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The official newspaper of the Publi
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of ' North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemak
er, chairman, Heuderson Heyward,
Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, J. F.
Alexander, E. C. Daniel, Ervin Jaf
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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.
r G. Thompson.
REPORTERS J. H. Morris, W. O.
Marlowe, Harold Janof sky, P. "W.
Markley, Paul Schallert, Milton
' Bauchner, J. S. Cook, P. C. Smith,
J. P. Lentz. A. D. Steele, Julien D.
Winslow, K.iY. Young, L. L. Hutch
inson, A. S. Taub.
Business Staff
CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C.
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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.
Thursday, May 26, 1932
The Only
Sane Solution
For. several years it has been
threatened that unless the ef
ficiency of the honor system is
considerably increased, steps will
be taken to introduce another
method of student discipline.
However, if the suggested plan
to be considered at the mass
meeting of the student body to
morrow 'night is passed, this
threat will no longer be in order.
The students will have taken a
long stride towards a perfection
of the honor system.
Under the new arrangement
students entering the University
.will be required to sign a pledge
that they wiH not violate the re
quirements of the honor system
themselves and will be held re
sponsible for reporting all viola
tions coming to their attention.
Last year the student council's
records show that hardly ten
cases came up in which the vio
lators were reported to students
other than council members. Un
der such conditions the present
system can hardly be expected to
work efficiently. The students
argued that they could not make
themselves feel the responsibil
ity to report the guilty persons.
But under the proposed plan
each student will be given this
responsibility when he enters the
University, and if he fails in this
task he will be held equally as
guilty as the man whom he re
fused to report. On the other
hand, if he reports the guilty
party he himself will not be look
ed on as a "squealor" but in
stead as just another student
who did what was required of
him.
. This will save considerable
embarrassment for those spine
less individuals who are afraid
to report violations under the
present plan. It will give them
a chance to ease their weak
minds by saying that they were
required to report and hence had
no other alternative.
.This proposal has been pre
sented. Its benefits are self-evident.
The rest is left to the stu
dents. If they accept the plan,
they will give themselves a work
ing system of student discipline.
If they refuse the plan, they
place themselves in danger of
having a faculty proctor system
forced upon them.
"A Souvenir of
The Dark Ages
The present trend in penology
is to regard the treatment of
the criminal as corrective rath
er than retaliatory, and with
the acceptance of this principle,
capital punishment loses its only
justification. While this taking
of human life has been with
mankind from the remotest eras
of antiquity men have constant
ly expressed grave doubts as to
its justification and efficacy. To
many it does not seem right
that human beings, themselves
not free from sin and wrong,
should have the power to de
prive a fellow man of his right
to live. Certainly it is a cruel
and inhumane practice that
might be retained if nothing
else could protect human wel
fare; but this is not the case.
In addition to the ethical and
moral objections there exists the
actual facts which prove that
capital punishment has failed to
reduce the numbers of the
crimes.it is intended to prevent.
Countries and states that have
abolished it have found that
there is no increase of murders,
and in many cases there has
been a considerable decrease.
This is due to a great extent
to the extreme reluctance of
jurors to return a verdict which
they know means death to the
accused man before them. Hence
many men guilty of crimes call
ing for the supreme penalty
have been acquitted or found
guilty of lesser crimes , with less
drastic punishments. The very
small number of men electro
cuted in proportion to the num
ber tried for first degree mur
der demonstrates that there is
a strong revulsion on the part
of most men to the taking of
life even though legally.
A further consideration is
the murderer himself. Unlike
other criminals the murderer is
peculiar to no particular race,
clime, occupation or degree of
education. Most murderers 'are
individuals who have been driv
en to actions of which they are
normally incapable and are com
mitted though they know their
lives are at stake. Many of
them are first offenders who
have never been in trouble with
society before and are guiltless
of other crimes. Some are vic
tims of insanity who are ob
viously not answerable for theirj
actions, and in other cases the
lines between sanity and insan
ity, between murder and homi
cide . are so fine that it is a
dangerous one to draw and kill
on the balance. - It is certain
that many murderers might be
subject to punishment and cor
rection that would satisfy soci
ety and create a good and useful
citizen.
The horrible possibility that
innocent men 'may be convicted
and sentenced, though perhaps
slim, as almost reason enough to
do away with a punishment that
cannot be corrected if an error
is made and there can be no
doubting that many men have
gone to their deaths through
circumstantial evidence, perjury
and the imperfections of human
justice. An eye for an eye has
been outgrown by the human
race and it is a question of time
only before the electric chair will
grace our museums along with
the thumbscrew and the rack.
J.F.A.
Are You
Listenin'?
Disgusted with radio pro
grams similar to ours, Canada
has taken the first step in fol
lowing England in regulation.
In the British Isles, a private
monopoly licensed by Parlia
ment, the British Broadcasting
Co., Ltd., has control. The
monopoly does not make its
money from advertising but
from a tax of about $1.80 that
is imposed on all owners of re
ceiving sets. Canadians plan to
reduce advertising to not more
than five per cent and to super
vise and gradually buy in sta
tions. If Canadian stations are di
rectly comparable to ours this
THE DAILY
ado seems rather silly. There
are, of course, poor programs,
but it is obvious to all those who
listen in on broadcasts that the
level of excellence of entertain
ment is steadily becoming high
er. The Canadians already have
a tax of about two dollars on
receiving sets. Cutting adver
tising to a very low minimum
would cut off most of the in
come, from advertising. As
Frank Mason of the National
Broadcasting Co. said, "They're
killing the goose that lays the
golden egg !" More money would
have to be gotten from some
where. It would have to come
in the form of a tax whether on
radios or not.
The American system seems,
in spite of criticism, the best.
Radio programs have a great
deal of cultural value and are
a quick means of getting impor
tant information to the whole
country. Thus the possession
pf sets should be encouraged.
Let advertising foot the bill for
the programs. The natural
competition of station and sta
tion and advertiser and adver
tiser will see that the programs
improve. H.H.
Once in a
Lifetime
"If dis ain't a mess, I never
seed one!'-
This well-Known expression
of Amos and Andy, when ap
plied to the approaching com
mencement exercises, seems
hardly adequate to describe the
situation. No one seems to know
what anybody is supposed to do.
Everybody apparently is relying
on somebody else to do some
thing. The result is that nobody
has done anything, and every
body is blaming everybody else
for doing nothing.
As yet, no announcement has
been made as to who will be the
commencement speaker. It is
extremely doubtful that he has
been chosen. Perhaps the "pow
ers that be" are planning to
make this an all-Carolina affair
by having President Graham de
liver the final address. This
meets with our approval, not on
ly because he is a good speaker
but because we believe he won't
talk long. But why has no for
mal announcement been made?
The senior invitations commit
tee did nobly in its choice of, in
vitations, but, here again, some
one has failed to co-operate, for
there has not been printed any
program of the exercises to in
clude in the invitations. We do
not know who is to blame for
this negligence, but the lack of
these programs will likely cause
much confusion on the part of
the recipients of the invitations,
for the time for the presentation
of diplomas has been changed.
This business of being gradu
ated is getting on our nerves,
especially when we know so little
about it. We are glad it hap
pens only once. B.H.N.
Toward a
Native Drama
The recent fur-flying over the
Playmakers' production of The
Butter and Egg Man gives rise
to a questioning of the policies
and accomplishments of that or
ganization. With perhaps more
than a dignified measure of fan-
NOW PLAYING
Irving Pichel
Marguerite Churchill
"FORGOTTEN
COMMANDMENTS"
Also
Comedy News
TAR HEEL
fare the Playmakers have set
themselves up as the distillers
of home-drama, the group that
will keep the fires burning for
folk-plays. This highly com
mendable aim has elicited na
tional recognition for the Play
makers and has played no slight
part in publicizing the Univer
sity in a decidedly agreeable
light.
Yet, the time has "come when
the drama group faces a certain
lack of regard at home that it
most surely enjoys abroad. This
might be explained by the fact
that the Playmakers have insist
ed on being more than a folk
drama institution in Chapel Hill.
The vast field of dramatic possi
bilities has called to them and
they have proceeded to dabble in
areas other than their chosen
one.
It is here that the group has
come to grips with the home
folks. Do the Playmakers, fly
ing their homespun banner, have
the right to offer fourth-rate imi
tations of Broadway, when they
could be doing top-notch work in
the field for which they are pe
culiarly suited? Does the group
have the privilege to select a
play for local presentation mere
ly because it is endowed with
sufficient humorous situations
and wise-cracks to get across re
gardless of the production?
The past season of the Play
makers answers some of these
questions. There is little oppo
sition to the statement that
Strike Song was the most signi
ficant piece of work presented
this year. Although the writing
was in need of polishing and the
acting scarcely finished, the pro
duction shines brighter than the
machine-made efforts. Faults
in Strike Song are condoned,
even expected, due to the very
nature of the presentation. But
the sketchiness of the acting,
staging, and management in The
Butter and Egg Man are stains
on the Playmakers' reputation
and annoyances to a critical au
IMPORTANT NOTICE
to
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES 1932
This Is to Call to Your Attention:
1.
2.
3.
The $5.00 diploma fee which is now due.
After May 27 it will be too late to get your name
engr6ssed on the diploma by the engraver in time
for Commencement.
After June 2 it will be too late to get your name on
the Commencement Day Program.
The University Of North Carolina
The most popular ready-to-eat
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ALL-BRAN
KELLOGO COMPANY
dience. .
It is to the organization's own
advantage that it realizes its
limitations as well as its mani
fest destiny. The group is a
unit of actors that can complete
ly spoil the splendid impression
made with a Strike Song by of
fering a shoddy performance of
The Butter and Egg Man.
Rather let us have revival upon
revival of Paul Green and Tom
Wolfe than murder upon murder
of Manhattan drama.
The road toward a native
drama, be it remembered, does
not lie through Broadway. J.S.
It's Worth Knowing
That
Eamon De Valera, presi
dent of the Irish Free State,
was born in the United States.
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In air, sound travels from
l,130Ho 1,140 feet per second;
in water at a rate of 4,700
feet per second.
Bullets of stone were used N
in 1514.
Figures in arithmetic were
introduced into Europe by the
Saracens from Arabia in 991,
until then letters had been
used.
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.We Wish to Express Our
APPRECIATION
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Thursday, May 26, 1 93
The student body of Harvard
University consists of students
from forty-six different coun
tries. Canada, with sixty-nrier
coasts the highest number. Chha
is next with forty. Abbyssinla,
Persia, Palestine, Syria, and tie
Virgin Islands are also repiv
sented.
On June 1st all dormitory
rooms signed for by pres
ent occupants will be open
for general assignment.
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