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Thursday, November 13, 1930
Editorial
Policies
We have been asked to state
the editorial policy of the Tar
Heel. As a student publication
the Tar Heel seeks to reflect
through its editorial columns,
student opinion.1 No effort is
made to bind the editorial writ
ers to the opinions of the edi
tor or the chairman of the edi
torial board.
To bind the board to certain
well defined policies would elim
inate one medium of speech that
reaches every student. It is
only fair that if members of the
board differ or represent differ
ing factions, the ; Tar Heel
should be opento both,
strict the editorial
To re
policies would be to restrict campus; ppin
' ion. . . : I '
Except in matters of conse-
quence wnicn necessitate a
united front and a decided stand
on one side or. the other,; no e
fort will -be made tolimit the
policies i of any one.! individual.
At present we do not think a re
stricted policy necessary and the
Tar Heel will not have one until
the occasion arises. ' ;
"Taking : - - - V
Ways" . : ':&-,u.i. :v:i
Here among hallowed intellec
tual surroundings we develop
the habit of using mild terms
to designate very severe prac
tices. The time-honored rart of
stealing has Jiad its name
changed to "letting tilings take
up with you." TheJmptt3
rogue is said tT have "taking
ways." Such terminology Xs
adept enough to copewith Hhei
average and ordinary '-situation: j
the practice which has been go-
ling on in the University library
of late we must again call into
action the old terms of "theft"
and "rogue." Numerous com
ments handed down by library
officials seem to have accentu
ated the roguish grievance,
rather than to have diminished
it. -
Even the most circumspect
member of the student body
can see some reason for borrow
ing overtime a handsome expen
sive book. Such persons re
strain from doing so, however,
in the interests of that which is
right and in the interests of oth
er students who will need the
book. But just why a human be
ing should "take unto himself
for possession" certain mediae
val history sheets from the re
serve book in the reserve room
of the library is a mystery to us.
The urge to acquire is even
our most liberal moments. We
cite this as the most outstanding
development of "taking ways."
that has been seen in these parts
in recent years. Stealing is bad
enough when the article in ques
tion is valuable, but when the
article is absolutely valueless in
the markets of the world and in
the estimation of the human
order the matter is worthy of
careful examination. The mo
tive involved in such a case is
not that of theft pure and sim
ple. It is rather an evidence of
unavoidable misunderstanding.
We feel that book-rogues
should be punished as a general
principle, but we refrain from
suggesting a remedy for those
who steal reference sheets which
have engraved on them nothing
buts the, names and authors of
the "driest" books known
mankind. J. C. W.
to
All Wet
Regardless of the refusal of
the President to face Prohibition
squarely and cease dilatory mea
sures and the appointing of cum
brous, ineffective committees, of
parties to consider the question
an outstanding issue, and of
leaders generally to do other
than hedge when the point is
brought up, the slow but inevit
able voice of the people is be
coming ever more fixed and to
be reckoned with. Development
in the recent election disclose the
unmistakable swing of popular
opinion in the direction of a
change of some sort. Little im
portance can be attached to the
claims of Anti-saloon Leaguers,
who triumphantly point out and
console themselves with the fact
that at present the majority of
Congress remains dry.
Even disregarding, as involv
ing too complex an analysis, the
numerous victorious wet candi
dates, definite evidence is to be
seen in the actual votes on dry
referendums by the people of
three states Illinois, Rhode Is
land, and Massachusetts all of
which went overwhelmingly wet.
The Massachusetts result involv
ed not merely an ineffectual re
cording of opinion, but carried
with it the automatic repeal of
the State's enforcement act.
Thus, incidentally, was belied,
for the populace of one State at
least, a long-standing hope and
belief of conservatives that
straw votes fail to reflect the
true temper of individuals. How
long before such dry states as
bur own will be aligned with the
fast growing ma j ority ?
M. L.
Better Stick
To Farming
"In North Carolina we have
all of the factors and qualities
necessary to make this the lead
ing agricultural state of the
Union, with the possible excep
tion of California," Colonel J. H.
Harrelson, director of the North
Carolina department of conserv
ation and development declared
here Monday night in an address
before the regular meeting of
the North Carolina Club. The!
THE DAILY
sentence is taken from Wednes
day's Daily Tar HeeL
We find it
lamentable that
more people have not had the
good sense common sense toj
see that North Carolina
is an
agricultural state. It always
has been and always will be, and
with a little work a rather good
one than otherwise. And a state
cannot at the same time be a
leading industrial state and a
leading agricultural state. As an
entity, a state has a one-track
mind, and its attention cannot
be successfully focused on two
points.
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iorcn Carolina is m its very
nature a farming state, and it
should drop any hopes it may be
entertaining of becoming other
wise. It was never meant to
manufacture, and that for the
simple reason that North Caro
linians are not given to coopera
tion and organization, and in
dustry without union is becom
ing an impossibility. North
Carolinians are individualists in
one of the many senses of the
word, many of them suspicious
of the rest of mankind, blatantly
unreconstructed. They cannot J
organize with a national union.
V. A. D
OPEN FORUM
GLORIOUS WAR?
To the Editor,
Yes, V. A. D., we agree with
you to- some -extent, , i. e., that
wars will never be a thing of
the past among the people of
this earth, and that men are in
nately selfish and foolish. We
will even go so far as to admit
that pacifists are fools or
rather, some pacifists are fools.
But we do refuse to allow the
statement that wars are "rather
glorious," and that Armistice
Day should as much celebrate
the war as the ending of the
war. '
I am not the sort of man to
condemn fist-fighting when
there is just cause for it, nor will I
I back out of an encounter when
my reputation is at stake. Per
haps, Y. A. D., you can remem
ber as far back as your high
school days when two youngsters
oyer a slight mishap of small
consequence, would ball up their
fists and start calling each other
names. Quickly an audience
would surround the pair, urging
the impending action to hasten
its arrival. Then some eager
bully pushed one into the other,
ahd the fighting commenced.
Those who push little boys into
scraps might be compared with
those who advocate wars today ;
they are the brains of the party,
who when the disaster does ar
rive, sit back, revel in it, make
fortunes from it, and spread the
ideas of patriotism among in
nocent and premature young
sters, when they are the least
patriotic in the whole land.
(Let it be not said that I con
demn a patriot.) You are a wo
man, V. A. D., and perhaps don't
know the full horrors of war;
if one should break out again,
and if you should be sent over as
a nurse or to fulfill whatever
duties a female does fulfill in
war, you might change your
"glorious" ideas, although, your
position and sex would not force
yoa into. the. center ; of action
where men die like flies, only
much more horribly, and the
cries "glorious! glorious!"
change to "what price glory
now?" .
It's all very well to treat war
lightly in peace times, especially
those who have never experienc
ed the horros of it, but it is mad
ness to encourage it and "fur
ther" it, as you seemed inclined
to do. And it's one thing to have
your war waged in foreign
lands, but an entirely different
matter to have warfare carried
on in your own vicinity and on
your own property, your mothers
and sisters unprotected f rom at-
tacks from outlying bands of
TAR HEEL
the "d n, dirty, enemy," and
your fathers and brothers being
"ot or 2SSed almost within
yur eyesight.
I am not a pacifist.
1 am
simply in favor of peace, and
against those who advocate war.
COIT M. COKER.
FALSE ASSUMPTIONS
To the Editor:
It is a cause for great rejoic
ing to Miss Douglas in her
editorial, "Acceptance and Praise
of Man," grants to Christ the
theory that men may be broth
ers. It is, however, not a cause
for rejoicing that Miss Douglas
does not grant to the word,
"armistice," its genuine meaning
in the English language. In
celebrating Armistice Day, it is
presumed that we celebrate the
cessation of hostilities and not
the hostilities, themselves. If
Miss Douglas offers up a person
al prayer in the one hundred
and twenty seconds between 11
a. m. and 11 :02 a. m. for the fur
therance of another war, since
we notice she carefully washes
the war guilt from her own
hands, I would like to offer up
a, personal counter-prayer -on be
half e.f the world, today, and the
future youth of the world.
If there is no "particular
point" in initiating wars, why is
it that there is ho point in pre
venting wars ? We fear Miss
Douglas would like to be a medi
aeval damozel ensconced in a cas
tle, from whose turrets she
could watch her knights fight
gloriously. When her knights
wearied of battle, they could
withdraw like a race of gentle
men, until the next -time her
whimsy caused her vassals to
sally forth.
Miss Douglas assumes that
human nature causes war, that
is, that when the excess energy
of two or more nations reaches
a breaking point a war ensues,
and then she bases her entire
creed on this assumption. This
assumption is not true. Collec
tive human nature does not start
wars ; it merely makes their con
tinuance possible. With the
sole exception of Miss Douglas,
the best modern thought sees a
possibility of controlling the
real, underlying causes for war:
economic, political, and social.,
"Pacifists," she says, "are un
able to see that -there is no point j
in preventing wars." And Miss j
Douglas then deduces that this J
inability makes them fools. This
classification of hers includes in
numerable leaders of thought
hitherto considered sane, 'and in
fact, almost intelligent, but who
are obviously in a pitifully be
nighted state.
With a competent agent, I sin
cerely believe,' we could have
Mussolini, Soviet Russia, and
Adolf Hitler vying with .one
another to obtain Miss Douglas's
services, for no one, surely, has
"ever so convincingly made war
seem gentlemanly and glorious.
But permit me to call to the at-
tention 01 tnis eminent young
militarist from Greensboro, her
own succinctly stated advice -to
the fools, "It is always danger
ous to make a false assumption
and to base an entire creed on
that false assumption."
I do hope that when the next
war is fought Miss Douglas may
find herself in the thick of its
glory, and that she may-survive
to "quit like a" gentlewoman. '
; j. e.
Editor The Daily Tar Heel:
Sir:
The committee in. charge of
the Armistice . Day exercises
wishes to express its apprecia
tion of the assistance rendered
by the music department,, and
especially of the medley of war
time memories arranged by Pro
fessor McCorkle. '
With thanks for-the use of
your columns and the Tar Heel's
various efficient contributions to
Armistice Day.
Very truly yours,
JOHN M. BOOKER
"FlaOTiatic"
"Gawd help the man who
COKER EXHIBITS
WORKS OF EARLY
NATURE WRITERS
(Continued from first page)
The subject of the address by
Dr. W. C. Coker was "Some In
teresting Early American Natu
ralists." The observations and
writings: of the . first American
naturalists wrere discussed and
some of the early works exhibit
ed. The speaker also quoted cer
tain selections from these works.
The four men whose works were
discussed wrere Hariot, Banister,
Sir Han Sloane, and Lawson.
A copy of Harlot's "A brief
and true report of the new
found land of Virginia' publish
ed in 1589, wTas exhibited. Bani
ster's book was shown as it first
appeared in Ray's "Historia
Plantarum." Perhaps the most
interesting book exhibited before
the meeting was Sir Han
Sloane's first published work,
"Catalog of Plants in Jamaica."
This book was published in 1696,
and the book exhibited by Dr.
Coker is the original. It was
found by Dr. Archibald Hen
derson in his father's library
and was given to Dr. Coker.
There are not more than three
copies of this book in the United
States. Sir Han Sloane was phy
sician to the English King and
in 1753 the government, for the
total sum of $100,000, purchas
ed his collection of books and
natural historic specimens to
place in the British museum.
The last man mentioned by Dr.
Coker was Catesby. His great
works entitled "Natural History
of North Carolina, Florida, and
the Bahama Islands" was shown.
This work published in -two
elephant folios, the first in 1731
and the second in 1748, is pro
fusely illustrated by the first
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paintings of American plants
and animals. Catesby was the
first American naturalist to de
scribe and illustrate such Ameri
can plants and animal life as the
bull frog, and the red dogwood
tree.
Dr. Coker had planned to
bring his discussion down to the
present, but due to the scarcity
of .time, he was unable to give
even a third of his address. He
will continue the discussion at
the meeting of the Sigma Xi,
scientific fraternity, Tuesday
night.
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