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TUESDAY, finUUTARY T?., I't',0 PAGE TWO . THE DAILY lAR HEEL 2P)e3)ailyiarltcel Tb official newspaper rl the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, wrier it is irsued daily during the regular sessions of tl.e University by trie Colonial F'icsh. Irrc. enrept Mondays, examination and tcflti(n periods, find the wunifrier terms. Entered as sei-ond-class m.-itter ut trie post office of Chapel Mill. N. C under the art of March 3, 1679. Suh--rpti.in pfiee: J8.0G per year. M-Wi per quarter. Member of The Associated i'frs. 1'hic A"otirfifcl Tress find Af features &re exclusively entitled to the v icirrryiub)ruiin of all r.em featqre ptibltshea herein. td tor DICK Jf.NRETTE fluiirm Manuorr C. B. MEXDEXHALL Alan.iiyin fViitor Hov Parker, Jr. ... fcane Robbing Caroline limner . . Jim Mills .... CHUCK HAL'SF.R TAVLOFt VADEN Adv. Manager Oliver Watkins Bu. oijict Mgr. ...ta wunams Nat'l Adv. Mgr. .June Crockett fcfvt tUitor Oe.r. In Til (for SoHeti Editor ... fhotnimnlirr .... Editiirial .Srufl : Jack Brown. BUI Kt-Uam, Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton, t'hiitlie Citron. Joe Sei kora, Veftal Tajlor, M Johnson. Charlie Joyner. Dave Siinrf", John SUimp. ";.i Suit): lUlfe Neill. Don Maynard, Glenrt Harden. Bill Johnson. Wurt Newell. S.itn McKecl. Mnrk Sumner, Art Xanthos, Graham Jones, Charlie lir- er, Ginny Jonr, M. K. Jones. lu-iirTpij Siuff: Kal' Cacficu.' Don Stanford Rootsv Taylor. Bill Brain, Ruth Dcnnix, MarXr Withers. Randy Shiver, Charles Ashworth, Mary Tomlin. Dick M.icill. Jim Lindlev. Branson Ilobbs, John Poindexter, Carolyn Harrill, Lila Itobinson. fleverlv Serr. tiruee Bauer. Joe Nelson. Leonard Raw Is. SfKtrts .Siif: Iirry Fox Frank Alls'.on, Jr., Joe Cherrv, Lew Chapman, Andy Tavlor, Art Greenbaum, Biff Roberts, Ronald Tilley, Bill Peacock, Ken B.irton. liovieh) Stat: Peggy Wood. Marie Withers, Betty Ann Yowell. Judy Sanford, Marele Storv. Grading Promptness Needed Sound & Fury Inflation By Bill Kellam . 'Fifty Grand," 'the latest Sound and Fury effort which premiered Sunday night and runs through this evening, has a $49,997.02 cast and a $2.98 cast. , It was indeed unfortunate that 'so entertaining a group -of comedians and comedianiies as Bill Rogers, Wilma Jones, Jim Mills, Jane Milligan. and their supporters should have been burdened with this script which gave them so little op portunity to display their va rious, talents. For the show, heralded as a story of campus life at Caro lina for the past 50 years, ig nored the mass of comical hu- . man interest material available concerning Carolina.' It served instead as a vehicle for the ex position of a large number of over-familiar, sentimental Tin Pan Alley tunes. This relegation of the humor ous aspects of the show to a secondary position was most dis appointing, considering the amusement that the four prin cipals' provided when they were clowning about the stage. Too, It's Up to Him Tread Covington contributed the most humorous element in the script. His original lyrics for the overture, "Fifty Grand;" for "I'm A Carolina Coed," which was set to "I'm A Yan- A number of students have complained recently about the slowness of some of the faculty members in grading test papers and getting them back to the students. While this' by no means is a blanket criticism of the whole faculty, it is' .'the players acted much better certainly true that many instructors are unnecessarily slow V y g in returning quizzes after they have been graded. It is strange that some professors manage to return the papers to the students within one or two days after the quiz day con sistently, while other instructors take anywhere from 10 to 14 or more days to do the Trading. kee Doodle Dandy;" and for the Most students feel that as long as they are forced to song and dance number dealing hustle around to be prepared to take a quiz on a certain day, with the wartime NROTC pro then the least the instructor can do is grade it and return it gram; ,ichTw? se to mu" .,i . , A. Tf . . sic of "This Is The Army," were within a reasonable length of time. It is discouraging m- exceptionally clever. Jim Ham deed for a student to come to class day after day expecting merstein arranged the overture. to have a quiz paper returned while the instructor con- TT . . ..... Unfortunately, the army of tinually delays. scripters' originality ended just This is not to say that Carolina students expect their fac- &hout thee' fve ?r ? hort se" ... , . , . . . , quence of jokes about the roar- ulty to whiz through the quiz papers with an eye toward ing ,20's, in whose rendition getting them back promptly rather than grading them care- Ginny Jones took a risque lead fully. The students are perfectly willing to wait a reasonable length of time to get the quizzes back but when a professor waits two or three weeks to finish his gradingthen he is falling short of his obligation to the students.. Just what is the rush to get the papers back? First, students have a natural anxiety about the grade they make on a quiz and have a right to know their, grades as soon as poss ible. Second, when a student gets his grade back he may better determine how much time he should spend-studying on that particular course. Know ing one's grades in a course is a definite asset in apportion ing the amount of time spent studying. Third, most students like to size up their instructor's method of grading before taking another quiz. It always helps to know what points the instructor grades most strictly on. However, some stu- cienis compiain xney nave nact as many as tnree quizzes ai-. khaki pants added a note ol ready this quarter without even getfing back the first quiz, suspense to the proceedings. Actually they don't know how to prepare for the tests this instructor gives. WHENEVER .WORE , X r- .1 DOOR WILL B 1 - r. iWK mm open ,;J .;7!..1 -arts, .v , , .Vi v : M r - V .-'h DUtrfbuted by King Peatnrei Syndicate ty rrngement with Tb Washing-ton Stu' LETTERS Tp THE EDITOR APO Replies Aids In Studying For Quiz The redeeming dramatic features of the show were the knowing naivete of Miss Wil ma Jones and the ebullience of Miss Milligan, as typified by the latler's frenzied triple- f threat delivery of "I'm Just Wild About Harry." That number was the high spot of the show, and Miss Milligan made it so by putting every thing she had into it. Milligan and Mills provided comic relief as they tosser.' books, quips, and themselves about the stage, unchecked by inhibition. Mills parade around the stage during the 1918 se quence in a low-riding pair ol Finally, from the professors' standpoint, the best way an instructor can gain the respect of his students is by return ing the papers promptly to the students. Nothing an instruc tor can do makes a better impression than promptness in grading. No matter how good the lectures may be, if the pro fessor loafs in returning .the papers he will not have the complete respect of his students. With final examinations rapidly approaching, the fac ulty should make a concerted effort to return all old' test papers to the students immediately so that they may know how they stand in the course. Still No Consolation Game The annual Southern Conference basketball tournament is scheduled to begin on Thursday of this week, with the eight top teams in the conference competing for honors. Plans for the big event were released this weekend, and once again the loop directors have failed to agree to a pop ular demand for a consolation game as a prelude to Saturday night's championship finals. As it stands now, season ticket holders will witness four basketball games Thursday, two more on Friday, and only one on Saturday. Many basketball enthusiasts in this area had hoped that the conference would arrange for a consolation game be tween the two losers of Friday's games. This idea of a con solation game is common practice in most big tournaments, era. The mincing walks of th It is just another method of giving the tourney fans a little more for their money. With the present ticket prices as high as they are, it would be commendable indeed if the confer ence had seen fit to give the fans an extra game. . Wilma Jones, too often had little to do while partner Roger! warbled but stand around and roll her eyes, but she put more v expression in one ogle than the the usual undergrad Tallulahs put in an act's worth of ges tures. Daisy Belle Anderson contrib uted a torchy rendition of "I'll Be Seeing You" in complete darkness. Either Daisy Mae is awful shy, she awful ugly, or the lights burned out. Anyway, the audience was left in the dark -"Pat Jewell sparkled through 'a sultry rendition of "Come Ta ' Me My Melancholy Baby." Th Harmoneers harmonized enter tainingly on a couple of barber shop quartet tunes. The rather barren set a backdropresembling the "Y" and a "Y" , court bench gave one a vague impression of the locale of the proceeding. One onlooker was heard remark ing after the show, though that ihe backdrop also looked like the student union build ing at Ouchita State College, Ouchita. Arkansas. The costume department di a clever job of satirizing tin bag-like garments of the flapper Editor: . In regards to a letter appearing in the editorial column of the Daily Tar Heel of February 23, 1950, and remarks made about the A. P. O. Fra ternity we wish to state thai we "have more im portant things to do, things' tci improve the campus and community, than write controversi al letters to the Daily Tar Heel! ' However, for the benefit of any persons wishing further information on A. P. O. functions, and or princi ples we invite them to visit Room 202, Y. M. C. A. building. Information will also ber furnished the Daily Tar Heel staff on request. , ' A. P. O. Collier's Contest Committee. Wanted 'Jim Rogerson' Editor: A letter appeared, in the Daily Tar Heel of February 23, 1950, signed by ' a person called Jim Rogerson. I have carefully checked the records concerning this student. I am convinced that there is no such person. However, if there is a Jim Rogerson and he is the one who-wrote this letter, I would "like the pleasure of meeting him and I will pay my own expenses to any place in the state of North Carolina to meet him. Henry Osinski Rogerson Again The idea of a consolation game was tried successfully in the Dixie Classic basketball tournament, in Raleigh earlier this season. In this event the fans got to see 12 basketball games at-season ticket prices cheaper than those which the Southern Conference charges for seven games in its tourna ment. A consolation game as a preliminary to the championship game on Saturday night. would fit in conveniently with the tournament plans. It is to be hoped that this idea will be adopted if the tournament, site; is moved to Raleigh next year. Perhaps the added seating capacity of the Coliseum wduld make possible a reduction in the cost of tickets. girls added to their effectiveness The lighting was the biggesj mechanical enigma of the even ing. It ranged from titter brilll ance to, as state, a total black out. 'Best Letter' The Chesterfield award for the best "Letter to . the Editor" of last week goes to Varsity Wrassler Barry Farber, for his letter titled "Rag-g Mop-p." He He wanders from A-Bombs ta H-Bombs to curriculum. He may pick up his carton of Chester-' fields by dropping by the- DTH editorial office any afternoon. Editor: Too many people are concerned with WHO wrote something rather than the issue involved. It is not half so important to know whether a certain someone is writing with a .nom de plume as it is to evaluate a Letter to" the Editor for what it's worth. My open letter Xq Jim Gwynn was a bit too satirical to suit some people be cause it hinted that the A. P. O. beauty queen , election was conducted "undemocratically" or because it hinted that the. Election Board was not ominscient. O. K., so it did offer the services of A. P. O. rhetorically to the student body for the conductance of its annual ' election. O.K., O. K.! Agree with me or disagree with me in or out of the editorial page of the Daily Tar Heel.: But don't get so childish that it hurts you twenty-four hours a day that ybu don't know the nose to which you can point to say, "Ahaaaa." I would like you to know, Mr Editor, that I think that you did quite right in printing my letter even though unfortunately I didn't let you and several other people involved know that Jim Rogerson was NOT my real hones'-to-good-ness name. Tell Mr Kosinski (real name?) that I am sorry for my sins. Jim (Buddy) Rogerson Simm's Gun-. Editor: In regards to a letter appearing in ths editorial tapering off to nothing. Perhaps this is the best after all. None can blame a man for doing his job in the best way he is able, even though his pattern of execution, at , times, seems - pretty left-handed. ... . ; ' ' The job in itself, at best, is one that invites frequent conflict of viewpoint. There are bound to be "those ' moments" of question if not Hot blood. But may we not remember that it takes TWO to make a scrap or TWO, at better level, to make trie healthy contact of diplomacy? If nothing more, accomplished, your basic edi torial gave food for reflective thought. The one thing that bothers1 me most on this Simms deal is the gun. Do we. need an armed gestapo in this peaceful haven of thought? What does the man aim to shoot ! our rabid squirrels? It is possible that Mr. Simms totes thisartiltery through no volition of his own. Could the cam The writer has been around to other schools. pus topside command take thought in this? and watched their protective security operate. He could cite a university just twice the size of U. N. C. where just one amiable cop (and please take note of the amiability) keeps day time operations under top-control. This man is nearly 70 years old. He wouldn't know bar rel from trigger on a gun, but he knows a lot about this thing called human nature. Not a student walks that campus who wouldn't go to bat for him. Just lift a hotile eyebrow at lova ble old Al, and you stand in line to start a riot. It works around, . perhaps, to this: No one really owns this campus, here, except , you, and I, and a million other, Carolina people. Everybody's got a corner on a spear of grass, -at least. ! Those who stay here for their stretch of work are just a bunch of temporary stewards. It's up to them to make the property shine. Older and wiser heads (and among them those who love this place with sheer fanatacism) know full-well the delicacy of such stewardship. They know that folks ("who own") come in from dis tant points; that first impressions count. They know it the ' more because this university has (been under fire. , Sometimes, because of this pattern, discourag ing things do happen. To cite ' an instance, a dusty and travelworn Colonel, in civilian clothes, stopped by to in quire the whereabouts of a friend. He freely ad mitted, latr, that he "looked like hell and needed a shave,'' but as I happen to know the man there was nothing wrong with the courtesy of his approach. He was met with curt rebuff from one whom he described as a "two-bit, fe male clerk." And he went away in deep-hurt wonderment. His honest quandry later made the rounds, and reached the ears of those who carry weight in the university's fiscal appropriation There were' blushes in high places . Write it off as "one of those things," if you Wish, but it's part of the TNT of a" setup such as our own. The careless receptionist, even though ex-; ception to the rule the blunt police official dom administrative hewing to the line when ' rare exception to the rule would make for better sense sporadic abruptness over the ' phone the careless act of a student represent ative, either here or al home- these and such-like all tear down the careful frame of 'decency that has been in the thoughtful build ing up. right here at Chapel Hill, for years. In answer to the .new curriculum survey, a certain fine professor jotted down, I'm told, "A course in common courtesy, repeated through each academic year." A bit more thought on individual behalf works out in the topsides public relations front that everybody needs and wants. Wherever, then, the structure is currently weak, could we give it a stronger touch? J. W. Stringfellow, Carrboro Attention1 Gl's Editor: " You can assist me greatly by running the fol lowing letter in your paper. I need information which some Carolina GI student may be able to supply me: ' . . : . - G. I. BUI Students:, - A student on the U. N. C. campus has suc ceeded in having his G. I. Bf extended be cause he was present at camp before October 6, 1946, but not sworn in in lime to receive tho full benefits which expired on thai date. ' I wasn't sworn in in time- either and would like to get an extension also. Will the person thai was able to do this pfease mail or give the address and necessary information' used in do- ing so to: -, ; Charles Ray Frye . y Box 176 Wake Foreet. N..C. 1 V' DREW PEARSON ON WASHINGTON , Merry-go-round WASHINGTON. A slow fire burning across the Midwest prairies, will stir the biggest rumpus in the 81st Congress and decide the 1950 elections. This is the opinion of ranking politicians on both sides of the aisle. The fire . is a rank-and-file farmers' revolt against the slid ing scale of parity payments which was jammed through Congress by the powerful Farm Bureau Federation plus a coalK. tion of Republicans and South em Democrats. Signs of the revolt are: No. 1 A poll among Iowa hog farmers taken by Wallace's farmer, which revealed 45 per cent favor the Brannan Plan of direct government payments to farmers, while letting fall the prices to the consumers. Thirty-five per cent are back of the present system of the government buying and storing surpluses to keep prices up. The remainder could not decide. This is a gain of 11 per cent in eight months for the Brannan idea. . Commented one hog farmer, "let the price drop. Maybe some poor folks could have a little meat especially children. Let's' not store pork and have it wasted." , , This poll was t&ken in the home state Allan Kline, Farm Bureau President, who is bitter ly fighting the Brannan plan. . Kline boasts "when an Iowa hog sees me, he curls his tail." Sign No. 2 In' North Dakota, Sen. Bill langer and the Non partisan League, are preparing to leave the Republican Party in favor of the Brannan Plan. A major farm authority in the Dakotas, Editor William Ronald of Mitchell, S. D., has been frantically- urging the GOP leadership to write 'a new farm policy. Sign No. 3 3 Grass-roots fanners' meeting in Crawford County, Wis., recently .turned into a debate on the Brannan Plan. Before the debate 75 were for the plan, "45 against, and 92 didn't know. After the debate, 103 voted pro, 45 against, and 47 still undecided. Sign No. 4 Democratic wom en at the Jefferson-Jackson Din ner reported that the question they most wanted data on was the Brannan Plan. Its author, Secretary of Agriculture Char ley Brannan, got more applause than anyone at the $100-a-plate dinner except Truman. Sign No. 5 Chairman Harold Coolcy of the House Agricul ture Committee, noticeably un enthusiastic about the Brannan Plan last year, recently tr.li the Farm Bureau of North Cair -lina, his home state: "Eitl.fr come up with something bf tt r than the Brannan Plan, or st :p standing in the way." Gov. Km Scott of N. C, a former St.it Commissioner of Agriculture, i on record for the plan. Back of the farm revolt is an estimated drop of five to six billion dollars in farm income, the fear farmers income will drop further under the sliding -scale formula backed by t! - Farm Bureau, and mounting criticism of piled-up surpluses while food prices remain hici. in the grocery stores. Here are some comparisons in surplus food costs: in a Wash ington suburb one school is us ing free surplus butter to couk with, while the price in th" the government at 1 cent per 100 pounds, while selling at retail '10 pounds for 45' cents. Sur plus potatoes are being sold by the government at 1 cents. Sur plus dried eggs are given away . to any credited welfare agency which will haul 'them away in 150-pound b a r r el s or the equivalent of 450 dozen tsus. Eggs are selling in Washington stores at 47 cents a dozen. 'Able Congressman Henry M. Jackson of Washington had a nerve-racking experience re cently when he visited the Han ford, Wash. Atomic Energy Plant. As he left the project, Jack son ws placed in front of a machine for a routine exami nation to determine whether he he had picked up any radiation poisoning during his visit. Jack son's left hand showed no re action, but when he placed Lis right hand under the machine the radioactivity counter sky rocketed. Security officials, im mediately fearful, were ready to rush the Congressman to the hospital for blood plasma the only treatment known for radi ation poisoning. But when he stripped to the waist, they heaved a sigh of relief. What had set the radioactivity coun ter off so violently was only the radium dial on Jackson's watch. . Getting , Tough .With Nazis - Inside story "on' American High Commissioner McCloy's tough talking speech to the Germans - is that Secretary Acheson chided him for being too namby-pamby with the Germans. 12. 15 8 21 20 25 42 52 55 I 12. 45 16 26 13 27 3? 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