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Tuesday, January 19, 1932
New Czar
For Old Czar '
Russia fallen into the - path
blazed by the old nihilist . group
of earlier days had the audacity
in 1917 to re-establish an ideal
istic form of government which
.once before in the case of France
had failed. With all of the char
acteristic enthusiasm of vision
aries, and the irrational outlook
of an ignorant and provincial
people the Russians looked to
communism to bring on the rriil
lenium. Old institutions, old forms, and
the counsel of the ages were
scrapped. With back turned on
the unchanging lessons derived
from the inevitable failures of all
communistic governments, hu
manity was uprooted. The church
was destroyed, royalty annihilat- i
ed, commerce and capitalism, as !
we know them, were stricken
from their social order. To
what avail? In the terrible year
of 1921, when a million and a
half peasants starved to death,
and were in many cases de
voured by others, "militant com
munism" ended. .
Lenin at the end of the Kron
stadt rebellion iff the same year,
by the announcement of his New
Economic Policy, turned Russia
away from communism to a new
form of capitalism. At that time
he explained this action by say
ing, "We -must learn our busi
ness from the capitalists; we
must learn to trade ; we must
radically alter our position for
some time to come."
The next year Lenin was dead.
That year he had been steering
Russia away from dictatorship
and absolute socialism toward
liberalism, which, had he lived,
might have been no more radi
cal in the long; run than the
socialism once enjoyed by New
Zealand. "
However, with Xenin dead,
and' Trotsky discredited and
finally exiled in 1927, Stalin was
supreme without threat of being
ousted. And it' is the hard Geor
gian, Stalin, the man of iron, the
proletariat Bismark, and- the
savage and cruel hero of Kron
stadt who is occupying the new
throne -of the Russias. New
Czar for Old Czar. New mas
ter for old master. New autoc
racy for old. ,
The Russians have abandoned,
probably for good, the idealistic
scheme of communism, and have
patterned their government on
the dictatorships of capitalistic
nations. American geniuses of
the hated bourgeois type have
been imported at high salaries!
to build great automobile fac
tories, plants, and railroads.
Money has come back into use.
Commerce and trade organiza
tions such as the Amtorg have
been set up throughout the
world. Russia has by no means
isolated herself from the eco
nomics of the world. She can
not. Just having announced that
she would not beaffected by the
depression of the rest of the
world, Russia was forced to cut
down her Amtorg and other
trading activities this past year
because the amount of her ex
ports had fallen way under what
they had been the year before.
Russia ranks first among the
capitalistic nations of the world,
despite whatever you may have
heard. Using all the machinery
of the imperialistic nations, he
has stepped ahead in the exploita
tion of the working classes by
conscripting all the wealth,- prof
its, and power of the nation for
the use of Stalin, Inc.
Men of an acquisitive nature
desire money since that is the
root of power. Stalin has ar
rived at the root of Russia's
power, and therefore has little
need of money. His pay is pow
er, absolute power; his is the
power of life and death over all
the millions of Russians ; he has
but to speak to be obeyed.
The" present system under
which there is no free press or
free speech, under which patron
age exists for those who believe
in the present regime or out
wardly . acquiesce in its con
tinuance, will live as long as
Stalin remains, the man of vig
or that he is. At his death, or
at the time that his physical and
mental powers weaken, a quar
rel over who is to succeed to his
throne will throw the balance of
power among those young men
who are being partially educated
at the present. This group will
decide the future of the state at
that time. They are the gen
uine menace to the socialistic
capitalistic government of the
day. They will probably decide
for a liberal-free-socialistic-go v
ernment based on the machinery
inherited from the Russian, cap
italists of today.
There exists no threat of Rus
sia subverting the world to its
pernicious dictatorial-capitalism.
Professor W. B. Eklaw of Clark
university claims thatr"popula
tion in Russia is increasing from
3,000,000 to 3,500,000 a year.
Adverse physical conditions,
which man is not able to tran
scend, so limit the hospitality to
Russia's 8,000,000 squaremiles
. . . that more than seventy-five
per cent of its 160,000,000 peo
ple live within fifteen per cent
of its area. Only one-third of
its restricted area is arable."
"The generally accepted be
lief that vast mineral wealth re
mains to be exploited is not jus
tifiable." v
Russia and her capitalism is
no threat to the world. Its in
ternationale will remain unful
filled, because the industrializa
tion of that nation will not be
completely accomplished before
Stalin dies or declines, and that
which is more probable is that
Russia will become one of the
world's foremost imperialistic
nations, unless Stalin' is replaced
by liberalism, in which case a
restricted socialistic state may
be born. :
Communism died in France,
and it has been dead for a decade
in Russia. It will always die so
long as the present race of man
inhabits the face of the globe.
It . presupposes absolute - unself
ishness under which all will
share alike without desire to
THE DAILY
havejnore than ability requires,
and a state in which all are
equal, which condition is impos
sible from a biological stand
point since there are innumer
able gradations in - mental and
physical power. It is defined as
being "any system of social or
ganization involving common
ownership of the means of pro
duction." The means of produc
tion of Russia are the property
of Stalin, Inc., and as for the dis
tribution j)f the products of such
industry, theyare not distribut
ed they go back " into Stalin,
Inc. Air is said to be dona for
the good of the Russian worker,
but he has no actual voice in the
matter, all theory notwithstand
ing. - The Russian experiment may
lift the serf "stolid and stunned,
a brother to the ox," but it has
already proved once again to an
unbelieving ; world that com
munism can never succeed.
International
Treatment
The new tariff bill, which has
just been adopted by the Demo
crats in the House of Repre
sentatives, offers a challenge to
economic nationalism. This new
piece of legislation advocates a
"permanent" international con
ference on tariffs and is a strict
reversal of policy, for if there
is one thing on which nations
have" jealously guarded their
sovereignty, it is the matter of
tariffs. It is cause for rejoicing
that we are retracing our steps
and thinking .7 of tariff s inter
nationally. It was not later than 1928, at
the Pan-American Congress at
Havana, that .the chairman of
the Argentine delegation offered
a plan which to some extent
would make tariff-making a mat
ter of international concern. The
United States delegation, how
ever, disposed of the proposal,
saying that tariff policies repre
sent the national will and could
not come "' under international
jurisdiction. At the time, this
not only represented the view of
the United States -but also the
view of the majority of the other
nations.
In days past the same argu
ment was put forth against in
ternational regulation of navies.
However, since the war, this pol
icy has undergone a change and
naval armaments have been in
fluenced by international agree
ments. Likewise, in so far as
national sovereignty has been
abated, land armaments will be
considered at the forthcoming
Disarmament Conference.
The reason for this change of
policy is apparent. . Armaments
reach beyond national borders.
They may be used as weapons
of attack and are. a constant
threat to world security ancf the
defense of other nations. Thus
repercussions occur and we find
nations constantly buildng a de
fense to offset the increased
armaments of their neighbors.
J. Apply the same reasoning to
tariffs and the case for inter
national, regulation is at once
plain. Tariffs are levied against
the goods of other countries to
protect the home market. They
would have no international ef
fects if the tariff-making coun
try was not trying at the same
time, to sell its own goods to
those very countries, tariffs,
like" navies, thus provoke coun
terbuilding, retaliation, and all
the things which go under the
name of economic war.
The world tariff structure is
today well known. Mountainous
tariff walls are surrounding al
most every country. Even Great
Britain, the last citadel of free
trade, has joined the ranks of
the protectionists with tariff
walls which seem destined con
siderably to reduce the availa
bility of its great market to for
eign producers. .
x This rivalry may in some
measure account for the falling
off of American trade last year
TAR HEEL
to the extent of 52,800,000,000.
American plants are moving
abroad instead of American
goods, employing foreign instead
of American labor. Within nine
months in 1931 the number of
exiled American factories in
Canada alone had increased from
467 to 1071. The House Ways
and Means Committee rightly
concludes that it would be in
the interest of the Unitect States
as well as in that of the world
to consider an international ad
justment of tariffs. H.W.P.
Japanese
Ambitions
The fevered activity of the
Japanese nation over a period of
thirty-five years leaves one won
dering what the Japanese are
striving to do and become.
' During the middle decade of
the past century and a little af
ter Japan was inoculated with
the first bacteria of western cul
ture. Circumstances; among
them the existence of an unem
ployed class of retainers called
the samurai, caused the educat
ed and proud Japanese citizen
to throw all of his energies to
ward the westernization of
Japan. Two ideas have been in
the minds of these far-seeing
and ambitious Japanese. They
wanted to make their own little
island the epitome of enlighten
ment, culture, and prosperity. In
addition, they wanted to direct
the attention of the world upon
their efforts and cause the world
to draw invidious comparisons
between East and West to the
disadvantage of the Occident.
In their first ambition the Jap
anese have succeeded remark
ably. Their efforts ijf music,
medicine, athletics, literature,
and all lines of science have won
attention over the world. Their
system of education is so good
that it is known -that there is
less illiteracy in Japan than in
t!e great United States. In in
dustry the Japanese are the ri
vals of the United States, Ger
many and Great Britain in the
markets, of the world.
In the second ambition, that
of establishing the yellow man
in a position to be envied and
feared, Japan has been carefully
and ruthlessly building her al
ter. In 1894 Roosevelt called the
Russians and the Japanese to
Portsmouth to draw up a peace
treaty. The world was amazed
at this tiny Japan that had
whipped decisively the Russian
bear. Japan had taken her first
step. In 1915 Japan presented
her Twenty-One Demands to
China asking for privileges
which were no less than an in
sult to Chinese .integrity and a
gesture of contempt for the rest
of the world and its interests in
China. In this move the Japan
ese failed largely. And now to
day in Manchuria the Japanese
are flaunting their arrogant dis
regard of Chinese, British, Ger- j
man, and American interests
there. They have even gone so
far as to attack and brutally
pummel the face of an American
consul.' Rapidly the Japanese
are becoming a feared and re
markably western nation.
The activities of the Japanese
are undoubtedly dictated by a
group of rabid jingoists. If they
are accomplishing certain of
their national ambitions, they
are at the same time destroying
the possibility of a strong Japan
in perpetuity. It is a recognized
fact that good will is a factor of
inestimable value in the strength
and longevity of a state. The
Japanese have lost irredeemably
the good will of all Chinese. It
seems more than likely that
Great Britain, France, Germany,
and America will look with sus
picion upon this arrogant state
in the future. No state can
stand alone. It would not be
surprising if Japan, like Napo
leon's France, would collapse af
ter a flare of passing, brillianca.
R.W.B. ; -ryvv
With !
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Contemporaries
The College Student
A Joiner"
A glance thru the list of stu
dent activities, sports, clubs,
societies, and associations would
lead the stranger from Mars to
believe that there was at least
one group for every student in
the university.
Another glance would con
vince him of the fact that
Americans are inv reality,
"Joiners." Here is every type
of association. First, the lar
gest group of all, the student
body. It is followed by a grad
uated scale of organizations,
social fraternities and sorori
ties, honorary and professional
groups, departmental and col
lege clubs, religious and liter
ary groups. Overshadowing all
of these stands the gilded bloc
activities.: Even, the neutrals
looked with yearning over the
boundaries and then set up a
wall about themselves. "If we
cannot be different," they said,
"at least we can be indepen
dent."' .
. Now, because of the existence
of these cliques the student finds
himself in a maze. He enters
college and is beset on every
hand by pleas to "come out for
this" and "you ought to join
that" until he barely knows
which way to turn. Where lie
the difficulties? Organization?
No, it is over-organization."
Who can we blame, the stu
dent? Certainly, because he
erects a halo around these
things, places them on a. pedes
tal and bows down in worship.
Every so often one hears bf the
poor misguided individual who
over-stresses the extra-curricular
division of college life, gets
hopelessly involved and .then
finds that he cannot retreat.- He
is bound on ail sides 4y mem
berships, presidencies, and sec
retaryships. A bit of his time
is demanded here, and a frag
ment there, until he discovers
that his health as well as his
grades have suffered.
The student is not entirely to
blame, however. There are
other sinners and investigation
would reveal that . perhaps a
great deal of the fault could be
placed where it is lease expect
ed, upon that group which pro
fesses to be a bitter enemy of
activities and organizations.
Who instigates the founding of
honorary and professional fra
ternities? Who thinks it is a
fine idea to have the students
govern themselves? Who de
lights in knowing that activi
ties are student managed? The
faculty. Who is it that gives
the student seveiitywfifve pages
to study and then urges him to
attend a meeting that evening?
The professor.
But the - blame cannot be
wholly placed on either of the
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two. Both must share it
equally. Education of the stu
dent is the solution in part,
but teaching the undergrad
uates that many organizations
are not worth the . time they
demand would do little good if
the professors continue to
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