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VOLUME XL
INVESTIGATORS OF
PROHIBITION GET
VARIED FINDINGS!
Opinions of Wickersham Com
mission Would Probably
Have Changed Report.
Eight members of the Wick
ersham commission, -whose final
report on the enforcement of
the Eighteenth Amendment this
month aroused much comment,
have, in communication with
the Daily Tar Heel, indicated
differing individual opinions on
the prohibition question just as
they did at the time of the. re
port. The discrepancies in the opin
ions of the various members
seem to indicate that there
might have been a change in the
final report if the, individual
opinions had been fully com
pleted. As a whole the , com
mittee went on record as pro
posing a revision of the Eigh
teenth Amendment which was j
offered as a basis for
further !
amendment if continued effort i0ne hundred per cent contribu
to enforce the. present law' i on
should prove unsuccessful. It
has been learned that President
Jloover has refused the indivi
dual reservations as a basis for
recommendation.
. The chairman of the commis
sion, George W. Wickersham,
states his belief that a further
trial should be made of the en
forceability of the Eighteenth
Amendment under the present
organization with a the help
of recommended improvements.
Other members of the commit
tee holding similar opinions
were: William I. Grubb who
stated that he thinks the "prohi-!
bitioi under the Amendment is
entitled to a further trial";
(Continued on page three)
ORCHESTRA WILL
APPEAR AT DUKE
FRIDAY EVENING
Eighty-Five Piece Minneapolis
Symphony to Present Concert
In Page Auditorium.
Bated by leading musical crit
ics of the nation as one of the
five greatest organizations of its
kind in the world, the celebrated
Minneapolis symphony orchestra
will play a concert in Page audi
torium, Duke university, Friday.
The famous orchestra will be
under the personal direction of
its new conductor, Eugene Or
mandy, who has achieved a tre
mendous success in Philadelphia
and New York before accepting
an engagement to lead the Min
neapolis orchestra.
Each of the eighty-five mem
bers of the orchestra is an art
ist on the instrument he plays.
They represent nearly every
country in the world and two of
the men have played with the
organization during the entire
twenty-eight years of its exist
ence. The tour of the orchestra
which brings it to Durham is
annually one of the largest tours
undertaken by any metropolitan
symphonic organization.
During the past twenty-seven
years, the Minneapolis symphony
orchestra has played in forty
one states of the union, from
Massachusetts and New York to
California and from Montana to
Texas, and also in Canada and
Cuba. Prior to the present sea
son it has performed more than
2,200 concerts on tours outside
of Minneapolis.
Benefit Bridge
Chapel Hill Ladies Sponsor Parties
To Benefit Student Loan Fund.
Students as well as resi
dents of the town are invited
to attend the bridge parties in
behalf of the Student Emer
gency Loan Fund at 3:00 p.
m. and 8 :00 tomorrow in the
Graham Memorial. The ad
mission at all times will be
fifty cents, and those not in
terested in bridge may secure
refreshments at 5:00 and
10 :00 p. m.
Chapel Hill ladies who are
sponsoring the parties have
written to friends urging them
to undertake . similar enter
prises for the loan fund.
BRADSHAW URGES
SOLID BACKING OF
LOAN FUND DRIVE
Dean F. F. Bradshaw and
Mayne Albright, president of.
the student body, urged the!
iresnman ana sopnomore as
sembly yesterday morning not
to conclude the emererencv loan
fund drive before having a
Albright declared that the
.University was most anxious to
receive a small contribution
from every man on the campus.
Bradshaw urged students to
contribute inbrder to show their
solidarity towards this cause.
"Most people," he said, , "can
not be persuaded to give to this
loan fund until they y find out
what others have already done."
Dean Bradshaw also stated
that, in his opinion, the sup
port which the students give to
this drive will in large measure
determine the rating of 'the
University of North Carolina in
years to come.
Griffin Wins Local
Oratorical Contest
E. E. Griffin, freshman from
Goldsboro, took first place in the
local part for the American
Legion oratorical contest which
took place here last Friday
afternoon. He will , participate
in the finals scheduled for Feb
ruary 22, where he will com
pete with the winners of other
I contests throughout the state.
Hamilton Hobgoodt won al
ternate's position.
Six Confined to Infirmary
Students confined to the in
firmary yesterday were: R. G.
Fleming, J. Fukusato, B. E.
Tokens. W. M. Parker. J. S.
Young, and N. M. McFayden.
Gifts To Loan Fund
(EDITOR'S NOTE: In this col
umn the Daily Tar Heel lists each
day the new contributions to the
Emergency Student Loan Fund.)
Sunday's total $4,634.15
An Alumnus 250.00
A Faculty Member ... 500.00
A Faculty Member ... 25.00
Canvass (additional) 79.01
3 Sunday Schools 17.99
Grail Dance". 130.00
Total to Date $5,636.15
The organizations which
have given 100 per cent to
wards the Emergency Student
Loan Fund are Sigma Nu, S.
A. E., Sigma Chi, S. P. E.,
A. T. O., Chi Psi, Phi Delta
Theta, Theta Kappa Nu, D.
K. E., and Phi Alpha frater
nities; ' Old West, Old East,
RuflSn, Aycock, and Spencer
dormitories; Gimghouls, U.N.
C. Janitors' Association, stu
dent council, interfraternity
council, Grail, and Gorgon's
Head.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932
College Editors Register
Overwhelming Sentiment
For Repeal Of Dry Laws
o
Thirty Out of Thirty-Four Taking Part in Daily Tar Heel Ballot
Are Opposed to Eighteenth Amendment.
The college daily editors of
the United States almost un
animously have repudiated the
prohibition of intoxicants by
the government. The Daily
Tar Heel has for the past two
months conducted a national
poll of the college dailies in an
effort to ascertain the college
opinion of the nation on ;this
subject.
On the question of whether
they favored the retention pf
the Volstead Act and the Eigh
teenth Amendment, thirty of
the thirfy-four college daily edi
tors voting favored the repeal
of these acts. Three were in
favor of retaining them, and
the editor of the Daily Nebras
kan .replied that he was for
"neither" repeal or retention of
the laws.
Having . put themselves on
record on the matter of repeal,
twenty-one favored a system of
national governmental control,
two, the Daily Tar Heel, and
the Daily Dartmouth prefer
state-control, the Cornell Daily
Sun desires a return to the open
saloon, the Daily Nebraskan
doesn't "care what they do,"
and one would have the nation
continue as it is. . .
Only one of the thirtv-four
editors is of "the opinion- that
Prohibition is enforceable as it
now stands, two admit that it
is unenforceable as it is, and
thirty-two believe that it is not
now enforceable and that no
prohibition can be enforced.
The only lady editor of a col
lege daily in the world, Miss
Janet Wentworth of the Rad
cliffe Daily at Radcliffe college,
voted opposed to prohibition, in
favor of modification, and said,
"prohibition in its present state
has not been and cannot be en
forced." Bice Clemow of the Wash
ington Daily expressed his per
sonal views, and desired that it
be known that he was not speak
ing for his publication as a
whole or the University of
Washington. .James Decker of
the Syracuse Daily Orange also
spoke for himself alone. He
says, "I believe modification
would be the first step, chiefly
to demonstrate the ability of the
nation to remain temperate,
thus making final repeal an
easy part of the process. The
present state of attempts to en
force prohibition are a disgrace.
From my experience I believe
the people as a whole do not
Seniors Must Pay Class Fees By Tomorrow
The following students have submitted their pictures for the senior
section of the Yackety Yacfc but have not paid class dues. Their pic
tures will be left out of the year book unless settlement is made with
the class treasurer by Wednesday, February 3. Settlement may be
made at the business office todap at chapel period and from 2:00 to
f:00 this afternoon and from 2:00 to 4:00 tomorrow:
' F. M. Adams, H. L. Anderson, H. F. Auman, B. H. Barnes, S. A.
Barrett, D. P. Beam, G. R. Benton, Jr., T. W. Bremer, I. C. Brower,
T. R. Brown, E. W. Buchanan, R. A. Buchanan, Mary Burroughs, A. S.
Cate, E. B. Clapp, J. C. Coble, A. L. Cochrane, B. D. Coffield, W. S.
Crouch, . L. A. Dalton, J. W:. Daniel, Jr., A. K. Davis, J. Davis, O. E.
Duncan, R. L. Eagles, D. H. Eason, W. G. Egerton, McB. Fleming-Jones,
F. M. Gentry, C. W. Goodwin, J. O. Griffin, F. T. Harper, G. C. Hartis,
T. A. Henry, A. M. Hicks, W. C. Hunsucker, T. S. Jenrette, T..T. Brown,
Mary McWhirter.
E. B. Kidd, Jr., Rose Lazarus, S. L. W. Lea, Jr., C. H. Lenen, H. Q. L.
Little, D. Lohr, L. J. Loveland, Mary McLeod, Jules McMichael,
R. C. Maness, H. R. Miller, J. E. Moore, F. M. Moss, W. F. Olmstead,
Walter Branch Patterson, Elizabeth Perrow, J. C. Pretlow, F. Ray, JrM
J. W. Rea, C. R. Rhodes, C. Robinson, S. G. Roth, R. H. SchnelL C C.
Southard, J. B. Spell, A. J. Stahr, B. E. Strickland, C. B. Strickland,
H. A. Stubbs, T. J. Taylor, T. W. Teer, B. H. Tharrington, C. P. Thomp
son, W. S. Tomlinson, Harry Tsumas, M. T. Upchurch, P. U. Usher,
C. D. Wardlaw, T. H. Watkins, L. Wilder, H. B. Wilson, J. H. Yokley.
favor prohibition. A law con
trary to the . desires of the pub
lic has never been enforced."
Joe Pickle, editor of the Bay
lor Lariat, while voting dry, ad
mitted that the law has. "been
pitifully, enforced and is not en
tirely enforceable," but can be
"largely so if sentiment is fav
orable." Martin Von Seggern of the
Da$y Nebraskan, who doesn't
care what "they do," has this
to say in regard to enforcement,
"It has not been and cannot be
today. The prohibition law is
alright in principle, but the
problem cannot be solved by a
mere act of legislation. Peo
ple are not civilized enough to
permit such a law to be en
forced." A. C. Aslakson editor of the
Minnesota Daily was the most
outspokenof the voters in the
poll. The following is his re
ply to the questionaire:
"I am definitely opposed to
prohibition. I believe it has led
to the vicious use of alcohol by
our American youth. I cer
tainly am confident that in the
I case of a lot of the younger set,
especially the girls, use of li
quor has been encouraged by
the "smartness" of slipping in
to speakeasies run by question
able, and even by notorious,
characters. It's quite the thing
here in Minneapolis.
"When I say I am opposed to
prohibition, I mean prohibition
as it now stands. Light wines
and beer might bring some re
lief to the above conditions. But
that, too, would only be a 'Noble
Experiment.' Certainly it would
be an improvement over the
present situation.'
"What's the use of asking if
prohibition has been enforced?
Neither is it enforceable. The
more rigorous the enforcement,
th higher will rise public re
sentment over the most foolish
law ever put on the statute
books. Rigorous enforcement
will mean thex earlier the death
of the prohibition amendment."
There are only forty college
dailies in North America two
in Canada and thirty-eight in
the United States. The thitry
four who took part in the poll
were: the Daily Trojan of the
University of Southern Califor
nia, the Stanford Daily of Le
land Stanford university, the
Daily Bruin of the Southern
Branch of the University of
(Continued on page three)
Senior Smoker
Class Will Choose Superlatives at
Meeting Tomorrow Evening.
The senior smoker for the
winter quarter will take place
tomorrow evening at 9:00
o'clock in Swain hall. The
meeting will be strictly busi
ness, and no outside speakers
will be secured. Senior super
latives will be elected, and
tentative plans for the senior
dance will be announced. The
chairmen of the senior week
and gift committees will also
be asked to make reports.
Billy Stringfellow and his
band will furnish the music,
and light refreshments will be
served. -
PHI SOCIETY WILL
DEBATE ON RACE
PROBLEM TONIGHT
The Di Senate will discuss
tonight at 7:00 o'clock in New
West the following bills: Re
solved: That an amendment be
added to the constitution of the
Dialectic senate to be known as
article-XVI and to read as fol
lows: Section 1. The Dialectic
senate shall establish a student
loan fund to be known as the
Dialectic senate loan fund and
to be distributed through the
proper University officials. Sec
tion 2. The Senate shall give to
this fund, yearly, an amount to
be determined by the Senate of
that year , at the sixth meeting
of the winter quarter.
Resolved: That the banking
system is the cause of the pres
ent depression. . . .
Resolved: That there should
be a fine of twenty-five cents for j
walking on the grass' of the
University campus.
Resolved: That the thirteen
month calendar should be put
into world wide use.
The following bills will be
discussed at the meeting of the
Phi society at 7:15 o'clock to
night in New East building: Re
solved : That the south is taking
and has taken the wrong atti
tude toward the negro race.
Resolved : That the attitude of
France toward Germany is
detrimental toward world
peace.
Saville Confers With U. S.
Officials About Power Map
Thorndike Saville, of the de
partment of conservation and
development, was in New York
City on business last Friday. In
Washington Saturday, he con
ferred with officials of the U. S.
Geological Survey relative to the
printing of a power map of the
southern states which is being
prepared jointly by the conser
vation department and the Uni
versity. Bynum Has Relapse
The condition of Professor
Jefferson C. Bynum, of the
University geology depart
ment, was reported as ex
tremely critical last night. By
hum is a patient in the Duke
hospital.
He suffered a stroke of par
alysis Sunday night following
a convalescence of several
months, but rallied slightly.
He relapsed again yesterday
morning, and since that time
has been reported as holding
his own, although his condi
tion is extremely dangerous.
Bynum suffered a severe
attack of bronchial pneu
monia the first week of No
vember, but had improved
considerably until the stroke
Sunday night.
NUMBER 95
DRIVE FOR LOANS
WILL REACH ALL
LOCAL RESIDEiNTS
Mayor's Committee Makes Plans
For Thorough Canvass
Of Chapel Hill
At its meeting Sunday after
noon in Graham Memorial
Mayor Zeb Council's special
committee voted unanimously
that every resident of Chapel
Hill should be personally visit
ed by a member of the com
mittee during this week.
The group first heard a state
ment from President Frank P.
Graham on the condition of the
University and the need for the
Student Emergency Loan Fund
which they have volunteered to
assist. It was also decided to in
vite residents of the Chapel Hill
township, outside the city limits,
to participate in this activity.
This resolution did not include
the University faculty, for it
was understood that the faculty
had already been engaged in
plans of its own.
The town committee was
greatly impressed with the
work of the students in this
emergency and was particular
ly touched by the spirit of the
colored workers, notably the
University janitors' association.
Bruce Strowd, Carl Durham,
and Francis Bradshaw were ap
pointed as a special committee
to compile a list of all residents.
This committee met immediately
after the main committee had
adjourned and decided that
cards bearing the names of the
citizens could be . ready by
Thursday. The whole commit
tee will re-assemble that even
ing and receive assignments.
The canvass will then continue
through the week-end.
TAYLOR TO MAKE
SCIENTIFIC TALK
ON AUBLE LIGHT
Electrical Engineer Will Appear
OnPublic Lectures Series
February 8.
y John Bellamy Taylor, con
sulting engineer of the General
Electric research laboratory at
Schenectady, New York, will
deliver a demonstration-lecture
entitled- "Audible Light" in
Memorial hall, February 8. The
talk will be-under the auspices
of the Public Lectures com
mittee, of which Dr. Allen Wil
son Hobbs is chairman.
In his address Taylor will
employ several' cases of labora
tory equipment. He will set up
apparatus responsive to light
and will allow his audience to
hear much that the eye is in
capable of seeing. Demonstra
tions are to be conducted in
speech, song, and instrumental
music are carried on a beam of
light. As an incidental revela
tion of some things scientific,
men have accomplished in electro-physical
researches, the lec
ture will contain a number of
enlightening surprises.
Taylor is well known among
engineers for his many contri
butions to the electrical art. His
earlier work was concerned with
the coordination of telephone
systems and power lines.
He is a former vice-president
of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers and has
served as its representative on
the council of the American As
sociation for the Advancement
of Science.
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