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Tuesday, September 27, 1932
The Other Side
Of the Fence
President Hoover's opposition
to the immediate payment of the
soldiers' bonus was to be expect
ed. On this issue, he again dem
onstrated his consistency in in
consistency. It has been the policy of the
Republican administration, in at
tempting to rehabilitate our
bankrupt nation, to grant finan
cial aid only to corporate organ
izations. None of the federal
credit organizations, the Recon
struction Finance Corporation,
the Federal Reserve system, the
Home Loan banks, the Agricul
tural Credit Corporation, or the
Federal Farm Board, make loans
to individuals. Farmers, home
owners, and small business men
seeking the use of federal relief
funds must secure loans through
the regular private channels.
. The present administration
does not believe in the direct
method of returning prosperity
by placing money in the hands
of hard-pressed individuals.
Rather, it pours dollars into (the
upper economic strata, hoping
that a few nickels and dimes will
seep through to lower levels.
The mass lobby on the Bonus
Expeditionary Force in Wash
ington and the American Legion
in convention assembled have
asked the administration to deny
this principle in granting the
bonus. Consistent with his in
consistent policy, President Hoo
ver declared against the proposed
veterans' raid on the public pan
try.
Candidate Roosevelt's pro
nouncement on the bonus issue,
scheduled for late October, is
awaited with interest. Appar
ently, this politically shrewd op
portunist is waiting late to see
how many votes he will need in
November and how many votes
the veterans will be able to give
him before he commits his opin
ion on the question.
It is significant that the Amer
ican .Legion aid not censure
President Hoover for evicting
the bonus army, as it threatened
to do. Another consideration for
Governor Roosevelt is the fact
that the Democratic party took
no platform stand on the issua.
Most probably, he would not get
the complete support of the
American Legion if he should
declare for the bonus and he
might run the risk of alienating
a faction of his own party.
The picture of Franklin Roose
velt stepping down from his
party's platform to play tag with
the bonus boys would be as ab
surd as the boner (dry) that
Charlie Curtis pulled when he
went over to the blue nose back
yard, leaving Herbert Hoover
astraddle the prohibition fence,
with a tenpenny nail from the
prohibition plank in his pants.
Meanwhile, President Hoover
is to be commended for his cour
ageous stand against the at
tempted bonus raid. It is to be
hoped that Governor Roosevelt
will be able to reconcile an anti
bonus utterance with his recent
ly assumed liberal attitude. The
bonus should not be made a par
tisan issue. E.C.D,
Residue
. Paradoxes confront anyone
who will see them. The so-called
bad men are often found to have
gentle and sympathetic hearts ;
the so-called bad conventions or
systems are found to be the best
that we can use practically ; and
so it is that in the process" of
fraternity rushing are to be
found certain virtues that are
buried in the hypocricy and bur
lesque of the system.
That freshmen find themselves
suddenly plunged in a feverish
atmosphere during their first
fortnight is undeniable. But in
spite of full-blown and some
times comic affectations and pre
tensions there exists something
that every year remains after the
panic of pledge-grabbing is over.
And what remains is some
thing that all of the efforts of
Y. M. C. A. and Administration
have failed to provide; to wit,
an intimate and significant intro
duction of the new men to the
old men.
The average freshman, after
his first month, knows more
campus personalities than the
average junior. Ana it is not
being outlandish to point out
that, with all of the damning
characteristics of the "system,"
the many contacts formed dur
ing the two weeks of fraternity
rushing are a happy conse
quence. The succeeding two weeks pre
sent a substantial portion of the
student body with an extraor
dinary, if highly organized op
portunity for acquainting them
selves with many members of
our University population. Not
to recognize this is to neglect an
obvious opportunity. R.W.B.
Shooting Galleries
And Adolescents
A most expensive and sub-
adolescent game much in vogue
ast year has been revived since
the opening of the present school
year. Many times last year the
municipal government found it
necessary to replace large elec
tric bulbs in the street lamps,
which had been demolished by
playful "college boys." These
lamps cost the town one dollar
and a half each. This sum
when multiplied to a large de
gree presents a figure which
makes quite a hole in the budget
of a town as small as this. With
the amount of suffering due to
economic conditions as great as
it is it appears that this amount
could be far better utilized for
purposes of emergency relief.
However, the streets must be
properly illuminated, and as
long as the destructive impulses
of adolescent youth are allowed
their full sway this distressing
condition must continue.
Amusing as the sport may be,
so great has the skill of the par
ticipants become that the mortal
ity rate of the lamps has now
made the game far too expensive
for so modestly a financed muni
cipality.
Were this activity confined
solely to the freshman ranks, all
might yet be comparatively well,
but sad to say members of the
upper classes are also guilty of
this childish depredation.
A decade or so ago the" cam
pus was a victim of sustained
pistol fire from the dormitory
windows during the hours imme
diately after supper. As one of
the nrolessors said. It was as
much as your life -was worth to
cross the campus after supper.
This situation, was finally quel
led, but only after disastrous re
sults.
The University is generally
conceded to be the center of lib
eralism in the South, but liber
alism stretches just so far, and
then the common welfare begins
to take precedence over any in
hibitions which may be aggra
vated by, restraint from
throwing rocks at street lamps.
o.s.s. ' .'.
And if the country is in as
bad shape as the Democratic ora
tors say it is, we can't under
stand why so many of them want
to be President of it. Judge.
A novelist has confessed to a
gossip-writer that his hobby is
fishing. It is what novelists do
for a living that causes all the
real trouble. Punch.
THE DAILY
OUR TIMES
By Don Shoemaker
Books Make
The Man
In a suspiciously smug editor
ial, the Asheville Times com
ments on the early literary life
of Mr. Calvin Collidge, president
in the era known as the Golden
Age of Calvin the First. The
Skyland sheet lists fourteen vol
umes which Coolidge says form
ed his early intellectual stimula-
ion, expounded upon in an ar
ticle "Books of My Childhood"
which appears in the Cosmopoli
tan magazine.
The list smacks of the variety
of classics read by our great
backwoods statesmen, and is
slightly redolent of the odor of
burning pine knots arid home
made candles :
The Rangers or The Tory's
Daughter.
The Green Mountain Boy.
Washington and His Generals.
Men of Our Times.
Biography of General Garfield.
Livingstone Lost and Found.
Hillard's Sixth Reader.
Choice Poems and Lyrics.
Captain John Brown.
History of the Indian Wars.
Young People's Bible History.
The New Testament.
Life and State Papers of Lin
coln.
Orations of Cicero.
The Times remarks to the ef
fect that the books indicate op
portunity for good educational
background but it seems a little
skeptical as to just what quali
ties they might provoke in giv
ing a college educated man, as is
Mr. Coolidge, a modern political
background. "They are in no
sense great or by authors of
marked talent."
Yet the real issue is avoided.
Great books oftimes are not so
stimulating as those which fire
the imagination and exercise the
vocabulary. Inspiration is guag-
ed in the manner in which the
reader absorbs the good qualities
of the book. Should he extract,
in the heat of interest, but ten
ideas and words from a volume
which is attractive despite its
mediocrity, he gleans something
of value transcending a thous
and dull passages from a thous
and dull major classics.
Reynard "
On the Loose
Pete, a red fox in Central Park
Zoo, found his way through the
bars of his prison several days
ago and made a short dash for
liberty which culminated after a
three blocks chase in capture by
a mob of excited bystanders. The
Associated Press tells us that
Reynard now mourns the fact
that he could not keep training
after three years of incarcera
tion, his flabby muscles abandon
ing him in the rigors of the
chase. Some will compare Mr.
Fox to John J. Business. The
latter gentleman broke training
on a memorable October morn
ing just three years ago. He's
had a pretty hard time pacing
up and down in his cage, and
when he tries a break, his un
trained muscles give away as the
ever alert pack closes in, eager
to trap him before he gets a de
cent start.
SOPH ORDERS TAP
FORTY NEW MEN
(Continued from first page)
,"13" Club : Sigma Alpha Ep
silon, William Sadler; Beta
Theta Pi, Frank Wilson; Alpha
fau Omega, Newman Lockwood ;
Phi Gamma Delta, Henry Bridg
ers; Pi Kappa Alpha, Albert
Clark; Sigma Nu, Homer Lucas;
Zeta Psi, William Harrison;
Delta Psi, Harry Schaack; Phi
Delta Theta, Curtis Cloud; Del
ta Tau Delta, Jimmy Mathew-
son ; Chi Phi, Lewis Peeler ; Sig
ma Chi, Chapin Litten; Kappa
Alpha, Richard Willis.
TAR HEEL
Edgar W. Knight Tells
Of Conditions In Iraq
(Continued from first page)
tribes and innumerable mosque
schools in which the. principal
subject taught is the Koran.
But the masses of the people
have not yet been reached by
education. It is estimated that
ninety-five per cent of the popu
lation is illiterate. Moreover,
the masses are afflicted with pre
ventable diseases, among the
worst of which is trachoma and
bilharzia, due in main, it is be
lieved, to lack of sanitation and
the filthy conditions that pre
vail generally m the country.
Water is very scarce in Iraq.
The position of women and
children is very low. The atti
tude toward children is almost
brutal and the education of the
women has long been neglected.
But since the British came in
during the World War and broke
the power of the Turks who had
dominated Iraq for several cen
turies, some provision has been
made for schools for girls and
women, in isagaaa are a medi
cal school and a very good hos
pital, still in charge of the Brit
ish. Raiding on Decline
Raiding which has so long
been looked upon as a legitimate
occupation of the desert tribes
is rapidly on the decrease, being
broken up chiefly by aeroplanes.
By this means the Bedouins are
moving pretty rapidly from a
nomadic life to settled agricul
ture. The automobile also has
been widely introduced in the
country and has displaced the
camel which has for so long been
the chief source of wealth for
the desert tribes.
With internal peace and pro
tection (which the British gov
ernment has guaranteed Iraq)
from outside enemies, such as
Persia might become, and given
a strong national government, as
King Faisal shows promise of
developing, the Iraq people may,
Professor Knight believes, re-
i
gam m part tne nign position
which the Arabs held centuries
ago, when Bagdad was the larg
est city in the world and the
center of culture and wealth in
the Near or Middle East.
But such reforms must be
worked through education of the
right kind fundamentals in ag
riculture and economics, engi
neering, sanitation and health
and preventive medicine. Ob
jectives such as these were rec
ommended by the Commission
rather than the formal Western
education which has been too
much imposed, many observers
believe, upon some of the Far
Eastern countries such as China.
SELF-HELP APPLICATIONS
REGISTER BIG INCREASE
Edwin S. Lanier, University
self-help secretary, announced
yesterday that there has been a
considerable increase this year
in the number of applications
for work sent in by students to
the University self-help bureau.
About 1900 inquiries have been
sent in, and nearly 1,000 formal
applications are on file as com
pared with 1,500 inquiries and
625 applications last year. La
nier announced that up to yes
terday, the self-help bureau had
been instrumental in securing
part time jobs for approximately
200 students for the year 1932
33. Last year at this time about
350 boys had been given jobs.
It is estimated that 350 students
are now doing work to help de
fray their expenses at the Uni
versity. The Self-Help bureau, of
vy nxn .i-iaiiiei is neaa, was or
ganized by the Y. M. C. A., and
it functions through the Univer-
ait.y ocii-neip committee, ap
pointed by President Graham,
and the self-help secretary, who
is a member of that committee.
Purdue Inaugurates
Prograhi Of Economy
(Big Ten News Service)
Economy is the item of the
day in all circles at Purdue uni
versity this term. Fraternities
have reduced their house bills,
honoraries are cutting their ex
penses and lowering their initia
tion fees, the men's Pan-hellenic
council has temporarily abolish
ed homecoming decorations as
an economy measure, and. the
same organization has removed
the clause requiring member
houses to take a definite number
of tickets for their annual for
mal dance.
President E. C. Elliott speak-,
ing recently before a group of
campus leaders urged the stu
dents to revise their social bud
gets and abolish unnecessary ex
penditures. The president cited
two reasons : "That there is a
larger number of students than
ever before who are without sur
plus of resources, and that we
are carrying on our work under
a very critical eye."
The Purdue Exponent has
adopted an economy policy for
Purdue of five items, namely,
the reduction in ticket prices of
traditional and popular dances,
the abolition of minor and in
consequential functions, reduc
tion of honorary dues; abolition
of class dues, and reduction in
cost of cadet officers luncheons.
Greater Number Of
Graduate Students
In Commerce School
All previous records in the
number of graduate students en
rolled in the school of economics
and commerce were broken this
year by the enrollment last week
of twenty-one students in the
graduate school. This number
is beyond that of the number en
rolled during any past year and
is an increase of seven students
over the number enrolled last
year.
In addition to being the larg
est graduate class the school of
economics and commerce has en
rolled, the wide distribution of
the schools from whence the stu
dents come is astonishing. The
following institutions of learn
ing are represented in this small
class of twenty-one: Duke, Co
lumbia, University of Tokyio,
Clemson, University of South
Carolina, Mississippi A. and M.,
Peabody Institute, St. Lawrence
university, Southwest univer
sity, University of Mississippi,
Emory university, and the Uni
versity of Virginia.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
STARS AT CAROLINA
Cary Grant, showing at the
Carolina theatre today in his
latest film, "Devil and the Deep,"
starring Tallulah Bankhead, ran
away from home as a youth in
his native England to join a
theatrical troupe.
, When going to the " theatre.
students are asked to deposit in
the ballot box located in the lob
by votes for contestants in Chap
el Hill's Greater Prosperity Con
test. All merchants
ing in this content will give one
hundred votes for each dollar
spent or paid on account. These
votes may be given for someone
already nominated, or for new
contestants, including the holder
oi tne votes.
water Will Wear
away a, stone, and also disrupt a
stock exchange. Brunswick Pilot.
O'Kelly Tailoring Co.
5-HOUR SERVICE
Phone 3531
Oldest In Town
Tuesday, September 27, 193Z
LIBRARY AT DUKE
STANDS FIRST IT
SOUTHEAST AREA
Department at Durham School
Takes Ranking Formerly
Held by Library Here.
Duke faculty . members and
students beginning the fall sem
ester at the university have ac
cess to approximately 328,700
volumes, comprising the highest
ranking library in the southeast,
taking first place over the li
brary here. These volumes are
contained in the general library
of the university, the law and
medical libraries, the woman's
college library, and several de
partmental collections.
During the past year the Duke
ibrary has added 61,321 volumes
and 145 periodical subscriptions.
The total number of newspapers
and periodicals now received
amounts to 2,223.
In the manuscript department,
the library contains about 200,
000 letters, documents, diaries,
account books, and other his
torical records. One of the rar
est treasures in this department
is a twelfth century illuminated
manuscript of the New Testa
ment. Approximately 6,000 volumes
of American and foreign news
papers dating from, colonial
times are also in the library.
Thousands of empty bottles
were found in the Chicago sta
dium after the Democratic con
vention adjourned. The ex
planation must be that the place
wasn't cleaned up after the Re
publican convention the week
before.- Arkansas Gazette.
Lacock's Shoe Shop
Basement Stetson "D" Store
Half Soles, 65c, 75c, $1. Heels, 35c, 50c
Phone 4271
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Friday
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