THE ONLY COLLEGE DAI U'Y IN THE SOUTH
"TO CREATE
A CAMPUS
PERSONALITY
A JOURNAL OF
TIIB ACTIVITIES
OF CAROLINIANS
VOLUME XLIV
EDITORIAL PHONE 4HI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936
BUSINESS FHOKE 415$
NUMBER 72
THE
CAMPUS
KEYBOARD
by Phil Hammer
Being a Self-Governed Body
For a High I. Q. Citizenry
Apparently Holds Nothing
WOMEN ORGANIZE
LOCAL T GROUP
TO GATHER SOON
TUBEOTS ACT AGAINST ACGIBENT
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Organization Meeting to Deter
mine Policy and Projects of
Y. W. C. A. Is Planned
Whatever the failings of our
student government in Chapel
Hill, it is true that our student
body is better governed on the
whole than 90 per cent of the
hamlets of .2.500 out in North
Carolina.
Perhaps it is not fair to make
a comparison. Our student gov
ernment has little to do with
maintaining our highways, col
lecting taxes, and a thousand
other items. But it faces )rthe
3ame sort of problems'lias .'the
same purposes, and isesponsi-
ble to the same sort, of .public;
On the other hand, perhaps
the college society is more in
telligent than the average neigh
borhood. But what is so obvious
in all college life is immaturity
in thought, speech and action,
no matter what the I. Q. hap
pens to be. And immaturity, it
seems to me, should make the
attempts at srovernment a lot
more complex and difficult.
North Carolina's local 'govern-
ment is notoriously rotten and
inefficient, so that saying that
our student government is bet
ter really isn't such a superla
tive plume in our hat. What is
significant, however, is that stu
dents have consistently left the
portals of Chapel Hill, where
student government over a peri
od of years has done a pretty
good job, and gone back to the
home town to be content with
the maladministration of ignor
ant politicians.
The worst part of it is that,
not only do our young gradu
ates ostensibly steeped in the
traditions of self-government
condone such administrations,
but they actually go to the polls
and vote in their favor.
All of which must go to show
one of two things: that the stu
dents as a whole don't partici
pate in their government here
enough to get interested in pul-
lic affairs, or that those who did
30 eitherrare too indifferent, too
occupied, or too overcome with
the inevitability of dirty politics
to give a continental after grad
uation. t
It is apparent that student
government here is run by two
or three overworked individuals.
The politicians, after they have
done their good campaign work,
fade out of the picture until the
next election. It's all very well
for some of us to say that the
new curriculum is fitting us for
new and better public service,
but it's another question when
students aren't interested
enough in the affairs of the lo
cal cosmopolis to do more than
hike to the polls every spring.
Well, we're still better gov
erned than the state's local un
its. Anyone who can get satis
faction in that can help themselves.
IS FIRST CAMPUS BRANCH
For the first time in the his
tory of the University a Y. W.
U A. is being formed on the
campus.; The organization will
begin operations this quarter.
The time of the first meeting
will be announced soon through
the columns of the Daily Tar
Heel.
The idea of a Y. W. C. A. us
ually brings visions of prayer
meetings, . butv that will , not -be
the fundamental purpose of this
association. A definite need , is
felt on the campus for certain
things which a girl is unable to
obtain except in an organization
of this kind. A few interests
that will be emphasized in this
group are vocations, social, re
ligious, and political questions
which concern the student.
Unlimited Field
There is an unlimited field for
projects in which girls may par
ticipate. For example, there
will be girl scout work, night
classes for adults, and many
types of charity work Discus
sion groups will be held once a
month.
All women students are in
vited to be present at the first
meeting whether they wish to
become members or not. At this
time definite projects will be de
cided upon and volunteers called.
PSYCHOLOGIST HEARD
Freshman Assembly
Freshman assembly will be
held only on Monday and Wed
nesday during this quarter, F.
F. Bradshaw, dean of students
announced yesterday.
The assembly, the purpose
of which is to adjust and ori
ent the freshmen, was held
five times a week at the first
of the year but this number
was later reduced to three.
According to Dean Bradshaw,
the first-year men are now
sufficiently acquainted with
life at the University to war
rant less frequent meetings.
DEMOCRATS PLAN
JACKSON DINNER
High Point Editor Cap us Way-
nick Scheduled as Principal
Speaker on Program
Bell Toy Ilr Busy
As Chime Switch
I" .1 T r"l
rails i o V-iosc
Local Sleepers Disturbed as Tow?
er Chimes Ring at Intervals
. Through Night
The bell tower ran amuck
Sunday night, and chimed forth
its monotonous notes every quar
ter hour of the long night, much
to the annoyance of the sleepy
citizens of Chapel Hill.
Just what was the object of
the unusual serenade is not
known in official circles. Some
one, according to Harry Comer,
Y. M. C. A. secretary, was care
less and forgot to turn off the
strike- switch, which
the bell's chiming ,
Local Student Government
Plans State-Wide Crusade
FEDERATION HEAD
Inaugurating the 1936 Demo
cratic campaign, the annual
Jackson Day dinner for all Uni
versity and Orange County
Young Democrats will be held at
the Carolina Inn tomorrow night
at 7 :30, with Capus M. Waynick,
High Point editor and chairman
of the Sate Highway and Public
Works Commission, as principal
speaker.
Tickets for the affair have
been set at two dollars a plate,
half of : this amount being con
tributed to the Democratic cam
paign fund for 1936. W. E.
Thompson, assistant cashier of
the Bank of Chapel Hill will have
charge of selling the tickets for
the annual function.
Committee
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I Pamphlets Teaching
Safety Precautions
Issued All Students
(Daily Tar Heel Collaborating
with Officials and Institute
of Government
STATE LEADS IN CRASHES
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The Daily Tar Heel, in col
laboration with local student
government officials, began ope
rations yesterday morning in
sponsoring a state-wide cam
paign among North Carolina
colleges and universities to de
crease highway accidents.
Through the co-operation of
the Institute of Government,
which has its main offices in
Chapel Hill, hundreds of copies
of the Institute's namnhlet.
Above is R. A. "Jack" Pool, stu
dent body president and head of have been ahinnp n
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luaymj Aiungni, aim . j. the North Carolina Federation ,a in tho tt.p A ii i
Phipps have been appointed co- V students, who vesterdav an- and stnrW. rnvprp,t loarW
chairmen of the committee on nonnced that the federation will contacted and urged to press the
aueiueiiuj uung witxx vv. - back the state-wide campaign f or matter.
joraan ana amitn oi onap- er driving on the highways.
ei 1111 ; u. ivi. nay oi arrDoro;
Bonner D. Sawyer and G. W.
Ray of Hillsboro.
The local Jackson Day dinner
is a part of the national cam
paign of the Democratic party,
vhich is being inaugurated on
the birthday of the first great
n re n 1 o 4- a a
ple Andrew Jackson. The
FLORAL MEETING
PLNNEDBY CLUB
Course In Flower Arrangement
Planned for February by
State Garden Club
. ...
Several members of the Uni
versity psychology department
heard Professor Edward C. Pol
man, eminent comparative psy
chologist of the University of
California as he spoke to a large
audience at Duke University last
night.
Dr. Polman's lecture dealt with
recent researches in comparative
psychology from the point of
view of purposive psychology.
uraasnaw Chapel Hill banquet will be held
T-k . . T .J11 . . Ill . 1 1 1 . .
uean xsraasnaw, aixnougn ne along with simiiar meetings
was much disturbed by the throughout the nation.
strange antics oi the bell, was
very philosophical about "the STUDENT-FACULTY
whole matter. He explained, Tl A V fOMMTTTPTS February 18, 19, and 20
Pamphlet Issued
This morning a copy of the
pamphlet was delivered to every
student on the campus through
the regular newspaper circula
tion channels.
In addition to the state-wide
aspect of the campaign, the.
Daily Tar Heel and student
government" nave i sent copies of
the pamphlet to editors of the
newspapers on 100 of America's
"If you are awake, the melody ijiq MEET TONIGHT The tlree-day Program has
Keens vou comnanv. n vou are i uccu uroucu w owc wwoc
In co-operation with the Gar
den Club of North Carolina, the
University will conduct a short outstanding institutions of high-
course jn nower arrangement e le3LTningf together with an
and judging at Ohapei mil on outHne of local and state la
(Continued on page two)
ns
drowsy, it lulls you to sleep, and Groups Representing Three CouncUs terested in the arrangements of
Will Co-ordinate for Event
if you are already sleep, it does
nuu ludiwi. A pnmmitteP nf mpmhprs from
Now if you happen to be as the lnterdormitory; interfrater
much of an optimist as Dean nity and Dormitory Managers
Bradshaw, everything is nice; couricUs 'will meet to co-ordinate
but untortunately uarry uomer
and a majority of the citizens
flowers in the home and at
flower shows, and to assist those
who wish to qualify as judges
of flower exhibitions.
Etcher to Speak
After registration for
course has taken place on
Campus Writers
Not Susceptible
To Dinner Hoax
Journalism Students Select
Best Movies, Actors Of Year
'Mutiny on the Bounty," Charles
Laughton, Hepburn Rank First
$-
In Today's News
Students plan participation in
national anti-accident campaign.
University women plan to or
ganize local Y, W. C. A.
Committees to plan for Student-Faculty
Day.
Freshmen must attend chapel
only twice a week.
Members of Walter Spear
man's new journalism class in
dramatic and literary criticism
don't work for big papers yet,
but they do have some critical
discrimination, if their choices
of the 10 best movies of the year
are any indication.
Richard Watts, Jr., who picks
and pans for the New York Herald-Tribune,
published his list of
superlative shows in the Sunday
issue of his paper ; and the ma
jority of Spearman's class, hand
ing in their choices yesterday,
agreed with him in placing in
their first 10 every one of Watts'
choices which has been shown
in E. Carrington Smith's local
movie palace.
Lists Compared
The Carolina list: "Mutiny on
the Bounty," 17 votes; "David
Copperfield," 12 ; "Naughty Ma
rietta," 11 ; "The Informer," 9 ;
"Lives of a Bengal Lancer," 9;
"Les Miserables," 8 ; "Ruggles of
Red Gap," 8; "Top Hat," 7;
"Alice Adams," 6; 'The ScounT
(Continued on last page)
the Six Publication Leaders Invited
the to Non-Existaht Luncheon
will Party Yesterday
ODen at 8 o'clock at Hill Music -
hall. At this time John Taylor Six campus publication lead-
one of which swaKowed the
Etched Society of Fairfield, Proverbial. hook, line, and: sink-
French from the Interfraternity wui speaK on w
r m sign in Flower Arrangement.'
r.h Tnm HiVVs TTpnrv un tne morning ot eDruary
w " I n " W Till 1 A T- 1
Bryant, Earl Connell and Niles .v.ei f frecf
plans for Student-Faculty Day
at. 7 nV.lnclc tn-nifrtit. in t.hp TTni-
are not blessedwith this gift. versity club r0Qm in Graham opening day, the Program
r ; .r T - T Memorial
lUCltiiy, IS a lung way uum.iue Tlio fnlWIncr .nnn.ilWor, will
m . 1 A 11V lUUVTIillg VVUilVAUUVli VAA
lienimueo on page vwaj
into a dinner
TTni Flnsf Art OTvipps
v wrjw I l t oi-i; XT . V 1,
Presented to Library Bond from the Interdormitory - Z
Council.
University Alumnus Now In Delhi,
India, Gives Curio Collection
Dr. W. P. Jacox, of Delhi, In
dia, an alumnus of the Univer
sity, who has been on leave in
Chairman Clyde Dunn, Har
old Bennett and aul Mickey
from the Dormitory Managers
Council.
In charge of the plan co-ordi-
er, were called
hoax yesterday.
Only Claude Rankin, editor of
the Yackety-Yack answered the
mysterious telephone call which
will address the ctoud in Davie was also sent to Editor Phil
hair on "Organizing and Judg- Hammer and Managing Editor
ing Flower Shows." In the 1500 age of the Daily Tar
afternoon Mrs. Peckham will Heel; Charley Poe, editor of
SDeak on "Judirinir the Flower the Carolina Magazine; Nelson
(Continued on vaae two) - -ansdale, editor of the Bucca
neer: and Ellen Derm frAP-
the United States for the past nating will be L. C. Bruce, Al- Fairley Addresses lance writer for the literary and
AAA Unconstitutional
several months, has given the pert Ellis and Jake Snyder.
University library a consider
able collection of curios and ob-
jects of art relating to India and
Ceylon. :
He also crave the library a
collection of oriental books in
cluding several palm leaves and
volumes on early travel in the
orient and on the natural his
tory of Ceylon. This collection
includes several dictionaries of
the Indian language.
. Among the many curios that
Dr. Jacox has presented to the
University are a number of ela
borate ivory carvings of every
day life in India. There are
also several finely carved solid
silver jewelry boxes and dag
gers, two seals, a bronze statue
of the god of good luck, and an
ancient mirror from South India.
The Agricultural Adjust
ment Act, last bulwark of
New Deal legislature was
blown sky-high yesterday
as the Supreme Court touch
ed off an "unconstitution
ality" blast that rocked the
entire administrational
structure.
The highest tribunal, by
a 6-3 decision, relegated to
the junk-heap the ambitious
program that has already
cost the nation over a bil
lion dollars. Justices said
that a constitutional change
would be necessary before
any substitute legislation
could be confirmed.
E. C. T. C. Students numor magazines.
Invitations
i Leader soeaKS on "ne suture i a n x .. -
man giving his name as Walter
Nearly 700 women students Harrison of Washington tele-
of Eastern Carolina Teachers' phoned and disclosed that Wal-
College heard Francis Fairley Iter Lippman, syndicated- news-
speak on "The Future of paper columnist, was travelling
Women" at a program Sunday south and was planning a stop
night presented by the deputa- in Chapel Hill.
j a ii .iir nir n I TT- ; ii
tion xeam oi xne i. m. j. a. xxarnson men exientiea an
Fairley, student assistant to invitation to q luncheon at the
Dr. Zimmerman and prominent Carolina Inn yesteraay after-
in "Y" affairs, dealt with the noon at 12:30 at which time
problem of women in the mod- Lippman would address the
edn world and the opportunities group. Only Rankin was pres-
of their sex. ent at the designated time.
Others who made the trip to r Obviously the hoax is the
hold the religious part of 'the practical - joke of some campus
program are: Billy Yandell, Eu- crank who wished to ensnare
gene Bricklemyer, Jimmy Dees, local litterati in an unsuspect
Raymond Barron, and Warren ing trap baited with a promi-
Haddawav. : - : neht writer.