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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuesday, 3Iarch 21, 193
Batlp Car leel
The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. En
tered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel
Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription
price, $4.60 for the college year.
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Building.
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Geo. W. Wilson, Jr....
R. D. McMillan, Jr
., .Editor
.....Managing Editor
..Business Manager
Editorial Staff
EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemaker, chairman; E. C.
Daniel. Jr.. John Alexander, Edith Harbour, B. B.
Perry, A. T. Dill, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster, W. A.
Sigmon, Robert Berryman, F. P. Gaskms.
CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutch
ison, W. R. Eddleman, J. D. Winslow, T. H. Walker,
Donoh Hanks, Carl Thompson.
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FEATURE BOARD -Joseph Sugarman, chairman; Nel
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Bizzell, George Rhoades, Don Becker.
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low, W. Smith.
CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE; CARL THOMPSON
Tuesday, March 21, 1933
At Least Don't
Tear Down
All the true spokesmen for the University in
the present campaign for a fair appropriation
have reiterated their doctrine of standing not for
the University alone, but for the state as a
whole, for every agency of public welfare and
service in North Carolina. Yet, there are spe
cific reasons why the University should be given
an appropriation that will at least keep it from
falling deeper into the valley of the shadow.
L It is unreasonable to expect that any insti
tution with a large plant to maintain and cer
tain fixed charges to meet can, without severe
damage, absorb cuts mounting to 64.4 per cent
of its peak appropriation, given at a time when
its student body was smaller than the present.
2. It took more than a generation for the
University to acquire its present capable per
sonnel. Good teachers and good research men
can get twice the salaries they are even now
getting at institutions of equal rank with the
University. Further reductions in the salaries
here threaten to drive those who have made the
University what it is out of the state ; they can
not be brought back.
3. Without a doubt, the University is nation
ally recognized, by great men in every field, as
the foremost institution in North Carolina. To
impair its efficiency would be to destroy the
greatest claim to national leadership that North
Carolina now has.
4. Efforts to effect such drastic "economy"
moves as are now in progress in the state legis
lature have all the earmarks of hysterical and
hasty action. They show a bewildering lack of
confidence and faith in present leadership and in
the promise of the future. Almost certainly, in
flation of some sort will bring a rising price level
within the next two years and that will leave the
University still in the depths of depression, if
its appropriation for the next biennum is too
greatly cut. It will be the orphan child of North
Carolina in the next generation. .
The University stands ready to assume its
just share of the burden of economic re-adjustment
in North Carolina. But, its spokesmen do
not believe that soundness of state life in the
future should have or can. have its surest
foundation on the debris of institutions . indis
criminately razed by a legislative wrecking
crew. At least, if we cannot build , up, let us not
tear down all that is left of the state's greatness
and glory. E.C.D.
At What Price
Economy?
Unhappy is the state that intrusts the admin
istration of its affairs to such" irrational men as
many of those who are now in session in Ral
eigh. Urged on by a blind and impetuous zeal
for tax reductions, the economy moguls have
made sharpe incisions into the vital organs of
higher education in North Carolina, which
threaten to bleed the patient to death. They
have shown an utter disregard for the happiness
and well-being of future generations by attempt
ing to stifle the forces which, more than any
others, would have prepared them to be intelli
gent, healthy-minded and fearless citizens.
It is inconceivable that the citizenry of the
state have intended any such severe, chastise
ment for their most illustrious child. Surely
they would not willingly see an institution which
has so long been a source of so much pride on
their part, die from lack of nourishment, or, at
least develop an ailment which would take many i
generations and much care to bring to health
again. Such a verdict is not the will of the citi
zens of North Carolina. They called for a sen
sible check up on expenditures which were not
absolutely necessary; the economy bloc in the
legislature, headed by irresponsible leaders, has
carried economy to the point where it becomes
foolish and absurd, on the grounds that the peo
ple want economy.
Like the physicians of old, these modern eco
nomic surgeons know nothing about scientific
methods. Their repertoire of remedies consists
solely of drawing blood. Such antiquated prac
tices can not be allowed to continue. Those of
us who have relatives in the legislature should
use all our influence to make them see the in
justice they are wreaking of education in gen
eral and the University in particular. W.A.S.
AH in This Game
Of Politics
Politics is a strange game to the initiated, but
to the uninitiated it is beyond comprehension.
Political strategy and the spirit of "you black
my boots and I'll black yours" seems to be the
ruling force in the political arena even in the
issues where the future of a generation lies at
stake.
Two years ago in the hectic 141 day session
of the North Carolina General Assembly, Tam
Bowie, arch-enemy of the cause of education and
liberalism in the present session, was one of the
most ardent advocates of a state-supported edu
cational system. Although the Gentleman from
Ashe was not at that time a member of the
Assembly, he spent many days in Raleigh during
its battle and was active in support of the Mc
Lean law to relieve the ad valorem tax burden
on the land, and he gained quite a reputation as
a successful lobbyist.
But now the curtain is raised on a new act
and the actor is wearing a new masque. Political
observers marvel that Mr. Bowie, now a member
of the Assembly, has turned about and is dogged
ly fighting the 1933 McLean plan to effect an
average of 35 cents reduction in the ad valorem
burden through a state-supported school term.
Not only has Mr. Bowie become an ardent anti-
educationalist but he has been energetically do
ing a little political dickering with powerful tex
tile interests of the Gastonia district through
their representative in the Assembly, Gregg
Cherry. Cherry has long been a consistent and
dyed-in-the-wool opponent of a sales tax in any
form, but his reconciliation with his erstwhile
enemy has brought some lifted eyebrows. Polit
ical aspirations, it would seem, can often time
make strange bed-fellows. V.C.R.
Life and Letters
By Edith Harbour
Educated, Organized,
Yet Unemployed
The unemployed college graduates of a nation
have apparently ceased to bewail their fate and
instead are now seeking, through organization,
to mobilize their numbers and begin a definite
campaign for jobs. The result of the movement
has been the recent formation of an Association
of Unemployed College Alumni. Headed by the
internationally famous John Dewey, the Asso
ciation numbers among its sponsors Morris
Cohen, Reinhold Niebuhr, Norman Thomas (the
ast two have visited the University as speakers
on several occasions), and scores of other liberal
thinkers.
Its program includes a wide range of activity.
Its avowed objects are to influence favorable
social legislation, to advocate planned industry
and employment insurance, and to force the gov
ernment to nrovide its members with work
rather than with charity.
The Association has as its headquarters a suite
of rooms in New York City, donated to the cause
by the League for Industrial Democracy. While
not directly connected with the League, it is sig
nificant that the budding student movement
should have its name linked with it. In a sense,
the motives for the organization of the Associ
ation of Unemployed College Alumni are com
parable to those which actuated the formation
Of labor unions. But whereas labor has found
organization expedient to increase its bargaining
power, professional talent, it seems, now finds
it necessary even to get a job.
But too much cannot be expected of the Asso
ciation's initial endeavors. Its growth will be
slow and many years, must pass before it can
reach the full fruition of its potentialities. If
we have not forgotten in coming years of pros
perity the spectre of unemployment, the devel
opment of this organization should provide a real
assurance to college graduates that their years
01 training nave uuu ueeu spent witnout tne pros
pect of reward.-A,T.D.
Has It Come to This?
Yale students are paid the sum of two dollars
to act as pall bearers. And Harvard men who
desire employment are enrolled on a social regis
ter whose business it is to furnish male escorts
for "deb" parties.--,S. Louis University News.
A Colgate psychology professor, required his
students to sleep in class so he could determine
the most efficient pitch for an alarm clock.
Daily Nebraskan.
The Sad Case of Mary Smith
Mary Smith is a person of
more than fragmentary intelli
gence who grew up in a home
somewhat more comfortable
than the average. She went to
college as a matter of course and
was graduated at the tender age
of twenty. She expected, Demg
a rather independent person, to
make her own livelihood after
graduation, but she had given
no particular thought to the
manner whereby she would earn
her daily bread. Graduating
before the first terrific hurri
cane of the depression had spent
itself, she found herself jobless
after three months of job-hunt
ing. So she applied herself dili
gently to the stenographic arts.
She happened to know a profes
sor who knew another professor
who had a position of authority
at an eastern university. By.
virtue of a slight pull Mary got
a secretarial job in the depart
ment in which she had done her
major work, packed her clothes,
and departed for the old North
State. The salary was to be
$125 a month which sounded
quite adequate.
When Mary arrived in that
famous little southeastern col-
ege town where is situated the
country's oldest state university
and looked about for a suitable
place to live she was puzzled by
the seeming absence of apart
ments within the reach of work
ing girls. And those she did find,
only partially and shabbily fur
nished, rented for no less than
a third of her monthly salary.
And as all good economists
know, only one-fifth of one's in
come should go towards paying
for the roof over one's head.
When she realized that in addi
tion to the high rental she had
to pay her own gas, electric, ice,
and maid-service bills, she be
came aware that $125 a month
in Chapel Hill will not buy as
much as $125 in a city of 50,000
inhabitants or more. Mary was
the kind of a girl who had to
have a livable place in which to
live, so she decided she could get
along without any new clothes
for a while.
That was the beginning of
Mary s sacrifices. Word came
from home that the bank 'there
had f aiied, that her brother was
jobless, and that the baby need
ed new shoes. Mary took the
hint and wired $25 home. Being
a rather generous person, she
has on the first of every month
since then sent home a check for
either $25 or $30, leaving to be
spent as she saw fit around $100
a month until the 10 per cent
salary cut inflicted upon state
employes by the 1931 legislature
went into effect. After that she
had only eighty-some-odd dol
lars a month at her disposal, and
the necessities of life required
an expenditure of approximate
ly $60 a month. She continued
to write cheerful letters home,
saying everything was just
grand and that life was still wel
worth living. Further salary
cuts, amounting in all to 28 per
cent, reduced her salary to $90
a month. She was still sending
money home. In fact, she was
now the only member of her
family who was working. Rents
had been reduced a little, it was
true, but not in like proportion
to salary reductions. By cook
ing her own breakfasts and sup
pers Mary managed to reduce
her living expenses.
Mary came to Chapel Hil
three years ago, full of hope and
ambition. She took inventory
recently. She had enough money
m the bank to last until she gets
another pay check. She has no
life insurance, no savings ac
cuuut, no investment 01 any
kind. Her clothes are stil
largely made-overs, most of her
dresses dating back to under
graduate days. She is now wear
ing glasses. She let her teeth
go too long and is having bridge
work done. Having foregone
her annual physical examma-
ion, she is wondering what that
tired feeling she has all the time
signifies.
She is now faced with an
other salary cut. But she has
made up her mind. She is going
home. "If I can get a ten-dollar-
a-week job there I'll have more
money to spend than I have
here," she said. "If I can't get
a job I can at least starve grace
fully." -
Her case is unusual only in
that she is quitting.
P. S This isn't personal. It's
a composite case study.
Secession
Our State Department reports
that there is little substantia
tion for the rumor that the
counties of Mecklenburg and
Gaston will secede and form a
separate state, mere is some
talk, however, of selling them to
South Carolina. Stand by for
a proclamation over this hiccup
ater in the evening.
I The
Week
OtiF Times
By Don Shoemaker
Naughty
A radio editor writes of the
difficulties of a prominent na-
ional figure during the presi
dential inauguration who was
making an address over a coast
to coast chain from the rostrum
of the Senate chamber in Wash
ington. Before the speaker was
aware that his microphone on
the stand had been connected,
he fumbled for some of his notes
and muttered in none too gentle
tones, "Where in the world (sic)
did I put those blamed (sic)
things, confound it." His words
were relayed, of course, to twen
ty million people.
All of which reminds us of
two similar occasions when the
calumny of a speaker found its
way to other ears unwittingly.
At the Wake Forest game, sev
eral years ago, tne announcer
who follows the plays up and
down the field and calls them in
to tne puDiic address system in
Kenan stadium remarked to his
assistant, sotto voice, "See that
tackle, what in the $&!!& is
his number." He spoke just
loud enough to make everybody
blush.
And then there is the story
of the radio story . telling man,
who had just finished a particul
arly sickening adventure of
Peter Rabbit for his juvenile
listeners. Thinkinsr that the
microphone had been discon
nected, he remarked "There, 1
guess that'll fix the little &?'s."
Monday, March 13, 1933
Dr. E. C. Branson, head of de
partment of rural social eco
nomics, dies in Duke hospital
Durham.
University opens Sprint
Quarter, 1933, with little fall oj
in enrollment, due to quick ac
tion of student government ar.d
administration in deelarir.cr
moratorium on spring holidays
Two alumni of University,
Josephus Daniels, venerable edi
tor of Raleigh's morning Xeus
and Observer and Robert W.
Bingham, - publisher of the
staunch and Democratic LovU
ville Courier Journal and Times
are picked for diplomatic posts
by President Roosevelt. Mr.
Daniels will go to Mexico and
Mr. Bingham to Court of St.
James.
Carolina freshman diamond
team takes the field for initial
practice session.
Tuesday, March 14
Twenty-seven varsity mono
grams and thirty-six freshman
numerals are awarded Univer
sity athletes for winter sports
activities.
Plan for eliminating spring
holidays, cutting quarter one
week short, considered in survey
by student council.
Work begins on $500 walk
from Graham Memorial to Bat
tle dormitory, intersecting cross
campus walk between post office
and South Campus.
Wednesday, March 15
Percy Idol, Carolina's South
ern Conference heavyweight
wrestling champion entered in
national collegiate wrestling
tournament at Lehigh Univer
sity. Captain ' Idol wrestles
April 24 and 25.
Bank of Chapel Hill, together
with many state banks, open for
business following Presidential
(Continued on last page)
Shorts
The earthquake far in the in
terior of China reported a month
or so ago in the newspapers hap
pened several months before any
report reached the outside
world . . . And 70,000 people
were killed . . . we made little
fuss about it . . . but the 163
ueatns in uaiuornia filled the
newspapers for a week ... 15,
vy v ycvyus meet ueatn every
year from the quakes ... there
ouvuii i.vvw cacxi year m
Chile alone, the center of the
quake belt. . .
TTT 3 ' t
wonuer wnen someone wil
up-on magazine writers about
using you-all in the singular
four southern heroines in their
stories ... They tell us that all
the pipes smoked around here
are not smoked by men students
. . . Jelly Lef twich and his Duke
University orchestra will play at
the St. Regis this summer, a
break for a college band.
SPEAKING
the
CAMPUS MIND
To Editor of
The Daily Tar Heel :
In Saturday's TAR HEEL the
column, Autopsy, by Mr. Berry-
man was not in harmony with
proposed methods of meeting
the present crisis. In such a
situation we must all bear a
part of the unpleasant results
even though they often incon-
in "- v ,
vemence us. ror mr. neiry
man's information, the post
ponement of the Spring holi
days necessitated such an ar
rangement by the University
Laundry Department. It was a
matter of business to require
each student to show his Spring
registration slip before getting
his laundry; however, in many
cases bundles were given out
without the slip. "The huge
ugly sign Refunds Will Not
Be Made Until Close of Bank
Holiday " was not very un
usual for the time. Since re
funds are always made by check,
they would have been of no value '
during the bank holiday.
We think that Mr. BerryraaQ
could spend his time more pro
fitably by omitting personal at
titudes toward insignificant
things and considering some
thing more pertinent.
JIMMIE W.
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