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Page Two ht Saflp Car teel 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. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Chas. G. Rose, Jr..............:.......Editor Geo. W. Wilson............Mgrr Editor R. D. McMillan.. . ..Bus. Mgr. Thursday, September 29, 1932 Essential to a Well-Rounded Education With the organization meeting of the Young Republicans club tonight and a similar meeting of the Young Democrats in the next few days, there will be un officially added to the University cirriculum a course in national and state politics: which might well be required of every stu dent before receiving his diplo ma. The education received in this sort of activity is essential to the make-up of a well-rounded college graduate. He is soon to become, if he is not already of age, a voting citizen, with the power to cast his vote on ques tions and issues of vital impor tance to the government. And unless at some time during his training he has learned to think seriously on political questions, he will be unfit to cast his vote intelligently. To a great many of the col lege students today a national or state election is nothing more than a matter of course. Most of them consider it out side their field even to think about the outcome, much less to be interested enough to discuss the issues at stake. But in taking this attitude they apparently overlook the fact that in the next few years they will . . be ' the ones upon whose shoulders will rest the entire responsibility of the elec tions. And by not taking an act ive interest in politics now and getting all the information they can about it, they are "putting off until tomorrow something that should be done today." When the time does come for them to take over the reins of govern ment, they must of necessity be gin anew an activity which they could, and should, have taken up while in college. The Young Republicans' and Young' Democrats', clubs on this campus will be meeting regular ly during the next few months to discuss the issues, of the com ing campaign as well as to hear instructive addresses by various party leaders. Those students who fail to join one of the organizations and take an active interest in the group's proceedings will be robbing themselves of an essen tial part of their college educa tion. High Priced Glory . The cost of actual war is neg ligible. In the experience of the United States, the aftermath of war is more than doubly ex pensive. It cost this country 24 billion dollars to engage in the World War. Its total bill for post war beneficences will amount to 50 or 100 billions. Annually, the United States government pays out 850 mil lion dollars, or one-fourth of the total governmental expenses, to veterans of the War. Increas ing each year, this figure wil reach a peak of 2 billions per year in 1949. Although it participated in the conflict during only one-third of its duration, the United States hands out more cash to veterans than England, France and Ger many combined. While the num ber of those receiving govern ment aid for war service has de creased in other nations during the past 14 years, veteran treas ury-raiders in this country have increased. The known truth of this situ ation is that soldiers who never saw over-seas service and veter ans who received no injuries in combat are sharing equally in compensation with veterans who saw service and were wounded. While the need of disabled vet erans and their dependencies can not be denied, it is also evi dent that a colossal graft on ederal funds is being engi neered. Upon the least imag inable pretenses, ex-soldiers are extortioning money from a de pleted treasury and bankrupt axpayers. Abuses of this na ure have multiplied by the hun dreds. The hopes and schemes of the veterans are sponsored by dan gerous and selfish organizations with no ethically legitimate right to their political power. These groups constitute a vig orous minority. They are tor ever coercing and threatening political office-holders into grant ing their demands, which are usually antagonistic to the best interest of the whole people. If Franklin Roosevelt will for get partisanship and stand with President Hoover in opposition o the immediate payment of the bonus, perhaps a setback may be given the torces ot the avari cious veterans. E.C.D. 'ay and 'ay Well Yet again the devotees of American intercollegiate foot ball are paying with one hand to witness games and seeking with the other to annihilate the sport for its commercialization. Reed Harris, fresh from a sensation al tenure of office on the Colum bia Spectator, frankly brands the game as a racket in his re cently published King Football. And still the colleges insist that football is fought for the love of the game and the glory of Alma Mater. The situation would be laugh able, if it were not so decisive an indictment of the hypocrisy and double-sealing of the parties concerned. Since the. public pays, despite its objections, the issue resolves itself into a moral one. To rid the intercollegiate grid iron of the falsity and duplicity that now pervades it The Daily Tar Heel suggests that football players be paid and paid well for their athletic services ; that each college make public its salary list and advertise . the fact its ath- etes will receive remuneration ; and that the men be paid in pro portion to their worth to the, team and to the gate they draw. If the Eastern Intercollegiate Association ratified and sponsor ed such procedure and the bal ance of the leading university organizations ratified it, the pub ic would cease its yelping. The players and schools themselves would have a healthier back ground for their efforts. Subter fuge, small-fry diplomacy, and intercollegiate jealousy ' would be reduced to a minimum. Aside from the resultant just- ice lor this action mere is ine logical analogy to other univer sity activities. The heads of publications, officers of societies, and non-faculty workers are all paid for extra-curricular work. Surely none would deny that football players are as deserving of pecuniary reward as are the editors of college papers. By thus placing football on an open commercial basis, inter collegiate sport would be cleans ed of the moral evil that now saturates it. Spectators at the games would be more whole hearted in their support and per haps a higher type player would be developed. Surely the result would be nothing less than an opportunity for the institution to fel on the level once more J.J .S. Life and Letters By Edith Harbour Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sub lime if we are willing to sacri fice greatness on the altar of sublimity, and the letters they leave behind warn us that we can't be too careful how we use our signatures. In the olden days the Life and Letters of prominent men appeared in two thick volumes at a decent inter val after the death of the sub ject. These life-histories, bur dened down with genealogical material, were generally written by a son, nephew, or other near male relative of the deceased. Thus any derogatory facts were carefully deleted and the hero was ever the virtuous inight in bright, and shining armor clad. It is our humble opinion that men have always been men just as women have always been partly human beings and partly females in suspense. sj: j Life may be a bowl of cherries or it may be a transparent, glob ular soap bubble reflecting pris matic rays of slanting light. Life may be rhythm or it may be dis cord. But whatever it is we be lieve in the good old theory of laissez-faire as applied to life and living as well as to the world's economic affairs. Which is merely our way of saying that we have no Grim Purpose in writing this column, for we dis covered at a tender age that those fiery zealots who would reform the world had best begin their reformation at home. We are quite aware that there is much of art, beauty, and balder dash in life as well as in letters, but it's bad to have our kind of a mind wandering around with nothing to feed upon. And as every good Forsyte knows, rub bish which breaks into print lis not rubbish at all far from it. Of letters there are various kinds. In the beginning the Phoenicians invented symbolic letters which formed an alpha bet. Since when mere mortals have been inundated with busi ness letters, friendly letters, love letters, letters of introduction, letters of credit, letters of mar que from God,' and belles lettres. Since it is easier to wire than to write home for money, it is the field of literature which is of primary interest, to us. Any thing worth reading which ap pears in this column may safely be said to have been plucked from out some quaint and curi ous volume of forgotten lore. We earned about life from books. In fact, we once worked for a couple of years in a library, one of those collegiate structures inside whose stately portals one might easily sleep in peace. It was there that an earnest student of men ana manners asKea ior Henry Ford's autobiography of George Washington! for handling the funny sheet and the board will realize a hand some revenue on surplus copies. A student staff member will transport copies to dealers on his motorcycle. May the editors re member that "clean dirt" is OUR TIMES By Don Shoemaker The Buc Voyages Afar Bernard Solomon, business manager, announces new plans for the off -campus distribution of the Carolina Buccaneer, stu dent funny magazine chaperoned by the Publications Union Board. The Buc is to be placed on news stands in Durham, Ra leigh, and possibly Greensboro, with an eye to the collegiate field in those three centers. Distri butors will receive a good profit equally attractive and desirable in our neighboring institutions, who are inclined to be critical, as it has been decreed here at home. Lion's Share , -This column is continually re minded that prices on student text books seem abnormally high in this year of economical em barrassment. Not infrequently students are requested to pur chase text books ranging in price from four to six dollars, often several of them for the same course. Texts for higher Eng lish courses and curriculum in the field of applied science fall more into the latter category. Whether the publisher exacts too high a due "from the book stores or whether the latter organiza tions ask the high price is not made public. Nevertheless there is dissatisfaction in the student body. Cornell and Wisconsin sell books on a . co-operative plan. The student takes out member ship in one of the organizations concerned in the peddling of text books and receives remuneration at the end of the school term on a percentage oasis. The cnecK to each member at the end of the year based on the size of his pur chases through the term usually totals a handsome sum. Light From The Darkness " John M. Gibson, an alumnus of the University, edits an ad mirable little journal The Sana torium Sun, which this publica tion has been receiving recently. This attractive little news sheet has to do with life and progress at the North Carolina Sanator ium, Sanatorium, N. C, where its sunny columns are avidly pe rused by inmates broken in health and oftentimes despond ent in spirit. Gibson graduated from the University in 1919 and continued his studies first at Col umbia and then at the Univer sity of Paris. Following the be ginnings of a brilliant newspa per career both here and on the continent he came to the Sana torium in 1927 for tubercular treatment. After his release in 1929 he began to devote his journalistic talents to chroni cling the events of his most re cent home. An article "The New Surgical Treatment of Tu berculosis of .the Lungs" written by Gibson appears in the Arts and Science department of a na tionally famous monthly maga zine this fall. PHI INDUCTS NEW LEADERS AT FIRST MEETING TUESDAY (Continued from first page) Kelly said that this session showed prospects of being the best in the last several years and urged all members to take an active part in the discussions and activities of the assembly. After the speaker's address, the assembly discussed the bill: Resolved that the Phi assembly go on record as favoring the im mediate payment of the soldiers' bonus. Representative Young, of the ways and means committee, introduced the bill, with repre sentatives Greer and Boyles speaking for it and representa tives Rankin and Griffin speak ing against it. The question was defeated by an overwhelming yote. The difference is not so great as it was between rugged indivi dualism and ragged individual ism. Springfield Republican. Our Store Will Close FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, At 5:00 O'clock and will not be open until Monday morning, Oct. 3., Inc. because of Jewish holiday. Herman's Dept. Store Man v University Alumni Prominent In Campaign For Political Offices o - Both Republican and Democratic Nominations for Political Offices Throughout the State Bring Forth Many Names of Outstanding University Graduates. o Both Republican and Demo cratic primaries for nomination of candidates for major political offices throughout the state this past year have brought forth the names of many alumni of the University. And those gradu ates whose hats were not visible in the political ring have been pre-eminently active in directing the campaigns of their choices. Both Democratic and Repub ican nominees for governor, are graduates of this University. In addition to gubernatorial possi bilities, Carolina can claim as graduates, from either the Uni versity proper or its graduate school, all five of the justices of the State Supreme Court, twelve of the twenty solicitors, and seventeen of the Superior Court judges. For governor of the state, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, '01, and C. Clifford Frazier, '09, Republican candidate, will hold the political spotlight in November. Boone D. Tillett, who did graduate work in law here during 1922-23 and 1926-27, will oppose A. H. Gra ham, '12, the Democratic nom inee in the coming election for ieutenant-governor. Candidates for United States senator Robert R. Reynolds, '06, and John F. Newell, '00,. both received their baptism of fire in politics here on the campus. JVC. B. Ehringhaus, widely known candidate for governor who was nominated last July, is expected to hold the long end of the count over his Republican opposition. Ehringhaus received his college education here from 1898 to 1901. Made Phi Beta Kappa During, that period, he found time not only to make Phi Beta Kappa but to participate actively in campus extra-curricular ac tivities as well. He was" a mem ber of Delta Kaona Enislon. JL 7 Order of Gimghouls, Tau Nu Epsilon, and held the position of chief ball manager in his senior ALTON LAWRENCE TO SPEAK BEFORE SOCIALISTIC CLUB (Continued from first page) The Socialist club invites all those who are interested in mak ing an investigation of socialism to attend its mpetinas. nnrl if --"eu; particularly urges those who have planned to vote for Thom as to be present at the meetings of the club. f PRIMITIVE - - - Primitive as the tropical jungle . . . endowed by na ture with a wild beauty . . . a pagan, knowing no virtue but love . . . no sin but in constancy. . . . "BIRD OF PARADISE" with DOLORES DEL RIO JOEL McCREA "SKEETS" GALLAGHER JOHN HOLLIDAY Other Units Educational Comedy "It's a Cinch" "Building Winners' A Sportlight, TODAY Midnight Show FRIDAY "Night Mayor" Doors Open at 11:30 III)' tip year, which corresponded to the present-day Girman Club lead er. Publications too claimed his attention, for he managed the business end of both The Caro lina Magazine and The Hellen ism. Ehringhaus was also editor of the Tar Heel in his senior year. .. Robert R. Reynolds, candidate for United States senator, enter ed the University in the fall of 1902 and-attended the following three years. . He studied law in summer school during 1907. As a member of the Beta Theta Phi fraternity, Reynolds captained the scrub football team of 1904, played varsity the next year, and that same year was elected captain of the var sity track team. His love for sport led him to the position of athletic editor of the Tar Heel. Like his Democratic colleague and candidate for governor, Rey nolds began the practice of law in his home town, Asheville, in the fall of 1907. He was elected solicitor the Fifteenth Judicial District and held that office for four years. During the war he served as correspondent for the Cinema News Syndicate of New York City. Frazier University Alumnus C. Clifford Frazier, Ehring haus's opponent in the guberna torial race, attended the Uni versity from 1901 to 1904 and was graduated in the latter year with the degrees of A.B. and L.L.B. After securing his law license from the Supreme Court Frazier practiced in Greensboro and has been attorney for the Southern Railway and other lines. His civil record as well as his college career has been note worthy. John Franklin Newell, oppos ing Reynolds for United States senator, attended the University and studied law from 1898 to 1900. Since one year, after his graduation he has practiced law in Charlotte. LOST Small brown coin purse. Keys in purse. Between Methodist church and Alumni Bldg. Re turn to Tar Heel Office. (3) Pope-Crowder Co. More Goods for Same Money Same Goods for Less Money "Everything That's All!"
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