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Pasre Two THE T A It H EEL Thursday, November 8," 1928 wm bx '-mu Leading Southern College Tei Weekly Newspaper , ; v " - !r ervation and yet at present are re ceiving destructive ' attention from thoughtless students.. Pleading for the continual beautifi- cation of the campus, the Tar Heel asks that the athletic fields be given a enance , to demonstrate tneir uses and that the grass plots be relieved from -their tag football duties. Published three times weekly during the college year, and-is the official The Tar :Heel Has C XL , Dil? sin 4-? v 0 I uHSrSf "pnii& of ! North A ; Brand New Nurse Carolina. Chanel Hill. N. C. Sub scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Growing in scope and in importance from year to year, the Tar Heel has struggled nobly ' along under the guidance of a different managing edi tor for each of the three weekly is- ; Editor sues."" This plan was good in that it Mgr. Ed provided training for ambitious Bus. Mgr. journalists and gave three men in stead of one a chance to show their EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT v originality in writing headlines. Its Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. n , ' .. Walter Spearman George Ehrhart : ... Marion Alexander i, - i - j Open Forum The Dramatic Critic Is Criticized To The Editor: Harry Galland ... Assistant Editor I obvious fault lay in the lack of- indi- Glenn ttoider Assisiani, a. yidual responsibility and the absence John Mebane ..... Assistant Maxtor Will Yarborough : Sports Editor M. Broadus H. T. Browne W. C. Dunn J. C. Eagles J. P. Jones W.; A.' Shelton D. L. , Wood v C. B. McKethan J. C. Williams E. Wilson G. M. Cohen 3. G. Barber Reporters G. A. Kincaid Dick McGlohon J. Q. Mitchell B. C. Moore K. C. ' Ramsay of unity in the different issues. ' No one man was responsible for the lay out; each of the three tried to inject his own personality into the Tar Heel often to the detriment of the paper. But this system has passed and one full-time managing editor has as- P. B.Ruffm Linwood.. Harrell sumed responsibility for 'the ,appear- E. b. Yarborougn Unee of the Tar Heel. Now one man H. H. Taylor E. H. Denning J. D. McNairy B. W. Hitton. will devote his time to seeing that all the news of the campus is brought into ; the office and finds its. way into the columns of the newspaper; he will read copy and write headlines for all three issues and will plan a uniform layout not varying wildly issue to B. M: Parker . . ..iAssi. Bus. Mgr. issue 'Not only is this step impor H. N. Patter son v Collection Mgr. I tant in that it makes for an improved . J. E. Dungan' BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff Gradon Pendergraph Circulation Mgr, T. R. Karriker ,:::....J.:.Asst. Col: Mgr. Advertising Staff Leonard Lewis Harry Latta Jack Brooke Ben Aycock I. Goldsteia M. Y. Feimester; J. L. McDonald J. Goldstein Sidney Brick H. Jameson . H. Merrell ' Thursday, November 8, 1928 PARAGRAPHICS paper, but it . is also paving the way for a daily Tar Heel, establishment of which at some time in the near future is inevitable. It is with pleasure that the Tar Heel welcomes her new custodian, George Ehrhart, and ' introduces him to the reading public through these editorial columns About Boxing And- A Boxing Bout The once Solid South seems to be isnt often that two distinct ac- melting away-evidently the best of tivities on the campus combine to help nli'd turn Hrinid under stress. one another. When such a thing oc curs, it is worthy- of notice. . . - - . i a - . . l All of which reminds us tnat tne . Attention was called in the Tar "Happy Warrior'' ; isn't happy any Heel recently to theneed of the Band more. V- for-uniforms. Quite unexnectedlv. a wave of enthusiasm arose '-from -'no- TTT'il TT IT 1 U I wixn xioover s reueo. reu, yuc Inhere, rolled down upon the -Open Forum's waiting white space, "and spent itself in ,an appeal to help fill The University of North7 Carolina the pawning coffers placed near, the still maintains its prized individuality entrances of Kenan Stadium ; during -its straw vote was overwhelmingly the Tech game, so that the - music for Smith while the trend of the na- makers miht be nelPed alon intneir tion was Hooverward. efforts to clothe themselves. Further, ana to cap the climax, Johnny Booker At present we are trying to decide rx into print, and the deed was . whether the ' "Danger" sign on the d?ne-; . 1 basement door of Alumni Building re- Done, but not completed. Appar fers to the Tar Heel office or the ently the money necessary to com Rifle Club;: plete the project was not obtained. - i - - t .i Instead of giving upMn . despair, re- A boxing bout is to be staged Fri- newed efforts are being made. And day night for the benent ot tne oana. here is where the cooperation which If members of the band were to par- causes the Tar Heel to issue a lauda ticipate in the boxing, they wouldn't tory saiute comes in need any new uniforms they could utilize newly acquired bumps, bruises, and cauliflower ears for the necessary decorations'. his election will at least bring us re lief from the worries of campaigning. This "No Men Allowed" sign which we understand is to guard the sanc- Captain Charley Brown of the Box ing Team announces a program of bouts in the Tin Can tomorrow night for the benefit of the Band or rather their . uniforms. The sluggers will do their stuff for the benefit of the Perhaps it is a brotherhood '1: i - -i.ii.: tooters. tltv Oi vne gymnasium wnue um iau -, i co-eds play basketball reminds us of f Puffed lips-we don't know. ; But the time when Spencer Building . for any way" you take it, it is a worthy Women was erected upon this campus at the expense of a new gymnasium effort. '.There is too much of the "devil-with-the-other-fellow" attitude for the boys. There's no keeping out Uong organizations and teams on the women! Where Is -Tag Football Supposed To Be Played Athletic fields,' according to our un derstanding of the University policy, are provided in order to pfijer the stu dents a place for exhibiting their ath letic proclivities. - With the varsity field, the freshman field, and the intra mural field open to student play, there should be plenty of room. 7 J The various grass plots 'about the . -campus ,have . been planted, for other purposes than to be 'trodden down and worn out by the hurrying feet of en thusiastic tag football players. Grass is to beautify the campus, not to pro vide soft spots for tackled men to fall upon. The spaces in the; quad rangle and between the gym and tne magazine that gives all sides of the quad are especially, worthy of pres: story; -Martins Ferry Times, -' the, campus. It is a pleasure to see one lend a helping hand to another. The Tar Heel wishes the Band and the Boxers good luck in their joint project. II. J. GALLAND. Carolina Theatre To ? Entertain "F" Dorm Continuing his policy of entertain ing various groups on the campus, Manager E. C. Smith announces that D. Dormitory will be the guest of the theatre next -week. The sixty or more men in the group will be welcomed at the theatre at the nine o'clock; show Saturday night. They are requested to be there promptly with the Dormitory presi dent. ; . , v The Literary Digest frankly waters to those -who' have telephones. Peo ple on, party lines should, enjoy a Dear Sir: ...... The worm has turned. It has been squirming for a long time, but it is Dr. John M. Booker we must thank for this sudden turn to the light. It is ' about time this campus let itself be heard from on the matter of criti cism. It is about time we demanded a real literary and dramatic critic. For years we have tolerated people like Joe Mitchell, who by dint of strain have achieved the sophomoric, without the accompanying witty bril liance that makes an occasional sopho moric ; mind tolerable. As a matter of fact, we -are interested in Joe Mit chell, the present so-called "critic," only . because,, he impinges upon us, not through any , merit of our own, but because Joseph Mitchell , is for ever saying "what he thinks," and for fear that we will not finish his article 'and find his name in the right hand - corner, or because he is afraid we will not; know it is Joe Mitchell speaking, we see Joseph Mitchell in large black type in the same breadth with the title. We do not particularly care about his personal stand, nor do we expect overdone applause, but from a dramatic critic, as Mr. Mitcneii claims to be, we do demand an intelli- j gent stand. Does he get his reputa tion from such an article as appeared Saturday, morning? The Tar Heel directed us to The Theatre, with the gentle reminder, that even though the Ibsen production, was the affaire of Friday evening, it must be in its pro-? per pew in accordance with metro politan newspapers. Now we could make some very caustic remarks about football results found in the head lines instead of being kept on the sport page, but, no matter. " Well, let us look at this article The Theatre. For two long columns, some eleven inches in one -and some . four in another Critic Mitchell tells us all ; about Henrick Ibsen, which information, may, we remind Mr. Mitchell was on the program in much better literary form, and the same information in the hands of a dramatic critic of a "metropolitan ; newspaper," Would have been run as pre-play publicity; It had nothing to do with the perfor mance. Critic Mitchell's actual opin ions are trite, shallow; and ' of little consequence. Compare them with Dr. Booker's letter.; No unrestrained praise there, but an understanding of Ibsen, beautifully cleari without any attached history of the playwright's successes and failures f o some thirty years. With equal understanding Dr. Booker gives fair and intelligent ap preciation of the cast, taking into ac count . the difficulties under which they toiled, and the success with which they surmounted their - difficulties. Does Critic Mitchell get his reputation of saying what he thinks from such worn out expressions , as so and so "gave a fine performance"; so and so was "splendid" ; someone else "man aged a walk-on creditably" ; and some one else "did not slide off the stage"; the settings were "brilliantly execut ed," when as a matter of fact, they were not brilliantly executed, but merely adequate? And what kind of English is this, "Ibsen can be acted perfectly all right on a lighted stage"? Is this a critic speaking? Indeed not; Mr. Editor. These are statements of the sterotyped youthful college jour nalist who, in this case, cannot even hide the fact that he wrote his article on the night of the dress rehearsal. No, we are onvto Critic Mitchell. He is not a critic at all. Because we have ; shrugged our shoulders for so long and said, "Well, you cannot ex pect intelligent criticism from this campus," Mr. Mitchell's , outbursts have gone uncriticised, and he came to the conclusion that silence " meant approval and sanction of his ability to say what he thought, and to voice the thoughts of the campus. ; A worthy reputation, i this one of saying what you think, but is what Critic Mitchell thinks worth saying? .With best wishes for an interesting Forum in the next few issues, I am, Most sincerely yours, B. F. M. '28 T I true in a sport which requires brute strength as the primary requisite of its existance? Is there ' any other sport of lawful bodily contact which is not segregated into " weight - and size divisions? Boxing, wrestling, and football are the three sports re quiring bodily contact. In both of the first two games the small man is notl' forced to vie with the larger man. There are weight divisions. The tiirfe of action in a football game rarely exceeds seven minutes. There must be-more than the game' proper in order that people will sit for three or more hours for the pur pose of watching seven minutes of action, largely composed of ; marty ristic injuries.x' Therefore there must be some other element entering into the game. What does the crowd, the mob, come out to see? Surely not the few minutes of action. The crowd likes " the music, to mingle among t itself, the cheering, the color, to : have its emotions aroused. Of these elements football is composed uouia . not anotner . game, a more skillful game, be substituted? Would the same crowd that turns out for a football game stay at home, seclusive, if a faster and more skillful game were substituted? No. The crowd likes to gather, to cheer, and to be come, emotional.;' ; ' - 1 : It is the love for blood that elevates the game of football above other sports. ' . Is it called manly because more blood is shed, more bones brok en? Is it a ' reversion to barbarism when the crowd cries for blood to "Kill 'em"? . W: Many better games could be sub stituted for football if all of the ele ments of emotional excitation were present. In England Over 110,000 en joy soccer games. Rarely, does an American crowd of such a size see a football game. Is it because the English are more highly educated in the lines of sportmanship and skil that they appreciate a more skillfu and less bloody game? No, they mere ly did not have a few college leaders, Who decided, that football was the most masculine sport, to set the pace for the future generations. Until football changes and depends more on the requirement of skill'and less on the requisite of an excess of weight and bodily- contact, the game is not Worthy to be qualified as a major sport. '': ' Therefore my suggestion is that a faster, better, and more skillful game be introduced in the place of football, the sluggish. ; " T H. T.' BROWNE. ' Football Gets Its Share To the Editor: The game of football is unqualified to be the major sport of a school or an university. Football requires less skill, and more brute strength and beef than any other popular .game. In what other sport is a man, even if he is a two hundred pounder and reasonably fast on his feet, able to make the team the first year of his application to the sport? The state ment is often made that a little man with brains has as good a .chance in football as a large man. Can this be Mendenliall Broadcasts Alex Mendenhall and his Tar Heel Boys has been engaged by the Uni versity Extension Division to broad cast over Station WPTF, Raleigh, at the regular University hour program Monday afternoon from 5 to 6 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by Mor gan F. Vining, Director of Lectures, University Extension Division. , Mr. Vining says that efforts are Toeing made to have all musical or ganizations on the; Hill appear on a University hour program sometime during the year. Jack Wardlaw and his orchestra broadcasted on October 29. .The Carolina Buccaneers, under the direction of Mickey Block, have been engaged for , early December, the exact date has not been announced i as- yet. - ,- : .' .;. " . ' -; i -i i "The Desert Song at The City Auditorium - Schwab and Mandel's f The Desert Song," which comes to the City 'Audi torium, Durham on Thursday night November 15th is heraled as ope of the really big things of the year. Re ports from New York, London Chicago and Detroit, where it has ! had long engagements, speak glowing ly of its grandeur. Everything that can possibly en ter into the composition of a brilliant operetta has been given to "The Desert Song" by brilliant men of the theatre. Its music is by Sigmund Romberg, who charmed so many with his score of "Blossom Time," "May time" and "The Student Prince.'' Its book is the combined work of Otto Harbach, Oscar , Hammerstein and Frank Mandel, authors of "Rose Marie' "Sunny,'"No, No, Nanette" and other Broadway successes. - V , "The Desert Song" is a modern operetta, set in Morocco during an uprising of the. Riffs. . With the North African desert and mountains for a background, the librettists have peopled their story , with French soldiers and native warriors, ladies from Paris, Spain and the harems of the native chief tains. V A chorus of approximately 100 voices will be heard in the ensembles provided by Romberg, including a large male chorus which is said to vie with the masculine voices heard in this composer's j recent success "The Student Prince." . ; The company's symphony orchestra will be under the direction of Hans Koch.. - ;" ' rl: v Date for Annual Pictures Has Been Made The final date for the taking of pictures of Juniors, Seniors, fraternity pledges and members to go in the Yackety Yack is December 10, and no individual pictures will be taken after that time.1 Those who have not al ready had their pictures taken are advised to do so immedi ately. Appointments may be made at Sutton's Drug Store any time during the day. Fifty cents is to be paid at the Ap pointment Desk and one dollar to the photographer at the time the picture is taken. NEW VICTOR RECORDS RELEASED EVERY FRIDAY UNIVERSITY BOOK AND STATIONERY CO. (Sutton Bldg.) V CLIPPED . .. - U. N. C. LEADING AGAIN .The Technician r Once more North. Carolina's tech nical school has to give way to its older and more illustrious sister in stitution, the Universitjr of ! North Carolina. At this time when, student government here is so much under fire , behind the closed doors of cam pus organizations of recognized qual ifications, it is considered ; appropri ate to mention the editorial utter ances of the University's Alumni Review. , The October (1928) number of that publication, carrying a picture of the Kenan Memorial Stadium within the front cover, has this to say of the plan now in vogue at North Carolina: "It is a rather significant distinc tion for University i student govern ment : that the tradition is so well rooted that the men students of sum mer school can carry on the self-gov ernment ideals of the 'regular ses sions. Carolina student government has been a tradition for college gen erations. That tradition has long been in the process of building, and numerous student generations have played large roles in the process." ; The Carolina publication mentions an editorial , in the alumni magazine of Oregon 'Agricultural College, re cording opinions from the speech .of the newly named president of .the University ' of Idaho, Dr. J. F. Kelly. The western magazine editorially spoke: . ; . . "Each school has peculiar condi tions. , 'But,' he added, 'the ideal has been attained at such places as the University of Virginia and the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . - . And, so far as I am aware, neither of these institutions has a single written rule . .1 . That is a real system. They have real honor there'." That is wherein Carolina again leads State. -The student body may take these citations for what they think them worth. We just mention them as a reminder that perhaps Car olina boys have some reason to feel higher up than we. 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