1 . . r f -K-3 TYDiDAY'JMrJAr.Y li. PAGE TOO THE DAILY TAR HEEL tii : s i ti 5a ar ve f i ;ot ta nei lut :ar She cn dot the ins: sho son clu adj fee , is s ; tivi foot par this ! i fine ; and : the diti tun stat Sou ney the big - Car Stai colli ( : tow the Rho the Can of t whe a co and 5 the; Big; ame an c! tatic petfr 1 athb bask olini Of 1 foot! fact shou of in 5T() e Daily Ths official newfcp.-ipcr of. the Publication Board ot the University of North Carulinu, Cti.-ipt-i Hill, wuic it is l.ssued daily during the regular sessions tit the Univermty hy the Colonial l'ress. Inc.. except Monday, examination and vacation priods, arid tlie summer terms. Entered as second-class mater at the post office of Ch.'ipt'l Hill. N. C. under the art of March 3. J87U. Sub scription price: $8 00 per year, t3.00 per rf4uarter. Member of The Associated I'rt-K. The Associated Press and AP features are exclusively entitled to the U'-e for republication of all news features published herein. -, . FditoT . ... Hu'.-ine Mti'UKjvr Milium i no f.'Uitor Slorit t. liilur . Weui'tianvr Urik Editor Sonet y Editor tUUorial Stafj: Cr uilie Gibxoti, Torn Wharton. Wink Locklair, Bill Kellam, Don S r i ro -t h 1 1 J I mrny fti i therford . John Stump . Vestal Taylor. HYw$'siat!; Roll'-" NeiU. Don Alavriard, Glenn Hardun, Bill Johnson.' WufT Newell, f.am M.Keel. Murk Sumner, Art XanthoB, Graham Jones, Charlie Gibfon. Chatbe ttrwcr, Ginnv Jones. M. K. Jones. ' liiw.-in'i MujV Oliver Vwatkms, lx Willi.-imfi. Neal Cadieu. June Crockett, Don Stanford, Bootv Tavlor, Hill Hrain, Frank Daniels, Ruth Dennis, valyn Harrison, Dan Hob'on. Rutli Sanders, Pepffy Sheridan, Rodney Taylor. Mane Withers, Margaret CarrettHoward Tickje Sports Mall: Xai ry" Fox. Funk Aliston, Jr., Joe Cherry, Lew Chapman. Andy Taylor, Art Greenbaum. Rid Roberts. Ronald Tilley, Billy Peacock. Ken Barton. . .Stuff f fiof onrouher Society StajT PegKy Wood, Marie "withers. Betty Ann Yowell. Judy Sanford. Mnrrerv Storey. . Tribute to SEC and Playmakers We feel that a tribute is due the Student Entertainment Committee for their work in bringing the Don Cossack Chorus back for their third appearance in as many years, and to the Playmakers for their sponsorship of the second local appearance of the Margaret Webster Company, with a program of two Shakespearean plays. Any effort to preserve and to carry ' the talents of the great Bard to the general public are to be commended, but the Playmakers are responsible for an especially fine project in making it possible for hundreds of public school students to enjoy a, professional interpretation of Shakespeare's im- mortal work. This is particularly important since the ex perience of seeing a production unfold on the stage is much more impressive than repeated reading of the same subject, no matter how interesting the subject matter may be. ' These children are, at an impressionable age, being shown the magnificance of a true master. It is to be hoped that the impression and an appreciation of Shakespeare formed here will become a lasting joy and inspiration that will re main with these children for the rest of their lives. . VCT A Boring Task? Shakespearean Productions ' By Margaret Webster ' ' j (Margaret Webster, producer "enfectdr of the Shakespearean Company appearing: here on January vf, with productions of "Julius Caesar" and "The Tam ing of The Shrew" presents a article written especially for the Daily Tar Heel, explaining why her company is touring the )work of Shakespeare. ED.) . Is Shakespeare a boring task, Hn imposed classic to be studied with reluctance for the satis- ; faction of the examiners and then forgotten as rapidly as possible? Why this emphasis on Shakespeare? What has he to say to us? . And why should a professional company, the first of its calibre in the school and college field, select Shake speare as their voice and lead er in their second consecutive 30,000 mile trek across the cam puses of America? It is to be feared that some such thoughts as these may run through the minds of skepticaJ sections of the student body when confronted with the forth Coming performances of "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Ju lius Caesar." Yet Shakespeare has more adherents among their number than they know, and the reason we Tiring them Shakespeare, the reason we bring them these two particular plays, is quite literally "by pop ular demand." There are a few rare and pre cious things which are the com mon heritage of man. Differ ences of language are overcome, antitheses of races and history are annulled; wars do not bring these things within the range of conflict, and in defeat they are not destroyed. They stand for unity, for the universal bind ing force whjch underlines hu manity, and they do so because they bear in them a reflection of humanity itself with all its glories) miseries, common little things of everyday necessity, heights of joy and laughter, and dreadful capacities , for terror 8nd for tragedy. It is our contention, and we shall hops to prove it in ac tion, that Shakespeare belongs not only to the past, but to , the present and future also. We are playing JULIUS CAESAR in modern dress; this is not done as a "stunt." nor with the intention of drawing any specific paral lel with a particular dictator . ship. Least of alL-do we wish . to impose on Shakespeare's magnificent play a pattern or a way of thought which does not belong to it. We shall try .'honestly to interpret what seems to us Shakespeare's thinking in terms which bring mat Keel DICK JENRETTE C. B. MEN DEN HALL. CHUCK HA USER TAYLOR VABEN hoy parkf.r. Jr. .... ZANK KOBB1NS CAROLINE BRUNEK James A. Mills it closest to our own minds ; and our own society. ' For Shakespeare ' is dealing with problems which are very acute and immediate to the world today. His Rome under' Julius Caesar has reached the moment of decisive choice ; choice between the old sturdy individualism of the Roman Re public, with its political system of "checks' and balances," and the surrender, under the spell of a great leader, to a .dictator ship. One step more, of formal ratification, and Casear will be invested with absolute power, complete and irrevocable. He is a man hardening as he grows older, arrogant, demanding flat tery and submission, a prey to superstitution, but he is also the greatest general the world has ever known, a ruler of un equalled ability and force. 4 There seems to be nothing whatever to stop the course of events nothing but murder.' The story of the play is, of course, the story of the men " who murdered a would-be Dic tator and of the consequence of their action upon society and upon themselves. Yet Shake speare's theme is perhaps this: ' no human being is capable of wielding absolute power over his fellows; and as in another of the Bard's plays: "There is no sure foundation built on blcl, no certain life achieved by other' death." The subject-matter and the story of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW are stated very simply and completely in 'its title. The essentials of the plot were used countless limes be fore Shakespeare and have been repeated myriads of times since, in plays, books, pictures and stories. A shrew gets lamed in Hollywood reg ularly every few seasons, and at the present moment Ihe same plot is delighting audi ences all over America -with direct credit to Mr. Shake speare loo in the' form of the Spewack-Cole Porter musical 'Kiss Me Kate." Shakespeare's immediate pre decessor i the field was the unknown author or authors of a contemporary play entitled "The Taming of A Shrew." From it Shakespeare borrowed the characters of the drunken - tinker, Christopher Sly, and the Lord who plays the practical joke upon him and arranges for the Strolling Players to per- fcrm their comedy for Sly's ben efit. In our production we have retained a little more of- the earlier "Sly" scenes than Shak speare did, including a tiny Epilogue which orgihally formed what we today should call a Pitching Horseshoe s by-' Billy Rose Remember my recent piece on the subject of educated f dogs the' one in which I reported the testimony of several scientists , who had examined a group of . ' - - . pooches in Germany and found they could add, subtract and even 'carry 'on a' simple conver sation via alphabet. Jblocks?- " -Well, shortly after, the column appeared, my office, was bom barded with letters calling me a cocker-eyed liar, and insisting that no hound in the history, of this bilious green earth' had ever done the things the professors attested to. Okay. The, objections are hereby acknowleged and duly noted. And now. with your permission, I would like to lake up the question of talk ing horses. . . , In 1900, a Berlin misanthrope named Wilhelm von Osten de cided he preferred the company of hayburners to that of hum ans, and so he moved to Elber feld where he bought and pro ceeded to train a Russian stal lion which he called Clever Hans. By means of a numeral code system, he taught the animal to answer questions by tapping its hoof on a sounding-board and, according to the. record, in a matter of months it could "read, do arithemtic, and dis tingish between dissonant and harmonious chords." Shortly before von Osten died, he willed Clever Hans ,to a Herr Krall who added several other horses to the school, including Hafischen, a Shetland pony. Berlo, a near- lyblind black stallion, and Muhamed, an Arabian colt which turned out lp be the Quiz Kid of the class. Two years later, we are asked to believe that the entire stable was adding, subtracting and multiplying, and Muhamed' could even . solve problems in volving fractions, square roots and cub roots. is' ; Naturally, the scientists in Berlin heard cf these horsey high-jinks, - and. a committee headed by a Professor Stumpf and a Dr. Pfungst (beautiful names, those) hotfooted it to Elberfeld and put horses and owner through their respective paces. When satisfied that the edu cated equines could handle the simpler forms of mathematics, a Dr. Hartman of Cologne po litely asked Muhamea for -the cube roots of 13,824, 29,791 and 103,823. The Arabian, wiout batting tail or mane, tapped out the answers 21, 31 and 47, re- spectively. What, a Professor' Sarasin of Bale then wanted to j know, was the fifth root of 147,008,443? Muhamed gave a contemptuous snort, the mean ' ing of which was plainly. "Ask me something hard," and gave him - the answer. (Anyone - with horse sense knows it's 43.) What's that, dear reader- You say the professors were full of : schnapps? Could'. yery well he: But Maurice Maeterlinck, of "Bluebird"' Jame, was a tern- " 1 perate gent, and in a two-part ' article in the Metropolitan of ' May and June, 1914, he told of his experiences with the talking horses of Elberfeld. I quote: "They are not, only first class calculators, for whom the most repellent fractions and "Pay-off" for Christopher. Any playwright on the print ed page is only half alive. He wrote to be played. He needs . the instrument of the living ac tor and the receiving apparatus of the living audience. ' He : counted on those things and his use of them is a part of his craftsmanship and .his". genius. We hope that later on we may bring you other great , dramatists who are all too seldom seen in the form for which they wrote: , Ibsen, whose astounding inten sity and compression of power ( is almost totally " disguised ,iin' the stuffy Victorian translation with which we are familiar; Chekhov, the tender and prob ing humanist of little things, of laughter and compassion; the glittering satirists of comedy, Sheridan or Moliere; the gi , gantic and irrespressible George Bernard Shaw; perhaps the more recent dominant figures of our own American Theatre. In fact we shall again be guided ' by "popular demands." For us i this ' is an adventure, we are I pioneering; that too is a part of the American inheritance. New yfl V ' fc EVERYTHING BKAtf-' p- ; rT- . ' I'M" 5?AH NEW HERE J:" gj' Distributed by Kine Features Syndicate by arrangement with The Washington Star Those dour dignitaries gracing the walls of GM's main lounge are scowling more'n ever these days. Our worthy forefathers, who appear to have been the personaifications of tradition and conservatism, are blinking in pained amazement. Never have they seen the likes of it! Any day,-' now, ' in 1 ; self -protection, they'll be" breaking out the dark glasses. Why? Why just take a gan-? der at the lounge's new furni-" ture. No wonder the old boys' eyes are aching. The place looks like somebody got.holdled "hit" are finding their of Joseph's coat and used it Wd 111 lu wiups, anu to cover the torrid new chairs Promise to have the Chapel HiU and couches now gracing the air Tir m the near future formerly sober confines of ihe .with some of the ne year's toP lounge Not that the furniture ifs- ' r isn't nice and comfy. 0ne of the finest records we But, wow, the place looks Mve heard recently Js Jimmy like the color spectrum. The Drsey s waxing of Charley. My furnishings look like an interior Bo and Jh The doub decorators' conception of the le-barreled hit marks J. D.'s debut coming Congressional discord ?n a Columbia label, over lil ole Harry's. Fair Deal Both .sides feature the Origi Program. There hasn't been such "Dorseyland" Band. Charley an overwhelming jumble of a tune with a lot of colors in these parts since last llfe and some fine instrumental fall's modern-art exhibit in Per- work by the old master Ray Ba son Hall. And pity our esthetic duc on th;e drums and Charlie student interior- decorators. 'Teagftrden on trumpet. Teagar They just can't stand, or sit, in den teams with Claire "Shanty" the lounge any more.. It's just Hogan on a top-notch vocal job. (pained sigh) too much' for one Hogan has a refreshing voice that to bear. satisfies r-and should go places The raibow room has now in- alon wih J- D. who, if he con corporated about avery imagi- tmues the good Work will land nable,' and some unimaginable, - riSht back on top .of f the"pile. extreme of color and design into Rag is an old-time Dixieland its ornate trappings. Tudor favorite and Dorsey does it up paneling and ceiling, 19th cen- in fin0 style. Claire Hogan sings tury chandeliers, and 20th ceh- with the chorus and turns out tury three-piece corner sets of what is probably the best revival table and adjacent chairs. Not of the old-time hit. to mention the motley-colored One of the top' new bands is leather-c o v e r e d overstuffed that of Ralph Flannagan, a form square roots possess hardly any secrets, but they disting uish sounds, colors and scents, read the lime on the face of a - watch, and recognize cer tain geometrical figures, like nesses and photographs." 1 The playwright went on to tjon js the smoothest we've heard fsay that he came away from mi a long time,. .The band as a Elberfeld "magnificently, dumb- whoie . Eeems to : be better than founded at , the . facility, the Tex .Beneke's crew which no quickness, and the almost joy.-. iongej follows the Miller style, ous carlessness with which the Flannagan's. brass section is easi horses gave the answer." ly as good as Beneke's and the What ever became of these arranging is vastly superior. MnoqdVid. nagsYf have a p . features Harry Prime '. way- orknowmg.rA few weeks 0ne ivlarry has "Been after Maetelmcks articles" ap- arQund a long time " and knows peared, World War I began, and thfi voc'ilists' f ropeff pretty well ; for all I know they may have fe now.-He turns in a good job concluded that humans were no on the vocal Harry has been longer worth talking to. -. .Fnagari arrangement is some Incidentally, if you think - y n hat slower than most People you think I've been lacing my waxings on the market, and want io check on ihe ialk 'Jrankie Laine seems to have ing horses of Elberfeld, go other smash tune on his hands ahead. The story can be found th Waihng At The End Qf The on the shelves of any fair- ' ii6ad. The ditty is sung in typical sized library. ' .. Laine style, is "solid", from start Of course, another way -of-inish.and will have sa-hZard checking is to associate with a time staying6ff?the,4atLpn's hit better type of horse. parades. ... Quarters Old Problems Carolina Seen' GAA Color Story By Bill Kellam suites. - - As for the colors, well, just yellow, and wine furniture. There're yellow drapes; light : tan couches; even lighter tan table and radio cabinet; dark brown tables; chandeliers of tarnished gold; and green lampshades. Record Shop By Gordon Woolfe A batch of brand new records er Glenn Miller arranger, Flan- nagan's latest release pairs a Miller-style "instrumental version of the old standard Where or When with the new rave Dear Hearts and Gentle- People. When is greatly reminiscent ,of . the old Miller crew. The trombone sec- name it. and they got it. There're gold lampshades and pictures frames; green, red and yellow-stripped, just plain The most spectacular articles are the corner tables and four ,red, white, green, red, and sev eral - other - indistinguishable -colors chairs. This' galaxy of colors is secondary,, though, to the turkey-like critters woven into the fabric. You're almost' afraid to sit in the chairs, for fear the fowls aren't house- broken. " The tables to the three-piece suites are quite attractive, but one fears the worst for the per manahce of their beautiful nat ural finish. A few months of carelessly discarded cigarettes and hard knocks will find them looking like the furniture in the DTII office. The lounge is in its present techincolored condition be cause GM Director Jim Rath burn tried to brighten up the drab lounge with indequate funds. He's done the best he could and the new furniture is fine, if a little gaudy. But we still need some kind hearted philanthropist to come through with a big enough wad to really fix us up with a large, more adequate student union. A Y court with a roof, maybe. Rathburn's doing a fine job op erating the present outgrown building with a limited . appro priation, but the student body sure does need a considerably enlarged building. To .The Editor MORE F. E. P. C. Whenever I hear a strong defense of the F. E. P. C. idea, I stop and wonder if f the writer ; is, a; lawyer or law student, be cause if the' bill is ; passed, it would plunge all' industries in to legal tangles that would re quire a full time staff of lawyers, v I am a great believer in ra cial tolerance, but I recognize : the fact thai if ihe F e: p- C. ; -bill were tQ.be eri&'rcedVj with ..ihe,' possible consequence thai Negroes twouldi be hired vas '-. S (foreman-'. in ' some industries, ? mosi of the white workers un der them would .quit work, especially here in the south. Like pure communism, the F. E. P. C. idea is ideal in prin ciple, but also like pure com munism, it would not work. All the laws in the world can be passed to try to make people be tolerant of minority races and colors,- but the only way tolerance will ever be accom : plished is l5jr.;.a mixture, t'cam ' mn eriselknd Christianity. -! -f; l. i U; ,U --k- .'-J? f- MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON This column recently exposed the manner in which mid-continent petroleum had fixed' a $6,000,000 income tax evasion case for only $3, 000,000, after Internal Revenue Agents Triad recommended crim inal prosecution. Here is another fraud case, this one' envolving a Labor Union. The chief difference between the two cases is ihat ihe Truman Administration, despite iis great and avowed friendship for Labor, has not yet lei the union gei away with it. Although ihe union iax fraud has been delayed for one year, it may still be prosecuted. The big oil, com pany case ,on ihe oiher hand. was quietly fixed on ihe in side and was never allowed io gei io ihe Justice Depart- meni for Criminal prosecution. ' The labor case involves three organizers of the United Textile Workers (CIO) Toby Mendes, Frank Bartholomew, and J. H. Turner, who are charged - with encouraging workers to falsify their tax returns at the Simmons Mattress Company, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. The Simmons Company was in the middle of a fight over whether the plant should or should not be organized by the United Textile Workers, and as one inducement to join the un ion, the three organizers offered to show workers how to save money on their income taxes. The saved money all right, but largely by swearing out false church contributions, travel ex penses, gaimbling losses, etc; Gifts to churches in Roanoke Rapids, according to the income tax returns, were so high that one preacher remarked: ; "If we had received air ihe . coniribulions thai have been deducted from the income lax returns around here, we wouldn't have io pass ihe col lection plate again." - Treasury . investigators secur ed scores of sworn affidavits from millworkers telling how the union organizers encourag ed them to fill out fradulent tax returns. Here is one example ' of a conversation between Toby Mendes and a millworker. Mendes: "How much do you donate to church?" Millworker: "I don't go to church. Mendes: "Do you pass by a church on your way to work?" Worker: "Yes." Q: "What church?" A: "The Methodist Church." Q: "Fine. You gave a $300 do nation to the Methodist Church last year." ' Q: "Do you ever gamble?" A: "No." ." '.' , Q: "Do you ever play ' cards for fun?" , "Yes." : ; , Q: "Fine. You lost $300 in. gambling debts last year." In pervious years, the Sim-" mons Company had supplied ac ; countants to help workers make ACROSS l.i:.K standing Kutis liit.li mountain Orit-ntHl dwelling Kkix product i i ..... ? :vi ii 34. 35. 3C. 38. 3:. 41). 41 44. ViRui Paint lilies Preceding nights Festival Kind ot cloth Wearies with aull-ness Thing : law Asiatic country Hurled Ntw ISnuland s state Rfteri-f i 4 M. Hasten Inspect Make suitable tteiair Catch slsht ot Ck-ver -3. Matured 2i. Head 2S. Skin 23 Old musical . note 3" rropical bird 51 l.arse strr-am 47. 48. Large hunting dog: archaic Fish fegps Up to the 50. 51 "I h T T II'7.'4 " " I IS-ML "Til" 53 wM" Wy0 . WM i WA - 1 I 3rTT j ffj3 T wmm' wry- rwm 4J I To rri hi 1 , 1 vpni DREW PEARSON ON WASHINGTON out their taxes, but chief r:r. i ; ganizer Mendes told v.-cakt ,-rs that the company did not have l their interest at heart and that , the union would save thtm I money.. ' !$ . . Mendes also claimed ihat he I and ihe two other union ot- f ganizers were former Internal l Revenue Agenis, knew the in side ropes on how to save . money. Later it turned out l ihat only one of ihe organii- i ers ever had been connected t with Internal Revenue, and ! then only as a file clerk in Washington. After T-Men unearthed the phony tax returns and in the course of their investigation, i Mendes and Bartholomew burst ! into the Tax Collector's office in the basement of the Post Office Building at Roanoke ! Rapids. Four T-Men were in the room: James White, Wood- i row Blue, both Deputy Collec- I tors, and agents Arthur Selby j and Joseph A. Taglieri of the i Intelligence Unit. "I understand you are looking for me," said Mtfcides. "You don't have to look for me. Here I am." There being no comment, Mendes continued: "I understand 'you are investigating the re turns we made out." Agent Selby admitted this was a possibility.'' "Well, I wouldn't if I were you," Mendes warned ."You may get into trouble." The fradulent tax reutrris were for the year 1947, and the Treasury Department concluded its investigation in 1948. More than a year elapsed after that, during which Mendes apparent ly tried to carry out his threat. For no prosecution was ordered in Washington. Union officials claimed that the company had .inspired the : iax probe; thai it was a part of intimidation tactics used by the Simmons Company io pre- ; vent ihe organization of iheir mills. Internal .Revenue Agents, however, claimed that the company kepi hands off. They said ihat Frank Williams, manager of ihe mill, told them ' he didn't want io have any thing io do with the mailer, Hidn'i even want io hear any thing about ii. Finally, after more than one year's dickering and delay in Washington, the Justice Depart ment sent the case to Bryce R. Holt, U. S. Attorney in Greens boro, N. C, for criminal prose cution. Holt, however, has informed the Justice Department that he ; is opposed to prosecution. He justifies this on the ground that the three union organizers got no financial return for prepar ing fradulent returns and that prosecution of the case in court would boil dwn to a battle be tween Labor and Management. That is the status of the case today. Solution of Yestei day's Puzzle 62. Countries 3. Female sheep DOWN 1. Poem r2. ioose 3. Playwiight 4. Hard i..ck 5. famoLK singer 6. Uoity 7. Ourselves . Kind ot fish '10.- Part of th mouth 11. varess Simple f 18. Stain 20. Lateral . boundaries 21. Gaiters 22. 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