Siones For Loaves?
The student turnout for Mr. E. E. Cum
miijg's nonlccturc itfirt' poetry - reading ; was
ami zing.
The 'late - arriving craned their nec ks to
catJh eye - shots of the poet and echoes of
elo juence from the amplifier; they v ere in
the vestibule of Hill Hall. The somewhat
mo e fortunate stretched out on the carpeted
aisl ;s: and Chancellor House, at the last min
ute was. literally -forced to call those who.
would come to the risers behind Mr. Ctim
mii s reading table, It was a-grand night for
tha hidden urge which speech-planners, Icc
tur -planners of all ages and times have tried
to find and exploit.'
Ii -meant cultural re-invigoration and
sonething more than that, we think: That
the students have been getting t(x many cul
turd stones when they asked for loaves. We
coi ldn't escape concluding that the large
turnout 'was due to an unsatiated hunger.
Students have drawn too much hasty criti
cism (The Daily Tar Heel has offered it be
fore) for their apathy, or supposed apatliy
toward public lectures. A packed Hill Hall
for Mr. Cummings has shown rather clearly
that formative minds, whether of poet, phi
losopher, historian, or theologian, .will, be
heard,, and not left to speak before rows of
vat ant seats.
liut for public lectures here over the past
several years, the formative minds have been
too much. left out. We haven't heard anyone
resembling a philosopher or novelist in pub
lic since Aldous Huxley appeared last fall;
no poet, but for Carl Sandburg's post-school
commencement address, since Robert " Frost
last winter; no critic since Randall Jarrell;
no theologian at all within our recollection;
no light of jurisprudence since Dr. Zachariah
Chafee, winter iq.,3; no scientist since Dr.
Coulson of Oxford delivered the McNair Lec
tures in 1054.
The Carolina Forum brings an enviable
series of speeches by political notables every
year, but nowhere within its budget or plans
does it make room for a thinker of Mr. Cum
mings' originality or individuality. The stu
dents, we suspect, become so tired of political
personalities that they stop coming. The Wag
ner and Saltonstal speeches, by May of last
year, Were almost unattended.
The English Chili and Graham Memorial,
wh ich get credi r f or- the success of .Mrt , Cu m
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situation.' pYd itialahctf a fecds'fai be Struck; ' i
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("The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some
things, minimizing others .
(X aipporotis , circa 500 B. C.)
THE HARSE wuz afther painting av Himself wid
Kelly Green paint whin Oi saw him, that he was!
"Kelly Green, me hoof," The Harse brouged me
back widout batting av his eyes, "tis O'Suillabhan
Green. Th' Narth Country ugh! is. reeking wid
Kellys a-stewing in their yellow Orange-juice, laced
wid: Gin, no doubt. O'Suillabhan or, O'Sullivan,
tQ give the shpelling av it in th' barbaric English
tongue is the genoowine Oirish Green, that it is."
And with what did the O'Sullabhan's lace their
Green juice?
"Green whiskey, what else?" The Horse retorted.
"Patriots to the last drop: and many did that same
in their tracks dropped!'
I thought such tracks were called, 'spoors'?
I ducked, and The Horse's hooves sent a harm
less but playful gale to flutter the kilts of some
lissome lassies who were panthering past.
LEFT BY SCOTS
"Spoors are left by Scots and other wild animals,"
The Horse rebuked me. "Nivver did a South av
Oirelander leave aught but toe-marks for tracks,
even if as like as not six toe-marks were, more
common than foive."
But, did the Harse really think the South of
Ireland was better than the North of Ireland. . .?
"It is a universal truth, which you mav ask any
Narth Carolinian," The Harse shrugged. "The South
av any country at all, at all, is better than its
Narth."
Yes: but our South, The South, had been occu
pied by Feds, by Yankee troops, for ten years after
the Uncivil War, and this had hurt! v
"And th' South av Oireland wuz oecuoied by
Limey's, byth' English, for seven hundred years,"
The Horse countered. "Up in th' Narth, they rolled
over wid their paws up and licked the British
boots, while in" the South av Oireland, they hid
out in th' nat ho"s wid their shillelaghs an' black
thorns an' licked their wounds. . .that they did!"
WHAT GOOD
And what good had ever come of it, now?
"Peat whiskey," The Horse stated. "An' if you will
excuse me or not, Oi must be gettin' me war-paint
: on."
But, why? March Seventeenth was Horsie's big
day, was it not? What was special about today?
"The South Oirish from South Bend are wid us."
The Horse reminded me, as if I needed reminding.
'Oi refer to the lads who call their school Notre
Dame an' call their type av murder Football. But
this year Oi have groomed a secret weapon in the
person av a direct descendant av no less a man than
Finn McCool Himself. . . an' tis related he is retaiej
to the Confideracy's great gineral, Major-Gineral
William Mahone, of Ambrose B. Hill's Sixth Crops.
He bears th' name Mahone, himself."
Mahone of the Sixth Corps. Corps; not Crops!
"Crops it is, because in th' Peninsular an' O'Peters
burg 'campaigns, Billy-Boy Mahone raised huge
crops av dead .Yankees," The Horse insisted. "And
one look at cur bi? Mahone, our secret weapon,
will blanch the faces av thim South Benders and
send thim on a bender th' loikes av which Oireland
hasn't seen since Culloden!"
Didn't The Horse mean Boyne Waters? Culloden
was where the Scots had made up their minds that
travel was good for their health, and they had visited
North Carolina in huge and. staggering numbers,
CAPE FEAR
"And called it Cape Fear in honor of what
lost them Culloden," The Horse agreed. "No; our
gassoons at Boyne Waters had put on a bender
the night before; an' the (treacherous Britishers
caught thim bending at Boyne whilst they slurped
up chasers," The Horse gave me a hoof-nail sketch
of Irish History. " 'Twas then the Flying Machine
made its first appearance in warfare, 'twas."
Ohone, and wurra-wurra! What a fairy tale! Even
the Little People must be blushing at such a
fabrication! The airplane didn't make its debut
with Military Forces until 1908 and the Wright
Brothers!
"The Oirish had them that day,' they did," The
Horse insisted stoutly; Guinness Stoutly. They must
have had them, to get away so fast from Boyne. Ten
thousand dead white Irish Mahones greeted the
British eyes whin they an' their Frog-eater allies
captured the field!"
Well. . . if so many Mahones had greeted the
British in unwinking stares that day, what made
The Horse think one Mahone could confound the
South Benders?
"Just wait," The Ilorse gloated,- his bloodshot
eyes crossed with emotion and with uisgebeatha. . .
100 proof, with the tang of peat-smoke spicing its
mahogany-red threat. "First, we'll hurl platoons
av O'Komans, McLinebergers, Fitz-Kupchicks, Mc
Gacas, O'Stavnitskis, McBiliches, O'Setzers and Mc
Mullens at them! Aha, that will rock" them! 'Twill
sham-rock 'em!"
And then?
"Thim an' their Shamrocks!" The Horse chittered
at thought of it, he did. "We've been feedin' Ram
cscs, our ram mascot, on a diet of shamrocks this
past week, we have!"
And, Rameses liked them?
"Far better than the single wings them Tennes
see roosters fed him," The Horse revealed. "And
then our- secret weapon. . .Himself Mahone!"
The Horse was that sure? He was?
"Oi look to win by a score av 26-21," The Horse
stated firmly. "Unless something miscarries, now.
As Dr. George S. O'Lane and I always say, De se
As Dr. George S. O'Lane and I always say 'De se
bhnr mbeatha. fhoireann ag imirt peile! Acht croich
anchuma oraibh sea againn iChapel Hill!'"
And that meant . . .?
"It is addressed to the South Bending Oirish,"
The Ilorse revealed, "and- it says 'Welcome to you,
football team'. But bad cessto you here in Chapel
WW.' And I look to win by 28-21, I do."
With the Secret Weapon?
"With Pug Himself," The Horse hoped. "Ye've
heard Oirish names like Mike, Pat, Danny-Boy, Wil
lum, Dennis, Florence, Gilmary, Sean, Shaun, Kevin
an' the like? Mahone's handle, his name, is Pug, no
less!"
Well. . .1 hoped Horsie was right, I did!
"But win, lose or draw," The Horse stated, his
eight-balls of eyes wide with the vision and his
muley ears twitching with the fancied sound of it,
"Oi hope to see and hear thirty-five t'ousand Tar
Heels at th' game's end, standin' and roarin' th'
name av our secret weapon:
" 'Pig Mahone! Pug Mahone! PUG MAHONE!' "
Well, it would be nice to take a defeat, if any,
in such good and soaring spirit. . .The Spirit of The
Old South whether Bend; Irish; or Dixie. . .
Oi'll see yez in O'Kenan Fitz-Stewdium! An' if
ye've no ticket, remimber: th' password is, Pug
Mahone!
The mfcrrxith tmhm
Hlliiolllll tyr MlMHfHI)lll !- IlltX I I III ! M I1M I! n
I lie trustee YiMting Committee made its
appeamnce yes;t ' iv r the campus in the
manner i r T.rm, interested, and understaiid
ititr .Uiic-Mtv fathers. ,
lengthy discussion witlr jvtudeiitUeadevs,
followed by an informal student'' luncheon,
llishlighted the keen interest I in student af
fairs that the committee' possesses, ' i ! ;
Somehow the four visitors demonstrated
that kind quality often seen in professors; it
was an interest in not an envy of youth.
Whereas student leaders were mainly wor
ried about campus cars, student government,
and other areas of extracurricular activity,
the committee questioned the academic side
of Carolina life.
"How is the quality of undergraduate
teaching?" one of them asked.
And the students .were eager to reflect
their views of the classroom because of this
interest and because of the infomal manner
in which the committee operated.
The Daily, Tar Heel commends the Visit-,
ing Committe for its manner, it apparent sym
pathv with student problems, and its zest for
youth.
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Night Editor For This Issue
Charles Dunn
N. Richard Nash's The Rain
maker is not an inspired play,
but neither is it a pretentious
one, and homey simplicity is the
source of its appeal. It might s
be - termed a gentle plea for
wishing:on-stars, in an overly
work-a-day world.
Lizzie Curry, the protagonist,
is a plain ,-girl faced with the
threat of becoming what is po
litely termed a maiden-lady. Her
father's against the idea; her
brothers Jim and Noah are
against the idea; and so is she
very much! But when she ven
tyres a reconnaissance tour to
her cousins' in Sweet River
boys in the household she fails
to scintellate. One cad even asks
if she's planning to be a school
if she's planning to be a schol
marm, and the odds seem to be
dropping.
Worse still, after Lizzie's got
ten back home, the Messrs. Curry
try and lure Deputy-Sheriff File
out to dinner he's single, and
pretty-good guy, likes racoons
and such, he's already had one
bitter taste of matrimony, isn't
quite up to. trying another, and
declines. With Lizzie having gone
and specially fixed a lemon cake
too!
-REALIST
Noah, the hardbitten realist
of the family, warns Lizzie that
she better prepare for the worst.
Despite the optimistic reassuran
ces of Pop and Jim, she figures
that Noah's cased the percen
tages right, and she lets her
hopes wither it's drought sea
son anyway.
But as my father always says,
"Love's only a problem in dis
tribution; there's a frustrated
supply in spite of the unsatisfied
demand." Enter Starbuck, a fast
talking citizen with visionary id
eas about living as in dreams,
and being able to bring cloud
bursts for a price. Noah and
Lizzie figure him for an un
desirable character, but Pop and
Jim decide to gamble on the long
,shot. In the process of making
rain, Starbuck gets alone with
Lizzie, changes her opinion of
him, and starts expanding opera
tions. Meanwhile back at the jail,
File and the sheriff learn that a
phony rainmaker, wanted for
fraud-charges, "is headed that
way. They wander out to the Cur
ry place, where Starbuck and
Lizzie have been letting -down
her hair in the tackroom. File
rum) Info
be said that Mr. Lowry at times
appeared puzzled by the require
ments of his role; I can only sym
pathizethe author's conception
of File seemed, to be poorly de
lineated and inadequately moti-
afc9r Brings
Spoflsghi.'
vated.
The settings were excellent .
courtesy of John Caudle, who also!
handled lighting. The bass drum
appeared as itself, courtesy of
Olsen's Inc., Durham.
New Hope For 'La Prensa'
. Louise Fletcher As 'Lizzie
prepares to nail Starbuck, but
gets talked into letting him es
cape. Starbuck asks Lizzie to be
his Melisande and join his
dreams. Whereupon File puts in
a bid for her too, just as Lizzie
The gal decides she's better-off
scratching between File's steady
shcuJder-blade.s, than among the
rainmaker's ephemeral stars.
Curtain to sounds of sudden
thunder and applause.
CAST OF SEVEN
As rendered by a cast of seven
playmakcrs and a brass drum,
The Rainmaker received a fine
per Jjrmancc Under the direc
tion of Harvey Whetstone, the
accent seemed to be or. keeping
the dramatic action moving with-in-the-total-context,
' organically,
avoiding tableaux.
If this were the directqr's in
tention, it was a laudable one;
too often in translating a script
to the stage, its allover contin
uity is sacrificed fragmented in
to a series of too-neat self-contained
units. In this case, im
pressively, everything appeared
to happen as part si an integral
conception!
There were however weakness
es in the production.. Several,
times the range cf action onstage
became too elongate stretching
the area of visual coripass, so
that in a sense, portions of a se
quence appeared to run - off at
the margins. Als.o, in passages
where ea.se, smooth ensemble co
operation, are necessary to con
vey the family atmosphere, cast
members would flounder momen
tarily a few lines were joggled,
and at least two cues were jum
ped which took something from
the first night aura.
TOUR SHOW
Since The Rainmaker has been
selected for the annual tour show,
the players should have plenty
of opportunity to become fami
liar, and very likely the ensemble
lapses will tighten up.
Louise Fletcher, starring as
Lizzie, gave a beautifully sensa
tivcand moving performance. She
was particularly effective in con
veying the shifting nuances of
reaction, within the developing
characterization.
James Heldman, too showed a
lot of talent. His acting, as in
the recent Ondine, was marked
by steady poise seeming always
to know what effects he wanted
to achieve, and getting them. Not
since the days of Bill Trotman,
-have the Playmakers had, to my
mind, an actor -with the polished
consistency of Mr. Heldman.
Besides handling the costumes,
James Sechrest managed to pull
a lot more than his own weight.
Playing brother Jim, he cavorted
impishly even chalirging the
.leads in audience-favor, during
several scenes. William Casste
vens, as Pop Curry, also merited
special praise, for his supporting
characterization!
The rest of the cast showed
up well: Charles M. Barrett a"s
Noah; Carl Williams as the Sher
iff; Ken Lowry as File. It might
Ever since Juan Peron seized
, La Prensa and turned it over to
his Jabor "movement, that famous
Reader's Retort
Editors:
, The University Party is repre
sentative. A method of represen
tation whereby campus organiza
tions send delegates who reflect
the feelings of their groups is not
unlike the effective system adop
ted and carried out by the Stu
dent Government in Legislature.
Rather than merely one vote de
termined by the individual, each
person who expresses an opinion
is the voice for a larger group
of students.
Another advantage of this true
representation is that interested
persons may petition for mem
bership in the University Party
by having the endorsement of
twenty-five people. Thus, he too
will reoresent more people than
himself.
And so to the complaint that"
the University Party represents
only a small segment of the cam
pus, we would answer that the
University Party allows repres
entatives to be voting members
from every organization on cam
pus, which is interested enough
to send delegates. Aside from of
ficial representation, petitions
grant membership to those who
are willing to take the time to
find endorsement.
Rather than having each per
son vote as an individual, the
voice of many is expressed each
time a count is taken. Is not this
a more effective way to voice the
opinions of the students than
a mere number of individuals,
who happen to be, interested
enough to drop into a meeting,
often by mistake, and if they
.vote, vote only for themselves?
Jane Cocke
University Party
Publicity Committee
newspaper has been a symbol of
Peronist tyrany. Its fate now will
tell much about democracy under
the new government of President
Eduardo Lonardi.
Earlier the provisional Presi
dent was reported to have inform
ed the labor movement that he
ould not decree the return of La
Prensa to its original owners, the
the Paz family. But now the Inter-American
Press Association
offers a more detailed and hope
ful report. It quotes President
Leonardi as telling reporters that
the attitude of Publisher Alberto
Gainza Paz was identical with
that of the government. Since Dr.
Gainza Paz's attitude was that the
courts should be allowed to rule
on ownership of La Prensa. this
means the new government will
not stand in the way of an in
dependent decision.
Peron's hand-picked Congress
surrounded the seizure with all
sorts of legalistic flim-flam. The
Argentine courts can clear away
the dishonest debris and establish
La Prensa once more in proper
hands as a symbol of a free press.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
OIL IN NEXT 20 YEARS
The atom undoubtedly will con
tribute importantly to the world's
over all energy pattern. But we
believe oil will provide the larg
est share' of energy growth for at
least the next twenty years. When
we look at forecasts for that per
iod, we see constantly increasing
oil consumption everywhere. By
1075, the free world will probably
be using double the amount of
oil products that it does today.
Eugene Holman, Chairman,
Standard Oil
MORE LIKE IT
Sometimes we wonder why the
season isn't called simmer in
stead of summer. Davenport
Times.
I WAS sitting on the steps r v
nesday and communing darkly .
Dr. Lyman Cotton of the English (C
past accompanied by another r -X'
cation of Dr. Cotton was instanv
cheerfully hollow-eyed, as usui!-'.'
the other gentleman took a few rr, ,-1
body else' was my first react; -by
a combination of his demeanor .
'visitor;' then 'familiar seen that f
as the pair drew opposite, 'e. e
face on the book jacket.' Mr. cu..
an overcoat-and a brown felt hat t! (
had been poked in three or four ;
looked, oddly enough, much like
ing taken on a guided tour of the'
English professor.
THEY PASSED on, chatting b: -another,
behavin? romnlefplv
had been all over the world, h.-ui ,
strange things and Deonlo. and h -.A u
lives by reading and writing thou ¬
sands of words. I considered f
discarded the thought in favor 1
curiosity, and had just resumed r
with the squirrel when two coed f:;.-
i : . 4- 1 . .
uuzniin icnsKiy ctuiuagM one anomc;
"Do you know who that was?" on
barely able to control her excitenvn:
"Yes," I said, "that was. .
"That was e.e cummings and we've ':
him all over the campus. He camp i;
Cotton dismissed the cl ass r. n d v c c
him everywhere . Come on."
Mimmintf! amhlfvl nnst P.!n"Vi:irr ,,j
library, the coeds gave me two re
sumes of their morning's gumshneir.;
"We followed them out of E:n;h
steps into Y-Court and nobody r.
Isn't that funny? And then they v:r
trees are, and they stopped and i
( 1 A . 1 1 1 1 i
anu trees ana inings, ana jaugnec . r,
them, and then they went into tV
napei ana siayea m mere aiwut I:;
and we sat outside and waited for th
l a I-: J .u: . i
UJUU W 111111 QlIU V. k V. 1 v llUJlp, CliiM Lu
" came 'out we followed them through '.:
- and :they just talked and laughed r
' and then we came down here. Tn't
1 agreed that it was. inner.' ,i ;
shimmered private-detectivcishly ;.:
- beside the door to the General Colle;?
ciuu k.ka iiimiij y nit" t. e. funini.iis u
unobtrusively examined a poster p;u.
sermons on "Roadblocks to Fa th.'
nut. nf thp rnmrr nf mv pvp Mr. rr
act ljkle a poct4 He didn't even lau:h
' just a ?goocf -hearty laugh. He and Dr.
case and 'went upstairs into the
4 . 1 p it l : i rr1 i
ed, lost them, and finally re-discovcr;
down the back stairs.
"They went down here," said nr.:
minrrc t-r no,' Vir-ro onnntint trv:
in 5 cfacro uhicnnr lorninrr uT"CT- '
banister. We went down the stairs. !
.TT TkT" PYArTIV fnhn hms mr.
W k jl. JL4 . m. V.. M M-i Jk. 11 J t i li v. - -- ----
became much more evident that c
reading in Hill Hall. He was pmci
trum (whjh was equipped with a P
LAMP.' to borrow Ed Yoder's tern-.
House with what finally broke clowr
itself to be an 'unintroduction' (lau::.'
he took the chair, faced a house pacK
the eager overflow7 sat behind him
and the shyer overflow, like arms oi
a i v ii i -i ..if
iiue, graauany spread usea. m
lortable attitudes possible under -
only' conditions, down the outside s;-
iir. cummings announced n --
liupe rcepiiDJy on mio an uiu '.
1 noughts ot a Ihinkcr, ( A saie.-i; .
stinks to please"). I never thoujhy
speak so gently and command su
... . . .
silence at the same time. i. " "
Hons-1, and Dr. Cotton, who sat wita
vn uie stage as a son oi lim-n -
faded insignificantly into the backJ
whole of mv mind became focusecs er.
spots of light reflected from Mr. c:
tacles. ("The comrades are not air:;: i t
41 1 . f ;j 1.. Ini"l
nit: viMin aufs are airaiu iu
myself leaning mv head to one
straightening up when he strai.ghtcnc:i
escapaoiy dv a nign. tender
j"e ran-pmes, if one c?n lmagmt v..
("Sleep 'is the mother of courage ' )
EVEN THE microphone, try as
sinister guiierai muuerings aim v-v-locking
sounds, couldn't break the K
lunuiiy marxmi-ory wisooin. nt '
Here is something one doesn't let s'.p t
with a crashing understatement, here
soul. Mr. cummings chipped a n;ehe
with . pull the wool over each o- 'r
to hell," piqued what I now hesitate t 1
ination with the announcement th.
polite word for dead, but unburied. i
imagination, invoked wnat
wrath of the FCC (the reading
JL 1 1 1 . i . . L' i
tne raoioj wnen me gooooostn"
microphone went on the blink :t' 1 -
true story he told, and ended i
forming his listeners that evenore
sleep much better after he had re
love-poem fas an encore); the ! "V!
German, and was not written lv !i ;
curiously stirring final gesture.