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Pc2 Tvra THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wednesday, January 17, 1934 The cCd&l cearspaper cf 'the Publications Union Board cf the University cf North Carolina at Chapl Hill where It l printed daOy except Mondays, and the Thanks irivifi, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second c!as3 matter at the post See of Chapel Hill, N. C under act cf Harch 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the Claiborn 1L Carr . Thomas Walker Joe Webb . -Editor JIanaging Editor ..Business Manager ; Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Virsril J. Lee. Jr., chairman, Jehu F. Alexander, A. T. Dill, Vermont C. Eyster, F. Pat Gaskins, Milton K. Kalb, William H. Wang, lien u Ppnrtnr . Jeanne. Holt. John B. Lindeman, Jean S Cantrell, W. R.'Eddleman, Don Becker, Nelson Xans dale. FEATURE BOARD Joe Sueannan; chairman, Walter Terry. Ed Goldenthal. , CITY EDITORS Carl Thompson, Phil Hammer, Jack Lowe, Bob Page, Irving Suss, Bob Woerner. DESK MEN Nick Powell, Walter Hargett, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth Johnson. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Bill Anderson and Jimmie Morris, co-assistant editors, Morrie Long, Ralph GJalanella, Smith Barrier, Tom Best, Jr., Milton Soberer. - EXCHANGES W. C. Durfee, editor, Margaret Gaines W. W. Boddie, Harold Broady, Norman Adelman. REPORTERS Don McKee. Reed Sarratt, Jim Daniels Sam Willard, George MacFarland, Edwin Kahn, Emery Raper, Francis Clingman, Margaret McCauley, Ralph Burgm, Roy Wilder, John Eddleman. - Business Staff ASST.. BUSINESS MGR. (Sales) Agnew Bahnson, Jr, OFFICE MANAGERS :K E. Brooks, James Barnard. DURHAM REPRESENTATIVES. W. Smith, Henry Bi Darling. LOCAL ADVERTISING STAFF Butler French, Esley Anderson (Managers), Hugh Primrose', Phil Singer, Robert Sosnik. Herbert Osterheld. Miles Bond, Eli Joyner, Oscar Tyree. CIRCULATION MGR. Ralto Farlow. CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: , CARL THOMPSON Wednesday, January 17, 1934 apparent on all sides. The Blue Eagle still flut- ers in store windows but he doesn't wave with he same zest and command that he did a few months ago. Part of this let-down in enthusi asm over a nation-wide government drive to bring back prosperity was natural when pros perity didn't come back the next morning. ' But a larger and more intelligent part of this indifference arises from reasoned consideration of how the NBA is working and what.it is doing. Confusion about inflation and the government's monetary policy has muddled the minds of many an able economist, and many a lesser business man who would have more confidence and in terest in a program he could follow, has given up in disgust. Political economists have pointed out what they gravely assure the public are serious flaws in the NBA. Perhaps they are right. The man in the street doesn't know. Worse than that, he doesn't care. . Perhaps the most widely read of the criticisms of the NBA has been that of an internationally famous economist who, in an open, letter to the President, pointed out that the NBA was 'essen tially a reform program and that reform does not go hand in hand with recovery, but comes after it. If there is anything in the English economist's statement, which was printed in al most every prominent newspaper in America, it is a safe bet that it is a key to the dissatisfaction and indifference with which the NBA has lately been received. For what the man in the street wants is surely not recovery but reform. H.N.L Roosevelt, Santa Claus And Coach Bob 4 "Y The CWA! workers have just about completed our new . track; field , Already there Js a move on fopt to name, the field after President RooseT velt. . .. .. The Daily Tar Heel agrees that such a name might aid materially in obtaining additional grants for stands, to go with the field but we balk, at the name. In lines with our above ad mission we; add that it might be wise to nick- name ilie. field , after the President. The nick name could be sent to the President, while, we could, keep the real name. It would be all the same, to the executive ; he really cares very little about our JWA; field. . . . '.. ..... . h ? j ; . Who ' exemplifies the true Carolina spirit in every' detail? Who commands our deepest re spect and admiration through his unselfishness and loyalty to the University? Who stands for, ari.d demands, the highest ideals of sportsman ship.? Coach Bob Fetzer. He has dreamed of just, such a track plant as Santa Claus has left Vtri' ii - ; ' . ali-j us. vvnat name coma inspire our atnietes more. or what name could be more appropriate than Fetzer Field? : eeches, the more the blood. Directors of large contracting companies and " steel plants scrambling madly after the thirteen million of the TVA. Trusted advisers found 1 inade quate because their idealism was stretched too much." " It seems to have become a question of whether the leader can climb as far as Nebo before they succeed in sucking him completely dry. ' . Which, in spite of mixed meta phors, brings us back to the question, and makes us wonder in our disillusionment if, indeed, there is any place at all for ideal ism. V.C.B. Russian Diplomats Believe - W at V ith Japan Near, States Close Flight Shots ;r. -.. By June f 5 ' ty r H v. "FeeFi Fo, Fym ' .Sooner ox . later; during their college, careers approximately ,mtyupe cent of the students taKe two or more. courses m chemistry "for the labora 'torof which they pay a fee and deposit amount ing either to ten or twenty dollars. The deposit paid, is used strictly for breakage and non returnable apparatus, and if the student is lucky, he-may get half of the deposit returned. Of the fee nothing is returned, but since the student usually thinks that the fee is solely for thechemicals, there is a constant kicking on his part at its unjustness. As the case really is, tne ? cnemicals whicn one receives form only a small item of . the fee. Besides the chemicals this fee . must go .to pay . the . help in . the store roomy ; for electricity consumed in laboratories, such as gravimetric analysis where the cost to eaqh student, to run the electric furnaces is at least four dollars sa quarter to obtain new ap paratus for the old apparatus which has depre ciated and which cannot be charged to the break age deposit, and to pay for stocking the first aid kit in : the store . room which is an. item of around fifty dollars a year . caused by careless ness.on the part of the students. The state has .appropriated nothing for the past four years to pay . for laboratory work in the. school of applied science which cf , necessity has forced it to be self -supporting in this respect. Lack o.f. outside, help has, ; of course, raised the fees . somewhat from their original level, but compared to fees charged by other colleges and universities, the fees are both reasonable and just. It would be well for one who takes chem istry to remember in the future that the fees charged do not apply only to chemicals but to a number of other items besides. F.P.G. 3Ierry-Go-Bound x A few months ago a sock-manufacturing con cexn m a near oy town turn ea out a number of specially made socks bearing a large Blue Eagle on -? the. shin. For the first several weeks, North Carolina merchants couldn't keep them in stock Now they can't give them away.- , An. increasing, lack of interest in the NBA is Sharp And Flat A member of the staff, under the cover of night, creeped to the window of the choral room in the.Music building, inserted a bent coat hang er between the windows and opened the latch. He quietly pulled himself, through the window and all was silent for a minute. Then issued a burst of oaths that would make a sailor green with envy. Then shortly afterward another vol ley. Before long the student emerged. Now this member of the staff is an incurable addict to music and resorted to second story methods because the new head of the music department had taken up the keys to the room. The thing that called for the oaths from the student was. a series of three padlocks which guarded the en trance to the cabinet of records and the cabinets of piano rolls. ; '; . n ; ' .v: j However there was a very good reason' for the padlocks -arid the recalling, of the keys to the room. Some few or perhaps one of the members of the student body who :used the room did not deserve to. To the chagrin and indignation of all other people that used the room this anti social being did not place records in their proper covers, did not file the records in their proper places, did not handle the records with the deli? cate care that should be given an expensive re cording, and left the victrola amplifier on when he left. Mr. McCorkle took the keys up so that he could limit the group to what he suspected Was a responsible . group. Subsequently it did hot prove to be, therefore he was forced to pad-f lock the cabinets. As the situation now stands there are about a score of people who are deprived of the use of the room because there is one member of the group who cannot behave as he should.. This is a deplorable situation. Mr. McCorkle is power less to do anything other than what he has done. tj j j i ...... . 1 I 1 "t l it is up zo me group oi students wno depended on the choral room for balancing their musical diet, to find the culprit (who is probably in the music department) . or to present the head of the department a plan whereby the records can be filed and handled properly. B.C.P. Democracy and Disillusionment ' One question has been frequently arising in our mind of late: Is idealism misplaced in democ racy? ' "1 - Never has a country had a leader take over its helm with a more sincere desire to lead his people into Canaan nor with dream more ideal istic in their conception than has America. The people thought that they had found in him man who could show them the way, because they knew that his ambition was to help them, without greed or desire other than that he might bring his ship into quiet waters. To those of us who had not been in the world long enough to realize its lust arid hypocrisy and sham, hope ran high and the future shone crystal clear. But if he was without greed, he was alone. The leeches began to cluster, to twist his ideal ism and sap its vitality. A few of the leeches are big, but most of them are little, each seek mg but a few drops. Bored wives of well-off husbands sucking at the government payroll be cause they are friends of the local administrator. Highways blocked by the shiny automobiles of starving CWA men who ride to work ; the new athletic field cluttered up by as many cars as men.. District directbrs handing out fat jobs as local directors to erstwhile political con stituents. The higher we climb the scale the bigger the l" Being slightly different (we hope), instead of trying to se lect the ten best songs of 1933, we're going to name our choice for ; the nine best song hits al though thereby narrowing down our chance of being all-inclusive. The list," which does not contain soriie of the more recent that are still braving the waves of popularity, is: Night and Day, Stormy Weather, Lazy Bones, Blue Prelude, A Year Ago To night," Talk of the Town, Give Me Liberty or Love, Farewell to Arms, and Sophisticated Lady (still very much alive). Selected by the peoples of the U. S; the most popular, but hard ly the best, were 'The Last Bound-up" and "Who's Afraid, etc, etc."' - i It , seemed, nearly like almost forgotten grammar school days when we saw a meeting an nouncement from Balph . Gard ner; calling the half-hour . from 10:30 to 11 :00 o'clock "recess peripd.' ,, Gerrardhalli completed - in 1834, now dingy, antique-look ing, has but a remnant to remind Uiliversitiaris of its more pros perous days. On the south side of ! the building are" two columns dark ghosts- of the stately ve randa that once graced its front arid now gone because it was not in concordance with the growth- direction of the other campus buildings. For. a glance of the building iri its youth, see Kemp Battle's history of the Univer sity ... you'll hardly recognize the place. Sounds far-fetched, but a quite intelligent and very viva cious co-ed asked a certain pro fessor how large the four by six cards were that he required for use. When he deigned only to smile, she exclaimed, "Oh, those graduate looking cards." Moral : when booting, think of intelligent conversation- . Imagine the feeling of the stu dent walking to class on the rail road track who tried to ascer tain how far he could balance on the rail without looking at it; and when he finally .looked'down, found himself over the trestle. We're glad the sensation he must have suffered wasn't too - sinking. -. H A left-over from intramural football season involves a youth who, sustaining an injured, arm, applied to the infirmary doctor who sent him to Durham for an x-ray. A few. days later the student received a languid notice in the form of a penny post- Says "Swash-Buckling" Rulers Of Japan Think They Cannot Fail in Empire-Building. (Note: Upton Close continues today his series of articles on politics in the Pacific The . third and t concluding article in the group -will 4 published tomorrow.) j By Upton Close . I have just returned from a four months' study of the mter-l national and inter-racial crisis brewing in the Pacific. I found Bussia's diplomats " convinced that war between the soviet I power and Japan is in the cards, and the red army making super human efforts to be ready. Bus sia has -now 125,000 red troops in the trans-Baikal all that she dare put there unless she can get supplies for them from the United States Pacific coast. The civilian population inv the trans-Baikal is already in the throes of actual famine. The Golden Horn in Vladivostok bay is turned into a navy beehive and Bussia is launching subma rines brought in fabricated form from her new steel plants in mid-Siberia. Whenever Bussia is ready she can precipitate the war by calling Japan to account on any one of a dozen seriousi outstanding issues. Japan would rather wait until spring. Bus sia would rather fight during the winter, when the frozen sur faces of Lake Baikal and " the Amur-Sungari river v system furnish her subsidiary transport to the slender line of the trans Siberian railroad. '-' ' V'- -But Bussia's statesmen 1 are quite determined not to have the struggle forced upon them .single-handed. They feel that the eventual goal of1 Japan's military is to force the abaridori ment of the west Pacific, r arid their substitution ' by ' Japan's riejev "Asiatic Monroef Doctrine.' ; C:" - ' r Trade Invasion Succeeds 1 found Japan's trade invasion succeeding everywhere, provid ing the finance for her imperial expansion and huge new" mili tary and naval budgets. I found the Filipino planters, notified by our last Congress that we in tend to stop taking their pro ducts, furtively looking for a niche in Japan's growing feco nomic empire. I found our navy and army there as hopeless be- card that his arm was oroken and would he please stop by, at his convenience to have" it. set? One of the worst things done with the English language in volves (this is a hint for trans lation) two linotype operators'. The sentence is to show the use of 11 'hads' in succession : "Bed where Hank had had had had had had had had had had had the editor's approval." It may be kinda far-fetched, but, punctu ated .correctly, will riiake sense. Another rather obvious hint is that the sentence is in the, slight ly past tense Broken Arrows : dd lousy puns : "I haven't had , a wreck in ten years of driving. That's why they call mei, a feckless driver" ... In 1916 Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland 222 to 0; did Cumberland change coaches? . . . that obelisk statue on North campus .V,. JIas any one ever used that word-monstrosity antidisestablishmen tarianistically ? It isn't in the dictionary . . . Those, damned in firmary list heads! , - fore Japan's overhanging - ex pansion as Spain was of defend ing Cuba from us in 1898. I found China under a - new Japanese-educated officialdom hesitating to see how much ef fective support they might re ceive from U3 before surrender ing Chimfs political and eco nomic independence completely to Japan, v I found the war party com pletely in the sadlde in Japan, ruling through an '"inner cabi net" consisting of the ministers of war navy, foreign affairs, and finance. I found the Japa nese people so completely pro pagandized through the war department-controlled press that they would not now allow any government to turn back from the campaign of empire-building in which they have been prom ised success. Young assassins who killed hesitant officials are now made national heroes. Japanese Rulers Confident I found the swash-buckling rulers of Japan proceeding un der the faith that they are under favorable stars, and that no mat ter what the risk or obstacles, they cannot fail if they act now. Concomitantly, the world, espec ially the United States, is under unfavorable . stars, and cannot block Japan now. - I found Hawaii,- discouraged in its last attempt to weld - to gether its 'Caucasian arid Asiatic population, under an NBA pro gram only half-heartedly im posed from Washington, po litically paralyzed, awaiting the hlow that will deprive the ter- ritory oi representative govern riient; awakened civilian ele ments being in agreement' with the army and navy that the existence oi a Japanese plurality of citizens under "alien : leader ship makes an insufferable situ- J. " ' ' -LI ' -1 J 2 ' ation ior our nauonai aeiense as Tokio becomes more and more obstreperous. ' y , History has been making rapiaiy in xne racinc mis sum mer. Japan has announced open ly that she will no longer stay within naval ratio smaller than tjhatbf AmeHand' 'fereatBrit ain. ,,Her tra'de attack upon the umer xiictuuiuctunng nations nas come fully into the open.. The administration of the United States has abandoned its con-' fidence in treaty protection of its territories and. interests and begun building a navy which we may be sure will be kept equal to that of Japan as long as the American government is able to build. The 15-year-old Ameri can policy of. ignoring Bussia has been definitely abandoned. Japan gives her supreme navy staff authority to over-rule any treaty entered into by her civil government, thus making it im possible for any self-respecting nation to enter into armament limitation contracts with her diplomats. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS rpHE YOUNG MEN'S SWOTk H " m m A. DURHAM, N. C. 1 WILL THE STUDENT who .got a mis-mated pair of shoes from Lacock's Shoe Shop last Wednesday please return the odd shoe and get his. Slf res iiWlliam &d .v:.- a 2.-.t:-2 .-.y-i-r-- - ' s.OJ'i Ml Prepare for really cold weather with one of our SUEDE COATS -OR JACKETS n
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