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THE T A
R H E E L
Saturday, Novernber 10, 1928
Leading Southern College Tri
weekly Newspaper
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out of town, for the college year.
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Building.
Walter Spearman ........ Editor
George E hrh art ... .... Mgr. Ed
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EDITORIALaDEPARTMENT
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Glenn Holder .:. Assistant Editor
John Mebane .... Assistant Editor
Will Yarborough Sports Editor
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D. L. Wood
C. B. MeKethan
J. C. Williams
E. Wilson
It. M. Cohen
B. G. Barber
G. A. Kincaid
Dick McGlohon
J. Q. Mitchell
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PARAGRAPHICS
Considering the coldness of ap
proaching winter, we were surprised
and shocked to note an assignment
made by our new managing editor to
a cub reporter: "Write a story Bn
the new roof - of Alumni Building."
Soft of puts the reporter up in the
air, too. -v
One thing that must be said of
Playmaker reviews they bring forth
the best and the worst of our Open
Among the things we shoulct like
to know is this: What does the Gov
ernor of North Carolina say to the
Governor of South Carolina after to
day's game? , ;
During the game, he probably va
ries the old adage by remarking,
"It's a "long time . between touch
downs." "'
The state of Arkansas, in a recent'
referendum, declared in favor of a
law .forbidding the teaching of evo
lution in states schools. Seems like
the citizens of another state are des
perately attempting to prove that
they are not monkey-children!
Next Thursday night when . Sher
wood Anderson lectures here "The
Desert Song "comes to Durham. Then
will be the chance to test the respec
tive popularity of tragedy and comer
dy. ,: ' "
The Uselessness
. Of Standing In Line
There? are reasons and reasons for
standing in long and tedious lines,
but sufficient reason has not yet been
shown us this year to demonstrate
the necessity for the student body's
having to block the lobby of the Y.
II.-C. A. for two days before each
football game in order to exchange a
student ticket for one designating a
particular seat.
j At some game like the Carolina
Georgia Tech contest there might be
an excuse in the fact .that such a
Tr,n offPTirfanrfi was exnected. but
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ordinarily there is neither rhyme nor
reason for exchanging tickets.; Any
one who is familiar with the size of
student attendance can. estimate the
' extent of the ' crowd for each . game
and tnen set asiuc osvmu' .'
Stadium ' large " enough ' to accommo
date all students. Certainly the
plea of inadequate room 'in the sta
dium can hardly be made, for all the
games - this year have demonstrated
the fact that the crowd in atten
dance does not reach the overflow
ing point. ' " ;"
When a student has stood in line
td register, has stood in line to ob
tain his athletic passbook, has stood
in line to pay his University fees, he
is in no mood to make himself a part
of another long-drawn line, in order
to give in his passbook and receive a
.ticket Of some other color. The pass
book is intended , to serve as- an ad
mission - card to .all athletic contests
and it is an unnecessary nuisance to
be compelled to join the line of rest
less waiters.
You Are
I'm Not!
Three columns, rnore . or less,, of
Open Forum letters in this issue in
dicated a healthy condition of thought
on the campus. The Tar Heel issued
an appeal for such material early in
the sehool-'year, and always welcomes
if when it comes. - Th columns of
this student's paper are always open
to expressions of the student's mind.
; Whether or not the opinions of
letter waters' agree with those of the
editorial staff or the policy of the
paper is of no importance. Letters
are printed without correction or
change if they are not distinctly li
belious and are accompanied by the
writer's name and address, which
need not necessarily.be printed if the
contributor so wishes.
A number of letters has been -received
recently which deserve cen
sure., In keeping with the Tar Heel's
policy,, no change has been made in
any of them before printing. These
letters were written by hot-headed
and injudicious people who cover up
the shallowness of their thinking
with attacks on other people, ih
steaof tSir opinions.
Calling a man dumb does-not prove
that your idea is better than "his, or
that his opinion is wrong. Invective
is. not argument. Personal attacks
serve no purpose," since the writers
of Open Forum letters are generally-
unknown to each , other. The man
who calls another stupid because he
does not agree with him is merely la
belling himself.
Let us have Open Forum letters,
and plenty of them. Let the campus
speak out if there is anything which
requires discussion. But let us dis
cuss matters sensibly and imperson
allyas befits college men.
v , H. J. G.
OpenjForum
MITCHELL IS DEFENDED
To the Editor: ;
We wonder if the editor of the Tar
Heel thought before he wrote this
heading over Mr. B. F. M.'s letter,
which appeared in thes issue of Novem
ber 8, 1928, "The Dramatic Critic is
Criticized." What we want to know
is, "Was he?" - There. is certainly no
evidence of intelligent criticism in Mr.
B. F. M.'s letter, and the writer con
fesses that he seached the remainder
of. the Forum to see if by any chance
this heading,- was placed at the head
of the wrong letter. How a graduate
student "of the seeming" intelligence
of Mr. B. F. M. could write such a
letter against Joe Mitchell without
realizing that he is doing exactly what
he is criticizing Mitchell for doing
is more than we can see. After read
ing Mr. B. F. M.'s letter we think
that he would have done- the Tar Heel
and the campus a great favor by going
to Joe Mitchell personally, and telling
him what he thought instead of bur
dening, the column with something
that isn't worth any more to the Tar
Heel readers than a Chinese coin in
Mexico. It is clearly evident, however,
that Mr. B. F. M. wrote his letter for
a purpose, and one purpose only -that
is to stir-up agitation on the cam
pus. Well if that's what : he wants
we are willing to try to help him
along. Before I say anything I want
the readers clearly to understand that
I am associated with The Carolina
Playmakers, but I want them to also
understand that this is a personal
opinion and is not an official expres
sion of the Playmakers' organization.
In the first place we do not see
how Mr. B. F. M. makes any connec
tion between Joe Mitchell's review of
"An Enemy of the People" and Mr.
John M. Booker's letter which appear
ed in the issue of November 6, 1928.
It;. is plainly evident that Mr. Booker
has no idea of "showing up" Mit
chell, for he clearly states in his open
ing sentence, "This is a conscientious
penny." Oa the other hand how
could Mr. B. F. M. have missed this
fact: Mr.N Booker agrees with every
thing Mitchell says about the personal
performances except the acting of Mr.
McCone. If he doesn't believe it, let
him get the two articles and compare
them. But yet, after all, Mr. Booker's
criticisms are, like Joe' Mitchell's",
only personal opinions, and therefore
there is no reason why any student
on the campus should get so excited
over them as to call forth such an
Open Forum letter as Mr. B. F. M.'sl
That is, of course, unless as we have
hinted before he merely wants to
stir up agitation. Still they call this
"criticizng" the campus critic I Yes,
truly sometimes we have evidence of
sophomoric minds appearing in print
"without the - accompanying witty
brilliance that makes ran occasional
sophomoric mind tolerable."; .
Mr. B. F. M. accuses Joe Mitchell of
making his name at the head Of his
review appear in letters almost as
large as the title of the column. We
would like to ask Mr. B. F. M., who
makes up the paper, the Editor or
the Dramatic Critic? Also, would Mr.
B. F. M. please inform us what stu
dent on the campus is better equipped
both from an intellectual standpoint
and a background of reading, to
judge the dramatic performances than
Joe Mitchell, I wonder if Mr. B. F. M.
knows what Prof. Paul Green thinks
of Joe Mitchell's ability as a student?
Well we all know that Mr. Green
knows, as much about the theatre and
drama as any person on the campus
and I defy Mr. B. F. M. to belittle
Mitchell's ability in -front "of Mr.
Green. I wonder if Mr. B. F. M.
knows what the Playmakers' staff
thought of Mitchell's review? o, of
course he doesn't. He doesn't know
that th; Playmakers staff thought,
although not agreeing with everything
that Mitchell said, that it was a fine
piece of student reviewing. Yes, Mr.
B. F. M: says j the review was 'iall
wrong" when such men as Professor
Heffner, who teaches Ibsen and di
rected the play, and Professor Selden,
who has probably forgotten more
about the real theatre than Mr. B. F.
M. will ever knoW, congratulated
Mitchell on the review. s
Mr. B. F. M. criticizes Mitchell's
opening paragraphs in his review. I
wonder is Mr. B. F. M. has ever read
reviews by J. Brooks Atkinson of the
New York Times or St. John Ervine
of the New York World. If he has he
certainly couldn't help but notice that
they use the same method in their
critisism that Joe Mitchell is develop
ing in his. If Mr. B. F. M. is smart
enough to tear Mitchell's review to
pieces by using Mitchell's own phrases,
then let's see him publish a review
in the Open Forum that will better
Mitchell's and then we'll take his
letter seriously from a critical stand
point. He says that all Mitchell said
in his opening paragraphs had been
stated on the program. - All right;
granted that it was, at the most only
600 students could have seen the pro
duction both nights. How about the
other 1800 students on the campus
that were, likely to read the review?
Is that telling them' something that
they, had just read? I'll wager that
sixty .per cent of the students on the
campus didn't know that Ibsen wrote
a play called "An Enemy of the Peo
ple" before they read Mitchell's re
view. JNt because there is any lack
of intelligence on the campus, but be
cause there is a woeful lack of play
reading. If Mr. B. F. M. doubts this
statement let him ask the professors
who teach Modern Drama.
' Unf ortunatly the English language
is more or less limited in its expres
sions , of ;. "praise". We wonder how
Mr. B. F. M. would have expressed
Mr. Bissell's perf ormance other than
"splendid" if he really thought it was
"splendid"? We wonder how M.
B..F. M. would have expressed a per
formance as "he managed his walk
on part creditably" if it was only
"managed creditably"? I'm sure Mr.
Mitchell would appreciate Mr. B. F. M.
giving him a few suggestions as to
the use of eulogies and critical re
marks next time he writes a review.
Mr. B. F.-M. criticizes Mr. Mitchell's
remark that the sets were "brilliantly
executed." 'Without arguing the
truth or falsity of Mr. B. F. M.'s
statement, we would like to know by
what standards he judged the settings
used in the play? I am sure that The
Playmakers would appreciate any ad
vice or suggestions which he might
be able to give them as to how they
might improve their settings; Per
haps Mr. B. F. M. didn't realize that
"An Enemy of the People' is a serious
comedy, and that to set the mood for
a comedy it " must be lighted much
brighter than tragedy. After the
number of- Ibsen tragedies that have
been performed on a stage so dark
that you couldn't tell what the char
acters were doing, I am tnot surpris
ed at Mr. ' Mitchell's surprise and
pleasure at .seeing Ibsen successfully
produced on a well-lighted iitage.
There is one thing that Mr. B. F. M.
says in his letter that after reading
it, I thoroughly agree with, and that
is "it's all right to say what you think,
but is what you think worth saying?"
Yes, Joe Mitchell may be a rotten
dramatic critic, but" IH wager that
what he says in one review in the"
Tar Heel will be more worthy of be
ing read than all the Open Forum
letters that such people as Mr. B. F.
M. can cram into the column during
the entire year. ,
Yours most sincerely,
. Howard W. Bailey. '29
To the Editor:
After reading B. M. F. '28's letter
in the Thursday .Tar Heel I find 'my
self unable to decide whether Dr.
Booker helped the worm to turn or
whether he himself did the turning,
implying, I suppose, thatr but that is
neither here nor there. Let's talk a
bout Joe Mitchell. Once or twice I
told him that he was a punk critic,
and once or twice I said tha.t lie wasn't
so bad after all. That's- what "I
thought" about it. But that's not,
Joe's fault. Suppose that he is punk.
Apparently the others are punker
and what to do ?
If B. F. M. '28 were to submit a
better criticism than Joe, which (off
hand) I think doubtful, I believe the
Tar Heel would give it; preference.
I'm notsure, but I think ""so. The
point is (if there be any point) that
this campus is phlegmatic (to say
more would "be unkind) except, of
course, in things like Dean Paulsen's
returns, comic strips, and the general
insensate -chatter that, happily, drifts
away at the rate (so says Dr. Stuhl
man) of 331 meters per second.
I. wish, therefore, to nominate Joe
Mitchell for the Hall of Fame, be
cause, among other things, he has
steadily contributed punk (if you will)
material that has perplexed, incensed,
overjoyed tweny-five ' hundred or
more alert products of a whirling age.
, - J. J. SLADE, JR.
Davidson College Is
Remembered in Will
Advertise in The Tar Heel
Announcement that Robert F. Phi
fer, an alumnus of Davidson College,
had bequeathed $30,000 to the institu
tion, to be paid upon the death of a
sister,, has verified the contention of
college officials here that former stu
dents of the college are more and more
remembering-their Alma Mater in
wills. This announcement brought
to -mind the fact that almost a quart-'
er of a million dollars has been , left
to Davidson in 10 different wills dur
ing the last five yearsK and most of
this has come rom estates of alumni.
The late Mr. Phifer was a. mem
ber of the class of 1869, but was not
a (graduate of Davidson. He entered
Davidson from Concord, maintained
liisinterest in North Carolina for
a 'number of years after he left here,
and then went to New York, where
he remained until a year ago when
he went to Battle Creek, Mich., for
his health. Deathoccurred there on
October 16.
. Sigma .Alpha Epsilon announces
ihe pledging of Royall Brown, of
Blacksburg, Va.
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