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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
tije Batlp tar eel
The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
cf 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
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of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the
college year.
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Editorial Staff
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Wolslagel, Franklin Harward, John Schulz, DuPont
Snowden, Margaret McCauley, Morty flavin, Sam
Leager, Dick Myers, Charles Lloyd, Jake Snyder, Phil
Kind, Charles Daniel, George Butler.
FEATURE BOARD Nelson Lansdale, chairman; Nick
Read, Bob Browder, Francis Clingman, J. E. Poin
dexter, W. M. Cochrane, Willis Harrison.
CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Walter Hargett, Don
McKee, Jim Daniel, Reed Sarratt. .
TELEGRAPH EDITORS Stuart Rabb, Charlie Gilmore.
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: REED SARRATT
Wednesday, February 6, 1935
It's Still
A Good Idea
The administration should be heartily con
gratulated on the good results of the Everett
experiment. According to the report given at
the Student Welfare Board meeting recently, the
grades of the freshmen living in Everett under
moderate supervision showed "a greater propor
tionate increase, considering the students' pre
paredness for college work, than those of fresh
men in the three other dormitories with which
Everett was compared. Also, only one half as
many freshmen moved from Everett as from
other dormitories.
Heartening - as these obvious improvements
are, they are not yet convincing that the entire
freshman class should live in segregation and
under moderate supervision by responsible up-
perclassmen. In the first place, although the
segregation-supervision idea was the basic Ev
erett theory, at least one-fourth of the residents
are upperclassmen, not selected by those in
charge, but rooming in Everett by simply sign
ing up when they found other dormitories to be
filled. In the second place, the Everett fresh
men's supremacy over their . fellows in proper
tionate grade increase is probably more attrib
utable to the fact that they signed for rooms in
the "guinea-pig" rooming house Jbecause they
wanted to study than to anything else.
In other words, the results prove nothing def
initely beyond this: give us freshmen who want
to study an opportunity to do so, and their grades
will go up. While that perhaps is a foregone
conclusion, we still feel that the administration
deserves praise for having given the studious
a "break" and the frosh deserve praise for tak
ing advantage of it. f
PARAGRAPHICS
The University Riding Club advertises that
horses are brought to your room. Another
factor tending toward a more stable student
body.
Everett freshmen have not moved as much
as occupants of Lewis, Aycock, and Grimes.
They must like the view across the court.
The trouble right now wth moving up the
salary scale any further seems to be that
nobody is willing to do more than budget.
The Question
Squarely Put
"We ask for fair, not preferential, considera
tion. ... A free people who know what they owe
themselves will preserve and develop on the
highest level the university of the people in
answer to their own needs, in protection of their
own freedom and in the fulfillment of their own
democracy."
Tomorrow is the date set for the committee
hearing of University requests for the biennium
1935-37 from the state of North Carolina. In
the words of President Frank Graham, extracted
above, the University, in asking a 25 per cent
increase in salary scale for its employees, is not
setting forth an unreasonable demand but is
acting for the well-being of the people. How
the morale of this University's great education
al staff has been maintained as well as it has
is a remarkable achievement, but there is
breaking point and even a courageous band of
educators such as we boast are not able to avoid
it under pressing economic conditions.
The wracking biennial fight for sustenance is
more crucial this year than ever before, for
where in 1931 and 1933 the pecuniary slices were
subconsciously considered temporary, we are
now faced with either continuing the ruinous
level of economic support or raising it to a plane
where life will be life once again for the pro
fessors, rather than a gnawing struggle to give
one's best in education while at the same time
the wolf is halfway through the door.
The University must be aided in this crisis
North Carolina must be fair. The tremendous
slices from our budget must be replaced insofar
as other state institutions and departments are
being sustained as conditions allow. Education
must not suffer more than its due share.
'
Those Who
Can Pay
Dr. Clarence Heer's analysis of the sales tax
as affecting the overburdened landowner of the
state reveals the startling fact that the indivi
duals, who contribute to the sales tax, actually
paid 1.2 per cent more in taxes, and corporations
through property and general fund taxes 6.8 pe
cent less, than before.
If the present legislature, says Mr. Heer,
enacts the three per cent exemptionless sales tax
it must raise the corporation taxes around $3,
000,000 above the administration recommenda
tions if everybody is to be Jxeated alike.
Governor Ehringhaus' campaign speech prom
ised a thorough investigation to assure a fair
' and just sharing of thejtax burden. He has unti
1936 to make the readjustments necessary as
revealed by Mr; Heer's expert analysis.
Small-Boy
Fun-Poking
We notice an undercurrent of playful dispar
agement among Carolina fans toward Ray Rex,
one of State College's best athletes, whenever he
takes part in an athletic contest here against the
University. Nothing particularly malicious is
meant. The attitude is rather one of small-boy
fun-poking.
Yet Rex has always conducted himself in a
sportsmanlike manner in the face of this. He
is a four-letter man at State, a valuable addi
tion to any team, and in so far as we are able to
determine has always played creditably under
competition. Notwithstanding this sort of wel
come from Carolina fans at the State basketball
game last Wednesday, he made no demonstra
tion as did the crowd in the Tin Can.
Rex is a good athlete. He appears to be a
good sportsman. Too bad Carolina won't give
him credit for being both.
Semesters
And Quarters
t
The most obvious reason for student support
of the quarter system comes, as we mentioned
recently, from the welcome chance it gives for
getting examinations off the over-loaded mind
before the Christmas or spring holidays. The
unbearableness of the situation under the semes
ter system is almost unlivable because the best
thing we have to look forward to is a rapidly
approaching period of final examinations. If
we are of a studious nature, the entire vacation
might easily be ruined as well.
Any student who is forced out of school tem
porarily because of illness or financial reverses
will find the quarter system much the more
convenient of . the two. If, for instance, he is
forced out during the fall quarter, he may be
able to return at the beginning of the winter
quarter thus losing only a third rather than a
half of the year. The other side of this argu
ment is that a high school student who graduates
according to the semester plan in February could
immediately enter the University instead of be
ing required to mark time until the opening of
the spring quarter.
The final argument for maintaining the quar
ter system is merely that a change to the semes
ter system would necessitate a large amount of
inconvenience and expense. Whether or riot this
would be discounted in the long run by the re
sultant economies of fewer registration periods
and fewer examinations (and thus less red tape
and clerical work) is a question which cannot be
answered without a full and comprehensive study
of the two systems.
The proposed three-hour a week plan for the
foreign languages will, presumably, be workable
only under the semester system. That any plan
can be devised whereby the foreign language de
partment can work under the semester plan
while the other departments are using the quar
ter system seems improbable.
A motion has been made by Dean -jCarroll for
the adoption by the faculty of the semester sys
tem. That the latter will reach a decision which
will be on the whole beneficial to the University
we are confident ; but we feel it our duty to sug
gest that a full consideration, be given to the
student reasons for supporting the quarter sys
tem before it is thrown into the discard.
Casual Correspondent
: ' by '
Nelson Lansdale
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF
BABES AND SUCKLINGS
John Chapman tells us that a
friend of his sat next to Ger
trude Stein's ten - year - old
nephew at a lecture she gave in
Chicago during the Christmas
holidays. When Miss Stein re
marked, typically, "An oil paint
ing is an oil painting," our
friend made a wry face. The
nephew saw the grimace out of
the corner of his eyes, and mur
mured: "Ja, I t'ink she's crazy
too. She's been at our house for
two days."
THAT'S WHY DARKIES
WERE BORN
Except for one short-lived
snow-fall, and the increasing
difficulty of climbing out of a
warm bed into a cold room in
the morning, Chapel Hill seems
to have escaped the blizzard
which swept the Atlantic sea
board last week and the week
before. But from Maryland
comes this little winter idyl:
"The snow ... sixteen inches of
it". . . was beautiful, so light and
dry. A fw nights ago, when it
was about eight below zero, we
were awakened by men shovel
ing snow from the streets. It
was packed down so hard and
frozen that they had to use picks
and mattocks. There were a few
negroes with about a dozen
white men. The negroes began
singing, very low at first, then
louder. It was about one o'clock,
and the voices carried easily in
the quiet. There was something
very simple and beautiful about
it. We were sorry when they
got further down the street, and
the noise of picks and shovels
scraping was all we could hear."
PROFIT AND LOSS
The coming law-med dances
this week-end remind us of a
little story we heard last year
about this time. In honor of the
occasion one of the incipient bar
risters had stocked up with a
pint of excellent Baltimore
whiskey. After the usual toast,
he handed his date, who has
something of a reputation as a
guzzler, the bottle, nearly full,
with the caution: "Go easy on
that, little one. It cost two and
a quarter a pint."
The lady modestly turned; her
back, and after a few minutes
of concentrated drinking, spun
around and handed him the bot
tle empty. "Worth every cent
of it, darling," she declared,
smacking her lips. "Worth
every cent of it."
When a student in one of his
classes went to sleep during the
morning lecture, Economics Pro
fessor Eric Zimmerman asked
the man sitting next - to him to
prod him. The student in ques
tion sat up blinking.
"I realize, Mr Ebberhardt,"
said Dr. Zimmerman in his clip
ped 6erman accent, "dat I can
not make this class as inter
eresting as the moving pictures,
dat I cannot dress up like Mae
West. But, Mr. Ebberhardt, if
you do dat one more time I shall
haff to ask you to come up and
see me some time."
Continued from page one)
with it. ,'
Raleigh Experiment
An experiment in four Ral
eigh schools has shown the prac
ticability of the plan and has in
dicated that it would be received
favorably enough to insure self-
support. Approximately 38 per
cent of the students m these
schools are depositors and their
deposits average 5.44 per school
year per depositor.
Considerable progress has al
ready been made by the society,
working on funds obtained from
private sources.
Grisette is the secretary of
the society, and Bradshaw chair
man of the executive committee.
The president is Paul J. Brown
hof Raleigh.
Photomen
Thrift Society
DIAMOND HORSESHOE
One of our spies reports an
incident which seemed to us curi
ously out of keeping with the
spirit of Chapel Hill. A friend
of his happened to drop in on
F. C. Hayes, of the Romance
language department last Satur
day afternoon. From outside,
waiting for the doorbell to be
answered he heard the radio,
broadcasting from the Metro
politan Opera in New York. He
didn't know what opera it was,
and neither do we, but anyway
when Mr. Hayes appeared at
the door he was in dinner-jacket,
(Continued from page one)
plays written, cast, and directed
by the Carolina Playmakers con
cluded the program.
On this morning's program,
H. B. Wills, of the Eastman Ko
dak Company, will give a light
ing demonstration, and M. D.
Taylor, professor" of marketing
in the University, will speak on
"Advertising and Sales Promo
tion." Ed Byrsdorfer, of the East
man Kodak Company, will de
liver a technical lecture Wed
nesday afternoon on "Photo
graphing Emulsions," and E. P.
Nichols, also of the Eastman
company, will present an illus
trated lecture on photo finishing.
A final business session, at 3
o'clock which will include the
election and installation of new
officers, will bring the conven
tion program to a close.
Van Sleen to Explain
U.N.C. Radio Program
Robert Van Sleen will describe
the transmitting apparatus of
short wave radio station W4WE,
the official University amateur
station, at a meeting of amateur
radio fans in 210 Phillips hall
tonight at 7 :30 o'clock.
His talk will consist of a com
plete analysis of the local trans
mitter as recently constructed
by the electrical engineering de
partment. As Van Sleen participated in
the rebuilding of the unit, he is
thoroughly familiar with the
subject.
The meeting is one of a series
presented each week under the
auspices of the electrical engi
neering department.
Frosh Social Committee
-Members of "the committee
in charge of the arrangements
of the Duke-Carolina freshman
social are requested to meet
with Crowell Little, chairman,
tonight at 7 :30 o'clock in room
112 Everett.
The following committee
members are asked to attend:
Billy Seawell, Carl Peiffer, Dav
id Meroney, and John Simpson.
and in the living room behind
his host, out visitor could see
four or five people,.all in evening
clothes, sitting around the radio,
listening, to the opera.
AIR-CASTLES
And we -take a great deal of
pleasure in nominating for ob
livion the rather typical co-ed,
who wanted to know where the
Phi Beta Kappa house was.
CAROLINA THEATRE
Sunday Monday
Feb. 10.th and 11th
OUTSTANDING RADIO-BROADCASTS
Wednesday, Feb. 6
1:15: George Hall orchestra
WBT.
1 :30 : Little Jack Little, song
WBT.
2 :00 Radio City matinee : Rich
ard Himber orch. ; Joey Nash
tenor; Cugat orch.; Fats Waller
pianist; John B. Kennedy, WJZ
KDKA.
3:00: Kate Smith's Matinee
hour, WBT.
4:00: Nat'l Student Federa
tion Pr'gm The Vocational Sig.
nificance of a. College Curricu
lum, Mark. Eisner, WBT.
6:45: Lowell Thomas, com
mentator, WJZ, WLW.
7:00: Industries and the Se
curities Markets Richard
Whitney, pres. N. Y. Stock Ex
change, WEAF.
7 :45 : Plantation Echoes
Robison orch.; Southernaires
Quartet, WPTF.
8:00: Play The Sign on the
Door with Mary Pickford and
others, WPTF; Penthouse Par
ty Emil Coleman orch ; Trav
elers Quartet; Lee Sims & Llom
ay Bailey, guest stars, WJZ,
WLW.
8:15: Edwin C. Hill, news,
WABC.
8 :30 : Wayne King orchestra,
WEAF, WSB ; ' Everett Mar
shall's Broadway Varieties,
WBT.
9:00: Town Hall Tonight
Fred Allen, comedian; Hayton
orch., WEAF, WLW; Andre
Kostelanetz orch. ; Lily Pons, so
prano; Vocal Ensemble; male
quartet, WBT.
9:30: Burns and Allen, come
dians, WBT.
9 :45 : Jan Garber orch., WGN.
10:00: Guy Lombardo orch.,
WEAF, WLW.
10:30: Melody Masterpieces
Mary Eastman, soprano; Con
cert orch., WABC.
11 :00 : Hal Kemp orch., WJZ.
11:30: Eddy Duchin orches
tra, WEAF, WLW.
11 :45 : Ozzie Nelson orch.,
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