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PifZOE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1952 'Oi'ecasTec I' ran luire. Riff. . , by Joe5' Raff largest consumers of alcoholic beverages in the country. I don't know whether dr. not this could . , possibly hint that , college stu - dents V hit the bottle from time ; td'timft, but Tndicationstendto that liker mg is a favorite pasttime . among ?ourig 'folks. Maybe it's because young gentleman and ladies know that in a few years when thy graduate they will be out : to conquer the world and perhaps hefty swig on the '. little brcrvu jug will juggle them into some form of mental stability in preparation for post- - - - - The Morehead Planetarium has successfluuy lived up " to the direst predictions of early, critics. I think every town or city that The planetarium building, chock full from .basement to ever boasted of having a uni- dome of educational and entertainment possibilities, is cau vrsitv within it? limit ha rentlv serving the campus as a playtoy for university bigwigs, lso boasted of being one of the and.focal point for visits to the campus by North Carolina lareest consumers of alcoholic school children. - - - The productions in the planetarium are played for houses of four, eight, and sixteen persons, except for the Wednesday alternoon matinees, which show the busloads of grammar school and high schoor children. ; e .: ; i fiii j n maxe us believe '"rteitfier of tHese riien is to blame for the fact that there is not a showman on the staff .None of the heirarchy which dic tate policy can be pinned down as responsible for the fact that the planetarium is .failing to serve the town, and is failing to serve the University, and is failing to serve the state. The failure itself can be pinned down to the facts that no ;ttsnpt is made to attract scholars by programs aimed above hi? third grade level by truly educational programs; that the cuJlscral opportunities which are offered are not brought to t.ie attention of the campus; that the cultural opportunities university days. which could be offered are not offered and that the beauti- Chanel Tim f c f reappointed lounges and dining rooms are not available communities which prides itself The planetarium has shown itself in the best possible light cstf a few occasions. The Christmas show, already a tradition with, the staff, the campus and, the state, is famous for its .ie?aity and its educational value. A few displays of paintings 'have received more than a cursory glance by the public, thich has been given adequate notification of the attractions. A columnisf or the newspaper commented in 1949; "For ears and years the loudest complaint of the student body has :een that we have no planetarium with an art gallery, in it. Mow we have a planetarium with an art. gallery in it. The only thing lacking now is the information on, what we are oing to do with it . . . Why, there are only three planetariums anywhere in the whole country. There is probably a reason or it." ' ; ' ; . - . The same columnist found the only explanation in the fact that the then new building showed the name of the donor "on three of a possible four sides of the building." He was probably unduly harsh. . Nevertheless, the problem of what is being done to make use of the facilities offered by the building is as yet un The official newspaper of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -where it is published daily at the Colonial Press,' Inc.. except Monday's, examina tion and vacation periods and during the official summer terms. Entered as our girlfriend at one time or second class matter at the Post Office another those fanciful words of o HinyN.-c., under the act of Omar the Persian I don't March 3. 1879. Subscription rates: umar xne Persian, l aont -6- mailed $4.00 per year. $1.50 per quarters member it perfectly now, but delivered $6.00 per year md $2.25 per this is it in effect: "Come sit Quarter. . with -me beneath the bow; A Glenn Harden ' Editor-in-chief book -Of . verse, a flask of wine Bruce Melton Managing Editor jii . ii.. mj David Buckner News Editor and thou-Smgmg in the wild- Bm Peacock Sports Editor erness and Wilderness is para- Mary Nell Boddie Society -Editor Vlico niir' - Jody Levey. Feature Editor Joe Raff rL - x , ' Beverly Baylor Omar wasn't , the only one sue Burress who thought pretty much about glncy3 Burger: booze and its effects. Shakes- Ruffin Woody 1 Literary Editor Associate Editor . Associate Editor Assoc Sports Editor Assoc. Society -Editor i.-.- Photographer But oiled by thee, The wheels of life go down-hill screeching With rattling glee." - or, at least, recognizes that its residents are wholehearted par ticipants . in the art of elbow bending also has quite a record as far as alcoholic consumption, goes. This being the case (case of bourbon) I thought it only fitting that I devote a few well chosen words to this subject. Have no fears, dear reader, these well chosen words are not mine, but in my vast reading (three comic books and a laun dry list) I have come across a virtual treasure of verse in honor of Jonothan Barleycorn Esq. I guess we all have said to C Dy RoHo Toylor ameses I recently became a charter member of the Society for ihe Abolition of Johnny Ray alleged singer of alleged songs. Every time that wailing idiot wiggles his vocal cords I get the scream ing meemies. There is good music and bad music, high brow music and" low, there is jazz and. swing, and oh lordy, there is Jbhnny Ray; I could be put in jail for what I think of that guy. Long .time ago a mealy-mouth vocalist put the country on its pars by grasping the microphone with a death grip, mussing his hair and giving forth with what was termed "music." That merican.. phenomenon ' was Fi ark Sinatra. Frankie, thank cdnoss, has passed his prime. a a vocalist, but has entered the movies and that's just as baJ. ' ' It beats me why some guys have to get hysterical every time' they sing something. Isn't the peculiar tone of a person's voice enough to sell a song? Evidently not. . Old Bing has been around longer than any of them and all he does is stand up and sing the words. Simple as that. No nasal twang and no chewing up the rug to get sympathy. Then some scrounge like Johnny" Ray or Frankie Lane has o come along and set music back : two thousand years. Granted, that a person's indi vidual style has something to do with his success but don't gst hysterical about it. "A Little Wlate CloucJ that Cried," ouch! ; X, aint an expert on nothing, no" ' Uovf abcut ; music but I do kvow what sounds nice and peaceful. Until day before yes terday I thought "C sharp" was a bra size and classical music makes me wonder if I have all my marbles when I listen to it. Sometimes I can't exactly hear the birds and. the treessinging and often Ljust go to sleep 5n the middle of a concert. Music, especially this stuff we call commercial-popular music, should be poetry set to words. Now there is good poetry and bad, serious and funny but what good is all that if an alleged singer like Johnny Ray comes along and chews up fairly good material and spits it out like a foul mouthful of cuss words unpleasant to the ear and not at all sensible. We of the new Society for the Abolition of Johnny Ray and his Cohorts (we'll add at this point) have firm faith in the American people. They, as the sensible, law abiding folk that they are, will not let this murderer of music go free to commit more of his atrocities. He'll just fade away like Doug, the dance marathons and the six day bike racer. peare comically noted in "Twelfth ' Night" that (and he .must have been writing "about nie), ' . v . one draught makes him a tool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him." The second act of Othello also men tions "Bacchus blood.: "Come, come, good wine is a familiar creature; if it be well used; exclaim no more against it." After that statement we wonder how well a Martini is put to use, 1 know only one use for it, and, that's a good one. Robert Burns is the last guy I'm going to quote because he seems to have seen the light the same way I do. This verse came from a poem entitled "Scotch Drink" praising the lifeblood of Scotland. "Food fills the belly, and keeps us living; Though life's a eift not worth receiving, j Caesars" and wanted an auto- When heavy-dragged with pine i graph. and grieving; YOU, TOO, CAN CATCH : A MATE ' Consider the case of Seuton ius Bollingay. Last year Suetonius, an eco nomics major, recived three Christmas presents. One was from his father. One was from an uncle in Seattle. The third was from a Freshman who mistook him for the author of "The Lives of the Twelve DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Pierce with a sword 5. Jewish. month 9. Centers 11. Portion 12. Medieval helmet 13. Domesti cates 14. Negative vote 15. Astonish ment 17. Consume 18, Flourishes 20. Wall recess 23. Gratuities 27. Greek legislative assembly 28. Trite 29. In bed . 30. Secre' v 31.Perip: time 33. Moslem title 36. County (Scot.) 37. Vitality 40. Patronage 42. Evade 44. Affirms 45. Ventures' 46. Pause 47. Slight depression DOWN 1. Scrutinize 2. A law (Jew. Ldt.) 3. Armed forces 4. Winged insect 5. Exclami tion 6. A matron . 7. Scope i 8. Pause 10. Deprive of food 11. Boil slowly 16. Sorrow 18. Golden 19. Heavenly -bodies 20. Sleeveless garment (Arab.) 21. Bowl underhand 22. Hint 24. Writing fluid 25. Chum 26. Cunning 28. Striped 30. Period of time 32. Organs of hearing 33. At a distance 34. Bestowed 35. Birds, as a class 37. Unadult. ated . 38. Paradise . AEEfL2 5 ilk I rprf Epj moKme nolo" mHfTo In F jSTfA N kIsI AjBfQj jt S q.i6s i Sfg "jYTAjLlT AT fTANr . 5fyT, n nirfo a m "Me o s IONS S Tl iATL AS t- 5AN 6j O S E L A Yesterday's Answer 39. Obnoxious ' . A. food leaving . 43. Youth ZO Zl 23- 2-5 Zo 3 ffi IS" 40 " 41 0jAZ 1 : . ,.',. ' ' ' :'' Even his sister forgot him. Came January, and he Woke Up. With the aid of a Graph, a Table of Probability, and other secret weapons of the Economies Dept., he plotted the course of the Successful Man on the Campus. In February he bought a book Suitable for Looking at To gether, like, say, the New Yorker Album, or Peter Ar no's Ladies and Gentlemen. We gave it our special Valen tine Gift Wrap, and he pre sented it to a dame he'd wor shipped in silence ever since she apologized for wiping her feet on him once when she mistook him for a doormat. By June he was a Human Be ing, and yesterday we noticed him looking at .'a' copy of America's Baby Book. You, too, can be a Social Suc cess. An actual story taken from our file of unpublished fic tion. THE INTIMATE .BOOKSHOP , 205 E: Franklin St. VS0 AVLCffik WP YHXT o T WboNT KNOW j 1 AN'vmo knows? Tzey mtim K invntin' A&ft4i QPI Y &u9tBA r&t iwiKHi riJRIrl hJmSDf- T-T I "' ' !' "T-T' -' i ii t -ii 1 i ii-titi-nr rrr ti1 miunw imn.n)i.. mwitii.im.L,.., m ipimm. u .. " " " - - s n ;
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