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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Page Two Gijc Datlp Sar I? eel 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 clas3 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...-....Editor G. W. Wilson, Jr: ..Mng. Editor John Manning....Busmess Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemak er, chairman. Heiiderson Heyward, ., Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, J. F. Alexander, E. C. Daniel, Ervin Jaf fee, 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, Robert Bolton. , FOREIGN NEWS BOARD Frank Hawley, John Acee, Ed Spruill, C. G. Thompson. . 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, K. Y. Young, L. L. Hutch inson, A. S. Taub. - '. Business Staff -i 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. Wednesday, May 25, 1932 Temperate Radicalism The permanent solution to the present economic breakdown which hasv afflicted the nation and the western world in gen eral for the past three years should be obvious and self-evident. The desirability or rather the necessity of industrial sta bilization, and of a planned eco nomic order in which the de structive factors of unorganized competition and , unhampered production would be eliminated, has been distinctly pointed out by eminent economists, by ex perienced capitalists, - and by more than one distinguished public man. Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court has only recently stressed this need in clear and emphatic language. The sturdy 1 individualism of an earlier era, the dominance of industrial giants engaged in fierce conflict with one another, must go, it is agreed, to be re placed by an integrated system of industry wherein chaos will give way to coordination, and competition to concentration of authority. The mere imposition of rules and restrictions by. the government no longer suffices ; the powerful and uncontrolled forces of trade and industry need to be openly and definitely harnessed and directed by a superior force, whether that force be the government or some other. The governmental "forms of Russia an Italy clearly mani fest the recognition of this all important fact in Europe, al though it is hardly necessary that governmental control as sume such forms as Fascism or Communism, in which are im plicit censorship of the press and death to political liberty. " While the basic requisite for modern economic order is ap parent, serious problems are in volved of which the solutions can not be as easily indicated. The forms which industrial planning may assume remains problematical ; there are of fered the various possibilities of some form of state socialism, of military dictatorship, and of an avowed feudal capitalism, any of which could prove satisfac tory from the purely economic viewpoint. The economic life of this nation, furthermore, is so entangled with and compli cated by foreign trade and in dustry that it is doubtful whether an economic planning confined in scope to the United States or to any one nation would be effective. The process by which the de sired end may be obtained is. dif ficult to determine, and can scarcely be expected to ' be a smooth and gentle one. Wheth er any decisive, far-reaching transformation will ever be se cured or not; finally, remains to be seen hampered as it will be, by inertia and reluctance to change on the one hand and wild and impractical forms of radi calism on the other K.P.Y. The Year in Retrospect During the past year many improvements have been made hi .the student government at the University of North Caro lina. Under President Albright's efficient administration, the stu dent council has done excellent work. Perhaps the most con structive7 innovation was the es tablishing of an Audit Board to inspect the accounts of all stu dent funds. No longer will it be possible for students to suspect that their money paid in through the business office is being dissi pated in "graft." Many other constructive changes have also been made. Regulation and control of stu dent dances has been taken from the German Club and given to a more representative Student Dance Committee. The Aus tralian ballot has been adopted for campus elections. More or less definite party organization has been worked out in jcampus politics, and some ' effort lias been made to transfer that in terest in practical politics to the coming state and national elec tions. Many of the more promi nent campus organizations, sucK as the Golden Fleece, have abol ished hazing. Nevertheless, much can still be done to improve our campus government. The dance control . question is not yet finally set tled, for it remains to be seen whether 'the new committee will exercise efficient control over the dances and whether it will really transfer any power to the non-German Club group. . There are still a great many useless organizations on the, campus, and a great deal of f oolisli horse play in their initiations partic ularly those of the sophomore societies. The ballot in the spring election is still cluttered up with numberless offices such as secretary of the sophomore class and vice-president of the junior class which serve no real purpose. The useless freshman class elections will probably be held again next winter. The various efforts to secure fuller student participation in student affairs, such as the Union Forum, have had. little success. And, finally, the great question of the honor system remains yet unsolved. i - . The Daily Tar Heel is proud to feel that it may have played some small part in bringing about some of the reforms that have been accomplished this year. For next year, it wishes President Weeks - and the Stu dent Council all success in fac ing the problems that must come before them and pledges ' itself to continue to support a policy of the elimination of useless of fices and -societies and the at tainment of a more democratic and representative student gov ernments D.M.L. Finding a Happy Medium The subject of grades and grading has been one of con tinual perplexion since the de visement of some method of re cording the ability of a student in a certain field. The distress ing feature of the entire matter is that it is impossible to use the same standards of judgment . on one student as can be used on another. In this way somebody has to suffer. After a workable system of grading has been devised, it is very difficult for the person who does the grading to know exact ly the worth of the various cate gories the grading system calls for. For instance : What ability should a student exhibit in order to obtain a on a course? This question and others of a similar type have always per plexed those in whose hands the grading is placed and probably always will. Many institutions favor the numerical grade, but this calls for a more scientific and mathe matical accuracy in grading pa pers In the case of mathe matics and the various sciences, it is quite possible to erect a rigid numerical grading system, but when it is applied to litera ture and language, the standard will be found sadly lacking. The most apparently success ful notation of grades is the one used in the University Graduate School. This consists of three grades: "H,""P," and "F"; in dicating high, pass, and fail re spectively.; This system has proved quite successful in the graduate school, but would not prove so in the undergraduate for the simple reason that the graduate is not bothered with making honorary fraternities in which the slightest variation of the grade must be considered, as is the undergraduate. The "H" of the graduate school is loosely comparative to the "A" or "B" (90-100 in the undergraduate schools. The "P" in the gradu ate school is equal to the "C" or "D" (70-90) in the undergradu ate school, while the "F" is equiv alent to the "E" or "F" (50 70) in the undergraduate school. The final system that will prove the most successful wiH be a combination of the numerical system and the present system used in the graduate school, and since the remedy has been sug gested, all that is necessary now is for someone to combine these two systems into a more per fectly working one than we have at present. E.J. SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND The views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the editorial board of this pub lication nor of the campus at large. Contributions on both sides of controversial questions are solicited by The Daily Tar Heel. All letters must be typewritten, double spaced, and not more than four hundred words in length. Slap- , Dash This is to call attention to. the fine flower of The Slap-Dash School of Dramatic Criticism that appeared in your columns of May 21st. Your anonymous critic, churning on The Butter and Egg Man, has the fol lowing to say: Paragraph 1 : The play was "al most fool-proof." But in paragraph 3: "It has been-said that this play was fool-proof, that anyone could put it over. That is not strictly true . . . It was not an easy play to produce with any assurance of sympathy from the audience. The dialogue was swift, arid being laden with theatrical jargon and allusions, was not calculated to register with a completely uninitiated audience." Subtract paragraph 3 from paragraph 1, and what do you get? Nothing. . We start again. Says he, para graph 2 : "Completely inexplicable in this performance was the tone of ama teurishness that crept' into the whole of the show." Formerly the Playmak ers were bad in a "professional way, due to some esprit de corps, some bond of kinship, or some pride of organiza tion." (Sorry I can't elucidate this something in The Playmakers that lurks beneath attributes hitherto con sidered virtues just some force inside themselves that makes for unrighte ousness). But now thse Playmakers "are mediocre in an amateurish way. Here all who failed were excruciat ingly like the little theatre." (Which, incidentally,' The Playmakers proud ly is). - Put this paragraph of praise down beside the one of censure that pre cedes it. Would you have bought a ticket? If you hadn't you'd have missed worse than a scream ; it was a screech. Too good to laugh at. But how, were you to know? Nothing in the teview to show that despite reser vations, the show paid for the time. Contradictions without conclusions don't help the average citizen. Furthermore, how about the record? The press is history as well as the main stimulus of the theater. No democracy's stage is better than its press. JOHN M. BOOKER. With ! Contemporaries I What Can They Think? "If I were In the position of some of the millions of unem ployed men in this country I would be inclined to do some thing desperate.,, These are not the words of a communist, an agitator, an irre sponsible radical. They repre sent the studied opinion of a member of the law faculty of Duke University, Professor Malcolm McDermott, who does not hesitate to say that in his humble judgment America may be on the brink of revolution. We hear that suggestion fre quently from responsible sourc es. We hear, also, that the United States needs a Mussolini. We hear the extremes of vast wealth and abject poverty, of hoarded money and unemploy ment, of extravagant surpluses and dire want condemned in terms that indict our whole eco nomic system. Change, change, change! That is the motivation of all the confused philosophy which contemplates a way out of our dilemma. v In this situation, what can be the reaction of substantial, hard vorking American men, deprived of their homes through no fault of their "own? What can be the reaction of these men who have embraced the ideal of honesty, thrift, sobriety, . home invest ments, planning for their chil dren a better opportunity than they enjoyed, when they read that a group of the financially powerful and a few , of their satellites, by manipulation of the Stock Exchange and, the exploi tation of .trusting investors, cleaned up five cool millions in a week on an output of $12,000, 000 of capital, never in any real danger? What we ask, in the name of high Heaven, can be their reac tion when they are told from high places that all this is done with the sanction of law, while the same law sends a starving man to jail for stealing food? Neivs and Observer. Former Speakers At Commencement Form Imposing List ( Continued from first page) 1907 on the question, "Of What Use Is a College Education?" At the commencement of 1908, Judge Martin Augustus Knapp spoke on "Transportation." - For the graduation exercises of next -June the University in vited WilliamHenry Welch, pro fessor of pathology in Johns Hopkins University. Professor Welch commended the scholastic ability of Carolina medical stu dents who had come to Johns Hopkins. He spoke on VPreven tive Medicine in its Relation to Society." Dr. Charles Foster Smith in the commencement ad dress of the next year- offered advice to the out-going gradu ates, when he declared that stu dents should study not only their text-books but other good books as well. President Woodrow Wilson The commencement of 1911 was especially distinguished by having as its speaker Woodrow Wilson, at that time governor of New Jersey. President Venable introduced him by remarking that once before Princeton had sent her president, "a quiet scholar," into politics. Wilson's address was tinged with politi cal thought. "The doctrine of the Republican party,", he de clared, "is that the government should be conducted by the men who are the material successes and have established the mater ial prosperity of the country and of themselves." He further de cried the system of office-holding by saying that governmental powers had passed into "private hands instead of those of the state." . .-. . ,. . . " The period of years from 1912 to 1917 saw the advent of many men famousin the political his tory of the country as speakers at the annual commencement ex rcises. Among these were Thom as R. Marshall, one-time vice president of the United. States; chief justice of the District of Columbia's district court A. Mitchell Palmer, and William G. McAdoo. Secretary McAdoo gave a short address of eighteen minutes on "The Significance of a Pan-American Policy." Secretary Baker After McAdoo came Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, who spoke at the commencement of 1917. Addressing a group of graduates who had, perhaps, participated in the military dis play so rife at the time on Em erson field, Secretary . Baker urged the large audience before him to "do their bit." Sentiment against Germany was strong ; -his topic dwelt at length on the outrage of "the scrap of paper" and the holiness of Belgium neu trality. The commencement speakers of the years immediately follow ing gave addresses on subjects generally concerned with post war problems and international relations. Speaking in 1919 on "An Adventure and Its Lesson," Secretary of the Interior Frank lin K. Lane declared that Amer ica's was not a problem of re construction but one of "carry ing on." Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels called upon the graduates of 1921 "to follow con science and conviction regard less of convention and prece dent." Declaring that it was America's opportunity "to put into effect the yearnings and as pirations of the centuries," George Gordon Battle, '85, gave an exposition of the liewly-pro-posed World Court to the gradu ating class of 1923. Glenn Frank Prophesies Two years later, Glenn Frank, president-elect of the University of Wisconsin, was the commence ment speaker. In his talk he made the ringing statement Wednesday, May 25, 1932 that "the 'world is today sur feited with a' literature of de spair." Dr. Frank, however, proclaimed a ray of hope by prophesying a new renaissance of spiritual awakening within, twenty-five years. After Douglas . Freeman's commencement address in 1926, the University invited Arthur W. Page as the next speaker. Page was ill the following June, and President Harry Woodburn Chase spoke in his absence. British Ambassador Sir "Esme Howard, British ambassador to the United States, addressed the graduating class of 1929 on a subject which in cluded the history of King Al fred and England in 900 A.D. Dr. John Finley, associate edi tor of the New York Times, made his second trip to the Uni versity to speak before the grad uating class of 1930. Dr. Fin ley urged college students to continue their intellectual life after graduation. He also stat ed that he would sing the epic of our modern- life by changing Vergil's well-known opening verse into "Virum, opusque ca ll o." The commencement speak er of 1931 was Claude G. Bow ers, who talked on southern re naissance. LEO RIESMAN IS CHOSEN TO PLAY AT FINALDANCES (Continued from page one) Park also announced that the rates for paid up members of the German ChiF for - the set of dances would be $6.00. Rates for others are as follows : mem bers not paid up, $12.00; alumni members, $10:00; visitors, $10.00 ; senior " non-members, $12 :00 ; freshman non-members, $16.00; other non-members, $20.00. The dances this year will take place from Tuesday, June 7, un til Thursday, June 9. There will be seven events in the set, includ ing three evening dances, two morning dances, one tea dance, and one concert featuring Leo Riesman and his orchestra. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS t V" - i - -v - , ' - - ' i f r - ' " L i'w - 1 te0)V; ft- :) - "It wasn't a sin to do 1 this thiny to her! . . . ----- When I let her drag me down . . . when I lived off her money ... THAT'S when I sinned . . . It was let- rli ting her go on that; was a crime . . . not stopping her! I'm not guilty . . . I'm FREE! FREE! FREE!" " surpasses all his past achievements' in ' wic ijeusiiuonai roaaway stage success " . with VIVIENNE OSBORNE PRESTON FOSTER ALSO ow i- PLAYING Charlie Chase Comedy . "First in War" " Paramount News
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