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THE DAILY TAR HEEL The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University ci JNortEi Jaroiam at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving:, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post Sice of Chapel Hill, N. CL, 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-..JBusiness Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, chairman; Peter Hairston, R. W. Barnett, Oscar W. Dresslar, Louise Pritchard, J. F. Alexander, Gilbert Blauman, William Uzzell, H. W. Peters, Dan Lacy. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD E. C. Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley, Robert Berryman, Elmer Oet tinger, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Claiborn Carr. FEATURE-BOARD Robert Woerner, chairman; James Dawson, E. H., Kirk Swani4 Ben Neville. , CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T. W. Blackwell, Morrie Long, 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, Joseph Sugarman, W. R. Eddie man, J. D. Winslow, A. T. Dill, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Giala nella, 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, Joe Webb, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT J ohn Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, R. H. Lewis, Jim Cordon; J. W. Callahan, Henry Emerson. Saturday, January 23, 1932 reproducing itself at a rate sev- j Aims At Saturday, January 23, 1932 Made Possible By Depression The econofrnic state of the country that is termed "depres sion" causes a great deal of strain and hardship in all classes. But in the cataclysm of criticism that such a condition causes it should be remembered that some ' good can come : out of depres sions. ' ' Under the system of private enterprise, that both in abstract and in practice is so dear to the eral times as great as that of the superior types. The eventual seriousness of this condition is obvious, but it is extremely dif ficult to awaken and impress the people i with the danger, and more difficult still to introduce and effect the reforms that are so badly needed. The farm hand, the laborer, and the bootblack are necessary and in most cases good and use ful citizens, but a nation ofsuch types would not be able to main tain or develop the civilization we have attained to. Not only is the ignorant and unskilled ele ment on the increase, but with it the diseased, the criminal, and the mentally deficient as well. Statistics prove beyond dispute that the inferior and subnormal classes are growing more and more into the majority, while the educated and better equipped groups are forming a smaller and smaller division of the popu lation. In the past it was the prevail,, ing usage to have rather large families and four, five, and six children were found in almost: every home. Today the upper classes, conscious and afraid of the increasing bitterness of the struggle for survival, are limit ing themselves to one or two children and in many cases none. The lower classes, however, have j made no reduction in the num ber of their offspring and in many cases are unable to prop erly support their numerous children who are forced into poverty and crime. The doctor, the lawyer, the business man, and the teacher are producing one child to the newsboy, the hod carrier, and the farm hand's five. The inference is too clear a steady defeneration and overwhelming of the cultured and capable classes until they are swamped and disappear. There are few people, who ac quainted with the facts, will at tempt to deny the condition or the danger. But when attempts are made to save our civilization there is a tremendous barrier I n ww w, iacing reiormers. rne mere American people, -mistakes must mention of birth control in vari- occur in . the apportionment .of ply arouses a torrent of criticism capital and labor. Men build &na in some cases persecution, factories to supply goods for The interference with the will which there is no real demand. of Gd is one standby of the Each of the different manufac- objector, but the prevention of turers enlarge plants to supply tne birth of children into pov- an estimated increase in de- ert7 ignorance, and vice is no mand. None of the group is more interfering with the vtilYoi able" to know that each of the God than is attempting to cure others is doing the same thing the sick. The lower classes are and that : the small increase in in many cases extremely anxious demand will tie supplied several to acQuaint themselves with times over. When a depression methods of limiting the size of comes these mistaken enterprises th1 families to one that they have to be abandoned. For a can support. But information while the workers are out of Pn tne subject is denied them, jobs. Then these temporarily while the upper classes are idle factors shift into fields familiar with and are practicing where their service is more use- sucn checks on too numerous a ful to the public. progeny. The atmosphere oft another serin,, hw t po-;. - ' - .- ' I 1 . I v s-v ww w .1. UOOlUli depression can be compared "J"" iaise ngnteous Self -Sufficiency. ' Can a nation go ahead in the face of world-wide depression? That is the question being asked regarding the Soviet Union's ex pansive program for 1932. Many of us are of the opinion that an increase of thirty-six per cent in industrial production, the fig ure which the plan calls for, is an insurmountable task in which there is little hope of fulfillment. Results' for 1931 show an in crease of .approximately twenty per cent as compared with the - - - 1 1 f I , n original goai oi iorry-nve per cent. The Russians, however, are confident that by the end of this year their program 11 have proved successful. This program is based, on the assumption that a very consid erable degree of self-sufficiency has been attained and that prog ress is possible with a minimum amount of foreign imports. By the end of this year, when such new big plants as the Nizhni Novgorod automobile works and the Magnitogorsk and Kuznetzk mills will have advanced much further toward full productive capacity than they are at pres ent, it is expected that this sejf sufficiency will correspondingly increase. These new industrial i i monuments are . significant of Soviet progress and' emulate in no small degree the tremendous strides Russia is making towards a well-balanced economy. In spite of her improved posi tion, however, there are many handicaps still to be overcome. Outstanding among her troubles is the difficulty in making for eign payments. The ruble is not accepted internationally so all her purchases must be paid for n gold or in some currency which is acceptable. This development has greatly decreased the impor tation of machine parts, tools, etc., equipment on which the success of her great industrial ization is primarily dependent. Consequently the Soviet Govern ment will itself have to under take the manufacture of these necessary products and it cannot be denied that this will seriously retard the ultimate completion of the Five Year Plan. Furthermore there was a note worthy diminution in the more highly paid foreign specialists and engineers employed in Rus sia during the latter part of 1931. This was not because the country did not need their ser vices but because foreign cur rency is so tightly rationed by the Soviet Government that only comparatively small amount can be expended on foreign ex- Useless Slaughter Meditate seriously upon the hosts of mentbliterated by the havoc of the last war. The num ber slain has been roughly esti mated at 7,314,340 men. Price less youth wasted . . . fields stained with the blood of savage revenge. War-death is not only barbaric but economically ex travagant. Nations vie with one another in securing the most de structive and tortuous artifices. Machine-guns, bombs, poisonous gases are only a few of the dis astrous inventions devised by a war-mad world. The expendi ture for extinguishing the life of each soldier averages approxi mately 25,292. Life is potent ; life is valuable ... not to be of fered lightly upon the altar of death. Each man carries with him to the grave a train of songs unsung, tales untold, brave deeds unwrought. How immeasurable is the potentiality, how incom prehensible the capitalized value of human life. The rising generation of young men and women are gaining in sight into the atrocity of brutal warfare. War is considered as the outcome of greed, avarice, and a militaristic spirit, and a reaction has set in. The impor tance of order, harmony, and, above all, peace is stressed. Idealistic social thought can op erate. It is possible for dis agreements between nations to be settled through intelligent ar. bitration. To banish forever the primitive form of murder known as war requires cooperation and a beneficent, cosmopolitan atti tude on the par of each nation. The time has. come when think ing people will no longer tolerate the mad crimes perpetrated in the name of war. L.P. SPEAKING the CAMPUS, MIND The Daily Tar Heel does not neces sarily endorse letters published in Speaking the Campus Mind. Lack of space prohibits the publication of all letters submitted. Preference "will be given letters which do not speak upon subjects already exhausted. Letters should be four hundred words or less, typewritten, and contain the name as well as the address of the writer. Names will be withheld upon request, except when the writer attacks a per son? No libelous or scurrilous contri butions can be printed. Young Man's Plight At Yale . Tne unfairness of life is al too evident. One man's bread another's poison, and .the bread too frequently,vis consumed by the other man. The plight of Yale undergraduates instances this trait of fate. Recently, tnat undergraduate body has been threatened with a new type of blackmail.- Fashionably dressed and attractive women, realizing, among other things, that Yale pocket-books are rea soriably impregnable to depres sion, have visited the dormi tories just before the hour (women visitors are al lowed until 6:00 p. m.), and be ing admitted by the student on the pretext of looking for a usually absent roommate, th t r m-t i x x "" own ca- pcxu. lomipussiuie to expect plained. To prevent a possible these men to accent rubles in . , prevent a possible .mA.cpL XUUICS iaIlr(rp tnwa o j j.-.. they have no means of exchang ing them for dollars or other ensuing complications of such a scream occurring after 6 :00 o'clock, it will be necessary for foreign currency. This has been S tTlA s1 rfw f . vv oumc iiivuvy. progress since it has been these specialists - and engineers who have guided the intelligence of the Soviet movement. Foreign commentators have sometimes disagreed as to wheth er the Soviet Union desires to conquer, the markets of the to. a heavily loaded, flat car that ness. that surrunds this phase is rounding a curve at hi eh 01 1 -e 1S a aanerous and false . -. . - "... o 1 1 1 1 1. .-a. speed.;. As it careens some of one' ana musz De Aspersed. the load slips off. This loss of At "Je rate of our population weight is enough to allow the growth and the increasing ef car to right itself. Thus in a ficiency. of machinery we will be depression loss is incurred but laced with a superfluous and idle J -"' - - . ' j. - - II '1 .'!- .. .. . . it is a means of keeping the eco-m? mcapaoie oi nnding work nomic : system "on the track " aPd which we will not be able to H.H. support. This element will cm to UTiPTYinlnvrrtpfif f n nAtraa OurEver-Increasins: Ya a; JLl ropulation lav ffjt;iurAittw, .l- iviii ouuuai, uiiui iiwiio tIXU While the people of the United are thicidv over DODulated. Th states are.worrymg and frettins invariable answer is war. It is over financial conditions, foreign a choice between a population of MA1M . Z ; " - I.- " iciatioas, proniDiuon, and simi- the mediocre and inferior, war. lar problems, we are faced today disease, poverty, and crime on n,4M1 ituauun mat is iar more one nand and a, sane, and scien vital and serious than any of the tificallv resrulated hnlanre witii above. . This danerer is unnhtrn- nenrp. nipnf v . " - , r--" t maxu pygiciN . Jil sive and is growing , steadily the other. The fate of mankind worse by. imperceptible degrees hangs on the choice. J.F. A . tnat fail to attract the attention dXlU Llie JllPflSlirPS TlPPOesow 4-n I A . j: i . . . j . w uxeuicai reDort snows insan nr...L. t j manner in which our population due to the fact that many per-! X, tt T ,f JeStS' is growing. It is not the numer. SOns wllA WPro nnnc'rl f . . . y r ical. increase, which, is natural several vr ,7.7 S4 Just: wnat . diseases and to a decree desirahlA w fT,n 1 B, r w au7. Kespeare had, to inoculate .i. Ar: rz - . r:" auu torn you so. isomAmndpm hhWs wifi, t - -vu ViiAXl. Boston Herald. ' And, in utter resignation, he has paid not once but time and again. ' That Yale, men are so inca pable of coping with this prob lem is indeed surprising. Evi dently, it is a matter of time. Busily acquiring a veneer to ward' off such annovnnpoa cn world or to achieve a state, of , i T "... V41;jr iiitve self-contained independence eco homically. Events have answered this question at least for the time being. This tendency to ward self - sufficiency will be strengthened in 1932. Wherever possible the . foreign machine will be replaced liy a Soviet , machine, made out of Russian materials. This will be a severe but per haps a useful test of the real progress that has been made along qualitative as well as quan titative lines under the Five Year Plan. H.W.P. fact that the inferior element is Life. been forced to meet the occasion with the Veneer only half-dry. And this unfair exposure of Yale students to the more liberal of society comparable in the degree of helplessness to forcing the in fant to buy its own milk should naturally evoke sympathy. The absolute privacy of the Yale man in his suite should be his. An appeal to ,the adminis tration should effect a remedy. A simple one, we think, is hav ing the dormitories guarded by differential policemen, and lock ing the doors at 6 :00 p. m. Then, the wet veneer would not blis ter and the fancy-free student, upon his graduation, could in tradition assume the impeccabil ity of a Yale man. And so it is. One man's bread, another's poison. G.B. Not According To 3Iarx Ihe editorial entitled "New Czar For Old Czar" which ap peared in the Daily Tar Heel of January 19 is on the whole very misleading. In Several places it becomes rankly absurd, and throughout it shows" complete bourgeiois - misconception and misinterpretation of fundamen tal Communist principles. In the -first place, the Soviet Union, which was set up after the Revolution of 1917 which had come from the inevitable de cay of old Russia, and which was4 prophesied by Marx in 1852 (The Eighteenth Brumaire Louis Bonaparte), has never claimed to have been a Com munistic state. Following Com munist lines the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are building Socialism. In 1846 Karl Marx wrote as follows : "Communism means to us not a state of things, that is to be established, not an ideal, into which reality is to be fitted. To us Communism is an actual movement, that is destroying the present state of things. The state of hat movement is deter mined from day to day by the prevailing objective conditions at the given time and place." Molotov, in his The Success of the 5 Year Plan, writes "we have not yet overcome the New Economic Policy with its pecul iarities. As Marxists we cannot forget that whilst we have en tered the period of Socialism, we have not yet completely broken with the things of yes terday." The statement that the Soviet! Union is capitalistic is absurd. May we ask is a state which bases production upon use and not upon profit capitalistic? Is a state capitalistic which offi cially demands total world dis armaments? Is a state capital istic which gives to its people the maximum of its products without clipping off substantial profits? Is a state capitalistic in which the wealth is not concen trated in the hands of the few? Just because a nation utilizes capitalist mass production and capitalist technology and science does not mean that it, too, is capitalistic. Call Stalin a dictator. Call him a capitalist. Call him any thing. You cannot change his rue status. As General Secre tary of the Communist Party Central Committee . he is the head of the Communist Party : the head which has been pushed up from the base of the party. Power in the Communist Party comes .from 'the', ranks. t It does not trickle' down and diffuse from the head. The Commun ist Party is the advanced guard of the proletariat, the revolu tionary working class, the workers that are building Soc ialism. Stalin, as a Commun ist, follows the lines set down by Marx and Engels and later expanded by Lenin. The lead ership of the party can come only by following the theory of Marxism-Leninism. Can it be said that the Rus sian worker has no voice in the government when, excluding a very small number of non-pro letarians, all, including non Communists, are allowed to vote. and when ruthless self-criticism is allowed. In part the hastening of world communism depends upon the building of Socialism in the Soviet Union, for the Soviet Union is the beacon light to the exploited masses of the world. The international will be ful filled through the inevitable col lapse of capitalism in all na tions of the earth. W. H. DAVIS, JR., S. P. ZIMNOCH. Disarmament Disarmament, one of the great questions before the world to day, is something that should in terest every citizen of the United States. The students should, more than any other group, be in favor of it. It has been asked. "Who will have to fight the next war?" We might well add, "Who will leave their homes, schools, friends, and loved ones to die, probably, in some foreign coun try? Who, after the war is over and millions of lives lost, will have to reconstruct a semblance of the past economic and indus trial life from the fragments of the old, which will undoubtedly be destroyed? Who in later years will have to bear the burden of an enormous national debt which always follows like a stalking shadow in the wake of any great war? Who will have to hobble around on crutches, lie awake at night thinking of horrors which time cannot efface from our minds ; grope about in the per petual darkness of the blind, be confined to asylums because of shell crazed minds, or struggle through life with other physical: handicaps? , Who will have to mourn the death of close friends and relatives? Who in this world of aircraft and other in ventions can be sure that he will have a home to which to return after, a Jong, bitter struggle? Who will have to face these ad verse conditions ? Who but us,, the students, who are just reach ing or have already reached the- age of citizenship?" A cry for disarmament should rise from the students in this country' that rock the principle of competitive armament to its "very founda tions and bring it to earth with a crash. If this were done we should then have the needed space upon which to build up the much needed feeling of brother hood among nations : and over it would be unfurled a banner hav ing on it the fitting phrase, "Peace on earth! o-nnH 7 - ITUt W men. J. S. N., Jr. For the last five months Chi cago has been paying its school teachers in script. But Chi cago's bootleggers continue to get cash, San Diego Union. , ------ II : : Don't Worry About Your Revised Budget Our Prices Will Fit In Perfectly ch Bros. Cafe Liberal Discount On Meal Tickets Goo
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