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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935 The f3cial 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, Christmas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post ofSce of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, f 3.00 for the college year. Editor Philip Gibbon Hammer - Managing Editor Robert Claude Page, Jr. , Associate Editors . Walter Lee Hargett Irving David Suss Francis .Fries WiHingham ' . William H. W. Anderson Jacob Elias Snyder Milton Kallman Kalb ' Assistant Editors Donald Gist Wetherbee James Manly Daniel Donald Kennedy McKee Contributing Editors Earl Woodall Wolslagei . . DuPont Snowden Samuel Richardson Leager - John Schulz Mortimer Irvin Slavin Feature Writers Willis Speight Harrison - William Francis Clingman, Jr. William McWhorter Cochrane James Edward Poindexter - Exchange Staff George Oliver Butler, manager Lawrence M. Weisbrod Morton Feldman Office Secretary ' - - Margaret Edmunds Gaines City Editor Alexander Reed Sarratt, Jr. News Editors U..- Stuart White Rabb - i Edwin Leonard Kahn William Palmer Hudson . Nicholas Cabell Read John Franklin Jonas, Jr. Robert Nathaniel Magill Louis Samuel Spelke Newton Craig Hazel May Beacham Desk Men Reporters John McNeill Smith, Jr. Charles Wurster Gilmore William Stone Jordan, Jr. Ralph Sprinkle Franklin Harward Charles Eugene Mcintosh, Jr. Edwin Jones Hamlin S. B. Bradley Robert Franklin Ledford Henry Theodore Terry, Jr. Staff Photographer Donald Becker Business Manager Joseph Cheshire Webb Assistant Business Manager Thomas Butler French Division Managers Joseph Hull Robinson, Circulation Herbert Francis Osterheld, Collection Walter Henry Eckert and Roy Cox Crooks, Office - Montf ord Boylan Carr, National Advertising Local Advertising Sta ff Hugh William Primrose Robert Brendle Sosnick Niles Woodbridge Bond Thomas Eli Joyner William Kerr MacDonald .Louis deSchweinitz Shaffner Crist Watts Blackwell Page Clark Keel William Deroy McLean Joseph Harold Murnick THIS ISSUE: NEWS, GILMORE; NIGHT, JORDAN FRATERNITIES AND DQRMITORIES The Daily Tar Heel must serve the students as the particular medium of setting forth student problems. We believe that the fraternities and dormitories have immediate problems and in this connection, we will attempt to follow this course: -.. , To present the fraternity situation as it exists on this campus to the fraternities themselves, for their consideration and action. To set forth the dormitory situation to the administration, that they may work for the interests of dormitory inhabitants. The ultimate object of our presentations will be to improve stu dent living and forking conditions on the campus. In the case of the fraternities, we can do nothing more than set forth the problems attending the present situation. It is for them to take initiative and act, if they see fit. In . the case of the dormitories, however, we feel that our support is needed, as they have not the facilities nor the requisites for blowing their own horns. - On successive days, beginning tomorrow morning, we will pre isent what we have found in these fields. Our editorials will not be highly opiniated, for our objects are rather to encourage action and to stimulate attention rather than to force an issue. What policies we adopt will result from a study made by a rep resentative group of students. It is our earnest desire that some good will come from our efforts. WELL-DRESSED BUCCANEER The change of name of our humor magazine is a matter of no tremendous weight, but the name Buccaneer is rather welcome after a year's hibernation in the Student Council vaults. Editor Lansdale's plans show that whatever the new Buccaneer will look like, he will be a much better mannered swashbuckler than in the good old days. And that's exactly what this campus has needed, but there's been no way to effect a change. It's rather peculiar that a political twist gave what may turn out to be a new deal in campus humor. Under the old system, the dirty humor perpetuated itself, because the better writers (only good writers can write clean jokes well) shunned the maga zine and the less clever continued in power generation after gen eration, throwing dirt into the columns because it was within, their ability to do so easily. The campus has liked it sometimes and disliked it others, and particularly when students' families have skimmed through scum has the latter been true. At any rate, the low humor has been an unfair representation of the student body sind there's no deny ing that. ' The unsuccessful attempt by Pete Ivey at clean humor in the pre-Finjan days bears out the point that with a staff steeped in the traditions, of dirty humor, little can be done toward being humorous when the dirt is extracted. Editor Lansdale's staff in cludes a considerable number of clean new faces. Now that politics have inadvertently broken the hold of the self -perpetuating ' low-wit writers, it is possible and, we hope, probable, that the better standards of humor will result from fol lowing generations. To be clean is not enough; the jokes must have humor to them. And it takes good writers and good writers only write for good magazines. So it seems that if the chain is begun and a clean dish is handed up, a clean tradition will be handed down. - . We are looking forward to seeing the witty Buccaneer in a tuxedo and carrying a poking; cane rather than a slashing sword for his effectiveness. SPLASHES By Bob Page The first big social event of this quarter as set forth in this column last week is just about upon us. Friday afternoon Irv ing Aaronson will lift his baton and Charlie Shaffer, ace half back, will sidestep his way for a two-day gain when the annual May Frolics hold sway Friday and Saturday. And who is going to run in terference for Charlie when he leads the way? Why none other than little Charlotte Winborne, former Carolina co-ed. Remem ber her, boys? We just got a squint at a pic ture of the seven girls in the figure and they're queens. Of course, it's a matter of personal choice, but our vote goes to Bruce Old's girl for Queen of the May. And she's from Ral eigh. We like that place. How about an introduction this week end, Bruce? And Sweetbriar is there as usual. That name sounds vague ly familiar. We think we would like that place, too. Any way, we might try to pull a One-Eye Connelly soon. It cer tainly looks like a swell blow out in the offing. While we are rambling on the subject of dances, here are a couple of bouquets to the T. E. P's. They really know how to throw one. Their co-operative system of introducing all the guests to each other is the secret of their success. We just found out why the senior electrical engineers took off in "such a hurry yesterday morning on their investigation trip to New York, when they were supposed to depart yester day afternoon. They wanted to make Baltimore in time to catch a burlesque show. And from what we hear they plan to ex amine the electricity at Min- sky's in the Big City. Oh, for the life of an engineer. There are a couple of stories floating around concerning the Boy Scout Jubilee here last week that are too good to pass up. A couple of freshmen, namely Wick Exum and Bobby Dicks, got sort of riled Friday morn ing when the Scout buglers awoke them unceremoniously from their peaceful slumbers at an early hour. Accordingly, the pair formed a coalition, recruited Hoge Vick, Crist Blackwell and Tommy Wilson, and set sail for the camping grounds in Dick's car a little after midnight. While the latter three set off a few firecrackers, the two ringlead ers stationed themselves at op posite ends of the cemetery near where the Scouts were sleeping, produced trumpets, and started blowing reveille unmercifully. Fifteen hundred youthful heads popped out of pup tents and in a moment the scene be came one of wild disorder. Scouts and Scoutmasters were dashing around, bumping into each other and shouting. Mean while the conspirators had piled into the car and zipped down toward the Tin Can. That was their error. Ellis Fysal step ped in front of the car, hauled them out and-took them to con front Herbert Stuckey, south em Scout executive. Fortunately, Exum proved to be an old friend of his and af ter being admonished to be good boys, they were set free. How ever, Exum took Mr. Stuckey to dinner Sunday in way of atone ment. And when Frank Willing ham suddenly seized one of the Scouts by the nape of the neck at a showing of "The Mark of the Vampire," the latter nearly went .through the ceiling. ; Lola Reed, Shack inhabitant, really caught it Sunday. While listening' to Reverend Donald Stewart's excellent sermon on "Whom Shall , I Marry?" Lola was accosted by a freshman who apparently had a class with her. She didn't remember, his name, but, nevertheless, he sat by her in church and then strolled down to the Shack with her. She thought surely he must leave when they reached the door. But it all wound up by his in viting himself to have dinner with her at the Shack. We don't know when he finally did leave, but we must say that he's learn ing mighty fast. It's taken us three long years here, buddy, to learn how to invite ourselves. .And does anyone know where Editor Hammer got to Satur day night? Now YOU'RE Talking SIC 'EM, TIGE! To Mr. Winthrop C. Durfee, Via Daily Tar Heel : My dear Mr. Durfee : At this time there seems to be considerable interest on the cam pus about our general social and economic situation. As a means of bringing some of the ques tions to an issue, we are submit ting a challenge to you, as a rep resentative of the more conser vative campus opinion, to meet us in a public debate. We sug gest tentatively, this proposi tion : Resolved, that the elimina tion of capitalism is necessary to the health of modern society. We trust that you will have no difficulty in enlisting from either the faculty or the student body a speaker to join you in defending the present system. Other details we can work out in a personal conference. We represent no ' organized group on this campus. We speak for ourselves entirely, ex cept that Mr. Williams is a member of the Socialist party and will 'naturally present, in part, its program. We believe that this debate would be an admirable way of bringing some of the questions that confront us to a partial is sue. Sincerely yours, ARNOLD WILLIAMS, JYES WISHART. $ C Ej L'E G IE! PRESS $ $ "Genius Class" Is Successful A selected class of 25 -sophomore and junior students at the San Jose state college as San Jose, California, have sold four teen poems, four articles, . and one story as well as producing one full-length drama already this year, newspaper stories tell us. The class well earned its name of a "genius" class" and as an experiment has proved quite successful. This all goes to show that se lection pays. Students will do more when they feel the spirit of competition such as must be felt in that class. Those stu dents know they are in a selected group and that the other mem bers of the class are as capable of writing as themselves: Thus, to keep up they have to work all the harder. The duller students would tend to benefit as much by the selection method as would the more brilliant students since they would have more of a chance to stand at the head of their class and would have more of an incentive to work. This subject has been harped upon by psychologists and much editorial space has been devoted to it so it behoves us little to de vote our feeble efforts towards sounding the gong once again. But we cannot see why since everyone agrees that the grad ing of students into two classes according to the mental ability is so desirable that nothing is done about it. We don't think it would , hurt John's or Mary's parents back home to know that their children were forced to en roll in a third rank English or history class. John and Mary would probably learn much more in a class with their intellectual equals than they would in a class spotted with virtual geniuses. Even though the enrollment in certain classes was too small to permit the grading idea to be carried out without financial loss in many of the freshman and sophomore courses. It remains for some man a man who will rightly be termed in the pages of history as "great" to come along and popularize the idea of grading of students according to mental ability enough so that colleges all over the country will put into force such, a practice. Daily O'Col Iegian. v . OUTSTANDING RADIO BROADCASTS TWO YEARS AGO TODAY Compiled from the Files of the Daily Tar Heel First legal beer in over a century arrives at Chapel Hill and calls at chapel period change from "match you for a coke" to "toss you for a beer ... Cheese and pretzel industries reported 30 days behind production- de mands . . . Juniors, vote, almost unanimously to break Bert Lown's contract for the junior senior dances, claiming that the additional 50-cent levy on the dance bids was unfair. George Rhoades relates the story of a Stanford student who consumed a gallon of the new 3.2 beer and successfully pass ed the sobriety tests of the Palo Alto police department . . . Jack Alexander berates the fact that the co-eds have no defense against gross insults by the Buc caneer ... A survey by Harry Comer shows that the only maga zines read regularly by the av erage freshman arethe Bucca neer, Time, and Collier's. 1:00: Bill Allsbrook orch.,, WBIG. 3 :30 : Rochester Civic Orches tra, Guy Fraser Harrison, con ductor, WPTF. 5 :00 : Maurice Sherman orch.,,. WBT, WBIG. 6:00: Tommy Tucker orch. WEAF. 7:00: Hal Kemp orch., WJZ WLW, KDKA; Bill Allsbrook orch., WBIG. 7:30: Wayne King orch., WEAF, WSB. 8 :00 : Town Hall Tonight,. Fred Allen, comedian, WPTF. 8 :30 : Ted Weems orch, WGN. .9:00: Guy Lombardo orch., WPTF, WSB. 9 :30 : Ray Noble orch., WLW, WSB. 10:15: Claude Hopkins orch.,. WABC. 10:30: Freddie Berrens orch., WABC, WBT, WBIG; Wayne King orch., WGN. 11:00: Art Jarrett orch.,. WABC, WHAS. , 11:15: Freddie Martin orch.,. WGN. 11:30: Phil Harris orch., WLW. 11:45: Kay Kyser orch., WGN. 12:00: Stan Myers orch., WENR; Johnny Hamp orch., WHAS; Mel Synder orch.,. WLW. 1:00: Freddie Martin orch.,. WGN. CAST YOUR STRAW BALLOT Electrical Engineers Leave for New York Seven seniors in electrical en gineering left yesterday morning" for an inspection trip to New York. They will be gone until Sunday. Among the major points of in terest which will be visited are a steel mill of the Bethlehem Steel Company, the Bell labora tories in Philadelphia, and Radio City in New York. Those seniors making the trip are R. M. Query, A. J. Snively, J. Giobbi, B. B. Parker, L. Ha good, R. Van Sleen, and J. G. Farrell. They are accompanied by Mrs. and Mrs. R. F. Stain-back. Expenditures for the United States Navy for 1935 are esti mated at nearly 338 millions. THE ENTIRE PALM BEACH LINE CAN BE SEEN AT suits (DiM&am- MESS JACKETS , IS WEST MAIN O DURHAM, N. C. Illlllill 1 FOEOEfl DEBATE g. Georgia Co-eds anal the 1 University oi Maryland I I WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st m 8:00P.M. , .g H Gerrard Hall S QUERY: What Is the Solution for the Munitions Question? PLANS FOR U. N. C. J. W. Kirkpatrick and Oliver Cross M -Minute Open Forum After Debate jj "'iimn(w!i;,,H,,n)HI)1HMnl())II1imlrs i.".n.M.1.....,..(i...iiri.....t.2
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