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Pase Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, March 27, 1933 The ofScial newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tfhere it is printed dafly except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post cfSce of Chapel Hill, N. C, nnder 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, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, Sidney-Rosen, J. F. Alexander. 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 KmrtOT CITY EDITORS George Wilson, Tom Walker, William McKee, W. E. Davis, W. R. Woerner, Jack Riley, Thomas H. Broughton. LIBRARIAN E. M. SpruilL HEELERS J. H. Morris, A. T. Dill, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Gialanella, W. D. McKee, Harold Janofsky, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell, 1 C TT T 111 TIT O T -4-"U 1 C. S. Mcintosh, Robert Bolton. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Jimmy Allen, manager; assistant: 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. - . Sunday, March 27, 1932 Faculty Disdain of Student Intelligence The last few years have wit nessed a drifting apart of the student body from the faculty. Close and real, contact between the instructor and the scholar is the backbone of higher educa tion and no more regrettable trend could afflict our univer sity. Faculty members and al umni tell us that but a few years ago professors and students were on the friendliest terms. We must return at once to that re lationship though it will call for much effort and cooperation on both sides. It is rather difficult to ascertain completely and cor rectly the reasons for such a schism. Beside concrete facts there exists nebulous theories and intangible psychological re actions all tending to pomplicate the situation. The growth of the University has made relationship between student and student, teacher and teacher, and teacher and student increasingly difficult ; f larger classes have cut down the teach er's time and have increased his work at the expense of contact - with his classes as individuals. Furthermore the type of under graduate has changed from the scholar intent upon the pursuit of his studies to the incipient Babbitt who takes his degree for economic reasons or because everyone has one. It is only be tween the genuine scholar and his professor that real and wholesome relations can exist and this type is an ever dimin ishing minority. . Hand in hand with this change in the character of the under graduate there has developed within their ranks an infantile attitude which brands as "boot ing" any extra curricula bonds between student and instructor. This has had a deadly influence upon many who would otherwise seek such relationships. There is another side to the story. Partly justified by the calibre of the undergraduate mass many of the faculty entertain and do not attempt to conceal a feeling of contempt and disdain for the undergraduate mind. Whether they realize it or not this feel ing is sensed and keenly resent ed by many of the undergradu ates some of whom possess or believe themselves to possess po tentialities as great or greater than the men who by virtue of A. B.'s, M. A.'s, and Ph. D.'s de spise the youth seeking to par take of their wisdom. Essentially the condition is due to the changing function of the professor whose duty is now to force dull and lazy men and women through minimum re quirements rather than to fos ter and cultivate what remains of the scholar element. This is lamentable and unavoidable we can but make the best of a bad situation and cultivate the badly needed friendship under the most unfavorable of condi tions. It can be done and for the good and glory of Carolina we must see that a rapproche ment be effected. Who knows but that a sincere and zealous faculty might not impart to us enough of the spirit of learn ing to make scholars of us all. J.F.A. Personal Liberty A Farce in Kentucky On Friday7 fifty college stu dents in Kentucky to investi gate 'conditions in the coal fields of Bell county were arrested without warrant, placed in busses, and driven, against their will, to Knoxville, Tennessee. The only excuse offered for this outrageous proceeding was that the county attorney had "infor mation" that they had been sent into Kentucky by Communists. As a matter of fact, the group was probably no more revolu tionary ancT violent than the group of North4 Carolina stu dents who are planning to make a similar trip. Without doubt, all of .hem were economic lib erals and some of them, possibly, were Communists ; but the idea that they were sent into Ken tucky to foment revolution is preposterous. According to the Associated Press dispatches in the News and Observer, the county attor ney told the students that he had information that Communists had sent them into Kentucky and said, "The people of Bell county won't tolerate having any of their rights violated by people representing Communists. You must put up $1,000 peace bond each or leave the state. We know you won't be able to post this bond. We shall regard you as malicious intruders until you have proved you are not." This statement and the action with which it was followed violate openly the guarantees of person al liberty in the Constitution of the United States and the Con stitution of Kentucky. The stu dents, whether or not they were Communists, were in Kentucky to observe and study and were not violating nor, so far as can be known, contemplating the violation of the legal rights of the people of Bell county. The county attorney, with seemingly no judicial authority, ventured to place a bond upon citizens who were violating no law. Further more, he placed the bond with the admitted and deliberate in tention of driving the citizens from the state because of their known inability to pay. And worst of all, an officer of the law of the state of Kentucky said that he would regard the stu dents as guilty of being malici ous intruders until they could prove themselves innocent! This is surely contrary to the whole scheme of law and individual rights under the common law and the Constitution of the Unit ed States. When one hears of such an incident, he is inclined to cry, "But such a thing could not hap pen in America !" But it has happened. And the same sort of thing happens frequently. Last year a student of the Uni versity was imprisoned and kept incommunicado for thirty-six hours in Memphis' because he asked the way to Communist headquarters. As long as such ! things happen, and go unre- dressed, we cannot say that we have freedom in America. When a group of university sociology and economics students cannot enter a territory to make studies without being arrested and summarily deported from the state, the guarantees of per sonal .liberty in our laws and Constitution are worthless. It is said that the students have consulted with a prominent attorney of Knoxville in an effort to secure protection of their rights and that an instructor in economics at Columbia univer sity, at which most of the inves tigators are students, has tele graphed the Attorney general of the United States an appeal for the protection of the stu dents' rights. It may be that by these steps the students may obtain some redress of their grievances. The county attor ney should be removed from of fice, the students should be re paid for their sufferings and discomfort, and the way should be thrown open for any person who remains within the law to go where he likes and study so cial conditions as he pleases. All the liberal forces in the country, all true patriots to whom Ameri can liberty means something, will unite in demanding that these reparations for Kentucky's lawless deed be made. D.M.L. Playing Baseball With Mittens The decision of the intramural department to substitute the larger and softer baseball in the intramural game in place of the ball of regular size may prove, in the long run, to have been an act of wisdom., Nevertheless, it is, at least for the present generation of students, open to serious objection. An expressed object of the change . is to render the game more enjoyable. For those stu dents who participate on account of their love of the game and their skill in its playing, it is probable that it . will become easier but decidedly less enjoy able. It is true that, if the pur pose of intramural baseball is simply , that of providing some form of exercise for as many students as possible, the game may quite reasonably be simpli fied to the point of absurdity. If, on the other hand, its object is to provide real sport for non varsity men who are anxious or willing to play real baseball, the change can hardly be justified at all. It is only just to leave base ball (both' in the varsity and intramural fields) to lovers of baseball, and to allow those merely seeking exercise to in dulge their desires in whatever manner they may wish; the ten nis and golf courts and the gym nasium are available. The intramural department hopes, however, to bring "more skilled players into competition." Such a hope can scarcely meet with success. It is obvious that more students will be enabled to play, and it is' possible that the simpler game will "appeal to a greater number of students, but the game they play will not be baseball. As far as genuine baseball, the ancient national sport, is concerned, the practical effect of the change will be not to popularize but to abolish it. Among intramural players, the amended game may become pop ular, but proper baseball will .be eliminated. K.P.Y. It Is Worth Knowing That The month of July is named from Julius Caesar, the dic tator of Rome, who was born in it. : There are more than 100,- 000,000 sheep in Australia which produce some 2,000,000 bales of wool every year. " About 2,891,000 foreigners live in France of whom half a million live in Paris. THOSE NEW BOOKS Call Home the Heart by Fielding Burke (Longman's Green, $2.50) at the Book Market. Reviewed by Loret to Carroll Bailey. Call Home the Heart is a book about North Carolina, written from the "inside." The first half of the book deals with mountain people, the second half with mil people a return to the moun tains furnishing an ending hap py enough to suit the most, ex acting tastes. For Ishma, the heroine, having deserted her hus band and the hopeless drudgery of her mountain existence for the glamor of a mill village, returns to the mountains and her first love, having acquired meanwhile a knowledge of Karl Marx and birth control. There she finds her mountain home prospering and blossoming, the. husband waiting on the doorstep. He, she learns, has been given the start necessary to build up the farm by playing mountain bal lads for phonograph recording. The two We reunited, ' and Ish una finds that home for her must forever be the mountains, al though she realizes (as does the author in a fine phrased para graph) that, when she deserts the struggling masses of the mills, who are trying to organ ize, she is running away from a larger life of service to. human ity. ' Her cup is full, but it is not, she tells herself, the sea. The first half of the book fol lows the heroine faithfully through her search in the moun tains that are her home for some meaning and purpose in life, and the story is not marred even by the author's fearful determina tion to tell every mountain story and sing every ballad he knows. He knows his mountain people and, draws them with fine humor and sympathy, so that one can readily forgive him if his story behaves sometimes like a musi cal-comedy movie, wherein the dramatic action pauses at any time to allow the hero to sing the theme song. The second half of the book is a bewildering gallery of mill village pictures. Here is an ac count of a strike (strongly sug gestive of that in Gastonia) with plenty of background for the trouble and with portraits of several prominent figures. A character whose original appears to have been Mary Heaton Vorse, author of Strike, relieves the author of a good bit of mental irritation. The book , is reminiscent of DuBose Heyward's Angel; like the leading characters of that mountain epic, Mr. Burke's hero and heroine often show movie influence but Mr. Burke is far truer to his mountains than Mr. Heyward. As in Roberts' The Time of Man, the poor white is unforgettably pictured, but the author of Call Home the Heart has not the power to sustain his narrative, to -build up the cumu lative effects achieved by Eliza beth Madox Roberts. His inter ests are too diverse he knows so much about what he writes that he cannot bear to throw anything away. Even as one's sympathies go out to his charac ters, one cannot help wishing that he had made not one book but several of his material. Sometimes the book achieves the lyric quality of Mar istan Chap man's The Happy Mountain, but it does not, like that work, con sistently idealize and romanti cize the mountaineer. Burke's book, borrowing nothing frqm all of these books, is reminiscent of all of them. Chapel Hill receives a three- line mention in the book and ' shades of Thomas Wolfe ! is not censured. , In Call Mome the Heart we have one more sincere interpre tation of North Carolina that should interest any North Caro linian and probably will inter- SPEAKING the , CAMPUS MIND A Correction " In your issue of Saturday, front page, column three, under the head ing "Twenty-Two Students Refused Readmission to University," the fol lowing sentence is found : "For the most part, the board was concerned with undergraduates who had failed to' pass four courses in two quarters and those freshmen who had failed to pass two courses in a single quar ter." My purpose in writing you is to call attention to an error with refer ence to the requirements having to do with freshman readmission for the third, or spring, quarter. The sen tence quoted above leads the reader, unavoidably I believe, to the conclu sion that the requirements for fresh men are equally as rigid as those ap plying to upperclassmen, which is not at all the case. .To have been correct, and to have conveyed the proper im pression the sentence might have end ed as follows: ". . . and those fresh men who had failed to pass two courses in two quarters." " For unconditional readmission in the spring quarter, a freshman, hav ing been in residence during the fall and winter quarters, must have passed two full courses. He may have passed both during the fall quarter, or both dur jng the winter quarter, or one dur ing each quarter; but it is riot re quired that he pass four courses, as might be inferred from the sentence quoted in paragraph one above. BEN HUSBANDS, Registrar's Office. Capital Punishment Will Not Stop Kidnaping . During the present hysteri cal wave of resentment against kidnapers there is much talk of a new law making the offense a capital crime. High govern mental officials have expressed themselves as favoring such a stringent law, and many law makers have enlisted themselves in the cause. There is nor doubt that a sterner law is necessary to pre vent the rising tide of kidnap ing. The offense has become one of the criminal's most lucra tive sources of revenue. Some steps must be taken to curb it. But the solution does not lie in making capital punishment the penalty. Our present weakness is not so much the lack of pun ishment to give the kidnapers but the inability to bring them to court. A stricter punishment might be needed, but most emr phasis should be placed on the other end of the line. It has been proven that a strong punishment will not stop crime.- During the period of English history when evry con ceivable offense was punished with hanging, crime rose to un precedented heights. When pick pockets were publicly executed more pockets' were picked dur ing the macabre ceremony than at any other time. In our own United States we have found that capital punishment is not a preventative of murder. ' Those states that do not use the elec tric chair, gallows, or lehtal chambers have no more murd ers than those which do employ such instruments of state ex- ecution. Yes, there is no doubt that stricter laws are needed to pre vent kidnaping. But in the excitement of the moment the mistake of making it a capital offense should not be made. - Daily O' Collegian. Hanging Ruth Judd ' We need not be sentimental about the spring hanging of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, the 27-year-old preacher's daughter, of Phoenix, Ariz., but we can be sensible. While it seems more unchiv- est a few, since it has been praised by The Netv York Times iowever much one misht wiVi that sincerity and art were bet ter friends in North Carolina, we must pay tribute to this vv which sometimes moves, as the publishers describes it, with savage directness , and rare beauty." With Contemporaries alrous, it is no more brutal to hang a woman than to hang a man. Mrs. Judd obviously i3 insane, or abnormal, but so have been most male murderers who have been hanged and electro cuted. And Ruth Judd is not the first woman to be hanged. It is not only the inhumanity of this coming performance that shocks our sympathies : it is the hypocricy and stupidity that shocks our reason. Arizona does not advance that doctrine of revenge, and demand this woman's life for the two that she took. It argues that she must be killed as an example and a deterrent to other murder minded citizens. Since the beginning of the 19th century the states have ex ecuted some 13,000 men. They have executed only twenty-seven women. The records in twelve states between 1912 and 1919 show that for some 20,000 homi cides there were only 336 ex ecutions. Thus, every killer had fifty-nine chances to one of es caping execution. The chances of a murderess escaping appear to be about 500 to one. Murder is a crime of passion.. Were execution a swift and certain retribution for every murder, it is doubtful if the gallows or the chair would deter. Since it is neither, the deterrent effect is almost nil. ' The eight states that have abolished capital punishment are not necessarily more hu mane. They are more intelli gent. For their juries will con vict more readily. Hence with them punishment is more cer tain to follow crime. As a mat ter of fact in capital punishment states the murder death rate is fifty-seven per 1,000,000 of pop ulation as compared with forty two per 1,00000 in non-capital punishment states. So the hanging of an abnormal woman in Arizona will be a worse than useless gesture. Far from making life in the United States .more secure it will only help to cheapen life. Birming ham Post. Campus Political Machines Lead Sheep To Slaughter The most insidious feature of the political life of our contem porary United States, the party machine, deriving . its power, from ignorance, its authority from its essential injustice, such a political instrument of a perverted democracy is duplicat ed with all of its barbarities on the campus of the great and liberal University of Wiscon sin, r Witness the recent campus elections. Without knowing any more about a candidate than a list of his so-called "activities" (most of them spurious), with out any more insight into his character than a mere photo graphic likeness, with all candi dates being "recommended," Mr. Average Student is asked to vote intelligently for men and women who are supposed to rep resent him. But such conditions would be tolerable at least were it not for the additional deflection of the student vote by what has been called "fraternity machine politics." This is a process whereby all members of a cer tain fraternity, no matter what their individual likes or dislikes may be, are urged, even compell- d, to vote for persons whom they do not know merely to assure the fraternity of such honors as assistant prom chairmanships, (Continued on last page) PALDING (PORTING GOODS . Books, Too "Come in and Browse" Thomas-Quickel Co. Main St. Durham, N. C.
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