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-il jL PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAB HEKJ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9. x Kht Batlp Car t$ztl 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. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, tinder act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. Business and editorial offices: 204-207 Graham Memorial Telephones: news, 4351; editorial, 8641; business, 4356; night 6906 circulation, 6476. Allen Merrills Editor Will G. Arey '. ; : : Managing Editor Business Manager CI en S. Humphrey, Jr. Jesse Lewis -Circulation Manager Editorial Board Voit Gilmore, Tom Stanhack, DeWitt Barnett, Walter Kleeman, Donald Bishop. Feature Board Miss Virginia Giddens, Miss Gladys Best Tripp, Adrian Spies, Sanford Stein, James Keith, Ben Dixon, Larry Lerner, Miss Edith Gutterman. Technical Staff i News Editors: Morris Eosenberg, Jim McAden, Carroll McGaughey. Night Sports Editors: Martin Harmon, Bill Snider, Ed Rankin Associate News Editors: Fred Cazel, Gene Williams, Rush Hamrick Senior Reporters Jesse Reese, Miss Lucy Jane Hunter. Reporters Bill Bhodes Weaver, Ben Roebuck, Bob Barber, Fred Brown, Tom Dekker. Heelers - Jim Vawter, Miss Doris Goerch, Miss Louise Jordan, Miss Dorothy Coble, Louis Harris, George Grotz, Elbert Hutton, Edward Prizer, Jimmy Dumbell, Charles Gerald, Bill Ward,' Miss Jo Jones, Arthur Dixon. Sports Staff Editor: Shelley Rolf e. t Reporters: William L. Beerman, Leonard Lobred, Billy Weil, Richard Morris, Jerry Stoff, Buck Gunter, Frank Goldsmith. Assistant Circulation Manager: Larry Ferling. Business Staff Local Advertising Managers: Bert Halperin, Bill Ogburn, Ned Ham ilton. -Durham Advertising Manager: Gilly Nicholson. Durham Representative: Andrew Gennett. Office Managers: Stuart Ficklen, Jim Schleifer. Local Advertising Assistants: Bob Sears, Alvin Patterson, Marshall Effron, Warren Bernstein, Bill Bruner, Tom Nash. -Greensboro Representative : Mary Anne Koonce. OmcE Staff: Mary Peyton Hover, Phil Haigh, L. J. Scheinman; Bill Stern, Charles Cunningham, Bob Lerner, James Garland, Jack Holland, Roger Hitchins. NEWS: JIM McADEN For This Issue: SPORTS: MARTIN HARMON Publication Merger The Publications Union board is considering the possibili ties of merging the Carolina Magazine and the Carolina Buc caneer into one magazine, a publication which would resemble the New Yorker or Esquire in make-up. Any such change of student publications must of course be sanctioned by a majority of the student body. Some sort of campus straw vote on the matter is being considered to measure prevalent attitude towards an amalgamation of the two magazines. There is already controversy on the idea. The editors of the Carolina Magazine and the Buccaneer have expressed conflicting opinions, which appear in today's paper. It is well for the campus to carefully consider all angles of the pro posed new magazine. v One of the most common rumors which favors the com bination of the Magazine with the Buccaneer is that the former is read by a small minority of students and that the latter is read by a great majority. By combining, Carolina Magazine articles, would also "become widely read. Jlesse Lewis, circulation manager of campus publications, however has estimated that 85 percent of the student body read the recent Carolina Magazine issues on Thomas Wolfe and the South. He said that student interest in the Magazine has doubled in the last three years. His estimate is based on the fact that the business office has been unable to find extra Magazine copies in the dormitories and fraternities. Students have frequently come to his office to secure additional copies, and to inquire about coming issues. The fact that if the Carolina Magazine lost its individuality it would break its record as the oldest college publication might be important. It is more important to judge the Maga zine's literary value and its contribution to the life of the University. It has had several of its articles this year re printed in State and out-of-state publications. Mr. Lambert Davis, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, wrote editor Hudson,, "I have always admired the Carolina Magazine as a thoroughly alive college publication, but 'Hugo Black's Albatross' gives the current number a national significance." The recent article on "Dropping The Labels" has aroused significant comment here on the campus, revealing a student interest in magazine content. Another question to be raised is would the combining of the Buccaneer and the Carolina Magazine make the distinc tive literary contributions of the two publications more or less effective. Mr. Pugh, of the Buccaneer, says that a direct combination of material written for the two separate maga zines would be "silly." He also suggests, however, that a completely different sort of magazine with contents of a sophisticated nature as The New Yorker or Esquire would be good. Mr. Creedy, however, says that no contributors have been found on the campus who write material of that sort. The "earthy" humor which the campus wants and gets from the Buccaneer combined with the literature which the Magazine devotes itself to, would likely mean the dilution of both. Special issues such as the one on Thomas Wolfe would be impossible. Likewise the style of the Buccaner would be cramped by the more dignified style of the Magazine. . The student body at present has the right to refuse to pay the publication fee of either the Carolina Magazine or the Buccaneer. So far few indeed have done so. This seems to LETTERS To The Editor O, CORRECTION To the Editor Dear Sir: It is a most unusual phenomena when a newspaper can slow down ra dio waves to 13600 of their speed. la short page four of today's issue (Dec. 8) puts radio waves down at a speed of 186,000 miles per hour the true speed is 186,000 mile3 per second. Some speed eh what? B. J. Willingham. Editor's note: Phenonenon should be used rather than phenomena if Mr. Willingham is as scientific about grammar as the speed of radio waves. The Editor Dear Sir: I am glad to see that the Deny af fair has been reopened as I do not feel that the campus as a whole real ized the importance of it at the time of the original discussion. If this were simply a matter of the insulting of a CPU speaker by a group of students, and the consequent devaluation of CPU invitations, the Student council's decision would have been highly commendable. The CPU, however, is only valuable in so far as it is symbolic of the liberality for which this University is famous. We must never make the mistake of valuing the symbol above the thing symbolized. It is undeniable that the circulars which caused the disturb ance last month were tactless, insult ing to the speaker, and damaging to the CPU. However, when we have men on the campus who feel that they must express their opinions, it is not the business of the Student council to send them a questionnaire asking, "Are you a good writer? Will you word your opinions tactfully?" and, "Are your opinions such as might hurt our guests' feelings?" The duty of the council is to say, "This is a liberal university, we are primarily interested in preserving liberality. We would like, in addition, to pre serve our reputation for chivalry. Nevertheless, as long as you stay short of libel, we are willing to risk our reputation of chivalry, or, if necessary, will even permit the degra dation or destruction of the CPU to preserve your right to speak or write your mind, and would consider the price very small indeed." The Student council's reconsidera tion of its former decision is long past due. Sincerely, LEO KARPELES. O SHAKESPEARE JUSTIFIED To the Editor Dear Sir: I doubt that it is necessary for any one to justify the inclusion of Shake speare in sophomore English, the one literature course required of univer sity students. Nor does it seem that the author of the letter "Why Shake- speare?" in Tuesday morning's Tas Hftt. objects to Shakespeare per se. Rather, he wonders why the plays should be included in English 21, and his objection is that "The time is out of joint," as Shakespeare phrased it. But it was exactly the time element which put the three play3 into Eng lish 21. The fall quarter this year is so much longer than the winter quar ter that the sophomore English staff decided to use some of that time in the study of Shakespeare plays, ex perience having shown that the play wright was getting short shrift in the winter quarter during which Chaucer and Milton must also be essayed. Not two weeks were "detached" from Eng lish 21, but four; not four plays are to be studied, but three. For once, Shakespeare may come near having an adequate presentation to sophomores. Admittedly, the Shakespeare plays do not look toward the modern literature just studied in the Quarto; rather, they look forward to English 22. But if any student should choose to apply the Elizabethan yardstick to the mod ern drama in the Quarto, no harm would be done, least of all to Shake speare. No course in modern literature can include all of the moderns. No text book can be found that will bring all of them into a sophomore course. The Quarto does not pretend to do that. Its object is to give samplings of the various types of present day writing so that the student can approach his general reading intelligently. We real ize that perhaps every student in English 21 finds some favorite mod ern author omitted; but we do not know how to include all of them. Your correspondent would like to study MacLeish and Auden and miss Shake speare. Sincerely yours, Raymond Adams. Chairman of Sophomore English. RE VIEW By Est on Everett Ericson Editors Clash Over Proposed Merger (Continued from first page) . N helped a God-chosen few who would have arisen without it anyway; the 'Buccaneer has nothing to say. SOMETHING should be done. In my opinion, a combination would be this something IF the joining were a pulling toward the center. Pull the Magazine down and the Buccaneer up; where they met would be a publi cation worth the fee. Reduce the respective extremes into a composite of universal student thought and it would meet with universal approval. The mythical average collegiate had his light sides and his serious; give him both. Give the University a magazine of fifty pages, with adequate running expenses, and a good man at the head and the nation will look this way. I don't know where that man would come from, we haven't got him now. I don't know, where contributions would be obtained for they are not in evidence at the moment. I don't know where the Publications Union board would find sufficient funds in its present scroogic attitude. But if the change were made and the opportunity offered, these questions would ultimately be answered. I think its worth the chance. I'm for it. CARL PUGH, Editor CAROLINA BUCCANEER. . (Continued from first page) subtitle and author squib. The present editors have tried to improve the Magazine by intro ducing the idea of the special issue. The Thomas Wolfe Issue is na tionally known. The Southern Issue has received wide state publicity. Both were read, according to the statement of the circulation manager, by 85 per cent of the student body. The Variety Issue, to be distributed this afternoon, shows that we have a large active staff of contributors who, in my opinion, can be de pended on to continue the high quality of the past three issues of the Carolina Magazine. Three freshman contribute to the Variety Issue. Combination would make the Special Issue idea impossible. OLD PUBLICATION And of course The Carolina Magazine is one of the oldest college publications in the country. It has received national recognition many times in its history and, because the University of North Carolina is one of the foremost universities in the country, it will again. The written expressions of the students of this University are regarded with respect or at least consideration in the outside world as witnessed by the long review the Southern Issue merited in the Greensboro Daily News. But if you insist on filling the Magazine full of jokes and cartoons which are excellent in their place you will consciously destroy the spirit of a very fine and rapidly growing publication. Do you think that the editors of The Carolina Magazine have, as a definite policy, the inclusion of material in the publication in which the campus is not interested. No, well print anything reasonably literate from the point of view of grammar and organization. We maintain that if there were New Yorker writers on the campus we would have had them writing for the Magazine long ago. But New Yorker writers ap parently don't exist and since they don't exist such a sophisticated pub lication as proposed would inevitably fail, JOHN CREEDY, Editor THE CAROLINA MAGAZINE. indicate that there is no great student desire to do away with either magazines as they are. Final decision of the issue, however, does not lie with the PU Board whose powers do not extend beyond financing the publications. It must be the campus, either through a ma jority poll or through the student legislature, who decides. DeW. B. A spotted Buccaneer this time, at one extreme jokes raked up from the debris of Pompeii and Herculaneum, at the other fresh, original wit, wise cracks, and gurgling humor. One gets through the issue a knot-hole view of campus interests and con cerns: the dragon professor (but only in Duke do they sport whiskers) ; the tyranny of examinations; the drunk, with special emphasis on the "dead drunk"; woman, the deadly species, preying upon helpless man. Old as -Pompeii is the quip about sparrows ("I'm glad cows can't fly," ran the 1898 version), and the Yule Log one (under "boogie") is a version of the ancient one about the corpse being mistaken for an eight-day clock. The titles run in lower case. This will shock -Prof essor Hudson's brigade of word-smiths; one is unable to say whether it reflects the influence of J. G. Evans' "basic economics" or of E. W. Cummings poetry. The cover is a gem, playing to man's permanent interest the she-man and his pass ing one, Christmas. In temporary sit down strike Santy reclines on his belly, surrounded by flitting Eleanor Holms, one perched comfortably on his ample, saintly derriere. If he talks in his sleep, Old Kriss is probably saying, "O, Death, where is thy sting?" A hermaphrodite Santy fol lows on page one, in front the genu ine but from his pack is suspended a pair of full-fashioned hose with the usual contents. Most of the drawings are real fun: the callipygean fair on page 17, the dumbell professor on page 12, whose chimpanzee helpers suggest the slavish and. servile lab oratory assistants that persist peren ially, and that fascinating creature, the floozie a ragout of ant-eater, jeep, and James Thurberman that stalking through the pages at inter vals, makes one wonder if that drink was really ginger ale. One would suspect Pundit Pugh of writing his fantasy (by way of edi torial) during the more pleasant phase of a hangover, were he not known the campus over as a cold water man and a model of conscious rectitude. Even so, one will not soon forget the kitten or the desirable world in. which seven from- nine is five. The much hoped-for "Contact Bridge," which once gave rise to the "Finjan," appears in prophylactic guise by way of an authentic Chinese translation. No doubt this will lead to a heavy enrollment in Miss Wang's Chinese class. The King David story (Psing Me a Love Psong) is founded on psound psychology, but if Mr. Hobson will look up First Kings, Chapter 1, he will discover that David's case of "frigid knee" (see Thurber and White, "Is Sex Neces sary?") applies only to David's old age, and that his diverting little sketch is lacking in what one of us English dons would call the element of probability. Bill Stauber's story on Christmas dinner is a knockout, for who has not had his hair full of his girl's relatives, even though the night mare did not end in his complete dampnation by a baby niece? The matrimonial catalogue this reviewer is not able to comprehend, being no local Cholly Knickerbocker, but let us trust it affords the people concerned their little flit across the stage. One wonders about the sober ai tides: Coach Wolf's football selec tions, negro music, fashions, and; phonograph records. This is going a little too utilitarian, like that long un readable stuff that clutters up the "New Yorker." Of course, the Coach's article does not come in for this dig, but neither does it classify as humor. If it does, why not an article by Pro fessor E. Carrington Smith (the 1:30 class, you know) on the ten great pictures of the year? Too much space for photos, this re spondent opineth, and yet his fading, senile eye was immediately attracted to the dazzling one in the dirndl in the upper left, who, it would seenij should have had all four of the head ings beauty, individualism, person ality, and sex appeal (this .a purely vicarious judgment, to be sure). Voit Gilmore's "pitcher" is rather too dark and makes the CPU prex appear rather like Mr. Humphrey Bogart than like the bland, blonde man of af fairs he is. Now the verse. T. E.'s romance of Reba and the Amoeba would have been improved by a knowledge of German and the consequent avoiding of a "cockney rhyme.' There's a cracking good one in the spirit of Lewis Carroll. Most of these short poems are pleasantly and blasphem ously misogynous, even though this blase attitude may be but a cover for the sentimental mush-pot ready to boil over at any time by way of a "church-wedding." The silhouettes beneath, depicting every conceivable type of female chassis, darkly s a peeping-tcm, or is it the effect the Sears Roebuck catalogue? " And last, the much-mooted pc: the dirty jokes. Surely the editor " joking when he italicizes, 0. K. we're kicked out youH be sorry." skuU-and-bones paragraph fences a appropriate, for some of the rh are at least nonagenarians. As -,, the rest, they are dirty as a wi& is dirty, one cannot (at least thb viewer) see through them. Still oir are vacuous "doable entendre" as stark-stock and violet-violate, C approved Groucho Marx or Joe p6r ner fashion. Once a faculty fav complained at having to pay for ti "Buc," only to have his little da- ter debauched by it. Well, so far aj this issue is concerned, he caa ccr, tinue calling the little girl "Ec weiss. If this writer were the PU board he'd turn the boys loose. The Acthcrj Comstocks of the state will rave any. way one of them a few years arj came down here and made a filth col lection from our reserve-list shelves. The young fellow who tonight i regaling his dormitory fellows wi-j the story of the traveling man az-i the senescent spinster is in line of dj. rect descent from old Chaucer. One can even let his imagination run wild and think of a certain historical fig. ure, the most human that ever lived, saying to his dozen pals, "Here, beys, i3 one I heard in Bethany the other day. Mary, that mischievious wench, told it, to the dismay of Martha, but Lazarus, bless his heart, almost fe3 off his chair laughing." At least, there is that tradition about Abrahaa Lincoln. On the other hand, "youse guys" should learn that there are man 4 swell jokes and gags that have no connection with the ideas implied in the nine forbidden monosyllables. The Limeys who come here from England to debate us pull ten gags to our one, but they are in the tradition of Charles Lamb, not in that of the vaudeville clown." That does not mean going highbrow. But it does mean that the best humor is intellectual and that one's wit must be sharp as a razor's edge. Toward that achieve ment and ideal this reviewer hopes the Buccaneer will strive. BIRTHDAYS TODAY (Please call by the ticket office of the Carolina theater for a com plimentary pass.) H. M. Durham C. G. Farrow G. D. Harrelson Dorothy Ann Hill E. M. Morgan M. A. Roberts E. W. Stacy J. B. Williamson AND INSTRUMENTS REPAIRED I dEIi Greensboro Music' Co. Greensboro, N. C. 207 W. Market St. Pick Theatre Now Playing SEEITFC3TEEGSATEST TE1L CF ANYCNES LIFE! Weird raiders from planet spac!... 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