THE DAILY TAIl HEEL
Thursday, January 9, 1930
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ASSISTANT EDITORS
Hobert Hodges-- J. McNairy
Joe Jones B. C. Moore
J. C. Williams
CITY EDITORS
E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay
jElbert Denning J. E. Dungan
SPORTS EDITOR
Henry L. Anderson
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS
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Thursday, January 9, 1930
The United States
A Pacifist Nation? ?
Yesterday the House of Rep
resentatives began "consideration
of the supply bill of the war de
partment for 1931, which pro
vides for an increased outlay of
$442,000 over the current year.
Although an increase of
$442,000 in a total expenditure
of approximately $455,000,000
does not seem especially remark
able, it assumes real significance
when the proposed distribution
of the funds is considered.
The bill designates 337,058,
000 for military activities, repre
senting an increase of $6,019,000
as compared with 1930. For
non-military purposes the bill
provides $117,173,000, a decrease
of $5,577,000 from the 1930 ap
propriation. Thus1 a substantial
increase is sought in the amount
which the nation paysevery year
for preparation for warfare. An
army of 12,000 officers, 118,750
enlisted men and 6,500 Phillipine
scouts would be maintained with
the funds sought for military ac
tivities. It is a typically American an
achronism that Congress should
be discussing a bill providing
for increased preparation for
warfare simultaneously with the
issuance of an appeal for world
wide support of naval disarma
ment by the nation's chief exe
cutive. President Hoover was
bidding farewell to the members
of the commission which will
represent this country at the
London naval conference while
the House was debating the war
department supply bill.
PURLOINED PARAGRAPHS
The Old Dominion's sudden swing
back to the Democratic fold might
be thought of as a .Virginia reel.
The Fort Wayne. News-SentineL
Crucial battle over dry enforce-
menx. "... .ury eniorcement long ago
settled down to just one crucial bat
tle after another. Greens b oro News.
Mexico has survived an earthquake
and a national election in the same
week. After that it should be able
to stand anything. The New York
Sun.
As we understand lobbyist Grun
dy's attitude, the backward states are
those which have been pushed away
from the trough the longest. Dallas
News. ,.
' Detroit judge rules ' that a speak
easy is not an inherent place of dan
ger. And does Detroit also afford the
-customer police protection? Greens
boro News.
tering the South on a large
scale. The .Federation will live
without the aid of the South,, as
President Green said in his
speech ; however, the organiza
tion would probably welcome the
entrance of Southern workers
merely as an addition to nation
al strength. A campaign against
communism no doubt will be
waged also. Whether we are in
sympathy with this last named
phase of the program or not, we
must consider it as one of the
high' spots in the Southern cam
paign, v
Here in North Carolina efforts
have been made to organize la
bor. The State Federation of
Labor, a branch of the A. F. of
L., has been most prominent in
this work, but it has not met
with a great measure of success.
Efforts of similar nature have
been made in most all sections
of the South, but thus far the
South, as far as its laborers are
concerned, is essentially an un
organized section.
Thereto is much to hamper the
A. F. of L. in organizing the
South the first intensive con
centrated effort to organize
Southern labor. There are the
employers and mill-owners, and
then there are the workers them
selves, not knowing which way
to turn. But we must not begin
to take the attitude that the
workers are handicapped and
always will be, that the odds are
much too heavy against labor's
being organized. Although we
do have grave doubts as to the
j outcome of the campaign to or
ganize Southern labor, realizing
fact of the matter is that these
organizations have elected to
gradually concentrate upon the
sole function of training stu
dents to think and speak clearly
in public places ; yet compar
atively few students are inter
ested in this sort of thing. More
over, the average age of college
students has steadily decreased
since the opening of the' Univer
sity. Forensic activities' appeal
more to older students. The
present college generation of
youthful students quite naturally
becomes interested in the dash
ing, dodging football player
rather than in the master of ar
gument and every phase of
verbal encounter. This the
writer believes to be the explan
ation of the alleged listless con
dition of our two campus liter
ary societies at present.
What, then, is the role of these
organizations in the student life
of this institution ? An analy
sis of the matter shows that
their role lias evolved from a
number of functions falling
roughly into social, executive,
and political categories to one
specific function which is for
ensic in kind. Since other cam
pus organizations of more re
cent origin have deprived the
literary societies of their former
social, executive, and political
functions, it is only logical that
their present function should be
purely forensic. -A .
The alleged listlessness of our
campus literary societies is due,
therefore, to the narrow range
of appeal which forensics have
at present. J. C. W.
World peace will never come' at the same time that the rem
edy for our present industrial
situation lies in organizing labor
so as to enable that group , to
stand on firmer ground before
its employers, we may at least
hope that in this latest develop
ment in the labor situation lies
a solution to the problem. B.M.
When we read about a big airplane
smashing two houses and setting them
ifire we get some idea of the thrills
in store for future generations. Des
Moines Tribune-Capital.
A favorite native dish in Honolulu
is humhuhumunkununukuaakunaa.
Even one portion of this, would give
most of us something to chew on. -Christian
Science Monitor.
If this relation between Russia and
China is peace, possibly there would
be less bloodshed if they would de
clare war against each other. The
Long Beach Press-Telegfanu - " ,
Hollywood's young women have
' taken up cigar smoking. , Another
chance for the optimist to assert that
the younger generation will come out
all right if given plenty of rope!
Chicago Daily News. .
The old saying about marriages be
ing made in heaven may literally come
true. One couple was wed in an air
plane the other day two thousand' feet
nearer heaven than the folk on the
ground.; Savannah Morning News.
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Artists' model who sued Harry K.
Thaw for $100,000 damages charged
that he spanked hen with a hairbrush.
It's a good thing for ' some of our
grandmothers that the statute of limi
tations has tutu Arkansas Gazette. ,
General William B. Parsons, prob
ably as good an authority as any on
the doom of a mechanical culture,
says our boasted mechanical culture
is doomed, and he gives it something
more than 100 years to go. And-just
think of the unnecessary noises hu
manity will' be rid of when the coal
is all burned and the oil, and " the
amount 'of waterpower is negligible
compared to the population. Greens
boro News. '
while the foremost nations con
tinue to increase their facilities
for war. Americans have
taken the lead in agitation for
reduction of armaments ; yet our
Congress is considering the ap
propriation of additional funds
for the maintenance of a larger
army. And we expect the rest
of the world to regard us as the
preservers of world peace !
Relief for
The Workers?
President William Green, of
the American Federation of
Labor, speaking before the
Southern labor conference held
in Charlotte a few days ago,
made the following declarations :
"We believe that if . an orderly
normal condition is established
of co-operation and mutual re
spect, recognizing the rights of
labor and management, there
can be brought about a change
that will be of benefit to both
without strife andvstrikes. .
It is our endeavor to make it
possible for working people to
secure such wages as will make
for decency and comfort. We
believe in the abolishment of in
dustrial despotism in every
sense. . . . When we concede
capital the right to organize jwe
aemana tor worKers the same
right to organize. . .. . We will
never reach, the millenium when
there will be no strikes or strife,
but we can establish relation
ships where strikes will be very
rare."
Thus has Mr. "Greene set down
the objectives of the A. F. of X..
in its campaign to organize
Southern labor. Certainly iihese
objectives have the appearance,
to say the least, of benevolence
toward the working class. What
does labor need if not intelligent
leadership and organization ?
And is not a readjustment in re
lationships between '- labor and
capital necessary in any pro
gram of reform ? It is obvious
from recent disturbances in the
South that Southern labor, if
ever it is going to be in a posi
tion in which it can bargain ef
fectively, must be organized.
For the purposes of organiza
tion, in which we are most inter
ested, has the A. F. and L. os
tensibly, then, invaded the
South.
.Of course the purposes named
above are not the only ones
which the Federation has in en-
The Literary
Society Problem
Of all the extracurricular or
ganizations connected with the
University of North Carolina
the two campus literary socie
ties, the Dialectic Senate and the
Philanthropic Assembly, are the
oldest. Due to the fact that the
relative influence and impor
tance of these two organiza
tions has declined appreciably in
recent years, their present ac
tivities are considered rather
listless. In this V editorial the
writer purposes to embody an
explanation of this listless con
dition and, in addition, a discus
sion of the role of these societies
in the life of the Carolina stu
dent body.
Within the memory of seyeral
members of our present faculty,
students crowded into the two
literary society halls to witness
heated verbal encounters reve-
lant to the foremost political and
social questions of the day. Some
recall the days when an intercol
legiate debate never failed to fill
old Gerrard; hall to overflowing.
Well may we inquire the reason
for the discontinuance of this
condition and the gradual substi
tution of the present listless con
dition. -
In the first place, there were
few campus organizations con
nected with the University fifty
years ago. Forensic activities,
therefore, had little competition
in the race for the student's
time. In the second place, foot
ball and other competitive games
were in the infant stage of de
velopment. In the third place,
the accomplished speech-maker
was the idol of the boy or man
of college age. Their attempts
to become adept in the art of
oratory, therefore, resulted in
large attendance of literary so
ciety gatherings and intercol
legiate debates. In the. fourth
place, the "modern age of brawn
worship had not begun." In the
fifth place, the Dialectic Senate
and the Philanthropic Assembly
have lost their political power
on the campus at large. The
The Campus
By Joe Jones
College Life
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During our . first Christmas
spent in the North we discovered
that football isn't the most
thrilling intercollegiate sport
after all. Instead, it's ski-jump
ing; ski-jumping as it was done
last week on the Intervales Hill
at Lake Placid. For December
27 to January 1 is College Week
at Lake Placid,- and the Inter
vales jump is the second high
est in the world. The jump
event, taking place on New
Year's day, is the brilliant cli
max of the greatest program of
intercollegiate winter sports in
the western hemisphere.
Lake Placid Club sponsors the
Drosrram, throws open to the
News cameramen kept their ma
chines trained on the kaleido
scopic riot of activities, v
Besides the college events
there were dog-sled races, ski
joring, tobogganing, fancy skat
ing and bob-sledding oh the
club's new course, which is the
only one in the Americas. Bob
sledding is a hazardous sport.
A crew of not less than two ex
perienced men must man the
brakes and various gear in or
der for the monster sled to take
the curves properly. Bobbing
has long been a favorite sport
in the European winter resorts,
but the opening of the club's run
in December inaugurated its ap
pearance in this country.
On January 1, the day of the
Marshal Foch trophy ski jump
for college men, Intervales Hill
is encircled by a multitude of
spectators. Dressed in the
bright colors of the northwoods
vacationists they present a bril
liant picture. Around them rise
the white peaks of the Adiron
dack; over them, on rough
spruce flagpoles, fly the flags of
Norway, Sweden, Great Britain
and America. Towering above
rises the nearly sheer face of the
contestants its luxurious club, jump nilU
houses. Both men and women
from many of the northern and
Canadian colleges come each
year to participate in the events
and to enjoy the hospitality of
the club.
This year the opening event
was a series of hockey games
between Yale and Michigan;
thrilling enough to a Southerner
who had scarcely seen skating
before. The Yale boys, heavy
set footpall types, invariably
overcame the tough, wiry men
from Michigan. The Yale goal
keeper, a very short fellow, who,
with all his protective parapha
nalia, appeared grotesquely
broader than he was long, was
certainly an expert. Only two
or three times during the series
did he allow the puck to get by
him into the net. The Michigan
goalie had a habit of using his
stick in the fashion of a golf
club to knock the puck clear out
over the rink fence.
forty-two meters for the longest
jump of the day, and finally the
great Pederson of New Hamp
shire, winner of the trophy for
the last two years.
Only one man falls, and that's''
enough j Losing his balance in
mid-air, he strikes the slope
awkwardly, and at a terrific
speed rolls to the bottom as his
legs are turned and twisted by
the clattering ungainly skiis.
He lies quite still as attendants
rush out to sarry him to the first
aid shack.
The judges always watch the
Continued on page four
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The Monday and Tuesday be
fore New Year's day were taken
up with the college men and
women's skating, snowshoeing,
and skiing races. Crisp snow
and good smooth ice made the
perf ormance of these events as
nearly perfect as , possible.
Throughout the great week
of international intercollegiate
sports a small army of Pathe
At . the highest point, on the
peak of the tall steel tower
which surmounts the hill, stands
Sorensen of Maine, the first con
testant awaiting the signal. The
sky is his background, and he is
so far away from the crowd be
low that they cannot tell whether
or not he -wears a cap. There
is a fanfare of trumpets, a scar
let banner is raised, and Soren
sen lets go. The crowd is silent
as he gathers speed on the icy
tower slope. One moment, he is
on the straightaway and the
next he leaves the abrupt lifted
takeoff to sail like a bird straight
out over the long steep face of
the hill itself. As he drops he
leans far forward and waves his
arms to keep his balance. After
thirty-five meters in the air his
skiis slap the hard-packed snow,
and he glides down the remain
der of the incredible slope with
the speed of an express train.
The crowd is hushed until the
buzzing figure reaches the level
field, then it cheers wildly as he
suddenly and deftly stops him
self.' A few minutes after Sorensen
comes Blood of New Hampshire,
slender and boyish, but with the
cold eye and steel nerves which
every ski-j umper must possess.
In their turns come a dozen other
stout-hearted young men, Han
sen of Wisconsin, Foster of Mc
Gill, Landry of Ottawa, who does
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