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TOLTOIE XL CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, MAY 11932 NUMBER 160
HENRY WILL PLAY
POR JUNIOR-SENIOR
GROUP JOANCES
Tormer Tar Heel Band Is Select
ed After Negotiations With
Busse, Kemp, O'Hare.
Tal Henry and his orchestra
-will furnish the music for the
Junior-Senior . dances ' next
month, according to a. report
yesterday from the dance com
mittee. The selection of Hen
Ty completes the plans for the
dances, May 13 and 14. The
committee had conducted nego
tiations with Hal Kemp, Henry
TSusse, and Husk O'Hare for
ome time, but finally dropped
these negotiations in favor of
Tal Henry.
Henry's orchestra was organ
ized some years ago at the Uni
versity and has filled engage
ments at some of the leading
Tiotels and restaurants inj the
country. Among these are en
gagements at the Hotel Gibson
in Cincinnati, the Hotel Adol
phus in Dallas, and the New
Yorker in New York.
Contracts Awarded
Contracts were awarded to
John Idol for, decorating the Tin
Can for the May Frolics and
-the Junior-Senior dances. The
expense of decorations will be
shared by the May Frolics and
the Junior-Senior committees.
Balfour Company will supply
the programs for the Junior
Senior dances. The tickets will
be printed in several different
colors and will be sold counter
signed to make duplication im
possible. There will be three dances in
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SPECTATOR SENDS
QUESTIONNAIRE TO
COLLEGE EDITORS
Majority of Replies Expect Re
Election of Hoover, Although
They Are Opposed to It.
An analysis of the 106 replies
received to a political question
naire submitted by the Colum
bia Spectator to college editors
representing all 'sections of the.
country reveals that the major
ity are opposed to the reelection
of President Hoover as an indi
vidual and favor the election of
some other Republican, Demo
crat, or Norman Thomas.
The greater part of the re
plies favored the renomination
of President Hoover, even
though his reelection was bitter
ly opposed, and the majority
agreed that President Hoover
"will be reelected.
Roosevelt Favored
Franklin D. Roosevelt was
found to be the favorite of forty
nine editors for the Democratic
presidential nomination, while
lerton D.. Baker was second
with thirty votes. Forty-five
per cent of the editors were
found to be Republicans, forty
per cent Democrats, and ten per
rcent Socialists.
Seventy-five college editors de
clared that prohibition should be
a paramount issue of the coming
elections, and sixty-three out of
"the seventy-five editors called
for repeal or modification of the
Eighteenth Amendment.. Ade
quate relief measures to meet
present economic conditions,
disarmament, international re
lations, and the tariff were the
other topics favored as the five
major issues of the next elec
tion. , -.
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Playmaker Reading
Dr. George McKie will read
Arthur Goodrich's Caponsacchi,
a play based on Browning's nar
rative poem, "The Ring and the
Book," tonight at 8:30 o'clock
in the Playmakers theatre as the
final reading of the season. The
play was first presented in 1926
and deals with a famous murder'
done in Rome in the seventeenth
century. Goodrich wrote the
play only after long considera
tion and careful study of Brown
ing's poem.
STATE ORGANISTS
WILL MEET HERE
Edward Eigenschenck Will Pre
sent Concert in Music Build
ing at Meeting Friday.
The North Carolina chapter
of the American Guild of Organ
ists, of which chapter Professor
Nelson O. Kennedy is the dean,
will have its annual meeting in
Chapel Hill Friday.
Friday afternoon, the busi
ness meeting of the chapter will
be conducted. Following this
meeting, there will be a stu
dents' organ contest, using the
organ of the Episcopal church.
This contest will be open to all
organ students under twenty
five. A cup will be awarded to
the winner. The public is invit
ed to the contest.
A banquet for the members of
the chapter is planned at the
Carolina Inn at 6:00 o'clock
and an organ recital in the Hill
music, hall by Edward Eigen
schenck of Chicago is scheduled
for 8:30 o'clock. Eigenschenck
played the opening concert last
year at the dedication of the Hill
music hall. 'Tickets to the reci
tal will cost fifty cents for stu
dents and one dollar for others.
Belcher Will Speak
R. H. Belcher will speak on
Solutions in Liquid Ammonia"
at his regular meeting of the
graduate chemistry seminar
Monday at 4:30 o'clock in Ven
able hall.
Whiteley in Hospital
I. C. Whitely, an assistant in
the zoology department, was
carried Friday to Duke hospital
for observation previous to an
operation for appendicitis.
Germany Attempts To Further Culture In Spite Of
Economic And Political Controversies Of The Reich
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
second "in a series of articles on present-day
conditions in Germany con
tributed especially to The Daily Tar
Heel by Benno Mascher, professor of
history at Marburg University, Mar
burg, Germany.)
With the mention of Hitler
and Socialism we come to the
Doliticaf conditions in Germany.
The most striking feature of
German politics is the growing
radicalism which is illustrated
by the unequalled growth of the
National-Socialistic party, by
the the increased turning away
from the Social-Democratic
party to the communistic party,
while the middle class parties,
with the exception of the center
which is bound by its Catholic
confession, grow more radical.
How the relation of power may
be expressed in numbers is hard
to say. The governmental coali
tions of the conservative parties,
tolerated by the Social-democrats,
attacked by communism,
by the Bourgeios Right (Ger
man National Party), and by
Typical Campus Slang Phrases
Help Increase American Jargon
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Expose of Thirty or More Freshman English Papers Reveal Most
Common Expression Is "Watch That Stuff !'Y While Lan
guage Based on "Ballyhoo" Writings Has Influence,
f o
Themes written by a freshman
English class on University
slang show that Carolina is
doing its share to enrich the
steadily increasing American
jargon with a wide variety of
typical phrases. Although no
exact statistics have been com
piled from the thirty or more
papers, the most common slang
expression on the campus seems
to be "Watch that stuff!", or
with the tendency 'of all slang
to abbreviate, simply "Watch
that."
Next in popularity comes . the
use of the word "bull." Its fre
quent recurrence in campus talk
proves it an exceedingly word,
for its original meaning can be
varied by the suffixing of the
unprintable to apply to almsot
any thought desired by the
speaker. One of its most pop
ular censored compounds has
supplanted the older slangism,
"hot air."
Terms of Endearment
Terms of endearment as well
as adjectives of appraisal often
becomes slang nouns. A girl is
no longer called "honey," but if
she has sufficient qualifications
maybe "a honey." Likewise,
the adjective "nifty" (unrecog
nized as such by Webster) has
achieved the status of a noun in
good standing from the in
fluence of word to mouth use.
In recent years the word
"hot," deviating from the usual
and proper meaning of the ad
jective, because an inseparable
part of "hot mamma," presum
ably introduced by Texas Guin
an. However, its modern mean
ing allows it to modify anything
for which the speaker might
have particular admiration. A
movie, a baseball player in
short, anything may be "hot."
And if he wishes to strengthen
his declaration by a simile, he
says "hot as a fox."
Imitation of Ballyhoo and the
Bronx dialect have done much
to influence the trend of Ameri
can college slang as wrell as that
of the University. "Nuts" was
once an elegant epithet used
synonymously with "hay-wire"
the National-socialists, has just
been able to hold its own in the
last election of the Reichstag
the victory of Hindenburg as
president is a victory of person
ality. The National-socialistic
votes have enormously increas
ed. Explanation of Change
The radical change in the
shifting of people to different
parties has its explanation in
the leveling of the social strata
caused by the economic decline
of the post-war years. The prin
cipal effect of this decline is the
weakening of the middle class.
The culture in Germany before
the war was developed through
the owning Bourgeiosie. This
class lost its capital during the
war and the inflation following
and was unable to regain ' its
finances during the illusory per
iod of prosperity in the years
1924-28.
The relation between wealth
and poverty in pre-war times
there was not wide gap be
and the like to express convic
tion of a person's insanity. The
vowel has changed, become un
recognizable, and appears now
as "nertz." Nor is it confined to
the expression of a single
thought; people rise to almost
any occasion with a timely
"Nertz!" and, trusting that
their audience has followed the
conversation, leave each hearer
to guess the mood of the speaker.
Co-eds, dating, dances, and
other indispensable features of
college life have been the in
spiration and origin of a large
number of slang terms. The
writer of -one theme defined "big
boy" as "a term of admiration
usually used by females." To
"drag" a girl to a dance is the
most usual way of saying that a
girl is to be taken to a dance;
and the word "co-ed" itself is an
instance of an abberviation that
has become slang in good stand
ing. At University dances. one
"breaks," never "cuts."
Classroom Terms
Similarly, the classroom has
contributed to enlarge the voca
bulary of slang. Students say
"on class" and "to catch class"
and "to sit on class," while "to
sleep on class" is just another
way of saying to be inattentive.
To be "booting the prof is to
pretend interest in a subject in
order to enhance one's grade, to
raise a D to a C, a C to a B, and
so forth.
"To be tight" is to be intoxi
cated; to.be "wall-eyed" or "pie
eyed" is to be noticeably drunk;
and to be "looping" is to be
staggering on one's feet. An in
ebriate "passes out," "passes
out of the picture," or, more ex
oressively. goes out like a
light."
Or when the inebriate begins
"cutting up" or acting the clown,
he "shines." The term does not
apply to drunks alone, but to
clowns of any kind or to foolish
acts of any kind. It has become
more universal, including '.acts
indicating a lack of sophistoca
tion; likewise anything out of
the ordinary or not conventiona
is a "shine."
tween the rich and poor has
changed decidedly, the number
of poor greatly overshadowing
the number of rich. The per
centage of those who scarcely
own more than what they get
from their everyday labor is so
large that the times of economi
cal distress is just now espec
ially hard to bear. Also the
class of small independent mer
chants and craftsmen diminishes
more and more, thereby in
creasing the number of employ
ed (as clerks, assistants, etc.).
This class of employed are dis
tinguished from the laborer by
their natural bearing and self
assurance more than through
better material ownership and
chance for improvement. And
all the classes are affected by
unemployment and not least
affected are the young academ
ians. The number of unemploy
ed academic people is already in
the tens of thousands and in
creases from year to year.
-That all these various classes
Spring Examination
The spring examination for
the removal of conditions on
English composition will be
Friday, May 6 at 4 :00 o'clock in
201 Murphey hall. Students who
desire to remove their conditions
by this examination should be
present at this time. Individual
notices will not be sent out to
persons having conditions this
spring. It is not necessary to
have a theme prepared in ad
vance. Further information can
be secured at 104 Saunders hall.
MURCHISON WILL
DELIVERADDRESS
Professor of Applied Economics
At University Will Discuss
Speculation Tomororw.
Dr. C. T. Murchison will speak
tomorrow night at 7 :30 o'clock
in 103 Bingham hall on the sub
ject of "Should Short Selling be
Abolished?" This will be the
third of a series of five lectures
on current economic problems,
being sponsored by the depart
ments of economics and com
merce. Dr. Murchison is professor of
applied economics, is in charge
of courses in money and business
cycles at the University, and has
long been interested in special
problems of speculation, business
cycles, and finance. He possesses
some original ideas , on the eco
nomic consequences of specula
tion, and will discuss during his
address this' problem, which is
at present attracting consider
able attention because of the in
vestigation now being made of
the policies of the New York
stock exchange by a committee
from Congress.
Senior Nominations
There will be a meeting of
the rising senior class tomorrow
night at 7:00 o'clock in Gerrard
hall for the purpose of nominat
ing candidates for the office of
senior student council repre
sentative, due to resignation of
the present officer. Elections
will be conducted Tuesday.
Committee Meeting
There will be an important
meeting of the executive com
mittee of the sophomore class
at 3 :00 o'clock tomorrow in
Dean Bradshaw's office.
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the children of the Bourgeois
who are deprived of their secur
ity and robbed of their financial
backing; the young of the small
merchant and manufacturer who
are robbed of their independ
ence; the children of the schol
ars who are unemployed and
helpless; the children of the un
employed working man that
all these people yielded easily to
the movements and slogans of
the radicals is explainable. But
the turning to communism of
the' Russian stamp on the one
hand, and to National-Socialism
with its partly Italian-Fascistic
ideals on the other, cannot be
explained simply with economic
reasons.
Reasons for Distress
The reasons, of the economical
distress leads the seeker to one
of these two explanations (or a
combination of both) : The sys
tem of capitalism, as such, is
responsible. The way out then
is to fight against the system
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STATE ACADEMY
OF SCIENCE WILL
COWEM FRIDAY
Sorth Carolina Section of Ameri
can Chemical Society , Will
Meet at Same Time.
The thirty-first annual meet
ing of the North Carolina Acad
emy of Science and the spring
meeting of the North Carolina
section of the American Chemi
cal Society will convene Friday
at Wake Forest for a two day
session.
The objects of the Academy
are to promote study and sci
entific research and to furnish,
so far as is practicable, a means
of publication of such articles
as may be deemed worthy. , Any
person actively interested in
science or the promotion of sci- -ence,
may, upon nomination by
two members, be elected a mem-
ber of the academy by a major
ity vote of the executive com
mittee. At present there are v
250 members of the group.
The academy is affiliated with
the American Association for
Advancement of Science. A
member of the state body may
join the association without
payment of the customary initi
ation fee.
The group is divided into four
sections, general, chemistry,
mathematics, physics. Papers
concerning each branch of sci
ence will be read at the meeting.
Officers for the current year
are : Dr. F. A. Wolf of the bot
any department, Duke Univer
sity, president ; Dr. W. E. Speas
of the physics department, Wake
Forest College, vice-president;
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DEAN VAN HEGKE
WILLBEHEARD
IN MECKLENBURG
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University Law School Head
Will Address Bar Association
In Charlotte May 18.
Dean M.T. Van Hecke of the
University law school will ad
dress the members of the Meck
lenburg bar association on the
subject "The Work of the Con
stitutional Revision Committee"
at a luncheon meeting in Char
lotte Wednesday, May 18. v
The luncheon will take place
in Efird's dining room and will
be one of a series of such affairs
being arranged by John H.
Small, who was appointed to
that duty by Colonel T. L. Kirk
patrick, president of the associa
tion. The constitutional revision
committee was appointed by
Governor Gardner,' and has
given a considerable amount of
study to possible changes in the
organic law in North Carolina.
Dean Van Hecke hs been a
close student of the work of the
committee.
"He is a legal author of con
sequence and an engaging
speaker," Small said in announc
ing the program. "Although it
will be his' first appearance in
Charlotte, he has. many friends
at this bar."
About" ten complete studies
concerning governmental ques
tions have been submitted to the
revision committee by the law
school here, and by the Duke
University school. In addition
to this, an enormous amount of
valuable data concerning
changes in the statutes of the
state has been contributed by
the same groups.