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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, April 14, 1932 The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of 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. CU tinder act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Chas. G. Rose, Jr . ..Editor G. W. Wilson, Jr. Mng. Editor John Manning Business Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemak er, chairman, Henderson Heyward, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborongh, J. F. Alexander, E. C. Daniel, William McKee, R. W. Barnett, Ervin Jaffee, Bon Phillips, Karl Sprinkle. ui 1 tuiruKS w.k. vvoerner, 10m Walker, W. E. Davis, T. H. Brough ton, Claiborn Carr, T. W. Blackwell. FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, Charles Poe, Joseph Sugarman, W. R. Eddleman, A. T. Dill. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD Frank ' Hawley, C. G. Thompson, John Acee, Ed Spruill. REPORTERS J. H. Morris, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, Harold Janofsky, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell, Robert Bolton, P. W. Markley. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gra, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Howard Manning, manager; 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, April 14, 1932 The Tables Reversed - The eyes of the world today are turned to a little' island in the middle of the Pacific where the reputation of a race, a civj ilization, and a nation are on trial. In Honolulu a woman and three men, all white, stand ac cused of the murder of a native. Though defended by one of America's greatest lawyers, it is difficult to see m what way they can justly escape punishment of a severe nature. The crime they are accused of is one. of the most brutal and coldly cal culated murders that has regaled the morbid American public in many a day. vThese four Americans in re venging themselves upon a young' Hawaiian found out tht whereabouts of their victim, Kiananea him Dy means 01 a fake warrant, beat him sense . icoa cum cut xiis tiixucti. vvnen apprehended the four repre sentatives 01 civilization were attempting to dispose of the bloody corpse. It is true that the victim was guilty of an at tack upon the daughter of the accused woman and may well have merited his fate. It is dif ficult, however, to classify such a crime, rnougn ior revenge it was not done in a moment of passion, but coldly and care fully planned and executed. The unparalleled cruelty with which the crime was committed and the insolent and arrogant manner in which the def endants conducted themselves after their arrest - make speedy and fitting l j A? ml pumsnmem imperative. -ii3 woman is a member of "high society" while the men are of ficers in the navy.. In addition they were avenging the great est outrage upon, society, an at tack by a colored man upon a white woman. They seemed to believe that no jury would con vict them despite the fact that they were caught so red handed as to make a defense extremely difficult. The importance of this tria cannot be over emphasized and the nation's reputation hinges upon the outcome. Under the belief that ours is the highest and best civilization we have in vaded the peaceful islands of the Pacific and forced our religion culture, and law upon the in habitants. We have preached the gospels of Christ, the Ten Commandments, and we have en forced the white man's law upon the natives with vigor. Now the situation is reversed and we must practice what we have so lonj preached. The issue is between, justice and fairplay on one side, power, wealth; and privilege on ' the other. There is little doubt as to the guilt of the accused and the question of justification can not enter in. The law is our guarantee of safety and we can allow no one to take it into their own hands. To allow these peo ple to go unpunished is to ab rogate the principles that we havetried to instill into the Ha waiians, and to make us guilty of a colossal hypocrisy. The white man's burden is heaviest when the nation is least fit to carry it. J.F.A. mil m 11 Has Demosthenes No Following? If thru the medium of debati ng societies, more students could be interested in debating, the results would more than reward the effort. The recent debating carnival held in Gerrard hall last week is. an excellent step to wards achieving this goal. Fur ther because of the benefit to the debaters and the audience. - The first beneficial effect of debating, is that it teaches one how to stand up before an audi ence of unlimited size and ex press his thoughts. If every stu dent in college were required to take a course in public speaking or some variation like debating, the graduating student would be greatly benefited. After the student passes thru his moulding-period in this or that uni versity, he goes out into the world to fight for himself, and nothing will benefit him more, in after life, than an ability to face an audience of any size and ad dress them properly. If, however, the student who undertakes debating, finds that as a public speaker he is a fail ure, he has earned the valuable experience of being able to think rapidly and clearly and exactly how to extract the full essence of speech as is necessary in re buttals. This experience alone is worth the labor. 1 Campus leaders are always men who can stand upon a plat form and address the student body; and so'if any student has aspirations towards campus ac tivities, it would benefit him greatly to have the ability to talk as well as make a speech, all of which experiences can be gained thru debating. There are other valuable re wards that can be gained thru an attempt at debating, and if more students would go out and attempt to make debating teams, perhaps the results might aid the student in his after-college-life, in his fight for success. E.J. Norman Thomas, Humanitarian It is impossible to hear Nor man Thomas speak without be ing impressed by his sincerity. He is not a politician. Rather, he is, using his own expression, a social engineer. ' It is impossible to listen to his. theories without being im pressed by his humanitarian concern for the welfare of the American people. He is not a bolshevist. Rather, he is a so cial reformer, seeking the rer habiiitation of democracy. The. principles espoused by Mr. Thomas have a wide appeal, an appeal that reaches all those who, in any way, suffer as consequence of mismanagement on the part of the government and industry. That classification includes most of us, The program of relief and re form which he offers is con structive, comprehensive and theoretically nracticable. It is designed for all classes and for the restoration of universal prosperity. Class warfare does not enter into it ; altruism is its dominant theme. Finally, Mr. Thomas has placed his appeal and his pro gram on a high spiritual plane. The brotherhood of men is the foundation stone of his whole ideal. In government, Sir. Thomas would give democracy back into the hands of the voters. In eco nomics, he would eliminate greed from commercial enterprise. In social service, he would clothe and feed the needy with the overflow from our super-efficient industrial machine. Can any presidential candi date from either of the two major parties point to programs and ideals any more humane than these ? E.C.D. SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND 'English Professors While registering at the beginning of this quarter I went to register for an English course. After being as signed to a section " I inquired as to who was teaching that section. The answer I received was, "sections have not been assigned." Whether or not this is true I do not venture to say, but I can add that every other depart ment have sections assigned before registration. Now the only reason I can give for the falling down of the English department is that they them selves know that there are some pro fessors in that department that stu dents do not desire to have classes un der. If this is true, why do these pro fessors continue to remain here year after year? It seems as though in structors should be picked according to :heir personality and teaching abil ity, and if there are some professors here who do not have the qualmca- tions they should be corrected. More benefit may be obtained by picking the professor than by picking the course. Some argue that no matter who your professor may be if one does his work he will get the grade that he deserves. It seems as though the English depart ment is the one that is most assailed by the students. On the whole the opinions that students give on pro fessors are correct, for they are the best judges. This article does not apply to all professors in the English-department for I can add that the most capable professor I have had was connected with that department. It was in this course that I derived much benefit due to the professor's personality and abil ity. Also, I will not say that the ma jority of the professors in that de- partment win De concerned m mis article; but I will mention that there are some six or seven professors in that department who should be cor rected as to their teaching. Something will have to be done concerning this, and the sooner it is accomplished the better it will be for all parties con cerned. , Now that I have found a fault with the, English department I should like to mention a remedy. There should be a committee appointed of reput able men to choose all incoming in structors, and they should also check every department and weed out all professors who are unpopular due to their inability to teach and unwilling ness to come into closer contact with the students H.S. With Contemporaries College Journalists A nerusal of college newspap ers of many different schools over a period of time would show that the student editor frequently falls prey to a feeling of futility. He learns that a re former is never liked whether his reform is successful or a failure. He finds that he has a rapid turnover of friendships. He becomes aware of those mighty barriers the smaller mossybacked administrative and faculty interests. He frequent ly is outlawed by the thick skulled and the brothers of his fraternity. He knows that few care or will long remember his work. He expects his inten tions to 'be misinterpreted, no matter how obvious the motiva tion for his acts may be. He feels like tossing in the towels fifty times in as many days. He says: "What's the use?" The minute he gives in to his own inclinations for peace, he places himself beneath the sod. If he stops and looks over his problems and troubles in a quizzical fashion, he feels the old animosity stir within him and realize what a life it would be if someone wouldn't disagree and there were nothing to fight about. There need be. no envy of those college editors who are flag pole sitters for two semes ters and permit the rest of the world and even the campus to go by without molestation. The boys who really have the. fun are those who never know how long they will have their scalps, who laugh and defy the bigots and motheaten vested interests, who openly flaunt the epitaphs which have been written for them in advance, and who take matters seriously without becoming ov er serious. There is an art in raising the hornets and doing it so well that they have no comeback. Most of the esteem accorded the active college editor is worth considerably less than the good wholesome hatred he gath ers. He usually has a few staunch friends who are large enough to overlook his hastiness, a faux pas now and then, the seemingly inane and meaning less news or editorials he some times prints, and his somewhat blind adherence to his own pe culiar code. - One consolation, however, makes up for the lost peace and sleek contentment. The adver sities of one who can .openly differ are far more desirable than the dull rote of living which attends the college , editor upon whom the blessings flow because every Tom, Dick, and Harry large and small, has a mortgage )n his soul. Then, too, he always reaches the point where he real izes that his most important is sues and bad setbacks will make excellent material for smiles within another decade. Daily Illini. Whattaman! If reports are correct, Colum bia University has uncovered one of the outstanding professorial lights of the age. Conducting a course in family relations at Columbia, this oasis in a desert of dry pedagogy is declared to have occupied the class time in expounding the advantages of free love to his students. Such a man intrigues the im agination. Students who enroll in his course must enjoy the pleasant sensation of drawing in a lottery, never certain of what will come forth. The subject assigned evidently means noth ing whatever to this scintillat ing scholar. If he were sched uled to teach French literature, he might be expected to re gale the hardy souls sitting under him with arguments prov ing the inferiority of Voltaire to Shaw and the consequent fu tility of considering the works of the great French writer. Or, perhaps, the unsuitability of the Gallic tongue for the higher forms of literary art would ap peal to him as more pertinent to the subject. - At least, no Columbian ever need lack for novelty in studies while a gem of this water re mains on the faculty. The Lord must have broken the mold when he made him, but, since no ade quate successor may be expect ed, let us pray that he will not be lost to our intellectual firma ment. Long may he live ! Stanford Daily. They Don't Know ... Nearly every day we hear some upperclassman say, "I wish I had started this activity, when I was a freshman or a sophomore, but I didn't have the 'drag' to get started." In most cases it isn't that he didn't have the "drag," but more often because he didn't know how to go about getting started.. It is seldom that lack of "pull" keeps a person from holding a responsible position on the cam pus. Though the president of a group or an editor of a publica tion has the1 power, he is man enough not to appoint an in ferior person over the head of one with ability, regardless of friendship. Many times when a freshman makes a good start in some field people say, "So and so got him there." This may be true, but not because he just literally dragged the freshman in, but be cause he could tell this freshman just how to prepare himself for the position. Since a large per cent of soph omores and freshmen have no way of knowing how to get start ed in some activity as well, be cause in most cases the activity needs the student as much as the student needs the activity. Also, it will encourage students to en ter activities who would not do so otherwise. Oregon State Ba-rometer. HOMICIDE IN U. S. IS SUBJECT OF BREARLY'S BOOK Clemson Professor's Latest Book Re leased by University of North Carolina Press. Homicide in the United States by H. C. Brearley has just been released by the University of North Carolina Press. The book is the results of an extensive study made with the help of the Institute of Research in Social Science and suggestions by Dr. Howard W. Odum. The author takes up the different phases of homicide and with their explan ation. He points out that re gions of a high degree qf homi cide have developed -into lawless communities. The purpose of the book is "not to show that the United States is uncivilized but to state and explain the facts." H. C. Brearley is now a pro fessor of sociology in Clemson Agricultural College. Scientists now say the world will last a trillion years. That ought to give us time enough, at all events, to get around the cor ner. Weston Leader. 66 Hello. H a wa n 53 Bringing Hawaii within speaking distance of the United States is one of the latest achievements of the Bell System in its pro gram of telephone service extension. Five years ago the United Z es had tele phone connection only with Canada, Cuba, and the Mexican border. Since then, Bell engineers have so developed, radio telephony that handling calls to Europe, South America, Australia, Bermuda, Samoa, and Hawaii is daily routine. Today, more than 31,000,000 telephones can be reached - approximately 92 of all the telephones in the world ! Making ,the telephone practically world wide in reach promotes understanding be tween nations. ' It has far reaching effects com mercially and politically. Thaf s what puts the thrill into such Bell System pioneering. BELL SYSTEM A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF INTE R-GON NECTIN G TELEPHONES
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