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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL MAY 33; 193-fc W$z Bml$ tar if eel Tne official newspaper of the Publications Union Board af the University of North Carolina at Ghapel HOI where It is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of .March 3, 1879. Subscription price, f 3.00 for the college year. A. T. Dill.. ...... Robert C. Page, Jr. Joe Webb ...... ...Editor .JMahaging Editor ....Business Manager Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Philip Hammer, chairman, Don Becker, Nelson Lansdale, E.- R. Oettinger, Jeanne Holt, B. C. Proctor, Tom Walker, Kenneth Warren, Lawrence Patten. FEATURE BOARD Vermont Royster, chairman, Wal ter Terry, Ed Goldenthal, John Wiggins, W. W. Boddie. CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Walter Hargett. DESK MEN Nick Powell, Don McKee, Jim Daniels, Reed Sarratt, Ralph Burgm. SEORTS DEPARTMENT Jimmy Morris and Bill Anderson, co-editors, C. P. Nicholson, Ralph Gialanel la, Smith Barrier, Tom Bost, Lester OstrOw, Stuart bechnest. EXCHANGES Jimmy Craighill, Margaret Gaines. REPdRTERS E. L. Kahn, Emery Raper, Sara Willard, Francis Clingman, Don Wetherbee, Margaret Mc- Uauley, Kill Lanier. Business Staff ASST. BUSINESS MGR. (Sales) Agnew Bahnson, jr. COLLECTION MANAGER James Barnard. OFFICE MANAGER L. E. Brooks. DURHAM REPRESENTATIVE Henry B. Darling. LOCAL ADVERTISING STAFF Butler French (man ager), Hugh Primrose, Phil Singer, Robert Sosnick, Herbert Osterheld, Niles Bond, Eli Joyner, Oscar ryree, uoylaa fcJarr. CIRCULATION MANAGER Ralto Farlow. CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: WALTER HARGETT Thursday, May 31, 1934 Movies, Advertising, And Good Ole Webster 1SEE on the billboard a cinema blurb: "Stupendous! Gigantic! Immense! Terrific! Astounding!. Amazing! Superb! Heart-Gripping Soul-Probing! Intense!" I hasten to gaze on this triumph of art, Which holds countless millions in thrall, But it wakens no fluttering throb in my heart! It is only a "speakie," that's all, Built Upon the unfailing, sure-fire plan Two men and a girl, or two girls and one man. And so James J. Montague continues to philoso phize on the editorial page of the New York Herald Tribune until he comes to the conclusion: What makes the great populace quiver and flamfe Is two girls and a man or two men and one dame. We like Mr. Montague's poetry, but we are inclined to disagree with him. Once in a very great while the movies (pardon us the cinema) has seen fit to depart from the one-man-two-dame-two-men-one-dame formula (respectively) and has produced something really outstanding. Mr. Montague picked the wrong thing about the movies (cinema) jto generalize about. But we admire the way in which he has caught the basic adjectives of motion picture advertising. It reminds us of a problem which once caused a good bit of brow-wrinkling. We used to won der how every new strip of celluloid that came along could be not only Stupendous! Gigantic! etc., etc., but also the unequivocally and cate gorically best production in all respects that ever graced the silver screen. But the Hollywood pro ducers have given themselves away by overwork ing good ole Webster. The secret is out. They were just kidding us all -the time, and really didn't mean a word of it. That explains, too, why a show often fails to come up to expecta tions, thereby leaving a disappointed and dis gruntled audience. However, the problem will probably take care of itself. There can't be very many adjectives left in the dictionary that Hollywood hasn't worked to death. Pretty soon even the blurb writers will be so bored that they will give Stu pendous! Gigantic! etc., etc. and, incidentally; the public a rest. D.B. . Culture And the Service WHAT the New Deal needs now and will need in the future is an administrative staff whose disinterested intelligence and devotion to the national heed is unquestioned. That, in the opin ion of Fortune, constitutes the problem attached to the American system of ' Civil Service selection. In England the administrative staff that is the most important cog in the civil service machin ery of that government is composed of cultured individualists, non-politically inclined because it contains the every shade of political coloring as the laity. And membership to that staff requires a cultural and broadly intelligent (qualification rather than a narrow and specified type of train ing. Nice people, it is generally said, do not mingle with politicians nor indulge in politics in America. Hence, only a temporary, measure or a national crisis can engender America's most cultured class into the administrative civil posi tions. ' We note that certain of the United States Civil Service examinations are "open compete tive examinations" with certain qualifications of age and physical ability and with educational advantages embracing a bachelor's degree from a college or university of recognized standing with special . training in certain fields. These qualifications " are necessary for those jobs are fairly well, comparable to the Civil Service posi tions of England. But what does England re quire? Their examinations are based on the principle that a general (classical or scientific) "liberal" education is preferable to special train ing. The reason is obvious: Britain's unshak able belief in the perfection of its educational system bears a similar faith in the fact that men must receive only the briefest sort of special training but quantities of general education in order to administer to the affairs of its diverse races and problems. We cannot visualize an applicant for an Ameri can civil service, examination pouring forth his critical analysis of the poetry of Edward -Arling ton Robinson, perhaps because our faith in the educational system as developed here has hot the traditional characteristics of "die for dear old American intellect" in it But we can under stand that a general knowledge fosters a more practicable administration in most of our na tional affairs; and we can realize the need for the cultured college gentlemen becoming the top staff of our governmental system. We have no king whose royal heritage demands a royal group of administrators beneath him; but we have presidents whose cultural educations are their achievements and whose need has been a staff of similarly cultured gentlemen to aid them in running America's business. We may be a heterogeneous, nation but that does not mean that culture and not politics cannot be the de termining factor in selecting men for our civil service. P.G.H. Adding To Comfort A T the cost of approximately $800, the board oi directors of Graham Memorial has author ized and completed the furnishing of an addi tional lobby in the student union, probably to be called the "North Room." It is situated, as the name implies, in the north of the building on the first floor where annual spring elections are usually held. Beautiful leather-upholstered furniture and deep red carpets have rendered the room a de lightful smoking lounge. Several sofas and a bevy of deep easy chairs have been afforded for the convenience of University students. As Mayne Albright, outgoing director of the union, stated, it will be a "more convenient" and more intimate corner where students can gather for "bull sessions," reading, games (there are tables for checkers and cards available), and rest. The room will be formally "dedicated" this Sunday at the regular afternoon concert. Tea will be served there after the musicians have presented their performance in the main lounge. Students desiring a resting place during the hec tic study-periods for examinations will find a comfortable abode in the newest addition to the already "abundantly-congenial" Graham Memo rial. R.C.P. , Writh Contemporaries Education v For Political Life "I NEVER scratched a ticket in my life. I've had to hold my nose lots of times, but I always voted 'er straight." Such was the proud statement of the chair man of a Kansas county committee of one of the major parties recently. ;t It throws a little light on the questions of why men hesitate to admit that their chief interest in life is politics, and why no respectable student cares to under take politics as his profession. American politics at present is not a profes sion. It is a game, to be played for the excite ment it offers. In rural communities it is played principally by old men, settled in their political habits and bound by those habits to the observ ance of such rules as "Never scratch a ticket!" In some large cities it is played by unscrupulous grafters, obviously, and defiantly for nothing more than graft. Politics could be made into a respectable pro fession by the participation of young men and women motivated by a desire to improve govern ment, rather than merely to get certain men into elective and appointive offices because they have been good party men for many years. Universities are in an advantageous position to assist in this change. In the first place the university is the logical agency for the study of political methods and of ways in which they could be improved. To the university belongs the job of training expert career politicians. In the second place the university brings together young people of average intelligence or above, who with proper guidance, could exert a bene ficial influence in political organizations and tp. lieve the word "politician" of its unpleasant connotaton. The Daily Kansan. A young man at' Miami University consumed, during a hamburger-eating test, fifteen ham burgers in thirty minutes. Column-Aides By E. R. Oettinger To at least one person in the state the name bf Frank Graham might just as well be Zilch. We know that for a fact, for our source of information is hone other than Mrs. Graham herself. It seems that bh a recent visit to her native habitat of Edenton, Mrs. Graham was interrupted by a persistent telephone while with her family at the dinner-table. When the old Negro servant who answered the phone return ed, the family naturally asked who was wanted. Whereupon in all seriousness the old mam my snorted, "Dey didn't wan' no body heuh. Dey wanted a Miz Gra-am, a Miz Frank Gra-am, so I done tol' 'em dey got de wrong numbuh. Dis heuh is de Drane residence." The most concrete evidence of the degree to which the spirit of brotherly love has been car ried at our neighbor University in "the woods of Durham" is to be found in the News and Ob server print of an Associated Press story concerning the con tract tendered Moritz Flohr, Duke hurling ace, by the Phila delphia Athletics. States that usually authoritative journal: "Flohr has a great college rec ord despite the fact that in 1932 and 1933, his sophomore and junior years in college, depicted for a loving team." Accepting this somewhat incoherent indi cation of intimacy as the gospel, Neighbor, we'll have' to hand you the palm. Our school ath letic teams have nothing to com pare with that. If Secretary of War Dern, as has been inferred, is the joker of the New Deal pack, we are convinced that he is well quali fied for the job. When the Sec retary with the near-profane cognomen was running for the Governorship bf Idaho several years ago, his opponent was the possessor bf the equally provo cative handle of Mabey. Ap parently aware of the unique place available in the near fu ture for a punster-extraordinary in our national governmental set-up, Candidate Dern clearly proved his right to the title through his campaign slogan. It read : "What this state needs is a Dern good Governor, and I don't mean Mabey." Strangely enough, he won the election. Those of us with a distinct aversion to the currently fash ionable floppy hats which adorn the heads of our "weaker sex" will have to bear with them for a while in any event. It seems that the flop-brims have become heroes (or is it heroines?). A few days ago the hats gave im petus to "The Century of Pro gress" by providing novel means for saving the lives of three de butantes and their male escorts, when their 30-foot cabin cruiser began to sink. The poor escorts, having no bucolic straw counter parts of their companions' head pieces, were forced to submit to the humiliating experience of being rescued by means of bal ing out water with the girls' haberdashery. Now we wonder if somebody couldn't invent a combination brassiere and water-wings. Judging prize-fights seems to have been chiseled down to a fine art. At the McLarnin-Ross setto one of the eminently ex perienced officials scored nine rounds for McLarnin, one for Ross, and called five even. His colleague awarded Ross twelve rounds McLarnin two, and de cided that one was' even. So, to decide the encounter, Referee Forbes gave thirteen rounds to Ross, one to McLarnin, and marked one evenL As cover ornament of this week's Time is a picture of Tin Pah Alley's most popular repre sentative, Irving Berlin. Under "Music" a sympathetic account of his career from .the city streets to city lights is sketched. Next to the prolificity of Song writer Berlin as illustrated in his enormous annual output over a score of years, the most in veigling single item in the ar ticle is a comparison of Berlin to Wagner by Jerome Kern be cause "like the operatic titan, he molds and blends and ornaments his words and music at one and the same time, each being the Outgrowth of the other." With that we are not in a position to quarrel, but we do regret that for every "Russian Lullaby" Berlin has seen fit to give us a "Yascha Michaeloffsky's Melo dy," for every "Easter Parade" a tinny "Let's Have Another Clip of Coffee." Perhaps under similar standards George S. Kaufman could be likened to Mo liere and Fannie Hurst to George Eliot. And wouldn't the style of Gertrude Stein stack up excellently with that of Carlyle? Student Achievements .Receive Recognition (Continued from page one) Grail awards for the highest scholastic average on the differ ent athletic squads went to the following: football, Ralph Gard ner bf Shelby ; basketball, Stu art Aitken of Charlotte ; boxing, Ernest Eutsler of Goldsboro ; track, Frank P. Abernethy; and baseball, Virgil Weathers" of Shelby. S. A. E. Wins Cup Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater nity was awarded the fraternity trophy offered .by Delta Kappa Epsilon lodge for the best fra ternity record in scholarship, intramural athletics, and varsity athletics. Mangum dormitory won. the plaque offered by the Grail for the first time to the rooming house with the best program of student government, ahtletics, and activities. A total of 54 keys were pre sented by Phi Beta Kappa, na tional honorary society, by John T. O'Neil, president during the past year. Eighty-one received awards for work on the four University publications, 47 for Playmakers activities, six for the University band, five for the Glee club, and six for the de bating squad. . Announcements were also made by O'Neil concerning the awards to be presented to mem bers of Beta . Gamma Sigma, honorary commerce fraternity, and Tau Beta Pi; national engi neering fraternity, announced 16 awards. , A total Of 109 varsity mono grams, 10 managers' letters, and 133 freshman numerals were awarded to athletes who have helped make. the Univer sity's athletics program a suc cess. Forney Rankin presided at the convocation. W. T. Minor ac cepted the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity cup in behalf of the Sigma Alpha; Epsilon lodge. Athletics, Phi Beta Kappa, pub lications, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Tau Beta Pi awards have been announced in former issues of the Daily Tar Heel. Debating,- Playmakers, and music awards are: Debating: W. C. Durfee, Bos ton, Mass'.; F. A. Rankin, Bel mont; W. R. Eddleman, Gas tonia; R. P. Russell, Asheville; E. S. Lanier, Thomasville; D. r' Seawell, Chapel Hill. Playmakers masks: John AlexanderNew York; Laurens AndersonDurham; Mary Arm bruster, Raleigh; Mary Alice Bennett, Bryson City; Betty Bolton, Welcome; Ralph Burgm Jr., Winston Salem ; Merle Car son, Wilmington; Coit Coker Chapel Hill ; Elise Cortese, Free land, Pa.; Virginia Dean, Char lotte; Nat Farnworth, Pueblo,. Col. ; Frederica Frederick, Phila delphia, Pa.; June Gunter, San ford; Geo. Hogan, Chapel Hill; Chas. Houk, Knoxville," Tenn. Rachel Howard, Chapel Hill. Douglas Hume, Monterey,, Cal.; Lottie Lane Joyner, Farm-, ville; Sonny Kenfield, Chapel Hill; Joyce Killinswbrth, Signal Mountain, Tenn. ; Billy Koch,. Chapel Hill; Kathleen Krahen buhl, Selma; Virgil Lee, Jr., Baltimore, Md.; R. W. Linker, Chapel Hill; Davis Lewis, Lex ington, Mass.; Charles Lloyd, Asheville; Patsy McMullan, Chapel Hill ; Christine Maynard, Kinstbn ; Prof. . Grady Miller, Chapel Hill; Nancy Murchison, Chapel Hill ; Winnie Alice Mur phy, Asheville; Nan Norman, Hickory; Jesse Parker, Wil mington ; Mary Byrd Perrow, Asheville; Don Pope, Ann Ar bor, Mich. Nick Powell, Leonia, N. J. ; Vermont Royster, Raleigh; P. Russell, Asheville; C. H. Smith, Greensboro ; Geo. Stoney, Winston Salem; Tom Teer, Dur ham; Walter Terry, New Ca naan, Conn.; Carl Thompson, Jr., Southern Pines; Ed Vaughn, Hamlet; Anne B. Walters, La Grange; Allen- Waters, Scars dale, N. Y.; Alton Williams, Fresno, Calif. Band awards went to: W. W. King, Greensboro; H. R. Hazel man, Andrews; M. E. Evans, Fayetteyille; P. G. Jamison, Blairsviile, Pa.; W. D. Lowder, Norman; H. L. Nicholson, Greensboro. Glee club awards: J. G. Briggs, High Point; John Chap man, Wilmette, 111. ; E. Griffin, Jr., Goldsboro; John Barney, Greensboro; Harold Gavin, San ford. . SPRING SPORTS FEATURE REVIEW (Continued from page one) brought out of the tennis team, coached by John F. Kenfield, which lost only one match this year breaking its string of T4 victorious matches. Telling the new records set by LeGore, Abernethy, Hawthorne, Wil liamson, Childers, and Hub bard, the issue reviews the Uni versity track team's state cham pionship and Southern Confer ence indoor wins. Pictures of new campus, offi cers and leaders are displayed opposite articles on the campus elections and the tappings of honor societies. A survey is made of the growth of the graduate school during the 50 years of its work oh the University campus, and records are printed on the en rollment and graduates of the in stitution. Summaries are printed on the Weil lecture series led this year by Dr. George Norlin, the meetings of special conferences at the University, and the new curricula changes. The issue carries results of numerous alumni meetings held all over the country, emphasiz ing the Pinehurst medical alum ni session and the Washington, D. C. convocation at which President Graham and Josephus Daniels spoke. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS C SENIORS Among Your Souvenirs Should be SlARY bmNBERGEk'S MAP of CHAPEL HILL And Anybody Else with $2.00 (Hand Painted at the Bull's Head) r n
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