2AGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 193S
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Diplomatic Digest
BY
Don Becker
THIS ISSUE: NEWS, JORDAN; NIGHT, JONAS
"The open air of public discussion and communication is an indispensable
condition of the birth ef ideas and knowledge and of other growth into health
and vigor." John Dewey.
DISCUSSION NEEDED "
The Y. M. C. A. Monday night sponsored an open-forum dis
cussion on the Carolina honorjsystem.
With debate centered on the value of absolute expulsion as a
penalty for cheating, two divergent views were presented at the
meeting by student leader Joe Barnett and chemistry professor
Markham.
The Y. M. C. A.'s forum, however, reached few students. Mem
bers of the three cabinets were practically the only individuals
present. And the forum leaders never got around to the basic pro
blems in the administration of our honor system: Will students as
sume the responsibility of reporting others seen cheating?
With the many proposals for changing the honor system be
ing brought forward, campus forums such as that sponsored by
the Y. M. C. A. are essential if the campus is to rally wholeheart
edly behind its honor code. Whether or not we still want to main
tain the two-fold responsibility of 1) not cheating and 2) report
ing violations of the code, the campus must decide.
But more students than the few responsible individuals pres
ent at Monday night's forum must be reached. Discussions in the
dormitories and fraternities must be organized. By taking an ac
tive part in sponsoring such forums all over the campus the In
terfraternity and Inter dormitory councils could perform a real
service.
WINDSHIELD STICKERS
The ruling last year that required students living in town to
purchase Chapel Hill license tags for their cars, caused much re
sentment. Even though the township had a technical right to de
mand that students living in town have these licenses while those
Jiving in dormitories were permitted to go without them, this ru
ling was patently unfair. The student body was divided into parts
on a superficial basis.
This year the township of Chapel Hill has revised the ruling
so that there is a more equitable arrangement. No students will
be required to purchase the tags, but all students must have stick
ers on their cars certifying that they are bona fide students of the
University. These stickers are being distributed by Harper Barnes.
So far, 66 students have already registered with Barnes. To
help officials of Chapel Hill discriminate between student cars and
town cars, every student should register and receive the wind
shield sticker.
SAFEGUARD WARRANTED
Criticism of the University administration for postponing all
events which might lead to a spreading of an influenza epidemic
has grown to a considerable degree.
The students who are taking this attitude are looking at the
problem from an extremely short-run viewpoint. It is true that
certain groups are losing a considerable amount of money if con
tracts cannot be cancelled; it is true that many engagements of
long standing have had to be broken; it is true that the postpone
ment of the events has caused disappointment.
But these same students must remember that any precau
tions the University takes to safeguard the health of the student
body are worth whatever discomfort these precautions may have
caused. While each individual might be willing personally to run
the risks attached to attending these functions, he cannot take
upon himself the responsibility of endangering the health of all.
As forthe accusation of discrimination in postponing events,
no logically thinking person would beleive that Dr. Berryhill would
seriously affect the health of the student body.
The Pacific Ocean is the focal
point of American foreign pol
icy, and the Hawaiian Island
group is the focal point of the
Pacific.
Hawaii, crossroads of the Pa
cific's commercial trade routes,
melting pot of the races of the
world, farflung valuable posses
sion of the United States here,
if the much-dreaded war with
Japan ever does come, will be
the center of the disturbance.
While I think the "yellow pe
ril" has been greatly exaggera
ted by the yellow press for their
own benefit, and perhaps the
benefit of other vested inter
ests, I also think it necessary to
recognize that such propaganda
has strong influence in shaping
national attitudes and the for
eign policies of national govern
ments.
Hence the Japanese-Hawaiian
situation, even though the causes
of conflict may be largely imagU
native, becomes nevertheless
very real situation. If the sit
uation comes to a head, will the
United States be able to hold
Hawaii where the largest rac
ial groupjs Japanese and where
Americans constitute a very
small minority? Or would war
between Japan and the United
States mean revolution on Ha
waii?
Apparently our government
has been worrying about the
same questions. Edgar T.
Thompson, assistant professor
of sociology at Duke, reports
that since the World War, Unit
ed States troops in Hawaii have
been greatly increased.
But Thompson, who has spent
a good bit of time in Hawaii, be
lieves that the Japanese there
are rapidly becoming Ameri
canized. In fact, he says, the
Jananese school children on
the islands are continually talk
ing about "our Anglo-Saxon
iorelathers. There is more
American patriotism among the
Japanese in Hawaii, asserts
Thompson, than there is right
here in North Carolina.
Thompson also points out
that the Japanese in Hawaii are
already separated from their
people at , home. The language
they speak is not the same as
that spoken in Japan. Their
cultural habits and attitudes are
becoming American.
While the Japanese in Hawaii
are more likely to marry within
their race than the other peoples
on the island, Thompson be
lieves this is more from family
pressure on the girls than from
choice. The girls, he says, are
becoming. Americanized more
rapidly than the boys. They
have come to look upon marri
age to a Japanese boy as a case
of "any port in a storm ;" many
Japanese girls marry Japanese
boys in Hawaii only if they can
get nothing better.
On the other hand, America
looks upon the Japanese in Ha
waii as an alien race, and a
dangerous one at that. The
biggest danger, it seems to me,
is in our own attitude. As long
as America suspects and consid
ers dangerous the largest racial
group in Hawaii, that racial
group cannot possibly become
fully assimilated into American
culture.. Yet such assimilation
is the sine qua non of peace and
safety on those romantic, but
potentially explosive, Pacific isles.
Swarthout
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will have to dash down to De
troit for a broadcasting engage
ment. Then come an appear
ance in Syracuse, back in New
York, and another one in Mil
waukee. The rest of her tour
is filled with such jumps back
and forth across the country.
Immediately after she finish
es this, she will have to go to
New York "to fulfill a contract
for the second half of the Metro
politan season, which begins
March 1.
Third Movie
Her opera work nnished in
April, Miss Swarthout will cross
the United States to Hollywood,
where she will make her third
movie, "The Count of Luxem
burg." Her first was "Rose of
the Rancho," and her second,
which contains a scene from "Ro
meo and Juliet" and which has
not yet been released, was "Give
Us This Night."
"The Count of Luxemburg"
will take most of the summer to
film;. and she is afraid she will
not have time to sandwich a
vacation trip to Europe in be
tween it and "Carmen."
Among her miscellaneous
comments was the statement
that artists are not peculiarly
temperamental. "If they were
stenographers," she said, "or
shoe salesmen, they would be
just as likely to give way to fits
of temper and indulge in queer
actions. Of course we like to
do and say the things we please,
but we have little more freedom
in this respect than the steno
grapher and the shoe salesman."
...CABBAGES
and KINGS
By Terence Palmer
Fairley Speaks
(Continued from first page)
sponsibility."
After the swift debate that
followed the guest speakers' ad
dress, the bill was defeated
which read: Resolved, That the
present honor system of the
University is impractical to the
students and should thus be
modified.
During the meeting the sena
tors defeated the special order
that the spring holidays should
commence in the immediate fu
ture due to the flu epidemic.
After pictures for the Yack
ety Yack were taken, the sena
tors present passed the final
bill, Resolved, That North Car
olina do away with the lethal
gas chamber at Raleigh.
Incomplete plans for the Di
and Phi societies to convene to
gether were begun before the
meeting adjourned.
Adams Discusses Book
Shops At Bull's Head
English Professor Points Out Value
of Visiting Second Hand Bookshops
; "You may find it possible to
run across a million dollar baby
in the five-and-ten cent store,"
said Dr. Raymond Adams of the
University English department
when he spoke before the Bull's
Head meeting Tuesday after
noon. Speaking on the topic "Sec
ond Hand Book Shops." Dr.
Adams pointed out the possibil
ity of obtaining valuable collec
tions for a few dollars by brow
sing through the books of the
smaller book sellers.
Dr. Adams dealt chiefly with
the works of Henry D; Thoreau
included in his own collection
as he developed his subject.
We tagged along with a fea
ture writer yesterday morning
to catch a glimpse of Gladys
Swarthout. He got an interview,
but it was private, so we had to
content ourselves with talking
to Lester Hodges, her accom
panist, and J. H. Potter, whom
the NBC people sent down to
Florida to meet Miss Swarthout
and manage her current concert
tour.
Hodges is a stocky, bull-chested
gentleman with a determined
glint in his eye, and we thought
at first that he was some sort
of bodyguard for the star, espe
cially after we saw the precau
tions he took to keep people from
seeing her. He gave us a rather
chilly stare when we asked him
"What's your connection?" but
warmed up a bit when we had a
little girl who is a friend of ours
bring him the Inn's brown span
ieJ, which he'd been looking at
with a longing expression. The
dog submitted to his ear-scratch
ing and rib-patting, then trotted
off behind the counter. The last
we saw of the accompanist, he
was preparing to go to bed and
get some sleep. The party had
pulled into Raleigh at 10 minu
tes til six that morning, and ev
erybody was pretty tired.
Clad, like Hodges, in all the,
to us, splendid detached humor
ousness and don't-give-a-damn
of professional artistic people,
Potter is a tall, slightly bald fel
low with a permanent twinkle
in his eyes. Living at the beck
and call of the NBC Artists
Service executives, he is sure, of
only one thing in his life varie
ty. He never knows what artist
or artists he will be running
around after and making ar
rangements for next. His last
job was with a Hungarian or
chestra and only about two of
the members spoke English. He
had a good, hectic time.
From the feature writer we
later gleaned a few facts which
he left out of his story in today's
paper. First of all, Miss Swar
thout "never said anything of
the kind" about the danger of
colds incurred by young ladies
who wear mufflers. Advance
publicity contained, among other
things, several statements of ad
vice to the co-eds ; the tip about
the mufflers was in one of these
advance stories. The Artists
I Service publicity men probably
M..J Ll1 J i a .
quote xne arxisrs on a Jot oi
things they are surprised to
learn they ever expressed an op
inion about.
Other gleanings: Miss Swar
thout had two breakfasts yes
terday morning, one at the Sir
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