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THE DAILY TAR
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937
tZDfte Satlp Car Heel
The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications
Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. En
tered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel
Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription
price, $3.00 for the college year.
J. Mac Smith.
-Editor
Charles W. Gilmore-
William McLean
Jesse Lewis . ,
-Managing Editor
-Business Manager
-Circulation Manager
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Editorial Staff
Editorial Writers: Stuart Rabb, Lytt Gardner, Edwin
Hamlin, John F. Jonas, Jr.
News Editors: Will Arey, Bob duFour, Voit Gilmore.
Deskman: Ralph Miller.
Reporters: Bob Perkins, Robert Worth, Ray Lowery,
Buck Gunter, Norman McCulloch.
Rewrite: Walter Kleeman.
Sports Editor: R. R. Howe, Jr.
Sports Night Editors: Gordon Burns, Morris W.
Rosenberg, Jerry Stoff.
Sports Reporters: F. W. Ferguson, E. Karlin, H.
Kaplan, Bill Raney, S. R. Rolf e.
Exchange Desk: Tom Stanback, Ben Dixon, R. P.
Brewer, Jesse Reese.
Business Staff
Assistant Business Managers Bobby Davis, Clen
Humphrey.
Durham Representative Bobby Davis.
Local Advertising Assistants Stuart Ficklin,
Halperin, John Rankin, Rob Murchison. ,
Office Gilly Nicholson, Charles English, George Har
ris, Louis Barba. '
Bert
News: Will Arey
For This Issue
Sports: Jerry Stoff.
librarian, Faculty
Member Wed Here
Miss Hfflyard Elliott And Her
bert yon Beckerath Marry"
On the State of the University
Free Love and Communism
Classes begin this morning for the 144th ses
sion of the University. The extensive building
program now underway;, the faculty additions
and promotions the increased enrollment all re
flect the general return to a feeling of prosperity
throughout the country. The new year has just
this minute begun and any immediate glorifica
tion of the University's liberal heritage, of the
advantages in freedom we enjoy here, would be
mere recital of what we have been fortunate
enough to know in the past. Attitudes out in the
state and over the whole country which have
"permitted" Chapel Hill to become the chief cen
ter of intellectual freedom in the South are right
now riding under the heavy strain of growing
labor unrest, the steady trend toward govern
mental assumption of responsibility for the eco
nomic security of the individual, and the accom
panying prospects for . some sort of coercion,
whether from the Right or the Left. The strain
is going to be terrific, you can readily see, even
if the present prosperity continues.
1 The effect of that strain on the University
might easily see pressures applied upon both pro
fessor and student which would quickly abolish
freedom and destroy the University, if by a "uni
versity" we mean the one refuge where any per
son who so desires may "seek Truth undisturbed"
(a perfect University, a vacuum retreat is hu
manly impossible, of course) .
This is not a scare-flare: this is merely a state
ment of the fact that there is likely to be an in
creasing amount of strain. It is largely up to us,
under the leadership of a distinguished liberal
PrPRMtmt and with the nek) of the friends out
side, to see that the University remains a Uni
versity. .
There is no crisis this morning, but there will
likely be one, of however slight intensity, to
morrow: and by tomorrow all of us ought to have
formed some notion of what is .meant by a lib
eral university, whether Carolina ought to be kept
as one, or not.
Miss Guelda Hillyard Elliott,
librarian of the University
school of commerce, and Her
bert von Beckerath, of the fac
ulty of the University, were
married last July 23 at the home
of the bride's sister, Mrs. D. D.
Carroll. Rev. Donald H. Stewart
performed the ceremony.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her brother-in-law,
D...D. Carroll. She was attended
by her sister, Miss Lucille El
liott, and the groom was attend
ed by John M. Booker. Before
the ceremony Mrs. H. R. Huse
sang two French songs. After
ward Mr. and Mrs. Carroll gave
a reception.
Mr. von Beckeraht, now on
leave from the University of
Bonn, is an eminent economist
and is the author of books on
industry, international trade,
banking and currency, and po
litical science. Mrs. Von Becke
rath, the youngest daughter of
Mrs. Nellie Dixon Elliott, was
educated at the North Carolina
Woman's college and the Uni
versity here.
Miller Denies Rumor
That Placed Him On
Wedding Bells List
Spiking current . campus
gossip, Ralph Miller, Univer
sity senior, yesterday "reluc
tantly" denied that he and
Miss Ruth Crowell, June gra
duate, - were married during
the summer.
"It is entirely unfounded
and the result of purely mali
cious gossip," Miller said.
When asked if there was any
possibility of such an event
taking, place, Miller said he
had no statement to make.
Miss Crowell is now em
ployed on the editorial staff
of the Raleigh News and Observer.
Croom-Strowd
Engagement
The engagement of two stu
dents of last year's graduating
class was announced recently by
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mebane.
Their daughter, Miss Esther
Mebane of Chapel Hill, will wed
William Moore Parsons of Ruth
erfordton this fall.
Robert L. Strowd, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bruce Strowd of
Chapel Hill, was married to
Miss Martha Louise Croom on
June 3 in Danville, Va. Miss
Croom was a popular girl on the
University campus and received
her; master's degree here last
spring.
Bryant-Koch
A wedding of special interest
to the students on the campus is
that of Frederick H. Koch, Jr.,
and Miss Edna Bryant here dur
ing the summer. Miss Bryant is
the daughter of Mrs. Laura F.
Bryant and works in the Uni
versity purchasing department.
Hazel Beacham
To Wed Shore
Here October 22
Former University Students To
Be Married In -Presbyterian
Church
From The Bottom
Of The Well. J
by Allen Merrill
Miss Hazel Beacham, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Bea
cham of Raleigh, and John Sher
man Shore of Greensboro will
be married here in the Presby
terian church on Friday, Octo
ber 22.
Miss Beacham was graduated
from the University in June of
1936. She was a member of the
Daily Tar Heel staff and was
the first coed member of the
Dialectic senate.
The maid of honor will be
Miss May Wilson of Greensboro.
The bridesmaids will be Misses
Eloise Gibbs, Gretchen Gores,
Margaret Ford, and Mildred
Steed.
The best man will be Don
Shoemaker of Asheville. Ushers
will be Stuart Sechrist, Victor
Serunian, George Puig, and
Leonard Wilson.
Dick Buck Marries
Dick Buck, son of Mrs. Rhoda
H. Buck of Chapel Hill, and all
Southern end on . the. Univer
sity's 1936 football team, was
married last week in Houston,
Texas, to Miss Irene Paul of
Saxonburg, Pa. Miss Naomi Ho
cutt of Chapel Hill attended the
wedding. The couple will make
their home at Wharton, Texas,
where Mr. Buck is a geologist
with the Sherenberger company.
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Wedding Bells Ring for Two Ex-Campus Leaders
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Philip G. Hammer. August
2 7 Phil Hammer, left, edi
tor of the Daily Tar Heel
year before last,' and Miss
Jane Ross, right, president
of the woman's association
last year, were married in
tltie Second Presbyterian
church of Charlotte, N. C.
Hammer is now"secretary
to Senator Robert LaFol
lc;tte (Prog., Wis.).
Mr. and Mrs. Hammer
spent Tuesday on the cam
pus as guests at the Delta
Fsi fraternity house. .
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Get Oriented
According to custom immemorial this is the
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proper place for another note ot welcome ana au
vice to the incoming freshmen.
By now the wnole lot of new men should be !
Arr mriTiwd that evervbodv in Chapel Hill
: that' Carolina will be a won-
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the best four years of tneir
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4-t,4. i rmv cnripnt crnvernment and honor
mat, xii vi o ,
,v, -tt Viqito cnTYiothinff about , which we all
understand little but have a great deal to be
proud.
rri, rrf TiavAri Vv the uDnerclassmen in the
iPTitHmi week was decidedly more el-,
fective than the part they played last fall, or the
.n -Fm;fiiAf. matter. And the freshmen
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seemed to respond seriously to the serious efforts
f t?v TVTom'n Toa Patterson and Company. The
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presentation of the Honor System was probably
the freshest, most promising one on orientation
pn TTatYiTYiPr'a little, statement set the
rri,riA rvtoffor in Ips.q mnfused litrht. and the
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new pledges made the thing impressive. The fact
that the upperclassmen had to "put it over" made
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good as their talks did the newcomers.
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Honor on the Spot
During freshman orientation the honor sys
tem and the very fundamentals of student gov
ernment have been brought once again to the
front and put under fire.
Sixtv-odd counselors met last spring to maice
plans for this year's orientation program. By a
vote taken in meeting a great majority of them
declared that they would not report a fellow stu
dent to the student council for cheating.
President Graham made an inspirational talk
in Graham Memorial Wednesday night. He traced
student government from faculty rule to its pres
ent status and introduced freshmen for the first
time to the honor system.
Afterwards, freshmen met with their not-so-
confident counselors for informal discussions of
Carolina student government; In one large group
of nearly 80 new men and six counselors, one
freshman rose to ask just when he and his class
mates become subject to the effects of the honor
system. When the counselors agreed that the
system became effective at the beginning of orien
tation week, the freshman, apparently confident
of his cleverness, declared that he had sat be
hind two men at the mathematics placement test
whose actions were not above board. These men
he said were checking their answers and re
working the problems until their figures tallied.
Sure of himself, he finished : "Cheating or check-ing-up?"
.
After his manner of speech had brought the
house down in a few minutes of laughter with
the counselors joining in heartily, it was decided
that the case was one for the honor council.
Best Way Out
It is not unnatural for new University men to
feel a little skeptical about honor systems es
pecially when their upperclass brethren are con
scious that they are a far cry from perfect.
The freshmen asked a lot of intelligent ques
tions which brought out many of the weaknesses
of student government, but, after confessing that
dishonesty and unfairness could not be long tol
erated, admitted that they could suggest no finer .
method of making honor an integral part of
Carolina life. '
Counselors asked the new men to sigh non-com
pulsory statements pledging their support to the
honor system and student government. All but a
very few of the large class signed without hesita
Another Try
The new registration system sponsored by the
Remington Rand company and introduced as an
experiment by registration officials seems to be
little improvement, if any, over the older methods.
upperclassmen waited yesterday and Wednes
day in longer lines than ever before, and the only
aid to patience were the cold drinks peddled
around the floor of the Tin Can.
The new method calls for a far more comnlex
system of filing and a larger number of clerical
assistants.
Authorities stated Wednesday that the svstem
I was a disappointment, but attributed nart of its
failure to the fact that this is the first try it has
Deen given.
On the improvement side, it can be said that
registerers are able to conmlete their duties in
one building rather than having to make a tnnr
of the campus to obtain permit cards, pay library
iees, ana tne liKe.
Additionally, the system seems to be more con
venient all the way rornd. What it lacks is speed
a nme oiling of the wheels.
If this new but not so successful idea is not dorm
away with, rising upperclassmen would register
ior ine ionowmg fall quarter before leaving for
the summer vacation.
With registration extended over several da
land a staff more experienced with tpir w Un
ties, it may be possible to speed the system up and
make it a success after all.
Silence, Please -
Rushing and the Deriods of n
periences for freshmen. Right now the Greek al
phabet are just meaningless symbols.
ine lnterfraternitv council with "RoK Po
its nead has made no significant changes in the
by-laws and rules that have proven pretty sue-
1 j.r xne last iew years.
During the next few weeks
the new men will begin to realize that the status
of a fraternity man is the same on the Carolina
vmpus as mac oi a non-iraternity man.
upperclassmen are not looking forward to the
rushing period with the
curiosity as they, did their first years. It may be
ismucant, dut; at tne same time, just as trying.
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