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THE DAILY
TAR HEEL
Thursday, February 18,
tI)e Datlp Ear ttl
The official newspaper of the Publi
cations Union Beard of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
jphere it is printed daily except Mon
days and the Thanksgiving, Christ
inas, and Spring Holidays. Entered
as second class matter at the post
office of Chapel Hill, N. O, under act
of March 3, 1879.. Subscription price,
14.00 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. v
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.
v W. Blackwell, Morrie Long, Tom
Walker, William McKee, W. E.
Davis, William Blount, Jack Riley.
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas B.
Broughton.
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 Janofsky, S. A. Wil
kins, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell,
A. C. Barbee, R. J. Somers, Frank
Thompson. jj
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.
Thursday, February 18, 1932
Stalin's Death
To Free Speech v
In these hard times of gloom
and depression, when the capi
talist, competitive system as at
present operated has so pal
pably and utterly failed and the
x whole industrial ;world is rav
aged by the two-edged sword of
overproduction and unemploy
ment, it is only natural that feel
ings of protest and anger, of
Carlylean "Indignation and De
fiance," are engendered toward a
debilitated economic order. It
, is, furthermore, inevitable that
these sentiments are doubly and
trebly sharpened by recent ten
dencies, as evidenced amply in
the Kentucky coal mines affair,
to limit or suppress completely
ahd brutally the traditional
right of free speech.
A swing toward radicalism is
a perhaps logical consequence of
these developments. Especially
is this true at a time when radi
calism offers herself in so insist
ent and militant and tempting
a form as that of Communism,
whose concise formulae and un
mistakably clear-cut policies
compare favorably with the pon
dering and floundering of the
rest of the world in its morass
of economic discord and devas
tation. Nevertheless, a word of warn
ing is not amiss in the presence
of this strong and heady wine
from Russia. However at once
idealistic and concrete the Com
munist plan of salvation may be,
the truth remains that, this plan
includes as a salient and even
necessary feature the idea of
, dictatorship and absolutism, of
freedom from the obstructive
opposition of dissenting capital
ist or liberal parties, j? or Lenin
secured power in the hectic days
of 1917 with the slogan of "The
Dictatorship of the Proletari
ate" ; Stalin has since facilitated
and eased the functioning of the
Russian government through
ruthlessly and methodically ex
iling, subverting, or punishing
political rivals ; and the G. P. U.
(the Secret Police) of Commun
ist Russia puts to shame the
erstwhile police administration
of the Czars. Although the free
dom and fearless expression of
political and social views may be
difficult and dangerous in capi
talist America, it is impossible
or disastrous in Communist Rus
sia. Granted all the bright claims
of Bolshevists, the principles,
openly avowed or implicit in
their idealogy, of class dictator
ship, of authoritative suppres
sion of free speech, and of a con
structive but one-sided govern
mental propaganda, can hardly
be denied to possess a somewhat
sinister significance. They
should certainly be given more
than a merely negligible consid
eration when we are invited to
hearken to Communism and be
lieve on its creed. If the world
is to be saved, whether by some
form of radicalism or not, it is
the hope of many that absolute
freedom of speech will never
have to be sacrificed therefor,,
either temporarily or permanent
ly. K.P.Y.
Combining Education
And Diplomacy
A tremendous need lies ahead
of the American student in the
perpetuation of friendship with
the Latin American student, not
solely as a definite step in the
progress of world peace and
harmony, but as the foundation
for a future understanding in
matters of political and eco
nomic import between two fac
tions that will soon take up the
reins of government. v
The chief medium of contact
between scholars of the two
Americas is the system of ex
change students and the en
dowment of scholarships in
both Latin American universi
ties and institutions of this
country. In the twelfth annual
report of the director of the In
stitute of International Educa
tion, it was revealed that the
Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace had made an
allotment of $4,000 to the In
stitute in order to enable it to
invite a group of Chilean schol
ars to visit" the United States
during the spring.
Records of the Institute indi
cate that the majority of His
panic American scholars are
sent to eastern institutions and
that a very small number attend
Southern universities. This
may be due to the more or less
unique provincialism that was
once a quality of the Southern
educational institution, and
which for a while was repellant
to the foreign student. With
the expansion of graduate
schools and the elevation of
scholastic standards in South
ern institutions, the atmos-
phere is more attractive to the
foreign student. South Ameri
can governments are quick . to
take advantage of opportunities
for exchange and might well
take an interest in the founding
of scholarships in southern uni
versities. D.C.S.
Call The
Police
With the problem of cheat
ing growing at its present terri
fying rate it is incumbent upon
the student body to take immed
iate and drastic steps to discour
age and abolish unmoral and il
legal academic success. The
exact extent of cheating at a
college is impossible to ascer
tain but the failure to remedy
such a situation is to endanger
the very morals and scholastic
success of honest men and wo
men. There is an old saying
about, our system to the effect
that the teachers have the
honor and the students the sys
tem. To judge from the recent
outbursts on the part of fac
ulty and student body it appears
that the truth of this statement
cannot be changed by higher
education or southern chivalry.
The University is a very real
part of the state which supports
and conducts it. Primarily an
institution for the training of
the state's youth for the higher
positions in public and private
;life, this school is both in theory
and fact an organic and vital
part of the state. With the vital
connection of the school and the
state in mind let us consider the
marrwho peeks on his neigh
bor's quiz or writes dates on his
sleeve. He is not committing
merely an ethical wrong and
frustrating the aims of educa
tion, worse than that he is oc
cupied in injuring the standing
of a' fellow citizen if the helper
is unaware of the cheating and
if it is a two party deed both
men are guilty of conspiracy.
One or both men are obtaining
creditsfrom the state thru the
school which they do not de
serve and hence are guilty of
treason. If they sign the pledge
the additional crime of perjury
must be charged to them. .
The enormity of the crime
ahd the punishments to which
the culprit lays himself open
are two excellent reasons for
the speedy termination of the
canker knawing at the very
heart of higher education. The
solution is a simple one and
seems the most likely one to re
move the great threat. The ap
plication of the state laws deal
ing with the crimes of conspir
acy to defraud, treason, and
perjury wrould place the guilty
where they could do no more
cheating. Let the tempted
scholar know that a weakening
will put him behind the bars for
twenty years the percentage of
honest students will rapidly in
crease. Adopt the same pro
cedure to cope with drinking,
vagrancy, and other offenses
and when our collegiate crim
inal element is in durance vile
the residue of ten or twelve
men will represent the pride
and joy of the state. J.F.A.
SPEAKING
the
CAMPUS MIND
An Alumnus
Advises -
Permit an humble alumnus
and ex-TAR Heel staff member
to suggest a plan. You. know
we are full of plans these days.
The big plan now is to raise
more money for the Loan Fund
to keep fellows in the Univer
sity. It can be done. Let's agree
on that first. There are two
plans that will, I believe, swell
the general Loan Fund at Caro
lina : one way I suggest is to es
tablish, immediately, a Student
Foundation Fund. Invite every
living University alumnus to
join . . . immediately, by pay
ment of an annual membership
contribution of one dollar. It
will be a great co-operative
foundation established by each
Carolina alumnus who pays one
dollar each year to keep alive
and perpetuate this fund wThich
will grow as time goes on. Ask
each man who has ever been a
Carolina student and who loves
the University (and I hate to
think there is one living who
does not) to simply give one dol
lar now to establish this Fund.
Give him a membership card,
have his name engrossed in the
Charter Members Book and
placed in the archives of the
University for future genera
tions to see.
Plan number two ought to
work also: have prominent Uni
versity men all over the state
who are members of Lions and
Kiwanis and Rotary organiza
tions and other such bodies to
stage special affairs . to raise
money for this fund. Such or
ganizations are keenly aware of
the fountain head of power that
lie- in the University and its
student body, and they know
that when they help University
students they have made a gilt
edge investment. These are
special times now, and they de-v
mand special methods.
The establishment of a
Greater Student Fund now,
without delay, and of swelling
j the one already under way, is
1
The Low-Dowm
.. Bij -
G. R. Berryman
CHEATING PROFESSORS
Is there any sane reason why
all members of the faculty should
not observe the honor system?
It is an apparent fact that they,
not the students, are the ones
who make of the system a huge
joke.
The professor who seats the
members of his class ten feet
apart and then nervously wrig
gles between the aisles during
a ten minute quiz is as much a
violator of the honor system as
the student who copies from
the notes on his starched cuff.
Yet, who ever heard of a pro
fessor being shipped for non
observance of the code.
Tom Jones comes to Chapel
Hill from a little country high
school where cheating is regard
ed as a major sport. (Student
councilers and teachers vs. stu
dents). Reaching the University
Jones is prepared to "put away
childish things." "I am now a
man and a scholar," he says to
himself. Imagine his consterna-
vitally important. It will not be
easy, we know that, but we also
know that if Carolina alumni
can be made to see the urgent
necessity of this movement to
assist students who ask for a
lift now and who will repay in
full, many fold, later, we know
that no true son of the Univer
sity wiH turn a selfish ear to the
voice of his Alma Mater in this
time of .its need. We don't need
to get sentimental over it; all
we need to do is to underwrite
this Fund with the simple gift
of one dollar for each man. I be
lieve "the class, of '26 will do its
part. I am ready to do my bit.
C. W. BAZEMORE, '26.
1 W 77
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To keep telephone service in step with the
swift pace of American life, Bell System men
tackle many an absorbing problem, find many
an ingenious solution.
For instance, they decided that pre
cious seconds could be saved by a change in
long-established operating routine. The ,
operator used to repeat the number called
by the subscriber now she indicates that
A NATION WIDE SYSTEM OF INTERCONNBCTIN
tion to discover, in apparently
enlightened institution, condi
tions identical to those of his
prep school daysi.
The professor who slimes his
way about during a quiz indi
cates to his class that he ex
pects cheating and rarely is he
disappointed. In such a case
an honest student feels under
no compulsion to report any
cheating he may see. He feels
that the prof essor has appoint
ed himself a committee of one
to prevent cheating. "Very well
then," concludes the honest stu
dent, "he can have the job. His
actions insinuate that L myself,
may cheat if unobserved, s& to
hell with him! I wouldn't re
port a violation of the system
to save his nauseous soul."
There will always be a cer
tain percentage of cheaters.- It
is admitted-that no honor sys
tem on earth can compel them
to play straight. They either
have no moral fiber to speak of,
or else their minds are so moral
ly distorted that the idea of hon
or to them seems sissy or even
humorous. If the honor system
is not strictly observed by the
faculty these students will con
tinue to do as much cheating as
they can while the professor's
back is turned. Jf the system is
strictly adhered to by the fac
ulty, soon, among the upper
strata of the students will de
velop such an antagonism to this
class of parasites that they may
soon be made to conform by rea
son of popular opinion, or else
they may be reported and, thus,
eradicated.
The Pledge
The , pledge, as every intelli
gent students knows, is a super
fluous bit of ornamentation. To
suppose that a person will cheat
but will not then lie and, in a
pledge, declare that he did not
cheat is an inconsistency that I
am surprised is not more appar-
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Keeping
ahead
of the second
she understands by saying, "Thank you."
To appreciate the importance of the
second thus saved, just multiply it by the
40,000,000 conversations handled by oper
ators on the average day.
In the telephone business, major improve
ments that save the subscriber's time and
give him better service often result from just
such apparently minof changes. '
BELL SYSTEM
Brief Facts
Evidence that our Stone
Age ancestors slept in stone
beds has been obtained hy
Professor V. G. Childe, of the
University of Edinburgh.
The University of Hava:;i,
was opened, February 15.
1730.
Harvard university has the
largest endowment of any o
lege in, the United States,
$108,087,473.
A trained angaroo was re
cently the feature of a sociery
ball in London.
Us Democrats are enthusias
tic about cutting the budget,
especially as it's been going
mostly to Republicans, anyhow.
Dallas Neics.
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