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EUROPEAN VIEWS
SHOW PARTIALITY
TODISAMAMENT
Belgium, Germany and France
Engage in Activities Pro
moting Peace. ,
More than one million signa
tures have been obtained to the
Disarmament Declaration of the
Women's International League,
which was circulated in Great
Britain throughout the fall.
Members of the league were
urged to ask all candidates in
their constituencies whether, if
elected, they would actively pro
mote the success of the World
Disarmament Conference. Num
erous other activities in the dis
armament program were noted
throughout Europe last week,
particularly in France, Belgium,
and Germany.
M. Jules Destree, a Minister
of State in the French govern
ment and a member of the Com
mittee on Interlectual Coopera
tion, concluded his articles on
Disarmament in the Soir, of
September 12 with the remarks:
"The problem is not one of re
moving armaments from men,
"but of removing men .from arm
aments. Thousands of machine
guns are but so much scrap
iron from the moment when
no one can be found to work
them.
Necessary for Peace
"Disarmament is necessary if
peace is to be made secure,"
states a draft petition of the
French General Confederation
of Labor. "Military ; charges
are continually being increased
and the peoples of the world are
losing patience," the document
continues.
The keynote of a statement of
the German Secretary of State
vori Rheinbaden emphasizes the
attitude of the German govern
ment in regard to disarmament
-as "it must be clearly and un
ambiguously shown that in the
disarmament problem the only
way of ensuring peace and coop
eration is for Europe and the
world to follow out the 'Buda
pest principles."
GREEN TO WRITE
PLAYSFOR FILMS
Playwright Signs Contract With
Warner Brothers for Work
Next Spring.
Paul Green, professor of
philosophy at the University,
"who has scored two Broadway
successes with his southern
plays and who has published a
. number of shorter plays, will
turn to talking pictures this
spring. Green has signed a
Contract with Warner Brothers,
talking picture producers, to
,;write two plays on southern life.
jHe will adapt a novel for the
;screen and will write an ori
ginal play with a Southern set
jting. Green's contract calls for a
-stay of eight weeks v in Holly
wood, for which the University
will probably grant him a leave
of absence from his .professor
ship. '
An office in or near the War
ner studios will enable the play
wright to be in constant associa
tion with directors and actors
during his work. He expects
to devote part of his work to
study of moving picture techni
que for future work. No deci
sion has been made as to a
screen production of The House
f Connelly. . ...
New Release Deals
With Reconstruction
The next release of the Uni
versity Press is South Carolina
During the Reconstruction, an
historical study, by Francis. B.
Simkins and R. W. Woody. The
volume will be ready for ship
ping on February 13.
' Believing that South Caro
lina has been affected by the re
construction . more than by any
other phase of her history, Sim
kins and Woody, who are both
eminent historians, have set as
their purpose not only the tell
ing of the political story but also
the re-creation of "the life of
the people during a short span
of years." The book contains
illuminating chapters dealing
with problems of agriculture
and labor, commerce, transpor
tation, church and religious
life, education, and the darker
and brighter phases of social
life which will make it a relia
ble and informative source for
questions upon the South Caro
lina life of the period.
There are forty pages of il
lustrations from periodicals and
numerous valuable photographs
from the reconstruction era.
ATTACKS AGAINST
MILITARY COURSE
IN SCHOOLS GROW
Militarism in Education Is Op
posed as Obsolete and
Out of Place.
In support of the movement
against 'militarism in education,
the educational attacks upon
drill in American colleges and
universities have increased. The
question uppermost in the minds
of the' educationalists who are
opposing military training t in
the schools has been succintly
expressed by an editorial in the
Harvard Crimson:
"JThe real question is : should
a liberal arts college give credit
to students for taking, part in
the unacademic pursuits of mili
tary training? If Harvard is to
make pretensions as an institu
tion primarily interested in an
academic education, these
courses should not be included
in the curriculum."
The student curriculum com
mittee of the college of the City
of New York has reached simi
lar conclusions. After a careful
survey of the field of military
education and thorough studies
of its deficiencies and possibili
ties, they report that ". . . since
the ultimate aim of these courses
contravenes the ideals of a
liberal arts college, the com
mittee recommends to the fac
ulty (of City college) that all
military courses be dropped
from the curriculum."
Dean E. M. Freeman of the
college of agriculture of the
University of Minnesota makes
this charge in School and Soc
iety: "The military departments
have failed to adapt the college
military training to modern col
lege conditions and have main
tained an unyielding resistence
on the maintenance of an edu
cational system of fifty years
ago." ,
And, in his book, The Awak
ening College, Dr. Q. C. Little,
former president of the Univer
sities of Maine and Michigan,
says: "It would seem in view of
all modern international devel
opments, that the idea of com
pulsory military training at
schools and colleges was out of
date and out of tune with all
that is characteristic of the spir
it of the younger generation."
Daily Tar Heel Disarmament Ballot
Balloting will continue for three days, but everyone is
urged to cast a ballot as early as-possible. A box will be
placed in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. for the convenience
of voters.
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If all nations join in similar reductions in military and
naval establishments intended for use against each
other, how much disarmament would you favor? (Check
the approximate figure desired.)
None..
Aoyo
II.
To what extent do you favor the American delegation
tothe General Disarmament Conference taking the
initiative in calling upon all nations to join us in re
ducing armaments?
None 25. 50 - 75 100
To what extent do you favor our setting an example
for other nations by reducing our expenditures upon
armaments?
None. 25 .... 50 '. 75... 100.......
Do you favor American adherence to the World Court
III.
IV.
upon tne Dasis oi the Koot Reservations?
Yes ,No.....l..
V. Do you favor compulsory military training in colleges?
Yes No
VL Do you favor dropping military training entirely from
the college curriculum?
Yes No
VII. Have you had military training? '
( How Long?... ...... Where?
Can The Church Stop War?
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Dr. Harry, Emerson Fosdick, Pastor of Famous Riverside Baptist
Church in New York, and Noted for His Liberal Views on
Ethics and Religion, Contributes Church's Opinion.
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By Harry Emerson Fosdick
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following
excerpts from Dr. Fosdick's article are
reprinted with his permission.)
. The church alone cannot
stop war, even if the church in
spirit were fitted for the task,
for the same reason that Amer
ica alone cannot, stop war, nor
any other single unit in this com
plex world situation. The
achievements of world peace and
the ending of war is a coopera
tive, international .undertaking.
If war is to be stopped, it will be
because the world as a whole has
determined to stop it together.
. . . The achievement of inter
national security on a basis of
peace instead of war is the most
stupendous undertaking in social J
engineering that mankind has
ever put its hands to. . . . We, as
a race, face our fate together.
If we are going to have war, we
are going to have it together.
If we are going to have peace,
we are going to have it together.
Weighty Responsibility
In particular, the churches of
America have a weighty respon
sibility and opportunity. For
what nation is it that is out of
the League of Nations? The
United States. What nation is
holding back from the World
Court with a fearful reluctance
that is nothing less , than a pub
lic disgrace ? The United States.
What nation is it that notably
this last year passed a traiff bill
erecting new barriers to make
even more difficult its own and
the world's economic situation
a bill that seems to me one of
the most stupid and vicious ever
passed ? The United States.
What nation is it that 1890 paid
for its army $36,500,000 and in
1931 appropriated for its army
$351,000,000; that spent on its
navy, in 1890, $21,000,000 and
appropriated for its navy, in
Staff Meetings
The entire editorial staff of
the Daily Tar NHeel will meet
tomorrow afternoon in room
213 Graham Memorial at 5:00.
Mayne Albright, president of
the student union, Hamilton
Hobgood, president of the sen
ior class, and Haywood Weeks,
president of the interf raternity
council, will address the group.
ov,o 4oyo-.
100
1931, over $380,000,000? It is
the United States.
And at the heart of the United
States are churches with a menu
bership of forty million. Unless
we do something revolutionary
with them, we cannot stop war.
There is nothing that the mili
taristic elements in this country
would like better than to cap
ture the churches just as they
are trying to do in the case of
the schools. The churches are
not so unimportant as they are
sometimes made out to be. They
reach too many millions of peo
ple to be negligible.
Era of Nationalism
Our children will look back on
this time as an era of national
ism, just as we look back upon
an earlier time as the era of
feudalism; and they will recog
nize, even if we do not, that
Christianity's most crucial con
flict was with the sinister mean
ings of this dogma. For if this
dogma of militaristic nationalism
wins the field, the consequence
is inevitable that ever and again
this nation will conscript its
Christians, and that nation will
conscript its Christians, and the
two nations will hurl their Chris
tians at each other's throats, and
those Christians will sink each
other's ships, starve each other's
children, slaughter each other's
women, poison each other with
gas, and slay each other with
pestilence. ...
At this point it might be well
to call to witness a great sol
dier. Listen to him. . "The busi
ness of the churches is to make
my business impossible." Who
said tha1- pacifist, a disloyal
man? No. Field Marshal Haig,
with the straightforward candor
of 2C soldier saying what he
thinks: "It is the business of
the churches to make my busi
ness impossible."
Howell To Lecture
Dr. A. C. Howell of the Eng
lish department will begin a
series of critical lectures on mod
ern religions at 9 :45 Sunday at
the Chapel Hill Baptist church.
The subject of the first lecture
will be Hindu theology. Other
modern organized religions will
be discussed on concurring Sun
days in order of their chronologi
cal origin and development.
D
r. L. R. Wilson Resigns To
Go To Chicago University
Resigns Post
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Dr. L. R. Wilson, University
librarian for the past , thirty
years, has resigned to accept a
position as dean of the graduate
library school at the University
of Chicago.
PRESS INSTITUTE
CONCERNED OVER
CUTSJNBUDGET
Express Appreciation of Univer
sity's Spirit of Cooperation
With the State.
North Carolina editors and
publishers, at the final session
of their eighth annual News
paper Institute here yesterday
adopted , unanimously resolu
tions expressing their deeply
felt concern and sympathy for
the University and her sister in
stitutions in these trying times.
"We are deeply appreciative
of the spirit of cooperation with
the state manifested by these
institutions," the resolution
stated. "We hope that further
drastic cuts in appropriations
will not reach the point of de
structively crippling their high
services to the people, or of im
perilling the future of our com
monwealth.
Heroic Sacrifice
"Due appreciation of the past
service of the University as
well as the spirit of heroic sac
rifice in which this great in
stitution is carrying on to meet
the exigencies of the present
hour demands that as soon as
these exigencies shall have pass
ed the appropriations of the
University should promptly be
returned to their wanted level."
The resolution was presented
by a committee composed of
Herbert Peel, chairman, Mrs.
W. C. Hammer, and David J.
Whichard.
The two speakers at the clos
ing session yesterday morning
of the press meeting were Gen
eral Mortimer Bryant, of Bry
ant, Griffith, and Brimson,
newspaper representatives, of
New York, and David Ovens,
vice-president and general
manager of J. B. Ivey and Com
pany, Charlotte.
"The newspaper is the domin
ant complete advertising med
ium today," General Bryant as
serted. "The tobacco com
panies, the automobile compan
ies and other large business en
terprises which made more
money in 1931 than they didin
1930 are crediting the increase
in their business to advertis
ing." Admonishing the publishers
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SOON TO BECOME
DEAN OF CHICAGO
LIBRARY SCHOOL
Outstanding Educational Leader
Assumes Duties September 1
With Salary of $12,000.
Dr. Louis Round Wilson,
University librarian since 1901,
a former president of the North
Carolina and Southeastern Li
brary Associations, a former first
vice-president of the American
Library Association, and for
years one of the outstanding
men in the University adminis
tration, announced, his resigna
tion yesterday to accept the
position of dean of the grad
uate library school of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Dr. Wilson will finish out the
year here and take up his new
duties September 1. The call is
one of the highest that can come
to a librarian. Dr. Wilson de
clined to accept the same post
when Chicago organized the
first graduate library school
back in 1926, but the induce
ments were too great this time.
He will receive a salary of $12,
000, plus a large annual contri
bution available to himself or
his estate, and, what is more
meaningful to. Dr. Wilson, he
will be granted leave of absence
for any or all of the winter
quarters or for such other times
as he may desire to spend in re
search work, travel, or other
activities.
Heavy Blow to University
The resignation was a heavy
iblow to an already depression-
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riaaen aamimstraxion. ur. wn
son was not' only one of the na
tion's foremost librarians; he
was also a busy builder whose
hand had been in all important
University activities for de
cades and whose individual con
structive influence had made to
bloom and prosper several en
terprises of major proportions.
In this line Dr. Wilson or
ganized the University exten
sion division and was its first
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DANCE ARTIST TO
APPEARAT DUKE
Harold Kreutzberg Will Present
Ballet Dances Entirely
New in America.
Harold Kreutzberg, foremost
European exponent of the mod
ern dance, will lead his troupe
of talented artists in a ballet
program at Duke university
Friday, January 29.
Recognized as an artist of un
doubted genius, Kreutzberg cre
ated in Germany his own school
of dancing, breaking away from
the classic conventional ballet
and emphasizing new rhythms
arising from individual inter
pretations. Since Kreutzberg's
first appearance in the United
States in 1928, he has consis
tently won praise throughout
the country. N .
With Kreutzberg are a num
ber of exceptionally talented
young womeneach considered a
finished dancer. Several of
these have been solo dancers in
the leading cities of Germany.
The Kreutzberg dancers were
scheduled to appear at Duke uni
versity this week, but an exten
sion of their European tour
(made the postponement of their
i visit to North Carolina neces
sary. ; ... . .
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