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IT 1 tlJ JUo Vol.12, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, J. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1903.. No. 12. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. THE l AM. SOPH-JUNIOR DEBATE. The Annual Inter-Society Debate is Won by the Representatives of the Phi Society The annual Junior-Sophomore de bate between the Dialectic and Phi lanthropic Literary Societies took place in Gerrard Hall on the night of November 25th. The query was as follows: "Resolved, That the Railroads in the United States Should be Owned and Operated by the Federal Government." The representatives of the societies were Messrs. C. J. Hendley, '05, and W. B. Love, '06, of the Dialectic, and E. A. Daniel, '05, and S. T. Stan cell, '06, of the Philanthropic. W. W. Eagles, '04, presided and B. H. Perry, '06, was secretary. Afte an interesting" debate the committee composed of Drs. Smith and. Alex ander and Prof. Gore, finally decid ed in favor of the Philanthropic. Mr. Love argued as follows: "I is a function of government to de velop the people's interests in the way that will give the best results Since the railroads are a part o such interests, it is a function o government to develop them. Pri vate control has not given the best results. It is tending" to concentrate the wealth into the hands of the few. Smaller institutions are being- destroyed. Government regulation has been ineffective, and has allow ed 'Teat discriminations. Since they have been entrusted to private control, it must have a tendency to foster the present evils. A change in ownership would change the manner of control. Their influence in politics is too great and is increas ing-. National ownership would relieve this position.1" Mr. Hendley 's argument was as follows; "The government would besnccessful in its own exercise of its function to provide adequate railroad , transportation. Sufficient proof of this are the facts: that the government would make stable rail road capital and reduce the fixed charges on it, would have the ad vantage of economies amounting; to hundredsof millions of dollars, and would inaugurate non-partisan management of the railroads, and that other governments have been successful with this policy. And this policy would certainly promote the general welfare of the country; because it would eliminate the pres ent evils resulting- from the present policy." Mr. Stancell's argument ran as .follows: "It is not a function of government to own and operate the railroads, because they cannot be best managed and controlled by po litical forces. Our g-overnment is essentially-a political compact to protect private rights, to maintain equitable conditions in all pursuits, and to promote the general welfare. The railroad problem is an indus trial problem and must be owned and operated by the business world. "The policy, if adopted, would be a source of political corruption. is broken and cannot be used; other troubles are as bad. No effort whatever is made-to remedy these things. To do so would require but a slig-ht .expense. We realize that the University treasury is not over-stocked, but we do believe the gymnasium fee paid on registration should be so applied as to furnish the best gym nasium possible. That this is not done, is shown by the fact that the present troubles have not alwavs existed. Will the proper authori ties please give the gymnasium some attention? No two sections of our country are Meeting of Philological Club. alike, hence no one railroad policy Tlie Philological Club met and that the Federal government or any held its monthly meeting- in alumni political party could devise would building-Tuesday evening, meet the requirements of the various rjr Hume presented a paper on sections. "Some Characteristics of Wycliff's "It would weaken the efficiency of Version of the Bible.". The intro management. Each railway has duction sketched the life and char an industrial bureau whose business acter 0f Wycliff, scholar and organ it is to look into the int;rests of the jzer Gf a great religious movement, various sections through which it His was the first complete Bible in passes. They advertise our railroad English, and it prepared the way resources and help to develop new for Tyndale's and many successive sections. Our system has its source versions down to our King James not in the social or political world. Bible. Striking selections from Spurred on by American genius and Wycliff were read and commented American invention and business on" The vocabulary was noted, talent it has won the admiration of wjth its direct borrowings and imi- Dr Smlth in Fayettevllle. the world. tations of the Latin Vulgate, which Dr. Smith lectured in Fayette- Mr. Daniel for the- negative spoke was ;ts direct source and model, and ville last Saturday evening on Italy. as follows: "Our ground of conten- the numerous French derivatives The lecture was given at the re- tion is: Do unavoidable abuses arise jn several chapters were presented, quest of the Book Clubs of Fayette in the railroad system under private The ecclesiastical and theological ville, one of which is making a de ownership? I purpose, first, to dialect which had been growing up tailed study of Italian history and show that the present system is ef- was defined and added to by this art- The Wilmington Messenger iective. and second, that govern- version. The coloring of the social of December 2d refers to the lec ment ownership would not cure ex- i;feof the England of this day was ture as follows: istiug evils, but new evils would be imparted to many passages. Some "The writer has had the good added. In the past the government interesting words are now obsolete, fortune to attend series of lectures has performed its function by regu- Many others are used now in a dif- at Chatauqua meetings through the lating, and has left the individual ferent sense. The felicitous phras- country, but has never been so to perform his function by owning Wg which charms the ear and the charmed, so delighted, and so in and operating. Has the individual s6ul in our great version is in num- structed as by the lecture on Italy performed his function? Under erous passages transmitted to us by Dr. Smith of the University of private enterprise, we have develop- from Wycliff. Purney's Revised North Carolina. It was in fault ed a railroad system almost perfect Version improved his diction and less literary taste, with easy, grace in its operation, well deserving the his syntax here and there. It is ful delivery, and of oratorical effort name of American system. The well tuat we have escaped some of not ' a trace. But there was the government couldn't give as cheap his Latin-like participial construe- true eloquence in the expression of rates of transportation as the indi- tious. His quaint marginal glosses ripe ideas and rich ideas and rich vidual without running at a great on Ecclesiastes, 12, are often thought, with the simple classic loss, a thing it couldn't possibly af- touched with an over strained alle- diction'of choice English, ford to do. Discriminations arise g0r y. Men lived by and died for It was a flawless gem sparkling in three ways: personal, local and this great Bible and the author's in its own lustre, without garnish class discriminations. As to per- personality and work have quick- setting- and ornamentation, and the sonal discrimination, law prevents, ened all our thought and life auditors carried home little treas- As to local and classdiscrimination, The next mner was bv Dr Smith ures of valuable information for fu- we see the same principle demon- on the subi'ect: "Is it True That ture use. strated in every phase of our indus- 'Where form remains Anywhere trial life; we see it in the postal Function Remains Everywhere'? " The Observer has received from system, first, second and third class Dr. Smith took the dictum of a student at the State University a mails. Thus in putting the rail- Professor Gildersleeve quoted above rather unique letter, which reads, roads in the hands of the govern- and subjected it to the test of usage in part, as follows: "I noticed in ment, you merely inflame the spark ;n several languages, particularly vour columns of Friday that you you would quench. Evils would Latin, French, and English. In had received photographs of Miss arise under government ownership other languages he found the usage Madeline Besley, of 'The Mocking unknown to private enterprise. to agree with Professor Gilder- Bird,' scheduled to play in this re Our Federal constitution prevents sleeve's dictum, while in Engdish a gion Tuesday evening. Could you an individual from suing the gov- number of examples were quoted in oblige a poor college chap with one ernment. Again, if the government which a single noun was used in a of those photos? I am rather a has the right to own and operate sentence, nerformino- the functions late arrival and desire to furnish of both nominative and objective. my cage ." The extract Form remains in English pro- from the letter is amusing and yet nouns, but in function an English there is something about it that noun may be in two cases. touches a responsive chord. If Miss Besley doesn't object, the The Gymnasium. young man shall have a photograph .The condition of our gymnasium of her for his cage; even if he the railroads, where is the end, and where is the limitation to govern ment ownership? With one bound we leap into paternalism." Need of Southern Colleges Work will soon be begun on the is miserable. Since a new one has should be a terrible, gay Lothario, gymnasium at the University of been donated, no effort has been who may turn from the photograph North Carolina for which Judge mad? to repair breakages in the one on his mantel to say sorrowfully to Bynum, of Charlotte recently gave we ha.'e. The new one cannot be his mates: "Alas, poor girl. I fear $25,000. This sum will supply a finished before next vear. Until I was not as kind to her as I might handsome and modern affair with then the present one ha to be used, have been. But then, women are first-class equipments. It is a and should be kept properly. At such foolish, tender-hearted crea- great pity that all our Southern present nearly all the most useful tures. How she did love me, to be colleges have not thoroughly equip- apparatus is out of order. Only sure! Charlotte Observer ped gymnasiums and it is encourag- two of the chest weights can be ng to know that such a liberal do- used; j(he basket ball courts need nation has been made for this pur- rings and. nets; thereare not enough pose in North Carolina. Columbia Stale. dumb hells or Indian clubs for large class drills; one of the paralell bars At a meeting of the North Caro lina section of the American Chem ical Society at Raleigh last week. Dr. A. S. Wheeler was elected President of the society.
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