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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1942 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO The Mag Meeds Again Legislator Harvey Hamilton, representing the Law school, placed a bill before the Student legislature Wednesday night to kill the Carolina Mag for the duration. j Somehow the news dribbled out; and, surprisingly enough, it wasn't the campus long-hairs who objected. Objection came from many who haven't given a damn one way or the other in the past. Today, however, they may see the new publications' baby in a new role one that will' aid in the transition, the re adjustment to War College life which lies ahead. The Mag hasn't been given a fair chance. The first issue, initial hyrid edition breeding humor and literary features, is no fair gauge of what's to come. And the possibilities for the Mag's use as an integration medium, an explanatory, descrip tive device during the next few months, appear limitless. Those who are willing to fight to preserve Carolina's oldest publication are not afraid of legislative action. They trust the men who will make the decision, trust their integrity, trust their honesty. Perhaps, too, Mag supporters are trusting their rivals, their past enemies. If so, they're making a mistake. At a time when all publications have had to take slashes in budgetary allotments, and all campus organizations have suf fered, the Magazine has hit hardest with a 65 per cent cut. Vol untarily the editors clipped their salaries to token size; then watched the PU board slice off one issue, $600 in engraving, more in printing. Finally, after many dissections, the publication came out from under the financial knife with a $41 surplus. - Down the hall in the Yackety-Yack office, cuts were also taken. Hunt Hobbs saw his annual bled until 52 pages were ripped out. Although not cut as deeply as was the Mag, the Y-Y staff was affected, didn't escape board surgery. Magmen can thank their political stars that legislators like Roy Stroud and Wiley Long and Terrell Webster and W. J. Smith and Bucky Harward and Ben Snyder, Ernie Frankel and Sara Anderson know what the score is, are acquainted with the issue, with committments already made in contracts signed by the PU board. Most potent note, perhaps, in the legislature meeting was that a large bloc of Yackety-Yack bigwigs showed up as specta tors to see how things were coming along. It would seem they knew beforehand that the bill was to be presented; it would seem that something goes on between the Yack lads and the law school. The annual won't get anything out of a busted mag. The measley $4,500 mag budget would definitely not go to the Yackety-Yack if the mag were abolished. In any case, campus opinion backs the mag, and will if the dispute comes to a head. A glance at last year's Y-Y will show that it carries more deadweight than any publication and can best afford a severe cut. Page after page of its content have been wasted with little type and expansive background spreads. This can go and will if necessary. The mag should not be abol ished. It is for the things it represents, for the artistic achieve-. ment that it displays as an integral part of our civilization it is for these things that we are fighting this war. Council on the Two weeks gone and two more to go, four nights a week, two hours a night, the Soudent Council is making good its promise to the campus for a thorough orientation of freshmen. In two group interviews a night, freshmen walk into the Coun cil room, thrash out all doubts with Council representatives and then individually sign a pledge actively to uphold the Honor System. It is a pleasant contrast to the mediocre orientations of past years when freshman advisers bungled impromptu talks on the Honor System and "ended up telling their advisees how to get coed dates. The hew Council's perseverance has been all that stood be tween the Honor System and its rapid disintegration. If the Council had not had the ingenuity to find a satisfactory method and then stuck to it, Carolina's honor system might well already have been on the skids for the duration or longer. The student body, with a war-induced shakiness of morale, could not have withstood another halfway orientation. One more . wartime freshman class indifferent to active working of the Honor Sys tem could have meant the beginning of a quick collapse. But the Council and its freshmen are coming through. Not one freshman orientated with the new method this fall or last summer, when it started, has been reported for violation. 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. EPRKSBNTKO for national, advertising wr 1941 Member 1942 Pbsocioted GolIe6icite Press Bucky Harward Bob Hoke Bill Stanback...... Henry Zaytoun.... Associate Editors: Henry Moll, Sylvan Meyer, Hayden Carruth. Editorial Board : Sara Anderson. News Editors : Bob Levin, Walter Klein, Dave Bailey. .EPORTERS: James Wallace, Larry Dale, Sara Yokley, Walter Dam toft, Janice Feitelberg, Burke Shipley, Leah Richter, Frank Ross, Sarah Niven, Bob Harris, Jud Kinberg, Madison Wright, Rosalie Branch, Fred Kanter, Betty Moore, Arnold Schulman, Helen Eisenkoff, Bruce Douglas, Jane Cavenaugh, Robert Johns, Roland Giduz, Kat Hill, Jerry Hurwitz, Tiny Hutton, Sam Whitehall, Gloria Caplan, Pat Shartle, Lee Bronson, Mason Whitney. Sports Editor: Westy Fenhagen. Night Sports Editor : Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Charles Easter, Phyllis Yates, Paul Finch, Herb Bodman, Charles Howe, Don Atran. 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Opponents of the meas ure led by University professors Knight and Coker protest the amend ment on at least three counts. Pro ponents of the amendment have been . forced into the embarrassing position of admitting that the amendment as such is unsatisfactory. This has necessitated Governor Broughton's stepping into the mat ter personally and promising that the objectionable features of the bill will in turn be amended when the next legislature meets. Aside from the fact that the Gov ernor at this time or any other time has no right to commit the next leg islature to action, what is the sense in passing this amendment if it is objectionable, possibly dangerous and will necessitate the passage of another one to make it generally sat isfactory? Current opinion is that the Gov ernor stepped into the matter in an effort to keep harmony within the Democratic party. Now all this would probably not matter so much except that election day is only three days off, and there is every likeli- 4 hood that an uninformed citizenry will pass the measure without real izing the consequences of their ac tions. As regards the compromise move on the part of the Governor, Dr. Knight is quoted as stating, "I told the Governor that under no circum-' stances would our group vote for the pending amendment. Our under standing is that all join together in an effort to pass a sound amendment next time, whether this one passes or not. That was our agreement." "What is it that is so objectionable in the present amendment? First, the amendment states very simply that a majority of the mem bers of the school board "shall be persons of training and experience in business and finance, who shall not be connected with the teaching profession or any educational ad ministration of the State." This clause is a pretty kettle of fish. Only defense offered for the pro- vision for business men is that pro fessional men make poor adminis trators and that some of the more prominent politicians are education administrators at the present. But these parries merely , beg the ques tion. By specifying that a majority shall be businessmen, a representa tive board including the factions of labor and women and school teachers becomes an improbability from the 6 Stupid person 7 The armpit 8 Release 9 Seized 10 Bristle on barley 11 Lines (abbr,) 12 Arabian tribe 13 Shop 19 Hindu cymbal 20 Noun suffix 23 Hawaii's chief fruit 26 Member of a chapter 28 Jumble 30 Public notice 31 Female deer 33 Track 35 Pebble (Eng.) 36 Secret agent 37 A beverage 38 Sea bird 40 Go astray 41 Contend 42 Printer's measures 48 Opportune 49 The snake-haired sisters 50 Artist 51 Veteran (slang) 54 Sun god 56 Deals out 57 Turn inside out 58 Water faucet 59 Greek letter 61 In neighborhood 62 Hard black wood 64 Pour forth 66 Nibble at 69 Lyric poem 70 Portuguese coin 71 High priest 74 Either 77 Lines (abbr.) Syndicate, Inc. start. The amendment should not specify any qualifications for repre sentation. Second, members of the proposed 15-man board would be appointed by congressional districts. That imme diately brings politics into the scene. The result of this clause will be that board appointments will eventually be in the nature of political plums, anl not for ability to serve on an educational board. Goyernor Brough ton's appointments will undoubtedly be good, but it is impossible to as sume the same for his successors in the future. In no state in the Union can you divorce politics from edu cation, or anything else, but there is no sense in openly inviting further . political manipulations. Third, the amendment declares that the board may divide the state into a convenient number of school dis tricts. Again, the door, is left open for politics. Furthermore, the board would have the authority to regulate the grade, salary, and qualifications of teachers. If a majority of the board's members are men of business and finances, how can they be qualified to grade teachers? For all practical purposes, this clause would mean that the power over educational matters drifting further and further away from the place where it belongs in the hands of educators. It is assuming too much to argue that this amendment should be passed, then corrective measures will be taken. It, is difficult enough to pass an amendment to a constitution, without passing an amendment to an amendment. The amendment itself is unaccept able. With its acknowledged imper fections, it would be folly to see this bill written into the "organic law." The Greensboro Daily News stated recently, "it makes neither sense nor reason to adopt a constitutional amendment which all sides admit is so inherently bad that its passage has to be accomplished by a peldge that it will be undone." The more obvious thing to do is defest this proposal and devise a better one without all the interven ing "complications, uncertainties and dubious political factors." The present educational set-up has been in operation since 1883. There is much room for improve ment. This improvement can be taken via a proper constitutional amendment. The present amendment is a step back a step away. TO PUZZLE A DTH Review illli!li!ilIil!!l!!:i!IIlIlllll!ill!l!lll!!l!!!!li!IU!llll!Iii! Play makers Miss Laughs In First Night of AAOL By Sylvan Meyer 'Arsenic and Old Lace," a smash comedy hit on Broadway, possessed most of the elements that would make it an ideal presentation for opening the Playmaker season. ' Joseph Kesserling's mass poison epic on the Playmaker stage Thurs day night lost a lot of the stuff that made it a smash hit on Broadway. Difficult to cast because many of our Players have never been closer to Brooklyn (its locals) than the southern rim of Steel Bridge, "A. & Old L." still provided several guf faws and not a few chuckles. Here's the general story of the play: There's two old ladies named Brewster living in this house in Brooklyn and they got three neph ews, two of whom is most insane, one dangerously so and the other just enough to think that he is Teddy Roosevelt and the other one whose name is Mortimer and who is not crazy at all, just in love. There is also a couple of cops and some 25 dead bodies mentioned. Also there is a good-looking chicken who is the one whom this here Mortimer is in love with. And that was the play. Corpse Contest Actually, however, the love inter est is a subordinate plot to the con test between the old maid aunts and Nephew Jonathan to see which will break the deadlock of 12 murders up. Between the outlines of this story Author Kesselring had a lot of laughs. A Chapel Hill audience didn't get many of the laughs. The actors lost a lot of the laughs. W. T. Chichester, playing the part of the nut who thought he was Presi dent Roosevelt, made each of his lines a separate hofc-1. His burlesque pre sentation was noisy enough to awake the audience to the fact there was humor in the play. Harried Mortimer Art Golby (Mortimer), was as harried as any man would be upon discovering that his nice charitable aunts had several men in the cellar all dead and had plans, for adding to the collection with highly potent combinations of elderberry wine and arsenic, strychnine, and cyanide. Golby overplayed a trifle, but this was probably to inject action when the play lagged. Golby is always funny but in varying degrees. Bob Epstein was a good Brooklyn cap, albeit we have never seen one. Officer O'Hara, played by Don Britt, could have been much improved. It was easy to tell the actors of experi ence when the going got slow. Catherine Cooke and Elizabeth Trotman, the two poisonous but gentle aunts, were convincing in some scenes, especially when they ex plained to Mortimer the charitable motives for their murders. But in others, the pair miscued and let their pace slump somewhat. "We might Tab ecping I just made a startling discovery the other day. I found out that there's actually a whole sex composed entirely of women. And speaking of femmes, has anybody thought of calling the latest Saturday night practice of our coeds, cadating? Here's a cute pome that you've probably heard: COED'S LAMENT "When God gave out brains, I thought he said trains and I missed mine ; When God gave out looks, I thought he said books and I didn't want any. When God gave out noses I thought he said roses and I asked for a big red one; When God gave out ears I thought he said beers, and I asked for two short ones; When God passed out legs, I thought he said kegs and I asked for two fat ones. God . . . am I a mess ! The way the Russians and Ger mans are fighting for Stalingrad street by street, block by block, and inch by inch, it won't be long before they'll be battling for choice four room apartments. Something new has been added! When ya call up the second floor of the infirmary they don't answer, as in days of old, with "second floor." Now a cute ensign nurse answers, "second deck, sick boy." Sounds nau tical and nice. If by the merest chance you hap pen to get in a fight over at State K UNIVERSITY FLOWER SHOP Flowers for All Occasions PHONE 6661 suggest a less youthful spring in their walk. ' Louise Piatt, playing opposite Mortimer, the Only sane Brewster, did a creditable job as the ingenue who lived across the cemetery. She was unrestrained and quite natural. Miss Piatt, we would offer, was one of the few incidents of accurate cast ings in the play. At least, when the script called for it, she could admire her own legs with pardonable pride. Martin Newman as Dr. Einstein, accomplice to Jonathan Brewster, a nasty character if ever there was onef played his part adequately and drank his likker unconvincingly. Art Conescu, as Jonathan, was sup posed to be a comic villain. He was a terrific villain. His displays of temper would make him appear much meaner than the gentle fellow that he is offstage. Set Silent The set by Foster Fjtzsimmons. was quietly well-done. Constructed directly on the stage, the living room of the Brewster house added to the soft background necessary for con trast to the humor. Stage placement was excellent. Technically, the backstage work, including costumes by Irene Smart and lighting by Martin Leonard, went well. Two slow cues stood out like a beacon in a blackout, but we can blame this on first night buga boos. Selden Miscast Sam Selden, director, was an un fortunate victim of circumstances. The playmaker veteran is not a comedy director or if he is, you wouldn't know it by this particular production. Pacing of the show was very slow and the first act seemed strung out to the breaking point. Perhaps due to inexperience on the part of the cast, but certainly due to miscasting in many places, much of the humor of the play was buried. Most obvious example of the wrong man in the wrong place was police lieutenant Rooney, played by Don Britt. In the heart of Brooklyn, this cop sounded like a hangover from the House of Connelly as was Grandpa's picture on the wall of the set, incidentally. Lack of talent is pardonable but lack of effort is not. You can't act unless the part is as natural to you as walking. You have to learn the lines until they become a habit. Although below the usual stand ard of Playmaker productions, "A.. & Old L." retains enough of the stuff " that made it a hit in New York to provide amusement and interest. It is worth seeing but it is a shame that it hit under the high mark of com edy set by the Playmakers "George Washington Slept Here" last year,. But by the end of its run tonight, "A. & Old L." should be much smoother than on the first rough performance. With Stud Gleicher this afternoon, and you see a fella, in a tan suit, don't swing 'cause that'll be me with my roommate's best set of threads on. Or, better still, don't get in any fights. Leave it to the boys on the field, with them . it's legal, and besides they get paid better. In case you happen to have yes terday's Daily Tar Heel around, please reach for same and note the date at the top of every page. The accurate news staff again scoops the world 'cause the date reads "Novem ber 30, 1942." Damn, I told Roose velt to stop fooling around with the calendar. IF IT'S FOOD YOU WANT Gome to THE MARATHON o Self -Service
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