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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Wednesday, March 29,
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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
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: BILL DAVIS
Wednesday, March 29, 1933
from the presidency of the National City bank
under peculiar circumstances. Joseph Harriman
is under indictment for misuse of funds and the
chief of the great Insull interests is a fugitive
from justice. Stunz of the Washington Park
Savings Bank' shot himself with his bank a mil
lion and a half short. And North Carolina offers
to swell the list of worthies our own Colonel
Luke Lea.
There have always been men to whom honor
is an empty word a joke. There have always
been men ready and eager to sacrifice every vest
ige of human decency for accumulation of
wrealth. But when such as these are allowed to
control the nation's destiny then the millions of
Americans who fought and died for freedom died
in vain. When men of this calibre can use our
organs of government for their own ends, plunge
us into war, and make and break whom they
choose, then something is rotten in our system.
It is not capitalism that is at fault. It is the
bovine attitude of the American people and the
disintegration of the moral fibre that claimed
this nation from a wilderness. Fraud on this
large scale is found in Sweden, in France, in
England, but there it is so rare that the world
is amazed when it occurs. In this country busi
ness honesty has become a curiosity ; the only
sin is getting found out.
When we can produce honest bankers and busi
ness men, when we can evolve a code of square
dealing, there will be hope. When the American
ceases to grovel at the feet of wealth no matter
how gained and when militant public pressure
and clean uncorruptible government combine to
exterminate the human leeches feeding on the
blood of the poor and helpless then our system
can be given a fair chance and perhaps be evalu
ated in its true light. J.F.A.
To the Fore
For the Forum
The Open Forum Discussion series, a group
of lectures and discussions sponsored by five
University student groups, launches a drive this
week to raise sufficient funds to alleviate a large
deficit accumulated during the past year. The
inability of many students to meet subscriptions,
frequent advertising, and incidental operating
expenses have placed the cost of the series at
a much higher figure than previously antici
pated. The Di Senate and the Phi Assembly have both
contributed financial support to the program
while the "Y" Senior Cabinet, Epsilon Phi Delta,
and several other campus organizations have
lent moral assistance. Numerous professors and
independent students have contributed small
sums to the fund, which though considerably
imposing, is still far short of the necessary fund.
Balanced by opposition speakers in order to
represent both sides of the questions introduced,
eight lectures on Agriculture, Labor, Power, So
cial Relief, International Affairs and two general
topics were brought to the campus and given a
thorough airing. This was in accordance with
the University's policy of welcoming discussions
on both sides of every controversial question. If
the Forum is able to solve its financial difficul
ties of the present year, efforts will be made to
obtain a similar program for 1934. This will
doubtless be forthcoming if the student body
evidences the same enthusiasm of the past sea
son in supporting this worthy endeavor. D.C.S.
Shake Off
The Leeches
Depressions are caused by forces which for
the most part are beyond the control of man un
der our present system. The business cycle re
volves and will continue to do so bringing good
times and bad. The capitalistic system may well
be the best, it is certainly the most palatable to
human nature which is difficult to mold particu
larly when money and property are concerned.
There are, however, certain phases of our pres
ent condition which permit of remedy and under
the duration of which capitalism does not have
a fair chance to operate.
There has always been in America a tendency
to follow the almighty dollar in hot pursuit
though honesty, business ethics, and fair play
be trampled in the chase. After the Civil War
corruption got off to a fine start under the Grant
administration. The building up of the Fisk,
Gould, Stanford, and other fortunes followed
lines which are an eternal blot upon our national
history. The methods of the Rockefellers and
the Mellons in the monopolizing of the oil and
aluminum markets are nothing of which to boast
and there are numerous other examples like
them.
Under Harding the American people were
shown what a handy tool their government
might be in the hands of the corrupt interests,
but the reaction was mild. Now the "dear pee-
puli" are suffering at the hands of the present
generation of big time crooks. Many of these
swindlers are going to prison but. that offers
small consolation to men robbed of their life
savings, to aged and to widows suddenly deprived
of the support provided for them, to folks with
out homes or food, and to the kin of suicides.
Marcus and Singer, heads of the great Bank of
the United States, are serving time for their
acts in that capacity. Charles Mitchell resigned
Tears, Cheers,
Beer and Pretzels
At last. A panacea for the nation's ills has
been found. Beer. Beer. Beer. We want beer.
We want beer. More claims have been made for
the healing and curing power of beer than were
ever made for Peruna or Indian Snake Oil. It
will lift the national debt, not to mention the
debts of the several states. It will ease the idle
hours of the laboring man. It will revive lethar
gic trade. It will keep us cool in summer and
warm in winter. It will put honest men to work
and ruin the bootlegger's business. There is
nothing that it will not do, except remove corns,
bunions, and warts.
Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the new deal
but beer is now being credited with delivering
he goods. The press, the platform, and even the
movies have eulogized, idolized, and idealized
suds and pretzels. The daily papers bring us
stories of the numbers of men, the tons of hops
and the numbers of barrels that are being em
ployed in making beer. Milwaukee put on a gala
celebration in honor of the return of King Beer.
An expert in brewing announced that of all pos
sible beers 3.2 per cent beer was the best. He
painted a sunshiny picture of the proper sur
roundings for beer-drinking. Two recent com
edies at the Carolina theatre were "What, No
Beer !" and "The Fatal Glass of Beer."
Then, yesterday, the beer question was debated
in the North Carolina Judicary Committee No. 1.
'Steins of foaming beer were pictures as cups of
destruction and as draughts of joy that swell
the streams of state revenue," the Raleigh
News and Observer reports. Opposed by the
W. C. T. U., the State Grange, the Baptists, and
the United Dry Forces, Senators Francis and
Clement, with the moral support of the North
Carolina Federation of Labor, are trying to get
beer for North Carolina, claiming that it will
bring the state $1,500,000 in revenue and make
life more bearable in many other respects.
More than a million people in North Carolina
would have to drink a glass of beer a day to
furnish the revenue which the would-be beer-
legalizers claim, says the News and Observer,
smmngly. And no doubt, there will be a lot
of tear shedding in Raleigh before the argument
is ended. If North Carolina does get beer, it
will probably be well diluted with salty water.
Why can't we Tar Heels join in with the rest
of the nation and take our beer straight, with
the proper joy, hilarity, hoopla, and ballyhoo?
Whether or not the beer itself will do us any
good, the psychological effect of doing something
rash at a time like this will help a lot. E.C.D.
probrious than had been the
rule of the most tyrannical of
autocrats, and the game of op
pression has gone on until it has
become unbearable to the coun
tries most vitally concerned.
The German people have de
cided not to lie under the yoke
any longer, and peace loving
and intelligent people though
they be, have turned again to
absolutism in government which
was probably never rivaled by
the Kaiser himself. The outside
world looks on the spectacle and
shudders as Hitler and his
Nazi's assume control of affairs.
It trembles more violently as
Austria and Germany become
one nation. The oppression of
the Jews is certainly a near
sighted policy and one which will
likely rebound to the hurt of the
administration, but this only
marks the beginning of an ag
gressive, new born nation, seek
ing to reestablish itself in the
family of nations, and is not apt
to be the last, nor most odious
of its strokes at what it believes
to be its enemies.
Europe is again seething with
unrest and war clouds hang low
and heavy over the distraught
continent. Alliances and en
tantes are forming and many
competent judges predict that
this generation will again see the
world steeped in war.
The League of Nations, a
noble, but feeble barrier to fu
ture wars, is gradually crumb
ling and becoming ineffectual,
and already, one great initial
member has withdrawn Japan.
Instead of making the world
safe for Democracy, there have
grown up a long series of dicta
torships, as a result of the late
war. Italy, which enjoyed a
comparatively Democratic gov
ernment before 1914, now has a
most absolute and tyrannical
dictator. Russia is no more free
from autocratic rule now than
when the Tsar presided in Petro
grad. Germany and Austria bid
fair to show the world a new
trick in the way of absolutism,
all of which shows how futile
is any war in the name of hu
manity or democracy unless the
conquering nations are willing to
lead the way in equity and fair
play in international affairs.
W.A.S.
OUTSTANDING RADIO
BROADCASTS
Wednesday, March 29
8:00 George Olsen, orch. ; Fan
ny Brice, comedienne, WEAF
NBC (660 Kc).
9:00 Bing Crosby, songs,
WABC CBS (860 Kc).
9:15 "Romantic Bachelor,"
WABC.
9:30 Morton Downey and Don
ald Novis tenors, WJZ NBC
(760 Kc).
9:30 Lombardo, Burns, and
Allen, WABC.
10:00 Fred Waring, orch.,
George Givot, comedian, WABC.
10:30 News, Edwin C. Hill,
WABC.
11:00 Lopez orch., WEAF.
11:30 Denny orch., WEAF.
12:00 Lown orch., WJZ.
12:30 Mark Fisher orch.,
WEAF.
With
Contemporaries
NEW VOLUME ADDED TO
SERIES BEGUN IN 1926
Safe for
Democracy?
Little more than a decade ago, an urgent call
went out to the American people to "Make the
world safe for Democracy." Well meaning sages
proclaimed to our youth that the time had come,
once for all, when the down trodden of the world
were to be delivered from the cruel hands of the
haughty oppressor. The response to these calls
every one knows. Thousands of our fittest youths
fought and bled and died in the name of human
ity and freedom, little realizing how cheaply
their lives were sold.
The war was not ended before the victorious
allies, forgetting, or disregarding, the cause for
which they had, allegedly, been fighting, turned
on their unhappy victims with terms more op-
A new book, Industry and
Society, by A. J. Todd of North
western University, has just
been published by - Henry Holt
& Co. in the American Social
Science Series, of which Dr.
Howard W. Odum, Kenan pro
fessor of sociology and director
of the Institute, for Research in
Social Science m the Univer
sity of North Carolina, is gen
eral editor.
industry and Society is the
twenty-first volume of the ser
ies of publications that began
in 1926. Marriage, by Dr. E.
R. Groves recently published
belongs to this series.
Co-operative
Buying
Greek organizations at vari
ous universities are making use
of co-operative buying plans in
an effort to reduce expenditures
to conform with drastically re
duced budgets. The fraternities
form groups, thus pooling buy
ing power, and by making use
of collective bargaining are able
to take advantage of wholesale
prices on house supplies. Or
ganizations are furnished whole
sale price lists from which they
make their purchases. Mer
chants usually evince willing
ness to co-operate and, express
their satisfaction with a buying
plan by which they can make
bids for business of sufficient
quantity to warrant wholesale
prices.
Fraternities and sororities at
the University might make use
of this plan. It should be a
means of lowering the operat
ing expenditures of the houses,
and that is of paramount con
sideration right now. Lawrence
merchants should not be op
posed to the plan, since they
must realize that Greek organ
izations on the Hill are hard
pressed financially, and must
economize at every corner. Fail
ure to cut a bit here, reduce an
expense there, and slice a dol
lar or so from that cost, can
easily result in closing down of
some houses. Already several
of them have been unable to
make ends meet, and have had
to discontinue operation. This
hurts local merchants. Meet
ing the emergency calls for co
operation from all concerned.
University Daily Kansan.
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RAIN" IS PICTURE AT
LOCAL THEATRE TODAY
The picture showing at the
Carolina theatre today is "Rain,"
the second filmization that has
been made of the sensational
story by W. Somerset Maugham.
This version of the picture stars
Joan Crawford with a support
ing cast of Walter Huston, Wil
liam Gargan, and Guy Kibbee.
The first adaptation of the story,
made several years ago, starred
Gloria Swaiison.
In this version, Miss Craw
ford plays the part of the lady of
light, if any morals, while Hus
ton plays the part of the preach
er with intentions of reforming
the derelict. Gargan has the
role of the rough-and-ready sail
or sweetheart of Miss Crawford.
DRABIATTC GROUP
FESTIVAL BEGINS
HERE TOMORROW
(Continued from first page)
ville is competing in three cate
gories," Mars Hill in two, Cair.
Iotte in two, Seaboard in two,
Lenoir Rhyne in two, and Dur
ham organizations in three.
St. Augustine College of R&.
eigh for Negroes is offering a
guest performance.
Preliminary competition here,
prior to and during the program
of the Festival proper, of serera!
groups will add more glamour to
the week-end event. Wednes
day evening at 6:30 o'clock,
Wilson, Raleigh, and Southern
Pines high schools will contend
for the eastern championship.
Friday morning Kings Moun
tain, Murphy, R. J. Reynold
high of Winston-Salem, and Le
noir will contend for the westers
championship. The two winners
will compete in the Festival Fri
day night.
Wednesday evening Duke Uni
versity, the Woman's College f
the University, and Elon College
are to compete in a preliminarr
here. The winner will meet in
the Festival the opposing win
ner from the Lenoir Rhyne
Catawba College preliminary at
Salisbury.
KOCH ANNOUNCES
SPRING PROGRAM
OF PLAYMAKERS
(Continued from first page)
season-ticket series is to be
given May 11-13, and will in
clude studio productions of new
plays from the playwriting
classes together with one-act
plays by professionals.
To Stage German Play
The first forthcoming presen
tation, offered in conjunction
with the German department,
is a German play of the World
War, Der Flieger, to be present
ed April 7 and 8. The play, di
rected by Dr. Meno Spann, will
be partly in German, partly in
English. Experimental produc
tions of ten new plays from Pro
fessor Koch's playwriting class
es will follow on April 12.
The next monthly Playmaker
reading will be Edmond Ros
tand's Cyrano de Bergerac, pre
sented by Dr. Urban Holmes in
Sunday evening, April 30. Mrs.
Holmes will take the part f
Roxane.
Other events on the program
for the quarter will be the Play
makers Annual Caper, May 27,
and the commencement per
formance on June 3. Try-outs
for the Forest theatre presenta
tion will be conducted Monday,
April 24.
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