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&)t Datlp Car Ipeel
The ofycial newspaper of the Publi
cations Union Board of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
where it is printed daily except Mon
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, Jack Dungan................ ..... Editor
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EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G.
Rose, chairman; F. J. Manheim,
Peter Hairston, Vass Shepherd, R.
W. Barhett, J. M. Little, A. J. Stahr,
Ruth Newby, Elizabeth Nunn, Os
car W. Dresslar, Louise Pritchard.
FEATURE BOARD Donald Shoe-
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Robert Berryman, Scott Mabon, and
E. H. . .
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W. Blackwell, Robert Woermer, Jack
Riley, Tom .Walker, William McrKee.
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Davis.
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rie Long, assistant editors.
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Milton Bauchner, P. W. Crayton,
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Markley, C.- S. Mcintosh, W. N.
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'BUSINESS DEPARTMENT R. D.
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H. Lewis.
' Tuesday, November 17, 1931
No Future For,
University PerSe
No hope for a better Univer
sity of North Carolina can be
entertained - until the,, patriotic
legislators of the state0 stop
playing leap frog with the sec
ondary and primary mstittition's
, on their way to the state house
in Raleigh, where, after '"they
have arrived, they faithfully car
ry out their campaign promises
to cut education to the fun
damentals "Readin', writin',
arithmetic, and religion,?' In
the ; paring the state is saved
many a penny, which, if invest
ed in genuine education, would
have returned dollars in pros
perity due to increased ability
and foresight. ..
Democracy as an ideal is the
most beautif ul thought ever en
tertained by man, but it is and
will always remain, little more
than a noble experiment, and
none too noble at times! When
fanatics, and demagogues, lay
their, hands upon educational
systems, progress in civilization
inevitably becomes .static. Edu
cation, whose right hand men
are at best soft-spoken and
peaceful, and often incompetent
in other field's than their; own,
is an easy prey to the ambitions
of ignorant, malicious, inefficient,
and selfish politicians who are
willing to sacrifice the welfare
of ten or twenty years in order
that they may seat themselves
in political power, 'leave off ac
tual work, and be able to mag
nify their own despicable egos.
Impartial, permanent boards
selected in the manner that the
supreme court of the United
States is chosen must have ab
solute control of educational poli-
i cies before education in the pri
mary and' secondary stages, and
in not a few collegrate levels can
be anything other than traves
ties. Tax Reduction
For sometime an abolition or
a minimizing of county govern
ment in this state has been ad
vocated by those ' persons well
acquainted with the present
waste incurred by such a sys
tem. It is quite evident that
with one hundred county gov-
ernments in North Carolina
there are a considerable num
ber of useless 'county offices,
which could easily be combined
in half the present number.
In his talk Friday night at
the Junior smoker Lieutenant
Governor R. T. Fountain took
tthe stand that politicians have
always taken on this question
that county governments
should be retained because they
are much more democratic than
any other system. Well aware
of the fact that so many county
governments cause a great deal
of useless expenditure, the poli
ticians are afraid to advocate a
change for fear of the political
power that county governments
now noia. Katner tnan reauce
expenses4n this branch, the poli
ticians advocate, reductions in
higher education knowing that
students and educators are un
able to give them any strong op
position on this issue.
The public always demands
decrease in taxation, and in - or
der to be elected, candidates run
on platforms iwhich? favor tax
reduction. -There is a chance
for an exceptionally large tax
reduction , in this county branch
of government. But the candi
date is yet to appear who has
nerve enough to advocate this
reduction which he knows will
cut expenses, yet which le fears
to run on because .of the
thousands of county politicians
throughout the state.
'To advocate reduction in ex
penses of higher education be
fore cutting these county gov
ernment expenses is lamentable.
It is self-evident that politicians
often advocate tax reductions
not thinking what effect such
cuts will have on the welfare of
the public, but rather what ef
fect they will have on their pos
sible election. C.G.R.
The Stuff r ,
Heroes Are Made Of
Americans as a people have
often been derided for their gul
libility and - susceptibility 1 to
false imagery. We too quickly
erect pedestals for the hero -of
an hour, irregardless of his stat
us prior to the ascent from the
rank and file of "the great un
knowns. A man of the . soil
whose "I. Q." is lower than
Steel one; day finds himself a
county hero, because he was able
to husk one? more ear of corn
an hour than his nearest com
petitor; a little, girl who; per
haps, unwittingly shields her
baby sister from the wild bul
lets of gangsters or who jerks
big brother from the depths of
a mill pond, is the recipient of
hundreds of letters from peren
nial hero worshippers, and soon
school children contribute their
pennies for a gold medal or. a
statue to the new hero of the
hour. Perhaps it is the fault of
the sensational daily press and
human interest-seeking report
ers with an itch for a by-line,
but nevertheless it is a" trait
firmly embedded in our society. Liberally ,
Recently in a metropolitan j Educated
city, a magnificent statue was' ln The Co-eds; God Bless
erected to a sled dog which had Them! Bernard De Voto offers
led a string of huskies across ; as the sum and substance of li
the 'frozen wastes with serum Iberal education in a person the
for a disease-ridden town. Hard- ability to be "intelligently dis
ly had the pigeons begun to roost criminating." In order to reach
on the new statue when it was; this ideal truly, one must, he
discovered that the whole busi-
ness was a gigantic noax, per-j
petrated to test the gullibility of
the public.
Perhaps this spirit has been
an influential factor in the de-
plorable lack of youthful up-and-j modern college or university who brought the best greetings
getting geniuses, who are fur-! should give a liberal education ; and why. The gentleman from
;nished with little commendation j t( its students certainly this is ' Toronto seemed to win public
ifor worthy achievements, butitrue for colleges of arts. This i favor, though his colorful cos
!are forced to sit back and see ! Soal has been expressed in num- tume may have been partly 're-
the asparagus-eating champion
or tne nag pole King occupy the
I limelight. D.C.S. v
L'.. i
p "? . j
j l ans
' A study of the national debt;
will
reveal the fact that al-jbe
though both state and national
debt
incurrence ha&- run into
THE DAILY
more than eight figures, the
heaviest debts have been in
curred by local governments in
the United States of America.
If it is possible to gauge national
prosperity at all by the size of
our national debts and by their
apportionment then it seems to
follow that our local govern
ments are in the hands of weak,
near-sighted, unintelligent poli
ticians. In both the state legis
latures and our national con
gress we have men who, it must
be admitted, do not as a Vule
boast of - extraordinary acumen
or understanding yet they do,
generally speaking, contain men
of more than ordinary intelli
gence and ability. This cannot
be said of the politicians of our
smaller governmental divisions.
They are on the whole selfish,
emotional, rough, soap-box quib
blers who are far more interest
ed in party and positions than
in issues.
In England political aspira
tions are laudable. In the United
States they are "pooh-poohed"
or looked upon with contempt.
There is something radically
wrong with a situation where it
is less than most commendable
i
to achieve high results in politi
cal effort. It is possible that we
have the key to an explanation
of the general disregard into
which politics has fallen even on
this campus of congregated gen
tlemen of culture andswit. Local
politics and even campus, poli
tics have fallen to such a low
level that ego is above issue, and
where individual is above cause.
The rugged courage of Politician
Patrick Henry, of Politician
Woodrow Wilson, of Politician
Benjamin Franklin was ex
pressed in terms of issues and
not individuals alone.
There is no paucity of issues
today. If anything, there are
so many that we have become
suffocated arid bewildered by
them. .Politicians on the cam
puses and in small towns,, in the
state and in the country would
do well to espouse the causes of
energetic truth, of excellence, of
the general welfare, of social
amelioration. What, is needed is
not stronger parties but strong
er men who are lost in an en
thusiasm for still stronger is
sues. On this particular cam
pus there is a crying need for
studentv political leadership in
the field of liberalism, of co
operation, of effective and pmv
poseful internal reform.
There is nothing inherently
laudable or despicable in poli
tics. It is a human necessity.
But politics will be small and
insignificant, yet imminently,
dangerous, if they be carried on
upon the principles of self-interest
and sentimentality. The
challenge, of making greater,
more idealistic, more intelli
gent, more energetic and coura
geous politics, faces every active
participant in modern affairs.
R.W.B.
says, be reasonably free from !
Prejudice, one must evaluate S
facts on their face, and finally j
one must be receptive to new ! which vexed many persons con
ideas. . siderably. Then to dinner where
AVe venture that the ideal j there was merry discourse as to
erous ways, it f has been said
"' ,te purpose 01 college
training is to give the partici-
pants a greater enjoyment of
lf or a greater appreciation of
life's beauties, or any number
of things, but all-in all. it
summed up in the words :
"liberally education."
In this world of machinery,
TAR HEEL
where persons, commodities, in
stitutions, and thought tend to
become standardized, a liberal
education is needed to discrim
inate from extreme and imprac
tical radicalism on one hand and
reactionary, unprogressive con
servatism on the other. The
opinion of the crowd rapidly
becomes known and accepted ;
and unless a person is alert
mentally, he will find himself
accepting opinion for axiom,
theory for demonstration, and
custom for truth.
A premium is placed by pres
ent day society on the common
place, and originality is rapidly
coming to be looked upon as un
democratic. The liberally edu
cated man should question the
validity of authority, shoul4 al
ways be ready to listen to new
ideas, however-radically he may
disagree, should be willing to
see , worth in thoughts other
than his own or those of the
crowd, and finally should pre
serve an even trend of mind,
seeing all in their relation to
those established truths which
he has in his possession. If a
college cultivates this attitude
in its students that college has
succeeded in its ask. - P.W.H.
THIS WICKED
WORLD
: By E. H.
Up betimes, and out to break
fast at a coffee shop on the main
drag where we partook not of
the beverage which lent its name
to the establishment but of hot
chocolate and Melba toast.
Dame Melba, much toasted in
her day, gave her name not only
to crisped bread prepared in a
certain manner but also to a
commercial product not so well
known as it might be. She
lived before her day. Oh, ye
ponds and chesterfields! And
with fpod and drink we fell to
thinking of "our kinsman, Sam
uel Pepys," . diarist extraordin
ary ' and amanuensis to milord
Sandwich. Long has the con
troversy raged as to the correct
pronunciation of Samuel's name.
An English exponent of dogger
el, one AshlyTSterry did untold
harm by his lines:
There are people, I'm told, some
say they are heaps
Who speak of the talkative Sam
uel as Peeps;
And some, so precise and pe
dantic their step is,
Who call the delightful old diar
ist Pep-is; '
But those I think right, and I
follow their steps, ,
Ever mention the garrulous gos
sip as Peps.
Wrong! The peeps have it!
Milady Sandwich confirms. ,Be
it so.
. . ;
Still in a-pepysian mood we
mulled over the happenings of
Armistice day. (The world was
a little too much with us. The
inaugural ceremonies were held
inthat concrete arena usually
devoted to pigskin, pursuits
where ttiere was a very great
press of people. Inaugurations
in their infrequency might well
be likened to century plants for
all that. But the event was
! thoroughly enjoyable desnite the
continual buzzing around of a
multitude of stinging insects
sponsible for that. And in the i
late atternoon the gleeful!
voices which filled the Hill Music
'hall were good to hear. Entire-
ly unskilled in the musical arts, j
we judge music as Pepys judged
dmi't We lik it Anrt nnw !
we're off to see Elizabeth, the
Queen which is thisv night at
Memorial hall. And it is, so
Lthey tell us, a gqodly drama per
formed by stellar players.
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LULLABIES
I ' '
Sing a song of football games
Hip flasks full of rye;
Four and tweuty college boys
All got high.
And when the game got started
Thelads Vegan to sing;
With voices loud and lusty
They made the welkin ring.
II
Betty Co-ed sat in the drug
Cherishing a single hope:
That some fool lad would happen
along - -
And buy her a lemon dope.
ARLEN STARS IN
CAROLINA SHOW
Coincidental to Charles Star-
reu s role m "Toucnaown, a
Paramount vehicle showing at
the Carolina theatre today, is
his football career at Dart
mouth, where he played full
back in 1924 and 1925.
Although he' played in a few
games in 1924, the ' year the
great Green team went unde
feated, he failed to make a let
ter because of a knee injury
The following year he made a
name for himself during the
first three games, but was out
the remainder of the season
with a cut eye.
. Richard Arlen as a coach who
would not sacrifice a man's'
health to win a game heads the
cast in "Touchdown." Other
players in this picture which
concerns America's most pop
ular collegiate sport are : Peggy
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A number of AlJ-American
football stars play in the grid
iron scenes.. '
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$35.00 and $50.00. Telephone
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ered in time for Thanks
giving:. , We press them free for
the life of the garment.
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