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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesday, December 13, 1932 She Satlp Ear &eel The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil 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 R. D. McMillan. .:........Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoe maker, chairman; E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, B. B. Perry, A. T. . Dill, J. M. Joy, F. A. Northrup, Peggy Ann Harris, Robert Berry- man, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Koyster. CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddie man. DESK MEN George Malone, Phil . Markley, J. D. Winslow, Nelson Robbins. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Donoh Hanks, Carl Thompson, Milton Stoll, Irving D. Suss. " 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, Jack Lowe. REPORTERS B. R. Weaver, Ray mond Barron, James B. CraighiUV Walter Hargett, T. W. Hicks, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Robert C. Page, George Rhoades, Phillip Hammer; Davis Spiers, Clarence Hartman, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth Johnson, W. B. Greet, Dave Mosier, Raleigh Alisbrook, Sterling R. Col lette. 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, Advt Mgr., W. C. Jones, Adv't Mgr., J. W. Callahan, James Mehaffy, Butler French, Esley An derson, Buddy Upchurch, J. Ralto Fairlow, Joe Mason. COLLECTION STAFF Randolph Reynolds, : Collection ; Mgr., Joe C. Webb, Agnew Bahnson, L. E. Brooks, Armistead Maupin, Robert P. Phifer, J. T. Barnard. Tuesday, December 13, 1932 Before Judgment Among business pending con sideration before Congress is the .proposal to include the Glass Bill provisions for branch banks. There is opposition to the plan, of course, being offered by many large banking interests, but k their arguments against it seem to center around the illustration that Canada's system of branch banking has retarded in normal times the prosperity of the coun try. There are only ten banks, strictly speaking, in Canada, but their branches scatter out over a vast amount of territory and make their services available to a majority of the people. These banks, in times of depression, are as safe as any in the world, for they are government-chartered and must guarantee a spe cific amount of capital before go ing into operation. Our own experience with branch banks in this state shows the merits and defects of the system. It is true that money is more likely to be safe in a branch bank while others are closing their doors, and it is also true that branch banks extend credit in prosperous times as freely as any other banking houses. But the money stored in branch banks during depression, even . though "safe," is idle capital. And in what we like to call nor mal times, credit is plentiful everywhere and cannot be at tributed to branch banks as one of their peculiar qualities. Idle capital is no capital. How ever plentiful credit may be in the golden eras of prosperity, when it is most needed is during hard times. Not that branch banks alone are guilty of with holding money that : should be . put to work ; on the contrary, it is a well-meant mistake that of ten occurs. But branch banks, intent on remaining solvent and then some to the last ditch, too often refuse credit to businesses which, not being able to meet their excessive demands for collateral, go broke. This American tragedy has far- reaching effects on the econom ic well-being of a community and eventually affects the status of its banks themselves. .. ' So, without pretending to pas3 judgment on an issue whose out come will either accentuate or retard the growth of branch banking, we at least see that, however desirable it may be to further this growth, there are ample arguments against it. A.T.D. A Columbia graduate stu dent's thesis contains data prov ing that Phi Beta Kappa col lege ,men have more children than the average-grade under graduates. And that's one way to scatter the seed of knowledge. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? The proximity of the final ex aminations serves to resuscitate the time-worn question: What do examinations really test, any way? The answer to this ques tion lies too deep for the mind of man; at least there can be only conjecture concerning it. Do quizzes and examinations test the scholastic attainments and reasoning capacity of the student, or do they merely re veal the degree to which he has entered into the thought and mind of the instructor, during test periods, at least ? The lat ter, many contend, is too often what it revealed, which not only does not encourage the student to do independent research and reach his own conclusions, but actually inhibits such tendencies. Such is not the case with all students, by any means, but it is probable that the effect lies in that direction. If the instructor throws out a definite pattern of thought and expects the mem bers of his class to accept it, as too often is the case, then why not do so and avoid the labor in volved in investigating and com paring the' various conflicting ideas and forming an opinion of your own, is an attitude fostered by such a pedagogical prospect from the chair. Furthermore, it is argued that many instructors have assistants to aid in grading the papers, which is no more en couraging to individual opinions and reasoning than if the in structor were doing the work himself, and has the added dis advantage that the last whit of personal sympathy and under standing disappears. Some criterion by which to judge the student's attainments is necessary, but any system which makes no allowances for individual differences appears to machine-like and leads one to wonder whether the art of ex amining has kept pace with all the other phases of modern en deavor, and whether the present system is founded upon practical and scientific principles. W.A.S. There remain only nine more days for many students to do the work supposed to require three months of diligent labor, but ap parently we have some equal to the task. Marked V Why must certain individuals be forever intruding their opin ions upon the public by writing remarks in library books ? Who has not taken out a fine library book to read and found it filled with asinine marginal comments from some egotist who has an undue pride in his own opinion and a carelessness about the opinions or the comfort of oth ers? To find that on page after page a soft pencil has been dragged under various names, that felicitous phrases have been emphasized, that brackets have been drawn in the margins around whole paragraphs is sufr ficient to awaken the savage in the gentlest breast. There are persons who find a religious ser- vice enlivened by sundry barks of "Amen" or "Hallelujah" ris-! ing from remote pews. Host peo ple's taste does not run that way They would rather hear the ser mon without comment. Like wise, they prefer to read a good book in silence. The noisy bleat nigs of some previous reader first distract, then infuriate them. They would no more think of writing in a book than of scribbling their names dh the ruins of the Parthenon or dis figuring the silver bark of birch tree. . a The habit of marking books is doubtless formed early in life. Education is partly to blame, since teachers have been known to encourage the practice of marking textbooks. In some peo ple the habit formed in early school days has persisted. They are not respectful to wards any book: even their Bibles are rendered objection able. One genius with more ar dor than taste has even printed a New Testament with some hundreds of texts underlined in red, so as to save the Philistines trouble, as if a tailor were to put crease snots on a new suit of clothes in order to make us feel comfortable in it. R.B.D. And now one professor has ac tually denied the existence of a Santa Claus, which is spreading liberalism just a little too thick. Here, Mr. Clark, he is in your custody ; spare him not. Among Christmas cards ex hibited in London was one bear ing the Yuletide greeting: "Fif ty million Christians can't be wrong." OUR TIMES By Don Shoemaker Beer It would appear that beer stories are no more popular in Canada, a wet nation, than in some arid sectors of our own country. A saga unfolding the adventures of a class x)f chemis try students on a tour through several large Montreal brewer ies (Our Times, December 3) and the consummate inebriety achieved through the sampling of various brands of ale and mild intoxicants, brought the suspen sion of the news editor of the McGill University Daily by the student council of the Montreal institution. This was followed by a wholesale resignation of other staff members. Beer, it would seem, is not news ; at least it's not nice news. We presume that the Daily will change its policy which (again we presume) must have been "All the booze'that's fit to print." Science Cognizant always of the latest advances of science, we note herein the inception of the latest boon to tired bridge players. It's the Hammond Electric Bridge Table, and if you'll pardon the interlude, it's the darndest thing we have ever seen. The U. C. S. P. has one of the tables down in its Franklin street office, so we dropped in the other afternoon to look it over. You just push a pack of cards into a side aperture and an elec tric robot shuffles them and dis tributes them to little slots in front of the players in something over a minute and a half. The manager told us that an inquisi tive bridge fan dropped in the other day and tried to figure how to stack the cards so that the ro bot would deliver a perfect suit ed hand to every player. It took him an hour and a half, and he was something of an engineer at that. The Hammond table costs twenty-five dollars so we didn't buy one; it doesn't bid or play your hand. . Reading We recommend the new issue of Bunk, which, unlike other funny magazines in its field, is surprisingly clean and humor- ous. Also chuckle over "Canine Primary," a brilliant satire in The New Republic. Story "No Longer Barren." a short story in the current Carolina Magazine, we - have discovered, has real history behind it. The oneninp- scene is disguised as Kentucky. It's really Tennessee, and if you lived there you could detect "Clark" as Sam Houston, Texas' great governor. The character known as Kice IS m realitv a Drominent Nashville gentleman whose name is Sharp. w x- Still living, he refuses to reveal the secret of why Sam Houston left Tennessee. Autopsy By Robert Berryman THE POLL' CAT Bill Lewis, editor . of . The Stu dent Bugle ("Of, For, By the students"), chewed the end of his pencil, brushed a stray lump of hair into place, and scowled. Dammit, dammit, and dammit," he muttered reflectively and without passion. Pete Holland, head editorial writer, heard the moans and looked up from the editorial on the college funny magazine, The Howl, that he was writing in the midst of a -jangle of typewriters. "tUTl, T:n o i- it lictooctiiict ttcx nuw, xiii 1 lie asked in the tone of one who would in all probability be able to settle any vexing question that might ever arise in a col- ege newspaper office. "I gotta have an idea for a poll," said Bill, "and I'll be damned if I can think up any thing new." "Well," mused Pete, "we've had one on the most popular professor and the most popular co-ed ancT who shoulcl be the next president of the college. I tell you: why not have a poll to determine the most popular jani- or on the campus? Remember, Bill, the Bugle is 'of, for, and by the students'!" "That might be all right," ad mitted Bill. "But we've kinda run that 'most popular' stuff in the ground. Remember all the phoney answers we got to the 'Most Popular Football Player poll? Half the damn straw vot ers voted for 'Pansy' Baxton. We can't let these serious matters which might affect student opin ion all over the country be made a joke of. You know that." "Wait a minute!" shouted Pete, ripping the paper from his typewriter. "I gotta idea for an editorial." He pecked away for a few minutes then swung around to face Bill. "Listen to this lead!" Bill listened, while Pete read the opening: "Evading the sin cere motives of this publication in its recent polls, many sought to make a joke of the solemn business in hand, and many ridi culous and utterly insane ballots were cast which served to cloak j the polls in a supercilious light. These polls that the Bugle con duct are serious activities, affect ing student opinion of the whole country. Every student should take the trouble to vote in every one. "That's okay," agreed Bill, but just the same, that ain't helping me to get a poll for the next week. I've run them on politics, on football selections, and some on real hot stuff like What the Co-eds Think of Necking!' and I'm just about out of ideas." Well," said Pete. "Remem ber you can always fill the paper by putting in a half or full page ad saying: 'Subscribe to the Bugle! Send one to the old folks. Send one to the girl friend'." "Sure," admitted Bill. "We can always do that. But,' I kinda hate to just fill up the pa per with faked ads. Remember, I did that for two solid weeks at tb p beginning of school. The readers get tired of seeing tha kind of stuff. That's why I like to have a fresh poll every week Remember that 'Popular Pro fessor' poll? We got hard up for space-filling and ran that over again and the second time there wasn't anything bu nhoney ballots in the box. One of the co-eds won the title that second time. "Now, no reader is ever go ing to get tired of seeing a fresh poll in the paper every week. cause it is a thing of real im portance for a student body to be able to express itself on some question that really matters -And remember! The world has its eye on the collegiate press!" Pete jumped up in wild en thusiasm. I ve got it, I've got it!" he yelled. "Boy, what swell idea!" "Calm down," said Bill. "Tell me what it is." "Just this," explained Pete. Even if you do think up a poll for this week, you'll have the same trouble next week and tne weeK alter mat. so, 1 sug gest" his voice reached a shrill pitch as his enthusiasm grew "that we conduct a poll asking the students to express an opin ion on their favorite polls which they would like for the Bugle to conduct!!!" SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND Correcting an Impression Information has come to me from a thoroughly reliable source that the figures I used in my recent letter concerning the appropriations to .the University at Chapel Hill were incorrect, the profits from the various Con solidated Service Plants (the Laundry and the Book Exchange particularly) being too high. The figures were budget esti mates, not actual reports of re sults. The profits from the ser vice plants, all of them, are used by the University, and this mon ey is particularly needed this" year. Please correct the im pression that I gave that the profits were as high as they were, but let me insist that the University should be appropriat ed sufficient funds to hold the present standards of instruction intact. Some other states with egislatures not bulldozed by obbyists and frightened by the prospect of being scratched at the polls have made splendid efforts and splendid sacrifices tor tne sake of education and other x governmental duties. (Note, for example, the luxury tobacco and soft drink taxes in numerous states and the sales tax in Mississippi.) Cer tainly the fine, progressive state of North Carolina can rely on the legislature to continue the support which has made the University of North Carolina one of the outstanding univer sities of the country and, in deed, of the world. C L.Y. Tuesday, Dec. 13. 6:00 p. m. The Sidewalks of New York 1932 Alfred E Smith. WJZ, 760 Kc ' 6 :45 p. m. Back of the News in Washington William Hard WEAF, 660 Kc. 9:00 p. m. Ben Bernie WEAF, 660 Kc. 9:30 p. m. Ed Wynn, Vor hees orchestra. WEAF, 660 Kc. 9 :30 p. m. Science in 2050 Julian Huxley, English scientist. WJZ, 760 Kc. 11:30 p. m. ;Isham Jones, dance music. WEAB, 860 Kc. OUTSTANDING RADIO BROADCASTS With Contemporaries Over-Emphasis Passing The contention that the nor mal order of things is about to replace over-emphasis upon col lege athletics has received pub lie pronouncement in an editorial in the San Francisco News. "Has a sense of humor struck our college at last and survived even the excitement of the foot ball season?" the paper asked. "Have the undergraduates ceased to be willing clay in the hands of the campus Babbitts and embryo high-presssure sales men? Is the cheer leader pass ing as the archetype of what a college man should be? And is football itself subsiding to its proper level as a glorious sport and no longer a religion? "Certainly something of the sort is happening on the campi. We cite two phenomena in the very week of the Big Game that will spread acute alarm among old grads of the far-away Nine teen Twenties. "At Stanford the Big Game bonfire this year was perfunc tory performance, listlessly car ried out for old times' sake, and so characterized by the Stanford Daily in an editorial suggesting that the time, wood, and energy consumed might better . have been spent in relief of the poor and that it be discontinued. "At Berkeley still worse hap pened. Left unguarded after midnight by sophomores who hereby betrayed their trust and over-emphasized the importance of sleep, the Big C on the hill back of the campus was smeared with red paint and half of its in candescent lamps broken by van dals who were not even Stanford students but just irreverent high school boys. "At least the Daily Calif or- nian had left enough of the old spirit to chide the sophomores n an editorial. But that such things could 1 occur is certainly reflection on those whose job it is to hypnotize college students into the delusion that the honor of their university is somehow bound up in the same package with the reputation of a high salaried and overpublicized foot ball coach." All of which leads to the be- ief that .the coming emphasis 1 1 upon education may lead to changes that will bolster the value of the diploma. Daily Californiah. - YONS WILL HEAD TOUR OF EUROPE DURING SUMMER arty to Consist of College Men and Women Who Will Visit Euro pean Points of Interest. Dr. J. C. Lyons, of the depart ment of romance languages, will conduct his seventh private tour of Europe during the sum mer. This is a tour for college students only, and will be ar ranged to give them a fairly comprehensive view of ten cap itals and countries of Europe. The party will leave New York June 21, sailing on the Europa, and will arrive' in Southampton, ngland, June 26. From Eng- and they will visit the following countries : Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Czecho-Slo- vakia, Hungary, Austria, Switz erland, and Italy. They will leave Cherbourg, on the Bremen, and will arrive in New York August 16. The group, which is now being made up, will be composed of about fifteen or twenty young men and women of college ase who will see Europe rapidly, and under the guidance of Dr. Lyolns, who has had seven years of I al most rnnsecutive exneriencef 18 conriiift.infr trios. abroad. I
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