THE DAILY TAR HEEL
X)t Oatip Car ipeel
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Glenn Holder ...... .. .Editor
Will YARB0R0UGH..Jr. Editor
Marion Alexander..... Bus. Mgr.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John Mebane Harry Galland
ASSISTANT EDITORS
J. Elwin Dungan J. D. McNairy
Joe Jones . B. C. Moore
Dick McGlohon J. C Williams
SPORTS EDITORS
Jos Eagles Crawford McKethan
CITY EDITORS
E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay
Elbert Denning Sherman Shore
Sunday, October 13, 1929
A Deplorable
Lack of Restraint
Friday night the students who
remained on the Hill were in ex
uberant spirits, naturally. But
even exultation over the brilliant
victory at Atlanta was no excuse
for the childish pranks engaged
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in by a mob of several hundred magnificent.
ai-uuenis wno congregated at the
Carolina theatre.
At first the crowd was peace
able enough and its antics were
more asinine than dangerous,
but the mob contagion took pos
session of it, as is nearly always
the case, and childishness be
came viciousness. Aged and
odiferous eggs were hurled with
abandon; the usual "show rush"
was staged, attended by frequent
breaking of glasses and a large
quota of cuts and bruises. The
mob was assuming a -dangerous
attitude when Executive Secre
tary R. B. House persuaded the
members to disperse in an ad
mirable talk.
Nothing is quite so nauseating:
as the individual who is unable
to celebrate victory without mak
ing an ass of himself. Es
pecially disgusting is the spec
tacle of a college man, presum
ably above the average in intel
lect and in the niceities of social
usage, descending to vicious im
becilities because his team has
won an athletic contest.
. It is apparent that the Tar
Heel football team is slated for
the greatest season in its history,
and the student body will very
likely have much cause for re
joicing, in the remaining weeks
of the season. With Georgia,
Duke and Virginia games in the
offing, it would be highly advis
able for the student body, or at
least a certain element of it
which inclines toward rowdyism,
to learn that the proper way to
celebrate victory is not by con
, ducting themselves in a manner
befitting a brutalized race of
morons.
To be sure, very few of the
undergraduates here would in
tentionally give themselves up to
senseless destruction of property
or physical violence, but the mob
urge frequently incites the most
sane of men to idiotic deeds.
We Carolina students would do
well to restrain ourselves in the
approbation which we express
for the feats of our football team
lest someone is killed or serious
loss of property results from an
over-enthusiastic celebration of
victory.
and high school boy will now as
pire to be another "Shorty" ;
our plucky quarter will be the
idol of the football worshipping
youth of the country. ,
All the elements of a moving
picture, a dime novel, a sopho
more short story, or a great
novel, if you will, .were present
in the game Saturday. With
the regular quarter injured, the
greatest opponents of the year
facing the team, the dashing
little quarter, outweighed, many
times by backs of the other side,
stepped in and generaled his
team to a victory over the na
tional champions, and then
pulled the most spectacular play
ever seen in Dixie; that we say
is a story we often read in fic
tion, but rarely see happen.
Many morals could be drawn
from the story of the game, and
we dare say many Y uplifters,
preachers, and professional good
men will point out the triumph
of "clean living" ; many tributes
will be paid to the "indomitable
courage" of the team that de
feated Tech ; home folks, sweet
hearts, . friends and alumni are
showering the team with gifts
and affection. If Shorty should
never play another game, ' the
trjumph that is his will thrill
the imagination of the land for
a long time; the mere telling of
Vividly could we see Edward j North Carolina Passes
Its 136th Anniversary
the story appeals to our child
ish worship of the heroic and
D. M.
Kidder Graham meeting the stu
dents on the campus or in his
office and of his interest in their
life and affairs. Still fresh in
our minds was the magnificent
gesture of a remarkable and
loyal man who in refusing to
permit material gain lead him
from an ideal last spring re
nounced a sinecure at twice his
present salary. Becoming a
president of the University as
a result of a compromise by his
wise administration and his in
tellect Dr. Chase has not only
won the heart and fancy of the
Old North State, but has become
one of the ten most outstanding
university presidents in the en
tire United States.
The birthdays of man are
numbered, but those of the Uni
versity of North Carolina will
fall perpetually on each succeed
ing twelfth day of October, and
Alma Mater will forever stand
a beacon on a dark and stormy
sea sending out "Lux et Liber
tas." J. E. D.
Continued from page one)
schools certain privileges. , As a
(result of this confusion coming
out of different interpretations
of the provision no creative
measures could be passed.
Davie Appears on the Scene
Many private institutions
were chartered during this pe
riod, but the idea of a state uni
versity was unpopular among
the majority. There were cries
against any increase of taxes
and that the establishment of
such an institution was an at
tempt to set up an aristocracy.
No leader appeared to champion
the cause of the University. No
one was willing to risk the sacri
fice of his popularity to the
movement until the fall of 1789
the "state to train her native sons
so that they, in turn, might ren
der their services to their state.
Only a man of his calibre could
have assured the success of the
movement.
The North Carolina legislature
of 1789 met in Fayetteville at
the same time as did the con
vention elected to consider the
ratification of the United States
Constitution. Davie was the
representative from Halifax to
both bodies. He held the theory
that the ratification of the Con
stitution and the establishment
of a university went hand, in
hand. So. Nnvpmhpr 12. 1789.
when the one man, perhaps, in iUst nine davs before he made
tne entire state wnose ability as-
up its cause. He was a strong
advocate of the ' education of
youth. He looked with regret
on the necessity of North Caro
lina's having to seek her leaders
in foreign states. He wished j and other officers which the state
Sunday, October 13, 1929
the university a reality. Funds
were necessary to erect build
ings. An act was passed con
ferring to the trustees certain
Readers' Opinions
Another Football
Idol Emerges
, Out of all the glory and en
thusiasm of the Tech-Carolina
game Friday there emerges one
Lindbergh feat which will thrill
the youth of the land as perhaps
ho football game has thrilled it ;
Johnnie Branch's fifty-five 'yard j
run will become legendary in
the annals of football in this
state. Every grammar grade
Alma Mater
136 Years Young
Yesterday the University
passed another milestone in an
eventful career. Alma Mater,
one hundred and thirty-six years
of age is impressively young.
Having drunk at the fountain of
Youth which is Knowledge for
so many years her jeunnesse and
vigor are precitible to the most
impartial eye. The University
of North Carolina has kept step !
Drawing back the curtain that
has fallen on other birthdays,
we lived again the colorful and
varied fortunes that have . be
come the history of the Univer
sity of North Carolina. We
treked with Hinton James from
the mouth of the Cape Fear to
the site where William Davie
had located the first University
building, there to be the first
of a long line of students. Then
we saw the Goddess Fortuna
invoked by the early fathers to
preside over the destinies of the
institution when it became nec
essary in 1801 to raise mainten
ance funds through the medium
of a 2,000 pound lottery.
Living again the duels and
brawls of a more demonstrative
period, we saw Hopkins and
Hawkins expelled for "danger
ous display of deadly weapons."
In 1805 we saw the birth of the
Honor System, following the se
cession of a majority of the stu
dent body as a result of the harsh
measures resorted to by the Uni
versity officials, an Honor Sys
tem, that has never faltered in
its one hundred and twenty-four
years, but that has grown as the
University has grown and re
mains today as an integral part
of University life.
Yesterday we thought of
Peter Dromgoole and his tragic
love, of the pride that swelled
within the breasts of the masters
who taught and guided James K.
Polk through his formative years
at the University, the day of his
inauguration as president of the
United States, of the "terrible
days" during the carpet-bag
rule of the University, of the
struggle to continue during the
years that followed, of the fight
against. the evolution bill, and
of many other things.
Singing in our ears were the
names of William Rufus King.
several times ambassador tn
v A
foreign countries, president of
the United States senate, , and
vice-president of the United
States; Thomas Hart Benton,
political genius of 1830; of
Vance, Battle", Aycock, Branch',
Swain, Pettigrew, and Mebane.
Meaningless Mexican Reforms
Editor The Daily Tar Heel :
The editorial in Saturdav's
Tar Heel regarding one of (Mexi
co's latest "reform's" reminds
. Jl AMI 1 i 1 i
me mat tne nttie nation con
tinues to be successful in her
aims.
It is now something over a
dozen years since Luis Cabrera,
at one time high functionary in
the government of the late
Venustiano Carranza, while
speaking before a group of Mexi
can "patriots" 'at the McAlpin
Hotel in New York City said,
"Our biggest task is to fool the
people and the government of
the pFnited States." Their' suc
cess is notorious. "
The recent AP dispatch an
nouncing the abolition by the
Portes Gil government of juries
and the death penalty (except,
of course, for offences in no
way criminal) and the institu
tion of trial of criminals by
alienists means nothing to me
but another step in the direction
sured success appeared and be
gan the fight for a state uni
versity. That man was-William
Richardson Davie. His abso
lute faith in the advantages of
such an institution and his con
sistent services, coupled with
his popularity and ability, over
came the numerous obstacles
and made the institution a suc
cess.
Davie was born in England,
but as a youth came to America
to live with an uncle in the Wax
haw settlement on the Catawba
river. He was a graduate of
Princeton, leaving that institu
tion to contribute his ability to
the American cause. His bril
liant services as a cavalry officer
in North Carolina was equalled
after the war by his success in
the practice of law and as a ser
vant of the people. 'As one of
North Carolina's representatives
to the Constitutional convention
at Philadelphia in 1789 he ef
fected a compromise in which
North Carolina, then one of the
larger states, cast her vote with
the smaller states for equal rep
resentation in the Senate and
saved the convention from ad
journment. His services to the
state were many and great, but
the greatest of all, perhaps, was
his leadership in the movement
for a state university.
Great Advocate of Education
Having had no leader for 13
so frankly pointed out by Cab
rera That such a seemmgly years the movement nb ined
iz: z a Da took
Mexico should take such a for
i j .
waiu anu progressive step in
handling criminals" is not so
mucn surprising" as inconceiv
able, for there is an inherent
contradiction in the phrase.
mi ' j t
inat sucn a step is progres
sive has not yet been demon
strated, for though juries have
been found most incompetent it
does not seem to me that alien
ists have given us good reason
to trust intheir intelligence.
oxjn j , , . .
oun, granting mat m some
places this reform would be a
forward step it does not follow
that such would be the case in
HTn,r,'A. TTTT i -
aj.caicu. vvnoever nas neara a
Mexican "scientist" commit
himself must agree with me
that Mexico is an unexplored
field for the Ringling-Barnum
clown hunting expedition.
Portes Gil and Elias Calles do
what they please to an anathetic
people, and the world looks on
and at times applauds. The "re-
forme" must cause fanfare while
the sore needs of the nation go
unnoticed in the big noise.
Even assuming that the lead
ers are striving for the better
ment of their country such re-
torms are meaningless when im
posed on a nation in the state
of culture in which Mexico finds
itseii today. Alienists and
Temperance Unions are too for
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xniuaDie tor any but the most
"grown-up" commonwealths to
grapple with.
J. J. SLADE, JR.
had been unable to collect. To
this source was added escheats.
Seven thousand three hundred
and sixty-two dollars was col
lected, only the interest of
which, according to provision,
could be used. But in order to
construct buildings provision for
a larger income was necessary.
In 1791 Davie brought a meas
ure before the legislature asking
for a loan of $10,000 for the
purpose of erecting buildings
necessary for the opening of the
institution. His speech in sup
port of this measure is thus de
scribed by Judge tMurphey in his
address at the University in
1826 : "I was present at the
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the motion in the convention that I House of Commons when Davie
led to the ratification of the ! addressed that body upon a bill
United States Constitution by
North Carolina, he introduced a
bill in the legislature to estab
lish a university. The bill passed
and a charter was granted, Davie
being the main instrument in
the drawing up of this charter.
A board of trustees was pro
vided for as the governing body,
and, lest Davie's services be lost
at this moment of apparent suc
cess, he was among the first
selected to guide the institution
in its youth.
Charter Was Granted
A charter had been granted,
but that act alone could not make
granting a loan of money to the
trustees for erecting the build
ings of the University, and al
though more than 30 years have
since elapsed, I have the most
vivid recollection of the great
ness of his manner" and 'the
powers of his eloquence on that
occasion." The appeal was suc
cessful. The loan was later con
verted into a gift the only ap
propriation made by the state in
interest of the University until
1881.
Italy now has
glove factories.
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