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tage Two THE DAILY TAB HEEL Sunday, February 21, l9Ji GI;e Dnilp Car r;sel The eScial newspaper cf tfee Publi cations Union Board of the University cf North Carolina at Cfcapel Hill where it is priated daily except Mon days and tae Thanksgiving, Christ mas. and Serine Holidays. Entered ts second class matter at the post cSce of Chapel Hill, N. O, under act cf March 8, 1879. Subscription price, $4X0 for the college year. OSees on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan... Editor Ed FrenchManaging 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. a Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley. W. R. Woerner. Elmer Oet tinger, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Claiborn Carr, Charles Poe. FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, T. W. Blackwell, E. H., Morrie Long, Joseph Sugarman, W. R. Eddleman, Vermont Royster, Donoh Hanks. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, Tom Walker, William McKee, W. E. Davis, William Blount, Jack Riley. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas H. 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 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. Worth. ' .. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Jimmy Allen, manager; assistants: J H. A. Clark, Howard Manning; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Joe Webb. Dudlev Jennings. dolph Reynolds, R. H. Lewis, Jim " - Sunday, February 21, 1932 Knowledge Or A Phi Beta Key ? Too much credit is being given college students for making good grades. Grades are good things when not prized highly. But when a large premium is placed upon them, they become precious jewels. Students pay more at tention to them, and as a result put more time on making an "A" or a "B" than on doing research work. The tangible things of life, the pupils seem to enjoy most, for getting the fact that "those things that are unseen are etern al." They much prefer making a high mark something they can look at and admire to the unseen yet quite evident knowl edge gained through intelligent reading and outside study. In this mad rush for grades, the students study only those items which the - professors are likely to ask on a quiz, or give i mn til on an examination, mey nil their heads with bare, unrelated facts knowing that such knowl edge will be required J or the ex amination. Because of the scarcity of time allotted for the examinations the professors are unable to give anything more than a mere smattering of the ' courses. And in an attempt to cover the entire subject matter as best they can, the instruc tors make out brief questions which the students will be able to answer in the given time. Securing a knowledge of these facts requires nothing more than doggedly performing the daily tasks assigned by the pro fessors. No delving below the surface is required to find them, and no thought is required to express them. A machine-like mind that can grind off facts galore can make the good grades with facility. No think ing process is needed merely a . remembrance of facts. In four years these machine like minds graduate with high honors ; they go out into' the world and wonder why the facts so essential in college do them no good in securing a job. They had worked all along for grades and had paid no attention to re search or extra study. Had their professors graded them on the basis of merely passing or fail- ing with a "P" or an "F," or a probable 4H" for exceptional work, these students would have thought little about the grades they were making. They would have forgotten what their "av erage" was for their 'courses. They would have forgotten how many more "As" they needed to make Phi Beta Kappa, or how many more "C's" they could make and still wear the charm. Their sole interest would have been in the course work itself, in the research work, and in the parallel reading. But good grades paid higher dividends, and the temptation was too great. C.G.R. The College President An American Institution According to H. J. Laski in a recent article in Harper's Month ly, the university president of the American type is an unde sirable feature in academic life. He embodies too many powers. Rare, indeed, is the person en dowed with the talent essential to the administering of all those duties imposed upon the college president. The average presi dent can hardly be expected at one and the same time to be a skilf ull executive, a good judge of academic reputation, suffici ently aware of academic devel opments as to know which re quire financial emphasis, an ef fective beggar among rich men and a person of such standing in the general community as to win respect for the university by the public pronouncements he Yet all these offices are filled 8 by the president, for it is through him that the trustees receive their information and upon his advice that they act. One important phase of the problem is the relation of the president to academic freedom. His policy is forced upon the other members of the faculty, for he holds the whip-hand. lUpon him rests the "power to promote or demote a professor. For this reason a teacher is un able to give true expression to the substance within him, arid must, "tread carefully in the ap proved path if he wants to be certain of moving upward in the hierarchy." It is surprising that such a system should have remained so long in existence. This is due partly to oversight on the part of thinking men; partly to the inability of teachers to expose the conditions; and partly to the large number of presidents so! strong in character as to fulfill their numerous duties admir ably. The many weak presidents-are obscured in the haze of glory surrounding such names as Eliot of Harvard, Hadley of Yale, Harper of Chicago, whose indelible stamp upon the intel lectual life of American civili zation seems ample justification for the system. All men are not super-men, and it is unwise to impose the criteria of the majority upon the vast majority. The system is at fault that allows one man the I control of many. This policy shakes the foundation of free dom. The division of duties would remedy the situation and allow presidents a greater op portunity to pursue more nat ural inclinations, thereby aug menting their contributions to the attainment of a more liberal standard of education. L.P. Alfalfa Bill in William Jennings' Shoes If history runs true to form, 1932 should see a great deal of impassioned oratory and fervid political activity. With every depression comes a horde of blazing-eyed, long-haired gentle men who parade, our land and with vigorous gestures and flam ing words assert that the time is out of joint and that they were born of God to get it right. Our history has been full of these demagogues; Jackson, Ben But ler, Pitchf ord Ben Tillman, Sock less Jerry Simpson,' Brick Pom- eroy, Ignatius Donnelly, and the great Bryan himself men of all degrees of intelligence and all shades of honesty. The most successful demagogues, men like Jackson and Bryan, were en tirely sincere and entirely hon est. Many of the others have wished to capitalize on the dis content, of the people arising from their economic hardships. But the one characteristic of them all is their subordination of thought to mere popular ap peal. They are the ranters, the Flag-wavers, the Home-and-Mother boys, the Bloated-Plutocrat and Starving-Worker : howl ers. Out of the tremendous suffer ing of these times should arise a particularly virulent crop of demagogues. We already have one notable example of the spe cies in Alfalfa Bill Murray of Oklahoma. He has all the char acteristics; the drooping mus tache, the ostentatious plebeian ism, and the nickname. Before the fall elections we should have many more of his kind parading the land and with impassioned speech setting forth everything from currency reform to com munism as the immediate pana cea of all our economic ills. So far in America the coun try as a whole has rarely taken these men seriously. Not since the Civil War has any out and out demagogue attained to the presidency or to any office of great power. Bryan and Blaine, the silver-tongued orators, each spent a lifetime trying to reach the presidency and failed. Green backism and free silver were flatly refused by the people. Thus far those leaders of social istic and communistic thought who have tended to demagogu ery have been treated more as jokes than as inspired leaders. Our much talked of common sense has saved us time and again. As the elections of the next few years approach, how ever, the injustices of our pres ent economic arrangement are so manifest, the suffering of the people is so intense that there is some danger that in the blind passion aroused by their misery they may be caught up by some powerful but thoughtless dema gogue and force him and his pol i icies upon the country. And it j is a danger most carefully to be j guarded against, for now above j all times is sane and careful j thought needed in the operation of our government. However, the demagogues of the past have had a most bene ficial effect upon the nation. The more powerful they become, the more the leaders of the substan tial elements were forced to pay attention to their demands. If the reforms put forward by the insurgents were good, such as railroad control and the direct election of senators, the leaders of the regular parties were forc ed to adopt them as their own in order to hold their followers. If they were foolish, like the un limited issuance of greenbacks and the free coinage of silver, the leaders were forced to think hard and fast and adopt some constructive policy which would remove the grievance and keep the country from turning to the ruinous proposals of the Weav ers and Bryans. A powerful third party or insurgent move ment today would probably do a world of good by forcing the leaders of our old parties to de vote all their energies and thought to the solution of the pressing problems touching the welfare of the lower classes. A mighty demagogue like Donnel ly or Bryan would ' drive the powers of the Democratic and Republican parties to swift and probably salutary action. We must be on our guards to day to see that the demagogues do not gain power in our coun try; but until they do, let them rave, and more power to them. D.M.L. ' - With I Contemporaries Discredited Institution. Disgrace To the State- , r The University of South come is ?2500.00 or more. Sev Carolina and other institutions entyix per cent say that their of higher learning in this state families cannot bear all their will be dropped from the list of j college expenses at the present all accredited colleges and uni-1 rate. Many of them borrow the versities unless adequate ap-(monev to heln to nav their way propriations are given them by the state legislature. If such a thing takes place, it will be an everlasting disgrace to the illustrious old state of South Carolina. And such jthinS is oi.n2 take Pkcelra- lers something is done about it immediately. "Scores of boys and girls who seek to enter first-class colleges from South Carolina high schools would be refused admis sion, because their schools had too small a proportion of teach ers from approved institutions, if the reduced appropriations re main," stated Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, dean emeritus of the university school of education, in an address before joint ses sion of the legislature Wednes day. We see here that the reduced appropriations will not only re- : suit in disaster to the colleges and universities in this state, but also to the young people who expect to enter college. And it will bring shame and disgrace to the parents of these young people. The education of the sons and daughters of the poor is the prime considerations of the edu cational policy of the state of South Carolina and of the state J institutions of higher learning. Of the total number of fresh men at the University of South If You Really Appreciate Fine Pictures You can not afford to miss Any of these Out of the Lap of the Gods into the Heart of the World. - CONSTANCE iENNETT m 'Lady With a Past' with BEN LYON Mistress of Modernism! .... In exciting drama of the Walter Winchel Ladies and Gentlemen who Love from Park Avenue to Paris Boulevards. OTHER FEATURES Smith and Dale Comedy "Arabian Shieks" . Disney Cartoon "Fishing Around" : Paramount Sound News MONDAY It Must Be Seen to Be Believed ! Unbelievable people gathered from the ends of the earth to enact a thrilling drama of love and hate! No picture ever like it! As tense and novel . a drama as the screen has produced! , "FREAKS" with Wallace Ford Olga Baclanova TUESDAY 3 GEORGE ARLISS 1 Nothing INA CLAIRE JOAN BLONDELL in "The Greeks Had a Word for Them" FRIDAY Carolina, thirty-four per cent of the men come from homes where the total income of the en tire family is $1000.00 per year or less. Fifty-nine per cent come from homes where the to- i ----- twenty-one per Ifrom homes where the total m- I v 4k A r and others get work after school. If the higher institutions of learning in this state become discredited, their diplomas will be worthless. It would then be no use for the sons and daugh ters of poor people to struggle to attend South Carolina's in stitutions. They cannot go out of the state for an education be cause of the lack of funds. Only the sons and daughters of the wealthy could do so. And most of them do this now. A large percentage of the outstanding men of the state at the present time are men whose education would have been im probable if not impossible if the ALSO 6 5x7 Photos in Folder $ 4 Proofs (1 Hand Colored) MAIN ST. SIDNEY FOX ?llit c?ter of "STRICTLY DISHONOR ABLE" Screens to new heights in this amazing story of Sister against Sister in a battle of Love. , in "Nice Women" with RUSSELL GLEASON '" WEDNESDAY "THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD" we can say will add to its glories wnie 11s praise witn joys and tears. with VIOLETY HEMING BETTE DAVIS ' THURSDAY 4 state of South Carolina in the past had not adopted a policy af state supported colleges with a minimum of expenses- to tbe student. However, if the legislature and the people of this state wish, to bring shame and disgrace to the state and to themselves, let them go ahead with the reduce! appropriations and bring the colleges and universities ints (Continued on page three) Brief Facts The United, States is both the greatest importer and the great est exporter of copper in the world. The word "and" occurs 46,227 times in the Bible while the word "reverend" occurs but once. The United States Bureau of Standards has discovered three new kinds of sugars in the roots of dandelions, golden rod, dah lias, and chicory. - . The 1931 wheat crop of Czechoslovakia was nearly one fourth greater than that of 1930. Special Mid-Winter-3 8x10 Photos (1 Hand Colored) . DURHAM A Publix Kincey Theatre $1.00 .95 o. , . rz$g .,.,.w few'- '.x;?riwjff$s , 3 lit! ''-sfgrt' 't . ::.. 1 j. r" ""'"""' 0mmmyVW"'' mm -A CHARLIE CHAPLIN in "CITY LIGHTS" SATURDAY
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