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SOPHOMORE SMOKER SWAIN HALL TONIGHT 9 O'CLOCK V SOPHOMORE SMOKER SWAIN HALL TONIGHT 9 O'CLOCK . i f 1 0 ( ill ' tO VOLUME XXXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931 NUMBER 115 DUTCH SCHO PICTURES FARM LIFE INHOLLAND Compares Agricultural System There With "Roving Tenant" Plan in North Carolina, Dr. A. N. J. den Hollander, international traveling scholar ship fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, talked before the North Carolina Club Monday night on the subject "Farming in North Carolina and the Netherlands" showing a com parison of the methods and con ditions in both countries. Dr. Hollander pointed out frst that both countries conduct their farming on a small hold ing scale. In Holland there are tens thousands of holdings not exceeding two and one half acres. Great differences occur in different parts of the coun try, but the size is nowhere ex ceptional, in tne heavy sea day the holdings go down to ffty acres and in the sandy regions the average is from fifteen to twenty acres. Dr. Hollander explained that the small holding of North Carolina is caused by the fact that the chief crops are cotton and tobacco in which the use of machinery to any great extent is impossible. In Holland, it is caused by a dense population, very high prices and intense ag riculture. Continuing his comparison, Dr. Hollander said: "Both coun tries have cash crop farming.' But, he stated, "the cash crop oi JNortn uaronna is one crop or at most two crops, giving an income once in a year and ne cessitating the farmer to live in advance trusting on the results of the.year to pay his expenses." In Holland there is an income the year round because of the highly diversified system. Dr. Hollander stated also that Holland has a high tenancy rate about fifty per cent. "In Holland as elsewhere, owner ship is considered highly prefer able to tenancy for several reasons, but , it is not looked upon as such an unmitigated evil as it is here." He explained that in Holland the restless, moving tenant typical of the South who changes his place every two years is not found. The farmers there have their farms leased for several years, have a certain capital, have working stock, and pay a cash rent. Dr. Hollander stated that he saw this autumn in the South advertisements of travelling shows for 1925 still on the walls f farm dwellings. This, he affirmed, would not be Jrue in Holland, for there the tenants have a pride in their homes since the tenants are allowed compensation for improvements due to their labor. (Continued on next page) Notice to Seniors Final Radio Talk Is Set for Today The tenth and final talk in the series of programs, which the University student' government has sponsored, will be delivered from WPTF, Raleigh, at the usual hour, five to five-fifteen this afternoon. Daily Newspapers Are Issued On Thirty-Eight College Campi From Epsilog Nearly every college in . the country claims with more or less pride its student newspaper, but only thirty-eight institutions Jack E. Duneran is tn tuv of hiher learning are served by on "Utopian College Education a daiIy newspaper edited and ' i - -m ,- m s nnri TTnw Tf Poiaoa rv Tiv.; managea.. oy students. More M V AAV IT AW AVulbli .vl 1. 1 M, I 1 r-T fills I versity of North Carolina." He than sixty colIees are served by will tnnoh nn n,Dmr n-f w I papers issued eitner two or I." . T A - m uons wmcn are oi maior lm- , v portance to colleges today and he will illustrate their practibil- ity or impossibility by citing numerous institutions that have various of these plans in operation. GAY MACLAREN IS TO APPEAR HERE MONDAY EVENING It is imperative that Senior Superlatives and Class Day Of ficers meet at the Yackety Yack umce today at 1:30 to have Snap-shots made for this year's anual. This is absolutely the jne and only time for these to be made. Absence for any ex cuse will mean the exclusion of these persons from their proper aces as Senior Superlatives Class Day Officers. Signed: fat Patterson, Pres. Senior Uass. Clyde Dunn, Editor Yackety Y nek. three times a week, while more than four hundred others are served by weeklies. These thirty-eight college dailies claim a circulation of 182,417 or an average of 4,800 copies each, although it doesn't work out that way as two have circulations of less than a thous and, and one distributes as many as 15,000. In the main, the dailies are published at institu tions having large enrollments, although three colleges having an enrollment, rvf Ipss fVian fwn ucuiousi ""S thousand students maintain II. : l T T kjh iitci ummeiu rrogram is dailies. One of the three is Rad Widely Acclaimed. cliffe, the only girl's college to be Miss Gay MacLaren, who will served by a daily appear here next Monday in Ane distribution ot the dailies Memorial hall on the student en- rougnout tne . country, as tertainment program, gave her snown m tne accompanying first show when she was only maP presents three rather well- ten vpnrs nlrl TTrnm -th aennea aivisions. inere - are her career has been a continu- twelve located along the Atlan ous performance. As a little tic coast nineteen in what may child in Howard, South Dakota, rather loosely be referred to as and afterwards in Escondido, the Mississippi river states, and California, she mimicked sounds seven along the Pacific slope, and people. New York and California are Nothing delighted her mis- tied with f our dailies each ; chievous mind more than to Illinois and Indiana claim three hide where children were play- a P1Ce Massachusetts, Okla ing, and then imitate their homa, Oregon, and Texas have mothers calling them. She two whi!e one is located in would go to an entertainment each of the following states: and then for days she was reDro- New Hampshire, Rhode Island, ducing it at home. She went to Connecticut, New Jersey, Penn "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the sylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, -Fnii r. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- Little Evas, Toms, and Topsys. sota Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, When she was ten years old Kansas, North Dakota, and she decided that it was time to Washington. Twenty - four start her professional career. states are not represented. -I 1 : J IT. T . "VT The people of Escondido were Axas.sciiu6ci,w. , xw surprised to see handbills an- lork, and Los Angeles are the nouncing that Gay McLaren homes of two collee dailies would give an entertainment. In the eastern group, the gen She had engaged the town hall eral size is from four to eight herself, had made her own pro- pages, while in the other two gram, and then she went on the groups the average number of streets and sold the tickets. Pages an issue are more. In ad The hall was jammed. She gave dition the pages are usually lar- the pieces she had heard the en- ger in the mid-west and western tertainers give gave "Bobo- group. Many of the college link," "Adam's Fall," and other dailies use some kind of wire classics, gave some of her own service, even though it be only inventions, and even gave the a pony service of a few hundred "Maniac" when she didn't know words generally telephoned what a maniac was. from the nearest bureau of a For the past few years, Gay news-gathering organization. MacLaren has appeared on While many of the editorials of many artist series from coast to the college dailies are devoted to coast. Her offering fits in well campus affairs a greater pro- with the musical stars, and on portion of the editorial comment many courses she has been the in dailies as compared to the less only non:musical number. frequently issued publications She made unusual appear- are devoted to other than cam nnres in New York and Chicago, pus affairs. showing that she can create as One of the finest, if not the well as imitate, when she pre- finest college daily, is The Ilhni sented her own interpretation of puwisnea at Oriampaign-Uroa-"Romeo and Juliet," with her na, Illinois. The issue of that own scenery and costuming. In PaPer which I happen to have on her Chicago presentation ' the m desk here numbers 48 eight Steindel String Quartet from column pages,; made-up and I Theodore Thomas Sympnony aa Orchestra accompanied her act- poin uauies anu superior ui ing with music. The dramatic many. It takes the full Assoc critics were extravagant in their "ted Press service and is the commendation. She was mvitea yv ff . " . .. - in the community of more than 40,000 Shakespearean Memorial Thea- persons Apparently it covers tre, in Watford, England, which territory thoroughly as a butt a -fQ n rln when this "A lLO iiCW5 Bwries on tne iron. r 7Ia it having Page are college items, but the theatre is restored, it navmg . f , i important national events are oeen aamagea Dy ure. J. Grover Beard important national events given good position. The medical profession is the The Cornell Daily i another costliest, requiring a minimum college daily which is the only of $1,000 per year in prepara- morning newspaper in its com- tion. mumty. it also uses Associated Press service. A recent issue showed that of its eight columns at the top of page one were the following date lines five from Washington, D. C. ; New York, Berlin, Havana. Plenty of local stories were on the front page too. Mention of outstanding achievements of college dailies could be continued almost inde finitely. In fact every one of the thirty-eight, whether they use wire service or limit their cov erage to the individual campus, are doing excellent work. In an effort to find out something more about the college dailies, a study was recently made. It has been compiled here in the belief that it contains material of interest to members of newspapers whether they are published daily, tri-weekly, semi-weekly, weekly, or even bi-weekly. Practically every daily, as is true of the less frequently issued college publications, affords some financial compensation to one or more members of the staff. In general the compensa tion on the dailies takes the form of salaries, although mem bers of the business staff are often given commissions on ad vertising account secured. In some cases the editor and busi ness manager are given a per centage of profits made by the publication. The amount of compensation, of course, varies, but in general it runs from $200 to $2,000 a year. In several in stances a definite upper limit has been put on the amount of compensation to be received. When the compensation is a de finite salary, the average in the returns received was between $500 and $600. The relationship of the faculty or administration to the stu dent newspaper is always an im portant question to student editors and business managers There is nothing, apparently, that arouses so much resent ment among students as the idea tnat tne tacuity controls, cen sors, or in any other way directs the editorial or business policy of student publications. Stu dents evidently are perfectly willing to have administration, faculty, or alumni control of their athletics, but any such control of their publications is deeply resented. In the study made of college dailies, emphatic negative an swers were made to the question relating to faculty or adminis tration control. In some cases there is a graduate manager who has general supervision of the finances. Although as general thing departments of journalism have absolutely no thing to do with the student daily, in the case of the Indiana Daily Student, The Butler , Col legian. University Daily Kan- san, Oregon State Daily Baro meter, and The Ohio State Lan tern the departments of journal ism use these papers as labora tories. The choice of policies on these papers are just as much in student hands as on other papers. A faculty member serves as the advisor of some papers. The director of public relations a Syracuse university acts m this capacity for The Daily Orange. This is also true of The Pennsylvanian where the head of the journalism depart ment takes an active interest, In most cases what relationship the faculty has to the paper is (Continued on last page ) Professor J. Grover Beard is the newly appointed acting dean of the school of pharmacy. He takes the place of the late E. V Howell, who had served the Uni versity as dean for thirty-three years. DEAN C.C. TAYLOR DISCUSSES STATE REVENUEPROBLEM State College Graduate School Dean believes Live-at-Home Program Is Important. Perhaps the taxpayers cannot afford to pay $100,000,000 a year in taxes, and perhaps the state and its local units of gov ernment are in a- bad condition because of its $573,000,000 in debtedness, but to go into debt wisely is good business in the opinion of Dr. Carl C. Taylor, dean of the graduate school of State College. "This state and all others will have to increase taxes as long as our units oi government are called upon to render increased services," he declared. , "Our annual tax burden' for state, county, municipal, and other units of North Carolina is less than thirty dollars per capita, and our indebtedness is only $153 per capita. There is no thing to be very badly frighten ed over in '.an indebtedness per capita of $150 when we know that we have made this debt to build roads and schools, to make internal improvements, to fur nish health and welfare services, to render social services of all kinds, and to engage in other governmental activities demand ed by the people and which would have been poor business not to do," Dr. Taylor said. To see that the taxpayers get value in services for every dollar paid in taxes; to see that the taxes are equitably assessed and col- (Continued on next page) CHEMICAL ENGINEERS URGED TO HEAR COOKE J. GROVER BEARD ELECTED. ACTING PHARMACY DEAN Received Ph.G. Degree in Phar macy- Here in 1909 and Has Been Pharmacy School Secre tary Since 1915. Professor J. Grover Beard has been elected acting dean of the Pharmacy school in place of the late Dean Vernon HowelL who founded the school thirty three years ago and who served it faithfully- during that time. Acting Dean Beard is a graduate of the University, having graduated with the class of 1909 and later received the degree of Ph. G. in pharmacy. He has been a professor here practically ever since the time of 'his graduation and has been secretary of the school of phar macy since 1915. In September of 1929 he was elected to the presidency of the American Association of Col leges of Pharmacy. The con vention was held at Rapid City, South Dakota. This association is made up of sixty leading col leges and schools of pharmacy in the country. Beginning in 1932 this group will require a minimum four year course of study for graduation from an. accredited school of pharmacy. Beard has long been promin ent in pharmacy work in the state, and has held important positions in state and national pharmaceutical associations.. TheassociatianJ which . he heads has chosen him chairman of a syllabus committee of twenty one members, which is to out line a suggested minimum course of study for all institu tions holding membership in the association. Beard was recently named secretary of a committee of fifteen, appointed by the Ameri can Council on Education, of (Continued on next page) All members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers are requested to attend the lec ture by Morris L. Cooke tonight at eight o'clock in 103 Bingham hall. This talk is being spon sored by the Taylor Society but is expected to be of interest to the engineers. Cooke's speech is to be on the subject of "The Experience of America with Union Management Coopera tion." Cooke's lecture is one of a series on matters of interest in the field of economics and indus trial problems, which the de partment of economics and com merce is sponsoring. He is a former president of the Taylor Society. Ex-Governor Byrd Visits University of Virginia came through Chapel Hill yesterday afternoon about four-thirty o'clock to visit the University and to pay his respects to President Frank Graham but found that Mr. Gra ham had just, left for Raleigh. He drove up to South building in Governor Gardner's big black limousine, accompanied by Tyre C. Taylor, executive secretary to Gardner, and United States Senator Josiah W. Bailey of Raleigh. When the car, with li cense plate "number one" passed through town the rumor went out that Governor Gardner had come for a conference with the President. As he had not seen the Uni versity since he attended the Carolina-Virginia football game in 1929, Mr. Byrd decided to drive by here on his way to Ra leigh from Duke University which he inspected earlier in the afternoon. He addressed the General Assembly in Raleigh last night. The party, upon finding both Mr. Graham and the executive secretary, Robert B. House, out of town; remained only long enough to look over the Univer sity. Mr. Byrd stated briefly that- he was "greatly interested in the University of North Caro lina" and wished to meet its new president. The former chief executive of Virginia is a brother of the ex plorer and aviator Commander "Dick" Byrd.