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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1943
The cSrial 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, $&0 for the college year.
1939 '.- Mmbef 1940
ftssocided CcZe&de Press
Don Bishop
Feed Cazel
Wu. W. Brunee
Joseph E. Zattoun -I
Associate Editor: Bill Snider. ", ;
Editorial Board: Louis Harris, Simons Roof, George Simpson, Buck
Tuaberiake, Orville CampbelL
Columnists : Adrian Spies, Martha Clampitt, Ralph Bowman.
. Feature Boaed: Campbell Irving, Jim McEwen, Lee Roy Thompson, Shir
ley Hobbs, Marion Lippincott, Fay e Riley, Constance Mason.
City Editor: Rush Hamrick,- -
Night Editors: Philip Carden, Sylvan Meyer Dick' Young.
Assistant:. Bob Hoke. ,
Wire Editor: Mary Caldwell.
Reporters: Ransom Austin, Bucky Harward, Grady Reagan, Vivian Gil
lespie, Jisephine Andoe, Sara Sheppard, Paul Komisaruk, Dixon J
Richardson, Ernest Frankel, Joe Leslie, Baxter McNeer, Elsie Lyon.
Staff Photographer: Jack Mitchell.
Sports Editor: Leonard Lobred.
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Sports Reporters: Jack Saunders, Ben Snyder, Steve Reiss, Mark Garner,'
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Fer This
News: -PICK YOUNG
Spiritual Values
"If there is any weak point
in the defense of ' the democ
racies, today, it is in spiritual
values."
"Unless the democracies
are able to build up spiritual
strength equal to the virility
in Germany, the events of the
war are apt to be temporary."
Dr. James Godfrey . makes
these statements in a bulletin
published by the University
Extension library : the bulletin
traces the relation, in recent
years of America to Europe.
Our generation has been
chided for possessing too much
cynicism, too much distrust of
any moral order, and particu
larly of lacking a faith in de
mocracy. Wey have been ac
cused of a negativistic stand j
a refusal to suprjort any social
philosophy, but a readiness to
doubt all systems. : -
At the close of the last world
war our elders supported three
dreams. Some believed that
the Versailles Treaty,-, by a
crushing subjugation of Ger
many, would; keep inactive
"the only .country Hhat; wants
to fight." Some that the Hus- ,
sian Revolution, by- introduc
ing a completely new social- "
ism, would rnake'xmen econom
ically mdependeht' And others
that the .League of Nations,
uniting all countries of the
world, was to be the first step
towards an international solid
arity. One by one the great dreams
lost breath. One by one their
inability to solve man's prob
lems became apparent. Then,
but by thousands, the defend
ers of these plans gave up
their, hopes. With an already
existing disillusionment
caused by the war, the failure
of these plans crystallized in
a wholesale loss of belief in the
potentialities of mankind.
Our elders, who are now ac
cusing us of negativistic phil
osophy, spread their bitterness
to us . through literature, the
schools, the press, the radio,
and more constantly through
conversation.
So, it is half -shocking to us
to see someone interested in
our plight, interested not in
attacking our spiritual retro
gression, but rather in seeing
us achieve "the lost spiritual
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Sports: ED PRIZER
; values." Dr. Godfrey, on a
campus where cynicism is the
r accepted attitude, like a few
other professors offers us ih-'
telligent and ppsitive criticism.
" But there is. a . danger that
must be ! known and watched.
Just what do we mean by
""spiritual values"? .
'' This 'abstraction of feeling,
. as nearly as it ' can- be ap
' proached, means an awareness
of "something greater than
ourselves," , a sense of a posi
tive moral order, a realization
that we must live in a constant
aspiration to mankind's event
ual perfection.
' But. the danger is this. Pro- .'
fessional patriots are confus
ing spiritual values and emo
tional patriotism, the result ;
being an attempt to make the
two, synonymous. Our quest
for spiritual -values should .
begin with a thorough under
standing of democracy the
"quest should not end with the
- belief . .we have reached our
goal when we wave a flag and
shout "God Bless America." :
We are . being inundated in"
what is primarily a. storrfi of
..shallow patriotic feeling. To
reach those lost , values we .
must' avoid triteness of emo-,
tio'n," and search - deeply . for
democracy, attaining , .the
values only when rationality
has led us.
If our enthusiasm a n d ;
strength is to surpass "the -spiritual
virility in Germany,"
our elders must endeavor to
cut down on the flag-waving
and soap-boxing, and instead
strive earnestly to reach our
dulled sensibilities through
reasoning. Otherwise, we are
apt to become so disgusted
with the present maudlin pa
triotism that, when the real
crisis arrives, we will distrust
it as being real, and so fail.
S. R. v
Acknowledgment
The Daily Tar Heel com
plained last week, that dusty
football fields are not conducive
to physical upbuilding; it
asked why the fields couldn't
be sprinkled on days they were
to be used. The physical edu
cation department has ac
cepted this suggestion. The
Daily Tar Heel, for the physr
ical trainees, 'extends due
thanks; '
COUXZOKTAX.
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12 Fenny.
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lpngth.
14 Brood.
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place.
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20 Threes. .
22 Inlet.
25 Rodent.
28 Courtesy title.
27 Wild ox.
SO Bird house.
32 Horse fenneL
34 Conveys. . A
38 Narrative.
37 Eon.
38 Work of
genius.
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slaves.
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53 To regret.
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mane humor.
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of humorous
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Show TBusiness
Adrian Spies
(Guest Reviewer)
Mr. William Saroyan's writing, as
attested by the current Playmaker at-;
traction "Love's Old Sweet Song," is
like a dirty joke told in a Sunday
School class. Uncalled for, superficial
and sincere only in the unloosing of
all inhibitions, it- naturally startles
and momentarily amuses. Because it
has no respect for the conventions of
writing and because the author must
be one of the grandest guys in the
world, it carries an undeniable charni.
But this charm, and even his naively
decent philosophy, is so sloppily and
poorly put that we can only shake
our head and wish that it wasn't
necessary to pan William Saroyan's
play. '
"Love's Old Sweet Song" followed
on the rather fantastic heels of other
and more successful Saroyan plays.
Never a good craftsman and always,
a "third rate thinker who sometimes
felt things that were dramatically
true, brief success seems to have made
him more arrogant and independent
than ever. The result is one of the
poorest misrepresentations of a play
tha,t I have ever seen. His natural
humor comes through sometimes with
some scenes that are very good vaude
ville which, until he came along, was
generally gratefully considered a dead
art. And his essential friendship for
people conies out in all of his' gro
tesque "but weirdly likeable charac
ters. And most' important,' his con
stant splendid picture 'of "the" sincere
immigrant spirit -is amply present in
this'vlatest work. "But these' are nat
ural' things to Saroyan. Indeed, they
are'his" only excuse for publication.
And in this play he states them more
poorly "and less effectively than ever
before. . .: ?
The Playmakers, beset with a fan
tastic group of burlesque characters,
did a pretty decent job of production.
In some cases the exaggerations and
good-humored pace suggested by the
script were over-done. But it is only
a finished actor who can purposely
play ham and get away with it. With
untrained amateurs, ham is some
Bring Dad or Brother in to See JACK Who
Has Clothed the University Man Since
1924 I Will Be Glad to See Them
Do you have your Formal Accessories? .
Suits and topcoats, Arrow shirts, Knox hats,
and a well-assorted line of neckwear, under-
wear, pajamas, Interwoven socks.
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Previous Pnzsle
25 Plunders.
17 Instructs.
19 Stratum.
21 Part of a stair
23 Bugle plant.
24 To ventilate.
27Stffl.
23Kocsa recess.
29 He was
in an airplanej
accident.
31 Measure of
area.
23 Musical note.
35 Less dan
gerous.
28 Valued.
40 Fern seeds.
41 Name of
anything.
42 Pieced cut.
44 Greedy.
45 Sanskrit
dialect.
47 To leave out.
48" Air toy.
50 Furtive
watcher.
51 Novel.
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TEXtTJCAXf
2 Virginia
wiHow.
3 Spring fasting
season.
4Kindcf lock.
'5 Edge.
6 Egg dish.
7 Fence door,
ailerons.
fiFish eggs.
22 He was a
actor in
movies.
By
Bill Snider
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thing better not even mentioned. But
Director Harry Davis is to be praised
for his fusing of hopelessly clumsy
episodes and for his introduction of
incidental background actions which
often carried a scene. And the set
tings, more than anything else,
caught the slaphappy spirit of Saro
yan. . - L --
In such a stylized 'production, it is
difficult to pick out individual acting
performances. : Lyn Gault's impres
sion of Saroyan's eternal drunk faith
healer tramp was. too heavy and un
varied, but it . was a conscientious
piece of acting that was generally
effective. Stanley Li eber, playing the
really charming character in the play,
was promising. Mary Elizabeth
Rhyne stepped into a role . that is
flSeshless at best and offered a. bewil
dered . sweetness. And Earl Wynne,
in a juicy heavy part right up his
alley, presented the most capable per
formance of all."
' Somewhere along the play Saroyan
thought it would be cute to burlesque
John Steinbeck and. Margaret Bourke
White. Although sometimes funny
like that . dirty joke, we were discuss
ing before, it is completely cheap and
lousy theatre. It. is such dribble and
corney stuff that the actors could not
possibly do. any good with it ' Only
Eleanor J ones ' had sense enough to
control herself giving, incidentally,
a .finished and neat performance. - '
; So this is Mr. Saroyan. And in the
soft of language he would use, I call
it one of the 'worst plays that never
was written. Still, as a. collection of
laughs and quack situations up on a
stage it is occasionally entertaining.
I laughed and so will you. But just
don't look for sincerity or decency or
the honest sweat from which any good'
writing is born.
Institute Names
(Continued from first page)
nounced that the card display will be
explained and urged large attendance
in order "to show the alumni what we
can do next Saturday."
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By
The Collegiate Rut (Part III) Finale
With those two extremities of the
collegiate campuses, the "helluva
good guy" and the "ivory tower
saint" under our belts, this morning
we are about to embark upon the
last chapter of the Collegiate Rut
why it exists and how can it be
avoided. .
According to the best social ethics
used today, it is certainly an admir
able quality to be able to take a
drink. Lucius Beebe and Emily Post
would recommend it. And it is pos
sible to go to the highest or the
lowest realms in social circles and
discover that, whether it be pink
champagne or straight corn, it is
still a good policy to be able to take
a jigger-full. This social custom
leaves the company, on whatever
plane, gayer and produces a much
more congenial atmosphere.
Some of our more prudish friends
will look with scorn upon the para
graph above, but it cannot be de
nied that that accepted vice drink
ing has a definite value. Then
again, most college students will
admit that it Ss a painful experience
to feed on Alka-Seltzer for a day,
and that a few gallons of corn will
make Johnny a woozy young fel
low. It's a story book i tale that a
good drunk . will - solve , all your
troubles permanently. r ; ' , '.
When a Carolina gentleman and
coed venture up to the airy seclu
sion of Gimghoul castle, and per
ceive the symphony of blue and
gray , at dusk, or watch the fading
dots of light in far off Durham
among other things the enjoyment
is first rate. In fact, the connotation
is even better. But we might add
that after the evening is over, un
less you, have fallen in love, the joy
has been fleeting as it could have
been the other 99 times you were
there.
All of these brief pages out of
the book of experience of most stu
dents -on this ' campus are illustra
tions of the three divisions in Which
we would like to place the total of
collegiate life. Every one of these
examples- has some value. Learning
how to take one duty drink is a
real, permanent value; enjoying . a
date at Gimghoul is merely a tempo
rary value; while downing a few
pints of "mountain likker" is a fic
titious value. r t
We have set up these values and
urge that "helluva . good guys,"
"ivory tower saints," and every
one else on the campus examine
their whole college life under these
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