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Page Two Che Datlp Ear ieel 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, Jr. . .Mgr. Editor R. D. McMillan....... .. .:..Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoe maker, chairman; E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Bob Barnett, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, Nelson Robbins, Ervin Jafee, Otto Stein reich, H. C. Perry, B. B. Perry, V. J. Lee, Milton Kalb. CITY EDITORS T. H. Walker, Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, . DESK MEN Otto Steinreich, Carl Thompson, George Malone, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddleman. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Walter Rosenthal, A. T. Dill, Donoh Hanks, Vermont Royster, John Acee. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, T. H. Broughton, Jack Bessen, Lawrence Thompson, Matt Hackett, J. H. Morris, Crampton Trainer. REPORTERS Frank Hawley, W. 0. Marlowe, J. D. Winslow, Bill An derson, Raymond Barron, James B. Craighill, W. T. - Creech, Perry Edge, Walter Hargett, T. W. Hicks, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Lewis S. Morris, Robert - C, Page, George Rhoades, R. D. Thompson, Charles C. Todd, Henry Bryant, Phillip Hammer, Irving Suss, Clar ence Hartman, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth Johnson. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPT. Tom Worth, Manager. OFFICE STAFF Pen Gray, Ass't. Bus. Mgr., John Barrow, Ass't: Bus. Mgr., Randolph Reynolds, Collec tion Mgr., Joe Webb, W. B. Robe son, Agnew Bahnson. ADVERTISING STAFF Howard Manning, Adv't. Mgr., W. C. Jones, AdVt. Mgr., John . Callahan, .Jim Cordon, James Mehaffy, J. Ralto Farlow. Saturday, October 8, 1932 Death to Liberalism At Columbia According to a recent issue of the Columbia Spectator Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and his reactionary cohorts have renew ed their attack on free expres sion of student opinion which they began last spring with the expulsion of Reed Harris as edi tor of the student paper. This time they have passed a rule which prohibits "meetings of any organization connected with Columbia university which are open to the public . . . unless a faculty member of professorial rank will volunteer to act as chairman" thus depriving the students of the full advantages of their last means of true and unhindered , expression. The Harris expulsion put a damper on complete expression through the columns of the Spectator, and this new ruling will have a similar effect on student mass meetings. I The regulation might well be considered as a direct slam at the integrity of . Columbia stu dents. JvcA it is certainly none too complimentary of modern education as symbolized by. Co lumbia university. There was a ime when many of the universities and colleges of the country, as pupils, looked to Columbia for guidance in various educational matters. What Columbia did was at one time considered right and proper. And so far as educa tion was concerned she was per feet. But a great many of these pupils are no longer looking to the New York institution as their -teacher. They are begin ning to realize that in many re spects their one-time teacher would do well to drink deeper at the fount of Up-to-Date Edu cation; that she should give more consideration to the stu dent's own ideas; and that, the less the student is restricted the more is he e-duc-ated, the more is he developed from within. To- those few pupils who still look to Columbia as their teach er this recent action on the part of the Butler forces has dealt a death blow to further develop ment of liberal expression of oiuucui upimuxi. nut to U1USG one-time pupils who are now liberal teachers themselves the action is merely a final proof of their former teacher's reaction ary attitude. If education does anything at all for the student, it should certainly teach him when, where, and what he can speak of his own accord. But Dr. Bus ier thinks differently. A mem ber of th faculty must say when and where the student can speak. And if what he speaks is snot in keeping with the beliefs of the faculty mem ber, the student will be in grave danger of being expelled. So treat an educated student, pre scribes Dr. Butler. In the final analysis, if Co lumbia University desires in the future to be looked upon as a liberal institution of higher learning she must first prove herself worthy of such a title, or else she will soon find herself classed as "just another univer sity where faculty supervision reigns supreme. And the Mud Flies "Well," , says the Desirable Freshman, "I am considering your fraternity and the Alfa Al fa's." "The Afa Alfa's," replies the Fraternity Rusher. "What I know about those boys is enough to indict me. for slander. Just between us two, did you know that . And the mud-slinging begins. r or tne fraternity Kusner boasts that he always gets his man, even though he has to cut another fraternity's throat to do it. The rushing rules used on this campus serve their purpose very well. They give all the frater nities and every freshman a fairly even break. But they make no guarantee against that most abominable practice of throat-cutting and mud-slinging. At the University of Virginia, any fraternity that mentions the name of. another lodge in its rushing talk is liable to forfeit its bond, as for the infraction of any other rule. Both the fra ternities and the freshmen are asked to report violations of this rule. The Daily Tar Heel pro poses to the Interfraternity Council that it adopt such a regulation in its revision of the campus rushing rules for next season. Such a ruling would have evident advantages. -There is no positive harm in it. It would certainly not be disobeyed any more than the rest of the pan-hellenic regulations. E.C.D. Into the Blue An editorial in a recent issue of The Daily Tar Heel pro claimed the phenomenal ascent of the paper from the red side of the ledger to the realm of staunch economic surety. Af ter losing nearly two thousand dollars in its second year of ex istence of a daily The Tar Heel came back last year to realize a profit slightly in excess of one thousand dollars. On the heels of this informa tion, it was learned that the first ten issues for 1932 have realized a revenue of $539.10, an in crease of nearly $120.00 over the same period last, year, consider ed as the peak of advertising periods for this publication. Not only is this phenomenal increase an index to the glimmer of prosperity returning, but it indicates that The Tar Heel is becoming a greater medium for Chapel Hill merchants and those national advertisers who distri bute their products through lo cal mercantile establishments. One old-time country adver tising man used to base his sales talk on the argument: "Well mister, when your automobile THE DAILY sputters and coughs on a steep grade vou give her a little more gas, .don't you ? Well, that's just like advertising. When busi ness is bad and a red mountain of figures is just ahead, push her over the hill with a little more advertising." Apparently his lesson has spread. D.C.S. Monopoly Of the Road Transportation facilities in the state have indeed progressed since the days of our immediate forebears. But it is highly prob lematical whether the improve ments in facilities are doing very much good in so far as "seeing Carolina" is concerned.' Those fortunates who are ; so situated as to be able to own motor cars of their own, find things very convenient, except for the high gasoline tax. These individuals derive the maximum benefit from the state's most ex cellent roadways. Let lis now, however, consider those persons who must needs ride on the bus to arrive at their various des tinations. : ..The Carolina Coach Company has succeeded in 1 obtaining a monopoly over the motor trans portation field in this state, and is pushing it for all that it's worth. When one takes into consideration that the distance from Boston to New York is ap proximately 200 miles and the bus fare on the Greyhound Lines is four dollars for the round trip, it seems inconceivable that a trip from Chapel Hill to Greensboro, a distance of ap proximately sixty miles, should demand a fare of three and a half hollars for the round trip. Operating expenses for busses in the north are in excess of those here because of higher license fees and higher salaries for employees. The only pos sible reason remaining for the higher rate prevalent in this state is that the company so controls the business that it is at liberty to charge what it pleases. O.S.S. With Contemporaries A Way Of Life In good times, when big busi ness men went about seeking technicians and complaining that colleges and universities turned out too few of them, technical courses became the "rage" in the institutions of higher learning throughout the land. Professors of English, philosophy, and the other arts who presumed to complain were laughed down. They had nothing more to do but act as voices crying in the wilderness. Now, thinks Dr. Raymond Walters, former dean of Swarth more college, this year begin ning his first term as president of the University of Cincinnati, depression will start colleges again teaching students how to occupy their idle time, of which they will have plenty in the next few years. "The first function of a uni versity," he admits, "is to pre pare students for the work of life. A second function of high er learning is training for the leisure of life. "Perhaps the greatest prob lem facing our century is that of enforced leisure and unemploy ment. "Our great economic system i: on trial, just as every preceding system was on trial. Its prob lems cannot be solved in a Polly ana 'recipe that all things will work out well if simply given time. I would suggest for this problem of enforced idleness a definite program of intelligent work. "Reading should be regarded TAR HEEL as a game, and writing can be done if one fells like it. Many persons are turning to writing, and one authentic sign of a na tion's becoming intellectual is a luxuriant crop of amateur writ- ers. Dr. Raymond's outlook is in dicative of the changing, view point of educators all over the nation who are realizing that it is the business of the univer sity to point out to modern stu dents a way of life, rather than a way to make a living. South ern California Daily Trojan j We Can't ' Drink It Off Speaking at a dinner in a loop hotel last Saturday night, Gov ernor Franklin D- Roosevelt, Democratic presidential candi date, expostulated in no uncer tain terms that the only way out of our present precarious position was to repeal the dry laws. Once that was accom plished the Governor felt that organized crime could be over come, the depressions repressed, and the sun could shine once more. Contrast this view with what Norman Thomas, Socialist can didate, had to say in a recent speech in Milwaukee. "America cannot drink her way out." Then he went on to state that while he favored the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, there were certain social and economic problems that demanded more serious and immediate attention. We heartily say amen to Mr. Thomas's words. Politicians everywhere are using the wet- dry issue as a smoke screen to hide more pressing problems. Rather than. take issue with our present corrupt industrial sys tem, they shout for repeal; in stead of discussing means to ob tain bread, they procrastinate and yell for beer. Regardless of what we feel about the Volstead act or . the effectiveness of prohibition, let's not be hoodwinked by a mass of ballyhoo. We ourselves feel that prohibition has miserably failed to accomplish what its en thusiasts claimed for it. How ever, the return of legalized beer and wines will NOT be the grand cure-all for our national condi tion. We are too closely linked up with international economics ; too snarled up in our individual istic program, to" ever make such a tremendous recovery by such simple means. Whatever stimu lating effect alcohol may have on the iridividual, it will not be the final answer to our national difficulties. Daily Northwest ern. We Scandalous Youngsters An' article in a leading news paper recently bemoaned in no uncertain terms the fact that "we are softening our youth." It began by decrying modern dor mitories, sorority houses, fra ternity houses, and, in short, all the modern conveniences that the present college student has at his command. With some thing bordering on Victorian complacency the writer de scribes his educational surround ings, the proverbial "split-bottom chairs," and all those things the past generation usually boast of. He shows our elders as people who overcame almost unsurmountable obstacles, as people with rugged characters, characters that have enabled them to triumph in a burst of glory over the difficulties of life. It has always aroused our editorial ire to an almost insane pitch to hear members of a past generation bewail the plight of modern youth. It might be well here to point out some of the products of our "rugggd" pre decessors. The World War can not be said to have been brought on by the "softness of modern youth," but we must remember that the then modern youth had to fight that war, had to bleed and die in it. And it is univer sally agreed that the present eco- sallv depression is the result of the "rugged" machinations of the captains of industry, men who certainly cannot be classed as adolescents, men who belong to the generation of the writer who is scandalized by modern youth. And who can deny that the present social order is an improvement on the one which prevailed immediately before the war? Modern youth is not hypocritical, nor is it prudish. It has dared to lace tne trutn, and admit the truth. Yet it is soft. We youngsters are totally without "rugged" characters. It is our suggestion that fana tical and sentimental people cease decrying youth, especially columnists who belong to a past generation, the generation whose members, by their "rugged char acters," brought about disaster in the social order, in the eco nomic order, and in civilization as a whole. That generation nas had its day. The present situa tion is the result- of Victorian character-building. We know that we are going to live in this world ; we believe that we should make our environment what we want it to be; and, finally and incidentally, weare going to do as we see fit. Auburn Plains man. You're Tired, Uninspired; You're Blase" You're blase, you world- weary sophisticate I Boredom stalks. your waking moments; a becoming pallor de corates your features and a modulated langour your mo tions. Sated with earthly pleasures, no quest for new sensation in terests you. Joy of the flesh is flat. Wise to omniscience, no knowledge can be ; nw to you. Your brain is replete. Having sounded the depths and soared the heights of all humanely possible emotions and ideas, knowing "all is vanity !" -ennui overwhelms you. Pay no attention if your diag nostician mumbles less about excess of h knowledge than about lack of vital spirits, glandular deficiency, atrophied curiosity, retarded metabolism, or defec tive digestion! Perhaps the stuff in your shirt, and the mental works under your chapeaif make up just a generally x second-rate mechanism, a horseless carriage destined to wheeze among twelve-cylinder speedsters and tri-motored air liners! Minne sota Daily. Shady Rushing Try as they might, it is evi dent some fraternities and sor orities are quite unable to over come the tendency of establish ing a lead on their rivals by dirty rushing. What has1 uuier years ueen oniy too tap- i , parent, has at last struck Bot torn and now demands a show down. If the Greek chapters have to depend on such poor sportsman ship and dishonesty to secure Ta few pledges, who, themselve are apparently unacquainte with ethical rushing, the hous are welcome to them. Certainl by pledging people of such.cali ber they can never hope to imi prove their obviously second- rate places. " Dirty rushing is a crlarine- jJ ' O 4- mission of weakness on the part ot the chapters engaging i T" 1 i ry disregarding the rules riiade tor the benefit of all concerned they are merely setting them selves up as desperate I cases Their logic is poor; thir psy. chology appalling. What fresh- -i . t i man, wnen ne arrives at the inevitable realization, Mvould hp content to affiliate himself with a group of cheap, croaked back- siappers? Saturday, October 8, 19 those chapters seems to bp. alarmingly low if they fail to see that by participating n dirty rushing they are only cut ting their own throats. When the novelty of it wears off, their pledges will see them as the hypercries they are. The chapters will not have benefit ted, for all those possessing any character at all will break their pledges, as they should. Everyone on. the campus has a set of rules, so there is no ex cuse for the present situation. It is just dishonest, unethical, and cheap. The offenders are hardest hit. They lose their pledges, if any freshman is spineless to submit to dirty rushing; they lose what pres tige they might have had; they endanger their social security. And it must be a pretty poor satisfaction to look over a pledge delegation and say, "There, by the grace of cheating and dis honesty, is a group representa tive of our fraternity." Syra cuse Daily Orange. DASHIELL TELLS IMPRESSIONS OF OLYMPIC GAMES (Continued from first page) measurably aided by holding the games every year or two rather than every four. This would give more countries a chance to house the games and would keep the countries in closer informal communication. The impressiveness of the opening antf closing ceremonies cannot be appreciated by hear say. The singing 'of the 2,000 athletes on the 6pening day as they marched artmnd the great stadium following their respect ive flags, was equalled only by the silence as the Olympic fla? was slowly lowered, the taps of he four trumpeters, and the sudden extinguishing of the vic- ory torch which had been burn ing for sixteen days and nig-lt&t CALL FOR AID OF NEEDY PERSONS ISSUED BY PRATT (Continued from first page) each of these organizations as much as was given last year and if possible more. We are con fident that those who have, will be ready and willing to make sacrifices for those who have not. "We have been fortunate in having our local resources sup plemented by $1,200 worth of flour and $500 worth of cloth from the National Red Cross." Clyde Boyles Chosen President Of Juniors At a meeting Thursday night, the executive committee of the junior class went on record in affirmation of the order , passed by the student council on Sep tember 26 to the effect that Clyde Boyles automatically as sumes the duties of the presi dency of the class due to the ab sence of Webb Collett, erstwhile president. Collett did not return to the University this quarter. Love! Drama ! Action! "MADISON SQUARE GARDEN" with JACK OAKIE THOMAS MEIGHAN . LEW CODY MARIAN NIXON WILLIAM BOYD CWILLIAM COLLIER, JR. Also Comedy Novelty 1 fAROLINA Today ( Ae average intelligence of i i!
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