THE DALLY TAR HEL
Thursday, December 12, 1929
)i Datip Car if eel
Published daily daring 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.
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Building.
Glenn Holder ..Editor
Will Yarborough. Mgr. Editor
Marion Alexander Bus. Mgr.
Hal V. Worth.. Circulation Mgr.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John Mebane Harry Galland
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Robert Hodges J. D. McNairy
Joe Jones B. C. Moore
J. C. Williams
CITY EDITORS
E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay
Elbert Denning J. E. Dungan
SPORTS EDITOR
Henry L. Anderson -
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS
Joe Eagles J. G. deR. Hamilton, 'Jr
REPORTERS "
Howard Lee
Holmes Davis
Louis Brooks
Charles Rose
Mary Price
J. P. Tyson
Nathan Volkman
Peggy Lintner
E. C. Daniel
W. A. Shulenberger
G. E. French
Frank Manheim
Mary M. Dunlap
George Sheraml
John Lathan
B. H. Whitton
George Stone
Jack Riley
T. E. Marshall
George Wilson
J. S. leathers
Jack Bessen
Bernard J.. Herkimer
Browning Roach
Russell Williams
Sadler Hayes Stanley Weinberg
Kemp Yarborough
Thursday, December 12, 1929
PURLOINED PARAGRAPHS
Our bull market seems to have been
largely that. American Lumberman
(Chicago). ?
What the New York stock exchange
needs is a greeter who will adopt
Texas Guinan's cry: "Hello, sucker!"
Des Moines Tribune-Capital.
The Salvation army, which says a
man may be down but he's never out,
apparently has never made a house-to-house
campaign. Arkansas Ga
zette. A scientist's proposal to demon
strate that pan did not descend from
monkeys may result in ultimate vin
dication of the monkeys.- Weston
(Ore.) Leader.
Tar Heel Topics
The South Carolina road pro
gram has been held up by' court
officials, which means that the
court officials will continue to be
held up by the South Carolina
roads. . '
Grain dealers are 'facing an
inquiry by the senate, lobby com
mittee for resisting' "the 'farm
board program. Certain con
gressmen probably could be in
vestigated on similar charges
with far more likelihood -of guilt
being discovered. ;Y.'i ;"
Colonel W. P. H. Miller, for
mer director of the Illinois state
department of registration anct
education, has been convicted on
a charge of operating a "diploma
mill." We expect to hear of
quite a. few resignations from
college presidencies within the
next few days.
"Mrs. Max Gardner dippe-d
four ribbons on the twin bridges
today and Wilmington hopped
out of the Atlantic ocean Into
North Carolina for keeps" Tom
Bost's lead on his story of the
Wilmington bridge dedication.
Henceforth and forever more
should the Wilmingtonites be
dubbed. "the hoppers.
A New Jersey juryman leaned
over and whispered to a reporter
yesterday, just as the case was
drawing to a close; "Hey!
What's this here case1 all about,
anyway? I'm deaf and I didn't
hear but a few of them ques
tions and answers." The only
difference between him and
members of juries which have
recently tried certain cases in
North Carolina is that he is deaf
instead of dumb. V H ' : '
We Receive An
Undeserved Call-Down
Referring to an editorial pub
lished in the November 23 issue
of the Daily Tar Heel under the
heading "South Carolinian
Wants Reformers Whipped," the
Hornet of Furman University
declares that "In our opinion
the Tar Heel editorial was one
of the most scandalous ones
ever to appear in a college paper,
and rightly arouses the resent
ment of Furman students and
the people of Greenville." -
The editorial in question cen
sured Rev. B. D. Hahn, pastor
of the Pendleton Street Baptist
Church of Greenville, who is
quoted as stating in an address
before the Collegiate Press As
sociation of South Carolina that
"Northern reformers who think
they are called upon to reform
conditions in textile mill villages
here should be whipped at pub
lic whipping posts." The Horr
net declares "In the first place
the editorial undoubtedly was
based merely upon hearsay not
upon any official report, and it's
mighty dangerous business for
any editor to publish such slan
derous remarks about any man
without first being certain that
Clyde Deitziv,ia rpmarlfs vf Viiicpfl nnnm Tip
.
irutn.
Although we dislike very
much to engage in anything re
sembling an editorial - contro
versy with the Hornet, we can
not allow the utterly false re
marks of the editor to go un
challenged. We quote from
an Associated Press dispatch
which appeared in newspapers
throughout the country under a
Greenville, S. - C, dateline of
November 21 : "Public whipping
posts as proper punishment for
'northern reformers who think
they are called upon to reform
conditions in textile mill villages
here' were advocated today by
the Rev. B. D. Hahn, pastor of
the Pendleton Street . Baptist
church.
"Dr. Hahn was speaking be
fore the South Carolina college
press association. He said north
ern newspapers were conducting
campaign of propaganda
against southern textile mills
'lest the , textile power of the
north be transferred to the
south,' and urged the college
editors to oppose the northern
press's influence through their
papers.
. Says the editor of the Hornet,
We had the pleasure of listen
ing to Dr. Hahn, and if he said
any such thing we did not hear
it." From experience gained at
several college press conventions,
we are aware that speakers at
such occasions get about as
much attention as a cross-eyed
old maid at a college fraternity
dance. We don't question the
veracity of the Hornet editor,
but it is quite possible that Dr.
Hahn made the statement all
unknown to the editor. Indeed,
the esteemed Hornet editor ad
mits the possibility himself -"if
he said any such thing we did
not hear it." At any rate we
would prefer by far to accept
the dispatch of the AP, the
greatest and most reliable news
service in the world, without
which the publication of modern
newspapers would be impossible,
than the mere unsupported opin
ion of a college newspaper edi
tor, who admits himself that he
may have been mistaken. Not
meaning any disrespect to the
clan editoria collegenia.
It is significant that the Ral
eigh News- and Observer and
several others of North and
South Carolina's most important
newspapers published editorials
upon the same day that the Daily
Tar Heel editorial appeared, de
nouncing Dr. Hahn in even more
emphatic terms than those em
ployed by the Tar Heel editorial
writer.
Although we were attending
the North Carolina Collegiate
Press Association convention at
Hickory when the editorial in
question appeared and we did
not see the copy before, it was
published, we more than will
ingly take full responsibility for
its appearance. One of the as-!
sistant editors wrote the edi
torial; we congratulated him
heartily upon it after we re
turned from the convention. Our
only regret was that he did not
more severely denounce Dr.
Hahn.
Unless the AP correspondent
committed a grave error in re
porting Dr. Hahn's speech,
which is entirely unlikely, the
Hornet editor has made some
thing of an ass of himself. He
is either admitting his incapa
city to grasp a speaker's mean
ing through lack of perceptional
facilities or inattention, or he
is upholding the unfortunately
phrased utterances of a man who
exhibited more than a hint
of inane bigotry.
Judge Lindsey
Enters Another Fight
Monday's news dispatches told
of the refusal of the supreme
court of Colorado to grant Judge
Ben B. Lindsey license to prac-1
tice law, alleging that he was
guilty of unethical conduct,
having accepted a large gift
from a wealthy woman who had
been greatly benefitted by his
decision in a case tried before
him as judge of the domestic
court of Denver. The chief jus
tice who wrote the opinion used
to be a political boss and fought
many bitter battles against
Judge Lindsey when he was try
ing to get his juvenile court
started and was introducing
his famous reforms in juvenile
work.
A veteran of many heated
campaigns the judge immediate
ly announced that his political
enemies wefe trying to even
old scores and prepared himself
for another battle. Whether
the judge wins his fight or not,
we" are confident he will give his
opponents a good fight and there
will be plenty theatricals.
For many years Judge Lind
sey has been fighting against
the whole political machine of
his state in an effort to secure
reforms in domestic and juve
nile courts. He has been out
standing in his success in his
juvenile, work; his ideas on
domestic relations, especially
his companionate marriage the
ory, have received widespread
attention. His work was going
on successfully until last year
when a new election came; he
was thrown out of office as the
result of an alleged ballot fraud.
His successor dedicated himself
to the refutation of all of Lind
sey's work and established a
court with old ideas and prac
tices; he repudiated everything
that had been accomplished un
der Lindsey's administration.
No man has been more bit
terly opposed than- has Judge
Lindsey.. He is the type of man
who makes a definite impres
sion ; orie .likes him extremely
well, or hates him. . The success
of his work has been due almost
entirely to the force of his per
sonality. In going against the
political machines, the frame
ups, the status quo, the old order
of things, he has met opposition
att every corner. Finally, he
was stalled in his tracks by an
amazingly crooked deal put over
by his enemies; since losing his
job he has been lecturing and
writing:
When the next election comes,
we hope to see the judge in a
position to run and win his of
fice again. In the meantime we
hope he is able to administer
defeat to his opponents in every
contest that comes up; he has
often been the victim of. crooked
deals, and we long to see him
gain recognition once again.
J. D. M.
Now the movie actressses have
to talk. They will be asked to
think next. American Lumber
man. V '' : ; : '.' '
The Campus
By Joe Jones,
Out of Iberia comes word that
the people of Spain have recent
ly paid half a million dollars for
ninety-five parchments which
were the sole legacy Christopher
Columbus left his son Diego.
Long sought after by the great
est museums of the world, passed
from generation to generation.
of Columbus' descendants, the
yellow sheaf has at last found
a resting place in the national
museum of that country which
was the first to lend serious ear
to the Unstaple fabric of the mad
navigator's dream.
Among the documents are
letters written by Queen Isa
bella, proud letters bearing the
royal seal of Spain; and letters
written by Columbus . himself,
Pathetic little notes to Diego,
wxiu, as a, nuy muuieness lau,
followed his restless father from
town to town.
From all over the world
scholars are journeying to
Madrid where the collection will
be displayed after its long re
pose in a vault of the Bank of
Spain. But among all these
seekers of new light from old
embers there will not be found
the man who has already given
the world its most extensive
knowledge of Columbus, the
man who for long weary years
ferreted out, bit by bit, the full
story of Columbus from count
less archives in many cities, the
man who wrote in his diary this
to Chapel Hill, "I am leaving this
damn place for the last time,
thank God." '
So once wrote Henry Harrisse,
the greatest authority on Colum
bus who. ever lived. That was
long ago, for it has been many
years, several score, since Henry
Harrisse was a professor at the
University of North Carolina.
He was living a comfortable,
perhaps a happy, professorial
life here in a peaceful southern
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village; and suddenly he left it
all and went away to Paris and
fame, and died with, too much
nosing through of dusty, musty
records in gloomy museum cor
ners.
There isn't any moral to this
column, no neatly turned ending.
We just got to thinking how Mr.
Harrisse would have enjoyed
reading those letters brought to
light in Spain. And we got to
wondering why he should be so
relieved to depart so uncere
moniously from such a pleasant
town as Chapel Hill, and whether
he ever sighed for Chapel Hill, i
as Leonardo the Florentine in
the foreign castle of Cloux sud
denly sighed for the City of the
Red Liiy.
But we didn't do any research
about it; perhaps because we
wanted only enough to fill up a
column, something to shoot the
bull about, enough bull to fill up
the last column before Christ
mas, etc., etc., etc., " and so
eivig usque ad finem!"
Strange as it may sound,
those who remain on the level
are usually those who rise the
highest. Christian Science
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