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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
APRIL 20, 1921
a Kuv ieel
The c facial newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where
it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving,
Christmas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class
matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, tinder act
of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the
college year.
Clsiborn M. Can.
Thomas Walker-
Joe Webb.
.Editor
anaging Editor
Business Manager
Editorial, Staff '
EDITORIAL BOARD Virgil J. Lee, Jr., chairman, John
P. Alexander, A. T. Dill, F. Pat Gaskins, Milton K.
Kalb, William H. Wang, Ben C. Proctor, W. A. Sigmon,
Jean 'Smith Cantrell, W. R. Eddleman, Don Becker,
Nelson Lansdale, Phillip G. Hammer, Donald B. Pope,
Jeanne Holt, Vermont C. Royster.
FEATURE BOARD Joe Sugarman, chairman, Walter
Terry, Ed Goldenthal, John Wiggins.
CITY EDITORS Carl Thompson, Jack Lowe, Bob Page,
Irving Suss, Walter Hargett.
DESK MEN Nick Powell, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth
Johnson.
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Bill Anderson and Jimmie
Morris, co-assistant editors, Morrie Long Ralph
Gialanella, Smith Barrier, Tom Bost, Jr., Milton
Scherer, Peyton Nicholson.
EXCHANGES W. C. Durfee, editor, Margaret Gaines,
REPORTERS Don McEee, Reed Sarratt, Jim Daniels,
Sara Willard, Don Wetherbee, Edwin Kahn, Emery
Raper, Francis Clingman, Margaret McCauley, Ralph
Burgin, Roy Wilder, John Eddleman, Al Moher. -
- Business Staff
ASST. BUSINESS MGR. (Sales) Agnew Bahnson, Jr.
COLLECTION MANAGER-James Barnard.
OFFICE MANAGER L. E. Brooks.
DURHAM REPRESENTATIVES F. W. Smith, Henry
B. "Darling.
LOCAL ADVERTISING STAFF Butler French (man
ager), Hugh Primrose, Phil Singer, Robert Sosnick,
Herbert Osterheld, Niles Bond, Eli Joyner, Oscar
Tyree, Boylan Carr.
CIRCULATION MANAGER Ralto Farlow.
CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: PHIL HAMMER
Friday, April 20, 1934
Either . . . or . . .
The University through its alumni, under
graduates, and outside friends could prove the
most powerful lobby in- the state. Yet for the
past several' years we have allowed the people
of North Carolina to elect many men to the legis
lature who apparently have little sympathy with
the education of the coming generation nor any
intention of appropriating anywhere near the
proper amount to finance our educational system
The University of North Carolina is every
where recognized as one of the leading institu
tions of the country. At the same time, it is just
as well known that the institution is run here
on disgustingly low .appropriations and that the
educational system of North Carolina as a whole
has been sadly neglected and allowed to slip from
the high position it once held.
Our contemporaries are aware of the wonder
ful traditions we have, the prominent men we
list among our faculty, and the liberal and con
structive policies" we foster. Yet the people of
the state are -.seemingly- unaware of our present
standing and absolutely blind to the excellent
possibilities we possess, ihe citizens of North
Carolina refuse to exert the influence they have
in forcing higher appropriations for the educa
tional system of North Carolina in general and
the University in particular.
The state's educational system is running
solely on its reserve power and if the appropria
tions continue to be low, other institutions and
state systems will redouble their efforts to snatch
away our outstanding teachers. The result of
our own blindness and . narrow-mindedness seems
perfectly evident. Under low. appropriations
what chance has a child just beginning his edu
cation to be able to stand up against children of
other sections of the country which place the
proper emphasis on education?
Everywhere we hear proposals for changes in
curriculum for the University as well as the
grammar and high school administrations. With
our allotted funds we are helpless to acquire the
men with the proper ability to handle the changes
in the preparatory stages or to administer tliem
here in the final stages.
The power of those interested in education
in North Carolina can exert itself in the coming
primary elections. Parents of children now in
school, students themselves, and friends of edu
cation, can force ' the .educational appropriation
to be the main issue of the campaign. To wait
until the men are elected and then flock to Raleigh
and hope to influence their vote has proved to
be futile. Now is the time to stage the fight
for improved education in North Carolina. We
must make it clear to those elected that their
first and most important duty in the legislature
is, to raise the state educational system from the
degradation into which it has fallen. If the can
didates will not adhere to our wishes, there are
others who will and who deserve our support.
Education in North Carolina cannot survive
another fight like the one it underwent in 1932.
The University would be stifled out of existence
and the system as a whole would breed incom
petent college material. If the friends of edu
cation will not rally together now for the coming
primary elections the legislature, might as well
turn the University equipment, grounds, and all
over to the Duke Endowment to be run as a
preparatory department to Duke University.
To Do or
Not to Do
At last the great spring carnival is over. The
campus voice has sounded with unmistakable
clarity, and all the offices are filled. Regardless
of whether everybody's candidate "got in'f or
not, we must admit that these offices are in
capable hands, and that the only sensible thing
to be done now is to cooperate with the officers
in such a way as to make their efforts count for
the most.
However, lest the successful candidates should
repeat the tactics which their predecessors have
practiced, and forget that they ever had a plat
form, it is well to remind them, that, though
factors other than their proposed programs of
action entered into their election, yet these plat
forms were not entirely without significance.
The student body will expect them to be carried
into effect, or at least will expect that a reason
able effort be made towards that end.
We do not say this in any belief that the in
coming officers intend to shirk their obligations
far from that. But only to remind them that
their predecessors have been too prone to let
such matters slip from mind and so, as Hamlet
would put it, "lose the name of action." W.A.S.
Long 7
Days
Dean Jackson, head of the 1934 summer
school, has been giving a great deal of his time
and energy toward the organization of a good
session, beginning in June. He has something
to show for it, too. The schedule has the ap
pearance of being perhaps the best organized,
the most integrated, and the most interesting of
the summer schools that the University has of
fered since it was ' unfortunately crippled by
diminished funds. Students will be glad to hear
of such an excellent opportunity for making up
work, getting in irregular work, and taking
courses that the heavy winter schedule does not
permit. . -'.-
The 1934 summer school will be stronger than
usual for several reasons. Dean Jackson has
been fortunate not only in obtaining important
University instructors to fill the faculty posi
tions (men 'who have been teaching at other
universities for past summers), but also in
structors from other, colleges in the United States
who have outstanding records. The important
personnel has been well divided between the
three colleges Under the Greater University, ac
cording to the branch of work the college is em
phasizing. In order to broaden the student's
scope further, the authorities, will secure special
conferences with other outstanding men to
parallel the regular curriculum.
Summer school was not organized for teachers
who teach in the winter. It is really just an
other quarter of the annual curriculum. It is
sponsored for the purpose of giving the student
extra hours in which to make up courses he has
missed, courses in which his foundation for
higher courses is weak, work 'that he has failed,
and courses he wishes to take in addition to the
required program. It provides a good chance for
the individual who does not wish to waste the
lazy days of summer, making the other three
quarters less inconvenient for his parents and
for himself.
Incidentally, summer, school is reputed to be
real fun ; although, incidentally, it will offer far
more interesting courses than Arboretum 42.
J.S.C.
The Importance
Of Languages
While the suggested changes in curriculum
here at the University have many good points,
the reduction of foreign language requirements
to one language may be a bit drastic. The study
of a language is generally thought of as learn
ing merely to converse and read. This is true,
but it does not cover the full meaniricr. The
study of a foreign language, is an instruction to
a different sort of civilization, a new set of ideas,
an insight of customs and conditions in another
country. , x -
It is the purpose of a university to teach those
in pursuit of a degree, broad ideas, to disDense
culture rather than the minimum amount of
specific knowledge. A necessity of the next gen
eration is an open mind, a scholarly attitude. An
axiom of this same generation is: Do not limit
yourself where you may be broadened.
If specific knowledge is desired, it would still
be practical to learn at least two languages.
French and German are needed in the study of
the sciences, an historian needs manv lantruacrA
and so it goes.
One suggestion has been made that thnmuo
studies of foreign literature be snhatitntprf f.
the unnecessary study of rudimentary English
m college. In such a course, the reading of an
author's work would automaticallv rnrrv win,
it the reading of his contemporaries. Thus an
enorc would De made to find the basiVthnno
and ideas of the period and of the various writers
This study, if carried on carefully and accurately
wuum resui., normally in a broader cultural out
look and also would aid the student in mdimfo
of the language. :
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dent in college change from the
language which he pursued in
high school to another, the fun
damental courses be made dif
cult enough to allow credit for
them. This lack of credit has
been one of the main criticisms
of the present system used in
the languages.
We may hope to alleviate de
pressing world conditions only
by knowing contemporary life ;
and certainly one of the best
media we have of learning of
this life is through the study of
the foreign languages. R.L.B.
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small
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With apologies to Joe Sugar
man,' proprietor of "Non Cam
pus Mentis," wed like to call
attention to a statement con
cerning the work of Professor
iNorlin, who is delivering this
year's Weil lecture series. Twice
this statement graced the ac
count of Professor Norlin's ac
complishments and if true,
the item should class the west
ern teacher as a superman, or
at least it should prove that
spiritualism is straight stuff.
For the Daily Tar Heel, that
peer among papers, stated that
Professor Norlin had translated
into English the works of Socra
tes. Gosh, all hemlock!
Since the student entertain
ment committee has taken such
a ride this year, and since the
pile of suggestions concerning
what type of show they should
bring here has reached the
proportions of a good-sized
mountain, it seems to be fitting
and proper to mention now
something about what the com
mittee is trying to do in the way
of securing acts for next year's
program, and to emphasize that
the members have been atemp1
ing to get good programs for
the subscribers.
The committee now believes
it's about to see a little, light
and the slight glow is illuminat
ing a Gilbert and Sullivan show
in the maybe-not-so-far-distance.
The contract and other
such details have not been
brought up yet, and the trans
action may not go through. But
ai least we can give the commit
tee a hand for trying to get the
show on a University stage.
In the wake of the campus
elections, we'd also like to bring
to public notice a little item that
was placed on the desk of the
editor sometime yesterday after
noon. v Read it and not weep,
but hand a. little praise to a
candidate who made a good
fight, and who, slightly over half
a day from the time he learned
of his defeat, could still be a
sportsman and not allow his dis
appointment to halt the flow of
his sense of humor.
The dispatch follows
"I should like to use your
columns for the last time to ex
press my extreme gratitude to
those fellows and girls who
worked for me during the past
few; weeks and those who cast
their votes for me.
"Also I wish the best of luck
to my successful opponent and
hope that he succeeds in his
efforts as editor of the paper.
As a sort of parting (flight)
shot, one that I cannot resist
and one that might be used by
future chairmen of entertain
ment in Daily Tar Heel ban
quets we now have a.Dilly Tar
Heel. Carl G. Thompson, Jr."
GIFTS
Make a Friend Happy with a Gift
APRIL AND MAY ARE USUALLY
GRADUATION MONTHS
We made a special buy for the occasion and you
will find our stock complete with new gifts. "
"A long, travel but the day is near. A friend is
expecting a gift."
Graduation Cards -Birthday Cards
Ledbetter-Pickard
Stationery Gifts School Supplies
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When one hour's Math,
seems like three ...
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Tests show KeUogg's ALLBRAN provides
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