Tuesday, January 2;
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Tuesday, January 20, 1931
Student Interest
In Civic Affairs
The complaint is often heard
that college students evince too
little interest in civic affairs.
This complaint bears weight
when political questions, es
pecially questions of internation
al importance, demand attention.
But permit a crisis in the man
agement of the state's affairs
arise and one discovers an amaz
ing amount of interest in what
is going on.
At present the state institu
tions face drastic cuts in appro
priations. Every student news
paper connected with an institu
tion dependent on the state for
support has expressed vigorous
opposition to any such cut. This
opposition seems directed
against any cut in appropriations
for any department of the state
and not just against the cut for
the educational institutions.
The present crisis has focused
student opinion on the methods
of taxation and on the system
of government. Undoubtedly it
is educating North Carolina's
undergraduate citizenry in gov
ernment. But it is also serving
to bring to the front student
opinion on the subject of taxa
tion. And student opinion is not
likely to reflect the effects of
lobbying. It is unbiased and al
though based partly on theory
we think the legislature could do
worse than consider some of the
proposals submitted by student
writers.
But above all things the pres
ent controversy in regard to ap
propriations is serving to prove
that students are interested in
the conduct of the state and
that students have definite opin
ions as to the means of correct
ing the causes of the present
ills.
Here's The Man
To the Editor:
I read with great pleasure the proposal of J. C. S. in
Friday's issue of the Tar Heel to publish a prospectus of
the University's courses. I wish to state that if he or
his friends would like to see such a prospectus in print,
I would be glad to contribute enough money to start the
printing and would also be willing to contribute as much
of my time to the venture as I could spare.
Yours sincerely,
JACKSON OLIVE.
heaven's sake remember that
the more extravagant the praise
the better. It won't be extrava
gant enough.
We don't know just whose
idea the Movie Guild was. But
it was clever because it took ad
vantage of a nice distinction be
tween selling tickets on Sunday
and tearing off tickets on Sun
day. One is illegal. The other
isn't. Our consciences don't
balk at our congratulating an
evasion of a ridiculous law.
The idea was expedient be
cause if Chapel Hill was to have
Sunday movies for charity, she
was to have them for charity,
and not for those pikers who out
of the generosity they felt to
ward the other half of the world
contributed two cents.
The idea was happy because
it arranged to provide pictures
for some reason unusual. And,
it arranged to give some point
to the most utterly useless three
hours in the week. V. A. D.
Congratulations
When an idea is at the same
time very clever, very expedient,
and very happy, then by all
means and for heaven's sake
congratulate those who had the
idea. And by all means and for
Editors On
World Peace
We were quite interested to
see an announcement the other
day made by the department of
journalism at the University of
Tennessee regarding editorials
to further World Peace. This
surely is a most excellent time
to start printing editorials deal
ing with this matter, but we are
fully expecting to see a bunch
of the usual blah appear advo
cating love feasts and functions
of similar nature. Our pacifist
agitators always want to start
at the end instead of at the be
ginning of a venture.
We are hoping a great deal to
see some of the more enlight
ened editors of the South come
out with some sensible plan to
unify the youth of the world
which is practical. The only
way in which the world
can enjoy permanent peace is
to get the youth of the various
nations to understand each
other and do away with all sus
picions of the others' motives.
This is truly a collossal task and
one which cannot be done by the
love feasts. It seems to us that
the most logical starting point
is for the respective nations to
send their youth to all parts of
the world for at least part of
their education. Travel is the
greatest aid for international
peace, and education and under
standing will run it a close sec
ond. When the two are com
bined some lasting results should
be forthcoming.
The student youth of the
world is growing up in most
cases in a stiffened atmosphere
of formality. It is being nar
rowed by local contacts and
feelings and by the reading, of
local text-books to see what
other men, who usually have had
no better international experi
ence than they, have to say on
the various subjects. This is
naturally to be deplored, but
how can it be helped when most
of the students of the nation
have very limited means and
foreign travel is so expensive?
If the governments were to co
operate with the students in
this matter of foreign travel
and study, invaluable gains
would result. A task of this
magnitude would call for a great
deal of money as subsidies and
partial payments from the vari
ous governments, but would
surely be worth it to the na
tions cooperating. Our war debt
in 1919 was over twenty billions
of dollars.
What sane German boy would
come near sending a ten inch
shell into the Rheims cathedral
if he could have seen it in its
quiet, age-old beauty? What
Frenchman would have used
dum-dum bullets to shoot at
boys with whom he had gone to
school ? War is the most futile
thing possible. Our youth can
see its futility if it is given a
chance to understand and appre
ciate.
Southern editors can further
a great cause if they so desire
O. W. D.
Over-Emphasis
Of Football
The football season of 1930,
with its victories, its defeats,
and incidentally, its ties, is fast
fading into the land of memory
while a new sport season bas
ketball holds the spotlight. Re
cently much has been said con
cerning professionalism in col
lege sports, evidently referring
to football in particular.
College football has achieved
such popularity, merited or un
merited, that there seems to be
a tendency toward professional
ism, a characteristic which will
do much harm to the sport. This
professionalism does not apply
strictly to" the players them
selves, the majority of whom
are bona-fide students, but it
does apply to the methods used
by some institutions in secur
ing promising high school or
prep school athletes and to the
practice of ballyhooing the big
games. While they have aided
in the building of a strong team
for the glory of the coach, these
practices have been harmful to
the school itself. Cries for
championship teams have caused
football to become over-emphasized
as a college activity.
Remunerations in the form of
money are few, but in many
schools players are given tui
tion, room, and board free plus
an easy job. Some schools ac
tually bid against one another
in recruiting athletes. These
practices are illegal and heavy
penalties should be imposed for
such infractions of collegiate
football rules. Discriminations
in favor of athletes in awarding
scholarships should not be
made, for more deserving stu
dents may be deprived of oppor
tunities of a college education so
that dear old Alma Mater can
have a good team. However,
athletes should not be discrimi
nated against, but all such
awards should be made on the
basis of scholarship and not on
athletic prowess. After all, col
leges are or should be educa
tional institutions and not mere
groups of buildings around a
football stadium.
Colleges should dominate foot
ball, not allowing the sport to
become the prime motive of
their existence. Publicity has
placed football on a plane with
prizefighting as a sort of bally
hooed circus. Colleges are often
rated according to the strength
of their football teams and their
records. Scholastic standards
of measurement are ignored.
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DEAL WITH TWO
PROPOSED BILLS
(Continued from first page)
a view to presenting a feasible
alternative. He commended Gov
ernor Gardner's efforts in be
half of the citizens of the state,
but he called attention to the
Governor's failure to propose
placing a tax on luxuries in or
der to supplement the meager
funds of the state treasury. The
speaker commented on the prof
its which are being realized by
such corporations as R. J. Reyn
olds Tobacco Company and the
Duke Power Trust. He was of
the opinion that a scheme of
taxation on luxuries would be
better than a reduction of sal
aries. Concluding, he said, "I
predict a bright educational fu
ture for North Carolina only in
the case that our leaders of the
state determine to distribute
justly the burden of taxation
rather than to impede progress
by decreasing taxes to too small
a quotient."
RED CROSS AIDS
MANY SUFFERERS
IN MIDDLE WEST
(Continued from first page)
are being met rapidly by the na
tional organization and its chap
ters. A Red Cross field director
describes men crying when they
come to ask aid of the organi
zation after describing pitiable
scenes of want and privation.
They beg work in order that they
may buy supplies, for they are
reluctant to ask for charity. The
cold weather in Oklahoma is
complicating the relief work and
making distress more acute.
The lack of sufficient food and
clothing has made the situation
critical.
SOCIAL WELFARE
THEME TAKEN BY
J. STITT WILSON
(Continued from first page)
quainted with many of the great
are injured by this tendency to leaders, including Ramsey Mc-
when they first undertook their
task. The British had clung to
their two parties so loyally that
it was difficult to form the party.
When they finally had enough
followers they were faced with
the problem of educating the
low society that made up the
Labor party. This was done,
the speaker added, by tens of
thousands of pamphlets circu
lated to the homes of every
voter.
In the course of a quarter of
a century a party had been or
ganized that knew the problems
of the country, through the cir
culated pamphlets, and a party
that held tremendous power in
its hands. With this power,
continued Mr. Wilson, the labor
ites set to work to restore social
welfare. He enumerated the
changes brought about: The old
age pension was allowed to wo
men; the city milk supplies were
in some cases controlled by the
government; the working hours
of the miners were decreased by
nan an nour, ana tne mining
conditions made better ; the gov
ernment began a program of
building houses Jor the workers
and renting them at low rates.
Thousands of houses were
built in every city, and enorm
ous numbers were removed from
the slums. The slogan was to
rid England of her slums. Mr.
Wilson assured the audience
that even with these aids the
conditions are still severe.
Wages in that country are low.
As the Religious Reformatio
made the world safe for rei!
gion, and as the governments
revolution made the world sal
for democracy, there must bed
economic revolution to insiir;
the social institutions of proper
ty, believes Mr. Wilson.
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