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PAGt TWO THE DAILY;TaB iHETTL TUESDAY. fVKMBE: i i t 3 Stl) e Daily 1 3Tar Heel Th official new snaDer of the Publication Board of the Unlversitr of lorth Carolina. Chapel Hill, where It is issued daily during the regular sessions of 1i. University by the Colonial Press. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the summer terms. Entered a second-class matter at ' the post office ot Chapel Kilt. r. C, under the act of March 3. 1879. Sub Tiptlon pricer $80 per year. tJHH) per quarvtr. Member of The Aspciated less. The Associated Press and AP features are exclusively entitled to the ue for republication of all new and features published herein. ? ?rj"or DICK JTiJlETTE Huain Manager .. : C. B. MENDENKALL, Tar Heel Spirit Was Great All the Mohday-Tnorning football quaterbacks had a field day yesterday in their observations on the Carol ina-Notre Dame football game, and of all the remarks concerning the Tar Heels play at New York, we haven't heard one that was : unfavorable. Dick Herbert, sports editor of the News and Observer, summed the game up very well in his Monday morning colunn out of New York: "It doesn't seem possible that a football team could add to its prestige by taking a 42-6 beating, but that is what developed for Caro lina's fighting TaT Heels following their loss to Notre Dame. . . in Yankee Stadium. They won the respect of their opponents and the admiration of every one of the 67,000 spectators who watched in disbelief as Carolina held the vaunted Irish to a tie for the first 38 minutes and 10 seconds of what had been billed as a Notre Dame waltz to another triumph." The performance of the'Tar Heel team, playing without its mainstay Grrarlie Justice, was truly inspirational. With a few changes in the decisions of the referees, the score might' have been vastly different. At any rate, the performance of the teanvand student body in New York, was the example of collegiate spirit we have ever seen or expect to see. The team .never quit fighting, right up to the end. And when the game was over, the entire Carolina student body waited patiently until the 'conclusion of the Notre Dame victory march and then proudly sang "Hark the Sound" as the fans poured for the exits. The students proved to the 67,000 fans present that they had just as much spirit in defeat as before the game, when the Carolina contingent literally took over Times Square. In all, it was an impressive show which the 34,000 Tar Heel students and alumni put on for the New Yorkers. On Friday night it seemed that everybody within six blocks of Times Square was a Tar Heel fan. The Blue booster hats were in evidence everywhere, overshadowed by the waving of Confederate flags. Old-time New Yorkers said they had never seen a student body show such enthusiam before. They likened the display Friday night to Times Square on New Year's eve and V-j Day. There had been some doubt in the New York Impressed By Rebels Yorkers got just as much fun out of wav ing the Stars and Bars as did the' 'Rebels." Everyone we talked to found the Carolina display of college spirit a re freshing change to the usual group of "awed" visitors to the City. The Tar Heel spirit was just as much in evidence Satur day despite the hoarseness of many after Friday night's pep rally. A number of campus organizations displayed impres sive banners and streamers in a post-game parade, and the half-time card stunts went off successfully despite the fact that there were a number of persons who were not students in the Carolina student section. New York knew the Tar Heels were on hand, and so did Notre Dame. The Irish are the customary favorite of the New Yorkers, what with thousands of the vaunted Notre Dame "subway alumni" turning out. But on this particular occasion, Notre Dame supporters found themselves in an overwhelming minority. So regardless of the final score, the Tar Heels made a fine impression on New York. New York sports writers were overly critical of trie Carolina team before the game, it was felt by many fans. But in the future, we think they will' have a healthy respect for Tar Heel football teams. Duke University is the next obstacle for the Tar Heels. The Daily Tar Heel is confident that both the Carolina foot ball team and cheering section will outshine the Blue Devil gridders and fans. A Job Well Done Tom Kerr and his associates have given critics of the much criticized Tarnation an answer that is far more ef fective than any mere verbal retort. He has given them a magazine which will offer them little in the way of material for criticism. Last week's issue of Tarrition, as far as we have been able to gather, has met with almost unanimous approval. The reports we have heand concerning the campus humour magazine vary from "100 percent better" to more specific praise. The cartoons, jokes, format, stories, and features all come in for a share of the praise. The improvements in the latest edition of the pocket-size magazine overshadow any criticisms the reader might have, or so readers we have talked to lead us to believe. To , these compliments we would like to add a favorable comment of our own. We would like to commend Tom Kerr and his entire staff for the work they have put out in making the new Tarnation a' magazine which has been so well-received. People with lesser mettle might have given up after so much adverse criticism of their previous efforts. It is hearten ing to see them come back with renewed vigor. The current issue will no doubt act as a springboard to an even better Tarnation. We hope, and expect to see, eventually a first rate college humour magazine on the campus. We believe that the talent for putting out such a magazine is available on the campus. We suppose that, while the current staff has done quite well with this issue, the door will always be open to new talent. In using the best material and best talent available the editor will go far toward making Tarnation the successful humor magazine desired by the staff and the readers. Ed Moss minds of many student leaders as to what New York would think of all the Con federate flag-waving and ballyhoo. We can report from all observations the New Carolina Seen - Horsiri'' With The Opera Br Bill Kellam . Grand opera -receives a worse mauling in the cinepic currently making the rounds of the local EC Smith centers for the projec tion of entertainment and corn (celluloid and cellulose varieties) than was handed the valiant, but" pooped. Tar Heels in the fourth quarter last Saturday. The picture, "Everybody Does It," is also notable for its sug gestive title which was appar ently chosen for its suggestive ness and lack of relation to the' film's , subject matter and for the acting of Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, and Paul Doug las. , . . Although the operatic bur lesque was good for laughs, it was quite painful lo this layman to see fine art humil iated by slapstick as heavy handed as that perpertreled in the film's final operatic se quence. Hollywood has no business ridiculing anybody, considering the tripe which they continuously inflict on the nation's movie goers. There ain't no justice on the screen either. f The film was amusing so long as the opera went unmolested. Miss Holm, one of the nation's finest comediennes and also the possessor of a celestial figger, was- excellent in her portrayal '' of a drawing-room intellectual with too much vocal aberration for the good of 1 her musical as piration. Charles Coburn stepped out of his usual saintly roie and delivered a hilarious character ization of an aged, hormone deficient libertine. His spirit also was willing, but his flesh was weak. Mr. Douglas made the most of the lines he had to work with an should be worth watching in the future. Opera never had ' a chance. Portions of the movie were excellent satires, but in ' em bodying the singers and their associates with the characteris tics of the talentless pseudo artists, the scenarists showed little but their own lack of a sense of proportion and canned things too far. One wonders if the hacks who wrote the script had ever met a first class operatic per former, or even the possessors of the voices which were dub bed in for Linda (I wear a negligee 24 hours a day. seven days a week) Darnell and Mr. Douglas, who bears an amaz ing facial resemblence to a Neanderthal man. Perhaps the writers' attitude is that of this whole country. We don't know enough about opera to appreciate it fully. Small minds, without every bothering to investigate opera, brush it aside with the "too arty" designation and go back to their Book , of the Month Club' literature,' their Readers Digests, and their insipid Tin Pan Alley tunes. There's noth ing the matter with such litera ture and music, but it shouldn't be considered the final word. A goo opera can be the ulti mate of entertainment and musical and dramatic art. Where else is there a better combina tion of musical and literary genius? Imagine the perfection pf the words of a Shakepeare before set to the music of a Bach, Beethoven, or .Wagner. Opera has its faults; which must be modified before it will appeal to the public. But it can be done. Italy, where every town of any size has its opera house, has proven that. Popular American opera would probably need revisions like these: The librettos must be translated into sensible English, must not be too fan tastic, and must possess dra .matic merit; the playing time should be cut. for few people now want to be confined any where more than three hours; the music should not oversha dow the plot; and the produc tion costs must be reduced so that admission prices won't be beyond the average pocket book. t Broadway is recognizing the problem, slightly. "Regina," a praiseworthy operatic adaptation by Marc Blitzstein of "The Little Foxes," opened recently in. New York and has been well re ceived. It's interesting to note, though, that its producers, per haps fearing the public's disdain for "artistic music, have shied away from the term opera More We have all heard the old 'saying that "where there is smoke there is fire," which isn't usually true. But more where there is as much smoke as there is oozing out t)f the back-doors of Lenoir Hall it would seen that there must be at least a spark. ' Lenoir Hall has been, ever since it ceased serving Navy chow, an unsavory place to say the least. Complaints, both . from customers and employees (who risk their jobs by sticking their necks out to complgin), have appeared so commonly in the Letters To The Editor of the DTH that every' time you read f ne you might think King Feat ures responsible. Yet, no change has been noticed in Lenoir Hall as a result. , " , : The latest stupid trick pulled by the Lenoir Hall adminis tration was the ruling that employees must hot wear dun garees or khakis and they must wear fresh shirts and ties at all times on duty. A plea for an explanation of this unfunny joke would no -doubt go unanswered by the Lenoir officials as plteas arid complaints to them always have. If it is for reasons, of cleanliness and I laugh at the Pitching Did you ever hear about the hex of Bix? Welk neither did I until the other night when a trumpet player told me the frightening fable in one of the jimjam joints on 52nd Street. To savor it to the silt, you'll have to bear in mind that jazz musicians fall into two conten tious categories sweetmen and ridemen. The former, as hepcats will tell you, follow their or chestrations and specilize in the Businessman's Foxtrot, while the latter go in for weird im provisations and worship a bearded god named Dizzy Gil lespie. And now, at long ant languid last, to our story, ... Bix Beiderbecke, as you probably know, was the Young Man With a Horn who achieved a certain amount of clinical fame back in the 20's by blowing notes on a trum pet that Bach didn't know ex isted. Like most dedicated jazzuits. however, he had. a lot of whacky wheels in his head, and whenever they got to spinning too fast he'd puff on a marijuana cigarette to slow them down. One night while playing in a roadhouse outside of Chicago, he inhaled more than his usual PAY DIRT Pitching Overshoes Gore I h By Torn Wharton supposition) wouldn't it be more l o g i c a 1 to start this cleanliness (and I laugh at the ness drive in the kitchen and in the pots and pans where Mr. -''Milton Sutherlin reports he saw, mice, rats, bugs, etc., acccording to his letter in the DTH of .November 13. He isn't the only person that has seen " . those levels of like infesting Lenoir Hall's food. Perhaps the most . idiotic as pect of the fresh-shirted-and ties-but-no-dungarees order put - put to the employees of Lenoir Hall is the undisputed fact that j such an order defeats, the pur- - pose of student-employment, not ' to mention the fact that none 1 of the customers or employees of ' Lenoir Hall give a damn what : the employees wear (and who else's damn makes any differ ence). As it says on page 89 of the University- Catalogue with reference to student employment in "dining - halls" V . ."Alt jobs are, assigned by, the Self-Help ; Committee, solely on the bases of scholastic merit, financial ,:,need and good character." Ac- ';. cording to the pretty accurate cost-accounting report by Mr. S. iBrutoh, Jr., in the Nov. 13th DTH it looks obvious that employees will have to have a By Billy Rose quota of fog-fags, and shortly before sun-up went out to a nearby field and planted sever al marijuana sprouts. According to the busboy who spied on him, he then raised his arms to the moon and emitted a series of high-pitched cries which could only be interpreted as a curse on anyone who ever 1 molested his private patch. When Bix returned to the paradiddle parlor,, he told the manager what he had done. I'll be back next year to harvest the crop," he said. "In the mean time, don't let anyone touch my plants." The manager, one of Beider becke's , more frenetic fans, faithfully promised to protect the patch, and from then on the musicians who played his road house were instructed to avoid it as if it were a Haydn sonata. : Some years after Bix blew his last . riff, the much-talked-about curse was . challenged by a young trumpeter named Mori v Glenway. One night, miserable because he was get ting nowhere with the bouncy blonde who , sang with . the band, he went out to Bix's - patch and picked some of the leaves in spite of the mana 1 ger's warning that he'd be wharrimied for life. Horsesh Lenoi substantial pay-raise or go broke because of their job. Bruton " says: ' ; . . ;. . "Supposing live-day laun dry service, which is usual, it requires a minimum of twelve shirts to have a fresh one per day. This represents, at $4.00 a shirt, an initial outlay of $24.00, supposing that on the average each, man has six shirts with which to begin. It also represents an outlay of $1.05 a week, or about $11.50 a quarter, for laundering of shirts alone more than, the complete laundry washing. Furthermore, in regard to the I trousers, dry-cleaning, .which ' would be required of most ; trousers except those forbid den, is more expensive than' laundering, even if this rule does not necessitate buying new trousers as is Jikely to be the case." For what so-called reason could the thoughtless manage : ment of Lenoir Hall impose this uncalled-for, unwanted and use less hardship on its practically defenseless employees ' when tnere are so many outstanding improvements that, if made, might put Lenoir Hall up on a standing with the Campus Cafe and the Marathon uptown. oes- f Half an hour later, full of muggle smoke, he .picked - up his horn, and aficionados who heard, him swear he sounded like the spittin'. triple -tongued image of Bix. The bouncy blonde, wrapped in the spell of his billowing bell tones, agreed to marry him, and when the ceremony took place the following afternoon the clef cliques around Chicago became plenty worried. It looked as if the hex were working in re verse. But, of course, Bix didn't let them down. Six months later, word got around that the blonde was hitting the bottle and giving Mort plenty of grief. And from the Famous Door in New York to Jack's in San Francisco, the g,u theaters told each other "Serves the bum right." But the real potency of . Beiderbecke's hex became ap parent the following year when a columnist reported that the blonde had left Mort . and was keeping company with a fiddle player in Wayne King's waltz band. "01' Bix must be laughin' in B-sharp tonight," said a hop happy musician. "Imagine los ing your girl to a corn merchant who smokes nothing but Mela-chrinos!" MERRYGO-ROIINI Washington. With Congress ab sent and little news competition on capitol hill, the press for some reason has pretty much glossed over the scorching, no-holds-barred attack on big busi ness monopolies staged "by Con gressman Celler's House Judic ary Committee. Newsmen es pecially ignored the testimony of T. K. Quinn, former Chairman of the General Electric Finance Company, who vigorously at tacked the press for hushing up antimonopoly news while play ing up A & P Chain Store adver tisements. , - - . The former big-business exe cutive, who quit "because cf my convictions," kept Chairman Celler on the edge of his chair with such, blunts comments as: "If Congress doesn't curb mo nopoly now, .we will wake up very soon and find ourselves in a complete socialistic society . . Congress must take a resolute hold of these run-away mon sters. . . .Unless the government steps in we, the people, .are doomed. Stalin, said Quinn, "could take lessons" from our own corpora tions overlords. - "Stockholders of General Elec tric and General Motors have about the same control over company management that the Russian people exeroise in the Politburo," he asserted. "No con trol, no voice whatever. It is the. practice of large corporations- to refer you to their large number of stookholders in our great corporation own less than $5,000 in stock." " ' Quinn testified that General Motors, which netted a juicy 10 per cent profit on earnings after taxes in 1947, was in such a powerful position that it could hike prices ' to net a profit of 15 or even 20 per cent. Quinn was completely candid about the so-called "competi tive" position of his old firm, General Electric, , and General Motors in the field of electric refrigerators. Whereas the lowest price-range manufacturers were driven out of business, he said, the two big outfits couldn't af ford a price war on regriger ators. "Was. that due to the fact , j ou " had interlocking director ates and common banking in terests," inquired Chairman Celler, "such as the fact that the Guaranty Trust Conpany was interested in both General Elec tric and General Motors?" "Well, . there was no actual agreement that could be attacked under the Antitrust Laws," an swered Quinn, "but you just have an understanding. You do not start a war among big people like that. It would cause too much bloodshed." All big corporate monopolies have "self-perpetuating boards of . directors," with officers who aren't elected, including such giants as G. M., G.; E., U. S. Steel and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Quinn re ported. ' - . Hardboiled General Joseph ACROSS 1. 0-ritii sirok: 4. I'rm-fpb 7. t'nndii ion VI. Kiim .f J iid:i h 13. Wins 14. Sh: Ueupear 4'liar;i(fr is i: :r 1. ("llllwtNlfl 15. Nariiw fahnc "Ji. I lav's march 1. ICiir4ncnri mint J?,. Ladles 27. Mci:tl las of h ln e :;i I'xiiiii i ttird 32 Tct-ier :i4. I' v rant Art 14-ie ( millltiHrv 37 Kricorv t'.i Necliitircr 4') Liilifrmriii')- i I V 42 One iv i, owe: 44. Ollliic n'.eler 4fi f'lli4-f u.l of ani-ieM Meiniihis 4f Thickness. 53.. 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The American Indians have now. emulated the veterans, the farmers, and the big utilities by forming their own lobby in Washington. What they are seeking is not a government handout, but equal rights and education. The" Indians call their new lobbying organization A. R. R. O..W. which stands for "Amer ican Restitution And Righting Of Old Wrongs." The purpose is not only to influence congress but to dramatize the Red Man's story to the American public. One project will be to show documentary films of Indian squalors a shockingly different picture from the romantic idea of America's proud, brightly feathered chieftains. Instwd, the . films will show Indians living 1 in filthy medieval huts, wasting away from disease and starva tion. Tuberculosis and infant mor tality among Indians are eight times the national average. The Red Cross reports that American Indians have "diets scantier, and tuberculosis worse, than Europe at its lowest ebb." On the Nava jo reservation, ( 51.4 per cent of all babies born in 1939 were dead by 1944. In spite of the alarming di sease rate, however, the. govern ment doesn't maintain a single hospital on the 2,000,000:acre Papago Reservation in Southern Arizona. The Government is also bound by treaty to educate the Indians. Yet the schools are so under staffed and inadequate that, on vthe Navajo Reseravtion, the av erage youngster receives only 10 months' schooling. Sixty per cent have no schooling at all. Note A Idng list of promi nent citizens are backing the Indian Lobby, including Tallu lah Bankhead, Quentin Reyn olds, Eddie Cantor, Douglas 'Fairbanks Jr., Gregory Peck, A. F. of L. President William . Green, CIO President Phil Mur ray, and Charles Skouras. Skouras has offered the facilities of 20th-century Fox to film and distribute documentary movies of Indian Life. It wasn't the U. S. Govern ment that sold Bolivia the P-38 that helped kill 55 people, but Paul Aubin, an air force veteran,? who sells surplus military planes and parts to' hot-blooded Sout American governments. D E B A S E dQt MRLla!EUH E' Rf" A H (i B fRb rt'Vj Ai n fN. cktr ei WmTT-'Jr o r e TERROR SFSE A M ' A J-j 1 ,Bh OR. A N;EU. U. tC A N T E R S Tiwio. Solution ot Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN Kiilll ' merit - Srnall lM,ik 4. Pouch 5. A drug C Malicious 7. Stair 8 Weirv. 9 Hi II 17 10 "22 rt ienrt: (hw f'erl:il rtiKil Vmra.-i he1r,f V:fwticrt Wiitrhes inrrowlK Affemiii i4. Of reat con. -.'a Ccmm4ri fund i"'! Ol ut County in .Votth Carolina Perm minx to the earth -0 Compass point '" Make litnartet ?, 41 43 4.1. 47 4S. 43 0 ill Peaceful Test or Assail . I 'ecaris . Vocal solo Steering HDlmratD Skin over water Kefore -4'liistet of . si. Ocein In e o NOVEMBER IS I
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