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
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ants: R.. D. McMillan, Pendleton
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
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Dudley Jennings.
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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
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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.