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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAB BEE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 193S Cije Batlp Car feel The of5cil newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the Unirersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. ' " Business and editorial offices: 204-207 Graham Memorial Telephones: news, 4351; editorial, 8641; business, 4356; night 6908 Allen MerrilL Will G. Arey Editor -Managing Editor Clen S. Humphrey, Jr. ease Lewis , .Business Manager .Circulation Manager Editorial Board Voit Gilmore, Tom Stanback, DeWitt Barnett, Walter Kleeman, Donald Bishop. Feature Board Miss Virginia Giddens, Miss Gladys Best Tripp, Adrian Spies, San ford Stein, James Keith, Ben Dixon, Larry Lerner. Technical Staff News Editors: Morris Rosenberg, Laffitte Howard, Raymond Lowery. Associate News Editors: Ed Rankin, Martin Harmon, Fred CazeL Night Sports Editors: Carroll McGaughey, Jim McAden, Bill Snider. Senior Reporters Jesse Reese, Miss Lucy Jane Hunter. , ' Reporters Gene Williams, Bill Rhodes Weaver. Bpn Roebuck. Bob Barber, Miss Edith Gutterman, Fred Brown, Rush Hamrick, Tom Dekker. Heelers Jim Vawter, Miss Doris Goerch, Miss Louise Jordan, Miss Dorothy Coble, Louis Harris, George Grotz, Elbert Hutton, Edward Prizer, Dick Goldsmith, Jimmy Dumbell, Charles Gerald. Sports Staff Editor: Shelley Rolfe. , Reporters: William L. Beerman, Leonard Lobred, Noel Woodhouse, Richard Morris, Jerry Stoff, Buck Gunter. Assistant Circulation Manager: Larry Ferling.. Business Staff Local Advertising Managers: Bert Halperin, Bill Ogburn, Ned Hamil ton. . . Durham Advertising Manager: Gilly Nicholson. Durham Representative: Andrew Gennett Office Managers: Stuart Ficklen, Jim Schleifer. Local Advertising Assistants: Bob Sears, Earl Alexander, Alvin Pat terson, Marshall Effron, Warren Bernstein, Bill Bruner, Billy Gillian, Tom Nash. Greensboro Representative: Mary Anne Koonce Office Staff: Mary Peyton Hover, Phil Haigh, L. J. Scheinman, Bill Stern, Charles Cunningham, Bob Lerner, James Garland, Jack Holland. NEWS: JIM McADEN For This ' SPORTS: MARTIN HARMON From Students To Administration In the past the architects and building committees largely determined the planning of new dormitories. Not only were they asked about the financial and structural arrangements for new buildings but they also were responsible for internal plans. Many of the deans and other officials most concerned with student welfare of ten were not consulted, and the opin ions of students were not emphasized. Probably because of the necessity for quick action, and for many other reasons, the University administration has tended to turn over the funds for construction to architects and contractors. - -J - - . However at the present time, three more dormitories are planned. The Interdormitory Council has discussed the ques tion of improvements in the dormitories, and has come forth with suggestion for social rooms, two-room suites, sec tional dormitories, .better toilet facilities, and better tele phone service. (The last was recently acted upon favorably when Controller Rogerson promised telephone improvements for next year.) These suggestions come not from the Student Welfare or Advisory Boards, or from the Daily Tar Heel; they come from the duly elected representatives of the dormitory resi dents. They come from men who live in the dormitories, and know dormitory conditions. Their recommendations are on the tables in South build ing. There is no reason why they should not be taken se riously. W. K. Facing Southern Facts Back in 1889, Henry Grady, a southern orator, made a satirical speech on the condition of the South, entitled "Re port of a Funeral." The orator's talk showed how the materials used in a Southerner's funeral proceedings came from the North and West. The pine coffin came from Ohio when it could have been made from North Carolina wood, the nails from Pitts burg although the man was buried within touch of an iron mine, and so it went. The only contribution from the South was the hole in which the unfortunate man was buried. It was in this spirit that the Second Annual Student Legis lature met last week-end' in Raleigh to consider possible laws for the conservation and further development of the South's resources. Many proposals were put forth to better the social and economic status of this region. Among them were conserva tion measures of various types, a recommendation to the President for the equalization of freight rates, a call for constructive proposals to benefit the South, a bill asking fi nancial aid for schools, another calling-for greater invest ment of Southern capital in the South, and others. Some of these measures are feasible ; others are not. But we agree with the legislature in its "face the facts" attitude. And most heartily, do we agree with the Senator who called the South not in the words of President Roosevet, "the na tion's number one economic problem," but the nation's num ber one "economic opportunity." 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To trudge along. Branches. One who ices Thick slice. Small shield. Roof point covering. Tone B. 5 . 7 j p"" 9 uriryr 15 ' p I5 "" 16 " n g . 1 52 st 34 : Wf 55 5T ST W W zTao' 4i j 42 ' 44 'W M 47 146 149 1 " 50 51" 5Z 55" 54" 53"- r"TTTTTl 1 ill 1 Ll To Tell The Truth By Adrian Spies There is a boy from Georgia who was here at school last year. And the greatest tragedy of his life was that Erskine Caldwell the writer of To bacco Road was born in that state also. For this former student would like to have discredited the play as completely unrelated to the truth. But this was a bit difficult when the writer had lived among those things which he set down. So the boy from Georgia eased his soul by ranking Caldwell as "commercial," and declar ing that he had burlesqued a very minor factor in his state. And now that boy from Georgia is back in his home working in a fac tory. He succeeded in ignoring Cald well so well that Tobacco Road has become old business to him. And "Tobacco Road," the play, is merely something that has been setting records on un-sunny Broadway. Unfortunately for my friend from Georgia, his Tobacco Road is still with him. Perhaps not in the lewd and leering form of a degenerate Jeeter Lester but with him'. Govern ment reports and government proj ects are working on Tobacco Road. And in its work the government has ridden right past my smug friend in Georgia who wishes that Erskine Caldwell had been born a Yankee. A few weeks ago Mark Ethridge sniffed at such conditions as are de picted in Caldwell's play. Recently, Janathan Daniel's book, "'A South erner Discovers the South," was very aware of the smell. And "Tobacco Road" openly offends the more sen sitive nostrils. My friend in Georgia has very sensitive nostrils, and it pained him to think about the play. But, unfortunately, the odor remains. There are many who have disre garded the "shifless" Jeeter Lester as a freak created by an eager com mercialist. It is likely that he is a freak, $and it is possible that Erskine Caldwell is more interested in his pocketbook than in the South. But the fact of his background cannot be disregarded, nor can his lengthy studies of tenant farmer conditions. His recent pictorial book, "You Have Seen Their Faces" offers human ex amples of much of the squalor and lethargy typified by the crude Jeeter Lester. Incidentally, many . of the pictures were taken within calling range of the home of my friend in Georgia. - "Tobacco Road" is a challenge which my friend has never answered. It told a tale and begged to be dis proved. But my friend was only in dignant about the lamentable fact of a common birthplace with Erskine Caldwell. He called the play a bur lesque and t has probably denounced the pictures as artificially posed. And as long as he mumbles vaguely about "freaks" and "commercialism" Jeeter Lester will remain as an unref uted symbol of the tenant farmers of his land. BUC REVIEW By LAFFITTE HOWARD Since campus tradition has long been to read the Buccaneer from the I jokes out, Editor C. Pugh stuck thumb and then hand into 40 exchanges and pulled out boogie (page five and after ward) which leans far. toward col legiate originality, PU board and campus opinion being what they are To Fred Sutton is due praise for some nice work with his 200 -bucks worth of candid camera, shooting in locker room and elsewhere. At long last the limelight shifts to campus not-so-notables. Page 13's semi-at tired lad represents Carolina as whole that day, no doubt. D. T. DEMONS Various newcomers have come through well in the cartoon depart ment, particularly the usual attempt at Petty and the what-the-hell-you doin-here's scattered throughout. The cover could be classed favorably as more Inkpot classic publicity, if Carolina coeds were built thusly. "Frivol," "astute," and "absurd" are well named and no doubt funny if the spirit of the thing is entered into properly. Definitely not to read while cold, hungry, or working. They are well written though. On the timely topic in mind inter esting bits have been unearthed from the days when subsidization was ap plied only to railroads but not much would have been lost had . Hutton closed with the brag on Maronic in two columns instead of three. Back to the editor again and thanks for map and list of wherewithall and whattodo in invasion of Damyankee Iand. Experience is a dear teacher and even at home the big town has glamor. STOFF AND STUFF Daily Tar Heel man Jerry Stoff comes down to the funny end of the publications alley with a few facts and figures lost in the rush by his former colleagues. Duke still won the ball game. "I. Q. Foo" may f oo a lot of people if they- don't have a sense of humor or know Carolina, otherwise they should have a score about as large (Continued on last page) .. THE THEATER if Br SAM GREEN The young1 lady from Wrens, Ga, said it wasn't so. "They're bad con ditions. But nobody's starving. They can always find something to eat." And I suppose that's just about it. They can always find something to eat. Like the turnips Jeeter stole from Lov Bensev. But we shouldn't be too hard on the young lady. There are a number of people who sum up every social situation with the statement that nobody is starving. And the young lady took her cue from justsucn people. Apparently we aren't to do any, worrying over the matter until we reach rock bottom, tsux .air. vaia well who wrote the novel and Mr. Kirkland who wrote the play didn't think so; and so they have given us "Tobacco Road", the story of people who "can always find something to eat." It isn't a pleasant story. (And every now and then in the middle of a hearty lausrh you stop to wonder " what's so funny). For "something to eat" doesn't create people that can have pleasant histories. It doesn't make healthy bodies or keep away pellagra. It doesn't make for normal situations and it doesn't allow people to lead normal lives. This, you say, is preach ing. It's a social sermon. Very .well, then, it is. And perhaps you'll have none of it. You're going to see the play out of curiosity, or to get a few laughs. In which case you aren't likely to be disappointed. The humor is plen tiful and ribald, in its own pathetic way. But I think while you're laugh ing at all the funny, pathetic situa tions you will stop now and then to wonder why you are laughing and what it is you are laughing at. "Tobacco Road" has very little plot and, in the usual dramatic sense, no conflict. The only place where you get an inkling' of plot is when Jeeter is told he needs a hundred dollars to keep the bank from taking his land. His land is the only thing Jeeter is willing to fight for. And when he fights his only battle he loses. And everybody else loses with him except the bank. The play makes no par ticular point of attacking, the bank. Rather it concerns itself with the hopeless and monotonous resignation of Jeeter to his awful conditions of bare subsistence contrasted with the attempts of other characters to save something for themselves and thebr lives. Jeeter's wife dies as her daugh ter runs away to work in the mills or walk the streets. And the pathetic thing- is that the mother picked on Augusta, where these alternatives awaited her daughter, as the only es cape for the sole object of her care and tenderness. The degenerate state of helplessness of the entire group is what impresses you more than any thing else in the play. And when the play is over, you realize that there nas been no real exaggeration, that maeea tins is just what one would expect in the given conditions. John Barton does an excellent inh as Jeeter Lester. The effect of tfc peculiar humor he exhibits in what is a tragic situation serves onlv the more to drive home the point of the play. Sarah Perry as his wife is very convincing. Their three children, two girls and an idiot boy, are not as convincing. There is obvious over acting on their part. One felt they failed to make the most of the ma terial for portrayal they had at hand. Patricia Quinn as Sister Bessie, a sort of feminine Elmer Gantry, is both terrifying and ridiculous in her sheer hypocrisy. The other charac ters fill out a dismal picture that leaves little room for hope at the same time that it pleads for relief from stagnation and decay. BIRTHDAYS TODAY (Please call by the ticket office of the Carolina theater for a com plimentary pass.) G. A. Collis. J. A. Creech. E. M. Davant. W. M Helms. W. M. Howard. R. F. Hutchinson. J. W. Pullen. W. D. Stone. W. C. Wagner. 16 ounces of gold is sufficient to gild a wire long enough to encircle the earth. V ID s 7 I for your benefit Relentlessly a mechanical mouth at Bell Tele phone Laboratories keeps talking . . . talking . . . talking into this new type telephone. Other teleT are being frozen, steamed, baked, lifted and dropped into their cradles by machines. Why all these laboratory tortures? Simply because your telephone must prove it can take more use and abuse than it will ever get in its normal lifetime. It must be ready to give you the best possible telephone service Exhaustive testing of Bell System apparatus is one reason you can depend on your telephone altoays. I tin it
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