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p"a Two .THE DAILY TAE HEEL Glje Datlp Car Ipeel Published daily dtiring the college year except Holidays and except Thanks giving, Christinas and Spring Holi days. The oScial newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $4.00 for the col lege year. OSkes in the basement of Alumni Building. W. H. YARBOROUGH.Editor JACK DUNGAN Mgr. Editor H. N. PATTERSON Bus. Mgr. H. V. WORTH.. Circulation Mgr. EDITORIAL STAFF , News Editor Charles G. Rose Editorial Board Beverly Moore......... ...Chairman Virginia Douglas W. M. Bryson Harper Barnes Wex Malone Oscar Dresslar Robert Hodges J. C. Sitterson Philip Liskin E. F. Yarborough City Editors J. M. Little Ed French Peter Hairston E. C. Daniel Billy McKee George Wilson W. A. Shulenberger Sports Staff C. Ramsay.... Sports Editor Assistants Don Shoemaker Jack Bessen Librarian Sam Silverstein News Men Mary Buie Otto Steinreich E. M. Spruill Frank Hawley George Malone F. W. Ashley Charles Poe W. R. Woerner W. E. Davis Alex Andrews T. H. Broughton Dan Kelly T. W. Blackwell P. Alston Bob Betts Jack Riley Business Department Harlan Jameson ..SA.ss't. Bus. Mgr. John Manning Ass't. Bus. Mgr. Advertising Department Al L. Olmstead ... Advertising Mgr. Pendleton Gray Advertising Mgr. Bernard Solomon Ass't. Adv. Mgr. R. D. McMillan, Jr. ...Ass't. Adv. Mgr. James N. Nowell H. A. Clark Collection Department Jack Hammer Collection Mgr. Carol Spencer Robert Bernhardt John Barrow James M. Ledbetter Frank S. Dale Correspondence Department Ed Michaels, Jr. Correspondence Mgr. Wynn Hamm Ass't. Cor. Mgr. W. M. Blxss Ass't. Cor. Mgr. Sunday, February 15, 1931 Long Awaited Completion The announcement that the Graham Memorial building will be completed shortly comes as the most welcome news to us in years. For four years the pres ent seniors have watched that unfinished building standing on the corner of the campus and have sought some means of com pleting it. Many plans have been proposed and all of them have been discarded. Editorial writ ers have written annually of the need of the building until the subject has become triesome. Now we have an alumnus of the University providing the neces sary funds for this much needed structure. Other institutions are provid ing union buildings for the stu dents and the need of a union for Carolina has been apparent since the Y. M. C. A. building became inadequate for the stu dent population. The Y served for years as the one place where all students could gather fre quently but its size has pro hibited any large gatherings re cently. However, with the com pletion of Graham Memorial next fall the Carolina students will possess a student union which will enable all to meet on equal footing. Then there is the sentimental value of the building. President Edward Kidder Graham in the brief four years he served as president distinguished himself as the great educational leader of the state. And we think a student union building provides a memorial appropriate to his name and to his services. Image-Breakers When the friends of the late Charles I of England issued their little book, Eikon Basilike, cr the Kingly Image, in praise their sovereign's virtues, John Milton, the young secretary to the council of state during the period of the Commonwealth, at tempted to counteract any senti ment in the public mind which might result from the pamphlet by writing Eikonoklastes, or the Image-Breaker. Ever since Mil ton turned iconoclast and in deed since the time of all the iconoclasts before him the public has seen all its heroes at tacked and made objects of the invectives of writers and pub lic men. George Washington, father of j many times. When Rupert Hughes brought forth his bio graphy of him, the author found himself in the midst of a storm of protest. Whether Hughes' material (the controversial mat ter) was factual nobody seemed to care. Washington was. and still is, a popular hero, and his admirers did not care to have him pulled off the pedestal. After all, Washington did have many admirable traits, and he did many great things. People ad mire him for his outstanding virtues and for his great deeds, rather than hate him and ridi cule him for any personal vices or short-comings which may have been his. Consequently, Washington did not fall from his pedestal in the minds of the people. As Washington was exposed, so Lincoln at the present time is being examined by the poet Ed gar Lee Masters whose book, Lincoln the Man, has caused such protest that a bill has been introduced in the House which would prevent -its circulation in the mails. . It is not necessary to prevent the inculcation of Masters' ideas by means of legis lative enactment. The poet's biography will harm Lincoln not a bit more than the novelist's biography hurt Washington. Lincoln's place in the hearts of his countrymen is a permanent one, and no matter how prodigi ous a volley of adverse criticism is hurled at his memory, he will always be a great American hero. Let writers make pretty phrases and let poets pen their verses, for they cannot tear down the images of men who have en deared themselves to their peo ple and whose reputations have stood the test of time. B. M. Sunday, February is, With Contemporaries An Aid For The Silver Market The dawn of each new day marks a gloomier business situa tion. Silver has hit a new re cord low at 27 cents an ounce. The market is flooded with the commodity and there seems to be no immediate man ner of disposal ; therefore, every new suggestion should receive serious consideration. There is a method which the government might adopt that i ii ii iv unaouoteaiy would assist ma terially in restoring silver to a more sound basis. The United States could stamp out of their millions of dollars of idle bullion sets of knives, forks and spoons which might sell at cost. In order to do this it would be ne cessary for the United States to take over, temporarily, house hold silver manufacturing plants. The precedent already has been established in this re spect since the country has en tered into the wheat and rail road business in times of crisis. At present a set of six knives, six forks and six spoons retails, moderately priced, at $48. Silver bullion is worth 2714 cents per ounce. A set, such is would re tail at the quoted . price, would contain bullion worth approxi mately $9.90. The process of stamping out the ware would cost the United States slightly more than the manufacture of silver dollars, which at present is a total loss. A dollar not only must be stamped, but also must be milled. The government bears this expense ' burden entirely. A silver dollar is approximate ly 90 per cent fine. Silverware might be manufactured 95 per cent fine, with five per cent alloy in order to insure durability. The amount of silver saved on this mixture of alloy would in sure for the government of about a 50-cent profit on every set sold at 9.90. Every family cherishes genuine silverware Most families find that its re tail price is prohibitive. Spiling flat silver at this low price would practically place it , within the reach of everyone's pocketbook. Furthermore, with "E. Pluribus Unum" stamped on every piece, the purchaser could be certain that the ware was genuine. The government might distribute the articles through the mails, or through the medium of retail houses, which undoubtedly would be grateful to handle the goods at no profit. This would encour age business, as it would serve as a drawing card. The industry engaged in manufacturing this article would not necessarily be crippled, for through placing the goods with in a more extensive market for a limited time, the demand of the public would be heightened. When the price of silver in the market had reached a more sub stantial level, the United States would cease manufacturing and return the factories to the own ers who once again might sell their commodity at a price more near the original one. It is easily seen that this ven ture would assist in returning silver to a normal basis, in nur turing crippled China, and in bringing business generally up to a more healthy status. It would distribute hordes of bul lion where it would not be like ly to return and would place ore mining once again on its feet. It might be practical for England, Germany and France to some ex tent to duplicate the plan of this country. This would plug the consequent flow of silver to the United States shortly after its inauguration here. Minnesota Daily. ' Agreement To Cut State Employees Salaries Reached Members of the state joint appropriations committee of the state legislature have virtually agreed to institute the ten per cent cut in salaries for state em ployees as recommended by the advisory budget commission This cut, however, has nothing at all to do with salaries here at the University. The committee has done noth ing as yet about the appropria tions for the University or oth er state institutions of learning. B. Y. P. U. Study Course Beginning this evening at six-forty-five o'clock Reverend Eu gene Olive, pastor of the Baptist church, will take up the study of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress as a regular part of the B. Y. P. U. study course. At The Carolina With The Churches Methodist 9 :45 a. m. Sunday School. 11:00 a. m. Sermon by Mr. Rozzelle, "The Laboratory of Life." 6:45 p. m Student Fellow ship Hour: Topic: "The Fullness of Christ." 7:30 p. m. Sermon by Mr. Rozzelle, "A Big Man With the Blues." Presbyterian 9:45 a. m. Sunday School.. 11:00 a. m. Morning Service. 7:45 p. m. Evening Service. 8:30 p. m. Social Hour, Dr. W. J. McKee on "India." Episcopal 8:00 a. m. Y. P. S. L. Communion. 11:00 a. m. Service by Bish op Darst. 4:30 to 6:30 p. m. Tea in the Parish House. 7:00 p. m. Y. P. S. L. Baptist 9 :45 a. m. Sunday School. 11:00 a. m. Morning Wor ship. 6:45 p. m. B. Y. P. U. 7 :45 p. m. Evening Worship. Catholic 8:30 a. m. Mass in Gerrard Hall by Father Manly. Lutheran 4:00 p. m. Sermon by Rev Sigmon in Gerrard Hall, "When a Man is a Man." If it takes eleven law-enforce ment commissioners nirietum months to disagree about pro hibition, how long will it take 130,000,000 citizens to reach a unanimous verdict? San Diego Union. "The Easiest Way," Monday's attraction, sees the transposition from the stage to the screen of the David Belasco hit of recent stage history, a play by the same name, written by Eugene Wal ters. The cast has been particu larly well chosen, and most of the figures are well known : Con stance Bennett takes the leading role, that of Laura Murdoch. Op posite her is Robert Montgom ery, and Others are Anita Page, Marjorie Rambeau, and J. Far- rell MacDonald. Adolph Menjou supplies his characteristically suave performance. The play is a discussion of a woman's emo tional problem and revolves around the question, should a man forgive a woman's mis steps? Tuesday sees another stage production, and this also is one of the most famous books of its type that contemporary writing has produced, brought to the talkies with none of its original elements impaired. "Dracula, from Bram Stoker's celebrated novel of the gruesome blood sucking vampire Count Dracula, is the feature. The Italian Bela Lugosi takes the role of the sin ister figure in the chief charac terization, while others in the cast are Helen Chandler and David Manners. The action of the story has become synony mous with the terrible and hor rible, and the melodramatic thrills and mystery have made it the leading attraction of this na ture. This week apparently fur nishes an uninterrupted series of former stage plays that have been made over into vitaphone productions. Wednesday's pic ture, "Charley's Aunt," has al so a long stage history back of it, and one that attests to its popularity with every type of audience. Charles Ruggles is seen as the Oxford undergradu ate who is forced into the role of Charley's aunt, "from Brazil, where the nuts come from," and gives an, extremely ludicrous performance. One phase of the picture that should interest col lege students is that the action takes place against the back ground of Oxford university, Carolina Theatre TUESDAY ONLY which naturally provides an in teresting contrast to the Ameri can campus. The foreign language feature for the week, coming as usual at 11:00 on Wednesday night, is the French production, in French with an all-French cast, "Monsieur, le Fox," starring Leonard Luguet. An additional attraction is added to the pro gram of this night, as will be the custom in succeeding pro ductions of this sort, in a French comedy, "Une Nuit Extrava- gante." An original story dealing prin cipally with the underworld and newspaper life in Chicago is the vehicle for Joan Crawford's latest appearance on the screen, "Dance Fools, Dance," which comes Thursday. The scenes attempting a portrayal of social gaity among the elite are done with lavishness, but the other phases of the picture, the expo sure of racketeering and crimi nal methods, are executed with realism. There is a large sup porting cast, outstanding favor ites of which include Cliff Ed wards, Natilie Moorhead, and Joan Marsh. Nancy Carroll appears Fri day in her new picture, "StcJ Heaven." The action is based a plot which can boast of a g0J deal of originality, and hichj5 supposed to have been tab from life. It concerns a s. town girl, (Nancy Carroll) out money and at the point y starvation in a big city forms a compact with a crimi (Phillip Holmes), to spend tw last few weeks of life riotci&V to the end of their combined re. sources, and then to commit s-: cide. Of course a love ppi enters to complicate matters the couple decide to live c' adopting a new mode of life after quitting their old habits. One of the outstanding gan. ster pictures that has appeared recently comes as the attraction Saturday, with Edward G. Robinson in the role of "Little Caesar." This picture does not treat the gangster theme -with the hokum commonly associated with Hollywood's version of the careers of modern criminals, but shows this species up as tfcev really are, and reveals that they come to a bad end finally. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS : '" v'y - i - r lJlllJ'Wwywyww:'ff:yq I f ? ' i X K y: - .'V A Constance Bennett Star of "Common Clay" . . . one after another . . . cre ates tender, passionate love roles . . . Here's her best . . . The Drama of a Girl of Todav. Thrown into the World on Her Own Resources. Too Beautiful to Escape Men. Too Much a Woman Not to Love. "The Easiest Way" This Belasco Stage Hit Excited National Discussion ! M. G M. Presents It as a Silken, Bitter sweet Drama of Unusual Inter- est and Entertainment! Star ring CONSTANCE BENNETT ROBERT MONTGOMERY Anita Page Adolphe Menjou Marjorie Rambeau OTHER FEATURES "Three Hollywood Girls" Rejoice with luemi juaugn with them! June McCloy in "Laugh That Off -n. ioiauiuuni vaudeville Act Paramount Sound News MONDAY Tuesday "Dracula" From the Famous Novel and Play bv Bram Stoker Wednesday CHARLES RUGGLES in "Charley's Aunt" Wednesday. 11 t tit j ij. . AT. "Monsieur Le Fox with LENARD LUGUET Also a French Comedy "Une Nuit Extravagante .99 Thursday JOAN CRAWFORD in "Dance Fool Dance" Friday NANCY CARROLL in "Stolen Heaven" Saturday DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. kittle Caesar" Coming . Greta Garbo ia ,Inspilticn, fin mi Coming Lawrence Tibbett in "The Southerner'
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