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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SEPTEMBER 22, 193& Cije Batl) Car 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 Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C.r under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. A. T. DilL....... ............. .............:............ Editor Robert C. Page, Jr....................... ...Managing Editor Joe Webb ...... .............. .....!............. Business Manager CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: WALTER HARGETT Saturday, September 22, 1934 -PARAGRAPHICS Maybe it will be a good thing when the America's Cup races are over. We'd probably be a nation of speech defectives if we had to go on saying "spinnaker" and "Genoa jib much longer. Whether or not textile products are'going to be on the increase, it's certain that cotton underwear will continue to creep up. Definition of fascism: a national poker game where the Duce is wild. Proceedings of A Rump Parliament An unwritten constitution is often spoken of as an admirable feature of any government be cause, perhaps, it is associated with inherent self-control and self-restraint and an unwritten regard for the rights of the governed. Such, at least, is the basis on which the constitution of England has endured, and such is the basis on which any group living under a like law has a right to expect that their unwritten constitution should endure. The action of the student council in abolishing the Buccaneer at its post-vacation meeting on June 11 is highly in conflict with this principle. Student government has prospered here, attained a freedom that is enviable to other campuses. A notable feature of the supreme governing body, the student council, is that it has remained unfettered by a written constitution. No quorum of members is prescribed in writing; no or dained circumstances of meeting are set forth in a document as assurance that action will not be unduly taken. The fine thing about student government here seems to be to us the absence of this "thou-shalt-not" principle. In its ab sence, however, the student body has imposed on the student council a tacit trust which guar antees the legality of their actions. It is open to question whether the suppression of the Buccaneer on June 11 is an action which ' can be recognized by the student body. Only four of the nine regular members were present and voting; nearly all students had gone home for vacation. There was no assurance either that all those elected to act for the student body would vote on the measure, or that their action would be subject to the response of those who elected them. Yet the student council pro nounced its action of abolishing the Buccaneer iijt a post-vacation meeting of four members a legal one. 1 The dangers of this sort of procedure to the rights of the student body are too apparent to need pointing out. It is our opinion that the best thing the council could . have done under the circumstances would have been to ignore the decision of June 11 entirely in its reconsidera tion of the Buccaneer's status. As it now stands ' there is some doubt in the minds of the campus as to whether the council was not too suscep tible to influence, first from the administration and then from the students who appeared be fore it. Be that charge just or not, the dec! sion of June 11 should serve as a reminder that the students cannot be expected to, and will not readily swallow, the proceedings of a rump par liament. Patience and - - Careful Building As the Carolina football team approaches an other season, the usual' warning is in order: Beware of too much optimism. It is particularly appropriate this September because of the ex pectation in certain quarters that the coming of a new coach should accomplish miracles worthy of the Old Testament. 1?he idea behind the engaging of Coach Carl Snavely was, to be surethat he would give Caro lina winning football teams. However, the idea that his work could be done in one short year was far from the minds of those who were in strumental in bringing him to Chapel Hill. Building a championship football team is much like building a great business. It takes thought ful planning, time, and well-directed effort. It is not a thing that can be done overnight. Our alumni need only to consider our own experience with new coaches and our observations of other schools to be sure of that. Every coach needs at least one year to lay the foundations of a new system. Coach Snavely will need the same amount of time. Meanwhile, the teams he puts out at Carolina undoubtedly will show improve ment. None can doubt that knowing the. record he made before he came to Carolina or having seen his 1934 team in action. However, as Mr. Snavely stated in an informal talk last spring, he and his fellow coaches intend to build slowly, patiently, and thoroughly, so that what they build will not be a temporary thing, but a solid and substantial structure. There is one fact to bear in mind. Improve jment may be apparent immediately, and again it may take time. Our former football players are in the best position to appreciate the vast difficulties involved in erecting a new football system on the ashes of the old. They have become proficient in one style of play. Suddenly there comes along a new coach who says, "No, not that way. This -way." For a time it is rather confusing. Old habits and old ways of doing things assert themselves. The new way is strange. The Carolina team has been taught a tremen dons amount of material in a few short weeks. Much of this is still new to the players. It will take time for them to assimilate the new sys tern to the point that they execute it intuitively. As a result their showing may not be so im pressive for a time as it was under the old and familiar conditions. All of this should be taken into consideration during the early games of the schedule. But the way the team performs in early season is not the all-important thing. To look fine in pre-season practice and to sweep through the early contests triumphantly may mean little or nothing if, failing to continue its improvement, it suddenly cracks and suffers inglorious defeats in its big games. It's the finish and not the start of the race that counts. There are alumni who are easily discouraged by the trivialities of the early season. If they are told that some of the players have suffered slight injuries or that the team did not click in a scrimmage, they are immediately plunged into despondency and begin complaining about the pessimistic tidings that come from Kenan stadium. They prefer rosy and glowing reports, perhaps, but if the team is enabled by looking bad m September to win some games later in the season, by all means let the hills around Kenan stadium echo with pessimistic reports, As we said before, it's the finish and not the start that counts. Standing , ' In Line Now that registration is over, the whole school is sitting back and sighing with relief. After the ordeal of standing in line for an hour or two only to be referred to another straggly line of students, and so back and forth across the ex panse of the Tin dan the administration would be wise to give another three-months vacation. It ought to be possible to make registering for the fall quarter a simpler process. Other colleges don't seem to go in for such mass head - aches for both faculty and students. Although our own ideas are derived from having been on the receiving end for a number of years, it seems to us that those who have been dishing it out could devise a method that would be a little less helter-skelter. Some change is especially needed in such large schools as Liberal Arts and Commerce. As one weary student remarked to another, "We stand in line when we get in, 7 and we stand in the breadline when we get out." Maybe some change would make our student body a little more hopeful, anyway. . . The Students Have Spoken The Student Welfare board, composed of se lected students and faculty administrators, will meet today at noon to discuss and, perhaps, take some sort of action on the student council's re- establishment of the defunct Buccaneer which the council decided, should appear under a new name' and a probationed editor. , That this board or any other board ought to dictate to the student body on the question of whether or not such a magazine should be pub lished is a matter for conjecture. But experi ence has proved that the stand taken by any one of the several "student- honorary activitv" committees holds considerable weight when any of the matters upon which it passes a verdict is actually and officially acted upon. An independent group of students prominent m publications and executive life on the campus presented a signed opinion to the council last Tuesday night advocating a new deal in the cam pus humor magazine, taking the stand that this university was capable and worthy of Drodueintr a periodical of high standards in content and purpose. It is possible that the oninion of f Tipsp students aided the council in makintr its r?P- cision to re-establish a humor magazine on the higher plane, but, whether it influenced the mem. bers or not, it should have a direct bearW on the action, whatever it may be: by the Student Welfare board. This board considers problems involving the effects of a change not so much on the publication so changed, but on the student body as the particular publication affects it. It is only natural to imagine, therefore, that the opinion of the student leaders as presented be fore the council will be consid ered by the board today on its claims that this student body can and will support a clean and clever humor magazine. If this is so, the ".Battle ior tne ex- Buc" is as good as won, for this board, a group representative of a loyal student body, must have enough pride in the ability of Carolina students to realize that this University is not so inferior to other institutions as to be unable to publish a humor maga zine of clean purpose and con tent. Dr. Russell Makes Study in England .England, seems mucn more prosperous than it has been. They seem well out of the de pression over there," said Dr. J. C. Russell of the history depart ment of the University who has recently returned from England. Dr. Russell continued his re searches on the biographies of the writers of thirteenth century England at Oxford and London. He received a grant for his re searches from .the American council of learned societies. While in England Dr. and Mrs. Russell were the guests of Professor F. M. Powicke, presi dent of the Royal Historical so ciety, at the annual garden par ty of the society. They returned to the United States on the steamship Alaunia by way of Montreal. Britt Does Research H. H. Britt of the department of history was in Washington recently doing research work in the Library, of Congress for his dissertation on the social history of Georgia. .u THE NATION'S SENSATION! I I NV 1 u I & i. - i t 1 i -jvlJ J GrotM of all Warner" Bros.' mutical wondr how! . . . 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He said, "Educa tion should lead to a conscious ness and appreciation of beauty and should make us aware of universe in which we live. 1 GLEE CLUB TO CONDUCT FIRST TRYOUTS MONDAY" All freshmen and upperclass--men interested in joining t h e Carolina glee club are asked" to be present at its first meeting: 5 :00 o'clock Monday afternoon in the choral room of the Hill music hall. Old members are also urged by the president to come to this meeting, as plans for this year will be discussed, providing for extensive trips and concerts H. Grady Miller will be director. CAMPUS CELEBRITY Nil. w if 7 WHATEVER he does he does with style and form. Like Stetson's campus celebrity SThe Bantam, Airtight Two ounces of quality felt. Snap the brim down. Shape the "crown to your heart's desire You'll wear it everywhere; THE STETSON BANTAM THE STETSON PLAYBOY OTHER STETSON'S $fr AND UP 5 John B. 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