fAfcE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935
Eije 2Batl Car Heel
The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where
it u printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving,
Christmas, and Spring 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. - V -
A. TrDill
Robert C. Page, Jr..
Joe Webb.....-X.......
George Underwood
1 ......Editor
;. .-.V..llanaging Editor
..... Business Manager
..Circulation Manager
Editorial Staff
EDITORIAL BOARD Phil Hammer, chairman, Earl
Wolslagel, Franklin Harward, John Schulz, DuPont
Snowden, Margaret McCauley, Morty Slavin, Sam
Leager, Dick Myers, Charles Lloyd, Jake Snyder.
FEATURE BOARD Nelson Lansdale, chairman; Nick
Read, Bob Browder, Francis Clingman, J. E. Poin
dexter, W. M. Cochrane, Willis Harrison.
CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Walter Hargett, Don
McKee, Jim Daniel, Reed Sarratt.
TELEGRAPH EDITORS Stuart Rabb, Charlie Gilmore.
DESK MAN Eddie Kahn. v ,. '
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Jimmy , Morris and Smith
- Barrier, co-editors, Tom Bost, Lee Turk, Len Rubin,
Fletcher Ferguson, Stuart Sechriest, Lester Ostrow,
Ira Sarasohn. , s v
EXCHANGES Margaret Gaines.
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Don Becker.
REPORTERS Bill Hudson. Jhn Smith, J. F. Jonas,
Howard Easter, Lawrence Weisbrod, Hazel Beacham,
Raymond Howe, William Jordan, Morton Feldman.
v 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 (managers), Bill MacDonald, Louis Shaff
" ner, Page Keel, Bill McLean, Crist Blackwell.
CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: WALTER HARGETT
Saturday, January 26, 1935
PAR AGRAPHICS
One out of every seven students made the
honor roll. Thicks to one and a half-dozen to
the other, eh? ..
What we want to know is: did Bruno walk
under that ladder?
"Industrial South Will See Change," says
publisher at the press institute. We hopq it's
the kind that jingles.
Rumer and
Falsehood
An investigation into the rights of three stu
dents, members of the Carolina boxing team, to
attend the University with in-state tuition is
now being conducted by the administration. It
is a pure administrative matter and rumors of
outside pressure to harm Carolina's chances to
night are unwarranted and false.
In the words of President Graham, the fact
that this affair has come up before the Virginia
boxing meet is not material. The main object
of the administration is that the University be
represented only by those who are eligible under
University regulations.
There has been no censorship of this press or
the suppression of. any facts. The investigation
has not yet been concluded. The question of the
rights of the three boxers to get in-state tuition
and any other technicalities associated with the
investigation will be settled today insofar as is
possible. Weask students to regard rumors of
attempts to ruin Carolina's mit chances as ut
terly false.
We Have
A Part to Play
The staunch alumni of the University of North
Carolina are back again in 'convention, confident
and hopeful in, their attempt to see justice done
in the matter of state appropriations to the Uni
versity The old-young fellows, who have re
turned to meet together and to see the Virginia
meet, might easily talk old times in their meet
ings, but as we understand it, they are putting
forth an effort to keep discussion and, finally,
decision on a level that will help the situation.
In the words of Carter Glass, United States
Senator, "The University of North Carolina is
not merely a state institution; its reputation and
its influence are co-existive with the United
States" ; obviously, our loyal alumni believe
wholeheartedly that this is a fact, seen in the
great work they have been doing in backing the
school. r
President Graham has said that every schoo
or college, boasting the fact that it has quality,
is not necessarily indispensable, or even valuable,
to the country. We believe; on the other hand,
that the record and reputation of this Univer
sity speaks in language authorizing the state
ment by Senator Glass, and that an institution
warranting the reputation of having quality and,
at the same time, an indispensable value to its
students and the N surrounding country, should
not under any conditions be allowed to operate
on expenditures cut 23 per cent below the cut
taken by the average college at the lowest ebb of
the depression!
; The students themselves are. the logical ones
to get behind the thing, to write home the facts
about the matter whether they end up in street
corner politics or not. Ask them to write the Ich
cal legislator in Relaigh requesting action favor
able to the University. Such a move on the part
of the students may seem useless, but the object
is to bring all such pressure to bear upon the
legislature that it can see, its way clear to vote
appropriations equal at least to Dr. Graham's
request. v' :'-r.f: , - ;
World News in 1 i
Perspective ' . V 3
For the past few weeks we have been watch
ing with interest the front page of one of the
state's most prominent newspapers, one which
we consider to be fairly representative of news
papers throughout the country. ;;;
On the January 25th front page, which is quite
representative of other issues, there are ten news
articles given fairly prominent headlines. Of
these ten articles the one given; the most; im
portance and the biggest headline concerns the
Hauptmnn trial. In all . there are. three stories
on - this famous kidnaping case and :a- picture. :of
the defendant the only: picture on the page."
The article given secondary importance is that
dealing with the passage by the House of Rep
resentatives of the $4,880,000,000 relief bill to
give jobs to millions of men, the largest lump
sum appropriation in the world's history. Other
articles of importance given minor positions and
smaller headlines have to do with the state legis
lature and the sales tax, a flood on the Missis
sippi, a Japanese bombing attack on a Chinese
city, and a special message by the President to
Congress.
Forty per cent of the front page has been de
voted to the Hauptmann trial while nine other
events of equal, and -in some cases greater, im
portance have been crowded into the remaining
60 per cent.
We have long wondered if this dramatic trial
deserves all the attention it has been getting
from the , newspapers. As a sensational and
thrilling story we can easily see its value. But
as an event of ultimate sociarimportance, dem
onstrating the efficiency of the law, and the
workings" of justice in all their glory, we fail to
grasp its significance.
Of course we all want to see justice done to
the Kidnaper, whoever he may be, of our na
tional idol's first-born, but to devote so much
emphasis to this case, at the exclusion of other
more important world news, is to throw com
pletely out of perspective national and world
affairs, and their important inter-relation.
Fatback
And Soup
We see. where President Frank Graham has
been sweetly considered with a $300 expense
account for entertainment. The idea of the state
is, of course, that our president has lots of nice
people, alumni and people like that, and he needs
lots of greenbacks to show them all a good time.
We also notice that Governor Ehringhaus has
been well fortified for this sort of thing with a
considerably larger item in his budget. Now
the governor, according to his budget recom
mendation, has plopped a sales tax on about
everything in. the state including fatback,' so he
deserves a nice, fat allowance to entertain all
the fatback eaters. But what does that leave
Dr. Graham to serve his numerous entertainees
cabbage soup? .. -
Every time we pick up a paper, some national
figure is dropping in to see President Frank.
He has, probably, more callers and friends than
any man in the state, many of whom drop in on
business vitally affecting his position as head
of this state institution. Now if Dr. Frank can
entertain all his official guests on $300 he is
even smarter than everybody considers him
and we imagine he's considered about the most iri-
lellectual Tar Heel in circulation. Three hundred
dollars,'' we believe, is just a drop in the bucket.
But, of course, we know nothing about cuisine
and callers and credit. We only know what we
read in the appropriations sheet, r
Congress
And Speed
Fright is one of the greatest motivating pow
ers in the world. When we are frightened, we
toss discretion, to the winds and follow our last
standby, intuition. Mr. Frank R. Kent in the
Charlotte Observer believes that the New Deal
ers are afraid and that is why the 1935 program
is going through with a minimum of debate and
a maximum of speed.
Maybe Mr. Kent is right and maybe not. But
what he says brings up questions. Are Con
gressmen elected merely to fill the chairs that
have been placed in Washington, or are they
elected to debate over national problems, decid
ing what issues would be to the nation's advan
tage? Is th'eir legislation affected by fear and
thus speeded up, rather than by the issues?
Fright and haste seem to go together. Our
hope is that the speed with which the incumbent
Congress is passing bills -testifies to a thorough
acquiescence in Roosevelt's program rather than
a panicky feeling of "anything to save the face
Casual Correspondent
: , . : by
Nelson Lansdale
BIG NEWS ; . ...
Hear;, s ye, I good people, sensational
facts: .
That the Four faints in Three Acts
(American expatriate Gertrude Stein)
Is (are?) gonna be ' Chapel Hill's
. Valentine! . -j , : .
Pending arrangements, the depart-
ment of English v r ;
Hopes very much to be; able to bring
. Miss " :
Stein, on the fourteenth of February,
Here to lecture "a - lecture on things
literary.
Gertrude, who discovered Matisse and
:'. Hemmingway .
Is coming is coming is coming any-
ihgway
Tp Chapel Hill on Valentine's Day
If the ; English department has its
: way.
Dont mind if we have our little joke-
las " -'
Because Stein is bringing her Alice
B. Toklas. ,
The author of Three Lives and Ten-
v der Buttons .
Will meet the celebrity and autograph
- gluttons '.. .
At a lecture, a tea, and maybe a
v dinner
To let us find out if there's any sense
in her; "
The English department keeps Mak
ing Arrangements
But they may always be subject to
changements ' "
For a stein is a stein is a stein is a
stein - . "
But Gertrude, please Gertrude, be our
Valentine! '. -
PAPER, MISTER?
Pat Gaskins tells one about a
High Point newspaper boy who
couldn't read. Every morning
when he got his papers he'd ask
somebody on the street to read
him the headlines. One day,
several years ago, during the
Sino-Japanese war, the newsboy
followed his customary proced
ure, except that he had appar
ently gotten hold of a wag, for
an informant. Anyway, he went
up the street yelling : "Japs take
Sal-Hepatica, But Fail to Hold
It."
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
Certain representatives of the
Pasedena Horticulture Society
are said to have called on Presi
dent Roosevelt to ask him if
they might name a rose after
him.
"That's all right," said the
President,, "if you don't give it
the same definition you gave the
one named for Coolidge." With
that he dismissed them, and the
Horticulturists returned to Pas
edena in a considerable dither
to know about the Coolidge rose.
They looked it up, and found,
beside the Latin name, this ex
planation: "Will not propagate
in a bed; does best against a
tree or wall."
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THE FORTUNE TELLER
Exactly 8.1 miles from the
Morehead-Patterson belL tower
on the right hand side of the
Pittsboro road, you'll find it, an
unpainted, two story frame
house which might once have
been recognizable as of neo
classic inspiration, resting un
certainly on a piecemeal foun
dation of brick and stone. The
shutters on the "upstairs front
windows are closed, and a num
ber of panes in windows , at the
sides and in the back are brok
en out, and have been .; stuffed
up with cardboard. A broad
frame veranda stretches across
the front of the house, and looks
out on an unkempt yard where
chickens scratch for worms, cats
scratch at dogs, and her grand
children scratch each other. You
can identify the house by the
well,1 which is put from under
the trees near the edge of the
road. The well proper is a per
fectly circular stone shaft which
goes down for about twenty
feet before you can see any
water, but all of it you can see
from -the car is the frame scaf
folding which supports the pul
ley and. rope. What was appar
ently once an old oaken bucket
has been replaced by. a tin pail.
If you pick one of her busy
times, there'll probably be two
or three other cars parked
around with people sitting in
them, waiting to have their for
tunes told. When your time
comes, you leave your misgiv
ings in the car, cross the front
porch alone, enter the hall and
follow, the fortune-teller, an
ample, plainly dressed woman
of slightly more than middle
age, into the first 700m oh the
right. The room is pretty plain.
A bed, several chairs, a table
with an ancient phonograph,
and a number of family pictures
are the only furnishings. On
the' ceiling around the chandel
ier are the remains of a rather
good plaster-of -Paris fresco.
Mrs. Gunner that is her
name asks you to sit down in
front of the fire. You do. She
takes the chair opposite yours,
and hands you a deck Of ordin
ary dime-store cards, i asking
you tp shuffle them. You do
that too. Then she starts lay
ing out the cards, the entire
deck, one at a time, in three
piles. Then she gathers them up,
spits in the fire, apologizes for
using snuff , and begins. Prod
ding you with gentle little ques
tions in a husky, rasping voice,
as she goes along, she tells , you
about your temperament, a few
of your likes and dislikes, and
makes a couple of broad state
ments about your future. From
then on she skips from past to
present to future, telling you
how long it will be before you
are married, or approximately
where you were born, whether
or not you're going to be success
ful how many children there
afe or will be in your family.
She doesn't use any names. You
have to fill those in for your
self .When she gets tnrough, she
asks you if there's anything else
you want to know, and if there
is, you ask her. We asked her
a few questions about the com
ing campus political campaign,
and she was just as evasive as
the politicians, so we let the mat
ter drop. We asked her how she
got started, too, and she said
that she's been telling fortunes
for twenty-two years, a lot more
since her husband died five years
ago. She said that people from
all over North Carolina come to
see her, and that a lot of out-of-state
people often come down
too. We checked up with some
other people who'd had theirs
told, and the only thing she
seems to tell anybody is that
they'll travel a good deal. There
isn't any fee you only give her
whatever you think it's worth.
We gave her our last quarter.
CAVIARE TO THE GENERAL
When the History depart
ment's Dr. R. D. W. Connor left
Chapel Hill for Washington to
become the first Federal
Archivist, he took with him his
colored boy, Henry. Well, last
week Dr. Connor was entertain
ing at cocktails in his Washing
ton home, and was serving,
among' other things, red caviare.
One of the guests had never
seen red caviare before, and
asked Henry, who was serving
it, what it was.
Deed, I doan' know, mam,
OUTSTANDING RADIO
BROADCASTS
1
1 :00 : Does Modern Political
Publicity Mislead Public Senti
ment Arthur Krock, New York
Times ; Theo. Joslin, former sec
retary to Pres. Hoover, WEAF.
1 sl5 : George Hall orchestra,
WABC.
1:50: Metropolitan Opera
Romeo and Juliette, with Eide
Norena, soprano; Charles Hack
ett, tenor; and others; Louis
Hasselmans, conductor, WEAP.
2 :00 : Republicans and the Re
public Gov. Harold G. Hoffman
of New Jersey and Senator L.
J. Dickinson of Iowa, WOR.
4:15: Pro Arte string quar
tet of Brussels, WABC.
5:00: Eddy Duchin orchestra,
WEAF. ,
7:30: The Street Singer,
WOR ; Arden orch. ; Gladys. Bax
ter, soprano; Walter Preston,
baritone, WABC.
8:00: Sigmund Romberg, conductor-composer;
concert orch.;
Wm. Lyon Phelps, narrator,
WEAF; Roxy Revue, WABC.
8:20: Grace Hayes, songs,
WJZ.
8:45: Mary Courtland, songs;
Armbruster orch., male quartet,
WABC.
9:00: Rose Bampton, contral
to; Shilkret orch., WEAF ; Ra
dio City party, with John B.
Kennedy; Black orch.; Virginia
Rea, soprano, WJZ ; Kostelanetz
orch., mixed chorus, WABC.
10 :00 : Reminiscences Wm.
A. Brady, theatrical producer,
WABC.
10:30: Ireland, the Nationless
Nation Maker. Postmaster Gen.
James' A. Farley, WJZ.
11 :00 : Dorsey orch., WJZ ;
Glen Gray orch., WABC.
FRESHMEN VOTE
TO AID NEGRESS
(Continued from page one)
"It's against the Bible," she
says. "The woman's place is in
the home.
"Moving picture shows are ri
diculous ain't got no use for
them," she commented recently.
"The automobile is the work of
the devil, and causes more mis
ery than anything else we got
today."
Giving her opinion on modern
preachers, she said that they
used to deal with the truth and
the light, but "today they
preach to please the congrega
tion and get their check at the
end of the month.
"People is got too proud to
shout," she added.
replied Henry, "but ah suspects
it mus' be an archive."
Hatiom m Ere it Wart
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