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J i tt i ' I j -r -. s. PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, NQVEMDEU 13. 1917 Unsung Heroes in the Back Room Mudville Mutterin Vera and Max S 1 ! I i IJ ' I i f :i :' !: to V ' i H il! I i I The history and development of the Uni versity Pharmacy school can be traced to its housing. It started out in 1897 occupy ing only three rooms on the ground floor of New West; soon it expended over thc entire ground floor. Following this they moved into a building of their own, Person hall, and in 1925 built a thirty-five room building and called it Howell hall, honor ing the founder of the school, Edward Ver non Howell. This is fifty years of progress in the school of Pharmacy a record of which those associated with the school are rightly proud. They are proud that their enrollment has jumped from 17 men in the first class to this year's enrollment of 223. But we cannot dispense with the history of the Pharmacy school in just a short para graph showing how they have outgrown their buildings. To a great extent the men who have been graduated from the school Jiave written a more important history which add to the glory of the school. Shall 7 key Take Up Snakes P The pharmacist is unlike the soda jerk in the front of the drug store who performs for the customers by using all off his antics in mixing his concoctions of goo and sweets. He works in privacy in the back of the store where he uses his four years of train ing in the compounding of prescriptions. He is a man, like the doctor, who is on call at all times. Disease and sickness have no re gard for his posted hours. His hours, in the small-town drug store to which the majori ty of students in training here will be em ployed upon graduation, are long and tedi ous. There is no glory in their work, such is for the soda jerk as the fountain. These are the men who are being trained in Howell hall. They are learning the vir tures of drugs, and how to take their place in the community as a public servant. Over the period of fifty years in the Pharmacy school on campus, hundreds of men have been trained in this creed and many more will be during the years to come. No Horse Lovers Wanted Dy Daa Sapp (citizens feel that the resolu- At the council meeting tions might endanger their Monday night, Tom Field ! position in the village. Ac who is representing the vil-j cording to the author of the From Left- To Laughter .' y.zvzv very strcrjg- on snakes as play things, . we have bden wondering off and on just why reptiles have become the vogue in some circles. If there were some sensuous pleasure to be derived from caressing a cop perhead or petting a pytho.n, it would not be too difficult to get the slant. As it stands, though, snakehandling definitely rates a .place on our list of bizarre things to do on rainy nights. All this came to mind as a result of the trial over in Durham yesterday of the re ligious leader, who had a penchant "for fondling the fangsters. As this is written we have no idea what penalty, if any, the city will impose on the gentleman. And we must confess also that we are not quite sure just what they could do to him. But all this is beside the point. Our investigation of snakehandling has been purely academic. We "remember attending long, long ago ; a service in a little, wooden church on the outskirts of a Carolina city. Inside the regular members of the church were wor shipping with a guitar and a shiny trom bone to accompany their hymn. They sang loudly, if not well, and they were certainly sincere, for two elderly women fainted dead away. They had "gone away" during the', preacher's outburst about the pain of hell fire. This we interject because we have been told that these are the sort of worship serv ices at which snakes are handled. And, we might add, ladies like the two who "went away" have been bitten by snakes; children have been bitten, and this is tolerated in many parts of the country under the bill of rights. There has been much talk as to whether the leaders of the snake-handling cults should be allowed to endanger the young and the infirm by providing poisonous snakes. It seems to us that the whole thing hinges on the sincerity of those participat ing. And we here and now express ourselves as doubting that they are handling snakes out of religious motives. In this age of Freud and even heavier men of psychology, few of us are unac quainted with the phrase "death-wish." It means something like this: people, subcon sciously, want to come as near as possible to dying without actually giving up- the known for the unknown. We believe that the snake-handlers are letting themselves be ; carried away by their subconscious. Not .that they .can help that. If they really wanted to show their faith, if they wanted to prove that that faith would keep them from danger they would put a gun to their head and pull the trigger! That would be, so to speak, a trial by fire. B.S. Carolina Carousel lage on the Chapel Hill food conservation committee, re ported on the committee's ac tions. Tom says that posters will soon be up in the village to encourage everyone to join in the food for Europe drive. Tom told us that Claude Shotts talked to the commit tee during its last meeting and gave some pretty impres sive facts on the food situa tion in Germany. Mr. Shotts who just got back from Ger many told the committee, of an organization "Meals for Millions" which can give a person a meal for five cents Tom had a copy of a letter from one German family to Mr. Shotts and he said that it was onlv one of many of its kind. Tom is planning a program with the aid of the council to raise money from the village for one German family each month. At only 5 cents a meal everyone should be able to contribute everal' meals to these people. The housing resolutions came up for some pro-ing and con-ing Monday night. It seems that several of the resolutions they are intended to straighten out any confu sion that has arisen as to the By Donald McDonald and Rancy Stanford Strictly for laughs we'd like to point out a striking comparison. We contend that the memoirs of Vera Scales assignment of units in the at the World Festival of Dem cartic Youth this summer which the DTH printed seem a great deal like one incident in Max Shulman's "Barefoot Boy with Cheek," which first appeared as a column in the "Minnesota Daily" years ago. At a Communist party meeting, Shulman's "Brenda village and should, if any thing, make all legal resi dents more secure. Bill Goulding reporting for the dog committee says that dogs are not the only pets kept in the village, there are among us cat and even chicken fanciers. Per-; sonally we feel that the vil lage should organize imme diately and present a solid front in case any horse lovers should appear. According to a recent scientific article, horses have been known to frighten cars into a panic. But to get back to the busi ness at hand. Bill says that so far the dog situation does not appear to be too serious and he hopes to have a peace ful settlement to offer by the next council meeting. Other business attended to Monday night was the elec tion of Haywood Wyatt as secretary to replace Tom Cole , who has served us long and well jn that capacity. Molotov" makes the follow-1 real nice lime There wrtr ing report of her summer va cation. (The parallel we wish to point out here is, of course, strictly a literary one. Note the similarity in style, with the same joyous picture painted for public viewing in the same everybody-loves- everybody tone. Note how many tongues are in how many cheeks.) BRENDA: "Last summer we had a camp on beautiful Lac Qui Parle in northern Minnesota. We all had a DREW PEARSON e WASHINGTON merry-go-round I 4 Write Away More About Freshmen Editor: tions is cmite in order and is in After witnessing the fiasco fact welcomed: This act inciden- which took place in Gerrard tally was not sanctioned by the Kail Monday evening I no long-; UP steering committee. er wonder about the lack of in terest in student government and affairs. I have seen a fresh man class hi high school better organized among themselves and showing more sense than the group ; of college f reshmen at Monday's "meeting. 1 ' Inside Dope: No Parking Meters By R. Foo Giduz From inside dope gathered here and their it appears fair ly certain that the issue of parking meters in CH is dead for a time, at least. ... In a recent Merchants associa tion poll, the businessmen of the town voted against the mechanical mercenaries by a count of 53 to 4, with two merchants' abstaining from voting . . . The general as sumption is that the alder men in originally proposing the installation of parking meters on f ranklin and Co terested in the revenue which Ann found herself out in the would eventually be' derived woods, in the middle of some therefrom. 150 fleeing (?) bachelors Sadie Hawkins day, the whom she was supposed to festival of the reversal of the be chasing! What happened sexes, took at least one re- from there is best left to verse itself last Friday: imagination. Eager SH spinster Ann Wells 1 It was a two-way tie and got off to an extra-fast start dead h eat this wppk fipfwppn in the grand Human Race coeds Rachel Tavlor and Joan . Dead set on catching her Lucas for first nlarP in t.hp man, she was way ahead of , C r e e p-of-the-Week contest ner conorts ana nad already passed by when a guard . Judges said according to entry blanks both "talked Tirrimow o -v-n i vJ - Mil T r 1 -t3t- dxouiiu a ivium Dies, ana were so short-cut detour by the woods j similar in several other dis- at. tne tare end of Fetzer itinfifivo nrovc Uot u il- , , . , - . -- v-i uuuuvc ways, una 1 11 was lumbia streets, were more m-.field So, suddenly agile I impossible to pkk one over aitgj3rar3HCee' Member Pbsodoied GDfle6ate Press BARRON MILLS EDITOR Managing Editor: Ed Joyner, Jr. Circulation Manager: Owen Lewis NEWS EDITOR: Chuck Hauser HOWARD BAILEY BUSINESS MANAGER Sports Editors: Bill Carmichael Bob Goldwater Associate Sports Editor: Morty Schaap EDITORIAL: Bob Sain, Bill Buchan, Dave Boak, Russell Baldwin. PHOTOGRAPHY: Bill Harding, Wilson Yarbcrough. NEWS: Bill Sexton. Charlie Gibson, Jane Mears, Herbert Nachman, Jr., Paul Rothman, Merrily Brooks, Nancy Norman, ; John Stump, George Roberts, Mark Sumner, Jean Baskerville, Bob Rolnik, Jim Spence, Earl Hcfner, Sally Woodhull, Ruth Evans, Margaret Gaston, Roland Giduz, Everett Ford, Martin , Carmichael, Bob Payne, Gilbert Fur guson, George Dew, Donald McDonald, Charles Veen, Nina Davis, Demont Roseman, McNeer Dillon, Wallace Kirbys Ashley Branch, Mae BeHe Enman, Dortch Warriner,- Gordon Huffines, Leonard Dudley, Raney Stanford, Elaine Patton, Elinor Woltz. BUSINESS STAFF: James Crews, Jackie Rogers, Eaton Holden, Eetty Huston, J. C. Brown, Mary Willis Sledge, Charles Pattison, C. B. Mendenhall, Stan Cohen, Joe Williams, Randall Hudson. SPORTS: Dick Jenrette, Bill Kellam, Taylor Vaden, Kyle Cox, Larry Fox, Bill Gallagher, Ish Moore, Miriam Evans, Bob Ousley. 1 :.c official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, Cha--' l ' "' il is published daily, except Mondays, examinations and vacation periods by Tha '-r , I Inc., during the official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednes days and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per college year; $3.00 per quarter.' Reasons for the mess cre ated can be laid at the door steps of a half dozen groups. First offender seems to be the student legislature. . The bill sponsoring- Freshman and Junior elections was duly passed and according to my source of information by a unanimous vote After pass ing it it seems the legislature forgot it. There was almost no' notice of the bill made public whatsoever. Members of the University party were not asleep, however, and feel ing that they had come in con tact with a representative group of freshmen during the past weeks, undertook to do what the freshmen were un able to do for themselves, nominate a slate for class of ficers. The other political par ties yelled foul and filially Tom Eller saw fit, wisely, to veto the bill. Now that I've mentioned Mr. Eller let me apportion to him his share of the blame. If there is one man on campus who should always be on the ball it is the executive. Certainly lie should have reminded the legis lature of their obligation to pub licize the new bill. He is the man who is supposed to look put for the student body as a whole. Next to be censured is the University party, who without a doubt tried to pack the meeting to gain a double endorsement for their slate. Evidently those representatives who dreamed up this master political move had overlooked the fact that in an electorial system such as t ours more than one set of nomina- the other. . . . One slap-happy entrant listed his or her, as the case may be) date 'for 'Geek of the Week" evident ly remembering last Sunday's cinema at the Carolina thea ter! ... It's no joke; according to ''public promoter" Billy Car michael (III) the Chapel Hill Touchdown and Extra Point club will soon begin actual functions and have printed membership cards ' . . CHTAEPC brings back fond memories of Yank's Marching and Spam club. . . Were any of you other dogfaces ever members? Looks like more Tar Heels are joining the Washington , caravan than any previous trip this year . . . Just want to tell you before you leave to be sure to remember to YELL! . . . And stop in at Carolina headquarters, Hotel Hamilton, 14th and K streets. NW. - .- Having censured one party lets get to another, the Student party. The whole afiair was their brainchild or at least the work of several of the S P steer ing commitee members who were present at the meeting. Ac Cording ' to - my information it seems as though these men promised certain members cf the Freshman Friendship Coun cil that the Student party would endorse any slate the Freshman Friendship Couniil should care j to nominate. I wouldn't say that was dirty politics, would you? Finally I come to what I believe is the main cause of the trouble, constitutional in adequacy. An obvious solu tion to preventing the same - mess next year would the setting up of a definite date in the constitution for hold ing elections: of Freshman and Junior-. class officers.- This would eliminate all vagueness surrounding the elections. Certainly someone would re member such a provision each year and would see to it that it was well publicized. Having laid the blame where I believe it belongs I now wish to ask of these censured groups an honest united effort to try to effect an elections policy which will clear the muddle and give the freshman a fair chance to break into student government. No one single election credited to a political party can mean so much to that party that they are willing to endanger the success ful procedure of student govern ment such as has been done in the freshman elections of last year and this year. Norman D. Eipps FFC Non-Political To the Editor: I wish to clarify the posi tion of the Freshman Friend ship Council in reference to the freshman meeting held on November 10 in Gerrard Hall. The action of the FFC in calling the meeting was moti vated by the desire that the freshman class might have a fair opportunity for nomin ating candidates for their class officers. The FFC was not prompted to call this meeting for poli tical reasons, and therefore was not opposed to any poli tical party or fraternity rep resented except to the extent of seeing justice done to the freshman class. Edward N. Hamilton YMCA Cabinet repre sentative for the Fresh man Friendship Council .The University of California cyclotron is said to be absolutely unguarded at night, but as yet nobody seems to have been in clined to get tangled lip with atoms bursting in air in the darkness Aboard the Friendship Train While the American people are working hard to save food and send it to Europe, a significant thing is happening behind the scenes with the big whiskey distillers. They would throw conniption fits if they knew out siders had found out about it, but they arc quietly planning to send twenty field men out to soften up editors and sell them on ending the whiskey holiday. The sales argument will be that President Truman double-crossed the distillers, whereas, if anything, the big distillers did (and are doing) their best to double cross him. After attempting to soften up the newspapers, the big four of the distilling business plan to have a greased-lightning bill introduced in Congress to call of the "misguided" Truman's whiskey holiday. If suc cessful, the distillers wil then go back to using 8,500,000 bushels of grain per month as they did in October or as much as they can get away with. This columnist has now obtained a copy of the hither to confidential propaganda bulletin prepared by Licens ed Beverage Industries and the Distilled Spirits In stitute. It makes interesting and to anyone who does n't know what's what highly convincing reading. But it. carefully conceals the fact that just before the whiskey holiday, distillers were using grain at the rate of 100,000,000 bushels a year. Incidentally, this amount 100,000,000 bushels is just the amount we need to make up the deficit of grain to Europs. One interesting statement made in the distillers' confidential propaganda report is the amazing conten tion that: "Processing grain by beverage distillers leaves 100 per cent of the feeding value for beef, dairy cattle, swine and poultry." This is equivalent to saying that the distillers have learned the secret of making something from nothing which they have not. When they make whiskey they use up entirely the most important single constitutent of the grain the starch or carbohydrate content. This represents about 65 per cent of the grain. Actually, the only materials left over after distilla tion are the unfermentablc constituents of the original grain ash, fiber and protein. While this is fed to cattle and does help the protein content of cattle feed, it repre sents only 30 per cent of the feed's value not 100 per cent as contended by the distillers. This is only a small part of the whiskey boys' mum-bo-jumbo prepared to make the unsuspecting public think that the whiskey holiday should be revoked. Ac tually, the distillers have more than three years' supply of whiskey on hand, and they are more prosperous than ever. It will.be interesting to see if the public falls for their cleverly concealed gall. See PEARSON, Page 4 1 a incnaii- f is a warrnlr' t many GIs) I , couldn't rc- l. id -ourselves J Disaster In Headlines CHICAGO (UP) Death and disaster made the big head lines of the last 10 years. Grant M. Hyde, director of the University of Wisconsin school of journalism, has' made a survey of the big news stories, excluding those dealing with World War II. Hyde picked 33 stories as the top news of the decade from 1937-47 for the Ency clopedia Britannica's new four-volume history of the 10 years. When the editors of the book looked at his choice they found that individual or mass deaths accounted for 14 of the top 33 and that anoth er, the Bikini bomb testis, were as important for their disastrous implications as for their scientific interest. They classified six as deal ing with political or econo mic subjects and four each with labor, adventure, and court, trials. They added a letter ' to Hyde's year-bv-year choices to designate the category in which the stories had been placed: (A) for adventure: (D) for death and disaster; (O for court trials; (L) for labor. and (P) for politics and eco nomics. Speaking of what's in a name, let's make sure that the U. N. "Little Assembly" doesn't get that way because of what it is expected to acomplish. . m many healthful cxcrciscx and panics, in addition t which wc had many dis cussion groups and son ina'rs concerning Marxian dialectics. Wc also had many interpretative dances. Also wc had a com munal garden in which we grew what wc believed to be cabbage. In the evenings we built a camp fire around which wc sat and had dis cussions and sang many songs, such as 'I'll He (Had When You're Dead. You Industrialist, You' and 'Let the Bosses Take tlir Losses.' Wc also burned manv prominent capitalists in effigy." Here's how Vera describes her summer vacation. (Ami just as a passing stab, w think she should, be writing for Tarnation.) VERA: "I was determined to go (to the WFDY, even if I had to sell my girdle. . . . Every few miles wc passed it 1 n 1 it inrougn a village wnere me t children and old folks lined the sides of the road, yelling il 'Nazdar . . . with a fncndli-'f ness that cave us feeling inside that have shared. We cou sist them; wc found ourselves yelling back, 'Nazdar'. . . . Turning suddenly into the town square we met eight thousand villagers standing. smiling, shouting 'Nazdar.' A brass band played as they made an aisle for us to tables which held great piles of food good Slovakian wine. . . . lhey lit a bonfire as high as a house and served us won- derful Pivo. . . . We rode home, singing in the dark, so full that we did not even taste the fruit and pastry which we held in our arms. . The next day delegations from all countries were rounded up in their native costumes and driven around the city in open trucks so the people of Prague could sec them ... In the famous de stroyed village of Lidice wc worked with international youth brigades leveling ground for a new building with pick-axes and shovels." (SHUMAN: "Strong, brnnzr 5 bodies marching side by side, A the nennlp's wav infn iho i' -vvf-v ' j y . v v v v sun; ) .. ,-. BRENDA: "Although we all agreed that it was very nice summer and wc : had many good times, wo were also happy to come hack to the University and carry on our work. Thank you." VERA: "While returning home on the SS Radnik the American delegation had sev eral weeks to reflect and dis cuss our experiences of the trip. We were agreed that in order to bring about the un derstanding and friendship . . . American youth should affiliate and work with the WFDY and other internation al youth groups in order that we may do our share to reap a lasting peace." Is Vera being Vague? 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