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THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, MAY 20. i939 PAGE TWO i SI : I 4 ? jjjf Battp tar Heel v-, The oScial newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the Universfty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class , natter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. V Business and editorial offices; 204-207 Graham Memorial Telephones: news, 4351; editorial, 8641; business, 4356; night 6906; circulation, 6476. Martin Harmon Morris W. Rosenberg Clen S. Humphrey Jesse Lewis Editorial Board Dewitt Barnett, Frank Holeman, Jim McAden, Don Bishop, Adrian Spies, Ed MegsoxL .' . . Reporters . Miss Louise Jordan, Bill Rhodes Weaver, Jimmy Dumbell, Louis Harris, Rush Hamrick, Bill Snider. Y ' Technical Staff News Editors: Ed Rankin, Charles Barrett, Carroll McGaughey. Night Spokts Editors: Fred Cazel, Gene Williams, Phil Ellis. Dkskmen : Edward Prizer, Ben Roebuck, Bob Barber. Cub Reporters Miss Doris Goerch, Miss Dorothy Coble, Miss Jo Jones, Earl Alexander, Hugh Ballard, Kern Holoman. ..' Columnists LaStte Howard, Ray Lowery, Elbert Hutton, Sam Green, Sanford Stein. ' Feature Board . - Miss Gladys Best Tripp, Bob deGuzman, Irving H. Nemtzow, Lee Manning Wiggins, Simons Lucas Roof, Arthur S. Link, Howard M. Bossa, Morton Vogel, Irwin Katz, David A. Howard, Kalman Sherman, J. Everette Bryan, ArthuT Dixon, Larry Lerner, St. Clair Pugh. Sports Staff Editor: Shelley Rolf e. . : , . Reporters: William L. Beerman, Leonard Lobred, Richard Morris, Billy Weil, Frank Goldsmith, Jim Vawter, Marty Kalkstein, Harry Hollingsworth, Roy Popkin. - Assistant Circulation Manager: Larry Ferling. Business Staff Assistant Business Manager: William Ogburn. ' Durham Advertising: Alvin Patterson, Bill Schwartz. Local Advertising Manager: Unit 1: Bill Bruner. . Assistants: Tom Nash, Rufus Shelkoff, Irving Fleishman, Warren Bernstein. Local ; Advertising Manager: Unit 2: Andrew Gennett. Assistants: Bob Sears, Jimmy Schliefer, Morty Ulman. Collections Manager: Bob Lerner. . Collbctions Stafp: James Garland, Hal Warshaw, Grady Stevens. Office Manager: Phil Haigh. Office Staff: Mary Peyton Hover, L. J. Scheinman, Bill Stern, Jack Holland, ;. Lan Donnell, Dave Pearlman, Mary Ann Koonce. For This NEWS: C. B. McGAUGHEY strange as it seems After reflecting on the quesT tions raised about the honor sys tem during the late student government conference, we have come to this conclusion': it won't work; but it does. i : - One who listened to many of the speakers must have under stood that the honor system can live no longer the student body is too big, too heterogene ous, and there are too many "born" liars and cheats here. But an uninformed man who looked about his classrooms and dormitory would naively object: It does work. I have seen it. There is very little cheating done, no matter what you say." The theoretical case against the practicality of the honor sys-v, tem has always been a strong one. We've met it time and time again, trying to explain the sit uation here to friends in other colleges. "What, no proctors? Nobody watching you?" they . say. "You can walk in and out (i of exams? Don't tell us they don't cheat!" We can only lift our hands in illogical despair; for logical or not, we have seen the honor system work. We have finally decided that v trying to explain its successful operation reasonably is as im possible as to explain a religious miracle reasonably. It's unac- . countable ; it's inexplainable ; it's impossible ; but it's a fact. It's a fact that very, little cheating is done. It's a fact that most cheating is jmnished. And it's a fact that the majority of . the student body believes the honor system is working. Discussions such as those held during the student government conference are valuable in as much- as they remind us of it every so often ; they provide reg ular examinations of it. If there are any signs that it is weak ening or breaking up, .those -signs will be noticed early enough to allow us to treat it, plug it up, re-work it. . ' But we must be calm in our examination. We don't want to . hasten the fall of the honor sys tem by excitedly announcing it -Editor .Managing Editor ..Business Manager Circulation Manager Issue: SPORTS: GENE WILLIAMS years in advance. Right now there "is no doubt: the honor system does work. boo to you ., "At the close of yesterday's game (Wednesday: Duke 6, Carolina 5) it was almost im possible for sportswriter Woody Woodhouse to give his summary of the game because of the boo ing of Carolina students," writes Senior Ml A. Stroup, Jr. in a plea for better sportsmanship. . Editorials have been written, speeches have been made, and students have been plead with for a long time to remember that hypothetical and reputed man "the Carolina gentleman." In 1933, University students, incensed because "Duke students had stolen Barneses," climbed in to cars and raided the Duke cam pus. Much damage was done; and the steal of Barneses was a publicity stunt. Again, in the fall of '37, after the premature Wednesday night bonfire, University students poured yellow paint over the Washington Duke statue and "Booked" the stadium in vari ous hues. While Wednesday afternoon's incident involved no loss of prop erty, the booing of Woody Wood house did involve loss of caste. The listeners of Durham, Ba leigh, Greensboro, and Burling ton must have wondered what kind of menagerie the Univer sity keeps. And no matter Mr. Woodhouse's sympathies for Duke, you and we hare preju dices too which do not neces sitate booing. whooping it up Widespread prevalence of whooping cough in Chapel Hill has been reported by Dr. William P. Richardson, local health of ficer, and it is not amiss to sound a word of warning to University students about the dangers of the disease. N , Among the symptoms are a paroxysmal cough, , usually worse at night. As Dr. Bichardson points out, whooping cough fre quently proves : fatal, and per- 1 '-T ! . . '., w ; SI , " T"l THEATER By ADRIAN SPIES Taking wise advantage of the com plementary natural color scenes of the Forest theater, the Carolina Playmak ers. are-currently presenting Andre Obey's naive allegory, "Noah." Per haps it would be more accurate to say that the Playmakers are presenting Earl Wynn backgrounded by the very strenuous and energetic efforts of the entire production staff. For the substantial and consistent weaknesses of Obey's work has resulted in an un natural piece of writing of uncertain philosophizing whose most important contribution is the creation of one ex cellent acting role. This was, of course, Noah the hero and seer and symbolic spokesman of the play. And the only trouble is that there is not enough real action and dramatic interest in this one character to make for' a first rate evening of the "Our Town" type. And this is despite the admirable quality of Earl Wynn's widely ranged acting, the unusually effective work of Elmer Hall's light ing and setting, and the general good natured pageantry direction of a night of theater under the stars. - ' "Noah," which we feel was an un fortunate choice because of the above reasons and the general air of enclosed intimacy of the -piece, is Obey's mes sage of tolerant faith. It is concerned with a humanizing of the old Bible legend for the purpose of sympathetic ally dramatizing and moralizing the writer's message of faith in the some times mysterious workings of God. The play makes the unfortunate error of sticking fairly close to the original story which, even the grossest unbe lievers and other parts of bbey's hypo thetical, audience know. There is an are and a very fine job of stagecraft incidentallyand there are the sons and the wives and the wicked neigh bors. And all of them are uncomfort ably "types." Thus the animals and the voyage and the subsequent loneli ness of the goodness of Noah is an old story to us. Also, there is not enough whimsy or originality in this present version to make it mucb of a vital ex perience; It is only pleasant and kind and enjoyable for an affable spring eve. The Playmakers must be given hon est credit for doing much with limited material. As has been said, Earl Wynn managed to bring life into his role and offer all of the human softness and nat uralness that is so necessary to good theater. The sons and daughters, how ever, could do little with 'posts that have been interpreted locally as little more than choruses. With the possible exception of Tom Morgan who at least was positive the juveniles were unnatural, uncomprehending, and un convincing. But, again, this was less their fault than it was the play wright's. ' . In certain scenes and there was a (Continued on page A, column 5) 2:30 Symphony orchestra rehearsal in Hill Music hall. 3:00 Young Friends of North Caro lina meet in student room of Presbyterian church. All Quak ers and others interested are in- vited 3:00 Carl Thompson and Edwin Ben bow, well-known archery experts, will give archery exhibition and commentary on coed athletic field. 3:30 Track meet at Fetzer field. University band will play at track meet. 6:30 Hillel cabinet will hold annual banquet at the Carolina inn. 8:30 Last performance of Andre Obey's "Noah" by the Playmak ers at the Forest theater. And The Angels Sing Mending under the ministerings of the medical men at the infirmary yes terday were: John Graham, David Blank, Henry Kamiris, Herbert Shain, Horace Rictiter, James Dumbell, Ray mond Mercready, Sophia Spivey, Hen ry Dillon, Earl Alexander, Jess Swan, James Carey, James Kir kpatrick, Rich ard Coogan, Vaughn Harford, Nere Day, Robert Dyer', Sylvia SuRdstrom, Robert Goodwin, Leonard Schleiger, Robert Holman, Julian Candill, and Robert Rose. sons of college age are not im mune. So, if you aren't feeling well, first make sure it isn't a super hangover from last weekend, and. then go to the infirmary for consultation. You might insure yourself' of being able to take examinations a few weeks hence. today FoMfeR SCREEN STAft , -J30SIZONTAL J I A former. , ; : ' , popular. picture star. ) 12 Man. : 13 Hangman's knot. 14 Vigilant. 16 Bay windows. .' 17 Cowslip. 19 Crazy. 20 To turn coarse. 21 Playthings. 22 To cut off. . 25 Goddess of dawn. 26 Antiquity. 1 29 Fish. 30 Inner courtyard. ' 31 Fiber knots. 32 Men who commit treason. ' 35 Tumultuous disturbance. 39 Coffee pots. 40 Health spring. S3 Jfrozen- . dessert. 45 Immovable. Answer to 47 Deferred sale. 49 Gibbon. 50 Frolic. 52 Pitcher part 53 Frenzy. 55 Existed. 56 She specialized ih - 57 She great success . late in life VERTICAL 1 Delay. 2 In the middle DIE L E IS SE PIS MTI I ITiL E L APT ISIRHDPF Ol :.RWM I? ftlKL AWT AT rrm tlir 26 SQSpfn -N IS Q &LESSEPS 28 ?pWrfhF 30 I R UEHN O S E RCeKTsF 33 fl6lTlNfeliFhlAMg 34 : 36 v '"ITT 3 r 7" a"" r iq"" iTv " iT" TC 15 Jg 22 123 124 tvfarfl 2S 26 127 12" Jh ' , 3T 33 134. ' 35 136 137 136 39""" '"" 41 142 W7 5T" 45 (46 HT 1 I 1 r H I 1 1 1 Hn To Tell The Truth- By Adsian Spies The law clerk was sitting at his desk with all of the conscientious dignity of the young professional man. He slapped a headlined, newspaper, impa tiently with a trimly cleaned hand. It was last summer, and Knoxville was hot, and the clerk was irritable, and there was news of more trouble Bloody Harlan. "I'm sick and tired of these big-shot big-mouths who write about conditions in Harlan. I lived there myself as a kid. My folks kept a credit house. And let me tell you that those miners .never know what they want. They just ain't civilized. Shooting is a regular thing down there. The folks got tired of the strain and moved away. Never do busi ness with miners. They buy things and then can't pay for them. Don't tell me about Harlan. It's dirty and those miners are the worst messes of all." The law clerk was very dignified and positive. He forgot about. Harlan and talked about the chances of pushing Cincinnati into the pennant. .And he kept rooting, for Cincinnati until the newspapers .forgot to sell themselves with headlines about "Bloody Harlan." The young man is still in Knoxville. And although Harlan has become na tional news once more, I am certain that he is devoting all of his time to expert, long-range, and spiritual man agement of the Cincinnati Reds.- T' There is little worth discussing the smallness of that gentleman except for one persistent fact. He was a boy in Harlan who saw the worst of labor ex ploitation and could have known the truth of their position. But his fam ily sold miner's needs on credit and credit is a dirty business when it's giv en unreservedly to the impuissant poor. The law clerk learned.early to ration alize the demands of Harlan miners into the drool-lipped menace of the raping beast. It was good business and lots of folks will tell you that laborers are a dispassionate business commodity. In Harlan today an army general has distributed armed troops to keep these "menacing brutes" in order. That is, to keep the miners from preventing a small part of themselves from enter ing non-union mines. And the gov ernor of the state is "doing everything in his power to maintain peace and al low those who desire it to work." Shots are being' fired from ambushes, and ambushes are being scoured by the newest machinery of American militia. Bloody Harlan is at war with labor stupidly taking sides against itself. And miners, who "just ain't civilized" are furtively hiding from the "peace ful" medium of American justice.'. It is a very pretty little show in Har lan today. A sort of battlefield where American soldiers are teaching lessons PrevioasPuzsIe -' was fear outstanding characteristic, Ridge. Dove's cry. r Wigwain. Poem. : ' ; . Energy. Headgear. Indian.' To. ventilate. Half quarts. Heading in red letters. Common verbi Distinctive theory." Exclamation of surprise.? Tissue. Timber. of. V 3 Fish eggs. 4 Being. 5 To fare. 6 Line. ?Electrical unit. 3 Indian native soldiers. Beasts home- .7 38 41 42 44 45 46 AZ Astringent. Genus of frogs. Slovak. Otherwise. To become old. Reverence. Form of "me.' Sound of pleasure. 10 Embryo birds. 11 Drama part. 12 She emphasized Jier -i 51 53 54 in economy by the undeniable convic tion of the promise of a bullet. Where the strongest servants of the people are making unionization almost impos sible and bravely defending the inter ests of industry which, unlike the miners apparently, is civilized. ' ' Those people who are fighting union- 15 miization in this little town are wise. They are like the family of that dig nified law clerk. The refined gentry who sold merchandize to the miners on credit and usually managed to end up with both money and merchandize. They know these clean products of our civilization that a' hungry man will work at any price, and that two hungry men will fight each other for the job. They know that squalor push es men down to the grasping furtive ness of the beast. They have, learned that as long as the" oppressed are dis united they will vent their natural hate and anger upon each other. And they realize that as long as men can be beaten into beasts civilized people can point to them in proof of the use lessness of reforms. That law clerk in Knoxville doesn't have to be told about ' the people' in Bloody Harlan. He's really quite a student of the ambushed menace of men who "just ain't civilized" and aren't worthy of recognition. : 1 ) Z LJLJ NOW PLAYING "YOUCAN'TGCT AWAY WITH MURDER" Starring Humphrey Bogart Also COMEDY NOVELTY Sun.-Mon. fU " ivIKE O BHD 'I . vf TOM! I THE LAST, " !1, i . ; . ! . - r "... I . i . ' By , BILL STAUBER From The Infirmary In a desperate search for a iuune for our column, "The Last Straw" Was the last straw. Probably straw alone would have been better. Considerinj? the contents, however, the name 13 quite appropriate. Stranger than the name is the fact that the column was born in the In. firmary. Not that the Infirmary not capable of giving birth to one, but that there is any activity in the infirm ary at all should be news to most of you. . We fear that the campus has been greatly misinformed concerning the In firmary though. It is not near so bad as everyone thinks. No sooner had we entered than one of the doctors pounced on us and in short time had given us a thorough examination. Now, we know what happened to that missing cork last week-end. They put us in a room with some loj that had been here since the week-end following the Fall-Germans. He had come in with a slight cold. Now, he has only a week or two to live. He told us he was happy about the whole thing though. He said if he had gotten veil it Would have taken him the rest of his life to pay the bill charged against him. Late yesterday afternoon, two nurses came into our room, put clean sheets on an unoccupied bed, placed flowers on the table, and hung a sign over the bed, "Reserved for Sanford Stein." Woe be unto youKMr. Stein. We await your arrival via Hudson,-Allen, or the KA's with great anxiety. While the "Ark tossed on the. imagin ary flooded waters in the Playmaker opening of "Noah" last night, ''the original elephant's head, Leonard Schleiger, tossed on his sweat-flooded bed of the Infirmary with a good case of chicken pox. While we sympathize with Mr. Schleiger, our deepest sympathy goes to Miss Terrell Everett, the. tail. Adapted to the whimsies of the. head as played by Mr. Schleiger, it; must be quite a task td adjust herself to those of Mr. Davis. After all, if you were an elephant's tail, how would, you like to be at the mercy of an inexperienced head. ' , : P. S. ' - "f If anyone sees our roommate, please tell him to bring us a package of cig arettes and that copy of Breezy Stories hidden under our pillow. UU WITHOUT WITHOUT A CLUE! 4. How does he strike and disaooear with- out a trace? 0M" WITHOUT A CHANCE! The wedding bells it were ringing . . . d2w uitian mitpi4r cfrtirll . 1 a ev til WITHOUT A LET UP! Drummond s greot- est case . your biggest screen thrill! U3IIJ1 HO) Also COMEDY SPORTLIGHT NOW PLAYING PICK THEATRE SUNDAY Cecil B.DeMille's union PAG DP BE" CTflNWYPX UlfUIIIIHll ion McCREA mm 1 srjL 'Mora 1 e. i- t I I ' ".vll i 1-
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