North Carolina Newspapers

Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, February 27, 193 kL)z Dailp Ear Ijeel The cScial newspaper of t&e Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rhere it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Cnrist aas, End Spring Holidays. Entered ts second class matter at the post cflce of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act cf llarch 3, 1879. Subscription price, (4X3 for the college year. Oflces 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 Yarborongh, Sid ney Rosen. - FOEEIGN NEWS BOARD E. C. 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-V Joseph Sugar man; - W. R. Eddlemari; Vermont Royster. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, 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- iow, A. T. DiU, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Gialanella, W. D. McKee,- Harold Janofsky, S. A. Wil N kins, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell, A. C. Barbee, R. J. Somers, Frank Thompson, M. V. Barnhill, W. S. Rosenthal, C S. Mcintosh. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. T ..- BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ' ants : - R. D. McMillan, 1 Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ' - ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Jimmy Allen manager; assistants: H. A. Clark, Howard Manning r Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Dudley Jennings. "'' " - COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow; manager; assistants Ran dolph Reynolds, Joe Webb, Jim Cordon. ;u ' " r" "' Saturday, February 27, 1932 Borah, For President! Pinchot, big business, Penn sylvania Republican, is exercis ing his influence in trying to get smooth tongued, foreign affairs committee, bimetallistic Borah to run on the Republican ticket for the presidency. The public is suffering gen erally from the illusion that Borah is an enlightened and powerful liberal There seems to be little to substantiate this belief. For a number of years this man has flaunted his ignor ance with a platant self-assurance which is downright amaz ing. The day of sentimentality and soft lush sentiment in the White House is past. The president of the United States should be a mair with extraordinary intelli- gence and insight into both na tional . and international prob lems. The president should be a man of courage and independ ent intellectual vigour. If Borah manifests any of these charac teristics, he does so without let- i ting the world know about it. Mr. Borah's stand on bimetal lism is silly. ' If he were to study ' the' banking situation he would discover that the need is not for more coin, there is plenty of gold in our vaults but for the liberation of that gold. Under taking "the silver standard would merely mean the flight of gold, the wolrd's oldest and most proveri monetary metal, from this country, leaving us the worse for it. As a banking ex pert Mr. BOrah leaves much to be desired. ' - In foreign affairs, Mr. Borah's forte, presumably, his remarks on thd Polish Corridor last fall made all of Europe laugh con descendingly at his naivete. More recently Mr. Borah's pro crastination and empty verbiage have allowed Japan to plunge itself into an insane predicament and China in a worse one. In picking out its president the nation must cold shoulder silver tongued mouth pieces of big business, all hay seed eccen- . tries, all bought-and-paid-for- politicians, and "seek out a man whose training in economics and political philosophy and foreign relations will be adequate to meet the most critical national problems that have faced this country. There is no assurance, of course, that he will be found, but at best , the voters of the American commonwealth can ex ercise their influence in weeding out those candidates that are ob viously nottted for national leadership.R.W.B. Not, Enough Small Towns ... A question that should be of considerable interest nowadays concerns the position of the small town in the increasingly urban civilization of the United States. Especially ought this problem to attract the attention of the students of a university in this state, as North Carolina hitherto has been conspicuously a "small town" state, a state of few great cities but a scattered multitude of local " centers for life's various activities. Even in the rural south, Virginia has had her Richmond and her Norfolk, South Carolina her Charleston, and Qeorgia her At lantapopulous cities all; with North Carolina state-wide or even large regional metropolises have until the present been ab sent or unimportant. In a transformed and industrialized New South our entire immunity to metropolitan' influence can hardly be expected to survive. Even so, those who are native to the small town or who favor ably regard it (for these are not always the same) need not de spair. Economic prophets are not lacking who predict its con tinuance in a somewhat modified form, and, while prophecies of a return to country and small town life on a nation-wide scale must be regarded as uncertain and hazardous- at present, the more moderate prophets justify their assertion with plausible and reasonable arguments. Thus, the ease of modern transporta tion stimulates the growth of manufacturing in the towns as well as in the city, it is pointed out; the widespread distribution of cheap power facilitates this tendency; and if the city be comes more than eVer the com mercial, political, and cultural center of American life, this change implies only the surren der of the town to urban lead ership, not its passing away. It is probable, in fact, that the subjection of the small town in cultural and other fields to urban arid cosmopolitan supremacy win serve to remove many of the undesirable if perhaps interest ing features of small town life. Such agencies , as the movie, the automobile, arid the radio should combine with metropolitan as cendancy to broadeny deprovin- cialize, and liberalize the society ahd prejudices arid customs of the town, arid in general destroy any of its unpleasant arid back ward characteristics, while per mitting the preservation of its more agreeable qualities. If the small town is strengthened in dustrially and enabled to conT tinue its eednoriiic existence, arid at the same time bettered cul turally and sociologically, its advantages as & place of resi dence may compare satisfac torily in the future with those of the large city, even by mod ern standards.- K.P.Y. Cultivating Disrespect The campaign of The Daily Tar Heel for action to remedy the present state of the honor system at the University has brought action from some quar - ters and comments from many. Students have been stirred to a new considering of the system that is different from f ormerre flections in that it is serious. But the reaction of many stu dents to the proposed pledge to report cheaters is startling. They state flatly that they are not in favor of it, saying that it makes no difference to them if others cheat. This attitude is peculiar and a storm of controversy at Wash is a reaction from ' tlu , excess ington and throughout the cheating that has been going on. I northwest. The student news It is a protective waif of indif-'paper has flayed the ultimatum ference. built up by thcze who, ! of its own administration, with not willing to cheat themselves, I commendable courage. The see no remedy for the wholesale Seattle press has hinted that the cheating' of others under the interesting talk of Mr. Eddy has present system. ' But this attitude is essentially wrong. There are several rea sons. In classes where the grad ing is on a comparative basis, honest students are actually hav ing their grades lowered. Cheating recognized and per mitted, hurts the University. It lowers the faith of people of the state in the institution where such an obnoxious habit is per mitted. And for many of the students themselves the feeling of respecet is necessarily lower ed. Respect for an institution to which one belongs is based on and is an outgrowth of faith in and esteem of the members. Who can esteem or have any basis of faith in students who lie and cheat? - If comparisons are odious, the deductions from comparisons are even more so. Transfer stu dents draw conclusions that are far fetched but have enough rea son or basis to make them very palatable when recounted back; home. One such student stated on occasion that the honor sys tem will not work in North Carolina. The state is paying large sums to provide the means for ; education. Each student costs the state a surprisingly large amount. Those that are not fit mentally and morally to take advantage of . the opportunity, offered should be eliminated to make room for those that are. Permitting men with the wrong slant on lying and cheat ing to continue and thrive here is idiotic. With the veneer of knowledge and culture they im bide in spite of themselves they will be able to assume positions of relative importance in later life To assure himself of the right attitude ori this question of era dicating cheating one must con sider it comprehensively. One must not permit petty prefer- ?er There was. nothing ences and illogical ideas to bias!1" the whole thing which merit- i,; tt tt ed such news treatment. It was him. i. ri. , . , ... entirely unrepresentative of con With Contemporaries A Sorry Retrogression "No speaker will be allowed to speak on the campus at an open assembly if he intends to attack the state of national gov ernment, -specific individuals, or the university itself. The university emphatically does not want so-called 'Red' speeches on the campus." . It is hard to believe that the above ultimatum could issue from the lips of a present-day college president, commonly looked upon as the very standard-bearer of liberal thinking in its fight to educate a narrow minded world. v ' Yet only last week President M. Lyle Spencer laid down that dogmatic decree at the Univer sity of Washington, considered a leader of education in the northwest. At least, until now it has been so regarded. Whether it can hold its standing after this distinct backward step remains to be seen. Dr. Spencer's statement was i inspired by an address of Sher- wood Eddy, well-known traveler and author of socialistic beliefs, delivered to the students of Washington last week. Mr. Eddy has been heard with en thusiasm by faculty and stu dents of both Stanford and California. He is , a Yale grad uate and holds a degree from Princeton. It is gratifying to note that Dr. Spencer's action has aroused sent Washington university leaders "running for coyer." The Daily is not condemning or approving either socialism or capitalism. Nor is it attempting to solve the problems of the University of Washington. It is, however, "viewing with genuine regret the attempt of a college ! president at a fellow Pacific coast institution to coddle his students in an incubator with apparent sincerity in believing them too weak mentally and morally to hear all and decide for themselves. Stanford Daily. The. Power Of The Press University of Nebraska stu dents had a highly personal ex perience with the "power of the press" recently when an incident occuring in the institution which they attend was paraded in streamers and black v headlines on the front pages of Nebraska newspapers. ? The actual incident was this : One man, a former student, was nabbed in a university building while in possession of a small quantity of intoxicating liquor. Whereas such an incident would call forth, at the most, only a small news item had it happened to anyone else, any where else, (with certain quali fied exceptions, of course) , it was in this case enough to send city editors hog wild over copy and play on the story. Students have every right to feel hostile toward a press which gives their institution such; treatment. It is .nothing but plain fact to say that the stories relating to the case. creat ed an entirely distorted impres sion of the university and the students who attend it. Many jPf yer e state'undoubtedly axtacnea unaue signmcance to the episode, solely because of the "play" which metropolitan pa- ditions which exist. It was un just. On deeper reflection another element lenters in. There is a reading public which bought and read those papers. Street circulation sales jumped upward because of the story. Students have a just right to feel critical of a reading public which reacts positively to such printed mat ter. Students on the campus understand that life at the Uni versity of Nebraska is not one of "rum" and "drinking parties." The difficulty is that for many people the impression which they received f roiri the stories concerning the raid in the coliseum will be the one most vivid wheriever they think of the University of Nebraska. Despite the facts in the story it self they will have been influ enced by the "play" and "color which the story Was given. The whole affair is typical of a gross miscarriage of fair play on the part of an influential element in Nebraska's press. Daily Ne braskan. An Educated Point of View By a perUsal of the education al conferences held recently in England one might think there are as many ideals of education as there are teachers. But amid the diversity of opinion there stands out two leading ideas that of training for citizenship, and that of training for self ex pression or individuality. As a matter of emphasis, it has been said that "individual ity, rather than sociality, is the need of the moment." A mem- ber of a tribe cannot do his duty to the tribe unless he does his duty as a man. But perhaps this tribal instinct has been oyer emphasized in education; it has been venerated as "tradition" as "social service", as "patriot ism" all excellent qualities, but capable of becoming stereo typed and of being understood in too narrow a sense. The self preserving instinct of intensely nationalistic states has tended, consciously or un consciously, to impose a nation al culture on its future citizens. Even the noble educational ideal of Plato, an influence on thinkers of all times, seek to produce a type of community culture which would be self sufficient and exclusive. The sacredness of being an Italian is deliberately fostered by the Far cist ideal of education. x It would be less necessary to keep hammering at the doctrine of peace if the conception of a world society of civilized hu mans were more firmly rooted. Universal thought is the accept ed background of any peace doc ument. Unable to separate the indi vidual from the society to which he belongs, nationally and local ly, the educationist sliould con cern himself with building, on top of these loyalties, a broader interest in the wide history of civilization. Syracuse Daily Orange. Antiquated Student Government The idea that a class presi dent is a class president is ab surd. He is an officer elected by a few hundred of several thous and eligible voters. ! His in fluence extends only over the , small group, that he can draw to a single polling place on a cam ; pus large enough to need at least j half a dozen polling places. Students comprising the com bined enrollment of the colleges of agriculture, commerce, ' en gineering, and fine and applied arts represent one of the largest groups in the university. . Yet the part played by this group in (election of class officers is small, ifor convenient polling places are ; entirely absent, campus election procedure is comparatively un known and campus parties do not invite the presence of a group of students too large for them to handle for particular lends. Students in the colleges of liberal arts and sciences do not have the problem of distance from the polls, but they are handicapped by a lack of knowl edge of election methods and a distrust of the existing political machines. The college of law should have an organization separate from that of the other colleges because it is composed of a body of older students whose interests differ greatly from those of the main student body. The only voting place on the campus is in the Union building, and under the thumbs of the venerable Old Line party. Few of the students who have voted at class elections in past years have known anything of the of ficers for whom they cast their votes; they have voted almost entirely in fraternity and soror ity blocks. A few incidents re veal the character of such vot ing. Girls of a prominent Mathews street sorority were the puzzled but pleased recipients of a five pound box of candy the other day. Strangely, they failed en tirely to connect a none too as tute senior politician donor with the forthcoming election. The classic coup d'etat on the intelligence of our co-ed elector ate occurred a few years ago. During a closely contested elec tion (they are not that .way anymore), a senior politician simulated a rival's voice over the telephone, and a few minutes later another trustful sorority on Vermont near Lincoln de scended' upon the Union en masse and voted the wrong side to give it the necessary margin for victory. The class officer elected under such conditions is not represen tative nf the students of hie class. It is not to be expected uuinie win ue aiwuuve w uieir social or scholastic interests. His prime duty is to divide the spoils of office as evenly as possible amongst the small group of henchmen who put,him over. From the character of past and present class officers, it is exists not even a minute connec tion between them and the large body of students. That such men should be known as. representatives class officers ' 1 ' 1 Ti 1 XI A. it- - IS riuicuious. it is ciear uiat wie present system of student gov ernment has not grown with the university. Its existence can not be justified if students will put it to the test of reason. Other universities throughout the country are ridding them selves of gadfly political sys tems and are reorganizing under systems which can adequately supply the needs of large stu dent groups. Our student or ganization is a relic of the past which has no defined use at the present other than the personal gratification of a few men who are known as campus politicians, and who in most cases, are un known otherwise. Daily IUinL Success at Chicago, The striking success, after 1 1 i . t i. ii lour montns; iriai, ox xne new; university of Chicago last .fall, a plan, which, does away with the mossy, time-honored system ot mQ1oG DvorrtinofiMio on1 rv- pulsory class attendance, and substituted for it the strength of the will of students to gain knowledge; for its own sake, should revolutionize college an i university systems throughout America. For too long campuses over the-country have been mere "drill grounds" where the aver age student shirks studying a& much as possible until "dead week" and then, by dint of con centrated effort and too many cups of strong coffee, manages j to pass the three-hour examinar tions, which, if passed, allow him to proceed to" the next higher class, and repeat the practice. I This evil, for evil it is, has long been recognized by the leading colleges, but so strong I has been the fear of innovations in educational systems, and so certain have educators been that students leaving the ordinary four years of preparatory school training either will not know how to work "on their own," or I will not work if not forced to. that, not until last fall didan American institution have the temerity to attempt a form of the system which for so many years has been graduating lead ers from universities in Eng land and Germany. (Continued on page three) Brief Facts About the year 330 B.C.. wAj4iiS auvc was x meuiuu of capital punishment. ' Professors C. Ortigas and L. Gonzaga of the University of the Philippines have suc cessfully demonstrated the use of coconut oil as a fuel in Disel engines. Portugal has had a budget surplus for three successive; years. ' . The United States is Ger- many's best customer for musical instruments. - ' The ancient Hindus ex celled in surgery, their meth od of operating for cataracts still being used.