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fHE DAILY TAB HEEL. Gije Datip Mat Ieel Published dail daring the college year except Holidays and except Thanks giving, Christmas and Spring Holi days. The official j news paper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $4.00. for the col lege year. - Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. . 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 Editorial Board Beverly Moore...- ..Chairman Virginia Douglas W7 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 PeterHairston E. C. Daniel Billy McKee s George Wilson W. A. Shulenberger Sports Staff C. Ramsay..... Sports Editor Assistants Don Shoemaker Jack Bessen Librarian Sam Silverstein News Men Mary Buie W. E. Davis E. M. Spruill . T. H. Broughton Frank Hawley Dan Kelly Otto Steinreich T. W. Blackwell McB. Fleming-Jones P. Alston Bob Betts Jack Riley Charles Poe W. R. Woerner L. L. Pegram Alex Andrews F. W. Ashley Business Department Harlan Jameson ......ZAss'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. Ass't. 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. Saturday, February 21, 1931 Unequivocally For Student Stores For two or more years mer chants of the state have looked with disapproving eye upon the mercantiling' services which the state institutions have been forced to carry on in order to insure continued service of high quality. In the beginning the Merchants' Association of the state petitioned the University to desist from this sort of thing. Now comes a movement led by Willard Dowell, repre senting the North Carolina Mer chants' Association, John A. Gil more, representing the Southern Retail Furniture Association, and Raleigh and Chapel Hill merchants individually, b y which these men hope to abolish the dormitory stores, student barber shops, and to restrict the activities of the buildings' department, the Book Exchange, and the Consolidated Service Plants in such a mariner that they will no longer be able to participate in any mercantile business whatsoever. The lobbyists who favor the bill are powerful enough to "J J 1 J T cause it to De enactea, were there to be no opposition to the measure on the part of friends of the University and its self help men.. It is said by Dowell that, he has been to Governor Gardner about the problem and that the Governor has agreed that the business now conduct ed by the self-help men and the University must be stopped. The theory upon which the Merchants' Association is basing its case is a strong one, and one calculated to properly sway the votes of the legislators who will be called upon to sit" in judg ment of the dormitory stores and the University's activities. The association men. say that no state owned school Hs the le gal right to compete with tax paying businesses of the state by underselling these tax pay ing businesses or taking trade away from them. After all, the legislators' chief duty is to please the tax-payers so that they may more easily carry on the larger business of the state. And that is just where the argument of the lobbyists pro posing the bill breaks down. The larger business of the state demands that its citizenry and its future leaders be educated efficiently at the lowest pos sible , cost. If, by permitting students to operate stores they can earn their way through school in a community notorious ly lacking in means by which young men of limited wealth may earn their way, the legis lators are but living up to that larger purpose and obligation. Further, the proponents of the measure kill their case, and thoroughly break down their logic in trying to generalize and make a law for the entire state. There is no disputing the fact that Chapel Hill is the brilliant exception, and that what is fair and good to communities much larger is grossly unfair to Chapel Hill. No student generation passes from the Hill without witness ing a rapid succession of fail ures of private enterprises, re gardless of whether the Univer sity offers them any competi tion or not. Chapel Hill because it is entirely subservient to the University and its student pop ulation, which is never opulent and which fluctuates in size, is always a risky place in which to do business. Due to this con dition of undependability never knowing whether private services essential to the comfort of the community will be forth coming the University has had to take the initiative in provid ing such services. Our understanding is that the University has never willingly sought to enter any of the ac tivities under question, and has done so only to insure continu ous and reasonable service. There was a time not so long ago when the question was not whether the University should own and operate its own light system but whether it should have lights at all. Graduates can remember when water had to be carried from the Old Well so that the occupants of the dormitories could bathe. The University was forced to enter the water business. Such has been the case all along the line, the University being forced to enter all kinds of businesses in order to safeguard the health, comfort, and continued con veniences of its community be cause of the failure, inefficiency, or lack of private enterprises. Were the merchants who pro pose to take the livelihood of worthy self-help students who run the dormitory stores and student barber shops successful in their undertaking, we fail to see what benefit they would de rive from the thirty or so pal try dollars which the twenty or so students earn on their mer chandise. In the first place this is really extra money which would not otherwise be spent in the town at all. Divided among twenty merchants of the town this magnificent sum which the students earn would be equiva lent to seven dollars and a half a week for the businesses men tioned, and it takes some math ematician to figure how seven dollars and a half per week is going to save failing private en terprises. . As for curtailing the work of the Book Exchange by disallow ing them to sell cigarettes, quiz books, candies, soft-drinks, ink, typewriters or other things than mere books and athletic equip ment, the services rendered by the Book Exchange are down right essential. It is said that the work of the Saturday, February 21, 153, buildings department would be practically wiped out with the exception of some few small tasks. The Daily Tar Heel has often complained of the low price the Dufldings department pays self-help men, but the fact remains that it does provide the largest single source of work, and without it many men would have to leave school. One reason why the Univer sity is able to hold its great men at ridiculously low salaries is due to the fact that on some few commodities such as coal the purchasing power of the Univer- which we are not interested." But when it conies to the question of frugality and ex travagance, there's something that's more important than money, paradoxical as -that may sound right now. And that thing's time. . We haven't the slightest in tention of preaching, but while we're on the subject of frugal ity, it might not be a reproach to human intelligence if we bothered a little about this mat ter of wasting time. There's an old saying that if you want a ? thing done.' get a busv man to sity has devolved upon the house-' do it. holds of these great professors) thus enabling their real wages to approach that offered them by other institutions. ' The Tar Heel stands now and for all time for dormitory stores, student enterprises, and what ever mercantiling, activities the University may . deem necessary for the continued health, comfort, and welfare of its community, and calls upon the student body to educate it self on this issue and stand by ready to fight any curtailment of their conveniences, so that the University may continue to so regulate price levels that every son and daughter of the state may be privileged to ob tain an education whether he be rich or whether he be poor; Jack D. This is by no means intended as a paean of praise for drudge. Heaven forbid. In fact, if we don't waste any time while we work, we'll have plenty of time to play. But we won't have any time for either unless we're as careful in the use of each minute as we are in the use of each penny now that financial frugality has ceased to examinations than .a defense of them. We appreciate the weak nesses of the system but we also recognize the needs that it meets, however inadequately. Under the present educational condi tions these needs must be met, and until a better means is offer ed or until these conditions themselves are radically chang ed, we feel that examinations will remain. Daily Princeton- ian. " Ann Arbor Liquor Metropolitan papers have lapped up the report of the ac tivities of the federal agents the ! among' the fraternity houses at the University of Michigan. Five fraternity houses have been padlocked until September 1, and the college has handed down an order placing them on "social probation" for the en suing school year. We can do nothing but sym pathize with the 79 men who be a virtue because it has be- are to face -legal action. We come a necessity. V. A. D. Strange Comparisons We read in recent foreign dis patches that Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer for England's Labor government, has hinted that he will resign if members of his party continued to treat his work with suspicion. Washington reports tell us of President Hoover's statements which indicate that he will veto the bonus bill in order to throw the responsibility for the legis lation back on the Congress. Here are strange cases. The British Chancellor became world famous when he told con ferees over the Reparation ques tion England's position in re gard to debt cancellation. Mr. Hoover has distinguished him self by his failure to control a Congress which is in name at least Republican. Throughout the entire debt reduction confer ence Mr. Snowden minced no words in stating his govern ment's position. He spoke and was respected. During the wranglings be tween the Congress and the White House Mr. Hoover has spoken, but strange to say he has been inclined to compromise with the Democratic-Insurgent's coalitions. These compromises have not heightened the Presi dent's prestige in the halls of Congress. While Mr. Snowden is not the head of his party and while Mr. Hoover does not ap pear to be the head of the Re publican party, both are in posi tions to dictate to their parties. There is no compromise about the Chancellor; he makes his decisions and sticks to them. The great weakness of Mr. Hoo- With Contemporaries Abolish Examinations? The trend of criticism of the can do nothing but applaud the statement made by a level headed Michigan . congressman whose comment follows: "From all appearances the raid wras staged to get the full est publicity, and I do not think the university or its . student body should be subjected to the criticism that is bound to fol low. All of the trouble could very easily have been corrected self more and more against the! bfthe, ity authorities age-worn institution of exami nations as a means of determin ing the relative knowledge an undergraduate has acquired at the end of a term. With the tedious, wearying events of the last few weeks still fresh in mind, it might seem out of place to set down a few of the consid erations which we believe ex cuse the examination system as it exists today, with all its psy chological brutality and its in adequacies, as a standard of cul tural measurement. When one considers the recent statement of the New York World that "ex aminations are a pretty sorry way to test knowledge and ab surdly out of joint with the modern world," he is forced to admit that on the face of things the opinion might hold water. On the other hand, there is themselves and the harmful pub licity avoided." Seated at our distant editorial desk, it appears to us to have been another case of bungling on the part of the federal agents. Again this mountain of federal authority has labored and has brought forth an insig nificant mouse. It is a common ly accepted fact that drinking is more or less prevalent on col lege campuses, especially at a time of house party festivities. Taken by and large, there is it 1 t notning norrioiy pernicious about it. We believe that. We realize our happy position when we hark back to the situa tion of the minions stationed about the dormitories of recent date. We appreciate our posi tion of being an institution not under the pursed-lip superv ision of a state board of educa- it. Even if Lincoln lived : " m . way masters claims if , little difference to the millions e people who will celebrate birthday next Thursday. j coin is remembered for what C did ,not for the way he lived. Masters claims that Licco could have prevented the Civ--! war merely by letting the south era states secede. "They wo-;M have been back in the Union within five years," he says. Hot peacefully they would have re entered is still a question, hoi. ever. Masters picked an ideal sub. ject to arouse the interest of tb American people, and he needed it to increase his popularity After the "Spoon River Antho." logy" had lost a little of its earlr attractiveness, little, if anything, was heard of its author. "Lln coin, the Man" will undoubted!? put him "back in the swim." After "Babbitt" and "Mais Street" had played out their term, Sinclair Lewis accused America of being too commer- cialistic to appreciate literature or any other "cultured" field. Rupert Hughes has been less po pular since his book defaming Washington appeared. Masters denies to Lincoln practically every virtue attribut ed to him by America, excepting his sense of humor. Masters' fate, of course, hangs in the bal ance, but it is a pretty safe pre diction, that Americans will still be hero worshippers and that they will still observe Feb ruary 12 as the birthday of one of their greatest men, long after Edgar Lee Masters and his book have died. Oregon Barometer, FIREMEN DECIDE TO WEAR BADGES! ! not an ideal situation facing the . . TTt . . pnnrJiTinrJi I wnr H tnrtofr Tho i terely the quiet and well- "4 anced attitude that among the administrative of fices. And enthusiastically we wave our tattered banner that proclaims to the world our some- four-year loafer" and misfit oh his fellows is becoming general ly recognized in educational cir cles. The need for a weeding- j , , s wnaL unte dui none tne less ei veisiues aim cuiieges are to oe ,, XT , , . , . -ifective motto: "Nothing to ex maintained as dispensaries of L0 -7 , .t , , , . cess. Daily Dartmouth. culture m the best meaning of j . the word. Herein then, lies the 1 Feet most cogent argument for" the j Of Clay examination and here is a need,! Crash! And down comes an to eliminate the misfits from j other of America's greatest men. colleges, that no other agency! Or so Ede-ar Lpp Mast wnnlri The volunteer fire company of Chapel Hill met last Tuesday night at seven o'clock in the fire station to take up certain busi- ... . ness concerning, their corning year's wrork. It was decided that a record of the attendance to fires should be kept throughout the year to j show which firemen were con stant. A board will be put up is the fire house, and after each fire the men will return and chalk their names on it. A per manent record will dbe taken! from this and the men will be checked upon. Another decision reached was prevails i that all firemen will be given 2 badge so that at fires they can be recognized. On several oc casions when fires have broken out the house would be plunder ed by loafers while the firemen were working to extinguish the blaze. By wearing badges, they will know who to put out, and may prevent loss of household goods. These badges of identifi cation will be ordered immediate ly. more sm- bal- has been invented to meet. Aside from their value in this Ireland does have snakes! A snake three feet long was found so-called Progressives or pseudo Republicans to bully him into compromise. Whatever one's opinion of the legislation one cannot fail to notice the lack of force about Mr. Hoover's deci sion. ' ' Frugality And Extravagance Without being a pessimist, we may as well admit that these are times when the practice of frugality is particularly impor tant. But before practicing frugality, we must first know what it is. An academic defini tion is probably easy enough. But practically, the trouble is that it's so much easier for us to see the other fellow's lack of frugality than to see our own. Somebody has defined extrava gance as "the other fellow wast ing his money on things in ver is that he allows a group of Srades however faulty and in exact tney may be, provide a certain visible record of achieve ment, which serves as a kind of compensation for energy ex pended. It offers an opportu nity of a sort for a man to check up on himself, to give direction to his efforts. Of course, too often examinations bring a rigid limiting influence that makes for fact-cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily tending to disappear, giving rise to questions demanding more comprehensive, integrated know ledge. A third feature of exam inations is the forced review of the course, as a whole, which they necessitate. Again and again men will find that this re trospect gives unity and mean ing to the subject that had been impossible to grasp during the weeks of more segmented study. This is rather an apology for have him topple from a position he long has held as The Emanci- respect, examinations perform pator. For more than 65 years i by a child at play. It is beicf anuuier 1 unction, m tne urge; American people have hailed exhibited at Dublin. they develop for the work by Abraham Lincoln as one of the holding a threat over the head j greatest statesmen, presidents ot tne undergraduate. Even and leaders. But now, six days before the 122nd birthday of that martyr of slavedom, comes a large and wordy volume by a one-book au thor, dragging Lincoln through the mire, calling him "a slick and crafty politician, cold, man nerless, unkept, at times neuro tic and superstitious." Masters' book, published yes terday, bears the trite title of "Lincoln, the Man," and por trays Lincoln as much the same sort of simple-minded citizen that Rupert Hughes showed George Washington to be. Hu. ghes' efforts caused some what of a flurry, several days ago, but has been heard from but little since. "Hero worshippers," Ameri can people have been called, and perhaps hero worshippers they are, but what of that? Men who do things out of the ordin ary deserve special mention for "Read this letter first," says OLD HAMPSHIRE . STATIONERY when it makes its appearance from the postman's bag and a fine appearance it makes too. For Ol& Hampshireis notably good looking stationery. It has quality, character, substance there is'something about its crispness, its rich texture, that tends to make even the dullest letter seem positively eloquent. tari0tterij Hampshire Paper Co., Fine Stationery Dtp1 South Hadley Falls. Mass. UNIVERSITY BOOK A3 STATIONERY CO. 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