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Published daily during the college year except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, Christmas 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-Jlfflfr. Editor Marion Alexander. .. Bus. Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebane Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS J. Elwin Dungan J. D. McNairy Joe Jones B. C. Moore J. C. Williams CITY EDITORS E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITOR Henry L. Anderson ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS Joe Eagles Crawford McKethan REPORTERS Howard Lee Holmes Davis Louis Brooks Charles Rose Kemp Yarborough Mary Price J. P. Tyson Browning Roach Al Lansford Joe Carpenter Peggy Lintner E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenberger Frank Manheim Mary M. Dunlap Clyde Deitz George Sheram Robert Hodges John La than B. H. Whitton Nathan Volkman George Stone George Vick Jack Riley T. E. Marshall R. T. Martin G. K. French J. S. Weathers Stanley Weinberg Sunday, November 24, 1929 Ford the Modern ,. Prometheus The benefactor of the Ameri can civilization, Henry Ford, now comes forth with his own prescription for improving busi ness conditions, which prescrip tion is the immediate general in crease of wages of his several thousand employees. The great economist goes even farther, saying, "Nearly every thing in this country, is too high ly priced. The only thing that should be high priced in this country is the man who works. Even the raising of wages is not sufficient in itself we must see to it that increased wages are not taken away' from our people by increased prices." Excellent! But like so many idealists who believe that they have a panacea for the country's ills, the gentleman from Michi gan overlooks the fact that as fast as wages are raised the wholesalers and retailers, not bothered with any very strong altruistic motives, will . raise their prices correspondingly. There is no power, including the august one of the United States congress, which is strong enough to regulate wage levels. No matter how much Henry Ford increases his employees' salaries, however, he will never be able toiay them adequately. Mr. Ford was the first important manufacturer to introduce mass production to this country, and as such should receive no praise whatsoever for any attempts of his to increase wages. Mass pro duction and its many attendant evils is slowly but inevitably causing the stultifying of the American soul and its apprecia tion of the artistic. There is little incentive to be individual. The false god worshipped in modern industrialism is Efficien cy. It matters not how good ; how many and how fast are the chief considerations. And in this process the struggling indi vidual fits like a cog in a machine winch soon wears out. Each man is inately proud of his ego his self his individual ity. He would strive to be dif ferent were he left to himself. This he cannot do in modern in dustrialism. Working for Mr. Ford, he bends aTender in a cer tain way year in and year out, or perhaps he screws three bolts into place in exactly the same way for twenty years. Weare personally, acquainted with a man reared upon a farmin Ber rien county, Michigan, who, be ing attracted to Detroit by the miraculous wages offered by For di has worked for him for fifteen years putting fan belts upon the machines as they come down the assembly line. All day long for five days a week he works in perfect clock-like order which is splendid from the view point of the employer, but when his working day is over he finds himself incapable of getting back to normal. He even eats in a mechanical' manner. He lit tle appreciates or notices any change in the seasons, or his family's appearance, and has lit tle joy whatsoever in living. Ac customed to a comparatively happy life on a farm he has be come another atomaton, march ing in the service of His Majesty Henry Ford, the benefaptor of American civilization. -J. E. D. Let There ' Be Light! (H.J.G.) A crying need of this town has received little notice from the city fathers, and some action should be forthcoming before they become city grandfathers. It is a matter of light, and light on any subject is, or should be, welcome. Fraternity men whose houses are situated on Rosemary street, Tar Heel men whose work takes them to the print shop daily, and numerous others whose business is in the; alley in back of the drug stores on Franklin street, stumble and curse, and stumble and curse again, every night. Two lights, placed at strategic points in this alley, would allevi ate the trouble. The expense is not great, and at least one mem ber of the Board of Aldermen has realized the need and prom ises to cooperate. The weather the past few days has made the alley a treach erous place. ' Just now, it is more than ordinarily dangerous at night. At the cost of a few dol lars, Mayor Council and Man ager Foushee would, if they in stalled the lights in the alley where needed, find themselves blessed by many citizens of Chapel Hill, and mentioned in the prayers of not a few stu dents. And even aside from that, it would be worth it! Chicago Undertakes An Experiment Among the seven major objec tives outlined by President Hutchins of the University of Chicago in his recent inaugural address is the reform of the undergraduate school so that the more intelligent pupils will not be retarded in their work by the "dumber" or more mediocre ones. We may suppose that his plan will be in the form of an experiment , along the lines of those now being carried out at Wisconsin, Swarthmore, Prince ton, Harvard and Various other institutions. Classification of students as to ability to go forward in their work has been tried to some ex tent in this and other univer sities, but as a whole has not been successful. The chaos cre ated by having to make schedules for three different sections of each subject at different hours of the day is more than can be handled. The only solution of the problem seems to be com plete segregation of the brighter and slower students into differ ent colleges. Nothing is more dishearten ing to one who is really in ear nest about his work and able to go ahead than to be with a class, the'majority of which are slow er, duller, and less enthusiastic than he. While the "dumb" stu dent may gain from his associa tion with the brighter, the bright one is the loser in time and energy wasted. ' We wish President Hutchins every success in the solution of THE DAILY TAR HEEL this problem. Chicago being a private institution can afford to conduct experiments, while the state universities must cater to the average student, and the modern university satisfies the average student. J. D. M Religion Unbothered By Week-Ends Far be it from the intentions of this editorial writer to con demn the, prevailing practice of urging students of the Univer sity to attend the church services of the village at any and all times. ' There are, however, sev eral factors relevant to the reli gious situation which warrant more than casual, consideration. In a recent issue of this paper there appeared an article repri manding students for leaving the Hill on week-ends in preference to remaining in Chapel Hill and thereby availing themselves of the opportunity to attend church services. When considered aside from the deeply rooted and con flicting inclinations of the vari ous elements of the student body, such a viewpoint is a sound one. Upon careful examination, how ever, it will be found that those students who make a practice of attending religious functions will do so regardless of whether they are in Chapel Hill on week ends, or not. Although it is un-! deniably true that the habitual practice of spending week-ends away from the University cam pus is a bad one, it is equally as much in accord with the fact that these same students would not go to . church even though they spent every Sunday in Chapel Hill. The writer is inclined to think that religious attitudes are so well established before stu dents come to college that sub sequent efforts to make radical changes in such matters as church attendance are useless. This apparently accounts for the varying degree to which stu dents respond to the numerous campaigns of religious organiza tions. In almost every case prin ciples governing such matters as church attendance were drilled into the present students of the University long before they even contemplated coming to Chapel Hill. Although we sincerely endorse the contention that the Bible is a masterpiece in point of liter ary and historical excellence, we cannot overlook the fact that people are loathe to read any thing which reprimands them for wrong doing. ' Investigations in this connection show, none the less, that the Bible is read more than any other single book. Yet it is unquestionably true that these readers comprise the just rather than the unjust. After having considered the situation from every possible angle, we are inclined to believe that all efforts which figure in shaping the attitudes of students ! toward religious matters should be aimed at those who are not yet of college age. J. C. W. Headers5 TIN CAN PERFORMANCES PANNED Editor the Daily Tar Heel: I have attended my first pub lic performance in the "new" Tin Can, and, incidentally, it will be my last one. My attendance at the marionette performance given there Thursday night has made me a hearty supporter of any movement in favor of the construction of a University auditorium. If the acoustics of the build ing have been improved I was not aware of the fact. " The blow ers which are used to help heat the building also added to the difficulty of hearing. Further more, it is quite probable that the type of performance which was given on the recent evening is not suited to the mammoth itiuaotnts If By H. J. GaUand Dear Mr. Paulsen: You and I have had some cor- respondence in the past, but we were limited to purely business matters and phrases. In your capacity as Director of the Uni versity Laundry, I know you hear many, many complaints, some faint and grudging praise, and a lot of hooey. Far be it from me to add to .the last. Yet, there are several things I should like to say to you, and this seems as good a time as any to say them. You have, I understand (you have told me so yourself) the very finest and most modern equipment in your plant. This is as it should be, since your laundry was installed by and serves one of the most progres sive universities in the South. : The South, I hear, is stagnant or is it unstagnant? Still, there are the tobacco and cot ton crops, and as long as the South ... Excuse me, Mr. Paul sen I didn't mean to digress, but one hears so much of stag nancy, Lee, Appomatox, and crops, that I'm afraid I'm .get ting incoherent too. Not that you are incoherent, Mr. Paulsen it's these writers in the Tar Heel. I" hope you don't read 'em. The Laundry needs your time too much for that. J Well, as I started out to say a while back, you have modern macninery installed in your laundry. They tell us that machinery has no, soul, that it is cold, uncalculating, and un thinking. Don't you believe it, Mr. Paulsen. Many a time, af ter you have made a delivery, I have thought of your machines. I know them, and I know they are almost 'human. I have even seen them laughing, in fiendish glee, after they have turned out a shirt, or what once was a shirt, of mine. They are calculating, or how else would they rip a towel up the exact center, not a hairsbreadth out of line? Next time you take a' walk around your laundry, Mr. Paul sen, take a look at those ma chines, and see if I am right. Watch them take a sock and neatly enlarge holes, while they whisper and sneer to themselves. You've got to hand it to them, Mr. Paulsen they certainly do know how to wreak their pri vate vengeances on the student body. You understand, Mr. Paulsen, that I put no share of the blame for the mishaps to articles of our apparel on your shoulders. It isn't your fault it's those machines of yours. You will re- Opinion size of the "indoor athletic field. Of the show itself I cannot give a fair estimate, because I was unable to see,' hear, or sit through it in comfort. But after all credit must be given the Uni versity officials , for making the best of a bad situation. .And as for the Tin Can, it will serve admirably if every performance will, be a music program, such as the recent Marine ,Band con cert. But then there would be the disadvantage of having all the students sit on the ground about the building or even up in the dormitories to hear the pro gram for which the Can serves as a kind of amplifier. Such an occurrence might result in a slight deficit in the gate receipts. PAUL VON MILGRAM. Campus Life Silk V"1 .... U. .i 2 s, in vow Isrft tha &mL 6zfctm member that I wrote you last year and thanked jrou for re turning two towels when I had only sent in one, and that I overlooked the fact that the two had been one when the parcel was sent to you. Last week you sent my shirt back only the back. I know those machines got hold of the front and sleeves, and there's no telling what they'll do, is there?, Still, Mr. Paulsen, I'm not kicking. I'm only wondering why, when you put a few rags in the package to be returned to students, in place of the shirt that was sent you, the matter is thereupon dropped. Don't you think it would be much nicer to write a little note and explain what refund is possible? Or, if this is too much trouble, get a little slip printed, which you could insert when and as needed. It would make us all feel a lot better to know that you-cared. And it even might help us to get some kind of re fund. Every little bit helps, Mr. Paulsen. Please give this little matter your serious attention and be lieve me, as always, your friend, The Pointer. MRS. JOHNSON IN TEXAS Mrs. Guy B. Johnson of Chapel Hill left this week to re main until January with her family in Greenville, Texas. Dr. Johnson, of the University insti tute for research in social sci ence, will join her there for the Christmas holidays. SENIOR NOTICE All seniors are requested to have their photographs made before Thanksgiving, if possible. Please cooperate. WOOTTEN - MOULTON I -rtfl VOW UlLClls t A I A Panacea for Itch the m tZ lteli' CUre aU skin deseases. Just ,X loe ltcI! ""Sworm, irritations and jock FACTION fVe Ur h We GUARANTEE SATK5- TRY LINOIL FIRST The Improved Remedy A Chapel Hill Product utton's Drug Store The Students' Sunday, NoTembsr 24, 1923 monotonous 1 KANSAS HEALTH BOARD ISSUES KISSING RULES The Kansas board of health in conjunction with the 'United States public health service has recently issued a group of rules for the guidance of kissers. Some of these rules are: 1. Avoid sudden changes in temperature when kissing. For example, it is extremely danger ous to kiss in a coon-skin coat one minute and then to immedi ately try it in some lighter at tire. The reason for this is of course obvious to any one who has tried it. 2. Gargle frequently at parties where postoffice is" played. 3. Try a hot mustard foot bath immediately afterwards if you are "all in." 4. Do not kiss in a draft or in a poorly ventilated room. 5. Be careful about kissing in crowded places. 6. Do not kiss a person who is subject to chills or fever. ELIZABETH ARDEN Announces that ber exquuslte VENETIAN TOILET PREPARATIONS for prccerving 'and enhancingthe beauty of the skin, may al ways be had at Eubanks Drug Co. "it Drug Store
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