THE DAILY TAR HEEL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1942
PAGE TWO
The Critical Spirit
"They say" is a common phrase of our everyday life and it
occupies a large part of the American scene. A trite little
phrase, nevertheless it connotates an American characteristic
of a public wanting critical discrimination in its tastes and some
authortative guidance toward usefully alloting our time spent
n diversions.
"They say the movie uptown is good, they say it's a fine book,
it's a swell show . . These are the phrases we hear, but they
come up every year to make a new editorship realize the need
for careful and discriminating criticism towards the entertain
ment offerings of the campus. It is because of this that any new
editorial board, after assigning the routine columns and "news
paper beats," looks around for a sound critical voice to speak
constructively about our Playmaker or SoundanFury shows,
our art exhibits, our speakers.
This year the editors naturally turned to two groups who
seemed the most likely to offer this type of service, the Carolina
Magazine and the Carolina Workshop inaugurated last year.
We found that Richard Adler, literary editor of the Carolina
Magazine, was also the head of the Carolina Workshop, so Adler
seemed the natural choice.
Under his head and with the sanction of the Daily Tar Heel,
Adler has mobilized a Carolina Workshop Critical Board com
posed of expert and informed critics on light and "heavier"
theatrical offerings, student critics in the art fields, and qualified
IRC and CPU members recruited for the Workshop to serve as
critical analysts for the speakers who come to the campus. This
is just one more service offered by the Workshop and one that
is welcomed by the staff.
In the future, look for our regular feature on the Workshop
Board of Criticism's review following every major offering at the
University. Department and entertainment heads might con
tact Adler for cooperation, criticism, and publicity for the pro
grams they have to offer this fall.
Mementoe for
By S. J. Perelman
Goodness knows I abhor such con
fidences, but when I was finishing
my formal education about 1925, a
phase later seized upon and dis
torted by F. Scott Fitzgerald and
Compton Mackenzie into a series of
shilling chockers, my apparel was
enough to congeal the blood.
My entry into the classroom was
heralded by a dismal noisome stench
of weet tweed reminiscent of the
Fall of the House of Usher, mingled
with the squeak of corduroy and
heavily-welted shoes. A moment
later I would clank in booted and
.spurred for the pursuit of knowl
edge with the general sound effect
of two skeletons waltzing ona tin
roof. From the crown of my tad
cap to the scuffed toecaps of my
bluchers, I carried more base metal
by volume than a Spanish conquis
tador. The gross weight of the hobnails,
heel plates, and brass eyelets of my
shoes, the numerals on my class
pipe, the various cunning reamers,
gouges, and spades employed in
cleaning same, and the countless
watch-fobs, charms, amulets, re
volving pencils, and key-chains I
affected bowed my shoulders for
life.
Had there been anything like
scrap salvage at the time, I could
easily have outfitted a corvette.
Even in those carefree days, it was
no uncommon sight to see groups of
metallurgists standing about the
quad at evensong eyeing me wist
fully. Equally spectacular from the
standpoint of scrap were the me
mentoes among which I dwelt. To
proclaim my splendid isolation and
contempt for authority, I had deck
ed my bower with traffic standards, -
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In matters of controversy or criticism, the Daily Tar Heel permits space to
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Bob Hoke
Bill Stanback
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Associate Editors: Henry Moll, Sylvan Meyer, Hayden Carruth.
Editorial Board : Sara Anderson.
News Editors : Bob Levin, Walter Klein.
Assistant News Editor: Dave C. Bailey.
Reporters: James Wallace, Larry Dale, Sue Feld, Sara Yokley, Walter Dam
toft, Janice Feitelberg, Burke Shipley, Leah Richter,. Frank Ross, Sarah
Niven. ,
Sports Editor: Westy Fenhagen.
Sports Reporters : Charles Easter, Ben Snyder, Bill Woestendiek, Phyllis
Yates.
Photographers : Carl Bishopric, Tyler Nourse.
Advertising Staff: Charlie Weill, Bob Bettman, Marvin Rosen, Betty Booker,
Bob Crews, Thad Carmichael, Betty Bronson, Bebe Castleman, Edith Col
vard, Henry Petuske, Al Grosner, Larry Rivkin.
Circulation Staff: Rachel Dalton, Larry Goldrich, Tommy Dixon, Bob
Godwin. .
FOR THIS
News: BOB LEVIN
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the Japs
signs rifled from restrooms, and
similar trophies. Cynical, embittered
man of the world though I was,
these keepsakes secretly filled me
with the tender pride of a debutante
exhuming her first dance program.
Each reminded me of some breath
less exploit in which I had pitted
craft and sinew against society and
triumphed. Face it, men: I was a
heller.
That the current generation is
more conservative in its dress is de
batable, but the last time I entered
a dormitory room, the walls were
hung with the same kind of spoils.
And ordinarily I would have been
delighted that the grand old outlaw
tradition was still alive, that the
flame of fierce resistance was be
ing cherished.
The only trouble, however, is that
in the meantime things have become
a little tense. A lot of unpleasant
people have come out of the wood
work and seem to be swarming over
everything. In Prague, merely to
remind you, they machine-gunned
several thousand undergraduates of
just about your size and weight.
They enjoyed the experience so
much that they have promised to do
the same thing to you.
To, prevent it, your government
needs every one of those souvenirs,
every bit of scrap metal and rubber
you can lay hold of. It needs every
thing you've got that is, except
those cabinet-size photographs of
Hedy LaMarr. Just send those on
to me.
So intensive is the scrap metal
drive at the University, that we
know of a chap who made the su
preme sacrifice, he took the lead
out of his feet and gave it in.
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24 Burmese spirit
25 Lichen-like growth
26 Repairs shoes
28 Cat-like animal
29 Captives
31 Coil of thread
33 Countries
36 African trs
37 Strike
38 Snare
39 Public notices
40 Duel
42 The parson bird
43 Chinese measure
44 Comes to earth
46 Compass point
47 Minister
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In Dubious
Surprise Party: Was insidiously
cooked up for Henry Moll at the
Carolina Inn, Hoke and Harward
offered to buy him dinner over there
and Henry was just too surprised
to refuse. The rest of the party
were in the Faculty Dining-room
waiting for them when suddenly
they espied Moll and his treaters on
the cafeteria line. Happy Birthday,
Mole . . .
Balderdash: Also, it was on our
recommendation that Sarah Yokely
wrote an article telling about how
the World Series between the
Brooklun Dodgers and the Cardinals
could be heard in Graham Memorial,
but it was the Managing Editor who
okaped the story. . . . And we hear
that one of the Doctors at the in
firmary accidentally wrote 4-F in
stead of "D" on a Physed rating
card. ...
And Folderol: Maybe it was
Arty Fischer who told us about the
pack of around 12 dogs who follow
the naval kaydettes on their hikes.
The weary cadets found some mo
mentary relief from the tediousness
of the hiking by watching the
canines sport about them all through
the day . . . until suddenly they
looked back and saw one of the dogs
fall dead from exhaustion. . . . Pro
fessor Green isn't often confused
with his son P.G.jr., but the en- i
trance of still another Paul Green 4
with the same middle initial has got 1
the directors of the Directory
baffled. . . .
Hill-lites: The story that's going
around now is about the dumb f rosh
who hooked up the Bunsen Burner
to the water instead of the gas -line
in Chem Lab . . . things turned out
swimmingly. . . . Big Bob Burleigh
says he's the quarterback on the
Carr Dorm Team and he's "Swift
as the clouds", . . .. . Millicent Hosch
tells us that while she was in the
infirmary, she saw some young fel-.
low going down the hall in one of
those diaper-like nite-shirts they
provide. People called to the wearer
from all sides about the garments
inadequacies, but our hero merely
waved them all aside with the re
mark "That's all right, yours is torn
too!"
Class Classics: "What is the A.
P. ? " queried Phillips Russell in
Newswriting. "Just a Grocery
Store," quipped Dave Koonce. . . .
Mooney Davis claims he started in
the Commerce School taking mar
keting and by the end of this regis
tration, he found himself majoring
in "Economics of the Orient." He
plans to write a term-paper "Tire
Rationing in Tibet" . . . Prof Wins
low in Ec. 31: "Hitler was the
greatest Seizer or Caesar of all
times." ....
Furthermore: After a recent bar
rage from above we've come to the
. conclusion that the adage should be
changed to "Little oaks from great
big acorns grow." ... Rosalie
Branch and Marie Limb claim no
Battle
2 Toward
3 Skill
4 Jump
5 Members of Jewish
sect
6 Small fish
7 Wire measures
8 Worm
9 In
10 Rest
11 Temperate
13 Perch
16 Flavoring
19 Religious books
21 Associate with
23 Water wheel
25 Deserve
27 Linden tree
28 Retain
30 Tribe of southern
Indians
31 Skin on head
32 Kind of bear
34 Sickness
35 Barker's cry
37 Those who inherit
40 Failure (slang)
41 Small stove
44 Consume
45 Man's nickname
48 Compass point
49 Fruit drink
by Jack Dube
relationship. . . . Look for very big
doings this year with Dick Adler's
Carolina Workshop. . . . Those Sun
day Night Sessions may really put
this campus on the,, entertainment
map. ... We've noticed that this
year's crop of coeds is really some
thing. Even the grads are attrac
tive. Of course, we know that the
pre-flight school and the ratio of
men to women students had nothing
to do with the sudden influx of
beauty. The girls came here to be
career women . . . and the funny
part about it is that they may have
to be just that
Campus Talent to Help
Entertain Naval Cadets
. Within a couple of weeks stu
dents will be appearing in the "box
ing pavilion down at the Wednes
day night Pre-Flight smokers to
pool their talents with the cadets
for entertainment.
If the plan Is successful and
campus applause for theentertain
ers at the Sunday Night Session in
dicates that it will , then talent ex
changes will be worked out. Stu-
dent performers will continue to ap
pear at the weekly smokers, cadets
will help entertain the student body
on Sunday night.
The ball has already begun to
roll. Lt. Frank Gillespie, in charge
of cadets smokers, is working now
with Student Bud Persky to secure
students for Wednesday . week's
smoker. The Huttons and the Calli
gans and their corps have already
volunteered to rewrite their gags
one more time and to work out new
routines.
Organized support will be fur
nished by several student organiza
tions Graham Memorial Student
Union, Student Government and the
Daily Tar Heel.
It's about time that students and
cadets found out they have mutual
interests in something else than
Saturday night dates with coeds.
Remnants ...
The Gods of War seem to like the
Stalingrad show so much that they've
held it over another month.
With the intensified mental drive,
there's no longer any nasty connota
tion to the expression "relegated to
the scrap heap."
Self-confidence is a wonderful
thing. Alf ange, the Labor Party's
candidate for the New York State
governorship, has had his wife look
over the governor's masion with an
eye to redecorating it for when they
move in.
The final casualty list from the
Lenoir Pine Room front has not yet
been published. When the dust of the
battle cleared away, it was found
they were out of Virginia ham, grits,
and two waiters.
H. Alger Series
Dabbling Henry Moll
Has Hit Several Jackpots
By Dick Adler
Henry, the 'mole', Moll is no dilletante.
After four years of experimenting with everything from the hell-holes of
campus politics, the fox-holes of Fetzer Field, the intrigues of the campus
intelligentsia, the squabblings of publication circles, he is now a graduate,
director of the Student Union, Ex-Editor, of the nation's number one college
magazine and recently mentioned for "outstand
ing excellence" in the . Harper's National short
story contest. -Four
Years Back
Henry Moll's mother found a note pinned to his
pillow, four years back, she did not know that her
son had "run away from home" instead of taking
a two weeks visit-vacation as the note had ex
plained. Three months out of a job and discouraged,
Henry Moll had silently arisen one 2 A.M., packed
a card-board suitcase and left New York City with
seven dollars in his pocket to hitchhike to the
West Coast in search of a job.
A wish to see Dixie took him on the longer
route thru the South. At Richmond the remains of the seven dollars had
been stolen. In Norlina, Va., that same day, a dusty Moll was chased by a
farmer who had found him in a tomato patch "borrowing" the fruit fora
meal. Two days later this same boy was asking the University library
clerk if he could look over some of Thomas Wolfe's manuscripts.
Sweeping Memorial Hall for four-fifty per week, stoking Dr. Newsome's
furnace for his room, washing dishes for meals were some of the things
that Hank did before Katherine Lackey, Dr. Frank's secretary, met him.
Soon a loan was arranged and Henry started school about a month late.
Writer-Illustrator
Moll is primarily an artist. In spite of his various "extra" functions he
is the valuable combination of both cartoonist-commercial illustrator and
fiction writer. He was the chief brush-master at his high school and after
ward studied art and illustration before Carolina at Pratt Institute. His
first three years here at school he served as Art Editor and cartoonist for
the ill-fated Buccaneer and Tar an' Feathers.
His writing career started in his freshman year when he came under the
influence of H. K. Russell. Since then he has composed "Sapling," "One on
a Rock," and "The Middle Ground," short stories all published. the Caro
lina Magazine. Moll's successful, March Combination Issue, printed his
emotional explosion, "The Spare Room." This intense subjective study won
him the honorable mention in Harper's national short-story contest. The
Literary Board of the Carolina Magazine, however, has quoted that Moll's
latest story to appear in the forthcoming issue, "is superior to all his other
works artistically."
After Moll had steered the mag to its position of honor first prize in
the National Scholastic Press Association he was elected to fill the va
cancy made by Bill Cochrane Director of Graham Memorial where he
has done a creditable job. At present he is also the Vice-Chairman of the
Carolina Workshop, works on campus publications, and is a follower of
student government.
Campus
Grapevine
. By The Staff
The Athletic Council is keeping
the wires hot trying to negotiate a
game with Clemson for Homecom
ing Day, but no definite news has
yet come out of Woollen. Chances
are that the Tigers are reluctant to
tackle Carolina just five days be
fore they clash with the University
of South Carolina in a rivalry that
is as intense as Duke and Caro
lina's than which there is none
intenser.
More rumors seeped about the
campus today that Duquesne Uni
versity was angling for an invita
tion down to Kenan Stadium. In
vestigation of football schedules
disclosed that William, and Mary
College, where ex-Duke coach Carl
Voyles has built up an excellent
team in short years, is as yet unen
gaged for Saturday week. If trans
portation and Voyles were negoti
able, William and Mary better than
either Duquesne or Clemson would
look more like a happy homecom
ing. "Scuttlebutt" is the Pre-Flight
School's contribution to the Chapel
Hill vocabulary. As explained by
obliging Bill Cochrane, , ex-director
of Graham Memorial, now in V-7
training at Northwestern, the
"scuttlebutt" was the dispensary
for drinking water on old sailing
ships. It naturally became the
source of ship rumors. Now Navy
men call all rumor material "scut
tlebutt." Borrowing the term, we
promptly label "scuttlebutt" the
boner sent out this week by the
Greensboro Daily News Bureau:
NAVY MAY OCCUPY
INN AT CHAPEL HILL
"Early take over of Carolina Inn
at Chapel Hill by the Navy which
is operating the Pre-Flight School
in the Orange Athens, is forecast
by Carolina alumni who come over
to Raleigh on football and lesser oc
casions. "The Inn was given to the Uni
versity by John Sprunt Hill. It has
been a sort of double solution for
community and visitors, and recent
ly a big wing was added to the
hotel. The pre-flight school has
brought hundreds of persons to the
university community who have
found the housing on the Hill inade
quate. The university administra
tion has said nothing about any pro
posal to turn over Carolina Inn to
the Navy, but the Hill residents
are expecting it almost any day."
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On the Hour . . .
7:30 Orthodox
House.
Services, Hillel
8:00 Grads meet, Hill hall.
8:30 Fall Frolics, Woollen gym.
10:00 Applicants for Student War
Loan fund meet, 206 Venable.
North Carolina
College for Negroes
Durham, North Carolina
Announces The Following
Concert Series
October 12 Margaret Speaks, of
Radio fame one of the sweet
singers of America.
October 19 Marian Anderson, who
has no superior on the Concert
Stage at the present time.
December 5 Carmen Amaya Dance
Group, this is unquestionably
one of the great dance groups
on the American Stage.
January 11 Abram Chasins, world
famous pianist.
Reserved seats for the four
performances 6.50
Single Reserved Tickets
2.50
For tickets and reservations
write or call:
North Carolina
College for Negroes
Durham, North Carolina
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