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PAGE TVTO THE DAILY TAR HEEL APRIL 25, 1934 Te oScial 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, nnder act of March -3, 1879. Subscription price, ?3.00 for the college year. - - a. t. Dm...............: Robert C. Page, Jr... Joe Webb...... ........::. Editor ..... .....Managing Editor ............Business Manager CITY EDITOR FOE THIS ISSUE: JACK LOWE Wednesday, April 25, 1934 What We Want The personnel of the Student Entertainment committee will not, as announced in yesterday's Daily Tar Heel, be voted on today. But the re form, generally agreed upon to be both neces sary and expedient, which was to have been sub mitted to the student body for approval, has been, in a measure at least, agreed upon by the Student council. That body -has agreed that two members of the committee shall be elected from the school , oi commerce and the school of liberal arts for a two-year period each year, thus insuring the existence of two old student members on the committee each year. . 7 It has been obvious enough from the dissatis faction and lack of interest which has greeted many of its programs that the Student Enter . tainment committee has not, in past years, ade . quately represented the student body for which the entertainments have been secured. This has doubtless in part been due to the fact that stu ' dentmembers have been appointed without any fanfare of trumpets, and were known as mem- bers of the committee to only a few of the stu dent body. Now elected rather than appointed, the student members will be, we think, more at ' .tentive to the will of the student body than for merly. .x ... The question which must have come up re peatedly in the minds of both faculty and stu dent members of the committee , is "Shall we ; give them what they want or what they ought to have?" The results thus far seem to have been a compromise between the two which has satisfied, nobody. With a student majority on the committee, and that majority elected by " popular vote, it begins to look as if we shall have what we want. And, considering that we are the ones who pay for it, this solution seems only fair. H.N.L ' Problems ' Of Vocations The Southern Regional conference on voca tional guidance and education being held here Nthis week is interested in all aspects of occupa tional adjustment and in "cooperative effort to . study this problem." . But that is not all. Be fore the sessions end, the members, among whom are some of the nation's most capable advisers ; in this field, will have thrashed out the vocational education problem for southern colleges and uni versities among other organizations and will have '. made definite suggestions as to what steps should be taken immediately; in southern student per sonnel work. There is no success in view for those who have not developed a definite interest in some par ticular vocation , before reaching the age of 25 years, vocational guidance experts recently de clared at a convention in Cleveland. It is the purpose of the experts gathered in Chapel Hill at this convention sponsored by the National Occupational conference and made possible un der the Carnegie fund, to prepare and, in the case of the' University; to inaugurate accurate and efficient personnel divisions for the benefit of those who have not made their choice. Our local vocational bureau is an industrious, j- nara-worKing unit, but it . is only too apparent 4-U.t. j. i enough, that it has not ample appropriations, that it cannot efficiently contact the student body, to offer adequate service for the campus. It has riot been organized to the point where guiding information can be disseminated amply to enough students. What we need is a special office, special expert, and special division. A moderate state appropriation would supply this for an ailing student body. It should be borne in mind that the-efforts of the vocational bureaus in universities and col leges should not be directed toward .influencing or directly developing a vocational following, but rather, toward helping young men and women to discover or make opportunities for themselves, toward contacting them with business enter prises after they have chosen their professions. This business of spending four, delightful years in college to find Tme's self suddenly thrust out into the world with no actual preparation for what to expect is perhaps the most serious of all university problems. : We welcome the members in convention here not only in the interests of , our student body, which has long felt "the need for an efficient bureau of vocational guidance, but also in the in- terests of the educational and industrial organ-1 twenty or thirty tennis courts? izations of the 17 states herein represented. Any They have been turned into cow- efforts on their part ciilminatingn the definite I pastures, torn up. and modern establishment of bureaus for the purpose of ad-1 drainage systems placed under- ministering information on vocations win be of jneath, and then have been left tremendous benefit to students such as we are, I unfinished. unable to emerge with any assurance from our who play tennis for recreation undergraduate groping about into a particular alone sit on the side-lines, ap- field of employment. P.G.H. Shooing the Clouds Away ' Today the student body will vote on certain vital changes which have been proposed by the Student council. These changes will amount to the authorization of the Student council in case of a dispute as to the action of any student of ficer or fhe governing board of any student activ ity, to make a definite ruling subject to referen dum of the student body. This will merely amount to the approval of the students if they favor the measure to a set-up which has in a rather hazy form been used for some time. ; Several years ago .the question of whether or not the P. U. board could censure editorial policy of a publication under its con trol was submitted to the Student council which decided that it could hot. Similar questions have come up from time to time and the Student council has with hesitancy taken up and decided some of the problems. It is unnecessary for anyone to point but the need for some group to decide disputes between various organizations and further to decide when some group representing students has violated "or exceeded its powers. That the Student council is the most logical group to perform such a func tion is evident from the fact that it is more rep resentative and more judicial in its nature than any other existing organization on the campus. There certainly is no need for more organiza tions on a campus already as over-organized as is the University's. By favoring the measure submitted, the student body can clarify some nebulous power and coordinate student govern ment. W.R.E. Modern . " - Robin Hoods , "John Dillinger may be poison to society in general but in his home town of Mooresville, Ind., he is just a modern Robin Hood on a spree." : Associated Press dispateh- When America's public enemy No. 1 comes, to be regarded by his neighbors as just a pica resque, f unloving overgrown boy, it is high time that the familiar popular indifference to, and even sneaking admiration for, the criminal, who successfully evades the law be examined and its origins determined. v Two of the foremost factors in moulding pub lic opinion are the movies and the press. The former, through cycles of gangster pictures and western "bad man" glorification, has done much to throw a hazy romantic glow about the crim inal, especially to young America. Daring es capades from heinous murders or robberies take on to them an atmosphere of bravery and hero ism. Still more fundamental in encouraging this perverted view among adults has been the gen eral attitude of the press. . Headlines, vivid sto ries and lurid pictures accompany each new crime in our abundant tabloids, while even the better journals have yielded' not infrequently to a de based and morbid public1 and allotted undue space to gangster activities. As V natural result, human rats have become the rulers of healthy communities. . Recent trends in both cinema and newspaper dom, however, have been most encouraging. A noticeable decrease in the number of gangster films has paralleled a near commensurate de cline in front-page crime publicity. In back-alley theatres and on back pages the maltreated mur derer must now nurse his wounded vanity. Per haps it marks the beginning of the end, the end of a period in which home-town folks of a John Dillinger would ask f orchis pardon, if captured and in which .the father of such a desperado could invoke public, support with such a state ment as, "He only done what you'd a-done if you'd been that smart ." E.R.O. Speaking 1 he Campu Mind Less CWA, More Courts There are a few students in this University who play tennis for the sake of the game alone, deriving benefits from the exercise and being un skillful in execution of strokes. Some of these, freshmen no doubt, bought tennis racquets dur ing the winter quarter in order to play during me were Here it is April, almost May and there aro and universities in the state and only six courts available fn. this wav to develop ' a state are concrete courts. Six tennis courts readv anrl wide organization ; which might fifteen ortwentv varsit.v ni art as a unit in seeking to trans out and kick you off any time they please I late its viewpoints and attitude What is it that the University has done to our I into official action- " uiuci lvj yiciy u tiring t spring. And when the spring came, there present is to communicate, its 3 no courts. ' - ideas and aims to other colleges plaud the shots 'of varsity play ers, and curse. What is it that the University and the CWA have done? At the cost of sev eral thousand dollars and a vast amount of time and trouble, they have given us, instead of thirty or forty tennis courts, only six. SOL A. EICHLER. Educators To Discuss Individual Analysis (Continued from page one) Trends;" and Wilbur I. Gooch, Teachers College, Colunibia Uni versity, who spoke on the im provements in occupational dis tribution. , The conference will continue today, at 8:30 o'clock at the Car olina Inn with a program on the analysis of the individual. Paul S. Achilles, director of the Psy chological Corporation of New York, will preside. . Speaking on the worth of tests of .occupational ability and interest, Donald G. Patterson will open the convocation with an address. M. R. Trabue of the University will then expound on "State Testing Programs. From 10:30 until 12:00 o'clock there will be group meet ings held to formulate the prob lems of vocational guidance and education in the south today. H. Reid Hunter, assistant superintendent of schools in Atlanta, will preside at a gen eral session at, 7 :30 o'clock at the Carolina Inn on "the organi zation of guidance and personnel work. Richard D. Allen will speak on "The Organization of Guidance. Work in the Secon dary Schools." -! Francis F. Bradshaw, dean of students here, will then talk on the organizing of student per sonnel work in the colleges, clos ing the day's meeting. As a special feature, today at 1:00 o'clock there will be an auto trip to Pinehurst, Southern Pines, and Jugtown, where there will be special exhibits of na tive arts, weaving, and pottery. The committee on local ar rangements of the conference is composed of Chase Going Wood house, chairman, A. T. Allen, Edward R. Boshart, Francis F. Bradshaw, Dan B. Bryan, Ed ward Cloyd, Leon Cook, Henry Dwire, Russell M. Grumman, Holland Hoi ton, R. B. House, and M. R. Trabue. FOREIGN POLICY LEAGUE TO HEAR ORGANIZING PLAN (Continued from page one) ed the various, local groups in the several institutions. Each local group will elect its officers and also ah executive committee. This executive com mittee will have as its particu lar duties to assume responsi bility for all matters relating to the local organization and its relation to the intercollegiate organization and to bring these matters to the attention of the local group for its discussion. There will also be a central intercollegiate committee which shall have the dutjr of co-ordinating the activities of the lo cal groups. The officers of the central committee will be the officers of the general organiza tion. - It is to be emphasized that the primary aim of the league at " j David Carh Pays High Compliment lo Playmakers In Literary Digest -O- In the April 14 issue of the Literary Digest there appears an article entitled "The Work of the Carolina Playmakers." This is the first of a series of articles to be written by David Cafb on American theatres. Carb, who is a well known critic and playwright, chose the Play makers asthe subject for his opening article, because of the importance and the national reputation of the locaL dramatic organization. x Carb describes the atmos phere that surrounds Chapel Hill and ties it up with the type of work done by the University dramatic group. "An admirable and highly heartening example of what a college dramatic group may accomplish, is the work of the . Carolina Playmak ers a college dramatic depart ment and a producing organiza tion in one. .. Just "Proff "Professor Kjoch," continues Carb, "whjo is responsible for the advanced, position this de partment holds, has been at the University sixteen years'. He is addressed with humorous afr feet both by students and col leagues simply as 'Proff.' And that describes his approach to his work no stiffness, no ex cathedra lectures, just a friend sitting-in. ' : "He works on the assumption which has every argument in its favor that an art cannot be taught. Hence the play wright writes and re-writes his plays until they are. right, . but always in his own way. His on ly model is his own feeling and the.technique his experience de velops. He thus, while remain ing the aspirant, never feels in ferior he is the aspirant among peers. "Nor is he diffident. Koch's method encourages experimen tation both in theme, emotion and technique the kind of ex perimentation colored by the artist's individuality, without which no great art comes into being." Carb also devotes part of his article in praise of the work of Phoebe Barr and her group of dancers. He not only lauds her for developing the art of the dance but also points but the merits 5f dance training for actors. "Needless to say, when these dancers appear in a play they lack the gaucherie that other amateurs especially ado lescents usually have." Every feature of the Play makers is discussed by Carb. The theatre and its equipment, the. class in play writing, the Forest theatre and its produc tions, the stadium's place as the scene of pageants, and the danc ing "classes of Phoebe Barr.' Since the appearance of the article "Proff" has received many letters from people inter ested in entering the Univer sity for the sole purpose of work- ing with the Playmakers. Carb's praise of the work of Professor Koch has once again focused the attention of the drama stu dents throughout the United States on the Carolina Play makers. . PRESS RELEASES TWOREPRINTJMS e ?' - r V Couch Announces New Editions of Books by Elizabeth C. Mor riss and Addison Hibbardi K? W. T. Couch, director of the University press, yesterday an nounced, the release of. new; edi tions of two press books, "The Citizens Reference . Boole," ' in two volumes, by Elizabeth ,C. Morriss, and "Stories, of the South," . a collection of fiction dealing with the south, edited by Addison Hibbard. Mrs. Morriss? book is com posed of a series of lessons whose primary purpose is to meet the needs and interests of adult beginners. These lessons deal with the primary elements of reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, phonics, handicraft, and citizenship. The central idea of the les sons is a happy, normal, home with high standards in health, proper foods, thrift, education, recreation, co-operation, and citizenship, and the activities connecting the home with school, church, and community. The lessons were developed in connection with actual school and community plans and pro grams by the author, who is di rector of community schools in Buncombe county, North Caro lina. The book is offered in the University of North Carolina Social Study series. ' "Stories of the South', edited by Addison Hibbard, who was at one time dean of the college of liberal arts at the University and who is now serving in the same capacity at Northwestern University, is a collection . of twenty-eight famous tales - of plantation life and of the new Negro; of the slowly changing hill-billy and the poor white of the' low lands; of traditional Charleston, colorful New Or leans, progressive Birmingham, a picture of the south, past and present, as the region has been portrayed by writers of short fiction. The volume contains stories by such authors as Thomas -Nel son Page, Joel Chandler Harris, Irvin S. Cobb, Julia Peterkin, O. Henry, Wilbur Daniel Steele, and Paul Green. One of the most remarkable features of the present volume is its low price, which has, been reduced from three dollars at the time of its first printing to one dollar. THE YOUNG MEN'S SHOD DURHAM, N. C. 1 LOST Gray Suede pocketbook in Sutton's Drug Store. 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