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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 193. < Maily Car izd The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board cf the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgmnsr, Christmas, and Spring1 Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office, of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. " A. T. DiU. ... Robert C. Page, Jr.... Joe Webb .:........ Joe Robinson ... .... Editor . ......Managing Editor v.. eBusiness Manager Circulation Manager Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Phil Hammer, chairman, Earl Wolslagel, Franklin Harward, John Schnlz, DuPont Snowden, Margaret McCauley, Morty Slavin, Sam Leager, Dick Myers, Charles Lloyd, Jake Snyder, Phil ' Kind, Charles Daniel, George Butler, Don Wetherbee. FEATURE BOARD Francis Clingman and Willis Har rison, co-chairmen, Nick Read, Bob Browder, J. E. Poin , .-dexter, W. M. Cochrane, Nelson Lansdale. . CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Walter Hargett, Don McKee, Jim Daniel, Reed Sarratt. TELEGRAPH EDITORS Stuart Rabb, Charlie Gilmore. DESK MAN Eddie Kahn. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Jimmy Morris and Stuart v Sechriest, co-editors, Tom Bost, Lee Turk, Len Rubin, - Fletcher Ferguson, Lester Ostrow, Ira Sarasohn. EXCHANGES Margaret Gaines. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Don Becker. REPORTERS Bill Hudson, Jhn Smith,. J. F. Jonas, Lawrence Weisbrod, Hazel Beacham, William Jordan, Morton Feldman, Ralph Sprinkle, Newton Craig. Business Staff ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Butler French COLLECTION MANAGER. Herbert Osterheld OFFICE MANAGERS Walter Eckert. Roy Crooks NATIONAL ADVERTISING Boylan Carr DURHAM REPRESENTATIVE Joe Murnick. LOCAL ADVERTISING Hugh Primrose, Robt. Sosnik, Eli Joyner, Niles Bond (managers), Louis Shaffner, Bill MacDonald, Page Keel, Bill McLean, Crist Blackwell. CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE; REED SARRATT Friday, April 5, 1935 King Cotton Moves South That King Cotton is rapidly moving his em pire from the southern states to Brazil is more fact than fiction. In the New Outlook for April, Mr. Allen Raymond, in his article entitled "Plow ing Down to Rio," gives some startling facts and figures about this development of the south's principal crop. v According to Mr. Raymond, this South Ameri can country made a strong campaign to capture that portion of the world's cotton market which the United States relinquished when she paid her farmers to plow under part of their crop. In the season of 1932-33, when there was no governmental interference, the United States secured 58 per cent, of the world's trade in cot ton. During the 1933-34 period, with its AAA and crop curtailment, this percentage had drop ped to 54. The 1934-35 season threatens "to hit below 48 per cent. . Brazil is not without .its advantages in the production of cotton. Whereas, the cost of liv ing in the south is extremely low, it is not near ly so low as the prices which are paid to thou sands of Japanese and Italians who, in the last few months, have migrated to Brazil and found work on the coffee and cotton plantations. An other distinct advantage is the fact that even before our crop limitation program Brazil had the nucleus of a textile industry, with some 300 cotton mills and 3,000,000 spindles. PARAGRAPHICS r The House has passed a bill for execution by lethal gas. Political speeches will do . nicely as a cheap source of supply. Sir John Simon said Germany has reached an air parity with Great Britain. What he means is, "Hitler is as much up in the air as we are." Mr. Wright wants surplus cotton to be used to "put clothes on the American people." Don't give it a second thought. In a few years more we'll all be nudists, anyway. "To Stimulate Student Thought" ' "The purpose of - the demonstration is to stimulate student thought and action on the means to insure peace in a period threatened by war." Such is the newspaper account of the recent statement issued about the anti-war dem onstration by the committee in charge. At 41 institutions throughout the United States peace demonstrations will be held Friday morning, April 12. In most instances the dem onstrations will take the form of strikes, with students voluntarily leaving classes to partici pate. As Dr. Stephen Duggan remarked at the re cent Foreign Policy League banquet, it is a hope ful sign when students of a nation take a mili tant stand against the crime of war. Some take the attitude that public meetings to condemn war are futile gestures, wasted on the expanse of ether and of no practical value in spreading the anti-war cause. But on the other hand it can be said that any demonstration on the part of youth has some value, in that it does "stimu late thought" along an organized channel. Carolina students do not seem to go into things of the more sensational nature and a strike would appeal to them more because of the nov elty of missing a class and maybe getting away with it than because of the purpose for which the strike was called. With the anti-war demon stration on the basis of an intelligent protest against .militarism, with intelligent speeches and intelligent direction, much will come of the local contribution to anti-militarism one week from today. Apres Moi, Le Deluge ' Edwin L. James, managing editor of the New York Times, once remarked to Mussolini that the people of the United States admired him for his individual accomplishment, but would not like his regime for this country. To this Mussolini replied : "My friend, you will come to it. Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know-what is best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy it beautiful in theory ; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day." Mussolini has undoubtedly been a successful dictator. By rigid censorship of the press, and a reign of terror he has indeed stopped the "talk and the foolishness." He has squelched the democracy which he declares beautiful but theo retical until Italy is Mussolini. But therein lies the fallacy of his political philosophy. Like all dictators, he is disregarding the fact that a dic tatorship depends upon a single man, and when that man dies, Italy is destined to go the. way of Napoleon's France and Bismarck's fiprL many. The Greyhounds Are Still Running . Well, the bus boys again come forth and tell us that the date for the Greyhound hearing is now definitely set for Wednesday, April 24. The state utilities commission at that time will hear the Greyhound application for a certificate of operation for a jbus line between Greensboro and Raleigh, via Chapel Hill. Despite the continual postponements, the stu dent body and Chapel Hill townspeople still feel quite strongly about the matter and Avill be ready to go over in a delegation to secure this service. We still have hope, as mentioned re cently, that sooner or later a hearing actually will come off and if April 24 does turn out to be the lucky day, we urge all interested Grey- hounders-to-be to make an effort to co-operate with the University Club and other local agen cies who will help to; "apply the pressure" from this district; u; -n The South May Learn Modern writing in the south, says Gerald Johnson, editorial writer on the Baltimore Eve ning Sun and former journalism professor here, in an article in the Virginia Quarterly Review, is characterized by a portrayal of the horrible side of life. This new tendency in writing is nothing less than a revolt of southern authors against the traditional order of expression. For a half century following the Civil War, southern writers have remained content to let time take care of the troubles and needs of the south. They merely tried to picture what thev thought to be the ideal life, generally the life of the old south. Thus we had writers of the Thomas Nelson Page or Joel Chandler Harris type. Today .most of the old sentimentalists have disappeared and in their place has risen a new group of writers. They are filled with a burning desire to get away from this flimsy, day-dreamer attitude and to picture life as it actually exists today, not as it existed during the Civil War. They are defying the old southern literary tradi tions of writing, such as portraying the gentle sweetness about the old plantation houses. To day they feel the nausea caused by the relics of the old south. They are trying to interpret hon estly what they see around them. The effect of these writings upon the southern viewpoint is becoming tremendously important. The south, no matter how much it despises it, is forced to listen somewhat to the criticisms and declamations of William Faulkner and T. S. Stribling or the loud bellowings of Thomas Wolfe. These men refuse to go unheard and even if they can see only the horrors of our social life, we must listen to them and let the effect of their wild tales move us to action. These modern horror mongers, as Mr. Johnson so correctly puts it, are but the first word in our literary development, representing but a begin ning. If that is true, may not we southerners look at this new writing as' a representative part of our modern social life ? Although the south is experiencing its own " definite beginnings as a representative power in national affairs, it need not consider its modern literature as something advanced and far ahead. If that literature rep resents an honest attempt to picture the south ern life as it exists in the present da v. th amit.Ti may gain much by studying it. CAMQ'G. WIGS Dy Nash Johnston fCnoicrYouv STATC tlE FIRST PROFESSIONAL ACTOR FVEftTO VISIT MCWAS A SHIPWRECK VICTIM! DlDYOUKHO'IfflArit) f765, AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE BRITISH STAMP ACT, ARC NPC5PAPFR WAS PUBLISHED WTT9 HO ATTACHED STAMP, & RIGHT WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO G0P WAS PRINTED: CHARLOTTE WAS NAMED FOR WE WF OF KING GZ0RGE H, AND MECKLENBURG WAS HER BIRTHPLACE m FIRST RAILROAD IN WESTERtt NORTH CARO LINA TOOK 30 YEARS TO COMPLETE DOYOUKKOVwa TON HAD THE FIRST PUBLIC LIBRARY IN NORTH CARO LINA? SEE NEXT CAAQmfHlC I THE E0ITORS OF CAftO'GRAPHICS (NVlTS YOU TO SENO IN lNTft$TfNQ FACTS AOOUT YOOft. COMMUNITY Looking Backward One and Five Years Ago Today in the Files of the Daily Tar Heel. April 5, 1930 A record vote of about 1,800 ballots is established in the an nual spring elections. Two pledges come to blows in a heat ed argument . . . Two hundred, seventy-eight students make the winter quarter honor roll . . . . "There is no reason why any man should be elated over his election or despondent over his defeat," says an editorial. April 5, 1934 Ben Proctor has bought a farm. "He refuses to comment on anything because nobody ask ed him." . , . Two Duke co-eds enter a room on the third floor of a-dormitory . . . Captain Le Gore's javelin toss of 212 feet, seven inches in the Dartmouth meet was beaten last year by on ly one college man . . . "Are you a newspaper crackler?" inquires an advertisement. SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND A Better Frosh Dance Editor, the Daily Tar Heel: The freshman class executive committee has set aside a good ly sum $250 to be exact for the annual freshman dance. From opinions already spread ing over the campus, I have gar nered the opinion that the forth coming affair is not looked upon by any too great a number of freshmen as the gala affair that it should be. Quite on the contrary is the current sentiment. The com mittee has secured a very med iocre orchestra, when it could hire one of the many better bands at present on the campus. The affair, according to rumor, is to be informal and will in no way resemble the fine dances al ready given by the upper classes. It is my belief, as well as that. of many other members of the '38 class, that our only dance of the year should at least resemble a high-class affair instead of a high school social, to which end it seems to be destined. We have appropriated a big enough sum of money to demand that we get something worthwhile out of it. F. W. FERGUSON. INFIRMARY LIST Casual Correspondent by Nelson Lansdale The following students were confined in the infirmary yester day : Robert Van Sleen, Charles Abernethy, R. S. Weatherford, Eleanor Lockhart, R. W. Wees ner, and James Idol. Patronize Our Advertisers THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS Before the range of wit and repartee, the depth of thought, the wide variety of personalities, and the sheer weight of the in tellectual matter paraded in Ger rard and Memorial halls this week, this department is un ashamedly humble. Any effort to retail odd scraps of conver sation, jokes, stupidities of stu dents, or speaker's favorite sto ries, misrepresents in this de partment's opinion at least and cheapens the splendid work, and the value of the Institute of Hu man Relations. Three things have been in creasingly obvious to your cor respondent from a fairly close observation of the work of the Institute. The most important of these is a perhaps necessary observation that the Institute is accomplishing what it set out to do. For the first time since your correspondent has been en rolled at the University, a con siderable number of people on the campus are really, thinking about affairs of national and in ternational consequence. The bank holiday of March, 1933, became a school holiday in which fervent and almost desperate participation by the whole un dergraduate body went hand in hand with the most appalling ignorance of the actual state of affairs, and the wildest surmises as to the future. Now, however, for campus radicals and blue stockings alike, national and in- ternational affairs have chal lenged interest and intelligent consideration. It doesn't so much matter whether the speak ers are right or wrong they have set the campus to thinking. And that, in our opinion, is an event worth recording. GERMAN EUROPE It is further clear that think ing people everywhere - are scared, badly scared of the men ace that is Germany. Two dis tinguished speakers whose sub jects have concerned European affairs Duggan and Lederer have limited themselves almost exclusively to discussions of Ger- many and the German situation. THE HONORABLE FISH Our other observation is on the surprising political conser vatism as contrasted with the manifest broadening of the social attitude on the campus. When campus reds and parlor pinks, gunning for Hamilton Fish, at tempted to monopolize two semi nars Wednesday with discus sions of Soviet Russia,, they were enthusiastically booed by a pack ed Gerrard hall. On the' other band, Negroes and whites sat side by side for Dr. John Hope's discursive, emotional lecture on the Negro in the modern world. Whether the booing of the pink intellectuals was due to their unpopularity as individ uals, to the unfairness and ma liciousness of their attacks on. the speaker, in the conservatism of the audience or to the general feeling that there are matters of more importance and more im mediate interest worthy of dis cussion than Soviet Russia, we cannot say definitely. It is, however, our opinion, that the campus believes these radicals have assumed an importance out of all proportion to their signifi cance as thinkers or organizers. The booing we take as the year's first public manifestation of this feeling. NON-IMPEDIMENTIA It would be presumptious in the extreme for this department to extend its praise and congra tulation to the chairman (espe cially for the brevity of his in troductions), the committee for the Institute, or any of the peo ple who have made it possiWe. That isn't our job. As Shakes peare puts it: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment , OUTSTANDING RADIO BROADCASTS 1:30 : George Hall orch., WABC, WBT. 2:00: Bill Allsbrook orch., WBIG. 3:15: Minneapolis Sym. orch., Eugene Ormandy, conductor, WABC, WBIG, WBT. 5:00: Loretta Lee, songs, WABC, WBT. 5 :30 : Nellie Revell interview ing Ben Bernie, WPTF, WSB. 6:00: Leon Navara orch., WABC, WBT. 7:00: Bill Allsbrook orch., WBIG. 8:00: ConcertJessica Drago- nette, soprano, WEAF, WRVA. 9 :00 : March of Time, WABC, WHAS. ' 10:15: Kay Kyser orch., WGN. 11:15: Ozzie Nelson orch., WBT, WGST. 11:30: Jolly Coburn orch., WEAF, WRVA; Wayne King, WGN, 12:00: Jan Garber orch., WGN. APRIL 24 SET AS DATE FOR BUS LINE HEARING April 244ias been set as the date for the Atlantic Greyhound Lines hearing before the utili ties commission in Raleigh, the editor of the Daily Tar Heei received notice yesterday. Still optimistic, the University Club, according to one of &s members, is expecting to pursue its oft-deferred plans to sponsor a mass trip to Raleigh to attend the hearing and express student sympathy with the approval of the bus line's petition.
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