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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. C, under act
of March 3, 1879. Subscription price,
?4.00 for the college year.
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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 Yarboroagh, J. F.
Alexander, E. C. Daniel, William
McKee, R. W. Barnett, Ervin Jaffee,
Bon Phillips, Karl Sprinkle.
CITY EDITORS W. R. Woerner, Tom
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
Janof sky, 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
Gray, 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.
Friday, April 15, 1932
Political Maneuvering '
At Its Worst '
The most hypocritical piece of
political maneuvering that has
been seen in this country in
years- is now going on in the
capital of this great enlightened
democracy of ours. Members of
Congress, believing themselves
to be statesmen working for the
best interests of the public, are
allowing themselves to be bull
dozed into backing the idea of
giving World War veterans full
payment joi their bonuses im
mediately.1 These, so-called,
statesmen are fighting, appar
ently wholeheartedly, for the
passage of one of the numerous
bonus bills, knowing full-well
that Herbert Hoover will veto
the bill when it comes to him for
signature.
They give as their reason for
such an action that by thus plac
ing more money into circulation
they will thereby be taking a
step toward prosperity, andr at
the same time be alleviating the
condition of unemployment over
the country. But herein lies the
fallacy. One of their underly
ing reasons for taking such a
move is that they might be rea
sonably assured that the Ameri
can Legion will back them in the
forthcoming elections.
Disregarding the difficulties
that the authorities in Washing
ton are now having in trying to
present a balanced budget, these
self-acclaimed statesmen are
doing all in their power to make
certain their re-election.
But the condemnation n does
not stop here. There are the
thousands of Legionaires who in
1918 fought to save their coun
try, who are now fighting just
as hard to cripple it. They are
the cause behind this whole af
fair. They are the ones who be
cause of havihg sacrificed their
lives for their country are now
demanding practically the same
in return. They are the ones
who would, because they are
politically able, are trying, and
in many cases succeeding, to
order members of Congress
around at the crack of their
whip. And they are the ones
who, with times as hard as they
are today, are about to sap the
life-blood of the government by
demanding that they be given
full payment of their bonuses
which ordinarily would not fall
due untiM945.
The United States is not in a
position to make this payment
at present. In the opinion of
some economists, it will result in
a decided decrease in the value
of a dollar, and may possibly end
in the government s having to
go off the gold standard. It will
be a critical step for the govern
ment to have to take.
But if the people will but
wake up to the fact that the
'American Legion is trying to
put something over on them just
because it is powerful enough to
do so, they will rally against the
move and see to it that the bonus
bill does not even pass Congress
But may they awake before it
is too late!
Round
Two
The University of Oklahoma
has recently revised its electoral
system so as to set up certain
scholastic qualifications for of
fice-holders and to put control of
the elections more into the
hands of the faculty. Under
their new system, each voter
must have a certificate of eli
gibility signed by his dean be
fore he can vote; a dean pre
sides at the ballot box; and the
votes are counted by represen
tatives of the faculty. Such a
system of faculty supervision is
entirely contrary to the theory
of student government at Caro
lina, but the reforms at Okla
homa call our attention to sev
eral reforms that are needed in
our own electoral system.
The secret ballot, for which
the Tar Heel has so long pled,
was finally adopted for last
week's election. Now the stu
dents have an opportunity to ex
press their true opinion at the
polls, without fear of coercion
or restraint by "politicians."
However, many other reforms
are needed. We still go through
the useless formality of electing
men-to such offices as vice-presi
dent of the sophomore class. All
class officers, except the more or
less necessary, presiding officers
and perhaps treasurers of the
two upper classes, are utterly
useless. We elect annually four
class vice-presidents whose duty
is to have their pictures taken
for the Yackety Yack. We have
secretaries who have nothing to
do but read the minutes, of the
previous meeting, and seldom
do that. We have treasurers
who wait all year to perform
their one duty writing a -check
for the expenses of the class
dance. And most silly of all,
we have freshman class officers
who are elected in February and
hold office until April. They
serve for eight weeks, and have
no discoverable duties at all.
The captain of the Wapscott
College horseshoe-pitching team
has a tremendous burden of re
sponsibility compared to that of
the vice-president of the fresh
man class.
The sole use of these minor
class offices is to strenghten
political machines and shed un
earned glory on ambitious
young worthies. If they are
abolished, aspiring candidates
for the presidency of the student
body will no longer be- able ' to
secure the support of the Tappa
Nu Kegs by offering their
pledges, Johnny Jones, the posi
tion of secretary of the sopho
more class, nor will Johnny's
proud mother be able to show
the envious neighbors Johnny's
prominently displayed picture
in the Yackety Yack; but the
elections at Carolina would be
much more sensible. The Tar
Heel again proposes that all
freshman class offices &nd all
class vice-presidencies be abol
ished, and that the offices of sec
retary and treasurer of the var
ious classes be combined. This
would be a much more simple
and sensible arrangement, and
would be a step toward the elim
ination of much of the silly
superfluity for which college life
is so much criticized. -D.M.L.
The Philippine Islands recent
ly experienced the coldest weath
er since 1914 when the mercury
dropped to sixty degrees above
zero. Christian science Moni
tor. v
THE DAILY
"Politician"
A Stigma? ;
In yesterday's Daily Tar
Heel editorial columns there ap
peared the statement that Nor
man Thomas was not a politi
cian. This statement was meant
to be complimentary, but why
is it that this term politician
seems to carry with it a meas
ure of opprobrium and disre
spect? Certainly a man who de
votes his life to serving the pub
lic, who assumes responsibility
in seeing that the wishes of his
constituency are carried out,
and who blazes the way in poli
tical thought certainly this
man should be looked up to and
admired. Yet the phrase, "just
a politician," is damning and
carries not even faint praise.
The man described above
would undoubtable receive the
adulation of his followers, , but
politicians of this type are so
rare that they are not thus
classified: They are statesmen
and "fearless leaders" who never
hesitate to express themselves
on any issue and will attempt to j
persuade recalcitrant followers
of the error of their ways. Far
from this ideal is the common
"run-of-the-money" politician of
today. Grafting, bargaining,
timid, and afraid of militant
minorities ; he is far from an
edifying figure in the responsible
offices of our national, state,
and city governments.
In accounting for the politi-
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cian ot toaay one must aeive
back into history to the end of
the Civil War. Before this per
iod a politician was apt to be an
outstanding man, but along with
the profound changes wrought
by the War for Secession came
the new office holder. Even the
Presidents were mediocre, with
Cleveland alone standing out be
tween the administrations of
Lincoln and Roosevelt. Lead
ers in Congress were cast from
an even worse mold. Sumner,
Wade, and Chase of the recon
struction period ; Conkling,
Carolina, and Heflin of Ala
bama these and others less
prominent have helped tear
down the prestige of being a
politician.
The conditions which have
permitted these men to have be
come so common that their type
is tolerated in Congress and the
state legislature, and even ac
cepted as a matter of course, are
deplorable; but until something
nearer economic equality is
achieved, mediocre politicians
placed by the "vested interests"
will continue to hold office. As
it is, a man who breaks party
lines, who "does- not play up to
rich corporations, and who
dares to defy well organized
minorities such asthe Anti-Saloon
League and the American
Legion stands little chance of
being re-elected, if, indeed, this
courageous man could ever have
been elected. B.P.
With.
Contemporaries
The Sanford
Inquisition
Methods reminiscent of the
Spanish Inquisition and paral
leling the modern third degree
of the police were employed at
the joint meeting of the Men's
and Women's Councils last Mon
day night in the trial of certain
members of a geology class,
many of whom were women, who
were suspected of cheating.
The students under suspicion
were closeted in separate rooms
until, they appeared before the
Councils. Upon being brought
in, they were subjected 'to a
cross-questioning usually reserv
ed for hardened criminals, in an
effort to trip them up on a minor
or even irrevelant point.
One girl was informed upon
facing the Councils that a girl
just previously questioned had
TAR HEEL
confessed that she was guilty
and had also said that this girl
was implicated. The girl facing
the inquisitors denied the accu
sation, and found out afterwards
that the other girl had neither
confessed nor implicated her
but that the scheme was a trick
to force her into an admission of
guilt. .
Jn using such tactics the
Councils are not only overstep
ping the bounds of decency, but
are working against their own
interests, which are the preser
vation and maintenance of their
Honor Code. - - v
The Men's Council has insti
gated an educational plan in an
effort to instill in the students
a sense of honor necessary for
the success of the Honor Code,
which consists of an abhorrence
of cheating and a willingness to
report violators of the Code.
Police court methods will
cause the students to regard the
Councils as a force inimical to
their welfare, which they should
frustrate in every possible way.
Without student co-operation
the Councils can accomplish
nothing and the Honor Code will
be a failure. Such co-operation
cannot be gained by roughhouse
tactics.' Instead they will force
the students to band together
against a body which seeks to
bulldoze them into an'admission
of guilt, especially when in
many instances the student may
be innocent.
Perhaps the Councils should
not be criticized ioo heavily. The
present system is in a stage of
trial and the Councils have er
red. If they realize their mistake
and correct their methods, the
damage done can be quickly re
paired. The Sanford Daily.
The
Cigaret
"Necessity is the mother of
invention," we often hear. The
cigaret, which is so popular to
day, was just such an invention,
and this year marks its hun
dredth anniversary.
According to a French inves
tigator who has traced its origin,
it was first discovered by gun
ners besieging Acre, Syria, in
1832. A consignment of tobacco j
was sent to tne soldiers witn
pipes for smoking it.- During
transit the pipes were broken,
and when it arrived many of the
soldiers found that they had no
way of smoking the tobacco.
The ingenious soldiers press
ed into service the little tubes of
India paper ordinarily loaded
with powder for priming
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1931 MADE HISTORY IN SHIP ELECTRIFICATION
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GENERAL
charges. They took the tubes
and filled them "with tobacco. So
it was that cigarets were first
discovered more or less by acci
dent; but it was a discovery that
has grown into one of the largest
industries, in the country.
Daily Kansah.
At the University, of Berlin,
students are permitted a period
Bring a
PRING
You'll, surely welcome,
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these mornings. Delicious,
toasted rice bubbles that
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milk or cream. What could
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much of a change from the
heavy, hot dishes of winter!
And truth to tell, we
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steam-heated houses and
closed automobiles. Cold
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They meet a French girl!
She shows them a hot time
in the old Paris Town! You,
too, must come over
Thisls
The Night
with
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LILY DAMITA
Charlie Ruggles
Roland Young
Thelma Todd
Also
A two-reel special "The War in China"
And Paramount News
Now
Playingr
Saturday
SPENCER TRACY
YOUNG
WAV- A .
ECAUSE the combined horsepower of
-huih11-1 L in
stalled and now in process of rnnmrHnn n..j i.l .u.
i . i nr-A," , me one minion, mark.
dunng the year. BECAUSE -the Pr,sidtn, fW, first aI.eectric ship buiIt in
Amenca for commercial transoceanic service, completed its first round trip to
Asiatic ports. BECAUSE the T;, the first of the largest electrically
propelled Fleet ever laid down, wardelivered to its owners. BECAUSE elec
tnfication-ar, Americacontribution to marine transportation-was adopted
by the leadmg shipbuilding countries the world. BECAUSE," on the high'
seas and on inland waterways, electrically propelled ships established new
records for speed and continuous operation. . General Electric engineers
novonly peered the application of electric propulsion, but have made
many contnbut.ons to ,ts development during the last two decades. By the
Un.ted Ftuit Company s fleet, college-trained General Fl,-w, l
,A , a. .-I- i general tlectnc engineers have
made another striking contribution to American kir,U;U- i ,, ,
emn shipbuilding and wor d trade.
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of six weeks in which to ana
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Oberiin Review.
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