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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, March 16, 15
Cije JDatlp tSTar Heel
The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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ison, W. R. Eddleman, J. D. Winslow, T. H. Walker,
Donoh Hanks, Carl Thompson.
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had before: the Governor's statement that the
income from new taxes should '"be earmarked
for education." E.C.D.
.Business Staff
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: L. L. HUTCHISON
Thursday, March 16, 1933
For a Carolina
Follies
With the success of the University Depression
Party still a topic of comment, it is increasingly
apparent that the mass participation of the stu
dent body in an all-University venture is highly
conducive to a spirit of unity within the under
graduate ranks. Saturday night's performance
was the first manifestation of what may be
righteously and unblushingly termed "school
spirit" since the decline of the Cheerios under
the famed Kay Kyser.
These expressions have evoked the suggestion
that the Student Entertainment Committee spon
sor some sort of entertainment written and acted
by members of the student body. It has been
pointed out that a very small portion of. the fee
paid by every student could be diverged into a
fund for some such venture as a University
musical show, with scenery, music, costume, and
directorial costs to be met by the fund. It would
take little effort to write and cast a burlesque
show or a musical comedy, and obtain the ser
vices of seventy-five students to design scenery,
assist with the direction and music, and carry
the principal roles.
Such a program could only be undertaken with
the whole-hearted cooperation of undergraduate
body. It would, of course, parallel the programs
of the now defunct Wigue and Masque Club
which met with such success in a similar ven
ture. With a large sum of money that might be
utilized for this purpose at hand subject to the
approval of the Student Entertainment Commit
tee, and excellent musical and dramatic resources
available, an All-University Show might be a
worth-while venture. D.C.S.
"I Ain't Goin' to College
To Be a Soldier "
College men, who will constitute one of the
first consignments of cannon fodder in another
war, must be keenly interested in President
Roosevelt's belief that the cause of disarmament
has come to a crisis, and that the United States
should do all in 'her power to save the present
Geneva Conference from failure, and what is
most important, save the world from the arms
race that would result from the Conference's
failure, which could have but one ending mil
lions of dead and wounded, crushing burdens of
debt and taxation, disease, crime, depression
the whole revolting aftermath of the last war
in still more horrible proportions.
Roosevelt will follow a policy very beneficial
for his country if he does all he can for the cause
of world peace in the present crisis. A general
war in Europe would be almost sure to involve
this country just as it did in 1917. America
didn't want the war then, but got it just the
same. In 1914 and 1917 it was too late to pre
vent the conflict. Soon it will be too late to pre
vent the future one that must come if we cannot
do something now.
Prevention of war must come by sublimating
the national interests of national states, in a
world of international anarchy, to the interest
of a United States of the World that is con
ceived in a spirit of mutual benefit and coopera
tion. Fantastic as it may seem today, it is the
only alternative to continuous war and contin
uous degeneration of the human race. Before
the American constitution was ratified in 1789,
what is now a great and peaceful nation con
sisted of thirteen nations suffering from the
same internation anarchy that afflicts the world
today.
It is easy to argue that to unite all the nations
will be infinitely harder than to unite thirteen
American states. True, but the answer is that
the task must be consummated. It is not a ques
tion of what is the easiest solution. There is
only one solution, and it is not easy. But when
world public opinion clearly sees that only in
a world government will it find refuge from the
terrible spectre of war, then world public opinion
will find ways to transcend the obstacles.
In world public opinion, of which college opin
ion is an important part, the salvation is to be
found. A public that is determined not to go to
war, a public that can understand the under-
ying causes of war and can see their pettiness
and selfishness, will not go to war. And a public
that will interest itself in foreign relations will
not allow vested interests to thrust a war upon
it. For what Walter Lippman said in 1915 is
still true today:
". . . People take almost no interest in foreign
affairs, with the result that their management
goes by default to a small coalition of aristo
cratic, military, bureaucratic, and exploiting in
terests." D.B.
"Earmarked
For Education"
With the General Assembly at an impasse,
Governor J. C. B. Ehrinehaus came forward
Monday night with a program to solve the state's
financial problems. His plan placed particular
emphasis on the passage of a sales tax and the
establishment of a state-supported eight months
school. Opposition to a sales tax has come prin
cipally from the merchants, says the Governor.
His plan is to put the sales tax in such form that
it may be easily passed on by the merchants.
He wishes to relieve the local tax burden by hav
ing the state take over, in an economical fashion,
the support of the eight months school term.
. To the University, the significant statement in
Governor Ehringhaus's statement was his pro
posal to "earmark for education" the funds
brought in by the proposed sales tax. He point
ed out the danger of an irreparable impairment
of the functions of state departments and insti
tutions if appropriations were too severely
slashed. It is his intention that if new taxation
is levied the state's public schools and higher
educational institutions shall receive their just
share.
It is not yet known how the Legislature wil
receive the Governor's proposals. As it has been
previously stated in these columns, however,
there exists in the state no ready source of rev
enue other than a tax on sales. If the Legisla
ture intends to secure additional revenue, it can
all things being considered, do no other than pass
a sales tax. And as it has also been previously
predicted here, the University will receive its
portion of the new revenues. We have now
something to bolster that hope that we have not
With Contemporaries
The New Pedagogy
H. L. Mencken, in his chosen role of fiery icon
oclast, sears the opening pages of the latest
Mercury with an attack on the American public
school. The reason for his diatribe, needless to
say, is the depression. The public schools, it ap
pears, are spending now about $100 per child
each year, where in 1880 they spent $5. Obvious
ly, such an increase as this offers a loophole to
one in search of reductions, if only it can be
shown to be unjustified. This task Mr. Mencken
assumes, asking the natural question: "Has the
increase in intelligence among the products of the
schools been at all comparable to the increase in
the cost of education?"
This first question he answers, as the majority
would, in the negative, claiming that the high-
school graduate of today is, if anything, more
stereotyped and dull than his predecessor. If this
is true, or even partly true, the search for the
leak must be elsewhere. Mr. Mencken finds this
cause of waste in the growth of special classes
for the backward and in the large number of
various sorts of experts which infest every mod
ern school. Actually, there is another and even
worse cause for growing expenditures: this is
the movement toward a large number of courses
in every conceivable subject. This innovation
has had two evil effects: it has raised the cost of
an education, and it has led the present genera
tions too far from the benefits of a classica
training.
Mr. Mencken's arguments are a bit high-
strung; they savor of viciousness. But it is evi
dent that he has struck a blow in the right place.
though he may have struck too hard. From a
purely intellectual point of view, the schools need
revision. And from the standpoint of financia
expediency, they are more than wasteful. For
this hard-spent money, the citizens are given, as
Mr. Mencken says, the sight of a myriad pala
tial buildings, "out of each vomited the standard
product of the new Pedagogy
. . an endless procession 01
adolescents who have been
tcmorht AfPTVViiTio- q jj VP that
which is true, and outfitted with
every trick save tnose wmcu
are socially useful." Harvard
Crimson.
Radio Sadists
One of the minor forms of tor
ture inflicted upon innocent peo
ple today is the barrage of prize
contest announcements that ac
company the majority of pro
grams broadcast over the radio.
Depression-hit families which
settle down before their radio
to try to forget their monetary
difficulties and their other
troubles that financial freedom
would ameliorate, find their in
tentions defeated by the glowing
tales of "hundreds of dollars in
money cash money for you
and your children" that fruity-
voiced announcers hurl at their
defenseless ears at 200 words a
minute. Hopes for distraction
hrough an evening of radio mu
sic and entertainment are per
manently dispelled by the vis
ions conjured by the cheery
speakers who make it obvious
that a child's mind and a couple
hours' easy work thinking up
three-letter words or writing a
50-word essay will win several
hundred dollars.
An even stronger builder of
false hopes is the heartless radio
sponsor who bedevils the listen
ers to his program with the idea
hat they can become rich if they
will only break down and write
the two last lines of a limerick
that is exasperatingly tempting
in its juvenile senselessness.
The listeners whose only fault
is that he bought a radio and
wants to use it in order to jus
tify his purchase, can do noth
ing about the programs that are
so eager to give away money.
No matter how many of his kind
write indignantly and pleading
ly to the sponsor to stop being
so generous with his money,
they will be far outnumbered by
thousands of their moron-mind
ed fellowmen who cannot resist
entering every contest they hear,
although they never win and al
though they have been shown
time and again that many of the
contests are won by fictitious in
dividuals. The sponsor sees the
heaps of entries and the empty
cartons that accompany them
and represent so many pur
chases, he smiles satisfiedly, and
announces a new contest, "rich
er" in prizes than ever before.
He considers himself a philan
thropist distributing largess to
the improvident, and would be
deeply hurt and irate if he were
called a racketeer.
Evidently the only remedy
lies with the radio employees
who pass on the announcements
tnrougn tne unieeimg micro
phone. We wish more radio
hirelings had the self-respect
and the thought for their listen
ers that Ben Bernie displayed
when he refused to give any
longer the first lines to a lim
erick that his malt sponsor
wanted Bernie-listeners to com
plete. Syracuse Daily Orange.
Life and Letters
By Edith Harbour
Lamp or Door-Mat?
One of the obvious and un-
avoidable drawbacks of an all
pervading spirit of Democracy
is the vast, solid and spinx-like
tyranny of the mediocre. Bobbie
Burns delighted in singing the
praise of the worth and good
ness of the common man and if
there was one thing that Burns
did not possess it was medi
ocrity.
The university aims at turn
ing out for the service of man
kind as large a number as pos
sible of people who are quite dis
tinctly above the herd-average
and so the university, that dare3
to profess this aim, is severely
criticised by the crowd, which
stops in its monotonous ruWike
existence long enough to mutter
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Banks are what people put
money in and can't get it out
again. Which sounds like the
first sentence of little Mary's
theme on the subject of the
stronger sex "Men are what
women marry." Or vice versa.
Or vice without the Latin verses.
Which sounds decidedly buc
caneerish. And probably is.
To return to banks. Yes, by
all means return whatever por
tion of the world's supply of
gold you may happen to have to
the banks else you run the risk
of becoming what F. D. R. terms
"unfashionable." "Metropolitan
Movies," featured in The World
Telegram, depicts a lady well
past middle age returning to a
reopened bank a small gold coin.
"If s a five dollar gold piece I re
ceived on my fifth birthday," she
said sadly. She was afraid of
being arrested for hoarding.
The nation, yearning for a
man of action, discovered that
the new president could give a
fair imitation of Mussolini (see
rotogravure section of Sunday's
New York Times for pictures
which reveal the upturned chin
and iron jaw). And the stu
dents of this University, tempor
arily denied their spring vaca
tion, discovered that a banking
holiday could easily be turned in
to a Roman holiday in the form
of a depression week-end.
Flourishing in these trying
times are the punsters. Before
the presidential proclamation
suspending bank operations for
an indefinite period they had re
ferred to Woodin nickels in hon
or of the new Secretary of the
Treasury, but now they are sug
gesting that perhaps the strong
est banks in this western hemi
sphere are the Grand Banks of
Newfoundland. In like vein I
suppose the best safety deposit
vault in existence is Davy Jones'
locker. And it may be the
Scotch in me, but I have an un
canny suspicion that the tightest
financial institutions across the
seas are yon bonny banks of
auld Scotland. News flash from
Ohio : Prospective depositors are
hereby warned that the banks of
the Wabash are unsafe.
Hysteria generally reigns
when a bank fails. Crowds mill
around the closed doors. Threats
are made, innuendoes noised
abroad. And those who wail the
loudest have lost the least. The
surprising feature of the recent
crisis is that it was taken so
genially. "I'm banking on you,"
said one college boy to another
as he deliberated stole his
friend's last dollar and went his
merry way.
A plumber in a small town re
ceived an emergency call and,
grabbing his kit of tools, rushed
to the address given. There was
nothing wrong with the plumb-
mg, out a disgruntled father
and an anxious mother could not
get the baby's bank open. Were
they robbing Peter to pay Paul?
There were Negroes who, hav
ing heard the phrase "money
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cxiangers in tne temple" from
Roosevelt's inaugural address
XT 1. j
wiougnt xnat money could be
procured at the churches now
that the banks were closed.
And if money is the root of al
evil as it is reputed to be I know
lots of people who would like to
be positively wicked for
change. Oh, don't bother. Keep
tne cnange.
vit Times
By Don Shoemaker
Ides of March
Yesterday, we note with some
pride in our meager knowledge
of Roman history, was the Id
of March. And like that Ids
of March of old, when Julius
Caesar went down in history &s
Rome's most stuck up emperor,
thunder and lightnin' rolle-i
across the skies. It also rained
early in the morning.
The bank holiday was still
more or less on and there vas
only four dollars in cash in the
University treasury. Two rine
trees in front of Graham Me
morial building were cut down
to make room for a walk. Tne
earthquake in Southern Cali
fornia still rumbled slightly and
a corporal in the Chinese army
named Ching-Wang-Hang fell
off the Great Wall and broke his
neck when a peal of thunder
rolled down from Jehol.
Trees
Mr. J. F. A., one of our old
line editorial writers reflects oa
the tree-cutting in front of Gra
ham Memorial :
"Paths are made by fools l&e
me,
But only God should cut a tree."
Reply
The item that next commands
our attention has already been
well cared for by Messrs. Al
bright and Daniel, but we feel
that some sort of public notice
should be taken.
From The New Yorker of
March 11 comes the statement
in connection with an article
"Profiles" on George Gordon
Battle, New York alumnus of
this University: "Young Gordon
Battle, educated first by a gov
erness, and later at Hanover
Academy in Virginia and at th
. ..
University of Virginia, artist
cratic seat of learning where
legions of Battles had preceded
him . . ."
The aforementioned Mr. Dan
iel and Mr. Albright wrote a let
ter several days ago to the pro
prietors of the magazine point
ing out that George Gordon
Battle, though he graduated at
the University of Virginia, was
educated at the University of
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A questionnaire for the id-n
tification of fifty famous Ameri
cans was recently given to 1
class in government at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma; Al Ha
pone's name was the only one
correctly identified by all stu
aenis. juetiigti Brovm and
White (NSFA)
OUTSTANDING RADIO
BROADCASTS
Thursday, March 16
5:00 George Hall orchestra,
WABC CBS.
6:00 Current events, H. V.
Kaltenborn, WABC.
8:00 Rudy Vallee orchestra,
WEAF NBC.
9:00 Ruth Etting, songs,
WABC.
9:30 Colonel Stoopnagle and
Budd, droll comedians, WABC.
10:00 Jack Pearl and "Shar-
lie," comedians, Lyman orches
tra, WEAF.
10:00 The Foreign Legion,
sketch, WABC.
11:00 Symphony orchestra,
WABC.
11:30 Isham Jones orchestra,
WABC.
12:05 Cab Calloway orchestra,
WEAF.
12:30 McCoy orch., WABC.
H. V. Kaltenborn, Columbia
news comentator, who is heard
tonight at 6:00, has been on the
air longer than any other speak
er of the Lowell Thomas ilk. A
veteran newspaperman, Kalten
born is one of the best of Col
umbia's artists.
Rudy Vallee, despite every
thing, always. has a good musi
cal program with A-l coined?
In a recent program Rudy spoe
of the governor of North Caro
lina as "Governor Max Ehri'
haus"; but such is fame.""
D.C.S.
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