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j W II V yijjr uiai iti Leading Southern College Tei Weekly Newspaper Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association ' Published three times every week of Vio r.neo'P TTpar. and ia the official newspaper of the publications Union of the University of .North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub scription price, ?2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. J. F. ASHBY....... .........Editor W .W. Neal, Jr... Business Mgr. D. D. CARROLL- Associate Editor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editors Tom W. Johnson Tuesday Issue Judah Shohan Thursday Issue Joe R. Bobbitt, Jr Saturday Issue south one more often finds that news of negroes touches on the base, Eor did side of life. Criminal attacks, rapes, mob lynchings these are usu ally chalked up against the colored race-when its activities demand front age space in the newspapers. The story of James is different. His are the acts of the hero who wins rightful recognition in saving the 17-year-old girl from drowning. Such deeds remind that negroes, though not always so considered, are human be ings. , Let the courage, the presence of mind and the perseverance of James be praised, for in him there is the stuff of a hero. CLIPPED THE WHITES WIN fice or the hope of it." J eliminated. The automobile and the That analysis is as true todav as I locomotive ultimately must travel it wa3 m 1910. And that is what! routes that never can meet. The gives us an acute pain in our ventri- rules of the road apply, to the thous cular regions when we have to listen I ands who have them as their only to the bunk of the Ms Adoos, Mere- j chart of safety. They must somehow diths, Heflins,' Borahs, Caraways, I be enforced- But those who enforce Shipsteads, Norrisses, Haugens, Mc-them should have minds and energy Narys, and others of the ineffable centered on looking at traffic regula- and inescapable bores that comprise j tions. Let them not be distracted the political leadership of America. I with too much police power. Let We are often moved to such reflec- j them have as sole prey the xeckless tions when we contemplate the writh- J driver. . Let them hail him to justice ings of various politicians. I and let the administrators of justice punish him. Mr. Page was right when he denounced North Carolina motorists as criminally negligent of liberal laws. He sketched defeat of the very purpose he had in view when The one-teacher schoolhouse willlhe suggested as a remedy a State soon be merely a landmark of former policeman making control of traffic cuuwuuun uta m me lxiciuurxes 01 an incident of a roving commission a generation. It has hardly been left to check up on a thousand law viola- to stand tangibly as a reminder of tions and serve faithfully what how schooling used to be carried on. would sneedilv become a veritable In most cases, it has not only been regime of Highway Cossacks! (.abandoned, but the shack has been Negro students are not allowed, and Walter Spearman Assistant Editor wm not De anowe(i, in schools patron Walter Creech ..News Editor . , , ... . p Tnd-aTlft .mitp j - j i - , , students went on a strike there de- One-Teacher Schools Disappear (Charlotte News) Staff J. H. Anderson George Coggins T. J. Gold Calvin Graves D. E. Livingston Glenn P. Holder J. C. Wessill B. B. Kendrick F G McPherson I manding that nesres in the schools Oates McCullen e sent to separate scnoois, ana tne W. L. Marshall white pupils, with their four day John Mebane strike, which ended in a razzing for Louise Medley superintendent of the schools, have H' B Parker won. There is undoubtedly much ela tion in Gary as a result.. The force of the problem is over looked. Perhaps in all the south and - BUSINESS STAFF Bill Breman R. A. Carpenter J. C. Reaklev A. D. Sickles H. N. Patterson the negroes and whites be quartered P F HiU fr that matterin the north, a group J. M. Henderson j in influence which would demand , that Henry Harper Thursday, October 6, 1927 PARAGRAPHICS in the same school, if the whites ob jected. The negro has a place in American society, but his problem is to develop, not a place which will claim social equalization with the white man, but Petting parties are here to stay, to nrove himself well nreDared for avers a Greensboro "nerve specialist, association on a much higher plane And howabout Prohibition? than he now associates. The nee-ro race, under the stimulus given it. has Levine is to fly over the villa of not prov'ed itself capable of accept- Mussolini and drop him a' watch as ing any great amount of responsibil- a gift. Considering the conditions, the question is. raised whether the watch will be an Ingersoll or a Water bury. ' If Will Durant succeeds in proving that progress is not a delusion, he may be able to do something for Tar L should that fcut untn he neei eleven. Mexicans, in the midst of a pres idential election, still believe in choos ing their chief executive by means of bullets, not ballots. ity, and until this responsibility is ably demonstrated, it is not reason able to believe that the negro is en titled to more than is given him. Under the laws of the land, the negro is entitled to the same justice which is given the white man, and is more responsible in life, the same thing cropping out at Gary will ap pear elsewhere. The Rocky Mount Evening Telegram, NO WEST FOR YOUTH Lindy rather'likes pretty girls he informed a lady reporter in Memphis when she asked him why he refused to kiss girls. His liking being noted (Kansas City Post) One trouble with us younger people is that there no lonsrer is a West for and considered, ' Lindbergh becomes restiess youngsters to strike out for more real. and build un In the. old davs. when j ' I the. Fast was tired nf a vminp man r Turv.,. n-na oTHonf A nti.Sn I nnn a YViijr, .--. ----w . - , , . West, anrl nQ lecturer, "is drinking among college students on the increase?" Not being aware of the increase, we join him in asking why. A NEGRO HERO the trouble." He went to the frontier and found plenty of work and adven ture. . 'But now we young people must re main at home and try to get thrills by burning dad's gasoline. If we should go . West with a rifle, an ax and a wife we would run across cities and farms and seek in vain for a land CHAPEL HILL ESTABLISHES FINANCIAL DEAD LINE A torn away; that at least has been ! the order of things in this county and I State, and probably all over the country. I We wonder how Louis Graves of Although there are thousands of j the Chapel Hill Weekly reconciles the them scattered over the land yet. modern burglar alarm system of the they are rapidly disappearing and! Bank with the traditions of the Vil ens of thousands of them have gone j lage to which he clings so tenaciousiy, out of business within the last few Mr. Graves, as delighted readers of years. his paper know, lives a great part More than 10,000 of them were of his active life in the past. It is closed in the biennium 1922-1924. a past of Chapel Hill as a tiny town They are growing into large schools completely surrounded and inundated or being united with other schools to by students. When the students de form central graded village or open parted, the few, villagers remained country schools. These larger rural like objects stranded in an out-going schools gain in number as the smaller tide. Silence reigned but for the ones diminish in number. More than whisper of trees on the campus, the 2,000 were formed during the bien- convivial yapping of an occasional nium 1922-1924., At the present time dog, the talk of birds. It was an there are approximately 15,000 con- Arcady, but a lonesome one. solidated schools in the United States. Consider, now, the modern Chapel They have long been recognized as Hill with its equivalent of Gold Coast a means for providing rural children and Financial District. The police, with educational opportunity equival- we make no doubt, have established ent to that provided city children. (New York World) Witness the heroism of one" James, a negro boy, of Pittsylvania county, Virginia. A dispatch to a state daily from where we could live off the cduntry, Danville Tuesday tells how the day The older people have taken the before a negro boy's presence of mind frontier from us and now it is their saved the life of a 17-year-old girl, problem to find an outlet for our The story runs thus: energy. We sons of sturdy pioneers "Vivian Adkins, daughter of Al- are in need of a West phonse Adkins, of Penhook, left on hosreback vesterdav afternoon to vis- WHAT IS A DEMOCRAT? it a neighbor, near Callands. On an other horse was her younger brother. (Columbia, S. C, Record) A mile from the house is a small creek Since David B. "Hill, some thirty which is rarely more than a foot deep odd years ago, convulsed the world and which' is forded. Under the vio- with his declaration, "I am a Dem lent rain which fell for several hours ocrat," we have had occasion to yesterday the brook became a tor- Query ourselves: "What is a Demo rent but the girl, thinking that the erat?" The best we have been able horse could cross the stream, urged t0 make oi it is that a Democrat is it on. In . midstream the horse, and not Republican, a Populist, a Bol- its rider were swept away and the shevist, a Fascist,-a Socialist, a Com- little brother hearing his sister scream munist or an anarchist. But,' these and seeing her disappear in the churn- exclusions do not enable us to answer ing waters, turned his horse and gal- the query: "What is a Democrat ?" loped home to give the alarm. Does anybody know what a Democrat "The girl was swept for half a is? -Has anybody a definite definition? mile down stream or to a point where Is Mr. McAdoo any more a Democrat the creek runs into Pigg river, which than Mr. Hoover is? Is Mr. Lowden yesterday was an angry torrent. A any more a Republican thany Mr. negro boy whose surname is given as Meredith is? We wonder. The James heard the girl's screams and Honorable James Bryce, seventeen running to the bank saw the girl in years ago, in his revised "American the water. He could not swim but he Commonwealth," the greatest classic kept face with her, running down ever written about out government, the river bank and crying words of had this to say about the Democratic encouragement. Finally the girl sue- and Pepublican parties ceeded in grasping the overhanging "Neither party has any clean-cut bough of a tree. The negro boy told Principles, any distinctive tenets the girl to hold on while he ran back Both have traditions. Both claim to to the house for a pair of lines. Rac- have tendencies. Both have certainly ing back with them the boy climbed war cries, organization interests, en- the tree, lassooed the girl with the listed in their support. But those in.-, rope lines and making a turn of the terests are in the main the interests line about the tree he held her in this of getting or keeping the patronage position for an hour or until the of the government. Tenets and poll mountain stream, falling almost as cies, points of political doctrine and rapidly as it had risen, made it pos- points of political practice, have all sible for others to wade in and carry but vanished. They have not been the exhausted girl. to shore." thrown away, but have been stripped - This is the tale of James. -It is away by time and progress of events i j n - l . t. -i -.i I -e.-l-KUJ -1 n.iu j. seiaom tnai-a negro is creaitea witn I luuimng some policies, uioLuug oux. being a hero in this section. In the J others. All has been lost, except of a uead-L.ine, beyond which suspi cious characters are taken forthwith AN OLD OCEAN CHAMPION into the net. There is the House of Morgan, the nerve center of the vil lage gold. Its hoard is sacred. Prop erly, no expense is spared to guard The Cunard steamship Mauretania it- As the Chapel Hill Weekly says, is 20 years old. When she came jits vault has been equipped with trumpeting into, port Thursday, af- "Ears, Nerves, and a Loud Voice:" ter a crossing but little behind the "The Ears are super-sensitve. record, the ocean-wise were remind-1 sound-wave instruments which will ed that that record was set by the I absolutely spoil the ; most careful bur- Mauretania herself in 1924, when she glar's evening. was already 17 years old, and 14 "The mechanism is called the Mc years after her first winning of the Clintock Grade A Sound Wave Bur pennant. Before her time there had glar Alarm System. The sound-wave been a dozen new champions in 50 protection is controlled by finely-tuned years, Naval architects have not forgotten how, to design record-making steam ships. It would be easy to build a ship faster than the Mauretania, but it might not pay. The competition in ocean liners in recent years has been in the direction of greater com fort and a more complete eauioment of conveniences and luxuries. If a ship is going to get in on the sixth day a few minutes more or less do not matter greatly. The reason why a 20-year-old ship can still claim the championship of the north Atlantic is that nobody cares. People who are in a particular hurry to get across the Atlantic are now watching the ships of the air, not those that in the good old fashion plough the waves. ! : Tr-V i-Vl 5T!5J TI instant ' alarm at the slightest noise made upon the vault structure or within the vault. Not only that, but the Vault door is equipped with thermo static contacts which start the alarm when any one of them is reached by around 150 degrees of heat. The tap of the tool or the play of the flame of a cutting torch upon wall or door will start a noise that will arouse' the whole neighborhood. "A monster gong, together with con trol instruments, ringing mechanism, and ringing battery, is installed on the outside of the building in a heavy steel housing as completely protect ed by electricity as the vault itself, so that it is not possible to get at tne gong to prevent its ringing. An elec tric multiplo-wire cable constitutes the connection between the vault and the outside gong. If you attempt to cut this cable, you inevitably trip the alarm, thereby bringing the police on the run to attack you with clubs and revolvers." O temporal In Graves', student days an enterprising yegg who es sayed an attack on a Chapel Hill strong-hold probably would have found something like this: Item, one skull; item, one coffin; item, a censor for the burning of al cohol to make a ghostly flame; item, a Bible on which to swear the neo phyte; item, anywhere from ten to a dozen black robes; item, a stick of phosphorus. The robbery would have been easily accomplished. because Constable Bucky Sparrow had better things to do with his time than to be roaming around o'nights, but the loot would have been such as simply to embarrass the September fraternity initiation. But touch the bank of Chapel Hill and its reserves, and electricity jumps to the rescue. Bells ring, gongs clang, motors roar, the police reserves rush out. Poor yegg, who tries to monkey with a college town. The Raleigh Times. "AN ECCLESIASTIC IN POLITICS' (Columbus, Ga., Enquirer-Sun) Bishop H. M. Dubose, head of the Holston conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, took, time off from his pastoral duties the other day to engage im secular politics. Bishop Dubose sees grave danger in the fact that a group of representa tive leaders of tne Democracy in the West recently met and endorsed Gov ernor Alfred E. Smith for the Demo cratic presidential candidacy. Bishop Dubose believes that something must be done. What he is inspired to pro claim, we gather from the news from Nashville, " Ten m, is a series of poli tical meetings in which the masses of the South "should speak out in prompt and effective utterance." What the masses are to utter, the revelation goes on to say, is this: "The candidacy of Governor Smith is impossible to the ethical ideals cf the south, as also to the ideals of its future progress and industrialism whkh are grounded in the doctrine of the complete prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. . . "Governor Smith is wholly and em phatically unacceptable to every right minded and forward looking Demo crat in the south; and for one, I am assured that this type of democrat is in the majority. I am in ofScial touch with an ecclesiastical constituen cy of half a million adherents in Ten nessee and contiguous parts, and the numbers of these who will not resent the nomination of Governor Smith or any other wet candidate will be negli gible at the polls." It would, of course, be futile to argue with the bishop. It makes no difference to an eccle siastic in politics if his statements are shown to be grossly inaccurate and intolerant. It makes no difference to Bishop Dubose that the candidacy of Govern or Smith, far from being out of sym pathy wifh the ethical ideals of the South, is in fact harmonious with the ideals of the greatest statesmen the South has produced that many Southern Democrats who resent the implication that the bishop has a cor ner on forward-looking and right mindedness, are firm supporters of Governor Smith that however ade quately the bishop may serve as the political mouthpiece of Tennesseans, intelligent Southern Democrats in oth er sections oppose the nonsense that a man's private opinions on religion and Volsteadism should disqualify him for holding office. These facts mean nothing to Bishop Dubose. Bishop Dubose has heard the voice of God, and the voice of God as the bishop interprets it tells him to cry out against Gov. Smith and never mind the realities. It is, of course, not an engaging pic ture. But the spectacle of an eccle siastic in politics has never been en gaging, not even before the Consti tution set forth the principle of rigid separation between Church and State. It, is a picture, however, not without its value. DANGER ON THE HIGHWAYS (Raleigh Times) Statistics of the State- Board of Health as to automobile fatalities since the new speed law of "forty-five miles went into effect do not bear out the criticism recently leveled at this legislation by former Congressman R. N. Page. In July and August of this year, the figures show, there were 65 deaths from traffic; .in the corresponding months of j last year, when the speed limit was 35 miles an hour, there were 75 sacrifices to. the Motor' Moloch. The more liberal speed law, we are persuaded, is justified in every re spect of road usage. Such a speed in the modern car running under the hand of a good driver on hard-surfaced roads is well within the limit of the essential of traffic, which is complete control of the .car itself. It measurably enhances the highways as conduits. It speeds up the entire system of communication), and it is no more dangerous than it would be if the. limit were ten or fifteen miles slower. It is, if experience can be said to count for anything, less dan gerous. Nevertheless, a death a day as a cost of motor travel is an appalling tax that society pays. A formal levy to produce a tenth of the actual cost, in money alone, of these fatalities would ruin politically the adminis tration that proposed it. Yet we go blithely ahead, paying the price, damning the cost and shrugging off the tragedy. There are rules of the road, and there is a system of progressive thought making , the roads, safe. More grade crossings are being any a man is ;f - jm day that an elecmcfef f v motor can do tor lessf t I; W ; tnan a cent an hourrfjif , 't ies- fisl w) yw, : pitfi vl llil t mW:' li ' College men and women recognize elec tricity as one of the principal aids to progress in the factory, on the farm, and in the home. Guided by human intelligence, electricity can do almost any job a man can do. From stirring to grinding, from lifting to pulling, there is. a G-E motor specially adapted to any task. VL-TT" IS 210-60DH TlPTu) OEN 2 R A -t. ELECTRIC 1-4 I c a - Ell s - COMPANY j J U J I 'I SCHENECTADY, NEW Y O R K.
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