THE TAR HEEL, FEBRUARY 25, 1921.
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I FACT AND COMMENT
On Thursday night Prof. Koch
gave a lecture in Phillips Hall on
"Community Drama." This lecture
was a part of the Welfare School
course ; in Community Recreation.
Mr. Koch showed some very beauti
ful slides on his work in North Dako
ta. .
A children's clinic is being con
ducted at the Chapel Hill high school
by Dr. Bradly under the auspices of
the Board of Health with the school
authorities co-operating. Dr. Bradly
examine the school children for ail
ments of the eye, ear and throat,
diagnoses their trouble and prescribes
the proper procedure for remedying
the same. '
Dr. W. S. Bernard conducted ser
vices at the Methodist Episcopal
church last Sunday, he delivering a
sermon to a capacity congregation.
Dr. George Howe, Dean of the
College of Liberal Arts, and Dr. G.
A. Harrer, Assistant Professor of
Latin, are attending the first meeting
of the Classical Association of the
Southern States in Columbia. Dr.
Howe is one of the organizers of this
Association, and he responded to the
address of welcome, which was de
livered by the President of the Uni
versity of South Carolina.'
John W. Umstead, of the class of
1909, was a visitor on the Hill dur
ing the week. Mr. Umstead now
lives in Tarboro. He is Secretary of
the Umstead Insurance Company of
I Tarboro and General Agent of the
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Company of Greensboro.
Vol. XXIX. Chapel Hill, N. C, Friday, February 25, 1921.
No. 41
THOSE TEN LETTERS.
"All those who have written those ten letters to folks back home
urging the home folks to write their representatives in the legislature to
balance some of North Carolina's wealth against her educational poverty,
raise their hand! Will you count the votes, Mr. Secretary?"
. Mr. Secretary sticks the end of his pencil in his mouth and hesitates
to announce the result. Why? Because those letters have not been writ
ten. What's the use for us to get excited about what someone else fails
to do when we, who are the most vitally concerned, do not stir ourselves?
Practically every business man in Chapel Hill has taken up the cudgel
and has teen spending money during the last sixty days in an effort to
convince the people of the state that they can and should respond to the
present need. Patterson Brothers, Eubanks Drug Company, the Chapel
Hill Garage, J. Frank Pickard, Andrews Cash Store Company, The Peoples
Bank, The University Agency, The Book Exchange, Essie Brothers, S. Ber
Kian, Gooch's Cafe, the Pickwick, Chapel Hill Hardware Company, and
The Tar Heel have each one gone to the expense of running an advertise
ment in an effort to "get the state and the students behind this proposition.
The citizens of the state have gone to Raleigh and staged a demon
stration' in behalf of the bond issue' and have had a hearing before the
f nance committees. The University has presented to the officials one of
the completest, and clearest cut statements of its case of any of the institu
tions of the state in an effort to get across this proposition.
The House and Senate Finance committees now have this budget under
advisement. Shortly their recommendations will be made, and the final
action will be taken by the two bodies.
There is yet time for the students to get in the fight. There is yet
the best time. If you believe that we are right, you shouldn't mind taking
up the fight now. Don't delay. Those of us who have not done so, should
get those letters off at once; or get off the balance of the ten, if some have
already been sent. The fight is not finished until the vote is taken.
Professor Thorndike Saville of the
Department of Civil Engineering, de
livered a lecture in Charlotte Friday,
February the 25th, on "Water Power
in North Carolina."
Chapel Hill, N. C.
i February 16, 1921.
To the Editor of the Tar Heel.
Dear Sir:
I heartily approve of your "policy
of discussing freely and endeavoring
to pass an unbiassed judgment on the
various public performances, amateur
and professional, -which are begin
ning to enrich our life in Chapel
Hill. For the interest of your paper
itself and for the good of the artistic
life of this community it is of impor
tanc e that you discuss freely and in
a vital way such things as the work
of the Carolina Playmakers. Neither
the public nor the Playmakers them
selves can make any use of mean
ingless puffery and you are quite
right to eschew it. I believe, how
ever, that if you are going in for
dramatic criticism you ought to bring
more discrimination to the task than
was exhibited in the article on the
fifth series of Folk-Plays, printed in
your recent issue. The writer is evi
dently able and presumably capable
of better things. He has, perhaps,
simply let his desire to write a
"snappy article" rather than a just
and helpful criticism run away with
him. This may be successful but it
is not good journalism.
As a matter of fact, the critique
strikes me as much more amateurish
than the plays. The only definite
criticism of judgment which appears
to be at the author's command is
the pleasantness or unpleasantness of
the subject matter. Would he have
liked The Miser better if the pro
tagonist had recovered his health
under the expansive influence of his
change of heart, and if it had been
dramatically revealed at the end that
his money wa? deposited in another
bank? An additional scene on
Christmas day might have brought
in the wife (cured by the good news)
and all the kids to a grand old fam
ily dinner; the daughter and her
former lover could easily have been
united and the whole concluded in
the spirit of love and tears and happi
ness. That tne autnor am not re
sort to these familiar sources of
popular appeal is the evidence of his
sincerity. When he becomes as he
well may, a professional playwright
on Broadway, he may succumb to
this sort of thing, as most do, but
even the most practical of college
journalists ought to be willing to
leave him for . the present in the
bloom of his youthful delusion that
his public will endure something
more truthful and serious than the
sentimental amenities of the movie
screen.
I do not claim that The Miser
"got across" with full effect. It was
inevitably too much for the actors,
who nevertheless did well, too much,
perhaps, for the writer himself. I
do claim that it had intrinsic quali
ties of superiority which your writer
should have recognized. His failure
to recognize them would, if we were
as uncharitable toward him as he was
toward the plays, tempt us to rank
him as a dramatic critic not much
higher than Polonius.
His manifest pleasure in Royall's
light but delightful comedy is, how
ever, a credit to him, and he is mere
ly a bit too obvious in calling The
Old Man of Edenton sensational. We
will vote him a pardon for having
let the elements of picturesqueness
and the really successful acting in
the last play go unmentioned if he
will promise to carry a little less
"journalism" and a little more real
criticism out of the theatre with him
next time.
Truly yours,
J. H. HANFORD.
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THE STARVING.
Elsewhere in this paper is an explanation of the two organizations
seeking contributions for the suffering people of the Old World, and the
place to where contributions can be sent.
Mr. Hoover's campaign is for the sufferers of Central Europe. The
Near East Committee's campaign is for the Armenians.
Checks for the former should be written as instructed in the article,
and sent to the Y. M. C. A. Secretary, or to The Tar Heel. These will be
immediately forwarded to the New York headquarters. '
Those contributing to the Near East Relief Fund should send their
contributions to Mr. J. A. Holmes, as explained. . ' .
The cause needs no emphasis. The Tar Heef would .like to urge that
those students who, are in a position to do so would make their contributions
today. It is a cause that appeals to everyone of us, and what is to us a
rather smalPamoutit may mean the difference between life and death for
those residing in tkk devastated sections of the Old World.
North Carolina will soon
be rich ingood roads
Why Not in Education?
COMMUNITY CLUB WILL
HAVE "CLEAN UP" WEEK
The Community Club at a meeting
last Friday decided to inaugurate a
Clean Up" in the near future.
Ihere is no regular cleaning up sys
tem in the town, and something must
be done to better conditions.
Some method so that the students
could co-operate with the club in this
matter was discussed. Especially
around the post office and up town
where the students congregate, there
is a lot of waste paper lying around.
The club wants every man to throw
his trash in a can and thus help in
keeping the town looking respect
able. During the fall a general clean-up
was urged by the Community Club
and for a while this worked very
good. Since then it seems to have
been forgotten, and the Club has de
cided to bring the matter before the
townspeople and the students once
more. 1
DEBATE PRELIMINARIES
ARE HELD AT DAVIDSON
(N. C. Collegiate Press News
Service)
On Friday night the Eumenean
and Philanthropic Literary societies
of Davidson College held prelimin
aries to choose candidates for the
College debating teams. Four men
and an alternate were chosen by
each society. The inter-society fin
als are scheduled for March 4th. At
that time two teams of two prin
cipals and one alternate each will
be chosen. I
Debates have been arranged with'
Wake Forest College and with Mer-i
cer University of ' Macon, Ga. The I
query as submitted is to be. "Re-1
solved, That the United States should I
cancel the loans made to her allies
during the great World War."
With the society preliminaries in
the Fresh-Soph debates the previous!
Monday, the students had a busv
The Bond issue for good roads must be paid for, so
why not educate the coming citizens of North Carolina
to be great producers? It is not only profitable from
a business standpoint, but the only just and honorable
thing to do from the moral standpoint.
But you need proper equipment to educate our fu
ture citizens just as you need the right equipment for
good roads.
Why not tell the folks at home about your
equipment here.
This advertisement is paid for by S. Berman
week in debating.
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