Saturday, ISovember 16, 1929
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mania was carried to extra
ordinary lengths here. , When
the Marine Band played" in
Kenan stadium Thursday after
noon, scores of students made
the difficult and dangerous as
cent of the huge barb wire
fence, tumbled to the ground on
the inside, and crawled on their
bellies like mongrel dogs to . the
shielding screen of the fringe of
cedar bushes which . surrounds
the stands. There they groveled
until the performance was over,
although they could have se
cured good seats and enjoyed
the concert in respectable
fashion by the payment of an
inconsiderable sum.
Again Thursday night the
gate-crashers were on the job.
They attempted to rush t -the
doors of the Tin Can during the
intermission : after their at
tempts to massacre a few gate
keepers were thwarted, they
vented their, spleen by shower
ing bricks and clubs against the
tin walls of the structure, mean
while hurling all manner of un
complimentary epithets at . the
student doormen. -
The University's famed light
of learning seems to have pene
trated only feebly into the cran
iums of these habitual student
gate-crashers, if at all. Chances
are so solid as to defy penetra
tion anyway.
Stanley Weinberg
Saturday, November 16, 1929
Tar Heel Topics
"Fruit fly conclave in Wash
ington 16th" reads a headline in
the Greensboro Daily News. Ye
gods, and so they believe in or
ganization too!
: One newspaper tells us that
a man was "fatally wounded in
shooting at border." All of
which goes to prove-that boun
dary lines are dangerous things.
One of the state newspapers
'informs us that Raleigh v must
start its fight all over again for
a new depot. And We thought
that revolutions were restricted
to Mexico!
Well, we have all heard the
United States Marine Band, and
now we have one ambition to
be President , of the United
States. Then we could listen to
it free of charge. f v !
The New York City Noise
Abatement Commission recently
sent out 1,500 questionnaires and
found that "reverberations set
, up by heavy trucks, promiscuous
tooting of automobile horns, and
the squaking of radios" consti
tute the three chief noise wor
ries in that city. Evidently the
newspapers have been overdoing
the stock market crash.
Gate-Crashing At The
Marine Band Concerts
The desire to get something
for nothing is strong in all men
- but particularly so in women.
Often people will waste hours of
valuable time and expend a
prodigious amount of energy in
order to secure some - trifle of
inconsiderable value, simply be"
cause it costs them nothing in
actual cash. s
Gate-crashing is one of the
most pronounced manifestations
of the "get something for
nothing" urge. With many per
sons, especially college students,
gate-crashing becomes an ob
session, a passion fo which they
will subordinate pride, common
sense, everything of a reason
able nature. They regard pay
ing admission to an athletic
event, musical program or per
formance of any descriptions as
a mark of weakness, of inability
to outwit the gate-keepers. . All
.newspaper men are familiar with
the attentions upon a city edi
tor or other journalistic slave
driver, merely to secure a four
bit pass to some attraction.
Thursday this gate-crashing
The Progressive
South.
All too often residents of
other sections of therUnited
States criticize- the Southland.
And what is worse than this
occasionally a native southerner,
seemingly disgusted with his en
vironment, refers to his native
land, as "The Stagnant South."
The writer of this editorial could
never believe that the person
who recently published a treatise
in this paper bearing the afore
mentioned title fully realized the
heinous and unmistakably unjust
implications accompanying such
a group of words, for of all the
word combinations in the Eng
lish language, there is not one
which is any further removed
from the realm of the compli
mentary: With, all due respect
to this unnamed writer, let us
proceed to a careful scrutiny in
this misleading pharse The
Stagnant South,
From coast to coast the cul
ture of the Southland is unsur
passed. Southern hospitality
looms up as the very emblem of
satisfaction to the sojourner,
and in other sections of the na
tion the term southern hospi
tality is the most flattering com
bination that could be applied
to a friendly effort. Within the
last fifteen years the enrollment
of many southern colleges and
universities has doubled. Great
highways have found their way
across tne mtnerto well nigh
untraversable sands of this and
other southern states. And, to
make the contention even strong
er, this phase of development is
yet in the infant stage. The
South is rapidly becoming a
manufacturing region. In many
of the "Sunny States," notably
our own state of North Carolina,
the roar of . cotton and tobacco
mills is by no means a unfamiliar
sound. Northern manufacturers,
in recognition of something not
audacity to say that the South!
has not advanced almost im-1
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measurably since tne days oi tne
"Old South"? Yet to refer to
this region as being stagnant is
in effect the same thing. . Stag
nancy; and progress are irrecon
cilable opposites. -
People are prone to forget the
fact that the South has not yet
fully recovered from the disaster
of the War Between the States.
That she is progressive,' how
ever, is attested by her present
condition which offers a strik
ing contrast to her chaotic con
dition of a comparatively few
years ago. ine jsoutn is enam
oured of her part in the devel
opment of the American nation
of tomorrow, the like of which
the world has never yet seen.
Our native land is a recognized
part . of the Union and as such
lays claim to a position in the
affairs of the nation and . of the
world which is never accorded
a stagnant region. In point of
rapidity of development in re
cent years ; the South has no
counterpart in all of American,
history And yet this our native
land "The Stagnant South?"
It is true that many southern
universities turn to the North
or the West when in quest of a
president. It is true, also, that
some of the most prominent edu
cators of these sections are
solicited from the ranks of the
Southland.
It is 'time for all loyal south
erners to turn a deaf ear to the
showers of destructive criticism
which continually descend upon
their native jland both from
within and from without, for
this is our native land, and it is
the Progressive South which
bids fair to .take the lead in the
America of tomorrow. J. C. W.
THE POINTER
By J. C. Williams
even remotely akin to stagna
tion, are establishing mills in
this and other states of the. old
order. Lives there a man, even
Jin the depths of illiteracy, who
can meditate upon these things
and then say "This is my own,
my native land" The Stagnant
South?
In the last half century the
North and West have forged
ahead, it is true ; but so has the
South. Southerners were once
prominent in education, com
merce, and everything worth
while, and they still are. Peo
ple boast of coming from the
Southland just as much as they
did in the never-to-be-forgotten
days of the great plantation and
the negro slave.' Who has the
The Proposed
Income Tax Reduction
secretary Mellon has now
launched forth into a, project
which no doubt he has been
working on for some. time. It
is his plan to reduce the income
tax one percent for the year
1930, and thus effect a pet am
bition of his to slash taxes. He
realizes perhaps better than
anyone else that the budget
for the next fiscal year is much
in excess of that of this year
but rather . than increase taxa
tion proportionally to the in
crease in expenditures he would
reduce the tax rate. " '
Of course Mr. Mellon knows
that revenue must increase. He
bases his proposition on the hy
pothesis that big business is go
ing to increase so much during
the coming year that the re ve
nue brought in by . the reduced
tax on corporations (the one per
cent rediiption affecting largely
incomes of big corporations will
adequately cover the added gov
ernmental expenditures. He is,
then, advocating a reduction
not on a certainty but on an as
sumption.
- In case the earnings of big
business do not come up to the
expectations of Mr. 'Mellon the
payment on the national debt
will probably have to be reduced
and that money diverted into
other channels. At any rate
instead of taking chances on a
deficit, a surplus- which also is
economically unsound should
be anticipated in order to carry
on public works when genera
business conditions are at a low
erebb than they are at the
present time.
r It is a well known fact that
the proposed reduction will in
crease the stocks of corpora
tions, several corporations al
ready having capitalized on the
proposal. Thus in, the fina
analysis it will result in the
government's making a gift to
stockholders in corporations
the welfare of the average man
being unaffected. If Secretary
Mellon can reduce taxes and
meet the increased govern
mental expenditures, and at the
same time 'promote the genera
welfare, he is indeed a wizard.
The Truth. Will Out
Such was the opinion of the
many students who found their
names on the lists of deficiencies
pasted on the walls of the regis
trar's office. ."Whatsoever , a
man soweth, that shall he also
reap" is as true a statement now
as it ever was.
Something Unusual
A thing, is generally desired
in proportion fo the difficulty
encountered in getting : .' it.
"Grats" from professors who
cut their classes every once in a
while have little kick for the
students concerned. But the
situation is entirely reversed
when some professor, with a
conscience and a reputation for
always being-there, fails to show
up. This' seemingly small mat
ter is received in the light of
a great event. The impossible
has happened ! We must 'cele
brate! And so we do celebrate.
Old Mother Nature is very kind
to her children at Carolina. She
instills in them a love for free
dom and optional class attendance.
Hot Air Artists Warming Up
From the pages of this daily
publication we learn that the lo-
cal debaters are studying . the
question of DISARMAMENT
every Thursday night in 201
Murphey hall in preparation for
coming contests with N. C.
State and the University of
South Carolina. In the case that
the Tar Heels should win both
sides of the question we wonder
what the conclusion would be.
Tears like we'd be right back
where we started. If they lost
both sides we'd still be con
founded as to what to do. We
wouldn't know whether to dis
arm or not: At any rate, we'll
wait and see what happens.
, Artistic Justice
. We've always contended that
artistic justice was a fake. To
prove our contention we detailed
a Daily Tar Heel reporter the
other day to stand at the en
trance to the Carolina theatre
and solicit the opinions of twen
ty students regarding the pic
ture rasking them "How was
the picture" just as though he
himself contemplated going in
to witness the performance. The
answers ranged an tne way
from "damn good, pretty good,
fair, pretty fair, not much, just
ordinary, rotten to not worth a
damn." A thing is beautiful or
pleasing according to our own
individual enthusiasms. After
all, why should we care whether
the crowd admires the same
things that we do or not ? We
feel certain, however, that we
cannot possibly think of any
favorable location for the man
who aims to please everybody.
Certainly, Chapel Hill would not
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Broadway's Greatest Actress
in her most stirring role, as a half-
caste bride of a fighting northern
chief ... she succumbs to the lure
of Nome's mad life.
"Frozen Justice"
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Louis Wolheim
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All-Talking Comedy
"At the Dentist"
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Vaudeville Act
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It's-. The Thing to Do
For Eight Years-
The University Cafeteria has consistently served
the bulk of Carolina's student leaders. One
trial, and you will affirm their judgment. '
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All in a day's work for telephone men
, A specimen or construction work in the
Bell System is the new catenary span
carrying - telephone wires across the' Gila
River, Arizona. The "natural" obstacle is
no longer an obstacle while there are tele
phone men to find a way through it or
over it.
This is but one example in a general ex
pansion program: Others are such widely
varied projects as linking New York to
Atlanta by cable, erecting 200, telephone
buildings in 19 29, developing a $ 1 5,000,000
factory at Baltimore.
The telephone habit is growing apace,
and the Bell System will continue to keep
a step ahead of the needs of the nation.
BELL
SYSTEM
A nation-wide system of inter-connecting telephones
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