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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday,. December 11, 193 the S)atlp Ear Ieel The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil 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.:I.... ...Editor Geo. W. Wilson, Jr...jMgr. Editor R. D. McMillan-:..:..,.....Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoe maker, chairman; E.-C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, JUdith Harbour, Mayne Albright, B. B. Perry, A. T. Dill, J. M. Joy, P. A. Northrup, Peggy Ann Harris, Kobert Berry man, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster. CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddie man.. DESK MEN George Malone, Phil Markley, J. D. Winslow, Nelson Robbins. FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Donoh Hanks, Carl , Thompson, Milton Stoll, Irvmg D. Suss. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Anderson, Jack Bessen, Lawrence Thompson, Matt Hackett, J. H. Morris, Crampton Trainer, Morrie Long, Lane Fulenwider, Hugh Lane, Van Webb, Jimmy Mc Gurk, Jack Lowe. REPORTERS 7B. R. Weaver, Ray mond Barron, James B. Craighill, . Walter Hargett, T. W. Hicks, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Robert C. Page, George Rhoades, Phillip Hammer, Davis Spiers, Clarence Hartman, Eleanor Bizzell, Elizabeth Johnson, W. B. Greet, Dave Mosier, Raleigh Allsbrook Sterling R. Col lette. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPT. Tom Worth, Manager. OFFICE STAFF P. P. Gray, Jr., ' Ass't Bus. Mgr., John Barrow, Ass't Bus. Mgr., W. B. Robeson. ADVERTISING' STAFF Howard Manning, Advt Mgr., W. C. Jones, Adv Mgr., J. W: Callahan, James MehafFy, Butler French, Esley An derson, Buddy Upchurch, J. Ralto Farlow, Joe Mason. COLLECTION STAFF Randolph Reynolds, Collection Mgr., Joe C. Webb, Agnew Bahnson, L. E. Brooks, Armistead Maupdn, Robert P. Phifer, J. T. Barnard. Sunday, December 1, 1932 The Campus Voice In the poll conducted Thurs day and Friday by the Daily Tar -Heel under the legal super vision of the student council, more than eight hundred stu dents were given ample oppor tunity to express their prefer ences in the selection of the new of the Greater University. Ev ery precaution was taken to eli cit only unbiased and unparti san opinion. The appeal was to the sanity and integrity of the student body in demonstrating that student opinion should have its place in determining the ex ecutive who should guide the University through its trials and struggles. principally in that a large major ity of the undergraduate student body took this opportunity to ex press through such a large bal lot the conviction that such a se lection is within their rights. It is increasingly gratifying that one man should receive such a large vote, indicating that there ICS Q "ATM V ri CI r4- rt-f-lllnvi rtVin vuiiipctv iutoo ux oisuuciib J pill ion on this campus. Only through such a poll can the preferences of a student body be recognized. This factor evidences the sincere interest of the students in such a selection and recommends itself heartily to the committee on selection of our new vice-president. D.C.S. Good; Earth Among the beneficial results of the depression from whose gloom we are now emerging is the very decided trend of popu lation away from the cities and back to the farm. Before the period of the depression the ag ricultural element was decreas ing at an alarming rate. Mil lions, motivated, by a desire for a better living and lured by lux ury and excitement attributed to urban life, were pouring into the cities leaving their wake de serted farms and untilled fields. A decade or less ago we heard most discouraging predictions that at the rate of migration then existing it would not be many years before the number of farmers would be insufficient to supply our millions, with food. The depression with all its at tending evils has reversed the tide. Within the first few months of this year over a half a million people returned to the land and to the occupation of farming They followed some hundreds of thousands that had gone before and that had 'realized also that the cities were not-all they had seemed. They had learned from painful experience that while agriculture held little prospect of riches it might be depended upon at least for food and shel ter. They realized that the citv was for many a place not of pleasure and easy living but the stronghold of poverty and suf fering. The farm house and the meager rewards of farming they found ,to be preferable to the bread line, the flop house, and the soup kitchen. And so the trek began back to the friendly soil that had yielded them food and work. Their return is highly encour aging, it terminates tor a time at least a movement that might have, had dire-consequences. It reduces greatly the great pa thetic armies of the unemployed dependent on charity and the public. It means that millions will return to wholesome and necessary occupation and have seen the myth of the city's joys dispelled. Greater than these will be the realization that the farmer's salvation lies not in de sertion but in cooperation. Sev eral times have efforts been made to organize them in some way to guarantee fair treatment and better reward for their ar duous toils. These have all failed. Now with labor and cap ital, drawn up in well knit ranks the farmer will learn that he must follow suit or perish. Co operation among them will cer tainly come and with let us hope some fairer distribution of wealth and power and a square deal for the man forgotten, heg- ected and misused the Ameri can farmer, still the backbone of the nation. J.F.A. The Ink Well By Nelson Robbins SOME MINOR MEANDERINGS Needle in the Hay Ballot Hi! Diddle, Fiddlement, Who'll be Vice-President? First straw ballot was a lark Four votes cast for David Clark! On the Socialists, a pox. Did someone stuff the ballot box? Both Randolph parties bolt their tickets, And O. J. runs, like a child with rickets. Football coach also gets vote, Which the counters failed to note. Student Council takes up fight To make everything come out all right. Both ballots won by ablest man, Whom the radicals can't even pan. But when the trustees take up matter, Will they pay heed to student chatter? Will the gentlemen take any note Of the official student vote? And Now Spencer Hall JIas Taken Up Basketball Ready? . . . Toss-up. . . . Ouch! Turn loose my hair! . . . Fourth floor out. . . . Oh, there's Bob on the sidelines. ... Wonder if my nose is shiny? . . . Time out. Tele phone for Miss Harris. .... Sub stitution Foul. . . .' The un couth thing. ... Three personals on Miss Bizzell Lordy, some one shot a goal . Miss Browne wanted at the Shack. . . . Ex cuse me, Dearie. ... No, that wasn't a signal-I was waving at Bob Darling, ysrar shorts are slipping. . . . Mercy! Semi-Serious One-Word De scriptions of Striking Campus Personalities The Dr. Cobb, f geniality; Edwin Sydney Lanier, lunselfishness ; Dr. Jordan, bef ud- dlement; Coach Bob FetzerJ modesty; Dean Walker, culture; Dr. Archibald Henderson, ego tism; Dr. Booker, twittery; Dr. Crittenden, courtesy; O. B. Har mon, soupy. Do You Snore? . . . Beware of insiduous breath ! . . . Or, per haps, it is B.O. that is keeping you from being a shining social light. . . . Do they laugh when you sit down at the piano? . . . Avoid pink and lavender tooth brush. . . . Can you speak Eng lish as she oughta be spoke? . . . Do people shudder when you make the "thoid" mistake? Send for our five-foot shelf of books. . . . Have you athletes' foot? . . . Learn to play the ukulele in three lessons. . . . De velop your bust the new easy way. . . . How is your etiquette i Your nose straightened while you sleep. ... Send for forty lessons in dancing. . . . How is your aunt Emma's dandruff? . . . Wonder how many suckers are caught annually by the ad writ er's appeal to our social instinct? . . "Quick, Henry! The Flit." Monday, Dec. 5 Webster N. Jones, Carnegie nstitute of Technology; and A. H. White, University of Michi- -if gan, conduct seminars nere m "Chemical Engineer's Day." Christmas holidays extended one additional day, administra tion announces. Sophomores, freshmen and new men will reg ister on the third with classes to begin on that date. Tuesday, Dec. 6 December issue of the North Carolina Law Review, first edi tion of the year, comes off press. J. H." Chadbourn, member of law faculty, editor-in-chief. Professor Frederick H. Koch announces twenty-seventh an nual readingof Dickens' Christ inas Carol, taking place this year in Memorial hall. Usual reading place; Town Hall, New York City. Wednesday, Dec. 7 Dr. Archibald Henderson ex presses extreme regret at treat ment of his friend, Albert Ein stein, momentarily ensnared in passport difficulties. V. L. Granville, distinguished English actor, seen in "Dramatic Interludes," Memorial hall. Granville interludes: Nero, Job, Lady Wishf ort, etc. Carlos G. Davila, ex-president of Chile, former Chilean ambas sador to United States and first president of the Student Fed eration of Chile, appears before large audience in first of week long lectures on relations be tween South American republics and the United States, Davila's first, "The Monroe Doctrine." Thursday, Dec. 8 Plans for Freshman News Re view announced by English de partment. First Review to ap pear in January and to include compositions by Freshman Eng lish students. University of Tennessee drops North Carolina from 1933 grid card. Reason: Vols could not make two trips to Tar Heel ter ritory (meeting also Duke) on successive week-ends. , Finals of campus boxing tour ney run off before crowd, of one thousand. Winners and weights : Eustler, 115 pounds ; Frucht, 125 pounds; Kalb, 135 pounds; Sutton, 145 pounds; Pratt, 155 pounds; Edwards, 165 pounds; EBisberg, 175 pounds; banner, unlimited. Team match to Best House with fifty-five points. The Week Friday, Dec. 9 Head football coach C. C. Col lins elected president of" South em Conference Coaches Associa tion following heated attack on Dixie gridiron officials. Kobert Burton House, execu tive secretary of University wins student vice-presidential poll with 219 votes. Nearest competitors : Dr. E. E. Ericson, 121; Dr. L. R. Wilson (now at University of Chicago) 89. Administration announces re vised registration schedule. Re vision: all students register, be fore end of quarter; classes be gin promptly January 3. Dr. Frank P. Graham, ad dresses Alumni assembly, de ploring faculty salary cuts and general cuts and general budget slashes. THOSE NEW BOOKS lne unristmas magazines have arrived from England The Sphere, The Graphic, The Sketch, The London News, and The Bystander. The illustra tions are way over and above any thing put out here in America. There is one article on "Real Life in the Middle Ages" which will make you want to pin on a wimple and play on a lute. Hiegh Ho! . Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann (Holt) $2.50. Reviewed by Nelson Landsdale. This is a novel which deals with a brief period in the life of its main characters. A most important period in the life of a girl the week of her formal entrance into society. The set ting is English. A few characters are genu inely Miss Lehmann's own Olivia, who tries desperately to seem sufficiently appreciative of her presents on her birthday, and whose reactions to her first ball are the substance of the book; her sister Kate, who is older, more experienced, and who understands everything; and her curiously wise little brother, James. And there are the usual stock characters gruff old Sir John and majestic Lady Spenser ; the radical young poet, Peter Jenkin, who scorns the society he is, at the moment, frequenting; an aged eccentric, her uncle Oswald ; and her mother, of the higher class bourgeoise, whose reverence for nobility is no novelty. It is perhaps fortunate that Rosamond Lehmann does not have a mind keen for the dra matic situation. In Northanger Abbey Jane Austen, with her endless dramatization of incid ents which have no dramatic es sence, bores the modern reader almost to the point of yelling "What of it?" and throwing the book out the window. Miss Leh mann has been wise enough to realize that any week in a girl's life is chiefly important to the girl. She tells her story simply, directly, and, above all truth fully, and the reader is not bored. He is not, for one thing, asked to consider Olivia's suc cess or failure at her first dance of equal importance to the battle of Waterloo. Most Americans will marvel at the sheltered life young Eng lish ladies of family lead. In America, when young girls be gin attending sub-deb functions at the tender age of twelve, their "coming-out" affair rarely finds them with neither suitors nor so cial experience. They can well thank their stars that they are spared so much agony of ap prehension at so crucial a period in their lives. " This Tuesday at 4:30, Brad ford Bissel, a, graduate student of the University will present a showing of batik work, describe the process of manufacture, and tell about Java from whence it came. He has spent several years in that country, which, according to Van Loon in his Geography, is "supremely favored by Na ture the soil, if treated at all kindly and understanding will yield three complete harvests every twelve months. There is the climate, which although hot enough to favor the cultivation of every known tropical plant is not excessive and which is . more agreeable than that of New York or Washington during the summer. A fatalistic attitude has been developed by the man who tills his fields, whose ances tors ever since the beginning of the world have tilled the same fields? whose children will till these same fields, and who none of them ever want or expect to go without sufficient nourish ment." And yet the author in sists he is not trying to describe an earthly paradise! Mrs. Pheo- be Barr has kindly consented to demonstrate the wearing of the native costume. As usual, the public is most cordially invited to attend these weekly "at- homes" of the "Bull's Head." THE THEATRE (Reviewed by Ben Napier) The several productions on the recent bill of the Playmak ers were as varied in quality as in subject-matter. Like the girl with the curl, those that were good were very, very good and those that were bad were hor rid. In reviewing the latter ones, this reveiwer confesses that it would be all too easy and enjoyable to indulge in caustic language at the expense of Creek Swamp Nigger and Stum bling in Dreams, but, on reflec tion, he realizes that the only possible good that might come from such a course would be to discourage their respective au thors from foisting any more of their brain-children on the cam pus at large. And knowing Playmaker imperviousness to any but favorable criticism, he believes that such a contingency is too remote to justify the ef fort. It is m a spirit of resignation only, then, that your reviewer points out that the first of these Creek Swamp Nigger was chiefly melodramatic instead of tragic, that the element of sus pense was simply not present and that that tour de force of a playwright a struggle and murder, on the stage was laughable rather than imnrps- sive. It should also be remarked that the absurd histrionics of the actors did nothing to allevi ate the situation. The second play, Mr. Milhous' Davy ' Crockett can not be so glibly disposed of. As a studio production it gave definite pro- mise oi Demg a nne play. Mr. Milhous has a decided flair for lovely lines and dramatic situ ations and is capable of depict ing emotion m a way that is moving and free from all senti mentality. It may have been that his material simply was not adaptable to the limits of a one act play, or, on the other hand, that he is not yet sufficientlv capable in dramatic technique but, at all events, the fact re mains that the work, as a play, was not good. Despite this fact ne scenes Detween Mary and Davy are memorable. Their sustained dramatic effect and heir lines, inherently lovely in themselves, combined to make one forget the other faults. This department hopes that other works of Mr. Milhous will be on subsequent production programs of the year. As to the actor, it should suffice to say that Miss Tatum as Mary gave a per formance that was up to her usual high standard, that Mr. Fitz-Simons, although an un usual playwright, is not quite ready to step into the shoes of Alfred Lunt and that a Mr. Bar ret gave the second worse per formance of the evening. Mr. Fitz-Simons' Four on a Heath forces this department to a nearly complete volte-face. In a previous review, it was dis missed as fairly good. Now, with the accentuation of good production, this fantasy becomes of such a high order as to force the amende honorable. It is ex cellent and ranks with the best the Playmakers have ever pro duced. The author was not content to give an original Lord Dun-sany-like twist in choosing his subject-matter. For good mea sure he sustained the original effect by excellent lines and then,. at the last, proved his knowl edge of dramatic values equal to the power of his imagination. His play was unquestionably the finest of the evening. Excel lent direction and effective light ing helped of course, and this department is grateful to both. the Playmakers and Mr. Fitz Simons for evoking, in the nor mally sentient members of the audience, that all-too-rare de light that a fine play brings. The next little opus, by dint of its juxtaposition with a good play (as well as by dint of be ing just a lousy play itself) was very nearly nauseating. Hack neyed situations, broad attempts at comedy, and a general inept ness characterized it. Mr. Novins as Jo struggled valiantly to improve the stand ard of the production (in doing so, he gave the best male per formance of the evening) but there are things impossible even o a perfectly cast, good actor. A propos of this production, it is regrettable that the director did not point out to Mr. Brown, who played Don that there are other ways of characterizing in geniousness than by bending the body forward and taking a scoup at the floor with one's hand. The reviewer might forgive him his singing had he not attempted his personification of a sentimental steam-shovel. He is without doubt the poorest actor that ever trod the Playmaker boards. DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Durham, N. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken con secutively (M.D. in three years) or three terms may be taken each year (M.D. in four years). The entrance requirements are intelligence, charac ter and at least two years of college work, including the subjects specified for Grade A Medicine Schools. Cata logues and application forms may be obtained from he Dean. Chapel Hill Movie Guild Presents WHKKJ l.'!ty "WWW I ' j WITH IRENE DUNNE, JOHN BOLES. George Meeker. Zasu Pitts, June Clyde, William Bakewc!! Ar ietta Duncan, Doris Lloyd James. Ponlan, Walter Catlett " Doors Open at 1:30 Hours of Shows: 2:00 and 3:20 SUNDAY V i ' V Vd
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