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PAGE 2 TIIZ DAILY TAP KEEL. , THURSDAY, APRIL 17 m$z mm$ ; student publication ef the sity cf Kcrlh Camlirta. Oisptl Hill, -wrier it is publ.sfc.ed daily, txce. Mon- ?ar." exsrcfcaatkm and vacation periods, acd during the official wnaner terms. Entered as second class matter at the pest office in Chrel HiB. K. C, under the act cf March 3. 2579. Subscription rates: ' mailed ti per year, 1.50 per t.ucrtir; delivered, S5 and 2JZ5 per Quarter. & - ; . . - Mnarirg- Editor Executive Editcr Business 2ffasAg,er port 5 Editor l,"-.-s Erf.!r Society Editor .. I'Uws S-c::: Grady Elmore, Ecb SIeug Jcim Jamison, Angelos Russes Eeenie cfccerp? Weed Srriethurst, Spt-ris Staff Ed Starces, Tom Peacock, Maitin Jordan, Vardy BuchaJew. Student Opinion Expressed, Not Created ' Unfortunately, our new staff W handicapped by the lack of an omniscient Aristotle to hand down sacrosanct procla mations from the ethereal blue and thereby keep your line of thought on a true, undeviating course. For want of such an oracle, we intend to clear the runway to allow for free expression on all sides of every issue. We have managed to mold a harmonious staff of workers who promise to be the greatest aggregation of journalistic talent eve 7 assembled under The Daily Tar Heel masthead. There is only one catch. This staff is made up entirely of human beings, creatures who tend to fall somewhat short of perfection. We "still need a cosmic- "Thought Leader" who can distill every controversial question down to its purest essence and come up with the "truth" in time to beat a three o'clock deadline. If such a paragon actually lives and breathes here in Chapel Hill, let him come immediately to the office of the Editor and assume his role of 4 Opinion Molder." Otherwise, you will just have to rely on our honesty, sincerity, and com mon sense to give you the paper you deserve. No Tar On His Heels Bill C; Brown is a columnist for The Daily Tar-Heel. Far more important (by the job he has done) he is a legislator from Dorm Mens I. Representative Brown must have an inherent modesty, or he would have reported the following facts in his column, or to his newspaper. From an outside source, we learn of the remarkable thing he has done. In an effort to truly represent his constituents, Brown has instituted the practice of posting notices, contain ing full information as to action taken by the legislature, and Treasures which will be up for action at the next session. He has posted this information on bulletin boards in each cf the 10 dormitories in his district, which represents some effort on his part to keep the people he represents informed as to what is going on. In this year of "student apathy" legislator Brown has per formed a real grass roots service. by Rolf I he Lives Reflecting upon recent events iVs not hard to see why student press freedom frequently is en dangeredor at least should be endangered. We do it ourselves. One of the mere flagrant vio lations has been the hazing huz za now in progress. Enough misinformation has been printed about certain groups, individuals t al to certainly invite muzzling by the Administration- Fortun ately, the Administration has Esen ft to let the student press t alias;, itself. This we hope to do. However, worse than the wrong impressions spread about campus are the ones left with the people throughout the state. Who has nicked on the radio or browsed through a newspaper the past few days without hear ing about Phi Gamma Delta and a pledge who was '"nearly kill ed." This has a certain legitimate news value as much as a 2-year-cld it Em can have but it has been stretched beyond pro portion by past issues cf The Daily Tar Heel and the state's press... .: -. ; The state papers havb b2:n prostituted by student corres pondents here who in 3 large sneasare feed them with the cen tre vers ial snot news. mm , lieei n Put locations Ecard cf the Univer : . J.tEEY FAREEH ROUTE NOLL . E AVID BUCIvNER .. . . JI?,T SCRET-CK BIFF BOEKRTS JODY LEVEY 11ARY I JELL BOBBIE e Neil! pike The facts are that a man was not "nearly hilled'' and the Phi Gams were dealt with. President Gordon Gray has asserted that personally he will fight for the expression cf stu dent opinion at all times, for or. against the Administration, so long as it is factually sound. So let it be. is Not long ago some guy com plained about being raped by two women. Yesterday came the report of a "husky, 21-year-old Marine" who claimed three "Amazons' forced him to sub mit to them in a ear with a built-in "bedroom." The police said they would charge the girls wijh highway robbery if apprehended (they took some money from the Ma rine). We wonder what the Ma rine's commanding officer win charge him with. - Fei haps it was just ccinci dence, but as Henry' Ecwers packed his papers, trinkets and the innumerable other things he collected in a year of the presi dency, a cirgeful symphony played sadl en Henry's 45 rec ord player. by Barry Farber- Personaily Doctor Franz Polgarr the mag netic wizard of hypnotism, is the most uncanny personality to grace this planet since Nostra damus. A backstage interview with this delightful trance huck ster convinced me that Pol gar could walk into the middle of Kenan stadium at halftirne of the Notre Dame gamesnap his fingers, whip out a revolver, and yell, "Don't anybody move. This is a slickup." The two thousand students who, giggled over Pelgar's hypnotac tics last Tuesday night in Me morial hall saw only one stock room in a vast warehouse of mental marvels. Any beet-nose clown at a county fair can hyp notize a dozen ladies and gentle men per hour and still have time left over to peddle cotton candy. Franz Polgar cracked the pages cf Who's Who, not by vir tue cf his back hand whammies, but because he reigns supreme in the controversial realm of telephathy, memory, and mental acrobatics. Polgar, the son of a school teacher, was born in Hungary. When the Kaiser Wilhelm de cided to give the world a hot foot back in 1914, young Franz became a second lieutenant in the Hungarian Army. One day an Italian shell buried Polgar alive causing amnesia and ap hasia. He spent the next six months trying to remember his own last name. Upon recupera tion Polgar found he could mem orize at sight, read minds, and anticipate the actions of his as sociates. He found a job as a waiter in a small New York Hungarian restaurant and astounded the cash customers by bringing their orders before they even had time to translate the menu. He became an expert hypnotist and soon left the twisted alleys of the twilight world to become the most eminent mentalist of the era. His favorite trick is to have his sponsors hide his perform ance check in some unlikely spot and let him find it with his "mystic compass." He , once plucked a paycheck from under the garter of a waitress in a Manhattan night club. (The show that night was in Brooklyn. Talk about confidence!) Polgar says his fans keep pes tering him with requests to lo cate diamond mines, restore lost limbs, and pick the winner in the third at Hialeah. That doesn't seem so fantastic when ycu consider that fabulous Franz once Folgarized 3.CC0 Hungar ians by radio (even the studio engineers went to sleep) and then memorized the Budapest telephone directory for an en core. At Denton, Texas, he put 319 girls to sleep at the sarae time. Once he hypnotized the entire Georgia Tech football team before a game with Ala bama. Tech wen by two touch downs. ' ;: ; Doctor Polgar estimates he has sent over 100,000 people inlet sil-; ent slumber. (He frequently has trouble sleeping himself.) - l Last December, in Yugosloviii 1 shared a salami sandwich with a political refugee from Folgar's home town cf Haying, Hungary. It seems, said the exiled peas ant, That Franz Polgar is not ' the jaly great- hypnotist vCnxr country hasi produced,: Comrade Pake si: (ccniifiuruEt. . dictator ; 'cf Express Yourself Editor: It gives me great pleasure to be able to address a letter to the new editor who will not let triffling things be built up to such a campus disgrace. Now I know that student opinion will be expressed and not created. What I want to write to the new- editor about is to defend hazing here at North Carolina, and more especially to defend Phi Gamma Delta which has been unjustly and unfairly cri ticised for its part in hazing. I am the unknown person on campus who actually knows how hazing is really felt since I have been the subject of this outrage. I thought it was time for me to come out and do a little de fending for myself as well as for Phi Gamma Delta. I am tired of having this being brought up time after time which has no bearing on the present situation, as Miss Har den deems it do43. I have tried to forget about this incident, but how can I forget.it when it keeps coming back by people who try to put the pressure on in order to bring it up again. When I came to Carolina in 1943, and I am still here, I knew that I was going to be hazed one way or the other, and I be lieve everyone here knew that if they joined a fraternity, or any organization he would be hazed according to the new IPC law and the 1913 Statute of North Carolina. Under these wide interpretations of the bill and laws, anything you do would be construed as hazing. Yes, I am the one -who took the "noxi by David Reviews and Previews THE BATTLE OF THE ROXY: When, according to the new film biography of Jane Froman, John Bum first saw his wife to be, he had to "climb the veritable mountain of stairways to the balcony of the Roxy Theater. To him, a military man, it was quite a battle. Ironically, enough, yours truly fought a similar battle to see the film at that same theater. With the news of the more recent plane crash envolving this pilot fresh on the miles cf newsprint, With A Song in My Heart" is one of the biggest cinema attractions to reach New York in a long time. Look Mag carried a feature article with a revue of the film, plus biographical sketches of both Miss Froman, and her movie twin, Susan Hayward. Capitol Kecords have put out a new album from the film, and numbers of other record concerns have re-issued records by Jane Froman. When the film was premiered in Coral Gables and Miami in March, St was enthusiastically re ceived, and to the delight of movie-goers, Thelma Hitter, and Jane Froman were special guest stars. Actually the picture was Hungary) has held the entire nation under hypnosis for "five He quaffed a generous kldg of ,plum brandy shifted h Bcstal- ous poisoning," but do I hold it against my brothers. No, it was something that neither 1 nor fraternity brothers could help, and I irtill like every one of my brothers as if nothing has happened. I want to say that the truth has not been pre sented in this case. . Why did Miss Harden print such stories that have been presented in newspapers all over the state? There is one thing 1 want to make definite and final, I did not nearly die as the papers said. All of this affair happened three years ago, and to the ex President Henry Bowers and ex Daily Tar Heel Editor: this has no connection with the present case as Mr. Bowers and Miss Harden have tried to make it so. So since it has been three years ago since this . incident has died, why not forget the past? The Interfraternity Court has people on its court who are justly qualified to handle affairs of a fraternity and, furthermore they understand the problems' of a fraternity because they are representatives of a fraternity. They know the way to handle the situations that might occur such as this. So if they handle this case successfully, why not give the Interfraternity Court a chance and let them handle other cases that might arrive? Let us remember that it has only been six weeks since the fraternities passed the new haz ing rule. Why not give this rule also a chance to work? Name withheld by request. Alexander all set, with the exception cf the Ritter role, and put into pro duction before Thelma decided .to take the role. The day she finally made up her mind; she walked onto the fabulous blue and. white set on the Fox sound stage, took one look at the seven huge chandeliers and decided this was it. ;What other . star; she asked, could possibly be so lucky as to appear in a severe chandelier picture? -"With -A Seng in JJy Heart? is more than a musical, it is the story of an entertainer who has become a legend to millions cf people. This is just my humble opinion, but I think 'With A Song In My Heart" will do for Jane Froman and Twentieth Century Fox, what "The Jolson Story" did for Al Jolscn and Columbia Studios. To those peo ple who have never heard or seen J ane Froman will come an interest which will send them hurrying to record and book stores all over the nation, just to know a little more about her. Luckily for the average theater goer, the film opens engagements an over the nation starting with this Easter Week, and will open here Sunday at the Carolina Theater, after playing the late show on Saturday. gic stare northward, and quietly fcdded, -I wish that Franz would return someday and wake every body up with a simple snap cf his fingers. . : ... ?
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