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P0 Two x THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wednesday, 3Iarch 2, 19& The official 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 mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. O, 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, Don Shoemaker, R. W. Barnett, Henderson Heyward, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, Sid ney Rosen. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD E. C. ' Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Claiborn , Carr, Charles Poe. , v FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, T. W. Blackwell, E. H., Joseph Sugar man, W. R. Eddleman, Vermont Royster. , CITY EDITORS George Wilson, Tom Walker, William McKee, W. E. Davis, W. R. Woerner, Jack Riley. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas fl. : Broughton. LIBRARIAN E. M. SpruilL HEELERS J. H. Morris. J. D. Wins low, A. T. Dill, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J. Gialanella, W. D. McKee, Harold Janof sky, S. A. Wil- ' kins, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell, Frank Thompson, M. V. Barnhill, - W. S. . Rosenthal, C. S. Mcintosh. ' Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. . , BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants :TR. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Jimmy Allen, manager; assistants: " H. A. Clark, Howard Manning; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, Joe Webb, Jim Cordon. - Wednesday, March 2, 1932 Aiding The "Bosses" . The ideal system of election would . have each voter, after careful - thought, cast his ballot for the one man whom he deems best qualified for office, without interference by intimidation, party . considerations, or "machine7- politics. Such a system can never be attained here ' or anywhere else, but we can do much to make our present sys .tm nearer like that. There will always be organized machines to nominate candidates. Voters will always be bound by. prom ises to party leaders to vote this way or that. When election time comes, the students who are not actively engaged in politics will find their choice limited to two men for each office, in whose nomination they had no voice. There is not much that can be done about this situation, but the machines should certainly not be allowed to go farther and . dictate the voter's choice be tween the two. Under the present system of elections at Carolina, the would be voter is pounced upon by pickets of each party who hand him .lists of their candidates, try to cudgel him into voting for them,and seek to tie banners reading "AH-Campus" or "Non- Fraternity" about him. When the' battered student finally forces his way through the mob and is given a ballot, he enters a room where he is supposed to have an opportunity to vote se cretly. The room is small, how ever, and several men are usual ly there voting with several others who are not voting ofjten standing near by. There- is abundant ' opportunity for them to learn the voter's choice. Fin ally, every ballot cast must be signed. This rule is probably of some value as a check on ballot stuffiner: but it also gives the members of the student coun cil, among whom are always "bosses" of both parties, an op portunity to see, when the votes are counted, just how each man voted. While such a system gf vot ing nrobablv does not have a great effect upon the results of any election, it does deny the voter his right to cast his vote in private and violates the prin- ciple of the Australian ballot, which is supposed to be in force on the campus. It strengthens . the machine in politics by allow- ing the political leaders to check up on the loyalty of each of their followers. If the student council is to carry out its obli gation to establish the Austra lian ballot, it must adopt some ruling to provide the voter strict privacy N in casting his vote. A large room should be provided for the voting so that the voter will not have to stand near others while marking his ballot. No one should be allowed in the room except those who are about to vote.v . The requirement that every student must sign his bal lot should be abolished. The adoption of these regula tions would not clean up poli tics on the campus, but it would go a long way toward giving every student a chance to vote as he wishes and loosening the grip of party politics on cam pus elections. D.M.L. Can The Democratic Party Last? The highly problematical fu ture of the Democratic party in the present age of chaos and change especially deserves the attention of college students in southern states, the sectional ism, traditions, and community of interests of which have com posed the principal basis and in part the excuse for the exist ence, of that party since the Civil War. The unusually favor able chances for Democratic suc cess next fall should prove a godsend to the party, which has won only, one victory over a united opposition since 192, and that one (in 1916) by so close a margin that victory was at first conceded to the Republican candidate, our present chief jus- tice. since the uivn war, in fact, only once (in '92) have the Democrats been swept to power by a majority decisive enough to resemble the landslides with which Republican policies, have often been endorsed. , If an age of liberalism, of reason, and of a politically crit ical and interested public should finally emerge from the current confusion, it is probable that the two great national parties will undergo some degree or revamp ing, but more especially the Democratic, made up as it is. of such diverse constituents as the southern drys, Tammany, and the genuinely liberal elements, North and South. The incon gruity, and mutual hostility of these divisions, excelling easily the division within the Repub lican party between "Stand patters" and Progressives, have been reflected in the severe, fac tional conflicts that have repeat edly shaken the party conven tions. The farcical affair at Madison Square Garden in 1924 offered undoubtedly the supreme portrayal of Democratic faction alismin its intensity, almost fanatical and apparently" utterly indifferent to consequences. In 1928, again, the Protestant drys of the rural south, rather than support the wet, Catholic, urban Smith, cast their votes for Hoo ver, the Republican nominee. The widespread condemnation of the Hoover administration, whether justified or not, com bined with-the possibility of a more united, stand by the party against prohibition, may enable the nation's Democracy to sur vive as now constituted for sev eral more elections. Even here, however history is not very reassuring. Grover Cleveland, reseated in the presidency in '92 by a large majority, was within a short time in bitter conflict with his own party leaders of Congress, and after a stormy and violent tenure of office wit nessed a party candidate (whom he himself openly spurned) sharply defeated. Wilson, giv en a second term in 1916, left office in 1921 a broken man, his party and the League of Na tions overwhelmingly repudiated by the people. K.P.Y. What This Country Needs ... Ever since the memorable phrase "What this country needs is a good five cent cigar" first came from the lips of Vice President Marshall, humorists, movie scenario writers, and musical comedy fops have twist ed it about to suit their par ticular mode of repartee until a mere utterance of the first four words evoke immediate derision from the hearer, irregardless of the sober purpose of the speaker. Eddie Cantor has added the lat est connotation with some such as "Whal this country needs is five cents."' This is certainly expresive of current feeling, but this as well as other misapplica tions of such a phrase , may be a contributing factor in the light attitude many of us are taking at this time on the ques tion of our national needs. What does this country need? Few persons really know, and the vast majority who do seem to spend their time writing syndicated newspaper humor articles and prattling into a loud speaker. If a time ever exist ed for sane analysis of such a question it is today, and all our Walter Winchells, Eddie Can tors, and Frank Sullivans cannot benefit the cause in their trite phraseology. The time has come for a political and economical journalistic dictator who can point the way soberly, and sane ly. D.C.S. It Is Worth Knowing That The public debt of the United States in, 1931 totaled $16,801,485,143 or $134.40 per capita. This does not include gold, silver or currency, cer tificates, or treasury notes of 1890. .- The tallest light house on the eastern seaboard is locat ed at Cape Hatteras, N. C. . . . New York' has been the most populous state in the union since 1820. Dead Brains Last night while we were watching the Linit sign from our balcony we decided we knew what. was wrong with the country. It wasn't a moment's dazzling revelation. Indeed, no. We had been thinking about it seriously for exactly a year. Perhaps the temperate air last night and the smell of livestock from the "New ' York Central tracks gave startling flight to our thought processes. Before we tell you what our grisly conclusions were we shall take you : back to February 22, 1931, a year and a day ago, when we, in company with four of our lewd friends and drunken com panions, decided that the United States was in one hell of a fix. We knew there was a fix but we didn't know what caused the fix. We were, in a sense, crusaders. That night, cigarettes glowing and slightly cockeyed, we re solved to meet again in a year and exchange results around the dinner table. The results of our parley were to be published in letters to The New York Times, The London Times, Le Matin, Pravda, and the Berliner Tage blatt. Alas for the welfare of those to come after us! There was no round table conference last night. - In the course of the year offr four friends had shuffled off cares of this world. You will recall that one of them was killed in a drunken brawl; - an other of them had died in agony, the victim of phoney liquor ; an- With Contemporaries other of them fell from an air plane at a height of 4,000 feet. (Some say he jumped.) ' The last of our friends was given a decent burial by the good fath ers of Mt. Carmel in Mexico. There was no one left of our company but us. The year had elapsed. v - We ate dinner alone last night. After the coffee had been clear ed away we lit a cigarette and wandered out to the balcony. It was 9 :45 P. M. For ten minutes 'we stood looking at the lights of the river. We lifted our eyes to the stars and 'then we decided we knew the answer to the ques tion which four dead men had asked a year earlier. We scrawled on a piece of pap er the following words : To our four e dead -t friends, greeting: ; : A A year ago tonight we pledged ourselves to answer a question. You four are now dead, but we are alive It is our duty to set down an answer to the question we propounded. A year ago to night we asked ourselves this question: What is wrong with the United States ? Tonight we feel that the answer can be set down in a few words, namely: The United States worships its dead slavish ly. Its Washingtons, its Linc ons are its religion. The utter ances of -a Washington made some 156 years ago and the ut terances of a Lincoln who lived more than half a century ago comprise the catechism of the 1 United States. Deviation from the divine sayings is punished with moral excommunication. Religions must change to fit their communicants. Or re ligion is unchangeable, immut able. Today it remains what it was decades and centuries ago. Our government tailors us to fit the creed. Can-we expect any thing but aimless wandering when twentieth century prob lems are attacked with dead brains? -Columbia Spectator. - The Good Bishop Is Much Mistaken The great sin of today is rep resented by the "godlessness that sits in the cathedrals of our universities, and parades un der the pageantry of learning and progress." It is Archbishop Streich of the Roman Catholic church speaking, voicing again the old complaint of the theol ogian who lives by the ignor ance and superstition of the masses. Colleges have -been criticized again and again because on rare occasions they have dared to en courage their students to raise their eyes from the dust and look frankly at the Gods they have been worshiping, because oh rare occasions .they have en couraged their students to ask their gods questions and to pon der their gods' answers critical ly. ., ,; , ,. V ' . . If the good Archbishop and the rest of his fellow critics on ly knew what a tame and. dogma-hedged sanctuary for sacred cows an American university really is, if they only knew how rare the, occasionsN they com plain of really were, they would hold their breath for fear of dis turbing the status quo and ' en couraging the very crimes they bemoan. The bitter truth- is that neither intelligent godlessness nor intelligent godliness, are to found , in the "pageantry of learning" as it unfolds on the average '.college campus. There are few men on the fac ulty who dare to raise their voice above a whisper when they are speaking of religion. They know that any word they may utter is sure to fall with a thud on someone's pet sectarian corn, and they are afraid. There are men on our own board of trus tees who would rave if they heard of an instructor speaking his mind on God or on any of the petty sects that have grown fat on man's ignorance and sup erstition in the name of God. Religion, as represented by the dogmatism of Methodist, Roman Catholic, or Holy Roller, has lost its hold on youth. In stitutional religion has become an empty cocoon from which the living organism has fled. As a result, youth has no religion, no God. One would not quarrel with its atheism or its agnosti cism if it were the result of in telligent questioning, but the current brands are not. They are merely indifference. Men like Archbishop Streich are, by their very fanaticism, defeating their own purpose. They condemn free and open discussion of religious ques tions, and by that act, they raise an insurmountable barrier against any true religion. We, being young, refuse to take any one's authority who forbids us to discuss ,their edicts or their own reason for being. If dis cussion is forbidden, we will shrug our shoulders and turn away. Daily Northwestern. Unfair v Criticism ... National Business Review finds it deplorable in the extreme that a worthy organ, freely ex pressing what happens to be the opinion of , the majority of American citiezns has been ban ned by police orders here from being distributed. We refer to the "Herald of Gotfd Times," published by the Republican Citizens Committee Against Na tional Prohibition, headed by Raymond Pitcairn, and the secre tary of which organization is the well known Harry B. Finn. Superintendent Mills contends that this publication is being banned not because it is anti- To Build Up Friendship With Carolina's Student Body Is Our Aim The building of this friendship necessitates . our offering our patrons the very best in service and the best in work manship. We do thejbest job possible not only because it is necessary, but because the honesty and the reputation of our management will not permit us to do otherwise. The Hill Dry Gleaners "Superior Service To All" PHONE 5841 r cc ey Gang, "your old friend Joe occutic no iuvesirucK at trie names and a. save em and enslave tjafat I wake up in the H ana just laugh at myself!" (6 FIREPVIAN NOW PLAYING v It ( ! :K (fl ' " t 1 r- - ill p- , f J prohibition, nor because it pub lishes fictitious information, but merely because it is falsely in cluded among "papers, pamph lets .and circulars" which later were discarded and littered the streets. This seems too thin and flimsy to be given credence. The real motive is obviously ta check the dissemination of opinions that actually conform to the real feeling of the nation and is sub versive of true freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed by the federal constitution. The worthy purpose of this publication, which was distri buted in New York, Philadel phia, Washington, Chicago and other cities, was to stimulate na tional interest in a meeting to be held soon in Chicago design ed to force prohibition repeal in to the Republican Presidential platform. Besides, the commit tee has covered the entire na tion by direct mail containing the same information. We are vigorously in favor of this move ment and look forward eagerly to the removal of this unjust check on the expression of op inion. We are glad that this committee is determined to dis tribute the paper regardless, and that this is consonant with the opinion of Philadelphia citizens was revealed by the numerous i nnarlv rrmTiVminnc f n fViA rnm. mittee, in substantial amounts. Prominent men from all parts of the country have signified their hearty approval" of the movement in its entirety, includ ing the noted Nicholas Murray j Butler, and other well-known j national figures in all walks of I life. No better indications of its worth and popularity could be had than this. National Business Review. C'mon Over" is in town. Wait'll vol nre-ngnter ... a panic riot with, the dai 1! I 'em ! TW T'm funny middle of the m rows m SAVE MY B
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