THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Friday, March 17, 193
Page Two
Cije Batty tar Heel
The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the
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Chas. G. Rose, Jr Editor
Geo. W. Wilson, Jr. ..Managing Editor
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Editorial Staff
EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemaker, chairman; E. C.
Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, B. B.
Perry, A. T. Dill, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster, W. A.
Sigmon, Robert Berryman, F. P. Gaskins.
CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutch
ison, W. R. Eddleman, J. D. Winslow, T. H. Walker,
Donoh Hanks, Carl Thompson.
DESK MEN Nelsen Bobbins.
FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugarman, chairman; Nel
son Lansdale, Milton Stoll, Irving D. Suss, Eleanor
Bizzell, George Rhoades.
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Ander
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A. Stein.
Business Staff
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Thomas Worth, Mgr.
OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Ass't. Bus. Mgr; Ran
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ler French, Esley Anderson, Joe Mason, J. Ralto Far
low, W. Smith.
CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE : BOB WOERNER
Friday, March 17, 1933
that some individuals prefer to work the pro
fessor rather than the course. The University
requires that the student who holds a scholar
ship for his tuition maintain an average of at
least C in order to retain this aid to continuing
in nis work. The College of .Liberal Arts re
quires that the student have an average of at
least C on half his courses in order to graduate.
Also the posting of an honor roll and the pressure
of Phi Beta Kappa are other rewards of a high
scholastic standing. All these should be an
added incentive for the student to study in order
to get good grades, but it does not always mean
that the student studies.
Too many students are prone to take the
easiest way out by trying to talk the professors
into grades which they do not deserve. This
method is unnecessary and is also unfair to the
student who studies for his marks. It means
that many students keep scholarships that they
do not deserve; many students graduate without
really having the necessary knowledge, and many
students are kept from attaining the honor roll
because others have taken advantages of pro
fessors' weaknesses to further their own ends
and in some degree lower the grades of others,
for grading must almost always be done upon
a comparative basis.
Nearly all of this underhanded custom can be
traced to the grading system which is in use
here at the University. If there were but two
grades, pass and fail, there would be less boot
ing on the campus, and the system of grading
would be much fairer for the student and easier
for the professors than it is at present. It would
be much simpler if the University were to adopt
two mark system of grading which would elim
inate many of the evils attendant upon that sys
tem now in use. F.P.G.
Slavery
In 1933
One of the most abominable and vicious con
sequences of the present depression is the tre
mendous increase in the so-called sweat shops
where women and children slave day after day
in poorly lighted, poorly ventilated rooms for
wages far too small to live on. Workers in
some small dress making and millinery estab
lishments are today working at dull laborious
tasks under most unfavorable and unhealthy
conditions for sums as low as three dollars a
week.
The results of conditions such as these are
undernourished, overworked girls and women
who have no hope, nothing for which to live but
existence itself. The best that can befall them
is that they will collapse at their work and be
removed for a time to the free ward of a hos
pital to recover and return to the grind. This
happens to many of them and the hospitals are
increasingly taxed with their care. Many of
them after buying food and clothing have no
funds left to obtain a room and spend their
nights on the park bench or in subways. In
our advanced civilization this is indeed a hand
some way to treat our women and children.
In the slavery days when the north was con
stantly berating the south for the institution of
slavery the negro was usually well treated. He
was clothed and fed and when night came he
was given some place warm to sleep. Today in
the north which three quarters of a century ago
decried the enslavement of the African, women
and children are worked and starved to collapse
and death because the citizen is unwilling or
afraid to lift his voice against such conditions.
As a result the human leeches prosper, legiti
mate business suffers, wages fall all around, and
the morgue and Potters field are more populous
than ever.
This may be true the college reader will say,
but how are we concerned? It is the duty of
every citizen of the country to be concerned.
This condition is the result of sloppy social
planning, of lax laws, and the apathy of public
interest. We are the coming civilization, it is
upon us that devolves the duty of eradicating
this sort of inhumanity, of preventing human
sharks from capitalizing on the blood and sweat
of our women and children.
And perhaps it might not be amiss for the
college man or woman as he or she breezes
gaily across the campus to a square meal or a
warm bed to think for a moment of the human
drudges not so far away who are slaves without
the comforts that were given slaves. Perhaps
if more people did more thinking such disgraces
would disappear from our superior "American
civilization." J.F.A.
Concentrated Genuflection
The Way Up
A new quarter has now started, and practically
everyone on the campus knows his grades for
the preceding quarter. All over the campus one
hears remarks about how different people re
ceived higher grades than they deserved, prin
cipally, because they went to their professors a
day or two before the examination and talked to
them about class work. In vulgar language they
resorted to a little "booting" to boost their class
standing.
It is only natural that in a school where grade
earning is so important a part of a quarter's work
Tar Heelia
To the Fore
It is always an occasion for music and re
joicings among the lowly Tar Heels when one
of their fellow-moaners rises up to show the
world that something may, after all, come from
the "valley of humility between two mountains
of conceit." Our two neighbors have admitted,
though grudgingly to be sure, that we can per
haps produce something worth-while in the field
of literature and arts, but North Carolinians in
national or world affairs have too often been
looked at askance.
One western paper, commenting on the ap
pointments of Josephus Daniels and Robert W.
Bingham to diplomatic posts, said: "It is indeed
gratifying to see North Carolinians with their
liberality stepping forth into the political arena."
Although the italics are our own, we may easily
gather the tone of this kindly pen which meant
well but was unfortunately misguided.
North Carolina is not just stepping forth into
the political arena. Besides having had a hand
in the rearing and educating of three presidents,
Andrew Johnson, James Polk, and Woodrow Wil-
son, many JNortn uaronmans nave xaKen an
active part in national politics. Thomas J. Jar
vis left the chair of the governor to become,
under President Cleveland, the United States
Minister to Brazil. Senator Ransom under the
same administration held the post now offered to
the Raleigh editor, and Daniel M. Barringer of
Charlotte once represented the United States at
the Spanish court.
One of the most prominent men of North
Carolina's diplomatic sons, however, was Walter
Hines Page, who gave his native state more rea
sons to boast of him than any other man of his
time. It was he who was the Tar Heel fore
runner of Robert Bingham as ambassador to the
court of St. James. At present John Motley
Morehead presides over American interests at
Sweden.
But the fields of international diplomacy are
not the only ones in which North Carolinians
have left their marks. Many instances might
be cited where Tar Heels have wielded a great
influence in national politics, not the least of
whom was the former Senator Furnifold M.
Simmons. Whatever people may say or however
much Virginia tries to steal our Wilsons and our
Battles, North Carolina is not just beginning to
step forth into the political arena. V.C.R.
Currency Inflation
And Aspirin
In one respect, currency inflation and aspirin
are strikingly similar they both bring relief
without effecting a permanent cure. Inflating
the currency may bring relief from the crush
ing deflation of the past few years, but it gives
no guarantee against repeated depressions.
To return to normal price levels and still have
an unequal distribution of wealth is to take an
aspirin just before the next attack of chills and
fever. An economic set-up that concentrates so
much wealth in the hands of a few that it cannot
possibly be used as purchasing power, while at
the same time . millions cannot buy even the
necessities of life, is not to be adjusted by cur
rency inflation.
No doubt the inflation is a good thing at the
present time. So is an aspirin a good thing,
provided the root of the trouble is dug out before
the results of the drug wear off. By the same
token, economic reform must not
stop until the root of the trouble
is removed. And there is rea
son to believe that what Henry
Pratt Fairchild calls "the fallacy
of profits" is an important cause
of the present chills and fever.
D.B.
With
Contemporaries
What Do They
Think They Are?
Flaunt the word "publicity
before a real newspaperman and
he'll see red. There are very few
of those really true journalists
left these days, what with the
advent of chain competition and
the trend toward "canned"
copy bought through syndicates.
These advanced stages of the
commercialized press have not
yet hit the college campuses to
any great extent. We are there
fore still confronted with those
budding young journalists who
are imbued with the old time
spirit of the old time news
papers.
At the same time the new
f angled anachronism (call it
publicity or what you will) has
become just as popular on the
college campus as it has else
where. And the opposition to it
on the campus has been more
bloody, more heated and more
insistent. Various campus or
ganizations appoint or elect
their publicity chairmen, whose
duties it is to see that the do
ings of the groups are given ade
quate and usually too much
space in the columns of the cam
pus daily and who make Hercu
lean efforts to keep the undesir
able off the front page.
Usually the very idea of these
publicity chairmen enrages the
alleged true journalist. He re
sents every forward move they
make. They are nil. as far as he
is concerned. For didn't the old
time newspapers conduct their
editorial policies on a fearless
basis of impartiality, with mal
ice toward none except those
who engendered the wrath of the
editor? Ah yes, 'twas a great
day and long may its renown be
the call to colors for future fear
less editors and aspiring and
courageous young reporters.
We thus have this trying con
dition prevalent on most college
campuses and very apparent on
the Syracuse campus. Brazen
publicity chairmen are pitting
their wits against the college
journalists, who demand at least
a part of the right to take what
ever editorial policy they think
is called for. Some young edi
tors totally ignore the publicity
hounds and send reporters
around to personally handle the
news. The mdisrnant organiza
tions, afraid lest their activities
be painted too realistically, put
a ban on reporters and conduct
closed meetings, thereby hoping
to force upon the papers the in
evitable publicity chairmen.
This can and will go only so
far. If it comes down to a final
test, the newspaper can deal the
telling blow simply by refusing
to include any of the doings of
a "blacklisted" organization in
its columns. The latter quickly
comes around to terms. How
ever, the editors should not to
tally ignore the assistance and
the benefit to be derived from
the help of publicity . agents.
First and foremost, there de
finitely should be an understand
ing that the publicity seekers are
expected to handle only one
thing factual material. As to
its form of presentation, that's
none of their business and the
sooner they learn that the bet
ter off they'll be.
For it too often occurs that
some publicity chairman will get
the idea that his or her organi
zation should receive a six-column
spread for a two-paragraph
story. They even become nasty
about it. They seem to think
that they are running the paper
and that what they say matters.
This is the point at which they
should take a tip, this is where
they should be told where to get
off. If they could only realize
that, through their own brain
less effrontery, their entire or
ganizations wTere riding for a
fall, they would do a little check
ing up on their attitude. Who
do they think they are? Frank
ly, we don't know and don't care.
Syracuse Daily Orange.
OUTSTANDING RADIO
BROADCASTS
Friday, March 17
7:00 Newton D. Baker, "The
Inflexibility of Democratic In
stitutions," WEAF NBC.
8:30 The March of Time, dra
matized news events, WABC
CBS.
9:00 Jane Frohman, songs,
WABC.
9:30 The Inside Story, sketch
with Edwin C. Hill interviewing
Ely Culbertson, WABC.
10:00 Jack Benny, comedian
and Ted Black's orch., WEAF.
10:30 Zona Gale, dramatic
sketch, WEAF.
10:45 Professor Jack McLal
len with Sara and Sassafras,
comedy, WJZ NBC.
11:00 Vincent Lopez, orches
tra, WEAF.
11:15 Welcome Lewis, songs,
WJZ.
12:05 Don Bestor, orchestra,
WEAF.
12:45 Hal Kemp orchestra,
WABC.
Jack Benny, of Canada Dry
Gingerale fame, is back on the
air, this time with the Chevro
let program. "Mary" is with
him and Ted Black's orchestra
furnishes the music.
Don't miss "The March of
Time." D.C.S.
EHRINGHAUS WILL
SPEAK AT GOLDEN
FLEECE TAPPING
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men, and the formal initiation is
administered secretly sometime
later.
The order, established in 1903,
was originally formed in order
to assist in welding the student
body of the University into a
homogeneous, idealistic body.
The advancement of efficiency,
fair play, altruism, and loyalty
has formed the basis of its pro
gram. Prospective members of
the order are subjected to a rig
orous scrutiny in all their cam
pus relations. Since its estab
lishment it has taken in ap
proximately three hundred mem
bers. Next to Skul and Bones
of Yale it is the oldest honorary
college society of its type in the
United States.
Last Year's Initiates
Men admitted to the order last
year in recognition of their high
character and unselfish "devotion
to the University were Archie
Davis, Haywood Weeks, Stuart
Chandler, Wilmer Hines, Charlie
Rose, Lenoir Wright, D. C.
(Spec) McClure, Tom Watkins
Bill McKee, Holmes Davis, and
Tom Alexander. The 1932 selec
tion was representative of all
types on the campus, embracing
self-help, fraternity, non-frater
nity, social, literary, athletics,
religion, and organization men.
Members of the society, have
prominently established in their
fields. Among the faculty they
include Charles T. Woollen,
Frank P. Graham, Francis F.
Bradshaw, R. B. House, J. B.
Linker, E. L. Mackie, C.-p.
Spruill, H. G. Baity, Phillips
Russell, J. Maryon Saunders, E
R. Rankin, Albert Coates, and
Mayne Albright.
SUBSTITUTE BILL
CONTAINS SLASH
FOR UNIVERSITY
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ly $330,000 or $186,000 less than
it is receiving for the present
year.
The Bowie-Cherry substitute
bill reduces the measure intro
duced by the joint appropria
tion committee from approxim
ately $83,000,000 to seventy-two-odd
millions for the biennium.
It would cut state salaries thirty
per cent below the present basis,
reduce the $13,375,000 school re
commendation to $12,500,000,
make no retirement for the cur
rent $12,500,000 deficit, and
abolish funds for charity in ad
dition to cutting appropriations
for institutions of higher learn
ing. It was reported in Raleigh
yesterday that Chairman Har
riss Newman of the appropria
tions committee would offer a
three million dollar slash in the
committee bill. Whether this
would stop the drastic slashes,
carrying with them prospects
that no sales tax would be neces
sary, was a matter of conjecture.
Harris Speaks
During the hot fight in the
session yesterday, Speaker Har
ris left the chair and said the
house should not arbitrarily ac
cept any substitute bill that does
not deal out justice to everybody.
"I am not advocating passage
of the committee bill nor any
other bill, but we must preserve
our good faith with our institu
tions and we must keep our con
tracts with our bondholders and
with those poor afflicted people
out at Dix Hill, at Goldsboro and
at Morganton," he said.
"But," he added, "our obliga
tions to the afflicted and the
underprivileged are more sacred
than to any banker in the
world."
Cherry's Ideas
Cherry, in speaking for the
substitute bill, said that the mea
sure "will wreck no institutions,
nor will it impair them. It con
tains drastic cuts to cut out the
folderols and keep only the essentials."
He demanded the cut in Great
er University appropriations so
that the consolidation of the
three divisions "may become a
fact, with the duplications hav
ing to be eliminated." He ad
ded that the University at
Chapel Hill, N. C. State College
in Raleigh, and the Woman's
College at Greensboro, though
"merged," in 1931, still "each
bid against the other for ap
propriations, for students and
for favor."
Later, after paying his res
pects to the University, he said,
"when there are three state in
stitutions being fed out of the
same spoon and bottle, they
ought not to bid against each
other."
Beauty Of Spring On
Campus Decreased
By Deforestation
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oaks between South building
and Graham Memorial. These
will probably be placed about
fifty feet in from the trees bord
ering the walks. This will leave
a clear open space over 100 feet
wide stretching down from the
center of the south campus, of
fering an unobstructed view of
the length of the campus.
Prior to the Civil War this
section of University property
was heavily laden with trees.
However, when the carpet-bag
administration came to Chapel
Hill, it proceeded to practically
denude this area by chopping the
trees down for kindling wood.
The few trees which now remain
escaped only because lack of
funds to maintain the Univer
sity forced the vandals to leave
Chapel Hill.