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VOLUME XL VII
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1939 t
BUSDiISS PHOXE 4116
NUMBER 88
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Ambassadors From Duke
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Pictured above"are the Duke Ambassadors who "beat it out" tonight in the
Tin Can for the first Grail dance of the winter term. The orchestra is not a
stranger to the campus, having appeared here for a Grail dance last falL
Duke Ambassadors Will Swing
For Grail In Tin Can Tonight
Honor Organization
Decorates Lavishly
For Informal Hop
The Order of the Grail will pre
sent its first dance of the winter
quarter in the Tin Can tonight from
9 to 12 o'clock. f
Playing for the affair will be the
Duke Ambassadors, who were re
ceived very favorably by the stu
dents at a Grail dance a few months
ago. The affair will be the first of
two dances which will be given by
the organization this quarter.
DECORATIONS
The Tin Can has been decorated in
the most lavish manner' yet attempted
by the" Grail. The order's" colors,
purple and white, have been used in
transforming the drab interior into
a brilliant ballroom. "
During the evening, Grail and es
cort no-break dances will be given.
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YWCA CELEBRATES
THIRD BIRTHDAY
Many Present Gifts
At Anniversary Tea
Harry Comer, YMCA director,
added a note of antiquity to the tea
given by the YWCA yesterday after
noon, by presenting the association a
housewarming gift. It is a paper
weight, in reality the nut off of a
brace rod handmade by a blacksmith
120 years ago and used in the con
struction of Gerrard hall.
The occasion for the tea and gift
was the third anniversary of the
YWCA and the re-opening of the wo
man's cabinet room in the YMCA
building.
Other members of the advisory
board remembered the anniversay
date and contributed to the decora
tion of the cabinet room. President
and Mrs. Frank P. Graham, unable to
attend, sent flowers for the tea. Be
sides the paper weight, the Comers
gave two pottery vases, as did Mrs.
Frank Miller. Mrs. E. G. Hardeman
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UNC To Undertake
Aviation Training
The University was this week put
n a list of institutions by the civil
aeronautics authority to undertake
immediately the first phases of a pro
gram intended to give flight training
20,000 school and college students
each year.
: Other educational centers on the
list included the Universities of Michi
gan and Kansas, San Jose State col
lege and Pomona Junior college in
California. With eight previously
naied, the schools will select an ag
legate of 330 students for training,
SlRg $100,000 of NYA funds.
lhe CAA cave the institutions
forking details of the intial phase of
plan. A nominal laboratory fee
be
Parted student interest." Army flight
ur5eons will give free physical ex
""duons after school physicians
Conducted preliminary weeding-
u tests.
STUDENTS ATONE
FOR MAN'S SINS
BY GHANDI-FAST
Jackson, Nigrelli
Defy Temptation
Of "Guiding Angel"
In order to atone for "the sins of
mankind and Carl Pugh," Henry Nig-
relli and Gibson Jackson, University
seniors, are in the midst of an elonga
ted fast, lasting from yesterday until
today noon. Without food, -supported
only by an unlimited number of glasses
of water and several packages of
cigarettes, the two minature Ghandi
are' bound to their abstinence by a
written contract, held by Bob" Magill.
The text of the written agreement
is as follows: "I, Gibson Jackson, and
Henry Nigrelli, hereby enter into
solemn agreement to abstain from all
bodily sustenance and sensual experi
ences, saving only water and cigar-
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Dr. Andrews And His Bio-Chemist Colleagues
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STATEMENT MADE
AFTER BANQUET
OF LETTER CLUB
Grid Co-Captains .
Will Be Named
By Squad Monday
By SHELLEY ROLFE
Denying " the rumor that Walter
Skidmore would be let out as coach
of the University of North Carolina
basketball team, Athletic Director Bob
Fetzer and Dr. Foy Roberson, member
of the University athletic council, said
last night following the Monogram
club award meeting at Swain hall that
at no time this season has the athletic
council considered firing Skidmore be
cause of the poor record of his team.
Fetzer and Roberson admitted Skid
more had been offered a leave of ab
scence for the rest of the season be
cause of ill health. But Skidmore, be
lieving his health was improving, re
fused and preferred to accompany the
team on its present trip to College
Park and Annapolis.
"Although Bo 5hepard, assistant "di
rector of athletics and former Caro
lina basketball coach, accompanied the
team on its trip, Fetzer said this was
not unusual. Handling financial af
fairs, Shepard often accompanies Uni
versity teams on trips.
RUMORS AROUND
. Rumors that Skidmore would not
last out the present campaign as Caro
lina coach have been passed around
the state ever since the season started.
Various state sports editors and radio
announcers have speculated on the
story. It was brought into the open
yesterday afternoon when the Durham
Sun carried a column asking if Skid
more was' out. The story has been
on the campus for more than a week.
The statement highlighted the
Monogram club meeting. ' Co-captains
were scheduled to be picked by foot
ball lettermen, but because six were
missing-vPaul Severin, George Wat
son, Horace Palmer, Carl Peiffer,
Jack Kraynick, and Bob Adam Coach
Ray Wolf announced the team would
meet Monday afternoon at 1:30 in
Woollen gym for another vote.
Praising athletics at Carolina in
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Food From
C. Andrews, University professor of
James Says Informed
"Believe War In Europe Is Near
Pros Heading Here For
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Shqwn above are Donald Budge, top, displaying his smashing backhand
and Ellsworth Vines, below, in action with his thunder service. The touring
professional net stars will arrive here Wednesday afternoon for their ap
pearance here Wednesday night in Woollen gymnasium at 8:15. Tickets on
sale at the ticket office are 75 cents for students with passbooks and $1.50 for
reserved seats.
Hot-Off-Griddle Dance Band
To Give Out For Amateur Bill
Ball Sponsors
Sponsors, who will participate in
the formal figure at the President's
Birthday ball are asked to meet at
Spencer hall tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock. Escorts will not have
to attend.
Human Hair!
Viscid Solution Precipitates
Harmless Protein; But It
May Cause Gall Stones
By CHARLES GERALD
On a long table in one of the labora
tories in Caldwell hall is a strange
array of articles which appear to have
been collected from every possible
quarter of the campus. At one end of
the table is a large pile of cigarette
stubs, hairpins, dirt, scraps of paper,
and chewing gum. Least expected of
all is the great quantity of human
hair spread all over the table!
Standing on another table is a large
glass container full of what appears
to be a black viscid syrup, boiling
slowly over a gas flame, and in the
fluid can be seen a few undissolved
strands of hair.
Food from human hair! Dr. James
C. Andrews of the bio-chemistry de
partment explains that during the
past few months he and his colleagues
have been extracting from hair a pro
duct known as cystine, which is one
of the several amino acids composing
proteins and is digestible as food by
humans and animals.
SOLUBLE PROTEIN
Moreover by carrying the process
of extraction only part of the way,
they have produced a soluble protein
which Nis digestible and -which could,
if necessary, be used for food. Fur
ther experimenting with this new pro
tein is one of the objects of the work.
Main source of the raw product
from which the cystine is produced
has been v a local barbershop. Coop
erating with Dr. Andrews, the barber
shop has supplied great quantities of
men's and women's hair. Perhaps at
this moment some of your hair is
undergoing the process of conversion
into food. Even so, it would be diffi
cult to live long on the amount of
sustenance derived from one person's
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Match Wednesday
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P. Napoleon Ivey
Returns To Direct
Series Inaugural
Termed the greatest events ever
to be staged among English-speaking
and double-talk people,, the greater
amateur shows will recommence to
morrow night at 8:30, A. D. 1939, in
the main lounge of Graham memo
rial. !
Master , of ceremonies will be Pete
"Napoleon" Ivey, former director of
Graham memorial and, for the nonce,
reporter and columnist for the Win-
Due to prior affiliation with pro
fessional musicians, Richard Bailey
of Old East will be ineligible to
perform on the Graham memorial
amateur program.
ston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. Ivey
arrived in Chapel Hill yesterday
afternoon and went into consultation
with Grand Impressario Robert Na
thaniel Magill of Shanghai, China,
who was smuggled over especially for
the occasion.
GREAT SHOW
Surrounded by a group of Daily
Tar Heel reporters, local professors,
insurance salesmen and bill collec
tors, Ivey managed, "This amateur
show, from the looks of some of the
applications, should be the greatest
thing since the Ice Age."
Magill - intimated that startling
idiosyncrasies of some of the more
prominent campus figures are to be
uncovered in an event that, will set
a new precedent for burlesques.
Sword-swallowing, juggling and jiv
ing by a brand-new, hot-off -the-griddle
14-piece campus orchestra are
only a few, of the attractions which
make this newest amateur show more
fascinating than a strip-tease by
Gypsy Rose Lee.
Pete disentangled himself long
enough to aver that he would give no
mercy. "Everyone will get the gong
who deserves to get it," he said.- '
"Oh . . . and confidentially, I'm
going to give my rendition of 'O
Promise Me," ...
Three More Make
Fall Honor Roll
Three students have been added to
the honor roll for last quarter. They
are: W. G. Broadfoot, sophomore;
Morris Odelman, freshman; A. N.
Costner, first-year pharmacy.
Only those students were listed who
were taking at least 15 hours of
studies.
Observer!
Group Feels US
Would Enter Soon,
Writer Reports
By MORRIS W. ROSENBERG
"The consensus of opinion among
informed political observers and cor
respondents is that there will be war
in Europe sometime this spring, or
possibly as late as this summer,"
Weldon James, United Press foreign
correspondent, told members of the
North Carolina Press institute in a
luncheon address yesterday.
"There is an almost unanimous
opinion, also, that the United States
will be drawn into the conflict within
six months to a year after its begin
ning," added James, who has cov
ered war fronts in China and Spain
during the past year.
The correspondent, the only Ameri
can newspaperman aboard the United
States gunboat Pan ay when it was
sunk by Japanese bombing planes,
gave a detailed account of the bomb
ing of the ship and events leading up
to it.
OUTLOOKS VARY
James, a South Carolinian, pointed
out a marked contrast in the atti-;
tudes of the Chinese and the Spanish"
with regard to war. The Chinese '
have adopted a gloomy outlook and
have abolished all forms of amuse
ment and gayety such as banquets,
dances, movies, and parties. The
Spaniards, on the other hand, believe
that one should not think of unpleas
ant affairs until they are so pressing
that they cannot be ignored. . They
carry on their relations In I 'Spaari with
as much normalcy as possible and
try to enjoy themselves and forget
the war and its unpleasantness.
The correspondent, whose address
highlighted the Institute's program
yesterday, is now on leave but ex
pects to be ordered back to the Span
ish war next month.
RABB-rVEY .
R. W. Madry, director of the Uni
versity News bureau, presided at the
luncheon which was given by the
University. Stuart Rabb and Pete
Ivey provided entertainment with
Rabb doing an imitation of President
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THOMPSON WRITES
FOR SWEDE PAPER
Notes Playmaker
Magazine In Story
A study of American student pub
lications has recently appeared in the
columns of ERGO, a student news
paper at the University of Uppsala,
Sweden. The article, in Swedish, was
written by Lawrence Thompson, who,
as a graduate student in the Depart
ment of Germanic Languages at the
University, was appointed for the
year 1938-39 to a fellowship of the
American-Scandinavian foundation in
Sweden.
Thompson explains to his Swedish
fellow students that in almost every
American and Canadian college or
university, of which there are about
750, there are four main types of
student publications. The magazine
type he ranks first, comparing it to
The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's.
Then he lists the newspaper, describ
ing it in some detail, and mentioning'
the Annapolis Log and the West
Pointer as among its best exemplars;
The other two types are the scandal
sheets and the annuals. Then there
are publications sponsored by special
groups or interests, such as Carolina
Folk Plays, edited by the , Playmak
ers. " " . ' '
FINANCING
Part of Thompson's paper is devot
ed to methods of financing student
publications, and the perennial ques
tion of the propriety or impropriety
of free speech in such publications.
The oldest of the magazines . is the -Carolina
Magazine, founded in 1844,
and one of the best known is the
Harvard Advocate. He closes with an
analysis of the value and place of
such publications, stating that many
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