THE TAR HEEL
Official Organ of the Athletic Association of the
University of North Carolina
Published Weekly
BOARD OP EDITORS
WILLIAM T. POLK .Editor-in-Chief
CHAS. G. TENNENT-
JUanaging Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
J. Eart.b Harris
II. O. Naity
Frank Ci.arvoe
C B. Holding
G. L. WlMBERMCY
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ACTIVE WAITING
No man should leave college
now and, actuated by the belief
that lie is thus best ; serving his
country, enlist in the army. .
By staying in college, as Presi
dent Graham said in the mass
meeting of Tuesday night and &
General Wood has declared, he ca;i
be of most use to the Unit .d
States." The college man has al
ready proved to his country that
he is eager to do anything to be of
service. When his country really
needs him, it will call for him.
In the. meantime' he should
train, strengthen and develop' his
every faculty' in preparation for
such a call if it should come. To
be eager to serve is not enough ; he
must 'also, be able. He should do
his class work better than ever be
fore. His country now needs more
than it needs anything else, "the
sinews and steel of men's minds,
wit, courage,-audacity, resolution,
temper, industry, and the like.,"
It needs also men who have the
power, as Arnold puts it, to see
life steadily and see it whole. For
sucb men the trumpet call has al
ready sounded. And it will sound
again.
It is certain that his country
needs the collegeman as thinker.
It may alsoneed him as. soldier,
as a fighter in the field. All of us
should train ourselves to fill that
need efficiently when the time
comes.' Every Carolina man ex
cept those who are serving or pre
paring to serve their country in a
different way, those who have
already had military training and
those who are physically unable,
every single Carolina man, except
those men, should be out, drilling
with the Carolina companies.
"They also serve who only stand
and wait," somebody s'aid. By
waiting we can best serve. But
it is most important what sort of
waiting ours shall be, blind and
slothful waiting or watchful and
tremendously active waiting.
A SUCCESSFUL YEAR,
Carolina is now approaching
the end of a most successful year
in athletics. She may look back
with the highest pride on her
teams and their records in the
three most importnat branches of
college athletics, football, basket
ball and baseball.
And yet you doubtless remem
ber that in the early part of last
fall the calamity howlers pro
phesied that we would lose almost
every game we were to play dur
ing the year. They said it would
be impossible to put out a winning
team in anything . with our lack
of material and with our one-ye;;r
rule.
They were wrong.
With admittedly poorer mater
ial in football, basketball and base
ball nad with the bug bear one-year
rule in football and baseball, we
have put out the best, the most
successful teams that Carolina has
had in a good many years. This
year there has been a change of
attitude on the part of the varsity
players toward their teams and al
so on the part of the student body
toward those teams. It is a fact
that the Carolina ? varsity teams
have "played together" better, and
that the student body. has support
ed them better, than ever before in
recent vears.
What is the cause of this ? It
has been ascribed, and most justly,
to Coach Campbell especially and
to coaches Cowan, Peacock, and
Hearn. . Without them a success
ful year would have been impos
sible, unthinkable. .
Yet there are two other ele
ments which made for a success
ful year. One is the so-called per
nicious one-year rule, the other
the purer atmosphero of Carolina
athletics.
The one-year rule hsa forced us
to depend on the athletic material
within our college walls and on
than in the prep and high schools
of the State. It has made us
more systematic, more self-dependent,,
more efficient, more success
ful. The purer atmosphere of Caro
lina athletics, 'too, though it may
have been purified partly through
the influence of the one-year rule
and the personality of Mr. Camp
bell, is itself an important element
in the cause of the year's success.
Two years ago when Walter Ful
ler wrote his notorious baseball edi
torial, the " atmosphere was rather
murky, and' the year was not a
most successful one. . This year
the athletic atmosphere is pure.
Every Carolina man in the grand
stands during the year has known
that the Carolina players on the
gridiron, the basketball court and
the diamond were not only ama
teurs but also representative Caro
lina men, men who have come here
to do othr things besides .make
tackles, shoot goals and hit the
ball. The student body has, there
fore, been in perfect accord with
the teams, for it has rightly felt
that they were truly parts of it?
self. This feeling has manifested
itself in vigorous support, such as
was given;, for instance, in the .Vir
ginia games. . The result has been
a big . push toward a successful
year. . . -
A Correction
The editors in the April issue of
the University Magazine reasoned
like this: If any man pays seven
dollars for a subscription to a
daily paper, he wants to read that
publication as soon as possible af
ter it leaves -the press. Then if
any student pays a, library fee of
four dollars per year for the com
munity ownership of about four
hundred publications, which is ap
proximately 1 cent each per year
he ought to have the same privi
leges in the use of the papers as th.?
individual that parts with his seven
dollars. It seems to me that this
reasoning does not sound of the
quality of logic that a college man
should use.
The library mail is; "up" about
one-thirty P. M. The papers are
put in the reading room between
two and two-thirty P. M. by some
student who rushes' from his din
ner for that purpose. - There have
been some exceptions to. this state
ment of the case, when the papers
did not come in on the usual mail,
or most often when some fellow,
student, in whose behalf the Maga
zine writes, borrowed the papers
from the library box in the Post
.Vs.,' ....... ' . ... , .
Partidtism Forbids
destructive personal
v pleasures. Cigarette
smokingis a destruc
tive habit.
Office and forgot to return them.
Appeals have been made by the
library to the Post Office authori
ties here and in Washington. The
boxes have been fixed so that no
one except a person who had busi
ness in them or a thief could get
in. Very often in my efforts to
detect ' the' people who would so
boldly use other people's property,
I have found students reading
President Graham's private copy
of the Greensboro Daily News 'as
well as the Library mail.
. If the Magazine wants to be a
helpful factor in college life," let
it first search for the truth, and
then it might find itself writing
editorials on earlier dinner hours
or private ownership of the Post
Office, or best of all what a col
lege man's ethics should be in re
gard to the other people's prop
erty. Not the Librarian.
"Patriotism" as Interpreted
by the Johns Hopkins
News Letter
The, following paragraphs from
an editorial in the Johns Hopkins
News-Letter entitled Patriotism"
is an admirable statement of the
intellectual and moral duties of
the college man in regard to the
great war. ,
"Yet, as men of a great univer
sity, our duty goes far ebyond the
mere willingness to make sacri
fice. It is not enough that we
act; we must think, and think con
stantly, of the reasons for the act.
We must ever hold before our eyes
the redeeming fact that the strife
and hate into which the world is
plunged is not the end in itself,
but only the bloody prelude to an
era in which the ideals of democ:
racy and justice shall reign in
place of the ideals of a narrow
nationalism. Even in the midst
of the dull, grinding routine of
drill, drill which has ofr its pur
pose the perfection of the techni
que of slaying, we must keenly
realize that we - prepare ourselves
for organized - fratricide only, that
the blindness which permits that
fratricide may perish from the
earth.
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THE best things in life are the
commonest. Thar's plenty7 of
friendships plenty of sunshine
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"If we, as members of the
world's thinking class,-allow our
intelligence to be subverted to our
passions ; if, in the conflict that is
to come, we think only of victory,
and not of the reason for victory,
the contention of those, who, in the
face of a virulent scorn unworthy
of democracy, have contended, that
the United States could have better
served humanity by steadfastly re
fusing to make war, under all pro
vocations, will be justified. Upon
us rests the duty of seeing that the
calm and noble - spirit in which
one of the greatest presidents the
country has ever known made his
plea to Congress that war be de
clared is preserved, even whew the
struggle becomes the bitterest, even
when the blood-tang of the battle
field rises in our nostrils.
"Nor is the task a light one. It
is so easy to regard the nation
upon whom wo make war as a
nation of Huns and Vandals, so
perilously easy to believe that, if
we conquer that nation, we con
quer, all the evil that is extant in
our civilization. Yet we fight
Germany only because, under the
German government, the disre
gard for international law and
international morality which the
present unorganized state of the
world makes possible has become
crystallized; for the men in tho
German 'trenches, deluded by a
militant autocracy, believing that
they defend their land against
selfish and mercenary invaders,
there should be nothing but re
spect and sympathy. And the
cause for which we fight will need
far more than the destructive act
of subduing a lawless government
to bring it final victory. ;
"It is for us,, the men of the uni
versities, to keep' these things ever
in our minds. It is for us to
preach the patriotism which looks
not only to the triumph of our
armies, but the deeper, truer pa
triotism which looks to the time,
when the tenet of the brotherhood
of man for which our nation stands
shall encompass the world.
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