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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, NOVE3IBER 8, 1935 Cfje Batlp Car Ieel v 1D8 cmciai newspaper ox wie -ruDiieaUOllS Union Kosrrf nf TTnivrnitV I ef North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mondays, I g ana u inajuusivuis, vurusuuas ana spring Holidays. Entered as secona class matter at the post oSce at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, igyy. onpscnpaon price, o.w xor tne college year. Business and editorial offices: 204-206 Graham Memorial Telephones: editorial, 4251; business, 4356; night, 6906 " ; - P. G. Hammer, editor R. C. Page, Jr., managing editor W. L. Hargett, W. H. W. Anderson, associate editors A. R. Sarratt, Jr., city editor E. L. Kahn, assistant city editor Butler French, business manager IP OT SHOTS 2 BY : Don Wetheebee ; COSTS OF WAR Editorial Board D. Suss, chairman, J. M. Daniels, D. G. Wetherbee, D. K. Feature Writers , W. P. Hudson, N. C. Bead McKee Bradley, H. Goldberg E. P. J. News Editors ' S. W. Rabb, J. M. Smith, Jr., C. W. Gilmore, W. S. Jordan, Jr., K. Sprinkle, J. F. Jonas Office Force F. Harward, E. J. Hamlin, J. A. Brown, L. I. Gardner, B. Howe News Release Newton Craig, director, H. T. Terry, Jr. Exchange editors SB. Leager, G. O. Butler, W. S. McClelland . Senior Reporters H. M. Beacham, W. C. Fields III, S. B. Heelers Brewer, T. C. Britt, B. H. Eeece, Ruth Crowell, J. H. Sivertson, Marjone Usher, N. S. Kothschiid, J. I. Cobbs, J. H. Ward, Voit Gilmore, H. H. Hirschfield, W. G. Arey, Kenneth Tanner, B. T. Perkins 0. N. Whitaker Division managers A. Lewis, circulation, H. F. Osterheld, collections, M. B. Carr advertising, T. E. Joyner, local advertising, W. H. D. Eckert and E. Crooks, office Local advertising staff : C. W. Blackwell, W. D. McLean, P. C. Keel 1. The whole world was shocked when the Lusitania went down 1 A T1 m m .1 lf This thing about America's h a l0SS of 10UU uyes 10 eq . iUC muuuns uu u. mc i .u participation in the 1936 Oylm- War it would De necessary iu " pics in Berlin has raised quite a years, or one every week beginning nearly a century before the discovery of America by (JolumDus ana continuing 10 tne present,. 2. The grand total of costs for the World War was $337,946,179.- 657: the equivalent of $20,000 for every hour since the birth of Christ, the Prince of Peace. 3. Every time a nine-inch gun barks the cost is $500. 4: Today the world is annually spending five billion dollars on armaments, exactly twice its expenditure in 1913 on the eve of the outbreak of the greatest war in history. 5. Uncle Sam's estimated army and navy appropriations for stir on the campus. It would, being on the sports pages. Most 01 us can tea you right now every all-America candidate with half a chance of rating the I final selection, even though the candidates for the United States president we have to elect be fore Ions: are ephemeral and thoroughly uninteresting nonen- 1935 and up to $700,833,372. tities as far as we are concerned. Joe mat as it may, everyone on the campus has decided whe ther or not we are going to par ticipate, but then that hasn't got us anywhere because just as many think .we should as think we shouldn't. The whole question hinges on the , definition of good sportman- N. W. Bond, Staff photographer D. Becker THIS ISSUE: NEWS, GILMOBE; NIGHT, SPRINKLE "HALT! CRY THE DEAD" The raging cross fire on the Ethiopian front, the growing tide of emotional nationalism, army appropriations, navy appropria tions, inconceivable growth of commerce to belligerents, the loud mouthings of the jingoist press, the blare of the military bands, the howling of the R. O. T. C. proponents, the talk, talk, talk of war -all this a part of the rational, objective twentieth century! Patriotism and loyalty! Protection of women and children! Fight! Fight! Fight! V We have grown up in a period of hectic disturbance following the greatest war in history. We have been filled with the philoso phy of the horrors of conflict. We have been pounded with a nev- jer-ending barrage of the moral, psychological, and social effects of war. We have seen the gradual diminution of anti-war talk from 6. Good old peace-loving Uncle Sam! From 1913 to 1930, Ureal Britain increased her expenditure for national defense 42 percent; France, 30 percent; Italy, 44 percent; Japan 142 percent; Russia, 30 percent; but peaceful Uncle Sam 197 percent! This was in 1930 before Navyman Roosevelt got hot. 7. To build and operate a battleship for 20 years costs the Amen can people 250 millions, twice as much as the Revolutionary War. 8. Keeping our weapons of slaughter sharp and shining costs over two million dollars a day. 9. Imagine you are watching the dead, soldiers of the World ship. The purists claim that it War passing in review. They are going by, ten abreast in rows isn't good sportmanship to par- two seconds apart. You have been standing for 24 hours. But the ticipate with a people who funeral parade has only started: it will take 45 days more for the trample on human liberties and grand army to pass. discriminate against races. The 10. With the money spent on the World War, we could have others claim it's none of our built a $2500 house, furnished it with a $1000 worth of furniture, business what the German people placed it on five acres of land worth $100 an acre, and given this want to do themselves, and we home to every family in the United States, Canada, Australia, are darn poor sports if we don't England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany and participate against a people Russia. who are thoroughly competent With what would still be left over, we could give each city of to select their own team. They 26.000 inhabitants or over, in each countrv named, a fiv million say the Olympics are purely an dollar library and a ten million dollar University. The remainder athletic contest, fostering good set aside at five percent interest would then provide a $1000 vearly salary for 125,000 teachers and 125,000 nurses. 11. Take the number of those killed in the Civil War, add the victims of the Franco-Prussian War. Then throw in the thous ands who died in the Spanish American War. The number who were shot down in the World War would still be twentv-eieht will between nations. It seems that a good portion of the objectors aren't thinking so much about human liberties as they are about s how much they dislike f ascistic forms of government. Now your corres pondent hastens to say that he is holding no brief for Nazism or any other form of fascist gov- times the total of the three previous wars. 12. The average loss of life in the World War was 16,585 deaths for each of the 1567 days the conflict lasted. 13. To earn the cost of one day of the World War, 2150 workers receiving annual wages of $2500 each would have to labor for 40 ernment. The point is. we are , I J VIUOl I 1 1 . . . I . not deeming", nor is it our u Arii'nr in. TrnrtTiiKn? a .c 9 nnn u?n cu:. ; piace to aeciae so lar as.Uer-; the last war. : , I -t -v I many is concerned, wnetner JNa- 15. Bethlehem Steel earned SfUluO.nnn in 1Q1L in 1Q1Q u Q T7 jwvrv m V A y AA1 A VXU Ab IIUO m - . JT J- J J-1 the generation just preceding us untu, at tne present time, xne zism is the best form of govern- rakinff in $57 000 000. fierht acrainst this most terrible form of human degradation is al- most entirely in the hands of the youth of the country. And yet, there are those of us who still glorify and admire the demic basis. men who are too much of the coward to refuse to fight to refuse to be battered and maimed, torn and killed for the sake of some amorphous, irrational, unfounded principle. There are those who still thrill to the bright, clean uniform and precise military forma tions. There are those whose minds are so befuddled, so clouded, by the sound of martial music that they do not recognize the all that should be taken into con bloody wrecks, the revolting, putrid bodies that deck the fields of sideration in deciding whether battle. Their ears are so filled with meaningless words of the self- we should participate. Natural ment ior tnat country, unless 16. Zaharoff's companies made $7,000,000,000 during the World we are arguing on a purely aca- War. 17. In 1916 ten thousand Americans more than in 1914 declared million dollar incomes, made out of the war trade. 18. The average daily cost of the war was more than 215 mil lions of dollars, or 9 millions per hour. 19. A secretary of the treasury says that over 80 percent of Federal expenditures go to national defense and war. 20. Losss of life in World War: 10,000,000 known dead soldiers; 3,000,000 presumed dead soldiers (they never came back!); 13,- TWO YEARS AGO TODAY Compiled from the files of the Daily Tah Hrrrr America has been assured of decent and courteous treatment of whatever athletes she chooses to select as her representatives. So far as we're concerned that's State votes dry as Chapel Hill favors repeal of EiehteentK Amendment . . . Di Senate fa vors' transferability of athletic passbooks . . . Mayne Albright explains functions of Student Union to freshmen . . . Sybille Berwanger and Sarah Vann set co-ed fad of eating raw vegeta bles . . . String beans, cabbages, turnips, and sweet potatoes are favorites . . . President Graham makes first address to sopho mores for the year. Ben Proctor upholds U. S. rec ognition of Russia as Milton Kalb attacks Hitler.- . . Co-eds slated to begnr'tennis tourna ment . . . and bowling contest . . . A certain E. J. G. in an open forum letter decries the unscho lastic attitude of present day college students. Summer Session (Continued from first page) conflict of laws here in the sum mer of 1934 and legal method last summer, is one of the lead ers in the development of the modern school of realistic juris prudence. Trained at Columbia, he had taught at the Universi ties of Nebraska, Missouri, Wis consin, Chicago, Yale and Col umbia before becoming one of the four members of the origin ating faculty of the Institute of Law created several years ago at the Johns Hopkins University. He has served in an executive position in the United States treasury for the last two years, and is an ex-president of the as sociation of American law schools and of the association of American University professors. He joined the faculty of law at Northwestern University at Chicago this fall. Duke Professor Douglas B. Maggs has been a professor at Duke since 1930. Be fore coming to Duke he had taught at the Universities of "ilifornia, Southern California, and at Columbia University. He is regarded as one of the most gifted of the younger law teach ers. nno AAA Ann A ;criKoi0. on nnn nnn nrn,--.AA. a fnn tnt ish "patriot" that they cannot hear the agonized shrieks of the ly, it is anyone's prerogative to lilnnft lA AAA nnrT' "'vwv"uuu wur UA w w W.iia tw -,.'mW Lu.m- k- Zta nA Pns; 5,000,000 war widows; 10,000,000 refugees. 21. The U. S. Steele Company averaged a quarter-billion in pro- and per fectly free not to; participate nor to contribute to the Olym pic fund. Nonparticipation in the 1936 Olympics is tacit disapproval of the German form of government. Are we going to tell Germany now to run its government or are we going to be interested ob servers, and only observers? Now your correspondent believes in being an observer, but he doesn't think he can tell a na tion of people how they are go mg to govern themselves, and no matter how many of us think men whose guts were torn out by the flying shells. They cannot decide not to participate, be stirred by the actuality of dirt, and mucK, and tne gurgling any purist objectors are cries that rise from the blood-filled mouths of dying men. i Is it to the end of sudden, horrible death that we were born ? Must the evolution of society be spotted from time to time, with violent outburst? Is it an axiom of progress that periodically there must arise such i flaming destruction as the world witnessed in 1917? - la it futile to attempt to curb emotional outburst, ostensibly spontaneous, b'ut, as .we know, the planned product of degenerate and greed-wracked men? How can we fight an attitude as yet not concrete? Will an emotional appeal offset an emotional appeal? Can we point to the terror, the hideous ruin, and the destructive re sults of the past great wars and hope to make ineffective the hyp notic effect of insidious propaganda? Or is it rather for us to point . out of the logical causes of war and by united action to wipe out the evil at the roots? ' . Will a realization of the economic basis of war endure through constant hammerings of such phrases as: "Make the world safe for democracy;" "Remember the Maine;" "The Germans are cut ting off the hands of the little Belgium children;" "Wipe out slav ery and make Ethiopia a CIVILIZED country." Will logic be strong enough to conquer emotion? Hardly. We must fight this instigating, emotional, jingoist patter with facts, calculated to offset the wild outburst vthat follows inevitably the nonsensical hue and cry of the powerful illogical agencies of propaganda. We must attack propaganda with a more forceful propaganda based on actual occurrences, and stripped of none of the hateful and disgusting facts. We must drive home the uselessness, the illogicality of armed conflict by a presentation of the hideous and the terrifying. We can never hope to control hu man emotions by any other methodWhere the war proponents whip up a frenzy Jby quoting patriotic inanities, we must quench the conflagration by adequate and truthful presentation of the facts; where the war barons stimulate war sentiment, we must be strong enough to tear down their work. It is a difficult fight with the power on the opposing side. The fields of the world need fertilizer. Kill and let rotting hu man bodies fill the need. Let human blood water the crops and hu man slop feed the hogs. Let arms, and legs, and eyeless heads, and yawning bellies, and livers, and spleens, and brains, ripped from screaming men, decorate once again the surface of the earth. fits for every year of the War. 22. Our share in the World War costs would take care of the following social expenses: all the churches in the U. S.; the total cost of education for five years; all the surfaced roads in the U. S.; the total cost of medical care for five years; all the fire losses for 20 years. 23. A good, first-class battleship sells for something like $40, 000,000. 24. Education in the United States from the beginning of the government up to the present has cost considerably less than the World War. 25. The cost of all the wars in the world from 1793 (beginning of the Napoleonic Wars) to 1910 was only one-eighth of the cost of the World War. 26. The war costs for one hour would have built ten $1,000,000 high schools. A single day's cost would have built in each of the we Know more about German 0 iwo naii-muiion aonar hospitals: two si.UUU.UUU hierh government than Hitler, Hitler schools ; 300 recreation centers with gymnasiums and swimming isn't going to pay the slightest pools costing $300,000 each; and there would be left $6,000,000 to attention to our directive ef- promote industrial education. forts.. 27. "Do you know how many of the yoimfir men of Eurone pave In your correspondent's hum- their lifes in the last war? Suppose you could gather them to- ble opinion, 'the 1936 Olympics gether from a thousand battlefields. Suppose they could march, a should cease to be an interna- grim parade of ghosts, along some broad avenue while you and I tional political issue and come stood watching. Twenty at a time, dawn to sunset, not a break in back down on the plane of com- the line. First the dead of Britain. All day they march Monday, petitive athletics and interna- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Ten days for the British dead to tional goodwill, where it belongs pass in review. Then the dead of France. Twenty at a time dawn aim wiicxc was uxigmaiiy m- w suusei, nut a ureaK m me nne. niieven days for the French dead tended to be. Then there to nass. Then the dead of. Russia. 'One - . - ' - u.iuuig juutua wouldn't be any grounds for all from the hills of Siberia and the plains of eastern Europe. Now this mess that has arisen for thin, waverine ghosts, marching hv in silonno iv, s the most part from socialistic- dawn to sunset, not a break in the line. Thirty-five days for the ally inclined individuals who Russian dead to pass. Then the dead, of Germany and her allies, think that nonparticipation by After all, these young men were tired of fighting. They wanted to America, and consequently dam- get home, just as the others did. Now ghosts, marching twenty nation of the fascistic form of at a time, dawn to sunset, not a break in the line FortV-two days government, would raise the for the German dead to pass. "If that parade began tomorrow at sunrise, it would take more than three months f or the ghosts to file by. That is what this last war cost the younger generation." J. g. Gilkey. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY TAR HEEL MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT THE MAN YOU LOVE TO HATE f! di !:'f''r I i Oiic l u.v VQB STROHEIffl IV EDCAR AU riltilliHit'npmBimwiiiwiiiiHMiiiniiiqiimimi''"'!: stock of their pet governmental theory to an abnormal boom time level. ' ' 1 -II 1 ALSO VITAPHONK XX COMEDY J