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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939 Car Heel 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. Martin Harmon Morris W. Rosenberg Clen S. Humphrey Jesse Lewis : Editorial Board Dewitt Barnett, Frank Holeman, Jim McAden, Don Bishop, Adrian Spies, Ed Megson. . - ' Reporters , - ' Miss Louise Jordan, Bill Rhodes Weaver, Jimmy Dumbell, Louis Harris, Rush Hamrick, Bill Snider. Technical Staff News Editors: Ed Rankin, Charles Barrett, Carroll McGaughey. Night Sports Editors: Fred Cazel, Gene Williams, Phil Ellis. Deskmen: Edward Prizer, Ben Roebuck, Bob Barber. Cub Reporters Miss Doris Goerch, Miss Dorothy Coble, Miss Jo Jones, Earl Alexander, Hugh Ballard, Kern Holoman. Columnists Laffitte Howard, Ray Lowery, Elbert Hutton,,Sam Green, Sanford Stein. Feature Board Miss Gladys Best Tripp, Bob deGuzman, Irving H. Nemtzow, Lee Manning Wiggins, Simons Lucas Roof, Arthur S. Link, Howard M. Bossa, Morton Vogel, Irwin Katz, David A. Howard, Kalman Sherman, J. Everette Bryan, Arthur 'Dixon, Larry Lerner, St. Clair Pugh. Sports Staff Editor: Shelley Rolf e. " Reporters: William L. Beerman, Leonard Lobred, Richard Morris, Billy Weil, Frank Goldsmith, Jim Vawter, Marty Kalkstein, Harry Hollingsworth, Roy Popkin. Assistant Circulation Manager: Larry Ferling. Business Staff Technical Manager: Ned Hamilton. Durham Advertising Manager: Gilly Nicholson. Assistants: Andrew Gennett, Bill Brunner. Local Advertising Manager: Unit 1: Bill Ogburn. Assistants: Rufus Snelkoff, Bill Schwartz, Bill Orr, Allen Headlee, Grady Stevens, Jack Dillon, Tom Nash, Warren Bernstein, Joe Zaytoun. Local Advebhsing Manager: Unit 2: Bert Halperin. Assistants: Bob Sears, AMn Patterson, Irv Fleishman, Floyd Whitney, Morton Ulman. Co-Collection Managers: Jim Schleifer, Bob Lerner. Collections Staff: Charles Cunningham, James Garland, Hal Warshaw. Office Manager: Stuart Ficklen. , Office Staff: Mary Peyton Hover, Phil Haigh, L. J. Scheinman, Bill Stern, Jack Holland, Mary Ann Koonce, Lan Donnell, Dave Pearlman. For This NEWS: GENE WILLIAMS a slab, a problem Gerrard hall is being repaired ; but not from the exterior. It is the interior that is being renovat ed. It is the interior, with its rot ting timbers, sagging balcony, and peeling paint for many years in need of repair. On the east outside wall, grav en into a slab of marble are these words : "To do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God." These words have -remained through a, century of winters and summers. The sand stone and marble have kept the outside "face" of Gerrard hall sound and true. The record of the University can be likened to the story of Ger rard hall. The record of this Uni versityhas been one of liberal tradition and high courage. Stu dents, not only from the South, but from all parts of the nation look to Chapel Hill for freer thought and expression. The out er' structure of university life, thought, and ideals is still veneer ed with that splendid-sounding "tradition" and "courage." But what about the heart of this structure? Is it sound and true or is it, as Gerrard hall, rotten and weak? A few days ago a moving pic ture, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" stirred campus thought and expression. It endeavored to . show the American people the dreadful menace supposedly en- croaching upon our "land of the free and home of the brave.". Studeit reaction condemned two peoples. Student opinion was divided into two camps. Mass emotion caught students as mass emotion caught the forces that the moving picture attacked. An outcome of this emotional reac tion resulted in a stupid, childish display of ignorance seldom seen on a Chapel Hill street. When a gang of students," through preju dice and unadulterated ignor ance, ridicule a race publicly it .Editor ..Managing Editor Business Manager -Circulation Manager Issue: SPORTS: BOB BARBER is time for the body of students to inventory themselves. Here in Chapel Hill we have a University which has built up a high-sounding tradition of liber alism. . And again, we have that marble slab on the east outside wall of Gerrard hall: "to do JUSTLY AND TO LOVE MERCY AND TO WALK WITH THY GOD." Let's not forget the note on the marble slab. clay courts Each year the University sends out its barrage of propaganda to prospective students, publicizing the great "athletics for all" sys tem in operation here. Particu larly, the future freshmen are told of the 40-odd tennis courts ready for their use. They pack their rackets with their belongings and head for Chapel Hill, to get an education and play a bit of tennis. In a few days, or perhaps they wait until May the present time of the year they go out to the courts, hoping to find a clay courl not in use. But, being undergraduates and not members of the varsity ten nis squad, they have only two clay courts open for their use. Since these are sure to be occupied, they must use one of the hot, miry asphalt courts or one of hard, unyielding cement, either of which makes play difficult, ruins tennis balls, and blisters feet. Unless the administrative of ficials would have us play mass tennis 50 persons to a side they should make some effort to provide more clay courts. An optimist is a person' who thinks he knows where he can borrow money. A pessimist is a person who has tried. There's no telling how good business would be if all the peo ple studying unemployment would go to work. HELLO UCKER! By ED RANKIN TO THE SENIORS Approximately 525 of you fellows who have been hanging your hats around here some 36 months are now winding up your stay with a scant three weeks to go. The majority, excluding a few of the mollycoddles and silver spooners, have had their share of heaven and their share of hell, with ac cent, we hope, "on the former. It doesn't take much of a mem ory to conjure up sweltering or freezing days in green Kenan stadium, dances a la UNC, WC, long bull sessions, late Saturday night bumming from Durham or Greens boro, house parties lousy with blondes, the joy of just living here, and so far into the night. ' Topping the other side, of the pic ture are you self-help boys who have had to work your hearts out to en joy only a small bit of what is so casually called "college life." Courses under men who believe their impli cit duty is to lay on the professorial cat o' nine, sweating hours over stud ies you despise but must take, hitch ing a ride with a drunk in a new Lincoln-Zephyr, and long hours in regis tration lines follow next. If you will stop long'enough to take your minds off your chances with Amalgamated Glue, or just how much pull the Old Man or Uncle John ac tually has, the week that Felix and the rest have planned for you should be a hit. As you are now has-beens and on the way out, class unity should be at its height for you swarm to gether out of common interest and self-pity. No longer should class ex ecutives pound their heads at the fu tility of getting quorums. Red ap ples, coeds, and Freddie Johnson are probably not the necessity they were a year ago. We who are below you have both envy and pity a strange mixture. The tinge of green is natural you are free to meet the future, don't ask us what. But you will begin to miss Chapel Hill about next September and we have a couple of years to go yet. So all we can do is wish you the best o' luck, ask you not to forget when you have a good job that we knew you pretty well-nce, and let it go at that. 2:00 All feature board members will meet in the Daily Tar Heel of fice to continue tabulating the poll. 3:00 Final oral examination of Miss Bertie Melvel McGee for degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department - of Economics and Commerce will be held in Bing ham 113. Graduate Faculty In Philosophy and Political and So cial Sciences are invited to at tend. 4:00 Varsity baseball game with Wake Forest on Emerson field. 4:30 Practice of entire May Day cast in Arboretum. In case of rain meet in Graham Memorial. 5 :00 Girls glee club will meet in Hill Music hall. 7:00 Band practice in Hill Music hall. Hillel cabinet meets Jn Graham Memorial. Officers for the com ing year will be elected. 7:15 Di senate meets in New West. Phi assembly will meet in New East. 7:30 Elisha Mitchell Scientific soci ety will meet in 206 Phillips hall. 9:30 Dr. E. A.,Kincaid, consulting economist at the Federal Reserve bank of Richmond, will speak in 103 Bingham. All interested are invited to attend. Sick List Bedding their time in the infirmary yesterday were: William M. Thomp son, Ben Coffield, Donald H. Neill, An drew Henry Yarrow, Foy Roberson, Mrs. Eleanor Godfrey, Thaddeus Rich, C. P. Reece, F. D.) Sehrath, Hargrove Bowles, Robert J. Lovill, Julian Lane, Morton Turtletraub, J. A. Cheek, Rob ert S. Leopold, Carl Townson, Kent Mathewson, Ruth Leonard, and Nor man John Ganslen. Being executed in the gas chamber must by all means, be an unusual experience. LIS li ' today AROL The Chapel Hill Scene THE MOOM?PICS : "Grand Illu sion," a Frenchie showing locally Wed nesday, is reputedly the best film pro duced in any country in many a year. . . . "Confessions of a Nazy Spy" was chuck full of silly propaganda but such should be overlooked in view of the fact that it marks the first time Hollywood has shown "guts." . . . Paul Green's make-our-own-movies idea should, in terest scores of Carolina students. . . . If plans go through and cinematic courses are added to the University curriculum the work here ought to be a stimulus to those who are trying to introduce motion picture studios on the east coast. , . . Bette Davis' "Dark Vic tory" (Thurs.-Fri.) will be worth cut ting a tea dance to see. - THE DRAMMER: Rain should do a lot to produce reality for Andre Obey's "Noah," which will be presented in the forest theater on May 18. . . . Would be. kinda tough on the specta tors, though. . . . Last experimental bill will be given on approximately May 25. ... Plans are going forward for producing "The Lost Colony" at Roanoke Island again this summer. . . . Prof Koch will give courses in play writing and experimental productions at the Banff school of fine arts in Ed monton, Canada this summer . . . Aug ust 1 to 26. . THE MAGS: There are rumors that Scribner's mag has gone bankrupt and that the current issue is the last. . . . Staff Tabulates 200 Sheets In "Grade Your Prof "Poll Marks So Far Seem To Be Consistent; Almost All Side Remarks Are Unprintable About two hundred "Grade Your Prof" poll sheets were tabulated yes terday by members of the Daily Tar Heel feature board. Over 40 separate cardboard sheets have been compiled, each containing the names of eight members of the faculty and places for 'All individuals or organizations who have not yet turned in their "Grade Your Prof" poll sheets are asked to please bring them around to the Daily Tar Heel editorial office as soon as possible. If this is too inconvenient, they may phone the newspaper office (4351) and someone will be sent around to col lect the sheets. their ratings in personality and abil ity. These cardboards were placed on top of 15 tables in the banquet room of Graham Memorial, the poll sheets were brought in, and the actual work was begun. ; So far, no definite . conclusions can be drawn concerning the professorial ratings. The A's have been quite nu merous and the F's surprisingly few. Although most of the marks have been rather scattered, some of the faculty members have received fairly consist ent ratings, one zoolozy instructor, for example, receiving almost unanimous ly an A on ability and an F on person ality. Dr. E. W. Zimmerman received the greatest number of votes 172 , almost all of them being in the A and B category, and Dr. English Bagby was presented with the nick-name of "Puffy." One of the most interesting features of the poll to those tabulating it were the side comments put down by the students after the grades, many of them distinctly uncomplimentary and several of them unfit to print. It was generally easy to discover which of the students voting had been flunked in either an exam or in the course bv. the professors and instructors -they rated. The chemistry and commerce school faculty polled the most votes with Drs. Dobbins and Wolfe rating mostly A's and Drs. Winslow and Bunt ing varying with a vengeance. Biggest snag the feature board has run against is the number of people who vote on a man without putting down either the course he teaches or his first initials. When there are sev eral faculty members with the same last name and even some with the same last name who teach the identical course, it makes the compilation a bit difficult. Those who have not yet hand ed in their poll sheets will please pay heed and act accordingly. IT IS NATIONAL HARDWARE WEEK We Extend Our Services To You UNIVERSITY 107 E. Franklin St. 4 By RAY LOWERY At any rate, this number which in cludes two Tom Wolfe items: his first published! work and a short novel which forms a part of his last book to be published by Harper this summer has been distributed only to subscribers, and hasn't yet hit the newsstands. . . . From all reports, the new Buc will not be any more virtuous than Pugh's last. . . . Allen Green is planning to run a number of articles on student govern ment in the next Carolina Mag. . . . There is a drawer full of fiction to be used unless some better stuff turns up. . . . Why don't you try writing and submitting "the -kind of stuff you've always wanted to see the Mag pub lish?" . THE BOOKS: The University press' "Purslane" yesterday got favorable re ports from practically all the review ers. . . . So well pleased are they with their experiment, the press folks may publish some more fiction in the near future. , . . Fans of Mrs. Bernice Kelly Harris may be interested in knowing that her ' plays, most of which were written for the annual dramatic fes tival here, are being published in a collection to be released this fall. . . . Ernest .Hemingway of the mighty fist and hard-boiled prose is supposed to have visited the campus, unan nounced, Friday afternoon. . . . John Steinback's "The Grapes of Wrath" is in much demand here these days. . . . James Joyce fans, however, are find ing the $5 which is asked for his new "Finnagans Wake" a bit too steep for the bill fold. Lopez Proves To Be Continued from first page the very beginning of his radio career, a "top-notcher": Led the first jazz band ever to broad cast a program. Was the first leader to announce his own numbers. Had the first radio theme song, "Nola," which he still uses. Was the first featured instrumental ist, being known now as the "Wizard of the Keyboard." He is the fastest pianist in the country. Had the first jazz band on a sustain ing program. Gave Rudy Vallee his first orchestral job. Also had in his orchestra, from time to time, such outstanding dance band musicians as Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, Carl Hoff, and B. A. Rolfe. Lopez was born in Brooklyn and at the age of 13 began studying for the priesthood. But his father, wanting his son to carry on the family tradition, directed him into music, insisting that he practice on the piano six hours daily. Thus his reputation that estab lishes him as a Paderewski of the dance band field. Nineteen years ago he visioned the place of radio in popular music, and at that early date he saw that radio, bet ter than any other medium, would con vey music to more people than any other known means. Others didn't predict so rosy a fu ture for radio and urged him to take his band off the air. He remained, how ever, and swiftly gained a reputation that placed him among the best in the game. He has accepted, in order, every trend in popularity of dance mu sic. He attributes to this policy his success in remaining in a favored posi tion in the eyes of the public. By way of diversion, Lopez makes a study of mental therapy. Often he carries his band to insane asylums to play swing music for the inmates and observe their reactions. Brightened countenances are usually his reward, it is said. In addition to mental theray he is interested in numerology and astrol ogy. He prescribes these hobbies to his orchestra members as means of, reliev ing the strain of rehearsals, road tours, and one-night stands. Second Day Y (Continued from first page) Pounds" Peggy Holmes, and Voit Gil more with "Texas Leaguer" Bobbie Winton. Tomorrow will be Junior-Senior day featuring a baseball game between the two classes at 4 o'clock in the after noon and a Junior-Senior stunt night at 8 p. m. -i c - ; HARDWARE CO. Phone 6981 N UQc merry-go-round Y By CHARLES BARRETT Tragedy The plight of William E. Statiber, Jr., is touching Bill is the product of Rural Hall and Mangum dormitory, and is the queer est Buccaneer editor in recent history. The thing that makes Bill queer is that he is not queer. Most Buccaneer editors have felt it their solemn duty and privilege to roam the campus in long hair, short pants, and bare chest; to frighten late visitors at uptown beer parlors with queer gestulatiqns and queerer jokes. Bill walks around in ordinary shirt sleeves, beats the upper quadrangle boys at horseshoes, and without half trying, produces laughs that come from the belly up. STARTING OFF This is the young man who unas sumingly became editor of the Buc caneer. A few weeks after work was begun on his first issue, the faculty executive committee made the dire an nouncement that an "investigation" will be made into freedom of campus magazine editors. Defenders of student liberty became much more aroused than Bill himself. But now a new and still greater dan ger looms before Editor Stauber. Someone or some group no one seems to know who has been circu lating the idea of taking the Bucca neer off student fees. That is, let the Buc operate as a commercial maga zine, supporting itself on advertising and subscriptions. . OFFICIAL CONSIDERATION In all probability, the Publications Union board will consider the propo sal in the near future. It is also pos sible that the faculty investigating committee will recommend some such similar action. ; Proponents of this plan don't want to censor or hamper the Buc they want to kill it. Under disguise of "letting those who like it take it," they would plunge the magazine into a financial quagmire which would slowly suck it completely under. Editor Stauber says he will resign if the plan ever goes into effect. We think so too. Delaware Alumni Meet i Thirty-eight alumni of the Univer sity from the state of Delaware will gather in Wilmington, Delaware, to morrow for a general meeting, the local alumni office announced- yester day. 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