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Pase Two Bail? Ear ieei T?he official newspaper joff the Publi cations Union Board of ifce- University of North Carolina , jat Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christy mas, and Spring Holidays. , Entered a3 second class matter 'at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. O, 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...l...Managing Editor John Manning..,......Business Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, chairman; F. J. Manheim, Peter Hairston, Vass Shepherd, R. W. Barnett, J. M. Little, A. J. Stahr. FEATURE BOARD Donald Shoe maker, chairman; James Dawson, Robert Berryman, Scott Mabon, and E. H. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T. W. Blackwell, Robert Woerner, Jack Riley, Tom Walker, William McKee. DESK MEN Frank Hawley, W. E. Davis. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas Broughton, Jack Besseh, 'editors; Phil Alston, Morrie Long, assistant editors. NEWS MEN William Blount. HEELERS J. S. Fathman, Donoh Hanks, Peter Ivey, P. S. Jones, J. H. Morris, L. E. Ricks, Walter Rosen -- thai, 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, v 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. Friday, October 30, 1931 Uneducated Liberals David Clark, editor of the Southern Textile, Bulletin, again worked himself up into an emo tional frenzy over what he termed "radicalism" in the state educational institutions. -How he can term men iike . Norman Thomas "radicals" , is more than anyone who heard ifcis illustrious speaker can understand. But he blindly '.'maintains that any one who even questions the ef ficiency, justice, or practicabil ity of the present economic in stitutions is; a dangerous mem ber of society and should be kept away from "impressionable youth." As narrow-minded as his attitude is, he is not without following. ' There has been a great deal of criticism directed against the recently organized free-thinking clubs on the campus, not only by outsiders but by students and faculty. The most general at-J tack on these organizations is that they are composed of rabid, emotional reactionaries who un derstand nothing of the under lying economic problems which should be the fundamental knowledge or basis for all con structive thinking. This criticism is partly justi fied. There are a good many of just such members of these or ganizations. But there are also many instructors and students who have studied the subject copiously and are qualified in every way to lead an intelligent discussion on the fundamentals of socialism and capitalism. It is this group that does the in structing and the former group that learns. To criticize adversely any ef fort that is made to educate stu dents along this line represents the same attitude that causes revolutions and similar displays of violence on the part of the real radicals. Norman Thomas and his learned coterie advertise that they could take ' over the reins of the government and slowly " introduce socialism in such a manner that the public would not know that any change was being made. It is the un educated element that resorts to abortive measures, bringing down condemnation upon their own. heads and the heads of others who are affiliated with the cause of liberalisiru Conss- quently it is the educated ele ment that has to-suffer for the; ignorance of those with whom they have no connection v - If there is such an uneducat ed and emotional patronage of the liberal clubs on the campus, let us give their "better qualified leaders every possible opportun ity to educate them to the ideal for which they stand. Just as the child beginning school is motivated to learn but has lit tle ready knowledge, so is this reactionary element motivated to learn; but they are criticized for both their motivation and their lack of knowledge. Give the real thinkers a chance to teach. This is the spirit of lib eralism which the campus has championed. W.V.S. Lines of Least Resistance. By JAMES DAWSON We View-With-Alarm - He (John Motley Morehead) has just returned from the Ses-qui-centennial Exposition a t Yorktown at which he was a delegate fifty years ago. The Daily Tar Heel Advance publicity has been started by interested people who want to see Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions produced as a Forest Theatre play next spring. Thousands of dramaphiles have expressed wishes that the Play makers might see the value of the suggestion. The most' surprising event of the last week was Elizabeth Perrow's metamorphosis in the second night's presentation of Saturday's Children by the Play makers. She forgot the things she had. done on the first night and performed in a genuinely moving ' manner. s She did some thing that has. not been done on tne ,Playmakers' stage, lo, -these many years ; she completely sub merged her own self and became the girl she was portraying. She did not seem to. be acting -she simply was Bobby Halevy, nothr ing else. Her most effective trick was that of shifting her voice pitch from the high strung, angry tone to a lower, restrained key without warning, a ,- thing that was so impressiVe that it cannot be analysed. Unfortun ately, she waited to do this un til after the review of the play had been written, and so re ceived none of the credit that was due her achievement. The only, remedy that suggests itself is that the Playmakers omit the first nights hereafter, and begin with the second. They always seem to click with a more reson ant sound after the practice per formance is over. After the smoke and hot' air of rushing season cleared away, a gentleman with a sense of hu mour pulled out of the material debris of the great conflict (soi distant) a small white calling card that had been life under a freshman's door. It was the per sonal card of one Frederick Col man Wardlaw, and was in scribed in black ink: "Selby. Stop and see us (meaning his fraternity) and you'll never see anyone else." There are stories and stories of men who go blind afterward, and most of them are mere pro paganda. But the invitation hardly sounds like an induce ment, call it what you will What our fraternities need is to change their sources of supply. Some thing ought to, be done about this, Mr. President of the Inter Fraternity Council. ( Until last Saturday's game, the scandal-mongers were telling a story of high stakes, racketeer ing, graft, and speculation. Ac cording to the report, all you had to do to get rich was to get a. job as ticket taker at one of stadium gates, send out your ac- THE DAILY complices to sell marked slips of paper for twenty-ye cents each, and then admit the holders of the slips to the game. Very simple and effective. . : - xr ' ti -n:: i weaves r rum a. jLncnuiuiry I Optional Attendance: What (veterans can remember as a thing of the dear, dead past, the dead and wished-for years. Suspension: The punishment by which the sins of the blather- ers are visited upon the third and fourth generations; the mark of the dean's icy hand. Nomination for the Buccaneer staff : Florence Yancey, because on seeing the picture of the stork bring his wee bundle over hill and dale, reprinted from Life's Family Album, she suggested a better title for it: Quick, Henry, the Flit. SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND To the Editor The Daily Tar Heel: I trust you will forgive my writing in protest against Mr. Mabon's criticism of Mary Gar den's recital last Tuesday eve ning at Duke University, but the adjectival display of the critic could only result in this letter. Mr. Mabon, I am sure, is him self a capable musician as he conceded Miss Garden and her accompanist, Mr. Schlussel, to be, but he fulfills the duty of a critic in a manner that not only palls on one, but which approaches nausea. It is apparent he lost sight of the essential quality of criticism, for he did little .Judg ing whatsoever, spending most of his time in describing with a display of adjectives, musical, poetic, and literary, that which he had heard. But this criticism of mine is perhaps too harsh, es pecially if it is realized that Mr. Mabon -j, is .merely a university student, : and quite young, v. : ' ; : Yet I feel, that he violated even the prerogative, of. youthful as sumption when he presumes to say that "Mr. Schlussel had the correct idea of the composition in his head ; but he failed to com municate it adequately by sheer lack of power in his hands, which he seemed to want to overcome by an excessive use of the pedal." I would that Mr. Mabon would tell me, and others interested in his powerful criticism, how he (Mabon) knew what he (Schlus sell) "had in his head." I would also refer Mr. Mabon to a more intensive study of De Falla's composition, from which an authentic estimate of Schlus sel's "timing and phrasing of the piece" could be drawn. - Again, Mr. Editor, I trust you excuse my presumption, as well as my typing (I am more famil iar with the keyboard of a piano than that of a typewriter) and I hope that Mr. Mabon willCon tinue to favor the readers of the Daily Tar Heel with his interest ing, if somewhat impressionistic criticisms. Sincerely yours, L. K. Berryman's Article Bears Fruit To the Editor The Daily Tar Heel: After anticipating for many weeks an enlightening article on the subjects of Co-eds, from that able writer, Mr. G. R. Berryman, i we find that he has nothing new at all to say. Just the same old subject re-hashed in the same old way and thrust upon a suffering public. As if Co-eds weren't enough of a nui sance without columns like that ! Most men on this campus to whom Co-eds are obnoxious, go their own way and disregard en tirely the "more backward de scendants of apes." Our friend, Mr. Berryman, however, seems to contradict his whole condem- nation of them by getting so wrought up. Of course, he may TAR HEEL : be' trying to sublimate his inter est. . . . . - - -... His chief objection, apparent ly, is that Co-eds are snobs. If this young man would only put a picture of himself above his column so that the ladies might know who he is, it is possible that he would not be overlooked in the future. Unforunately, at present he is not so obvious to us as his very scathing remarks are. Mr. Berryman has done an ad mirable thing for the men at this school who cannot take care of themselves: . he has warned them against the wiles of wom en. It is as regrettable as it is obvious, however, that he came by his vast knowledge second hand. " ; LIZZIE ZILCH. And This From Brooksville, Florida To the Editor The Daily Tar Heel: It has become common to see editorials recommending a dras tic cut in the number of legis lators. The demand for abolish ing national and state senates is such that we may hope for the early consummation qf that step, at least. A Florida candi date for governor recommends reducing the number of legis lators to eight and would give them year-round jobs as heads of departments. ' The mere fact that a sugges tion j is drastic "does not i neces sarily1 count against it. T think everyone who has not his hand in the public pocket and who is not hoping to get ft there is ready for a drastic c,hange. No better plan has yet been advanced for getting rid of our over-abundance of V legislators than; for the voters to ' unite in curDirig their power.' ;No bill should be allowed ' to De intfo dtfced in national or state legis latures' that has ' not ' been a pftmrinent; issue' in; ine Jrevibus campaign arid received , the' : en dorsement of the voters. With such laW the people would in ef fect become their own law-making body. We would have gov ernment of 7and by the people and the number of legislators could well be reduced to the num ber of departments in states and nation. In a democracy, the office of governor, or president, carries no great distinction. In Switzer land seniority in parliament de cides the office of vice-president, who succeeds the president at each new session. The president has no power of veto or appoint ment. Such power, bestowed on governor or president, wholly de feats democracy. - Senator Gore is ' reported to have said, "As a failure Presi dent Hoover has no rival." But President Hoover, choice of the international bankers, has done exactly what his masters re quire of him. Making many pretexts to help the farmers and promises of prosperity, he has carefully avoided doing anything to interfere with the plots of the financial pirates in their gra'sp for still greater world power. The nation has been drained of its currency, or medium of exchange, by this clique of gold owners. It was clearly brought out in the hearings of the Com mittee on Banking and Cur rency, in April, 1928, that or ders had gone out for the draw ing in of currency and denial of credit. Most of the business of the nation had been done on credit. It was inevitable, with the usual credit denied, that thousands of businesses and pro jects would have toxbe abandoned! and millions of people thrown out of work. Labor-saving in ventions and under-consumption contributed largely to the num ber of unemployed but were ,not jthe main cause. Poverty, crime, and disease ! have been increased a thousand Great -Sa&e .Of Charlotte And ! DelpMao Oracle At It Agaia :-.'V " V o -; - - iy i ' Davie Clark Subtly Infers Tar Heel Supports Free Lore ;'Editorial and Letter in Question Prove Clark Viciously Wrong. o - - Our dear and devoted friend, Davie Clark, who -overwhelms us with his intelligence and logic has again taken time from his most onerous employment that of dispensing wisdom to the tex tile operators whose Delphian Oracle he is, to expose the Daily Tar Heel as a most vicious and radical influence sapping the blood of the state. This time that great and good man in speaking before the Rotary Club .in Greensboro at tacks Bertrand Russell in this wise "the only philosophy ever enunciated by Russell" is "free love that is nothing new because it has always been the philoso phy of the pig and the dog," and when the latter "was muscled in to the presence, of the young and the immature . sons and daugh ters of our citizens that went beyond free speech and became license." " : ' The Greensboro Daily News in reporting the fiasco continues: "He cited an editorial in the Tar Heel, University student pa per, and a communication from a student which also appeared in that publication as evidence of the influence ; of Russell's statements." - This is typical of the logical and fair manner in which Davie goes jousting against higher education and the Universities like the madam Don Quizote de.la Mancha. By subtle infer ence those who did not hear Rus sell speak at the University the night of December 3, 1929, and Davie did not, areto believe that since Clark has assurecT every one, that Russell's only philoso phy is free love, he spoke upon nothing but free love, and that tije-i&f Heef ariof theJ uthx of tjhe ; communication''7 which so worries Davie not only feel for Russell's pernicious remarks but even went so far as to further disseminate them among the students of the University. , In complete refutation to the insinuations made by the Sage of Charlottes we herewith re print the insidious editorial and communication from the -issues of December 5 and December 7, 1929. The Editorial The Liberal - 1 In Our Midst Much food for thought was contained in the lecture of Ber trand Russell, delivered here I Tuesday night. His points were 1 carefully but almost casually made, yet they left a profound impression. Nothing very startlingly radi cal was said by the English phil osopher, and there can be few! who. objected, to his remarks or any part of them. Bertrand Russell is known as a liberal thinker, so liberal that the fac- fold that a clique of gold-owners, the international bankers, might tighten their hold on the earth, strangle alJ liberty on the part of the masses and eventual ly unite Christian nations in a war against Russia, the one country that has broken free from their power. . J. C. C. Have Your Printing Done at r The Oran ge If You Want the Best in Service and Quality A Phone Friday, October 30, 19 ulty of the University of Wis consin objected to his being al lowed to speak before the Lib eral Club of that institution. During the war, his govern ment considered him dangerous enough to send him to China, in order to get him out of Eng land. What Mr. Russell said can b& chiefly characterized as common sense, the type of common sens? which is the result of careful thinking and a long and full life. His ideas appeared unusually felicitous and acceptable because they were the ideas most of us hold but -either cannot or. are afraid to express. We are de lighted to hear someone set forth our thoughts, particularly a speaker who is acknowledged one of the foremost philosophers of pur day. If we find that we agree with the lecturer, we ap plaud him. In reality, we are applauding ourselves. What Bertrand Russell has that most of us lack is courage the courage of our convic tions. We may believe that we agree with him, that he is voic ing the opinions and ideas we hold or should hold, but we leave him to set forth those opinions. True, most of us never bother to think about truth, beauty, morals, culture, or patriotism, but there are some who do among the students and faculty. If we are a progressive insti tution, or if we can . truly be characterized by that glib pharse. "the riiost liberal univer sity in the south," then we should extend oUr ' liberality, to the people on the campus, as well -as the speakers we invite to it. : Therein lies tne value of iioeraiity an actual practicing, uniaf raid " liberality' wHicli "allows free' play for personal convic tions and a chance t6 form the ideas- which' will later be the background of lifev H.J.G. The Communication "Americana Material My Dear Mr. Editor: - A fine example of pedantic hair-splitting took place the other night when a group, con- Bisung mamiy 01 almost-to-De jretired school-teachers sat pa tiently listening to what was originally supposed to be a dis cussion of Bertrand Russell and his ideas. Paul Green apologized for the large group, saying that it should originally have been only five or six. But a large number of undergraduates quite thoroughly impressed by Ber trand Russell's address of the other night and wanting to hear more of this clear, and com monsensical sort of philosopher, also attended the discussion. They did nothing but sit quietly and become a bit more impressed with the truth, of Shaw's state ment about those that do, and those that don't, teach. A larg er number of attendants were a group of women, I dread to use the term, old-women, but that's who they were, who went to the meeting for many reasons but Bertrand Russell and his works (Continued on last page ) i1 Print shop 3781
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