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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Wednesday, May 7, I9;f
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ZA)t Dafip Car I?eel
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basement of Alumni
W. H. Yarborough, Jr. ... Editor
JACK Dungan .Mgr. Editor
Marion Alexander. . ..Bus. Mgr.
Hal V. Worth .Circulation Mgr.
associate editors
B.C.Moore J. C. Williams
K. C. Ramsay ,
CITY EDITORS
Sherman Shore Elbert Denning
G. E. French E. C. Daniel, Jr.
J. M. Little W. A. Shulenberger
J. G. Hamilton
EDITORIAL HOARD ;
. Holmes Davis, Jr. Moore Bryson
Joe Jones Edna Morrisette
E. F. 'Yarborough Henry, Anderson
Frank J. Manheim
; SPORTS EDITOR '
Browning Roach ,
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Jack Bessen '
REPORTERS
Louis Brooks
Charles Rose
J. P. Tyson
Hugh Wilson
Harold Cone
Harper Barnes
Howard M. Lee
Willard Hayes
Phil Liskin
Elizabeth Reid
Frank Hawley
R. W. Poole
Newbern Piland
Billy McKie
Glenn V. Wilkins
Otto Steinrekh
B. .F: Patrick
J. S. Weathers
C. A,
B. H. Whitton
Clyde Deitz
Nathan Volkman
Everard ?Shemwell
Willjetm Roberts
Jack Riley
Craig Wall
, Henry Wood
Alan Lowenstein
Dan Kelly
C. W. Allison
Milton Outlaw
Descum Roberts
Ed Thomas
T. H. Lingerfelt
Aaron Bloom
C. H. Ballard
Sam Silverstein
Renn
BUSINESS STAFF
Ashley Seawell Tom Badger
John Jemison Harry Latta
Bill Speight Donald Seawell
COLLECTION MANAGERS
J. C. Harris T. R. Karriker
B. C. Prince, Jr. Stuart Carr
Wednesday, May 7, 1930
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Men do not know that this striving
for an accumulation of riches is a
deadly sin - covetousness. Cannon
Donaldson of Westminster Abbey.
New .Auditorium
Or No Entertainments!
The recent action of the state
Budget Commission in slashing
appropriations and' calling on
various departments to curtail
expenditures may indicate . that
the University will not secure
the much needed auditorium for
another year. We need an audi
torium here. And we need one
large enough to accommodate at
least half the present student
body. Student 'entertainments,
University exercises, plays and
other occasions :require an audi
torium larger than the Method
ist church, Gerrard 'hall," or the
Playmakers theatre. . .
If the date for construction
of the proposed auditorium, is
moved hack or postponed indef
initely the Daily Tar Heel f avOrs
a movement to suspend or re
peal altogether the student en
tertainment fee. It is unreason
able to tax the students to pro
vide such entertainments unless
the Board of Trustees and the
state of North Carolina is able
to provide its largest institution
with an auditorium of sufficient
capacity to seat all those who
pay. It is unfair to those com
ing here on the program to be
forced to perform in a building
not constructed for such enter
tainments. And itus extremely
unfair to those serving on the
entertainment committee to ex7
pect them to provide accommo
dations when there are practi
cally no places suitable for such.
Unless the proposed' audi
torium is constructed and unless
the Budget Commission or who
ever is responsible for the delay
in its construction comes
through this spring we favor a
vote by the student body or sus
pension by the University ail
thorities of .the .-student enter -
tainment until such time as
those in control of the Univer
sity's purse see fit to provide us
with a place we may gather for
entertainments and student
meetings.
The Grand and
Glorious Egg!
This week, or wras it last, is
National Egg Week. It is the
w7eek devoted to the grand and
glorious peer of all foods, the
saviour of Swain Hall break
fasts.' Our first impression
was that this was one of in
numerable weeks devoted to
every kind of thing or activity.
But we soon realized that the
egg is justly entitled to its own
special week s any other great
American institution.
' The egg is one of the world's
oldest institutions. It might
even be argued with conviction
that it is the oldest. Dinosaur
eggs are about the most con
vincing relics that have , come
down out of fogs of antiquity.
Probably the food value of wild
birds' eggs was known to our
remote ancestors when they
crawled on their hands and
knees or even later when they
advanced to the stage where
they used clubs and rocks to se
cure their food.
Now the egg has a variety of I
uses. It may be used as a
source of food, as a means to
combat lengthy and uninterest
ing orators and in certain stages
of its existence to make a room
or a hall unfit for occupancy.
Its first use is the predominant
one.. Fried, with ham or bacon,
boiled or scrambled, the egg has
been effectively sung. In its
simplersaspects it is a symbol of
the American breakfast ; it en
ters into an amazing variety of
foods, so great is its adaptabil
ity and culinary congeniality.
The egg is indispensable in the
baking, pastry, and confection
ery industries. The home kitch
en hardly could get along with
out it. It figures in many con
coctions of the modern soda
fountain. The egg's connection
with certain potent mixtures of
the older, dryer days is the old
dark chapter in its otherwise
noble history.
Why consideration of the egg,
singly or as one of large num
bers, inspires to jocularity is not
clear. There certainly is noth
ing about an egg, of itself, that
is funny. Nor is the egg indus
try, which is said to return a
seventy-five cent profit on every
dollar investment, any joke.
Yet from the time Columbus out
witted his friends with his trick
of standing an egg on end, until
the introduction of Swain Hall
breakfasts, men have joked and
made fun of this almost-perfect
food. It is rumored that among
Swain Hall patrons the egg is
no longer a joke. '
And so the egg, too, must have
its week. In return for its
many services to mankind, that
is the least we can do for the
poor, often misused, egg. Let
us - always celebrate this -week
and pay homage to the greatest
of American institutions; A.
V. L..
Readers Opinions
IN PRAISE OF '"THORNS
AND ORANGE BLOSSOMS"
The following expression of
impressions and reflections
growing out of attendance upon
the performance of "Thorns and
Orange Blossoms" is part of a
letter written by a graduate
student to a friend in another
state. The writer, for obvious
reasons, oiits his signature, but
has made himself known to the
editor of the Tar Heel:
I am enclosing a playbill of
"Thorns and Orange "Blossoms,
the recently revived melodrama
1 of the 'eighties, which II -saw lin
a gorgeous presentation at the
Playmaker theatre here last
night. I am still more or less
lax and weak from laughter.
In my hilarious recollections of
the play this morning it has oc
curred to me that you might be
interested in the playbill, and in
an impression cr two of my own
arising out of the experience.
Though the play was presum-Jthe
ably revived by Paul Green and
Wilbur Daniel Steele (the lat
ter is living here now7) , I believe
that actually these professionals
had very little to do with it. The
advertisement of them as the im
pressarios of the "Imperial
Stock Company" is a part of the
joke, and illustrative of the
spirit of play which gave the
enterprise such ' tremendous
verve. Actually the moving
force and presiding genius was,
I hear, Howard Mumford Jones,
who, after a brilliant record
here, has just accepted a call to
Michigan, and who seems to have
been making the show his char
acteristic farewell to Chapel
Hiii. ;
I suppose that you know
enough about the dramatic
! genre of which it is an example
to take the character of "Thorns
and Orange Blossoms" for
granted. At any rate, it is as
lachrymose and gorgeously melo
dramatic as you could wTell im
agine. And the presentation
certainly heightened all the ef
fects. The acting wras superb
of its kind. The cast was al
most entirely composed of Uni
versity professors and members
of professorial families mature
people with a sophisticated con
ception of wThat they were try
ing to do. The staging was very
elaborate costumes, make-up,
sets, stage business and stage!
effects wTere all that heart could
have desired. Even the music
rendered by a professorial or
chestra and. by professorial sing
ers was perfect in its kind. You
would have been reduced to tears
of mirth, as I was, by this fea
ture alone. And the audience,
packed to the aisles and corners
last night, as on Friday night,
was perfect in its wray as was
the presentation. We hissed.the
villain, moaned and signed with
the outcast wife, and patted our
feet to the music.
The whole experience gave
definition and emphasis to a feel
ing that has been growing in me
ever since I have come to know
this University. My impression,
clumsily put into words, is of the
splendid vitality, the verve, and
the fine sense of play that char
acterize this community and its
life. The people here, as simple
and lovable as our own people,
are alive to the finger-tips and
are enjoying life as the Greeks
and the Elizabethans enjoyed it,
and in much the same way ;
namely, by doing things for
themselves, capitalizing their
own resources, putting into play
their own talents. They are
sophisticated in the best sense
that is, as I conceive the idea,
without being cynical and they
exhibit towards one another's
artistic efforts the tolerant and
sympathetic spirit of enlight
ened amateurs. In other words,
they realize in theory and in
practice that in all but first-rate
art there is a lot of convention,
even of bunk, but that if art is
not sterile and esoteric, conven
tionyes, bunk too must be
accepted.
Though numerous other agen
cies, institutions, and activities
here constitute and in various
ways express the community vi
tality, of which I have spoken,
the Carolina Playmakers with
their theatre were the immediate
background of the delightful
presentation of "Thorns arid
Orange Blossoms." They fur
nished the theatre and, I un
derstand, much of the technical
work of presentation, and, of
course, their tradition and their
past labors in large measure pro-
duced the audience needful inj
numbers, money, and apprecia
tion for such a show.
All of these reflections grow
ing out of my experience sug
gest most, strenuously suggest
to me the need we have at
home for something approxi
mating the Playmakers here.
Our community has the vitality,
intelligence, and the sophis-
tirntion necessary for such an
institution and its enterprises.
I believe that our students, m
social background, in native abil
ity, and in previous training are
the equals of the Carolina boys
and girls. In the solid routine
work of undergraduate grade,
( Continued on page four)
Personnel Paragraphs
By Henry Johnston, Jr.
(Editor's Note: Mr. John
ston is director of the bureau of
vocational information, which is
a Tparbof Kthe office of the dean
of students and is located at 20
South building.)
-
"We" hate the thought of be
coming a column writer, but
ideas and suggestions pass
through this office sometimes
believe it or not! Possibly just
one of them may be interesting
or helpful to some student or
faculty member. With this
"vision" in mind, "we" muster
our courage for the great con
flict. The "we" above may be edi
torial. One of its important
functions, however, is to asso
ciate "us" with Colonel Lind
bergh. Since we have no repu
tation' to carry us, we take the
liberty of joining with the many
big business concerns that de
pend upon "Lindy" to put across
their advertising programs.
"We're off!"
We don't like to make such a
sudden break here in . the
"thought," but one of the Bell
Telephone Company executives
who was here in January could
not understand why more col
lege students do not take public
speaking as a part of their busi
ness training. "Business men
today," says he, "should be able
to express their thoughts clear-
j ly and concisely. The man who
'cannot express his thoughts is
at a big disadvantage."
"
Three definite requirements
made by the Eastman Kodak
Company of the men whom they
accept for foreign service work
this year are: (1) training in
Spanish; (2) elementary ac
counting; (3) desire to make
foreign trade a life career. This
is a concrete instance which
shows one practical value of a
foreign language.
Employers are particularly
interested in knowing how stu
dents spend their spare time
in summer vacations. They al
ways seem favorably impressed
if a boy has tried to improve his
financial condition or to supple
ment his educational experi
ence. The same may be said for
participation in worth - while
campus activities. Such activi
ties, they find, tend- to develop
personality something they all
look for, but none . can exactly
define.
Many students wait until the
spring of their senior year be
fore they realize that they in
tended to use their summer va
cations as "try-out" experiences
in one kind of work or another.
Those who have made profitable
use of their summers often have
more or less definite ideas about
what they do or do not like to
do. Those who have "loafed"
during the summers are often at
a loss as to just where, when
and how to begin what.
Listed below are some of the
large business firms which have
sent representatives to Chapel
Hill during the current year to
discuss employment with mem
bers of the senior class y Vick
Chemical Company, W. T. Grant
Company, E. L duPont de
Nemours & Company, duPont
Rayon Company, Southern Bell
Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, New York Telephone
Company, Westinghouse Elec
tric Company, General Electric
Company, S. H. Kress & Com
pany, Eastman Kodak Company,
Remington Rand Business Ser
vice, Inc., The Procter & Gam
ble Company, B. F. Goodrich
Rubber Company, Standard Oil
Company of New York.
The Standard Oil Company
representative made an interest
ing statement about his com
pany's experience with men who
go into foreign service work.
He says, "About 50 per cent of
our men become very enthusias
tic about foreign work and the
type of life they live among the
natives of another land. When
they come home for a vacation,
they get "bored" with this coun
try and can hardly wait for the
time to return. On the other
hand, the other 50 per cent be
come dissatisfied and never want
to see the foreign country
again." For this reason, he
warned the students whom he
interviewed that they should be
very careful before deciding to
go into foreign work. He sug
gested that they talk with
friends or acquaintances who
have worked in a foreign coun
try, so as to get , first-hand in
formation about both the dis
agreeable and attractive fea
tures of such a life.
Both the Eastman Kodak and
Standard Oil Companies insist
that men whom they send to the
foreign field be unmarried at
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went to the leading tennis players and studied
their foot action and shoe requirements.
Then they created this new and distinctly
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The HOOD Vantage has extra toe reinforce
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Soft, thick sponce cushion heels absorb all
shocks and jars -from sliding, smashing play.
Smokrepe sobs of Iiv3, springy rubber add
speed to your game. Equally good on grass
or clay courts.
Whether you're a" champion or a beginner,
you'll play a better game in Hood Vantage
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least until the time of their fir
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vacation. This means for about
24 to 3 years. They want the
man to know exactly "what
is getting his girl into" before
it is too late.
Spalding
Tennis Balls
reduced to
3 for 1.25
Now we can sell you Spalding Tennis
Balls the fastest, liveliest balls made
at the new reduced price of 3 for 1.25.
Unwrapped or in the amazing new Scal
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