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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SUNDAY, APRIL 26. 193S;
The official newspaper of the Publications Union
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THE
THEATRE
By Bill Hudson
MORE ORIGINALS
Three Talks' Worth?
Last night, Felix Frankfurter closed the 21st
series of Weil lectures on American Citizenship.
The Harvard professor and New Deal "insider"
followed a long line of outstanding speakers in
cluding William Howard Taft, George Soule, and
others, on the Weil series.
Like his predecessors, Professor Frankfurter
read his papers. He read clearly. Reviewing the
"First Hundred Years of the Supreme Court and
the Commerce Clause," he gave a. very scholarly
series of papers on Marshall, Taney, and Waite.
To the average student, unequipped with the ne
cessary judicatory technology to follow the
speaker, the, material read like the first seven
chanters in a new textbook.
Probably it is promotive of American Citizen
ship to study minutely Chief Justice Marshall, but
the vast majority of that Weil , audience was
sorely disappointed that it got so little of the
present-day application of the topic. Dr. Frank
furter was far more delightfully enlightening in
his talk to the law school and at the seminar yes
terday morning, but for what he discussed in Me
morial hall we might have read ourselves, and
slowly absorbed its scholarship. What the cam
pus expected from him was something new on
the immediate implications of the Supreme Court's
handling the commerce clause.
Last year Soule spoke on "Liberty in the Mod
ern World;" two years ago Dr. George Norlin
of Colorado discussed "Fascism and Citizenship."
Both these topics, even though the papers on
them had to be read, gave the speakers more
freedom to be intelligible to the student-in-the-audience.
Professor Frankfurter's appearance was
splendid as far as the selection of an outstanding
speaker and thinker is concerned. He went well
with the law school and those others who were
prepared to follow him; but the type of papers
he read failed to stir the ordinary student's citi
zenship conscience three speeches' worth. J. 31. S.
Room For Growth
The severest critics of government and public
officials in recent, years have been young men,
especially college undergraduates. The Veterans
of Future Wars, the demonstrators against war
are all evidences of the dissatisfaction of youth
with their elders management of state affairs.
Dr. Felix Frankfurter was introduced as a
trainer of "bright young men" for service in
Washington. His work is indispensable and at
the same time serves notice of the increasingly
large part that is to be played by youth in gov
ernment. But one man cannot hope to turn out enough
disciples to take care of the need for young blood
in an offensively stale political system. The de
mand today for intelligent mien trained in politi
cal science and leadership is greater than ever
before.
The University's new department of political
science is a step in the right direction.. But there
are vastly greater opportunities for the branch
to expand into a central training ground for future
public servants. One has only to look about him
to see how badly we need them. S. W. R.
C o r r e s p b n'd e n c e
A bill of three more Play
makers originals was presented
Friday evening, with fewer
coughs, glances at watches and
stifled yawns registered by the
audience than to the opening bill
Thursday night. Foregoing Fe
lix Frankfurter's second lecture,
a larger crowd saw more inter
esting and more smoothly pre
sented plays.
The Eternal Comedy
With Fowler Spencer playing
the part of the 15-year-old hero
ine very well but a bit too cutely
and girlishly, the cast gave an
adequate production of Mary
Delaney's "play of adolescence,"
a valid but rather loose-jointed
exposition of the problem faced
by the bright, ambitious child
struggling in the rut of a small
town and a petty-minded family.
Miss Delaney's revision of the
play since its experimental pro
duction this winter has tightened
up and improved it considerably,
but it still moves too slowly and
needs the injection of further
humor, more vivid characteriza
tion, and additional action. Be
sides Miss Spencer, Josephine
, Oettinger and Jessie Langdale
gave particularly effective inter
pretations of their character
parts, as the mother and the aunt
of the dreamy girl.
Hangman's Noose
For excellence of production
and for interest, this melodrama
of "character conflict," written
by Charles Poe and directed by
William Chichester, takes first
place among all six of the
Thursday and Friday night
plays. It's the tragedy of a
gentle, bookish little fellow driv
en by poverty and a nagging wife
to becoming state hangman, in
which capacity he always pre
ludes the execution of his duty
by whistling "We'll be hangin'
Danny Deever. . . " The crisis
comes in his home when, having
just been the life of a necktie
party at his own brother's ex
pense, he decides first to string
up his wife, who got him into all
this, then, remembering that
he's sworn he'd never hang a
woman, to practice his art on
himself. He leaves the stage
humming "Danny Deever" and
carrying a noose, and the curtain
goes down on the grotesque sha
dow of a man dancing at a rope's
end.
It's a variation of the old ma
cabre college literary theme
again ; but the author does on ex
ceedingly skillful job of it, and
introduces into the first half of
the play morbid satire which an
audience finds unroariously
funny.
Frank Durham as the hang
man tread most skillfully Friday
night through a maze of tick-
lish situations and lines in which
a less accomplished actor might
have reduced the performance to
absurdity. He was splendidly
supported by Jean Ashe as the
hangman's wife and Beverley
Hamer as a neighbor, both of
whom made very amusing sluts
while they occupied the stage
during the first half of the play.
Mr. Chichester should receive
a high grade in Sam Selden's
directing course for his good
work.
Hjemlengsel
The title means "home-longing,"
but the play is more a
charming little 'picture of Nor
wegian folk life than an ex
position of nostalgia. The au
thor, Gerd Bernhardt (who also
Played the leading role), failed
to build up the power and pathos
which might have been expect
ed from her title, but she did cre-
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Food For Thought
To the Editor, .
The Daily Tar Heel:
' Peaches may be beautiful
girls in Georgia, but to Univer
sity of North Carolina co-eds
the word "peaches" is synony
mous with dessert. Every week
canned peaches are set before
the girls at least five times, al
though sometimes the attempt to
disguise the peaches is almost
successful. Plain peaches, peach
cobbler, peach salad, fruit gel
atin (mostly peaches) no won
der the Spencerites shriek at the
mention of peaches.
On the days peaches are not
served, apricots take their place.
Other dishes served almost reg
. ularly every day are carrots and
peas, vegetable soup (without
the vegetables), and stewed to
matoes (mostly bread). Eggs,
grits, and toast constitute the
regular breakfast menu. Once
a quarter if lucky the girls get
waffles and hotcakes. Dough
nuts and coffee might be served
once during the entire school
year, but it would be optimism
indeed to anticipate it.
Fees In Plenty
The girls who live in Spencer
hall pay $270 each for their food,
or an average of $30 a month
for nine months. There are ap
proximately 70 girls living in the
dormitory, besides numerous so
rority girls who eat there. This
allows a minimum of $2,100 a
month to be spent on food. For
this sum it should certainly be
possible to feed the girls the
things they want.
It isn't that the food is bad.
It is cooked well in a clean sani
tary kitchen, but the choice of
foods is decidedly bad. One
meal may consist of spinach,
turnips, tomato salad, and car
rots and peas, while the next will
be cheese on toast, potatoes, rice,
and corn fritters. Occasionally,
usually on Sundays, a well-
rounded meal is served.
It would be not only more sat
isfying to patrons of the Spen
cer hall dining room but cheap
er for the management to serve
a meat, green food, and starcji
at meal time, and to vary des
serts. If canned fruits must 'be
had, there are many besides pea
ches available. A little thought
on the part of the dietician would
go largely toward better meals
for the girls, and toward spread
ing a feeling among them that
they are gettin gtheir money's
worth.
MISS X
dents will be killed and 1000 in
jured in auto accidents.
One out of every two children
born today will be injured be
fore reaching the age of 65. The
chances are one to 50 that a child
born today will be killed before
reaching three score and ten.
According to last year's sta
tistics, figured on a passenger
mile basis, it is 33 percent safer
to travel by schedule airline than
by motor car.
The figures above are not ex
aggerated. To the contrary,
are somewhat conservative. They
are figured on a population ba
sis, and as an appreciable seg
ment of our people does not own
automobiles, the odds are still
greater against the average per
son who travels in this way.
frank Mcdonald
Numbered Hairs
To the Editor,
The Daily Tar Heel:
How do you want to die? You
probably don't know, but there
is a reasonable chance that you
may die in an automobile acci
dent. Here are some facts and
figures on auto casualties:
Last year, there were 36,400
killed, and about a million in
juried in automobile acidents.
In other words, estimating the
population of the United States
at about 130 millions, one out of
every 3600 persons was killed
and one out of every 130 injur
ed. If this rate continues, here
is what we may expect:
From a freshman class of 600
entering this school, almost 19
will be injured before gradua
tionr Assuming that these
youths are about 18 of age, 240
of them will be injured before
they reach the age of 70.
If you are an average student
of about 20 years, the chances
are one to two and! a half that
you will be injured and one to
72 that you will be killed before
reaching the age of 70.
There are now approximately
2600 students enrolled in the
University. Before reaching
the age of 70, 36 of these stu-
COMMERCE SENIORS
Comprehensive examinations
for seniors in the school of
commerce and also seniors in the
college of liberal arts majoring
in economics will be given Sat
urday morning at 8:30 in 202
Bingham.
All students expecting to take
the examination should register
in Dean D. D. Carroll's office by
Wednesday.
SAND AND
SALVE
By Stuart Rabb
Daily Tar Heel
Staff Bulletins
Discussion Group Meets thi3
afternoon, Daily Tar Heel of
fice, 2 o'clock. C. Gilmore, Cro
well, French, Rabb, Smith, Sara
sohn, Becker.
Assignment Men 2 p. m. to
morrow afternoon, office.
Entire Editorial Staff Tuesday
afternoon, at 2 o'clock, office.
CONGRESS GOES SLOWLY
Both houses of Congress are
just piddling along on the new
tax bills now before them. The
Senate truculently gives luke
warm praise to the new 243 page
corporation tax bill while the
House reluctantly tries- to put
itself in the mood for exacting
revenue.
Reports from the Representa
tives say that interest in taxes
is waning. Experts hold hat
only taxation students can hope
to understand the workings of
the collossal bill to raise more
revenue. Maybe the congress
men just don't know what it's,
all about.
But that is characteristic of
Congress' attitude. If this 245
page bill had been one for ap
propriating money, our repre
sentatives wouldn't have bother
ed to read anything except the
section telling how much their
own district was receiving. If
the amount satisfied them, they
would favor the measure.
"Congress," says the old
farmer, "loves to spend money
before they git it, and they
shore hate to git caught up."
Over half a million women are em
ployed in the Soviet building industry.
ABOUT CAROLINA
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Little Happenings
Much Interest
Edited By
Ruth Crowell
Julian Bobbitt is spending the
weekend at Hollins College
where he is attending a set of
dances.
Parks Austin has gone to
Charlotte for the weekend to
look for a job.
Walter McBride discovered
yesterday that the girl who in
vited him to attend the dance
at W. C. U. N. C. last night is
in Chapel Hill going to the May
Frolics.
Town Girl Hester Barloiv,
Carolina's first May Queen,
dropped in on a group of co-eds
at Spencer hall yesterday and
announced that she had come to
take a bath because the bath
tubs in her home were in use at
the moment.
Jearinette Mclntire is spend
ing the weekend with her par
ents in Asheville.
Albert EUis is 'spending the
weekend in Greensboro.
Buddy Komblite, who wishes
to challenge Ted B riffs state
ment concerning the loud sox
uses butter to shine his shoes.
May Day Fan Nancy Lawlor
called a meeting of the Chimney
Sweeps last Thursday night in
Memorial hall. About 8:30 she
flitted into Graham Memorial
and, gasping for breath, began a
hurried telephone call. "What's
the matter, Nancy V an onlooker
asked. Nancy sniffed. "We
had a rehearsal in Memorial hall
tonight and so did Dr. Frankfurter."
Franklin "Bob" Brown has re
turned from a week's visit in
Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, and
Southern Pines.
President and Mrs. Frank
Graham have as their guest this
weekend! Miss Maria Drane of
Charlotte. '
Elmer D. Johnson, senior li
brary, assistant, recently had an
article of his, "Excavating in a
Library," published in the March
issue of Library Journal.
W. D. Creech was noticeably
absent from the Sigma Nu ban
quet Friday night. Dr. Lyons
explained that Creech followed
the advice he gave at last year's
banquet -to follow the hedges
and byways. He ran into some
poison oak.
Thompson Skeen seems to be
the "What A Man" personified.
He plays monopoly all by him
self, and the boys in Old East
really enjoy watching him move
around from one chair to a
nother as he argues with himself.
Visiting the Shack again this
weekend is Jean Walker's little
sister, Frances. Jean never ex
pected her. "I came home,"
Jean says, "and there she was
'sitting on the bed waiting for
me.
1
Bill Sperry kept up the old
Delta Psi tradition of being orig
inal by frolicking Friday night
in informal dress a sweater.