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Page Two THE DAILY i'AR HEEL Wednesday, March 26, I93Q l)e fiDatlE Car leel 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. x 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..ilfrr. Editor Marion AhY.XAm)m.....Bu8. Mgr. Hal V. WoRTH .Ctrciilaf ion Mgr. ASSOCIATE' EDITORS John Mebane Harry Galland v, 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 Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITOR Henry L. Anderson v ; ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS . Browning Roach.' J. G. Hamilton, Jr. . REPORTERS Holmes Davis Kemp Yarborough Louis Brooks Clyde Deitd Charles Rose ' . Mary Price J. P. Tyson , Nathan Volkman E. C. Daniel "W. A. Shulenberger Q. E. French A William Roberts George Sheram Frank Manheim B. H. Whitton Ji M Little - Bill Arthur Hugh Wilson Harold Cone Jack Bessen Everard Shemwell Ted Newland - Jack Riley John Patric J. J. Dratler Henry Wood - Charles Forbes W. W. Taylor Yass Shepherd Harper Barnes M. M. Dunlap Howard M. Lee George Barber Craig Wall Jim Moye . ( . . BUSINESS STAFF Ashley Sea well Tom Badger .John Jemison HarryxLatta Bill Speight Donald Sea well COLLECTION MANAGERS J. C. Harris T. R. Karriker B.- C. Prince, Jr. . Stuart Carr Wednesday, March 26, 1930 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY I find it difficult to understand how the Revolution ever could have succeeded. Rupert Hughes. Mountains of Red Tape An interesting example of the intricate maze of red tape which must be unwound before the simplest action can be taken by the federal government is af forded by the attempts of Chapel Hill citizens to have the hour of closing the local postoffice lob-i by changed. At present the lobby is closed at exactly 9 o'clock every night, which has , proven irksome to a considera ble number of townspeople and students who wish to get at their lock-boxes after that hour. Postmaster Herhdon reports that he has applied several times to the' authorities at Washington for permission to keep the doors open longer, but without avail. The later closing hour would place no extra work upon the employees of the post office ; it would merely mean that the doors enclosing the lobby be left open until 11 o'clock so that the renters of lock-boxes might have access to them for two hours longer ' in the evening. As it is at present, hundreds of students and towns people are obliged to wait until morning for important mail be cause they have been busy dur ing the early part of the even ing or have been out of town. It .is obviously a simple re quest that Chapel Hillians are making of the postal authorities, but they have encountered a vast amount of governmental red tape that must be unrolled before they can bring it to the attention of anyone with the power to issue the necessary or der. Postmaster Herndon was appealed to, but he did not have even the authority to decide when the keys should be turned in the door locks or the flag pole" painted. And his efforts to bring the request to the at tention of the powers-that-be at Washington did not so much as dent the wall of petty formali ties with which they are sur rounded. Mayor Council and other citi zens have written the two North Carolina senators, Lee S. Over man and F. M. Simmons, ask ing them to intercede with the nostoffice department. Possi- bly these two dignitaries may succeed in having the Chapel Hill postoffice lobby , doors kept open two hours longer each even ing by exerting their senatorial influence, but it doesn't seem at all certain. The tedious procedures thru which local citizens liave been forced to meander in their ef forts to have their slight re quest acted upon is worthy of a movement for a million dollar federal structure or' a major po litical appointment. This sim ple example lends some measure of support to the often-repeated statement that "the will of the people" is not quite as mighty a force in American governmen tal functions as it should be, and provides an illustration of the immense mass of useless red tape which has developed around even the most inconsequental of federal procedures. Sunday ' Blue Laws Nothing is more typical of the absurd inconsistency and hypocrisy in American lawmak ing than the blue laws in effect in so many places. This obnox- lious legal tendency assumes "a particularly offensive propor tion in North Carolina as a whole and in many communities of the state in particular. Almost every town or village in the state furnishes examples of this Comstockian tendency to attempt to regulate the habits, the ethics, the very morals of its inhabitants by the statute books. In a few communities no drug stores are allowed to remain open on Sunday ; in a number of others these busi nesses can open their doors only for a limited time on the Sab bath. There is state wide sen timent against Sunday I motion pictures, baseball games, pool rooms or similar amusement halls; in one of the largest towns in this state the Sunday sale of gasoline was prohibited until very recently. Chapel Hill is just as rigidly ridiculous in this phase of law making as any other . Here the drug stores may remain open, but the sale of tobacco and coca colas during church hours is forbidden that is unless one cares to take a dash of ammonia in his. dope! One can easily imagine to be abroad the spirit of the same perverted busy body who allows illiterate Cus toms inspectors to pass upon the "purity" of classics to prevent the morals of the good people from being soiled! A discussion of the censor ship of moving pictures, maga zines, and books can be omitted, as can similar mention of the innumerable laws, ordinances, statutes, and what not put on the books of municipal, county, state, and national government to compel the American people to walk a chalk line. Such a discussion would be as futile as are these laws; besides, people are beginning to realize the la mentably ineffectual situation. The most liberal thing this village has done in a long while is to allow the Tom Thumb golf course to remain open on Sun days from on' to six. Even with this curtailment a step in the right direction has been tak en, a step that might finally lead-to the repeal of the laugh able ordinances so characteristic of little towns in North Caro lina, and an awakening to a rea sonable sanity in the outlook on human nature under foolish restraint. V R. H. IN THE WAKE OF NEWS Jack Dungan VoUa! pronounced: that's that), the vacations have come and been. Some twenty-five hundred jazz-mad, baby radicals have returned to a life of ease and evil at that well known cen ter of license dear old alma mater. The debauchery will consist of from fifteen to fifty hours of class work, and as many more in outside preparation, not counting, of course, the few ex tra things such as themes, term papers, outside reading, labora tories, etc. - During the vacation we were fortunate enough to witness an exhibition match between Ralph Greenleaf, world's champion pocket-billiardist, and Earl Sea back. New England champion. Greenleaf had tough luck he could run off only forty-one balls at a trial. We don't believe that he, has gotten over his misfor tune yet. Talk about your kings of the ivories, this gent from Monmouth, Illinois, has certain ly made the game pay. Aside from movie, stage, and vaude ville contracts M. Greenleaf draws a salary of $8,000 for his pushing, said salary being the contribution of Brunswick, Baulk, Coilendar in the interest of the game. How proud Milton would be to know that one of his stories Paradise Lost has served as a model for more histories of that well known battle between the forces of the Omnipotent and the Old Hairy than any other story in existence. Now comes Jonathan Daniels, a for mer editor of the Tar Heel, and talented son of Josephus Dan iels, with a new version, The Clash of Angels. These Carolinians of ours are rather running to angelic titles. Thomas Wolfe, another former editor of the Tar Heel, is the author of a best seller, Look Homeward, Angel, and is said to have earned close, to $100,000 on his Ashevllle book. Daniels and Wolfe are the re cipients of Guggenheim fellow ships whih will carry them to Europe where they will do fur ther literary work. Both are quite deserving. Jonathan Daniels' famous father has proposed a hundred years' trial for the late lamented Prohibition Amendment. But the fault in this excellent sug gestion is that by that time the trial will have been ended some seventy-five years, and the boot leggers will Jbe renting the capi- tol building out to the govern ment. Even if it did work what good would accrue to contem porary drinkers? It wouldn't improve the quality of bootleg any whatsoever. All these prohibition polls prove one thing only : people vote dry, but drink wet. And they will probably continue to- do so. -I Norman Foerster has a new symposium out on Humanism", which he has edited. Dr. Foer ster, for the benefit of those who do not know, is fast becoming the chief exponent in America of the doctrines of a New Hu manism. Scribner's has devoted an article to a definition and the aims of humanism in the current issue. The recent scarcity of taxi cabs in the village here has been very irritating during the rainy 1 season. So much so that our cor respondent in North Chapel Hill has written us a very vitrolic! epistle calling for an official in vestigation on the part of the Board of Aldermen. HOW TO MAKE MONEY: Get married young men! Get married! Statisticians have es timated that the saving in de terioration of clothing the first year alone is well over 600. At four per cent interest com pounded annually for seventeen and one-half years you would have $1200 ! , Lenten Season Daily Devotion General Theme: "Coming to Terms With Life" Topic for the day: "Belief in the Goodness of Others." (Read Matthew 22 :34-40) . Key verse, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Meditation: : ims means, m part : t Jiou' shalt trust thy neigh bor believe in him. The person who isyto get along with others must believe in their goodness, especially in their good inten tions. Faith begets ground for faith. It is the truest inter preter. The only safe creed is I believe that my neighbor is as good as I am. This is not a dif ficult creed, except for the Phari see. Does not our personal ex perience convince jus that there are not many people who are really cowardly, and who do hot seem to be making some effort to find the right and to do it? Belief that thev are thus striv ing to serve the good as they see it, will give us endless" patience and consideration. This was Lincoln's way. If we can only believe that those who differ from us are as well intentioned as we are, we can always get along with them." Prayer: "O Lord, we thank Thee for those who believe in us and trust us, and who by their generous faith and confi dence are ever lifting us to high er levels of performance. May our gratitude for this teach us to show a like spirit as we move among the companions of this day. Amen." PARKER ON VISIT HERE Judge John J. Parker of Char lotte, recently appointed by President Hoover as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, spent the past week-end at the Carolina Inn. He is serving on the committee to report on the fitness of prospects for the presidency of the University, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Chase'. GOBS OF DELIGHT The 1 iim.i.L.. V 1 ''t!1 ji'i.'Min in :X I k' V 66 v. M) WITH Jack Oakie - Polly Walker And hundreds of singers, dancers, players bright-eyed beautiful girls! - TWO NEW SONG HITS! mh ft! Added Sound News - Thursday Elinor Boardman i J 1 V- in She Goes to War Magazine Notice The next issue of the Caro lina Magazine will be pub lished Sunday, April -6. All copy for this issue must be in the hands of the editor by Friday, March 28, at seven o'clock p. m. Material should be sent to the editor, Box 710, Chapel Hill No manuscripts will be returned unless accom panied by a f self -addressed stamped enveloped Smith Entertains Ball Players Tues. As an evidence of his interest in University athletics, Manager E. Carrington Smith of the local theatre has announced that he is entertaining the baseball team every Tuesday afternoon at the fiirst show. In the event that the team is away from Chapel Hill on Tues day afternoon on a playing date, Mr. Smith has arranged to have them see the show as his guests when they return. Entertaining a University team is no novelty for Mr. Smith. Since he took" over the management of the theatre, he has given shows in honor of one or anothe'r squad or team the year round. The Winter football squad was the last group of athletes to receive the hos pitality of the Carolina Theatre through its manager. In addition, Mi. Smith has made a practice of inviting dor mitory and fraternity groups to visit the theatre at regular in-i tervals, so that each group on the campus will be his guests at some time during the year. It is urged that state highways be lighted, and the office cynic observes that it would be a great help to the hit-and-run driver in keeping an accurate count of the pedestrians he runs down. Bos ton Transcript. sawyer lAfWEAl YORKTOWN COAT Th York town Coat is the latest addition to the Frofc Brand family. This smart wet-weather coat has a convertible military collar rat ion shoulders and is a serviceable garment lifcht in weight & flexible. A genuine oiled Fro& Brand Slicker is the leai2in& wet-weather protection for. college men and women. See these garments at your dealers'. H. M. SAWYER & SON East Cambridge :: :: Mass. perfect musical comedy! Throbbing with delightful, romance, hilarious, side-splitting comedy and more song hits than you can shake a stick at! - - - hi mi MIT THE 99 and Keeping Myself Just For You" "Harbor Of My Heart" TODAY Jill Features Spcrtlight Friday "No, No, Nanette" METZINTHIN ELECTED TO HEAD GERMANIC DIVISION Following the reading 0f paper on "Vocabulary BuildW and Reading Ability in Modem Languages" before the Eduep tional Association of North Car. olina, Professor E. C. Metzinthin of the German department elected head of the German.. division of the Association for the year 1930-31. The meeting was held in Ral eigh on March 21, and was at- tended by more than 2000 teach ers from all over the state. Dr. Metzinthin was irformed of his election at the end of the session of the German division. IK f m r k a I LTJE as litmus paper . . .. low in the brow . . . hot to the feet ... "Render" your heart with this folk-song gone cuckoo ! At your Victor dealers... Now! 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