North Carolina Newspapers

xtyz Bail? Ear peel The ofScial newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University cf North Carolina -at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and -the Thanksgiving, Christ inas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post cSce of Chapel Hill, N. C, 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..- ..Managing Editor John Manning .Business Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, chairman; Peter Hairston, Vass Shepherd, R. W, Barnett, Oscar W. Dresslar, Louise Pritch ard, E. K. Graham, Jr., J. P. Alexan der, B. White, Gilbert Blauman, John Willanson. . ' r FOREIGN NEWS BOARD E. a Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley, Robert Berryman, Elmer Oet tinger, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Claiborn Carr. FEATURE BOARD James Dawson, E. H., Kirk Swann, Ben Neville. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T. W. Blackwell, Robert Woerner, Tom Walker, William McKee, W. E. Davis, William Blount, Jack Riley. DESK MAN Morrie Long. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas H. Broughton", Jack Bessen. LIBRARIAN E. M. SpruilL HEELERS Donoh Hanks, J. H. Mor ris, H. K. Bennett, H. M. Janof sky, Joseph Sugarman, W. R. Eddleman, J. D. Winslow, Milton Bauchner, ' A. T. Dill, V. C. Rbyster, W. O. Marlowe, C. S. Mcintosh, S. A. Wil kins,' F. C. Litten, S. A. Wilkins, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Gialanella, ! Homer Lucas, L. C. Slade, W. D. McKee. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. , ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Jimmy Allen, manager; assistants: H. A. Clark, Howard Manning; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, R. H. Lewis, Jim Cordon; J. W. Callahan, Henry Emerson. Wednesday, January 20, 1932 Denying Man His Freedom The Prohibition question does not seem to be of any immediate concern to the college man of today. The student who wishes to drink can and does obtain all the liquor that he wishes almost as though the Eighteenth Amendment never existed. The higher price, the lower quality of whiskey,1 the, absence of less harmful and more enjoyable wines and beers, and a great inT crease' of drinking among young people' are the only effects that Prohibition -has brought to the youth of tdday. The older generation is faced with a graver problem. They have no difficulty in obtaining liquor but from their pockets come the huge sums levied to attempt: the enforcement" of a law which is incapable of being carried but. The Vast army of prohibition officers and the nu- is draining the country 61 much heeded money which could and should be put to useful and im perative needs. . More serious even than the ineffectiveness of the law aiid the useless expense it entails is the vast corruptness and rottenness that has grown! iip with it. The bribery of of ficials and the presence of well organized arid protected chains of 'bootleggers and 'speakeasy operators constitute a "grave vrnenace i to the safety aiid morale of h& nation. The hypocrisy of a'rple appriing a law which they are nstantly breaking has produced a threat to the' respect of law and order which is being felt more and more. A great danger lies in the power; of a few thousand men to-saddle the country with such a condition. We Way live to see in a like manner all of bur per sonal liberties curtailed arid reg ulated by; similar acts. The pro hibition of smoking sounds no more ridiculous or unreasonable than did the prohibition of drink ing thirty years ago. Over indulgence in alcohol is danger ous to the health of the indi vidual but the same is true of every habit and usage when car ried to an excess Were prohibition free from its corruptness, its impotency, 5ts graft, crime, uselessness, waste, and hypocrisy it would still be unjustifiable. By the regulation of what we eat, what we drink, the exercise we take, and the clothes we 'wear "a very healthy nation might be produced. But these are rights which the fail ure of Prohibition have proved to be beyond the possibility of control. . It seems strange that "the land of the free" once hailed as the exponent of liberty should now be the only nation which at-J tempts to interfere with "the liberty and pursuit of happi ness" for which its fathers died. We are not livestock to be fed, watered, and conditioned as our masters see fit but a liberty loving and independent people. The youth of the country can no longer be content with just ignoring the Eighteenth Amend ment. They must endeavor to remove it from the legal system it has endangered. We have been the victims of hypocrisy and graft long enough. We have been a joke in the eyes of the world and endured its contempt too long. Prohibition has proved it self the most colossal, danger ous, and expensive failure that this country has. known. It is approaching the beginning of its end. No group is more fitted to administer the death blow than the independent, liberal, and in telligent yduth of today. J.F.A. The Aftermath Of Depression - The financial depression which we have been facing for the past two years may be a great bless ing for America. It is a needed, if painful, slap in the face to awaken us to our present condi tion. It should bring with it a healthy return to sanity after the madness of the past decade. It may be the herald of a great period of permanent social bet terment. The World War destroyed much that had been accom plished in the way of social im provement during the preceding half-century. 15ihce the days of the Credit Mobilier, of Gould and Fiske and Drew, and the scan dals of the Grant administration, America had come far by 1914. Under the leadership of men like Cleveland, Roosevelt, arid Wil son the building of a social and industrial system based upon justice - as Well as self-interest had been begun. The civil ser vice nad been reformed. The people had gained the power to destroy monopolies. The entire banking system had been re modeled and much improved. The government had gained suf ficient power over railroads to fix their rates and services. More important than these ac complishments, a better philos ophy was built up in the people. They ceased somewhat their worship of the money-makers. They began to think of industry as the servant of Society. The thought of the people appeared to have a more idealistic tinge. Greed began to lose some of it3 cbntroflmg force in our national life. -In 1913 the whole nation seemed - to be moving toward higher social goals. lMt theWorjd "War destroyed much of this. I lender the ! stress of the war period prudence and forethought ' and 1 ethical stand ards were lost. With the com ing of peace the: nation entered upon a decade of madness. Sheer materialism reigned supreme. The one thought of the people became to make money. Henry Ford 'was set up as the current god. The stock market reports occupied our entire attention. Excessive speculation, "buying-on-margin" psychology, and all the other unhealthy symptoms of the "boom" were present. Our laboriously built up concep tion of justice in industry was s3 Ar4"Mi Jl When the Insanity, had reached THE DAILY its peak, the crash came ; and since then we have been recov ering from our madness. We have been made to see the folly of losing our heads iri a wild search for profits. We have lost our unhealthy dreams of over night fortunes. The new period of painful recovery and bitter disillusionment has brought us face to face with many social problems. We have some mil lions of unemployed men to take care of. We have a broken down industrial system to re build. We have a nearly desti tute agricultural population to provide for. It -may be that from the contact with these problems and from this period of reconstruction there will emerge a clearer social thought, a deeper social consciousness which will enable us to resume our pre-war progress and rise high above the civilization of 1913. We shall come forth from the depression a saner people, a people more interested in social problems and more determined to secure social justice, a people more fit to face the future. D.M.L. Out Of The Dust It is well known that suffering produces depth and maturity in the human mind. The fact that Americans are considered abroad as being barbaric, slothful, and stupid may be attributed to the fact that they have not had to be otherwise. ' The suffering that is being endured by our nation today is making it more serious and more cultured. The intensity and se vere self-criticism which pre vails among many Americans is certainly a wholesome sign of indication of growing maturity. The contrast is frequently made between the highly refined culture and the central European man and the lack of culture iri the American from the mid west, for example. The Euro pean is high-strung, wide-awake; and opinionated, perhaps, to a point which is obnoxious. At any rate he is very much alive and this is largely because he is al most always in -danger. The Pole fears the German, the Bus sian, and the, Italian. He reads and re-reads the newspapers, goes into excited discussion over developments in political affairs because these happenings affec him. From this interest grows other interests: art, music, lit erature, and the dance. On the other hand, the mid- western American has practical ly npthmg to fear m normal times. Vast fields of wheat iso late' him from life and change, He lives near the earth yet away from the world. And to a cer tain degree, all-America is like that. Mt is close to itself and ignores its neighbors. Things have come easy for Americans arid they have not had to work awfully hard,' worry very much, struggle in really-vital conflicts. For this reason Americans have become a nationality intellectual ly lazy. But it is noticeable in these days of depression and in ternational r as Well as national strife that there 1 is an' appear ance 'of ' thoughtf ulriess and philosophical analysis of all thbse -things that Were 1 taken very - touch f 6r-granted ! by ; the ordinary person. 1 Out6 the pairi of physical and mental anguish there ' may ap pear an American culture which will not be' the reflection of lav ish prosperity and thoughtless material extravagance but of ma turity and intelligence. R.W.B. Sixteei per cent of the fresh men at Syracuse university in dulge in, intoxicating beverages, according to a recent survey of that campus. Thirty per cent smoke, and sixty-eight per cent sleep less than eight hours each. night. TAR HEEL RfflPE THE WORLD IS TOO "MUCH WITH US The world is too much with us: late and soon. Newspaper institutes, disarmament confer ences, organ recitals,.' the ap proaching Galli-Curci concert, basketball games, and even classes have to be considered. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. There is not time for the minor, delightfully unimportant things of life ; each event is of major interest, each occurrence of noteworthy im portance. Little we see in Na ture that is ours. And there was once a professor of education who admitted that more knowl edge could be acquired by just sitting on gray rocks in the sun and thinking than by attendance on courses pedagogical. True it is that few things can 'arouse nobler emotions than the leash ed power of waves liurlmg and breaking themselves against a "rock-bound shore" (this Sea that beares her bosom to the moon) or the towering heights of a verdant mountain where there are winds that will be howling at all hours, but are up gathered now, like sleeping flow ers. It was Ambrose Bierce who wrote that "in estimating the relative altitudes of moun tain "peaks we look no lower than their summits." . " '" Who among the student body has time to follow the advice of William Hazlitt and go upon a journey, tramping out on the airport road far beyond the acrid stench the city dump, past xne quamx ana many- 1 Jll- ,1 windowed Orange Methodist church to a point where upon lifting ip one's eyes one beholds the spires and water tanks of Chape Hill beckoning one hence? Within that five-mile stretch is clearly evident the agrarian past out of which the industrial present has come unpairited shack of the hand-to- mouth tenant, down-gone farm of a former sreritrv. nee-roes with an entirely "different atti tude than that of a young Africa on Back "street, ' L-shaped farm house of the early twentieth cen tury, modern house with a sub urban air arid in the yard a school bus, emblem of consoli dation in ednratinn 1 Just as it is 'good to go upon a journey, so also is it- good to ! stay at home and read. There 1 is much of wisdom in the mast-j ers and much of interest in the ' clever young moderns and the ; few collegiate publications worthy of perusal. Yet he who devotes his time to various cam pus activities in an attempt to render service to his fellow man j has little time for pleasurable' reading. We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! There was a time when students ! went in- for rustication, retired - CLEANING AND PRESSING ARE NO ESCeMoNS 'For. "'""r LET US SHOW YOU HOW ITS DONE 1F1 ! quietly and delved deeply into the intricacies of the classes or the humanities. For this, for everything, we are out of tune. ' , As for religion, it moves us net Great God! Vd rather be a Pagan suckled in a creed out worn, and to that creed be true than entirely lacking in the es sential articles of any faith. So might I standing on some pleas ant lea, - have glimpses that would make me less folorn. Miracles! Have sight of Pro teus rising from the sea; or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. And if the rumors in the air be true the University's great est problem might be solved by allowing, even encouraging, all members of the faculty to ac cept offers from other institu tions, thereby dispensing en tirely with classesand granting the students time in which to ac quire savoir faire by attending the more entertaining and in formative conferences, insti tutes, and concerts in our midst. Our civilization has adopted a culture all its own which will not be denied. At present (Sun day night) this particular but inconsequential member of the feature bo art! is Outward Bound. Student N Viewpoint In spite of Dr. Nicholas Mur ray Butler's comment in his recent annual report that youth cannot be expected to become all : wrought up over a political situation in which both parties are mere names, and in which controversial issues are kept al ways out of sight or at least in . (Continued on last page ) Other Features I "Roaming" A -Mermaid Comedy "Where East Meets West" A Travel Talk NOW PLAYING CAROLINA With Contemporaries I , I ) y fx I A s l" - "Superior Service To AIT1 Phone 5841 ueuneaay, January, 20. 193 SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND A Thousand . 0 Officials The basketball team rishe3 to thank the student body for iu splendid support during our early games. We hope to war rant your continued support dur ing the entire season. We feel, however, there are a few students who are over zealous in their efforts on our behalf, causing them to resort to such unsportsmanlike and un gentlemanly conduct as booin? and hissing the officials or our visiting team. Such conduct is not in harmony with either the spirit of the University or of your basketball team. We shall try our best to win by playing hard, aggressive basketball, but we shall not resort to any ele ment of unfairness. . The official is trying his best to handle the game fairly and conscientiously ; he is human and is bound to make some mistakes in every game. ' However, he is in much better position to judge penalties than anyone in the stands, and no doubt he is right many times when some members of the studentbody do not agree. Rule 6, Section 7, of the Of ficial Basketball Rules empowers the official to call penalties on the home team for unsportsman like conduct of spectators. Your basketball team feels that if it were penalized for such action, it would be a 1 disgrace to the University, the student body, and the team. We therefore ask the student body not to countenance any ele ment of unsportsmanlike con duct on the part of a few spec tators, and to show every cour tesy to the visiting team and of ficials. T. W. ALEXANDER, JR., Basketball Captain. Here They Come Every laugh from the Battery to the Bronx. Every secret of Park Avenue. Every boner of Broadway passes in re view in the glamorous, glorious, glittering With a cast of four great comedians lead ing the parade! Better than "fold Diggers of Broadway." With SMITH and DALE of the N Avon Comedy 4) Winnie Ughther, Chasj Butterworth Pictures of the Tularie-University of vuulll'a vrame Saturday 10 A; M.