THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuesday, February 14, 193$
Page Two
)t Batlp Car 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
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... Managing Editor
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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 . Bobbins, Donoh Hanks, Garl
Thompson.
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Lowe, George Steele, W. C. Durfee, Henry Hatch,
A. Stein. ' "
I. O. U's can not be easily convinced that old man
business is fast regaining his former-healthy
state, , nor that any Fraudian treatments will
bring him around again.
If the crisis produces the man to remedy it,
Mr. Roosevelt, you have the good wishes of the
American people. W.A.S.
Business Staff
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CITY EDITOR FOR, THIS ISSUE: J. D. WINSLOW
Tuesday, February 14, 1933
Nothing of the
Sort in North Carolina
If a front page "scoop" article in yester
day's Greensboro Daily News is true, University
authorities denying it, applications are now
about to be made to allow Negroes admission
into the University Law School.' Cases of this
sort have arisen before in two other states, and
on both occasions the Supreme Court ruled that
the state should pay the colored applicants' tui
tion at a law school in some other state. In the
event the matter is pushed in North Carolina,
such will possibly be the ultimate solution.
Although no information is available to verify
it, a rumor has it that this movement is being
pushed by forces outside the state. Previously
has this same question been brought up with
the motivating force coming from without the
state's borders. It is quite likely that this pres
ent disturbance is nothing more than a propa
ganda campaign of some group advocating race
equality, rather than any sincere action on the
part of any truly North Carolina Negro faction.
There is little question but what the majority of
even the best class of the colored race in the
state is not in sympathy with the idea, or would
even be willing to back it in a fight.
If the movement does actually exist, as the
Daily News reports, it will possibly die out as
quickly as it arose. In any case it will certainly
not result in Negroes being allowed admission to
the Law School at Chapel Hill.
The University Looks
Toward a School of Art
It looks as though the University is going to
have a school of art after all. It may not com
pare with the School of Fine Arts that President
Chase established at Illinois when he was there,
but it is undoubtedly a good beginning.
The idea was formed when McLean, a well
known artist from Raleigh, made a talk in the
Playmakers theatre. It was arranged that Mc
Lean should meet the students of the University
who were interested in forming an art school.
Sixteen students presented themselves at the
meeting. Hours for classes were arranged, and
at present the usage of pencil, water-color, and
charcoal is being studied.
But art interest should not end at classes. The
are student and other students of the University
should combine to form an art club. Nothing is
more influential than association with people who
are interested in the same line. Several' years
ago, an art club was established on the Hill. Art
exhibits were conducted, and student interest
ran high. Last year, the sole remaining mem
ber graduated, leaving as reminded of the days
of the art club, the two masks in the Green
Room of the Playmakers theatre. This last
member, Edward Gibson, expressed his regrets
at the lack of interest that the students showed
in the way of art. He hoped that some day the
students would show enough interest to found
another club.
0
A couple of years ago, when the artist Steene
was in Chapel Hill, Robert Mason attempted to
start art classes. The artist was willing, but the
student body showed no desire to take lessons.
This year, the Playmakers brought McLean.
It is to be hoped that his classes are a success.
If they are, a Fine Arts School will probably be
established in the University. That is why an
art club should be established. It would keep up
the student interest until the time is ripe for
the opening of the school. There are many stu
dents here who have long been wishing for this
club but have never gathered enough nerve to
found one themselves. - This is the outlet which
students have been awaiting. This can be the
rebuilding '.of the cultural interest which stu
dents showed in this school not so long ago.
-H.C.P.
Vivat
Rex '
If ever a chief magistrate of these United
States needed to be invested with plenary powers
for setting up new, tearing down old, and recon
structing and reorganizing in general all gov
ernmental machinery, the time is now and the
man upon whom these broad powers should de
volve, Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Not so
much because he has demonstrated his ability
to deal successfully with the issues which con
front the nation, but because the present machin
ery has proved far too clumsy and too unwieldy
to meet the needs that press down so sorely.
Congress, though doubtless being composed of
some of the most brilliant and able men in the
country, is too much interested in politics to
concentrate en masse upon the needs of the
nation. There are too many conflicting opinions
to be contended with, too many petty jealousies
between different factions and sections, for con
certed action.
(With a small body of experts to advise him,
the new president can accomplish more at one
stroke of the pen than the entire congress as
sembled in a whole term. This is no time for
squabbling, no time for playing politics; action
is needed and needed badly. 4
" In spite of. the heroic campaign carried on by
the newspapers to preserve the morale of the
people, it is apparent to the masses that no up
turn in the business ' world is in sight. Re
assurance and promises are of little avail to the!
farmer when his property is sold' from his grasp
for a pittance, when he sees his fellows in the
industrial field hungry, while products rot by the
wholesale in his barns and granaries, while he
himself, suffers from the lack of the finished
goods which they produce. The investor who
finds his hard earned stocks and bonds only
O
vlt Times
By Don Shoemaker
With Contemporaries
Buchmanism
. There has arisen a religious movement in the
ast twenty years which is gaining converts rap
idly in every continent and now has a strong
hold in the United States and Europe. This move
ment is known as the Oxford Group or First
Century Christian Fellowship or more commonly,
Buchmanism.
Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, former Y. M. C. A.
secretary at Pennsylvania State College and
originator of this cult, has won his converts, who
are said to number hundreds of thousands, by
personal magnetism.
The most outstanding feature of this move
ment is the holding of "house parties" which in
reality might" be called conventions. The most
famous house party was held at Bnarclme
Manor, New York, last year. Many noted men
and women attended from all parts of the world.
Among them were Carol Vrooman, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture under President Wilson,
Count John Benedict of Holland, Colonel and
Mrs. H. D. Belgrave of London.
The program of these house parties includes
the morning silent prayer or communication with
God for instructions for the day and afternoon
sessions for the hearing of short talks by ex
perts, clergymen and laymen who are familiar
with the movement. ,In the evening there is a
fireside discussion with public confession of sins
by the members. Because these confessions
tended to emphasize sex experiences, gambling
and drinking, Buchmanism became rather sen
sational and was laughed at as a meeting where
each person tried to outdo the others in con
fessing his sins. "
i
Dr. Buchman seeks his converts from the
higher classes in Europe he has won over many
of the nobility including Queen Marie of Ruma
nia, and in the United States he works with
socially, politically, and financially prominent
men and women in the east. - He also has gone
to many eastern college campuses where he has
created quite a furore among students.
The nation-wide criticism to Buchmanism is
that it pictures. God as a solicitious Grandfather
who sends down hourly directions to his favorites
and there is too much emphasis on confession to
human hearers .-Daily Kansan.
'Ware the Greeks
It was, they tell us, an unusu
ally hot session of the South
Carolina House of Representa
tives, but one old gent oyer in a
corner had dozed off, oblivious of
the fate of a mighty common
wealths As he dozed, a bill came
forward to abolish fraternities
on the University of South Caro
lina campus. Orations pro and
con on the Greek letter question
stirred the chamber.
The old man awoke to hear
something about "Greeks," rub
bed his eyes, and lumbered to his
feet. "Mister Speaker," he
shouted, "I'll be switched if my
son stays at a doggone school
full of wops."
Lulu Again
The Lady knownas Lulu, than j
whom there is none more mys
terious to us, has forsaken this
department to join the staff of
the Carolina Buccaneer, the edi
tor of this sheet requests us to
state. The Buccaneer is that
odd magazine ? with the queer
drawings. You may have seen
it.
Shavings
The Homecraft Institute of
New York will make your por
trait into a jig saw puzzle, four
sets for a quid . . . plug nickles,
buttons and pieces of glass are
frequently found in the honor
apple box in the Y lobby . . .
Camels at ten cents a pack won't
hurt R. J. Reynolds . . . they
could close shop for two years
and still pay thirty millions in
dividends yearly with accumu
lated undivided profits . . . Sail
ing at the same rate of speed, a
fleet of battleships from Tokyo
eould reach San Diego two hours
before a similar fleet sailing
from the Panama Canal . . .
radio broadcasting on a beam of
ordinary light with no connect
ing wires or radio currents, is
now possible for a distance of
thirty miles ... The Playmaker
theatre was once a stable for
cavalry horses of Sheridan's
army , . '. A college basketball
team in Connecticutt has aver-
aged 105 points per game to
date . . . The Buccaneer has ar
ranged its ninth anniversary
banquet for February, but it
was founded in March.
Depression A.D.
An enterprising Ohio State
University pedagog tells us that
"In 33 A.D. the Roman Empire
experienced a panic not unlike
the one with which the world is
now wrestling , . . characterized
by racketeering, official corrup
tion, business failures, loss of
investments in both domestic
and foreign securities, bank fail
ures, Bankruptcies, and even
something like a Reconstruction
Finance Corporation . . ."
Nothing new under the sun,
we suppose. Same old world,
though there's only one Huey
Long, but same old world. So
we'll throw down our scroll now
and button on our new camel's
hair toga. Temrms fugit. See
you at the baths.
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The Ink Well
By Nelson Robbins
In the past few days, this de
partment has learned that right
here in the University exists a
situation calculated to bring
tears to the eyes of a wooden
Indian. In fact, this deplorable
state of affairs is so cruel and
inhuman that even a columnist
shudders to think of it. Were
the same thing to be found in
any state penitentiary in the
land, the humane societies would
rear upon their collective hind
legs and howl the government
out of existence. Slavery, beside
it, is- a condition approaching
Nirvana.
In certain class rooms in
this great University where,
formerly, a gentleman could
spend four or more years in en
joyable leisure and comfort, stu
dents are now being compelled
to sit. for 53 minutes a day on
hard wooden stools, like they sat
upon at home when -they went
into the dining room. Stools,
mind you. Not chairs or bench
es or pews, but round, uncom
fortable stools without backs.
Here, these noble young mar
tyrs, sit in worse agony than
any galley slave ever was forced
to endure. Lower and lower
they slump down, down, down.
When the gong rings for dis
missal, they lose valuable sec
onds getting their twisted bodies
straightened out seconds that
might be gainfully spent in loit
ering gracefully about the cam
pus walks', practicing a new cig
arette flick.
It is said that the cracking and
snapping of joints may be heard
clear across the halls when
these classes rise to leave. No
one could hear this and remain
unmoved. v
The department of the Uni
versity mainly responsible for
this modern form of torture is
rioted for its efficiency, kindness
and humanity. How little the
world knows of the oppression,
the suffering, the maiming of
tender little bodies and all that
goes on behind lecture hall and
laboratory doors.
Is it not enough that our class
rooms have no coat hangers, no
upholstery, no foot-rests, no
spitoons, and no tuning out sys
tems for dry lectures, without
the added misery of hard stools
that have no backs? Alack-a-day,
and woe is me. Was it for
this that we left our fathers'
farms? Is there no justice, no
mercy, "no pity in this cruel
world ? Lend me your shoulder,
friend, while I weep quietly for
a spell.
Our parents did not send us to
school to be tormented and tor
tured and have our poor spines
curved into naif moons. Not for
this was the old log cabin mort
gaged. Think how dear, wrink
led old mothers would go down
to their graves in grief and sor
row, if they knew. Trustees,
dear trustees, save our boys and
girls. -
In these times of depression
and budget-slashing, perhaps it
is too much to ask that chairs
might be substituted for the
stools, but the least that can be
done is to move them out into
the arboretum so that students
in the class rooms referred to
above might sit on the floor and
lean back against the walls.
Carl W. Dennis
Back in
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NEGRO APPLICANTS
(Continued from first page)
are precedents which make these
applicants believe that they real
ly have a case at law," the re
port continued.
The suit will be brought by
the "aggressive wing" of Negro
citizens in the state who "have
talked this procedure over with
some of the best IawTyers in the
United States," according to the
Daily News.
"Another group . . . does not
favor the university plan," mak
ing a "fine distinction between
the separate school systems of
the races and the racial segrega
tions at the higher institutions
of learning . . . but they do not
think the state law denies the
University law courses to the
Negro."
The Negroes do not believe
they will . win the University
case "at the doors of the law
school," nor do they "expect to
make good on the mandamus,"
according to the account.
The same thing was tried by
Negroes of Missouri and Dela
ware. They did not gain admitt
ance to these institutions, but
they won a law suit which re
quired these states ' to supply
tuition for Negroes in other in
stitutions. "This," declared the
story, "is exactly what these
postulants hope to make of the
present case."
Other prominent Negroes do
not want admission to white
schools, "but Negro schools ade
quately equipped and maintain
ed." Appeal to the state "to enact
the spirit of the constitution
which gives the Negro equal ac
comodations in the enjoyment of
institutions which he cannot
share with the white man" is
favored by "milder Negro lead
ership," but ". . . unless the two
Negro lawyers who have the
case now, decide to follow their
elders ... there should be some
sort of legal procedure within a
few days."
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