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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, March: 5", r93 tfte Datlp Ear Ipeel The ofkial newspaper of the Pobli cations Union Board of the University cf North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jthere it is printed daily except Mon days and 'i the ' Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and' Springr Holidays. Entered as second clas3 matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C 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, B. W. Barnett, Henderson Heyward, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, Sid ney Rosen. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD E. C. Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Claiborn Carr, Charles Poe. , FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, T. W. Blackwell, E. H., Joseph Sugar man, W. R. Eddleman, Vermont Royster. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, Tom Walker, William McKee, W. E. Davis, W. R. Woerner, Jack Riley. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas fl. 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, Frank Thompson, M. V. Barnhill, . W. S. Rosenthal, C. S. Mcintosh. 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, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, Joe Webb, Jim Cordon, Agnew Bahnson. Saturday, March 5, 1932 Tear Buckets Turned Over Splattering screaming head lines in letters two inches high across their front pages, the na tional and state press shelved the Sino-Japanese debacle this week to pay homage to the lat- Hot News, the now famed kid naping of the Linbergh baby. newspaper art on the Lone Eagle's family, his exploits, and the adventures of the distracted mother during her college days glares from every page. Photo graphers, interviewers, report ers, and sob sisters are hastily corraled and hurried to the scene of the crime, and the forthcoming editions of metro politan dailies burst forth in heartbroken sobs of grief. Maine newspapers' announce in extra editions that the kidnappers are heading toward Maine, while Virginia papers shout that a black roadster bearing a scream ing child is heading for the North Carolina border, all in the vein as if to arouse the citi zenry to meet the abductor at the state line armed with shot guns. State papers printed and are still printing five or more lead front page stories on the, case, and even the staid New York Times burst forth in Thursday , morning's edition with a five column sob-head. Though we feel every meas ure ,of grief for the parents of the missing child "and hope that the missing eaglet will soon fly to his nest, we feel that the slushy attitude of the press and state legislatures who arise to urge immediate adoption of laws to make kidnaping a capi tal offense, is one of the most gigantic gestures of sentiment j ..Li. X1...4- i, J J XT. aim in us n mat ua. liivaueu uie country.' Newspapers and poli ticians are cashing in on pub- lie sentiment to gain the public eye in smart legislature in be - half of the anti-kidnaping laws. Justice may as well be junked in behalf of guillotining without trial for any offense from hoard ing to libel. , Doiibtless the missing baby will be found ana returifed to its crib with nothing gained save undying publicity as the little boy who gave a great nation of powerful newspapers and enter- - prising politicians a chance to tip the scales and tear-buckets. - . D.C.S Educated For. '.':'.. No Purpose -A January issue of The Har vard Crimson carried an article ! - oh some of the recommenda tions of President Lowell in his report to the governing board of Harvard. Of particular in terest was a project he advanced for a society of fellows. This group would be composed of a limited number of brilliant young men under the guidance, and companionship of profes sors. .Its object would be to further interest in advanced education, particularly among students who do not plan to teach. , Certainly advanced work would be much more attractive to outstanding students if they could be allowed to work more individually and have f their re lation with the teachers on a basis of friendship rather than of a director absolute of what the student shall " study and learn. The honor of member ship in such a society would have much influence in adding to its membership. But why restrict it to grad uates? After a group has been here two years certainly the students who are willing to work and have good minds are apparent. Why should high ranking juniors be compelled to go to classes where the funda mental facts that they master quickly are gone over again and again? Why couldn't there be a selected -group of men who are here for a cultural education who would be under advisors or tutors and who would be freed from class attendance and exams? These relations with the professor would be personal as between men with a vital com mon interest. The degree could be at the discretion of the tutor. This system would of course necessitate the assumptions or rather the realization that those students who want a broad cultural education and are will ing to work have the mental! capacity for individual work re gardless of whether they are re quired to attend classes or take exams. Students who want special training for a definite purpose would, of course be uninterest ed. Those that are here just to be able to say they have been to college or are members of such and such a fraternity would not qualify for entrance. The degree offered would probably be a special type of A. B. At the present time even the liberal arts school demands that a student specialize. The prime purpose of the degree has been defeated, that of giving a wide cultural education. The major and minor require num erous courses on just two parti cular subjects, and the prospect of the comprehensive exam and the desire to make a good show at that time cause the student to use the electives on , courses closely connected. The A. B. is chiefly valuable now as the first step toward further degrees. - The university should be able to give to each type of student the education he is seeking. If they are desirious.of a broad cultural education, and are able to do thorough personal re search, why not give them what they want in the best way pos sible? The suggested plan would enhance the appeal and value of an A. B. to them. H.H. : One Success From Five Failures The proposal to unite as one large university five of North Carolina's smaller colleges Elon, Lenoir-Rhyne, Guilford, High Point, and Catawba de serves the attention of the au horities of those institutions and some degree of interest from outsiders; - The suggestion . ap parently .resembles that which found fruition in the consolida- tion of this University, State college, and N. C. C.' W.f 'ahd'seemeii'to -stimulate attendance contemplates the maintenance at colleges. The boy who could of the advantages of the small not readily find a job, went off college while eliminating the waste and overlapping inherent in the existence of five separate institutions of liberal education in the Piedmont region. The difficulties which those colleges are said to be under going plus the decided advan tages that could be effected through consolidation need " not constitute the only grounds in support of the proposed unifica tion. Additional facts are not unimportant; the future of the small college nowadays is un- f certain at best, and the neces sity for sectarian or local col leges is no longer evident in an era in which strong, intense re ligious sectarianism is rapidly passing, and m which efficient means of transportation and communication render attend- i ance at distant institutions easy and convenient. In addition, it is probable that the present generation is ad vancing into an age of consoli daton and coordination in all fields of human endeavor. Coun ty consolidation, a's often urged in this state; the League of Nations; business mergers; the insistent demands for econom ic stabilization, organization, and integration; Aristide Bri and's proposed' 'United States of Europe" all these possibly have a common significance. Granted such a trend and its' de sirability, the proposal for a Piedmont university is in order. K.P.Y. With Contemporaries Collegiate Casuals Challenge Plan For Student Loan Funds Accepted at its face value, the plan to provide a loan fund de signed to keep at the University 400 students who otherwise would have to leave classic shades for farms and cross-roads has all the elements of virtue to appeal to the liberal. These young men are at the state University in search of a higher education. They are measuring up to the plan of the state which Aycock was wont to put eloquently as "equality of opportunity." They are ambi tious. It seems a distressing shame that on account of pov erty at home, they should face the necessity of returning after a very brief service of the cul tural gods. But there is another side to this question which calls for the display of the rarest sort of judgment. It reflects a condi tion to which we have often caneu utwuitum, that sends ill-prepared and half - baked high school students to the University, who have no chance of assimilating its learn ing, or even its "atmosphere." This class of students flocks to Chapel Hill at the opening of every term. For- years they have been coming ,as naive ad venturers with the smallest pos sible idea as to the meaning of adventure itself. As a result, the mortality in the freshman classes, sometimes running to a thousand, has been tremendous. Every student involves an ex penditure by the state far great er than that made by him, so that the addition in the end is formidable. -' If the loan fund is raised, as we hope it will be, it will con stitute a trust demanding the greatest care to see that its dol lars are made available only to those who, without means, al ready have demonstrated that a University education ranks in their minds as, something real and not temperamental. . ni Before the , depressibn had absolutely struck home one of its phenomena was that lt to become a student, sometimes to the relief of a family ready to pay for having him tempor arily off its mind. The depres sion now strikes deeper, and this type must return to the home stead, the place in which it be longs. There should be a great care exercised to see that no loan fund monies are wasted on tihs type. Raleigh Times. Old Time Press To Survive Raidings Of The Tabloids . That curious little publication, Newsdom, which is printed in New York by unemployed news paper workers, comes along to the desk with an article by-lined Ann Silver in the matter of the opinion of Bernarr; McFadden as to the future of the press of the United States. Bernarr is one of those gen iuses on the left, or sinister, side of the gifts of the gods, and we are not quite orthodox enough to say that' his inspiration is the gas from the scum of a theologi cal melting pot. Anyway, Ber narr puts it: out, via Ann, that the American newspaper of the future will be a tabloid "No body, nowhow', as Bernarr would say when not being inter viewed, "has time to read." He wants his stuff in a pill that will give a knock-out. No wines for him. Raw stuff raw meat raw crime sex of a gorilla, sup posed to be the most passionate animal. Says McFadden : "Originally, the tabloid was looked down on as something off -color, unfit for the reader's attention. All that is changed now. There is no question of the acceptance of the tabloid. It is the modern newspaper and an swers the need of the modern reader. He wants his news quickly he wants to know what is happening at a, glance and the tabloid supplies him that. ' From my own experience with the Graphic, I have found that it is wrong for a newspaper to set itself up on a. pedestal and ig nore the reading public. That is why we are more personal in the contents and style of our paper. We speak to the reader on his level. We present the news of the day to him as in terestingly as possible drama tically, but always truthful. And we find that, because of this, we have a stronger hold on our read er than most papers." We would not minimize Mc Fadden as a hustler and cultiva tor, of a field. It was all per fectly simple, but few people have the nerve to put dollars on : gBeaf of wordg complete de the simples they would rather id Qf p,otf probIem tragie elfi Faddn"whai lToOOOOo!ment' and in W"e elephan - gathered in cities, did not care very much about art. He knew L, , ... na , 0i11 that they cared nothing about politics except as getting the tip how to vote. That international relations were nothing in their lives. That literature was the punk and movies the particular ankles of the moment. A man who could pistol a rival ' and make a get-away was infinitely bigger than a dud like George Washington. And so on, and so on. ' But we are here to say that a paper like The New York Times, which gives the news of the world in order that the best ad vantages may be laid before the feeblest intellect with no consid eration for his mental feebleness is directed to the inspiring mid dle class of America in many respects a foolishand sometimes a pompous class, yet always reading and always learning. It reads the tabloids and learns from their pictures .how a little female lecher died in the electric chair. But slowly it learns some thing .also, .of what is happen- ihg in the world, and, after a time it will come to something , r Reviewed by James Daicson The Thirtieth Bill of Original Plays. The Playmakres Theatre, March 3, 4. 5. v Bloomers, by Jo Norwood: nothing else to recommend it, it If a. more dully preposterous might at least have some sus play has ever been dragged ; pense. across the Playmakers boards, It might be well to remember if a more puerile attempt at. that in the comment printed on comedy than this one has ever the opposite page of the pro- dared lift .its cacklincr head above the Playmaker footlights, it has not been during the life of this department. Out of the vast and barren wastes of bour geois life and middle class dull ness that are now included (by the grace of God and "the au thors) in the ever swelling con fines of what is called 'folk drama, out of these desert lands has come this, the sleepiest of the dead. It is now a matter for great mourning that the simple word "folk" has been so stretch ed. All is folk drama, and folk drama is all. Anything that any student in this here now Univer sity cares to write, out of his own experience, can by some prestidigitation be labelled folk drama. This play is an example. Plotless and pointless, virtue less and powerless, it wanders in its bewildered fashion through what could not be called an anecdote, even with a shut eye and a sleeping conscience. In it, the playwright held forth dur ing a quiet half -hour, and through it walked a gentleman with a Brooklyn accent in the part of. a Kentucky merchant, and a young lady with traces of a British colonial accent, in the part of his wife. Those whose accents did suggest Kentucky were not to be understood. They spoke unintelligible lines, ac companied by inexplicable gest ures. The "whole play wa , un believably bad.- Its 1 oble humour, which consisted entire ly of limping dialogue, fell flat. Its action was slow and drag ging. More to be enjoyed than the play was Miss Norwood's comment on it, which was print ed on the program. The Common Gift, by Elwyn !de Graff enried: While the first play on the bill was a pitifully depressing attempt at: comedy, this second bit was a comical shot in the ereneral direction of tragedy. The best that can be said of it is that Betsy' Lane Quinlan, as Florrie, was attrac- tive and restrained. This was nothing to the credit of the ;tYIav which was si'mnlv nnnVi-r failed to hide the painfully ahead, but if you're the hedon evident outcome. It was never ist type, hoard that admission in doubt, and when a play has price, Hoover or no Hoover. like an understanding. Not a great understanding, perhaps, but the best the world has ever known. It still, per haps, will read the tabloids, but only as poor and tired and think ing people (people to whom thinking is a pain) resort as to a kind of drug addiction, a kind of drug addiction. The Raleigh Times. It Is Worth Knowing That - Cape Town is the oldest town in South Africa. . There is a peak in . Tibet called Ma Chin Shan which is said to be higher than Mount Everest, but none except na tives have ever been closer than seventy-five miles to it. The weight of the earth has been estimated at six ; sextil- lion,T 592 quintillion tons, not including the atmosphere, whose weight has "Been esti- gram, the playwright calls this piece a "picture." It can be called that, and if that name will lay its ghost, may it rest in peace. But you might just as wellsgo out and read a high school literary magazine for polish and philosophy. 6 The Loyal Venture, by Wilke son O'Connell: This play was a j6y to the sight, for it recalled the days when folk drama was confined to the folk, when old Bill Cox stuck his chin up and said: "Mon, ye're a dommed liar.", when daughters of great ladies were washed ashore from wrecks off Nag's Head, and when Hubert Heffner drank out of a jug by the light of several candles. This was the stuff the Playmakers were made of in the past. Then they went into the mountains or down to the banks for folk drama, instead of tran scribing the talk of librarian and merchant. With the savour of the dead past about it, it did not need too much of a story, but it was even blessed with something that resembled a plot. Harold Baumstone was out standing in his portrayal of Captain Durand. He was con vincingly heavy and bluff. John Sehon was a bright spot in his last scene, and Mary Alice Ben nett "was very pretty as Sally Salters. ' Taken as a unit, it was a pretty dull evening. Most of the small first night audience was restless. This department can not go so far as to say the au dience was bored, but it acted like a bored audience until the last play began. The direction of the first play added to its impossibility. It was not the sort of piece that could claim much of a director's attention, and it didn't seem to inave got much. The last two plays showed better work by their director. The sets were convincing, and the lighting was up to the Playmaker standard of exeel- lencf TliA f.nstn miner in Y locf pIay was little short of miracul. 0Us. j If you want to help tbe Ptay- -dthe loan fund, go niated at more than . five quad rillion tons. Professors O. B. Williams, University of Texas, and Newton Gaines, Texan Chris tian university, have demon strated that high-pitched sound waves may be used to kill bacteria. Tidal waves measure from thirty to one hundred feet in height. V North Carolina ranks next to New York in the payment of internal revenue taxes. . Nevada has the smallest population of any of the states, having even fewer persons than the District of Columbia. Those who are trailing 'em'are authority for the fact that a dbl-! lar goes farther nowadays. Ar kansas Gazette. It seems that Europe can't give the United States anything but love, so it won't give anything.- O&to State Journal.
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