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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuesday, February I(T, 1932
Clje Dailp Car ieel
The official newspaper of the Publi
. cations Union Board of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jrhere it is printed dailyxcept Mon
days and the Thanksgiving, Christ
mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered
as Eecond 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 Editor
Ed French Managing Editor
John Manning Business Mgr.
Editorial Staff
EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G.
Rose, chairman, Don Shoemaker,
R. W. Barnett, Henderson Heyward,
Louise Pritchard, J. F. Alexander,
Gilbert Blauman, William Uzzell,
Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, Sid
ney 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. W. R.
Woerner.
FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, T.
W. Blackwell, E. H., Morrie Long,
Joseph Sugarman, W R. Eddleman,
Vermont Royster, Donoh Hanks.
CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T.
W. Blackwell, Morrie Long, Tom
Walker, William McK.ee, W. E.
Davis, William Blount, Jack Riley.
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas H.
Broughton. v
LIBRARIAN E. M. SpruilL
-HEELERS J. H. Morris. J. D. Wins
low, A. T. Dill, W. O. Marlowe, E. C.
Bagwell, R. J. Gialanella, W. D.
McKee, .Harold Janof sky, S. A. Wil
kins, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell,
A. C. Barbee, R. J. Somers, Frank
Thompson. - "-
Business Staff
CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C.
Worths
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.
Tuesday, February 16, 1932
To Many Colleges;
Too Little Education
Throughout the state there
are a great number of parochial
colleges which have almost no
educational value. Year by
year these schools continue to
'graduate girls with unbalanced
views, girls hemmed in by nar
row teachings and strict rules.
Life moves oi outside rarely
touching those confinedf within.
That conditions of the nineties
should linger in this modern day
is inconceivable, but true. Free
dom is limited to an almost un
believable extent. State prison
ers are allowed almost as much
liberty as the inmates of most
of these "schools for the refine
ment of young ladies." Walks
in the afternoon are duly chap
eroned ; certain parts of town
are taboo; picture shows are
censored; girls are permitted to
go out with near relatives only
and may barely nod to acquain
tances (of the opposite sex)
when they pass them on the
street ; young men may call for
an hour or so once a week (pro
vided they are on the calling list
sent from home)f smoking and
cards are prohibited, under pen
alty of "shipping." ' These are
just a few of the disadvantages
noticeable in these "petty"
church schools. In this bigoted
atmosphere minds are thwarted,
liberal thinking is frowned upon
and strong prejudices are built
up. The pity of it is that girls
are committed to these institu
tions at the most formative age
of their lives, ideas are just tak
ing shape, personalities are just
beginning to emerge. Each year
hordes pour forth cut in the
. same pattern . . . mass-educated.
Charm is the keynote of such
education. 'They bring them the
atmosphere of dried rose leaves
kept, for long eras in the pages
of a musty book.
That these staid colleges of
conventionality should linger on
is another example of "cultural
lag."' Their utility has vanished.
No longer do women desire to
be merely ornaments for a
drawing room. More and more
.women are taking part in af
fairs of importance. The, scope
of their interests is broadening
yearly. Why should they be
shackled by narrow schools?
Why should they see life through
dimmed spectacles of provincial
ecclesiasticism?
How much more beneficial
would it be to merge these num-?
erous insignificant institutions
into one or. two liberal univer
sities, in which women could
gain adequate training to face
problems, not shrink from them,
to think clearly, to play a win
ning game. To educate is mere
ly to broaden the outlook, to ,
train in the art of living, and
so should be cosmopolitan, not
provincial. L.P.
Why We
Are Here
The value of a college educa
tion is being constantly debated
and while much is being said for
coming to college and for staying
away the number of young men
and women at college has in
creased greatly during the last
decade.. Today every young per
son who can raise the money and
satisfy the scholastic require
ments comes to college. Though
the exact reasons for coming are
in many cases unknown to the
individual there are execellent
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the movement is based upon
many sound theories and facts.
To begin with the scholastic
phase of such an education is
becoming more and more valu
able as the struggle for exist
ence becomes more difficult and
the standard of living becomes
higher. The modern institute
of higher learning no longer con
tents itself or its students with
merely providing a cultural
background but attempts to pre
pare the young man and woman
for an advantageous start in life.
The desire for specialized train
ing and the need for a certain
modicum of culture with which
to draw the most from life pro
vide the greatest incentive that
is attracting youth to our many
colleges.
The scholastic side, though
most essential, is of course but
one of, many advantages that
college offers. The experience of
being independent and self suf
ficient is invaluable. Removed
from the close care of the home
and the high school the college
man is forced to lead his own
life, handle his own affairs, and
make his own decisions. This
being thrown out to sink or
swim is in many cases the turn
ing point in a man's career and
decides the course of his future.
The contact with new types and
many different classes of people
is also highly beneficial. Here
at a great university we find a
mixture of all species of men.
Individuals of different mental
ability, interests background,
wealth, religion, and culture are
here thrown together in a crys
tallized section of life from
which we select our friends and
companions and in which ; we
learn to adapt ourselves to ail
sorts of company and all vari
eties of culture.
Further advantages offered
by colleges lie in the numerous
and varied extra curricula ac
tivities that are opened to the
student. Every form of athlet
ics provide physical develop
ment and the thrill of represent
ing the school in competition
with rivals. Work on dailies,
year books, and magazines of
fers excellent training in the art
of writing and thinking as well
as in certain forms of business.
Campus politics, fraternities, so
cieties, dramatic, and musical or
ganizations are other fields that
are opened to the ambitious col
lege man. - The attraction to so
cial life and the general care free
and liberal atmosphere of the
college enhance the acquisition
of these benefits. Hence, while
some realize it and some do not,
we are here because college has,
a tremendous lot to offer us and
does so in a highly attractive
manner. J.F.A.
False
Conclusions
A recent article from Madi
son, Wisconsin, points out the
fact that the author of the
famous "On, Wisconsin" re
ceived $15 while the printers got
150,000. The headlines stress
this fact and the penniless con
dition of the two students who
wrote the words and composed
the music of the piece.
That a company which had
nothing to do with the origina- j
tion of the song should receive , Germany whose helplessness in
most of the monetary returns j vites incroachment and economic
from it seems, at first, very un -
fair. Further, the penniless
genius is ever a subject of sym
pathy. But one should not be
awed by the great gap between
15 and $50,000 into a harsh
condemnation of the printing
company. This company .took
the piece and printed it. It took
the risk of loss and provided for
royalties to be paid the author.
That the song was no startling
success when it was first com
mercialized is amply illustrated
by the paltry sum that the roy
alties amounted to. Moreover,
at the time that the royalties
came in and later, when the hun-
'copyrigllt was reaiized, the ready
money was worth a great deal
to the men. As one says tech
nically, their time preference
was very high. The money was
worth much more to them for
use then than an investment
that would probably mature
later.
The $50,000 is an accumu
lated amount. It is no lump
sum earned overnight. It is the
result of the sale of the piece
over sixteen or seventeen years.
Time and capital have been nec
essary to realize returns. A large
part of the $50,000 amounts to
payments of present and back
interest on the capital put into
the publishing. Part is recom
pense for allowing that capital
to be tied up when, invested in
some other place, it could be
earning interest.
Too often one allows himself
to draw conclusions that are far
from jiist. The publisher, at
i first sight, seems a heartless
capitalist willing to squeeze the
last penny wherever he can. He
may be, but there is nothing in
the article that proves he is any
thing but a normal business man
earning his living in a sane and
fair manner. H.H.
France, The
Culprit
The discord and hostilities that
have characterized recently the
economic development and so
cial pastimes of those of the
Orient have overshadowed the
European embroglio wherein
France, Germany, and Great
Britain respectively are playing
the roles of the villain in the
play of economic rehabilitation
and international peace, the eco
nomic martyr, and the debili
tated father grimly holding its
last vestige of European domi
nance. France, the culprit, is osten
sibly obstructing the peaceful
and satisfactory culmination of
the play. Her insistent de
mands for the full payment of
reparations, her desire for main
taining the status quo in the
matter of armaments and mili
tary preparedness (in which
stage she is by far the most ad
vanced) may be likened to the
black-moustached miscreant of
old, whose scruples were dic
tated to by the fancies of self
ish desires. And lucky she is
in having -so helpless and devas
tated a victim as Germany. With
her economic life entirely dis
rupted and ravaged by the dying
condition of her export trade,
with her social stability being
slowly subverted by the in
creasing' dominance of socialists
and economic dictatorship,
French interests can quite easily
be planted and take to root in
so tempting an acreage. And
few better realize it than France.
Disarmament conferences, inter
national conferences for the
betterment of world trade fade
into insignificance when the
course of events are set in a
track so unmistakable. c
Some believe that, the solu
tion lies with us. France's de
mands for full reparation pay
ment is supposedly based upon
the United States' insistent de
mands for payment. And upon
this excuse France claims her
legal and extra-legal rights on
1 bloodsucking. But to call this
bluff might be too costly.
Meanwhile, Great Britain,
once the controlling . factor in
European policies, the father ele-
Iment in guiding her ambitious
neighbors, lies prostrate, weak
ened and helpless by her own in
ternal diseases and allows
France to foreclose the mort
gage. G.B.
SPEAKING
the
CAMPUS MIND
. . Up To The
Students Themselves."
We have an honor system on
this campus by reputation only.
"Thou shalt not squeal" is just
as much in control of our stu
dent body as a whole as it is
of the men in the navy. Sta
tistics on this are not needed;
instructors, students, and moth
ers of students know that dis
honesty goes on unchallenged
and largely unchecked. Honor
able students simply will not be
informers as a general rule.
They feel that to "squeal" is to
be dishonorable in itself. There
fore, in the conflict of traditions
thus arising, "thou shalt not
squeal" wins out ; our "honor
system" droops, shot full of
holes (our holey ideal) , and we
go marching on under a banner
of tattered remnants. One won
ders if the honorable students,
upon whom the success or fail
ure of the honor system indis
putable depends, will have a
blind eye, a "thou-shalt-not-squeal"
philosophy, when they
get into the stream of business
and politics. Will they allow
their associates to get away with
funds, with dirty work in gen
eral? Rationalization, psychological
ly speaking, is so much with U3,
let us jab at one concrete and
vital point in the situation. "We
sit too close together on exam
inations." This is not wholly a
smoke-screen of rationalizatin.
In this fact of propinquity dur
ing quizzes there is unquestion
ably" what might be called moral
overstrain. Then, if this be so,
why not initiate another tradi-
tion whereby a vacant chair (in
which may sit the ghost of a paused, curious as to why elec
100 per cent honor system) in- trie refrigerators should be in
terpose itself between every stu-
dent during examinations. Far
more ' than this is needed, of
course, to patch up the bedrag
gled banner. It's up to the stu
dents themselves.
A FACULTY, MEMBER.
Brief Facts
Kansas is having trouble
with gasoline bootleggers. It is
estimated that the state has
lost more than $150,000 in
tax revenue.
Dr. Clemente Robles, Na
tional Biological Institute of
Mexico, recently announced
that operations on dogs in
which the cerebellum was re
moved were not 'fatal, but that
the d,ogs regained control of
their movements in a few
days. ,
About one-third of the
world's billion chickens are
in the United States, more
than in any other two coun
tries combined.
Italy has prohibited wage
cuts.
A SHORT SHORT STORY
(Which is at the same time a
true story)
It is always with fear and
trembling that I approach the
editorial offices of The Daily
Tar Heel. Stealthily do I enter,
glancing both to the right and to
the left to make sure that I am
unobserved. Now do not mis
understand. The publication
room situated on the second
floor of Graham Memorial is not
particularly awe-inspiring, nor
do I stand constantly in fear of
editorial disapproval. I will ad
mit that I sometimes feel like
a prisoner in a court of justice
when I approach the inner rail
ing behind which is situated the
editor's desk. There is a tension
in the atmosphere as when the
occupants of a crowded court
room lean forward as one man
to await the verdict of the fore
man of the jury. But that feel
ing is soon dissipated into thin
air as I flee, lest I be apprehend
ed in the very act of putting col
umns where they belong.
Last Monday heavy footsteps
sounded down the corridor just
as I was congratulating myself
that once again I had escaped
observation. Headlong I dashed,
right into him. He was a silver-
haired old man who wore with
his neat black suit which gave
evidence of the depression an1
air of unremitting toil. His
kindly eyes expressed faith in
and good will toward his fellow
men.
"Can you tell me," he asked,
"where John Doe's apartment
is?"
Striving to conceal my mild
amusement at the idea of look
ing for apartments in Graham
Memorial, I asked him just what
was John Poe's address.
"The Graham building," was
his reply. :
Suddenly it flashed across my
mind that my questioner was
John Doe's father, come to pay
his son a brief visit and perhaps
to add a cautious word about ex
penses. But why should such a
father as he be laboring under
the delusion that the University
provided apartments for the
members of its student body?
Nevertheless I directed him as
best I could to Graham dormi
tory. He thanked me, and to
gether we descended the stair
way. "I was just going around to
install an electric refrigerator,"
he explained.
Halfway down the stairs, I
demand in dormitory rooms.
xi.nu wuuse apartment am
you say you were looking for?"
I queried. -
"Mrs. John Doe's," came the
prompt rejoinder. .
"Oh !" I answered weakly. -
It was plain that Mrs. John
Doe couldn't be living in Gra
ham dormitory. There was only
one straw left. I flung it at him
in the form of a question. "Don't
the John Does live in Graham
Court apartments?" His face
brightened. That was it! And
how could he get there? Again
I gave directions, this time to
McAuley Street.
At the foot of -the stairs he
lingered, looking carefully at the
marble walls and even ventur
ing timidly into the beautifully
panelled lounge.
"What is this for?" he asked.
"The conception of the Gra
ham Memorial building," I
quoted from The Daily Tar
Heel, "is that of a social center
for the University campus."
He- accepted my statement
with an air of resignation. "So,"
he commented,-"this is where
the society people live!"
A. ,-,.1 i jj
With
Contemporaries
Impressions Of
College Newspapers
The Davidsonian from David
son : A good sheet with a better
Editorial page.
Ring-Turn Phi from W. and L.
They hardly seem to take their
journalism seriously but still live
up to the college heritage.
The Daily Tar Heel from
N. C. U.The south's most lib
eral paper It's editor seems to
be better than Brisbane in
settling the world's problems.
Crimson-White: It seems that
we have said something of a
highly complimentary nature
before.
The Emory Wheel : Published
on slick paper but still a very ex
cellent publication.
The Gold and Black : Good de
spite the heads.
The Plainsman: Dame Mod
esty prevents us.
Auburn Plainsman.
FORD FOR SALE
For sale: 1928 Ford Roadster.
Good shape. $60.00 cash. Call
6071. (5)
R. R. Clark
Dentist
Over Bank of Chapel Hill
PHONE 6251
FOR RENT
TDouble Garage
on Rosemary Street behind
Sigma Zeta Fraternity.
MRS. DORA ELLIOT
1400 West Spring Garden St.
Greensboro, N. C.
Here, K1EM,
fc . smoke a
man's smolia
A PIPEFUL of good tobacco is dis
tinctly a man's smoke. Hie
women (long may they wave!) have
taken over most
of our masculine
privileges. But
pipe smoking still
belongs to us.
In every walk
of life you'll find
that the men at
the top are pipe
The pipe is not for
pretty girls.
smokers. And most college men agree
. that the pipe offers the rarest pleasures
a man could ask of his smoking.
When you smoke a pipe, be sure
you choose the tobacco that will give
you the greatest
enjoyment. In 42
out of 54 colleges
Edgeworth is the
favorite. You can
buy Edgeworth
wherever good
tobacco is sold.
Or for a special
sample packet,
Here' the smofcs fbc
men, pipe and good
tobacco.
write to Larus & Bro. Co., 105 S. 22&
St., Richmond, Va. Sample is free.
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