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THE DAILY TAR HEEU
Saturdavl February 11 ig
K)t iBatlp Car ' Heel
The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hiil
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.G0 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
Frances Parker, Eleanor Bizzell, ,Elizabeth Johnson.
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son, J. H. Morris, Lawrence Thompson, Morrie Long,
Crampton Trainer, Lane Fulenwider, Jimmy Mc
Gurk, Jack Bessen.
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Lwe, George Steele, W. C. Durfee, Henry Hatch,
A. Stein.
Business Staff
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OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Ass't. Bus. Mgr; Ran
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Collections Mgr.; Agnew Bahnson, Subscriptions
Mgr.; W. B. Robeson, Want Ad Mgr.; L. E. Brooks,
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Bus. Mgr.; Howard Manning, Advertising Mgr.; But
ler French, Esley Anderson, Joe Mason, J. Ralto Far
low, Buddy Upchurch, Woodrow Mas sey, Charles Tom
linson, F. W. Smith.
CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE; T. H. WALKER
Saturday, February 11, 1933
The Farm Problem
Brought Home to the Student
"What significance has the jnbdern agricul
tural problem to the University undergraduate?"
is a quesuon some oi me audience at Thursday
night's Open Forum Discussion program might
have asked on perceiving the large number of
students present to hear two addresses on "Men
and Land." For a large portion of the assem
blage was composed of students, all of them ap
parently interested in seeing the way to some
solution to the farm problem. Dr. Clarence Poe
: authorities in the . agricultural field, brought
to produce and sell at the same time maintain
in or n'r1vonf livin or
In a state university, the farm problem strikes
home to almost'every student. Since nearly two
thirds of the University student body claims
residence in North Carolina, an agrarian state,
it is apparent that the farm problem is one of
; paramount importance. Happily, the Tar Heel
. .fanner is some better off than his Northern
brother.
: In many middlewestern states riots in farm
sections are common occurrences, an unprece-
together with barn and livestock sold recently
for $1.18 in Pennsylvania. An Towa farmer cnld
his cattle on f oreclosure for ten cents a head. An
entire farm in Illinois went down to the hammer
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at iorty-nve aonars. as one oi tne speaKers
'pointed out, we may soon face some Of these
conditions.
The livelihood of our populace rests in the
ability of the farmer to produce sufficiently to
feed the urban population and at the same time
earn an income enabling him to spend part of
his earnings on factory produce. When the dol
lar, varying from sixty-four cents fifteen years
ago to $1.64 today,. remains on an unsound basis,
the farmer is at loss to pay debts and purchase
sufficient material to raise the needed crops.
With the calibre of our present Congressional
material much in doubt, it is evident that the
farm problem will not be solved to the satis-
iaction oi au ior some time, une oi tne speaKers
pointed out that a recurrence of the present state
of, affairs is inevitable under the present system
in 1940. By that time some of those who crowd
ed' Gerrard hall Thursday night may face the
same problem at the polls and in the legislative
halls of the state and nation. By that time we
may be sufficiently educated. D.C.S.
The Supreme Court Interprets
Our Legal Enigma
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of North Carolina has declared unconstitutional
the state's four-year-old law for the sterilization
of individuals unfit to bring children into the
world.. This, decision is based upon the four-
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which forbids a state to deprive any one of life,
liberty, or happiness without due process of law.
It is impertinent to question the wisdom of this
august body but it does appear that the court
has given this clause a rather wide interpreta
tion to render null and void a valuable and far
sighted law.
Liberty is a word that all but defies definition.
Where liberty leaves off and license commences
is a matter for speculation only, but liberty in
the general interpretation of our legal institu
tions is the right to act in any manner or do
anything providing that the rights of others or
the welfare of the community are not thereby
endangered.
The sterilization law was intended to prevent
manifestly unfit individuals from bearing chil
dren to perpetuate their undesirable characteris
tics. It was a law that marked this state as pro
gressive and a leader in sociological advance. It
was a law that jeopardized the life or happiness
of none, and which before being carried into
effect demanded the ' approval of qualified ex
perts. North Carolinians of intelligence were
proud of this law which through a legal techni
cality has been stricken from laws of the state.
If it is the just right of diseased or mentally
feeble persons to bring into theworld others like
themselves, then the court is correct. If liberty
means the privilege of foisting upon our people
lunatics, hopeless invalids, and dangerous crimi
nals then the decision is sound. If it is the right
of these unfortunates to carry on their afflicted
lineage forever, a source of misery and suffering
to themselves and burden and menace to the
community, then there are many who will take
issue with this conception of liberty and declare
that it has passed from its bounds and has be
come a dangerous license.
There is no law of God or man intended to
produce crime, poverty, disease or suffering, nor
to interfere with its eradication when such is
feasible. The man who operates an automobile
recklessly upon our highways is promptly re
strained and punished, but the individual who
seeks to bring into our midst dangerous or bur
densome offsprings is not restrained nor pun
ished, but by decree of our courts is now to be
protected.
In its. zealous championing of the rights of the
individual the Supreme Court has taken a step
which will direct itself against the best interests
of the state. It is a misfortune that North Caro
lina has been checked on the path of progress
and it is to be earnestly and fervently hoped that
our highest tribunal will if possible reverse this
decision before the precedent becomes too strong
and stands forever between us and a healthier,
safer, and happier people. J.F.A.
To
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By Don Shoemaker
,
Out of the Battlefield
Arises a "Compromise1
The outcome of the Buccaneer's much-dis
cussed proposal regarding the election of publi
cation heads by the staffs seems to have resulted
in a victory neither for its opponents nor for its
protagonists. For last Tuesday night the activ
ities committee in a free-for-all meeting defeat
ed the motion by a sixteen to nine vote and in
its stead favored the plan of the student coun
cil's requiring each staff to select its choice for
editor just prior to campus elections. This solu
tion of the problem was doubtless arrived at in
order to place more emphasis on the importance
of the particular publication's choice for editor,
and while the arrangement is by no means final,
the activities committee seemed to think that
the staff nomination alone would be considered
by our student body to be actual election.
However, in spite of this concession, the battle
over which is to elect editors the student body
or the publication staffs remains essentially a
compromise. The proposed plan of the student
council makes no drastic adjustment of the prob
lem, nor does it mark any noticeable departure
from the usual method of electing these officers.
The publication staffs in recent years made, it
evident as to who of their members was most
eligible for the positions of editor. The force
of competition drove some able staff-members
before the campus eye. . And the student body
voted on its choice. That the student council
places within the hands of the staffs the right to
nominate candidates-prior to elections is little
more than a confirmation of the situation that
has been the rule on this campus in past years.
So, now that the tumult and the shouting has
died and the captains and the kings had their
say, the recent solution to the problems almost
puts us back where we started. The compromise
may be a good thing in that it: has sounded cam
pus opinion on a matter which has plenty of
argument on both sides. And the student body,
if it evinces this same alertness on campus
issues, need have no fear that the editors of its
publications will be mal-chosen. A.T.D.
Something new again! We see that Butler
University will offer a course in the Art of Stay
ing Married. The irony of it is that the in
structor has been married twice. He certainly
ought to be marriage-wise, even though he
doesn't know how to stay married himself. It's
another case of graduating from the school of
hard knocks and flying cups and ' saucers.
Carnegie Tartar.
At the University of California, students who
have a grade of "A" on a course at the end of the
first four weeks do not have to continue the
course and get a five dollar refund on their
tuition.
Election
A fellow by the name of Roos
evelt was elected the other day
in Washington. He is, we un
rifirstand. a fifth cousin to the
Roosevelt who kept us out of
war sometime ago. The same
day six firemen were killed and
a number injured in a mid-west
ern fire.- A sailor named Blotz
fell overboard in a small storm
off the Grand Banks.
Lady Known
As Lulu
This unpretentious depart
ment woke up one morning this
week to see in the column that
someone named Lulu had writ
ten a letter to us asking some
questions about things here
abouts. And just when we
thought it had all blown over, a
mysterious person called us on
the phone and requested that we
use the following:
"Dear Mr. Shoemaker :
"We would like you to answer
the following questions along
with those of Lulu . . . did the
same girl 'who was scared by
being called up at a fraternity
house' have a good time with a
certain fellow from the Univer
sity during the past Christmas
vacation . . . which of the Play-
makers would, in her own words
'like to bronzed' s . . who swore
that he would stay away from
the . Playmakers after the tour
and then showed that he couldn't
take it ... what politicians have
actively been organizing a big
ger and better party to oppose
the All-Campus party . . . what
co-ed has 'never been afraid of
anything ... and what fellow
thinks he can cure her of this . . .
who continually loses her keys
to the co-ed shack ... we wonder
who paid for the. meals that one
f'Red" eats with the tall boy in
the swellest restaurant in town
. . who is Lulu . . . yours , . .
lo5 Combination ..."
Frankly, yes and no.
Headline
PROFESSOR WILL
READ "CALVACADE"
Headline in Daily Tar Heel.
Sorry, Mr. Coward. At least
we got all the letters in.
Poesy
During a lull in Thursday's
Open Forum discussion we
found ourselves jotting idly on
a notecard, the resulting bit in
dicating what's preying on our
mind:
The speakers of the League for
Industrial democracy
Engineers, college presidents :
all may run down -.Technocracy,
'
And rave instead about Power,
Labor, and Lines for Bread j
And other doctrines somewhat
pink or slightly red !
But we maintain
(Don't think us vain)
That a Technocrat
Knows where he's at.
Varied Construction
Materials Utilized In
Campus Buildings
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walls have been preserved, al
though the tinted cement wash
placed on some of them has
largely concealed the identity of
the original brick and stone.
From 1857 to 1898 only one
building was constructed this
being old Memorial hall, built
in 1883, eight years after the re
opening of the University fol
lowing the Civil War depression.
The old Memorial hall reflect
ed the character of the times
both in its mixed architecture
and ' strangely combined build
ing materials. The classic Greek
and Italian had passed and the
well blended brick and stone
gave place to strange combina
tions of brick, cement and wood.
The age of architectural unre
straint had begun.
The third period of Univer
sity construction from 1898 to
1913 witnessed the construction
of thirteen buildings. Most of
these are built of buff pressed
brick, and under this head are
Alumni, Carr, Bynum Gymnas
ium, Pharmacy (old Chemis
try), old Library, Infirmary,
Davie Caldwell, Battle-Vance-Pettigrew,
Peabody, and Swain.
Two buildings of this period
were more cheaply built the Y
M. C. A. building of stucco and
concrete, and the Mary Ann
Smith of red brick, concrete and
terracotta. Most of the buff
pressed brick buildings were
trimmed with one of three ma
terials: concrete, terracotta, or
limestone. The later ones of
this period were trimmed with
limestone and the early one, ex
cept Alumni, with terracotta.
During this period granite was
used in steps and some founda
tions.
Alumni Building Individual
The Alumni building is dif
ferent in most respects from
other buildings in this group. It
is architecturally more ornate
and mixed in type. It is the only
building using a considerable
amount of granite. The buff
standstone window seats and
columns are much like the Brier
Hill stone from Ohio. This sand
stone, according to Dr. Collier
Cobb, came from the Triassic
beds near Sanford "The ? col
umns in this building were hand
turned and are quite irregular
in shape, the sections not match
ing where joined. ' - i
During the fourth building
period from 1918 to, 1928, the
University constructed , sixteen
buildings and made over a num
ber of the older ones. With the
exception of the first one in this
group, Phillips Hall,' built' of
tapestry b'rick with limestone
trim, and the New Library, built
largely of Indiana limestone, the
exteriors of the ' buildings ' are
largely alike in materials of con
struction, common light red
brick and Indiana, limestone
trim, with use of Mt. Airy gran
ite for steps, Avonia, Va., slate
for the roof, with reinforced
concrete beams, pillars, under
floors and bearing parts. Spen
cer Hall differs somewhat from
the rest in its trim of . Vermont
marble. V" ;' -
In the more recently- con
structed buildings . there : js " a
considerable amout of orna
mental stone of various types to
be seen. Buff Indiana limpstnnp
is the light colored, stone used
with light red brick in the ma
jority of the newer buildings.
The Library is largelv made of
this limestone and the columns
of Graham Memorial, South, and
the new Memorial Hall are fine
exhibits of this 'type of stone. A
harder gray Indiana limestone
is used in the floor of the Dortico
of Graham Memorial. The fam
ous creani colored Caen stone of
France is used in part of the
wall space in the entrance hall
of Graham Memorial. Travpr-
tine from Italy is used in stairs
and stair banisters in the new
Library building. The Kesota
dolemitic marble floors the
stacks in the Library.
A number of marbles are
represented in the building. The
Tennessee marble is used in
many floors as in the entrance
hallway of Graham and New
Memorial. The Carrara marble
and the statuary Vermont
marble are largely used in the
memorial tablets and corner
stones, and small amounts of
Georgia and Alabama marbles
are used as wainscoating in a
number of the more, recently
constructed buildings. Some
foreign marble is seen here and
there as the Bottacino Italian in
a tablet in the lobby of Graham
Memorial, the deep red'Levanto
marble in tablet of the Bell Tow
er, and the Belgian Black in the
base of columns in the reading
room of the new Library- ;
SPEAKERS STATE
CONDITIONS TODAY
WARRANT CHANGE
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the basis of the average purchas
ing power of a dollar in the
years of 1920-30 when most of
America's staggering burden of
public and private debt was cre
ated. "Give us that," he argued,
"and America will -work out lbs
own salvation."
The details, he maintained,
may be left to experts : whether
stabilization should be effected
through adjusting the gold in the
dollar to the commodity index,
by arbitrarily reducing the gold
content or the dollar, by greater
use of silver, by Federal Reserve
operations, or some other meth
od. But chaos will exist until
stabilization allows "debts to be
paid off in dollars of the same
value that the debtors received.'
Dr. Ward in his address said
in part:
"The first step in a program
for immediate relief is to save
those farmers threatened with
the loss of their farms. They
should be granted a moratorium
until prices rise to a point where
they can pay.
Another step would be "the
restoration of income to the mil
lions of unemployed" through
the development of numerous
"publicly and cooperatively own
ed and operated hydro-electric
power systems and transmis
sion lines, through gigantic
housing projects, and other con
struction projects."
'The only way out," he con
cluded, "that I can see is through
the development of a planned na
tional and world economy oper
ated on a co-operative non-profit
basis. This will mean socializa
tion of natural resources and
many basic industries. But I
believe that conduct of as much
of our business activities as pos
sible' by producers and. consum
ers co-operative associations is
preferable to universal social
ism
Reverend Tamblyn Is Visiting
Kansas Congregational Church
Reverend Ronald Tamblyn,
who has been the pastor of the
Presbyterian church here in
Chapel Hill for the past, several
months, has gone to Lawrence,
Kansas, to preach for. the next
two Sundays in the Plymouth
Congregational church. He is
being considered for. a call there.
Reverend J. N.; Thomas of
Rapidan, Virginia, will officiate
at the Presbyterian . services
here tomorrow morning, and the
pulpit will be occupied Sunday,
February 19, by Reverend Thom
as F. Barr of Nashville, Tennessee.
"Bruin" Reveals Famous Men
Played Chorus Girl Roles
Many of America's famous
men once capered as chorus
girls or played comic opera roles,
according to the California Daily
Bruin. Records show that the
undergraduate actors in Har
vard University's Hasty Pud
ding Club theatricals, dating
back to 1884, included the late
Bishop Phillips Brooks, '55;
Thomas W. Lamont, '92; Oliver
Wendell Holmes, '61 ; - Richard
Washburn Child, '03; former
Gov. William Tudor Gardiner,
'14, of Maine; and Lieut.-Gov.
Gaspar G. Bacon, '08, of Massa
Ward Addresses Assembly
Dr. Gordon H. Ward of Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute was
speaker for the freshman and
sophomore assembly period yes
terday. Ward, who is associate
professor of economics at V. P
I., emphasized the fact that
farm prices decline along with
the decline in factory wages or
the consumer's buying power.
He was in Chapel Hill to speak
on the Forum lecture series.