DR. SHAILER MATHEWS
I 10:15 A.M. -MEMORIAL
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NORMAN THOMAS
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2.IEMORIAL HALL
SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS
VOLUME XLin
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRH)AY, APRIL 5, 1935
NUMBER 136
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George Soule Charges America
leeas concrete social rurpose
Outlines Conflict of
Change and Tradition
Condemns Use of Sentimentality
And Prejudices by Politicians
Throughout the Nation.
FAVORS USE OF REASON
George Soule, , editor of the
New Republic, opened the 1935
series of Weil leetures last night
by declaring to a near-capacity
audience in Memorial hall that
the most urgent need of the
American people was a common,
concrete social purpose.
After his introduction by
President Frank P. Graham,
Soule outlined the conflict of
ideas that is being waged at the
-present time. He pointed out
the theory of change as opposed
to the continuation of our pres
ent institutions.
Failure in Control
The noted editor and author
asserted that we Americans have
"faiWI to control our own be.
liavior." "To change our for
tunes," he contended, "we must
change our minds." He held
that we are forced to consider
new arrangements of society,
and deplored the present state
of affairs, wherein, he claimed,
any change offends our sqnse of
loyalty.
Soule then proceeded to point
out the fallacy in assuming that
liberty is freedom from re
straint. This , "liberty without
restraint" he condemned as con
ducive to the decay of liberalism
as well as "democracy. - . . . -
The New Republic chieftain
aimed a salvo at the Supreme
Court and their interpretation
of the constitution, charging
that the constitution is no longer
effective as written, but can be
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FRESHMEN PICK
DANGELEADERS
One Representative from Each
Campus Organization Chosen;
No Grail Dance This Week.
By selecting one representa
tive from each campus - organi
zation in which freshmen parti-,
cipate, the Freshman Executive
Council last night elected the
leaders for the freshman dance
to be held Friday, April 12.
Billy Knauff and his orches
tra will furnish the music for the
affair which the executives pre
viously voted to. hold informal
ly. The dance will take place in
the Tin Can. By an agreement
with the Order of the Grail, the
freshmen wjll utilize the same
decorations used by that order
the following night. .
' Grail Rumor False
Contrary to rumor, there will
he no Grail dance this week-end.
The next affair sponsored by
this organization will take place
Saturday, April 13. Admission
will be $1. Freshmen will be
admitted.
Freshman representatives
who will participate in the fig
ure are, in addition to class offi
cers: Stuart Rabb, Drew Mar
tin, Crowell Little, Carl Ruth,
Tom Burnette, Windsor Rowley,
Stuart Leake, Cecil Ford, Jim
ny Coan, Bill Hudson, Billy Sea
ell, Ramsay Potts, Warren
Haddaway.
John Ramsay, Nick Read, Da
vid Meroney, Pryor McFadden,
John Davison, Gene Simmons,
d O'Herron, Gene Bricklemyer,
'Carl Peiffer.
Weil Lecturer
Says Only War
Threat In East
No Danger If Diplomats Ignore
"Yellow Peril" Fury Coming
From Hearst Papers.
Talking informally in the lob
by of the Carolina Inn ; to a
handful of University students.
George Soule, editor of the New
Republic and Weil lecturer who
sooke here last mVht. and ivho
will address University audi
ences tonight and tomorrow
night, declared that he believed
that if the United States is in
danger of war at all, it is war
in the East, and not in Europe.
He disagreed with a former
Weil lecturer, Charles A. Beard,
who has recently pointed out
that the President may plunge
the country into war, presenting
J t r- III'
a uniiied iront to an outside
enemy, to avert attention from
the internal - mess in which it
finds itself. "I do not believe
any president would take upon
himself the responsibility of
plunging the nation into war to
inst.ifv "himself nr bis nnrtvV
Soule whose name is correctly
pronounced
like sole or soul-
declared. v
U. S.-Japanese War?
The editor of the New Repub
lie thinks that it is obvious that
Japan will continue to do what
ever she wishes in China, and
that the question of our entering
war with Japan depends on the
extent to which we desire to en- glory of the ancients, Dr. Ev
force our open door policy in erett Dean Martin declared in
the Orient. In measured, his address yesterday afternoon
thoughtful speech, he declared that modern knowledge and wis-
that the diplomats of this coun-
try conld, if they chose, ignore
the sound and the fury over the
Oriental situation and the "Yel-
low Peril" emanating from the
Hearst press and the Chicago gram, deplored the fact that our
Tribune, and express only a 100-year program of public edu
moral disapproval of the actions cation has left a mass of people
of Japan in Manchuria and else- still hindering their own develop
where in the East, ment instead of a world that has
He pointed out that the Unit-
ed States had refused to grant
Japan naval equality, and that
this country had upheld the con-
ditions of the 1921; Washington
agreement of the 5-5-3 ratio be-
tween the United States, Great
Britain and Japan. "The only reviVd in the middle ages af
reason," continued Soule, "for ter jts destruction by the Roman
not granting Japan naval equal- populace, Martin demanded mod
ity was the possibility that the erns to do what the ancients did
United States and Great Britain
might wish to do something m
the Pacific to prevent Japans
further territorial aggrandize-
ment."
Asked by another student
what the college graduate's
chances in the world ot weekly been a confusion about educa
and monthly journalism are, ti0n, he pointed out, and we have
Soule laughed and replied i lowered the values of education
"That's rather an embarrassing
question, because it's hard to see
what the college graduate's
chances are in anything now.
He went on to explain that the
field of employment for the col-
lege graduate is constantly nar-
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rowing, and that journalism,
speaking comparatively, has
never offered employment to a
great many people.
Autobiographical
Invited to explain how he got
into the magazine world, Soule
modestly ignored the question
of abilitv and said that in col-
lege he wrote poetry, majored in
English and economics, and after
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graduation worked lor a puo-
lishine house, where he found
that the books he liked were not
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JITNEY TR0I1PKRS
ta PRFWNT TWO
IV JL XlyAJKJAJX JL 1 U
PROGRAMS TODAY
Renowned Players to Enact "The
Adventures of Oz"; "Streets
Of New York," Old Style.
EVENING HOUR CHANGED
In. order to avoid a conflict
with the previously arranged
lecture by Editor George Soule
on the Human Relations Insti-
tute Program, the evening per
formance of the Jitney Players
W1U be presented at 9 :15 o'clock
tonight.
At the 4 o'clock matinee, Pen
delton Harrison, Ethel Colt and
Gretchen Dortch's dramatization
of the famous Oz stories, "The
Adventures of Oz" will be pre
sented. Harrison and Miss
Dortch are former Playmakers.
rpi, a 4 i. .e xt -r i
j-xic ouretsus oi xoris. is
scheduled for the 9 :15 showing.
The Jitney Players, one of the
few nationally famous road
troupes still surviving, brings a
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Martin Denies
Speaker Says Popular Education A Failure
MODERN LEARNING
CALLED BARBARIC
Noted Author-Lecturer Contrasts
Modern Knowledge and Wis
dom with That of Greeks.
SAYS CLASSICS UNUSED
Displaying his vast resources
as.a platform .raconteur of the
dom is in a barbaric stage corn-
pared to that of the Greeks.
Ihe director of the People's
Institute, speaking on the Hu-
man Relations Institute pro-
blossomed out into intellectual
perfectibility.
Praises Ancients
Praising the "idea of excel-
hence" that dominated man's
culture during the age of the
Greeks and that was temporarily
hf hey wish to reach beyond
their underworld intelligence.
s.flViTicr on "A Liberal Edu-
Larm " b stated that the last
thing the public thinks about in
education is "the
the human mind.
maturing of
There has
to the "lowest cranial altitude."
Classics Undusted
"It can read," he said, re
ferring to the public, but it still
is moved by catch-word and
propaganda and its classics lie
unrea(j under the dust. It
has learned nothing from his
torv for it is preparing for an
other war only 15 years after
the . worst conflict in history,
Martin pointed out.
That we are on a fast limited
speeding toward an unknown fu-
ture with no headlight at all was
the analogy the speaker made.
Ignorance is giving the speed to
the train, he indicated, but we
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must una euucauun lor a neau
light. '. "Speed will prove dis
astrous if there is no light," he
declared.
Socialist Norman Thomas, Traveler-Theologian
Shailer Mathews, Weil Lecturer George Soule
To Be Speakers On Today's Institute Program
INSTITUTE
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the University of Chicago (left), and Norman Thomas, Socialist
leader, who will address today's sessions of the Human Relations
Institute in Memorial - hall. Dr. Mathews will speak on "Inter
national Conflicts in the Far East" at 10:15 a- m., and Mr. Thomas
will speak on "Trends Towards Fascism" at 4 in the afternoon.
Perfectibility Of
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5 Seminar Schedule
9:30 a. m. Economics 193,
103 Bingham hall, in seminar
with Norman Thomas.
12 m. -Government 143 and
158, 301 Saunders hall, in sem
inar with Shailer Mathews.
Union Will Sponsor
Banquet for Thomas
The Carolina Political Union's
banquet for Norman Thomas,
open to the campus through the
sale of tickets, will take place
tonight in Graham Memorial at
6 o'clock.
A few remaining tickets can
be purchased today from Rob
ert Smithwick, the University
Y. M. C. A. office, or from Phil
Hammer at the Daily Tar
Heel office.
Thomas is scheduled to speak
on the political situation, with
the probability of a refutation
of the case presented by Hon.
Hamilton Fish, New York Re
publican, in a speech here re
cently. The banquet will be limited in
attendance membership and will
be informal. Dr. Frank Gra
ham will present the speaker.
FROSH ANNOUNCE METHOD
OF REPORTING VIOLATORS
The freshman-honor council
has announced that freshman
violations of the honorcode may
be reported to one of its own
members, to a member of the
student council, to Miss Mabel
Mallett at the office of the dean
of students, or to Miss Helen
Hodges at the Y. M. C. A.
The student council office on
the second floor of Graham
Memorial will be open on week
days from 10 :30 a. m. to 12 m.,
from 1:15 to 1:45 p.- m., and
from 6 to 6:30 p. m.
W. C. U. N. C. PHI BETES
Greensboro, April 4. Forty
seven students and alumnae of
the Woman's College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina have
just been invited to join the
ranks of Phi Beta Kappa.
Those elected include 24 mem
bers of the class of 1935, two of
the class of 1936, and 21 alumnae.
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SPEAKERS
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dean of the school of, divinity of
Mankind;
PROGRESS SHOWN
TO BE IRREGULAR
Revolutions Declared to Be In
evitable Precedent to Dicta
torship ; Socialism Ahead.
POLITICS OF '76 PRAISED
Discussing "Violence and So
cial Progress," Dr. Everett Dean
Martin, Institute speaker, point
ed out in his Memorial hall ad
dress yesterday morning that
all revolutions have led to dic
tatorships. Representative government,
bills of ' rights, the idea of the
"consent of the governed," and
the "responsibility of the ruling
body to the electors" have all
been the world's heritage from
the English speaking peoples,
the product of the Englishman's
political genius, declared Dr.
Martin.
"Progress . . . Decline"
Classing the 19th century be
lief in the progress and perfecti
bility of mankind in the same
category as faith in miracles,
the head of the Cooper Union
Forum recalled the old Greek
"fear of change" and philosophy
that progress could only be fol
lowed by decline.
Urging us to "reconstruct the
idea of progress," the Grail
speaker rejected this 19th cen
tury product of romanticism as
"pure dogma." "There is no
uniform progress," he said, con
tradicting the last century's
idea that the proletariat would
some day reach perfectibility.
"The best the mass can do for
human progress is to get out of
its way," he stated.
Political Philosophy
Praising the political philos
ophy of 1776 as that of a polit
ically intellectual age, Martin
begged his audience to compare
the Long-J ohnson-Coughlin de
bates with the letters of Jeffer
son and Hamilton. "Does the
difference indicate progress?"
the speaker would have us an
swer. Accepting the idea that Amer
icans Will sooner or later adopt
a socialistic form of government,
Martin said that he "would hate
to see us drift into it without
knowing what we were doing."
A revolution toward such an
end would not bring a transfer
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Mathews Will Discuss
Far Eastern Conflicts
Thomas, After Being Heralded
By Fish, to Speak on "Trends
Towards Fascism."
SOULE CONTINUES SERIES
.
' After hearing serious batter
ing at his door this week, Nor
man Thomas, the socialist lead
er, will appear at 4 o'clock on
the afternoon address hour of
the Human Relations Institute
today.
Dr. Shailer Mathews and Weil
Lecturer Soule complete the trio
of speakers for today's program.
Norman Thomas is scheduled to
discuss "Trends Toward Fas
cism," Mathews at the 10:15 ses
sion, "International Conflicts in
the Far East," and Soule at the
evening hour, "Liberty as a Pur
pose." '
Dr. Mathews
Dr. Mathews, lecturer and
former dean of the Chicago
divinity school, was formerly
editor of The World Today and
the Biblical World. World trav
eler and prolific editor, Mathews
was president of the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ
in America until 1916 and is now
chairman of the executive com
mittee of the World Conference
on International Peace through
Religion.
! Twice candidate for the presi
dency, author-editor, and direc
tor of the League for Industrial
Democracy, Norman (Mattoon)
Thomas has been prominently
connected with The World -To
morrow and The Nation. The
Ohioan received his A.B. degree
from Princeton, B.D. from Union
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DEBATERS ARGUE
SOCIALMOEDICINE
U. N. C. Team Disapproves of
"MedicaXk)llectivism,, in De
bate with Bucknell Co-eds.
Protesting against proposals
"that would. make robots of doc
tors and guinea-pigs of pa- ;
tients," Carolina debaters stout
ly strove last night to defend .
the status quo in the medical
profession against the reforms
of two young ladies from
Bucknell University.
Resolved, that the various
states adopt a system of social
ized medicine, was the query fa
vored by Elsa Patton and Eliza
beth Hylbert of Bucknell, dis
paraged by Harry McMullan and
Wylie Parker of U. N. C.
Pro Race, Anti Profit
"For the benefit of the race
and not individuals," and for the
relief of many who are "finan
cially destroyed by doctor and
hospital bills," the visitors pro
posed a system of medical serv
ice paid for by the state and ad
ministered by doctors to all
classes impartially.
Viewed with alarm by the la
dies were the following present
evils: (1) medical service is un
evenly distributed with too many
doctors in prosperous regions
and too few in poor regions;
(2) costs are prohibitive to
many who need medical aid, and
force them to resort x to quack
remedies; (3) present free char
ity clinics are too few, give in
adequate service, and are re
sorted to with reluctance.
Their reforms were proposed
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