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Paire Two Published daily during the college year except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, , Christmas and Spring Holidays. The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $4.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Altimni Building. Glenn Holder .1... -Editor Will YARBOROUGHitffirr. Editor Marion Alexander Bus. Mgr. Hal V. WoRf Circulation Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebaae Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS Robert Hodges J. D. McNairy Joe Jones - B. C. Moore J. C. Williams . CITY EDITORS E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning J. E. Dungan Sherman Shore - SPORTS EDITOR Henry L. Anderson ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS Browniag Roach J. G. Hamilton, Jr. REPORTERS Holmes Davis Kemp Yarborough Louis Brooks Clyde Deitz Charles Rose Mary Price J. P. Tyson Nathan Volkman E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenberger G. E. French . William Roberts George Sheram Frank Manheim B. H. Whitton J. M. Little Bill Arthur Hugh Wilson Harold Cone Jack Bessen Everard Shemwell Ted Newland Jack Riley John Patric J. J. Dratler Henry Wood Charles Forbes W. W. Taylor Vass Shepherd Harper Barnes M. M. Dunlap Howard M. Lee George Barber Craig Wall Jim Moye BUSINESS STAFF Ashley Seawell c f Tom Badger John Jemison Harry Latta Bill Speight Donald Seawell COLLECTION MANAGERS J. C. Harris , ' :r T. R. Karriker B.! 'C. Prince, Jr. " Stuart Carr Friday, March 28, 1930 A THOUGHT FQR TODAY Every idea changes in accordance with geography. Andre Maurois. An Optimistic Textile Manufacturer During the past several months a number of speakers, representing every viewpoint upon the textile industry situa tion, have made addresses at the University under the aus pices of the school of commerce. President William,-Green of the American Federation of Labor presented the viewpoint of or ganized labor, while members of the University faculty and other expert economists out lined the established economic principles which they , believe should be applied to improve the situation, and. several of. the Sou'th's leading textile, manufac turers have stated .the attitude of the miir owners. Altogether, the series of addresses consti tutes an important contribution to the cause of assisting, the in dustry in the crisis which it is facing. Henry P. Kendall, president of the Kendall Company, ex pressed the most optimistic and encouraging views that have yet been presented here, in his ad dress Wednesday ; night. His company owns nine mills in six states, including five in the Car olinas, and his statements are of especial significance. Mr. Kendall pointed out that "there are encouraging signs that the, industry is awakening to its economic and social re sponsibilities and that an en lightened leadership is beginning - to take constructive steps to ward lifting this great industry out of the long-hour low-wage class. He cited the recent vol untary agreement of mills to limit hours of work to 55 week ly on the day shift and 50 on the night shift as a step in the right direction. The attitude of Mr. Kendall is in decided contrast to that of another mill owner who stated; in an address here recently that ' "the thing (overproduction, with its attendant evils) will have to j work itself out like an epidemic of influenza or the aftermath of a stock market debacle or a tidal wave." But it is highly en couraging that Mr. Kendall, and other far-sighted" manufactur ers of his type, have gone be yond the narrow attitude of this man and have recognized the need of immediate and concerted efforts to remedy the situation. It is a frequently demon strated principle that if an in dustry cannot manage itself to the well-being of itself and so ciety, steps must be taken to remedy the situation; for in the social field the way sucl things "work themselves out" is through revolution, if not pre viously cured. Mr. Kendall stressed the ne cessity of reaching an equilibri um between supply, and demand. "It is shattered," he declared, "by the chronic over-production which has burdened the indus try, but it can be restored and maintained by planning and co operation." And he. and his fellow-manufacturers, with the assistance and advice of ex perts on management and labor problems, should carefully in quire into the causes of over- production and build their reme dies on the more basic causes the speculative character of the textile business due to the rapid changes in styles and prices (of0rousiy attacked by local mer raw cotton as well as the fin ished product), marketing wastes and inefficient manage ment. For it is inevitable that other forces governmental interfer ence and social legislation, or the strength . pf a large group of workers who are even -now or ganizing to safeguard interests which have not been given con sideration will be applied to bring, about the needed reme dies unless the manufacturers themselves are willing to coop erate in formulating and utiliz ing them. And it will be far more pleasant for everyone con cerned the manufacturers most of all if these necessary reforms are brought about through the voluntary coopera tion and initiative of the mill owners. A Leer, A Jeer, And A Jug of Rum The only gospel of the young er generation of today, accord ing to a Philadelphia rector, is "a leer, a jeer, and a jug of rum." In elaborating on the subject the rector says that atheism is becoming the fashion among our young intellectuals, that our books and magazines are encouraging it, and that young people everywhere are affecting a flippant atheism. Then he closes with the state ment that the creed of the younger generation is a leer, a jeer, and a jug of rum. All of which is rather caustic. And it would make us feel pret ty discouraged if we didn't sus pect, that the reverend gentle man is talking through his hat. He probably doesn't know a great deal about his subject, for it is certain that young people aren't going to throng the church of a man who talks like that. But it is foolish to dismiss the rector merely as a man with a grouch. For some time we have been hearing these voices raised against the youngsters. Per haps it would be well to pause and consider them. It is obvious that the younger generation is what the older generation has made it. These youngsters coming up out of their teens into their early twenties are not so dumb as some might suppose them to be. They have been scrutinizing the j ways and conduct of their elders with young, shrewd eyes that are quick to perceive falsities THE DAILY and affectation, and they have! not hesitated to begin new modes of thought and conduct to replace old ones that appear to be past their days; of useful ness. The world of thought and af fairs these young people find themselves coming into isn't such a perfect one after all. Hardly more than a decade ago we were in the midst of a cata clasmic and idiotic world war. and there is no apparent reason why we shan't some day be in another. And when it comes these irreverent youngsters will, at the bidding of their elders, go out and get themselves killed, just as did the flippant youths of 1917. And the youngsters know it. It is poor business for the older generation to criticize the younger, for in so doing they are criticizing themselves. J. J. The Chain Store Controversy At present prohibition and the chain store system seem to be occupying the limelight of public criticism. The prohibi tion issue, though receiving nation-wide comment; is being at tacked for the most part in large cities and governmental centers. The chain store agitation, how ever, is about as hot in one place as another. Right here in Chap- el Hill the system is being vig- chants and , their supporters among the townspeople. In recognition of the pertin ence of the chain store issue, numerous colleges and universi ties throughout the nation have scheduled intercollegiate de bates on "Resolved, that the principle of the chain store is detrimental to the best inter ests of the American public." The Carolina-Northwestern de bate here April 15 on this ques tion should be of great interest to the student body, the faculty, and the townspeople. Gerrard hall will be the scene of the en counter the debate lasting for about an hour and a half. Both teams will attempt to lay bare the whole chain store system in an effort to determine its merits as an institution of public serv ice. The fact that numerous radio programs of late have contained discussions of the chain store in stitution attests the firm grip which it has on the thoughts of the American people at present. We feel that the debate between Carolina5 and Northwestern in Gerrard hall on the night of April 15 will be highly reflec tive of the general concensus of opinion about the issue, and that as such it deserves a large attendance. J. C. W. Daily Prayer Grant, U God, that we may keep our words, that we may be true to every trust, that, if we firm that employs us, that if we are in college, we may be loyal to those who are maintaining us there, by studying hard. Grant that we may not imagine that we are being wronged, that someone has it in for us, and that the whole world is down on us. Grant that we may not list en for insults nor look for sligtfts, that we may not cry for the moon nor over spilt milk. And furthur grant, O God, that we may carry civil tongues in our heads, be polite to strangers without being fresh, be consider ate towards servants, moderate in eating and drinking, willing to learn, cautipus and yet coura geous. And finally grant, O God, that we may realize that in the judgment we will not be look ed over for medals or diplomas but for scars. Grant Hhis, O God, for the honor of our advo cate and mediator Jesus Christ. Amen. . v i'AIt HEEL, TO BE FRANK To john mebane, who merely meanders : when columnists love, , as of course they do, they do not pine or sigh, they merely paint their passion's hue for the tar heel readers' eye. The more widely read public Unay have noticed that the Amer ican Tobacco Company's cigar, Cremo, has been the subject of a nation-wide advertising cam paign which features the phrase "Spit- it's an ugly word," etc. The point that is made is that Cremo cigars are manufactured scientifically and with proper regard for sanitation. Ilowever, one bright-eyed contributor told us he noticed that the Cremo salesman, while entering the sales-car with (Jremo signs painted on all sides of it, took a careful bite of a fat stick of chewing tobacco and after a few moments gracefully expec torated a largish wad, narrow ly missing the running-board of the Cremo "Spit it's an ugly word" car. As March draws to its close, it will prove interesting to notice that the month has seen the pub lication of (1) D. H. Lawrence's essay on obscenity and pornog raphy and its rapid and wide sale and (2) the report of the House of Delegates at Richmond which completely defeated the attempts at making the Univer-i sity of Virginia at Charlottes ville a coeducational institution and which established a college for women "wot less than thirty miles from Charlottesville." We dread to think so but it is too true that the dear statesmen of the Old Dominion are guilty of that very "mental itch" against which the late anti-vice in its most insidious form, crusader fought. Had the honorable gen tlemen merely looked a bit to the southward, they would have seen that the name of fair woman hood retains its unsullied purity, in spite of coeducation, at the University of North Carolina. There has been quite a bit of speculation recently as to the Tar Heel's stand in the nation wide straw vote that is being conducted by the Literary Digest for a repeal of the 18th amend ment. On all probability, if this paper falls in line with the Digest and such college news papers as the Yale Daily News, the results would show that a majority of the voting and in terested undergraduates would like to see the Prohibition amendment repealed, or . at least modified. But it would, indeed, go badly with many of those mothers and fathers 6f this state who still feel that by sending their sons to a university which teaches the young to feel that there might be quite a bit of truth in evolution and schemes for social improvement, they are almost overstepping the bounds of good sense and decency, not to mention faith and piety. Will some erudite and kind gentleman (or lady) please de cide for an agitated group whether or not the iced drink, a result of the juice of two or anges and one lemon with an equal measure of gin, some soda water an dice, is called John Collins or Tom Collins? If he, or she, will send the informa tion to the undersigned, in care of the Tar Heel, he will have the. undying thanks of, and a drink of a Tom or John Collins as made by Fizz. Some of the wets talk as though they had had several drinks and some of the drys talk as though they needed them. Detroit Free Press. - - " .i ' ' " - 111 11 1 " ' THE GAS FILLED INCAN DESCENT LAMP A Product of Continued Search for Higher Efficiency Editor's Note : This is one of a series of popular Research Narratives, which includes tales of discovery, invention and re search. They are published in the Daily Tar Heel through the courtesy of the Engineering Foundation and, the Williams and Wilkins Company. Since 1879, when Edison gave the world the incandescent lamp, men have been working to im prove this carbon filament vacu um light. A better filament was desired. Research produced tungsten filaments, and the name of a metal so rare as to be almost a curiosity became a household word. The use of tungsten as a fila ment did not solve all the lamp manufacturers' problems, al though some electrical men held that with the development of wrought tungsten by Dr. W. D. Coolidge, of the General Elec tric Company, lamp development had gone its limit. However, the lamp was far from perfect. A further reduction in the con sumption of current was still desired and bulb blaskening, which began as soon as the cur- rent was turned on, impaired the lamp's lighting power. All sorts of remedies were tried with lit tle success.'. Scientists in the research lab oratory at Schenectady under took a number of fundamental investigations and it was not until three-fourths of the prelim inary work had been done on a purely scientific basis that the real commercial usefulness of the results became apparent. Brittleness ' of the filament having been overcome by the de velopment of wrought tungsten, the necessity for preventing bulb blackening still remained. Investigations along the lines of better vacua in lamps showed it was impracticable to deter mine whether variations in method or amount of exhaustion caused improvement. So studies were made along two lines : 1. The sources of gas within a lamp ; 2. The effects produced in lamps by various gases. Research showed that the email present in the bulb greatly has- tened blackening. " The vapor oxidized the tungsten, freeing hydrogen in the atomic state. The oxide went to the bulb and ble would seem to lie in the fact was there reduced to metallic that the morehis crops come up tungsten by the active hydrogen the more they go down. Louis to form water. Thus the vicious ville Times. cycle recurred until the lamp's . Some men never change their life was ended. 'opinion because it's been in the.- Early experimenters, Edison family for - generations. Ohio among them, had made numer- State Journal. ous trials of a gas-filled bulb but in every case the experimental gas-filled lamp was decidedly in ferior to the vacuum carbon lamp then in use. However, experiments showed that if a tungsten filament were heated close, to its melting point in a gas-filled bulb entirely freed from water vapor, the filament lasted much longer than when heated in a vacuum, and the heavier the gas used, the more the evaporation of the metal was retarded. But the addition of the gas to increase the life of the filament meant an additional heat loss. It was found, however, that the presence of a dense gas, such as nitrogen or the hitherto unused argon, in the bulb, re duced the rate of filament evap oration to about one per cent of what it was in vacuum at the same temperature. ' The convec- Friday, March 28, 1930 tion currents in the gas carried the deposit of tungsten nitride to the top of the lamp, where it interfered little with the lamp's lighting powers. By use of a large filament, or a coil of small filament, the heat loss was overcome by the higher temperature, and better, whiter light was produced. Thus, through careful and ex haustive research we have todav a lamp whose gleam far out shines the rather feeble glow of the early incandescent light, and the old lamp is a thing of the past. Contributed by Dr. Irving Langmuir, Research Laboratory, General Electric Company, Sche nectady, New York. Lenten Season Daily Devotion General Theme: "Coming to Terms With Life" Friday, -March 28. Topic: "Assuming Responsibility for Peace." (Read Romans 12 :9-21.) Key verse : "If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men." Meditation : "Living with oth ers is the finest of arts. To get along with our fellow men we must assume the responsibility for good relations. Paul does not layHhe entire responsibility on the individual, but leaves no loophole for the escape of the individual". . . as much as in you lieth . . ." Peaceable peo ple are not colorless people. They may have very profound ideas and principles. It is not ideas that cause trouble, but attitudes. A common mistake is to seek "peace by reforming oth ers. t: The 'only promising way to bring about readjustment is to begin by readjusting our own attitudes. It is we who are often in need of reformation., To be 'good to live with is a certificate of self -discipline and genuine religion." Prayer : "Bestow upon us, eternal God, the fine gifts of friendliness. Forgive us for our angers, hatreds, grudges and vindictiveness. Below all our differences teach us our brother hood. BeyoncJ all our varieties teach us our common goal. In the name of Christ. Amen." Some of us are beginning to suspect that Borah supported Hoover in -the last campaign, because he was -afraid Smith wouldn't give him anything to kick about. Miami News. A congressman naturally spends lots of time fixing his fences, because that's where he sits most of the time. Southern , Lumberman. , ' The farmer's principal trou- From Freshman or Prexy- no one can tell if the letter is written on Old Hampshire station ery for it gives an almost presi dential dignity to the message it carries. Whether your letter is to ie family at home, to some of your tradesmen or purveyors or to your very best girl, Old Hampshire dds a distinct tone, for it is rich, substantial, smart it has the rich texture, the 'crisp crackle of the truly aristocratic paper. UNIVERSITY BOOK AN STATIONERY CO.
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