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Henry L. Anderson
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Browning Roach J. G; Hamilton, Jr.
REPORTERS '
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Charles Rose
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Saturday, March 8, 1930
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
One of the common causes of skep
ticism is the sight of Christian peo
ple saying one thing and doing an
otherProfessor James Jloffatt. .
Locked Classrooms .
And Approaching Exams
Most of us are scurrying
about the campus with har
rassed expressions upon our
countenances these days. Exams
are no joke to procrastinators
and what college student does
not procrastinate as far as
writing term papers and prepar
ing for examinations are con
cerned? Most of us postpone
the inevitable as long as possi
ble, stifling the persistent com
plaints of an outraged sense of
duty with vague, half -formed
and highly implausible excuses;
and during the last two weeks
before exams we discover that
we are in a bind. In a few days
of feverish activity we attempt
to redeem the mediocrity of
three months of lethargic indif
ference' to academic duties.
But the "swivet" before
exams is inevitable. It is hu
man nature to procrastinate in
the performance of unpleasant
.tasks; unfortunately most of us
are inclined to regard class
room assignments as necessary
evils, to be postponed until the
last possible moment. And all
the good resolutions and inten
tions in the world cannot mater
ially change human nature.
There are no valid reasons
why conditions should not be
made as . favorable as possible
for last-minute preparations for
exams, however. The procrasti
nator is under, tremendous psy
chological and physical handi
caps when he finally begins his
frantic efforts to retrieve his
fast-diminishing chances of sat
isfying the scholastic require
ments. He should be given the
opportunity of studying under
conditions most favorable to
concentration and application,
And the average dormitory or
fraternity room most assuredly
does not provide these conditions.
It is true that the library
reading rooms offer excellent
facilities for private study. But
frequently two or.more students
wish to engage in "bull-sessions"
on their courses, in order that
they may express to their mu
tual benefit whatever knowledge
they may have gleaned- from
them. In addition, there are
many persons who cannot con
centrate except in absolute pri
vacy. . ' ' . V
During the afternoons and
evenings practically all of the
University class-rooms are not
in use. These rooms provide the
only suitable places for group
"bull-sessions" on courses, and
frequently offer privacy for the
student who wishes to study
alone. Yet the powers that be
have evidently issued a dictum
that all class-rooms are to be
locked when not in actual use
for classes. .
Very little damage would be
done to furniture and woodwork
by those who wish to utilize the
class-rooms for afternoon and
evening sessions of studying, in
our opinion. But evidently the
buildings department4 and ad
ministrative officials do not see
it that way.
Possibilities of trivial dam
ages to class-rooms are not suf
ficient justification for barring
students when they wish to
study in them, however; Es
pecially is this true during the
week or two preceding filial ex
ams.. Quite a few failures might
be averted if the class-room
buildings are opened at all times
to students from now until af
ter examinations.
The Police Suppress
Communistic Parades
Communists throughout the
world staged parades and cele
brations Thursday as a protest
against unemployment and in
order to get more converts to
communism. As was expected
"red Thursday" was marked by
many outbreaks, of violence;
there were riots in 'New York,
Detroit, Washington, and sever
al other larger cities of this
country as well as more serious
trouble in many of the cities of
the state.
Trouble hi Washington, New
York, and Detroit was caused by
the efforts of the police to stop
the celebrations ; this was a vio
lation of President Hoover's de
claration that the police should
not interfere as long as things
were peaceful and orderly. While
very little serious damage was
done by the skirmishes with the
police, an untold amount of hard
feeling and. bitterness was
aroused. If the narades had
been allowed to go on peacefully
and undisturbed, the effective
ness of the celebrations would
have been diminished.
America can never successful
ly combat communism by vio
lence and interference. Such
tactics have been unsuccessful
in fighting socialism in Germany
and communism in Russia. Re
actionary measures will do more
to increase the communistic fol
lowing than a quiet and passive
non - interference. Communist
agitators should have the right
to organize and parade as much
as they like; only when proper
ty is destroyed or violence done
S i t At i e
snoum tne ponce step m. sup
pression of any doctrine of be
lief is contrary to the basic prin
ciple of American liberty.
According to press reports
many- thousands of people fol
lowed the red flag Thursday,
most of them ill-kept and poorly
fed destitute men- in the last
straights of wretchedness, many
of the unemployed joined the
ranks in the blind hope of doing
something for themselves. These
people will follow any move that
promises to bring relief. The
demonstrations Thursday show
ed an enormous potential
strength for the communists.
Much has been done to exag-
tup nirrt? . - . .
gerate the number of commun
ists in America; the press has
played every act of violence up
in the light of communistic or
bdlsheviki influence. Even Sec
retary Kellogg once so lost his
diginty and reason that he
blamed the American trouble in
Mexico on Russia and commun
ism. All the talk and discussion
over the strength of communism
in this country is in part a press
racket; . the ' newspapers are
overemphasizing the strength of
the communists, and the au
thorities by their program of
suppression are giving the small
beginning an impetus for growth
and development. J. D. McN.
Readers' Opinions
ANENT THE DAILY TAR
pEEL
Editor Daily Tar Heel:
That experiment known as
the Daily Tar Heel has been in
operation now a scant five
months. Its local and intercol
legiate acceptance, however,
justify the writer in referring
to it as a very successful experi
ment. Several of the leading college
papers of the country have of
late reprinted a large number of
editorials and hews articles
from this official organ of the
Carolina student body. Among
these are the University Daily
Kansan, the McGill University
Daily (Canada); The Farlez
Vous of Converse College, The
Chronicle" of Duke University,
Michigan State News, and num
erous others. One wall of the of
fice in Alumni building is liter-
lally covered with clippings from
college publications all over the
nation. The greater part of
these are editorials which have
appeared in the Daily Tar Heel
from time to time; a large num
ber are news articles, however.
In no spirit of boastfulness, we
say that such popularity must be
deserved. That the Daily Tar
Heel is receiving much more re
cognition and comment than the
old tri-weekly ever did is a fac
tor which we cannot overlook
when we consider the merits of
the experiment in the field of
daily collegiate publications,
which the students of the Uni
versity last Spring voted to
launch. . "
Before the advent of the Daily
Tar Heel there was not a daily
paper published in Chapel Hill.
The 'townspeople were, there
fore, ill-infprmed concerning
local news and local announce
ments. The daily student pa
per has alleviated this grievance
to a very large degree, accord
ing to comments which the staff
has received from citizens of the
village and the surrounding
neighborhood.
Numerous open forum letters
and verbal discussions of the
publication seem to indicate that
the students of the University
are, as a whole, deeply interest
ed in it. To date the matter of
the Daily Tar Heel has been dis
cussed a number of times in the
two campus literary societies.
Both went on record recently as
stating that the paper in its
present form represented a suc
cessful undertaking in intercol
legiate daily publications.
The change from the tri
weekly to the daily was merely
a step commensurate with the
great progressive strides of the
University itself. We believe
that the present attitude of the
students toward the Daily Tar
Heel is such as to assume ijs
further development in future
years.
INTERESTED OBSERVER.
Scientists now say that the
human race is at least a million
years old. If that is true, it is
even more DacKwarq than we
thought it was. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
uuxrAii uijiuis , Saturday, March S, 1930
1 T " " "' m .iM ,hi, i fgr. t I"' - m I -
The Arrow - Man
By J. C. (Red) Williams
Wandered we weary, silent,
and quite alone by the site of old
Memorial hall. One by one we
thought of the pleasant mem
ories associated with that ven
erable structure the crumbled
remnant of other days. But
these thoughts we hastily dis
missed. A new foundation we
saw in process of hardening, a
modern auditorium rose in our
imagination mute, stone testi
mony to the prowess of that arch
enemy of tradition Progress !
Old Timers on the Tar Heel
staff would not recognize the
neatly, kept, comfortable office
which we modern campus bull
slingers work in. The present
quarters of this publication
stand out in bold contrast to the
dilapidated rendezvous of the
campus literary artists of for
mer years.
Typewriters that could not
be very easily sold for junk once
smeared pages of student liter
ary effort. No tables, no desks,
and no radiators, nothing but a
time-worn cuspidor eased the
eye from7 the utter barrenness
and bleakness of the Tar Heel
office of a decade ago.
. ;The theory in vogue now is
that of making the office so at
tractive that the members of the
staff will be drawn to spend
much of their time in it is the
pursuit of pleasure arid recrea
tion. Now that the theory has
been proven a good one by the
wide recognition which has
been accorded the Daily Tar
Heel, we suggest that the same
theory be applied to classroom
situations.
TTT . 1 m .
we nave oi late noticed an
sbb in the swirling eddies and
xenchant tides of criticism that
3nce poured in upon us, the stu
dent body, from all parts of the
state. Time was when well
meaning religious leaders
preached at, about, and to us
cleaiming that we were all ag
nostics or worse. Even this has
calmed down a bit. It is dis
tressingly monotonous this un
broken cadence of peaceful, still,
dull days. We, the student
body, have been sublimated into
conformity.
But 'twill not be ever thus.
Campus politicians are now
drinking the milk of human
kindness through the same rye
straw. Things are "getting
right," in- the political brogue.
Yet the coming period of ex
treme campus activity, although
it is certain to occur, will be
brief. Sluggish tides of life, a
standardized faculty, and a
mechanical student body these
things train on, and on, and on.
THE REASON OF MAN
(By ourself)
Aitnougn our mental organ
... i . i
has never been known to pene
trate very far into the realm of
mystery, the only-reason we
have been able to find for man
is Woman. Let us elucidate a
bit:
Be he the chief justice of the
United States supreme court, or
robber of the Twentieth Century
mails, be he commander of the
American army, or scavenger of
his city's alleys, if a newspaper
reporter questions man: "Why
art thou whom thou art?" his
answer will be "Woman."
The most constant, sensible,
just, unjust, wise, fickle, foolish,
incomparable, the very acme of
powerful weakness is man's
"better half." A clinging' vine
that props the mighty oak and
keeps it from falling!. The
weakness that is power ! Woman;
the inarticulate; and the voluble :
Ski" h
ITS-
Aian, tne spinxiixe, if ques
tioned, must reply with an enig
ma "Woman."
'
We .take great pleasure here
in announcing that the next of
our series of essays on pertinent
topics, "The reason of woman,"
will appear in the next issue of
this column.
The right honorable Atlanta
Constitution made the startling
discovery the other day that
opera stars look somewhat like
other human beings. The paper
carried pictures" of two of the
sopranos that were performing
in the city, and pointed out that
they were very similar to the
average housewife. .There goes
another illusion!
The biggest joke we've heard
in a. long time as that intercol
legiate debating should be con
demned because it is not amus
ing. Who is there among us
that expects to get entertain
ment free on this campus?
Debating was never intended to
be a medium of gayety and
frolic. The author of the above
contention is a bit misinformed.
Moore Bryson
FOR AUNTIE'S SAKE ; ;
By John Patric
HOLLYHOCKS
By Joseph Philip Cox
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
By Kent Creuser
DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY
By Milton Wood ..
Four new playwrights and a
host of new actors made their
debut at the Carolina Playmaker
theatre Thursday evening before
a partially filled house. The
playwrights have come to the
University from four different
sections of the Union, and for
the first time the curtains parted
on a .Playmaker production
which had neither a native
author nor a local folk play on
the bill.
For Auntie's Sake is a playlet
by John Patric which deals with
the successful attempt of a clev
er college student to over-awe a
feminine newcomer to the cam
pus by a display of his remark
able power of telepathy. Unfor
tunately, the author had pre
viously used the plot as the basis
for a story in the Tar Heel and
it lacked novelty to the majority
of the audience. Miss Lottie
Frances Mays gives a charming
portrayal of the naive and gul
lible girl, although she over-emphasized
all of her lines which
showed any degree of astonish
ment. The author, Mr. Patric,
failed to give a convincing- in
terpretation of a sophisticated
college man. His opening. tele
phone conversation was more in
the nature of a soliloquy since he
recated in no wav to 'th' -re
marks coining from the other
end of the line. However, he
did in part redeem himself dur
ing the last few minutes of the
play after the successful com
pletion of his favorite trick had
given him such advantage as. to
allow him to appear indifferent
This is the Playmakers' first at
tempt in the field of vaudeville,
for the play is nothing more than
a "skit," and the advisability of
such a venture is strongly douht-
ed.
It is to be regretted that the
characters and underlying theme
of Hollyhocks and Loretto Car
roll Bailey's Job's Kinf oiks are
so basically similar. Mr. Fox
Has written a play dealing with
the ideals and trials of a simple
but honest New England family.
It is oppressive in its tragic
outlook, but sincere in its char
WARNER BAXTER'S ROLES
ARE REFORMING HDl
Warner Baxter is improving
by degrees. In "In Old Arizona"
as the "Cisco Kid," he was a
genuine bad man, in "Thru Dif
ferent Eyes" he betrayed his
best- friend, but in "Such Men
Are Dangerous," Fox Movie
tone all talking drama based on
Elinor Glyn's intriguing story,
he is bad only in the early se
quences of the picture, which is
Monday's feature at the Caro
lina. In "Such Men Are Danger
ous," Baxter portrays the role
of Ludwig Kranz, a multi-millionaire
manufacturer who, be
cause of his ugly face is deserted
by his bride. His plans for re
venge miscarry when, after em
ploying plastic surgery, he
again succombs to her charms.
Catherine Dale Owen, de
scribed as the most beautiful
blonde of the films, enacts the
role of the wife and the sup
porting cast also includes . such
splendid artists as .Hedda Hop
per, Albert Conti, Claude AUis
ter, Bela Lugosi and Lucy Lor
raine.
acterization of real people. It
is not a great play, but it has
the elements necessary for a
great play. It is to be hoped
that the author will not let the
thought behind it die in its in
fancy, but that he will develop
it into a long play worthy of such
aj situation and fsuch eonflict.
fthe acting throughout was Only
mediocre, showing the lack of
careful, detailed direction. Bob
by Koch, however, proved him
self i a worthy offspring of a
theatrically inclined father in
part of the devoted little boy.
Suspended Animation . pre-,
sented an interesting insight
into the actual job of playwrit
ing. It is nothing more than an
amusing, incident in the life of
three college boys. Among the
followers of English 31 it will
recall similar episodes when a
play had to be written within a
limited time. The play is un
usual in that the stage charac
ters are actually played by the
same boys who served for the
models of the written play. The
impressionistic set was effective
and the actors were very suc
cessful in appearing perfectly
natural.
An appreciative applause was
accorded Elmer Hall's set for
Death Valley Scotty. Mr. Hall
demonstrated his ability to over
come the limited space of the
theatre's stage in designing a
desert set which gave the effect
of distance, although from the
footlights to the back drop is
scarcely over 15 feet The play
itself deals with a colorful char
acter of : Death Valley. Milton
Wood, the author, played the
title role with understanding, as
well he might, since the charac
ter is well known to him. Eve
land Davies and Robert Davis
were very good as the "tender-
feet" who came in search of
gold, although the latter over
acted his part in the more dra
matic situations. Kent Creuser
and B. C. Wilson gave their two
grunts and an "Ugh" each with
much finesse, their make-ups as
Hopi Indians being especially
good.
This is undoubtedly one of the
weakest bills which the Play-
makers have produced in recent
years, due, in part; to the fact
that most of the production staff
was away .on tour during the
majority of the rehearsals. It
isto be hoped that the. future
will find more time spent on the
bills which are to be given for
the entertainment of the local
patrons of the theatre.