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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wednesday, February 8, 19 K)t Batlp 3Ear Heel The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board 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 of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.$0 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. ,. . Chas. G. Rose, Jr . Editor Geo. W. Wilson, Jr.. Managing Editor R. D. McMillan ... .....Business Manager Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemaker, chairman; E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, B. B. Perry, A. T. Dill, Peggy Ann Harris, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster, W. A. Sigmon, Robert Berryman. ; CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutch ison, W. R. Eddleman, J. D. Winslow, T. H. Walker. DESK MEN Nelson Robbins, Donoh Hanks, Carl Thompson. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugarman, chairman; Nel son, Lansdale; Milton .Stoll, Irving D. Suss, Mary SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claibprn Carr, Bill Ander son, J. H. Morris, Lawrence Thompson, Morrie Long, Crampton Trainer, Lane Fulen wider, Jimmy Mc Gurk, Jack Bessen. , REPORTERS James B. Craighill,. Raymond Barron, Walter Hargett, James W. Keel, D. M. Humphrey, Robert C. Page, George Rhoades, Phillip Hammer, Dave Hosier, Raleigh Allsbrook, J. C. Murphy, Jack Lowe, , George Steele, W. C. Durf ee, Henry Hatch, A. Stein. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Thomas Worth, Mgr. OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Ass't. Bus. Mgr; Ran dolph Reynolds, Collections Mgr.; Joe C. Webb, Ass't Collections Mgr.; Agnew Bahnson, Subscriptions Mgr.; W. B. Robeson, Want Ad Mgr.; L. E. Brooks, Armistead Maupin, J. T. Barnard. LOCAL ADVERTISING - STAFF John Barrow, Ass't Bus. Mgr.; Howard . Manning, Advertising Mgr.; But ler French, Esley Anderson, Joe Mason, J. Ralto Far low, Buddy Upchurch, Woodrow Massey, Charles Tom linson, F. W. Smith, James Mehaffy. ' Wednesday, February 8, 1933 CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: J. D. WINSLOW Trust Those who object to the staffs of our publica tions selecting their own editors raise as one of their greatest objections the fear that politics will enter and dominate these selections. The expression of this fear is an expression of lack of faith in the personnels of the publications and it is hoped that these are not the sentiments of the campus. There would be great resentment were .it rumored that the captaincies of our teams (excepting, football) were being filled by politics. The student body has faith in its teams, faith that they are doing their best for Carolina and that they select able and repre sentative leaders regardless of personal inter ests. Why not the same faith in the men of our publications? These men are as sincere and as interested in the welfare of their product as the athlete is in the success of the team. As it now stands the position of editor on any of our publications is openly a political one. Some of the men chosen have been very able, some grossly inefficient, but they all arrived there through the devious workings of machine politics. ' They represent not the true choice, of the campus, but the choice of some few men in the backroom of a fraternity house who parcel out the positions in return for the support of the fraternity whose man . receives the . editorship. The present editors have all been selected through this method; knowing how it works, they stand flatly opposed to it. . Perhaps the most potent argument against the . snnnnsprl fpnr nf -nnlitirs pnprincr is. thp trPTTlPTl- ffrmo , sflFrvf- Koinrr marlo Trr nrYliirnflna Khpm- selves to prevent the new plan from going into effect. They are the ones who would delight to see the publications further under the control of politics yet the greatest opposition has come not from the student body at large nor from the fac ulty which favors the new plan but from those high up in campus politics. They oppose it be- nQiica fVioir caa eliTvmnrr -frrvm Vimf crra en wViflt. they have always considered their just property ' the valuable political tool of the editorships. One of these men has made the statement that it is more iii keeping with the spirit of this Uni versity to keep the inevitable politics on the cam pus and not confine it to a small group. There are those who are not politicians and who con sider this utterance an insult to Carolina. These , men believe that a complete absence of politics from publications is the true spirit of this Uni versity. They believe that positions of trust and .responsibility should not be the property of a few fraternities. They believe that there are men here who are more interested in the integ rity of Carolina, and the publications that repre sent her than m the advancement of their fra ternities in politics! They believe that there are here men, fraternity and non-f raterriity, who are . glad to, sever all political ties in order to work hand in hand for publications worthy of the prin ciples of Carolina freedom from the "political line-up and the party boss. J.F.A. Please Walk . On the Grass One heritage which present-day landscape gar deners have received from" the hands of the hus bandmen of old is the knowledge that if a soft, verdant carpet of grass is wanted, no amount of care and artificial fertilization can take the place of a genteel good grinding under the feet of man or beast, occasionally. Of course a few straggling gardeners of the mid-Victorian school still subscribe to the theory that grass, like other of nature's daughters, suf fers from such a castigation, but happily, these old timers are fast going to share the fate of those who advocate woman's equality and all the other absurd and antiquated theories, and Caro lina gentlemen pass their suggestions as to how a University campus should be kept with a cyni cal smile, or, at best, quietly ignore them, for, haven't they seen the farmer's belabored strug gle to drive this green intruder from his fields result only in its increased density and verdure? They well know that grass is, by nature, in domitable, and that opposition only serves to heighten its salubrity, so they turn a deaf ear to those whose well meant admonitions are so freely published. " But, granting that grass is susceptible to all the frailities to which natural beings are heir, and would suffer under the tread of number tens, surely ho reasoning being would advocate walk ing a hundred weary yards, over a devious path way, when only fifty yards away, as the crow flies, lies the destination; time is too valuable and too well disposed of to be wasted thus. What is better, anyway, than good plain, sub stantial soil to walk upon? Nature and the so called beautiful is out of place in this artificial age of technocracy and" steeL' After all this is a1 free country, and this cam pus a center of liberalism, where such effeminate matters as grass are not to be fretted over. Let us make our campus distinctive with thousands of handy little paths, forming thousands of inter sections, and, thereby, live up to the mathemat ically proven maxim that the shortest distance between two points is A STRAIGHT LINE. -W.A.S. - A letter from a drum manufacturer inquiring as to the satisfaction given by his make of drums brings forth the following answer from the University band, 'tis reported: "Dear Sir: We have been using your drums for ten years and find them hard to beat" U. of S. C. Game-cock. Another Round Forward-looking conservatives say that Social ism in America will -be forestalled because the! two existing major parties will adopt the best of the Socialist, reforms before they become acute issues. Most important of these Socialist pro posals are government ownership of public util ities and nation-wide monopoly services. Last week, on the Open For urn' lecture series, Dr. W. S. Gruening advocated public ownership of the power industry Predictions that one of the major parties would soon rip this plank out of the Socialist platform were freely made after Dr. Gruening's lecture. The collapse of the In- sull empire, rate investigations in this and other states, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's recent pro nouncements favoring stricter power regulations I were pointed out as straws in the wind. But the wind is far from becoming a sweeping gale. Americans are great people for "cycles," busi ness or otherwise. To their way of thinking,; anything that can be represented on a graph or chart is economic gospel. Optimistically, they be lieve that the valleys on depression charts, show ing that there has been a business slump every seven years since Satan sold apples on the street corner in Eden, are as natural and inevitable as the Mississippi valley and that if we keep driv ing a hill is sure to turn up sooner or later. An industry is assumed, by the laissez-faire economists of our capitalist system, to have com pleted its cycle when it stops making money. It has outlived its usefulness to capitalism when it ceases to return profits. Then it is abandoned to the protection of the government. Take the case of railroads in the United States : Private capitalistic enterprise built Our great railroad system, with considerable help from the government. When railroads became a public necessity , rather than a luxury and abuses in rate-making and exploitation became dangerous ly widespread, the government stepped in with increasingly strict regulation. During the War, complete control of railways was taken over by the government. The rapid development of motor travel over public highways took a' big slice out of the rail roads' pie. Unrestricted by government regula tion, truck and bus lines- have gradually en croached, upon' the. transportation field formerly monopolized by the railroads. Rail dividends were cut, again, again,- and again. ' The govern ment, which is both midwife and undertaker to Big Business, has been called in on the case. There are many things the government could do to protect the railroads. Already, it has let down its restrictions against consolidations ; com panies in and near receivership are clinging to gether, merging for mutual protection. Huge sums from the coffers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation-n-cailed by Dr. Broadus Mitchell a "salvaging, rather than reconstruc tion, corporation" have been administered as tonics and body-builders to the railroads. Next, the Interstate Com merce Commission could extend its control to the regulation of bus and truck lines, putting their rates up to the competition-point for the railroads. ' Heavier tax es, to pay for the wear on pub lic roads, and stricter regulation are inevitable measures for the bus and truck lines ; neither business nor the government has forgotten the regular course of the industry-cycle. Yet, it is hardlv logical or fair to tax the bus lines out of existence as long as they give efficient, rapid and cheap service. That, after all, is what the common man wants. So; if after the government has used- all its resuscitation methods on the railroads, little or no favorable reaction to the treatment is seen, government ownership will be the outcome. Already, railroads are conven iently consolidated ; government- ownership during the War was a successful precedent; andjf the railroads cannot pay their R. F. C. obligations, the gov ernment will own many of them anyway. It must be the same with the power companies, lhe cycle 01 development - regulation - federal aid-government ownership must be first completed: The develop ment stage has practically been completed. Recent exposures of power company abuses are bring ing on the regulation stage: The beginning of a trend towards public construction of power plant's on natural sites, such as the Muscle Shoals and Hoover Dam projects, will within a gen eration put public plants in com petition with private companies. Then beset by ruinous regula tion and' competition, the pri vately owned companies will come to cry on the government's broad shoulder. Then, public ownership. If the utilities would scare off the bugaboo of public owner ship they must either by bold force or contrite stalling prevent the completion of the cycle. Is suing this warning is like ship ping sausages to Bologna. The power companies know their business; the decline and fall of Insull gave them a bad bounce arid they got up weaving and feinting. E.C.D. SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND For Staff Elections To the Editor The Daily Tar Heel : Not very convincing is the chief argument against the movement to allow the staffs of the respective publications ot the University to choose their editors; the argument being, that if the student body sub scribes to the publications, they should choose the editor. A man who buys Time has no choice of editors. A man who buys Ivory soap has no vote for the election of the company's president. Such a man cannot be intimate enough, with the requirements of office. Although he is the one who keeps the company in existence, he does nothing for the betterment of the product. - The staffs of the respective publications on the campus de vote most of their spare time preparing -them as well as pos sible for the other students of the -University. As a . reward (they get no other) they should be awarded the privilege of se lecting the man under whom they wish to work. This is owed them for their loyalty arid work. Staff elections would not in any sense limit the student's power. Anyone who can prove himself eligible to write news for a daily paper, or produce lit erary accomplishments, or think of funny jokes, or tabulate names, dates, and achievements, as the case may be, can become a member of the staffs of the publications. The editor would still be morally responsible to the student body and would al so have a hitherto unknown practical responsibility to the staff. That there may be an amount of.Dolitics within the staff if they elect the editors is only to be expected. But whomsoever is chosen, he will at least be the choice, of -the majority and will be an experienced man. As cam pus politics are now controlled, a man who knew nothing of the work of the publications could be 'persuaded into offie'e by the machinations of some huge poli tical machine backed by large fraternities and a few non-fraternity favorites. Many students, who are tak ing an interest in the publica tions for the first time, show their ignorance of these institu tions by their narrow and selfish arguments, and yet they feel that they can choose editors bet ter than those who have devoted four, three, or two years of their college life working on these publications, working with the man they know to be the best fitted for the position. C.G.T. A Journalist Speaks To the Editor The Daily Tar Heel: The recent discussions regard ing the proposed change to' place power of electing editors in the hands of staff members have in terested me no little. Having had a great deal of experience in journalism 1 readily see the in numerable advantages to be gained by the selection by staff members only. After all what share have we students, directly, in the choice of the basketball, baseball and football managers or the cap tains and coaches? Or the busi ness managers of the publica tions? Yet indirectly our money helps to keep their posts in ex istence. Again, it must be remember ed that the students pay only about fifty per cent of cost of the Daily Tar Heel for ex ample. The other half is raised by the advertising staff. We only pay a most reasonable sub scription price a price little more than that charged by many college weeklies. As students, we necessarily know little about our average fellow students except as re gards their personality, their in tegrity, possibly, and their scho lastic standing, maybe. We are possibly qualified, to choose, on this basis, class officers. But the editor of a publication needs vis ion, fearlessness, executive abil ity, and above all, mastery of the arts of newspaper writing. Only the men who work in the offices with these men have the intim ate knowledge which should qualify them to vote intelligent ly and fairly. Popularity is no standard by which to measure the eligibility of men for jour nalistic offices. "The editors will dictate their successors" shout the political whips (or, more frankly "We can't easily dictate to the staffs") But the editors have a pride in their respective publi cations, a sense of professional honor, which demands ' that the interests of the publication be put first. . The staff vote: should be by ballot. Always the sttu dent body could assert itself, if the situation demanded. Neither the present plan nor the proposed one is perfect. But the present plan places the con trol of the choice of the editors of the publications, at worst, in the hands of those who cannot possibly know the best men for the positions ; at worst, (and the normal, customary, conditions) the nominations will be in the hands of the political machines who are rarely guided by tK precepts of fairness and justice" The best man will get it if l has the strong machine behind him, but will be crucified if & is not backed by the machine or is not tremendously popular (if he is popular, he meets the prime prerequisite of the polj. ticians little do their brai cudgel over matters of honor or merit) . F.J.M. OUTSTANDING RADIO BROADCASTS Wednesday, Feb. 8 6:15 Columbo, orchestra, WJZ (NBC). . 7:45 Boake Carter, new WABC (CBS). 9:00 Bing Crosby, WABC (CBS). 9 :30 Lombardo, Burns and Al len (no brother vet. WARf .(CBS). 10:00 Fred Waring, orchestra WABC (CBS). 11:30 Isham Jones, orchestra WABC (CBS). 12:00 Ben Bernie, WJZ (NBC). 12:15 Vincent Lopez,, WEAF (NBC). 12:30 Mark Fisher, WJZ (NBC) (new and hot). 11:30-12:30 Aragon-Trianon dance hour with Wayne King and Jan Garber, WGN, Chicago. 12:30-2:00 Hal Kemp and Clyde McCoy alternating from WGN. D.C.S. ODUM TO SPEAK ON SOCIAL TRENDS (Continued from first page) where major efforts should be undertaken to deal with them constructively. A summary of the first part of the full report was published in the January 2 issue of the New York Times and copies of this issue have been distributed to the Y. M. C. A. cabinets in order that they may study it. Harry F. Comer, secretary of the local Y. M. C. A., and Pro fessor L. M. Brooks, of the so ciology department, spoke to the freshmen and sophomore cab inets respectively Monday night in preparation for Dr. Odum's address. Following Dr. Odum's talk, an open forum discussion of the subject will take place. The Bull's Head Announces ITS SEMI-ANNUAL Auction Chapel Period Y.M. C. A. Lobby Mayne Albright, Auctioneer Bidders and Spectators Welcome HER KISS WAS THE SIGNAL OF DESTINY! r Her lips were a carmine gateway to... flt" 1 1 ht tW. MAMMONS y.r J ADtllNNl-AMf DAVID MANN MIA IUOOSJ Also Comedy News Now Playm CAROLINA l " 1 " "uii .u,,,, n ' , ii -i J
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