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Thursday, November 10, 19.3 Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL 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.Jtfgr. Editor R. D. McMillan ...Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD -v-Don Shoe maker, chairman; E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, Nelson Robbins, B. B. Perry, Milton Kalb, A. T. Dill, J. M. Joy, F. A. Northrup, Peggy Ann Harris. CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill . Davis, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddie man, Otto Steinreich. DESK MEN George Malone, Phil Markley, J. D. Winslow. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Vermont Royster, Donoh Hanks, Frank Hawley, W. O. Marlowe, Carl Thompson, Jerome Kessler. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Anderson, Jack Bessen, Lawrence Thompson, Matt Hackett, J, H. Morris, Crampton Trainer, Morrie Long, Lane Fulenwider, Hugh Lane, Van Webb, Jimmy Mc Gurk, sTack Lowe. REPORTERS B. R. Weaver, Ray mond Barron, James B; Craighill, Walter Hargett, T. W. Hicks, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Robert C. Page, George Rhoades, Phillip Suss, Clarence remove a single evil influence. By impressing that same- man with the contemptible weak ness of cheating and the moral value of honesty, campus soei ty might save him from his own folly, and ten more like him. The honor system should be conceived as a method of nour ishing the growth' of moral tis sue; punishment for violations of honor is an operation to re move tissue that is decayed be yond recovery. This operation may cure the patient, but there is also, the possibility of killing him. Surely inoculation against the disease is preferable to a dangerous operation of doubtful effectiveness. If this conception of the hon or system is understood, it is .simple to answer the arguments of the practical-minded objectors to the student council's new system. -. Actually, it is not the primary purpose of the proposed plan to have more students re ported for cheating; that is a secondary motive ; the apprehen sion and punishment of offend ers is a last resort, an emer gency operation. The new system is merely an educational program. By bring ing the hew students into closer precincts didn't matter. , Never found them anyway and had to toss a coin to choose the figures and keep from losing our job. Tuesday night, with the first four of the seven Roosevelt dig its recorded in the press time to tals, somebody blew a fuse con trolling our radio, and we must confess that we had to fake about twenty votes here and there, but in the long run it didn't matter. Anyhow, a good reporter" is always impartial, un less of course, he works for the News and Observer or the Chris tian Science Monitor. Life and Letters By Edith Harbour MOURNING BECOMES ELEC TION, OR THE LATEST A.P. DISPATCHES FROM EUGENE O'NEILL. ted to register in. whatever unaer tne wllxw. courses they choose during their If this report, endorsed by a last two years of school before list of notable names, can be getting their degree. The plan given credence, the radicalism thus far is revealed to the stu- rising in the colleges is not dents, and the ultimate value of caused by the ravings of a few the plan to the students and irresponsible professors but by consequently to the school is not the present failures in the capit to be told lest the desired results alistic system. Viewed from be held in mind by the journal- this light, there is nothing very istic guinea pigs. strange about the manifestation Up to this time the programs f radicalism. If economic con selected by the group are some- ditions better themselves, the what depressingly normal. Per- probability is that the radical- haps those who planned the nor- kp wiU Pass witth: ?ePres" mal program do not believe that sion, but a youth facing a the program is depressing; but worm aim To Our Hall Of Fame We Nominate That WGN (Chicago) radio announcer, who, after expound ing the merits of ex-Tar Heel Kemp and his orchestra, stated for the second time in one week that the band originated at the University of South Carolina. CONFERENCE OF COLLEGES MEETS TODAY AT NOOX (Continued from first page) Jf-- '-'5 x ,1 . , ,. . 1 I iwviu J- tilt UlllVCIMH it seems that there should - be nothing to ; offer him is not apt faculty serying Qn conferenc; among these students who De aeepiy mieu mm commitfees are: Professor A. M some ..... I J ' JnctitiitinTic! T h-rrm rr h would select courses outside the a m T 1 Jordan, committee on collet ro-nla nntlinPfl r.nrrio.iilnm. To wtiicn nis eiaers snapeu txien p. w tt, w r. cfnr,t0 oiv in f uture in .happier times. -3 ! Not the colleges but the KliXy CUIlVtifiiiUUU yuu wuum - think that they were horribly world outside them is respon held down by the requirements sible if youth is radical, com and outlined courses within a munistic or given m any man- oi Iner to say, "Oh Yeah?" to the admissions; Dean A. W. Hobbs committee on athletics; R. M. Grumman, committee on credits and. standards for correspond ence and extension courses; R. B. House and Professor W. C. Jackson, committee on tuition 1 " o x 7 -. . 1 AJ o awiYOun, vumum,icc Uli tUiLlU.I Election night... The fate of but the actions of these tenches- sacred vows of his parents and charges which was inted to a nation nangs in the oaiance en students in selecting their Hammer. Irvmsr TTnfivian TTlooTirvr TH"7.fU: "Flliznhpth Johnsonw. B. Greet, Hugh Lane, touch with student government, Dave Mosier. it would make them aware of Business Staff tne presence 01 tne nonor sys CIRCULATION DEPT. Tom Worth, tern and ot tne consequences 01 Manager. dishonesty. By electing their carry on a study of this problem over a period of five years ; Dean Francis F. Bradshaw, committee on student mortality; Professor E. K. Plyler, committee on sci ence equipment for standard col- OFFICE STAFF E. P. Gray, Jr., I , , . w Ass't Bus. Mct.. John Barrow, Ass't uwu lummiuccB aiiu j.xum Bus. Mgr., W. B. Robeson. seeing these men every day, they ADVERTISING STAFF jHqward wnn1H mTT1A to reai;ze some in nrnnn;nn. Ati IvT nrr W I . . nips I " Adv't Mgr., J. W. Callahan, Jim uiviuuai resjjunsiuiiity j.ui atu Cordon, James Mehaffy, Butler dent government. French. Eslev Anderson, Buddy Up- church, J. Ralto Farlow, Joe Mason. It matters little that some COLLECTION STAFF Randolph snineiess student miffht be re Webb, Agnew Barnson, L. E. luctant to act as a classroom Brooks, Armistead Maupin, Robert committeeman or to report his f. Jrnuer, J. x. canwiu. . - , ., , Thursday, November 10, 1932 men might be incompetent to judge the guilt of offenders. XlLUCUldllUll I Tf . i . ;4 rt nort a case, and vet a stronger posal of the student council to gense of responsibility and moral have each classroom elect an mterit is imparted by their honor committee can be antici- preSence, the system will have pated. lhe principal oD3ection admirably performed its pur .will be that it will not work, that POse. E.C.D. it is impractical. In the first place, the objectors will say, nobody will want to - serve on one of these commit tees. Secondly, very few of the 'committeemen will be willing to report their fellow students. And Calculator it !1J I lastly, many oi tne committee- it was Ted Husine. we believe. - A J I men would oe incompetent to iic-wi judge cases of cheating, this be- gol Finkiestein the "Lightning mg especially true oi xresnmen calculator as "Dr. Franken- uniamiuar witn tne nonor sys-. tdn ag Columbia broadcasted trend for the next hundred dicate that the new found free- Alienating btuaents years will be decided by the out- Mom wasn't exactly as liberating From Rellglon come of this presidential elec- as thev once thouerht. We should not be at all sur- tion if one candidate knew Perhaps the students are not prised if the recent address whereof he spoke ... Big busi- as yet fully aware of the fact which Dr. William C. Covert U k . Dhvsics chemistry ness or the lorgotten man; . . - that they have the privilege of Uomciai oi tne irresDyterian h- , , pmiinmivs Unemployment rampant in the taking any sort of course within Board of Christian Education) L-eneral science- and Registrar land or a job for every man? the University for which they made to the students of Prince- T j Wilson Jr committee or . The will ot the people oe have the pre-requisites. Of ton Theological seminary nas necrowv. - " ii 111 . - 1 1 IT J 1 I T - I ' done . . . en ernie, tne old course,' the old gag of pre-requi- seriously snaKen tne religious maestro, announcing that elec- sites within a school being used faith of many thoughtful young T)R PTERSON SENT tion returns from 49 states, m- bn account of the major and men, not only at Princeton but DELEGATE TO ciuuiii me state ux uy sujna, minor requirements prevents wiieievei msiamci uusuuiiuauu MEETING IN IOWA gave one canuiuawj 6V,ivo volcs many OI these courses irom De- unwise auuiess was icuucu. and the other lY,yi. 'Which ing utilized on account of need- We know, ot course, that there i (Continued from first page) votes belonged to which candi- less pre-requisites. are large numbers of religious most educational body in Ameri- date he did not know. But them For any experiment of this leaders who would prefer to do ca. Texas and Virginia are the was the figgers. He then wish- nature no definite results will be all the thinking for students in only other universities from the ed both candidates many happy obtained until after graduation matters of religion, morals, and south that are members. returns of the day ... Somebody bf the first group. The schol- life philosophies generally. For- Last year the University of loses, somebody wins . . . Who'll astic results will be available at tunately there are many more North Carolina was host to the be secretary of the treasury? . . . that time, and the practical who realize that religious faith delegation in Chapel Hill. Sixty- Wisecracking radio announcers value of the experiment will be of any sort is invalid unless it seven representatives attended . The candidate with two o's forthcoming after graduation. If has been tested by doubt and and met in the chamber of the i - i i in his name is bound to win . . . this experiment works in the competition with other points of Dialectic senate. Dean John C. A new deal is advocated by both school of journalism it might be view. McLennan, of the University of Stuart Chase and Ely Cuthbert- a good idea for having a similar Dr. Covert is not of this lat- Toronto, presided. son . . . Another state goes for plan made elective for the upper ter school, evidently. He would The association was fora&A Roosevelt . . . David Lawrence's group of students in other col- warn students to beware coming "for the purpose of considering clipped tones which in a mo- leges within the University. into any sort of contact with the matters of common interest re- OUR TIMES By Don Shoemaker ment of hopelessness gave way Waily Illini. to sobs ... Roosevelt was elected If Youth Just as I expected; 1 Goes Red Climbing up the golden stairs. Solid citizens in North Caro- tem the election returns Tuesday These criticisms of the pro- night Finkiestein was hired by posed plan, however, are based c B g to calculate the popular on a lalse conception ot xne pur- vote as u came in over the wires. pose of the honor system itself. figure Qut perCentages and elec It was never intended and should toral yote etc and in general not now oe consiruea as a P"- make himself useful as a human hcmg program with the primary adding machine. This, Mr, Fin purpose oi apprenenamg viomt- klestein dos without the aid of -j: XT i. .' ' T) 4.T ii- I ors ox tne system, xvatnei, il mechanical contrivance is a plan to propagate and to even a pencil and papr. Figures mcuicate tne principles oi nonor. it alI Qut in hig head Successtul operation oi the hon- ' or system. would not result in many, but few reports of viola tions. uonhdentiai statistics com piled by reliable foundations and responsible corporations show He first got his fame when it was revealed that he could sur vey a passing freight train and total the box car numbers with lightning rapidity. Then he be gan to appear on the lecture plat torm and beiore various um- that the graduates of honor sys- Vrsity groups. You could shout tern scnoois are more trust- numbers of five digits at him and worthy workers than the grad- h.A rnTnA-hpV h h tnfai uates of monitor system schools. I m.thi They have a highly .developed much 'at the mathematics game sense oi respoiiMumty , tney ax c ourselves, we agree with Mr accustomed to bemcr trusted: TT..-. . ... , , ' uiusmg tnat r mKiestein is some thing of a monstrosity after all they can be relied upon to do assigned jobs without constant and irksome supervision. It is that consciousness of re All Quiet Now that it's all over, we can sponsibility and trustworthy in- rest in our favorite arm chair dependence which distinguishes and offer thanks every hour tha the good citizen from the poor, elections come once m every the faithful worker from the four years. In 1930, when we shiftless. The honor system were covering the board of elec- purposes to develop these qual- htions headquarters for a morn ities. An education which makes ing newspaper and dispatching no contribution to character is copy bovs every ten minutes indeed incomplete. - with totals of precincts, we Punishment is an ineffectual turned up at about three-thirty . I i i . IT. X . J means, m most cases, ot devel- that morning witn two precincts oping moral stamina. To ship missing. Luckily, it was a Demo a man from college is only to cratic landslide, so those two thoughts and views of non-or- latirig to graduate study." thodox thinkers. On his parti cular black-list occur these bril liant names : Prof. Max C. Otto, iBertrand Russell, Walter Lipp Looks like they are getting the world in shape to hand it over to the meek. Brunsivick Pilot. mocracy. Hoover's telegram conceding the lina who have been troubled by mann, Dr. A. Eustace Haydon, election . . . The "hard, times" the fear of radicalism growing H. L. Mencken, Prof. John character of these men, religion statement issued by Republican in the colleges arid universities Dewey. has become a poor thing indeed. headquarters in Chicago . . . The may shiver with renewed vigor Now, you simply cannot, University of Wisconsin Car- millions of votes which "vindi- at learning that not only they among intelligent men, advance dinal. cated" the policies of a mighty are troubled but all the world, any point of view by opening president ... A change in ad- There is growing in the edu- your campaign with an attack ministration is always good for cated youth of the world an on the good faith, judgment, and the country . . . Happy days are "educated proletariat," accord- honesty of men who hold opin here again . . . The depression is ing to the annual report of the ions opposite your own ; more es- waning. . Prosperity is just Institute of International Edu- pecially is this true when these around the corner ... Capital- cation, an organization of lean- same men have by their force of ism is cowering in the dust . . . ings capitalistic enough to have character and intellect become Norman Thomas also, ran and a partner in the House of M6r- warmly dear to your listeners. issued a victory ' statement . . . gan on its board of trustees. It would be rather difficult to The world is again safe for de- In practically all of the Euro- make- a happier choice of mod- pean countries, the report says, era thinkers to whom thoughtful the universities have graduated young men and women give their annually since the war highly allegiance of beloved respect, educated young men and women than the group Dr. Covert has' for whom there is no apparent singled out for attack as being future, .and "the accumulation "responsible more than anything has become so great as to men- else for the belief that culture ace the existence of the present and theistic faith are. mutuallv n,aii;oriais pnmea m mis column sons order." "hPv hp pvo t.hnt. onforrnn ctv " are spToM-pH weeklv hv thfi Pditnrial . 7 .7 J ru,u5vux,Wv. board on the basis of pertinency and the existing regime has nothing Prof. Max Otto, brave teacher style from the exchange list of college m store for them and that noth and national dailies and weeklies. . . . , , , ing can be lost by a change. Npt So , In the United States, the re- Different nnrt. rnp nn rlnwn r Via pnm. lhe new experimental plan mencement of 1930, it was a courageous thinking; Dr Fn being sponsored within the pretty poor college graduate who tace Havdon. professor nf - i I " ' VVJ 1 1 1- school ot journalism should at could not find profitable work parative religion at Chicago an With Contemporaries of brave ideals at Wisconsin. isertrand Kussell, the British nobleman who crusades indef ati- gably for individual liberty and """iichurcl in First National Sea Adventure IT urn i 1 ft. with ZITA JO H AN N least yield some very interest- within a few months of gradua- thor of the beautiful "bible" of ing results in the long run. Pro- tion. During the past two years humanism, "The Quest of the lessor Lawrence W. Murphy, di- such happy conditions have not Ages": H. L. Mencken. ino rector of the school of journal- existed and "there is no evidence smasher of ugly idols and last- ism, reports nve men and five that they will exist again m the ditch individualist; Walter Lipp. " - ale uui, nmucuiaic xui-uxc. iniaiin, wuo. would see moral mucn amerent irom tnose select- t oday the institute finds of codes brought to harmony with ed by the normal run of stu- American college youth: our time; Prof. John Dewmr ueilUi- - i ney nave nttie taith m , the who would connect philosonhv me piau is uaseu upon tne ponucai ana economic leader-1 with life. scnoiarsnip ranKmg during the ship ot the period since the If Dr. Covert thinks that in nrsi; two years m wnat is now a world war, even ot today. They telligent young men and women1 pre-journalism curriculum in- have many questionings con- will be held or led back to the corporated within the college of cerning the pillars upon which arms of the church by inveigh liberal arts and sciences. Those our present social order exists, ing against these men he i Ttt wno have the highest ranking capitalism, democracy, and the gross error. If there is no nTa scholarship records are permit- organization of our political life in religion for the idealism and Blood tingling battles with terrible man-eating monsters A thousand thrills on the high seas ...and the romance of a girl who could nor wait for love! Also- Act News Screen Song NOW PLAYING P A Rfif TN A '
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