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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, May I, i93 t Datlp Car rpeel The oScial newspaper of tbe Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chanel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days, and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered a3 second clas3 matter at the post oSce of Chapel Hill, N. C., tinder 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.....i..Editor G. W. Wilson, Jr...;.....Mng. Editor John Manning- Business Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemak er, chairman, Henderson Heyward, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarboroagh, J. F. Alexander, E. C. Daniel, Ervin Jaf fee, Bon Phillips, Karl Sprinkle. riTmrr CTTfr"rT CI TTT T TTT Uii kjjxo . xw. v uciirci , xuiu Walker, W. E. Davis, T. H. Brough ton, Claiborn Carr. ; FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, chairman, Charles Poe, W. R. Eddie man, Joseph Sugarman, A. T. Dill, Robert Bolton. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD Frank Hawley, John Acee, Ed SpruilL REPORTERS J. H. Morris, W. O. Marlowe, Harold Janofsky, P. W. Markley, Paul Schallert, Milton . Bauchner, J S. Cook, P. C. Smith, J. P. Lentz, A. D. Steele, Julien D. Winslow. 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, Roy McMillan. Sunday, May 15, 1932 The Controversy At An End The faculty last Wednesday night formally approved the proposed set of rushing rules under which the season of rush ing will last two weeks, instead of the one week formerly sug gested. Under the new rules the entire season, including the days of visiting and the period of silence and decision, will con tinue for sixteen days, begin ning September 24 and ending Octobers. . A plan providing a one week period, previously - considered and at one time almost certain of adoption, has been wisely abandoned.. At the conclusion of rushing the f reshman must make a decision that will not on ly vitally affect his entire col lege career but will in important respects influence the formation of his character during some of his most sensitive and impres sionable years. It is hardly just to force this decision upon him after only one week of rushing a period Trhich, precisely on account of its brevity, would be characterized by an intensity and concentration that wrould hardly admit ample time for sec ond thought, for a proper esti mate of the various .lodges" visit ed: The longer season will allow the tension to relax somewhat, will permit a more careful and thoughtful selection and choos ing on the part of both fresh men and fraternities, and will make hasty or premature ac tion on the part of either un necessary. It will, in brief, make' available a. breathing spell that-will be highly desir able for all concerned in what is necessarily an arduous part of college life. The freshman, furthermore, will already be Jiandicapped in that he will have been at college for only a brief period.1 It would be difficult for on inexperi enced and scarcely adapted to his environment to undergo the fierce pressure of an abridged and thereby highly intensified rushing period. It is, finally, by no means certain that a longer, more relaxed period of rushing will be more detrimental to study than would be a short, "intensive period in which a concentration of energies on the matter of rushing, would be practically in evitable. In view of all the fac tors involved, the action of the faculty is a just and reasonable one. K.P.Y. ' The Not Quite Fourth Estate Now that the Lindbergh case is solved so tragically the only thing left to hope for is that the perpetrators of the most brutal and shocking crime in recent years will be "brought to "jus tice.. The most fervent hopers fpr this to come to pass are probably not the persons direct ly concerned for their hope is gone and their senses are dulled by sorrow. The ones to benefit most from the capture of the criminals are the daily newspa pers, for this will keep alive the "biggest news story of the year." A callous way to refer to heart-rending tragedy, but the press is notorious for its sacrifice of all human emotions to the great god News. It appears now that the baby died shortly after the kidnaping took place, but had the negotia tions for his return actually succeeded the press could derive no credit from the accomplish ment. The papers in reality have hindered the efforts of those concerned in their at tempts to retreive the baby con siderably. These attempts now appear tragically futile but for over two months neither the negotiators nor the reporters had an inkling of the truth an during this time the press bared every angle . of the case they could learn "of," whether it was advantageous to the solving of the case or not. To cite one in stance only, three New. York papers printed . without sanc tion the serial numbers of the ransom money paid by Dr. Con don to a man representing him self to be one of the kidnapers. When the urgent request was made not to print these num bers these papers had already done so without pausing to ap ply any degree of journalistic discretion. Constantly during the case the press had to be muzzled for fear that its incautious revela tions would endanger the baby's safety. Its attitude during the past two months has been the strongest indictment of modern newspaper methods possible. Perhaps, as has been pointed out, the public With its insati able and morbid curiosity has been mainly to blame, but the paper or news syndicate which could have used decent "restraint in the handling of this case would have marked itself as su perior to all those, which in dulged in an orgy Of headline and harmful revelations. B.P. The Ever-Widening Breach .' ' There exists in American col lege circles today two points of view diametrically opposed to one another on the question of athletics. There can be no doubt in the minds of any one that col lege athletics have reached a de gree of over-emphasis and pro fessionalism that constitutes a real threat to existing ideals of higher education. In many in stances scholastic standards have been sacrificed to sports and many of our best known colleges have acquired their fame by virtue of their football teams while their scholastic rat ing is decidedly inferior. Conditions such as these have given rise to a group o irate individuals who condemn partly justly and partly unjustly all college athletics and who go so far as to demand the abolition of varsity sports and intercol legiate competition. To be sure there exists much vtp warrant the dissatisfaction of these re formers and the worse that the condition grows the more harsh become their demands. Hence the two factions move in oppo site directions constantly widen ing a breach that will require the utmost tact and sacrifice on the part of all too close. There can be no disputing the value of athletics for young men. Besides developing the body it trains the character to a very, appreciable degree. Try ing out for a team, or belonging to one calls for determination and a willingness to make sac rifices as well as to keep fight ing in the face of discourage ment and defeat. In addition the athlete learns the lesson of co-operation with his teammates as well as having developed within him some measure of in dividual responsibility and self reliance. Intercollegiate ath letics creates a spirit of friend liness among 0 schools and mem bers of competing teams and de spite the advantages of chess or debating there can arise only on the athletic field the spirit of friendliness and sportsmanship that binds the player to his school and his teammates as well as one school to another. Inter collegiate competition has too many merits to permit its aboli tion by sincere but misguided fanatics. The trouble with college ath letics is a trouble that is charac teristic of the American people a strong tendency to overdo everything. College athletics can be relieved of professional ism and. over-emphasis without in, any way impairing its value. he superior importance of scholarship must be established firmly and the paid player re moved if we hope to terminate the march of the two factions to equally dangerous and unde sirable extremes. J.F.A. A Bit of Moralizing "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and false hood, for the good or evil side." Without it having any reve lance to what follows, the above passage is quoted to give the reader the right "setting" for the profound observations which he is to be regaled. Poetry of ten performs such a function. It seems to be an easy method of beginning a confused jumble of incoherent nothing. What is it that makes us not exactly hypocritical but incon sistant in so many things ? Most of us are proud to term our selves Christians. Yet in many ways we are far from justified in so calling ourselves. The at titude of most, of us to weaker and unfortunate members of our group is a good example of this. An attitude of antagonistic crit icism, instead of sympathy, ex ists. We must realize that, of necessity, all can not be cast m the same mold. In some cases this is fortunate and in others it is not. We should remember that the dominant traits of char acter are the result of birth and environment. Thus wev should sympathize with a person who got a poor hand in this deal. Any successes a person of this kind, make are doubly praise worthy! -H.H. THOSE NEW 'BOOKS The Young Revolutionist has just been received by the Book Market. In this small novel Mrs. Buck gives an authentic picture of Chinese boys and young men as she has seen them in their blind, groping eagerness to build a new China. Sam Selden, whose sister lived with her family for a number of years, tells us that her name be fore her marriage was Pearl Swinkermain. She was the child of missionary parents and has lived in China practically all her life. She did, however, spend some time in this country at school in Virginia. Her hus band teaches agriculture at the University of Nanking. For a while she taught at Ginling Col lege but in recent years she has devoted most of time to writing. . Those who read Shadows 'on the Rock will be pleased to know that they can expect another Cather book by the tag end of the summer. Alfred Knopf an nounces Obscure Destinies con taining three long stories : "Neighbor Rosicky"," "Old Mrs. Harris," and "Two Friends." ' . Harper & Brothers announces their sixth-Prize Novel contest to end February 1, 1933. Sin clair Lewis, Dorothy Canfield, and Harry Hansen will act as judges. Any author who is an American citizen who has pub lished a novel in book prior to January 1, 1921 is eligible. The competition has been held every two years since 1922. Brothers in the West by Robert Heynolds was the last prize winner. Along the Lighthorse Harry Lee and the Back Bay Murders we recommend for the week's balanced rations of reading The Pity of God. This novel of mod ern life has impact. It is going to invite comparison with "The Bridge. . "The Vickereys were such nice people so substantial and comfortable," sBeulah Dix understands and exposes the comic tragedy of each member of this doomed household. The entire action of Pity of God takes place within twenty four hours. Though the climax cOmes to the reader as a surprise, careful analysis will disclose that Mrs. Dix has prepared for it admir ably. Though the tragedy comes as a result of an outside force the tale never descends to, the' melodramatic. It remains throughout what it started out to be, a study of character. Over the charming California suburb an home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe yickery hangs the Nemesis of the House of Atreus. Not Zeus the Avenger, but God the Pitying takes in his hands the hopeless ly tangled mess of lives. Alice in Wonderland has been a best seller this year at the Book-Market. . Grossetarid Dun lap have issued a dollar edition. The Modern Library copy in cludes The Hunting of the Shark. Both have illustrations by Tenniel Dick Walser, '29, is in town for a few days. He has been down visiting in Charleston where he had the good fortune to talk with Julia Peterkin. "No one answered the front door," says Dick, "So I went around to the back.' There I found her in a little shed surrounded by a group of negroes. They were all fixing bunches of asparagus. She could tie the bunches quick er than anybody. She works like that, doesn't say much', just listens to the talk around her. That's how she gets her ma terial. "She is unusally tall, has a bony countenance, and piled-up red hair. She is not pretty, but strikingly handsome. She smokes one cigarette after another Lucky Strikes ! (Note : .Not one cent was paid ). She doesn't like to be entertained by riding around, sightseeing, or the movies but she likes to talk. Those wno are reviewing for exams in certain English cours es will find Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare a great help. Another year like the last and we can list the income-tax col lectors with the army of federal employes who get paid for doing nothing. Arizona Producer. ? 7 n Chicago bootleggers must be finding business rather tough when they have to go out and grab both conventions. Miami News. Motorists are asked to exer cise extra caution when nearing schools. Remembering always that little boys should be seen and not hurt. -Punch (London). With Contempordrte United States Vs. California Year in and year out the country has been flooded with proofs of the innocence of Thom as Mooney Tf the bombing for which he and Billings were sen tenced to life imprisonment. The injustice done to the two former California, however, remains to be convinced. Natives of the Bear State sum it up by saying that "the dirty Reds got what was coming to them, even if they weren't to blame for this particu lar bomoing." Governor Rolph, politically wise, knows that he depends upon California, not Americans, for advancement in his chosen profession. Mooney, a triumphant martyr to the cause of labor, predicts: "A few more such victories for the capitalist system (the de nial of his pardon) and it will be ready for the junk heap, where it historically belongs. The American people, quick to grasp at a symbol, have long since set the Mooney-Billings case apart. The obvious injus tice has melted the kindly but impractical American" heart. Once such a case has really been brought to public atten tion, the people are loath to for get it until justice has been done; in like manner, they. are extremely slow to face the facts in the beginning until they can neither be hidden or explained away. Eventually perhaps, Mooney will be freed. Then the 'great American chest will expand with just pride in the triumph of the right. When that time comes, it will be able to give its general attention to the next case on the roster. Cornell Sun. Only Revolt in Party- Will Block Hoover v (Continued from first page) by his position on the Recon struction Board ; the third is well over seventy and had his best chances twelve and four years ago. The three Senators that showed strength at Kansas City Watson, Goff, and Curtiss have less to commend them this year than then. Hughes is on the Supreme Court, Root is over ninety, and Morrow is dead. Eliminate on factional grounds the perennial Progres sive possibilities, Borah, John son,, and Pinchot, and who re mains? Not a single, outstand ing, proven, popular, confidence inspiring and vote-getting Re publican. Scrutinize the Cabi net, comb the Senate, delve into the House, pass governors and mayors in review nofc a single really able nor even "available" Republican Presidential candi date can be unearthed;, not a single stronger candidate than Mr. Hoover himself can be found. No Change in Hoover Why shouldn't the Republi cans run Mr. Hoover again? It is said he is weak in the Far West and that the farmers of the Middle West will not be in the Homestead-party fold this autumn. (No one is suggesting some other Republican as a bet ter shepherd, though). It is said that he lacks ability to co operate cordially or at all; that he arouses no enthusiasm among his colleagues and his party as sociates ; that he chills those who cpme with proffers of aid and generates suspicion and ill-will where ' sympathetic and friend ly cooperation should exist. But that's the type of man he has al ways been. In war time i those traits were approvingly labeled "managerial efficiency" and "administrative- genius.": The man has' not changed in th White House, unless, according to some reports, to become more approachable, more amenable to suggestion,' more human. One Vital Point of Attack There is only one really vital point of attack on the President at this time, and the Opposition party seems to be doing its ut most to lose'the benefit of that. Mr. Hoover is criticized for th "inadequacy of his ideas" in the present and recent-past national economic situation. Last No vember this'was valid. But the Congressional record of the past five months has just about com pletely cut the ground from un der the Democrats on this score. I do not refer to the charges of "playing politics," impliedly made against them recently by the President himself, for I think such a charge is legiti mately applicable to both party groups in Congress: I refer to the fact that every, constructive measure enacted in the present session of Congress has been a Hoover measure. There was no Democratic legislative program last December; none has evolved in the months that have passed. The Democratic House and Dem ocratic Senators simply allowed the President to take the initia tive and "steal the show." They cannot now with consistency charge him with a weakness that has been much more vio lently exhibited by themselves. . Protects Tax Payer There is being painted at Washington for nation-wide ex hibition a portrait of a stocky, broad-shouldered, serious-faced man who stands as a sturdy bul wark between an irresponsible and reckless Congress and the national treasury ; a man who is protecting the American tax paying public from the wilful plundering of self - interest groups. The President obvious ly yearns to popularize this por trait and Congress is giving him generous assistance. The American economic slump is now viewed in a world-wide setting and as affected by world wide conditions: the saner ele ment among American voters will not now charge one man with responsibility for all that. No man as President could lead Congress through tariff reduc tion or debt revision in the pres ent temper of the nation. Prob ably no occupant of the White House could do more than has been done in reconciling conflict ing progrWs of the "experts" and probably most men as Chief Executive would have endeavor ed to bolster public confidence m basic American institutions much as Mr. Hoover has at tempted to do. Whether the Re publicans at Chicago should turn to the "political group" or the much deflated "big business men they nrobablv cannot find any better available -candidate than the President himself. FULL PROGRAM OF MUSICAL EVENTS BILLED FOR TODAY (Continued from, first nnnt ) has played a short urogram in the theatre before the showing ot the picture, but this time it was thought better- to offer a full band concert on the campus at a later hour. The probabte program this afternoon wni De' Atlantis Suite, by Safra nek: Concert Walt? March of the Dwarfs, by Edvard rieg;. ana several concert marches. The picture show will bedn at 2:00 o'clock so as to avoid any conflict with the organ recital. "The Country Fair", .starring Hobart Bosworth. RaItiTi Thee. Marion Shilling, and William Collier, Jr., will be shown. Friends ' of Al Smith reDort that he has outgrown his brown derby, but what the other as pirants want to know is whether he has outgrown his old run ning pants. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot,
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