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st Eailp Ear ltzl
The official newspaper of the Publi
cations Union Board of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
where 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.
Chas. G. Rose, Jr. J. Editor
G. W. Wilson, Jr. Mng. Editor
John Manning Business Mgr.
Saturday, April 9, 1932
Accomplished Only
Through Cooperation
As-the new management takes
over publication of The Daily
Tae Heel with this issue, it is
nothing but fitting that a few
remarks be made as to the gen
eral policy of the paper for the
coming year. Under the retir
ing management this paper pro
gressed from a practically un
known college sheet to be one of
the ranking dailies in America,
enjoying at present among many
editors the reputation of being
the most liberal collegiate jour
nal in this country. And it is
one of the ambitions of the new
staff that such progress be con
tinued, if only to an extent equal
to half of that enjoyed during
the previous term.
But in attempting to make
more secure its present national
stand, The Daily Tar Heel is
not to forget the fact that it is
an organ of this student body,
serving the students as best it
can to keep them in touch with
important events occurring on
this campus as well as to ac
quaint them with student opin
ion on various matters vitally
connected with their interests.
Through its editorial columns
the paper intends to act as a
mouthpiece of the students de
manding for them their rights
which by law they are entitled
to. Aside from this, by means
of its large number of exchang
es and news services from other,
colleges, The Tar Heel will in
form its readers of interesting
news on other campuses ; and in
this way the management hopes
to wipe out as much as possible
all provincialism present in the
minds of University students. ,
Realizing that no person or or
ganization is infallible, the new
staff, as employees of the stu
dent body, throws itself open at
all times to constructive criti
cism from intelligent, open
minded individuals. But in
adopting such a policy, the pub
lication is well aware of the fact
that to every question there are
two sides, and when one stand is
taken it is to be expected that
criticisms will be sounded from
the opposing group. The Tar
Heel will take, therefore, only
those stands which in its opinion
shall be for the best interests of
the student body.
The new management realizes
full-well the responsibilities it is
expected to fulfill and for this
reason requests the whole-hearted
cooperation of every student
in the University.
Square Peg On
A Round Hole
Mass meetings, student strikes
and formal filings of protest in
the expulsion of Reed Harirs,
fearless editor of the Columbia
Spectator, have aroused the col
legiate publishing world into an
active fight against the spirit of
narrow-mindedness and peda
gogical supression of student
publications. On the steps of the
library building of Columbia col
lege, more than two thousand
students assembled Monday noon
Hawkes who, with the approval
of President Butler, expelled
Harris because of his self -asserted
policy of "thinking out loud"
in the columns of his newspaper.
The Spectator staff expressed
their sentiment in the matter
with the editorial : "A State
ment" ; "Reed Harris, who de
tested mediocrity and finally.
smashed, his head against the
bulwarks of intrenched tradi
tionalism, is gone. Columbia
college was too small to. hold
him . . . While the world is cry
ing for men of light Columbia
had decreed that it will graduate
honorably only those who have
been poured into the antique and
rusted molds of leaden thinking
. . . the policies of the Spectator
have belonged and will continue
to belong to the entire Manag
ing Board rather than to any
one man." The paper prints in
the last of a three bank stream
er across the front page "Na
tional Student League Meeting
Votes to Help Vindication
Fight." Other sections of the is
sue of April 4 bear a chronology
of events in Harris' dismissal, a
survey of his editorials and vari
ous news stories concerning the
fight for his re-instatement.
Such is" an indication of the
feeling of those closest concerned
with this terrifying blow to the
liberalism of the college press.
Similar expressions have been
voiced in other 'sections of the
country and great newspapers
and writers have come to the de
fense of Harris. Columbia Col
lege was certainly too small to
hold Harris. He is representa
tive of a type that too rarely is
permitted to voice crusading
opinions in the press, and who,
once so engaged, is removed by
those whose consciences are an
chored by chains of falsely con
strued" authority and narrow-
tnindedness to hear the truth
about themselves and their
own.- D.C.S.
Watering The
Flower Of Maturity
President A. Lawrence Lowell
of Harvard in his annual report
to the board of overseers states
that "students as a whole ap
pear more mature than a gen
eration ago, not only, in scholar
ship but also in their outside
interests and in the sense of
proportionate values which is
the flower of maturity." , ;
Such statements are probably
necessary at periodic intervals
but they seem very trite. Mil
lions have been poured into" the
coffers of the universities and
colleges throughout the country
to increase the size and efficiency
of the plants. Running budgets
have been ever on an increased
basis. The money problems of
the state institutions have been
continuously before the state
legislatures and have thus re
ceived a great, deal of publicity.
If the public did not realize that
the universities could be improv
ed and did not think they were
being improved, would they have
approved these increased ex
penditures ? In these big insti
tutions it follows naturally that
a student matures more than in
the smaller institutions of a few
years ago. The contacts of the
larger group and the necessarily
increased independence of the
individual facilitate this.
The general truth of his state
ment is obvious but we are in
clined to doubt the great extent
of this maturity. For instance,
the authorities here had recent
ly to tighten the regulations for
class attendance. Would the
University find it necessary to
restrict absences to keep really
mature students from flunking?
Wouldn't mature students be
able to regulate their activities
to their best personal advan
tage? H.H. T
The King of Italy would pre
fer to be known as Emperor of
the Holy Roman Empire. And
still Charlie Curtis, who holds
the corresponding position here,
seems content with his title.
Detroit News.
It isn't surprising, declares a
Colorado college psychologist,' if
a young man finds it hard to set
tle down before marriage. No,
indeed. And it is not surprising
if he finds it hard to settle up
after it. Boston Herald;
THE DAILY
SPEAKING
the
CAMPUS MIND
A Word Of
Appreciation
Now that the excitement of
the election is over and we have
rested from the strenuous cam
paign, allow me to express my
appreciation of the support
which you gave me at the polls
Wednesday. Nothing since I
have been in the University has
moved me more deeply than the
unselfish aid which you, my
friends, so generously lent me.
May I now ask that we for
get what is past and look toward
another year, giving our utmost
cooperation in all matters of in
terest to the University and the
student body.
HAYWOOD WEEKS.
With
Contemporaries
Splendid
Isolation
Not failure, but experience is
the fruit of the abandoned Ex
perimental College at Wiscon
sin. In the light of this experi
ence Dr. Meiklejohn now pro
jects a new scheme of education.
The new system will have a num
ber of small colleges, entirely
separate units, each with its own
autonomous faculty. This de
vice is intended to foster an es
prit de corps among the stu
dents by making them "one in
purpose and understanding in
the midst of all their differ
ences." The faculty, Dr. Meikle
john claims, will be improved by
being smaller and more coher
ent, and in closer contact with
the students. His experience
has led him to believe that this
plan will improve the instruc
tors as much as the students.
It is pointed out that the new
experimental colleges are not a
House plan. Whether they will
be housed in dormitories is left
to the' results of future experi
ments. But the parallel of the
House Plan and the experimen
tal colleges is important because
both plans have similar ideals
and methods. Under the Har
vard plan House autonomy is
completely sacrificed to the Uni
versity; Dr. Meiklejohn's col
leges will be absolutely independ
ent.
This contrast points to the
fundamental faults in both sys
tems. The dependence of the
various units of the House Plan
prevents any individuality in
them as educational institutions.
But the experimental colleges
may be so independent that ef
fective cooperation will be block
ed. The esprit de corps and the
autonomous faculty may make a
student in a particular college
fof ego the benefits of sitting un
der an outstanding teacher in an
other college. The destiny of the
two systems, the House Plan,
and of the experimental col
leges of the future, would seem
to lead them to a common
ground, where the House Plan
will have at least the shadow of
autonomy, and the splendid iso
lation of Dr. Meiklejohn's col-
eges will be modified. The Har
vard Crimson.
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 opinion."
If colleges and universities of
the country will throw off some
of the medieval shackles and an
cient hide-bound subject mat-
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TAR HEEL
ter and methods of the ancients,
and will rebaptize the higher
educational institutions of the
world in the gulf of real human
need they could rededicate them
selves to the best in the an
cient culture and finest of the
new. Young people would not
be bound so closely to tradition
al class rooms and they could be
trained to tie the flesh and blood
of live learning to their ever;
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 culture
of the past ; but it is equally
true that some are not, and that
there is need for those who will
demand that the pres'ent col
lege . curriculum be not top
heavy with the limited vision
and culture of bygone days.
Daily Texan.
Cuts And
Classes
- Jules Payot, rector of the Aca
demy of Aix, France, once wrote
in his book, The Education of
the Will. "Our passiveness,
thoughtlessness and dissipation
of energy are only so many
names to designate the depths of
universal laziness, which is to
human nature as gravity is to
matter."
A pessimistic outlook indeed!
But then perhaps he is right.
The system of holding classes
and giving cuts in American uni
versity life is certainly indica
tive of even the scholar's inabil
ity to lead an ordered, self -disci
plined, intellectual life.
On examining the reasons for
having a system of cuts and
classes, the fundamental argu
ment seems to be that of dis
ciplining the human mind.
But on those scholars who
have proved themselves capable
of mental self-control, who show
a natural urge to learn, a thirst
for knowledge, the system works
many evils.
First, the more intellectual be
ing must submit to a leveling
process. He can raise no higher
than the group. He must attend
the same classes and be there at
the same time as the ones who
are not so capable. This is a re
sult of intellectual democracy.
His time is stolen by the system.
Second, disciplining by some
one else undermines his morale.
It does not allow him the indi
vidual initiative to work out his
own system of self control. It
throws him upon an artificial
system that does the work "for
him. It makes him mentally
lazy.
Third, this system of cuts and
classes holds the scholar from
indulging in more than mediocre
intellectual endeavor. For in
stance, he may be a science stu
dent studying a minute organ
ism under the microscope. Per
haps he has just noticed some
unusual condition or the form
gives some unusual reaction to
stimuli. Then the bell rings.
That is the end of the study.
Thus there are fundamental
evils that for the real student
may actually overbalance the
good gained through the system
of giving cuts and holding class
es.
Perhaps the only solution will
be in giving a blank time check
to those students who have a
spontaneous desire for knowledge.-
Butler Collegian.
Superfluous?
The suggestion of a standard
textbook on etiquette has been
made by some who have regard
ed the matter rather facetiously.
But, after hearing the condem
nation of many of the co-eds who
feel that the virile male mem
bers of the campus are lacking
in the proper appreciation of the
niceties of etiquette, we conclude
that the theory isn't quite as use
less as one would infer.
We were startled and some
what horrified when we were
awarded a black look from a co
ed for whom we had held open a
door to one of the buildings on
the campus. Obviously, the
young person thought we were
indulging in the form of indoor
or outdoor sport usually charac
terized as "flirting." But we as
sure you that our intentions were
absolutely devoid of guile; we
were innocently interested in fol
lowing the precepts of the emi
nent Emily Post. Proceedings of
this nature make one realize that
there is something amiss when
a casual gentlemanly act of this
nature results in a severe rebuff.
On another occasion a co-ed
had murmured a "think you"
when the same courtesy was
shown and the male student
gasped' with astonishment. Ap
parently he was not accustomed
to finding co-eds grateful for an
act which he thought common
enough to justify no thanks.
However, the fact that he was
surprised would demonstrate
that it is comparatively a rarity
for the co-ed to do the proper
thing. Possibly the average co
ed believes, that the male stu
dent should do things of this
kind from a sense of duty and
thanks are superfluous.
Many of our manly males be
lieve etiquette an effeminate pro
clivity and they sneer at the
man who believes that women
should be accorded the courtesy
due their sex whether the latter
has usurped the freedom and ac
tivities of the male sex or not.
But we believe that it is entirely
within the realm of possibility
to acknowledge that women are
privileged and should be accord
ed the consideration they de
serve. Flouting one's lack of
etiquette in public does not quite
coincide with our theories of the
ideal man.
We notice considerable disa
greement on the topic of recogni
tion between the sexes. Many
of the co-eds do not know that
the rules, of etiquette dictate that
the co-ed should recognize the
man first. Consequently, when
they realize that they should
speak to him their recognition is
belated and while he is waiting
for the recognition they pass
each other with the mutual feel
ing that the other is "a snob.
Whereas, if the co-ed had real
ized that she should take the ini
tiative in the matter, there would
have been no charges of snob
bishness. These are simple things and
should probably be done auto
matically. But they are not.
Many of the old theories of eti
quette have become outmoded
through changes in customs and
manners. Nevertheless, there
are still many of them that
should be heeded. It has been
said before, and may as well be
repeated that a common sense
attitude combined .with a slight
knowledge of the fundamentals
is sufficient in this age to stamp
the man a gentleman.
And a gentleman may be a
man in spite of his obedience to
rules of etiquette which may-
have been formulated long be
fore he was born. And the
equality of the sexes does not or
should not negate the conditions
which have been followed in the
past. Ohio State Lantern.
Political . '
Potpourri
All over the country the crazv
V
Democrats and the cockeved Re
publicans are gathering in readi
ness for their grand confabs.
Favorite sons are chasing mad
ly across the country making
speeches to their admirers. Im
possible promises are- beine-
made amid loud cheers and cat
calls. Every politician has been
bitten by the presidential bee
and has temporarily lost his
head. -
Al Smith is not on snpaViTw
terms with Roosevelt. Tmi
Murray has stated that the best
candidate for the Demoah
lives in the west, 7 preferably
Oklahoma. The Republicans
Saturday, April 9, 193
have been blamed for everything
from the present state of depres
sion to the grass hopper plagip
of 1887. .
Garner is ranting about Hoo
ver stealing his glory. Hoover
is telling the people to spend
their money, and the people
don't even have money to spend.
Andrew Mellon, so . the Demo
crats say, saw that he couldn't
help the treasury make up its
deficit and promptly pulled out
for Europe.
The Literary Digest is com
pleting one of its straw -votes
on prohibition. Kansas as usual
goes dry, and we didn't even
have a chance to vote. Congress,
fearing the W. C. T. U. and the
anti-cigaret league, refused to
bring up the question. The malt
companies are still making huge
profits and the Chicago boot
leggers are highjacking each
other's trucks.
Will Rogers writes a series of
articles on the Chinese-Japanese
argument and we at last learn
what it is all about. Hinden
berg still holds the reins of the
German government. France
cannot pay Jier debts and wants
the United States to cancel the
obligations.
Chicago still cannot pay her
school teachers and Al Capone
is kept in jail. The people cry
for decreased taxes and Con
gress goes into a huddle in an
attempt to find something that
is not already taxed to the gun
wales.. The Democrats claim to
know the secret formula for
good times and the Republicans
say that it is just around the
corner.
The Republicans say that the
Democrats are crazy and the
Democrats say that the Repub
licans are cockeyed. We decide
that everyone is a little off and
decide to stay , in school rather
than take a chance of starving
with the great army of unem
ployed. University Daily Kan-
san.
It Is Worth Knowing
That
The tail-less Manx cat is in
digenous only to the Isle of
Man and the exportation of
these animals forms a sub
stantial income to the island
ers. There are 3,027 counties in
the United States.
The cost of the upkeep of
the public schools of North
Carolina is greater than that
of any other state in the
south with the exception of
Texas.
Nine-tenths of all plows
used in Argentina are from
the United States.
The increased cost of oper
ating automobiles in Germany
has caused about one-third of
them to be placed in storage.
Contributor- of Articles Is
4 Wanted at Tar Heel Office
The editor of The Tar Heel
would like to have the person
who submitted an article for
publication signed J.C.C. call at
the office of The Daily Tar
Heel in Graham Memorial to
day. We expect, of course, to buy
our share of baby bonds, but we
1
ao nope we shall not have to get
up in the night and walk the
floor with them. Schenectadxj
Union-Star.
Japan wants the world to be
lieve that she isn't fighting any
war but is winnimr all the bat
tles. -Arizona Producer.
ape man