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THE DAILY: TAB HEEL
THURSDAY, DECEMBER i
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f'iUtor .., DICK JENHETTE
llurAnrn Manager ', C. B. MENUENHALL.
hmnuinq Kduor CHUCK HAUSER
S T"rt h.ilUor BILLY CARMICHAEU. Ill
I. "Mortal Staff: Charlie Gibson. Tom Wharton. Wink Locklair, Bill Kellam.
Don, Shropshire. Jimmy Rutherford. John Stump, Vestal Taylor.
lVu Stall: hoy Harker. Jr.. Zane Hobbins, EiU Johnson, Sam McKeel. Wuff
Newell. Don Maynard, KoUe Neill, Caroline Bruner, Bob Jlennessee. Graham
Jone. Glenn Harden.
Sport$ Staff: Frank Allston. Jr., Ken Barton. Lew Chtpman. Joe B. Cherry.
L&fry Fox. Vic Goldberg. Art Greenbaum. Billy Peacock, John Poindexter.
B ft Roberts. John Sherill, Bebe Smith, Andy Taylor, fionald Tilley. Buddy
V.tden.
Uu.nnesi (377: Oliver Watkins, Ed Williams. Neal Cadieu. June Crockett, Don
Stanford, Bootsy Taylor. Bill Broln, Frank Daniels. Ruth Dennis, Evalyn Harri
son. Dan Hobson. Ruth Senders. Peggy Sheridan. Rodney Taylor, Marie Withers.
Margaret Garrett, Howard Tickle.
ffn Photographer T.Z James A. Mills
Attention, Car Owners
Joe Bach, chairman of the University Safety Committee,
yesterday issued what he termed a "last call" for student
solutions to the parking problem which his committee has
been batting about for a considerable length of time. All
suggestions are to be in Dean of Students Bill Friday's office
by 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Bach's announcement ordinarily might receive little at
' .tention. were it not for a long-standing threat to deprive cer
tain classes of students of the 'privilege of keeping a car at
Carolina. This possibility appears imminent now, since the
committee and all its pleas to the student body have failed to
net any other solution.
Frankly, we think the Safety Committee and University
administration tend to greatly over-emphasize, this "parking
problem." And we believe any .decree that freshmen or sopho
mores shall not possess cars is out of keeping with tradi
tional student freedom at Chapel Hill.
The Safety Committee may be astounded by our little
concern over the much-ballyhooed parking problem. They
come back with the traditional cry, "there are 3,300 cars and
only 800 spaces." Well, all we've got to say is that does not
. completely represent the facts.
. ' First of all, there ARE plenty of parking.
How Aboutspaces in Chapel Hil1 ioT and a lot more,
p I, of the cars which the present student bodVv
V-arS Mere owns They are not Situated in the middle of
Saturdays campus, but they're in Chapel Hill just the
same. Proof may be found in the fact that
some 15,000 additional cars descend on this little town every
football weekend, and they always end up parked, some way
or other.
We are hot saying that there is anything admirable about
Chapel Hill's parking problem on football weekends. But the
fact remains that if "15,000 cars can JAM into Chapel iHill
on one day, 3,300 can be easily accommodated on week days.
Certainly these parking places are not convenient for
classes nor particularly near the vicinity of South Building.
But there are plenty of places always vacant down by the
Monogram Club, next to the bell tower, or up Cameron Ave
nue. Most students don't keep cars in Chapel Hill to go to
class in anyway. They want them for weekend trips home
or to visit other nearby cities. And if a student really wants
a car in Chapel Hill, he can find a parking place somewhere,
even though the few mid-campus parking lots may be re
served for faculty and special students' cars.
No one can deny these facts, but some will
Parking contend correctly that the students will park
y . their cars "on campus", even though those
I ICketS lots are restricted. What's the answer? Well,
Go Unpaid the Chapel Hill police force is currently en
gaged in giving parking tickets right and left
to the students parking in restricted areas. This apparently
does no good; the students ignore the tickets and park there
anyway. The reason is of course that the police department
is extremely negligent in collecting the fines after the
tickets have been placed on cars. It's no wonder students
ignore the restrictions. They are not enforced.
If the Safety Committee could work out a method of en
forcing the present parking restrictions on campus, the prob
lem would be solved. Few are the students who will pay a
dollar fine every day just to park back of the YMCA or Steele
dormitory.
Enforcing the existing restrictions would accomplish at
1 least one. of two objectives, both of which would end the
problem: (1) the students would leave their cars off campus
at the dorms and fraternity houses, or (2) the students will
; . leave their cars at home of their own accord, the inconveni
ences of off-campus parking off-setting the pleasure of keep
ing a car at school.
This, then, is our solution to the problem. Enforce the
parking rules, make sure the parking tickets are paid, and
the Safety Committee's worries will be over.
A ban against student cars at Chapel Hill ApolOQy tO Clllbs
Ban Goes wouia no1 De in keeping with Carolina tra
. . dition. We kno.w such rules are enforced at
Against other schools along with a lot of other rules
Tradition that make life similar to a prep school or some
academy.
Let's" Wake Up
By John Stump
Within the next two, or three weeks another
quarter will be past history and we will all be a
little older.
While studying for final examinations or try
ing to make up hopelessly large amounts of
back work some, of us will poneer this fact and
re-reach a disappointing conclusion for three
months spent in this seat of learning, we have
to show five football stubs, an empty wallet, and
half a tin of aspirin tablets. During exam week,
we will add a box of No-Doz and a feeling of
disgust to this meager list.
Although widespread, this condition is rather
surprising. Everyone starts off each new quar
ter with a firm resolution to "hil the books'
"brush up on so and so' "catch up on my read
ing," or "start getting something out of col
lege." Even with these resolutions, it is only,
natural to occasionally put a date ahead of a
term paper or a beer before a chapter of
political science. However, the reason for the
malady seems to harder to reach than that.
Apparently, many people at the- university
have builta deep-seated respect for mediocrity.
This extends to the classroom, the dormitories
and fraternity houses, faculty offices, and centers
of extra-curricular activity. We seem to have
as a goal the life supposedly led by Dean Ache
son at Yale. . ."he shunned the abstractions. . .
kept far from the literary life of the campus, or
anything that might have smacked of culture
with a capital C."
Few of us are able to understand that to do
otherwise, it is not necessary to let your hair
grow, move ino a cave, or join a dramatic or
ganization. Phi Beta Kappa keys harmonize with
saddle shoes fully -as well as do beer-stained
sports coats. - - '
" But this is against the trend. . .a trend, by the
way, which is assisted by the instructor who is
more interested in writing his own thesis than
in the English 2 class he is supposedly helping
to learn to Write themes. And there is no record
of any mass attempt to join the campus organiza
ions, some of whose members sprout Wallace
buttons at the dr6p of a pink flag, although the
membership of such organizations may be em
barrassed and misrepresented Dy the action of
this over-visible few. . ,
However, these factors and others combine
to make hearts rather than bridge the leading
fraternity house Card game, to cause dormitory
men to choke all roads out of Chapel Hill each
Friday, and to produce phone booth crowds
at campus appearances of world famous think
ers and leaders. For example, judging by
actual turnout, Franz Polgar has over six times
the campus drawing power of the British
socialist leader, Harold Laski.
In many cases, this veneration of mediocrity
takes; an active form. There are plentiful ex-
oiiii(;a ui tiic wti o iuuvh io win vm nui. auuiit - , 1 -
that he studies, of the capable student leader ; ting, on top.tof nay head scream- side of the sink.
He's Gaffing Plenty of Recognition ...
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This 'n That
Buck s New Room Mates
Very few people I suppose,
have two pets in their rooms
named "Shorty".and "Drop Dead
Twice, Jr.," And if there are
some folks who should happen
to have two, I'll wager that one
of them isn't a bird and the
other a turtle."
As I was attempting to shave
the other morning, if suddenly
occurred to me that I was pro
bably the first person in history
who had to shave with a turtle
in. my left hand and a bird sit-
By Bill Buchan
Shorty's favorite perch, in ad
dition to the top of my head,
is on the edge of the mirror
just above the aforementioned
lavatory. So, here, we have the
scene. I'm standing there, cov-ered-with
lather, Shorty is look
ing at himself in the mirror,
giving wolf whistles and talking
to himsejf like mad. Just below,
Joe has discovered that he can
waddle (or whatever a turtle
does when he moves) around
and immediately heads for the
who drops out rather than be called a politician,
of the talented man who avoids intellectual
effort and narrows his scope of operations in
order to be "one of the crowd." In individual
cases, this is not to be too severely lamed.
Certainly, one of the primary purposes of college
is to associate with the people around you and
learn to enjoy living with people as they are.
The persons referred to above are probably
getting as much or more from the university
than the confirmed lone wolf or the book-worm.
But serious thought and participation in Jam
pus activities are in no way opposed to a desire
to be a "good joe." It is ridiculous for such
a feeling to exist, and, in fact, it may not be
nearly so widespread as this writer believes.
But if and where it does exist, whether caused
by the reasons laid down above or by inertia,
or by unawareness that there are iine things
to be gotten from college, it is a sad commen
tary on us and our university. More particular
ly, failure to take advantage of any but the
superficial benefits of four years in Chapel
Hill is a mistake for which we shall pay from
graduation on. ' - -
All of us know good businessmen in our home
towns who are fine people but who have never
developed any interests other than the coining of
money and occasionally playing .golf or drinking
good whisky. Despite the success of such people,
they are often unsatisfied if not acutely unhappy,
because they cannot enjoy their material gains.
Without any interests beyond the door of the
office, anyone will miss the opportunity for con
tinued discovery and thought to be found in
reading, the savor of -good conservation, and the
pleasure of associating with people in some
enterprise other than listening to the radio. But
interests which have not been developed by
graduation are apt to go unstimulated unless
the person concerned is very exceptional, and
if the only knowledge we gain here is that
necessary to pass, it would be much cheaper to
take the courses by correspondence and come to
Chapel Hill for the big week-ends.
The ban on cars at best is a negative approach which
would be very difficult to enforce and would involve many
intricate details. In short, we believe this restriction would
cause the Safety Committee more headaches than the pres
ent parking "problem" is causing. If a poor freshman were
found with a car would he be booted from school or prose
cuted by the Honor Council? Or would the Dean give him a
stiff warning?
The Daily Tar Heel wishes no such situation ever to exist
at Chapel Hill. Make the students park their cars off the
campus, but don't tell them they can't keep a car in this town.
Much to the chagrin of club presidents,
and the DTH also, a number of notices
turned in concerning meetings this year
have been left out of the paper. The presi
dents of these clubs have just cause for com
plaint, for many campus organizations de
pend on the Daily Tar Heel as their only
method of communication with members.
In the rush to put out the paper each
night, many of these notices have been
overlooked. However, the paper's staff is
aware of their importance, and in the future
every effort wih.be made to get these bulle
tins in the paper. Right now we offer our
apologies for inconveniences resulting from
the omission of the club notices.
. 'c jvjs..
ing "Shorty' is a good boy."
ExplanationJSimple. Joe's
(his official name is really
Drop Dead Twice. Jr.. but we
call him Joe for short) home
is temporarilly in the lavatory
in my room. Consequently,
when one washes, shaves, or
lakes a drink of water. Joe
must be taken out and either
placed on the edge of the sink
or held. He is the wildest,
most curious creature I've" ever
seen and unless you watch
him, he jumps three feet to
the floor and is gone. That
explains why he must be held
while one is a shaving.
Shorty is the parrakeet that
I have mentioned here before.
He is about six or seven months
old usually resides in a cage,
where all pet birds belong. How
ever, he is just slightly "spoiled
and unless you . let him out at
least once a day, he'll make so
much noise you can't concen
trate on anything else. So each
morning while I'm dressing, I
usually open his cage and let
him have the freedom of the
room. (After locking the door
first - to prevent . anyone from
opening it suddenly, and allow
ing him to escape.)
Real Gone Guy I
Everybody likes for Choo
Choo to go all the way. But
on the gridiron, not over Kemp
Nye's private PA system.
Choo Choo still has to go
all the way down to Dallas.
We all hope ' he'll be strong
enough to cream Rice.
But he certainly won't have
that full head of steam if he
keeps going at the rale that
he's moving over at Ab's.
Round and round. He's cir
cled that damn perpetual mo-
tion machine enough to girdle
the globe two or three times.
People don't like .. it. Black
looks greet the person ' m BVP
who's foolhardy enough to men
tion the Campbell -Beebe musi
cal .masterpiece;- One can have
too much of a 'good thing. ;
-
So how bout changing your
record, Kemp! Nye, It's rapid
ly becoming number one on'
our (mis) fit parade BK.
I catch Joe just as he starts
over, the side and hold him
with two fingers in my left
hand. He doesn't like this so
well, so he kicks and pushes
and does his best to escape.
In the meantime. Shorty dis
covers that I'm paying noat
tention to him, so he hops
down on top of my left hand.
J.i is hard enough to hold
Joe and shave too, so I sorta
bounce my hand . and Shorty
flies to the top of my head
and proceeds to prance around.
Having him chattering on top
of my head isn't so awfully badT
but he usually winds up on" my
shoulder, investigating my neck
and the shaving cream on my
ce. Just as I start to swoop
down with the razor, I see his
beek directly in path and stop
just in time.
In the process, I'm getting
madder and more thoroughly
disgusted but Shorty just flies
away and . makes a couple of
nosedives at me, screaming "Talk
to me, Shorty" and "Shorty is a
good boy."
So I'm mad, see, and I try
to get him headed back in his
cage. I sit Joe down on the
dresser and get Shorty perched
on my hand so I can gently
guide him back in his cage.
,- After . about six attempts, I
get him inside and go back
to look for Joe. Joe isn't to be
found. At least, not until I
take everything off the top
of the dresser and finally lo
cate him silting peacefully un
der an obscure piece of paper.
By this time, I've got five
whole minutes to spare before
class time, so I run the razor
back and forth a couple of times,
finish up quick like, fix Joe's
water for the day it has to be
a certain temperature and
start out for Saunders. Without
any breakfast, either.
The day is coming, eventually,
when I'll have a regular bowl
for J oe and it'll be warm enough
for Shorty to go back to his
trailer home. In the meantime,
my mornings certainly start off
at a nice pitch.
. . .1 wonder if anyone else
ever tried to shave with a tur
tle in their left hand and a bird
sitting on top of their head
screaming 'Shorty is a good
boy".
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This Rain Is OK
By "Wink" Locklair
For the second major production of the s.;-:,...,,.
The Playmakers are giving, in their theatre r,
adaptation of the , popular Somerset Maui;h;.tn
story "Rain" and, on the whole, it is a succrss
ful evening. The play is extremely wo t;.,,
capably directed, and enhanced by some ot the'
best lighting and set designing seen around her,,
in a good, long while.
"Rain" tells a sordid story of sexual fru.tia
tion, maladjustment and spiritual deterioration
as reflected in a group of travelers thrown t(i.
gether for a couple of days in a cheap hou.
store on the Island of Pago Pago. There is Dr.
1vIacPha.il (Alec W. Finlayson) and his v.-;,
(Anne Martin), getting their first impression of
the South Seas while on their way to a now
assignment; Reverend Alfred Davidson (Fo.nc-r
Fitz-Simmons) and his wife (Martha Nell Hard;, ),
missionaries in the Billy Graham and Aimec
Semple MacPherson tradition; and Miss Sadie
Thompson, flashy, irrestable, and quite obviously
a woman of the world.
When Reverend Davidson discovers that Miss
Thompson is entertaining in her room some of
the boys from the nearby Naval Station, he
announces to one and all that "she's out of
Iweili." a Honolulu "sporting" place nor un
like a certain Raleigh establishment. From here
on it is' a battle royal between Miss Thompson
and The Reverand. a battle for possession which
ends in tragedy.
The principal conflict is carried on with the
assistance of and in spite of the hotel proprietor,
Joe Horn (Nathaniel White), his wife Amecna
(Catherine Covington); the quartermaster of the
ship "Orduna," (Bruce Strait) and an assortment
of servicemen of various ranks: Edgar Loes.sin,
Charles Williamson and William Hardy.
Miss Lamoht's interpretation of Miss Thomp
son has many admirable qualities. First of all,
she has rehearsed the part with much care and
attention to detail. Her movements about the
stage, her ability to draw out the sympathetic,
human emotion in Sadie, and her obvious un
derstanding of the role are enough to make one
believe that Director John Parker could have
no better local actress to undertake it.
But regardless of all this, Miss Lamont often
fails to vary in any noticable way her vocal in
terpretation of a role. Her voice, strong though
it is, rises and falls with reckless abandon. A;
Regina in "The Little Foxes," as Mrs. Terence
the English maid, in "Night Must Fall," a;
Mama in "I Remember Mama," and, indeed, ir
her current play, there was that same croking
falsetto-flip, which detracts rather than adds t
her preformances.
In other words, be it an English maid, an
Alabama lady of cunning, a Norweigian moth
er, or an ex-Honolulu prostitute, the part still
gels the very same vocal response from Miss
Lamont. It doesn't ruin her performance be
cause all of these parts have been more than
capably projected. But it is awfully monoton
ous to know that you are always going to hear
the same song, regardless of the language.
Mr. Fitz-Simons as Reverend' Davidson coulc
have been more persuasive in his conversior
scenes with Sadie, but he could not have beer
better in his business with Mrs. Davidson anc
the others in Horn's hotel-store.
Nat White was excellent as Joe Horn and al
the men from the Naval Station are deservin
of special praise for their performances. Ann
Martin continues to improve with each role sh
is given by The Playmakers and she just stole
out and out, at least three scenes opening night
A fine acting job was turned in by Catherin
Covington as Ameena, and Martha Nell Hardy
who played the role of Mrs. Davidson, was mos
outstanding. Mr. Finlayson, as the practical
helpful Dr. MacPhail, also turned in a nice per
formance. Some mention should be made, toe
of the "natives" who wandered in at variou
tirries during the evening: Martha Pierpon1
Charlotte Davis, Clyde Gore, Forrest Covingtoi
and Richard Korn.
As has been mentioned before the' Gault
setting and Mr. Jousse's lighting were superb,
and Irene Smart's costumes were appropriate
for the tropics, also.
There is no better entertainment to be foum
in Chapel Hill this week than The Playmaker
production of "Rain," which will be given throug:
Sunday evening at 8:30.
Letters
To the Editor
Editor:
. After enjoying four cloistered years in a
atmosphere of honesty and integrity, I find thing
at Chapel College changing.
I can remember the day that you never locke
your door, you left your money in wide ope
draws and didn't worry about it 4t would b
still be there when you got back. You coul
leave your books in the Post Office on a rain
day; come back two weeks later and collec
them. Things were pretty honest or the vets ha
more money then?!
This morning in the Library I lost a lotif
faith in the Honor System and in the so-called
"Carolina Gentleman." While turning my back
on the card catalog table to replace a drawer,
a swift and adept peir of hands made off with
my poor, precious gold top penciL A very neat
trick indeed, and also slightly reminiscent of
the low type of vermin that usually inhabits
subways, and hotel lobbies.
If it were mistake, I apologize; if it weren'
the thief has exactly five days to mail that penc
to 4 Nash, before his name goes to the Men'
Honor Council for his bit of crummy stealing
The moral boys and girls: Lock up . you
falsies and false teeth at night even they aren
safe under this petty regieme of thievery.
Al Wiley
DECEMBER 1