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Page Two THE TAR HEEL Thursday, February 14, 1929 W$z tjar iM Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper Published three times weekly during the college year, and i3 the official newspaper of the 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 the basement of Alumni v Building. Walter Spearman ,. ...... Editor George Ehrhart ....... Mgr. Ed Marion Alexander ... Bus. Mgr. editorial department Harry Galland Assistant Editor Glenn Holder i Assistant bailor John Mebane ..... Assistant Editor Will Yarborough Sports Editor Reporters M. Broadus Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn J. P. Jones C. B. McKethan J. C. Williams E. H. Denning J. E. Huffman J. C. Eagles J. E. Dungan D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon W. A. Shelton E. F. Yarborough H. H. Taylor J. D. McNairy J. P. Huskms ; Henry Anderson Candy, Chewing Gum, Dopes and Crackers , According to the recent statement of P. L. Burch, superintendent of buildings and grounds, all student vendors of cold drinks and candy , in dormitories must give up their trade by February 15 unless some more sanitary and better regulated methods of selling can be devised. We deplore the possible passing of such a convenient . custom. If stu dent stores are prohibited, how shall we obtain that late midnight feed that is always so necessary after a hard night's" work? Of course the downtown stores still exist, but the way is long from the quad to town; and even the best of food is scarcely worth the walk. The chief objections seem to be the lack of proper sanitary conditions, the absence of any system of inspection, and the persistent littering up of sur rounding ground. All three of these objections could be overcome by regu lar inspection. . Let each self-help student who desires to operate a store notify, Mr. Burch of his . intentions . and even secure a license if that is necessary Then each store could be inspected at intervals by representatives of the buildings department. , If any store - keeper breaks the rules laid down ,by the buildings department for sanitary reasons or allows his customers to litter up the environs of the building with empty bottles, papers, or, fruit peelings, then let his license be taken from him and his store ordered closed. Wouldn't this take care of the situa tion, Mr Burch? Mental Indigestion "His tramontane desipience, " con ceived as it is in platic nomenclature and esoteric terms, may be despecif i cated with the sycophant." This terrible' succession of sounds was inflicted upon us the. other day by one of the campus pseudo-intel lectuals. "Yeah, that's all true, but I asked you why you dislike Bill Jones," We answered. ; The super-intellect insisted that lie had just finished explaining why he detests Bill, but we rejoined that we couldn't see it that way. He grinned fatuously and began once more, with - evident relish, to articulate a steady flow of polysyllabic phrases. We finally gathered that he didn't know exactly what he was saying, but that what he meant was that he consider ed Bill a fool. Bill may be a fool, but at any rate he is no polysyllable- slinging moron. A number of these lads with , the high-tension vocabularies infest the University campus. They are evi dently suffering from acute mental indigestion resulting from the big words they have swallowed and com plicated by a touch of mental defi ciency. . . , Ostentatious display of a . large vocabulary, especially when the speak er does not know the meaning of the word3 himself is utterly disgusting. GLENN HOLDER. The PhUlistine Contributed by Allan Metz We've decided to give the Tar Heel a break and try our hand at another colyum. The first attempt was more or less abortive, we were told, altho according to our way of thinking it would have had O. O. M'Intire, Ar thur Brisbane, and Heywood Broun all coming around to get in line and find out when they might get an in troduction. ,' Oh, Well, if at first yo a don't succeed, write an Open Forum letter. : Hmm, that last sounds like it had some of the elements of poetry in it. If we were writing for the Carolina Magazine, or even if we were a regular colyumnist who knew his stuff (which we take it means how to fill up space in the least dis pleasing and most unobtrusive man ner possible) we would have writ ten it thus: if - at first you don't succeed 7 write an Open Forum let- . ter thereby using up seven lines instead of two. That went so well we are encouraged to elaborate: If at first you don't succeed, Write an Open Forum letter. Tell the students what they need, Show the chains they should un fetter: : . ' , Monopolies at U. N. C. German Club and Laundry fee, Grail and Bank of Chapel Hill, Book Exchange which drains the - till, : ' , Makes our pile of sheckels nil Takes our last remaining bill. Other gripes there are abundant, Write the Forum, fellow-student. Graham Memorial old and rotten, Still unfinished nay , forgotten ; Muddy walks about the campus, . More appropriate to the pampas; Ice-cold Tin Can, gym antique, All because our co-eds meek (?) Didn't like town rooms at all; Now they have their Spencer Hall. Man was always woman's tool Would he were not such a fool. Write on every subject, son, " Saving one, the only one: Do not to the world reveal Any fault in our Tar Heel. Now we' wonder if that will get by the literary critic. j We feel that perhaps ah explana tion is due some of the members -of this great family circle. This colyum is not named sich for national or patriotic reasons. Nay, nay, gentle reader. We quote Senor Webster for the : benefit of those poor unen lightened. ones who took Eng, 1 in some other school and were not re quired by the, faculty to give the Book Ex. a break and buy a diction ary at , a greatly reduced price: Phillistine "A person, esp. one of the middle class, who rejects en lightenment or is indifferent to. the higher intellectual interests." Con fessions like this always move us to great burning tears. But our first duty is to our dear public, -our dear est and severest critic. We are under -the impression that we are, the only Phillistine on this great Hill of, learning.. We can even prove it) ' Last' Saturday night, with the wrestling matches, the boxing meet, bridge games, the Carolina Theater, the Playmakers,-informative and obliging bootleggers, and the G. C. JDances with all these enlighten ing and higher intellectual interests, we sat in our room and wrestled with the typewriter and ; this colyum. Q. E. D., ain't it? At, the risk of boring someone are we right in presupposing that anyone is reading this ? we wish to wax en thusiastic.." This ' really happens al most 'ai seldohias TaruHeels " are1 de livered put ' on Gimghoul Road, so give ear. There have been gobs and buck etfuls of slush written 'about colleges and college students. Usually they are searching articles and analyses and piercing exposees of that strange animal the collitch student. He is inhibited or inverted or introspective or introverted or some other word be ginning with i or , one of the other twenty-five. We've found one writer who leaves all the words beginning with i out of his descriptions, and yet manages to write the most interest ing and accurate articles on colleges we ever read by the medium of that other great family journal which it is the lowest of the low to read the Saturday Evening Post. (More than two million seven hundred and fifty thousand weekly. Adv.) Take a look at Kenneth L. Roberts' articles on the Universities of Illinois, Cornell, and Harvard, in the Jan. 12, Feb. 2, and Feb. 9 issues, and see how the other half of the world is living. I hope the Curtis Publishing Company re wards us according to our due for all this free advertising. Anyway, that will be all today, class. - - . . . i a .... Rambling Reflections By Glenn Holder Valentine Day In the Ancient Style Today many fair maids of 'Meredith and N.C C.W. are making merry over gaudy heart-shaped boxes of candy and lace-trimmed, splendidly litho graphed Valentines. A like number of Carolina youths are treading the paths of the University campus with airy steps and empty pockets, their faces expressive of blissful realiza tion of 'love's duty fulfilled. - Fin. broke, as usualr but far from blissful. Wish there wasn't any Val entine day, and then I'd be three bucks better off. Girls cost too much, anyhow. .. Yesterday afternoon I was sitting at a table in the library; just sitting there, - thinking regretfully of my vanished three dollars and wondering why they have such things as Valen tine Day. The idea occurred to me that I might find out what it is all about. This is the composite of what I dis covered in the reference books: It was the practice in ancient Rome during agreat part of the month of February to. -celebrate Lupercalia, which were feasts in honor of Pan and Juno. During these feasts, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of the young women were put into a box, from which they were drawn by the young men as chance directed. The Roman shiek in this way attached unto himself a girl friend, who was his for a year. ' The early Christian parsons wished to put a halt to all the heathen superstitions. tThey couldn't stop the Lupercalia flapper lottery, however, as the Roman collegians were too fond of thus entering into a sort of companionate marriage on a one-year trial basis. Therefore the preachers named the lottery day for St. Valen tine. This old gent was a priest of Rome who had the bad luck to run afoul of Claudius II. King Claud was in a bad humor at the time, and he had the saintly person beaten almost to death with clubs. Then, with his own hands, Claud cut the parson's J head off. All this happened on Feb ruary 14, in the year 270, A.D. And that's why my three bucks is in the category of the late lamented. An Old Grad Comes Back The other night I was ambling along the path which leads diagonally across ; the campus from Old . West to Frat Row when a very skinny, very middle-aged gentleman stopped me and inquired the way to the Carolina Inif. He looked into my intelligent face,, saw that I was. to be trusted, and , decided to take me into his con fidence. - "Young man, I'm lost," he confided in a tragic voice. I was a junior here in 1908. I caught the erysipelas, and my father came up here and carr ried me back home on a stretcher. I'm a paint salesman now, and this is the first time that I have been here since 1908. Now everything's changed, and I can't even find my way to Mary Ann Smith Building, my old dorm." His voice sounded as though he were going to break into sobs. I don't like to have anyone weeping on my shoulder, not even my girl, and so I hastened to escort him to the old Smith Building, now metamor phised into , the pseudo-Oxfordian Graduate Club. When I left him he was bitterly lamenting the fact that they had changed his old room all about. ' I. sauntered on my way, musing. Twenty years from now, when. I will probably be very middle-aged, very skinny, or maybe very fat, and ex tremely bald, I wonder whether I will come back and find everything on the campus altered. Suppose I can't even .find my way, about, and have only the ruins of the still-unfinished Graham Memorial to bring back mem ories ofthe good old days of '29 and '30?' ' ' A Real Philanthropist I was standing in line at the Audi torium in Raleigh one evening early in December, waiting to buy a "pea nut gallery" ticket for the Fritz Kreisler concert, when a man tapped me on the arm. He was well-dressed, but there was nothing in the least un usual about- his appearance. "You're the fellow I'm going to give a ticket to," he said. He thrust a pink pasteboard into my hand, and before I could utter a word he had vanished into the crowd. The ticket was for one of the best and highest priced seats in the house. In a few moments I saw him com ing back. I knew there was some catch to it! "Have you a friend with you?" he smilingly inquired. "Sure, I'm' his friend," Dick Mc Glohon, one of my companions yelled. Like a flash the ticket changed hands, and the stranger again silently melted J into the crowd. The two tickets were for adjoining seats. Dick and I rubbed elbows with the plutocrats in the orchestra seats' that night, and cast haughty glances at our fellow University inmates, perched far up in the gallery under the rafters. Moss Will Teach v Religious Courses " V , Rev. W. D. Moss- will teach a course in religion on Tuesdays and Thurs days at 7:30 P. M. in the School of Religion rooms in the Methodist church. The subject of this course will be "The Story of Religion," and NEW VICTOR RECORDS RELEASED EVERY FRIDAY UNIVERSITY BOOK AND STATIONERY-CO. , . (Sutton Bldg.) DR. R. R. CLARK DENTIST Office Over Bank of Chapel Hill . Telephone 385 : v Sad World' : 'oung'ipin DREAMS THAT COME TRUE I am sitting alone in my room tonight, Dreaming and smoking my old cob pipe; - - I smoke and dream, and dream until I get a plot, and get a thrill. I am in the writing game, you see; And the pipe-dreams softly bring to me Scenes of carnage where the red blood -- ran, . . . - And the dreams all come from a bright Blue can. It's just a can of Edgeworth-cut Fragrant as flowers sweet as a nut; Of all Fate's kindly gifts to man Is this gift of dreams from the bright -Blue can. , I sit me down atjeve, to smoke; And soon am wrapped in a magic cloak ; It has banished trouble, it has ban ished pain, And the sad old world is young again. J. H. Rockwell Midland, Michigan. Edgeworth Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco classes will.be for one hour twice a week. There will be no expense, and no outside preparation i3 required. Classes 'will begin tonight, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Paris has a cemetery on an island, in the Seine where pet animals are buried. Five sophomores hold regular berths on both the boxing and wrestl ing teams at the University' of North Carolina, and both teams are unde feated in early season meets. Pos sible Southern Conference champion in both sports, these youngsters may carry on for two seasons to come. SMOKE 5c and up ears To . : tr aCC0:U). Distributors Durham The Life and Loves of a Cafe Girl in High Society n my. 0 LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS " NOW PLAYING WILLIAM BOYD JETTAGOUDAL IUPE YELEZ Ride to the peaks of glorious romance with the queen of the cabarets and her high born lover. Thrill to the drama of great passion tri umphant 'over a woman's hate, hostile eyes, and wag ging tongues. 1 Added Comedy "UncleTom" News Why not enter the Carolina Dry Cleaners Contest and &W5na Mm (3 NEW PONTIAC BIG SIX 2-DOOR SEDAN VALUE 835.00 ; ' NEW 1929 FORD TUDOR SEDAN VALUE 612.00 1 AT WATER KENT RADIO Complete VALUE 145.00 and many cash prizes are to be given away March 23 by Carolina Dry Cleaners If s ' The contest is still open to all who wish to enter, but it is to your advantage to enter as soon as possible Drop by the campaign office and let's talk it over. But hurry!! ; Car elm Dry Oeamers Campaign Dep't. Office No. 1 over Sutton's Drug Store
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