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THE DAILY TAB HEEL
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939
The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the
University 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,
nnder act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college
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Reporters
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Rhodes Weaver, Donald Bishop, Miss Louise Jordan.
,- Columnist
Lafitte Howard, Miss Lucy Jane Hunter, Adrian Spies, Ben Dixon,
John Rankin.
' Technical Staff
Cm Editob: Charles Barrett.
News Editors: Martin Harmon, Ed Rankin, BQl Snider.
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Associate News Editors: Edward Prizer, Ben Roebuck, Bob Barber.
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Sam Greeiu
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Miss Jo Jones, Arthur Dixon, Charles Gerald, Fred Brown, Tom Dekker.
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Sports Staff '
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ilton. Durham Advertising Manager: Gilly Nicholson.
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For This
NEWS: ED RANKIN
o Restoration Of Salaries
In his compelling adress to the appropriations committee
in Raleigh Tuesday Dr. Graham stood before a mounted
tablet of charts and pointed to an item in the University's
budget request of $71,000. It was a request for funds to re
store professors salaries to the former 1928-29 level.
The recommendation of the North Carolina Budget Com
mission to the legislature, however, left this item entirely
blank. The budget commission recommended no salary res
torations to the legislature.
Li appealing to the commitee, Dr. Graham told of the large
number of outstanding professors at the University who had
actually refused the off ers of increased salaries of other in
stitutions in order to remain in Chapel Hill, because of loyal
ty and affection for the University. Tales of teachers' loyal
ty to the University in the face of a relatively poverty-stricken
University are as old as the depression.
But the English department announced yesterday that
three of its members were on leave "in quest of more lucra
tive positions." One of them had been with the department
for over ten years. Their departure reminds us of the fact
that the greatest salary an ambitious instructor at the Uni
versity can expect--except for the Kenan awards is the
$4,50C ' of some full professorships. Instructors range from
$1,350 to $1,800; assistant professors from $2,250; associate
professors from $3,000; and full professors from $3,750.
The newer generations of younger men, anxious,5 first per
haps,' for expression of their scholarship, may nevertheless
follow the practical course of Messrs; Ohlman, Wilson, and
McCulleri "in quest of more lucrative positions."
Although loyalty, tradition, and warm-heartedness are
holding the faculty standard relatively high today, the lack
of funds to restore the salary level may see the University
succumb to the competition of academically equal, but fi
nancially superior institutions.
0 New Fire Equipment
Bearing out a long-felt supposition that the fire-fighting
equipment in Chapel Hill is not enough for the adequate pro
tection; of both the town and the University, a statement by
the' city manager confirms the fact that it could, in the case
of serious emergency only safeguard one or the other, not
both.
1 At the present time, the one fire engine owned by the
town of Chapel Hill is fifteen years old. This is to protect a
town of almost 6,500 people; and it certainly no rash state
ment to say that two fires could break out at tho same time.
However, the fire, department here has an agreement
with the Durham fire department to have that organization's
help if needed. Of course, such help would be delayed, and
might prove utterly useless.
The obvious need is for additional fire-fighting equipment
in Chapel Hill, when there are only 21 fireproof buildings of
the 54 which belong to the University. If the town feels no
responsibility for the University's property, then the Uni
versity must provide its own equipment.
Another fire engine should not cost over $9,000 according
to the city manager, a small comparatively investmenti is in
order to protect over 29 millions of dollars of University
property in physical plant alone. W. K.
Editor
.Managing Editor
.Business Manager
.Circulation Manager
Issue :
SPORTS: GENE WILLIAMS
Now With Art Shaw
UNC Alumnus From Shelby
Has Risen To Jazz Heights
Johnny Best Goes From High J
School Band To Carolina On
To Tin Pan Alley
By RUSH HAMRICK
From first trumpet chair in the
Shelby high school band to first t rum-
pet spot with the nations leading'
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swing band via the University of
North Carolina that is the amazing
history of John Best, Jr.
The smiling young musician's pic
ture appeared in last week's issue of
Life magazine. In the group picture,
John is in the last row, third from
the left. The broad smile on his face
is probably the result of watching
some of the jitter-bugs in front of
the band.
BRILLIANT TECHNICIAN
Best's rise to fame is built upon a
stubborn determination to become best
trumpet player in the business a de
termination which was evident in his
high school career as well as in his
trumpeting experiences on the Uni
versity campus. His first instructor
discouraged jazz playing, so Best
practiced long dreary hours on tech
nical exercises and classical solos. Al
ways a brilliant technician, his em
phasis on difficult movements has
stood him in good stead.
But no discouragment was strong
enough to suppress his burning desire
to play jazz music. Consequently,
John started his own 'orchestra in
Shelby while only a high school stu
dent. Then came college and a chance to
play with University orchestras. But
his collegiate career was not a smooth
one, as more than once, John left
school to play. All during this time
he was improving, learning to reac
better, perfecting his improvising and
neatly balancing a good ear for music
with a thorough knowledge of chords
and harmony.
WAS "SWEET"
During: this time too there came
about a gradual change in style and
arrangement for bands. At first,
Johnny was a "sweet" trumpet player,
Series Of Dances
Begin Tonight
(Continued from first page)
Pi and Zeta Beta Tau. All, except
the Pikas, will give dances at their
chapter houses.
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
will entertain pledges, chapter mem
bers from Duke and State and several
non-members guests at a formal
dance in the Carolina inn tomorrow
night.
Following the inn dance, at which
Paul Moore and his orchestra from
Raleigh will play, a buffet supper will
be served at the lodge on Fraternity
court. - '
Tau Epsilon Pi will give a closed
house dance, followed by midnight
supper. Zeta Beta Tau will entertain
at a small informal dance.
JEEP AND SPOUSE
The ATO house dance will be given
tomorrow night, with "Mr. and Mrs.
Jeep" Bennett, their clarinet and their
orchestra making their second appear
ance on the campus during the week
end. Decorations will be blue and
gold, the fraternity colors. Following
the dance, a buffet supper will be
served.
Pledges and their dates are as fol
lows: Marvin Anthony with Miss
Merraiam Legrahde, Greensboro ;
Percy Ashby, Miss Bessie Stallings,
Durham; Tom Allen, Miss Mary Kist
ler, - Morganton; Henry Burgwyn,
Miss Judy Holoman, Rich Square;
John Diff endal, Miss Betty Lou
Warner, High Point; Joe Huske, Miss
Louise Jordan, Fayetteville; Robert
Olive,. Miss Elise Rouse, Fayetteville;
Jimmie rCrews, Miss Julia Hedrick,
Durham; Tommy West, Miss Nancy
Smith, Chapel Hill; ArmisteadB.
Emith, Miss Anne Schneck, Greens
boro; and Cameron Murchison, Miss
Martha Kelly, Hendersonville.
MEMBERS AND GUESTS
Members and their guests will be:
Bill Raney, Miss Theresa Ann Graff,
Roanoke, Va.; Pou Bailey, Miss Fi-
quet Pate, Laurinburg; Gordon Burns,
Miss Lyal Boice, Rocky Mount; Glenn
Davis, Miss Jean Mclndoe, Danville,
Va.; Ben Dixon, Miss Frances McKee,
Raleigh; Carroll Haywood, Miss
Betty Wright, Raleigh; Basil Hors-
field, Miss Alice Horsf ield, Winston-Salem;
Ernest Yount, Miss Betty
Shuford, Newton; Jack Lynch, Miss
Ann Burr, Raleigh; James Davis,
Miss Mary Graham, Goldsboro; Rod
erick Murchison, Miss Mary Wood
Winslow, Rocky Mount; Seavy High-
smith, Miss Betsy Gayle, Richmond,
Va.; Tommy Royster, Miss Eleanor
Badger, Raleigh; Alvis Dickson, Miss
Ann Nash, St. Pauls; John Gay Britt,
Miss Sara Cole, Canton; Charles Dif-
having little use for loud, raucous
tooting: That lasted a few years until
the day of swing dawned upon an un
expecting nation a type of music dif
ficult to define, but based upon an
emphasized rhythm department with
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mentalista and with emphatic rhythmi-
cal group movements. Today the
volume of sound emitted from Best's
trumpet is excelled by few.
Every musician unconsciously copies
some other artist. Ardently, Johnny
collected phonograph records with in
dividual trumpet "rides" by famous
musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke,
Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berrigan,
Bobby Hackett and others. For long
hours he would play records over and
over learning the choruses. The neigh
bors in his home town will testify to
the degree of his earnestness.
- Possibly the strongest single influ
ence has been . the old Louis Arm
strong style. Not the loud, sustained
notes Armstrong plays today, but the
delicate rhythmical movements he per
fected in the 1920's have served as
models.
ONE OF THE BEST
Last Christmas, John went to Mexi
co City where he was featured with
practically every good orchestra there
as guest artist. Now he has returned
to Shaw's band and occupies the covet
ed first trumpet chair.
The band is a comparatively new
one, as Life explains, but has taken
the leadership in popularity away
from Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey,
How long Shaw will last on top is
difficult to estimate, but it is safe
to say that John Best, as long as he
j stays with popular music, will be one
'of the top notch trumpet players in
the nation
Harry James, Goodman's famous
trumpeteer, is reported to have said:
"There aren't more than three or four
really great trumpet players in the
country today and John Best is one
of them. He's essentially a technician."
British Author
Likes America
(Continued from ftrsi page)
Excavations made by archeologists in
the Old Country have been especially
important in the book he is now writ
ing tracing the result of God's
promise from Abraham through Ish
mael, including a historical study of
the building of Mecca.
HISTORIC DISKS '
"In the future I think that the bio
grapher 1 will get most of his infor
mation about a" man's personality by
graphophonne records," Mr. Bolitho
said. He mentioned the record Tenny
son s great-great grandson played for
him one day in London of the great
writer reciting "Ask me no more." Mr.
Bolitho has a great number of records
made by famous people, as the first
broadcast of King George V. which
he played for the class.
- "Do you realize the amount of im
portant conversation tha't is lost over
the telephone?" he asked in his charm
ing British accent. "There can be no
record of it except the decision. Long
letters have been completely done
away with. Think of the future bio
grapher with no documents to refer
to!"
Chinese Class
To Meet Monday
Miss Elizabeth Wang's Chinese
class will meet in the banquet room
of Graham memorial each Monday
evening from 7:30 until 9:30, it was
announced yesterday.
One hour of the lecture will center
on Chinese culture, including litera
ture, philosophy, and religion. The
other hour will be devoted to study of
the Chinese language. Students in
terested in joining the classes, ,but
who have not registered, are invited
to attend the meeting Monday eve
ning.
fendal, Miss Margaret Lewis, Greens
boro; Thad Moser, Miss Anne Bov-
ette, Smithfield; Ralph Patrick, Miss
Dorothy Jane Hodgin, Greensboro;
John Grier, Miss Vincent Schenck,
Greensboro; George Simpson, Miss
Louise Hartsel, Concord; Roy Shup
ing, Miss Lucy Cary Easley; Rich
mond, Va.; Phil Haigh, Miss Joan
Epperson, Durham; Bill Davenport,
Miss Hannah Huske, Fayettville;
Willis Carpenter, Miss Carolyn Um-
stead, Durham; William Vinson, Miss
Anne Dees, Goldsboro; Hamilton Un
derwood, Miss Catherine Underwood.
Rocky Mount; and stags, Bill Alston,
Powell Murchison, Carlisle Higgins.
Wiley Mackie, Robert Bridgers, Brown
Wright and Erwin Jones.
Student Collides
With Murphy Door
(Contmutd ft cm first page)
lina's freshman grid squad, and sev
eral teammates met in a classroom in
Murphey to study. Out in the hall
after their studying was done, Far
rell, believing he was being chased,
bolted for the door, lifted his arm
and pushed. The door wouldn't give,
but the glass did, and blood streamed
from a gash from his wrist to his el
bow. Chubby Myers, fast on bis trail,
applied a tourniquet and Charley
Baker went with Farrell to the infir
mary. During the season Farrell was kept
on the sidelines by hard-luck injuries.
In the frosh opener against Wake For
est Farrell's nose was broken. Several
weeks later he broke his right leg in
practice and was out on crutches the
rest of the season. -
Employers Favor
High School Men
(Continued from first page)
1
lege market should exist regardless of
the economic condition of the people
giving the answers, because the boy
who raises himself up from an en
vironment of ignorance and poverty,
works his way through college, and
returns home with a "cum laude" and
a mink coat for mamma, is a tradi
tion. "Actually, of course, it is mainly
the upper income levels that count
statistically as consumers of sheep
skins. Although there is a great dif
ference in the distribution of higher
education among the various economic
levels, there ist an astonishing uni
formity of opinion among them as to
the value of college. ,
EXECUTIVES CHOOSE
"By sex and age and size of place
the differences are also' small, and
even by occupation, with some minor
variations : Professional people favor
college, but executives, who do the
most hiring, give the high school stu
dent the best chance by an unqualified
vote of 41.6 per cent, against 28.6 per
cent for the college7 graduate.
"The one big difference shown in
the breakdowns of answers is geo
graphical: while the Northeast is the
most inclined to believe that the cal
low A. B. has a passport to success,
only 19.8 per cent of the people on
the West Coast agree. . "
"Red" Hunter
Is Feuder
(Continued from first page)
and wide by means of the grapevine
system (mountain grapevines are ex
ceptionally fine, particularly in Cul
lowhee). Within a few days, all the
family members began pouring into
the town, some coming from as great
a distance as 20 miles. Meeting to
gether in a solemn conference, they
finally decided that Vengeance Must
Be Wrought. Great-grandmother Hun
ter, who hates the springtime because
the grass tickles the soles of her feet,
expressed the .sentiments of all when
she laid' aside her pipe and grimly
said, "I'll never rest peaceful in my
grave until all them good-for-nothing
Cogginses is laying six-foot under."
Since then, Cullowhee has been in
a state of war. Whenever a Hunter or
a Coggins walks down the - main
street, all the inhabitants disappear
into their houses, because they know
that guns will be a-roarin' and that
most likely there will be a funeral
within a few days. The first year,
about four Hunters and six Cogginses
met violent deaths, each one cursing
his enemy with" his last breath.
COULDN'T WITHHOLD
For a while, Jane held herself aloof
from the feud, but the fighting pas
sionate blood of the Hunters courses
through her veins and wmiU nnf ka
v v MVfe KT
denied. This Christmas she received
a present of shiny, high-powered, mod
em "shootin' irons," complete with
ammunition and, instructions on h.ow
they were to be used. .T
all the necessary lessons almost im
mediately and soon bgan hunting up
stray Coggins.es.
Before the vacation
Jane had "picked off" seven mem
bers of the hated tribe and proved
herself the most deadlv and .ff0;
participant in the feud. Her fame has
now spread throughout the western
01 worth Carolina and she is
known as "Annie Oakley II."
.The only trouble.
- ' " w vaue,
is that the Cogginses multiply . like
rabbits, and whenever nno 4.1.
dust, there is always another one to
take his place. Though she has noth
ing to say about the lpt;n,0
this, it annoys Jane considerably. "But
ecu n, sne announced fiercely,
each and everv one if uo v i--.
thing I do."
Which is whv tfm c.n
tell their naughty children that "Jane
Hunter will met
have."
McLean Cities
Competence Need
(Continued from first page)
college graduates, he said. "in 0ur
outfit, beginners, even college gradu
ates, though they're called 'copy boyy
or a slightly more dignified naiae, act
as office boys of a generation am
did."
"Today and tomorrow the cevrs
papers must require a wider breadth
of knowledge if they are to serve their
full function. Reporters must be well
educated in sociology and economics
he advised.
x Following graduation from Prince
ton, McLean served at home during
the World war. Being a member of
the national guard, he taught in the
"School of Fire." Lecturing on the
manufacture of explosives and guns
probably well equipped him for fac
ing audiences. He conducted the only
domestic training school for draft and
driving.
After serving as a member of the
executive committee of the Associated
Press, McLean, succeeded his father,
who had been president of the organi
zation 31 years. He had been head of
the news service since 1924.
He is married, has a daughter and
a son, Donald, ten-years old, who will
join him on his hunting trip in South
Carolina.
Koch Plans For
New Play Book
(Continued from first page)
ways of the New Englanders, of the
Morman people, and of the child-like
excitable Mexicans. Included in the
volume are numerous other typically
American scenes drawn by young
playwrights, native -to the regions of
which they write.
The publication of this volume
marks the culmination of 25 years of
pioneering in the making of an Ameri
can folk drama by its editor, Profes
sor Koch. Four volumes of "Carolina
Folk-Plays" have already been pub
lished but "American Folk Plays" will
extend the range of subject matter to
include the entire nation. The plays
are practical theater pieces, and are
expected to be a boon to high school
and college classes and to Little Thea
ter groups.
The volume will include 650 pages
and will be folio size. It will also fea
ture some recent activites of the Caro
lina Playmakers, and a selected list
of references to the. work at Chapel
Hill in books and periodicals. The
book will be illustrated with 15 full
page illustrations scenes from the
original production of the plays.
Experimentals
(Continued from first page)
has an opportunity to do a good char
acterization as Phronies, his wife.
"Runaway" by Dorothy Lewis is a
study of life in a boys' reform school
just outside of a great city. The au
thor has chosen a poignant story of
adolescent hopes as they flower or
die in a stern environment. The play
is written with insight and sympathy
and a careful handling of difficult ma
terial. MIDNIGHT SHOW
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