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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Saturday, March 18, 19:
Cije 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
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. En
tered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel
Hill, N. O, 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.
Geo. W. Wilson, Jr
R. D. McMillan, Jr....
..Editor
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Editorial Staff
EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemaker, chairman; E. C.
Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, B. B,
Perry, A. T. Dill, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster, W. A.
Sigmon, Robert Berryman, F. P. Gaskins.
CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutch
ison, W. R. Eddleman, J. D. Winslow, T. H. Walker,
Donoh Hanks, Carl Thompson.
DESK MEN Nelson Robbins
errantry" the losing of oneself in a cause
is characteristic of the Fascist movement.
(Incidentally, it is interesting to note here
the connotation of the term Socialist in the mind
of the average American and the average Ger
man. In this country there is a strong prejudice
against the word ; whereas in Germany the word
smacks so much of constructive reform and pro
gressive, judicious legislation that even the Fas
cists or Nazis arch enemies of Marxian doc
trines, the foundation of Socialism have adopt
ed the nom de politique of "National Socialists.")
With the rise of the Hitlerites to power, we
witness one more slap at the now almost tragi
cally farcical catch-phrase we used in our de
luded war-time romancing: "Making the World
Safe for Democracy." Junkerism, universal mili
tary service, re-armament, and Chauvanism are
re-ascendent to mock at the ideals of -Woodrow
It remains to be seen whether Hitler possesses
FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugarman, chairman; Nel- Wilson. A prospect of rampant nationalism and
son Lansdale, Milton Stoll, Irving D. Suss, Eleanor saber-rattling from Germany now seems in the
rphpts nPAPTMFMT-nnibnm rw. Bill Ander- offing; persecution of Jews and Communists will
son, J. H. Morris, Lawrence Thompson, Morrie Long, be the order of the day,
Crampten Trainer, Lane Fulenwider, Jimmy Me-
Gurk. Jack Bessen.
REPORTERS James B. Craighill, Raymond Barron, the ability to organize and to integrate the forces
Walter Hargett, James W. Keel, D. M. Humphrey, 0f public opinion in his favor to compensate for
Allsbrook. J. C. Murphy, Jack Lowe, W. C. Durfee, the lamentable conditions which prevail m the
A. Stein. ' country. Harry Elmer Barnes has predicted a
Business Staff Communist revolution following the Fascist re-
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Thomas Worth, Mgr. gime. In that case, it seems likely that unless
OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Ass't. Bus. Mgr; Ran- something radical is accomplished in the way
rMAUZ,lvt f spiking the guns of German discontent, the
Mgr.; W. B. Robeson; Want Ad Mgr.; L. E. Brooks, future appears extremely dark for European
Armistead Maupm, J. T. Barnard, J. L. bprunt. rieacp V T L
t t t nfwnrrTOTXTn cm A Trim TT T -.r A jJcciCt". V .tl .i-J.
ler French, Esley Anderson, Joe Mason, J. Kalto ar-
low, W. Smith.
CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: T. H. WALKER
Saturday, March 18, 1933
Tocsin
President Frank Graham has sounded the toc
sin in his appeal to the student body to enlist
in the campaign against the proposed 42.8 per
cent reduction in state appropriations laced on
the University and public education. The problem
posal that declares itself so
frankly to be a panacea, and it
is extremely doubtful that "The
Long Plan" could be engineered
past Congress. But aside from
the extravagant claims of his
Plan, it may be safely stated
that we have not yet realized the
extent to which the income tax
can be used as a federal mea
sure. Andrew Carnegie, for in
stance, recognized this by his
belief in a fifty per cent tax on
income over one million dollars.
Is Huey, as we are so prone to
gather from his senatorial an
tics, all "hooey?" A.T.D.
vit 1 lines
By Don Shoemaker
Lacking in the
Present System
Claiming that they do not have "sufficient of the University administration has become the
time" many professors are denying their stu- personal problem of every student in Chapel Hill.
dents the innumerable benefits to be obtained In solving his own problem, the student will aid
from weekly, or bi-monthly conferences. In the cause of public education in the state, which
cases where the class enrollment is so large that in the present crisis threatens to reach a peril
such an arrangement would be impossible, the ously low ebb unless immediate action is taken
professors have an excuse for their neglect. But All students should have a part in that action
when the number of students in the class is small by writing, not to their parents alone, but to
enough to allow these conferences without un- friends throughout the state, defending public
due trouble to the instructors, there is no reason education against the proposed drastic cut. The
why they should not be encouraged. student on the campus now has an effective wea-
As a matter of fact, as one nhilosonhv nrof es- V with which he 7 do battle with the forces
sor has expressed it, the teachers owe it to their that endanger his very existence at the Univer-
students to irive. them as much time in confer- Sltv-
ences as the pupils themselves desire. But so Many parents of University students are not
seldom are prof essors found who follow this pol- cognizant of the gravity of the situation
iVv. that whpn the students are fortunate enough which confronts the University administration.
to have such a teacher, they are at a loss to know By enlightening and winning the interest of these
how to make the best use of the faculty-student People the student body will indirectly exert an
conference. The ideal plan, of course, would be influence upon the General Assembly which may
one whir armroaches the one used at Oxford. Pve efficacious in relieving the strain m the
atmosnhere around the business office. Inter-
with tutors. These tutors even live in the houses, ested persons in the state should be made to real
as they are called, with the students, being ever that whereas educational institutions may be
ready to confer with them on questions coming sadly disparaged or even abolished m insufficient
up in their study. Recently Harvard has installed appropriation, a great liberal university is not
a similar arrangement, and thus far it has proved fl species of phoenix which may arise again over
most satisfactory " mt Irom its own asnes.
It is entirely out of the question for the Uni- The University has acquired prestige over a
versity of North Carolina to adopt such an ar- Penoa oi years m wmcn mnauons ana aepres
rane-ement. For to do so would reauire an in- sions taken together have but given it a tradi
crease in the number of faculty members as well tion of solidarity. These shall not perish now
as a considerable increase in. the appropriation because a few near-sighted legislators have not
from the state. A move of this sort at the pres- vision enough to see that in their frantic though
ent time is entirely but of the question; earnest struggle to balance the budget tney are
Tint. t. least the nrofessors here can make blindly attempting to undo in part all that has
enough sacrifice of their time so as to allow regu- been achieved in the cause of literacy m the state
lar student conferences. It is true that the stu- and in the south. Time after time the students
dents are now at all times welcomed when they of the University have rallied to the call of their
wish to confer with the instructors on various president and now, as in times past, they shall
questions. There are numerous men in the stu
dent body, however, who do not take advantage
of this opportunity, and it is the part of the
faculty members themselves to encourage these
personal sessions. This can only be done by re
quired faculty-student conferences.
Actually there are three means by which stu
Out of the Kegs
By Christmas
Beer by April ! That's what
the boys in Washington have
promised us. They first set it at
3.2 per cent, but the Senate
thought that the folks back
home could stand another cut of
.15 per cent, the people being
used to cuts. So beer will come
back, a little weak from legisla
tion and thirteen years stagnation.
What worries this depart
ment is the beer question in
Chapel Hill. Will beer come to
Chapel Hill in the balmy days of
an April ?Spring? Where will it
be sold? Will chapel hour be
dope time or beer time? All these
questions and many others will
be answered on our next broad
cast.
not fail him. E.H.B.
Not the Usual
Huey
The gentleman from Louisiana's newest prop
aganda in favor of his schemes for a reorganiza
tion of wealth distribution comes out under the
j " i Kv name of "The Long Plan," which he explains
::::: .z,rr a pted handbm distributed through
j j v , . , a rronnal tne mai1- Senator Huey's opening sentence is
ture, and the third is by means of the personal . . a , T . . , T
, j x... oo t promising enough: "With the one law which I
mtci views uciwccii oiuucuu , , . n t
j , , , lo za rt -nv. them propose to suDmit tne mmuie .ugiws uicclb, a
deny the students this last plan is to roo tnem p- - ,u; u ...u-
. a...., v,ft,v wawioi thmk most of our difficulties will be brought to
oi an essentia unase ux txxxx wuuwvuui
-
development.
an almost immediate end."
In brief, the Kingfish proposes to tax away
excess wealth. First, he wishes to levy a tax
on fortunes above ten million dollars, graduated
Spiking
The Guns
Amid the clamor and hubbub arising from our so that when a fortune of one hundred millions
national financial crisis, the installation of a new is reached, the levy will take all the balance
president, beer bills, and other occurrences of a above that sum. Secondly, there will be an in
less formidable nature, can be heard the faint heritance tax, also graduated, which will pre
rumblings of the major trends in the making of vent any person from inheriting a fortune over
man's social history. five million dollars. And thirdly, he proposes a
One of these trends has been the gradual more effective use of the income tax to the extent
atrophy of the democratic spirit since the war. that no individual will be permitted to keep more
This has been due usually, but 'not always, to than one million dollars from earnings of one
the economic plight of the various nations. At year. Senator Huey estimates that "The Long
the present time, the classic example is Germany. Plan will bring in to the Federal treasury ap-
Beset by factionalism, stifled by the manifestly proximately fifteen million dollars per year.
unfair treaty of Versailles, and plagued by eco- which revenue he proposes to spend mainly for
nomic evils, Germany has turned to the fantastic public works, thus creating jobs for the unem
Adolf Hitler in a desperate attempt -to achieve ployed.
'some sort of unified national policy. The highly After the technocracy fiasco, the American
romantic appeal and the strong flavor of "knight- public will undoubtedly be more wary of a pro-
iterature
The four most popular vol
umes in the Bull's Head in peda
gogical circles are The Student
Fraternity Murder, The Kennel
Murder Case, The Red Castle
Mystery, and Dr. Priestley Lays
a Trap. The above mentioned
quartet sees pretty active cir
culation in faculty circles, al
though we understand that the
young professors don't care for
mystery stories much; read
more weighty works that im
prove and stimulate the mind.
Dr. Bell's Scotty pup nearly
wrecked one of the volumes, The
Student Fraternity Murder.
which might mean something or
other. Drs. Van Hecke. Hender
son, Caldwell, Pearson, Howell,
and Paine are the best mystery
story fans, however. They all
ike 'em slightly gory but in
volved in plot. That's why
Egyptian Cross fell out of favor
with the professors. It was so
gory it kept most of them awake
nights, which is a bad thing for
anybody in the English depart
ment who teaches an eight-thir
ty class.
Or Carl Sandburg and William
. Morris,
Or Gertrude Stein and Latin's
Horace,
Or Robinson, Edward A.
Or T. S. Eliot and Percy Mac-
Kaye,
Or Dotty Parker and Boden-
heim
Or Robinson Jeffers and Oppen-
heim
But if you must write modern
trash
May Allah keep you from Og
den Nash. '
Autopsy
By Robert Berryman
Poesy
The Poets' Corner got togeth
er the other evening in the Caro
lina Magazine office and discuss
ed ways and means of penning
prize-winning odes for Poetry, a
college anthology which the
Poets Guild will publish this
summer at the World's Fair. A
spy with a long red beard and a
green hat, doing under cover
"i- n -i i
worn ior tnis department, re
ports that there were about
seven poets present (he couldn't
be sure, 'cause his hair kept
falling down over his eyes) , in
cluding the folks who write
about trees, old shoes, rain on
tne window-pane, etc. He also
says that the headquarters of
the Poets Guild is on Christa
dora street (New York), which
is rather a poetic location.
But we wish the poets well,
ana send this little blessing:
Success, success, to all you mivs
Here's hoping you may win the
prize
With odes inspiring and sonnets
witty
To satisfy the Guild committee.
IT
inow aii can't write like Miss
Millay,
Or Bobby Frost and Steve Benet,
NEXT TO GODLINESS?
Several days ago, Joe Smith,
University student, went to the
Y. M. C. A. to get his laundry.
His supply of clean shirts was
almost gone, so he needed his
last laundry bundle of the term.
Now, the laundry department
is in the habit of refunding the
balance of each student's laun
dry deposit in the lobby of the
Y, and of distributing the last
bundles by having each student
call at another room in the Y
and paying cash. Joe Smith had
no cash money for the banks
were closed, and, besides, he
rarely had much cash money at
any time, for he was a self-help
student and lived from hand to
mouth.
When he went to the desk
where he was accustomed to .re
ceiving his refund check, he
found it unoccupied. Instead,
there was a huge ugly sign : RE
FUNDS WILL NOT BE MADE
UNTIL CLOSE OF BANK
HOLIDAY.
The laundry owed him ap
proximately three dollars as a
refund he was a thrifty boy,
and washed many of his clothes
in his own room. He went to
the window to receive his laun
dry bundle and found another
sign, equally huge and equally
ugly. It read: "Unless Spring
term registration slip is pro
duced, laundry packages will be
held for cash."
Joe Smith, by the University
schedule was not due to register
for three days but he needed a
clean shirt now. He asked the
price of his bundle. "Eighty-
eight cents," he was told.
"You owe me about three dol
lars," Joe said to the stern and
unbeautiful woman with pencil
stuck in her hair, the laundry's
representative, "Couldn't you
let me have my bundle and take
the eighty-eight cents out of the
three dollars which you have of
mine?"
"No," said the unsmiling
laundry sentinel.
So, Joe Smith, dejected at
having to wear his not-so-clean
shirt three days more, shuffled
out of the Y's front door . . J
There were many Joe Smiths
last week. It is doubtful that
their plight will cause the least
of pangs to the hearts of those
who live from the laundry's
bounty. Joe Smiths are an un
complaining lot; they are philo
sophicthey could not be other
wise and yet remain in school as
self-help students.
But if the laundry persists in
its high-handed and unsym
pathetic attitude, assumed not
only in this example of stupid
ity but in many other casts,
some day, some one will rise to
complain of it so vigorous!.-,
that the laundry's back will be
broken, and it can no longer act
as high mogul of the required
deposit of $8.50 per term of each
student.
Let us pray that that "some
day" and that that "some one''
come soon to relieve us.
NEGRO WILL SUE
FOR ADMITTANCE
INTO UNIVERSITY
(Continued from first page)
state.
C. A. McCoy and C. 0. Pear
son, attorneys, and S. C. Cole
man, newspaper writer, were
the first openly to announce
themselves as sponsoring the
movement. McCoy and Pearson
drafted Hocutt's petition. They
announced last month that they
would make a formal applica
tion for the admittance of Ne
groes at the University and in
timated that they would carry
the fight to court if necessary.
In the petition filed Wednes
day, Hocutt alleged that he for
mally demanded admission to
the school of pharmacy and was
denied on the grounds that he
was a Negro. This action, the
plaintiff maintains, was "wrong
ful and fragrant violation and
contravention of the constitu
tional rights of the plaintiff as
guaranteed to him by Act I, sec
tions 17 and 27, of the Constitu
tion of North Carolina and
Amendment XIV, section 1, of
the constitution of the United
States." .
Hocutt qualifies himself as "a
person of African descent, - oi
good moral character, twenty
four years of age, and possess
ing the necessary scholastic pre
requisites for registration and
admission to the University of
North Carolina."
-An order requiring that Ho
cutt be admitted to the Univer
sity or cause be shown why he
should not be was placed in the
hands of Judge M. V. Barnhill
remained unsigned last night.
The University and Dr. Thomas
J. Wilson, Jr., registrar, were
named defendants in the action.
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