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7 Pase Two Published daily during "the college year except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. t The off icial 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 Holder....:....... ...1.-.. Editor Will Yaeborough Jf grr. Editor Marion Alexander...... Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebane Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS . J. Elwin Dungan J -J. D. McNairy Joe Jones B. C. Moore . J. C. "Williams CITY EDITORS E. F. Yarborough EL C. Ramsay Elbert Denning Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITORS Jo 3 Eagles Crawford McKethan Henry L. Anderson REPORTERS Howard Lee Holmes Davis Louis Brooks Charles Rose , Lawrence Harris Mary" Price Frank Manheim Stowe Moody Clyde Deitz George Sheram Robert Hodges John Lathan J. P. Tyson B. H. Whitton Browning lloach Nathan Volkman Al Lansford' Georee Stone Joe Carpenter Lawrence Miller Peggy Lintner , Jack Riley E. C.'Daniel , T. E: Marshall W. A. Shulenberger" R. T. Martin G. E. French J. S. Weathers Stanley Weinberg Thursday, October 31, 1929 Down With V Memorial Hall! . Memorial Hall is undergoing repairs at present, J;he nature of which we have not been able to ascertain with any degree of exactness. It is rumored that the "architectural monstrosity" I has become unsafe and that it may be condemned; the roof is said to have slipped considera ' bly during the past few months. In our opinion the best thing that could happen to Memorial Hall would be its complete de molition. - The - auditorium 4 is hideous from an aesthetic stand point, the acoustics are terrible andthe seats are decidedly, un comfortable. In cold weather the structure is never adequate ly heated; it is difficult to ob tain a good view of the stage, since the seats at the rear of the building are no higher than those nearest the speaker's plat forms Not only" is Memorial Hall woefully inadequate as an audi torium for the University, but ' it is highly undesirable from every consideration of beauty and comfort. w" Seated on the hard wooden benches of the au ditorium, even the most appre ciative of audiences becomes restless and uncomfortable. It is not strange- that Memorial Hall audiences are notoriously prone to move about and even depart from the building during the most excellent of speeches and entertainments. N. C. C. W. has an auditorium so vastly su perior, in every respect to Me morial Hall that there is no com parison between the ' two struc tures, and other institutions in this state have auditoriums im mensely superior to that pos sessed by the University. The only justification that we can conceive for the continued use of Memorial Hall as the University auditorium is based entirely upon sentiment. Thou sands of alumni would oppose razing of the ancient building because of the associations at tached to it. But mere senti ment should certainly be sub ordinated to a desire to see the University secure an auditor ium worthy of the name. ' Funds for the construction of an t auditorium to replace Me morial Hall would be difficult to secure with the University's financies in their present state, it is true.. Construction of a new gymnasium here is contem plated, however. Very few up- perclassmen use the. present gym, and is is extremely doubt ful whether freshmen would make any extensive -use of it were they not required to do so. In all probability the undergrad ates would not-make use of a new gym to an appreciably greater extent. If the funds for the contem plated new gymnasium7 were di verted to the construction of a new auditorium, we believe that the student body-and the gener al public would profit vastly. Down with Memorial Hall, say we, and replace it with a decent auditorium. - QuBono? The -Tar Heel offers belated congratulations to Dr. Louis Round, Wilson upon his being elected president of the North Carolina Library Association for the third time. Over a period of thirty years, most of which have been lean ones financially, this grand old man has never swerved from the ideal he has had for a perfect or nearly perfect library system. Through the years he has worked and worked at the tre mendous task of adding book by book to a small thirty thousand volume collection until today he is able to view with pleasure a collection close to a quarter of a million volumes. 1 With the exception of latter day aid, the doctor has had to depend in quite large measure upon private donations to make possible the steady increase in number of volumes. Louis Round Wilson has re fused a considerable number of offers of increased salary and prestige during this time. He has been a man above price. We have no doubt about the strength of the present genera tion. There isn't an iota of de spair in our hearts over the morals of our age as compared to those of pother generations but the thought has struck us again and again with sharp in sistence during the past few weeks when , the library world has been honoring Dr. Wilson that all the great energy of a great man is , not sufficient to offset the ravages .of certain undergraduate vandals, and af ter, all Qui bono? We have in mind the practice, that has re cently come to view, of marking and tearing first editions which it is the proud privilege of any student to read and protect, and the still- more abominable prac tice of smuggling valuable books both old and new from the tab les and stacks of the building. During the week-end, of one of the Grail dances late last spring, we were thunderstruck to see a former Carolina student walk into a .fraternity house with sixteen valuable library books dealing with subjects of art, translations of Persian and Japanese poetry, and the his tory of the drama. - In his drunken, condition he soon for got his stolen booty, which for tunately fell into the hands of men who returned them to the library desk where-it was dis covered that not one of them had been checked out! A graduate student we know has in his possession three very valuable books "bo? rowed" from the stacks, which no doubt will some time - grace the shelves of someone's private library. An other student says that he paid five dollars apiece for some very valuable books which were "borrowed" by a third person from the stacks. There is no need to carry this story any farther; it is a prac tice that is too utterly vicious to be further tolerated. Dr. Wilson builds with painstaking efforts and unthinking students tear down. Very little' can be done by mail." Warnings setting ' forth the rules . regarding future quarters if library regulations THE DAILY are not satisfied mean nothing to students ready to drop out. A stronger check upon those persons who have access to the stacks, and a regular messenger service which will call upon stu dents possessing books of value which are overdue and demand that they be returned would eradicate ; a growing evil. And this is exactly what we recom mend to Dr. Wilson and to the University, if they intend .to pre serve the very splendid work he has wrought. The University Plane; ' V . ' ; X:'.: It is with interest that we note the approaching arrival of the department of aeronautic's first real airplane. Most of us have been rather dubious about the practicality of the aviation course, doubtful as to whether the project could be carried out on a scale large enough to per mit ultimate success and: con tinued existence. But now that a program has been launched with the idea of giving stu dents first hand experience with planes, a great obstacle in the way of realization of success has been "overcome. The entry of the airplane in to the student life here has a peculiar significance. It not on ly means that the University has passed another milestone in her march of progress; it means that the University" is becoming more cosmopolitan. Aviation, in our opinion, is destined to make of the University . not merely a local unit but a cos mopolitan influence. Not even the most speculative of minds can foretell the future poten tialities of the aeroplane, the ob literator of timer and space. Who knows but what educators in the future will be terming it education's greatest aid in bringing students from every where together and in enabling them to study the materials , in various places which are not a part of their locality ? Here young Lindberghs will be developed, and aviation will be studied as a science. It isj something new for Carolina, ancu something which requires pa tience and work for growth. It is to be hoped that tjie students will not see fit to let this infant, aeronautics, die, but that they will endeavor to make it a per manent feature of university life. l - B. M. AN INADEQUATE LIGHTING ) SYSTEM ' i ' Editor the Daily Tar Heel: With the increase of dark mornings and afternoons nat ural to winter, the inadequacy of the Chapel Hill electric light ing system appears more and more often. Large numbers of students necessarily read during the day and necessarily, from the flickering of lights in all the buildings, are forced to strain their eyes and do permanent damage to them. Such a condi tion should not exist in a town in ; which a proportion of stu dents as large as that in Chapel Hill are working. If electricity used during the day is bought from one of the power companies of the state, the company should be brought to task by University officials; if the power is gen erated on the campus, the proper University officials should be re minded of their failure to pro vide proper illumination for stn dents' rooms and other places in which ' study is carried on. Im proper lighting is a handicap which, certainly, should not be imposed upon Chapel Hill Mod ern. ' . R. M. WALLACE. 1, .. Readers' Opinions TAR HEEL IN THE WAKE OF NEWS J. E. Dungan The plays produced by the Playmakers last week-end were quite the best that organization has produced since the- begin ning of our sojourn here. Mrs. Coffin's Magnolia's Manin par ticular, is of professional calibre. Due to the general hue and cry raised around my head by the publishing of a list of candidates for the feminine popularity title of the campus, the author of this column suggests that a Greater Carolina Beauty and Personality Contest be sponsored . by the Grail for the purpose of selecting a campus queen to reign over a final varsity ball given byv the German club, ushering out the social year just prior to com mencement. The Sheiks, Mino- taurs and Thirteen club could well serve as judges. If we thought we wouldn't be accused of impropriety, we might mention the fact that Charles Randolph, aged. 26, of Greenwich, Conn., surrounded by evidences of an all night drinking x party was ound burned to death in a hotel room in New York City last week, and that from all evidences it ap pears that he must have been having a "hot-time." "Cy Edson, the witty editor of the Buccaneer, wanting to play a little joke on the other editors and literary lites of the campus, who attended a dinner tendered them by Archibald Henderson, planned to appear in full dress, but gave up the scheme as being too embarrassing to-the rest of the gentlemen attending the dinner. L. W. Midgett of Elizabeth City liked the Buccaneer but in quires as to, what is meant by "private intentions." Harry Finch, handsome sheik, together with his leather-lunged confreres, is just about con vinced that Allah is not only Al mighty, but that he is a damned nuisance, on account of . having worn out several pairs of trous er knees in his service. Now that Tom Lawrence has quitted Episcopal high "in Vir ginia to play on the Chapel Hill high school grid team we sup pose that the Carnegie Founda tion will send a junket here to find what salary he is feeing paid. The D. K. Es look like a good bet in the intramural tag foot ball contest, and Haywood Dail Holderness of Tarboro predicts that the D. K. E.'s and the Uni versity of Tennessee will " go through the current season with out a single defeat. With the addition of Pledge Cate of Greensboro it looks like the Sigma Chi's have set a rec ord for the current year in the matter of pledging. Bill Horney who spent all the day of the Georgia v game in search of some one who would bet forty dollars with him on the game' has been treating all his acquaintances this - past week with the money he "earned" by his failure to place a bet. Incidentally, Coach 'Collins is reputed to have enlarged a rich vocabulary in addressing the team the first practice after the late lamented Georgia " unpleas-' antness. - Morris Xrasuy hailing from Newark, N.Y J., claims the dis tinction of being the only per son whose last name begins with the letter X. And we defy you to pronounce K. L. Kjellesnig's name correctly, the first time. ? 3 REFfMSCENCE! From the Tar Heel Files (By Howard M. Lee) Twenty-five Years Ago This Week the faculty of the Univer sity numbered 67 and the stu dents numbered 620. Carolina defeated V. P. I. in a football game 6-0. John -W. Lisk, a member of the freshman class, died in the infirmary from typhoid fever. Ten Years Ago This Week the Board of Trustees voted for the immediate construction of two new dormitories. the Carolina business- school opened for the first time. This school was limited to thirty stu dents. . ; j-y the students were' making an appeal to the University for a modern laundry. thirty-three Carolina alum ni received license to practice law in North Carolina. three new buildings were nearing completion. - These buildings were : Phillips hall, post-off ice, 'and the Presby terian church: - .v Five Years Ago This Week ; -the freshman football team licked the University of South Carolina Biddies 19-7., the University of'Maryland defeated Carolina 6-0 in football on Emerson field. ' a committee had been ap pointed to prepare a report on the plans and requirements for a new library build ing to be located behind South building and just beyond Mur phy hall. The Tar Heel says: "However, this is merely a preparatory step . and it will probably be several years be fore the new building will be erected." Dean Edwin Greenlaw at- If you think breakfast is the same old thing every morning, try Gooch's for a month. What a difference there is! What a ' variety of de lightful appetizing foods to choose from. And you eat at any hour you please. Before your first class or after it. X Come down today and try Gooch's new. break fast delight Bran Waffjes. Also Raisin, Pecan, Bacon and Cream Waffles. Hot Cakes with Maple Syrup. Dry Buttered or French .. Toast. Cereals galore. And Coffee what coffee ! You eat just as much or as little as you v want at Gooch's. - - m " Begin this morning and try Gooch's for a month. ' You'll never be late at Gooch's and you'll never pay. for meals you miss. Dine with the "gang" and enjoy every meal at Gooch's. A "TRIPLE THREAT" FEEDING ORGANIZATION Thursday,; October 31, 19,29 Hallowe'en Dance In Durham Tonight The big Hallowe'en dance, at which Jack Wardlaw is to pay at Koycroft's warehouse in Dur. ham, is scheduled for tonight, beginning at 9 and lasting until 2 o'clock. The dance was incorrectly ad vertised in yesterday's Daily Tar Heel as being Wednesday night, when the date was supposed to be Thursday night. The Durham affair is the o script dance in the locality to. night,'and is expected to draw a record throng of festive merry makers. The Roycroft's floor is a large one, and script has been held to one dollar. : tended the 26th annual confer, ence of the Association of Amer ican Universities at Minneapolis. Special! CAROLINA BELTS Latest Style Students' Supply Store "Everything in Stationery" TODAY AL JOLSON DAVEY LEE in "SAY IT WITH SONGS" Added Paramount Sound News Audio Review FRIDAY GEORGE O'BRIEN in "SALUTE" i r
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