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Thursday, May 26, 1927 THE TAR HEEL Page Three Random Thrusts By Alas, Alas! Many students have been heard to lament the fact that Lee Kennett and Taylor Bledsoe were hung in effigy last week but more students have been heard to lament the fact that the .hanging was done only in effigy "and not in reality! E. E. K. .''. For Harmony's Sake Dave Carroll's appearance at the Di Senate dressed in pajamas and carry ing an alarm clock must have been terribly shocking to the ancient por traits upon the wall. In due respect to the memory of the Di's famous de parted, Dave might at least have worn the old-fashioned night shirt and carried the traditional alarm clock of the past a lively crowing rooster! : ..' The Year in Revue (Being a somewhat distorted review of the year's events sponsored by neither the Di Senate nor Kyke Kyser.) Place: Carolina Campus. Time: 1926-27. There being no curtain to rise, Dave Carroll walks calmly in, dressed in lovely pink and blue pajamas decorat ed with tin alarm clocks. Looking about for material to build a Drift wood Fire, he seizes a Golden Fleece and is ready to light it; but K. 0. Warren and Frazier Glenn rush in and rescue the fleece. However, Julian Starr and Bobbins Fowler - stalk nobly up and offer copies of the Faun and Slaves, both of which seem to make excellent fuel. Editor Charles Albert Pettigru Moore enters and attempts to add senior write-ups to the fire, but he is frus trated in his mad efforts by Red Wood, ardent champion of the Senior . class. Sid Chappell enters, followed by 13 ghost-like figures who dance slowly about the fire while Sid advances to front of stage and says: "Gentul-1-1-mun, I wish to warn you . . . ." Here he is rudely interrupted by Kyke Kyser, who rushes in with President Chase and the Cheerios, all of whom dance madly about the fire. At length Dave Carroll clears the stage, leaving only the fire and a soap box upon which is written "Clean Politics." Immediately Taylor Bled soe, Walter Kelley, Charley Price, and Moulton Avery slip suspiciously in and begin to harangue the audience in true political fashion. This scene slowly fades away as a solemn procession advances across the campus-William R. Kenan bear ing a new stadium upon his shoulders, Captains Gus McPherson and "Hat" Hatley carrying the state champion ships in track and baseball respec tively, Paul Green with the Pulitzer Prize in one hand and a copy of In Abraham's Bosom in the other, Harry Comer and Bobby Wilkins bearing be tween them the Human Relations In stitute. This procession is met by Andy Anderson, in some curious green garb, who shouts: "Wuxtra! Wuxtra I Buy the Yellow Journal and read all the latest scandal!" As a grand ensemble all the afore mentioned gentlemen file back upon the stage, followed by members of the Dialectic Senate. With an insane shout of glee Dave Carroll throws a stick of Dinamite into the Driftwood Fire, and all the noble campus leaders ascend to higher regions--f or the time - being while i nearby Gerrard Hall resounds with the patriotic oratorical outbursts of Fred Parker, Ratty Ransom, and F. B. Aycock! How Did It Happen? Ex-editor Madry declares that he found a live, green-and-white snake in his room Sunday night. He must either be a victim of revenge for one of his former paragraphics or else well, why do men usually see green-and-white snakes during the week end?'" vv. . ' V;'W The Last Thrust This is the last Of the columnist's job; ' Farewell to the past With nary a sob! If anyone's felt v , A random thrust , , And considered it dealt , In manner i unjust, The spearman is sad, For all that he's done Was attempting to add To the campus's fun I This farewell is made In terrible verse, . But if you had to do it It might have been worse t Miss Katherine Norman of Durham pwas a guest at the Woman's Building Sunday. Can Mr. Mellon Make Working Rule t as to Obscene Books? That level-headed gentleman, Sec retary of the Treasurer Mellon, is just now pondering a decision which ought to serve to clarifv the moral haze in which the country generally nas Deen placed by the excitements in New York and Boston over smnffir piays ana indecent? books, It seems that there is a section of the tariff act which forbids the importation of "obscene printed mat ter." tjnder that authority the New York customs authorities recently un dertook to impound a shipment from abroad of two such venerable classics "as The Arabian Nights and Boccacio's Decameron. It further appears that heretofore the authorities at every port have been a law to themselves as to what was "obscene" and what was sufficiently pure to be admitted to these shores. Mr. Mellon is to decide, not only as to the Nights and the Tales, but also will set up some sort of guiding principle to apply to all ports. In one manner of speaking both of these books are "obscene." Both con tain passages of a candor and par ticularly which probably would bring a blush to the cheek of the most sophisticated flapper. Yet in both cases these faults if we could call them that are matters . of modern taste, as opposed to the manners and customs prevailing when the honest books themselves were written. Are we then to say that two of the great est literary sources are to be banned because of a change in the styles of euphemisms? Imagine Rebelais be ing barred from importation or from the mails because of the gusty laugh ter with which he carries his wisdom. 1 What is "obscenity," anyway, ex cept a matter of intent ? Can intent be detected? Any fair and intelli gent reader knows that it can. An author with a smoking-car complex can, and should be, barred from print ing press, mails, and everywhere else; a writer who has something to say, who is struggling honestly toward the truth, should be as free as the air. And nobody, except, possibly, an il literate customs official or postal cen sor can have any real doubt as to the class to which he belongs. Ra leigh Times. OPEN FORUM Editor of Tar Heel: ' Having 'never owned a motorcycle, it is quite possible that I am unac quainted with all of the joys to be ob tained therefrom, but even so, there is one thing beyond my powers of comprehension: the pleasure to be de rived from racing the motor to -the accompaniment of rapid, deafning ex plosions from the exhaust. Now there is some chap who is the proud possessor of one of these motorcycles, who on the slightest provocation pro ceeds to race its motor while parked just back of Battle, .Vance, and Petti grew dormitories, to the utter dis raction of any one who might possibly be occupied with one of the less im portant matters of life, i. e., studying, sleeping, conversing, or attempting to think. I humbly suggest that he get far off into the wilderness many leagues from the horribly offended auditory organs of his less obtuse fel low, students and. race the aforemen tioned machine for as many ears as may suit his fancy. By careful selection it is probable that such a plape could be found that would be entirely free from game, so that this individual would not spoil anyone's hunting grounds and even, according to one theory, make no noise whatsoever inasmuch as there would be no ears to respond. I would suggest further that he ob tain a copy of Schapenhaner's "Es says in Pessimisms" and carefully peruse on the essay concerning "Noise." J. V. B. PARKER HEADS DI FOR NEXT FALL; CARROLL IS FIRED (Continued from page one) In what might be called something of a farewell address Senator Ken nett called the hall's attention to the old records of the Di which can be found ir) the North Carolina room in the main library. The President severely reprimand ed the clerk, Senator Shohan, and ordered his wrists slapped for his failure to send out cards announcing the meeting. ; After a few closing remarks from President Glenn, upon the motion of Senator Glenn he was given a rising vote of thanks for his efficient ser vices to the Di. There being no fur ther business the Senate adjourned until next fall quarter. A DIFERENCE IN CANDLEPOWER Sigma Delt-'G' Horseshoe Finals The final round of the intramural horseshoe tournament between Sig ma Delta, the winner of the frater nity tournament and "G" Dormitory, the winner of the dormitory meet, will be played off some time this week on the courts immediately behind the Law Building. " Sigma Delta has an unusually strong team which has been displaying rare form in all of their matches and they are doped to win the championship of the campus. The work of Dave Thomas and Ed Mar shall has been particularly good. "G" however has one good man in James, and they may upset the dope and emerge victorious. r -. .. GET it all. Don't miss any of it, the dizzy lights and party 'colored, frocks; stepping to the frenzied blare of saxo phones; senses tingling with being aive and in the midst of it all. And, next day instructors who are likable but exacting k To get the most out of college you must be full of vitality, must have every nerve and muscle working full time. Right food is the key to it. The Shredded Wheat habit will help you to make mind and body alert and throw off the poisons that bring sluggish' ness. You'll like it,' too. If s appetizing eaten half a hundred ways; smothered in fruit and cream or toasted with butter and hot milk are just two of them. THE SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY Niagara Falls, N. Y. -3 Ml (From the Chapel Hill Weekly) The newspapers last week an nounced honors to two members of the University of North Car olina faculty. Henry Van Peters Wilson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and Paul Green received the Pulitzer prize for the best American play of the year. It is of the nature of things that & prize-winning play should receive far wider attention than comes to the achievements of a scientist, and it is likely that a hundred persons read of Mr. Green's triumph for every one who read of the distinction con ferred upon Mr. Wilson. Al though few can write a good play, many, after it is written, can understand and enjoy it. But, outside the limited brother hood of science, men are hardly more able to comprehend the finished work of a master of zoology than they are to imitate his performance. He toils in his laboratory for years, practicing what to most of us is a mysteri ous black magic. Now and then he publishes a book or a mono graph of which the mass of hu manity hears never a word but which may establish him, in the centers of learning throughout the world, as a scientist of the first rank. Consider, for example, the ac tivities of these two men here in Chapel Hill. Paul Green has been writing plays. Produced here and elsewhere by the Caro lina Playmakers, they have re ceived the praises they well de served. He has won prizes in theatre contests, and two or three volumes of his plays have been published. His successes have been celebrated in the pub lic prints, and his friends have rejoiced in the acclaim that has come to him.' During the same period, and before, Mr. Wilson has been toiling away in his lab oratory here from September to June, in Beaufort or the West' Indes or somewhere else in the summer time. Almost nobody and when we say this we mean almost nobody in what is called the1 "general public" heard anything of what he was doing. Yet his investigations dealt with the most fundamental aspects of the origin of physical life. It is needless say that we are not drawing any comparison in worthiness between the achievements of our two fellow a PICKWICKTHEATRE "Almost a Part of Carolina" SHOWS DAILY 3:15 7:00 8:30 Regular Admission 10 and 25c ' THURSDAY, MAY 26 Constance Talmage and Antonio Moreno in "VENUS OP VENICE" Lupino Lane-in "The Naughty Boy" Life Cartoon ."Peaceful City" ADMISSION 30c FRIDAY, MAY 27 Richard Dix, Jack Renault, Mary Brian and Harry Gribbon in "KNOCKOUT REILLY" Felix in Barn Yarns Comedy "Steamer Day" ADMISSION 30c citizens. They are both sincere and modest gentlemen whom the community is proud to possess, each a tireless and highly capa ble worker in his own field. What we are discussing for the moment is merely the difference in candlepower between the spotlight that plays upon a dramatist and that which plays upon the denizen of a laboratory. 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