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THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1335
The official newspaper of tie Carolina Publications
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.Editor
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News Editors: Will G. Arey, Jr., Gordon Burns, Mor
ris Rosenberg.
Deskmen: Tom Stanback, Ray Lowery, Jesse Reese.
Senior Reporter: Bob Perkins. 8
Freshman Reporters: Charles Barrett, Adrian Spies,
David Stick, -Donald Bishop, Miss Lucy Jane
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Best Tripp, Bill Snyder, Lawrence M. Ferling.
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THE PHI BETES
MAY CHANGE THINGS
THE
THEATER
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' Last spring Don McKee got up before the group
of Phi Beta Kappa initiates and impressed them
with the fact that he had got very little, of any
thing, out of his membership thus far in the
honorary scholastic fraternity. Among members
of last year's group there were other rumblings
of dissatisfaction with the present set-up, which
though not so ostentatious in expression as Mc-
Kee's, served to create an atmosphere of impend
ing reform for the new men.
'..In, the past fall quarter the president of the
locaj chapter, together with several interested
student and faculty members of the fraternity,
began the job at probing the framework of chap
ters elsewhere and comparing their setup with the
one in effect here.' Since intra-f raternity critic
ism seemed to be centered about low standards
and lethargy of the "active" chapter, plans for a
reorganization of the standards for admission and
the size of the active chapter were undertaken.
And so night before last the unanimous approval
of the executive committee was set upon a pro
posal to alter the present rules of admission. This
proposal is, of course, subject to approval by a
four-fifths vote of the local chapter after a week
of personal consideration. The proposal is this:
Instead of putting juniors to the adding machine
test en masse and giving keys to those who emerge
with an average over 92.5, only eight to twelve
men will be selected at the end of the eighth quar
ter. In addition to having scholastic averages of
92.5 or better, these men must represent the
cream of the campus intellectual crop. Approxi
mately half of this group will be chosen with
scholastic, curricular work as a deciding factor ;
with the other half extra-curricular work and gen
eral campus constructive activity will weigh heav
ily. As for those who made 92.5 or above but who
Were not included in the above grouping, they
will be selected at the end of their 11th quarter,
or in the spring quarter of their senior ydar. Their
selection will be essentially on the same basis as
selection is now, with the exception of a longer
term of grade-averaging.
- . . .
The foregoing is for most part the proposal on
which the Chapel Hill chapter will vote. It is
doubtless the most drastic action to be considered
by the honorary fraternity in recent years. If
the proposal is upheld, the honor of being selected
in the junior year (thus one of the small group
of active seniors) will be increased tenfold. Also
to be considered will be the small size and rela
tive motility of the active chapter. Since eight
or a dozen men can and will get together much
more easily than a group of more than 30, the
fraternity will be able to enter more as a unit
University activities.
Yet Phi Beta Kappa as a goal and subsequent
ly a stimulus for the better-than-average student
to work harder in his studies will not disappear,
since if a student can consistently do superior
work for eight quaters, he certainly should be
able to hang on for three more quarters. Then
he will be elected as an out-going senior and can
fare forth in world with his key just as the
twelve picked in their junior year.
Members of the local chapter will vote on the
change sometime within the next month. Whether
the proposal be accepted or not is problematical
but the very existence of the proposal and its
unanimous approval by the executive committee
bodes well. At least the chapter is taking a high
ly critical look at itself .
L. I. G.
The Traveling Salesman, Etc
A traveling salesman (old style)
and a farmer's wife (eternal style)
are at the center of an authentic and
reasonably amusing country situation
in Bernice Kelly Harris' "Pair of
Quilts." Working with the slight but
quite genuine and obviously familiar
material of needlewomen's jealousy, a
hen-pecked household, and the lure of
the peddler's pack, Miss "Harris has
written a comedy which depends for
its effect largely upon expert rendi
tion of the terirble East Carolina
idiom and dialect.
Fortunately the expert rendition is
there, poured enthusiastically and
spiritedly from the practiced mouths
of Catherine Moran and Annetta Bur
nett, the two rival quilt-makers, who
are supported admirably by- Fred
Howard and Betty Hearn. As the
gaudy and eloquent peddler who
leaves behind him empty cash-stockings,
ten-cent finery, the delicious
smell of cologne water, and the seven
year itch, Sam Hirsch has the kind of
part he excels in.
. "Pair of Quilts" is in the favorite
Playmakers tradition of folk stuff;
and as such, with its present excellent
cast, it ranks with the better efforts
in the tradition. '
Kickless Melodrammer
Whereas "Pair of Quilts" comes ob
viously from personal experience, we
should guess that the second play of
the bill, "While Reporters Watched,"
does not. The two-dimensional illusion
of silver screen and flickering projection-light
would persist throughout
this rankly melodramatic "Christmas
Eve Newspaper Mystery," if there
were not an un-Hollywoodish jerki
ness and general ineffectiveness of
presentation. Handicapped by prac
tically no characterization, "the actors
make rather ragged attempts to pro
duce a coherent and interesting pat
tern from patches of plot worn-out
by excessive service in the movies and
the detective thrillers. The worst sin
ner at the patch-work is the apoplec
tic JVlr. Bernert.
BILL HUDSON.
"Mary-Marge".
Ellen Deppe wrote a play of Caro-
ina Fisherfolk. I have never known
any of these good people, but I feel
as though there is more to them than
Miss Deppe felt disposed to show on
the Playmaker stage yesterday eve
ning. Yet one must admit that come
dies don't generally go in for depth,
and as a comedy the play did rather
well. The situation was trite but the
dialogue and dialect (the two go hand
in hand) seemed more sincere than
usual. As I say it did rather well,
and in large part this was due to the
acting. Playmakers are very adept
at putting a real touch of the natural
in their folk plays, and this was no
exception. Viewing' the play you
weren't conscious of a group of peo
ple "trying to stage a folk play." In
playing time amounting to about fif
teen minutes the incident of the wom
an who lost her teeth unwound it
self. It's all about a widow who had
false teeth but was saving her real
teeth for the Judgment Day and a
marriage. Things aren't going so
well between the widow and the fish
peddler and she is slated to marry.
So the little boy of the household de
cides to play matchmaker and does so
by stealing the teeth. The trick works
and the widow (Frances Goforth) gets
her teeth and her man (Burr Leach).
Social Problem
Gwendolyn Pharis' "One Man's
House" struck a more serious note
in ending an evening played predomi
nantly in the comic strain. There's
nothing new about the theme of the
labor leader who must choose be
tween family love and class loyalty,
but it is timely and it is dramatic.
On this occasion it was handled very
well. At times one did feel that the
plot called for the three-act form.
In fact I should very much like to
see it expanded into three acts. Fred
Howard's "Sharecropper" seems to
have profited by the process. But as
in Mr. Howard's case one isn't too
anxious to quarrel with the one-act
edition.
Sam . Hirsch has done nicely in
working out the character of Jan Lo
deska, the Polish labor leader. He
has infused him with the deep rich
quality the playwright intended, and
he has managed to evoke a spontan
eous sympathy for his character. If
Mr. Hirsch has given what seems pre
cisely the right portrayal for the part,
Betty Smith as his wife has done as
well. Contrasted with her husband,
she is a submissive person weighed
down by the years and too tired of
life in general to object strenuously
when Jan decides that a bigger loy
alty to the workers on strike demands
that he sacrifices both himself and
his family.
SAM GREEN.
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Venidas Group
By Adrian Charles Spies
Youth movements are the thing these days in almost every part of this
agitated world. In' Germany and Italy the whole hope of empire rests upon
the youth a belligerent, war-trained mass. Well here in America we have
a youth movement too. And it has formed into something almost assuming
the proportions of an army. But it is an army for peace, and its fighting
is done in the form of widespread national peace strikes.
On this campus we have a representative function of that army. It is
the Venidas group. Founded in February, 1938, as a campus peace com
mittee, the group is composed of about twenty members. Anne Perry is
chairman, and heads of the various committees are John Creedy, Dewitt
Barnett, Henry Nigrelli, and Alex Heard.
In the main, the group works toward three objectives: an Armistice Day
program, participation in a nationwide peace demonstration, and the recruit
ing of volunteers to represent this school in the Student Peace Service this
summer. This last named function, a Youth Section of the American Friends'
Committee, sends selected college students into certain areas to conduct an
educational program for peace.
At present Miss Perry and her colleagues are perfecting plans for the
proposed peace strike on April 27. Senator James P. Pope, of Idaho, will
address an open forum in Memorial hall. To add a soothing touch to the
somberness of the day, a "Bevy of beautiful coeds" will sell white poppies
throughout the proceedings.
The Venidas group owes its somewhat unique name to a printer's error.
Originally there was another, more specific title. But someone's handwrit
ing was shameful, and the group went to press as The Venidas. Rather
than cause confusion, members elected to retain their mystic heading.
Speaking of the aims of her organization Miss Perry declared : "This
group cannot hope to settle the affairs of the world. But we do hope to
condition students' minds to constructive thought on a definite peace pro
gram. Perhaps, if we have any degree of success, there will be an enlight
ened few who will act intelligently should an international crisis arise."
Students Vote On
Rosenberg, McDuf f ie
( Continued from first page)
Billy Hand by three votes. Stick said
he "wouldn't feel right about it until
the votes are re-counted."
The campus received an aftermath
of politics in the Rosenberg-McDuffie
struggle. Extensive campaigns were
wound up by both candidates last
night.
Rosenberg has been connected with
the Daily Tar Heel for the past two
years as reporter, deskman, and night
sports editor. He is now the only
sophomore news editor. McDuffie has
been assistant business manager of
the Yackety-Yack for the last two
years.
The historic 1933 political pinwheel
offers the only recent parallel to the
present set-up. Then presidency of
the student body and editorship of the
Carolina Magazine were determined
by a run-off election.
Rules
University rules require a candi
date receive the majority of the votes
cast in his race, regardless of the
number of participants, to be assured
of election.
No maximum or certain majority
as has been set for today's ballot
The candidate receiving the most
votes, regardless of the number cast,
will be elected.
There are two types of hazel trees
one with round nuts, and one with
elongated nuts.
BIRTHDAYS
TODAY
(Please call by the ticket office
of the Carolina theater for a com
plimentary pass.)
Paschal Buford Burks
Paul Davis Grady
Edward Norman Hoffman
Ruth Josephine Valentine
John Ruff in Wheless.
On The Air
CAMPUS
NOMAD
By
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Voit Gilmore
7:30 "We, the People," featuring
Gabriell Heatter (WHAS).
8 :00 Kate Smith's croeram
(WBT) ; Rudy Vallee's Variety Hour
(WSB); "The March of Time"
(WJZ).
9:00 Major Bowes' amateurs
(WHAS); Myrna Loy, Clark Gable,
and Lionel Barrymore head the all
star cast of tonight's "Good News of
1938," starring Robert Taylor
(WSB).
9:30--America's Town Meeting of
the Air (WJZ).
10:00 The Kraft Music Hall en
tertains Percy Grainger tonight
(WSB).
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
In the directory Graduate Student Nelson Hair
ston lists his home as Mocksville, N. C. Actually
he is a Country Gentleman, and by rights should
list his address as Cooleemee Plantation.
The spectacular state-wide tour of the N C
Garden Clubs, going on this month, has spot
lighted Hairston's plantation home. Long ago an
Indian passed a white man carrying a jug of well
water over near Mocksville, ' and being sorely
thirsty, begged for a drink. "Cool ee mee" he
said and thus Hairston's home got its name.
This week scores of tourists are touring the
5,000-acre Cooleemee estate. On a hill in the cen
ter is Hairston's cross-shaped home, built nearlv
a hundred years ago, and furnished with tre
mendous tester beds, solid silver service sets, and
a three-story, circular stairway that ?rchitects
can't understand, because it winds round and
round with no visible support.
600 Beats
Every morning the Hairston's male cook beats
the breakfast biscuits 600 times on an enormous
pounding block. Mr. Hairston reportedly rises
on the 75th beat and is dressed for breakfast on
the 600th.
Grassy, slave-built terraces descend from the
house to the Yadkin river, almost a mile awav.
Nothing has disturbed the calm nor the natural
beauty of tall oaks and acres of green lawn for
a hundred years. Not even the Civil War and
that is the most interesting story Nelson Hair
ston's plantation home affords.
t
Grandfather and Grandmother Hairston went
to Europe in 1859 on their honeymoon. Touring
about, they made the close friendship of a federal
army officer. . . . War broke out, and at the head
of one invading column of Union officers marched
the Hairstons, close friend. On his expedition, his
orders brought him to Cooleemee Plantation. So
delighted was he to see his friends again, the of
ficer flung a Union army guard about the whole
estate for the remainder of the war. Cooleemee
Plantation weathered the Civil War with delight
ful neutrality.
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My Day
OR
Life On A Raft
3G
By Charley Gilmore
That new swimming pool is well worth the
money. The only trouble is you have to be a
Harry Houdini to get in the place. The would-be
swimmer has to face more natural hazards than a
Republican in South Carolina.
Those combination locks are harder to open than
an economic textbook. And just as complicated.
Those combination numbers they give you are
just a starter. After you dial them you're on
your own. '
It Grows On You
I know one man who went swimming last week
and is still wearing his trunks. It took him 38
minutes to get in them and he collapsed after five
hours of struggling to get out. They say the
trunks will have to be blasted off, piece by piece.
I understand the Venidas group is getting up
another petition, this time about the water in the
swimming pool. They claim its the use of chlorine
in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
Faculty Suffrage
A few days ago they decided to let faculty mem
bers go swimming. I heartily endorse that move.
After all, faculty members are human, too. Be
sides, some of them might drown.
The safety devices around the pooi are really
amazing. They've got everything except a coast
gUard CUtter. I-CrUeSS Snfof,r Alnac ira Tiprfta-
sary, though, because there are those who ap
parently have never seen water before.
The pool really is a blessing. There's nothing
like a cool dip about 2 o'clock to wake you up
from a morning of sleep. A couple years ago
there was a boy here who slept for 23 days. When
he woke up they asked him if a tsetse fly had
bitten him. He said no, but an economics pro
fessor had.
Thoreau
w Ve t0 be aIone- 1 never found a companion
that was so companionable as solitude.