Published daily during the 'college
year except Mondays and except
Thanksgiving, Christmas and
Spring Holidays.
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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. " .,
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Glenn Holder..........11- Editor
Will Yarborough.. Jgrr. Editor
Marion Alexander...1.ms. Mgr.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
John Mebane Harry Galland
ASSISTANT EDITORS : "
J. Elwin Dungn - J.D. McNairy
Joe Jones B. C. Moore
J. C. Williams
CITY EDITORS n 1
E. F. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay
Elbert Denning Sherman Show
SPORTS EDITOR .
Henry L. Anderson
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS
Joe Eagles Crawford McKethari
REPORTERS ,'
Howard Lee Frank Manheim
Holmes Davis
Louis Brooks
Charles Rose
Kemp Yarborough
. Mary Price
J. P. Tyson
Browning ; Roach
Al Lansf ord
Joe Carpenter
Peggy Lintner
E. C. Daniel
W. A- Shulenberger
G. E. French
Mary --MV Dunlap
Clyde Deitz
George Sheram
Robert Hodges
John La than
B. H. Whitton
Nathan Volkman
George Stone
George Vick
Jack Riley
T. E. Marshall
R. T. Martin
J. S. Weathers
Stanley Weinberg
Friday, November 22, 1929
Music
Appreciation?
Last week the Marine Band,
probably the finest musical or
ganization of its type, in the
United States, presented two
concerts here under the auspices
of the University Y.M.C. A, Ap
proximately $2,000 was expend
ed in bringing the band to Chap
el Hill ; the Y officials expected
to incur a small deficit; on the
concerts, reasoning that the
financial loss would be compen
sated for by the fact "that the
undergraduates would be given
an. opportunity to ' Hear some
really worthwhile music.
Audiences of perhaps 500 per
sons were in attendance at each
of the two concerts. Composed
almost entirely of townspeople
and faculty members, these au
diences were much smaller than
the most pessimistic of predic
tions had estimated. As . a result
the Y lost a very, large propor
tion of the sum represented by
the total expenses incurred in
bringing the band to Chapel
Hill. "
Many persons capable of ap
preciating good music look with
disfavor upon band concerts, it
is true. The socially-minded
are likely to regard bands with
disdain. In their estimation
symphony orchestras ': are much ,
more "fashionable? than bands;
they regard band concerts as
rather declasse. This attitude
is
especially prevalent within
the University faculty circles,
cuiivug me iuuiessors ana tneir
wives. But even these disdain
ers of band music must admit
that it is vastly superior to the
hideous jazz that reigns supreme
among the undergraduates. Al
though the more complicated of
symphonies and operas cannot
be easily comprehended by the
novice, there is something lack
ing in the makeup of the person
who is not attracted by good
music, who does not respond td
the elements of the divine repre
sented by it one of the few
things, within the range of
human perception which really
deserves the adjective divine.
An excellent music apprecia
tion course (Music 3) is offered
by the University. If the recep
tion accorded the Marine Band
is any indication, the average
student here is utterly indiffer
ent to good music, if not lack
ing in the capacity to appreciate
it. A survey made here four
years ago by the ill-fated Faun,
a publication devoted to under-1
giauuovi, V-'Jii.XJ.UJ.l, kuat
classical records were practi
cally unknown in most of the
f rat houses on the local cam
pus ; since that time jazz and
its equally disreputable ally, the
cheaply sentimental music that
has been composed in tremen
dous, quantities during the past
year, have certainly not de
creased in popularity. Probably
a compulsory course in music
appreciation would be more pro
ductive of real benefit to the un
dergraduate than any other cur
ricular change that . might be
made at the University. ;
.
Censorship
One would think that in this
land of the free the question of
censorship should be handled
with gloves so that it would not
be made evident as an infringe
ment on the inalienable rights of
citizenship. But there is no op
portunity of handling the prob
lem delicately; censorship is
1 1 1 A
Drougnt oeiore our eyes con
stantly as a very real and objec
tionable form of American big
otry and narrow-minded prud
ery. The most representative
city for, this virulent expression
of the restriction of liberty is
of course Boston, notorious for
its municipal censor who regu
larly gains publicity by his ef
forts to safeguard the morals of
the Hub City residents. But
Boston's reputation for bigoted
censorship, like Chicago's crime
record, is familiar because of
the wide notoriety obtained
through newspapers and peri
odicals. ,
The censorship evil, unfor
tunately, extends far wider ; it
assumes universal proportions.
Custom officials ban Joyce's
Ulysses, the unexpurgated Ara
bian Nights, and dozens of
others; the library in Julia
Peterkin's home town refuses to
place Scarlet Sister Mary on the
shelves; Desire Under the Elms
was banned in Los Angeles and
the entire cast placed under ar
rest. To return to Boston any
number of examples can be men
tioned : Hemmingway's Fare
well to Arms, Remarque's All
Quiet on the Western Front,
O'Neill's Strange Interlude
Periodically the censor, with ap
parently no protest from the
citizenry, investigates libraries
and bookstores, and anything
considered lewd that falls under
his careful observation, regard
less of its reputation or literary
merit, is officially censored, and
the smirking Bostonians must
rush pell mell elsewhere to ob
tain or to see this most obscene
object of " the censor's disap
proval. This evil extends to other
fields besides literature. .It is
well known that many moving
pictures are "cut" when they
come from a liberal to a blue
law state. Picture after nicture
comes south mangled beyond
any hope of unity and logical
order or devoid of some scenes
that the smug censor considers
too "hot" for the passionate
southerner. This often extends
to ludicrous limits. When the
German production Variety,
with Emil Jannings, was first
imported it was screened here
as abroad. But when it trav
eled south (the cutting usually
begins in Pennsylvania) the first
two reels were taken out, all be
cause -they portrayed the hero
as an adulterer. The innocent
southerner enjoyed the feature
placidly seeing it under the de
lusion lthat Janning's mistress
was his wife. And then they
went home to read in the news
papers about the infamous Gray
Shyder triangle! When will the
upright censor begin doing his
work on the newspapers ?
Censorship, besides narrow
ing down personal liberty to a
perilously thin edge, accomplish
es nothing besides the making
evident of a smugly rotten hy-
IHL DAILY
pocrisy. The way this evil i?
practiced defeats its own pur-
pose. The minute something is
banned the purient ones, who in
all probability would never have
heard of the novel or. the play
or the poem otherwise, move
heaven and earth to satisfy
themselves . as to the content.
Occasionally the practice of cen
sorship brings before the public
a work of true literary value
which would otherwise have re
mained obscure and unknown.
But usually the ones who profit
by the wretched performance
are the authors, who chuckle
with glee to see the shekels roll
in. To be .the author of a
banned book puts one in the
moneyed class, and the lustful
ones leer, the playwright tears
his hair in ' rage, the audiences
curse impotently at the cut
photoplay, and the vulgar bur
lesque, the daring reviews, the
smutty magazines go merrily on
under the shadow of this ab
surdly grotesque hydre, hypo
critical censorship. R. H.
Firemen Who Can't
Save the Child
(H. J. G.)
Much criticism has been ex
pressed recently due to the ac
tion of the Chapel Hill Fire De
partment. The fire at the rub
bish dump last week occasioned
the first remarks, and the Ken
field fire this week has re
awakened the inquiring individ
uals who want to know "Why?"
According to witnesses, the
fire department arrived at the
Kenfield fire, looked over the
ground, found, the house to be
burning merrily, and watched it
without further action. Furth
er, this is more or less what
happened . ' , i
Chief Foister,, after answer
ing the alarm in double-quick
time, found the fire was just be
yond the town lines. He was
powerless to do anything about
it. Chapel Hill is underwritten
in Class B. A Fire Department
is maintained for property
holders who pay taxes within
the boundaries of the town. It
is the duty of the department
to protect the town and the town
alone. If an alarm is answered
outside the limits, the hose in
unrolled and the fire fought,
then the risk is run that a fire
will break out within the town
lines. In such a case, it is clear
that the firemen must be ready
at all times to attend the fires
in the town.
When, as was the case with
the rubbish fire last week, it is
found that there is not suffi
cient hose to cover the fire and
leave a surplus in case of an
other call, the Durham depart
ment is called on. Chief Foister
ment is called on. Chief Fois
ter, after looking over the fire
last week, sent Durham a call.
They responded with a thousand
feet of hose and six men, who
were stationed in the fire house
to take care of local calls while
the local force was fighting the
rubbish fire. This accounted for
the men and the apparatus seen
i 4-1 j?; i. .t
in uie lire nouse wnne a tir
was raging in the vicinity of the
town..
Oflders are officially given
Chief Foister, and he is forced
to carry them out. His force,
with the exception of two men,
is entirely voluntary and re
ceives no pay. They are always
ready and have proved their
worth many times. For them,
and for the Chief, who is fol
lowing orders, there is no criti
cism. The fault lies in the in
flexibility of the orders given,
and in the failure of the property-owners
outside of the town
lines to pay taxes and insist that
they be included in the jurisdic
tion of the local fire force. Un
til this is done, we will have such
scenes as the Kenfield fire
Chapel Hill firemen, with their
equipment, watching a Chapel
Hill blaze, and powerless to get
into action.
TAR HEEL
Readers' Opinions
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE
' MOTHER
Tune : Unnecessary
To be sung at two o'clock in
the morning from a third story
dormitory window.
I'll poke my head from the win
dow And 'howl at the moon and the
sky.
I'm only a poor little freshman -
0, how I wish I could die!
' (loud and mournful)
Or maybe the title of Soph.
I loudly and strenuously claim,
(weaker)
But still I'm sad and lonely,
And whai's the difference in a
-name?
(high and very mounrful)
The dorms and the campus are
silent.
The mid-night oil has- "burned
; : low. : ' 'V
I'm a child of bright lights and
: noise ;
This silence gives my heart woe.
(howlingly)
I came to old Carolina
Much pleasure expecting to find,
But why must there be that long
; interval
From one a. m. until nine?
(sad and questioningly)
Spirit. Is there none in Carolina
That coincides with my own?
Oh, Why am I left at this time
Through these long silent hours
to moan? (hopelessly)
Oh joy ! I see through a window
O'er yonder a light is turned on
Silhouetting in its radiance a
head. . v
With hair all tousled and torn,
i The song ends with a trium
phant burst as the garbage cans
of the English language' are
emptied from several dormitory
windows.
A SLEEPYHEAD.
1. WEINES COMING DOWN!
Editor "the Daily, Tar Heel:
I am, in common .with a few
hundred others, a student in the
University of North Carolina.
That fact seems sufficient to
numerous friends outside for
me to perform miracles possible
only to Moses and a selected
group of Biblical prophets. My
names is not Moses.
I have been requested, at this
late date, to get tickets for the
Carolina-Virginia game "on the
fifty-yard, line," "at least on the
thirty-yard line" and (actually)
two in the Governor's box. How
this is to be accomplished I for
one don't know, and certainly
Mr. Woollen, who is doing a
mans-sized job, doesn't know
either. I have, however, a little
idea.
Do you think it would be pos
sible to suspend a swinging box
on cables directly over the cen
ter of the field? Friends, alum
ni, visitors and others who re
quest tickets and expect to get
them on the fifty-yard line at
the last minute could then havej
their wishes granted. Nor is
this the best feature of the plan.
At a suitable moment, it would
be possible to cut the cables, and
thus solve another campus prob
lem. But, Mr. "Editor, I reserve
the right to do the cutting.
JOHNSON TRIPE.
Infirmary List
J. C. Craig, sophomore of
Waxhaw, is confined with a cold.
Frank W. Farrell," sophomore
of Cary, is also confined with a
cold.
Stanley E. Green, senior of
Boiling Springs, is laid up with
chills.
B. Leonard Kiser of Lincoln-
ton is also suffering with a cold.
SENIOR NOTICE
All seniors are requested to
have their photographs made
before Thanksgiving, if possible.
Please cooperate.
WOOTTEN - MOULTON
The Campus
11
By Joe Jones
Said President Kemp Battle
to Governor Jarvis on the ros
trum of an overcrowded Garrard
hall during the .commencement
exercises of 1883, "Governor, if
you will promise that next year
we will have a building to accom
modate everybody, I will show
you where the money will come
from." "Agreed," answered the
Governor; whereupon from the
audience came great applause,
especially loud and long from the
large number of spectators who
were of necessity standing out
side looking in through windows
and doors. And that was the
beginning of Memorial hall.
Dr. Battle at once appointed
a committee to obtain subscrip
tions, while Governor Jarvis
went straight back to Raleigh
and ordered; a supply of favor
ably priced bricks from the State
Prison brick kiln. Sam Sloan,
a Philadelphia architect, was
engaged. He submitted his
plans, named $20,000 as the
cost, and began to builcU; But
the $20,000 was extremely slow
in appearing.
.-V However, there was at the
time a movement on foot in Ral
eigh to erect a cenotaph to Pres
ident Swain on the University
campus, so the architect said, "A
cenotaph isn't very practical, so
why not use that money to help
with the auditorium." All
"agreed, and the work went for
ward. Soon, however, Mr. Sloan re
stated the cost as $25,000, which
was $5,000 more than he had
at first expected. More subscrip
tions were pledgedand the work
went forward. In a short while
MrrSloan said he was sorry but
that it was going to cost $30,000.
President Battle said, "All right,
we'll turn the building into a
general memorial hall. We'll put
in marble tablets commemorat
ing prominent alumni and of
ficers of the University, and col
lect funds for the tablets from
the friends and descendants of
these men. We'll use the sur
plus for the building." This they
did, and the work went forward.
In two weeks Mr. Sloan
begged pardon,and said it would
cost $40,000. Dr. Battle and
Professor Winston, after a long
hard struggle, collected $10,000
on the tablets, and the work
again went forward.
When the time came to raise
the great wooden supporting
arches a celebration was
planned." Speeches were made,
formalities were gone through
with, and the arches were raised
high in air. But the tackle
jammed, the ropes broke, the
arches crashed to the ground,
the crowd scattered, and the
meeting was broken up:
.now," said Mr. Sloan, "it's
going to cost $45,000. A loan
was made by Paul C. Cameron,
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Friday, November 22, 1929
CONN HOLDS FELLOWSHIP
The American Petroleum In
stitute yearly awards to Yale,
Johns Hopkins, North Western
Princeton, Elinois, Massachu
setts Institute of Technology
and other large institutions g
fellowship for fundamental re
search paying a thousand dol
lars.; It has been awarded this
year to only two southern Uni
versities, The Universities of
Texas and North Carolina. This
is considered, a signal honor for
the University to have. Mr.
Miller Conn holds this fellow
ship and is working under the
direction of Dr. Bost, now as
sistant professor of chemistry
of the University. His project
is the investigation of the pre
paration and propertiea of the
Thiophenes, a type of sulphur
compounds about which very
little is known. Mr. Conn is a
graduate of Mississippi.
Ted Lewis' New Record
Leads Columbia Releases
"Aha, Stick Around a While !"
It's Ted Lewis, singing "Lady
Luck" a-top of the pile of new
Columbia record this week, un
der his own blac. kand silver
seal. His trick-of-the-week is
to make rowdy with this music
box tune, and then on the other
side sail right off in "My Little
Dream Boat" with sweet little'
curlycues, both styles done as
only Ted can.
Five dollars was the cost of
the first cable message to Eng
land.
but before the structure could bo
finished Mr. Sloan died from
sunstroke. Then his two as
sistants, A. G. Bauer and John
Richards, proceeded to carry on
the work. They at last com
pleted Memorial hall, and then
both of them committed suicide.
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