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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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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,
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 Kleeman, Frank
Holeman, Raymond Lowery.
Reporters
Morris Rosenberg, Jim McAden, Carroll McGaughey, Jesse Reese, Bill
Rhodes Weaver, Donald Bishop, Miss Louise Jordan.
Columnists
Laffitte Howard, Miss Luey 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. r
Sports Staff
Editor: Shelley Rolf e.
Reporters: William L. Beerman, Leonard Lobred, Billy Weil, Richard
Morris, Jerry Stoff, Frank Goldsmith, Jim Vawter.
Assistant Circulation Manager:
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, Morton Ulman.
Office Staff: Mary Peyton Hover, Phil Haigh, L. J. Scheinmanr Bill
Stern, Charles Cunningham, Bob Lerner, James Garland, Jack Holland,
Roger HRchins, Mary Ann Koonce.
For This Issue:
NEWS: MARTIN HARMON SPORTS: RUSH HAMRICK
o Too Soon
The unanimous choice of a single candidate for the presi
dency of the student body by both parties is a definite tribute
to Nominee Jim Davis. By gaining the political sanction
of both groups, he has been appointed student leader with
out challenge.
Yet there are disadvantages to the moves of the two
parties, both because of the early announcement of Davis'
nomination and because a single candidate has been presented
: to the campus.
The early announcement of Davis candidacy is evidence
that both the Student and the University parties were afraid
that , the other , might nominate the most promising political
figure of the junior class and hence gain a victory over the
other in the spring elections. In concentrating primarily on
their own welfare as strong organizations, the parties will
often run counter to the welfare of healthy election battles.
By their early announcements, they have awakened the poli
tical cry in the middle of the year and are overemphasizing
in the campus mind the intrigue necessary for placing a man
iri office and underemphasizmg the more significant question
of what he will do in office.
The trend of the parties to identify themselves with each
other by selecting the same candidates is directly counter
to the purpose they have in singling out different nominees
and leaving his electing in the hands of the campus.
The fact that Davis has actually been appointed rather
than elected president of the student body is no reflection
on his merit as a candidate, but it is a reflection on the parties
' that they must sacrifice their own individuality by trying
to outrun each other in the too quick selection of a favorite
candidate.
Black Justice
Nearly two months ago, an angry crowd of Chapel Hill
townspeople and students spent most of a day scouring the
countryside for two Negro boys. They were armed with guns
and bloodhounds. Cars and even an airplane were used to
search out the fugitives.
: This "posse" was a product of a so-called enlightened col
lege town. A crowd of Chapel Hill people had taken it upon
themselves to wreak a terrible justice upon two black boys.
Very fortunately, the posse's attempts were frustrated
when the two boys they hunted were quickly taken out of
town by responsible officers of the law and put in jail for
safety.
It has been almost two months since the Negro boys, ac
cused of criminal asasult, were put behind the bars. Local
passions and local interest in their case has cooled.
In spite of the seriousness of the charge against the two
Negro boys, no formal charge has been made by anyone
against them during these many weeks. No formal warrant
for their arrest has been issued.
The law says that one cannot be legally held in jail for
more than forty-eight hours unless a formal charge is issued
before that time against one.
A lawyer in Durham has taken up the case of the Chapel
Hill boys and will probably ask for a hearing next week.
It has taken two months for those closely connected with
the case, for responsible officers of the Law to try to deter
mine the justification for holding the Chapel Hill Negro
-Editor
Managing Editor
.Business Manager
.Circulation Manager
Larry Ferling.
ECHOES
From the -Fourth
Estate
By LAFFITTE HOWARD
VOIT GILMORE, Guest Writer.
Telephone salutations, you will find
if you dial about a bit in Chapel Hill,
provide quite an outlet for collegiate
wit.
Try Sigma Nu some night and if
your communicant is in a good mood
the greeting from over the wire will
be "Sigma Nu Country Club."
Frequently if you try 5641 the Chi
Psi's chime in with "Chi Psi Ranch,"
or occasionally "Grand Hotel."
The astute lawyers in Carr have
really been cleverest, though. . Their
snappy answer to each incoming call
is, "Department of Justice speaking."
One night a cautious coed rang up
a friend there and got the regular
G-man answer. "Oh," she said with
naive confusion, "I'm awfully sorry,
but I really have the wrong number."
..,
We wonder just what portion of the
ground in Chapel Hill Sportscribe
Shelley Rolf e keeps his ear to to keep
up on what type of basketball report
ing his readers like.
In yesterday's Tab Heel before one
could get the idea that Carolina had
beat Wake Forest it was necessary
to get through such Rolfesque as
"hauied'down the flaunting banner"
... "casually brazenly used it to end
. . . streak" . . . "blandly appropriated
the scalpel" . . . "forced the Deacons
to do their bidding" ...
For fun we counted up and found
in Rolfe's front-page, by-line story one
had to read exactly 75 words or two
good paragraphs before he could find
out that the score was 56-54.
Maybe Sports Editor, Journalism
Major Rolfe is just anticipating a day
when what really happens will be of
no matter, but just the way it is made
to sound.
If some non-partisan group will help
buy the gas, I'd like to put Studie
Ficklen and Mitchell Britt in my little
jaloppy and make a little tour of
North Carolina' high schools this
week-end or next.
It's high time we're getting some
good candidates lined up for next'
year's freshman class offices. What
with February here, Jim Joyner al
most out of office, Jim Davis practi
cally president already, we ought to be
set to announce a. ticket for the class
of '43 any week now.
Statue Arrives
At Art Gallery
(Continued from first page J .
ton presented it to the University. It
was removed from the collection last
week and shipped here from the
Gibbes Memorial art gallery in
Charleston, S. C, where it has been
for the past month.
The statue represents the efforts of
the younger generation to conquer
the unknown, shown by a young man
is taming of a wild stallion. Russell
T. Smith, head of the art department,
says of the statue, "I feel that it is
particularly appropriate as a deco
ration for the campus, since it repre
sents the spirit of fearless youth."
Graham Speaks
On Tuition Fee
(Continued from first page)
and professor H. V. P. Wilson, who
have died since the June meeting.
Secretary Henry M. London read a
letter from Ambassador Josephus
Daniels in Mexico, recounting tributes
paid in Mexico to the University. He
quoted a visitor from California:
"You have in North Carolina the most
vibrant and progressive president, in
the person of Dr. Graham, of any
state university in America."
Brown, Durrett Play
In "The Sorcerer"
, (Continued from first page)
is directing the dances and costumes.
John Parker, business manager of
the Playmakers, has announced that
any student holding b0th a Play-
maker season ticket and a Student
entertainment passbook will receive a
refund of thirty-five cents if he pre
sents both books at 314 South build
ing before the production.
Don't expect any student on your
line to end a conversation any quicker
than you would. They may be mak
ing an urgent call. Give them advan
tage of the doubt. ,
boys in jail. Their guilt has by no means been determined yet.
This fact is a serious indictment against the people of this
town who sacrificed their good sense, their humanity, and
their self-control to hastily and passionately assume the still
questionable guilt of their victims, and to assume the dan
gerous duty of imposing justice, so-called, upon them.
Pugh Answers
"Buc" Critics
(Continued from first page)
ried it to the office, and $15 went to
the secretary with horn-rimmed
glasses who mailed it to the agent.
The Talk of the' Town' section is
prepared five weeks ahead by a staff
of 26 men and women. The editors
work 85 hours each week all winter
and go to Canada for the month of
August when they are three issues
ahead of schedule.
"The Harvard Lampoon is published
12 times per year. The magazine is
edited by a board of about 15 members,
selected by. themselves from the stu
dent body after careful study of their
ability. The student body at Harvard
differs slightly from the student body
at the University of North Carolina.
From Harvard came Robert Benchley
and Gluyas Williams. From the Uni
versity of North Carolina came
Thomas Wolfe and he was vulgar and
obscene.
THIS ISSUE
"On page 28 of the January issue
of the Carolina Buccaneer was the
ultimate incongruity: the CPU and a
Man who nailed to his convictions.
This extreme in the mechanics of hu
mor was a demonstration of the stated
privilege of ievision of accepted ma
terial. The original author knew noth
ing of the privilege's theory concern
ing a Messiah with capabilities of
laughter.
"On page 8 was a label quite clear
ly optional, inviting or warning. The
invitation accepted or the warn
ing unheeded, there was little coercion.
A mirror reflects only him who holds
it to his face. Labels are convenient
foresight. One should drink no arsenic
if it disagrees with him.
"On page 21 was Death; which the
cry for sophistication had not expect
ed. Page 2.1 is regrettable. It is regret
table that perhaps the medical school
may suffer a reaction from such un
dignified handling of their equipment.
Attitudes as those raised by mere pho
tographs often rise even to impede
science. Medicine was held back for
centuries because of the like. To the
med school proper apologies and all
possible rectifications have been made.
For that it is regrettable.
EAT, DRINK.
"The January issue of the Carolina
Buccaneer appeared at the beginning
of a new year. The old year was gone.
A new year was on the way. Sprink
led throughout the January issue was
a single theme, a hint to you who
saw the old leave and the new ap
proach. A hint that life moves on and
one should enjoy the ride. It is no new
thought. Horace had his carpe diem,
the 16-17th English poets gathered
roses. At some time in each life there
is a period of 'eat, drink, and be
merry.' It is strange that the Center
Of Thought Of The State should so
cringe from the 'tomorrow we die.'
An explanation of page 21 would be
silly. Is it not understood, explanations
are futile? Can you explain that little
chill you feel when you see a falling
star? Perhaps you do not feel one.
Perhaps the world begins with the
alarm clock's bell and the earth is
firm ,and secure all day and then you
set the clock to create the world to
morrow. To the present editor of the
Carolina Byccaneer it is more than
that. Life is ever changing, ever the
same. The sea has waves on both sides
and in the middle. The beach is worn
away here and an island is created
elsewhere, to be flooded as the beach
grows back. Life is thus to the present
editor of the Carolina Buccaneer and
the restless, futile sea and the ships
that sink and the islands that come
and go are deep in strange humor. To
him there is no greater joke than life
itself and he believes in a God that
can laugh and probably does.
COLLARS IN FORM
"The Center Of . Thought Of The
State looked at Page 21 and saw only
a dead Negro man with blue marks
on his face showing where his fron
tal nerves could be located. The gentle
men with their collars neatly in form
or their hats piously straight on their
heads saw only skeletons with books
and cigarettes and irreverence toward
the perfected creation which followed
the Era of the Dinosaur. It is embar
rassing that seemingly no one read the
sentence on Page 21 which took four
hours to write. It is embarrassing that
only the editor of the Carolina Buc
caneer would like 'a little joke upon
eternity. It is damn lonesome . . .
"The Buccaneer has been abolished
before. It can quite easily be abolished
now. The president of the University,
the faculty, the students can abolish
the Buccaneer. It can be done before
nightfall. But the essence of a buc
caneer can not be abolished. It was in
the Garden of Eden, after the fall
perhaps but there. It is in Einstein's
laboratory. It is in a cage oi mon
keys. It is in the Presbyterian church.
Man, the human, will ever see ouw
t, t,w Td dark corners of life and
laugh at them, however sacred, how
ever vulgar and obscene- ne wui oe,
and should be, held within limits of
ifinPT,rinr r race toward utter decad
ence and degeneration but within these
limits man will roll his eyes anu
giggle. One must eat and fight and
struggle to survive; life is serious and
the comic relief, in whatever form is
the whim of the moment, will save
him giving up in despair..
VULGAR, ETC.
"In past years it has been the policy
of the Carolina Buccaneer to become
quite unusually vulgar and obscene in
the January issue. This arises from
a number of reasons. In January one
has gotten by with a lot so far and
trips tn cm further. In January an
early deadline brings in little original
material and dirty jokes are prevalent
on the campus and in exchange maga
zines for filling space. In January
the student body of the University
of North Carolina dares one to do
thus and so. Afterwards in February,
there is the venerable purity issue. The
January 1939 issue turned down more
copy than it used, heard the campus
cravings for a little more rummaging
in the nooks and dark corners, and
went to press with a sincere desire
to begin the new year with something
optimistically subtle and a little dif
ferent. If it was sensational and shock
ing it was only a clue to something
beneath it. The University of North
Carolina is reputedly disinterested in
whispers; proved by every phase of
activity here. There will be no purity
issue in February 1939.
"The Carolina Buccaneer has shown
its hand for the year. The Center of
Thought Of The State knows what to
expect for the year. There will be a
sincere attempt at better judgment in
regard to matters similar to the pos
sible effect on the medical school.
There will continue to be a frank ex
pression of the cravings of the student
body as signified by the misnomer of
vulgar and obscene. All will be within
self-appointed limitations. The Caro
lina Buccaneer will continue to be as
different, as readable, as talked about
as possible. In indifference lies noth
ing; better nothing.
COMMENT
"Dr. Donald Stewart, recently re
turned' from abroad and admired for
his insight and knowledge of booKS
and men, should be ashamed of a gross
misinterpretation. Harry F. Comer,
well schooled in the manner of youth
and the making of men, should know
their failings and their inexpression.
The Rev. A. S. Lawrence, deep in the
faith, should peer out and consider
from whence arose his exhortations.
Editor John Creedy, unadmittedly
fighting with much the same weapons
for an . equally unadmitted common
end, should hreathe fresh air and live
in this funny world for a time. Dean
Francis F. Bradshaw, perhaps the
only true friend, honestly realizes the
problems involved but suggests an
impracticality for the usual and j
present state of contribution and se
lection of material. President Frank
Graham will give a correct and care
ful synthesis. The editor of the Caro
lina Buccaneer will await his decision,
honoring his judgment.
"Meanwhile the pages of the Buc
caneer are open at all times to a ma
terial example of what should be there.
Until these examples arrive we shall
continue to gather rosebuds and laugh
at life at times and look in the dark
corners. We shall do this so long as
the power of freedom is in our hands."
Elliott Appointed
To Legislature
(Continued from first page) '
dent of the board which guides the
policies of the campus publications.
Although having taken no active
part in politics prior to his election
as president of the board, Elliott is
xexueuu ui ojgma Kjia iraternity, a J
member of Alpha Psi Delta, honorary I
i-sycnoiogy fraternity and a member
of the inter-fraternity council. He was
a former chairman of a student
faculty day committee and a member
of the sophomore YMCA cabinet.
BIRTHDAYS
TODAY
(Please call by the ticket office
of the Carolina theater for a com
plimentary pass.)
L. C. Suprenant. .
W. L. Holt.
P. E. Jones, Jr.
L. P. McClendon.
Emily Mueller.
Stella Mae Blackwelder.
W.'A. Bunch, Jr.
G. H. Carter.
W. H. Carter.
George Foster.
W. R. Dalton, Jr.
THE
THEATER
By HOWARD ROSSA
When Foster Fitz-Simons left Ted
Shawn's company of male dancers to
join Miss Miriam Winslow, who form
erly toured the country with her cia
all-girl troup, one of the most cole?,
ful partnerships in the field cf dance
was formed. Last Tuesday evening
three hundred followers of the dance
filled the comfortable little Piaymak.
er's theater and witnessed a delight
fully refreshing recital by this aaaj.
ing pair.
Not one of the fourteen numbers cn
the program failed to register; for the
vigorous, youthful quality of Mr. Fitz
Simons' dancing and the graceful
beauty of Miss Winslow's technique
formed a hand and glove combination
that saturated the bill from the ini
tial presentation "Gigue," by Bach, to
the final number, "Chromo."
It is difficult, if not impossible, to
select from such a well executed pro
gram any outstanding presentations;
however, the following four selection?
easily deserved every burst of ap
plause they received.
"Archaisms," in which Miss Wins
low and Mr. Fitz-Simons, accom
panied by the rhythmic pulsating of
a barbaric drum, did a stirring cere
monial dance of the ancients.
"On the Bayou," a solo presenta
tion by Foster Fitz-Simons, which
gave this talented young man the op
portunity to project his fresh boy
ishness across the footlights. In this
number he personified the casual,
carefree life of the Bayou youth.
In "Magnificat" Miss Winslow did
a stately selection displaying "wide
eyed" reverence and maidnely pious
ness. This dance was in decided con
trast to the more energetic, less dig
nified presentations preceding it and
was welcome as such.
"Chromo," the final number on the
program, was a delightful take-off on
the 19th century: its customs and
more particularly the quaint litho
graphs which adorned every parlor in
that period. In this selection,, as in
"Archaisms," the dancers showed more
graceful precision and exceptional
technique.
All the accompaniment was done by
Miss Mary Campbell. It was expertly
fitted to rhythm of the dancers; and
in the presentation, "Pastorale," bells
about the ankles of the dancers pro
duced an orchestral effect to the ex
ceptionally fine accompaniment of
Miss Campbell.
Bradshaw Discusses
Student Control
(Continued from first rr,ae)
chairman, Ralph Patrick and Ken
Fishback.
On the dance committee he appoint
ed: Jack Vincent, chairman, Tom
Fry, Martin Harmon, Bob McLemore,
Howard Easter, Jenness Cwen Stancil
Strowd, Bob Milner, Bill Cody, George
Nicholson, Bill Innes and J. C. Thomp
son. Delivers Lecture
Dr. W. F. Prouty, head of the Uni
versity Geology department, delivered
a lecture last night on "The Geology
of the North Carolina Coastal Plain"
before the Sigma Xi club of State
college in Raleigh.
All telephones having numbers with
all but. the last numeral alike are on
the same party line.
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