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1 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 193T fy Batlp te Heel 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 Thanksgiving:, Christmas and Spring Holidays. En tered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. J. Mac Smith- .Editor Charles W. Gilmore- William McLean Jesse Lewis .Managing Editor -Business Manager .Circulation Manager Editorial Staff Editorial Writers: Stuart Rabb, Lytt Gardner, Edwin Hamlin, Allen Merrill, Voit Gilmore, Bob du Four, Herbert Langsam. News Editors: Will G. Arey, Jr., Gordon Burns, Mor ris Rosenbere. Dfskmen: Tom Stanback. Laffitte Howard, Jesse Reese. Senior Reporters : Bob Perkins. Freshman Reporters: Charles Barrett, Adrian Spies, David Stick, James McAden, Miss Jane Hunter, Carroll McGaughey, Winston Broadfoot. Exchange Editor: Ben Dixon. Sports Editor: R. R. Howe. Jr. Sports Night Editors: Jerry Stoff, Ray Lowery, Frank Holeman. Sports Reporters: Ed Karlin, Harvey Kaplan, Shelley Rolfe, Fletcher W. Ferguson, Larry M. Ferling, W. L. Beerman. Staff Photographers: Herbert Bachrach, Frank Bowne. Business Staff Advertising Managers: Bobby Davis, Clen Humphrey. Durham Representative: Dick Eastman. - liOCAL Advertising Assistants Stuart Ficklin, Bert . Halperin, Bill Ogburn, Morton Bohrer, Ned Ham ilton, Bill Clark, Billy Gillian. Office: Gilly Nicholson. Aubrey McPhail, George Har ris, Louis Barba, Bob Lerner, Ed Kaufman, Perrin Quarles, Jim Schleifer, Henry Smernoff . ' For This Issue News: Gordon Burns Sports: Frank Holeman My Day OR Life On A Raft J , - z 1 By Charley Gilmore THE BLEAK SIDE OF n - LAST NIGHTS PAGEANTRY As you have seen on the front page, the Uni versity of North Carolina chapter of Phi Beta Kanna last night inducted nine men into its society. This of course, is only one of the two an nual meetings. The other comes in the spring, and between the two they manage to select an ap proximate ten percent or slightly over of each graduating class. Those 9 keys (at $7.00 per) will dangle and glis ten today. For several more days they will be in credibly bright little mirrors on watch chains or tie pins, and then a slow metamorphosis wil somehow take place. The wearers will sense the emptiness of attainment. They will begin to real ize the hypocrisy of flaunting a tag of 92.5 per cent efficiency in the faces of their less efficient (or possibly less "diplomatic") friends. And most disheartening of all, they will have forced upon them too many of the ugly truths which before had existed only as talk in the mouths of seniors truths concerned "picked" curricula, certain courses "neglected" until the senior year or even dronried before they eot too hot, so-called "boot licking" of professors. Somehow the pleasant aura of unreality around the little key goes away to leave nothing more than a rectangle of metal growing duller with the passage of time. And as well disabused seniors, those wearers will wonder why in the world they ever worried their heads about getting off their sophomore science before the end of the eighth quarter. L. I. G. A man has .asked me what subtle meaning lies hidden in the name "My Day or Life On A Raft." Furthermore, he wants to know what I am going to do about it. The name is allegory. "My Day," you know, is the title of leanor Roosevelt's column. I've been thinking pretty seri ously lately of becoming Presi dent some day and I want all the experience I can get. jl was jusu imuwu 111 tu fill up space, v Philosophy 41 ' "Life" is that elusive, mysti cal thing all of us do. It covers just about everything', and so does this column. Do you begin to see the allegory creeping out? "On" is a preposition intro ducing a prepositional phrase. doesn't seem to be much allegory here, but it does imply the col umn is written in English. . Here It Is "Raft" is the allegory. This signifies the University and the campus. "Alma Mater" really signifies the University, but you could . hardly . say "My Day or Life On An Alma Mater." So used the next best thing "Raft." I don't blame the man for wanting to know the subtle meaning. He is a victim of his environment. Everybody around Haymakers Return From Tour (Continued from first page) siasm, however, and they have already been asked to include the college as one of the stops in the 1938 tour. But according to Bluestone, the most intelligent, and certain ly the largest audience, was at the Hampton Institute, which is also a Negro institution. Several years ago the Play makers gave a play called "New Nigger," in the Hampton Insti tute, and at that time there was considerable stamping and rest lessness in the audience, so nat urally everyone was a little un easy when the group this time gave "Leavin's," a play which1 advances the theory that Abe Lincoln was born an illegitimate child. It was naturally quite a sur- -a i -mm 1 prise, when the audience turnea out to be as intelligent and re sponsive as any they had played before. An explanation was given later, though, , when Bluestone had a talk with one of the stu dents there. The Negro ex plained that during the past few years the race leaders have been trying to instill in the people the idea that Lincoln was not re sponsible for their release," and that it was a direct result, rath er, of the bitterness between north and south. They claim that Lincoln just happened to be in office at that time, and that the release would have come about anyway. ... When the Playmakers take to the road, actors, technical advis ers and stage managers, all pitch in when it comes time to set up or take down the stage. An in teresting note about this is that in the beginning it took them an Voit Gilmore J1..L-J C A M P U S N 0 M A D E T CETERA FROM THE EXCHANGE DESK By Ben Dixon 3 here goes around looking for hour and a half to put the set some profound interpretation to up, but at the final performance life. Everything has to have they set a new low oy aomg it some subtle, profound explana- in 44 minutes. tion or it isn't worth a darn. They were equipped to per Naturally form on any kind of stage, and Naturally I want this column before the trip was over they to be worth a darn so I give it a had covered the field quite well. profound, subtle, intellectual, In Richmond, at the Thomas hidden, academic meaning. That Jefferson High school, they had anneals to the -professors and one of the Emory University, Atlanta Down here the juniors and the sophomores have just finished their annual push ball tourna ment, and the fun they had makes me think we should in troduce the sport up at Carolina. At least 50 or 75 fellows can be on each side, and when its a wet day (or when the fire de partment will agree to squirt water on) it doesn't make much difference how many join in for then you can sling mud and rip shirts. Push balls are made up to eight feet in diameter, and at that size they weigh about 65 pounds, and cost $200. The game is simply pushing it over your opponent's goal line. Let's Have It Most of the time there are so many hands on the big balls they stay up in the air, bouncing around from one head-top to another. If a participant is en thusiastic, he can get hurt rbut only in a good-fashioned way. Two or three annual push ball fights should be just the thing for Joe Patterson's and Jim Joy ner's lethargic classes.' They would produce spirit like no bud get meeting ever did. : You could play be you a runt or a giant. Just pick out a man your size and kick! . . . A push Dan ror Carolina sounds like a good rallying cry for Herman Schnell. M 5". " ' Winner H. L. Williams, brilliant left handed Victoria resident, won the 1937 Australian Amateur Golf championship over the same course whereon as a lad of 16 he won his first Australian most modern and amateur title six years ago. Wil- Phi Beta Kappas who believe complete stages in the country, hams defeated T. Tanner, 1 up KfQ io o rcn'nWio rwrnVn'riA nf Whilo nn ip rlipr Tiand at the Hi the IinalS. brains and, what I choose to call, Hampton Institute, they played "the scholarly approach." on a bare platform stage. This thing that I choose to Although . they had a hard call "the scholarly approach schedule to meet, the group gave probably needs more explana- all of their performances on tion. I wish somebody would ex- schedule. They made a 320 mile COLLEGIATE SPY RING Because a Brown university freshman knew Hungarian, and was thrifty, the United States Navy intelligence bureau got a severe case of jitters. The student sent telegram in Hungarian, about the Brown-Yale football game to a friend. (It costs 32 cents less than in English) The only English words in the message were "Brown sec tion" indicating the- section of the stadium in which he wanted his friend to buy the ticket. M,,,..,, . Recently there has been a spy marine base where a new tor- Ipedo chamber has been invented 4. by a Mr. Brown and designated "Brown Section." Hence the Jit ters of the Navy intelligence bu- Oreau. Tf ' cAfimoil Viof xtmr-Ais Ulro "tizenkettotizenegykor" made the bureau wonder. But when they read further into the telegram and came across "Brown Section," they sent an agent to call on the friend. Was he, perhaps, in the secret employ of som& foreign power? The friend protested his inno cence and to prove it translated the message. DAFFYNITIONS Bar an animal found in them thar hills. . Hiccup Start of a popular song Hiccup the British. Cognac Cognac All is forgiven. SIR VAY A survey conducted by the DAILY CARDINAL of the University of Wisconsin gave students an opportunity to express their opinions of the uni versity library. The questionaires, however, were well marked with the interpolations of . would-be humorists. One student claimed that the infirm ary instructed him not to, study in the library, since he reported that he had caught two colds from the fans. Nor was outright frankness ab sent. One individual declared, "I never even seen the main library." And then the pseudo-comedian remarked that "it's too light to pitch woo." The survey revealed a number of synonyms for "yes," among them "yep," "yerse," "hau kay," and "yow suh." POP QUIZ By Bob Perkin plain it for me. STUDENT OWNERSHIP AND CONTf&L Four New Plays Offered Tonight (Continued from first page) Nachtmann, as Herr Muller; Jordan Barlow,, as Gustave Mul len and Virjnma Kibier, as Marie. ' .. -'" ' Story iT ' f mi mi..A.4-r. jrennies xor, xxicii. muuguto, jump from Baltimore to Salem, but were allowed two days for A king who had two sons died the trip. On the other hand, in and left the following will: one day they drove 250 miles, "Each son shall take his horse from Goldsboro to Salem, Va., and ride from here to Durham and gave performances the night City, 12 miles away. To , the before they left and the night owner of the horse which comes they arrived there. in LAST, I will leave my entire In Baltimore they played in a kingdom." professional theater, and before So the two sons got on their the performance. Gerald - John- respective horses and started son, publisher of the. Baltimore lout but could make no headway Sun, spoke on the work, of the) since each tried to prevent the other from lagging behind. - Under the tentative plan proposed for a Radio Studiortheright to broadcast, all equipment, and is a domestic story of an author, twvlv written hv Noel Houston. It is W . V V M4 WNrf,. VV4 AAA lAAV W V VKk'WAA . W - r , ' T . 1 r 1 ' I m ' y-rr ' " ; , directed by Lubin Leggette, and riaym kjiw suggestion nas oeen mau wie tuuiu uu , a. - -w jW.uuW ue .-vuuuuueu uy, tuc jt uuuviuuo t(d; v - author ; Virginia umujiuuiru. IxriM a in'o' n'fii"" Tfr WnW Why does the student body have this right ? Louise Greene, as the maid, Ber- "Recause the initial cost of installation, if the stu-l ffal : and Rose Peagler. as the dent body approves, would come from the surplus-1 secretary, Miss Garber. funds of the P. U.' board. These funds are the pro- The last play, "Washed in De r 7 :30 "We the People," under On The Air By Carroll McGaughey pefty of the student body.' Blood," is a -Negro play with I the direction of Gabriel Heatter The cst of oneratioii would come from a dime mu dancing; by sRietta (WHAS) ' . .. . - . ; . .. rWinn Tlnilpv' Tnia lAtham takes 1' o.nn or quarter paid Dy each student and added to tne ; " " o:uu ikuuy,:..viwo 1 ttllJ MUM' uuc "ttLL v"c nW,Vof; ',rf , the lead m the play, with the uw VwPTF : Kate Smith length ls 24 inches, which added to .... r. .... r.-o- -,- xuuuwing sup.puruiis cast, Hour ....with, comedian nenry : We have listened with open ears to. the argu- Latham. Dorothv Brownmff,Ur txnxxm lcusl,u 8 . . . ' 1 r w , . r i i iiu 11 c man ww ixnu a . m mpnt that a rartin stiirtin wnnM bo an instnimeTit Will.'on, TVT "Rn f oqVi . Also tne length ot tne body, 48, is . " -r-"r. v:,y6-u,j , 8:30 The March Ot Time just equal to the lengths of the head important an i organ to be in the hands of stii- Miihous, Virginia Kibler, Tom dents. Therefore, the administration must step I Feariner. Rose Pearler. Jack in to control policy and insure efficient operation. Taylor, Mary Louise Greene, Which is saying that the administration should Bowling Brown, John Roughton, - Francis Roughton, Virginia Blunders are a necessary part of a democratic Giddens, Blanche Bullock, Re 11 m m 1 i system. oecca joraan, Margaret joroan, LbJmy Hertz, and HiUgene Lang- Any attempt to revert to iacuity control over gton. student life is a retrogression contrary to the one They covered only 5 miles the first day and less than that the second. At length they went to a wise man who with words of wisdom told them how to solve the situation. What did he tell them to do? Answer to yesterday's quiz: . This fish" 'was 96f inches. Jong. . The proportions were divided thus : Tail given 12 inches; body, 48 inches; CWJZ) 12, and the tail, 36, combined and so 9:00-Major Bowes' amateur againe reirementsof the problem hour (WDNC); Good News oi There is no other length which will 1938, Meridith Wilson's orches- satisfy the conditions of the problem. The play is directed by Ora of the deepest-rooted principles of our University. Mae Davis and the author. 10 -.00 Kraft Music Hall, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Burns (WSB or WEAF). 10:30 "Marconi, the Man and His Wireless." dramatized by v the Columbia (WHAS). . Get Your "Carolina in Portrait Give An ARGUS i workshop FOISTER PHOTO CO. AND SO FAR INTO THE NIGHT Twinkle, twinkle little star, Who in the heck do you think you are Way up there on that policeman's chest? Good God ! I'm under arrest. TOLSTOI The tallest story of the week comes from the University of Michigan. Emphasizing how ex tremely crowded the Panhellenic dance was, one writer remarked that a Beta waved to a brother and had to keep his hand up for the rest of the night. In addition, several of the men had hiccups, and everyone on the floor could feel a slight change in pressure each time they hicked. ' " . TREES I think that I shall never see A male who'll say. he isn't free A guy. who'll kiss arid never talk A guy who'll say I'd rather walk A boy who'll shave before a date A boy who's never late A boy who'll stop when she says no A boy who wants to spend his dough Boys are made by fools like me The Reason ? Well, we disagree. Contribu ted by one of our co-eds . '"; ' ' - KNICK-KNACKS An electric eye detects late-comers to physics classes at St. Thorrias College.' Even while the p??e?!s D2t,9K is turned,, a person can't slip m undetected, for he must cross the light beam and wnen he does, a gong clangs. . - A coed , at Texas Christian University has 50 boy friends. She is combination mascot and offi cial hostess for .the s Horned Frogs' band. She goes on all their trips, parades wth them, marches on the field at the half, and at home games, takes the visiting queen in hand tp see that she has a toothbrush and a handsome date. Greeks at Oregon. State college are having a chance to brush up on theirtable manners. A coed organization on the campus has formed a com mittee on etiquette to teach fraternity men. So the college paper reports, anyway they got in vited to lunch. Love begins when she sinks into your arms and ends with her arms in your sink.
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