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Page Two- THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, October 27, z m4)e satip at ieei 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........ Editor Geo. W. Wilson, Jr...Mgr. Editor K. D. McMillan ....Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD "Don Shoe XllilCCI, CIlCtJLL UAiXll , 1U. J. iaiuci, tlx.) John Alexander, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, Nelson Bobbins, B. B.Terry, Milton Kalb, A. T. Dill, - Li. M. Joy, F. A. Northrup. CITY EDITORS T. H. "Walker, Bob Woerner, Bill Davis. DESK MEN Otto Steinreich, George Malone, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddleman, Phil Markley, J. D. Winslow. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Vermont Royster, Donoh Hanks, Frank Hawley, W. O. Marlowe. Carl Thoirmson. Jerome Kessler. . , x SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Anderson, Jack Bessen, Lawrence Thompson, Matt Hackett, ' ' J. H. Morris, Crampton Trainer. , REPORTERS B. R. Weaver, Ray mond Barron, James B. Craighill, Walter Hargett, T. W. Hicks, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Lewis S. Morris, Robert C. Page, George Rhoades, Phillip Hammer, Irving Suss, Clarence Hartman, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth Johnson, W. B. Greet, Jack Lowe. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPT. Tom Worth, Manager. OFFICE STAFF F. P.' Gray, Jr., Ass't Bus. Mgr., John Barrow, Ass't Bus. Mgr., W. B. Robeson. ADVERTISING STAFF Howard Manning, Adv't Mgr., W. C. Jones, Adv't Mgr., ' J. W. Callahan, Jim Cordon, James Mehaffy, Butler . French, Esley Anderson, Buddy Up church, J. Ralto Farlow, Joe Mason. COLLECTION STAFF Randolph Reynolds, Collection Mgr., .Joe "tT. . Webb, Agnew Bahnson, A. L. Brooks, Armistead Maupin. Thursday, October 27, 1932 Handwriting On the Wall Statistics collected over the past five years by Ben Husbands, assistant to the registrar, prove beyond the least shadow of a doubt that the mid-term warn ings posted each quarter are ac curate indications as to the students ability in academic work. And they show conclu sively that unless heeded care fully these warnings will final ly result in conditional or fail ing marks.- According to the survey the fact is brought out that as a rule those persons' making at least one "w" at mid-term will at the end of the quarter find them selves with an. average of a low "C" on all their courses. And those who are posted for as many as one "x" will have an 'average of something less than a "D." Mr. Husbands' tabulations also indicate that those students who are on the registrar's mid-term list seldom find themselves on the honor roll. As a matter of actual statistics, during the last five fall quarters, of all the per sons receiving an "x" at mid term only seventeen of this number registered a grade as high as a "B," and not one of these recorded an ""A" on their courses. . Many students who find their names on this mid-term regis trar's list try to make light of the matter without ' paying it much attention. Of times even the professors will humor the students by intimating that mid terms have little effect on the final mark. This fact is prob ably true. But it can not be denied as these figures show that on the average those stu dents who are doing poor work at mid-term are the same ones who are doing poor work at the end of the quarter. If these students continue to be posted quarterly, or even every other quarter, with at least one "x" they will in all probability at the end of four years find themselves unable to graduate because of an insuf ficient number of grades of "C" or better. ' . ' In view of all these facts, therefore, it would seem wise forthose students whose names are now on the registrar's list that they profit by the mistakes of their predecessors on the list and buckle down to . some hard work between now and final ex aminations. Faculty members and students may contend that being placed on the registrar's mid-term list is not a sign of scholastic danger, ahead but statistics prove otherwise. The. Horizon Brightens In the flux of conditions and consequences, the ethics of hon or also change. When the University was younger and smaller than, it is today, the strictest code, of southern honor was in, force on the campus. Beyond all doubt, to cheat was to act dishonor ably. And to act dishonorably was to be expelled from the Uni versity. Such was the strict est of the code. j As the University grew, this idea was forgotten. The tradi tion could not be perpetuated in the inhomogeneous thousands of students whose mere mass made the old system impracticable. In its place, a peculiar code of school-boy honor found its way from the schools into the Uni versity. Cheating became a legitimate sport and a favorite device for lazy students. It was, then, unsportsmanlike to report a fellow student. Parallel with the new code, however, there was the unspoken conception of cheating as a form of stealing. It is manifestly un fair to a good student who works hard to have his ideas stolen by a lazy pupil on examination. Such an act arouses resent ment and indignation. No ques tion of moral scruples is involved. So far, this resentment of an un fair practice has taken no active form. University students gen erally show the same discour aging apathy to campus govern mental affairs that their elders display in regard to political cor ruption. Such is the state and condition of honor at the University of North Carolina. But it will not always be so. E.C.D. Gone Are The Days Regardless of the action taken on the eighteenth amendment, it is almost a surety that before many months have passed, alco holic beverages may be had in many sections of the country without hazard of the law. Both major parties seem def initely committed to schemes for making legal the sale of intoxi cating liquors. The issue swings from a moral to an economic one in the eyes of political leaders, who hope, by either a plan of direct sale by governmental agencies, or by private concerns operating under close govern mental agencies, or by private concerns operating under close governmental supervision, and highly taxed, to direct the prof its of the liquor traffic into Fed eral coffers, . and, thereby, seal the widening gaps in our nation al budget. No one doubts that such a sys teni would constitute a step to ward removing the disparity be tween treasury receipts and ex penditures, but" that it can have the equalizing effect claimed by its propagators, seems hardly credible. To bring in such an enormous revenue, would necessitate an exorbitant tax, and would pro duce such a wide discrepancy between the initial cost 'arid re tail prices of the products . ef fected, as to afford a very lucra tive field for exploitation by or ganized bootleggers and racket eers. To avoid such illicit competi tion would require an army of officers not smaller than that now mobilized to enforce the eighteenth amendment, which would inflict no light burden on the revenue derived from this source. On the other hand, if the gov ernment undertakes to preclud the necessity for such a force by underselling these highly or ganized bands of marauders then it must be at such a low price as to render the returns far from sufficient to reinstate the salubrity of our economic system. While forced to admit tha government control of spiritous liquors has many wholesome aspects, yet the plan does no take due cognizance of the in hfluence which would be wielded by a militant underworld, with which Federal authority has failed to cope in the past, and the plan, like all Utopian the ories, when put into practice will doubtless be very sadly emasculated. W.A.S. The Spider Spins Silently Let no one be deceived by the apparent quiet hovering about Manchuria. The y newspapers are printing only an intermitt ant exudation of news about the situation; there is little public interest manifest even the so called intelligentsia have brand ed the subject "out of fashion" but things are happening! When a campaign speech is made; when a fire razes a movie palace; when a football hero weds that's news ; but when there are little or no surface in dications of activity, such as is the case between Japan and China that's not news. How ever, one has only to probe be hind the seeming, quiescence of the- Far-East to see the multi tude of history-making factors at work. Although little fight ing is reported from Manchuria, it is estimated that there are well over 100,000 Chinese and about 80,000 Japanese troops awaiting dutytnere. Meanwhile the actual struggle between China the yawning giant and Japan the stridulent Tom Thumb, has been proceeding apace in spheres other than the political. China's boycott of Nipponese products is slowly bearing fruit. The fact that approximately ninety-five per cent of Japan ese foreign investments are in China, and that Chinese trade in normal times constitutes a large majority of her total, makes it apparent that- Japan's economic dependence' upon her neighbor is all-important. Thus, the situation reaching the im passe that it has, the island Em pire has begun to feel the pinch more and more each day. Al ready we find that theVyalue of the yen has depreciated fifty per cent; already starvation, rioting and reaction have reared their ugly heads; the stalemate can not long remain as it is. Manchuria is a rich prize, but she also bears thorns. A terri tory comprising an area twice that of Germany, with abund ant forests, rich soil, and mir;- eral resources of almost fabu lous extent ; a province contain ing but thirty million people (although ninety-five per cent of these are Chinese and the Jap anese population is but 200,000) Manchuria is indeed well worth having. Japan feels that she must go thru with this Man churian annexation, come what may. , She realizes that a cross roads has been reached in . her national existence, and that there must be no turning aside from her Dream of Empire. Well does she know that if thwarted in this effort, the growing strength of both China and Russia will become an uri surmountable bulwark to over come. Japan is taking the lone- chance. Will she realize her dream? Or defeated by the very forces which she has en gendered will she sink backn- to the position of a second-rate power, strength shattered and growth permanently impaired? V.J.L. Tripping Along On Trivialities The campaign speeches of Hoover and Roosevelt have been full of promise for economic re covery and better times. Much has been said about federal aid, farm relief and attitudes toward the bonus demands. These are important issues, but ones that fade into nothingness in com parison with questions that have been practically ignored by the two candidates questions of world conditions. There -seems to be a great unwillingness on the parts of our leaders to face the present conditions in the light of their, true origins, the light of world chaos and world disorder.. It may be that Amer ican diplomats feel themselves inferior in ability to the diplo mats of other nations, and are therefore unwilling to risk any thing through any attempt to arrive at some international agreement, imperative though it be. It may be that America has not yet found herself able to dis card the advice of Washington, timely though it was a century and a half ago, "and remain strictly out of European affairs. If so, this petty and provincial attitude stands as a serious bar rier in the way of international accord and consequent bettering of world conditions. It must be realized that in the world of today one nation can no longer be an entity relying upon itself for support. With the machine age the nations have become more and more depend ent upon one another, and tha present world-wide disorder is probably due in no small part to the failure of international com ity to keep abreast with inter national necessity; In Wash ington's day a panic in Germany or a revolution in Russia would have produced a relatively minor effect upon our economic order. Today, with highly industrial ized Germany groaning under the intolerable burdens inflicted by the post war treaties, it is ob vious that the American people having millions of dollars invest ed in German industry will feel the results of Germany's ter rible plight. Founded upon the palpable lie of- war guilt, the crushing German debt remains as evidence of the greed and hos tility of the allies as well as an effective bar to German econom ic recovery and hence to any change for the better in the status quo. The time has come when na tions must realize that to sur vive they must cooperate. Poli cies of aloofness and' splendid isolation are antiquated ones that must soon disappear. The day is here in which each nation must depend to a greater and greater degree upon the other hand must work hand in hand with its fellows. The sooner world leaders practice mutual trust and mutual aid, the sooner will depressions cease and the world enjoy far better times than the lean years she knows now. J.F.A. REPUBLICANS PLAN TO HAVE FRAZIER HERE Plans -are pending to have Clifford Frazier, candidate for governor on the Republican tic ket, speak to the students under the auspices of the Young Re publican club of the University. It present negotiations are com pleted Frazier will speak in Ger rard hall the first of next week. A meeting of the club is sche duled within the next few days to arrange final details. The Young Republican club is making every effort to secure a nationally prominent speaker to address the students of - the University within the next few days.. Life and Letters By Edith Harbour Since I was born on a- Wed nesday longt. long ago I might paraphrase an old folk , rhyme something like this : . . . Wednesday's child is full of woe; Thursday's column has far to go. Or if I were a devotee, of foot ball jargon I might say that with only a few words down on this page there are still two pages to go. With a procrastin ation worthy of the proverbial Mexican I always put off writ ing columns until tomorrow. And my only interest in that revolutionary republic to., the southwest is Stuart Chase's Mexico and a lingering desire to know more about those ... old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago . . . For I still remember from un dergraduate days thatGolden- weiser said that many civiliza tions other than our own have achieved things of genuine and unique worth. It was Somerset Maugham who interestingly observed that the best use of culture is to talk nonsense with distinction . . . . Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl, the garrul ous Czech, reveals among other things that the first and last bath an Eskimo ever has is im mediately after birth . . . Hint to a fellow-columnist: You might re-name your "colyum" MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTH ING . . . Proof-readers may be the salt of the earth, as I have heard, but when they turn my "diffident" Thomas Hardy into a person who is merely "differ ent" I am prone to remark that when salt loses its savor it is good f 01; nothing . . . Without my window Saturday after the game "Asphalt Arabs" were hailing rides up Greensboro way. One smallish lad was not satisfied with the ordinary re quest for a ride. With a grand iose wave of his hand he begged in stentorian tones: "Greens boro, High Point, Salisbury, Charlotte!" ... My pet abomin ation is to. be traversing the main thoroughfare of the village and to see there movie advertise ments on which actresses have been decorated with mustachios . . . Incidentally, I'm still won dering who wrote the speech President Hoover delivered last Saturday night and who sang the theme song for Norma Shearer in "Smilin' Through." - The worst pun of all times was included in the recent radio broadcast of one of the great re fining companies which riavs high for the privilege of enter taining as well as instructing the Great American Public : A cer tain Englishman was asked to leave an estate, more or less un ceremoniously. He demanded imperiously, "Mahatma Gandhi and my gloves !" Community Club Meeting The Community club will meet at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon in the Episcopal parish house. The American' .Citizenship depart ment will be in charge of the program. E. J. Woodhouse will present a non-partisan discus sion of the platforms and poli cies of the three major parties. Editorial Appointments 1 The editorial board of The Daily Tar Heel has the pleas ure of announcing the appoint ment of Floyd A. Northrop, Jr:, Long Island, N. Y., and Loren M. Joy, Brushton, N. Y. GRAHAM MEMORIAL BARBER SHOP 1 OUR TIMES By Don Shoemaker Skunks We note with a sigh for the good old days of the Winter and Spring of '32, that the famous skunk filler is now on the rounds of college dailies again, this time appearing initially in the Princetonian, who brought it to light from the files of The Lafay ette. The skunk filler, if you re member the good old days, is a little story whereby some uni versity, football team, or frater nity "has adopted a baby skunk for its mascot.". This time it's a fraternity house at Marquette university. Last year it was the University of North Carolina football team that had adopted a member of the genus Mephitis mephitis. We wrote a little piece about the matter last year charging the N C. State Technician and the Duke Chronicle as the perpetra tors of the original deed, but be fore we could get to the bottom of the matter, it had spread all over the country. For awhile it was good publicity, but pretty soon it became monotonous. Something like a chain letter. Darb For three years we've prac tically resisted the temptation to "go collegiate," except perhaps for the occasional sporting of a yellow-stemmed pipe. But the Inter-Collegiate Press people out in Kansas City, Missouri, have got us in a pretty bad place now, we'll admit. Sent out a pretty colored circular announcing their new "Varsity" Windbreak ers which "are the new vougue that boosts school spirit and peps up the campus." The "Varsity" Windbreaker is a sort of "high-grade garment with yDur team mascot or emb lem embroidered on the hick in school colors." It's a "daHict campus and class' room wear," "studes and co-eds both are wearing it;" it Js a "wow for campus, field, and bleachers;" and besides "its a bear for looks and wear." Personally the "darb," "stud es," "wow" and "bear" specifi cations got us right away. The whole business brought back memories of our red hat strip ed blazer yellow tie corduroy days, now buried in a moulder ing pile of high school annuals. Intellectuals. Plenty of folks who take their intellectual nourishment seri ously have domplained about a feature story on the front page of yesterday's Tar Heel. The over-zealous feature board mem ber handling a history of the Bull's Head book shop remarked thai " . Although it continued to reap a profit it failed to real ize the ideals given it by Howard Munford Jones. In that it was not conducive to the gathering 8f the University's intellectuals, last year was an, unsuccessful one for the shop,' "despite in creased size and scope . . ." Now to anyone who enjoys his chapel hour "dope" browsing through the various volumes of j poetry and prose in the Bull's j Head, the above is nothing short of a slap in the face. There's nothing worse than calling an in tellectual an illiterate unless it's calling him a litterati. Alfred Williams & Co. Booksellers Office Outfitters Social Engravers Stationery I I
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