Pase Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, May 21, 1932 Gije Sattp areel , The cfScial newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days, and the Thanksgiving', Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, tinder act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Chas. G. Rose, Jr.'. ...Editor G. W. Wilson, Jr. ling. Editor John Manning Business Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemak er, chairman, Henderson Heyward, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, J. F. Alexander, E. C. Daniel, Ervin Jaf fee, Bon Phillips, Karl Sprinkle. CITY EDITORS--W. R. Woerner, Tom Walker, W. E. Davis, T. H. Brough ton, Claiborn Carr, T. W. Blackwell. FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, chairman, Charles Poe, W. R. Eddie man, Joseph Sugarman, A. T. Dill, Robert Bolton. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD Frank Hawley, John Acee, Ed Spruill, C G. Thompson. REPORTERS J. H. Morris, W. O. Marlowe, Harold Janofsky, P. "W. Markley, Paul Schallert, Milton Bauchner, J. S. Cook, P. C. Smith, J; P. Lentz, A. D. Steele, Julien D. "Winslow, K. Y. Young, L. L. Hutch inson, A. S. Taub. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R.. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Howard ' Manning, manager; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, Joe Webb, Jim Cordon, Agnew Bahnson, Roy McMillan. Saturday, May 21, 1932 Editor Davis is getting ' his Yackety Yack out just late enough this year that The Daily m w iar xiEEL cannot taKe more than two good cracks at it. The' annual is scheduled to appear Wednesday, giving our staff satirists only two days to tear it to pieces, in the traditional yearly publication feud. Maybe our victories in former years are responsible for the late arrival of the Yackety Yack last year. A squib in the columns of this publication last week re vealed the fact that "St., An thony's Hall announces the pledging etc." and was read with amazement by many of us. Then the truth dawned. They were the Tony's boys. St. Anthony is much to Yaleish for us and we just .thought that the little white nouse on uameron street ' was called Tony's Place. We notice that some of the old standbys in the delinquent tax roll for Chapel . Hill have dropped off this year despite the depression. The K. A.'s, Delta Psi's, Phi Gams, Pikas, Pi Kap pa Phi's, Chi Phi's, Theta Chi's, and a few others are the only members of the old guard left. (Jnce we thought of erecting thiriy-five or so big signs about the campus in front of fratern ity Houses bearing the sad mes sage; "JEFFERSON STAND ARD: DON'T TAKE LITTLE NE,L. SHE'S ALL OUR'N." They've Got to Deliver the Goods Despite the fact that The Daily Tar Heel was and still is opposed to the present German club executive committee's con tinuing as. supervisor of Caro lina ilances, among other things because of its unrepresentative- nessjhit is only fitting that a word be expressed in commen dation in the way this group has placed dancing on this campus on ite high level. When the com mittee took over the power of supervising conduct at dances several years ago there was much danger that the social af fairs would be banded entirely from the University campus be cause of the obnoxious manner in which they had come to be conducted. Today, however, after several years under the supervision of the German club committee the PARAGRAPHICS 1 r conduct at dances at Carolina is as good, and in many cases bet ter, than can be found on the average college campus through out the country; In fact the Uni versity has been received a wide spread reputation for conduct ing dances in a most orderly fashion, and the new committee must see to it that this good name is not allowed to be lost. Despite the fact that this newly-formed group is, unlike the German club committee, of ficially representative of dancing groups on the campus, a prere quisite to its continuation' in power must be that it retain the present high standard for danc--ing at Carolina. If it fails in this task, a more efficient group must be found. Pigs Is Pigs "This little pig went to mar ket amd this little pig stayed at home." Now, the little pig that stayed at home was the liberal arts pig. There was a time when a young man was content to be a scholar. His ambition was to learn life, to broaden himself to an application of each and all of its pleasures. He wished to ac quire an understanding of life's many parts and their relation to the whole. He opened his mind to the influence of all its forces. In these seemingly divergent end contradictory forces he came finally, if he was successful, to recognize the broad, deep cur rent of universal truth. Naturally, the little A.B. pig that stayed at home, was envious of the fine things that his brothers brought from the mar ket. They would' share nothing with him. They said he must buy for himself. The liberal arts pig was not lazy, yet he had no money .to trade at the market place. r.The specialist - came and scoffed at the scholar : "What good is an A.B. degree? It doesn't help you to get a job." For a while, in spite of the spe cialist's derision, the scholar stuck to his ideals, although he did envy the financial success of his cocksure rival. Soon, how ever, the threat of hunger made the scholar forget his ideals. Apparently without changing his plans and his purpose, the scholar began to specialize in one or two fields of study which he hoped to put to practical use While, pretending to a liberal education, he became a special ist. . " After all, pigs is pigs. So, the liberal arts pig has gone to mar ket and is well on his way to becoming a full grown hog. E.C.D. But It's Still Around the Corner Since the grand market crash n '29, the populace of the United States has been in a state of violent despair. There is much justification in this state of de spondency, but the people should endeavor to take steps to resume their former status. The basic element of all secure founda tions, the first pillar in the con struction is faith, or confidence. The most often manifested abstraction that is so supreme ly powerful in our lives is faith. Unless a strong confidence and belief can be manifested in the undertakings that one attempts, the results are inevitably un successful. To attempt to re turn this confidence and belief to the people of the United States would put an end to 'this horrible monster in whose , grip the world is caught -the De pression. Throughout the epochs of his tory, the outstanding impulse that has urged men on towards the supreme goals they have achieved has been confidence, in themselves and in others. Anyone who' is acquainted with banking systems easily sees the necessity for confidence on the part of the depositors. The depositor, in good faith and full of "confidence, puts his money into the bank. Thebank, through divers methods, lends out the money and secures interest .on the same. The entire system is based upon the confidence of the depositor who believes his money safe and therefore the bank can use the money deposited to the best advantage. However, when the depositor loses confidence and rashly decides to remove or withdraw his money from the bank, his action might lead others to do the same, and be fore the bank can re-arrange it self, the depositors have with drawn the reserve of the bank and it is forced to close its doors entirely based upon the lack of confidence in the depositors. Of course, it is easily under stood that many bank failures are caused from internal rea sons, . but equally as many are caused by the lack of confidence. Thus confidence, the basic stabilizing force in our life -today, can be the cause of our downfall or our rise to the su preme heights so desired by all. E.J. Justice Awaits Its Pound of Flesh John Hughes Curtis, fake in termediary in the" Lindbergh case, stands rightfully con demned in the eyes of the Amer ican public, and he will be ulti mately convicted and sentenced by an American jury. But the punishment of this individual cannot, and will not, remove the basic cause of his fraudulent ac tions. The bait will remain to snare others just as it trapped him. Curtis can offer no adequate defense for his deed. It was the futile, and somewhat horrible expedient seized upon him to re plenish his thinning finances. In this method of money-making lies the deplorable explanation of his crime. The same American public that is now so concerned with the punishment of the unfortun ate Curtis is not satisfied with professional entertainers. It leves to see hammer-murderers and train robbers in the flesh. It pays good money for the priv ilege of hearing criminals say a few words over the footlights, or into the microphone of the news reel man. It eats up the ghost-written "life" stories of convicted men, and it makes heroes of prominent gangsters. In its pursuit of pleasure, it de lights in the "new" and the "un usual." Newspaper editors and movie producers, being business men, have long and profitably known this gullible trait of the Ameri can. Curtis knew the public and the newspapers that serve it. By combining the two, he saw an excellent chance to improve his financial condition. The pa pers and movie men saw a good investment in offering him bountiful reimbursement for ex elusive picture and news rights. In the fact of such inducements a strong man might weaken, and Curtis was not strong. He tried to. cash in, and' failed. And now he awaits the judgment of a jury that avidly folio wei his news stories. K.S. To Our Hall Of Fame We Nominate r . Anita Stewart, beautious cine ma blonde, who testifies with a toothy smile in a Lux Toilet Soap ad, "I'm 29," and who in com pany with Mary Pickf ord and others, was featured as an old "thriller" heroine in "Screen Souvenirs" (1910) at the Caro lina theatre the other day. "The modern girl is nothing but an. animated doll," declares a novelist. He must admit, how ever, that she doesn't call "Mam ma" when she is squeezed. The Humorist (London). , The Butter and Egg Man. By GeorgiTS. Kauffman. Presented by the Carolina Playmakers, in the Playmakers thearte, May 19, 20, 21." Directed by Harry E, Davis. With John L. Sehon, Julia Bates Brown, Harold Banm stone, Marion Tatnm, William Chandler, Muriel Wolff, Elmer Oettinger, Milton Williams, Larry Spitzer, Jo Norwood, Closs Peace, Jack Whitehead, and Whitner Bissell. Performance of May 19 reviewed. Again with a comedy which, like The Perfect Alibi of last year, was almost fool-proof, the Playmakers appeared for the last time of the season. Again be cause of the so-called andbela boured depression, the play was produced indoors instead of in the Forest Theatre, where it had been the custom to mount the spring production up to last year. Remembering the Shakespeare of other years, this was not of the calibre of the traditional final play, but it was entertain ment, and in this year of dis grace is not to be scorned. Completely inexplicable in this performance was the tone of amateurishness that crept into the whole of the show. It has been the observation of this de partment in the past that when the Playmakers were bad they were bad in a professional way. That is to say that their failures, due to some esprit de corps, some bond of kinship, or some pride of organization, have been like the failures of bad professionals. But until this production; it could not be said that they were mediocre in an amateurish way. Here all who failed were ex cruciatingly like the usual little theatre. On the other hand, the three of four who did not fail were as good, as the Playmakers have ever been before. It has been said that this play was fool-proof, that anyone could put it over. That is not strictly true. What the Play makers did with the play was due to ability; the parts that were done well went over. What they failed to do was because of themselves. It was not an easy play to produce with any as surance of sympathy from the audience. The dialogue was swift, and being laden with thea trical jargon and allusions, was not calculated to register with a completely uninitiated audience. Only two of the roles depended solely upon "human interest," and one of the actors in those roles was utterly out of sym pathy with the part, throwing the burden of the work onto the shoulders of the less appealing characters. Those who bore the brunt of the performance were Jack Whitehead (as Oscar Frit chie), Marion Tatum (as "Fan ny Lehman), and Harold Baum stone (as Joe Lehman) . Jack Whitehead, in his first appearance on the Piaymaker stage, got off to an unintention ally perfect start by being strick en with a slight case of stage- Lfright. But when his nervous- ness evaporated he had caught the spirit of the bashful hotel manager, and he held it through out the play. His good perfor mance cannot, for this reason, be called accidental. It was a pleasure to watch him, especially because so many of the cast went about being simply themselves, making no effort to get into their roles. Marion Tatum was as usual, which is to say that she was more than adequate. Her Fanny Leh man was sufficiently vulgar, loud, and hard. She spread her self out and sat' on desks and chairs with a zeal that was re warded by a portrayal that car- There must be times when Wilhelm is prompted to stop sawing wood long enough to drop a post-card to the Mikado say ing, "Don't bite off more than you can chew." Ohio State Journal. ried conviction. She squeezed all the real meat out of her liens, and this . department suspects that the line in which she added "Five Star" to Joe Lehman's "Is this final?" was an addition of her own. At any rate she must be given credit for perfect tim ing and intonation. Harold Baumstone's Joe Leh man was a creation of energy and force. He is probably the only man in the Playmakers who could have worn a boiled hat with that peculiar ease and arrogance. He too got everything possible out of his lines, and his scenes with Fanny were especially good for that reason. The rest of the cast is hard to place. Out of the lot, Larry Spitzer's Bernie. Sampson was most noticeable; though a short bit. He made the character re cognizable and believable. Those who complete the list were so much background material, on the whole as quiet in comparison and as innocuous as the scenery. John Sehon, who was in the central role, must take credit for a great deal of work, evidently, but he missed his part woefully. He needed sympathy for his character, a great tolerance and understanding for the simple youth he portrayed, but he made of him just another "provincial," and the ending of the play suf fered proportionately in convic tion. Julia Bates Brown was at tractive, and she displayed a great deal of stage presence and poise that -would not have gone unnoticed in any other play. William Chandler was not con vincing as Jack McClure, for no apparent reason. Muriel Wolff accomplished the difficult feat of overacting an actress whose principle characteristic was a tendency to overacting. She gilded the famous lily, and the lily suffocated. Milton Williams was satisfactory in a small part as the director. Closs Peace was the switchboard girl, and; was not quite subdued enough for the small part. Whitner Bissell, as the attorney, was as compet ent as usual, but had far too little to do. Jo Norwood missed the essential quality of Peggy Marlowe by being too hard-boiled. She was more siren-like than ever in a bright red gown, and her movements "were satisfac torily voluptuous, but she spoil ed her big moment when she hesitated before saying smash your goddamned "I'll face," and then saying it too slowly! The settings, by Samuel Sel den, were well designed and ex ecuted, especially the second act set, which, by the way, saw the best act of the play. The chan delier in Act II, by courtesy of the University Consolidated Service Plants, was convincing. This program has come to you by ... . ' The play was well directed as regards the principal charac ters, but the others needed pol ishing. The programs were tastefully printed in yellow and green, to represent, as Mr. Koch pointed out, the butter and the grass (that eaten by the cows, you know). . "Nous n'ironsiplus au bois, les lauriers sont coupes' If we understand the position of our esteemed fellow-scribbler, Cal Coolidge, it will be impos sible to tax the poor until they're rich after the rich are taxed un til they're. poor .Weston Leader. With I Contemporaries Favored Son . "My opinion of the. value of college? Well, frankly, I think it's pure poppy-cock from start to finish." When Cornelius Van derbilt, Jr., noted the genuine shock on the face of his young interviewer, " he hastened to query, "Well, isn't it? Except for the social contacts made, does the student really accom plish anything worth while?" The young scion of a prominent American family ignored any ef fort at a reply and proceeded to answer his own question. He felt that an A. B. degree ham pered its holder in co-operating with the world at large more than any one other possession a young man of today might have, for the fellow who can not display a diploma is constantly anchoring for the job of the one who can. It is only natural that the col lege man of today should resent this sentiment, despite the fast it emanates from the lips of a man who is somewhat success ful. It is true that Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.; neyer attended college simply because he never deemed it essential in the strug gle for sucess, but it is likewise true that he received the prestige of a renowned family in his rise to his present position. He had something which even the best of college educations can not al ways give. He had something the average young man of today who is denied the privilege of higher education does not have in his struggle for recognition. At the close of the 19th cen tury it was not uncommon for young men to rise unaided by college education to positions of power and wealth in the rapidly growing industries of a steadily developing country. The demand for labor was so great that the young men of the country waiv ed their rights to advanced knowledge and hastened to the doors of business concerns. The opportunities in the field of in dustrial activity were so great that even the crudest of business schemes brought handsome re numeration to their originators. Today we have settled down to a routine in industrial activ ity, and it is only by dint of care ful planning and accurate re search that advancement is made. Education has become the basis for and the criterion of true success. A man without an education is like a ship without a sail. Neither is capable of ad vancing by its own power. Both must trust to kindly external forces to carry them slowly and uncertainly toward an indefinite port. Why shouldn't the man with a college education be eminently more successful than his fellow worker without advanced knowl edge? He is aware of the mis takes of those who have some before, and he is able to profit by them. He is in possession of scientific , theory upon which his practicaf operations may be founded, fie has had the ex perience of cooperating with others and the enjoyment of ex- ploittation on his own. cention. Crrmplina Vondrhilt. Jr.. is the excprvHnn. rn.hpr than the rule. Today it is the rule tne law governing the activities of the average individual that Lwe are interested in; we can 1 j .j 1 1 1 nut too aeepiy concern ourselves with the excentinn tthf devia tions involving a select few. 1 tie fennsylvanian. The campaign managers issue the dodgers and the candidates dodge the issues. Greensboro (Ga.)' Rerald-Joumal.