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Pase Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, April 2, 193 Glie Datlp Sar tel The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University cf North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sphere it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. 'Entered as second class matter at the post oSce of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of Blarch 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. OSces on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan.. .....Editor Ed French..- ...Managing Editor John Manning......Business Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITOKIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, 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 ky, 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. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Gialanella, W. D. McKee, Harold Janofsky, 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 j 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. Saturday, April 2, 1932 An Old Game Replayed Systeme Hoover, better known to office-seekers here and else where a.3 "playing politics," has apparently assumed the propor tions of an intramural sport on the University campus as politi cal moguls assume power not delegated in them to render de cisions and adjust class business without the consent or consulta tion of their constituencies. When at the instignation of campus groups the trespassing of the German club in the selec tion of commencement marshals was pointed, out publically to of ficers of that group and of the class responsible for this selec tion, recall of the group of marshals was disregarded and ignored, persisting in its pol icy, the dance organization in structed the marshals it had chosen in the usual political in trigue to be photographed for the 1932 Yackety Yack. When again informed of this develop ment, the executive, of the class concerned with the election of marshals ruled the selection as valid, prsumably on the mere presumption that the pictures had been made and therefore could not be changed. As far as The Daily Tar Heel can ascer tain, this action was taken with out a vote of the class and even without the official recognition of the executive committee. The German club is apparent ly firm in its refusal to recall its first election, but this adamant stand can not excuse the negli gence of student officers in ig noring their duty to handle the election of marshals, despite the steps taken for the printing of the marshals irregularly selected. The refusal of student officials to exclude! personal politics and ig nore student sentiment defeats the whole principle of student government. -D.C.S. Filling An Open Grave The latest phase of the gen eral housecleaning we are under going at present is directed to wards the rapid and painless extermination of our numerous obsolete and useless societies. The campus is at present clut tered with many small clubs and orders whose only functions are occupying a page in the Yack ety Yack with a mysterious sym bol and a list of those who "be long." Some of these organiza tions are terminating careers marked in their hey dey by fine contributions to our student life but "the old order changeth" and we cannot keep these or ganizations alive on mere tradi tion They no longer justify their existence and their demise is insight. Whatever regrets we may feel at the passing of these vener able societies based upon the earnest ideals of their found ers and members we can feel no sympathy with the greatly to be hoped for extinction of the sophomore social orders. The Shieks, the Minotaurs, and the Thirteen club constitute an open affront ta the sensibilities and the good taste of the student body. We . cannot help but pity the young man in whom the rah rah collegiate spirit and an unbelievable desire to "shine" are combined in such a great degree but we do not tolerate the leper in our midst though we pity them almost as much. The word sophomoric, having the meaning immature or half baked, might well have been coined upon seeing an honored member of one of these clubs performing his cute antics be fore an amused or slightly dis gusted group of- his fellows. These clowns typify the colleg iate spirit at its very worst and it is high time that the finish was written. This can be done by organized; student opinion which has performed greater services in the past when the authorities have been unwilling or unable to intervene. The type of young man who will waste his allowance or his father's money to join a society having as its sole aim making its members vulgarly conspic uous is presumably beyond the reach of reason. The great ma jority that has not been honored by membership can do wonders when attention is drawn to the need. If we can organize stu dent opinion against the exist ence of these sophomoric socie ties and ignore the clowning of the hapless youths already vic timized the end is not far off. If this can be done we are sav ing the dignity of Carolina and protecting childish college men from useless waste of time and money. J.F.A. 9 The netincome of farmers in 1930 was $4,669,000, a loss. of $1,092,000 since 1929. Expenditures in the United States for highway construc tion average 1,500,000,000 a year. ' The largest diamond ever found was the Cullian, in 1905, in South Africa, weigh ing 3,024 3-4 carats or about one and three quarters pounds. , . , The Forest service, depart ment of agriculture, estimates the wild game in national for ests in North Carolina as being 181 bears, r5,616 deer, and 38 elk. Dr. Li Chi, of the Chinese National Research Institute, recently found Chinese vases thirty centuries old at the an cient city of Tan. " The English language is spoken by more than 160,000, 000 people and it is under stood and used "by 60,000,000 more who do not consider it their native speech. The "keep-kissable" girl in a national cigarette ad is Adriane Jeanette Allen, a former student at Texas university. -Minn. Daily. Maybe preparedness invites war, but it doesn't invite other nations to land troops in your seaports. Los Angeles Times. It Is Worth Knowing That i I j With j Contemporaries j A Matter Of Ethics It is difficult to understand the average college man's concep tion of ethics. He would scorn to rob ja, bank, he would frown on refusal to pay honest debts, and yet he blatantly displays towels and silverware "lifted" from hotels and other establish ments he has visited. Perhaps it is a feeling that such items as towels and silver ware are common property. But a little thought will show that they are rigidly on a par with any other form of private prop erty .and, as such,, should be viewed with all due respect to the owner's rights. Gate-crashing is another col legiate breach of ethics. Some college men boast openly of the number of . dances they have crashed, much as the Indian would flaunt his scalps and take pride in the heap he had been able to capture. Particularly proud is the collegian who dis covers some new and novel means to thwart those who would make him pay or sjiow proper credentials before enter ing a dance. The Daily Calif omian, stu dent newspaper at the Univer sity of Southern California, re ports: "Fraternity men were arrested recently for taking thirty-five electric light bulbs from local establishments for their house dance. Their stunt was collegiate and clever, and would have been lauded by up perclass brothers who sent them on the escapade had they been skillful enough to complete their errand." This points, to another of the many inconsistencies in colleg iate ethics, and at the same time to a likely, means of bringing these standards up to a plane where society will respect them. When college men come to view successful and unsuccessful es capades from the same angle, they will have created a consist ent code - of ethics that brands towel-lifting as robbery and places gate-crashing, in the cate gory of criminal, behavior. Penn. State Collegian. Crack At Students A hard crack at the students of the colleges and universities of the country was made recent ly when Henry M. MacCracken, president of Vassar College, said : "Students ' are not people because they do not function as people should. They are not in fluential as they should be in the management, of their colleges or in the control of public opin ion." If colleges and universities of the country will throw off some of the medieval shackles and an cient hide-bound subject matter and methods of the ancients, and will rebaptize the higher educa tional institutions of the world in the gulf of real human need they could, rededicate them selves to the best in the ancient culture and finest of the new. Young people would not be bound down so closely to tradi tional class rooms and they could be trained to tie the flesh' and blood of live learning to, their every day life. True some colleges and uni versities of the country are be coming modernized, and no bal anced thinker would contend that this age should throw into the discard the best in the cul ture of the past; but it is equally true that some are not, and that there is need for those who will demand that the present college curriculum be not topheavy with the limited' vision and culture of bygone days. We are not informed, but we wonder if Mr. MacCracken is one of those who belong to the old school of medievalists and stilf prates of the good old days when culture was culture. We hope not, and we doubt if he is. Ths Daily Texan. Students As Idealists Much has been said concern ing the cynical attitude of the collegians. They have no ideals, it is claimed. The popular con ception even goes further, branding the average undergrad ute as an iconoclast. He has no idols himself, and . deliberately destroys the gods of others, both public and personal. Such ac cusations are not only generally false, but malicious as well. There is perhaps one student in a hundred who can honestly say he sets for himself no ideals, no goal toward which to strive. He is .the classic example of warped intellect. The average student may assume an attitude of pseudo-cynicism, which has been rather in vogue lately, but beneath his superficial affecta tion he has built his personal idols. Knowledge is an undergrad uate goal, despite the fact that comparatively few students make an honorary scholastic so ciety. The general avid longing for a diploma at all costs is sure ly indicative of this. Broad mindedness also ranks high as an undergraduate idol. Races and creeds mean less and less daily, due for the most part to the increase of interest in for eign affairs. These are but two of many instances displaying the attitude that rules students inwardly, altho outwardly they may scoff at such ideas. Affected by mass poses and group fashion in thought, the typical undergraduate creates the impression among those not familiar with collegiate psycho logy. Apparently, the student may be a cynic, but the only sig nificance of the accusation lies in the, fact that the public at large is utterly unfamiliar with matters outside its immediate sphere, nor is it willing to search for latent realities. Syracuse Daily Orange. Honest Supposing A negro shoeshine midget died in the Albemarle the other day of acute alcoholism. We news papermen had no qualms in say ing how and why he died. But suppose, for the' sake of filling this column, that he had been a prominent citizen, but had died in exactly the same manner. Well, just suppose. That's all we ask you to do. And we're doing some suppos ing ourselves at the same time. --The Elizabeth City Advance. The Consumer Goes Unprotected The United States government spends $3,000,000,000 annually for supplies and equipment. This ranges from baseballs to battle ships, from thumbtacks to dredging machines. Stuart Chase, in "Your Mon ey's Worth," asserts that the government purchasing , agents paying little attention to pretty giris on magazine covers, or to super-salesmen with pants like the Prince of Wales, are able to save $100,000,000 a year. Their method is to have the products they buy tested by the Bureau of Standards, at an operating cost of $2,000,000 annually.. The average consumer's mone tary output does not compare with this enormous yearly amount. But this comparison should cause the consumer to think. How much of his money is being wasted by lack of supers vision? It is up to the consumer, then, to demand this game protection that the government gets. He is entitled to the same savings, that his ruling representatives ob tain. Oklahoma Daily. Collegiate Morals, Again It is with constantly increas ing wonder that college students note the continual attacks upon their moral standards. It is with difficulty that they accept there criticisms. In a recent is sue of a local paper another at tack is launched at the standard of morals at the University of Nebraska. The writer of the article believes, that as a taxpay er, he has a right to object. Granted his right to object to all things, but against the morals of college students he should first be sure of his ground. He states that college students are living in palatial homes, in compatible with their culture and income, that they smoke too many cigarettes, and that drunk enness has increased at football games. - He makes the state ments, advances no proof. The Daily Nebraskan makes bold , to say that the morals of the students of the University of Nebraska are higher in every degree than the morals of a similar age group anywhere else. If those, .who are constantly be moaning collegiate vice will show students a group of five thousand young men and women between the ages of 16 and 25 with morals which will compare in any respect to those of stu dents then they will have grounds upon which to base their complaints. The names which constantly adorn the police, blotters of the cities of the world are not col lege students. The youthful breakers of the law are seldom college students. College stu dents are better fitted to reason but their own moral standards than any other group of the same size and age any where. Drunkenness has increased at football games, says the letter writer. He declares that that fact is too apparent to be denied. The Daily Nebraskan , would like to know who. the drinkers were. Were they college students , or were they outsiders? College students are blamed in nine cas es out of ten for crimes which they never commit. When any one is drunk on a football trip or at a football game, it is al ways the students who are blam ed, and in almost every instance it is someone not even allied with the group who is causing all the trouble. Then the cigarette smoking vice. That has been bemoaned for years. Just what is so ter rible about smoking a cigarette? What makes it a vice ? Some of the greatest men in the world to day are cigarette smokers and some are not. Some of the finest BRAND NEW You can now be assured that your summer's work will return vou enough money to get back in school next year. 7 High salaries and compensation. Travel in New England with expert. INTERVIEWS ... From Two O'clock Saturday Afternoon Second Floor Y , Lupe 1111 IPpipill famous ZleSfeld show, in her most recent " " ofV, , . film success. 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Panic threatened and Jinr Ewing, announcer, thundered at the crowd through the Western Elec tric public address system, holding - it spellbound until the band played and the next planes flew. and most cultured women in this city are cigarette smokers. Why is it wrong? To those plaintiffs who see vice in our midst we say come and point it out to us. We chal lenge them to show us a group of the same size and age any where which has so little of downright evil in it as has ours.. Further than that we challenge them to disprove the statement that the moral standard of col lege students is higher than that of a similar group in other cir cumstances. Daily Nebraskan, When three lunatics escaped from a British asylum, posses went out and brought in five. Richmond Times-Dispatch. 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