THE DAILY TAB
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1937
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)t Batlp Car eel
The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications
Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where it is printed daily ezeept Mondays, and
the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at
Chapel Hill, N. C tinder act of March 3, 1879. Sub
scription price, $3.00 for the college year.
Don K. McKee.
A. Reed Sarratt, Jr.
T. Eli Joyner
Jesse Lewis .
..Editor
Managing Editor
.Business Manager
.Circulation Manager
News: L. L Gardner.
For This Issue
Sports : R. Simon.
To Help Something Better Grow
9 Politics
FLL, WELL, GROUNDHOG day has come and
gone and the plump little animal has emerg
ed for an instant, sniffed and dashed back into
his pile of dirt to rub the snow off his rosy
snozzle. Even so, have the plump little campus
politicians scurried from the depths of the fra-.
ternity house den, poked their inquisitive noses
into the traditional wind, and dashed back not
into their pile of dirt but to begin the collection
of that pile of dirt, which each spring, when suf
ficiently piled, they blow systematically into the
receptive eyes, ears, and noses of a gullible cam
pus audience.
Not that the possessors of the eyes, ears, and
noses will complain. No, they never complain. At
least, they never have. But we, in our easy chairs,
and veterans of at least three of the annual spring
term politicos, must rise in our righteous unselfish
ness and humanitarianism and complain for the
poor dears.
"Forgive them, for they know not what they
do" might be one way of phrasing the first at
tack. But somehow that oft-quoted sophism has
always seemed just a wee bit jelly-fishy to us.
Because it would seem that, after several decades
of vote-chasing, sidewalk-painting and speech
making, someone should begin to find out just
what they do do.
The real question, therefore, is not ''what they
do"; it is "what shall we do?" including in that
vague "we" all of those who are sick and tired
of slap-stick campus politics, in which candidates
are decreed by fireplace bosses and the ballots
of entire organizations, made up of supposedly
independent campus citizens, are auctioned off on
a block emblazened with the words "you'll get
yours."
What shall we do? That is the question. It is
early yet; but already the air is filled with the
usual odor and the ear is filled with the usual
whisperings. As things are going, it looks like the
same old hokum. And it will be the same old ho
kum unless the students . . stand up on their
little-used hind legs and demand a peek into the
machinery of a rotten campus political system
a system born of petty personal greed and nou
rished by a general campus indifference.
Campus Correspondence
Letters over 250 words subject to cutting by editor; author's name mast be on manuscript.
O From The Dean
To the Editor,
The Daily Tar Heel :
We have just finished another
period of testing in courses of
study with results which are, to
say the least, poor. If students
could get it through their heads
that they have a full time job in
college with studies alone we
would have a different story to
tell. You have heard of the part
time job; it is my belief that the
majority of undergraduates
think they have -about a tenth
time job and act accordingly.
Now after the letter writers get
through knocking me on the
head for suggesting such a thing
go back and take up the thought
again, for it cannot be disproved
by ad hominem arguments, nor
by complaining about the ab
sence regulations, nor the in
structors, nor the fees. The flat
truth is that too many of the stu
dents think they are on a picnic,
-while the fact is that if they
should attempt to do college
work of a,ny decent standard
they would not have enough time
in the day to do the day's work.
We are starting a new term
and the time to start work for ;
the term is already past; it was
last Tuesday, March 16. Those
who wait until May should not
be able to pass anything. If they
do pass anything it will be an ac
cident or a sign that the course is
lacking in standards. In the ma
jority of the courses in the Uni
versity we have University
standards but most of the stu
dents think they are still on high
school standards. Mind you I do
not include all students, but it is
my studied opinion that when I
say majority I am right. If this
majority expect to do anything
of importance in college they will
have to effect a thorough revolu
tion in their thinking and in
their attitude towards the work.
Such a revolution would be
worth a campaign by the Tar
Heel and all the rest of us, but
it would not be the stuff of which
most campaigns are made. It
would require a tradition of
study, a tradition of quiet in dor
mitories, a tradition of good
And you, gentle readers, what's the use of be
ing gentle? You can do your share in fumigating
student government. The next time the house's
Big Stick rises in the sanctity . of the chapter
room, and reveals that all the fellas in Rho Dam
mit Rho will vote to a man for good old Peter
Pill; all you boys rise, also, and ask your first
question: "Who the hell's Peter Pill?"
If they can answer that one, there'll be more 1
questions coming; and not the least of them will
be: "Whose student government is this, Peter
Pill, yours or ours ?"
Relations Institute
Personalities
o
. By VOIT GlLMORE
This editorial comes from the Oregon Daily
Emerald, but how applicable it is to recent
rumblings behind the, doors of the back room in
the Phi Gam house!
0 New Frolic
"QUADRANGLE FROLICS," meaning two real
ms ly big dormitory dances, is Boo Campbell's
latest Interdormitory council move. Old East, Old
West, Steele, and Battle-Vance-Pettigrew will col
laborate on one big dance; the upper and lower
quadrangle dorms, on the other.
Last spring Old East and Old West put their
heads together in the first dormitory combina
tion "dance in University history. Something like
the fraternity hook-up for "May Frolics" they
were beginning.
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manners, of respect for the prop
erty of the University, and for
the grass which some people
work so hard to provide. This
would be starting at home where
real reform has to start and
would therefore not be popular.
To offset this note of pessim
ism about student's work we can
turn to the records and find
many who are doing well, that
is they are learning the subjects
the University is organized to
give and next year they will be
ready to do next year's work.
It is really a much more seri
ous matter than I have repre
sented it here. Are our students
too lazy or too indifferent to get
themselves the intellectual back
ground necessary to fight the
battles we have got to fight in
the next generation, or possibly
in this?
A.W. HOBBS.
With the immediate plans, the dorm boys ought
to be able to give their dances plenty of more
color than, individually, they have mustered for
any occasional small Graham Memorial affair.
If such plans, are completed, the new "Frolics"
will come during the spring this year; but next
year, with more advanced planning, the new
dances need not necessarily increase the "week
end" jam that is already a spring quarter
problem.
O Left And Right
To the Editor,
The Daily Tar Heel:
There is considerable point in
what Mr. Cummings has to say
concerning the "open forum"
idea on the campus. Partisans
both right and left frequently
change their attitude toward
forums according to whose ox is
being gored.
But that has never been my
own attitude. Everybody on this
campus knows what my own
personal views are, and yet I can
say that I have been insistent at
all times on both sides being
heard. When the League for In
dustrial democracy sent its speak
KILOCYCLE
KIBITZES
By Carl Pugh
WPTF 680 Kc. (NBC)
7 :00 Jack Benny
7:30 Believe It or Not, Ripley; Oz
zie Nelson's Orchestra.
.WBT 1080 Kc. (CBS)
1:30 Coronation Broadcast from
London
6:00 Joe Penner
6:30 -Rubinoff ,
7:30 Phil Baker
8:00 Nelson -Eddy
8:30-7-Eddie Cantor
11:15 Red Nichols' Orchestra
WJZ 760 Kc. (NBC-B)
4:30 Senator Fishface & Professor
Figgsbottle
5:30 Stoopnagle and Budd
9:00 Shep Fields' Orchestra
9:30 Walter Winchell
9 :45 Edwin C. Hill, News
12:00 Henry Busse's Orchestra
WOR-710 Kc. (MBS)
12:00 Vincent Lopez' Orchestra
12:30 Horace Heidt's Orchestra
1:30 Joe Sanders' Orchestra
ers here, I helped secure con
servative speakers to represent
the other side. When President
Norlin (Colorado) lectured
against the Nazi order, I tried,
vainly, to get a Duke professor
just returned from Germany to
answer him. It was my personal
letter that brought John Spargo,
once a leading Socialist but now
a Hoover fan (even in A. D.
1936 !)'. It was on my advice
that David Clark of the Southern
Textile Bulletin made his his
toric appearance. These in
stances, and others I might men
tion, ought to convince Mr. Cum
mings that there is one radical
who doesn't mind hearing, and
having others hear both sides.
When I Was Young .
When I was a young fellow,
radicals and conservatives
fought their battles on the basis
of available data at hand. Both
sides held principles that to them
seemed to square with the truth.
That side seems to be passing.
Hypocrisy, chicanery, outman
euvering of your opponent, seem
to be the order or the day. This
ugly thing called totalitarianism,
in which all of us are reduced,
like so many mechanical robots,
to one brand of politics, one re
ligious creed, one philosophy, is
the result. It may be old-f ash
Continued on last page)
Hit Of The
Week
Hall-
Y. T. Wu
T. P. Yeatman, student chair
man of the fourth Human Rela
tions institute, thinks that the
appearance of Y. T. Wu is going
to be a highlight of the institute
week, March 28-April 3.
Many people consider Wu the
best read Christian Chinese. -He
has taken degrees at both Co
lumbia and Union Theological
Seminary. Much of his experi
ence has come through interna
tional Y. M. C. A. work.
At present Wu is editor-in-chief
of the Association Press in
China. He directs the publication
of a great deal of Oriental lit
erature. The public is invited to hear
his discussion of "Social, Forces
at Work in the Far East."
Classical Music
12:30 Radio City Music
WPTF
1:00 Cleveland Institute of Music
WEAF
2:00 Magic Key of RCA WPTF
3:00 Metropolitan Opera Company
WPTF
3:00 New York Philharmonic Sym
phony WBT
5:30 Guy Lombardo WABC.
Tomorrow
WPTF 680 Kc. (NBC)
7:15 Bughouse Rhythm
9:30 The Ghost Who Sneezed
WBT 1080 Kc. (CBS)
6:30 Eton Boys
8:00 Horace Heidt's Orchestra
9:00 Radio Theatre
10:00 Wayne King's Orchestra
11:30 Red Nichols' Orchestra
12:00 Ozzie Nelson's Orchestra
WOR 710 Kc. (MBS)
11:30 Duke Ellington's Orchestra
(Recommended)
12:00 Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
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Quill Quips
by
Mac Smith
Compleat Angler
Senator and Mrs. Nye were
giving out gossip the other nights
They explained that at Senator
Robinson's elaborate "fish" din
ner last week the guests had
pushed the beaming fisherman
to the wall and almost forced
him to confess that he had
caught his "hawl" when he visit
ed the U. S. Government Bureau
of fisheries' pond.
Compromise
Someone was telling us about
the typical New England town
meeting where the people voted
down budgetary motion con
cerning the use of $5,000.
A man in the crowd said a
word or so, the chair declared it
would entertain a new motion
for $4,999. The new motion
carried!
Careful
With the utmost precaution
our friend went about his house
locking all the windowsand bolt
ing all the doors. Everything se
curely fixed, he slipped out the
front door and locked that be
hind him.
As he started down the front
steps, it occurred to him sudden
ly that some of the family might
return before he would. So as de
terminedly as he had bolted the
house up, he hid the key in the
mail box and posted a huge sign
on the door telling where the key
could be found. No use locking
. the family out.
Albert J. Ellis
In a Y. M. C. A. meeting last
spring a debate raged.-Albert El
lis, non-fraternity power m the
University party, was publicly
arguing with Phil Hammer, try
ing to tell him that the Univer
sity party nominated the best
man regardless of fraternity af
filiations. That year Albert, Joe Grier,
Niles Bond, Fred Weaver and a
few other leaders on the steering
committee had banded together
in an attempt to break the old
traditional "allotment principle"
that allowed each fraternity but
one candidate on the slate.
After setting forth his argu
ments for the new democratic
trend in the party, Ellis left the
Y. M. C. A. meeting, just in time
to attend that night's meeting of
the University party in the Phi
Gam back room. That night the
steering committee told Ellis
that regardless of the qualifica
tions of Joe Patterson (whomAl
was then backing for the presi
dency of the junior class) the
party could not run him, because
the D. K. E.'s already had one
man on the slate!
Serving the party this year in
an advisory capacity, Ellis con
tinued his old fight against the
allotment rule. Wednesday night,
when the party clung to the old
job-passing-out principle, . he
quit the steering committee for
good.
So at the passing of ' the
strongest politician of the gen
eration a politician who has
struggled for a good principle
we pause-and make him the Hit
of the Week.
Never
When the one man said he'd
never shot a bird in his entire
life, the other man replied even
more emphatically: "For my
part, I never shot anything in
the shape of a bird except a
squirrel, which I killed with a
stone, when it fell into the river
and was drowned."
Equally So
And another rounder comes
from the old conversation on the
original rights of man. "I say,"
said our friend, "isn't one man
as good as another?" ''Of
course he is, and a great deal
better."
Easy Going
Somewhere there was the man
who had been taken before his
boss on the farm to explain what
he did to his dog. every day to
make him yell out so.
"I ain't never cruelly treated
no dumb creature in my life,"
begged the man before his mas
ter. "But you done toF me to cut
off dat dog's tail, and so I cut it
only a little bit off every day, to
make it more easy for him."
Impartial
See where they have nomi
nated, together on one ticket
Jean and June Bush for treas
urer (single) of the Woman's
association. Against the co-ed
politics to "allot" less than both
of the twins to one job! Better
be careful, though, Treasurer
' Continued on last page)
Birthday Greetings
Today to
Richard Raymond Marks, Jr
George Melvin Williams, Jr.
Raymond Voight Yokeley
Oscar W. Bolick, Jr.
George .Francis McKendry
Edw. Robert MneHer