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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1935
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
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Hill, N. C nnder act of March 3, 1179. Subscription
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Charles W. Gilmore..
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.Editor
Managing Editor
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Editorial Staff
Editorial Writers: Stuart Babb, Lytt Gardner,
Allen Merrill, Voit Gilmore, Bob duFour, Bamsay
Potts, R. Herbert Eoffer, David J. Jacobson.
News Editors: Will G. Arey, Jr., Gordon Burns, Mor
ris Rosenberg.
Deskmbn: Tom Stanback, Ray Lowery, Jesse Reese.
Senior Reporter: Bob Perkins.
Freshman Reporters: Charles Barrett, Adrian Spies,
David Stick, Donald Bishop, Miss Lucy Jane
Hunter, Carroll McGaughey (Radio), Miss Gladys
Best Tripp, Bill Snyder, Lawrence M. Ferling.
Rewrite: Jim McAden.
Exchange Editor: Ben Dixon.
Sports Editor: R. R. Howe, Jr.
Sports Night Editors: Shelley Rolfe, Frank Holeman,
Laffitte Howard. T
Sports Reporters: Jerry Stoff, William L. Beerman,
Richard Morris, Martin Kalkstein, Leonard Lobred.
Business Staff
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For This Issue
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THE
THEATER
Melodrama
There may be a place in the thea
ter for melodrama, and if there is
"Murder in the Snow" by Betty Smith
and Robert Finch had a legitimate
place on the Playmaker bill Friday
evening. To put it tritely but succinct
ly, as melodrama it filled the bilL It
possessed all the requisites and pre
requisites. But beyond that there's a
question. Bill Hudson says hell agree
there's a place for social drama if IH
agree there's a place for anything
else. I, or anyone else, would find it
hard to disagree. This will come as
a surprose to many people, but never
theless it stands. To say we should
have only social drama is to take the
surest road back to Puritanism. And
you'll remember that it was the Puri
tans who tried to do away with the
theater entirely in England in the
seventeenth century.
In short, entertainment, though it
has been greatly over-stressed, de
serves some consideration. And I will
leave it with the audiences to decide
whether they are entertained by melo
drama. Which leaves only the neces
sity for mentioning the fine acting of
Bill Morgan and Dan Nachtmann, a
good stage set, and the evidences of
capable direction by Lynette Heldman.
Comedy?
It is not as hard to decide on the
validity of "Three Foolish Virgins"
as theater. Good comedy has always
had its place and, I hope, always will.
This one, by Bernice Kelly Harris,
handles the theme of the old maid with
much humor and more human sympa
thy. A few lines trickled out that
came close to being poetry. I do not
know what it is about frustrated old
age that draws so much on our sym
pathy. However if age is inevitable, frus
tration and loneliness are not. Beyond
that the comic aspects of the situa
tion saved the play from too much
sentiment. Frequent allusions to our
biological natures apparently never
fail to get a laugh. It's here to stay,
PEACE,
POTTS, AND POPE
' Dead babies rotting at the belly not a pleasant
sight.
For three days next week the campus will vote,
via CPU ballots, on seven particular questions on
American foreign policy.
On Wednesday night Senator Pope will lecture
in Memorial hall, and Ramsay Potts and the Edi
tor of the Duke Chronicle will swap their student
views on what sort of foreign policy America
should pursue.
This is the Carolina version of the national col
legiate peace program annually effected in April. and obviousiy the subject just can't
,, .,"', . , m be over-worked. This last, with special
Many such collegiate demonstrations, both here regard to the title As you can gee
and elsewhere in the past, have depended almost we have here all the ingredients for
altogether on the emotional approach to the prob- an entertaining production. The en
lem of war in the world. With signs and bands tire cast showed themselves to be com
and an occasional riot they have voiced youthful
protest against the horrors of warfare. War the direction was up t0 standard, and
is Hell, to Hell With War. the first remark heard as the curtain
. , went up was on the excellence of the
mt I S1 - " I ..l r- m-
ine current uaronna program as aireauy an- set
nounced differs extremely from the purely emo-
tional approach to the problem. With the three Strike One
days Of balloting on particular issues, the CPU Fortunately Author Jean Brabham
ought to be able to sound a fairly accurate picture calls the first play on the bill, "The
nf th r.rnr.ns -mir.fi Tht WinrA nrncrrnm should Worm Turns," a comedy: tHus the un-
., ,,, ... 4. n . I conscious humor, which. rivals the con-
cuucem itseii witu ail iii-emiii, eAamnmu.i sciouBf is unconsciously taken care of
tne neutrality law, tne part 01 munitions, eiiect Probabiy the most important conciu
of national economic policies on our relations with sion to be drawn from this story of
Europe and Asia, the long-run implications of a college freshman who lost her first
isolation, independent "neutrality," or outspoken man shed a few delicious tears, and
1.Y.. , then caught the next street car, is
. that college playwrights haven't
Next week the Campus will juggle actual policy long enough perspective on adoles
Woilc. tW ;n;a-nna ir. !. orno, n cence to write aoout it enecnveiy,
the problem of "What Is America Going To Do?"
-SAM GREEN.
The primary production error was
the choice of the cast. Molly Holmes
and Dell Bush, who play the parts
of the adolescent girls, are still in
their middle teens; and although they
After graduation many of us will have occasion
to vote on or to help formulate, American policy.
Only, through the collective intelligence of the look the part and perform creditably
people can a democracy play its cards correctly, for their experience, they miss im
So it really does matter that, in our peace demon- portant nusances which more expe
strations. we derjend on our intelligence, not our fenced and mature actresses, pos
emotions. Visceral disorders at the Name of War ses!fd.of,the pf,spective they neces'
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flyer pictured
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11 Pronoun.
12 To sharpen a
razor.
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14 Secondary law
15 Postscript. -
16 Sheltered
place.
18 Form of "be."
19 Electrical unit.
21 Collection of
facts. 40 Grave.
23 Type standard 43 Monster.
25 Fiber knots. 45 Musical note.
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49 Kettle.
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51 Javelins.
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27 Masculine
pronoun.
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area.
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girl.
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CAMPUS
NOMAD
By
Voit Gilmore
HIGH TRAVEL PRESSURE
Many a nomadic person who hasn't wound u
on one of French Professor Lyons' delightful Eu
ropean vacation tours has turned up in July and
August on the famous Georgia Caravan.
At a somewhat lower cost than a tour of Eu
rope, Georgia Caravan each summer hauls scores
of high school and college students through the
.West, sometimes Mexico and Canada. Among its
pay passengers every year are numerous Carolina
undergraduates.
The increasing competitiveness of travel tour
agencies has found C. Y. Rose, Caravan operator,
not wanting. For showmanship and sensational
salesmanship he almost rivals the immortal Billv
Rose, famed for his Casa Manana.
C. Y. Rose's latest stroke to cinch patrons for
next summre's jaunt through the West on jiggly
busses appeared under the free advertising sec
tion of society pages last Sunday. The account
was of an urgent midnight phone call from Pro
ducer David Selznick in Hollywood to Rose, in
Atlanta, pleading that the Caravan be brought by
the Mova lot next summer. Maybe one ofrhe
Caravan girls will pass for Scarlett, thinks Selz
nick, hopes Rose.
At any rate, to pacify the entire Caravan horde,
they'll alT be lined up, made to look as Southern
like as possible, and then shot for a half-minute
mob scene in "Gone With The Wind." .
Publications Union Board
By Adrian Charles Spies
Next week's approach is the one with the hope
in it; '
FOOTPRINTS
ON THE SANDS
but;
give Niggli Experiment
Josephina Niggli's play about Villa
is an interesting and perhaps signifi
cant experiment in a rather rare dra
ma form. She calls "This Is Villa
a "portrait of a Mexican general."
Under the capable hands of Robert
Nachtmann, the portrait emerges, in
swift, nervous strokes, as a most col
orful, exciting and complete charac
terization. The portrait is finished;
it has the vital spark and the death
less permanence; and there is no at-
Of all the organization existent on this campus, the Publications Union
board is one of the most powerful. For the PU board, as it is commonly
called, has almost supreme supervision over all publications activities.
The original purpose of the board was a general supervision of the
finances of school publications, and a control over the expenditures of
these groups. The business managers of The Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina
Magazine, the Yackety-Yack, and the Buccaneer must submit budgets to
the board for its approval. In addition the board makes all printing con
tracts and arranges for the salaries of all publications men.
Although ostensibly a financial check, the PU board possesses a certain
amount of authoratative power among the various editorial stalls. A re
cent example is the unusual situation which existed last yea. during the
Carolina Magazine's staff nominations. Bill Hudson and Nick Read were
nominated as co-editors. However the board, fearing that such a combi
nation might set a dangerous precedent for future political set-ups, out
lawed the ticket. This, however, is an isolated case, and the board usually
confines its executive activities to purely financial matters.
Five members, three students and two members of the faculty, make
up the Publications Union board. Every two years the board itself nomi
nates certain faculty members whom it considers worthy of serving with
the student members. The president of the University makes the final
selection. The three students are elected annually from the campus at
large. At present they are, Tom Stanback, Tim Elliot, and Morris Rosen
berg. Faculty associates are J. O. Bailey of the English department and
Walter Spearman of the Journalism department. J. M. Lear is the salaried
faculty advisor, serving in a general advisory capacity and handling much
of the routine work. The board usually conducts weekly meetings.
An interesting side-light upon the work of this group may be gleaned
from the current student radio studio agitation. It was agreed to incor
porate this project 'should it be approved under the jurisdiction of the
PU board. Initial costs for the setting un of a studio were to be borrowed
from a surplus of approximately $14,000 which the board possesses. Again,
he board would become the financial councilor of the newly incorporated
publication.
Most of the Publication Union's surplus is invested in New York stocks
and securities; which makes, indirectly, every fee paying student a speculator
on the famed New York Stock Jxchange.
Rain and Spring Frolics have come to the cam
pus this week-end, and in the midst of the storm
the old campus regime wilLbe swept away. On
Tuesday morning these columns will have a new tempt t anvthinff f urther. A11 the
editor; 'luesday night present campus Ollicersl0ther characters serve merely as back-
will pass their responsibilities on to next year's ground, as straw men for Villa to
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dark spots of the portrait.
After four years of charging through curn- But, as a portrait, the play is static
CUlum and eXtra-CUrriculum senior campusijites What movement and character devel-
nrill finrl fhPTnselvAs at. Inns ends. TIipv will f in A opment there are are circular, return.
. , . , ,-. . M. - . ., I ing after the full circle to their origin
Vi orv-i ol7o 1111. qt intr tho Tiwiliornt rvr thon rr lacra I
w- - and leaving Villa to a great extent
years almost oeiore iney nave reanzea it. iney what he was at the beginning. The
will pause now and then to peer in at the activities purpose of portrayal is fulfilled; but
of enterprising juniors, but somehow there won't pne asks, is the purpose dramatic
h anv TiPPrl -fnr thpm anv more. t In the non-comic drama one expects
" I 4- 4.1 4. J. 1 4.1
On a campus surcharged With organizations turn off on some ultimate tangent, or
there are plenty of "leaders" who as members of turn back t0. some
the old order will pretty soon get a
ultimate true
chance tor". . ..s r cn . .
acter signmcance nappens to tne pro
rest. That rest will come next week and, faith, tagonist in This Is villa." But
they shall need it.
whether it is good drama or not. it
1
Rising Juniors
All rising juniors are asked to visit
Dean A. N. Hobbs during the next
few weeks to discuss their next year's
schedule.
Press Institute
(Continued from first page)
the individual papers. Members of
the University journalism department
have been asked to criticize the papers.
At 6:30 Saturday night the entire
group will attend a banquet on the
second floor of Graham Memorial. At
the banquet, which will be sponsored
bv Graham Memorial, the feature
speaker of the Institute will be presented.
As a conclusion the group will meet
at 8:30 that night to form a perman
ent ore-anizatioii. pleet officers." and
make plans for next year's meeting.
Stick said yesterday that the speak
ers for the Institute will be promin
ent newspapermen with the News and
Observer, the Raleigh Times, and
probably the Charlotte Observer, the
Greensboro Daily News, and the Dur
ham Sun. '.;.;'
BIRTHDAYS
TODAY
(Please call by Ohe ticket office
of the Carolina theater for a com
plimentary pass,)
William Miller Jones
Elizabeth Ann Spencer
William Luther Hord
Samuel Earle Hobbs
Herbert H. Alexander
Charles Jordan Barlow
Leonard B. Baron
Tempe Yarborough
Barbara Griffin.
Letters To The Editor
Over 250 Words Subject to Cutting
To The Editor,
Dear Sir:
The attempts of one of your columnists to give
facetious information about the library (Febru
ary 12) induces me to make a few statements
about the acutal condition of affairs in the "Heart
of the University."
Last year the total circulation was almost 450,-
000 volumes. That is an average of about 175
books for each student. Ten years ago this av
erage was less than 60 books per year. The total
figure may be interpreted another way. Assum
ing that only one book was borrowed for each
trip to the library, it indicates that every student
visited the library five times a week during the
three regular quarters.
The amount of work involved in making the
resources of the library available to students be
gins to assume tremendous proportions. The ideal
method of obtaining a book would be to press a
button and have the desired volume appear in a
cup like a stick of chewing gum or a package of
cigarettes. Unfortunately the six tiers of book
stacks, packed and jammed to the point of over
flowing, are not readily adapted to the use of
such mechanical contrivances. The nearest ap
proach to instantaneous service is found in send
ing a messenger for each book wanted. The time
required in delivering the book or giving a report
on its location varies from about ten seconds
in the reserve rooms to less than three minutes
at the main circulation desk.
One hundred forty-five carrels located on five
floors of the library are occupied by two hundred
twenty-five members of the faculty and graduate
students actively engaged in producing theses and
dissertations. These studies are invaluable to
scholarship and research and the demand for them
increased yearly.
At mid-afternoon or early evening it is not un
usual to find almost one-third of the student body
in the library. If the writer of "My Day" should
by any chance wander in it is doubtful that he
would be able to locate a place to anchor his raft
Sincerely yours,
OLAN V. COOK,
Chief, Circulation Department.
Rained Out
The freshman baseball game
scheduled for yesterday with Oak
Ridge Military institute was rained
out. Bo Shepard, assistant ath
letic director, announced that a
suitable date for the game will be
chosen in the near future. The
next freshman game will be played
with Burlington high school here
Monday.
ABU AND HIS PEARLS
Many years ago on the Nefud desert in upper
Arabia, an old Arab, Abu Bada, was lost. His
camel had wandered away in the night. His food
and water were gone.
For two days he walked, and Abu resigned him
self to translation.
Toward sunset, he came upon a leather pouch
lying on the hot sand. In it Abu saw white grains
of parched wheat.
: Hungrily he seized them. They were pearls.
He threw them to the winds.
"Oh mighty Allah," he cried, "when I am fam
ished, why dost thou taunt me thus with precious
stones?"
Did anybody ever eat a pearl?
L. I. G. is good theater. BILL HUDSON