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Pass Tin THE DAILY TAR HL Friday, December 13, 1929 fri Ars-.sii r-l up XI any vai 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.. M gr. Editor Marion Alexander. ....Bus, Mgr. Hal V. WoKTK...Circulatidn 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. P. 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 r Louis Brooks Charles Rose Frank Manheim Mary M. Dunlap i, ; Clyde Deitz George Sheram - John La than B. H. Whitton George Stone Jack Riley T. E. Marshall George Wilson J. S. Weathers -Mary Price J. P. Tyson ;. Nathan Volkman Peggy Lintner E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenberger G. E. French Bernard J. Herkimer Jack Bessen Browning Roach Russell Williams Sadler Hayes Stanley Weinberg Kemp Yarborough. Friday, December 13, 1929 PURLOINED PARAGRAPHS Marines en route southward have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they will be making Haiti while the sun shines. Norfolk Virginian Pilot. There are fewer bathtubs in the United States than there are auto mobiles. But then of course Saturday night comes only once 5a v?&ik.-High Point Enterprise. The final standing was that the Athletics lost one game, the Cubs four, and the Pennsylvania Railroad the sixth and seventh. Detroit News, , An editor says the old-fashioned family doctor has disappeared. He has gone to look for the old-fashioned family, which probably owed him an old-fashioned bill. LaFayette Journal and Courier. The question of ownership of Ant arctic areas has been sidestepped by Washington, says a report, obviously inspired by those who think the Fed eral government does not cut any ice! Norfolk Virvinian-Pilot. Tar Heel Topics : Friday the 13th, fires and rumors of fires. Better cut out smoking today! Three down and four to go! Looks like the fire demon is playing a great game on Fra ternity Row. Now if someone would start an investigation of the senate lobby investigating -committee somebody might get investigated after all. New York movie directors evi dently are not as enterprising as their Hollywood brethren. Not one of them took advantage of the Harlem movie studio blaze to take a big fire scene. The buildings department has erected a safety fence around Memorial hall, but it doesn't hide the darn thing in the least. A mammoth shroud to complete ly cover the monstrosity would be much more desirable, to our way of thinking. We hear from reliable sources that certain of the faculty are highly wrought up over the fact that the Tar Heel will not be issued during exam week. And yet they frequently remind the staff that we are going to have to get down to work on our courses if we expect to pass any of them. A Problem And A Duty For Undergraduates "America is the richest nation in the world. Other nations are inclined to look upon this coun try as the golden land of oppor tunity and wealth, of luxury and comfort for everyone. Even we collegians, familiar as most of us are, with the deplorable con ditions existing in many of the nation's industries, presumably possessed of the intelligence and liberality of thought to recog nize the fundamental injustices perpetrated every day upon workers in many of our indus tries and agricultural occupa tions, are inclined to regard tiese conditions as natural and inevitable, to sing the praises of our "perfect" economic system in true Rotarian fashion. Economists have incontrover tiably : established, with statis tics and entirely logical deduc tion, that the income of the United States is more than ade quate for the comfort of every- ! 1 1 ' M 'L . . . .J. 1 J ooay, dux it, is so unevenly dis tributed that a, large proportion of our population is in poverty. Gastonia, Marion, Elizabethton these recent and tragic chap ters -in our economic history represent a natural but ill- advised attempt to correct the fundamental inequality of in comes. A tragically large proportion of the nation's leaders toward the warfare now raging between the forces of capital and labor. In both camps are thousands of influential persons, intellectual and civic leaders, who are ex hibiting collossal intolerance, an unwillingness to approach the basic problems in the light ' of sane, unprejudiced reasoning, that is nothing short of criminal. With today's undergraduate generations, who will, be the nation's leaders of tomorrow, lies the greatest hope of a satis factory solution for the prob lems which are threatening to wreck our economic system, to send our entire national indus trial and economic structure crashing into a pile of ruins. As thinking men and future leaders of the nation, the pres ent undergraduate generation should familiarize themselves with the true state of affairs in this country, develop a liberal and rational attitude toward and knowledge of the fundamental problems underneath the omin ous portents of national unrest which are sweeping the country, and prepare to cope with them. This problem of unequal distri bution of wealth is, in our opin ion, the basis of all our indus trial unrest, and should merit the close attention of every col lege man. The New Matrimonial Outlook Along with numerous develop ments in recent years which go to make up what we call prog ress have come important shifts of thought in the field of matri mony. The institution which the writer has in mind is that of companionate marriage. The principle of real compan ionate marriage is as old as matrimony itself. Many lovers in the porch-swing talks and evening strolls which precede every normal wedlock have pre ferred companionship, with its resultant individual and profes sional freedom, to parenthood. But in the years following, criminal ignorance of medicinal facts has done much to wreck these early plans. The modern girl, however, will seldom let ig norance of these facts cause her to unwillingly "replenish the earth." The problem, there fore, takes on a different aspect in this modern age in which we are now living. The only thing new about companionate marriage is its re cent admission to the limelight of discussion and subsequent practice. Advertisement of com panionate marriage as a legiti- mate substitute for family-life is, however, a bit unusual as yet. As the situation stands today this development in the realm of matrimony is hardly reput able enough to be termed a fad, yet it has become a real issue and one which demands careful scrutiny by conservatives and progressives alike. . One feature of the companion ate marriage institution (if it may be so termed) warrants !J1 1 1 1 I! "TXT special consideration, we re fer to the mutual independence of each party to the matrimonial contract. Many contend that it is high time for young men to cast aside their obsolete notions that they must support their wives in order to command re spect from them. The statement that "all gentlemen support their wives" seems to be losing ground rapidly in this present age. Regardless of any opinions concerning the matter, every body must agree that all mar riages are , properly partner ships. No thoughtful husband will lay claim to supporting his wife merely because he pays grocery bills and house rent He is rather forced to conclude that she earns his. protection by her domestic labors of which he him self is a beneficiary. . This fairly recent change of attitude on the part of husbands toward their wives is a product of a changing civilization, the final result of which can hardly be prophesied. Interestingly enough, this phase of the new matrimonial outlook is strikingly akin to the underly ing principle of companionate marriage. Although we are inclined to doubt the general feasibility of companionate marriage, we feel that it does deserve a favorable eye. Although a worthy son cannot afford to say that his mother's type was not wisely chosen by his father, he should think long and carefully before choosing a support-me sype of wife in this present age. Now that the average woman knows she can ,work and thereby pay her own bills the suppori-me type will often withdraw from the ties of wedlock, unless she is fabulously supported and treated as though she were a queen. This fact we believe to be worthy of very exacting con sideration. Although companionate, mar riage may never, gain any very widespread acceptance, it is a real issue at present and one which is not to be looked upon in the light of a mere passing fad. J. C. W. WILL DURANT AND HIS SCHEME FOR BROADENING OF THE MIND Editor Daily Tar Heel: . On less than two typewritten pages Will Durant has compiled for the December American magazine a list of books that he promises will make of one a scholar and a philosopher if read in accordance with his scheme. If one is to become a scholar and a philosopher -according to his dictates one is to read from the books that he has chosen one hour a day for four years. Du rant calls his list "The Road to Freedom." ' It is not my idea to go into detail concerning this move mentit is well worthy of being called a movement, since it is such a well concocted scheme for the advancement of litera ture and broadening of the mind for it is easy enough, and well worth the while, for anyone to secure an American magazine where the project is explained much better than I could explain it. My idea is merely to bring Durant's idea more fully to the eye of the undergraduates of the University in order that they may all see the significance of such a movement. Af f r per Readers' Opinions sonally calling this article to the attention of several students T find that I am not the only one that has wished for such guid ance as Durant gives. It is quite evident that the most of us are eager to learn in a sys tematic way but have not up to $his time found that way. With the exception of the different writers, scientists, biologists, poets, and philosophers that we run across while pursueing our varied courses here, we read or hear very little of them. .For what student is going to the li brary and read from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, Schopen hauer's works, or La Rochefou cauld's Reflection? It just isn't done by the average person. But with Durant's compilation before that person there is more than likely to be some heavy thinking done. Mr. Durant states in part: "Will you' sit down with me ? Perhaps you are a college grad uate and are ready, then, to be gin your education. Perhaps you have never had a chance to go to college . and. have consider ed what else our children learn -V - there . except the latest morals. They might learn man3r fine things if they came to it old enough; but our youngsters take so long to grow up in these hurried days that they are too immature, when they enter col lege, to absorb or understand the treasures offered them there so lavishly. If you have studied with life rather than with courses, it may be as well; the rough tutelage of reality has ripened you into some readiness to know men. Here at this spacious table you shall pre pare yourself for membership in the International of the Mind ; you shall be friends with Plato and Leonardo, with Bacon and Montague; and when you have passed through that goodly com pany and you shall be fit for the fellowship of the finest leaders of your time and place. Can you spare an hour a day? Or, if some days are too crowd ed with life and duty to give you leisure for these subtler things, can you atone for. such bookless evenings oy an extra nour or two on those Sunday mornings when the endless newspaper consumes you to no end? Let me have seven hours a week, and I will make a scholar and philo sopher out of you ; in four years you shall be better educated than any new-fledged Doctor of Philosophy in the land. But let ms understand each other: You must not expect any material gain from this intima cy with great men. Some lucre may flow incidentally in later years from the maturity and background that you will win ; but these dividends, like those of the insurance companies are not in any way guaranteed ; you take your chance. Indeed, you will be "losing time" from your professions or busness ; if you long for millions, you had bet ter lay aside this map of .the City of Gdd, and keep your nose to the earth. And there well be blocks along the line : occasional ly you will come to an obscure or lengthy book, a bad up-grade ; and all your strength will have to be subpoeaned to your task. Remember, that we are not mak ing a list of the absolutely best one hundred books, no list mere ly of the masterpieces of belles lettres ; we are choosing those volumes that will do most to give a man education, civiliza tion and culture. Since we wish to have order ly minds and to avoid the chaos of desultory reading, we shall want to begin at the beginning even with the distant stars and the antique earth and these beginnings will be the worst obstructions n our path. lnitium oimidium facti, said the Rornans ; the start is half the deed. Let us gird up our loins and screw our courage to the sticking point for these initial hills, and the rest will be level road, with wisdom or sub limity at every milestone and pleasant riches of beauty every where. We want here not en tertainment only, but education ; and we want it in such order that the knowledge we win may fall into logical sequence in ours memories and give us at last: that full perspective which is the source and summit of un derstanding." In tnis commentation on Du rant's scheme for the broaden ing of the mind I have possibly quoted too much, yet it is justi fiable in that one should learn more of this 'modern philoso pher ; learn more of his views, and learn to think with i a better knowledge of . humanity. Du rant makes an honest effort to humanize knowledge by center ing speculative thought around certain personalities. 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