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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL MAY 2, 1934 ; tifie iBailp lat y eel T&a cScial newspaper of the Publications Union Board sf the-University 'of 2crth Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving1, Christmas, and Sprinjr Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel HilL N. C, under act of Uarch 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. - A. T. DiU.:.. Robert C. Page, Jr... Joe Webb......... :.Ed:tor Managing Editor ..Business Manager Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Phflin Hammer, chairman, Don Becker, Nelson Lansdale, E. R. Oettinger, Jeanne Holt, W. C. Durfee, B. C. Proctor. FEATURE BOARD Vermont Roaster, chairman, Wal ter Terry. Ed GoldenthaL John Wiegins, Jean bmitn CantreS, W. W. Boddie. CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Jack Lowe, Walter Har gett. ' DESK MEN Nick Powell, Don McKee, Jim Daniels, Eleanor Bizzell, Reed Sarratt, Ralph Uurgm. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Jimmy Morris and Bill Anderson, co-editors. CP.' Nicholson, Milton Scherer, Raich Gialanella. Smith Barrier. Tom Bost, Lester Ctrow. EXCHANGES Jimmy Craighill, Margaret Gaines. REPORTERS E. L- Kahn, Emery Raper, Sam Willard, John Eddleman, Francis Clingman, Don Wetherbee, Margaret McCatiley. . Business Staff ASST. BUSINESS MGR. (Sales) Agnew Bahnson, Jr. COLLECTION MANAGER James Barnard. OFFICE MANAGER L. E. Brooks. DURHAM REPRESENTATIVE Henry B. Darling. LOCAL ADVERTISING STAFF Butler French (man ager), Hugh Primrose, Phil Singer, Robert Sosnick, Herbert Osterheld, Niles Bond, Eli Joyner, Oscar Tyree, Boylan Garr. CIRCULATION MANAGER Ralto Farlow. CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: JACK LOWE Wednesday, May 2, 1934 Induction And Production The induction of campus officers, which will take place in Memorial hall today, brings to mind the expansion and progress: that organizations at the University have made during the past few years. Before 1931, when the unprecedent ed number of 37 officers were inaugurated, cam pus organizations were apparently not consid ered of sufficient importance to warrant a formal ceremony of induction for their officers, for only members of the student council were given this honor. Since then, however, inauguration day has progressively increased in importance. : Along with this increase there has taken place an increase both in the number of campus organ izations and their, influence. The past year has seen the formation of two new groups on the campus-rthe University -club and the Student r oreign roncy 'league. - i nere nas oeen a re vival of the Monogram club. And in every de partment of campus affairs a trend toward great er control of activities on ! the part of students has been evident. . . Critics of the status quo have made much of the fact that' our campus seems to be becoming over-organized, but in our opinion this increas ing importance of our organizations shows mere ly a broadening of the student's interests and influences. The one danger in it is that it might .probably result, and in a, few instances . has re sulted, in the concentration of campus offices and their responsibilities on the shoulders of a-few oyer-WQrked student leaders. With the exception of this, we would call the present trend a highly favorable state of affairs It shows, for one thing, that we are getting away from the idea of considering college as a four- year sojourn in a monastery. We are beginning to realize that campus organizations, the activ ity that they afford the student, are a whole some training for leadership, for expression of ideas, and are a relief from the routine of scholasticism. Plans f . On the Screen All over the country there are perennial ris ings of parents and educators who decry the yvicAeu limuence oi moving pictures onxne rainas of children; juvenile crime waves and burstings out are blamed on Hollywood. An instance close to home was revealed the other day when a young girl in Durham who left home confessed to au thorities that she had gotten the idea from cinema. , And now Chapel Hill, which usually allows almost anything to go on and on, has turned against Hollywood; the Parent-Teacher associa tion last , week discussed the "unsuitability" o many pictures for children and the problem o how to furnish them with good shows. It would seem, then, that the children's side of the movie question is pretty well taken care of, or .will be; but there still remains the prob. iem of the adults side. .With the release of each picture that can be -catted truly great (an event which occurs at too distant intervals), editorialists and motion pic ture reviewers combine in an attempt to pu across to xne, puDiic mat Jionywood is growing tip." But what about the average run of pic t ures ? Can it be said, on the basis of these, that Hollywood seems to be even remotely ap proaching maturity? Emetic displays of emo tion,, which are supposedly, true to life, are em ployed to a great extent by movies to dramatize j even the most trivial incidents; the actions of the majority of film actors and actresses in dis playing so-called realism, for which the direc tor is largely to blame, often' make one wonder if the human race has any intelligence at alL Certainly .the people portrayed by- the cinema show a definite lack of intelligence. It is time for American movie-goers to. put Hollywood "on the spot"; children perhaps can be delivered from poor motion pictures by some overseeing commission, but their older brothers and sisters and parents have only themselves to guard them from the rot that Hollywood is putting over on America. T.H.W. " ' No More Tiger-Currying Not the least of the good omens portended by the election of Fiorello La Guardia as Mayor of New York on a fusion ticket was an expected decline of Tammany Hall following its loss of power. During the last few days this omen.has begun to take concrete forms with the removal of the long-time Tammany boss John Francis Curry. . ' Most salient feature of the Curry, removal is not the unquestionably large number of blunders charged to the ex-chieftain, but rather the ad mission of organization infirmity implied in the move. No graft-glutted Dolitical machine ran expect to remain healthy indefinitely, and the Tiger had-set a remarkably long record for ad mittedly unhealthy government control. John Francis Curry was, therefore, in a sense, merely the victim of a cruel fate which requires a scape goat for every organization reckoning. Whether Tammany can emerge victorious from its present mortal combat with the forces of disintegration is still indeterminable. Found ed in 1879 as a literary society, the organization quickly, took on a political aspect, arid, falling under the baleful influence of the notorious Tweed Ring, managed to acquire a reputation so unsavory that the odor has not worn off to this day. No amount of charitable deeds has been able to offset the bought votes and boss tactics of the machine. Everjf good administra tion has been nullified by the work of succeed ing bad ones. The very name Tammany has come to bring to mind a very slick, paunchy Tiger as best. . - Symbolic of the old order was Curry's fare well speech m which he said: "I am at a loss to know why some of you voted against me. . . Didn't 1 call you up Monday to tell you I was making you a Sachem? . . . Why, only 15 minutes of five today I did a favor for you. ..." Perhaps the day of securing votes through "favors" is over in New York. At any rate a reform gov- iur ie city nas necessitated a new front for Tammany. But the Tiger cannot change his stripes. E.R.O. ft if A Contemvor aries A national movement for peace has swept through many of our greatest educational institutions. Last week's demonstration at Columbia University where """-j otuuciua juuieu m u iuuu proiesi against war in an anti-war week, continued into this week with the organization of a permanent anti-war com mittee which yesterday made a May Day demon stration against war. College publications other than the Columbia Spectator have given numerous expressions on the peace fight as shall be seen by the following excerpts. 1 . The Aggrievator, the college magazine of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College has devoted almost an entire issue to ridiculing military implements, the R. O. T. C, and army terms. " Putting aside the funny y element one of the stories being based on the saying that an elephant never forgets the one serious article in this military issue asks the students to con sider the American military policy in the light of a national military-policy. It seems that the socialists' organizations in college take a definite stand 'against war. In a letter to the open forum of the Daily Maroon of the University of Chicago, C. W. Kirkpatrick states that mob psychology can be used-to pre vent war. The Socialist" club at this same uni versity proposes as d means of doing away with war a. general strike boring froni within the army. The California Daily Bruin quotes Clark M. Eichelberger, national director of the League of Nations association on war. Eichelberger de clares that if the world will realize that unity is merely a part of the process of community evo lution in which individuals give up more and more of their supremacy to the rule of society, war can be outlawed. He supports his argu ment with the observation that the war system has been in operation thousands of years, while the peace system is the result of only half, a century of experimentation. . t War can be stopped by a careful study'of its causes and its nature, declared Dr. T. P. Rear don Of Barnard College faculty, in-the ' Daily Columbia Spectator. Furthermore, Dr. Readon asserted, a careful study of war contributes to the promotion of world peace. The Oregon Emerald awarded Elinor Henry first prize for her editorial in which she reiterated Sir Herbert Ames attitude on war,-namely, that united action in supporting the Versailles treaty artel i its three kindred peace. treaties by the present league , machinery can be the only solution for the American people to take if they wish to prevent war. . The Michigan Daily criticizes the policy of the University of Minnesota for dropping an honor student from the college because of failure on the part of the stu dent to attend drill The fact that a student may be dropped from a university is oflittle con squence to the greater part of the world, but the fact that such a step is resented by the student body indicates that compulsory military training is becoming distasteful to the general publicJ The fascination,' glamor, and romance of war are featured in the Daily Cardinal, but only from4 the woman's point of view and at a dance too. "Something of the glamor of the knights of old," says the Daily Cardinal, "will thrill the light hearts of the dancers as they pass under the arch of steel." An editorial in the Harvard Crimson considers the mainten ance of peace possible by giving publicity to the munitions indus tries. It offers the suggestion tnat . tne production oi arma ments be regulated in each coun try to the point where it is just sufficient to meet the country's defensive needs. When we have to be without a newspaper, we realize the im portant position it holds in spreading hews. Just so, says Dean Ackerman in the Daily California Spectator, is the press an "indispensable agency for peace." Furthermore the press may be a real proponent of peace, Dean Ackerman concludes, for the foundation of peace is essen tially common knowledge and understanding. The press is the instrument that distributes this common knowledge and under standing. M argaret Gaines. GRAHAM TO TALK At INAUGURATION (Continued from page one) of the student body; Frank Abernethy, vice-president of the student body ; Lonnie Dill, editor of the Daily Tar Heel; Joe Sugarman, editor of the Caro lina Magazine ; Bob Drane, ed itor of the Yackety Yack; Pat Gaskins, editor of the Bucca neer. George Barclay, president of the Athletic association; Babe Daniel, vice-president of the Athletic association; Jim Mor ris, senior P. U. board member; Claude Rankin, junior P. U. board member; Jim Daniels, P. U. board member-at-large; Les ter Ostrow, head cheerleader ; Winthrop Durfee and Phillips Russell, Debate council. Jack Pool, president of the rising senior class ; HaroldVBen nett, vice-president of theising senior class; Albert Ellis, secre tary of the rising senior class; Kenneth Young, treasurer of the rising senior class; Frank Kenan, Student council repre sentative. - Ernest Eutsler, , president of the rising junior class; . Newt DeBardeleben, vice-president of the rising junior class ; Charles Ivey, secretary of the rising junior class; Jake. Austin, treas urer of the rising junior class; Francis Fairley,' Student coun cil representative. John Rainey, president of the rising sophomore, class ; Bunn Hearn, Jr., vice-president of the rising sophomore class ; H. L. Dosier, treasurer of the rising sophomore class; Jack Bower, secretary of the rising sopho more class; and E. M. Allen, Student council representative. Comic Spirits Uclli Abroad A eld Bull Session Ccrtconisto EI Lcs ForsraVes, Creator of "Big Sister," Entertains Frank Kiag, Father cf "Slieezix," and Carey Orr,1 Political Cartoonist for Chicago Tribune, When Latter Visit Chapel Hill. . O It was something of a car toonist reunion when Frank King and Carey Orr dropped in last week, to visit Les Forgraves at hi3 little cottage back of the Carolina Inn. All three of them are nationally known comic art ists i! Forgraves, who originated Big Sister; King, who gave Skeezix and Walt to the funnies ; and Orr, who is one of the fore most political cartoonists in the country, now on the staff of the Chicago Tribune. The friendship of these three men began over twenty years ago when they met at the Chica go Academy of Fine Arts, where Forgraves-and Orr were stu dents and King a teacher Only intermittently since that time have they seen each other, so it was a reunion in the fullest sense of the word when the three gathered at Chapel Hill. King was on his way north from Kissimmee, Florida, where he owns an estate, "Folly Farm" so called because it was bought at the height of the Florida real estate boom. Carey Orr had left his pen and drawing board long enough to visit ' an old friend before going to the Ken tucky Derby. "I picked up the Chicago Tri bune the other day and noticed a new cartoonist's work where Carey's usually is," . explained Forgraves, "so I had a hunch that I was due to have a visitor." Taking a postman's holiday they talked mostly of cartooning and . King's work in particular. To hear them speak the little figures that play such an im portant part in the Sunday pa pers are real characters.. And for one- good reason, at least, they are real characters, "king's X9-year-old son, -Robert, was the original Skeezix, and his wife's brother, a big man, was the original Walt. Perhaps in view of the real Skeezix's page, it was not altogether inappropri ate that King decided to allow his comic creation to grow up in harmony with the usual na turalism which gets into his comic strip. . To Orr, who is not a strip cartoonist, the figures are not only characters, but cartooning itself is, in a sense, a "new lan guage, neither drawing nor lit erature but both." The value of an editorial cartoon, he be lieves, lies in the fact that it de picts concretely, and therefore forcefully, a situation, and in so doing impresses many more people than the written editorial. "Because of the wide number of persons that cartoons reach," he says, "the Tribune has al ways run them on the front page." The cartoonist of the future, he insists, will not only have to be a good draughtsman but a good writer as well, since so much depends on the caption. Orr's cartoons, which are front page features of the "world's greatest newspaper," are perhaps the best known po litical drawings in this country. Hehas gained national promin ence because notwithstandi ng the really significant ideas he must convey, his cartoons lose none of their humor and natural ness. And Carey Orr is an old hand at the game of political cartoon ing. He calls the little draw ings which have such a profound influence in moulding, public opinion "the pickwick papers of today." If we take it from Orr, car toons are decidedly not on the downgrade. When asked if there are any present day car toons of the power of those of Tom Nast, whose drawings were largely instrumental in the' breaking up of the famous Boss Tweed ring in New York, Orr observed that the contemporary cartoon cannot be judged ade quately because its effectiveness can only be judged in retrospect. Huey Long, incidentally, is indebted to Orr for having changed his nickname from "Kingfish" to "Crawfish' a debt which Long is quoted as saying he "will pay back someday." Radio Meeting Tonight The topic for discussion at the radio meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock in 214 Phillips hall will be "Frequency Multipliers and the Harmonics." FROM NEW RUSSIA TO THRILL AMERICA! In thia, her first American picture, a tke tragic Jatigkter) of volup.tuous neu from Zol&s Immortal la7ic; clie'lias a role -r. m"agii 1 f 1 ce n t ly jtna tcki ng liexupexit "artistry! f V? 9 :::::-:: V V-4 . 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