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Tclzq Two THE DAILY TAB HEEL Thursday, November 14, 1929 iV dTitl'M T0 J,cTTRpublicall, s so utterly devoid I quently through the medium of j i)S Xialip W 0f intellect that he imagines such the Tar Heel, although theyj a scheme to be practicable. How should be aware of its impor- would Republicans be able to in- tance at least by the. end of their duce northern - Democrats to freshman year. Published daily during the college year except Mondays and except Tvwirctrivine"- Christmas and 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 Holder......... -Editor Will Yarborough ..-Mgr?. Editor Marion Alexander. ..!jBms . Mgr. ASSOCIATE EDITORS John Mebane Harry Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS J. Elwin Dungan - J. D. McNairy Joe Jones C Moore B J. C. Williams I CITY EDITORS E. F. Yarborough '' K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning Sherman Shore SPORTS EDITOR - Henry L. Anderson , - ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS Joe Eagles Crawford McKethan REPORTERS Howard Lee ' ' Frank Manheim run negro candidates for Con gress ? After all, there are quite a few astute men in the Demo cratic ranks, and very little astuteness "is required to see through the far from opaque ruse. ' Nope, the affair appears from this distance to bear a sus piciously strong resemblance to the propaganda which has been manufactured by the Democratic party during the past few months. . But whether the plan was really conceived by the Re publicans or whether the entire affair is an especially cunning outgrowth of Democratic in genuity, it is diabolical in its implications. Political appeals to race prejudice are dangerous and utterly damnable, especially in the South. The Campus Holmes Davis Louis Brooks . Charles Rose Kemp Yarborough Mary Price J. P. Tyson Browning Roach Al Lansford Joe Carpenter Peggy Lintner E. C. Daniel W. A. Shulenberger G. E. French Mary M. Dunlap Clyde Deitz George Sheram : Robert Hodges John Lathan B. H. Whitton Nathan Volkman George Stone George Vick Jack Riley T. E. Marshall R. T. Martin J. S. Weathers Stanley "Weinberg Thursday, November 14, 1929 Tar Heel Topics The guy who got four X's on midterms and wrote his parents that X is an abbreviation for ex cellent is our idea of an optimist A few weeks ago it was front page , news when stock prices failed to gain an average of at least half dozen points ; now it's worth a streamer when they fail to lose two dozen points. ' : Dusky Politics We quote from a dispatch by the esteemed AP, appearing, in the dailies yesterday: "promo tion of a plan to put negro can didates in the race for Congress in the north ' as Democrats in order to 'hold in line' the south ern states which went for Her bert Hoover in the last election was attributed to J. A. Arnold, manager of the Southern Tariff association, today by the senate lobby committee." Described as a program for "blackening the Democratic party," the scheme was . attrib uted by Arnold to Vance Muse, 'field representative of the tariff association. A letter from Ar nold to Muse revealed that the former went "with the darkey today to see Vice President Curtis and he thought well of our negro congressman idea, but said it was a . matter which should be taken up with Mr. Hoover and that he would talk with Hoover about it." Sounds like old times in the political arena. A few decades ago the cry of "nigger" was enough to ruin the political career of any hopeful in the South, or of any party for that matter. ' The famous DePriest tea at the White House a few months ago revived the ebon shade which has hovered over the Republican campaigns in "the South since carpet-bagging ... was in its prime. In the last presidential fiasco the Republi cans managed to shake them selves free; of the dusky stigma for the, first time in over half a century, and now it appears that they have decided to tar the gentlemen of the opposition with the same brush that has been used quite effectively upon them selves. A clever political maneuv er, if maneuver it is. ' But we smell a ,nigger in the woodpile. In the first place, we doubt seriously that anybody, even a Substituting The Tin Can For Memorial Hall - Tonight the Tin Can will be used perhaps for the first time as a concert hall. Since the University announced that Me morial hall would be closed for an indefinite length of time, those agencies sponsoring lec ture and concert programs de cided upon the plan of equipping the old Tin Can with the con veniences suitable to accommo dating these programs. Con sequently" new seating arrange ments have been made, the acoustics have been improved, and, most important of all, a heating system has been in stalled. Therefore, most all of the disadvantages of the 'tin Can as a concert hall have been removed, and the building should not be 'lacking in comfort to the audience. - Because of the" emergency of the situation, the Tin Can will out of necessity be used in place of Memorial hall. The concert tonight is as much an experiment as anything else, in so far as the place is concerned. Those in charge of the affair are working under a serious handicap in making it a success. Not only the students but the citizens of .Chapel Hill as well, in considering the proposition, are apt to look only at their ex periences of chill and cold dur ing basketball games. Many will no doubt be dubious about heating arrangements and will not attend on that score: Ac cording to authoritative state ments, however, these fears are to be removed. It happens that tonight's con cert by the United States Ma rine Band is being sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. The -latter or ganization is doing the student body a real service in bringing entertainment of this calibre here, and the students should not fail to support a thing of this sort just because of ,, the shift in place. The future of the remainder of the year's en tertainment program depends largely upon the support given by the students and townspeo pie to the feature this evening B. M Freshmen ought to know by this time what the walks are for. They are not built to im prove the landscape features, but to protect the grass and to expedite rather than to retard traffic. x Much money has been spent on the campus recently, especial ly on v the southern part. The state legislature appropriated a I large sum for the purpose of beautifying the grounds f alone. The planting of grass and gen eral landscaping of the south campus was in keeping with the development of that section in buildings and equipment. Hence, the property, even if only for the financial investment, -should be takSn care of as much as possible. Grass killers should realize in the future, that walkways and gravel paths are made to . walk j on. . B. M. By Joe Jones Campus Life Of late many, scribblers and not a few writers have put con troversial pen to paper in the name of great god Football. Laudation, .condemnation, vin dication and indictment of the game have flowed glibly from the inkhorns.. Likewise, senates and committees and governnig bodies have sat in .weighty con clave on the sub j ect. ;: Mean while, new stadia continue to arise, crowds continue to fill them, the signals are called, the pass taken from the air, the touchdown scored, the game played ; and football, whose other name .is Conflict, uncon cernedly weathers the storms of verbosity. - Readers' Opinions A NEW KEEP OFF THE GRASS MOVEMENT Grass Killers In deference to precedent we submit herewith our annua reprimand to those who persist in treading the campus greens rather than the gravel walk ways. Every year the Uhiver sity authorities take great pains in warning the students, upper classmen as well as freshmen not 4o walk on the grass. How ever, there are some who dis regard these pleas, and the ero sion of the grass continues. It should be unnecessary to warn upperdlassmen that if they do not refrain from walking on the grass a beautiful campus cannot be maintained At tempts to impress this fact up on them are made quite fre Editor the Daily Tar Heel: A new movement is on foot on the campus. This is to make the dormitory presidents and councilmen responsible for the beauty of the grass adjacent to their respective "dormitories. - In recent years, since the inaugu ration of the present system of self-government, it has been the principle of dormitory govern ment that the dormitory council men should not have jurisdiction over any activities without the walls of the dormitory in which hey resided, their chief concern being with noise, agents,- and disturbances detracting from the ability of the students to study. This year, it was seen by the Dormitory club that some steps should be taken to inform the students that they were not sup posed to play football on the grass. After offenders had been informed and warned to discon tinue their athletic contests on the campus, they were to be dealt with by the men in wjiose dormitory jurisdiction they re- lded. In other words, if occu pants of Carr played football in front of F, they would be dealt with, by the Carr council,, and not the F council. ' To make this plan effective, the Dormitory club suggested gested that a student be hired to go around and inform first of fenders. If he caught the same men on the grass again to turn their names in to their respec tive councils. These councils have power to expel occupants from the dormitory, with loss of room rent, and to forbid these expelled men, through the Uni versity business office, to secure a room on the campus in the next two succeeding quarters. In other words, the dormitory councif has power "to enforce its demands. All appeals from the decisions of the dormitory coun cil are taken to the student coun cil, and must be perfected with in a short time after expulsion from the dormitory. It was not contemplated by the club to make the student informer con cerning the proper use of grass in any manner av policeman. It was thought that prudent and thinking students, even if being unmindful once, would not have to be reminded often concerning the maintenance of the beauty of the campus. ' The ill effects of trampling grass are easily, seen by some of the students, but it has to be explained to others. Even explanations become bor ing to the explainer, at length, and more remindful methods have to be employed. J. A. WILLIAMS. Which is as it was in the be ginning, and will be for a great while to come. For there is that in every man and woman which answers the thrilliiig note of conflict. The thing that makes men enlist and women say 'go!' when cthe drums beat .is the same as that which causes, non- I chalant students and dignified college presidents to wallop each other on the back when the slashing halfback runs sixty yards for touchdown. The crowd that yells and shrieks for Captain Farris and his men coming all hot and bloody from the field is the same crowd that hailed the news of Leonidas and his four hundred at Thermopy lae, that shouted to Achilles and Hector from the windy walls of Troy, that watched Launcelot and his knights drive hard in the lists of Camelot, that wept and sang of Pickett and his Vir ginians climbing the deathly hill at Gettysburg. -The crowd at Kenan stadium is as easily driven to frenzy as was the crowd in the Colosseum, and the modern grid warriors are as hard fighters as ever Spar tacus and his gladiators were. Of course we are all somewhat less bloodthirsty, but we are no wise ripe, for the abolition of the thing, football symbolizes, B,nd which is as old as life itself. fQ,, tiOV P lA iood carw for a epSfoi? is short M'li Say, I dob a Pab cherto for the Short story i wrobz. home to dad, u up to heaven of their 'hurrying homewards." By merely changing the word 'heralds' to" 'cheerleaders,' and 'ships' to .'cars' we have a per fectly literal .description of a 1929 football crowd written by Homer some eight centuries be fore Christ. Here it is, direct from the Iliad: "Even as when the tribes of thronging pees isr sue from some hollow rock, ever in fresh procession, and fly clus tering among the flowers of spring, and some on this hand and some on that fly thick ; even so from - the ships and huts marched forth the many tribes by companies to the place of assembly. And so they gath ered, and the ; place of assem blage was in an uproar, and the earth echoed again as the hosts sate them down, and there was turmoil. Nine heralds restrained ttieni with shouting, if perchance they might refrain frorn clam our. And hardly at the last would the people sit, and keep them to their benches and cease from noise. "And the assembly swayed like high sea waves of the Icarian Main that east wind and south wind raise, rushing, upon them from the clouds of father Zeus, and even as when the west windcometh tp stir a deep corn field with violent blast, and the ears bow down, so was all the assembly stirred, and they with shouting hasted toward the ships; and the dust from be neath their feet rose and stood on high. ; And they bade each man his neighbor to seize the ships, and clear out the launch ing ways; and the noise went Some folks say that romance, chivalry, high adventure and such are outworn and dead. Football is not only proof posi tive to the contrary, but it serves a more practical and valuable purpose it is a substitute for war and unruly strife which are prone to break forth from re pression and dullness. Phillips Russell, the author, in writing of the old days at the Univer sity when he was a student here, admirably clarifies this point. He says, "Here, 20 feet east of the Well, N. and S. once fought with their lists for two hours. They fought until they could only tap each other feebly. The whole college was there. It was brutal, it was disgraceful. We enjoyed every moment of it. It did something for ug' released some obscure tension, broke up some inner dam. We heeded that s fight. It was after - the close of the football season, and from then until the opening of baseball, there yawned a dismal vacancy, hollow and dry as a skull. This period is filled now, perhaps, with vigorous and use ful activities. We hope so, for this interim is loaded with dynamite." REMINISCENSES From the Tar Heel Files By Howard M. Lee Twenty-five Years Ago This Week: Carolina played A. & M. to a 6 and 6 tie. The University figured promi nently at the State Library As sociation meeting. , Professor Howell entertained a party at a, supper after a musical concert. . - Several sophomores insulted a medical , .student, who de manded the expulsion of the of fenders. The sophomores re quested Golden , Fleece to use its efforts to settle the affair. After the men had promised that they would never engage in hazing ' again, Golden Fleece finally persuaded the Executive Committee to have the matter dropped. 'Rid Rita' Is First To Show Screen Power There's a new phase-of the theatrical business in the mak ing. Broadway producers are beginning to wonder about "stage rights" to screen produc tions for the first time. One of the films that has brought about this new point, of view on the exchange of stage L and screen material and talent ! is "Rio Rita," the all-talking, all musical extravaganza Radio Pictures has made from the Ziegfeld hit. The immediate reaction to the rich production value of the film "Rio Rita," its new music, new sets, new costumes and wealth of color and beauty, . is that Broadway, stage producers soon will be seeking "stage rights"! to the bigger screen productions instead of the screen invading Broadway for its ideas and tal-. ent. V I ; ' ! . '.y v C , There were several figures connected with the screening of 'Rio Rita" who were associated in the original stage production. Harry Tierney, who wrote the score was t one. , "Rio . Rita" is. shown again today at the Carolina theatre. Ten Years Ago This Week: The freshman football squad beat? 'the Danville High School eleven 74-0. The student body held a pep meeting and a snake dance on the , athletic field. The Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's League was organized. ' Dudley D. Carroll was initi ated into the Kappa chapter of Psi Kappa Phi.s Professor Collier Cobb gave an illustrated lecture on '"Beau tiful Italy, Mother of Civiliza tion" at Flora McDonald college. Five Years Ago This Week : 'The Law School received a portrait of Dr. John Manning. The Carolina Playmakers left on their ninth state tour. Sigma Nu made a contract with B. S. Thompson for the construction of a fraternity house; Dean Carroll wrote the fac ulty that he was "having a wonderful time hob - nobbing with European notables." Forty-five new tennis courts were partially completed. " .George B. Thomas of the Western Electric Company vis ited the engineering school for the purpose of interesting men " in the telephone ; industry. The University had an epi demic of hiccoughs. Talkies aren't true to life. The woman always waits until the man finishes what he has to say.Durham Herald.