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. The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where
it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving,
matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act
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Editor
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Editorial Staff .
EDITORIAL BOARD Phil Hammer, chairman, Earl
Wolslagel, Franklin Harward, John Schulz, DuPont
Snowderi, Margaret McCauley, Morty Slavin, Sam
Leager, Dick Myers, Charles Lloyd, Jake Snyder, Phil
Kind, Charles Daniel, George Butler.
FEATURE BOARD Nelson Lansdale, chairman; Nick
Read, Bob Browder, Francis Clingman, J. E. Poin
dexter, W. M. Cochrane, Willis Harrison.
CITY EDITORS Irving Suss, Walter Hargett, Don
McKee, Jim Daniel, Reed Sarratt.
TELEGRAPH EDITORS Stuart Rabb, Charlie Gilmore.
DESK MAN Eddie Kahn. : , '
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Jimmy Morris and Smith
Barrier, co-editors, Tm Bost, Lee Turk, Len Rubin,
Fletcher Ferguson, Stuart Sechriest, Lester Ostrow,
Ira Sarasohn. ,
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STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Don Becker. ,
REPORTERS Bill Hudson, Jhn Smith, J. F. Jonas,
Howard Easter, Lawrence Weisbrod,, Hazel Beacham,
Raymond Howe, William Jordan, Morton Feldman.
. - Business Staff
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COLLECTION MANAGER... . Herbert Osterheld
OFFICE MANAGERS. Walter Eckert, Roy Crooks
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: IRVING SUSS
Saturday, February 2, 1935
PARAGRAPHICS
Gridster Barclay's getting old ;
Instead of a halfback, He'll, hit a pole.
"Tom Collins" Solomon made the front page
Thursday, the second page yesterday, and
ought to make the third soon if he'll be a sport.
We see where the Bull's Head is now rent
ing "A Glorious Pool" by Thome Smith. It
should be good for a few votes this spring,
Jack. ,
Education
In the Arena
Where is our attitude toward war leading us,
and more pertinent still, what is our attitude to
ward war? These and other questions pop into
our mind when we read that the President's re
quested budget appropriation for national de
fense in peace time is the greatest ever sent to
Capitol Hill. Congress has been asked to appro
priate $792,484,265 for the army and navy for
the year starting next July 1. This figure is an
increase of about $180,000,000 over the appro
priations for military functions of these two de
partments during the current fiscal year. If, as
is entirely probable, the army and navy secure
allocations from the public works fund, the cost
for national defense will soar close to . $1,000,
000,000. . , - ,
While the walls of our nation are being so well
reinforced though, what is happening to the
foundations-? For the . condition of education
throughout the nation merits as much and more
consideration from the federal government as
does the proposed, increase in peace time defense
appropriations. ; 1
Let us look at the possibilities for education
which that increase might hold if it were directed
m other channels. According to our rouah fia
ures,if this $180,000,000 were invested in a trust
fund for the creation of honorary vrofessor shins.
over one thousand such prof essorial chairs could
be established at a salary of $5,000 a year.
Every state in the union could be granted a loan
of $3,750,000 for rehabilitation of its educational
system. Eighteen hundred high schools costing
$100,000 each could be built with this sum.
There is an even more concrete possibility.
however, in contrast to the President's request
for increased appropriations, there has been
concerted effortmade by the nation's educators
to obtain a $100,000,000 equalizing fund for edu
. cational purposes. The late superintendent of
public instruction, A. T. Allen, who was one of
the prominent leaders in this drive for federal
aid, figured that if the fund was allotted' on the
basis of need, North Carolina would be entitled
to a seven or eight million dollar share. Such
an allotment would give the state a 25 per cent
increase in teachers' salaries, and a 50 per cent
increase in the educational budget.
We are not opposed to ample protection against
enemy invasion. . We believe, however, that de
fense measures. in the past few years have been
quite adequate," and that to add further armor
means only to carry a heavier weight than is
necessary. Our guess would be that to spend the
proposed increase in education would be a much
more valuable step in preparing for, or rather
against, the next war. '
More About a
Political Union
A political union on this campus could be
everything . our literary ; societies are, not. It
could do the things that these groups have tried
to do and have failed in their attempts. To begin
with, a union's existence on this campus would
not mean that it would be a scholarly, dry, and
horn rimmed organization. - It would mean, how
ever, that jt may be the making of a snappy,
alert, ;aggressive and intelligent citizenry of able-
minded students.
The aim of political unions on other campuses
is not to fill its members up with dates, memory
passages, listings, and the usual class room
drudgery. The aim is, to discuss en joyably and
prudently, not the problems' that . have arisen
years and years ago (not that they are unjmpor
taut),. but -to discuss tHe problems of today and
tomorrow as they loom up before our generation.
And that is what we need here. It will help
to develop our spoon-fed class room scholars into
self-reliant thinkers. To those who will have the
gumption to partake in .the vigorous activities
of such a union the reward is two-fold. They
will grasp the topics under discussion not from
memory, not from written papers, but from a
combination of both mind and voice.
Each meeting will have one or possibly more
student speakers, students who have thoroughly
informed themselves with the problem under dis
cussion. Each meeting will introduce a well-
known speaker a speaker a week. It will give
the campus an opportunity to hear what the
guest speaker of experience has to present and
unfold. Dr. Woodhouse has definitely stated
that excellent guest speakers are available and
would be glad to come and speak before such a
group.
The Oxford Political Union, according to Dr,
Spruill who has studied in Oxford University,
has dedicated many of its meetings to the dis
cussion of humorous topics. The meetings are
not dead ; on the contrary they are much alive
the membership runs between 800 and 1,000 stu
dents. Out of. such a large membership comes
England's voters and men of ' government. They
are by no means pedantic about it all, but they
tend to set up in their country political scien
tists rather than politicians, and that is what we
must strive for.
We do not favor cluttering the campus with
excessive organizations, but we feel there is a
definite need for a group which would prepare us
more intelligently for citizenship.
The Dictionary
And the Soul
There is something intriguing about the term
"atheist"; something that smacks of worldli-
ness, high intelligence, and blase dissatisfaction
with religious dogma. We must admit that we,
in our post-adolescent gropings, find the term
rather hard to ignore, for there is a certain satis
faction in being branded lost souls by our less
intellectual brothers when we tersely reveal to
them our inability to accept God.
Bull sessions, in passing through the religious
stage of an evolutionary progress leading to the
inevitable discussion of sex, seldom fail to expose
one or more dyed-iri-the-wool atheists. Or can
it be that bull sessions so work upon the imagina
tions of devotees that the complete abandonment
of reserve results in creating occasional atheists
of students persuaded by their own eloquence?
In short, we wonder how many of the campus
atheists have a true conception of what that
term means, and whether they, if confronted by
,the word "agnosticism" in some book or other,
would not find that happy expression, by virtue
of its still greater mystifying connotation, a
more apt description of the states of their un
settled minds.
No doubt there are a few of our atheistic fel
lows who have discarded religion as a result of
sincere study, actual experience; extensive obser
vation, and honest decision. Of1 such as these,
we will speak no further. But there are some,
perhaps a majority, whose decision was purely
spontaneous and made final after spending all of
three minutes in thumbing -through the diction
ary for the purpose of ascertaining in just what
order the "1" and "e" fall in the word "atheist
Casual Correspondent
Nelson Lansdale '
FIGHT, TEAM, FIGHT
One of the faculty ladies who
attended the boxing matches las
Saturday night was horrified
when Carolina's Novich con
tinued to -hit his opponent dur
ing a clinch. "But that isn'
fair," she objected. c
"Oh, ; that's all right as long
as the referee doesn't separate
them," a student near her ex
plained. .'.
- The lady's retort was prim and
tj -i mi ' T J
sen -assured : . l nen i uun
think -it's at all. polite."
OUR YOU-GO-STRAIGHT-
TO-HELL DEPARTMENT '
"Valentines under, the door,
the casual correspondent is such
bore" Valentine number,
Carolina Finjan.
OLD ENGLISH
When the English actor, V. L
Granville presented his Drama
tic Interludes on a Student En
tertainment program, Nick
Read, who interviewed him, saw
a little drama backstaere' vou
might like to hear about. It
seems that a Memorial hal
stagenana got pretty mad at
Granville's stage boy because
the latter forbade him to tinker
with Granville's light cords and
switch board. The stage hand
an Italian, got so mad he threat
ened to hit the stage boy with
an iron pipe. Just -in time to
avert any serious trouble, Gran
ville stepped between 'them
They both started to explain
the Italian jabbering heatedly
gesticulating all over, the place
and threatening to hit the boy
with the pipe.
l say mere ieiiow, said
Granville, "you cawn't do that
It's absurd. You simply cawn't
go about hitting people over the
head with iron pipes. Why,
get in arguments wherever I go
but I do it good-humoredly. Now
give me that pipe, and we'll talk
it over decently, like good fel
lows." ; ,
They talked it over decently,
like good fellows, and got it set
tled to everybody's satisfaction
too.
POST-PROHIBITION ERA
Not that we think that the
stupidities of the stupid are half
as amusing as the lapses of the
intelligent, but this one is on the
house. Alex Andrews, onetime
editor of the Yackety Yack, con
emplating a trip to Washing
;on, asked us where to go for
cocktails. "Have you ever been
to the salon modeme of the
Carlton?" we asked.
"The what?" demanded Alex
(It wasn't his fault. Our accent
is terrible, and other people were
talking.)
"The salon modeme," we re
peated patiently. "You know
modern saloon."
mi .
ines& are the students who need to be dis
couraged, for. they, are the proverbial emntv bar.
reis and they make the most noise. The Univer
sity ol the State Where Students Are TaihtM
Socialism in Sociology Classes as at least one
fond parent believes is already suffering from
tne gossip of people who regard Chanel Hill as
the Etna of atheism. North Carolina is touchv
on the subject of religion, and nothing can give
the University a black eve faster than a nimnr
to the effect that we in Chapel Hill are becoming
atheists. Such a black eye we of this state will
suffer if we bring it upon ourselves, but we can.
not submit willingly to being bruised for the un
thinking declarations of students who clutter the
campus for four years and then depart to other
states leaving the University and its local cham
pions to fight rumors founded upon some others'
irregularities.
IN JAN GOES BUST
You may or may not know
that before you can get your
copy of the Finjan in the dor
mitory you have to sign for it
Bernard Solomon, 'the business
manager, tells us that practical
ly all one dormitory, under the
impression that they were get
ting Finjans, signed a petition
telling the Greyhound Company
that they wanted busses to run
direct from Raleigh to Greens
boro. We think it's just as well
DELICATE SUBJECT
, -
An English 22 professor was
telling his class "about the ex
tremities of torture to which
Elizabethian Englishmen were
subjected for treason. "Hang
ing them by the thumbs was an
ordinary procedure," said the
prof, 'and hanging, drawing
and quartermor,
enough. .. They cut off their
- By Walter Terry, reviewer
Once again slightly mad people thronged the Playmaker stage,
but this time the insanity was of a more wholesome and likable
sort than that of the last Playmaker production, "Shroud My
Body Down". The characters of "The Young Idea" were "in
sufferable" and "tiresome" to each other in the best Noel Coward
vein; they kept a reasonably good plot moving rapidly by their
flares of temperament and their absurd metaphors. Hence for
those of" us who like inanity at times, and who don't believe that
all drama should have a message of social or political import,
"The Young Idea" gave us an evening of laughs, which after all,'
was what it set'out to do.
Harry Davis again proved himself an excellent director of
comedy, and gave the audience a. production that almost rivaled
his production of "Hay Fever" last spring. His direction of the
scenes with Gerda and Sholto was' particularly fine, for he mado
them use, to just the right degree, the good comedy trick of play
ing laugh-lines to the audience. Davis' handling of the many ab
surd situations in the play, and his direction of the character
portrayals of the actors themselves made this Playmaker presen
tation a truly, fine production. .
Several of the actors certainly earned their rights to more
comedy leads. Philip Parker, clothed in arrogant whimsy, gave
an excellent performance, and with innocent ease played each line
and gesture for all they were worth. Miss Ellen Depne talked
volubly, acted wildly, and showed the audience what a really fine
comedienne can do. Miss Deppe was aided in her work of wear
ing out the audience's laughing glands, by Miss Patsy McMullan,
who wore some astounding. riding breeches, and made more noisp
than her horse could have if she had thoughtlessly brought him
onto the stage. Miss Killinsworth again won laughs from the
theatregoers by her frail-Amazon portrayal. The rest of the
cast was adequate, except for Miss Frances McGraw, who had an
annoying way of twitching from line to line, from comma to semi
colon. She was really good in the scene before her final exit,
when she was vile to everyone. - '
-The. settings were splendid, particularlv Mrs. Davis' and Mr
Parker's Jacobean furniture, that nobly withstood the ravages of
Miss McMullan's dynamic sitting. And if any of the readers of
this review think that sitting cannot be dynamic, a visit to "The
Young Idea" will convince you that Miss McMullan can not onlv
perform with gusto the genuflection leading to the sit, but can,
once seated try the strength of the chair with the irresistable
force of mere sitting.
A good play by a younger Noel Coward: actors worthv of the
name; splendid direction;' good settings-; and actors and audience
having a grand time. Such was the Thursday evening perform
ance of the Playmaker production of "The Young Idea."
vitals, or their noses or ears, or
put out their eyes, or burnt off
their fingers ..."
The lecture was interrupted
by the noise of books being
gathered together hastily. Grab
bing his hat and coat, a hulking
blonde brute of six feet or more
stumbled to his feet. He smiled
wanly at the prof. "I think I'd
better go," he said, and stag
gered out the door.
pT?T?CrkXT A T TT-T7! Trmrnn
In our humble little way, we'd
ike to recommend : the Rav
Noble record of "The Blue Dan
ube," which is worth 75 cents of
anybody's money. It's a brilli
ant, modern orchestration, per
fectly timed, and anybody who
thinks it s sissy music should
isten to the British come at it
with a bang-bang . . . "Lives of
A Bengal Lancer ." sure to hp
one of the best movies of the
year. Franchot Tone turns in
his best performance to date . . .
that the Playmakers for their
next formal production choose a.
play somebody knows something
about. As far as we could as
certain, "The Young Idea" has
been presented professional
exactly once, in London at the
bavoy theatre, with Mr. Coward
himself in the role played here
by Charlie Lloyd. It flopped.
Dogs
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life after they had been killed
with ether, chloroform, or by
suffocation. Life was restored
to puppies which had been dead
for as long as 30 minutes.
In these experiments no in
cisions were made in the thor
axes of the animals. Adrenalin
was injected through the aorta.
Dr. Manning of the medical
school explained that the pur
pose of the resuscitation experi
ments performed by Dr. Dolley
and Dr. Crile was to . find out
what damage was done to the
brain cells by temporary death.
Even when Dr. Dolley gave his
demonstration here, it was not
a very new idea, explained Dr.
Manning.
The remarkable thing about
these experiments which were
carried out 30 years ae-o at West
ern Reserve University is that
they have received relatively lit
tle publicity, whereas the recent
experiments notably those at the
University of California bring
ing the same results have been
universally acclaimed.
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