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MATTHEWS SAYS
COLLEGIANS LACK
SOCIALJNTEREST
Supposedly Educated Graduates
Scored as Being Politically
Illiterate and Apathetic.
Middletown, Conn., March 30.
(NSFA) College training in
the use of the institutions of the
country is often woefully lack
ing, according to Assistant Pro
fessor Ewart Matthews of Wes
leyan University, who believes
that ninety per cent of the men
who graduate from Wesleyan
are "politically illiterate." In
an interview, Mr. Matthews ex
plained several reasons for his
conclusions, and expressed the
opinion that more men should
consider government service as
their life work.
"Anyone who is politically il
literate," he said, "shows a lack
of understanding of the funda
mental structure of our govern
ment, and exhibits a lack of in
terest and an ignorance in' re
gard to the routine machinery
of the nation. That college men
as well as the less educated
groups should have this same at
titude is due to several causes.
For some reason or other they
take little interest in this mat
ter ; they lose contact with out
side affairs, so that when they
graduate they step into an al
most new world, of which they
know little. They are not well
acquainted with the workings of
the government, nor do they
wish to become so, for they get
the impression that all politics
are corrupt and beneath them.
"People everywhere have this
attitude, and only a consider
able shock will wake them up to
the fact that to free ourselves
of the curse of corrupt and un
intelligent-government we must
have an honest interest and un
derstanding of affairs as they
are, and an honest desire to put
good men5in office.
"This desirable outlook is all
right for the masses, but I think
that even greater responsibili
ties await the college man. He
normally holds a higher position
in .society, and shouldj assume a
larerer Dart of the social bur
dens. Yet it is he who is tha
least interested in political af
fairs, because he gets the idea
that nothing can be done about
the scandals he sees everywhere.
He believes it beyond his abil
ity to cope with graft and crime.
Engrossed in his own problem of
earning money, he feels no ob
' ligations to society, and sees for
himself no part in our political
scheme of things.
"The outstanding need of col
lege life is, then, to develop a
greater sensitiveness for polit
ical and social life, a sensitive
ness which will make men care
to give themselves in service
Some one must give himself up,
sacrifice his personal liberty and
some of his aims, to help mould
the political and social life of
his generation. A detached and
critical attitude may be . philo
sophical, but it is not the thing
for the man on the street."
Starvation Aids Rats
(Big Ten News. Service)
Urbana, 111., March 30. Star
vation, to a limited extent, brings
about an increased learning pow
er in rats, according to the re
suits of an experiment by Floyd
L. Ruch, of the department of
psychology at the University of
Illinois. The rats were subject
to a special diet, or lack of diet,
for a period of thirty days and
then nut through a series of
tests.
This experiment does not
agree with ones which have been
performed on human beings, ac
cording to Mr. Ruch. A loss of
-
fifteen per cent in body weight
impairs the learning of ordinary
persons. -
I7crld Hews
Bulletins -
Expenses Will Be Cut
Assurance that the ways and
means committee could count
on reductions in federal expendi
tures of almost a quarter of a
billion dollars was given by
members of the House appro
priations and expenditures com
mittees yesterday. "
Sino-Jap Clash Reported
A skirmish between Japanese
and Chinese forces took place at
Chiawangmiao yesterday, ac
cording to a report from Jap
anese authorities. Japanese and
Chinese authorities both claimed
that the other nation was hold
ing up proceedings at the peace
conference.
Lindbergh Urges Help
Further efforts to bring about
the return of the kidnaped Lind
bergh baby were planned yes
terday by three Norfolk men,
who said they had Colonel Lind
bergh's personal request that
they carry on. The three men,
who are supposed to be acting
as intermediaries for Colonel
Lindbergh, expressed optimism
yesterday as to the ultimate suc
cess of their negotiations.
Another Student Expedition
While two busloads of east
ern students left Kentucky af
ter protesting to Governor Laf
foon their ejection from south
eastern Kentucky coal mine
fields, another group of students
from an Arkansas labor college
announced plans to visit the
mine area. .
COLLEGE DEGREE
IS LOSING VALUE
Educator Says Graduates In'
creasing Faster Than De
mand for Them.
New York, N. Y. (NSFA)
The economic importance of i
college education is going to de
crease in the future, for the num
ber of college graduates is in
creasing faster than the demand
for them, Dr. Harvey N. Davis,
president of Stevens Institute of
Technology, declared here at the
eighth annual luncheon of sci
ence teachers and research in
vestigators of the metropolitan
district.
"It will no longer be worth
$3,400 a year to a mano have
had a college education, Dr.
Davis asserted. "But this wil
not mean it will no longer pay
to go to college, because more and
more young people will do so
merely for the increased enjoy
ment they will get out of life af
terward."
Dr. Davis held that "the mod
?rn educationalist underesti
nates the importance of develop
ng skilled technique before en
ouraging self - expression,"
while the inculcation of know!
edge is over-emphasized, since
more than one-half of the gradu
ates go into business. . The de
velopment of the ability to think
and appreciate, he said-, is the
primary purpose of higher edu
cation. Since this is a scientific
age, "it may therefore be true
that the most liberal kind of an
education is given in what is
called an engineering school."
The best all-round preparation
for obtaining a. living, he said
may be the study' of mathe
matics, physics, and chemistry.
Harvard Paper Imitates
Daily Tar Heel Policy
The Harvard unmson seems
to be following the policy of The
Daily Tar Heel by running a
series of 'articles' on their edi
torial page which review the his
tory and construction of yari
ous houses on the Harvard cam
pus.
THE DAILY
GATTIS EXPLAINS
TAX SITUATION TO
LOCALIQWANIANS
Orange County Representative
Thinks 1931 Assembly Ac
complished Aims.
Characterizing the period
from 1919 to 1931 as "the era of
rapidly mounting taxes and
more rapidly mounting public
debt," Sam M. Gattis, Jr., who
represented Orange county in
the last general assembly, dis
cussed North Carolina's present
tax in detail before the Kiwanis
club here Tuesday night and con
cluded that on the whole the 1931
assembly had "accomplished
'what it set out to do."
Tax Changes
Our present tax structure
was created in the biennium
1919-1921," he said, explaining
how the state had revalued its
l.i billions of property at 3.1
billions, adopted a general in
come tax and a gasoline tax, re
vised the inheritance, corporate
and license taxes, and abandon
ed the taxation of tangible prop
erty to the local governments.
Since that time, he explained,
the demand on the state funds
has increased more rapidly than
the demand upon the local units,
due to the fact that the state has
progressively taken over as state
obligations the support of serv
ices formerly supported by the
local units. As a result, he said,
property only paid thirty-five
per cent of the total cost of gov
ernment in 1931, as compared
with eighty-five per cent in 1921,
ana yet xne iydi taxes were
111 ft -rf I
higher because of the great in
crease in cost of government and
in payments on interest and
public debt.
North Carolina came to the
point in 1931, he went orij where
forty cents out of every tax dol
lar had to go to creditors, and
pay-day had come. The end was
inevitable, he thought, and it was
better that it came when it did
Restrict Borrowing Power
He thought that the state did
well to restrict the borrowing
power of the local governments
and take over the roads and six
months school term, but he be
lieved that the assembly made
a great mistake in decreeing Jha
the public schools appropriation
could not be diminished, this
meaning that the appropriations
for state institutions would have
to absorb the entire shrinkage
m state revenue rather than have
the loss distributed equally
throughout the entire budget.
STRIPED SHIRTS
HOT ON CAMPUS
Of the many patterns that
are being offered to university
men this season, stripes of vari
ous widths and spacings stand
out most prominently. Though
many of these are of the very
fine type, typical of English
shirtings and closely associated
with the tab collar, not a few
areof the narrow variety with
the spacing as wide as that of
the stripe. This pattern is es
pecially, popular in corded mad
ras. After these "neat" effects in
shirtings come the spaced
stripes, that are set to 1
inches apart. Stripes spaced
well apart are. either in colors
on white backgrounds or in
white or colors on a colored
ground. In the case of the lat
ter combination, darker tones
are gaining. Dark blue, tan,
and gray are seen most fre
quently, while some greens are
noticed. The most popular fab
rics in these types of patterns
with college men are oxford and
chambray. '
Copyright, 1932 Fairchild Style Council
Japan could rightly contend
that she is fighting a war to end
this year's civil war in China.
Springfield Union .
TAR HEEL
With Contemporaries
Continued from page fico)
self which I understand is
slang, seems to be a fair index
of your attitude.
"'Be yourself' is good Ibsen
and is the doctrine of natural
ness and individualism which he
tried to express in 'Peer Gynt.
n Germany there is a great gulf
between f drmal-mannered people
and those who are individualists.
Individualism there expresses it
self in extremes like nudism.
Here it is a pleasant and nor
mal mean between these two ex-
remes."
Dr. Hauptmann's eulogy (for
are there any who could fail to
be pleased by such utterances?)
must of course be taken with
more than one of those prover-
Dial grains oi salt. tie was a
m i a -ww
guest leaving alter wnat ap
peared to be an enjoyable stay
with a few American intellectu
als connected with three Amer
ican universities, Columbia, Har
vard, and Johns Hopkins.
But we think that Dr. Haupt-
mann, who so remarkably re
veals a true sense of realism in
his dramas, has successfully
gaged the emotional difference
between Europeans and Ameri
cans. What Americans may lack
in erudition or extreme indivi
duality, they certainly compen
sate for by their informality and
friendliness. Syracuse Daily
Orange.
The Art
Of War
The militaristic mind has sel
dom been shown in a more char
acteristic light than in the recent
refusal of the War Department
to furnish a publisher with war
pictures stored in its archives.
The publisher purposed a book
composed of photographs of war
m its worst barbarity. Pointing
out to the Department that there
could be no stronger propaganda
against war than the book which
he had in mind, he requested the
loan of a few pictures to be add
ed to the large unofficial store
already on hand. But the War
Department was adamant. Gold
Star mothers had been shown
tidy graveyards "in Flanders;
they must never be made to suf
fer the awful pang of realization
that war was not the glorious
sacrifice it had been represented
to them. "Such a policy would
not be ethical; it would not be
decent."
When the War Department is
forced to hide behind the skirts
of the Gold Star mothers to pre
vent propaganda against war,
they not only play into the hands
of a publisher seeking notoriety,
but put themselves in a false
light as well. Far more convinc
ing would it have been to explain
simply that once men had seen
these pictures they could only
jwith great difficulty be induced
to fight, that in consequence the
possibility of war would fee
shoved ever more into the back
ground, and, incidentally, that
tax payers money would flow
elsewhere than into the iron cof
fers of the War Department.
Harvard Crimson.
Co-eds at Minsaps college m
Jackson, Miss., have decided
that the ideal college man must
be:
A man who shoots a flattering
line without laughing.
A man who tells funny jokes
only once.
A man who won't believe just
anything unless you want him
to.
A man who sings love -songs
in your ear and can carry a
tune.
A man who keeps you gues
sing for a while.
A man who is totally indiffer
ent towards girls except you.
A man who is soforth and so
on ad infinitum. Vermqnt
Cynic. . .
University Of Mexico
Summer Session Will
Commence June 20
Enrollment of foreign students
and teachers for the twelfth an
nual summer session of thex.Na-
tional University of Mexico is
now in progress, according to an
announcement by Julio Jiminez
Rueda, director The courses
this year open June 20 and close
August 20.
These classes are so designed
as to offer foreigners of proper
academic standing opportunity
to study the Spanish language
and the history, art and social
conditions of Mexico and fur
ther to this the students' time
in lectures is so arrange! t
fer them opportunity to learn at
first hand something of the capi
tol city itself. They are privi
leged to learn of its cultural af
fairs, as well as to visit points of
educational and esthetic interest
in the immediate neighborhood
An especially selected faculty
will instruct the courses this
summer, outstanding among
whom is Professor Alfonso Caso.
Professor Caso's recent discov
eries at Monte Alban, the arche
ological field near Oaxaca City,
startled the wprld. He will teach
a3 course in "Introduction to Mex
ican Archeology" ; the course in
eludes a concise study of the reli
gion, calendar, the art arid the
political and social organization
of the ancient inhabitants of
Mexico. P rolessor (Jaso is in
structor in the chair of philoso
phy and letters at the National
University of Mexico.
The faculty, with few excep
tions, will, consist of Mexican, al
though many classes will be con
ducted in English. Professor
John Hubert Cornyn, of 'Tor on
to, Canada, one of the foremost
authorities on Aztec language
and literature, will be in charge
of courses in Aztec literature.
Dependent on Hindenburg
(Big Ten News Service)
Urbana, 111., March 29. Pres
ident Paul von Hindenburg of
Germany is alone responsible for
the political stability of that
country, according to the opin
ion of Professor R. H. Stimson
of the department of politica
science at the University of Illi
nois. "His influence has been the
main factor in keeping the army
loyal to the present government.
If he should die within the next
year or two, Germany would be
in a critical condition," he said.
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WISCONSIN DEAN
WOULD DO AWAY
WITH HELL WEEK
Practice Is Dubbed Childish and
uut of Place in Centers
Of Culture.
In a letter addressed to th
various fraternity presidents of
the Wisconsin campus, Scott H
Goodnight, dean of men, quotin
President Harry W. Chase of
Illinois University, contends that
hell week is scarcely a pleasant
thing to see continued in frater
nities, as centers of culture
practices which penitentiaries
and convict gangs are abandon.
ing."
"Hell week," continues Dean
Goodnight, "is hostile to even-
higher interest of fraternal life
at the present time. Facultv
members grow resentful when
their students fail to appear in
class, or if they do come are
jaded, sleepy, and unprepared.
Parents are angered by what
they call outrageous abuse of
their sons and it raises new ene
mies against fraternities when
we sorely need friends."
In closing his letter, Dean
Goodnight directed this ques
tion to the presidents: "May I
request you to bring this letter
to the attention of your chapter,
and, if your group is not one of
those that has already aban
doned the childish practice of
hell week won't you please con
sider taking immediately, at
least this one important, almost
imperative, step forward to
wards a higher plane of frater
nity life at Wisconsin?"
DUKE PROFESSOR
TO SPEAK ABOUT
' LEGAL AID CLINIC
(Continued from first page)
the active participation of the
senior class of the law school
and a staff of practicing attor
neys in Durham, have handled
113 cases, the clients being in
dividuals who were unable finan
cially to 1 employ a practicing
lawyer.
It is expected that much in
terest will be manifested by stu
dents, faculty, and townspeo
ple in the discussion of the man
ner in which this new institu
tion combines legal education
with the rendering of legal as
sistance to the underprivileged
of the community.