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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, January 8, 193 he Dailp Car Iml The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days, and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second clas3 matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879- Subscription price, 4-00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. - . Chas. G. Rose, Jr.. Editor Geo. W. Wilson, Jr..3Igr. Editor R. D. McMillan .Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoe maker, chairman; E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, B. B. Perry, A..T. Dili, J. M. Joy, F. A. Northrup, Peggy Ann Harris, Robert Berry man, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster. CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, BiH Davis, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddie man, J. D. Winslow. DESK MEN Nelson Bobbins, Donoh Hanks. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Carl Thompson, Milton Stoll, Irving D. Suss. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Anderson, J. H. Morris, Lawrence Thompson, Morrie Long, Crampton Trainer, Lane Fulenwider, Jimmy McGurk. REPORTERS James B. Craighill, Raymond Barron, Walter Hargett, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Robert C. Page, George Rhoades, Phillip Hammer, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth Johnson, Dave Hosier, Raleigh Allsbrook, J. C. Murphy, Jack Lowe. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPT. Tom Worth, Manager. OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Jr., Ass't Bus. Mgr., John Barrow, Ass't Bus. Mgr., W. B. Robeson. ADVERTISING STAFF Howard Manning, Adv't Mgr., W. C. Jones, AdVt Mgr., J. W. Callahan, James Mehaffy, Butler French, Esley An derson, Buddy Upchurch, J. Ralto Farlow, Joe Slason. COLLECTION STAFF Randolph Reynolds, Collection Mgr., Joe C. . Webb, Agnew Bahnson, L. E. Brooks, Armistead Maupin, Robert P. Phifer, J. T. Barnard. Sunday, January 8, 1933 Prejudice Weakens The far-flung advances made by the Southern Student-Faculty Conference in Atlanta this De cember last along the lines of race harmony in the south may never penetrate our sectional so ciety further than the limits of Y. M. C. A. cabinets and stu dent discussion groups, yet a resume of the projects under taken by the conference should be disclosed to every conscien tious citizen of the state. The taboo which has long pervaded our social system is in the pro cess of being swept away through the advancement of in - dustrial and economic socializa- - tion, our sociologists tell us. This we have failed to realize, garbing our sentiments in the veil of taboos which have aggra vated the whole situation. It is fitting that such advance ment of this question comes through a Christian agency of such proportions as a Faculty- Student conference. The ques tion of race harmony must be met; it can best be. met on the grounds prepared for it in such a conference as the one in At lanta. The advancement along this line is most aptly charac terized in the address to the re cent conference made by Dr. W. A. Smart of Emory University, who says in part: "The Southern part of our country is decidedly the most sectionally minded possibly because we all love the south so dearly . ... at any rate we spend time in eulogizing about past conditions. We stil think of southern culture in terms of civilization before the Civil War. We are still too in clined to think of any divergence from our grand parents' ways as a collosal crime. . . Thus Dr. Smart lays the groundwork for future discus- sion on such a pertinent topic The restraining bars of preju dice must be stricken down if the. present generation is to see a final settlement of this try ing question. Eminating initial ly from such a group, a large portion of this prejudice has fallen. D.C.S. Snip, Snip As had been long expected, the employees of the University have just been the recipient of a further reduction in salary, which was, to say the least, not a very cheerful reception at the hands of the new year. In a period of less than two years, the income of the average in structor here at the University has been clipped by approxi mately forty-five per cent. Viewing the situation in a casual way, nothing very des perate is apparent. Wage earn ers, some would say, have suf fered far greater reductions in heir earning power. Returns from dividends on investments have dwindled to a mere pittance of their former selves, while the products of the farms are bring ing prices which represent but a small fraction of what they were worth before the days of depression. Many people, are wondering if members of the University's staff are some sort of super- humans, that their salaries should remain unscathed, while all the rest of the state must carry the burdens which result from such a chaotic state of things. We would not throw the screen of protection around the instructors of the University and disregard the taxpayer and the hordes of fellow sufferers, but the question of economizing at the expense of education is a serious one, and should be stud ied very carefully before being acted upon. A University professor re quires a somewhat higher in come than the average man. He must keep himself posted in the most recent developments in his field ; he must have money to buy books ; he often finds it neces sary to continue his research, which requires large sums of money; then a great deal of travel is very essential to the development of a college instruc tor. Finally, he must live and support his family according to the highest standards, which he cannot do if the legislature pur sues, its present course much further. W.A.S. Now Is the Time for All The present economic disor der occasioned by a return to or der has brought many attendant evils and hardships felt no less keenly in the seclusion of Chap el Hill than in the whirl of the rest of the world. The past year has seen the University's in come shrink and dwindle to a shadow and professors' salaries cut to a mere nothing. A plan of forced economy has been made necessary in every phase of the University's activities. The University, so we are informed, is fighting for its existence, and the year and a half to come will be more crucial than the per iod just passed. Yet nowhere in the University is the situation more to be de plored than the handicap it has placed upon our library. The present library is the result of a long and gradual growth, the work of a few patient men who realized that books are the treasuries of knowledge. From the scanty supply of books in the original library it has grown until it now contains several hundred thousand volumes. Dur ing the recent years of prosper ity the University - saw fit to build a magnificent building to house its treasures. The library building since its erection has been the pride of the campus, the sight most proudly displayed to visitors. Now this library of which we are so proud is financially at the end of its rope. Few books were bought last year and the prospects for the new year are not bright. Last spring a few far-seeing persons organized a group which they called the Friends of the Library. The purpose of the Friends is to bring together in an informal group a number of friends of the library who are willing to give their time, money and materials for its enrich ment. The project is one which should be given the utmost en couragement. Membership is open to anyone who sincerely has the interests of the library at heart. Although the Friends is not a student organization many students have displayed their interest in its plan. Here is an opportunity for Univer sity students to show that Chap el Hill is indeed a seat of the New Learning and Culture in the South. V.C.R. The Ink Well - By Nelson Bobbins What is a poor columnist to do, when he runs out of anything to write about? Does he sit idly and twiddle his thumbs, while some editorial from one of our contemporaries fills the space this week? Does he feign a headache, and stay away from the office? Not on your sweet life. He goes ahead and writes a column, anyway. About half the stuff we hear on the streets, in the classroom, on the campus, at public gather ings, in the legislatures every where, is entirely unrelated to facts, ideas, or coherent thought. Probably the same percentage of published matter is no better. So, why shduld the poor harassed writer of newspaper columns bother himself unduly with mat ters of rhyme and reason? The chances are a thousand to one against him that anyone will read his stuff, anyway good or bad. So, here we go, tra la. And, if by any possible chance there should be spectators of this mad event, adjust your binoculars, hold tight to your seats, get a firm grip on your chewing gum, and watch oldJTwenty Grand go. Hurrah ! He's off. Now, he's on. On again ; off again . . . and the seat of his trousers already resembling a gigantic mirror . . . Tsk . . . Tsk . . . Time out to wipe sweat and adjust suspenders . . . Now, he decends upon . the typewriter with the feline celer ity of old Tab pouncing upon the well known mouse. Again, he recedes, and approaches the machine lovingly, as a priceless possession. Fondly, he caresses it, letting his hands slip over the keys softly, as a Paderewski translating from the depths of his soul a soft, timid thing of moonlight, roses, and delicate perfumes. Then, becoming suddenly in furiated, he beats upon the de fenseless mechanism with both fists, demolishing fifteen keys, tearing a new ribbon to shreds, and knocking the bottom out of the chair on the rebound. Thus might a Caesar fly into tantrums at news that his Cleopatra had been seen at a movie with some Mark Anthony. Et Tu, Brute? (There is a Latin phrase for you, as any female conductor of college newspaper columns will tell you.) But, we digress. Quick, Cap tain, a new mount! What is this huge lumbering thing that you bring me, with ; steel trappings and a clatter of fifty million plate glass windows falling upon the concrete? Ah, the linotype. How many men has he ridden to death! Strong, willful, soulless brute. Kings, Presidents, Sena tors, have tried to tame him. He carries no bit and has never been saddled. Come, Don. You on the tele phone booth (what a mount for a modern Quixote) and I on'the linotype. A-Maying we shall go. Is it a daisy that you crave? I shall print you a page of them. I THOSE NEW ) I BOOKS i The Bull's Head will hold "open-house" Tuesday afternoon at the usual hour of 4:30. Pro fessor Wobdhouse will speak on "Technocracy as applied to Gov ernment." All those interested in this much talked of and writ ten about topic are invited to come to this informal lecture and to participate in the discussion which will follow. Several books about "technoc racy" have already been an nounced by the publishers. The most informative study to date is to be found in The New Re public for December the 28th. Stuart Chase (The New Deal) is writing an article on this. sub ject for February's Cosmopoli tan. THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER translated by T. E. Shaw (Ox ford) $3.50. Reviewed by Ronathis. The remarkable Mr. Shaw, airplane mechanic, and lately Lawrence of Arabia, has con trived, after four years of work, a remarkable translation of the Odyssey of those wonderful poets, Homer. The really un usual feature of the work is the humanization which the transla tor works into what, as he ex plains in his preface, is really a very literal translation. In spite of the fact that it might at times justifably be termed "smart aleck" this feature of the recent book relieves most decidedly from their weight of former translations, and puts it again on the footing of amusing litera ture where it began in the .first place. It may be startling to hear Telemachus berate the sui tors in every modern English, but it is none the less welcome after the grandiose passages of the conferences of the Gods. Shaw has given us a readable Odyssey for the first time in aH the history of book-worms. Added to the rental library this past week: Greenbacks, After Five O'clock, A Goodly Heritage, and A Princess In Exile, distinguished companion A crown, I should have? You may crown me the Queen of the May with the telephone receiver. A maypole? We shall dance merrily 'round the hat-rack. Rib bons? We shall use the electric light extension cords. A song? Here comes the editor. , MONDAY Tuesday WILLIAM HAINES MADGE EVANS in "Fast Life" Friday CLARK GABLE CAROLE LOMBARD in "No Man Of Her Own" r piece to The Princess. - Education of a THE BLOODY YEARS by Francis Yeats-Brown (Viking Press) 2.75. Reviewed by! Don Shoemaker. Mr. Francis Yeats-Brown has just enough of the glibly humor ous in his -Anglo-Saxon make-up to unfold amusingly the sun guineous rise of new Turkey in his latest opus The Bloody Years (which follows the highly suc cessful Lire's of a Bengal Lan cer) . One may judge from the rapid tale of war in its fledgling state in Asia Minor . that F. Yeats-Brown confronted his task with a measure of unadulterat ed pleasure, or such is the im pression. . Beginning chronologically in the year 1326 of the Hejira which is 1908 to you, our erst while lancer sets well about his task in contrasting the old estate in Turkey with the rising new through a frequent whimsical reflection to a current seraglio incumbent of Abdul Hamid II (the Damned, the Red Sultan, the Great Assassin a la Euro pean press) whose arduous ef forts to interest his politically perturbed majesty avail naught. Then is unfolded the Young Turk movement of 1908, the counter revolution of 1909, the bloody days before and including Sarajevo, and the plight of two airmen stranded in the desert after cutting the Turkish tele graph lines west and north of Bagdad. Which lets us down with a plunk as the Turks cap ture the author and his com panion to provide meat for some excellent material on the horrors of war. The remainder of the book involves the woefully un successful and similarly uninter esting account of Yeats-Brown's attempts t escape from Con stantinople and environs. No, "Aircraftsman Shaw," herein is Yeats-Brown unrestrained. CAUDLE WILL SPEAK TO A. I. E. E. ON RADIO The next meeting . of the American Institute of electrical engineers is scheduled for Tues day night, January 10, in Phil lips hall. The program will con sist of three addresses to be made by. members of the A. I. E. E. T. L. Caudle will speak on "The Facilities and Work of Radio Station WBT"; J. R. Mar vin will discuss "Wattmeters." The third speakerW. J. O'Brien, has not made definite announce ment of his topic. More Human Than "Min And Bill"; More Thrills Than "Hell Divers"; More Laughs And Heart-Throbs Than "The Champ"! Wall ace Beery In His Finest Role "Flesh" ' With Ricardo Karen Cortez Morley A Powerful Drama of a Powerful Man OTHER FEATURES Vitaphone Screen Song 'Three's a Crowd" Paramount Sound News Wednesday LEE TRACY LUPE VELEZ m "Half Naked Truth" Coming: "STRANGE INTERLUDE" "PAGLIACCI" The First Complete-Opera in Sound Film SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND To the Student Body: While college students are as apathetic as a Mississippi back woodsmen when it comes to ob jecting to political mistreatment I had never hoped to see theni become so dead above the neck that they would allow some cam pus oligarch to donate the senior class fund to the student loan fund. Not that I object to the loan fund being substantiated by any sum however large, for I have used the same fund. Nor do I object to the senior class making a donation for I don't pay senior fees. Why should I raise a howl about there being a $500 surplus for one quarter since I am certain that all cam pus politicians make -a very thor ough going budget of class ex penses and make student assess ments according to need? That might be enough to howl about but that isn't what rankles a democratic being. By what act of God has any campus official been endowed with the power of disposing of a senior class fund without the consent or even the comment of the class? Campus officials prac tically wield that power, for it is an easy matter to get The Daily Tar Heel interested in anything political, and doesn't everyone know that the college student can be persuaded to vote for "Bull Montana" as queen of the May if the idea is sprung suddenly enough, or if The Daily Tar Heel be allowed to hold a straw vote. But really isn't it a wee bit 'crassy' to do such a thing without even the democratic gesture? Perhaps some of you amoebas that call yourselves seniors will resent the donation when you start paying interest on the five spot you bor row to pay for a sheep skin. Even if you don't feel that way about it, a being that upholds the democratic ideal would feel greatly relieved to find that all seniors weren't dead from the neck up although their brave comment might be in favor of the act. B. C. PROCTOR. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS LOST Elgin sport wrist watch with brown leather strap. Between 407 E. Franklin St. and Crescent Cafeteria. Finder please' return to above address or phone 5421. Reward. I W Ail Jean Hersholt -'1 ; Thursday WARREN WILLIAM LILI DAMITA in "The Match King" Saturday RICHARD BARTHELMESS in "Cabin In The Cotton" Screen Play by PAUL GREEN
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