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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, 3Iarch 31", 1932T
Zl)t Eailp Ear $eel
The official newspaper of the Publi
cations Union Board of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Trhere it is printed daily except Mon
days and the Thanksgiving, Christ
mas, and -Spring Holidays. Entered
as second class matter at the post
office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under 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.
Eose, chairman, Don Shoemaker,
R. W. Barnett, Henderson Heyward,
Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, Sid
ney 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
Royster. .
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. 0. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J.
Gialanella, W. D. McKee, Harold
Janof sky, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell,
M. V. Barnhill, W. S. Rosenthal,
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-
rlnlnVi PornnlHs Jrto WhV Jim
Cordon, Agnew Bahnson.
Thursday, March 31, 1932
Ignoring All
But Themselves
The spring holidays and at
tendant loss of opportunity for
editorial expression has appar
ently given the German club its
chance to escape from the cam
pus eye long enough to allow the
original selection of commence
ment marshals to be put through
and photographed for the com
mencement section of the Yack
ety Yack, despite the decision
a few weeks ago that the selec
tion of these officers is not with
in the jurisdiction of the dance
organization. It was under
stood by many prior to the vaca
tion period that the German club
election of marshals would be
i ruled void and referred to the
junior class for official election,
but apparently the club has re
fused to relinquish this power,
which it is said to have assumed
unofficially due to the negligence
of class officers in calling elec
tions in the last few years. With
this turn of affairs the campus
finds itself in precisely the same
predicament of former years.
Usurping the power of dance
control which it has proven that
it should hot possess, the or
ganization has over-stepped its
bounds still more to resume a
practice with which it has no
conceivable connection.
The German club is ignoring
the issue. It has refused to give
the campus any satisfaction in
the control of dances and the
election of commencement mar
shals. Agitation against this or
ganization is increasing, not de
creasing. It is rumored that the
law school has gone on record as
threatening to discontinue its
annual dance set, as long as it
must -come under the jurisdic
tion of the German club. The
Phi assembly and the Di senate
as well as independent groups
organized SDeciallv for this nur-
pose are also arrayed against the
German club. It is even whis
pered about The Tar Heel of
fice that the guns will begin pop-
ping early next week and that
the zero hour is Thursday morn
ing "n r. s
Too Many Riding
The "Band Wagon"
In the coming campus elec
tions, nearly thirty officers are
to be named. The bewildered
voters must choose the presi
dent and vice-president of the
student body, editors of the four
publications, class officers, cheer-
leaders, debate councilmen, Ath
letic Association officers, Publi
cations Union board members,
and others. Besides these,
many other officers, as in the
Y. M. C. A., Di and Phi, Ger
man club etc., are chosen at
special elections.- All in all,
the number of offices to be filled
in the student body and in more
or less public organizations
must run into the hundreds.
This is an absurd figure for a
student body of twenty-eight
hundred. Every tenth student
has an office either in the stu
dent body or in some organiza
tion open to the students, not
including fraternities, honorary
societies and the like, which
add their hundreds. The result
of this superfluity of offices is
to bring hopeless confusion into
elections and to increase the
strength of the political ma
chines. Many of these offices are en
tirely useless and could be easily
abolished. The best example is
the freshman class offices. The
election of freshman officers is
held in February, and the rising
sophomore officers are inaugu
rated in April: The men chosen
in the February . elections hold
office for only a few weeks dur
ing which time they have noth
ing to do. . The president may
preside over one smoker. The
secretary may keep the. minutes
of a couple of meetings. The
freshman treasury is practically
non-existent. But the prize non
entity is the Vice-President of
the Freshman Class. His one
duty is to 'Write home to mother
and to his girl to let them know
he was elected.
Many of the other class offices
are equally as useless. In - a
university of this size, there is
very little class feeling or co
herence. The men are divided
according to their schools, ma
jors, or fraternities, not accord
ing to their years. There is
really no need for a, detailed
class organization. Inasmuch as
the three upper classes do give
dances, they probably do need a
chairman or president to ap
point committees and preside
over meetings. But the office
of vice-president is entirely un
necessary. The duties of the sec
retary and the treasurer are
light, and the offices could easily
be combined.
These minor offices are not
only unnecessary; they do a
good deal of harm. They con
fuse the voters, particularly the
freshmen, and add complexity
to the elections. But more im
portant, they are a great aid to
political machines. The Gamma
Gamma Gamma's will vote for
John Doe for president of the
student body if their pledge Joe
Brown can be vice-president of
the sophomore class next year.
By a judicious allotment of
these minor class offices, an -astute
politician can win six or
eight fraternities to his banner.
They are perhaps the main links
in forging together political
parties on the campus. The
freshman elections in particular
are nothing but opportunities
for fraternity political machines
to try their strength.
The Daily Tar Heel pro
poses the abolishing of all fresh
man offices and the vice-presidencies
of the other classes and
the combination of the offices of
secretary and treasurer. This
would do away with ten offices,
thus simplifying catmpus elec
tions, and would make possible
fairer and more open elections
through, the weakening of the
political machines. Perhaps a
system may be devised in the
future whereby the whole class
system may be done away with
and a more logical plan of or
ganization by schools adopted.
D.M.L.
The attitude of Japan reminds
one of the sheep-stealer whose
excuse was that a sheep tried to
bite him. Shoe and Leather Re
porter (Boston).
I With i
i j
Contemporaries j
The Business
Man In College
Several years ago an Indian
apolis business man, having
made enough money to last him
the rest of his life, came to But
ler. Since that time he has
moved to another school still
studying. This kind of thing
has been happening all over the
country of late the business
man going to school.
And perhaps it is a healthy
sign. Since nineteen hundred,
there has been consistent criti
cism directed toward the busi
ness men who are so busy mak
ing money they do not have time
to acquire culture. Of course
today their sons are getting it
before they enter business. Yes
terday the fathers had to make
their own way and did not haVe
time' for cultural improvement.
Now they are coming back.
They are beginning to realize
that money is not all there is to
live for and they are finding cul
ture practical. In order to spend
their middle age and old age in
more pleasant ways' than seek
ing more money, they believe in
reading, learning and studying.
Say, if you will, that the busi
ness men are going highbrow,
but the fact cannot be denied
that in this one thing lies a ma
jor solution for the evils inherent
in our system of competition and
capitalism. If, when a man has
reached a place in finance where
he has fulfilled his duty of car
ing for himself and family and
has. fitted himself in reasonable
security, he then seeks education
and culture, he will be stepping
out of the business rush and
making room for another busi
ness man to take his place.
Competition will not be so
keen, depressions will not be so
frequent and life may be hap
pier both for those still engaged
in business and those seeking
culture. The business man in
college today may seem out of
place. Tomorrow he may be far
ahead of those who keep to their
industry.
The
Border-Line
Intellectual
"growing pains"
like tonsils and wisdom . teeth,
are a part of the life process
which every normal individual
experiences. Distressing yet
necessary to healthy develop
ment, these "pains" offer certain
dangers to the individual. Not
the least of these is the task of
making the "scientific attitude"
yield us that tolerance so neces
sary in the sphere of human re
lations. .
In adjusting one's perspective
towards moral, ethical and re
ligious problems, to which our
early training has conditioned us
in a definite fashion, we often
have difficulty in determining
the point at which approved
tolerance becomes a condemned
laxness in judgment. Non-conformity
in a superior individual
may become socially productive.
But as most of us can produce
only as we fit ourselves into the
accepted standards, it can be
come destructive to all our finer
capacities.
A college campus, with its
multitudinous contacts with new
and different persons and ideas
is liable to place the bewildered
student in this position. The in
dividual discovers that many
students have standards which
differ from his, and in his at
tempt to develop a tolerant atti
tude, accepts for himself a code
which cannot possibly fit in or
complement his own personality.
.1 Tolerance is a word which
finds its truest significance only
in our attitude towards others.
The adoption of a personal stan-.
dard below which our own be
havior must riot fall is the only
way we can keep a distinction
between broad-mindedness and
laxness. Tolerance toward oth
ers, but not to oneself, seems the
guiding principle which offers
the best development for individ
ual mental growth. Syracuse
Daily Orange. .
A Course For
Illiterates
It would not be generally sup
posed that the question of illit
eracy could constitute a very
serious problem on the Prince
ton campus. A recent comment
coming from the faculty, how
ever, reveals the fact that this
evil is sufficiently prevalent here
to warrant the serious considera
tion of a course designed to
teach members of the Univer
sity the rudiments of English
grammar and composition.
Under the present educational
system the ability to present
ideas written in a clear and con
cise form plays a large part in
the undergraduate's curricular
life. Yet frequently, even in
junior and senior years, profes
sors are forced to administer
severe penalties to students who
have submitted papers, which,
whatever may be their intrinsic
merit, are materially handi
capped by their illiterate presen
tation. In many cases, it may
be presumed that this fault is
to be accounted for on the score
of carelessness, but since the
situation exists, whatever may
be its cause, a course designed
to correct it would be justified.
The mechanics of the course
would be such as .to keep a man
in it only as long as his con
tinuance of the work was
deemed necessary. The man
whose work had suffered from
carelessness would remain in the
class for only a short time, while
the student whose ignorance of
composition was a real handicap
would be detained until he had
mastered the essential ground
work. By this system careless
- "- - mmm 1
and that's what the
statistician does for industry
Definite knowledge of "where we are" and
"what lies ahead" is as vital in business as in
flying. For this expert navigating, the Bell
System has long relied upon statisticians.
These men study present and prospective
industrial, economic and social conditions in
all parts of the country. They gather facts
analyze them, correlate them, discover their
significance to the telephone business, draw
guidance from them. They study and fore
A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OP INTER. CONNECTING TELEPHONES
ness could be measurably cut
down and the general literate
standard of the University ma
terially raised. Harvard has
with success, run a similar
course at Cambridge for sev
eral years, and the experiment
might well prove worth the
trouble expended in establishing
it at Princeton. Daily Prince-
tonian.
The Speed With
Which Roosevelt Travels
One wonders at the moment
um of the Roosevelt-for-Presi-
dent campaign. It grows and
grows. In the few States where
primaries have been held in
which his name is presented, he
has run away with the field. No
body seems to be a serious chal
lenger. The easiest answer that comes
to mind in respect to this phe
nomenon is that Mr. Roosevelt's
forces have effective organiza
tions already. That is a much
more acceptable decision to reach
than one which would attribute
his success to the flaming qual
ities of a great personality whose
appeal is to popular fancy.
Mr. Roosevelt does not make
spectacular incursions upon the
imagination. He is not of that
type.
Around him is woven no halo
that the exceptional man some
times presents. On the other
hand, he is exceedingly practical,
prosaic, unimaginative himself
and somewhat commonplace in
his constant qualities. Not at all
the kind of man at the mention
of whose name the multitudes
would run into ecstasy.
Yet he has driving power as
a candidate. That is not to be
denied. He is getting some
where. In fact, he is going at
a tempo that must be very alarm
ing to others who may be covet
ing the honor of the Presidential
nomination in the Democratic
ranks. The Charlotte News.
cast the changing requirements of the public
for telephone service. They estimate the
probable future demand for new services,
such as radio telephony to foreign lands and
ships at sea. They keep the executives advised
as to current progress towards the objectives
thus carefully determined.
Only by plotting a course saentifically can
the Bell System continue to develop along,
sound lines.
j
BELL SYSTEM
Dr. Haoptmann
Likes Us
Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann, the
German dramatist who has.
achieved international fame, re
cently confessed after a three
week visit to the United States
that he was "tremendously im
pressed" with the "progress to
ward esthetic and intellectual
maturity" of the American peo
ple and by the "easy natural
ness which he found to be a
dominant national characteris
tic. "The outstanding national
characteristic that impressed me
most about American" he told
reporters in parting, "is your
easy naturalness of approach.
Americans are cordial and dig
nified without being stiff or con
ventional. The phrase 'be your
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It Is Worth Knowing
That
; The White House was the
first public building erected in
Washington, the corner-stone
having been laid on October
13, 1792.
The national wealth of the
United States was estimated
by the National Industrial
Conference Board in 1929 as.
$361,837,000,000.
The deepest place in the
ocean yet found is in the Min
dinao, between the Philippines
and Japan, where soundings of
34,210 feet have been reported.
San Bernardino county, Cal
ifornia, ' is the largest in the
United States, having an area
of 20,175 square miles.
Areas which in other states
would be called counties in
Louisiana are called parishes.