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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Cfce Batlg Car ecl The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanks giving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Sub scription price, $3.00 for the college year. Don K. McKee A. Reed Sarratt, Jr. T. Eli Joyner . Jesse Lewis .Editor -Managing Editor .Business Manager -Circulation Manager Editorial Staff Associate Editors: E. L. Kahn, J. M. Smith, S. W. Rabb. -Cmr Editor: C. W. Gilmore. News Editors: E. J. Hamlin, L. S. Levitch, Newton Craig, L. L Gardner, J. P. Jonas, Jr., Will G. Arey, Jr. Editorial Assistants: R. T. Perkins, V. Gilmore, A. H. Merrill, Gordon Burns, J. H. Sivertsen, R. Miller, R. W. Crowell. ,; . ? Deskmen : M. Rosenberg, H. D. Langsam, R. B. du Four. -' Reporters: K. V. Murphy, Nancy Schallert, B. F. Dixon, J. B. Reese, W. B. Kleeman, C. B. Hyatt, Elizabeth Wall, DeLette Ruff in, J. J. Lane, R. B. Lowery, Erika Zimmermann, Kitty De Carlo, W. H. Wooten. " Sports: R. R. Howe, Editor; C. O, Jeffress, E. T. Elliot, R. Simon, Night Editors; F. W. Fergu son, L. Rubin, H. Kaplan, E. Karlin, W. Landau, J. Stoff, S. Rolfe, W. B. Davis, C. C. Greer, S. Wilk, F. T. LaRochelle, E. L. Peterson. Exchanges: Tom Stanback, Chief; Norman Kantor, Willis Sutton. - Radio.-C. S. Pugh, Jr. Reviews: W. P. Hudson. Art: Harry B. Kircher, Director; Nell Booker, T. B. Keys. -Photography: J. Kisner, Director; A. T. Calhoun, Fred Sutton. Business Staff -Assistant Business Manager (Advertising) : BiH McLean. Assistant Business Manager (Collections) : Roy Crooks. , , Durham Representative: John Rankin. Coed Advertising Manager: Louise Waite; assist . ants, Irene Wright, Mildred Le Fevre, Eloise Broughton. . Local Advertising Assistants: Stuart Ficklin, Bob Gordon, Bert Halperin, Clen Humphrey, Bobby Davis. Office: George Harris. John Scattergood, Gilley Nicholson, Charles English. For This Issue News Editor: W. Arey; .' . Sports: Carl 0. Jeffress Quill Quips by Mae Smith C o r r e s p o in. d e n c e . Letters Over 250 Words Subject to Cutting by Editor To Help Something Better Grow Philosophy Of Life John McMurray . .. Anything is free when it spontaneously ex presses its own nature to the full in activity. ... Persons are free when they express their own nature to the full without constraint. . . . The good life is the life of personal freedom- the life which fully and. spontaneously expresses our own reality. '' ' " First Back Look Since fall only eight cases involving honor viola tions have come before the four sub-structure class councils. This insight into the working of the honor cabinets emerges from the first Stu dent council report concerning the worth of the new sub-structure system of administering the honor system adopted last spring. The sub-structure system of class councils was proposed as an experiment. Since it is an experi ment, continuous study should be given its working-out. II In proposing the new system to the campus last spring, the Student council suggested that the sub-structure system would improve student government in two ways: (1) It would give more students a direct participation in, and offer a training ground for, student government; and (2) It would increase honor consciousness and student reporting of honor violations. With 25 class leaders on the four sub-structure councils, the new experiment has fulfilled its first purpose of bringing more men into the ac tual process of student government. But only eight cases before four councils in five months does not sound like extra vigor in students' assuming responsibility for reporting violators. Maybe honor consciousness has spread to such an extent on the campus that no more cheating, lying, or steling exists . . .'. . ' Anticipation Ane chief item in the University's long-time " dormitory improvement policy concerns the 24 Negro janitors. Along with unsettled ideas on social rooms, lighting arrangements, better fur niture, and possibly running water in each man's room, the business administration right now is taking a look at the janitorial set-up. Uniform white jackets for the fellows who make up the student beds, clean under their chairs and tables in the rooms, and care for their toilets; a private bath for the colored men to use every day; and possibly a required physical .ex amination periodically these seem to be the chief points of improvement under consideration. South building .will be anticipating student sug gestion if these definitely good changes are effected. J. M. S. First Things First The fact that they tell it on James K. Polk as a part of his Carolina experience probably means that it's all lore and -no truth. Anyway, they say that the first quarter that Brother Polk was in school here a. freshman he made three F's and one D. Immediately his. dad wrote him: "All right, son, that's what you get for putting all your work on one subject!" Proud Gilbert and Sullivan are "defin itely no, favorites of music-lover Frank McGlinn. Psychologists studying , Mc Glinn would certainly enjoy the incident that occurred, ten years . ago in a Philadelphia; theatre where McGlinn was getting his first taste of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan. Father McGlinn, had given young Frank a couple of perfect ly splendid seats "downstairs" on the very first row, Frank was a little boy at the time, in his first teens, and marching down the long aisle he glowed inside. Front row seats! To the right he spotted a group of his school pals. They must see him now. Steadily he stared in their direction as' he passed On and on he marched down the aisle. Still he cranned his neck back at the house to be sure they'd all take note of his front row seat .-. . Crash ! Down into the orches tra pit young McGlinn had pitch ed, head first into the Bass Drum! : ' ; The full house rose up in a roar. Frantically the managers and orchestra men extricated our young dandy from the torn drum head, and set out to find a new drum before the curtain. Source . : Shaking off a morbid dream is no mean job. Weak and moody we lay long under our rumpled covers the other rainy morning trying hard to snap out of a ter rible post-dream depression. Dimply the .story remains: The camera we bought last sum mer and so carefully and proud ly nursed through the fall and winter was working stiff. Heav ily the film change handle ground out its curve. We must investigate the trou ble. With tears and tremulous fingers we started to" take the precision instrument apart, piece by piece. It was heartbreaking Stop ! There was the trouble . . . . There it was. Out of the entrails of the tiny camera pour ed bushel after bushel of hay and bird seed which had been feed ing the Little Birdie in the shut ter . . . .v We woke up here and couldn't go back to sleep for the bird - seed in the sheets, just like (Continued on last page) Birthday Greetings Today to Jukes Bryan Aaron John A. Boorlout , -James Evans Davis John Harvey Esberg Robert B. Frank Abraham J. Leinwand Major Correction. To the Editors - . The Daily Tar Heel: I trust that your columns are al ways open to the correction of such incomplete statements, and therefore misrepresentations, of facts as char acterized Mr. Bill Wooten's article, "A Suhtle Graft,' Carolina Magazine, February 1937,-in so far as the de partment of English, at least, is con- . cerned. My reason for addressing THe Daily Tar Heel is that by the time the next number of the Magazine appears any correction will have lost -most of its effectiveness. , In this article Mr. "Wooten takes the department of English to task for replacing "Practice Composition," a 300-page book which sold for about $1.50, with a 155-page book 'in the rough,' "Functional College Composi tion," which sells for $2.30. Again, he repeats a charge, which I refuted last year, that the department of English has changed textbooks with every new edition of the "College Omnibus," and "Every year -the students have to buy new editions." , Aside from such minor matters as the fact that "Functional College Com position" is hardly a 'book'- in the rough' " (it is clearly and legibly --printed by lithoprint, a process almost as expensive as type, and it is well bound) , and that though it numbers only 155 pages its word content is as great, if not greater than that of the 300-page book, the comparison is un fair because Mr. Wooten did not take the trouble to ascertain whether it re- placed only the other book. The fol lowing facts will give a complete pic ture for comparison : Textbooks For 1933-36 1. Baird's "The First Years" $1.00 2. Fulton's; "Writing Craftsman- (Continued on last page) . SAND AND SALVE By Stuart Rabb MIGHT MAKES RIGHT Even some of Mr. Roosevelt's enemies admit that the Presi dent is sincerely trying to better the condition of the masses. A3 a means of attaining this better ment, Mr. Roosevelt feels that he can use only so-ealled "liber al" legislation. And Mr. Roosevelt feels that the only way to achieve liberal legislation immediately i3 through packing the Supreme Court. The packing process may (Continued on last page) From The Music Box By Erika. Zimmermann - i KILOCYCLE KIBITZES By Carl Pugh In his recital at Graham Mem orial Sunday afternoon, Alex ander Sklarevski revealed him self as a pianist's pianist. It is grateful to find this good solid variety of playing at, a time when pianists are expected to cultivate either of the ex tremes: to excel in astonishing but mechanical technique,, or to harbor some special personal message; that is, to romanticise everything in some special indi vidual way. Safe and Sane Mr. Sklarevski evidently has made it his prviate business to aim for a safe and sane method of perfomance free from excess. If his playing is not an example of the greatest heights, neither does it sink at any point below a normal reading. One is lead to imagine from Sunday's perform ance that this pianist is reliably sure-headed, and not . likely to deviate upon occasion from his high standard of performance. - Nor -is is performance cold, just because it is conceived with in restrained limits. On the con trary, it is civilized. Mr. Sklar evski has calculated just the right methods to preseve its life, the warm singing tone, the . balance of confined tones and well planned tempi. Simple Works Those not even partially in sympathy with such a perform ance must require either glam orous showmanship or violent propaganda, or else they have been spoiled by the personal moulding music so often receives at the hands of the artist. While this individual pianistic moulding can make for a num ber of magnificently satisfying styles and is by no means to be decried here, yet Sunday's con cert remained a proof that in tense moulding is not necessary, provided the music be projected simply, healthily, and without distortion. It sang only to the musicians, but came across to the general audience, as was clearly manifested by their at tention, enthusiasm, and demand for encores. Nor were tliere vaudeville stunts on which to lay the blame. Mr. Sklarewski reached his highest mark in Schumann's Carnival, a vigorous, spirited performance, with much in the way of contrast and nuance, al ways of a restrained nature. His sonorous playing in chordal pas sages, successful projection of polyphonic passages, slight hold ing back of the individual sing ing tones of rubatb melodies, and very complete pianistic technical facilities, all contributed to the successful reading. There are several disappoint ing features of Graham Memor ial concerts considering their possibilities. The open door ways to the outer hall make.f or distraction both to audience and perfomers, what with people constantly walking about. The position of the piano at an angle, makes the throwing of the sound toward the door, and most of the audience gets a distorted tonal impression. The playing of recods to keep the audience amused before the performance, is entirely out of place, to put it most gently. "WPTF 680 kc (NBC) 8:00 Russ -Morgan's Orchestra, Rhythm Rogues. 9:00 Ben Bernie & Orchestra, Jack Benny. 9:30 Fred Astaire, Charles Butter worth, Johnny Green's Or . chestra. WBT 1080 kc (CBS) 7:30 Alexander Woollcott. 7:45 Boake Carter, News. 8:30 Al Jolson, Martha Raye, Vic tor Young's Orchestra, 9:30 Jack Oakie's College, Benny Goodman's Orchestra. 11:15 Ozzie Nelson's Orchestra. 11:30 George Olsen's Orchestra. WOR 710 kc. (MBS) 10:30 Cab Calloway's Orchestra. WGN 720 kc. (MBS) 11:15 Kay Kayser's Orchestra. 17 rJ '7 .A-Kv. .vv 'Ax. f Jpfl I I till! "A - Vli ,, TT looks harmless, but this fungus destroys poles. So telephone research men wage war on it. In the Bell Telephone Laboratories, they study many woods, concoct many preservatives. In Missis sippi, Colorado and New Jersey where conditions vary widely they've set out whole armies of treated test poles. Their continuous experiments yield many a weird hut valuable fact about destructive fungi and insects. Since the Bell System each year uses over 500,000 poles for replacements and new lines, lengthening pole life is most important. It's one more way to make telephone service still more dependable. Why not give the family a ring tonight? Rates to most points are lowest after 7 P. M. and all day Sunday.