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P23 Two yz Datlp (Sar ;eei Published dailj during: the college year except Holidays and except Thanks- givms, unnstmas ana pruc iiu.u- days. The o facial newspaper of the Pohli cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, ?4.00 for tne col lege year. OSces in the basement of Alumni Building. JACK DUNGAN Editor ED FRENCH Mng. Ed. H. N. PATTERSON Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Board Charles G. Rose...... Chairman J. M. Little Frank J. Manheim Harper Barn es Wex Malone J. C. Sitterson Robert Hodges W. M. Bryson Will Yarborough Alden Stahr Bob Barnett Assignment Editors Otto S. Steinreich Dan Kelly, Assistant Sunday Editor Charles G. Rose City Editors Bill McKee George Wilson Peter Hairston Jack, Riley DesK Men EVoTilr TTawlnv TV W. "RlApTrwll W. R. Woerner Don Shoemaker Vass Shepherd Sports Staff Jack Bessen Sports Editor Assistants T. H. Broughton P.Alston Librarian Sam Silverstein News Men E. M. Spruill F. W. Ashley McB. Fleming-Jones W. E. Davis Charles Poe Bob Betts Alex Andrews Clayborn Carr Reporters Saul Gordon Bob Reynolds Ronald Kochendorfer Dilworth Cocke Woodward Glenn M. V. Barnhill, Jr. BUSINESS STAFF Hal Worth.... Harlan Jameson. John Manning.... Circulation: Mgr. Ass't. Bus. Mgr. ...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 IL A. Clark Collection Department v Jack Hammer. Collection Mgr. John Barrow Frank S. Dale Stokes Adderton Jack Stokes Correspondence Department Ed Michaels, Jr..Correspondence Mgr. Wynn Hamm A.ss't. Cor. Mgr. Saturday, May 2, 1931 Valuable Contacts The coming of the second quadrennial institute on Human Relations affords to the students on this campus an opportunity to see the . actual mechanism of 'some of the best minds in this country. It will give the stu dents a chance to make, contacts which will be invaluable to them in later years. : The mental con tacts which will be formed dur ing the Institute will aid the students no little in facing the problems with which they will .be confronted in life. By seeing how the minds of these visiting speakers work, the collegians will be able to more easily make their own decisions. Not only does the present day education consist in class-room work, but it also includes con tacts with other persons who think differently from ourselves. These contacts help us to see how other people would look at life and what their reaction would be to this or that condi tion. When we come in contact with one whose mode of thinking is far superior to ours, we imme diately have a desire to bring our thoughts up to their plane. We want to be able to see things as they see them, and to think as they think. By so doing we will come to be more broad minded. This does not necessar ily demand that we ive up our own beliefs but that we merely alter them according to the good points of the beliefs of our new associates. Those persons attending and following the speeches during this coming week will not only be given "food for thought" to be digested later, but will also have a chance to think today. They will also be privileged to mentally associate with the speakers and learn their ideas and thoughts on the questions of the day. This Institute comes only once in a college career and to miss it now would be to lose part of our education here at the Uni versity. C. G. R. D Asan"ine" Comedia Without question a niche may be worthily occupied' by Miss Hollywood for giving birth with out seeming pain and abundant ly to her share of the world's insipidities. Ample evidence of the conspicuous apparentness of her progeny in our national life is available even in this cultured little town of super-elites. . Take your seat, squirm to a maximum comfort in one of Mr. Smith's hard-backed seats, re cline to allow your mind to fall under and become massaged by the subtle stimulation of our American cinematographic dra ma and The bald-headed man pops out of the flour barrel with a lobster clamped to his vest, come again and the lobster is clamped to his trouser seat, again the lobster is crawling on his shiny pate. (Laughter.) The woman trips, hobbles, and peeks through keyholes posed in unnatural and miraculously dis torted positions. The suave host falls into a fish pond. . A vas tips, lingers off-balance for an instant and crashes onto the linoleum floor. The impact up on the floor is noisy and very funny. An insane man tears the steering wheel from the steering rod and his car sails pre cariously through town. The beautiful girl drinks tea made from a sack of Bull Durham. "Googoo-eyed" she staggers about. (This is all humor.) The news reel flashes on the screen and the evening's enter tainment continues. Hollywood appeals to the en lightened and critical interests and tastes, of our American people. We sit back and swal low, some in amazement, some satisfied, some awfully hard and with a bitter grin. Then we come back for more. R. VW. B. Shibboleths "England expects every man to do his duty!" - That symbolic phrase which swept the world in the same manner as Pershing's alleged "Lafayette, we are here," has been a signal to Britains ever since -that memorable day in 1805 when it was uttered on the poop deck of the stunch Victory. Melodramatic, yes, but so ex pressive of that indomitable spirit that pervails in the heart of every true red-blooded Eng lishman. It was remembered in front of Khartum, it rang true in British hearts at Sevastopol; the burly Sikh shuddered at its poignant message, doughty Tom mies at Hill Seventy fell with its soul-stirring force in dying ears ; it lives forever as an inspira tion to scores of contemporary Nelsons, and in the hearts of a hero-loving people. Great Britain has been found ed and constructed of such rigid stuff as was Nelson. Others have gone before him, many un known, into the substance for a great foundation which will never totter. Of such men must every nation build her domin ance. With stirring phrases we sent thousands into a great struggle across the waters, fight ing for such a cause as was that of the Hero of Trafalgar. On such phrases has many a battle been waged and won. "Sail on, sail on" was the incen tive to a hardy crew that found a new world in 1492, "West ward, ho" urged pioneers across a bleak and unsettled continent to settle a virtual Empire of the Golden West. "To hell with Burgundy" evoked a new France. No less stirring and sacred to the memory of the THE DAILY English people are the words of the immortal Nelson. England expects every man to do hi3 duty even unto this day as she will in ages to come. Those eight words will live after all else has crumpled in dust and departed. In the words of the Great Emancipator "The "world will little note nor long remem ber what we say here, but it will never forget what they did here," a statement which in the first part did hot hold true, so will the stirring words of the great admiral quicken the pulse of Englishmen for time imme morial. D. S. Speaking The Campus Mind Editor the Daily Tar Heel: Mr. Bernard must needs plead guilty of the boast recorded against him by your Tar Heel reporter. His only defense is to repeat that boast: That nowhere in America is there a group of college students who could "pull off" cleaner and happier dances than the Junior Prom and Senior Ball of the last week-end. How ever, it is not the challenge I have in mind in writing these words but the desire that credit for the big endeavor may be given to whom credit is due. First to the two classes as wholes: their fine spirit and per fect cooperation made possible the remarkably efficient work of their two committees. It is no light task to do the work nec essary for entertaining sixteen hundred dancers two nights in succession. No less light is the responsibility of conducting such large dances (the very largest ever held at the University) smoothly and without disorder. Yet I believe the committees will sustain me in saying that there was not an unpleasant in cident during the two nights. This is remarkable even m a university justly and universal ly praised for the sober and or derly conduct of its dances. I spoke of cooperation: the two class committees, aided by the entire Executive Committee of the German Club, worked to gether with the harmony and precision of our best basketball teams. - I have never seen a finer spirit. To me that speaks of student self government in a well nigh perfect example. For, the faculty committee on dances exercises no autocratic control. Its members "sit-in" as perma nent members of the Executive Committee of the German Club just other boys, a bit older big buddies, all working to gether to keep healthy and hap py the chief est social activity of the student body. May I ex press congratulations to all upon a big job well done? 1 WM. S. BERNARD! A Red Flag The Supreme Court decision giving counsel for Negroes the fight to examine jurors for race prejudice is much-needed en couragement to a people for whom "American justice" has long been an empty phrase. In the Southern lynching areas the decision will have little in fluence, since the jury panels include few who have avoided the general bias. But in other parts of the country the Negro will be able to insist upon a right which some of the back ward courts have denied him. To remove from juries those openly hostile to the Negro is, however, slight assurance of justice. Behind the apparent fair-mindedness of the majority of people is a feeling that the Negro is by nature disposed to crimes of violence. The South With Contemporaries TAB HEEL would have us believe that, freed from fear, the colored people would embark upon an orgy of license. From lynchings has issued a propaganda more dam aging to the reputation of the Negro than to that of his op pressors. ' V Even in communities where the colored population is small charges of assualt upon white women make people forget the rules of justice. Cases are known where this inflammatory disposition of the public has been used for the settlement of pri vate grudges. Tne death sentence imposed recently in Alabama upon eight Negro boys on the charge that they assaulted two white girls is considered by the Association for the Advancement of Colored People a new manifestation of the grudge scheme. With a mob waiting to enforce the popular notion of justice, these young sters were convicted on the evidence of a gang of whites whom they had trounced. In stinctively, upon hearing of the charge "assault," most North erners as well as Southerners rejoice that justice has been speedily applied. They have come to associate such attacks with the Negro. A little study of the Negro and the law produces so much evidence of perjury and pre judgment of guilt, however, that we have a right to be su sdicious where the charge as sault" is waved. An honest skepticism will do much to im prove the legal status of the col ored race -Cornell Sun. Spinach Ice-Cream We live in an age that has been weaned, fed and brought up on progress. Progress has become a platitudinous watch word of the times and science and invention are the chief abet tors .which whet the appetite Often the results of this move are commendable but every once in awhile the demon "Progress" gets out of hand, runs amuck in a respectable field and causes us to writhe in agony and despair. A Detroit confectioner is the latest to lead the demon astray. This confectioner has pro duced a hybrid monstrosity which he styles vegetable ice cream. To his customers he of fers a collection ; of pea, carrot, celery, bean, spinach, orange, and beet flavors, added to a va nilla mix. The resultant conglo meration, of course, is a mark of modern, progressive civiliza tion! We' can only shudder. Ice-cream has long been one of our favorite concoctions. Now to have vegetable ice-cream is the straw to break the back of human toleration and good hu- mor. mis uetroit genius nas taken a thoroughly delectable dish, crossed it with lowly weeds, and transformed it into some thing thoroughly detestable. Yet this, this sample of twentieth century advancement, comes un der the head of progress We only await the caviar lollypop. Princetonian. Humanity Uprooted Life in Russia is so violent an experience, so painful a trial, and to him who bursts with the new faith so glorious an exper ience, that one cannot remain simply passive. One must react somehow to the heaving turbul ence, .with fervor, with fury, with hope, with despair, with madness or event with death." This paragraph from the pre face of Maurice Hindus' Hum anity Uprooted expresses the whole theme of the book ; the bigness, essence and totality of modern Russian life. Its scope is all-inclusive. The manner of its presentation is of even great er amplitude: it is entirely apolitical. Unlike Dr. Will Dur ant's Case for India, it presents no brief. It is broadly critical in the word's true sense of pointing out of the trend and status of Russian" institutions, of 'Russian people and of Rus sian quests. Under institutions, Mr. Hin dus analyzes such fundamental social concepts as religion, pro perty, sex, love and the family. His discussion gives one the im pression that a colossal project- mg machine, arrested with a group of one hundred and fifty million odd actors focused mot ionless on. the Russian screen, has started up again so that the individual acceleration and in greater orbits of social contact. The stuff of their lives is woven on a larger loom and a iooser pattern. Their frozen societal assets have been made liquid by the Revolution. In the second section of his book, Mr. Hindus deals with the people: the peasant, the prole tarian, the communist, youth, the intelligentsia, the Cossack, the Jew, women. It seems that the trend in humanity is to wards a standard. Rigid class barriers have been leveled by the Revolution, and the former ly isolated contents of these soc ial reservoirs is interpenetrat ing. Class, sex, and racial dis parities have been cancelled in the wash of the current. Rus sia is becoming a vast babbitt warren. The once privileged, swash-buckling Cossack is fad ing from the Russian scene, along with the pogroms, and the subordination of women. Indi vidualism is becoming similar ity. Quests, the final third of the book, is a picture of Russia FANCY ICES SHERBETS DURHAM ICE CREAM CO., Inc. "Blue Ribbon" Ice Cream DURHAM, N. C. -"Won Its Favor By Its Flavor" , BLOCKS PUNCH A J!b ir 3 3?a Insure Against Starvation NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN ' vs. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA fin B II 1! , ' T aim Saturday, 3Iay 2, 193! looking ahead. With . recurse to war accepted a3 cessary, eventual, and even K sirable, and so inculcated in the masses, with Revolution tra-i. cendent over Russia as a syvi to be fought for and preserved, I wim ..ngiana universally con sidered Russia's implacable ad versary, and America held as her well-wishing, mass-productive hero and friend, the outlook 03 Russia's future trail to the pot of gold at the end of her na. tional communistic rainbow seems sufficiently tortuous. At any rate, something gigantic glorious and agonizing in the same breath is being attempted. Humanity Uprooted is a brave, broad work. Iits author should be well worth heanW -The Dartmouth. Pittsburgh Students Overcharged for Prunes Charging "profiteering" iQ the University of Pittsburgh cafeteria, several students have brought charges against the management, citing the high cost of prunes as an example. The complaintants plan to prove that the profit on prunes sold in the cafeteria exceeds 1100 percent. They claim that prunes sell for 8 cents per pound, and that one pound will make 13 ten-cent dishes, for which a total of $1.30 is charged. Other items con cerned in the alleged profiteer ing are: beans, 1400 percent; fruit salad, 300 percent; vege table salad, 250 percent; butter, 220 percent; and ham sand wiches, 200 percent. Purdue Exponent. California may undertake to regulate the import of foreign dried eggs. Steps ought to be taken, too, to dry up some of the foreign eggs who come over here to lecture. San Diego Union. . PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS The Love Of A Boy For A Blonde Lew AYRES in "IRON MAN" with Rob't Armstrong- Jean Harlow also ' Bert Roach Comedy "Expensive Kisses" Movie Memories Now Playing I sr.r or? La .-m uVkii
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