North Carolina Newspapers

1 1 - ;4 ; i i t R j 13 ! i I r ! 4 ! i t I Pagre Two Wiyt kc M Leading SoirrHESr? College Tei Weekly Newspafeb Published three times every week of the college year, and is the official newspaper of the f Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub scription price, ?2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in- thd basement of Alumni Building. . Walter Spearman ....... Editor W. W. NEAL, Jr. Business Mgr J. R. BOBBITt Associate Editor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT : Managing Editors John MtBANK.LZLTue8day Issue George Ehrhart ' Thursday Issue Gle,nn Holder Saturday Issue Harry Galland Assistant Editor Will Yarborough..... Sports Editor . . Reporters H. T. Browne -i G. B. Coggins W. C. .Dunn t ' J. C. Eagles A. J; Fisher -R. W. Franklin T.W. Johnson V J. P. Jones G. A. Kincaid D. E. Livingston O. McCullen D. R. McGlohon F. G. McPherson M. L. Medley Wm. Michalove J. Q. Mitchell B. C. Moore -K. C. Ramsay J. W, &ay J. M. Rogers P. B. Ruffin W. A. Shelton W. W. Speight D.-.L. Wood BUSINESS STAFF M. R. Alexander ...J Asst. to Bus. Mgr. Moore Bryson Advertising Mgr. R. A. Carpenter Asst. Adv. Mgr. Advertising Staff M. Y. Peimster v ; s J. M. HenderBon Ed Durham R. A. Carpenter Robert O. High ' . John Jemison ; Leonard Lewis ' ' G. E. Hill......:...... ......Collection Manager H. Ni Patferson.-Assi. Collection Mgr, ". B. Moore Parker" Henry Harper....CircMiEation Manager Clyde Mauney David McCain Gradon Pendergraft Thursday, May 3, 1928 PARAGRAPHICS Add to the disappointments of the year: College Humor fails to visit the Carolina campus on its little picture making expedition. - One thing at least must be said about the Buccaneer there are enough people interested in it to ar gue over its merit. " ' The Phi Society discusses the re organization of Di and Phi into Dem ocratic and Republican bodies respec tively. That would no doubt increase the . interest in the societies, but it would be rather hard on the one which assumed responsibility for -Republicanism judging from the straw vgte of Smith and Hoover. .: - Announcement that sweaters, will be the regalia for Senior Week brings with it the ideathat perhaps the seniors-suspect a certain amount of -hard work and brain-sweat may be a nec essary .prelude to graduation ! ' "r; If all the alumni bring their , be loved offspring here to enter the Baby Contest at commencement, one of the buildings had best be set .aside to serve as a nursery. WELL-DRESSED MEN The seniors have" spoken. Their regalia for seniornveek will sweat ers." Out of all the possibilities sug gested' by ingenious class members the final choice has been 'made. At the last meeting of the Senior class such diverse suggestions as caps and gowns, canes and derbies, blazers, spats and monocles, were brought up but no conclusion could Ibe ; reached. The matter was left in the hands of a . committee, "which ably ' came to ' a decision. "' ' , ". " J ' In-making this particular choice the senior class has shown its good taste and its practicality at the sarnie time. The dignity of the graduating class, one of its prime requisites, would have been " thrown to the winds ha'd,; its members blossomed out upon the campus even' for one- week in any such ludicrous apparel as spats or .monocles. Even canes and derbies, as worn by Tast year's senior class, are hardly conducive to the feeling of dignity, Too many members' of any . senior class are ; so equipped by Na ture as to appear ridiculous when strolling about the campus under the' heavy burden of such unnecessary ap pendages as canes and derbies! Sweat ers evidence much "better taste. On the other hand, caps and gowns which were suggested mainly on ac count of their accompanying dignity have the fault - of incurring- added expense while being of no practical use. They may be worn for the one week and?then returned from whence ihey were rented or else be stored in some family attic trunk. Light sweat ers, however, may be worn during senior week setting off the seniors from the rest of the student body and then may be used for the remain der of the summer. Seniors are to be commended as well-dressed men of taste and prac ticality. ' , A TEST OF INTEREST Not only will the Weil lectures, the first of which is to be delivered to night, be a test of student interest in the changing South but they will also show to what extent the campus ap preciates the presence of visiting speakers. . Professor Kilpatrick of Columbia University, is well up with the stan dard set by preceding Weil lectures. As an annual event, this Series of American citizenship has built a repu tation for power and interest unsur passed by any other local public- speaking occasion. Students who have heard Dr. Kilpatrick report that he has something to say and knows how ' to say - it ; educators admit him a leader in pedagogy. The Weil com mittee has made an excellent. choice As a native Southerner and former professor in a Georgia college, Dr Kilpatrick must certainly have the wherewithal out of whch' to make his addresses. University students pshould by nature be interested in any authoritative discussion of the South. For this reason, if none other, North Carolina will be attracted to this se ries. - '; Attendance at the educator's ad dresses will also be a test of student interest in lectures. After a recent editorial in the Tar Heel decrying the scarcity of University lectures, a num ber of students lamented with- the editor this deficiency in-campus acti vities. Now is the time for those fellows, and all others who want the lectures situation improved, to ex press their interest in a concrete form. Show by attending the Weil lectures that students know a good thing When they see it, 1 - , J. R. B., Jr. LIKES BUCCANEER Editor of Tar Heel: I read with quite a bit of interest Mr. Hibbard's Open Forum tirade con cerning the Carolina Buccaneer, and I understand that the letter has caus ed comment on the campus from a number of sources. The author of the letter which ap peared in Saturday's Tar Heel seems to have made a thorough study of the last issue of the University comic, and he seems to have gone to more trouble than was essential to classify the jokes. I, have been in Chapel Hill for two years, and I have been enter tained every month of the school year in which the Buccaneer appeared dur ing that time. In addition to reading the local comic, I have read numerous copies of other college humorous pub lications, and I find that the Bucca neer ranks with the best' of them. -As proof of this fact, consider that every joke in the last issue of the comic was taken directly with neither addition or-subtraction from the ori ginal jokes of other magazines. It seems that Mr. Hibbard has chosen the "Exchange Number" at which to hurl his criticism. ; ! -v ' ' I admit that somevof the selections are rather risque and sometimes ap proach the vulgar. But'has Mr. Hib bard taken into1 consideration "the fact that there is more than one type of taste to please at the University of North Carolina? Let a copy of a comic magazine containing only the nicest and most unsuggestive type of humor be circulated, and the comment that it will get will be "rotten." I still retain enough of that "youthful ness which allows one to appreciate the clever. " - C - ; The editor of any college comic leads a troubled life ; perhaps someone will reward him in the1 end. ' ' R. M. P. THE BUCCANEER UPHELD Editor of Tar Heel: I have been very interested in the recent discussion as to the propriety of the recent Buccaneer. I noted Mr. Hibbard's arguments and thought them fair in every way and therefore I do not want to leave the impression that I think I am arguing against bigotry and lohg-facedness. , I think that the first fallacy of Dean Hibbard is, the fact that he assumes fchat the students are interested in the more subtle and refined humor. I live in a fraternity house and thinks being quite interested in human nature and having studied aspects of- the ques tion in the ligh of students' nature, that the students as a whole are quite fed up' on the more refined and re- - ... -. OPEN FORUM THE TAR HEEL spectable jokes by their contact with the newspapers and contemporary lit erature and that when the Buccaneer comes oat they pounce on it avidly hoping to escape from uncolorful re spectability. If their bull sessions show anything, the raw, robust humor as shown in the last Buccaneer is what they delight in. And I need not re mind anyone that the magazine is pri marily for the students. As for the Buccaneer being worse than the other college comics, I notice that it will still go through the mails and, if I remember correctly, several college magazines have been debarred from the.U. S. Mails in recent years The last issue has not diverged very perceptibly from the standard set through the year and for this reason I think that criticism at this late date is very unfair to Editor Anderson. It has been given at a time when he is closing his editorship and has no chance to prove himself riht wrong in his policy. ' . "T. C or FOR THE BUCCANEER Editor of Tar Heel: ( I am included in. the ranks of those who have read with no waning inter est the censorious essays concerning the Carolina Buccaneer ' which have appeared in the Ta Heel under the eover of Open Forum. Duty calls, and I ..must defend, to some extent, my abilities as critic of one of the Uni versity publications. In my review of the "Exchange Number" of the local comic, 1 stated that the issue was "much to my liking." Perhaps it may be charged against me that I am be low the campus level in my taste and appreciation of humor. Yet I doubt this. During the past year I was Ex change Editor of the Buccaneer. In this humble capacity (for it is such) I received copies of the comic maga zines from approximately fifty well known colleges throughout the coun try, and my task demands tiiat I read the majority of the jokes in these ex change comics. Taking this factor into consideration-I conclude that my taste and that the taste of the Editor of the Buccaneer parallels that of the greater percent of the college comics of the United States. It is true that the North- Carolina University humorous publication often contains bits of rather wellTworn wit, and also some jokes which tend to the obscene. Yet if everyone on the staff of this publication was overflowing with as much genteel wit as some of our campus citizens think they are, perhaps the Buccaneer might be placed on a more lofty pedestal. Some of the letters directed against the local magazine were very cleverly written. Most of them show very lit tle thought and a complete , lack of analization of the situation. The Buc caneer s primarily for the students in the University,' and the editors have made excellent efforts to please the di versified tastes prevailing on the cam pus. Such a goal, of course, will never be completely achieved, though I be lieve that the magazine this year has more "closely approached it- than that 'of any other season. '' . , Mr. Hibbard rates low the taste, not the endeavor, of the staff of this pub lication in his criticism of the "Ex change Issue," for every joke in that number was taken, without alteration, from the comics which are received every month. Then Mr." Hibbard rates low the endeavor of the staffs of the other humorous 'publications over the country. The Buccaneer must print the copy which is contributed by the staff, for the publication is one for the campus, and the mast-head of the book is never closed to those who have springs of wit in them. Perhaps, however, the gentlemen who poured forth such floods of indignation and wrath would rather have blank pages run. ' The local comic has weathered the storms of student comment for the past four years.; May the fates offer some shelter from the waves of in dignatioh which have battered it for the past few days. John Mebane Exchange- Editor Buccaneer. MR. McKAY GETS AN ANSWER Editor of Tar Heel: - In reply to the open forum letter of Arnold A. McKay I wish to state that my answer "is a personal opinion and, conviction. It is not the result of a statistical investigation, but is based upon about two years of prac tical experience. During my brief stay at this institution, I have never wit nessed an occurrence similar to that described in his letter. I am certain that a performance of this kind is by no means typical of the average Caro lina student. "And I believe that I can say with a degree of veracity that I have at some time mingled with almost every conceivable "type of student in the University; except perhaps the co eds; and such a performance with the fair ex is habitual and 'customary instead of abnormal. No doubt, a large percentage of stu dents keep talcum powder in their rooms. But in a majority of cases it is used as an aftermath of shaving to close up the pores of the skin. This use is hygienic instead of "cosmetic" I feel quite sure, from the tone of his letter, that : Mr. McKay, an alum nus of this university, will breath a sigh of relief if he attaches any credit to my reply. Suppose he had seen ? Oh well! , " W. W. Speight, '30. STUDENT NOTICE Special arrangements have been made whereby Students are able to purchase tickets t the State Inter collegiate Track and Field meet, which will be held at Greensboro Friday and Saturday, for fifty cents. These tick ets admit one to both the prelimin aries on Friday and the Finals on Saturday. The admission price at Greensboro will be fifty cents for the preliminaries Friday and seventy-five cents for the finals Saturday. Tick ets will be on sale at the Book Ex change beginning today. These spec ial tickets can be obtained only at the different colleges and universities and not at the Stadium in Greensboro. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY G:30 p. m. Meeting of the Religious Workers Council. 8 :30 p. m. Gerrard Hall. Weil lec ture by Professor W. H. Kilpatrick. Subject: ."How the South Is Chang ing." FRIDAY, MAY 4 .. . 8:30 p.m. Gerrard Hall. Weil lec ture, by Professor W. H. Kilpatrick. Subject: "The Conquest Demands on Citizenship." Mrs. Chamberlain Visited the Village Mrs. Hopeummerell Chamberlain, author of "Old Days in Chapel Hill," visited the University, recently.' Mrs. 8 H ' S) ""'Orchestra - . ; PICKWICK TODAY Matinee and Night 3:30 7:30 't'H'"iihi i - CYCLES, stereopticon lectures, and the "gilded" youths with their horses and carts; at night the midnight oil burning in student lamps while the gas lights glared and flickered across the campus -the 'gay. nineties when Dad was in college seem primitive to us to-day. Now it's sport roaHsters, the movies, and radios. At night the MAZDA lamp the midnight oil in tory rooms, while L?1TT) GENERAL ELECTRIC Chamberlain has been studying etch ing in California. Later this spring she will return to the HH1 to make etchings of campus views and of the village. Miss Gladys Dewar of Raleigh visited friends at the Woman's Build ing this week-end. . 4 tm .3 i Two Houses on North Side of McCauiy g Street Now occupied as Fraternity Houses. Known as the W. E. Lindsay property. : - . I W. S. ROBERSON I s a. 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