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f P2e Two l)t Datlg Car ttl Published daUy during the college year except Mondays and except Ihanksgiving', Christmas ana Spring Holidays. Entered as Sec - ond Clas3 -matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under Act of March 3, 1879. The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Jack Dungari..; . JJEditor Ed French... ..... Mng. Ed. John Manning.... ..... Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, Jr., Chairman F. J. Manheim Peter Hairston R. W. Barnett Vass Shephard J. M. Little Angus McLean A.- J. Stahr CITY EDITORS Bill McKee George Wilson. Jack Riley. W. T. Blackwell Bob Woerner Don Shoemaker DESK MEN Frank Hawley E. M. Spruill W. E. Davis Otto Steinreich SPORTS Jack Bessen, ''Editor Tom Broughton Phil Alston NEWS MEN Morrie Lotfg Claiborn Carr Bill Blount Tom Walker HEELERS G. It. Berryman L. E. Ricks Walter Rosenthal Joseph Sugarman A. M. Taub C. G. Thompson Donoh Hanks Pete Ivey P. S. Jones t J. H.' Morris J. D. Winslow Friday, October 2, 1931 Bartering For Charity The Carolina Theatre, an in stitution on this campus rather than just another entirely com mercial venture N on the part of Publix-Kincey, now comes forth with a series of three Satur day morning charity matinees, which, if taken advantage of, will mean that there will prob ably be no need for any community-chest drives in these precincts this winter. It . is proposed that those at tending the shows bring : flour, potatoes, and canned , goods as prescribed in lieu of the ordi nary admission. The entire proceeds will be distributed among destitute families of the immediate vicinity. This is one of these; too few community enterprises altruisti cally conceived for the relief of persons in straightened circum stances. . It means that-if ven tures of this sort are successful especial taxatioirf or the care of the indigent may be avoided. Years past efforts have been made by socially minded per sons in the faculty and the stu dent body to care for unfortun ates, but which have not always been successful. Here is a pleasant and entertaining man nfer in which charity can be less of a burden and our consciences can nevertheless be salved. As a matter of fact business and duty can' by an act bringing re turn to ourselves be performed. Charity, thy newest hand maiden is the cinema the once lowly cinema. f Gandhi- Modern Egmma Gandhi has turned London upside down. He arrived dressed in a loin cloth and fed by the milk of two goats brought with him. One could hardly call that an elaborate outfit. Yet the Mahatma sat with the princes of the empire and his most Christian Ma j esty, George V ; and not only did he sit with them, but he also dictated his terms to them, while they lis tened petrifie'd by the- fear of what he might do should they refuse. Gandhi well illustrates the point under discussion. He has a great ideal, the ideal of the freedom of India, for which he will go to any end. He has lost himself in his ideal ;pie has at tained to a very close approxi mation of the Buddhist's Ner- vanah, the state of complete self-oblivion. Incidentally, in a very quiet way, 'he has very nearly accomplished the impos sible. " - All this shows that true worth is, as a rule, on top at the finish. There are, however, groups of people (though more frequently the type is seen only in isolated individuals) who through inabil ity or laziness attempt to ectge their way to fame by publicity. They are persons who do the sensational, who strike poses, and who are always certain that the public knows all about it. We do not envy them their position of notoriety. We sim ply point out that they waste an amazing amount of peoples' time by their antics and gain nothing in doing it. P.W.H. Among The Social Leaders In Thursday morning's paper, we note the comment that the buildings department is busy making paddles for the benefit of those freshmen who are so fortunate as to make a frater nity. In the course of the gen erally pervading madness, any one is apt to do almost anything. Some poor dupes have even joined the social orders, or are in the process of doing it, much to the amusement of the cam pus. From the time that breakfast is over until it is too dark to see, the campus is charmed by the cries of "Coo-coo," the prayers to Allah, or the shout ing of first grade problems in arithmetic. Not that we object, for the first week at any rate, to the conglomerate hoodlum, after that it really becomes tire some, and we are inclined to think that those doing it are also. Social activities are very com mendable in the main, but we fail to see exactly how these orders are social ; in fact, about the only.use that we can find for them is that it gives the dis tracted editor of the Yackety Yack... something wherewithal! he can fill three extra pages of his annual. Indeed these abomi nations are continued only through the energies of those juniors who were dumb enough to be taken in the preceding year and now, realizing their folly, wish to be comforted by the fact that there is someone equally as dumb. P.W.H. A Problem For The Educators Wednesday the stock market took another nose dive, making the brokers' charts, . where a star is placed for every new low of the year, look, like an astronr omer's diagram. Two hundred and twentyrsix of them! This is but a final: tip to our gullible public that depression is reall y here. If the business man of 1928 had been told of what lay in store for him, he would have laughed and called his advisor a fool. Who could ever imagine anything as absurd as the great German Reichsbank failing, of England abandoning the gold standard which had become a part of the nation itself? But these things have happened. Moreover, our own United States is in danger of dealing out a dole, in one form or another, to combat with the ever increasing numbers of unemployed. We have had depressions be fore; every time we have re covered. There is no reason to doubt that we will recover from the present one. But it does shake one's belief in nature to look, back over the record of national panics, which have oc curred with astounding regular ity and apparently from the same cause namely, the pub lic's forgetting about their last little scare. As soon as the great god . consumer is convinced that the depression is over, he immediately sets about spending THE DAILY ! as foolishly as ever; the pro ducer follows suit and expands as much as possible, and our lit tle boom bubble is inflated all over again, awaiting one prick of some minor calamity which will make it go "pop," letting us dowri into the depths again. Small wonder that our educa tional institutions make so lit tle progress in the long run. No sooner does some enterprising little university take a stride forward than the depression catches it and strangles its source of life. Therefore every college, university, and educa tional plant of any type should concentrate on educating the students of today the citizens of '- tomorrow to keep their heads up and observe the true economic trend of the day, to save up for a rainy day during the boom and to recognize the rain when it comes. With the world as a laboratory we can all take a course in establishing and maintaining a balanced economic system; it is up to,our educators to do the work. W.V.S. Combine ' Or Die A proposal of President Dun gan, of the Dialectic Senate, in his inaugural address Tuesday night, deserves especial consid eration. He proposed a union of the Dialectic Senate, the Philanthropic Assembly, the Amphoterothen Society, and the Epsilon Phi Delta Cosmopolitan Club, to form "a cosmopolitan University assembly," stating that: "With time and an altru istic outlook on the part of their members, it can be conceived that the Dialectic Senate, the Philanthropic Assembly, the Amphoterothen Society, and Ep silon Phi Delta, could become a useful, dynamic, cosmopolitan University assembly paralleling the work of the unions at Ox ford and Cambridge." "Back in the good olpT days" the Di and Phi served their pur poses as campus political lead ers in their form of literary so cieties, but the Di and Phi of today no longer control the poli tical or the social life of the Uni versity. Interest in the two so cieties has died out and the pur pose of the Di and Phi have be come that of discussion groups for members of the student body. Epsilon Phi Delta and the Amphoterothen Society are formed along the same lines. All four societies could be united into one or possibly two larger societies, having the same func tion. With such a, union the former literary societies would again resume their rightful places among Campus affairs, in stead of dying a slow death as is now the case. T.H.B. The Low-Down By G. R. Berryman The aim of this column (I must have some alibi) will be to make this, our college, a Perfect University. I expect to accomp lish this, with the aid of other patriotic students, by the care ful pointing out of various im perfections (if any) and by sug gesting improvements to those persons with authority to make them. Gentle persuasion and dignified argument will be the only weapons employed. I'm going to change the sub ject now, but please don't get startled. Because if you con tinue reading this column and become startled every time I change the subject, you will be an old man at thirty-five. Be coming startled is bad on the heart. Where was I? Oh yes ! Changing the subject. Well here goes : How can you tell when a man is drunk? That chalk-ine stuff is out. Its no good. I know a guy who can TAR HEEL walk straighter when, he's drunk than when he's sober. He is so dignified when drunk that he is frequently mistaken for a professor. (When I say that, I mean to say that he is very dig nified. Don't get me wrong.) Some guy don't ask me who made up the following poem on the subject: "Not drunk is he who from the . floor Can rise again and still drink more, But drunk is he who prostrate lies ' Without the power to drink or ' 99 " rise. My favorite definition is one I heard long ago. It goes like this : "A man is drunk when he can't lie. on the floor without holding on." Has anyone a bet ter definition? teaviner the demon rum, I mention, in passing, an item which may be of interest to my readers both of them : The thriving town t of Durham has attracted another institution to its flourishing limits. Within the next month, the Salvation (tambourine) Army will estab lish a home for, umnarried mothers near Duke university. This home will be moved from Wilmington in order to beiear the medical school of Duke. If: I should ever put anything in this column which does not meet with your approval, gentle reader (or you either, violent reader, hiding over there in the corner), I will be glad to print any lucid statement you may care to make in reply, giving you as many rebuttals as you wish. For instance, suppose I accuse you, Professor X, (which, as all my clever readers know, is not your real name) of having six toes on your right foot. . It would seem that you would be proud of that fact, but let's sup pose that, it makes you mad. The thing for you to do, then, is to sit promptly down and write this little note (which, Gawd knows, is lucid enough for anybody -even a columnist) : Dear Berryman : You are a liar. I' have only five toes on my right foot. I just counted them. Signed, Professor X. I would gladly print this note, implying sarcastically, that you might have miscounted. You would then have to let me count the toes for myself. If I discov ered that I' had 'made a mis statement; I -would promptly apologize. Not only that, I might even inform your dean, through this column, that you were wor thy of promotion. Soon, I expect to devote an entire column to the subject: "How the Co-eds Are Underminr ing our University." Any ma terial on this subject will.be wel comedi Boy,, that number will be a whiz! Watch i for it. McCormick's Statue Unveiled at W. and L Last week, on the Washington and Lee campus; Lexington, Vir ginia, a statue of the inventor of the McCormick wheat reaper, Cyrus Hall McCormick, was un veiled. The statue stands on the campus near the walk be tween Lee Chapel and the Rob ert E. Lee Memorial church. It is the work of the sculptor, John David Borin. The guests of honor were the members of the McCormick family, who placed a wreath on the tomb of General Lee, in honor of the friendship that had existed between Mc Cormick and the Confederate general. Governor Pollard, of Virginia, officiated at the ceremony, and many other distinguished visi tors were present at the unveiling. WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT TENNIS FROM WATCHING THE NU. l tuuiii O ,: You must browbeat your partner if possible. Never let him forget that you were tournament hopping while he was helping Dad at home. The larger the gallery the more you make him feel and look like a worm. The main thing is to show painful surprise when you miss a .shot, and disgust when your partner misses one. Poach on his side and take all the easy lobs. This will make him grateful. When he misses one that you finally let him have, stare hard. This will inspire him for the next one." If he gets a set-up, shout "Kill it." This will stimulate him to drive it impressively hard into the net. , When you miss an easy shot, slam a ball into the backstop. When you miss a hard shot, slam two balls into the backstop or one ball over it. Vary this by slinging your racquet into the net in a fine rage. If your part ner misses as many as you, ask him when he is going to play tennis. Curse him occasionally. If your opponents call a close one against you, say in a loud, ambiguous manner : "What ?" During play think and act like a prima aonna. .Between piays the same, only more so. Run to the net leisurely so as to take the return on the half -volley. It will look good when you make it, and . not very bad when you don't. If you poach on your partner and you are caught out of position, give him a, "Where were you" look. This helps team-play. Ditto if you are passed down the middle. If he says he is sorry, let him be. When you miss a shot, exam ine your racquet on both sides. Be serious or full of horse-play. Never be gay. If your partner, while serving, happens to hit you, curse him and make him feel like an ass or a criminal the rest of the game. This will give him confidence. Never forget you're good. Play to the gallery. Model your man ners on Galli Curci and Jack Sharkey. Never imitate English tennis. They have -effete ideas of sport Finally, praise an op ponent's shot in a robustious, surprised manner, or in a lordly, patronizing manner. Be force ful, temperamental, volatile, and above all, precious. In short, a cross between a yeggman and a prima donna. SEECTATOR. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS This Advertisement Is Worth $1.00 witK every purchase of $5.00 at Nap's Fashion Shop 123 W. Market St., Greensboro, N. C. Men's Clothing, Haberdashery, and. Shoes NAP LUFTY, Prop. 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Twelve were sold to students of the Duke law school the day the tickets were placed on sale. As we understand the econo mists, the new problem is how to make the world safe for ef ficiency. Virginian-Pilot. How They Welcomed Him to the Sidewalks of New York! PICTURE You'll howl at Buster as the dude millionaire who falls in love with, a gal from the. East Side! with a great cast of fun-makers including Anita Page Cliff Edwards OTHER FEATURES Our Gang Comedy, "Bargain Day" Paramount News NOW PLAYING v.t.w.- jr- j . n "-n n . mmtm . mm " W lm ,m f -".V IV.- 1 v 1
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