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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, April 1. l935 Cfje Batlp Car Heel The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. En tered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. , Chas. G. Rose, Jr . 1 USditor Geo. W. Wilson, Jr.... ......Managing Editor R. D. McMillan, Jr ..-.Business Manager Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemaker, chairman; E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, B. B. Perry, A. T. Dill, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster, W. A. Sigmon, Robert Berryman, F. P. Gaskins. CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutch ison, W. R. Eddleman, J. D. Winslow, T. H. Walker, Donoh Hanks, Carl Thompson. DESK MAN Nelson Robbins. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugarman, chairman; Nel son Lansdale, Milton Stoll, Irving D. Suss, Eleanor Bizzell, George Rhoades, Don Becker. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Ander son, J. H. Morris, Lawrence Thompson, Morrie Long, Crampton Trainer, Lane Fulenwider, Jerome Kessler, Jack Bessen. REPORTERS James B. Craighill, Raymond Barron, Walter Hargett, James W. Keel, Lionel Melvin, Robert C. Page, Phillip Hammer, Dave Mosier, Raleigh Alls brook, J. C. Murphy, Jack Lowe, W. C. Durfee. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Thomas Worth, Mgr. OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Ass't. Bus. Mgr; Ran dolph Reynolds, Collections Mgr.; Joe C. Webb, Ass't Collections Mgr.; Agnew Bahnson, Subscriptions Mgr.; W. B. Robeson, Want Ad Mgr.; L. E. Brooks, Armistead Maupin, J. T. Barnard, J. L. Sprunt. LOCAL ADVERTISING STAFF John Barrow, Ass't Bus. Mgr.; Howard Manning, Advertising Mgr.; But ler French, Esley Anderson, Joe Mason, J. Ralto Far low, W. Smith. CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: T. H. WALKER Saturday, April 1, 1933 The Folk Play Is the Thing This week-end Chapel Hill is host to the state wide dramatic festival in which are participat ing schools, colleges, and community players from the mountains to. the sea. Within the next few days the Playmakers Theatre will see the presentation of plays by professional writers and more important still the efforts of North Carolina folks who have already contributed such writers as Paul Green, Ann Bridges, and Loretto Carroll Bailey. While the University of North Carolina is a leader in southern education in the field of the drama we stand with the leaders of the nation. The Carolina Playmakers are known throughout the country as one of the most eminent of col legiate dramatic organizations and the plays of some of our young writers are the equal of any in the collegiate field. Not content with the fostering of the drama merely in Chapel Hill the University's dramatic department under the leadership of Professor Koch have sounded the note of a new and vital interest in the folk play that has reached every hamlet and village of North Carolina and has extended its influence through all the south. American culture though at present puny is striving vigorously to equalize the great handi cap of its recent origin. For years American writers were content to ape the European, but gradually our literary output acquired a genuine American style and tone. The drama, however, has lagged behind in this Americanization and it may almost be said that our only great Ameri can playwrights are living ones so late has come our development in this line. America looks to the folk play as her hope for a drama that is purely native and able to place our stage on a par with that of the old world. Here in North Carolina the movement has ac quired its greatest impetus and the University which has already done much bids fair to be come a major influence in the creation of a truly American theatre. Many of us here tend to overlook what is in our midst and are not cognizant of the mighty happenings here in Chapel Hill. Perhaps these few days will serve to interest the student body in a force among us that is attracting the atten tion and praise of the nation. The student body should be proud of the part we are playing in this great field of national literature and proud of the men and women who are directing the great movement. And the University is proud and happy to play host to the eager folks, young and old, who under the inspiration of our leaders are doing a great share to instill the vital stream of the folk drama into a national theatre inferior to none. J.F.A. Flies in The Ointment This University boasts a campus unexcelled for natural beauty in the entire nation, yet the visitor is likely to leave Chapel Hill with some thing of a feeling of aesthetic disappointment for, if we have pensive buildings, mantled in ivy and softened by age; if over these grounds stately oaks, ancient as the institution itself, stand sentinel, and if these greenswards, with their park-like dimensions, and bordering stone walls and walkways, form a picture to delight the soul of the most discriminating1 connoiseur there are also eyesores which would do credit to the most abominable slum scenes in our most backward cities. As one walks from Gerrard hall to the Library, his eye is distracted by a heap of rusty rails, mangled bricks, rotting logs and fragments of useless building materials, which the feeble hedge bordering the walk can not obscure from view. Further to the right will be seen a mass of decrepit sheds with caving roofs and dangling walls, surrounded by dirty oil drums and a veri table junk-yard of obsolete machinery and tools. Forming a disgusting background for Patterson Morehead tower is another line of shabby sheds which passing motorists can not but notice, and which can scarcely add to the aesthetic impres sion of the University grounds. In these days of depression, these eyesores can readily be excused on the grounds of insuf ficient revenue ; but with almost no outlay of money and with small effort on the part of the buildings department, these charnel houses could be cleared away; cheap sheds could be removed to less conspicuous places, and much of the junk could be consigned to the dumping grounds with no great loss to the University. It seems that Federal money for relief might be obtained suf ficient to effect these changes, and the flies which have for so long infested the aesthetic ointment of the University grounds could be temporarily picked out. W.A.S. Hark to The Bell For quite a number of years it has been cus tomary for a class period to last only fifty-three minutes out of the hour and for the students at the University to have a seven-minute interval in which they may go from class to class. This is not only a custom in use by the students but a schedule laid down by members of the faculty. Occasionally, however, there are a few mem bers of the teaching staff who have the regret able habit of keeping the pupils after the fifty- three minutes allowed for the class. Sometimes this is due to the fact that the professor has already outlined a lecture which is to be given during the period and persists in finishing it although it may mean that the student is late to his next class and may have to take an un- excused absence for his tardiness, even though he is late through no fault of his own. More often this overtime lecture is the result of the professor not having heard the bell. In either case it is the student who has to take the blame for not reaching his next class in time. The student has the right to leave the class at the appointed time but hesitates usually to take advantage of this because in so doing he may incur the wrath of the professor for thus leaving the class so unceremoniously in spite of the fact that the teacher is encroaching upon the time of another faculty member. Whether the student is late for his next class and receives an absence or whether he leaves before the pre ceding class before the conclusion of the lecture, he is forced to take the blame regardless of the fact that he has no choice in the matter. There are only a few professors on the campus who have this lamentable habit, but their con scious or unconscious violation of the prescribed schedule may cause a disruption of this schedule for many others throughout most of the day. If these few professors would be a little more careful in the preparation of their lectures or in listening for the bell, there would be a much smoother routine during the day, fully as much could be told in a lecture, and there would be much less inconvenience caused to others. F.P.G. With Contemporaries That Old Custom Of Saying "Hello" Several years ago, all the freshmen were re quired to say "Hello" to upperclassmen whether they had been formally introduced to each other or not. Also the upperclassmen were required to address the freshmen in a similar manner. Moreover this same spirit was supposed to pre vail between the upperclassmen. This school year found the upperclassmen giv ing a brief, occasionally hearty greeting to the incoming' freshmen until rushing season was ter minated. Then, all semblance of cordiality was dropped. The average student, instead of greet ing his college mates as formerly, is in many cases cloaked with an impenetrable mantle of rer serve. The University that was once distin guished by a typical geniality once cheerily per vading the campus atmosphere, has slowly be gun to change. The whole-hearted custom of saying "Hello" to fellow collegians was one which, in the course of the year, enabled the average freshman to be come acquainted not only with his peers but upperclassmen as well. It permitted the upper classmen an opportunity to recognize and become friendly with newly matriculated students. It also gave the experienced ones a chance to wel come the green freshmen to the brotherhood of the students at the University of Vermont. Let us consider the results of a self-contained student body. There are many colleges where the student is intent only in his own thoughts. O Si 1' By Don Shoemaker Fireworks The boys over in the House, and we don't mean the Big House or the Housepital, but the House of Representatives, are still laboring along with that same sense of humor we de scribed here several weeks back. Since it is apparent that the General Assembly will occupy Raleigh until July, a conserva tive estimate, the House has to act up a little now and then to keep everyone in good spirits. Several weeks ago an enter prising representative got hold of some boxes of trick matches the kind that crack when you light one of them. He distrib uted them around on the desks of the legislators, and every time somebody gets up to speak, all the boys pull out their matches and crack 'em. They're also got some exploding cigarettes, re served for appropriation bill amendments. . When somebody cracks a match or explodes a cigarette, everybody jumps, and then they all grin and slap one another on the back. Just to sorta' keep courage up. Mistake The search light story by Mr. Berryman, who columns for this publication, reminded us . of a little skit down south campus way the other night. It seems that three or four gentlemen set out last week-end for Spencer hall. It was rather late in the evening, a Saturday evening. Arriving at what they thought was Spencer, they hallowed up at a light in a second floor win dow. A head appeared in the win dow. It was a lady, and she re marked derisively, "Scram." The gentlemen persisted. The window opened again and the fair one's head emerged. "Lis ten, this is Bingham hall, not Spencer. This is not room 20 , it's Dr. 's office. And I'm not Nelly, but Dr. -'s secretary." He hurries madly here and there, an insignificant iota in the hectic scramble for existence at that institution. He is cold and aloof to outsiders; his personality fails to invite the warm fellow ship that a smile and a welcome word will so easily do. The col lege becomes more of a factory, its students, cogs of an inhuman machine. There are a great many colleges in the United States in which hypocrites, so phisticates and snobs reign, but it has been the laudable custom at Vermont to avoid any ten dency towards such a condition. And so, let us not forget that the convivial "Hello" should al ways be kept on the Vermont campus. This slight gesture of friendship, which will bind to gether all Vermont men in the ties of friendship and college spirit, is something that should be retained at this University an institution which is ad vancing steadily year by year. A struggling young graduate is always thankful for a familiar face in the business world. A friend of college days means much in these times of economic distress, with that thought in mind that we take the opportun ity to recommend to all men of Vermont that the custom of say ing "Hello" to each other wheth er formally introduced or not should never become a dead cus tom. And so it is, with that with a thought for the present and a glance at the future that we recommend the complete resur rection of this amiable greeting between college mates. Ver mont Cynic. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY TAR HEEL United States Would Be Foolish To Fight, Declares Dr. Beard (Continued from first page) trend of the future will not be towards a world state, but to wards such "tending to their own garden." Asked if the hegemony of France in Europe would not be as bad as the hegemony of the Central Powers prevented by their defeat in 1918, Beard de clared emphatically that it would not, that France has a small population and would not .be dangerous. Who Is Lying? Asked "who is lying, the newspaper correspondents" in Germany or the minister who denied their reports?" Dr. Beard said, whimsically, that he should not like to have to fix a numeri cal percentage, but that prob ably ninety-five per cent of the newspaper reports leave an er roneous impression. He did not lay such an erroneous impres sion at the door of out-and-out falsehood but drew the analogy that, if there were a half-dozen lynchings in the south in the same month and all crowded on the front page of a newspaper, that, too, wrould leave a false impression. He pointed out that there have been killings in Ger many since the war. Economic Regulation Coming Declaring that the world had already moved far awray from the old economic policy of laissez-faire, Dr. Beard foresaw an increasing tendency towards socialization, "Perhaps a swing in one direction, and then an other swing back." The prob lem of obtaining the benefits of group ownership while at the same time retaining individual ism "is for you youngsters to solve." Dr. Beard speaks in his home with the same delightful man ner that he carries to the public rostrum. Every now and then one corner of his mouth will be wrinkled into a whimsical smile, while at the same time one of his bushy eyebrows will rise. He is deaf, finding it nec essary to rely on an earphone when holding a conversation. At the present time, Dr. Beard is working on a book in which he will try to indicate what "na tional interest" is. It will be remembered that this was the thesis of the three Weil lectures he delivered last month. Dr. Beard expects the volume to be published within the next few years. Frosh Tremble As "Hell Week" Comes (Continued from first page) tote which is hidden at that spot directs them to a second place, equally as distant. The search goes on indefinitely, and the last mission usually leads to a place where a tadpole, a cray fish, a chaste cat, or a nanny goat is the adventurer's reward. The guiding genius of one house conceived the ingenious idea of rousing all the pledges in the dead of night to lead them out on the front lawn for a thorough dousing with a con venient hose. Another result of heavy cogitation was requiring the freshmen to walk upstairs backwards for a number of days and to make appropriate exotic obeisances upon entering the house. One unfortunate lad was hoisted into a tree with only an alarm clock, two eggs, and a paddle for company. In addi tion to making himself com fortable up there, he had to shout the reliable "Cuckoo" at every passerby. Breakage of the eggs speedily brought the paddles into play. Not among the least well- known diversions of embarrass ment is dressing the initiate in some outlandish costume and forcing him to parade Fran'-! street. In addition to seveJ crude imitations of Maha Ganhdi, students have been nf ed with automobile tires aroui their bodies, attired as memb of the opposite sex, and 7a with dogs and kittens on theC arms. When "Hell Week" fina';7 closes, sighs of relief come f ro every quarter. But not even t harried pledges will have bett right' to feel relieved than v Mrs. Lee, because most of tbl performers are obliged to visit her establishment at least one; and Dr. Archibald Hendersoa who has lost count of the rn ber of times he has attempted t explain the Einstein theory t initiates. WOMEN'S CHORUS TO GIVECONCERT Singers to Appear in Hill Music Hall Monday Night; Group Numbers Twenty-Five. Women's chorus of the music department of the local com munity club will appear Mon day evening, April 3, in Hill Music hall. Professor Harold S. Dyer will conduct the group. This organization was form ed in January for the purpose of participation in the state choral festival in Raleigh next week. It is composed of twenty- five voices. Monday evening's concert will present a variety of classical and secular songs including those which will be sung by the chorus in Raleigh. Lamar Stringfield, Adeline McCall, and Ralph Weatherford will play the Mountain Sketches of String field. Harry Lee Knox, pianist, will offer a group of Debussy compositions. Mrs. L. C. Mao Kinney, Mrs. R. H. WettacL, and Miss Virginia Hufty will-fe soloists with the chorus. The program will include A Summer's Mom by Gilchrist, Daybreak by Harris, Who Is Sylvia by Schubert, River, Riv er a Chilean folk-song, Senorita. by Dessauer-Houseley, Danza, Danza by Durante. In Joseph's Lovely Garden arranged by Dickinson, To The Children by Rachmaninoff-Kramer, A Sovj of India by Rimsky-Korsakoff, and It Was a Lover and His Lass by James Dunn. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS BY WHOSE HAND . . . 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