democratic lead ers, among whom is Cordell Hull of Tennessee, candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1923, it appears that Southern Democracy wishes to avoid Pro hibition as an issue in the 1932 presidential campaign. Prohi- we have only to say that with knowledge we shal conquer the world, and we will conquer the world! P. L. With j Contemporaries i - j In Defense . . Of Fraternities In the last few years there has been much criticism of the fra ternity system. Last week Fhe Musical University - ' By Wex M clone I I EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor Charles G. Rose Editorial Board Beverly Moore ...Chairman Virginia Douglas W. M. Bryson Harper Barnes Wex Malone Oscar Dresslar Robert Hodges J. C. Sitterson - Philip Liskin E. F. Yarborough City Editors J. M. Little Ed French Peter Hairston E. C. Daniel Billy McKee George Wilson W. A. Shulenberger Sports Staff X. C. Ramsay..: Sports Editor Assistants Don Shoemaker Jack Bessen Librarian Sam Silverstein News Men Mary Buie E. M. Spruill Frank Hawley Otto Steinreich. F. W. Ashley Charles Poe W. R. Woerner W. E. Davis T. H. Broughton Dan Kelly T. W. Blackwell P. Alston Bob Betts Jack Riley bition is to remain under cover, j Federal report was issued after! an unmentionable subject, while. an investigation of fifty-two of the party leaders generalize on the country's largest colleges. the tarm ana iarm renei. Such an attitude is deplorable. There is no one issue which has been in the mind of the Ameri can people so constantly in the last ten years as the Prohibition problem. To shunt such a vital issue into the background, as far as the political parties are con cerned, would be political cow ardice. The Southern Democrats fear that this question will split the Democratic party and bring about its ultimate col lapse. Well, let it. If, after facing this issue squarely, the antagonistic elements in the Democratic party, the wet, in dustrial, East, and the dry, agri cultural West, cannot come to agreement on Prohibition Mc. B. Fleming-Jones Business Department Harlan Jameson -Ass't. Bus. Mgr. John Manning .....Ass't. Bus. Mgr. Advertising Department Al L. Olmstead ..Advertising Mgr. Pendleton Gray Advertising Mgr. Bernard Solomon Ass't. Adv. Mgr. R. D. McMillan, Jr. -Asst. Adv. Mgr. James N. Nowell H. A. Clark Collection Department Jack Hammer ...Collection Mgr Carol Spencer Robert Bernhardt John Barrow James M. Ledbetter ' Frank S. Dale Correspondence Department Ed Michaels, Jr. Correspondence Mgr. Wynn Hamm Ass't. Cor. Mgr. W. M. Bliss Ass't. Cor. Mgr. an without resorting to fyypocrisy and pretense, they should separate. It is becoming increasingly apparent that a battle to the finish on prohibition, ending definitely one way or the other, is imminent. The Democratic party should not resort to politi cal cowardice and hypocritical evasion to carry it through the storm. H. B. Wednesday, February 18, 1931 "Even The University May Be Saved." Gerald Johnson, iormer pro fessor of journalism here and now editorial writer for the Baltimore . Sun, sums up his view of the North Carolina legislature with the statement, "even the University, of North Carolina may be saved." And in the same comment he places the responsibility of sav ing the University squarely up to those who are its friends. As he says, above all, the fine University of North Carolina is facing the possibility of extinc tion as a really important seat of learning. President Graham is making a grim and deter mined fight for the life of the institution, but as the proposed budget now stands he is to be subject to a cut of 34 per cent below the appropriations of two years ago. The salary schedule is already absurdly low tor a university of respectable rank and a cut of 34 per cent unques tionably would sink it. Carolina would promptly drop into the class of the one-building "uni versities' that are the scanda of American education." Perhaps some of us under estimated the immediate danger to the University of late, rely ing too much on the great ap peal of President Graham to pull us through. But the dan ger is present and the time for action is now. President Gra ham's appeal is the greatest brief for the University and for education in North Carolina pre sented to any legislature since the early days' of the century. And that appeal will save the University, we believe, if its force and strength could be pre sented to every legislator and every constituent in this state. President Graham has sound ed the warning; Mr. Johnson We Will ' Conquer The World! Josef Stalin, in a recent ad dress to the Russian people, made a statement to the follow ing effect : "If we wish to climb out of our backward position among the nations of the world, we must gain knowledge. Knowl edge is power; and only by knowledge can we advance." He is only one of the world's lead ers who has said this. For it is the opinion of almost all the great men in history that knowledge is the greatest power man can have. Here m the University we stand before a mine of knowl edge. Ambition, courage, the will to win, are the tools that can clear our way into the mine. If we have them, we have gotten off to a good start. But only a start. For the knowledge is hid den within the far recesses of the mind. Before us lie great, thick walls of stone to bar our way. We must hew them down before we can find anything. A year of the most heartbreaking effort wili yield us only a shred of the mine's store. Four years of effort, and, we have only a handful of knowledge to reward our work. And we wonder if it is worth it. It is. For this mere handful of knowledge is the most valu able ore we can ever find. In the years it has taken us to get this handful, we have learned the method of working the mine.- When we leave the Uni versity we are no longer green horns at the work. We have learned how to dig for knowl edge. We have found some not much; for we delude our selves if we think we have found all there is to be found. And with the bit we have found, and the knowledge we have gained, we can leave the University and conquer the world. For the world is not so hard to conquer, and many men and women have done it, each in their own way. People will say we are fool ish and vain to think we can conquer all. But it is those who have failed who say this. They have failed to make the grade, and they have grown sour. But This survey of undergraduate life recommended and approved of the existence of Greek letter societies. At Minnesota the presence of fraternities is a a decided aid to the school. These organizations have been most valuable in solv ing the housing problem. In the past there have been no men's dormitories. Men have been forced to live in rooming houses or fraternities. Perhaps chap ter houses at Minnesota are not the finest in the country. But they offer much more desirable places to live than local rooming houses do. And the expense of boarding at one of these socie-! ties is no greater than the cost of living in a rooming house or dormitory.. Although some women can be accommodated at Sanford hall, this building could not begin to house all the out-of-town co-eds. Sorority houses are necessary to take part of the surplus of wo men coming from outside the Twin Cities. Raisons d'etre of fraternities at other universities are various. But at Minnesota the service performed in rooming students alone would justify their exis tence. If the seventy-five Greek societies were removed would the thirteen hundred men and women in these houses find as satisfactory places to live as they now occupy . Minnesota Daily. The third of the Vesper Series ! of organ recitals was given by I Professor Kennedy Sunday ! afternoon in the Music Building Auditorium. There were seven selections in the program : Medi tation Serieuse (Bartlett), Vari ations de Concert (Bonnet), Are Maria (Bossi), Fugue in G Minor (Bach), The Squirrel (Weaver), Traumerei (Schu- jmann) , and Hosannah (Dubois) . The Ave Maria had probably the most striking and immediate appeal. The melody is simple but firm, and in its initial state ment stands in effective relief against a background of arpeg gios. To use the phrase of a friend who heard the Ave Maria Sunday, there is a maximum of effect from a minimum of mate rial. The florid effect of the old Italian lyricism is attained ap parently through suggestion rather than display. Variations de Concert de mands great versatility from the player. It is introduced by a glittering sforzando movement, followed by the theme which the program aptly describes as being in the Doric mode. There is, in Free Movies The weekly free movies be shown tonight in VenaVa hall. The first is entitled "Dry Cleaning," and deals with the-dry-docking of the 'Leviathan The second is a story of befl steak and is called "From tv . i i j turn, a brilliant peaai stuuj which is skillfully manipulated in chords using the feet alone, this followed by the finale on the imi organ. ims ae iiyB .,a , . - nrIA v . Q . ; select . although it sure to, apd pf demand the listeners attentions and admiration, is likely to have the effect of a three-ring circus, with its segregated themes, each more impressive than the last: The Squirrel represents more descriptive modernism. The musical Sciuridae hops around and picks up nuts all over the keyboard. The number was very clever, and was nicely exe cuted. The registration wras ex ceptionally interesting. Hosan nah made an excellent conclud ing number. It abounds in sur prising resolutions of impres sive texture, and is substantial in effect. Kennedy played well. He dif ferentiated well the spirits of the numbers, constituting the rather diversified program. The pedal work in Variations was perhaps the most ostentatious display, but the entire execution was concise and nicely effected. Honor System For the past year and more college newspapers in the United States have been full of disser tations on the honor, system. Being student organizations, they have been uniformly ini favor of the scheme, devoting columns to expositions of the finer points and editorials to the castigation of violators of the code. . However, the idea seems to have fallen on deaf ears north of forty-nine. No Canadian uni versity, has adopted the honor system nor is there any wide spread agitation for its intro duction. The old regime of vigi lators seems to be good enough for us. We feel no burning pangs of outraged honesty as we look at the sleepy gentleman who sits before us while we write. The whole thing began when some college editor was hard pressed one night, desperately looking for something with which to fill his column. He cast about for ideas, failed to find any, remembered a recent examination, thought that it might have been a good idea if the vigilator had remained out side, worked the thought up and wrote an editorial about it, just nicely filling the column with the three hundredth word. He was taken seriously and before he realized the value of his effort it had been reprinted and commented, upon all over America. The next step was to put the scheme into action and in a very short time a great number of universities were conducting their examinations without official supervision, leaving the matter of honesty to the students themselves. With the honor system in ac tion an elaborate schedule ot rules and regulations grew up around it. In many cases stu dents' councils constituted them selves courts to try cases of vio lation of the code. Sometimes they recommended expulsion to the governing bodies, sometimes they extorted fines, but more often they contented themselves with cancellation of whatever privileges the delinquent may have enjoyed in virtue of his membership in organizations or his official positions. At McGill the honor system is hot in force. A vigilator sits in every examination room. But as yet there have been no pro tests and no one imagines him self insulted. Everyone knows that there is a certain amount of cheating although in four years we have never seen any personally. The claim that there would be less dishonesty if supervision were relaxed is ab surd; and the little good which might ensue would ;be more than counterbalanced by the greater evils brought into being. On the whole, then, the honor system seems to be more or less a iarce, as a processor is re ported to have brought out in speaking to his class : "Gen telmen," he said, "I will give this examination under the hon or system. Please take seats in alternate aisles, three desks apart." McGill Daily. Scientists have achieved some wonderful results, and maybe in time one of them will succeed in producing a cigarette the ashes of which will match the color of the rug. Louisville Times. Midget golf, suggests a doctor, will not help people who play games in order to keep slim. But in that game, as it happens, the whole object is to get round as quickly as possible. The Humorist. YOU'LL GRIN! SMILE! SNICKER! L A U G H ! ROAR! -at- "CHARLE TS A U N T" with CHARLES RUGGLES JUNE COLLYER also News Novelty NOW PLAYING I Smm r Hfflf ; TONIGHT 11 P. M. "Monsieur Le Fox" with Leonard Luguet also A French Comedy 'Une Nuit Extravagante' THURSDAY Joan Crawford in "Dance Fools Dance" OF NEW YORK INVITES yOU TO INSPECT THE NEWEST DEVELOP MENTS IN CLOTHES. HATS. HABERDASHERY, SHOES FOR COLLEGE WEAR. NO OBLIGATION ON YOUR PART. 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