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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, April 21, 193 Efte Dailp Ear ieel 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 ofSce 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.... ..rEditor G. W. Wilson, Jr.......Mng. Editor John Manning . ..Business Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemak er, chairman, Henderson Heyward, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, J. F. Alexander. E. C. Daniel. William McKee, Ervin Jaffee, Bon Phillips, Karl Sprinkle. CITY EDITORS W. R. Woerner, Tom Walker. W. E. Davis. T. H. Brough- ton, Claiborn Carr T. W. Blackwell. FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, chairman, Charles Poe, W.R. Eddie man, Joseph Sugarman, A. T. Dill. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD Frank Hawley, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Ed Spruill. REPORTERS J. H. Morris,' W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, Harold Janofsky, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell, Robert Bolton, P. W. Markley. Business Staff ' CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. ' BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Howard. Manning, manager; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph" Reynolds, Joe Webb, Jim Cordon, Agnew Bahnson. . " . Thursday, April 21, 1932 , "Oh Tell Us Pretty Maiden . . With the appearance of Norr man Thomas at the University during the Human Relations In stitutet Mr. David Clark, of the Southern Textile Bulletin, felt the urge to go into-his little song and dance oyer the deplorable conditions that allow such an ogre, as he feels Thomas to be, to speak to an immature college audience. He aroused himself to a spasm of vitriolic editorial activity over the visit of Lang- ston Hughes to the University .And now the second visit of Nor man Thomas has brought" Clark out on the stage once more for an unsolicited encore. Mr. Clark is a ham actor, but he loves the spotlight His wit ty attacks on the'University, and especially the University Y. M. C. A., have, to judge from some of the other state papers, aroused some sentiment against Univer sity officials for having invited such men as Norman Thomas and Langston Hughes to lecture here, but at' the University it self these attacks have aroused only a spirit of loyalty. At the few times these men have spoken in Chapel Hill, only a very small percentage of . the student body was present. Of those present, a still smaller per centage might be said to have any tendencies toward Socialism. But under the condemnation of David Clark and the state papers that have upheld his attacks, a defense of the University, for having invited these men ' here, becomes, obligatory. Clark has gladly misinterpreted this de fense to be a complete acceptance of socialisticpolicies on the part of the student body. Nothing of this sort is true, but before actor Clark does succeed in making So , cialists of us all, by giving us a pattern of what not to be, some one should get tne nook, ana taKe him off to a more responsive au dience. His antics went out of styl$ witii the Floradora sex tet. K.S. Honor A Tradition The newly inaugurated stu dent administration will soon at tempt the reconstruction of the University's honor f system. In this undertaking, 'the reformers must not fail to consider condi tions which have changed since the establishment of the system. In those days the University was small. Its students were drawn from families whose sons traditionally came to Chapel Hill for their college training, from homes in which the University's traditions and history were known and revered. So, the stu dents of that era were familiar with its ideals and aims long before they left home for. the campus. ' Furthermore, the general sense of responsibility and hon or incorporated into the ethical code of that period was some what more intensified than it is today. Carolina gentlemen were also Southern gentlemen. Now, in 1932, the University has an enrollment of 2500, com posed of students from every county in the state and from many states in the Union: Most of these men had never heard of Carolina's honor system be fore coming to Chapel Hill. Respect for? it could" not be in culcated in them -by -a single thirty-minute lecture during freshman, week. ... - Living in modern America, their viewpoint is material ; their philosophy is a dollar-logic ; their ethical code is based upon an in dividual, rather than a group, conscience: It would be tough to get caught cheating. The man who cheats is taking advantage of the man who does not ; he is getting something for nothing. But, I would not report a man for cheating; it's not my busi ness to get him shipped. Sure, I'd cheat to pass a course. These are the things they say. In . final analysis, then, honor of. the individual "and the group is the system. Renewed respect for tradition and a re vived sense of moral integrity must be instilled in Carolina stu dents before any form of a re vised honor system can work successfully E.C.D.; Dictating to Her Neighbors It is with regret that we see North Carolina go dry by a few votes in the Literary Digest poll. North Carolina has joined intolerant,- fanatical" Kansas in up holding the "ignoble experi ment" against the other forty six states and the District of Columbia. Is the Old North State as bigoted and narrow as the militant prohibitionists. whom its people have chosen to follow? We firmly believe the answer to be in the negative. North Carolina perhaps is to bex congratulated on the absence of great cities within its boun daries. It is in these huge com munities that prohibition has failed utterly. This state does not suffer so much from great criminal rings, from corruption in public offices, and from the growing disrespect for the law; all founded upon liquor business in our municipalities. Thus, in this state some of the worst evils of prohibition are not as appar ent as in many other common wealths., If the majority of the people of this state believe that prohi bition - has succeeded, then let their opinion hold sway in North Carolina. But let them not at tempt to dictate the wishes of other states. North Carolina and the:south once rightfully resen ed the attempt of northern, aboli tionists to interfere with the "pe culiar institution," slavery. Yet many in the south are attempt ing to do much the same thing when they try to keep the oner ous burden of prohibition saddled upon the rest of the country. It seems strange to find North Carolina desert its former doc trine of states rights to try to fasten upon the nation a law which is detested in the major ity of the states. By blocking the resubmission of the Eight eenth Amendment to the people the drys are showing a fear of the result and an unwillingness to listen to popular opinion. Let North Carolina rather assist the movement to allow some of her sister states rid themselves of a law which is at best a farce with in their boundaries. B.P. Conference, System as An Aid to Instruction Several years ago the profes sor who taught our freshman English section had regular con ferences with the students in his section. Sad to say this is by no means a general practice at the University. There are many distinct advantages to be derived from such conferences. They permit students to make personal contact with the teach ers in spite of the current feel ing against "booting" that, in most case, offer an effectual bar rier to such beneficial relation ships. The teacher is able to understand better the problems of each student and is in a posi tion to help him solve them. The student is able to clear up small, problems that the size of the class prohibits him from asking and of which the relative unimportance makes him hesi tate to see the professor about them. The teacher can keep an accurate tab on the amount of work the student is doing and eliminate the necessity of pop quizes that are extremely un pleasant and are not an accu rate gauge. The scarcity of time limits the subjects of the questions to unimportant de tails.' The student may have studied but not have taken in the detail stressed. The teach er is able to inspire those stu dents who are not working to make some effort and those who are, to do even more. In lan guage courses reading could be directed and made interesting. "A system of conferences would do more than this. It would eliminate the necessity of strict regulations on class at tendance. The teacher could control attendance according to the needs of the student and his standing in the course, which is the only , fair. way. Further, such a system would do more than anything so far suggested toward solving the problems of the Honor System. The teach er would know '' the capacity of the various students and the amount of work they had . done. He would know pretty accurate ly what they would do on a quiz. . One afternoon a week com bined with the half hour of as sembly period would suffice in most cases.. In the case of in structors who are teaching two classes of freshmen who cannot come at assembly period, the conferences could be less fre quent. Four conferences a quar ter would be enough in the cases of the average students and .in exceptional cases special : ar rangements could be. made. H.H. Scholarship: the Lifeblood of Fraternities Much of the prestige that is accorded a fraternity on the campus of a university is due to scholarship. Despite this fact, the University of Minnesota and other mid-western univer sities are endeavoring to lower the scholarship average for ini tiation of pledges. The general tendency today is toward a higher scholarship av erage. Nowhere is this more clearly indicated than ' in the fraternities themselves. As the years pass, each fraternity is endeavoring to increase its schol arship and thus help strengthen its prestige on the campus. When new pledges are taken into the fraternity, they are im pressed with the necessity of making good grades and thus do their part in sustaining the reputation of that particular fraternity. It will be to the utter detri ment of the fraternities if the scholarship average for the ini tiation of pledges is lowered. As the average stands, it is none too high, and if any attempt is made at lowering it, it will only harm the fraternity. Scholarship is rapidly being given its proper recognition in the world" of f business today. More and more you can observe that the large firms are taking in students who have shown some high degree of ability in the line of scholarship as well as in the line of business that the firm itself is in.' If the re quirement for the initiation of pledges into a fraternity is lowered it will seriously ham per the furtherance of scholas tic attainments. It is' generally thought that when a pledge enters a frater nity his scholarship will fall a great deal. This is not so. How ever, it might be well to realize that, although the scholarship of $ the oncoming . pledge is not lowered, it may very easily be come so and if the average for his entrance is consequently lowered, then there is still more opportunity for him to fall even lower in his scholastic abilities. It is sincerely hoped that no such action . will be taken on this : campus with the attain ment, of having the scholarship average of the pledges who are to be initiated into the frater nity lowered, as is being done at the University of Minnesota. E.J. The Experimental College Report Concludes The experimental college re port which , The Daily Cardinal has been publishing serially for two months has finally and thrrllingly come to its conclu sion. . Needless to remark, it is a brilliant document. Without ex aggeration, it may be said that Dr. Meiklejohn and 'his fellow "educational scientists" have analyzed their experiment with a perspicuity that is refreshing. Just as the physicist or chemist plans arid conducts the experi ment in his laboratory and test tube, so the administrators of the experimental ' college" have planned and conducted their ex periment in education.' The re port that grew out of these ex periments should be our guide and standard in any changes that may be contemplated in the educational structure of the Uni versity of Wisconsin. Whatever may be the final ef fect of Dr. Meiklejohn's recom mendations, they must be recog nized probably the most pro gressive ' and scientific state ments of the meaning and meth od of a liberal education in the twentieth century America that that have . appeared for our guidance. Such recommendations as the breaking up of the university into socially and intellectually homogeneous interest - groups, and further and more extensive experimentation along progres sive lines are nothing short of radical. For, the shackles of a venerated past that paralyzes our present actions have too long stunted our educational growth. Now the recommendations and the report are in the hands, first, of the faculty committee chosen to study them, and, second, of the, thousands of people who seek throughout the world a better method of' educating youth. Such seeds of educational planning that promise so well and have been developed in Dr. Meiklejohn's laboratory, iwhich has been up until now, dark for outside observers, . such seeds should be disseminated and find root for ultimate flowering. The planting process can be begun by a facility committee which has the vision to see the glori ous flower which will result from patient nurturing. Daily Cardinal. . Contemporaries Less Eggs More Explanations Add to the general bewilder ment over the precise reason for the expulsion of Reed Harris, the puzzlement caused by the apple-hurling and egg-throwing activities of the Columbia ath letes, mostly football men. The animosity of the football men against Reed Harris dates back, of course, to the Spectator edi torials of a few months back. At that time, the gridmen bran dished menacing fists in' the face of the campaigning editor. Their strike-breaking activities come as a belated execution of previ ous threats. But, instead of aiming their missiles at their antagonist, they have let their spleen bounce off at an awkward angle. Instead of "getting even" with Reed Har ris, they are taking their stand as the opponents of free expres sion. For the controversy at Columbia now transcends per sonalities and has become a fight to uphold the right to un hampered circulation of intelli gent opinions and criticism. If the athletes would explain just against whom and what they are contending, the confu sion might be cleared up. Un fortunately, no missile-hurling athletes have shown a fluency of vocal expression. Until the mat ter is cleared up, we can only judge their efforts on the basis of marksmanship, which truth to tell, has been pretty good at short range. iV. Y. U. Daily Neivs. . - ' . "Hi Pal" Stroll up any campus path at any time of the day, and you will invariably run into the campus politician, that veritable colossus who has become a most revered institution to those most humble worshippers of "Baal," the col lege students.. With a beaming smile and a. "hi, fella," to even the; most lowly of freshmen, he swaggers up the path seeking an opportunity to confer with other "big boys" on some weighty cam pus problem and see what he can do to strengthen his most exalt ed reputation. Festooned with a half dozen fraternity pins and guards, he assumes the pomp of an oriental monarch and the gravity of a tribal patriarch. To him, class es are a mere means to aid in the promotion of his political and social ambitions, and his chief interest in them is to sit on the front row and spout forth his wisdom to the awe of his seem ingly admiring classmates. If you are interested, let us see how he became a member of that most exclusive order of B. M. O. C. The first thing he did after being duly matriculated and enrolled in college was to ally himself with one of the cam pus political factions. He knew that no successful campus poli tician eyer got that way, without serving an apprenticeship, fiis first duty was to voterasmany times as he could get by with it at the campus elections. , Tfiis ' ' . - : " . - - ... ' Economy True economy does not always con sist in buying the cheapest pos sible: Buying the most value for the least money is true economy. Have You Tried Our Shop Lately For . True Economy? The Orange 126 Rosemary was very important, for the freshman who votes the most times without being caught is usually considered the best pros pect to become a big shot," His next important duty was to round up prospective voters, for his faction, and he seized every "pal" he could find and thrusting a list of candidates in to his hand with a volley of threats and promises, urged him to "vote 'er straight." It shoulci be explained that "pal" to him does not mean merely a close friend, but any fellow he ever has seen or any one who is wear ing a tie something like one he once saw. Probably his most important duty was to join every organiza tion he could, social or honorary. The more pins he could wear on his vest and ribbons on his coat lapel, the higher he rated among the campus "elite." After be coming a member of 51.1 per cent of the campus organizations and president of 9.9 per cent of them, he was duly received into that most widely sought order, B. M. 0. C. Since he has become one of the "big boys," his job has become comparatively simple. He now conducts the duties of his many offices, exerting his influence and displaying his . power . with the dignity of a. Roman emperor liv ing and gloating over the fruits of his conquests. Indiana Daily Student. ... 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