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PAGE TWO Th official newspaper of the Publication Eoard of the University of North c nro)in. Chapel lun. wht-re it in issued daily during the regular sessions vt tlic Lnivcimty by the Colonial press. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the summer terms. Entered as second-class matter at the post ofhee of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the art of March 3. 187U. Sub scription price: J8.0O per ear. $3.09 per quarter. Member of The Associated 1 re-is. The Associated Freos and AH leatures are exclusively entitled to the J)"" for rermolii-i.tion of all news features puhlis.hed here,n .r ." , filr1i Editor Editor Hov Parker. Jr. f)pk Editor . iane Kobbina .Vociefv Editor Caroline Hruner f'hntnartipher J,m Mills Editor ml Editorial StaJ: Jack Brown. Bill Kellarn. Mike McDaniel, Tom Wharton, ri'rpe John'tump Vi-stal Taylor. Al Johnson. Cnarlie Joyner. Dave v-a'n'S"w'7: "w'S- V'11'. Hon Maynard. Glenn Harden, Bill Johnson, Wuft i-rl; r:,,.M.( Kecl'lak ,s,lmntr- Art Xanihos, Graham Jones, Charlie t'.rewer. f.innv Jones, M. K. Jones. te" 'l N"'r.dpuUniirianford. Bootsy Taylor. Ei'll Brain. Frank i; ,?i r Jih genn'. Jvlyn Hnrrir,on. Pepgy Sheridan. Marie Withers, i r, , ilr- H.nndv, Shiver. Charles Ashworth. Mary Tomlin, Dick MacGill. I'.tanflon Honhs. Jim I.lndlev. Greek Week For Hell Week; At a meeting of fraternity presidents and pledge masters on campus last week, the idea of having a combined Greek Week for all the fraternities was discussed. The discussion was held under the leadership of Dr. C. S. Jones of the Dean of Students office. The proposed Gacek Week would have as its purpose eliminating much of the "foolishness" of Hell Week and in turn making the pledges of the various fra ternities acquainted with other pledge classes through a joint series of activities. Jess Dedmond, past president of the stu dent body, presented the plan, which he is drawing up in conjunction with the Interfraternity Council. While some of the proposals of Dedmond's plan will not be readily accepted, basically the idea of Greek Week is sound, and its underlying purposes are good. However, from the comments of the presidents and pledge masters the idea of Greek Week has a long way to go before it is accepted by Carolina fraternities. Some modified form probably will have to be tried. They contend that such prac tices as making pledges wear old clothes and ribbons to class during Hell Week will continue, regardless of the Greek Week proposal of making pledges wear coats and ties during initiation. While the DTH can never condone carrying this fra ternity ridiculousness into class, we nevertheless accept the fact that there, is nothing that can be done about it if the fraternity members themselves do not desire to see it halted. The president of a fraternity alone cannot halt it. Each fraternity has its own concept of just how an intia tion should be conducted, yet the acts of one reflect on the entire group. The fraternity presidents should make every effort to convince their chapter membership of this fact. One fatal step by just one fraternity could prove disastrous to nil fraternities. Improving delations Is Goal funny to the members of that particular fra ternity and possibly to coeds. However, the non-fraternity man and general public see little humor in the display. They would tend to look upon it as a bunch of boys showing off the fact that they were about to get into a fraternity, rathfcr than just a good old college custom. Perhaps everyone doesn't look at these displays in this light, but some do. At any rate, each fraternity should give serious consid eration to do just what good it accomplishes to have a pledge dressed ridiculously in. class. Some activities of the old Hell Week are definitely beneficial to the pledges, but these are the actvities between fraternity and pledge. Greek Week would not interfere in this event. The general public should not be subjected to the activities of Hell Week, however. The whole idea of Greek Week is first to bring favorable publicity to fraternities; and secondly, to avoid unpleasant episodes in the eyes of the public. In short, it is a move de signed to better fraternities from the public relations stand point. The Interfraternity Council is currently engaged in draw ing up plans for a form of modified Greek Week. It is the in terest of bettering the reputation of fraternties in this state that the plans are being made. Fraternity men should give their suggestions to their IFC representatives, and when the plans are complete each house should pledge its complete co operation insofar as is possible. Certain conflicts in the Greek Week schedule are inevitable, but every effort, should be made to have 100 per cent cooperation in the activities. Pep Rally Thursday The neyer-say-die University Club, perpetual athletic booster is all set to stage another basketball pep rally Thursday night prior to the Carolina-Duke game in Wooljen Gym. The last time the UC planned a rally for the Tar Heel cagers,, 23 rooters turned out to join in the lung-bursting festivities. At the final count, there were more University Club members and basketball players on hand than there were students. This time, however the club is certain that the big "Beet Dook" rally will bea success. Committee Chairman Frank Allston said yesterday that he is "sure of a big crowd Thurs day night." , "Tom Scott Night" will be celebrated in conjunction with the Memorial Hall rally. The rally that fizzled was held just prior to the Carolina State game last month, and the Tar Heels, disappointed at the poor showing by their boosters, went out" and played far over their heads in holding the big, bad Wolfpack to a tight four-point victory. After the game, Bob Curran, columnist for the State weekly, offered a few coaching hints for Tom Scott and ridi culed the Carolina "troops," suggesting that we "take a little lesson from the reception that was put on for the Pack when they returned from New York recently." We believe that Carolinians are still capable of out yelling, out-playing, and out-shining State in anything short of a hog-calling contest. - - DICK JENKETTE C. B. MENDENHALL TAvi-it vjr.rM Adv. Munaqer Bus. Office Mnr. Nafl Adv. Mgr. . .....Oliver Watkins Ed Wilhams June Crockett It is with this thought in mind that the idea of Greek Week was begun. Fraternities must wake up to the importance of public relations. Having a pledge parade around the Y-Court in long underwear mav seem verv Iva's Aide Accompanying Remarks By Harvey. O. Brown (Mr. Brown is Miss Kite-hell's piano accompanist.) There is no accounting for the inner workings-of little Iva Kit chcll's mind, for they are as whimsical and unpredictable as the many characters that she portrays on the stage. . I, Ira's accompanying pian isl3m deep in a iriple murder detective tale, with which I am passing the miles and the hours while Pullmanating be Iween , Logan, Utah, and La Grange, Oregon. A loud squeal from across the aisle leads me lo believe that a fourth mur der has just been committed. But no, it is Kitchell. Apparently, she too has been book-engrossed, but with a book on applied psychology. It is a large, tome, too large for Iva's tiny hands. According to her wont, she has cut away the first half of the book that she had finished reading in Sheboy gan, Wisconsin. Wildly waiving the mutulated and pencil-notat-ed remaining pages, Iva follows up her initial squeel with a perfectly executed Grand Jete (Ballet term for" a leap) and lands beside me, right on top of my freshly pressed overcoat. "Harvey," says she, "I have an idea." I groan, knowing from ex perience what is undoubtedly in volved in that one small phrase and reluctantly postpone the solving of the triple murder. Iva, it seems, has just given birth to a new number, this one satirizing a woman who is buy ing a new hat. What, you may ask, has that to do with applied psychology? A question more easily asked than answered. The combined efforts of F. P. A., the Sphinx, and the Quiz Kids would do well to solve the why. when, and where, or what of Kit chell's "ideas." "Maisie" first saw the light of day in the Metropolitan Museum of Art while "The Tales of a Bird" was sired by a 19th Century music box so . I gave my choice detective book to pullman porter, for I know that I will never finish it. Six weeks will pass before we will be able to, shop "for Tnusic at Schirmer's, Lyon & Healy's, or the Half-Price Music Store. Iva and the Woman with the Hat can't and .won't wait that long; so I resign myself to many hours of composition and manu script work. I wish I might add "a well stocked musical library", to our list of requirements in each concert-booked town. In that case, "Sonatina Roccb" might have been set to music by Clementi, "Portrait of a Hostess" to Ger shwin or Gould, and "Obsession" to Hindemith. But since they were all "created" on tour, they had to settle for music by Brown, and I guess the Hat Lady will have to follow suit. From this point on, depart ment and dime-store girls lie strewn in our path as Iva goes on a shopping binge to get just the right materials and accessories for the new , num ber's costume. Singer Sewing Machine stock jumps three points as Iva rents a machine in eac h concert town. She madly cuts, bastes, sews, and stitches in all her spare time. When we finally freeze into Corvallis, Oregon, the "ideas" swaddling clothes are complete. Not so the dance or the music. We do have to devote some time to preparing for, as well as giv ing four to five concerts each week. So for about half a dozen concerts, we "improvise" the "Hat Woman," dance and music, as an encore. Usually Iva non chalantly inaugerates .such pro ceedings as a "prize" to the aud-ience-they are . such .' to me . as . well. . She strikes when she is "in the mood"- and takes it for granted that I am similarly in clined. But Iva's accompanist, like her audiences, finds it well night impossible, to be in a mood dissimilar to that of Iva her self. Well enough is never enough for Kitchell, for it is . usually a year, at least, before she is sat isfied with her new child. Mean while, she takes it through a long process of "bringing up." Not until the new number and the music has been cut, beaten, changed and disciplined, is it finally admited to that charmed circle of "Kitchell's Kids." About that time I buy another detective book, but I THE DAILY - On Short Ration ONE-DOLLAR Kp WHAT!! PL dinner ' Wmm om m s iffy --- ' rf'M CHICKEN IN ., . . ' Distributed by Kingr Features Syndics, by arrangement with Th. WMhfnton SU, "It Is Another issue of Tarnation arrived on campus today. Its upside-down, full color cover is something new, and so is Miss Anne Martin as a cover girl. But. the contents are still the same. The well aged gags and cartoons con tinue to prove that, beyond a doubt, humor may be found seated about the tables in Harrys.or around a bonfire at Hogan's. but not in the pages of Carolina's humor magazine. v It is 'unfortunate that the University is not planning another football trip above the Mason-Dixon Line until next fall, because some of the '50 graduates will never get ; to see Tarnafion come into its .own again. ,:. But let's overlook the cover and wander among its 64 vest-pocket pages for the third time this year. Editor -Kerr has made a mountain out of a mouldy "Over the Hill," but if you look and read far enough into it, you'll pass the gripe section and come, to a whimsical piece predicting that with the ad vent of Gordon Gray, Mudville next year will be known as Carolina Military. Academy. So much for the first 11 pages. Charles Zeb McCorkle AAontreat Retreat Approximately 125 students retreated some 220 uncomfort ably winding miles into the" fogbound fastnesses of West- ern Carolina this past weekend for the YM-YWCA Retreat. And when it was all over, everyone of the enthusiastic, extremely sleepy pilgrims had to admit that it had been one of the most stimulating relig ious experiences they'd ever known. The conference was held to arouse and encourage ra tional, progressive thought on, as the title declared, "The Meaning and Role of Christianity." Thanks to the careful selection of pertinent subjects for discussion by the know that that tco'will never finish. On page 109. while read ing myself to sleep after a con cert in Goose Neck, Texas, my hotel room phone will -ring Something will tell me that it will be Miss Iva Kitchell. internationally famous Dance Satirist, announcing to me. and eventually to the world, that she has an "idea." The aforesaid detective book will probably be left for the, hotel maid to discover whodunit, while I join Iva in adopting and adapting the -latest "idea." Miss Kitchell, new Hat Lady idea, and all will be seen here tonight at 8 o'clock in Memorial Hall under the auspices of your Student Entertainment Com mittee. - TAR HEEL ' - Tarnation Review Best To Forget" By Don Maynard Hauser takes over the next feature also, and delivers one of the two interesting arl ticles of the mag, "BCIII." We liked it, because we've had a bellowing acquaint anceship with the colorful Billy for the last 18 months. The portrait fits and is fitting to a T-for-typewriter. Tom Kerr himself comes up with the other, an insight into that question which has been - on the University male's mind for some -time: Just what does the coed think of the Carolina Gentleman? If the coeds gave honest reports to the Tarnation poll, and men read the sta tistics, we may yet have smoother dating relations with those gals men can't get along vitjet cahnpt. v ,get ' s along t Except ; for the "disgusting" D cards as notoriously bad jks they are shown which are reproduced " halfway through Issue Three, that's all, brother, j Tarnation's . jokes and car-" toons are up to their usual par grandpa but Jack Niles and Hugh Gale have plucked two sketches from their drawing boards which redeem the mag somewhat: "Portrait of Nemo" and a quickie depicting the early morning Miller and Nash halls lavatory rush that some of us know so well. Carolina Seen By Bill Kellam commission, the skillful di ' rection of ' the discussions by the student and resource : leaders, and the fascinating, progressive oratory of guest :'; speaker Dr. Paul Weaver, the , conference was most success . ful in achieving its objectives. ' ?No half-demented, over emo 1 tipnal backwoods evangelism swept the conference, fortuate p ly All emotion save that in- hrent in a calm faith in the teachings of Christ, was sub "oFdinated to Christianity's practical application to life. " Reason and sanity predominat ed and each student soon real ized how vital and necessary to happy , human welfare is a wprkable merging of secular Tealities with Christian ideals and belief. Dr. Weaver, the world fam ous Dean of Religious Life at Stephens College, emphasized the- importance of this union. He called for this combination of the secular and ecclesiasti cal worlds. Weaver said that too many people go to church only on Easter and Christmas and prescribe to the principles of Christianity only while they're in church. These same undevout look upon the teachings of the Bible as quaint but rather impracti cal aphorisms which have little bearing upon the harsh - re alities of life. However, if these same realists, or wise guys, let the teachings of Je Seven pinups are featured: one, the cover; two, Miss Dot Moorefield, and numbers three through seven, Miss Betty Ann Yowell. The last five prove that delectable Betty is not the Dionne . quintuplets, the mag says. ' Then there's J. P. Brady's "We Return You to Willy." an ordeal that will have to be tolerated again -when base ball gets into full swing, we're told. Following Willy is another Brady special, "Sam, You Made the Pants Too." J. P., the story, also, was too long. Without . the byline, readers are bound to figure Zeb wrote that one, too, or at least the two stud ied style together. ( Herb Nachrnan,,;.,. makes. , a,, worthy attempt to replace Bil ly Carmichael on the cinema cynicism, but Herb is too good natured to be a cynic. Dave Sharpe proves himself unhoned again. Editor Kerr and company,, you say you remember "those bricks back . in October We say, you had better start ducking again, because from here, it looks as if you're back in the glasshouse. Sydney Smith once penned a gem, Mr. Kerr:, "It is wisely written what -is1 ' impossible to change, it is best to forget.". Is Treat sus influence ; their conduct, perhaps the realities, of life wouldn't be so harsh and the world powers would be trad ing goods and good will in stead . - of hatred -- and maybe hydrogen bombs. ; , Some of the retreafers may have been surprised or "dis appointed because they un derwent nc .great eruptive emotional uplifting or a la Wheaton College derange ment. Or perhaps they were surprised whert they found out how fresh vand pertinent the "aid" ideas and beliefs which they learned ears ago in Sunday School still are. Many expected Dr. Weaver to voice some startling theolpg-1 ical panacea for trie's world's ills. Perhaps he , did. He told us that to make Christianity work, we had ' to practice it, every . day, every minute. Not do it Sunday morning lip service or just- give periodical financial contributions to the church fund. This advice may, and should, have jarred those of the complacent. ..-.Dr. .Weaver's talks'- and "his ' amazing delivery were the features of the weekend. He, to say the least, is a most unique speaker and personage. Which , is what he tries hard to be. -His realistic attitude to ward religion and its application- to everyday problems was most practical and acceptable. His disbelief ia. the mythtilogi- WASHINGTON. Of all the great metropolitan sucker joints dotting the U. S. A., none, per haps, furnishes easier picking for the gambling fraternity than Southern California and the cor responding coast of the Eastern United States Florida. And no place in Florida has become a more lush sporting ground for underworld than the strip of castle-on-the-sand called Miami Beach. There Joe Adonis, partner of Frankie Cosiello, who in turn is a partner of Bill Hlis, the good friend of President Truman's military attache. General ' Vaughn, runs the roulette wheels of the famed Colonial Inn, There also a county sheriff has been known to get a campaign contribu tion of $20,000 lo elect hpn to office that pays only $7,000. And there also the swank ho tels receive up to $125,000 annually merely for the lease of their bookmaking conces sion. , And today in Miami Beach one of the most interesting po litical moves in the U. S. A. is taking place a move by gam blers and others to remove a Miami Beach City Councilman, Melvin Richard, who favors en forcement of the law regarding gambling. Melvin Richard was elected to the JCity Council with the help of the man who now is seeking to recall him, one Har ry Plissner. This is the most in teresting phase of the picture. cal miraculous aspects of Christianity and the Bible may have 'shocked the fundamental ists in the group, but they need to be shocked into less ostentatious devotion and more action. The only defect, if it may be called so, of the retreat was its brevity. Because of the lack of time, each per son could be a member of only one commission, each of whom met only three times. This was frustrating, for each group discussed a sub ject whiph deserved days of "" probing by -all. It's unfortunate that the en tire student body didn't have the opportunity to participate in these discussions so that they might re-realize how dy namic, vital, and . universal . Christianity can and, if we are to( survive the atomic hydro genic age, must be. 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And the only thing they really rowed about during the campaign was Rich ard's anxiety to know where the campaign fugds were com ing from. Plissner, however, brushed him off. Furthermore, Plissner did not disclose his own checkered career, and Coun cilman Richard did not know, among other things, that Har ry Plissner's record in Spring field.. Mass.,' showed that on Sept. 21, 1935, he was twice fined $75 for promoting a lot tery, and that on June 10, ' 1936, the convictions were sustained. He also did not know that after Springfield became un comfortable Plissner moved to Baltimore, where, he was in dicted on Jan. 24, 1933 for ope rating a gambling device; with another indictment on June 20, 1942. In both cases he managed to escape a guilty verdict, though meanwhile he conduct ed three pinball machine set ups near Ft. Meade, Md., during the heyday of the war years. All this, Councilman Richard did not know. But he did be come suspicious when, immedi ately after election, Plissner wanted to appoint a friend as manger of the Bayshore Golf Course, where a bookmaking operation had been conducted. After the campaign also Pliss ner changed his tune about law enforcement. "He told me," says Council man Richard, "that this strict enforcement policy, which I had espoused during my campaign, made excellent campaign ma terial, but that if I would give it some thought, I would real ize that it was ridiculous to carry out such a program. He told me that with the . money and power behind the gamb ling interests. VERTICAL 1. stanza 2. air spirit 3. become known 4. contend 5. possessive pronoun 6. accumulates 7. sparkles 8. frees- 9. cuckoo 10. writing implement 11. unit of work 17. duct 19. closes her metically ' v 22. 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