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Page Two &))z Eatlp Ear fjeel The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Eoard of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel HilL N C under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan . ......Editor Ed French .....Managing Editor John Manning.....Business Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD F. J. Manheim, Peter Hairston, Vass Shepherd, R. W. Barnett, J. M. Little, Angus Mc Lean, A. J. Stahr. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, W. T. Blackwell, Robert Woerner, Jack Riley, Donald Shoemaker, William McKee. 1 DESK MEN Frank Hawley, W. E. Davis. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas Broughton, Jack Bessen, editors; Phil Alston, Tom Walker, assistant editors. -NEWS MEN Morrie Long, William Blount, G. R. Berryman. HEELERS J. S. Fathman, Donoh Hanks, Peter Ivey, P. S. Jones, J. H. Morris, L. E. Ricks, Walter Rosen thal, Joseph Sugarman, A. M. Taub, C. G. Thompson A. G. Leinwand, J. D. Winslow. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Tom Worth, manager. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, and Ber nard Solomon, assistants. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT James Allen, manager; Howard Manning, assistant; Joe Mason, Nathan Schwartz, Jones. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; H. A. Clark, assistant; Joe Webb, Henry Emer son, Randolph Reynolds. ' SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT R. H. Lewis. Wednesday, October 28, 1931 Frontiers Open To College Men The appeal of the unknown led Marco Polo to the distant shores of rich Cathay ; the same spirit of adventure brought Lief Ericson and Columbus to Ameri can shores, drove Daniel Boone into the blue grass of Kentucky, sent Clark and Lewis over moun tains and plains into Oregon, the j '49ers to Calif ornia, and led Ful ton to experiment with the steam boat. Youthful cynics of today bemoan the passing of the day when fresh and challenging i obstacles face the young pion eer. He has hopelessly regard ed the world in whch he lives as terrifically complicated, too civilized," offering few chal lenges, and demanding only that he fit his niche, turn his wheel, and become an animate cog in a vast machine. He abandons his ideals of intellectual cour age and vigor with a gesture of helpless resignation, throwing his personality, his color before the crushing, inexorable wheels of Machine. i The generation preceding the present one possessed some young men whose pioneer spirit expressed itself in terms of "evangelizing the world in one generation." The approached far distant frontiers with eyes open, great courage and deter mination. A far more baffling frontier faces the young man of today that of remolding a world. The past two generations have given us a mechanism unbeliev ably potent. The next one must make it function for the good of mankind. Tremendous diffi culties in the field of political philosophy and economy as well as cultural development- await solution. Young men of vision and energy may find here the most exciting frontier of all time. "Shoulder your responsibility" may mean something. Usually it does not. Responsibility is a vague word with high sounding connotations. If everyone shouldered their responsibilities everything would be "hunky dory." But respon sibilities are vagueT it seems, and the average college man merely saying that he feels his respon sibility is somehow satisfied that he is fulfilling them. The col lege man's responsibility is more than that. It is a responsibility to himself and society a re- sponsibility to make himself a man hardened by the exercise of intellectual effort, a man trained in seeing the deeper currents of life, a man mellowed by the study of the past, a man whose life of action has not been post poned but has already begun, and a man whose ideals and purposes demand participation in the pro cess of re-evaluation and remod eling the structure of the world in terms of cooperation, sym pathy, and justice. Great fron tiers of intellectual and social re adjustment await the modern adventurer. R.W.B. The Decline And Fall" Not content with abolishing student privileges in regard to optional attendance, the Univer sity authorities are now gunning for the self-help student. After all the laudable statements in the catalogue as to' the oppor tunities for students with slen der means to pursue their studies here at the University, the Uni versity officials have completely reversed their stand on at least one form of work usually given to self-help students, and instead of allowing students of slender means to earn a dollar or two extra by having charge of the gates at all home games, have turned over the gates to a small army of cops from nearby cities. It is bad enough to allow out siders to act as guardians of our gates without turning them over to an armed guard that certainly does not need the extra change picked up for an afternoon's work. In the Wake Forest and Geor gia games students were in charge of the gates and we re member no wholesale rushing of the gates such as took place last Saturday when some three hundred persons successfully crashed the' gate behind the field house. v If the present practice is con tinued, we will not be surprised to see some flatfoot dishing out food in Swain or a plainclothes- man inspecting the various dor mitories, while a private investi gator guards the sacred walks of the Arboretum in place of the usual football player. T.H.B. Pictured Reciprocity Around the turn of the cen tury, football was a purely ama teurish sport, captained, coached, and supported by the students. Often the players had to pay for their own passage on trips to play the teams of other colleges ; more often a general collection was taken throughout the stu dent body to defray such ex penses. Football belonged to the students; they resented outside interference and resisted it. But what a change has come over this sport today. A col lege or a university uses a foot ball team for economic purposes. A good team will attract the alumni and arouse their old school spirit, probably loosening their pocket-books. Moreover the gate receipts taken in throughout the football season serve to support all other branches of athletics, which could not exist if it were not for such financial aid. Thus the managing of the fall athletic season has developed into a highly efficient profession, which has as its incentive the squeez ing of every possible cent from the spectators. With the aid of the sport sheets in newspapers and various other forms of propaganda, the football indus try has turned out to be one of the most prosperous in the .country, even during the pres ent depression. This new phase of football is entirely commendable. If peo ple are willing to pay two dollars and a half to see a game the athletic directors are perfectly justified in charging that much. The use that is made of the funds to further the less pros THE DAILY perous sports is both legiti mate and admirable. Hardly any one can object to this paternal istic phase of football. But it does seem rather hard on the students of other colleges who want to see a neighboring game ; after all, this great industry did originate with the students, and it seems unjust that they should be kept out of any game because they, haven't the price of admis sion. . " ' An unpleasant spectacle was provided at the Carolina-Tennessee game last Saturday, when a hundred or more students from neighboring institutions rushed the gate and a bloody free-for-all ensued. The defendants of the gate offered a noble resist ance to the onslaughts of the outsiders, but in the end superior force won and the mob succeed ed in entering, though at the ex pense of many broken bones, smashed noses, and blackened eyes. The rush was uncalled for and the gate-holders were justified in doing their best to keep the besiegers out. But there is something intrinsic in the sentiment of those lawless individuals who forced their way in that is not entirely con demnable. At the present time few stu dents have the ready money to pay the admittance charges at football games elsewhere than at their own college. Nevertheless, their desire to see big intersec tional games is not abated in the slightest. Consequently they contrive as best they can, by hook or crook, to get past the gates. One can hardly con demn them entirely for this at titude. Football should not be rid of its student following for the sake of the alumni. Situations like this could be avoided if the athletic direc tors of educational institutions throughout the state, would get together and devise a system by which the students of one col lege could see the games of an other at reduced rates, which would be easily within the reach of all. Of course there would be the problem of students selling their passes; but this, in 'turn, could be remedied by each stu dent having his picture pasted on his pass-book, as is practiced at State college at present. It is evident that the present plan is inadequate ; this idea suggest ed here is merely another mod est proposal. W.V.S. The Governorship No. 1 As an expression of public opinion to which' the volitikers of this country must give heed, the Tar Heel's editorial page is not. Even as an organ voicing the sentiment of an important part of the state's population, this page, strange to say, is not. But what will appear to be much stranger is that the editorial columns are not representative of the majority of the. campus. Were this part of the paper a true reflection of the majority of campus thought, it would be one of two things: either noth ing but empty white space ; or else a bad-joke section, equipped with the very best the Buccaneer can provide. Thus when we say, and we do say that the University would be loathe to see Mr. Maxwell in the governor's chair, and would be delighted to hail Josephus Daniels as governor, we speak but for a small group, aware of the preposterous utterances of Mr. Maxwell regarding higher education, and conscious of the Raleigh editor's undeniable quali fications for public office. Yet the Tar Heel, despite the reali zation that all too. few of the students have thought as to who may fill Mr. Gardner's shoes, feels that given the necessary stimulus (in the guise of this editorial) student political thought will come to the point where the next article in this TAR HEEL caper advocating Mr. Daniels for the governorship will be truly an expression: of the mass of campus opinion. F.J.M. But Utopias Have Their Uses Some modern Sir Thomas More,bent on writing a new Utopia to set forth his ideal of a perfect world order, might well choose economics as his theme, since the most burning public questions of today have to do with world industry and commerce. The goal of any eco nomic Utopia unquestionably would be a world so ordered that every individual might work ac cording to his talents and be justly rewarded; Opportunities for self improvement would be unlimited, always in the recog nition that the good of one is the good of all, and vice versa. Group action would invariably be directed toward promoting the happiness and well-being of all individuals in the group Each group would consider the effect of its actions on the wel fare of other groups. Resources would be so managed that not part of them, needed by anyone anywhere, would lie idly or go to waste. Such a portrait is admittedly Utopian. Utopias, however, have their uses. They are not sheer ly chimerical. Seldom fully at tained, they none the less spur endeavor to ameliorate praptical affairs. They throw a search light on existing systems, re vealing imperfect cogs and hold ing' up better models. Utopias are seldom propounded until the need for reform is urgent. Necessity for finding ways to. put the world's 20,000,000 un employed to work has already brought forth several proposals which a few years ago would have been considered Utopian. The American Federation of Labor, with its plan for a "con gress of industry," has offered one. Another is the Swope plan for self -regulation of industry. United States Chamber of Com merce has come forward with a similar scheme. Several inter national agencies are seeking to insure a more even flow of trade i ... from areas of surplus to those of famine. While the response of indus try to these proposals is encour aging, it gives little basis for expecting their immediate adop tion. This is no cause for dis turbance. However, it must be remembered that the rate of change has been greatly accel erated The Utopias of toclay are often not many omorrows away. In. all proposals for ; ameliorat ing economic conditions, the em phasis is rightly upon the need for more enlightened manage ment of the world's resources. Will Rogers put it pithily the other day when he said that the United States was the fifcst na tion ever to "go to the poor house in an automobile." With more wheat, more corn, more food in general,' more cotton, more money in the banks, more everything in the , world than any other nation ever had, we are starving because we don't know how to split 'era up. This is the "nub" of the situa tion. The challenge is for bet ter management all along' the line. Individuals, companies, trade associations, governmental bodies and international agencies have recognized this fact and are thinking as never before on the subject. . When the goal of erecting a world order in which industry fulfills its only legitimate end to produce and distribute com modities needed by humanity is kept steadfastly in view, progress toward it is certain. A.W.MacL. Modern Hazing Colleges today are patting themselves on the back because of the fact that they are depart ing from the antiquated custom of hazing freshmen. The new ! men are no longer beat with pad dles by the upperclassmen, but instead have come to be looked upon as mere fellow students rather than subjects of many foolish pranks. Because of the fact that there is this departure from the haz ing of the new men, the upper classmen must appease their de sire to 'lick" someone by insti tuting numerous foolish and un necessary methods of initiation into the many different college clubs and orders. Today it is the initiates of these clubs and orders who must undergo the punishment which was formerly administered to the poor fresh men. Were there some reason for making these neophytes en dure such torture, the condem nation would not be so strong. But when it brings the prospect ive members absolutely no bene fit, but rather discomfort, it is then time that such systems be abolished. Too many of the organizations which pretend to hold some posi tion of importance on the cam pus have nothing more to offer to their new members . but the chance to initiate the next men who are taken in. Still other clubs which really Have some worthy purpose in their exist ence are willing to use useless and old-fashioned initiation pro cedure. After all the main purpose of an initiation is not to see how many, tinies a new member can be hit with a paddle before he hollers, but rather to introduce him to the purposes and ideals of the organization. Paddle ini tiations not only do the students no good, but also introduce methods similar to hazing, which j has long passed out of existence at the modern colleges C.G.R. With Contemporaries Is It So? Anita Loos, diminutive femi nine philosopher, says that vigor and charm are two rare com binations. Now isn't that dis concerting to the modern maiden who practices the prone fall posi tion every- morning to keep fit and still wishes to exert exces sive energy on the golf course or perhaps in a business office. Perhaps the American woman in soaring after her achieve ments is chucking her feminine charm overboard as useless bal last. It may be true " that her development from a parasite into a self-reliant human being is scaring the other sex away. Charm was a weapon which served women of history in win ning the reputation of man killers, but they chose to be subtle and were content in find ing their greatest success in helping some man to the top. But charm is not enough to win for the American woman the distinction she desires. Her happiest hunting ground has found new outlets. She races happily after gold and laurel wreaths and is content to let the heart-breaker from abroad conquest the masculine element. University Daily Kansan. A Fraternity Cooperative A movement of. recent years which appears to be gaining impetus on the American col lege campus is that wherein the he fraternities on any particu lar campus pool their purchas ing power under one central administration and reap the benefits of cooperative buying. The cooperative movement, which has cOme to the fore ground in business circles only during the last two decades, is still quite young in college com munities. It was onlv last vnr I that attention was , directed to Wednesday, October 28, I93J . the formation of such a body ;the University of Wisconsin; ViIct roof Via -f A " lino j -"iaiermues several other colleges have fol lowed suit and are making pla to buy the bulk of their sup plies cooperatively. The idea of co-operation, par ticularly when goods are to be bought or sold, has penetrated the controlling interests of near ly every business and industry in the country today. Why should the last group of people to take advantage of the plan be college students those who are sup posed to be aggressive and am bitious in both thought and ac tion? The buying power of some forty-five fraternities and sorori ties on the Purdue campus, each of them spending approximately fifteen thousand dollars annually, would be enormous if it were pooled under one central agency. Although it is obvious that not all this sum could be expended through such an agency, there are a sufficient number and quantity of articles used in com mon by the different organiza tions that there would still be an enormous business for a co-operative. When one considers that each organization does its buying in dependently of all the others, and that the one who does the buying is generally a student none too well versed in effective methods of overcoming the sales man's "lingo," there is little reason why merchants and sales men should voluntarily offer ex ceptional bargains to fraterni ties. Competition is the . only force working on them, and even that is of a limited nature. If a single well qualified rep resentative of the fraternity co operative should receive bids from several merchants for some commodity necessary to all fra ternities and sororities, there would result a considerable re duction in price and a consequent saving to the groups doing the purchasing. It is a well known principle that the costs of oper ating a business varies inversely with the volume of business transacted ; hence the co-operative movement would work to the advantage of the merchant as well as the student. Such commodities as coal, potatoes, ! and canned goods, might well be '.purchased through such a med ium on this campus. Herein lies a problem for the Pan-Hellenic Council. Purdue Expon ent. Call Durham Road Dairy For Grade "A" Pasteurized Milk Whipping Cream Coffee Cream Lactic Milk Buttermilk Phone 3722 Their L For Him a Brilliant Future For Her a Ta Past! Constance ENNETT KeCO.lMOrj LAV LEW CODY. also Comedy; News Now Playing CAROLINA lit veil rnished flfi Mm mm w - -' 'V.W-.::V
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