THE DAILY TAXI HEEL
Friday, October 4, 1929
Datip Sat ipeei
Published daily during the college
year except Mondays &nd except
Thanksgiving, Christinas and
Spring Holidays.
The official newspaper of the Publi
cations Union of the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Subscription price, $2.00 local and
$4.00 out of town, for the college
year.
Offices in the basement of Alumni
Building.
Glenn Holder ... .... ..Editor
Will Yarborough. Mgr. Editor
Marion Alexander......s. ,M gr.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John Mebane Harry Galland
ASSISTANT EDITORS
J. EJwin Dungan J. D. McNairy
Joe Jones s B. C. Moore
Dick McGlohon J. C. Williams
SPORTS EDITORS
Joe Eagles Crawford McKethan
CITY EDITORS
E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay
JSlbert Denning Sherman v Shore
Friday, October 4, 1929
Tar Heel Topics
.
The reporter who ducked into
a rain barrel when the shooting
started at Marion evidently be
lieved in preserving the fourth
estate.
The thing- that surprises us
most about this 252-year-old
man who has been discovered liv
ing in Kaihsien is that he has
not yet attributed his longevity
to some brand of tobacco or pat
ent medicine.
The lead in yesterday's Daily
'Tar Heel which read "two men
dead in elevator crash" was sub
stantially correct. Merely a mat
ter of transposition of words
"men" and "dead." They were
med school "stiffs."
From Raleigh comes the re
port that sea gulls soared over
the city during the heavy rains
the first of the ; week. We
shouldn't liave been surprised to
have seen whales in Chapel Hill
if the downpour liad continued
much longer.
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Breaks Out Afresh.
North Carolina shuddered yes
terday as the news of the latest
textile, strike tragedy spread
over the state. The fatal gun
battle at Marion has forced upon
North Carolina the grim realiza
tion that the forces of labor and
capital are settling down in
deadly earnest to long and bloody
warfare with this state as the
battlefield. .
A- dispute over whether the
sheriff's forces or the strikers
fired the first shot in the battle
which resulted in the death of
three union men and the fatal
wounding of probably six more
has already started. That will
be a, question for the .courts Vto
settle but it .is, of little impor
tance. The real problem before
the courts and governmental
authorities is that of terminat
ing the textile industry warfare
as speedily as humanly possible.
Nation-wide in scope and gar
gantuan in its ramifications, this
problem is one that the best
trained minds in the country
should be called upon tossist
in solving.
Unionization of textile mills is
inevitable. Within the past few
days announcement of a -campaign
fund of over a million dol
lars with which to finance the
movement to bring all textile
workers into the American fed
eration of. labor was made. It
is possible that a quarter-century
will elapse before the goal of
the union men is achieved unless
the mill owners abandon their
anti-union policies. There is
every prospect of continued and
increasing bloodshed, with enor
mous loss of property, unless
some means are worked out of
convincing he mill owners that
they must recognize the unions.
But even unionization of the
textile vvorkers will not solve the
problems of the industry or al
leviate the deplorable conditions
of the wage earners to any ma
terial extent. Results of a sur
vey made this summer show that
more southern cotton mills are
operating at a loss , now than are
earning profits. With the tex
tile industry in its present con
dition, the mills cannot afford to
increase wages or reduce work
ing hours to any considerable ex
tent. Competition is too keen at
present. There are more mills
than are needed, anctall of them
are fighting tooth and nail for
business that has decreased rap
idly with the tendency of the
buying public away from cotton
goods, which has developed since
the World War. It has been
amply demonstrated that unre
stricted competition will not
work in the textile industry.
Integration is another crying
need of the cotton milling busi
ness. In many instances as
many as three or four independ
ent concerns assist in manufac
turing one length of cotton cloth.
The textile industry needs a
Henry Ford to accomplish the
marvelous integration for cot
ton manufacturing processes
that now exists for Ford Motor
company. One mammoth con
cern should carry on all the pro
cesses of obtaining the , raw ma
terials, manufacturing the cloth,
and selling the finished product
to the public.
Governmental supervision is
probably the only hope of the
industry. Under federal control
the mills could be forced Into
mergers and into integration. A
partial monopoly of the textile
industry by a few mammoth
chains of mills is probably the
only means of rescuing- cotton
growers, workers and mill own
ers alike from the seemingly in
surmountable difficulties in
which they are enmeshed. There
by Would the mill owners be en
abled to pay wages sufficient to
maintain their employees at a
decent standard of living and
the bloody textile war would ab
ruptly terminate.
A Big Year for the Student
Entertainment Program.
Season tickets for the student
entertainment program are be
ing sold this year for $3, which
represents a saving of approxi
mately $B over the costs of single
admission to the eleven events.
Many of the numbers, especially
the Isadora Duncan dancers, the
Cincinnati Chamber v orchestra
and the Ben Greet players, have
charged single admissions of $4
and more in the larger cities.
University students and the
townspeople are e indeed fortun
ate in having an opportunity to
attend some of America's finest
entertainments at the extremely
low prices offered by the student
entertainment committee. Last
fall marked the inauguration of
the student entertainment pro
gram here. Paul Whiteman's
orchestra was the initial attrac
tion, and it was received with
the highest favor. During its
first year the entertainment com
mittee, which is composed of
four student representatives,
two from the Li JeraK Arts col
lege and two from the School of
Education, and three faculty
members with Dean Addison
Hibbard as chairman, functioned
admirably. The entire program
was enthusiastically acclaimed
by the students and townspeople,
and there is every indication that
it will be received with even
greater favor this .year.
The student entertainment
program idea has become firmly
entrenched here in one brief
year. A great service to the
campus has been performed by
the originators of the idea, one
of whom was Dave Carroll, for
mer assistant editor of the Tar
Heel.
Readers' Opinions
Writers Wanted
To the Editor:.
Pray permit me to express
here the hope that a number of
North Carolina students, both
undergraduates ancj graduates,
will contribute to "Manuscripts,"
a national magazine of college
writing which is beginning pub
lication this month. Plays,
verse, short stories, critical - es
says, etc., may be submitted to
the editor, Mr. Willis H. Kin
near, at 1002 Inland Bank Build
ing, Indianapolis, Indiana. All
accepted writing is paid for. I
understand that the magazine
is on sale at the Bull's Head
Bookshop. "
NORMANFOERSTER,
(Advisory Editor) .
: .
Heresy in One Paragraph
The recent exhibition xof
cheering displayed by the stu
dent body had the faculty of
stimulating some hope that per
haps, after all, even the Univer
sity of North Carolina is reach
ing that stage of sophistication
when the anachronism of con
centrated yelling will be abol
ished. Since it is too impossibly
optimistic to ever expect the
day when football that great,.
big, he-man's, commercial sport
so poplar here,, there, and every
where will cease to be patron
ized as now, one can at s least
view the gradual decline of voci
ferous and utterly idiotic cheer
ing as reflecting a favorable
trend. While American insti
tutions of higher education are
what they are football will con
tinue in favor (although Har
vard is reputed to offer an ex
ample to the contrary). But, at
least with certain northern in
stitutions, there has come to
pass recently a marked change
from the exceedingly freshman
like conduct that formerly pre
vailed. Some student bodies
are learning that it is not neces
sary to proffer nay, to force
upon the team their "psycho
logical support" in the form of
an enormous waste of lung
power;- But in the south, with
characteristic provincialism, we
must stand out to the last and
cling to this magnificent privi
lege as long as possible. It is
truly a wonder that only Har
vard has realized the advertis
ing pdwer of individualism. The
others, madly scrambling for
championship teams to advertise
the school, have resembled noth
ing so much as a great milling
herd of sheep. A student has
only to say that he comes from
an American institution; there
is no need to -differentiate fur
ther. Sacred "school spirit,"
what offenses are committed in
thy name! . . : and how before
heresy to thee will be recognized
as common sense! R. M. H.
SCOTCH PLAIDS
(By Dick McGlohon)
Dear Liz,
We've heard of freshmen hav
ing all. sorts of hobbies, tinki
ering with Erector sets for im
aginative stimulation, playing
with Yo-Yo balls, a recent'fad
on the campus we've even
heard it intimated that seniors
will' be playing bob-jacks before
the year is over but a real hyp
notist is a new type here. He's
a handsome chap, dark of skin,
with piercing Valentino , eyes,
and he knows his hypnology too.
Last Saturday night the" bot
tom floor of one of the quad
rangle dormitories was all astir
with, curious students trying to
crowd into one room to see this
exponent of Morpheus ply his
mystic art. He got his subject's
confidence, waved his fingers a
few times, said a few funny
words about "you're going to
sleep, to sleep, to sleep," and the
boy really passed under the hyp
notic spell. Then our erstwhile
hypnotist made the sleeper's
body rigid, so rigid that when
stretched across the tops of two
chairV he supported the com
bined weight of two heavy soph
omores who sat on his abdomen.
This hypnotism is not what it's
cracked up to be and I think the
interfraternity council should
make a thorough investigation
before this freshman of mystic
powers gets a chance to hypno
tize some of Charley Price's
frame-up men and finds out all
this year's political dope. Then
too the young instructors should
be protected, for it wouldn't do
for any of them to send in a
string of thirty A's for one section.--
:.'..'';'
There's plenty of room for the
council to do some more investi
gating about these dance orches
tra leaders taking advantage of
the fraternities during the first
week . of silence by fighting
among themselves and rushing
the freshmen around. They
ought to have known that there
was to be no rushing, on the Hill
for a week. Nevertheless, the
musical-minded frosh fared
hard. If it wasn't for Jack Lord
law and his Rhythm Breakers
it was Alex Mendal and his
gang. Both of them back-patted j
the frosh, tried them all out,
made them sing'" a few ditties,
trap the drums, and. play a few
tigerish rag notes on the saxo
phone. If the interfraternity
council don't make an investi
gation into this matter the Y.
M. C. A. should, for the fresh
man musician don't see no peace
up here for the first week or so.
And then after getting start
ed he gets over ambitious and
goes through five years in col
lege thinking he'll land a life
time job playing for the foot
lights. Instead he plays for
light foots only a short time and
I fete f)
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eventually, 'if ever, learns to his
regret that the life of. a college
band is hardly a century and
that his college days were wast
ed. Musicians seem to be plenti
ful around here according to T.
Smith McCorkler director of the
band, who says he has a larger
band this year than ever before
and more uniforms to buy than
he expected. You see the re
hearsal attendance so far has
been perfect the trip to Geor
gia Tech is just a week off.
Well, Liz, I've got to close.
With love,
. ' Mack.
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, A five-year old boy of Paris
has been in a trance for 10 days,
and the only movement noticed
is that of the eyelids. As he
isn't a chess-player we think a
doctor should b called in.
Punch.
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