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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL JUNE 1, 1934 T6e .official newspaper of the Publications Union Board 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, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. A. T.Bill.. ....... ... Robert C. Page, Jr.... .... .. Joe Webb.... : .Edkor ......Managing Editor ....Business Manager , Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Philip Hammer, chairman, Don Becker, Nelson Lansdale, E. R. Oettinger, Jeanne Holt, B. C. Proctor, Tom Walker, Kenneth Warren, Lawrence t Patten. FEATURE BOARD Vermont Royster, chairman, Wal ter Terry, Ed Goldenthal, John Wiggins, W. W. Boddie. CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Walter Hargett. DESK MEN Nick Powell, Don McKee, Jim Daniels, Reed Sarratt, Ralph Burgin. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Jimmy Morris and Bill Anderson, co-editors, C P. Nicholson, Ralph Gialanel- la, Smith Barrier, Tom Bost, Lester Ostrow, Stuart Sechriest. EXCHANGES Jimmy CraighiU, Margaret Gaines. REPORTERS E. L. Kahn, Emery Raper, Sam Willard, Francis Clingman, Don Wetherbee, Margaret Mc- Cauley, Bill Lanier. . Business Staff ASST. BUSINESS MGR. (Sales) Agnew Bahnson, Jr. COLLECTION MANAGER James Barnard. - OFFICE MANAGER L. E. Brooks. DURHAM REPRESENTATIVE 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 Garr. CIRCULATION MANAGER Ralto Farlow. CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: IRVING SUSS Friday, June 1, 1934 Tell Somebody ElseAboutItv '" A glance over the events of the past year show it to have been highly satisfactory. Although much remains to be desired in many student ac tivities, and in their relations with the faculty, the year as a whole has been marked by con siderable progress which has only been possible because of the high peak of student morale meaning by that, co-operation and well-being be tween campus factions that has been maintain ed during the past few years. We believe this to be a sign that the Univer sity is growing. It is easy to say that the Uni versity is always growing, but the truth of the matter is that it has received severe set-backs, mostly financial, which came at the time of the greatest expansion in the history of the Univer sity. But the way that this institution has pull ed itself together, in spite of these handicaps, shows that we are on the up-grade, and with budget restitutions a likelihood or at least an eventuality, there is every reason to believe that the University is entering upon a prelude to ad ditional expansion and development. At the same time, we do not stress any sort of Rotary-club progressiveness ; we do not be lieve in a too enthusiastic, and therefore border-ing-on-truthf ulness, recitation of the Univer sity's present welfare. Much remains to be done. But we are proud of whatever progress has been made in student government, in the honor sys tem, in "publications, in general curriculum dur ing the past year, and we are anxious to see this thought carried home by students and passed on to others, who may or may not be prospective students. For it is upon future student bodies that the real responsibility for the University's progress depends. Freedom Of The Press TR. George McKie of the University department " of English started something by the seeming ly innocent act of writing to the Greensboro Dai ly News an open forum letter challenging its in volved columns to explain their opposition to the Tugwell bill on the grounds that it would destroy "a free press." Enclosed in Dr. McKie's letter was an editorial from the Chapel Hill Weekly which, he pointed out, raised a definite issue re garding the bill ; Dr. McKie asked the Greens boro Daily to do the same. And it did. Whereas Louis Graves in the Chapel Hill Weekly confined himself to a state ment of the desirability of the truthfulness in advertising that the Tugwell bill supposedly com pels, the Daily News sees in it a threat that newspapers might possibly become a government enterprise, if the Tugwell bill takes away and the Greensboro paper is confident it will the ad vertising upon which every journal depends for its bread and butter. If this is not too naive an interpretation of the gist of t'iat public servant's comments, then we gather that the logical step after governmental ownership (we have jumped over a good, many possibilities in this major premise) is the stifling offcthe truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, upon which every free press prides itself. But a cursory gKnce through the columns of the News or any other paper, for that matter, will show that the freedom of the press to give the public the unbiased truth of the sort that might be sweared to on Tom Bost's Bible, is a bit of a fallacy, after all. Witness the number of advertisements extolling the cure-all proper ties of sundry kidney-stoppers-f rom-getting-up-nights, foot-cure-aches, pain-deadeners and oth er species of quasi-quackery, which are now al lowed to publish their panaceas in the most flag rant terms, while being required by law to print on their package labels "the truth" in so far as the public can ascertain it from a medical formu la. More often than not, the circulars enclosed with such concoctions, which are by no means before the public eye to the extent that their newspaper and magazine advertisements are, give us a wholesome and truthful contrast to the claims made by them in the aforementioned mediums. ' With Mr. Graves we assert the desirability of truthful advertising, and we can hardly see how this stipulation would destroy advertising or the freedom of the press. As things now stand the press seems to be "free" to influence people to spend their money vainly and often injuriously. Enrolling For Enrollment THE University administration has been severe ly handicapped in all its functions this year because of the reduced number of students on its roster. In a period of depression when state appropriations were sliced and income from en rollment has been decidely lower than the two previous years, making the ends meet has been a tremendous task. -- Every undergraduate of the University, every graduate, and every alumnus, can aid his Alma Mater immeasurably throughout the summer months by interesting prospective students in the University and what it has to offer. It will not require high pressure or misrepresentation of facts to convince wavering high school grad uates that it is in Chapel Hill where he will find the greatest advantages, of educational facilities in the entire south. If he is a pure scholar, he will be interested in the high standing of our faculty; if he is an athlete, he will delight in tales of the prowess of our teams ; if he is a com bination of the two or a "non-interest" youth, he will still find facts concerning student life and college environment as embraced here alluring and convincing. . - The alumni association has been doing a re markable piece of work along this very line ; it has contacted numerous prospects directly, and indirectly through the personal efforts of numer ous alumni. This service has a two-fold im portance: it tends to increase the enrollment and also to bind together in closer union the scattered alumni throughout the country. And so will student co-operation have this duality of effect. To interest a nrosnect. one must he in terested. To be interested, one must have a re spect and an appreciation of that which interests him, if that interest is a permanent and effective one. Thus an active co-operation during his un dergraduate days tends to mol'd a student into a loyal and beneficial alumnus after his gradua tion. Let us then be up and doing. We owe it to our University to perpetuate the high standards which it maintains. And those standards de mand pecuniary backing for their maintenance, the backing to be gained through "adequate en rollment. For the very ideals of this institution which we can pass on by word of mouth to those coming up, we must make this very effort to pass them on. P.G.H. It May Be Spring , rjENEVA'S disarmament conference, which has U been predicted for months to be a "complete bust," seems on its way toward definite and con crete accomplishments in the reduction or com plete abolition of arms. Led by the United States' Norman Davis, expressing the convic tions of President Roosevelt, a move is on foot to control the munitions traffic by common agree ment. Davis declared that the United States was ready to enter in "a substantial and proportion ate reduction of naval tonnage." He went on to state further that this country, although-it will enter into any possible agreement for the pro motion of peace, will not engage in any politics with foreign nations. This attitude comes as an unexpected and hopeful relief. Just when we felt that perhaps the conference would turn out to be the familiar "bull-slingers" convention, a note of optimism is emanated from its first gathering. The expres sion on the part of our foreign representative to the effect that "the American people and govern ment are convinced that the production and traf fic in engines of death and the profits resulting therefrom must be controlled or eliminated" is, in the light of our college peace movements, an absolute truth. Students on campuses through out the country are gratified that something con structive appears to be in the wind. What the conference will actually accomplish is still a matter of conjecture. But Davis' state ment and that of Maxim Litvinoff, Russian com missar for foreign affairs who called for a com plete abolition of armaments make us hopeful that at last nations are becoming seriously in- Casuai Correspondent by Nelson Lansdale 1933-34 SUPERLATIVES Or so it seems to us. Out standing achievements: appoint ment of Bob Barnett to Oxford as Rhodes Scholar, formation of the Student Policy League, work of the University Club, growth of good feeling between frater nities. Best movies : Little Wo men, Counselor-at-Law, Henry VIII, Flying Down to Rio, Mou lin Rouge, Design For Living, Viva Villa. Best dances: the May Frolics, the Ballet Russe. Best orchestra: Hal Kemp. Best entertainment : The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Best book: An thony Adverse. Best column: Our Hard Times. Funniest story: John Acee's Flying Tra peeze episode, Qt seq. Best radio programs : The March of Time, Rudy Vallee's yeast, Guy Lom bardo's cigars, Bing Crosby's soap. Best tunes : The Day You Came Along, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Temptation, Let's Fall In Love, Coctails for Two, and As Long As I Live. Best people: Seniors. , SHADES OF HELEN MORGAN "Uncle Billy" McDade stood in the doorway of the spacious, beautifully panneled lounge of Graham Memorial. Here and there a thin column of smoke from a cigarette spiraled up ward. Every now and then a magazine or newspaper rustled the announcement of a turned page. Peace and tranquility reigned until the keen old eyes )of the venerable janitor lighted on the square shoulders of a young man perched on one of the tables, his back to "Uncle Billy," his feet dangling in blissful unawareness of his im pending fate. "Uncle Billy" shambled up and reported to the back that the executive com mittee of the building did not permit students to sit on tables in the lounge. But when the back turned around "Uncle Billy" was due for a set-back- it belonged to none other than that step-father of all the pub lications, and guardian of all the. lesser arts "Silent Pop" Albright. OLD MAN RIVER Two dusky, well-dressed Ne groes were lounging outside a Durham drugstore the other night Tuesday, in fact when the cinema version of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, with Paul Robeson in the title role, was playing at the theatre out at Duke. "Let's go see The Emperor Jones," suggested one of the sports. "Naw," came the disgusted reply, "that damned nigger. ( Continued on fage four ) Between Campuses By Margaret E. Gaines College papers seem to feel that the New Deal should be given a chance and that con structive rather than destructive criticism should be heaped upon it always however, with an at tude of fairness. "For the first time in the his- tory of this still youthful de mocracy the government has had the courage to come out unequi vocally for public welfare in stead of private profit," the Syracuse Daily Orange declares. In reviewing the criticisms on the NRA and its codes of fair competition, the board that President Roosevelt appointed to determine whether there was any truth in the charges of dis crimination against little busi ness, is discussed in the Purdue Exponent as follows : "Critics of the present administrati6n had declared that the codes foster ed monopoly, and consequently, the ruination of the little fellow. The board examined eight in dustries in its search for facts, and in only one the cleaning and dyeing industry did it fail to find evidences of monoplistic practices." John F. Sinclair, the only member of the board who did not sign the report but present ed a minority report, said, "The majority of the board has not seen fit to approach this situa tion from the point of view of careful research and analysis. As a result, the conclusions of the board must necessarily be inconclusive, incomplete, and at times misleading and unreli able. "The conclusion reached by the Purdue Exponent is that the re port is worthy of consideration. Furthermore, it adds, if these abuses discrimination in busi ness in favor of the large cor poration do exist, steps should be taken at once to correct them, either through new codes or through an entire new plan of economic reorganization." And so, until we do know that something is wrong, why not give the New Deal a chance? college, but rather from a funda mental change in the society of which it is a part." . However, Olivet College seems to think that a change in the college -may effect the desired improvement. According to the Indiana Dai ly Student the new system of education which is to be adopted next year at Olivet College pro vides that students study inde pendently during the mornings, and that both students and fac ulty members engage in athletics in the afternoons. Students are to be awarded degrees after pass ing two oral and two written examinations. It won't be long now before the graduating class of 1934 will be casting its lot "with the com mon horde, the motley multi tude, the rabble of intellect and moron" into which they shall become "classified and labeled according to their respective aptitude." Before leaving their mother college, the Yale graduates have listed, a number of things that they think a college should give its students. They are: ability to reason and analyze facts; ability to meet and get along with different types of men: ability to express and communi cate thought; broad intellectual interests; and preparation for business and professional careers. Graduates of the University of Kentucky leave this advice be hind: "take advantage of all cultural, spiritual, and social opportunities afforded you on the Kentucky campus" and "live your college life to the fullest measure possible." SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND terested enough in the question at hand asan economic problem rather than a political imbroglio to come to some definite conclu sions.' R.C.P. "The college exists to offer American youth the largest op portunity to gain ... a firm hold on the esssential elements of a liberal education and thereby that fine, open-minded, forward- facing outlook on life which is characteristic of the truly edu cated man," says Nicholas Mur ray Butler, president of Colum bia University. It does not exist for vocational instruction and has nothing whatever' to do with preparation to earn one's liveli hood, he declares. "It is unfortunate," say the Minnesota Daily, "that college should be merely a training ground for people who want to earn money. Yet that fact must be recognized . . . The opportuni ty for a better part will come, not from a change within the Not Just For Rustics The word "rural" in the head lines of your recent article on the folk dancing being taught here at the University, was, I feel, apt to be misleading. I wish the words, "social life" in stead of "rural life" had been printed, v These dances are not just for "country folk." They are a social medium useful to any group, even any "sophisti cated" group that wants to en joy the art of figure-dancing. And since part of our work is to. foster the use and continu ance of these dances of our race among more and more students in the University, I wish to re emphasize this, which was per haps the main point of the ar ticle printed. Our hope is in no way to re place "modern ballroom danc ing" with figure-dancing but simply to make these older dances more widely known in Chapel Hill and in the Univer sity, in order that groups may begin to enjoy the actual social use of them. RICHARD CHASE. if J mi I I I 1 W? - V P FIFTH AVEN.UE CJJ NOW READY CLOTHES, HATS, SHOES AND HABERDASHERY FOR THE SPRING TERM OF 1934. . A TTENTION IS CALLED TO THE EXCL USIVE CHAR A CTER AND FINE QUALITY OF ALL MERCHANDISE. SUITS AND TOPCOATS 45 TH AVEN.UE NEW YORK AND MORE At Student Cooperative Cleaners THURSDAY and FRIDAY JUNE 7 and 8 Bob Gray, Representative
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