THE DAILY TAB HEEL
SATURDAY, MARCH SO, 1946
PAGE TWO
The official newspaper of the Publications Union of the Unirersity at North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel HH1, N. C, under the act of
March 3. 1879. Subscription price is S5.00 for the college year.
Complete Leased Wire Service of United Press
ROBERT MORRISON
WE STY FENHAGEN
BILL HIGHT .
BETTIE GAITHER.
Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Business, Manager
CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY
Circulation Manager
ASSISTANT EDITORS : Fred Jaeobaon, Ray Conner. 1 . . .
EDITOSIAInSTAFF: Dick Koral, Dick Stern, Dorothy Marshall, Gloria Gautier, Connne
NEWS EDITORS: Bob Levin, Jack Lackey.
COPY EDITOR: Bill Lafflkm.
REPORTERS: Betty Green, Jo Push, Frances Halsey, Janet Johnston, Mary Hill Gaston,
Bettie Washburn. Gloria Bobbins, Sam Snmmerlin, Elaine Patton. Mickie Derieux, Gene
Aenchbacher, John Giles, Roland Giduz, Darley Lochner, Posey Emerson, Elizabeth Barnes.
SPORTS EDITOR: Carroll Poplin. -SPORTS
STAFF: Howard Merry, Frank Miller, Clark StaHworth, Mel Cohen, Bob Fried
lander, Baddy Gotterman, Jo Farris, Jim Khittz.
FOR THIS ISSUE:
RAY CONNER
FRED JACOBSON
BOB GOLDWATER
Night Editor
..Assistant Editor
..Night Sports Editor
DORMITORY DESOLATION
In contrast to the campus, now blooming in spring splendor,
the dormitory rooms know no seasons, and remain in their usual
mid-winter grays. The contrast is really astounding.
Because of overcrowding, lack of book-shelves, and the pro
hibition against tacks in dormitory walls, our dormitory rooms
bear & striking resemblance to converted barns, not unlike the
monotonous Army barracks.
Anyone with an iota of sensitivity cannot but be affected by
such an environment in which to study, to live. The dormitory
room should be a place in which to relax. Unless one goes to
sleep, the bare walls, the unshielded electric lights, and un
curtained windows provide anything but a relaxing atmosphere.
A dormitory room should have adequate book-shelves. Dur
ing one's college career one likes tQ collect books, and takes
pride in his collection, neatly arranged on shelves, easily avail
able for reference and browsing. What books the student does
collect must be piled on dressers or locked in trunks.
A dormitory room should have pictures on the wall. Not only
do pictures break the bleak expanses of plaster cliffs, but if
wisely selected, develop in the occupants a familiarity with good
art, a generally accepted requisite for a cultured person.
Student Government and the administration ought to get to
gether on this problem. Somewhere, somehow, money should
be available to finance an interior decorating job on the cam
pus. A little novelty, in ideas might make the project quite in
expensive. For instance, the University might buy up lumber
in bulk, saw it up in bulk, and provide hammer and nails for
any student or group of students who is willing to nail a book
shelf together. There's nothing complicated about that.
With a little initiative and planning, we could convert our
dormitories into quite livable homes. The psychological effect on
student life would be interesting to see, probably phenomenal.
D.K.
Tar Heel Campus Camera
Eddie Allen, Journalist
Began On Top and Stayed
By Elaine Patton
Definitely a character. Eddie Allen is readily identified by his
shock of curly black hair, bright bow ties and the incessant puff
ing on a short stemmed pipe. . Repertoire is one of his chief de
lights, and although he prides himself on his mastery of caustic
sarcasm, people soon learn that Eddie is quite gentle natured and
idealistic
the field of newspaper
His
be in
work, and he is one of the few
young writers who can, upon
moment's notice, turn out pages
and pages of "good stuff." A
newspaper writer wno can save
the page" impromptu.
Since his resignation from the
position as Associate Editor of
the Tar Heel, Eddie has become
head of the Sports Publicity of
the University News Service and
expresses his sincere regard for
R. W. Madry (head of the Uni
versity News Service) with
whom he works.
Before coming to Carolina Ed
die was, for three years, on the
sports staff of the Charlotte Ob
server. As well as having work
ed on the editorial and state
desks of the Charlotte Observer,
he has worked as assistant city
editor and assistant copy editor.
During this time, he wrote a
front page headliner which was
one of the junior world series.
Contrary to most up-and-coming
journalists, Eddie's newspaper
career did not begin as news boy
nor copy boy (tsk, tsk, Eddie,
you lack background), but, fol
lowing Marion Hargrove, as edi
tor of the Central High School
paper in Charlotte where he was
the only person to win the honor
of holding that position for two
years. He has also been recog
nized at Carolina as well as Cen
tral High for his two years.
His favorite pastimes are
Brady's, Jeff's (watch that waist
line, Eddie) , and Thomas Wolfe.
Although he has a "wolfish gleam
in his eye," it is quite meaning
lessexcept, of course, for his
"one and only."
To The Editor
Breckenridge
Urges Strict
Conservation
Editor's Note: This letter,
written by Mr. Breckenridge of
the University's Law School, was
turned over to the Daily Tar
Heel by Chancellor House.
Dear Mr. House:
Yesterday on the stone abutt
ment to Lenoir Dining Hall
saw a pineapple, cheese, white
bread sandwich with one bite out
of it. Later in the day I heard
over the radio reports concern
ing the world's food conditions
with which we are now all fa
miliar. Could the University
help some to reduce starvation
by signs in all of its eating places
and on its menus urging patrons
not to order excess food because
the amount we waste would be
enough to save many lives? "-'
Of course there may have been
something the matter with the
particular sandwich which fell
under my observation but it look
ed fresh and edible enough, and
whatever the fact about that, we
all know that the plates of the
eating public go back half filled
with nourishment, a thing that
ought not to be in many cases.
Sincerely yours,
M. S. Breckenridge
"Why the toothbrush in your
label?"
"It's my class pin, I go to Col
gate." The Log
The Sound Track
"Lost Weekend" of Roaring
Twenties to be Shown Here
By Bob Finehout
The picture "Shock," which played in Chapel Hill recently, has
received a sound drubbing from two New York film critics be
cause it purportedly presents an exaggerated and sensational
handling of psychiatric treatment.
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j. x ci uneu i uj. xier vuus uia- i
orders," writes critic Bosley
Crowther in the New York
Times, "is being practiced today
upon thousands of men who suf
fered shock of one sort or
another in the war. A film which
provokes fear of treatment .
is a cruel thing to put in the way
of those patients or their anxious
relatives." Crowthergoes on to
say that Twentieth-uentury-
Fox, the producers of "Shock,
have evidenced a lack of public
consideration that is "deplor
able."
Arthur Mayer, who manages
the Rialto theater, where the pic
ture is now showing, declared,
"This probably means that I will
have to begin looking at Rialto
pictures again. That's terrible.1
A uathoiic puDiication m
Pittsburg severely laced a Penn
sylvania theater for booking
The Bells of St. Mary's" at the
beginning of Lent. It was an in
appropriate time to play the
film, contended the publication,
because members of the Catholic
faith would be torn between a de
sire to see the picture and a re
nunciation of entertainment for
the Lenten period. ...
Studio Stuff .. .
Robert Mitchum, who played
the Lieutenant in "The Story of
G. I. Joe," has been added to the
cast of "A Woman of My Own,"
which stars Greer Garson and
Robert Montgomery. . . . F. Scott
Fitzgerald classic about the
lost generation," "The Great
Gatsby," is scheduled for early
production with Alan Ladd in
the title role. . . . Bing Crosby
will warble some Johann Strauss
music in "The Emneror Waltz."
, . Universal has bought the
movie rights to "Up in Central
Park," as a vehicle for Deanna
Durbin. . . .
Local Stuff . . .
A melange of old time movies
starring such ancient favorites
of the silent screen as William S.
Hart, Rudolph Valentino, Clara
Kimball Young, John Bunny,
Mary Pickford and Snub Pol
lard is coming to the Pick on
Monday under the title of "The
Good Old Days." Included in the
two-and-a-quarter hour show is
"The Great Train Robbery,"
"Ten Nights in a Barroom" (sort
of an early day "Lost Week
end"), and the complete footage
of the Dempsey-Willard fight. . . .
Arrow Misses Mark
She wrote a scorching article,
Of sense it had a particle.
It scolded girls for what they
wore,
And asked white shirts be used
no more. '
The idea of this plea was good,
fAnd boys would like it if girls
would
Not ruin white shirts with their
slack dress,
And I agree I must confess.
Yet that same day this girl was
seen
Downtown clad in white shirt
and jeans.
It seems Miss Emerson just said
These things from out an empty
head,
But if you like our Posey girl,
Forget that literary pearl.
Sandy Minnex
And then there was that
dumb secretary who didn't mail
the circular letters because she
couldn't find the round en
velopes. The Boulder
Public Received "The Call of Carolina" Favorably
HERE'S ANOTHER ENTERPRISE
ORANGE SEEKS FOR CHAPEL HILL
While we are writing about things to come, let's take a look
at Orange County's No. 1 enterprise and institution the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and do some more co
operative thinking, talking, and planning of developments with
in our own geographical boundaries. The University is, of
course, not a county or sectional enterprise, but the fact that it
is located within Orange county gives all of us a sense of home
ownership pride, not to mention the good feeling that comes to
all North Carolinians because of the place the University holds
in the state and nation.
Right now, the University is running over with students and
others are clamoring for a place on campus and in the class
roomfurther evidences of the high rank of the University and
of the attractiveness of that particular Orange county spot.
Building programs are being planned and executed as fast as
conditions, materials and builders will permit; the normal
progress, delayed by 5 years of war, will catch up with itself in
due time and more Orange county acres will be utilized in this
process.
Perhaps within a year we shall know whether Chapel Hill
and Orange county are to be selected as the home of another
projected major arm of the Greater University the 4-year
medical school and all that goes with it. To us, plain laymen
and non-collegians that we are, it seems that the home site of
medical center for North Carolina, as Chancellor Bob House told
Fayetteville university alumni last week, "Is available on the
campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"
and that "adequate and beautiful site for the expansion of the
State's two-year medical school into a standard four-year medi
cal school" is right here in Orange county.
This county does haVe an interest in the ultimate decision
about where the state medical center shall be located and that
interest is two-fold. Its people believe the place to erect a state
medical center is on a solid and proven foundation the present
medical and public health building, and an existing 100-bed hos
pital, both at Chapel Hill; and, if we Orange countians were go
ing to put it on a selfish, provincial basis, where else within the
range of the state's center of population can you find such ac
ceptable sites as those the rolling hills of Orange county could
furnish? News of Orange County.
By Bob Coulter
Public reaction to the show
ing of "The Call of Carolina," a
movie about life at Carolina, has
been compiled. The film re
view cards gave very pertinent
information concerning the good
and bad points of the picture.
They ranged in interest from one
written in very good French to
a long one offering very con
structive views. Some expressed
complete disapproval, but as a
whole the results were helpful
The specific reactions to the va
rious questions follow.
In regard to the photography,
the majority of those voting felt
that it was favorable; only 40
did not like it, principally due to
the fact that it was shown too
fast. It is true that the film
should have been projected at 16
frames a second, the speed at
which the film was taken, but
in order to prevent a flicker
which would have been a' strain
on the audience's eyes, and to
build up the light intensity, the
decision was made to show it
faster. That deficiency could be
remedied in the future. The
film used, especially that in the
outdoor scenes, was of poor qual
ity due to the shqrtage of film
stocks a year ago.
Logic Favored
The matter of continuity, that
is the logic with which one se
quence of scenes followed an
other, favorably impressed al
most everybody. Regarding the
commentary, 59 favored it,
those dissenting felt it was too
rushed due to the film's rapidity,
had too many adjectives of a
trite nature, and was not always
appropriate.
Concerning the picture's unity
as a whole, 78 of the people
thought the film did exhibit
unity. Some liked the use of the
bell tower as a connective me
chanism, while others thought it
was too obvious. One person
very concretely suggested that a
main .character should have been
used throughout. That would
have been the ideal way to do it
however, that device would have
doubled the cost and shooting
time involved. The one used was
selected for economy's sake. A
number of auestionaires noted
the obvious lack of academic life
depicted in the film. Quite a few
additional scenes of Physics and
Zoology labs were attempted, but
the cheap film used did not re
spond satisfactorily enough for
them to be included. However,
the picture was definitely not in
tended to show academic life as
its main purpose. To quote its
purpose irom the production
memorandum, the picture was
io present to prospective stu
dents and state educators the
vast panorama of college life that
the University of North Caro-J
lina offers to its students in or
der to more completely develop
their personalities." It is true
of course that the audience did
not know this purpose, but every
movie made has some such cen-
ral objective by which the ma
terial to be included is judged.'
Campus Activities
The scenes of athletics impres
sed 41 , of those questioned, the
most. Student Government, the
legislature, the Di Senate, the
Tar Heel, the Grail Dance, the
Art Department, and Church
groups all made favorable im
pressions in -some degree.
The audience responded with
an overwhelming "Yes" to the
issue whether films of this na
ture could be effectively used for
college, publicity both off and on
the campus, providing of course
that the films be materially im
proved as they develop. The af
firmative cast a vote of 88
while the other 12 refrained
from voicing an opinion. The
same percentages held true for
those who wanted to see films of
college activities regularly. All
the people wanted a newsreel
type of current events, and 42
favored the March of Time treat
ment of particular organizations,
while 8 thought that both
types should be interspersed.
A monthly movie release was
favored by a good many people
of the audience if regular pro
duction of films should become
a reality. Some wanted them
every three months, and others
thought they should be released
as often as possible. Probably
the most feasible period would
be every three months. The
March of Time when it first
started, despite its great finan
cial backing and stock of equip
ment, was only able to release
an issue once every four months.
Then as it became financially
prosperous, the producers in
creased its frequency to a bi
monthly, and then finally to a
monthly basis.
Improvements
A number of very constructive
suggestions were made by the
audience on which it would be
wise to base any future action.
1. Technicolor should be used
in scenes for publicity of general
interest.
2. More efficiency in arrang
ing the actual showings should
be provided with competent peo
ple to run the machines.
3. The commentary should be
made louder by means of a sound
tract or a microphone for the
commentator.
4. More attention should be
given to sports, overlooked or
ganizations, academic activities,
and faculty affairs with greater
imaginative qualities employed
for emotional effect.
6 This type of film should be
used as a regular part of fresh
man orientation.
6. An up-and-coming movie-
industry should be established at
the University for recording and
promoting its activities.
This last suggestion lays
open a vast, unexplored realm of
latent possibilities in a new field.
It would be a truly great achieve
ment if this University could
take the lead in pioneering a new
kind of college activity.
The Call of Carolina" is avail
able for public and private show
ings at your convenience. If you
are interested, please write Box
813, Chapel Hill Post Office, City,
for naturally the benefit of L
film lies only in its use.