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TOLUME XL
TIRE OF UNKNOWN
ORIGIN ENDANGERS
ALMNTBUItDING
TJlaze in Janitor's Room Sunday
Evening Causes $200
Damage.
Fire of undetermined origin
razed the janitor's supply room
of the Alumni building, greatly
endangering the whole structure
early Sunday night. The fourth
of a two year series of perplex
ing fires in the building,- this
blaze barely failed to spread in
to the upper floors, where 'val
uable sociological records are
filed, or to the 'University press
across the hall. Fortunate pres
ence and quick action of R. W.
Franklin, medical student, saved
the building from destruction.
The fire was discovered in the
janitor's room on the basement
floor by Franklin, who was ex
amining a human skull in room
212, directly above. Smelling
smoke, the student, skull in
hand, found a pile of rubbish
burning on the. floor just inside
ithe unlocked room. He exting
uished this fire with water trans
ported in the inverted cranium,
for want of a bucket. Accord
ing to his own-report, several
minutes later he again smelled
smoke." His investigation re
pealed more papers burning upon
a" discarded table in the same
room, with the flames rapidly
spreading to the ceiling. ,Consid.
ering a skull inadequate, he
sounded an alarm. Firemen did
not control the flames until the
wooden ceiling had suffered sur
face burns and several pieces of
furniture irreparably damaged.
The brick walls of the room
prevented a spread of the fire on
the first floor.
The room contained janitor's
supplies and odd pieces of dis
carded office furniture In the
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HUGE EXPENSE OF
R.O.T.C. TRAINING
TOLD BYCOLLINS
-Abolition of Militarism in Schools
And Summer Camps Would 4
Save $60,000,000. : '
The terrific cost of training
students in the R. O. T. CL and
the C M. T. C and its compara
tive uselessness are admitted
even by those who are of . he
opinion that armed and trained
preparedness are the guarantees
of peace
Congressman Ross A. Collins
of the military appropriations
committee of the house, and one
of the best informed students of
our military establishment, sum
marizes the military training
situation thus January 10, 1931 :
"The War Department subsidizes
military training in
313 schools and colleges (132 col
leges, 181 secondary schools) en
rolling. ,
147,009 cadets (57,650 cadets in
secondary schools, 75,810 college
underclassmen, and 13,549 col
lege upperclassmen training for
commissions as reserve officers)
at an unknown cost it was
$10,696,504 for the R. O. T. C. alone
in 1925, the last year that com
plete figures are available; it is
surely more now and supplies
1,771 army instructors.
Last year they secured only
5,895 reserve officers (graduating
from the course). If these gradu
ates follow the example of pre
vious graduates, half of them
will drop their interest in the
reserves within a few years, thus
leaving for all this -expenditure
and effort only
2,947 officers."
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Dean Miller
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One of the principal speakers
at the eighth annual newspaper
institute to take place this week
at the University will be Dean
Justin Miller, of the' Duke uni
versity law school. His subject
will be "What Is a Newspaper?"
HUSBAND ACTS AS
ACC0MPAMSTF0R
MMEjGALLI-GURCI
Famous Opera Soprano Is
Accomplished Pianist as
Well as Singer.
an
Madame Amelita Galli-Curci,
noted opera and concert so
prano, who will sing January 27
in Memorial hall, will be ac
companied at the piano by her
husband, Homer Samuels, a
native of Wisconsin. Samuels
has been her accompanist for
many years, playing with her
on the concert stage before their
marriage. ;
Galli-Curci herself is a pian
ist. '-of great accomplishment.
Long before it was discovered
that she had a great voice she
studied the piano and was about
to make her debut in Italy. As
she would practice her runs on
the piano, so the story goes,
she would follow them with her
voice. Her teacher was amazed
to find that her voice had a
range and a depth that was ex
traordinarily great. She was
at once coached in a few operatic
roles and within a few weeks
she was introduced into the
musical world, not as a pianist,
but as a singer.
It was not long before she
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was induced to accept a con
tract to sing in America, and
her American debut was made
in Chicago. She is one of the
few truly great artists whose
gateway to America was not
through New York. Her word
in Chicago was many weeks old
before she ever appeared m
New York. She had no lessons
in singing until after she had
been on the stage some time,
and her great success is due
solely to the natural quality of
her voice. ...
F. H. Koch Will Be
Speaker At Holyoke
Professor F. H. Koch left to
day for South Hadley, Massa
chusetts, where he will address
the students, of Mount. Holyofte
college on "Making An Ameri
can Folk Drama." This address
is a part of the fifteenth series
of Play and Poetry Shop Talks,
a program corresponding to the
University student entertain
ment program.
The fall quarter brought to
Holyoke the widely known
Mary Wigman in a performance
of dramatic dancing. During
the coming spring quarter The
Abbey Players from Dublin will
present Synge's Riders to the
Sea and O'Casey's Juno and the
Pay cock. . '
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932
Dr. Butler
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President of Columbia University in His Book "The Path to Peace"
Gives Nine Policies - for the United States and the
World to Follow to Gain International Peace.
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, who . with Miss Jane
Addams was awarded the Nobel prize
for the best solution during the past
year for the promotion of world peace,
has kindly permitted the naily Tar
Heel to print the following article
based upon his book, "The Path to
Peace.")
Swimming blindly through a
thick morass of politics made
muddy by selfish secular inter
ests, ever in search v of that
Utopian island of perpetual
peace, the befuddled American
public grasps blindly at any
straw that tends to favor its
project. The most constant of
all these straws, cbnsistenly
bobbing up in the right place
to be grapsed, is the most hon
orable president of Columbia
university, Nicholas Murray
Butler, member of the Ameri
can Academy of Arts and Let
ters, ; Membre de L'Instituie de
France. This internationally
known figure, inspired with the
altruistic desire to further the
cause of international peace
and also with the quite liberal
annuity granted him by the
Carnegie endowment for inter
national peace flits hither and
thither, speaking at this meet-
ing aim mat, insuiimg numane
instincts and divine ambition.
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. Butler, a Theorist
Among certain circles it has
become customary -to epitomize
Butler asan impracitable theor-
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: In the same vein in which a survey of University
courses was presented before the holidays, the Daily Tar Heel continues with
this issue a comprehensive summary of campus institutions with the idea
of causing every citizen of the University to become better acquainted with
the policies and systems of operation of his service organizations.) -
CAMPUS POLITICS AND PARTIES
Many present day politicians
have received their early politi
cal training on the campuses of
American universities and col
leges. The systems in force in
the majority of these institu
tions have been so patterned
after the functions of national
political machines, that many
men hav$ left halls of learning
to emerge only a short time later
as stalwart figures in state,
city, and national political af -
fairs. The University of North
Carolina has been no exception
in this case. Many noteworthy
present day state and national
figures as well as similar lumin-
"w vi yuwuueu uii
early;training m the pontica
machinations of the Bi senate
and the Phi assembly, as well as
organized independent units of plan Emitting ten or. twenty
a later day. j associated to council in the
James K. Polk, president of choice of candidates and in the
the United States, who was forming of plans of political
twice elected president of the vstrategy. The new plan was so
Dialectic senate, received his successful that the party, under
early political training in these the sway of these two leaders,
halls. John J. Parker held swept all but one of their caii
nearly every office on the cam- didates into office. The further
pus at one time or another, success of this new departure in
while a student here. Others the political field was again
who obtained their first taste of proven in the spring of 1931,
political startegy in the Univer- when more than forty indivi-
sity include Charles B. Aycock,
the late Edward K. Graham,
former governor McLean; Jo
sephus Daniels, E. B. Jeffress,!
and George Stephens, news-j
paper editors who have at one
time or another had a finger in
the political pie, five present
supreme court judges, and John
Motley Morehead and G. B.
Stocton, ministers respectively
to Sweden 'and Austria.
On Peace
ist with ah evangelical calling.
On the other hand, there are
those who consider him in the
light of a demi-god, a ; candle
that burns in the darkness, and
the magnetic pole for the com
passes of future diplomats. As
always, one can be safe in tak
ing the compromising attitude.
Butler is a theorist self -admittedly.
But we must" all ack
nowledge that theorists have
had an indispensable part to
play in the moulding of civiliza
tion; the practicalists, too, have
had an equally necessary role.
So, in critically perusing his
book, The Path To Peace, the
reader should not directly op
pose himself o the author by
assuming an entirely practical
attitude. Instead, he should at
tempt to elevate himself to that
metaphysical plane where
platitudes and generalities be
come matter and facts. Butler
is hardly the one to change Ihe
reader's mind, but he is capable
of inspiring to greater zeal
those who already agree with
him. In this capacity he is a
valuable asset to the cause of
international peace.
The task set for the reader is
to find a new idea in the whole
vftrv a-pf. -hn- woi a.
essay. For the work is a com-
essay.
pilation of
dresses made at various pro
League of Nations -organizations
all over the world. Nat-
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Politics on the University
campus as well at other campi
in the country, is run on the
basis of organized minorities.
The successful party boss is the
one who obtains the most out
standing and best qualified men
for the positions to be filled in
the forthcoming election. No
group can succeed in putting
. over "duds" or men who have
j not shown the greatest ability
; for the positions they apply
for. .
In past years, one or two men
have chosen the successful
slates, but beginning in the
spring of 1930, due to the
j threat of new and powerful
machines, Mac Covington
and Charles Price, then campus
nolitirfli tvroons. orioinatPd
duals had a say in the selection
of the All-Campus slate, which
forthwith was installed . to a
man. At that time, voting on
party measures and the crys
talization of a definite platform
was commenced by this large
group. An executive committee
was elected for expediency,
more or less subject to the will
of the non-fraternity and fra
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Student Thought
On Disarmament This Week
CAST FOR "DOLL'S HOUSE".
IS NEARLY COMPLETED
Further try-outs conducted
by the Playmakers for a cast to
produce Ibsen's A Doll's House
have narrowed the list of ap
plicants down to the following
persons! Mrs. Harry Russell as
Nora, Milton Williams as Tor
vald Helmer, Whitner Bissell
as Dr. Rank, Gilbert Stamper
as Krogstadt, Marion Tatum as
Mrs. Linden, Lillian Hotten
stein as Anna and Rebekah
Moose as Ellen.
This cast is still tentative and
changes may yet be made. Per
sons are still to be selected for
the parts of three children and
a porter. A rather fat person
is wanted to do the porter's
role.
MANY BILLS ON
CALENDARS OF DI
AND PfflTONIGHT
Assembly Will Also Conduct
Initiation Ceremonies for
All New Members.
The main feature on the
calendar of the Phi assembly
for its second regular meeting
of this quarter tonight at 7:15
will be the initiation of new
members. Following the initia
tion these bills will be discussed.
1. Resolved: That all restric
tions prohibiting, the entrance
into' the University of women
students' in the" freshman and
sophomore years should be re-!
moved. j
2. Resolved: That this coun
try needs a really liberal party.
3. Resolved: That the Ameri
can Legion is detrimental to the
best interests of the American
people.
' 4. Resolved: That swimming
and fencing should be made
minor sports at the University.
The Di senate will discuss
four bills in the following order
at 7:00 this evening:
1. Resolved: That the Di sen
ate should establish a student
loan fund of fifty dollars to be
administered by the proper
University officials.
2. Resolved: That the editors
of the Contempb have done the
University a great injustice and
that they should move their es
tablishment from Chapel Hill.
3. Resolved: That the Di
senate go on record as believing
that the Honorable Josephus
Daniels should be drafted by
the Democrats as their candi
date for governor. 1
4. Resolved : That the primary
purpose of collegev should be to
prepare the student to earn a
living.
Exhibit Of Books By
Professors Is Shown
In the lounge of Graham Me
morial there is taking place . an
exhibit of books written or edit
ed by members and former
members of the University of
North Carolina English depart
ment. Members of the department
making notable contributions to
this exhibit are George Raleigh
Coff man, George Coffin Taylor,
John Manning Booker, Freder
ick Henry Koch, Raymond Wil
liam Adams. Richmond Pugh
Bond, Samuel Selden
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Palmer Hudson, Almonte Char-f
les Howell, and William Dougald
Maaiillan, HI.
NUMBER 77
Centered
TWO FORUMS WILL
BE CONDUCTED ON
TOPIC OF PEACE
Student Opinion to Be Voiced
Through Balloting Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday.
This week has been set aside
on the University campus for
the study of the question of
disarmament. Other subjects
on the question of international
relations and of vital interest to
students will be discussed dur
ing the coming weeks of this
month.
This Thursday and Friday
evening there will be forums in
Gerrard hall to which all stu
dents interested, in the problems
of war and peace are invited. -President
Frank Graham will
preside at both gatherings.
Thursday evening there will be
a speaker presenting the dis
armament problem, while Fri
day evening students of various
organizations on the campus
will give their views on the re
djiction of armaments, and
these talks will be followed by
an. open forum discussion.
Approximately ten to twelve
articles in addition to editorials
are being printed in the columns
of the Daily Tar Heel written
by such leading exponents of
peace as Harry Elmer Barnes,
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
and Zona Gale. It had been
hoped that both sides of the
question could be presented for
the students consideration, but
Major-General Summerall, for
mer chief of staff of the U. S.
A., William Gardiner, and the
secretaries of the war and navy
departments refused to write
any "articles on the subject.
On the circulation desk up
stairs in the main library there
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HOBBS SAYS N. C.
SPENDS MUCH ON
SCH00LSYSTEM
Rural-Social Economics Profes
sor Addresses Guilford County
Superintendents Saturday.
Dr. S. H. Hobbs, Jr., of the
department of rural social eco
nomics, addressed a group of
Guilford county school superin-,
tendents and principals at their
regular quarterly meeting in the
Guilford county court house in
Greensboro Saturday
The meeting was called by
Superintendent Tom Foust as
one of the quarterly meetings to
discuss the problems pertinent
to the present economic situa
tion. - Dr. Hobbs' subject was
"Wealth, Income, and Educa
tion." V ":.
In his brief address he out-1
lined the wealth, income - and
education of North Carolina
and discussed the ability of the
state to support the now county
supported schools. He mention
ed the sources of revenue,, and
compared them with the neces
sary expenses of the state gov
ernment. It is the opinion of
Dr. Hobbs that, although' the
state is not spending lavishly
upon its educational system, it
is still doing comparatively well
by its schools. He pointed out
that in spite, of the fact that
North Carolina ranks forty-
in 10 -nor rjTitn TOAnlfh nnrl
?Tinmo it is thirfv-TiiTith in rp-
Rnect to its educational system.
This gives the state rather high
comparative rating.
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