North Carolina Newspapers

THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, October 26, 1929 Pasc Two Sije iDatlp Sar i?cel Published daily during the college year except' Mondays and except TnanKS giving, vynrii.i"a " " " Spring Holidays. The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $4.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Glenn Uow?-EdUor Will Yarborough..JJot. Editor Marion Alexander. lws. Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebane Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS J. Elwin Dungan "'" J. D. McNairy Joe Jones ' -" B. C. Moore J. C. Williams CITY EDITORS . E. F. Yarborough , K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning 'Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITORS Jo3 Eagles Crawford McKethan Henry L. Anderson REPORTERS Howard Lee Holmes Davis Louis Brooks Charles Rose Lawrence Harris Mary Price J. P. Tyson Browning Roach Al Lansf ord Joe Carpenter Peggy Lintner E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenberger Frank Manheim Stowe Moody - Clyde Deitz George Sheram Robert Hodges John Lathan B. H. Whitton Nathan Volkman George Stone Lawrence Miller Jack Riley T. E. Marshall R. T. Martin J. S. Weathers G. E. French Stanley Weinberg Saturday, October 26, 1929 Tar Heel Topics The panning that the Bucca neer and the dramatic critics of the Tar Heel and Magazine are receiving proves that the campus is back to normal this year. .r - - f - A' full page is devoted to Gov ernor Gardner in the Literary Digest this week, which indicates that as a publicity agent the Governor knows his public. Crown Prince Humbert, of Italv. narrowly escaped death from-the bullet of, an .assassin yesterday, and on the same day announced his engagement to Princess Marie Jose, of Belgium. The prince seems to have suf fered a tough break all around. Justice? Monday seven strikers and strike leaders were found guilty at Charlotte on a charge of mur dering Police Chief Aderholdt, and heavy sentences were im posed upon them by Judge E. V. Barnhill. Just four days later a Gaston county grand jury, convening at Gastonia, a few ' miles from Charlotte, released nine men who were arrested in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Ella May Wiggins, a strik er, and freed seven "other men charged with kidnaping three National Textile Workers' union organizers. It was indeed unfortunate, at least for the sake of appear ances, that 16 men charged witn brutally murdering one striker and flogging three others have been acquitted so soon after sev en strikers were sentenced to serve a total of more than a hun dred years in prison on charges of having committed a murder certainly no more reprehensible than the slaying of Mrs. Wig gins. Even to the most casual observer it occurs that the courts of North Carolina have laid themselves- open to charges of gross maladministration of jus tice and the most narrow of prejudices. Chief Aderholdt was killed when he led several officers against a band of strikers. He and his men were armed and per fectly capable of defending themselves. Indeed, there is some doubt as to whether the policemen or the strikers were the agressors. The killing of Mrs. Wiggins occurred when an alleged anti-communist mob turned back a truck-load of cot ton mill strikers enroute to a meeting vin Gastonia, followed them and later fired into the group, one of the bullets strik ing the "woman and killing her almost instantly. The murder of Chief Ader holdt was deplorable; that of Mrs. Wiggins utterly atrocious. In one case an officer was killed in line of duty ; in the other a de fenseless woman Was cruelly murdered by a gang of civic- minded" cut-throats. Yet' pub lic opinion in this state has been very severe in its denunciation j of the slayers of Chief Ader holdt, while very little indeed has been said in censure of the men who . murdered Mrs. Wiggins. And the courts seem to have ac quiesced to the dictate of the blinded, utterly false and bigot ed opinions of a rabidly anti striker element in the state. While it is impossible to deter mine accurately the considera tions which motivated the grand jury at Gastonia, it seems to us that its investigation was at best rather perfunctory. There is every indication at present that a long and bloody war between labor and capital is to be fought with North Caro lina as the battlefield. In all probability numerous other cases as serious as the Wiggins and Aderholdt affairs must be tried in the courts of North Carolina, and if they are conducted in the manner that marked the Char lotte and Gastonia trials the judi cial system of North Carolina serve to retard rather than ex pedite final settlement of the issues at-stake between the war ring forces of labor and capital. Carnegie Foundation Off On a Tangent Anarew,arnegie naa a very lofty purpose in view when he created the Carnegie Founda tion and if we accept the recent investigations of that institu tion into the matter of subsi dized football as indicative of a trend, we must admit that the leaders of the Foundation are not only living up to the ideals of Mr. Carnegie, but by their zealousness have become even more idealistic than he ever ex pected. Were that good old Scotchman to be here today he would be pleased to see how well his money is being spent. The tenet of the Carnegie group all during the investiga tion was that amateurism in its narrow and impossible sense was desirable. Bill Tilden re cently proved to an idealistic and arbitrary tennis board that strict amateurism is and has beeh genuinely dead for years Now comes the Foundation with its brain-child deploring the abominable conditions existing in college athletics. Baseball is the American sport, and yet the most rabid idealists have never dared to claim that paying the stars sal aries, which make the pay check of the vice-president of the Uni ted States look like bridge stakes, detracts from the thrills, the cleanness, and the vitality oi tne game, xsuz Daseoail m the big leagues is a professional sport ! A question that can very well be asked is : whether the mere exchange of the where withal to feed, clothe and pro vide the necessities and a few of the pleasures of life for the consecration of a man's time to a sport make the one who gets something in return for all of his long hours of practice and playing and all of his charley horses and bruises any less of an honorable man imbued with the ideal of clean sportsman ship than the one who receives nothing. The phenomena of American education is the facility with which sons of farmers, median ics, small merchants, and crafts men can acquire the best in learning and cultured Trained from birth to meet "hard knocks these sons of toilers make as good or even better football men than the sons of more ; fortunate men. The amount of time required by self-help students to merely get along financially would make their playing football prohibi tive were it not for this so called subsidizing, which is .not recompense or pay, but identi cally the same kind of aid that every university extends to all its students through the medium of numerous scholarship funds. We need not go off our own campus to find worthy students of limited means, who in serv ing their institution in its vari ous activities having no connec tion with athletics whatsoever are rewarded by being made the recipents v of these scholarships. Going farther, there are count less students who occupy schol arships and contribute nothing more toward the honor of their schools than their high scholas tic standing. The Carnegie Foundation overlooks the fact that modern education is inter ested not only in scholarship, but aims to encourage interest and taste for athletics and cul ture. If scholarships are awarded students for scholas-!a Itic standing, there is no reason whv the leaders in athletics should not receive them. With the exception of some of the Canadian institutions named on the Foundation's white-list, it is a reasonable as sumption that a good number of these schools were just inadver tently successful in disguising the aid extended to their ath letes by them. Strict amateurism like the chivalry of knighthood days is a thing of the past, paying huge salaries to football men over and above reasonable living ex penses while at college, would demand investigation and con demnation. We have yet to hear of any institution with funds sufficient to carry out such a project, and no one needs defend Carolina for such a practice knowing the strug gle the University has to barely secure operating expenses. Aid ing a student who plays foot ball is fully as commendable ,as aiding any other student. Like many of whom the re port of the Carnegie Foundation was no news and who feel that amateurism is a contradictory term we suggest that the Foun dation turn its efforts to solv ing the crime, prohibition, tar iff, and transportation problems of the country. J. E. D. THE THEATRE By J. D. McNairy The twenty-fourth bill of ori ginal folk plays presented by the Carolina Playmakers at the Playmaker theatre, October 24, 25, 26, at 8:30. THE CASTS The No 'Count Boy by Paul Green: Pheelie, Phoebe Har ding; Enos, her beau, Howard Bailey; The No 'Count Boy, Holmes Bryson; An Old Negro Woman, Muriel Wolff. Magnolia's Man by Gertrude Wilson Coffin: Mis' Tish, the vil lage dressmaker, Gertrude Wil son Coffin; Newt Norris, local widower, Ted Wilson; Magnolia Starnes, a spinster, Muriel Wolff; Bartholomew M. Bur gess, from Arkansas, Marvin Hunter. Being Married by Catherine Wilson Nolen : Jim Ried, Milton Wood; Connie, his wife, Elzada Feaster; Pete Burch, Howard Bailey; Dora Farraday, Helen McKay; Penelope Sear, Anne Melick; Betty Holmes, Eliza beth Barber; Gertie Warens, Beth Colley. When the last curtain was rung down on the Playmakers production last night an enthusi astic audience left the theatre with the feeling that they had seen the most entertaining bill of plays yet produced by Caro lina's most famous amateur group of dramatists. Perhaps other plays here have surpassed these in the portrayal of real "f niTi-s" characters or in the j-v....-j faithful reproduction of life, but none have been better "theatre," none have entertained an "audi ence better, and none have pro vided more spicy or more witty lines. The general excellency of the plays was increased by the marked ability of a well trained group of actors who put across a balanced program with pep and enthusiasm. With, plays ranging from the negro life to our state high society of Chicago the ability of the group to do more than one thing was tested and found not to be wanting. For the first time the Play makers produced The No 'Count Boy, Paul Green's most popular comedy of negro life. Mr. Koch explained in the program that "although the characters are drawn to the life, the play is really a fantasy. The author re veals an uncanny insight into the character of the negro, and rare Ieelm Ior ine imagery. f 1 A If and melody oi ms race. in tne role 01 eiie, noeDe truing played her part with an effective understanding of the negro life ; although her acting fluctuated, the general level was good. Howard Bailey acted his part; with his usual consistency. Holmes Bryson walked off with the honors of the evening with his harmonica and his acting in the part of the no 'count boy. As the curtain went down, many ex perienced theatre goers around us exclaimed, "That is real act ing." By far the most witty one-act play we have seen is Magnolia's Man by Gertrude Wilson Coffin ; the clever repartee of its lines, the friendliness of its at mosphere, its closeness to some thing genuine and representa tive of the mountain 1 people make it a most successful pro duction. Mrs. Coffin in the lead ing role of Mis' Tish, the vil lage dressmaker, was by far the best actress in the entire bill. Never for a moment was she out of character, never did she fal ter in her lines, or make a false move ; she brought the old dress maker before us with a portray al that was truly deceptive. Ted Wilson, Muriel Wolff, and Mar vin Hunter all kept their charac ter and spoke their lines with precision and with a typical mountain accent, v Being Married, a domestic j comedy with a bit of sparkle comedy completed the bill. This is the second of Mrs. Nolan's society plays written for the Playmakers. While the name could be improved a bit, we doubt if the acting of the lines would gain much by reworking. The whole thing was polished and run off with a smoothness that characterizes good produc tions. The plot centers around Jim Ried who cannot earn enough money to support his wife in Chicago and his efforts to get out of his situation. El-! zada Feaster as Mrs. Ried did the most distinctive work of the play; her fine looks and good voice made her fitted to the part of a successful society lady. Milt Wood as Jim Ried split second honors with Anne Melick as Penelope Sears. Milt's restraint and poise were as pleasing , as Anne's clever way af getting off her wise-cracks. Helen McKay, Elizabeth Barber, and Beth Col ley played the parts of typical bridge and club women with their southern drawl effectively overhauled into the Chicago ac cent. This was the; first chance of the play goers to see the work of Elmer Hall, the new techni cal director of the Playmakers. His sets drew much favorable comment. CHASE DECLINES TO MAKE A STATEMENT (Continued from page one) their editorial comments the pa pers express pleasure that the situation at Carolina has been found so clean. The Charlotte Observer, for example, says : "President Chase and otheri officials of the state university at Chapel Hill are marking time on the college athletics report of the Carnegie Foundation, prefer ring to read over the printed document before expressing an opinion. The report has noth ing harmful to say of athletics practiced at North Carolina. It might be interesting .to state that the Carnegie's inquiry into American college sports entailed visits to over 130 colleges, schools and universities, and in volved the cooperation of more than 2,000 persons. Only two of the 130 institutions approached did not cooperate fully." "What of it?" is, the comment most students and athletic of ficials make to the stories of j scholarships," subsidies and soft jobs for football players. "Every body knew that all -along. And what's so terrible about it?" rnose iootbali players re marked one junior, "lay off can dy, smokes, parties, booze, and then they go out and kill them selves on the field when Satur day comes. They deserve some thing for it." Rex Enright, freshman foot ball coach, slipped the following comment by Ed Danforth from the Atlanta Constitution. It expresses the prevailing attitude toward the Carnegie revelation. "Everybody knew that star high school football and base ball players were given . jobs, scholarships, or1 other induce ments to attend certain colleges. But as long as the practice did not lead to the production in our colleges of thieves, thugs, and the like, we do not mind. "With all the laughter that will follow this 'expose' of col lege athletics it is just about as startling as the profound an nouncement that Easter bunnies do not lay eggs good may come of the whole clumsy matter. It may curb the pernicious activi ties of 'new' schools that frankly are recruiting athletes for the Did You Know That THE AVERAGE BOY EATS AT THE UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA FOR LESS THAN $27.50 A Month Come to See Us About Our Plan liar Heel vs. Golbisler Don't Miss That, But Remember Next to Seeing a Great Football Game. ' The Best Thing Is HEARING IT PLAY BYPLAY Over the Incomparable Af W ATEE ESEHT Electro Dynamic Radio The WTorId of Music and Sport at Your Finger Tips Immediate Delivery at Electric & University Consolidated Service Plants CHAPEL HILL, N. C. advertising value inherent in a good football team. "It may result in the eradica tion of extreme cases. Arri finally it may" suggest to some college executives that the vray to keep athletics pure is to raise the scholastic requirements a bit." Slump in Cheering Due To Conflict of Stimuli (Continued from page one) conflict of stimuli is bound to place a damper on cheering ef ficiency. Under such conditions individuality tends to wilt. Since organization is dependent upon individuality blended into one ness of purpose, these attrac tions are detrimental to the "yelling" cause. Finally, the trend of human is away from loud vocal demonstrations of approval or disapproval. People no longer cheer the speaker who merely makes a big fuss. Time was when the most civilized of men and women could look at the fiercest of bull fights without any show of emotions. The time is also coming when cultured mankind will shudder at the thought of a prize fight. In other words, the urge which dis plays itself in the form of vocal boisterousness is disappearing. 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