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Page Two Che SDaiip Car Ipeel The official 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 Chapet Hill, N. C, under 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 Geo. W. Wilson, Jr..31gr. Editor R. D. McMillan.. .Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoe maker, chairman; .E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, Nelson Robbins, B. B. Perry, Milton Kalb, A; T. Dill, L. M. Joy, F. A. Northrup. Kalb, A. T. Dill. CITY EDITORS T. H. Walker, Bob Woerner, Bill Davis. DESK MEN Otto Steinreich, George Malone, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddleman, Phil Markley, J. D. Winslow. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Vermont Royster, Donoh Hanks, Frank Hawley, W. O. Marlowe, Carl Thompson, Jerome Kessler.. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Anderson, Jack Bessen, Lawrence Thompson, Matt Hackett, J. H. Morris, Crampton Trainer. REPORTERS B. R. 'Weaver, Ray mond Barron, James B. Craighill, Walter Hargett, T. W. Hicks, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Lewis S. Morris, Robert C. Page, George ' Rhoades, Phillip Hammer, Irving Suss, Clarence Hartman, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth Johnson, W. B. Greet, Jack Lowe. f Business Staff CURCULATION DEPT. Tom Worth, OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Jr., Ass't Bus. Mgr., John Barrow, Ass't Bus. Mgr., W. B. Robeson. ADVERTISING STAFF Howard Manning, Adv't Mgr.,W. C. Jones, Adv't Mgr., J. W. Callahan, Jim Cordon, James Mehaffy, Butler French, Esley Anderson, Buddy Up church, J. Ralto Farlow, Joe Mason. COLLECTION STAFF Randolph Reynolds, Collection Mgr., Joe C. Webb, Agnew Bahnson, A. L. Brooks, Armistead Maupin. Wednesday, October 26, 1932 The Fraternity Leach - With pledge day now only a memory, the young pledge is be ginning to form his habits of conduct for his college life. But may he not allow himself, be cause of his inactivity, to be classed as a large majority of his older fraternity brethren as nothing more than a "fraternity Ip.ftph"- that is. nrifi who came in college with but one aim and that to "make" a fraternity ; and now that he has made one he is completely satisfied. This fraternal parasite does absolutely nothing. He refuses to take part in activities because he has too little time seeing the movies. His studies worry him only to the extent of his passing them. He receives noth ing from college but what his fraternity gives him. The only honors' he might get such as making a social order, or being elected dance leader are got purely and simply through his fraternity membership. Hi 3 friendships are few. And even 4. "u: . a i 111s ciusesi, acquaintances nis opinions are regarded lightly. xie is a. nun-entity. ' xie iclK.es all from the fraternity, and gives TT 1.11. TT 11 nothing in return. His grades . - n J J! x ;i pun uuwn me iratermiy aver age, and his general conduct is oftimes a disgrace to his more respectful brothers. He is-a hypocrite. He delights J i 1 1 in dominating tne iresnmen, and takes great pleasure in tell- " 11 a 1 . mem iney must get into activities and make the honor roll. He makes a fine first ap pearance with his light conver sation and" hearty, hail-fellow- well-met attitude. To a group of rushees he is in his prime. But after pledge day he is hard ly heard of except when the mid-term warnings are posted. . Alio iuviiiutiouiu 10 a tUiiSC LKJ anv fraternity. And the sonner the other fraternity men as well as the pledges themselves real ize this fact that soon will mem bership in a fraternity mean more than a mere social stamp. And until this truth is definite ly perceived the success of fra ternities in general still hangs in the balance. f The Young Voter Raises His Voice The opinionated portion of the student body expressed its sen timent on matters political with a registration of more than five hundred votes in the Daily Tar Heel presidential straw ballot last week, an amazing number in the light of recent criticism which has upheld the American college as a center where flip conversation and asmine con jecture reign. Certainly the large ballot may be construed as an open answer to these attack ers within our own state, re gardless of party allignment. The value of the straw ballot, particularly in the college, is of ten underestimated. It is with out dispute that the majority of voters here contributed much more than adult-influenced opin ion to their balloting. This is most ably illustrated in the large number of votes polled for Nor man Thomas, particularly since the Socialist strength on this Kampus was estimated at about one-fifth of the actual number of ballots cast for the candidate. Protesting' against what he thought to be the weak plat forms of the two old line part ies, the student expressed him self by turning toward the best alternative offered, the Socialist program. v , How many qualified citizens might find haven in this harbour before November 8 may well worry the Old Liners. D.C.S. Students, But Treated as Visitors Carolina spirit ? Carolina cour tesy? Folks, there were "vis itors" in our midst Saturday. They attended the football game. They were students of the Uni versity of North Carolina from Greensboro. They were invited to attend the homecoming game of last Saturday, that is, if l;hey paid a fifty cents admission fee. For an appreciable part of the Greensboro student body it was to be a gala day. It was worth securing permission from pa rents, worth bus fare to Chapel Hill, and the sacrificing of any individual liberty which would have come to them by remain ing in Greensboro. And too, col lege authorities made an unusual departure when they granted permission for this excursion. They came with a proper spir it for the University of North Carolina. They wanted to sit on the Carolina side. They wished to lend their voices to the strengthening of the Carolina cause. But they were placed on the Tech side of the stadium and then, far enough in the end the stands so they would inter fere with no Tech supporter pay ing for a two dollar ticket. This action is characteristic of a student body that as the rank ing of its individual members rises that it becomes blase and sophisticated, too much so to shout itself hoarse. Pep meet ing enthusiasts state that a be coming school spirit is "trans used" into the body of the players, making their efforts more effective. If this be so, and it seems a fact when one considers fighting Davidson, why not utilize the Women's College of the University of North Caro lina for this purpose. Is the imagination of the University cneerleaders entirely chilled? These students at the Wom en's College should be invited to every game. They should be given their place in the stands. And if Kenan stadium will not accommodate both students and other Carolina supporters, let the "management" find a rem edy other than the virtual exclu sion of Carolina students. They should have their cheerleaders. And we should find a heighten ing of the collegiate spirit which, if it does not bring vic tories, brings the satisfaction of the student body.- J.D.W. THE DAILY In The Main By Mayne Albright I am Just beginning to realize what rewards are to be had from this business of writing a colyum. . Since last week's of fering I have been the receiver of the most amazing news of all kinds all of it interesting and most of it unprintable. Par ticularly have I been furnished with the name of any number of fraternity men who did any number of surprising things at the State Fair and were not mentioned last week as having been there at all. My apologies ! And I never have time to listen to that sort of thing in room number 100 Graham Memorial from 9 till 4 every day. Associations now formed in the First Year Law Class point to several famous law firms of the future. Seemingly best es tablished is that of "Marm" Rose and "Choppy" Bell who are in constant argument, and agree only when they can unite against some third party. Another part nership will probable be that of Floyd, Block & Tillery. Barnes & Novins may team under the same roof, and mayhap Finch & Clemire shall share a single shingle. Lawyer Finch, however, team ed with Lawyer Thorton Brooks recently in an interesting ' case that should establish some sort of precedent for young lawyers It seems that Finch & Brooks on behalf oirtheir client, Pinkie Connor, a rather cautious lover vho by his own admission never makes a serious statement, drew up an intricate document where by a certain young lady was to come down for the Duke game as the guest of Cautious Con nor provided', that she should eschew all such practices as in terfraternity dating, late dating of any sort save with the party of the first part, Mr. Connor; and provided: that said party of the first part should have first, last, and exclusive rights to all attention and affection for the period of tlie visit. The con tract looked good to Finch & Brooks but they reckoned with out the lady in the case. She graciously accepted the invita tion, thought the-idea was just darling, and ignored altogether the terms of the contract. Ah Portia, you live in every age! And before leaving the law yers this column wants it known that it has no idea who called Lawyer Rose (of ftose & Bell) long distance from Carrboro at five A. M. recently and spoke at length in neither soothing tones nor complimentary terms. Be sides it never prints such sto ries, nor any about freshman co-eds who ring the doorbells of all the fraternity houses and ask to look them over. The column is glad, however, to assure its readers that Lenoir Wright now has definite word that the girl he invited up to the Vanderbilt game on October 1st will be un able to accept the invitation. . "Is this boy on your Cam- pus?" asks a poster in South building as it describes a wan dering student from Lansing, Michigan who was struck in the head and constantly says "Yes Sir" and "Yes Ma'm." The pic ture looks very much like the new Student Councilman from the law school to me, but' shucks, there's , no reward any way. , , Highlights of the past'wppk- Jack Wardlaw announcing a change in schedule of the Fra ternity, Buying Co-operative'. The Fraternity , Co-operative Bible group will meet down town tonight." Coach Belding announcing a Georgia Tech try (Continued on last page) TAR HEEL SPEAKING. the CAMPUS MIND A Misunderstanding (EDITOR'S NOTE : Mr. Lawrence is mistaken in his belief that the au thor of Our Times deliberately at tempted a pun on Mr. Proctor's acci dent, which, if the writer had been aware of this development, would as suredly have been a "crude joke." Furthermore, representing the facts in hearsay as he knew them, the writ er found no fault in what he first be lieved to be "a deliberate devising of our own," and rather commended it as clever political strategy.) ' This letter has reference to the item entitled, "Accident" in the Our Times column of Don Shoemaker in Tuesday's Tar Heel. The story has to do with the accident to one of the Social ist cars on the Graham highway last Saturday night. Mr. Shoe maker writes, "a striped Sedan, planted to draw attention to a huge bunting nearby, (which) bore the reminder 'NORMAN THOMAS WILL SPEAK IN RALEIGH FRIDAY'." This throws out the impression that it was a Socialist advertising stunt. Nothing could be further from the truth. The car was driven by Ben Proctor, Univer sity student and member of the Socialist party, and contained the literature intended for dis tribution at the Raleigh meet ing. In the accident Mr. Proc tor received a compound frac ture of the skull and is still in a serious condition in the Burling ton hospital. The other member of the party, Vernon Ward, es caped injury. It was not, I repeat, a Social ist "stunt," but it did represent, or at least the aftermath did, a working example of the capital ist motto, "the economic race is to the swift and the strong' For, according to the report of a lady living nearby, fifteen min utes after the wreck two white men were seen stripping the car of all its belongings. The mis creants were apparently super ior individuals along that line. Not only did they remove the tires and all the personal prop erty in the car, but they even carried away the back-seat cush ion and the driver's license. Then, as a last derisive gesture, they scattered the Socialist lit erature in a long row and tramp ed it into the dirt and brazenly- stretched the street-sign between two trees just beyond the wreck. The accident has caused deep gloom in the Socialist headquar ters. Over-$300 was lost by it, an amount which only the Re publicans and Democrats can af ford to spend for bally-hoo. It has caused a serious upset to Socialist plans. Calls are com ing in from all over the state for meetings, but we now have neither conveyance to meet these calls nor literature to mail to in quirers. It seems to us, therefore, that it is rather a crude joke to rep resent this loss and the serious injury to one of our friends as a deliberate devising of our own. ALTON A. LAWRENCE. Sec. State Socialistic Party Book Vandalism The latest instance is reported from the library of the depart ment of rural social-economics. An honest and cooperative stu dent yesterday morning brought in Watson's Behaviorism, and reported that he had picked it up m .the bushes near the caril lon on his return from Satur day's football game. The book had not been charged out to any one, so it was impossible to lo cate the offender. His particu lar brand of Behavior has morp followers on this campus than we like to admit. In this in stance, the only retribution wa? that the vandal himself lost the use of the ill-gotten volume. We can never have a library that measures up to the needs of our students unless our students (Continued on last page) Los Angeles 'Times' Columnist Praises Work Of Paul Green (Editor's Note: The. following is a column by Lee Shippey appearing in the Los Angeles Times giving an idea of the impression Paul Green has made on Hollywood during his stay there thus far.) Paul Green is one of those serious southerners. He looks at life very earnestly, almost as earnestly as he does at Paul Green. In 1917, when he was about to go to war, he realized that he might never come back and had never put his thoughts into per manent form to bequeath the world. So he used all the money he could spare to, have thirty copies of a little booklet of poems published. When he joined the staff of Warner Brothers a few weeks ago story after story was sub mitted to him, all of which he read intently and rejected. "I think they would all be merely wasting my time," he said. So the studio turned those stories over to other men to write, and Green is writing a story for George Arliss around the great character of Voltaire. He considers Paul Green's time much too valuable to waste. Books Were Rare Green was born in North Carolina in 1894 and still lives in North Carolina. His people were land owners who had been impoverished by the war be tween the States. He labored as a farm boy and went to a country school. He came to love books because they were so precious. He had only the Bible and a newspaper to read in those days of genteel poverty and his language still smacks of the Bible; his style is the simple, straight yet poetic narrative style of the Good Book. "I wanted to express myself," he told us. "Everyone does that. The negro was poor and hard worked and had no instruments for expression, but still had his voice. He could use that as he worked, and because his songs were his expression of his life they have risen to an art. So much for the imperativeness of expression. My mother gave me piano lessons, .but I was fond of baseball, and baseball fingers made piano practice difficult. I loved reading and when I earned money bought what books I could. Then I began to write poetry." Composed While Picking Cotton But Paul never got too poeti cal to be proud of being a cham pion cotton picker. He took his farm work and his baseball as earnestly as he did his books. He was such a good baseball player that he helped pay his way through school by playing ball. , When he went to the Univer sity of North Carolina he did not know a great many books, but he knew a few very well. He had read but one play, Hamlet, and part of .another, and had never seen a play. Yet when there was a play competition, in his freshman year, he entered into the competition earnestly and won the prize. . His nlav w presented by the senior class during the following commpTi fo ment. He was in a field, nickino- n ton, when his first letter nf ceptance came, from the Atlan tic Monthly. Instead of singing at his farm work, as the negroes did, he made up stories. The Little Snot SPECIAL THIS WEEK-y dAi ?reM with Hose'or NeckwearmOO JS Evening Dress with Hose. J 13.95 16.50 Evening Dress with Hose j 15.95 Wednesday, October 26, 1932 Intimate Knowledge Is Power Most young fellows in rural communities who yearn to write think they could do so if they could only get out and see the world New York, Paris, Egypt, India any place far away. But Paul Green always has written about his own people, "black and white." He is very fond of that phraseology, "my people, both white and black." He has not felt it so necessary to study other people as to study his own people. He knows the history, traditions and psychology of the people of North Carolina and far more about the southern negro than the southern negro knows of himself. He has become the voice for a race which cannot speak for itself. Why Hurry Through Schoel? Paul Green was not one of those lads who are so bright (Continued on last page) LARGE DOUBLE ROOM 1 block from campus imme diate occupancy rates reason able remainder of month on pro rate basis meals if desired private entrance congenial group. Apply box 612. (3) LOST A BUNCH OF KEYS On a triangular "ring." In or near Post Office. Finder nlease hand in at Post Office or at lost and found bureau, Y. M. C. A. Reward. Collier Cobb. 117 New East. Alfred Williams & Co. Booksellers Office Outfitters Social Engravers Stationery nl at the plcturo that riotously pokes fun at the movies! JACK OAKIE, SIDNEY FOX, others, In 1 1 a 1 U3 OTHER UNITS 5 Comedy, "A Perfect 36 EEE Also, "Water Jamboree EES A Sportlight HI Now Playing; lap 0 ' 1 mmm "... r IlllilltelillS - . "TBmW .
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