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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, March 24, 1932
Che atip Ear I?eei
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. 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, Don Shoemaker,
R. W. Barnett, Henderson Heyward,
Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, Sid
ney Rosen, J. F. Alexander.
FOREIGN NEWS BOARD E. C.
Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw
ley, C. G. Thompson, John Acee,
Claiborn Carr, Charles &Poe.
FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, T.
W. Blackwell, E. H., Joseph Sqgar
man, W. R. Eddleman, Vermont
Royster. . '
CITY EDITORS George Wilson, Tom
Walker, William McKee, W. E.
Davis, W. R. Woerner, Jack Riley,
Thomas H. Broughton.
LIBRARIAN E. M. SpruilL
HEELERS J. H. Morris, A. T. Dill,
W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, R. J.
Gialanella, W. D. McKee, Harold
Janof sky, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell,
M. V. Barnhill, W. S. Rosenthal,
C. S. Mcintosh, Robert Bolton.
Business Staff
CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C.
Worth. ,
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist
ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton
Gray, Bernard Solomon.
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
Jimmy Allen, manager; assistant:
Howard Manning; Bill Jones, H.
Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Dudley
Jennings.
COLLECTION DEPARTMENT-John
Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran
dolph Reynolds, Joe Webb, Jim
Cordon, Agnew Bahnson.
Thursday, March 24, 1932
Soup's
On!
The weekly publication of
Loyola university, down in New
Orleans, has sent this humble
contemporary a detailed unem
ployment relief plan designed to
lift the U S. A. and its vast
army of the industrially disin
clined out of the deep depths of
depression and hunger. The
plan calls for the establishing of
soup kitchens, presumably just
around every corner, until the
pangs of untenanted interiors
are apeased by prosperity.
Strangely enough, the plan en
lists the financial backing of
students from some 650 univer
sities and colleges throughout
the country who would each
contribute a penny for each meal
every day, dropping the coppers
into boxes stationed convenient
ly in every lunch room. Fig
uring this on the basis of 500
students per university, the
staggering sum of $6,500.00
would be realized each day in
the collegiate year.
Application of Math One then
brings this figure to the sum of
$1,750,000.00 a year to be spent
in soup for the unemployed, all
contributed by what the Loyola
organ quoted' President Mac
Cracken (?) as saying. "univer
sity students are not people be
cause they do not function as
people should." Another of their
associates, who is a member of
the American Legion, stated
that "ten dollars a day (from
each university) . would buy a
lot of soup." Our conservative
staff mathematician estimates
that the million odd dollars , con
tributed by these 650 student
bodies. would even buy a devil
of a lot more soup, enough, to
.float the entire Asiatic' fleet
with two airplane carriers
thrown in. ; '
The spirit behind the move
ment is Undoubtedly excellent
but nevertheless it is typical, of
the current landslide of schemes
to assist the needy. It is ques
tionable . whether soup alone
could sustain our ten or twelve
millions of unemployed (another
conservative estimate) or that
the novelty of the plan will not
wear off before it is carried to
completion.
As for us, when we lose our
job in a few weeks, soup would
hardly be suitable to our delicate
palate. Maybe the Collegiate
Unemployment Relief would con
sent in estabiismng a caviar
kitchen for us and the stock
market crash victims. D.C.S.
Bowing To
The Gangster
The kidnaping of Charles
Lindbergh, Jr. the sufferings of
his agonized parents, and the
fruitless efforts towards the re
covery of the child have held the
attention of the American people
for several weeks. Morbidly
sentimental and easily led by the
press, they have centered their
attention upon pathetically help
less and clumsy police activity
while a war which threatens the
peace of the world is relegated
to a place of minor importance.
In one way, however, it is an
excellent thing that the incident
is receiving such a great share
of publicity as the case demon
strates to thinking persons the
complete and repulsive rotten
ness of our present condition.
The sorrow of frantic parents
makes the incident highly re
grettable but of minor impor
tance. The manner in which
the situation is handled is in
dicative of an age which for
pure shame and putrescence
exceeds any era in our historj.
Weeks of work on the part of
policemen, detectives and secret
service agents have resulted in
complete failure to find the
child or even a trace of him.
These are the forces upon which
the American people depend for
their safety and protection, and
which would be far from bend
ing the same efforts, futile
though they be, on the behalf of
the average citizen.
Far worse than the miserable
inefficiency of our police forces
is the bargaining with the un
derworld which has been a fea
ture of the case. Offers of sym
pathy and help from men whose
hands reek with the blood of
their victims and whose pockets
are lined with money filched and
torn from honest citizens are an
insult to the Lindberghs and to
the nation. When a man' of
Lindbergh's influence stoops to
dickering with criminals to aid
him in the recovery of his child
we have a dangerous precedent.
The step is excusable from the
outlook of sorrowful parents, but
it is a tacit admission of a man
in a position to know what con
ditions really are that the law
is helpless and the gangster
rules. . ,
The weakness of our laws, the
indifference of pur people, and
the corruption of politicians and
officials who have betrayed us,
have exalted to supremacy the
thug and the cut-throat. Mur
der and all the lesser crimes go
unpunished in the circle of rack
ets and gangs which rule our
cities. The laws for which gen
erations of Americans have giv
en their lives and labor are now
scoffed at and ignored. The
present plight of ihe country is
due in no small measure to the
greed and corruption of a few
maintained in power by the lax
ity and indifference of the
masses. The kidnaping serves
to focus attention on our de
plorable condition: If we fail to
profit from the lesson the re
ults will be far more tragic than
the sorrow of the parents, great
though it be. J.F.A.
Still .
Dillydallying
The Student Council has been
conspicuously inefficient in ; its
handling of the recently aroused
interest in the honor system.
This can be viewed as nothing
less than a betrayal of its re
sponsibilities. -
Various organizations, includ
ing The Daily Tar Heel and
the Y. M. C. A., vocalized their
desires to assist the council in
whatever they might decide to
do. This offers of assistance has
been virtually' ignored and the
council has allowed interest in
the matter to wane.
In view of the wide-spread
desire expressed on the campus
last quarter to bring about a re
newal of the spirit of the honor
system and a strengthening of
its machinery, nothing less than
a definite and immediate pro
gram initiated by the council can
satisfythe student body.
Regretable as it is that the
council lets the logical moment
for decisive steps slip by, it is
emphatically necessary that they
act quickly and thoughtfully to
present a program for reinforc
ing the honor system. R.W.B.
SPEAKING
the
CAMPUS MIND
Reply To ' ,
Mr. Tatum
May I make a few brief notes
on your letter which appeared
in The Daily Tar Heel of
March 22. -
Just how far we are from a
" 'Socialist Soviet Republic in
America" is obviously unpre
dictable, but we are most cer
tainly approaching such a state.
The wealthy class is unable and
unfit to be the ruling class of so
ciety. It is unfit to rule, because
it cannot any longer assure an
existence to its slave, for it can
not, due to the fact that further
expansion is almost impossible,
and since much more efficiency is
fatal, help letting him sink into
such a state that it has to sup
port him, instead of being sup
ported by him. What Marx
said in 1848 was never more true
than today, that "the develop
ment of Modern Industry cuts
from under its feet the very
foundation on which the bour
geoisie produces and appropri
ates products. What the bour
geoisie therefore produces,
above all, are its own grave dig
gers. Its fall and the victory of
the proletariat are equally inevi
table." . Belief in God as part of the law
of the United States is just one
evidence of the falsehood of reli
gious freedom -which is freedom
only to those professing religion,
and oppression and denial of
civil and legal rights of those
who have no religion.
Are-Communists assailing the
written (not the practical) "pre
cepts of our government" when
they lead the working class in its
struggle against wage - cuts,
starvation, slavery, lynching,
and war? Is not our own gov
ernment violating some of its
precepts in the cases of oppres
sion such as are represented- by
Mooney-Billings, Sacco-Vanzet-ti,
Centralia, Imperial Valley,
Scottsboro, Harlan, Gastonia,
and Dearborn?
Mr. Tatum, please comfort
and assure your reactionary
mind. Nothing will ever come
from the move of liberal minis
ters into the ranks of those be
trayers of the working class, the
"Socialists," except the strength
ening of the ruling class and a
smoke-screening of its activities.
The Christian religion upholds
and strengthens chiefly, that
powerful institution of Capital
ism which makes men live as
slaves, " without . individuality,
with wars and threats of war
continually at hand. This great
institution destroys the family
like a black plague. How about
our thousands of divorces? How
about the families of the ten mil
lion who have no work? The in
crease in prostitution in .times
of stress? . The exploitation of
women and children? Perhaps
things woukLf are much better if
founded upon Communism than
upon religion. Don't you really
think so, Mr. Tatum?
W. H. DAVIS, JR.
John Reed Club
On December 1 Secretary Mel
lon's son went to work in a
Pennsylvania bank as a clerk,
and in January he was made a
director. America still offers
opportunity to a young man who
has the stuff. Southern Lumberman.
K With
!
Contemporaries
A Place
For Everything
Prohibition is like a good man
vou can't keep it down. - It's
all to the front again. The wets,
defeated in the House of Repre
sentatives by a 277-187 vote, an
nounce that just one more elec
tion and the soda-pop companies
will be filling bottles with light
wine; the student council al
ready has, intimated that just a
few more dances, and it hopes
to deal a body blow to public
drinking at Louisiana State.
It, is not our purpose here to
discuss pro and con the evils and
advantages of drinking and not
drinking. Without any : state
ment of opinion, without any de
sire for argument, ,we shall, to
keep the peace, admit as grant
ed the theory that what a man
does when alone with himself
and his bottle is- his own. busi
ness. But we cannot too strong
ly commend the student council
or any other body in its efforts
to stamp out drunkenness at
dances and other public func
tions. It is not a question of drink-j
1 4V '
ing per se, not a question oi
cause, but of effect what effect
a few drinks and a tuxedo wili
have on a usually perfectly sen
sible man. The two don't mix
as well as you may fancy they
do. Nor do drink and football
mix, nor drink and the theatre
or anything else, if you've had
too much. .
The Greeks had a word for it
the Golden Mean. Happ3''
state ! A place, for everything,
a time for everything, a measure
for everything, including' drink
ing. . Moderation in all points
intelligenfbehavior at all times.
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Inmxrmirmnwnnmni-t ,, . , .,A frj j " H. T9 &
InidiistrY
. The domestic art of baking is closely par
alleled irv, telephone manufacture at Western
Electric, where plastic molding is an exact
science. '
Telephone bell boxes, for instance, are no
longer formed of metal. They are' molded
from a phenol plastic compound containing
carbolic acid, formaldehyde and other ingre
dientsbecause Western Electric manufac
turing engineers saw the way to make a better
A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF INTER. GONNECTIN
And if a man's sober self
could meet his drunken self at
a football game or a dance, he
would soon know that the Gold
en Mean in drinking did not lie
where he thought it did. The
two would - come to blows
through the former's disgust at
the latter-infantile actions.
Reveille.
The Liberal
University
A university which is truly
liberal teaches students to think.
It makes them alert intellectual
ly, and graduates them mature
and conscious individuals into a
new, interesting and intricate
life. Daily Mini.
Mind Over
Matter
Professors tell us at the be
ginning of each new semester
that it is not subject matter that
is important, but that it is the
creation of attitudes and ideals,
but in the end, when mid-terms
and final exams are over, it is
the subject matter that is reck
oned. Are students ever to be held
to account for anything Imt sub
ject matter on tests, be they
daily, mid-term or final? Daily
tests are on subject matter. Mid-
semester grades are based - on
subject matter. Final examina
tions are only check-ups on sub-
( 'Continued on last page)
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It Is Worth Knowing
That
The invention of chariots
- and the manner of harnessing
horses to draw them occurred
as early as' 1486 B.C.
There are 100 different
species of singing birds in the
United States.
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The potato is a native of
Chile and Peru.
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Switzerland exported nine
million watches to various
parts of the world last year.
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Total fire losses in Great
Britain and Ireland in 1931
was nearly $28,000,00.
Fire arms were manufac
tured at Perugia, Italy, Jas
early as 1364.
More than , $3,20Q,000,000
was spent for education in the
United States during 1931.
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The Peking News, the old
est newspaper in the world,
has been published contin
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Gambling was introduced
into England by the Saxons;
the loser was often made a
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