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The Daily Tar Heel from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • Page 2

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Tuesday, April 12, VJ27 THE TAR HEEL Page Two Grail Honors New )t tEar )ttl Men With Banquet was published, we are glad to give friends of the individual aimed at by R. L. B. a chance to reply to the first letter. With markably changed.

George Hor-ton no longer writes. But a national leader of his emancipated race, James Weldon Johnson, only a few weeks ago stood in dignity before white students, sat behind their professor's au Drs. Leading Southern College Triweekly Newspaper Bernard and Williams Address Order Saturday Night. out any reflection or undue ref erence to L. J.

S. or the other Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association communicant, both have violat The Grail held its annual get-toerether banquet honoring the ed an ethic which the Tar Heel hopes to keep in the future. gust desk, and read to them the poems of the slave Horton. Instead of a menial dormitory jan- A 1 Published three times every week of the college year, and is the official newspaper of the Publications ion of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.

Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Henceforth communications that are attacks on individuals and personalities will not be Members Must Pay Club Dues to Attend Dances Members of the German Club expecting to attend Easter dances must pay their dues in full at once. Ten dollars is also due from those who have paid only half of the annual fee of twenty dollars. The Club still has vacancies for new men, and anyone wishing to make application for membership, or to pay their dues, will please see Frazier Glenn, Treasurer, on second floor of the or address a letter to Box 581 as soon as possible. nor, we now nave ueiore us a polished doctor of letters, a na tionally recognized Hor- treated in the open forum col Deputation Team Visits High Point Quartet and Speakers Appear Before Number of Organizations.

A deputation team represented by three speakers and a quartet fronT the Y. M. C. A. Cabinets presented programs before several of the prominent organizations (in High Point Thursday and Friday.

The quartet greatly pleased the audiences with popular selections, and the talks by Ed Hudgins, J. W. Crew, and John Mebane were well received. A-mong the organizations visited were the Rotary, Kiwanis, and Hi-Y clubs, the Central High School, and High Point College. The quartet also rendered selections at the High Point Hospital.

Graham PoynerAIex Menden-hall, Wm. Downs, and Julius Meredith completed the group. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Telephone 403. umn of this paper.

Letters to the editor or the campus at large, new initiates of the Order Saturday evening at the Carolina Inn. After a delicious five course dinner, Dr. Horace Williams and Dr. W. S.

Bernard made short talks which were enthusiastically received ly the Grailmen. At the Business meeting Norman Block was elected to succeed Walter Crissman as President of the Grail for the coming year. Mac Gray was elected Secretary and John Anderson chosen As ton's posture was that of bended knee; James Weldon Johnson has come with the majesty of an exalted leader. This is no lavish tribute to the which contain some inf orma J. F.

ASHBY. Editor D. D. Carroll Associate Editor F. F.

Simon Mgr. tions, opinions or suggestions of such value that justifies their being published, are always wel corned. liberality of our native state. The writer comes from a state where officers of the law are Editorial Department Managing Editors A hint may be thrown in here that no communications that are Judah Thursday Issue Tom W. Tuesday Issue Joe R.

Bobbitt, Jr. Issue over three hundred words in more successful in the apprehension of Sunday golfers than negro-lynchers. But when he sistant Treasurer, i Optional-Attendance Holds Before and After Walter Editor Walter Creech Assignment Editor observes that "Southern hospi Norwood To Manage tality" and "Southern chivalry," Freshman Tennis Team once our chief virtues, have be length can be published. We would like to refer, all authors of essays, expatiated opinions, and those who wish to use the open forum column for a display of their literary style, to the Carolina Magazine and Staff I A freshman tennis team, has Marion Alexander Oates McCullen been organized under the man F. G.

McPherson J. H. Anderson come relics of a moribund civilizationwhen he sees, as everyone must, the pall of intol agement of John Norwood and 1 A report from the Registrar's office today announces that Juniors and Seniors will not be compelled to attend classes Friday before the Easter Holidays nor the day after their clase. The Registrar, how all men interested are urged by erance so nearby, he feels that a huzzah should be raised to the him to come out for the team W. L.

Marshall H. L. Merritt John Mebane J. Q. Mitchell -Louise Medley H.

B. Parker Robert Murphy W. D. Perrv W. W.

Anderson C. A. Carr George Coggins Calvin Graves Frank Howell Glenn P. Holder F. C.

Hobson T. J. Gold B. B. Kendrick THE SUN RISES A ranking list will be posted on the notice board of the tennis glory of a liberal North Caro lina.

ever, urges that all these men attend classes on these days in A. C. Underwood courts, and any aspiring fresh Your state university has act F. D. Uzzell D.

E. Livingston' (ByD.D.C.) Eons ago man existed. So far order to lessen the confusion, J. C. WesseU.

ed her motto Lux et Libertas, man should place his name in one of the blank spaces at the ancLto cause less trouble on the Those who no longer exist mere as we know, he was a compar part of the professors. ly) but who live and achieve a Business Department W. W. Neal. Asst to Bun.

Mgr. bottom. Several interesting trips are being planned, including one through Virginia during Easter, atively senseless creature, an organism whose principal equipment was what we aiowx choose Charles Brown. Collection Mgr. G.

W. Ray Accountant Managers of Issues tolerant, encouraging smile shall rise. But it must be more than a facial smile. The faculty can do much to sustain liberal thought on this subject. Will it? 0 Tuesday Issue W.

R. Hill Thursday Issue James Styles as well as trips to North Carolina colleges. Edward Smith Saturday Issue. to call "instincts." No doubt the ancient men and their child-bearers saw the gloom and brightness of many years before they learned to portray a friendly inner self with a smile. Advertising Department Mrs.

Ted Weaver, former stu Kenneth R. Jones Advertising Mgr. dent here and recent bride, is expected, to return with her hus Young M. Smith Asst, Adv. Mgr.

M. W. Breman Local Adv. Mgr. All outdoors invites your Kodak that's particularly true in the Spring, when picture opportunities are everywhere, on the campus or off.

Kodaks $5 up here So a smile, little as we may William K. Wiley Ben Schwartz G. W. Bradham J. Shannon think of it, is a precious achieve Good Printing Done Here in Chapel Hill When you want printing done, call at The Orange Printshop.

In the center of town, just back of the Bank of Chapel Hill. Newspapers, bulletins, cir-cularSj letterheads, menus, programs, invitations, etc. The Orange Printshop Telephone 220 OPEN FORUM band to Chapel Hill this week. Mrs. Weaver will have an apartment at Mrs.

MacRae's. Oates McCullen Edwin V. Durham ment in the annals of the greedy J. H. Mebane M.

Y. Feimster human race. Gestures also have Walter McConnell A. J. McNeill Editor of Tar Heel: their value as vivid expressions of the natural surges.

But these nods of the head, sweeps of the Circulation Department Henry C. Harper Circulation Mgr. R. C. Mulder.

Filer of Issues DR. R. R. CLARE DENTIST Office Over Bank of Chapel Hill Telephone 385 FOISTER'S Chapel Hill, N. C.

arm and other motions have not the delicate value of facial ex Tom Raney W. W. Turner C. W. Colwell Douglas Boyce pressions, subservient to the fin You can purchase any article adver tised tn the Tar Heel vnth perfect est nerve action.

Many aninials can gesticulate, but we pay such II safety because everything it advertises is guaranteed to be as repre character actors as Emil Jan sented. The Tar Heel solicits advertising from reputable concerns nings thousands of dollars for only. their superior emotions conveyed in facial messages. Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C.

A few weeks ago, the student body at a Southern university POLICY JUSTIFIED Editor Dula: (I believe this is a more graceful form of address than the usual cliche "Editor of the Tar Heel" that preceeds the gall that appears in your column. Moreover, you are the only unanimous choice for an editorial berth.) L. diatribe on Byron White in last Saturday's Open Forum is the most farcical missive that has appeared in your most farcical column. R. L.

B. predicts a "seething cauldron" if White had been elected editor. He endeavored to prove White's incompetence by the student body's "repudiation of his (White's) policies by the votes cast" To anyone possessing the faintest glimmer of almost human intelligence, the student body's "votes cast" is a vindica Tuesday, Apru12, 1927 mm saw a beautiful example of the progress which men may make IN NEW HANDS TGne Apparel's The recent Human Relations Institute brought with it a schol arly negro, a famous poet. This Beginning with thi3 issue, as our predecessors for some dozen or more years back have been man appeared betore students of a state -institution in a section where prejudice toward the blacks is a part of most people's wont to write on this occasion, the Tar Heel is taken over by the new editor, sub-editors and false "culture." But, during the staff; At this time it is custom brief visit of this representative of a misjudged race, the sons of Vance, Davie, Aycock and all ary of the new editor to set forth his policy or target at which he will shoot during hi control of tion of White's intelligence and ability. As if the opinion of ten thousand idiots would show the wit of one wise man! A pop the rest, struck from their minds the shackles which ignorance, beg-brained organizations, and economic injustices forged long ago.

To a fellowman whose color has long provoked the scowls of Southerners, the student body DRESS RIGHT FEEL RIGHT LOOK RIGHT On your approaching trip you should be fully equipped with the proper spring wear. Don't waste your vacation shopping. Buy here. ular vote is no gauge of a man's ability. This is as obvious as a co-ed's would-be delightful contours on a spring day But R.

L. B. is blind and cannot see them, or he is a Methodist and refuses to acknowledge them. Because a man does not frantically dart about the campus of this Southern university extended a hearty welcome; these white leaders of tomorrow forgot their savagery and achieved a smile. the paper.

As for the editorial policy of the paper, the readers of the Tar Heel will be forced to make the conclusion by that which flows from the editorial pen during the coming year. In an appreciable sense wex realize the responsibility taken and our obligation to the campus. Brushing aside the matter of setting forth a policy, we shall endeavor to give all the publicity deserved to the various departments and groups on the campus. "'j With an alert eye for all legitimate news and our honest opinion on the editorial page, we, hope to serve the University and student body to the best of our ability during the coming year. Half a century ago, an humble boisterously smacking backs, squeezing hands, muttering ingratiating banalities or have others do it for him, does not slave was janitor to North Carolina's state university students.

His work was mean his duties SPRING SUITS EASTER DANCE SUPPLIES MANHATTEN SHIRTS NEW EASTER TIES SHOES stamp him as an incompoop even though he majMbe regarded as a witless were lowly for he was janitor. And when George Moses Hor-ton was not sweating to do the will of his young masters (many White's "sensationalism" and yellow, Faun-like journalism is sentational" and "yellow" if one regards Truth and Originality in a newspaper as "sensational" or "yellow." I agree with As to Open Forum Letters R. L. B. that "it is not surprising in the least that the student of whom he attended during illnesses due to both legitimate1 causes and unlawful he was their bard.

He composed, I at the behest of amorous students, many limericks and poems which won the favor of Southern sweethearts. Modern college students are astounded to learn that this bonded negro composed excellent poems before he learned to write. He was an author of short stories widely published and eagerly read. -r Hiss literary talent won fo him the admiration of Dr. Caldwell, Dr.

Battle, and Horace Greely, who printed some of his verses. Today the local scene is re Pritchard-Patterson, Inc. UNIVERSITY OUTFITTERS In the open forum column of this issue of the Tar Heel will be found a letter published as an act of comity. The letter is a reply to the author of the communication signed by the initials It, L. B.

which was published Saturday. It is obvious that both letters dear in attacks on personalities. Since the Tar Heel was under the management of another when the first communication body repudiated his. policies at the polls Wednesday," but I differ from R. L.

B. as to the reason why. I admit it would be damned surprising if they did not "repudiate" them, for even though we boast of the University as a 'hotbet of liberality in student thought' the mass of undergraduates possess as little thought as a Brisbane editorial. 1 L. J.

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