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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wednesday, February 3, 1932 Page Two Z)t Eailp Car Ipeel The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan l.....Editor Ed French Managing Editor John Manning Business Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, chairman, Don Shoemaker, R. W. Barnett, Oscar W. Dresslar, Louise Pritchard, J. F. Alexander, Gilbert Blauman, William Uzzell, H. W. Peters, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yar borough, Sidney Rosen. - FOREIGN NEWS .BOARD E. C. , Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley, Robert Berryman, Elmer Oet tinger, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Claiborn Carr, Charles Poe. FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, F. L. Joyner, E. H., J. G. deR. Hamil ton, Jr., Philip Costi. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T. W. Blackwell, Morrie Long, Tom Walker, William McKee, W. E. Davis, William Blount, Jack Riley. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas H. Broughton, Jack Bessen. LD3RARIAN E. M. Spruill. ' HEELERS Donoh Hanks, J. H. Mor ris, Joseph Sugarman, W. R. Eddie man, J. D. Winslow, A. T. Dill, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Giala nella, W. D. McKee, Harold Janof sky, S. A. Wilkins, L. C. Slade, Jr., F. C. Litten, Fred Wolf, J. B. Straus, J. S. Newton, Jr., W. H. Lazarus, John Easter, Fred Dossen bach, N. H. Powell, A. C. Barbee, W R. Weesher, W. R. Woerner. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. BUSINESS 'DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Jimmy Allen, manager; assistants: H. A. Clark, Howard Manning; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Joe Webb, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, R. H. Lewis; Jim Cordon; J. W. Callahan, Henry Emerson. those of individuals. Expendi-j never been questioned; and it tures must be cut correspond- has been generally understood ingly if a deficit is to be avoid- that all punishment of honor dis- Wedriesday, February 3, 1932 Japan's Economic Crisis x Japan's sudden and rampant aggression on Chinese soil dur ing the last week seems to show tha,t she. is anxious to bring China to her knees in a hurry and wring an advantageous treaty from her immediately. China, has sacrificed everything, life, property, and national pride that Japan might not have the satisfaction of winning a "war. This has not been satis factory for the Japanese govern ment, for she realizes that thus far none of the land she now occupies is . hers legitimately. She can get it either by making China fight her and then declar ing Manchuria and the Yangtse hers through right of conquest or by making China sign it away in a forced treaty agreement. China has done neither and Japan is desperate. . Japan's desperation may be seen in the fact that her stock market closed yesterdayecause stocks were declining so pre cipitously. Her operations have ' been costly and her exports to China, her second greatest mar ket, have fallen off enormously. Japan is on the brink of financial and economic ruin. The unrestrained violence of the Japanese thesey days looks like the last writhing gyrations of a dying nation trying to fight Sack to recovery. It would be curious to find that in this con flict ' in the Orient Japan and not China had been defeated. This likelihood does not seem, today, to be at all impossible. Japan has not entirely recov ered from her depression of the last decade. The disorders and abnormalities : of war have thrown her into a still worse de pression, it seems. It is likely that the end of the trouble in China is in sight, if unforeseen and complicating factors are not involved. -R.W.B. ed. When legislators are faced with such a situation, as they are today, they seek every pos sible means of reducing ex penses. One of the most obvious methods of effecting govern mental economy is to cut the appropriations for education. To many in this arid other, states, education beyond the three It's has always seemed a sort of ex travagant and useless frill. Even to many legislators, the work of such an institution as our University seems inconsequen tial when compared with its an nual appropriation of some hun dreds of thousands of dollars. As a result, when government revenues fall off, appropriations for higher education are among the first to be cut. In this state the depression has meant the ruthless curtailment of the work of the University and the other state institutions. . It is especially, unfortunate that such a reduction of appro priations, which . is typical of what is happening all over the country, should come at this time. If ever there has been a time when the world has been in desperate need1 of university-trained leaders, it is today. The increasing complexity of our social, political, and econom ic systems has made it infpos- sible for an untrained mind to control well either government or industry. The ' all-important and deep problems concerned with the coming of the machine age demand wisdom and broad knowledge in our leaders. Such a man as Andrew Jackson would be utterly incompetent to con trol our government today. One reason for our being in our pres ent situation is that our leaders industrial and political, have too often been men without real edu cation, concerned only with the narrow, "practical," problems of the day. Now, more than ever before, the universities must produce men who understand economics and government, who know history, who have a breadth and depth of training sufficient to make them able leaders and intelligent citizens. It is indeed a disastrous econ omy wnicn would curtail the work of our universities in times like these. The recent thirty per cent appropriation cut was, of course, a drastic emer gency measure necessitated by a financial crisis in the state. The University has taken this blow without complaining, but it cannot continue its work if its appropriation is to be cut by the next legislature as severely as it has been cut by the last two. The next decade offers the great est opportunity for service to the state and the nation that the University has ever had, but it cannot perform that service if it does not have money enough to buy books and supplies and to pay its faculty salaries in some degree suited to their abil ity. If the people of this state want to see tjje University carry out its responsibilities as a pro ducer of citizens and leaders, they must elect to the next legis lature men who will see that new sources for revenue are discov ered and that the work of edu cation is not strangled by the blind "economy" of depression. D.M.L. obedience was solely in the hands of a student council. In short, it has always been the right of students to handle all matters pertaining to the honor systerii. But recently the professors have taken over some of this power. No longer are faculty members willing to let their pupils supervise their own con duct in the classroom. Today all supervision is in the hands of the instructors. When a quiz or examination is given, mem bers of the class are required to sit in alternate seats or in some other room in the build ing ; a pledge must conclude each paper or quiz turned in, and the professor often takes it upon himself to patrol the room in search of any "cheating." The majority of faculty members have "apparently failed to aid in the perfection of a student hon or system. ' Since it has not worked in the past they contend that it is. incapable of being put intft effective use now. To them the honor system : is no more than a name "a Carolina tradi tion." By their actions on class, pro fessors . have taken from the students one of their traditional rights student self - govern ment. In the beginning it was naturally expected that faculty members v would cooperate in this student movement to found an efficient honor system. But the faculty's connection now has changed from one of cooperation to one of supervision. Since professors have taken this step a student no longer feels the re sponsibility of seeing that his fellow students refrain from dis obeying the honor code. The system which instructors use in giving their quizes and examinations is used "in spite of" the honor system and not "because of" it, i.e., they employ methods which would work as effectively without an honor system. In other words, the faculty members, doubting the efficiency of student honor sys tems, have introduced their own devices from preventing unfair means by students. If professors would only place more confidence in the honor of their students, perfecting the honor system would not be a hard task. After all it is a mat ter of a man's own personal KNOW YOUR UNIVERSITY (EDITOR'S NOTE: In the same vein in which a surrey of University courses was presented before the holidays, the Daily Tar Heel continues .with this issue a comprehensive summary of campus institutions with the idea cf causing every citizen of the University to become better acquainted "with t" policies and systems of operation of his service organizations.) THE WOMAN'S ASSOCIATION ' The Woman's Association of the University of North Caro lina was organized in 1917 as a club for women students. At that time there were only twenty-five women students on the campus. The purpose of this club was to promote their in terests and to heighten their status in the college community. The association hoped to create each quarter. Special meetings are called only by order of the president. , The executive body of the as sociation comprises a council sisting of a president, vice-presi dent, secretary, treasurer, house-; ships among the students. president of Spencer hall, and representatives from all other houses having .as many as ten students. The house-president a sense of unity and fellowship 'presides at house meetings and among all its members; to pro- assists in the discipline of the mote and maintain high stan- dormitory. The house represen dards of University life ; to en- tatives keep in contact with the courage the leisure hour activ ities of its members, those ac tivities which add zest to college life. " It was likewise eager to bring about closer relationship between students and the women alumni. Although not much was accomplished in this latter re spect, it was through a reunion in 1922r the twenty-fifth anni versary of the admission of women to the university, that the movement was begun which resulted in the erection of Spen cer hall. Organization Aims The fundamental aim of this organization is to cooperate zeal ously with each student in order to enhance the value of her col lege life. For this reason every woman automatically becomes a member of the association upon entering the University. The annual dues are three dollars. Regular meetings are held the Tuesday of the second week in fused to confess them. He has refused with the ut most tenacity to divulge to the public the telegram' which seems to be the heart of the whole affair. . He explains his refusal by saying that such an action might cause an explosion in South America. Just why should "Statesman Stimson" be so greatly concerned about South America ? It would seem that, under the cover of such; disinterested phraseology, he is 1 seeking to divert attention away ' from the effects of his acts at h6me. The public is justified in : entertaining pretty serious sus- town members and represent them in the association. This council is endowed with disci plinary powers and decisions reached are subject to no appeal other than to the faculty of the University. . The officers upon retiring from office return to .the presi dent all money, accounts, rec ords, papers, and property be longing to the association. The finances remaining in the treas ury at the end of the school year constitute a sinking fund to be used in whatever manner th group designates. Executive Duties The executive duties are a minor function of the associa tion, however, far greater em phasis is placed upon an effort to unify and integrate relation- For this purpose social and outside activities are stressed. Dances (Continued on last page) SPECIAL NOTICE NADIAN'S College Photographers Of Washington, D. C. Special Offer to Student Body For One Week Only Greenland Coffee Shop Studio Hours 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. honor; yetno student can believe i picions toward Mr. Stimson, not this so long as his professors ap parently have no faith in his honor. C.G.R. SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND Depression And Education In years of serious depression, such as those in which we are living, the revenues of govern ments are curtailed just as are Faculty Recognition Of Student Honor To publicly declare that fac ulty members "on this campus have usurped students' rights would ' to some persons be a startling announcement. But nevertheless the statement is true. Since its establishment here several years ago, the.honor sys tem has been a student function, controlled and supervised by students. The right of students to set up such a system has The Daily Tar Heel does not neces sarily endorse letters published in Speaking the Campus Mind. Lack of space prohibits the publication of all letters -submitted. Preference will be given letters which do not speak upon subjects already exhausted. Letters should be four hundred words or less, typewritten, and contain the name as well as the address of the writer. Names will be withheld upon request, except when the writer attacks a per son. No libelous or scurrilous contri butions can be printed. Stimson's Mysterious Conduct It seems that "Statesman Stimson" has gotten himself into another jam before a Sen ate investigating committee. , It appears, in the matter of , the Barco oil concession, now en joyed by Mr. Mellon and his in terests, that Mr. "Statesman Stimson' was guilty of rather serious bungling and double dealing. According to reports, he used the influence of his de partment to secure the grant ing of a foreign loan to Colom bia, a loan which the bankers themselves felt would be unsafe. Now that the fears of the bank ers have been realized, Mr. Stimson's sins have found him only for this affair, but for other acts in his foreign policies as well. What is he tryftig to do, hide his own. bungling mistakes, or protect his colleague, Mr. Mellon, who is now threatened with impeachment? If these suspicions are not justified, Mr. Stimson can eas ily dispel them by square deal ing with the public. So long as he locks up the truth about this affair in the secrecy of his files, he need not be surprised if the people show little confidence in him and his acts. One of the greatest needs of the American government would seem to be to provide some means whereby the major Secretaries, the members of the President's Cabinet, can be held responsible for their acts. They ought to be responsible to Con gress as well as to the President. The most minute details of their public acts should be subject to review by Congress and the country at large. Secrets have no place in the prosecution of," public policy. The people have the right to re fuse to be bound by secret acts of their agents. (These last two statements may be subject to certain limitations but none are brought to mind just now.) If Mr. Stimson is more concern ed with the interests of other countries than of his own, he certainly represents a radical departure from what is gener ally expected in a Secretary of out j but he has steadfastly re-1 State. J.M.M. SPRING CLOTHING Today and tomorrow the com- plete Storrs-Schaefer Tailor ing line will be on display here. For your own information look over the wide variety in shades . we're showing. ' Tailored to your measure from $25.50 up. Pressed free for the life of the garment. Randolph - McDonald, Inc. iilnie Is 4 The dollar is a very: versatile thing-. Hard to train. Always pushing and rushing- to get into anpther place. Almost like a red-hot fire-brand in the hands of many. - If you find it hard to keep the dollars you have under control put them in the bank on savings. Start them to school after the dol lar degree 4. Let them earn their way and pay. you for your managerial ability. While the dollar is working you are gaining in financing independence, in thrift habits, in credit standing you are getting ahead. The Bank of Chapel Hill Oldest andStrongest Bank In Orange County ,
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