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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAE HEEL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 in K)t Ba Car teel The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chanel 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, under 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 MerrilL Will G. Arey. Clen S. Humphrey, Jr. Jesse Lewis Editorial Board Voit Gilmore, Tom Stanback, DeWitt Barnett, Walter Eeeman, Frank Holeman, Raymond Lowery. Reporters Morris Rosenberg, Jim McAden, Carroll McGaughey, Jesse Reese, Bill Rhodes Weaver, Donald Bishop; Miss Louise Jordan. - Columnists Laf f itte Howard, Mis3 Lucy Jane Hunter, Adrian Spies, Ben Dixon, John Rankin. Technical Staff Cm Editor: Charles Barrett. News Editors: Martin Harmon, Ed Rankin, Bill Snider. Night Sports Editors: Fred Cazel, Gene Williams, Rush Hamrick. Associate News Editors: Edward Prizer, Ben Roebuck, Bob Barber. Feature Board Miss Gladys Best Tripp, Sanford Stein, Louis Connor, Larry Lerner, Sam Green. Cub Reporters - . Louis Harris, Miss Doris Goerch, Miss Dorothy Coble, Jimmy Dumbell, Miss Jo Jones, Arthur Dixon, Charles Gerald, Fred Brown, Tom Dekker. Elbert Hutton. Sports Staff Editor: Shelley Rolfe. ' Reporters: William L. Beerman, Leonard Lobred, Billy Weil, Richard Morris, Jerry Stoff , Frank Goldsmith, Jim Vawter. Assistant Circulation Manager: Larry Ferling. Business Staff Local Advertising Managers: Bert Halperin, Bin 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, Morton Ulman. Office Staff: Mary Peyton Hover, Phil Haigh, L. J. Scheinman, Bill Stern, Charles Cunningham, Bob Lerner, James Garland, Jack Holland, Roger HHchins, Mary Ann Koonce. For This NEWS:' ED RANKIN o The Political Party Already the student and University parties are preparing for the spring elections and their historic corollary of poli tical intrigue and faction battles. Last night the student party held its first convention of elected delegates and the University party's noted steering committee recently an nounced its membership for the year. Campus politics are generally considered a battle between two opposing sides with the victory going to the most able strategist. The political party has, in the past, borne its share of the blame for the disease of intrigue permeating the political scence. For example, the Student party began as a reaction against the political monopoly in the hands of mem bers of the steering commitee of the old University party called once the "fifteen black grains of sand." .There is, however, a healthy justification for campus poli tical parties, especially since neither of them holds a monopoly on the selection of candidates. It is: that the parties are prac tical pieces of political machinery by means of which can didates are placed before the campus for scrutiny. It would be ridiculous to believe that any smooth system of random ' . nomination of a long list of canadidates in mass meetings of - the student body would substitute a good for the evil of the present system. Delegates to the steering committees and conventions of the party, then, have an obligation to the campus beyond their far less significant function of nominating personalities -for the benefit of the factions represented in the party. Their first duty is a responsibility to campus transcending factions and even personalities to the point of selecting candidates that above all are most qualified to produce in office. With this ideal in the minds of delegates to the subordina tion of all other motives, and with their actions above board for campus consideration, the questionable secrecy of political maneuvers may be removed and the political party can find its rightful place on the campus scene. Make Us Laugh Humor is a very subtle phenomenon of human experience. It has no universal, no neatly definable code of morality or style. But obviously, humor is something which is written, spoken or drawn to evoke laughter. The latest issue of the Buccaneer must be criticized be cause certain outstanding features of it failed to strike the campus as laughable. It failed to that extent, therefore, to be humorous. Sometimes humor is a "sugar-coated capsule" by which serious or didactic ideas are transmitted to people. But there is certainly nothing essentially didactic about humor. .It doesn't have to teach lessons. It is something which can be judged only by the individuals who enjoy it. E. B. White says that "Humor is a final emotion like break ing out into tears. A think gets so bad and you feel so terrible that at last you go to pieces and its funny." The Buccaneer's picture page of decayed "stiff s" failed to evoke any such re sponse from student readers and therefore failed notably to be "funny." Freud writes that "... all fhat this seemingly dangerous world amounts to is child's play the very thing to jest about!" But obviously the campus failed to jest at the magazine mood which Carl Pugh's masterfully written New Year's greeting initiated. The campus apparently prefers Editor .Managing Editor .Business Manager .Circulation Manager Issue: SPORTS: GENE WILLIAMS FROM ALL FART! By WALTER Fronvthe University of South Caro lina's Gamecock comes this bit f poppycock: GERMAN CLUB THEME SONG Must I dance every dance With the same indolent man? I have danced with him since the even ing began; Don't they change partners at these affairs? Must he look quite so bored With that long suffering air? Can't he see I'd trade him for any thing here? I would change partners with anyone. I've winked at ' each eye in the house But to no avail. For every guy in the house Is also stuck with another frail. Wfll the band ever stop? Will this dance come to an end? I will rush homeward and then I will never, never come back here again. Watch out, maybe she won't. - Words of one syllable department r The following ad from the Iowa pa per: The' meeting of the Freshmen Wom en's Luncheon club will meet this noon in room one of the Home Economics building. All freshmen girls are in vited to come and eet acouainted. Bring your lunch. Duck Dinner? . Students at the University of Cairo spend ten days registering - at. last we've found one where it takes some what longer . . . the University of Old Gerrard Hall To Have Face-Lifted (Continued from first page) gatherings. The porch to the south with its massive columns has been torn down. The cement steps, worn by thousands of sturdy homemade ! shoes of older times to machine-made! ones of modern days, have been only an outside place to sit between classes. Gerrard hall is being remodeled now, according to plans similiar to the one made for it in 1830 by Presi dent Caldwell when the third stories were aded to Old East and Old West. The doors at the end will be closed, and the original doors cut on the side 1 to form again what the students called , "the bull's pen." j In 1838 the New Chapel, as it was ! 11 1 t il La.-J ' uuieu xur a iuug Lime, was cumpieieu. The architect employed was William Nichols, architect of the old Capitol at Raleigh. The amount allotted to him was $3,410.00, but under his guidance the money was quickly spent. For eight years the New Chapel remained unfinished and un occupied. NAMED FOR GERRARD The New Chapel was finally named for Mayor Charles Gerrard, a native; of ' Carteret county, who was lieut enant in the Fifth Battalion of the Continental Line. In his will he left to the University the grant of valu able lands he received in Tennessee in 1798 as a reward for his military service. The sale of these lands furn ished the University with enough money to complete the New Chapel. Gerrad hall has been remodeled three times before. In 1874 the wooden shingles laid40 years before were replaced, and several sashes reglazed. In 1879 the interior was re modeled, and David S. Worth of Wil mington donated pews to replace the uncomfortable benches. Only one-half the students could attend session then because the pews took up twice as much room as the benches. RENOVATED IN 1900 - " f The interior was again renovated in 1900, and another roof put on. The stiff-backed pews were brought out, and chairs substituted. The old doors were walled up to "the bull's pen" and two new ones cut on each end. laughing at something different; as when James Thurber writes that "People can laugh out of a kind of mellowed self pity ... Human dignity, the humorist believes, is not only silly but a little sad . . ." Craige's very humorous cartoons make such an appeal. The Buccaneerwas just misguided as to what the campus wants and likes to laugh at. In trying to see the ludicrous and humorous in familiar campus situations and personalities, the Buc moved "in the right direction. In simply trying to shock us out of a pre-natal world indifference, it moved in the wrong direction. Because the campus laughed at and en joyed the former and was left cold, and in some cases, dis gusted at the latter. The criticisms of this past issue should help guide the Buccaneer staff in learning what will make the campus laugh and what won't. KLEEMAN New "Mexico student council has petitioned the library there to remain open more hours of the week . . . Remember when it happened here? . . A former student from U. of Texas is now a major-general for the Japs in China. . . That's why we came to col lege... and this ad appeared in the McGill Daily: Lost A lead pencil by Jennie Weems, blonde, blue-eyed, five feet, four inches, a good dancer. Finder please call H-7394 between 7 and 8 P. M. It ain't leap year yet. . Carl Pugh's much-debated stiffs have their counterpart in a picture appearing in the Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin it seems that the Ag school up there does a bit of butchering now and then. They leave the carcasses out in the corri dors. The results are terrific. The pa per is now carrying a sort of de odorizing campaign. Should we? ' We feel that after all, you, too, should hear Coach Clark Shaughnes sys explanation of Chicago's slightly stinko football season: "All the fellows out for football at the University are a fine, clean-cut bunch of lads, with a few exceptions, thy're just not athletes.'' . Subsidization is sweet. Department of Utter Confusion: A question from a recent exam at the U. of Texas runs something like this: "Discuss the qualitative and valua tion characters of the Medieval world picture." You do it, we're tired. The old decayed porch with its mas sive columns was torn down. Attendance was required at prayers a half hour after breakfast. They were concluded with a five minute talk on an interesting subject as an added inducement. The penalty for not attending was loss of character as an orderly student. On Saturday and Sunday, however, and during exams, no public prayers were held. The first concert on the University campus was held in Gerrard hall in 1846 by students and women. The proceeds from the admission fee went to some religious cause. Miss -May Wheat was soloist and was assisted at the piano by a teacher at St. Mary's named Mendelssohn. NO GALLERIES The interior of Gerrard hall has galleries on either side. In 1846 these galleries caused a panic at commence ment. All the seats were taken and many people were standing. The gal leries were supported by very slender pillars at a great distance from each other. In the middle of the exercises someone, alarmed by the sound of breaking stick, shouted: ."The gallery is falling.". The audience made a mad rush for the doors. The winding staircases from the galleries at one end of the build ing were jammed. - Young women jumped from windows and were caught by young men. A general state of uproar prevailed until the gal leries were examined and proclaimed as safe as before. The people at length went back in, and the program continued. Before the next commence ment additional pillars were added, however. BIRTHDAYS TODAY Please call by the ticket office of the Carolina theater for a com plimentary pass.) . S. S. Tick. W. R. Weaver. J. N. Leathers. . S.W.Martin. . . .. Maggie L. Moore. . . H. M. Ogburn.. George Radman M. A. Baroody. Economist Will Arrive Tonight (Continued fom lrt page) 11 a. m. at the library, and the li brary staff at 3 p. m. For his public address he has chosen the topic, "Present Social and Economic Conditions in Great Britain." He will speak at Duke uni versity Friday. Wilberforce has served the British government as director of the British Library of Information at New York City and has also participated in dis armament conferences. Fitz-Simons Finds Outlet In Dancing (Continued from first page) enough people together. So I collected several students, and she started hold ing regular classes. I danced for the first time on the Haymaker theater stage, and this is the first time I've come back as a professional. "It was while I was here that I met Ted Shawn. He had just organ ized an all-man dancing group and he invited me to come up to his farm up in the Berkshires in Massachusetts on a competitive basis. The big bone Shawn was chewing on was to break down the prejudice in this country against male dancers. He wanted to show that a man had a legitimate place in the dance. And he did. After we'd given a performance, the men in the audience would come back stage and tell us that the only reason they had come was because their wives had made them but that they had really enjoyed it. Some even said that they wished they were younger and could do a little dancing like that them selves." WITH TED SHAWN After taking his degree here in dra matic art, Fitz-Simons went to Shawn's farm and stayed four years. "I felt I hadn't stopped my college edu cation at all. It "was a swell organiza tion of men, working for a common ideal, each one sharing and contribut ing in everything. "There was nothing sissyish or arty about it either," he added. "We raised our own vegetables on that farm, built all the buildings, and ploughed the land. We went into the studio with the sweat of the fields on our backs. There were no rigid training rules. Shawn just told us he expected a cer tain quality of work from us. We could drink ourselves under the table if. we liked, but we practised eight or nine geQEJOiyraa- TODAY AND 4 Jgitd7 it jiQ. vj ' " - Jr-J?S' i A vef if iC i . Ipf 7J VyiA (fh if b x -v.; X h n lPk i 7 T ' ww$HAWAKD.T0HBR0VN ifW RICHARD CARLSON " 7 JOAN FONTAINE ALAN CURTIS t 'Mt r ALFRED K. GREEN ' I411 HnM,ji, tr GEOBQK BSUCK - Yk . , $C"' """M M A ; If ' 'f?t h"' ) !', ? i, rV SO- 'j-' t.-J,l(l. ...... n iii ... b " ALSO "POWER" Another Romance of Celluoid ECHOES From the Fourth Estate By LAFFITTE HOWARD CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE- T these many years Carolina stu-c?-have listened to CPU speakers. XC at long last Mag editors come for. ward to tell them the whole thinj been very futile, that they were j wiping their minds like a slate. Dr. Foo Y'tuyu interrupts at this point to point out that this might not be such a bad idea after all, that surely after a thorough scruhbir? some of the young world savers might turn to more worthy things. ADVT.; From Bingham comes a re port that Malcolm D. Taylor, grizzled veteran of many of his own lectures. t has taken a new lease on life. Suggested reason Carter's Little Liver Pills. ' PRIVATE GRIPE, PUBLIC IS SUE: Would the professor who has had Noel Coward's "Present Indici tave" out of the library since January 14 object to returning it for merely a day or two. Term paper time comes all too soon and certain things are indispensable thereunto. Thank you! COINCIDENCE: Young Lois of the Archer house Barnes' and roommate L. B. Eckles yesterday were wearing dark glasses. Reason both had shiners. hours every day. I still do. "You had to know how to take it, too, in that troupe. We travelled all over this country, Canada and Mexico, doing one-night stands, covering al most 60,000 miles and playing about 120 places a year." Fitz-Simons and Miss Winslow, who have just formed their professional partnership this year, do very little standard classical ballet. "We belong to no school," he explained. "We be lieve that any movement that has meaning, emotional content and in telligence is a perfectly legitimate part of the dance. But this freedom of ex pression must be based on proven principles, good discipline and tech nique. "We haven't tried to do anything deep or darkly philosophical on this tour. We just dance to entertain the audience and because we like to dance." . . WEDNESDAY
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