THE TAR HEEL
Official Oraan of U Atklatic Association of th
University of North Carolina
Published Weekly
BOARD OF EDITORS -CHAS.
G. TENNENT. ...... Editor-in-Chief
F. A. CLARVOE .Managing Editor
W. H. STEPHENSON. . . .Assignment Editor
. ' ASSOCIATE EDITORS
T. M. Gwynn William Dowd
C. R. Toy B. S. Whiting
R. L. Young Robert Wunscb
Anna Forbes Liddell E. J. Buhdick
WATT W. EAGLE. . .... .Business Manager
ASSISTANTS
Nathan Gooding Ralph Williams
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ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS
Athletic Association elections
preious to this year have followed
a plan most unrepresentative and
ineffiicent in its working.
Only a peculiar Carolina spirit
similar to that primitive instinct
impelling a child from the paths
of a thousand dangers has myste
riously put efficient men most of
the time in the positions of trust
and honor. The old system sur
vived in spite of itself.
There was nothing complicated
about it, either. The college bell
began to ring at approximately 2
o'clock; the crowds assembled in
the . neighborhood of two gongs and
fifteen sixtieths; and somewhere
near 2 :30 a quorum was ensnared.
If a quorum could not be found
on the campus before 3 P. M.,
the meeting was adjourned while
the men present raided the South
and Carr, dragging from hiding
enough men to carry on a meet
ing. The personnel of this bush
beating brigade was made up of
two classes : those interested in the
success of the meeting ; and those
meeting for the success of their
interests. Nothing could with
stand tEem and so there was a
quorum.
Another quarter of an hour
was set aside for inviting the
crowd standing in the rear to oc
cupy the front seats. Then came
the election of football manager.
At the end of that a tenth of the
voters, interested in that particular
election, filed out. With every
subsequent election other tenths
escaped through the "mystic
fumes of the muse-hallowed
weed." Selah!
Over half of the offices were
then filled by the vote of less than
a fifth of the association members.
When all but the candidates con
cerned had left, the meeting was
modestly adjourned. Such .was
the old order.
. The new method is simply this:
Nominations are entertained in
Chapel1 two weeks before the date
of the election. These nominations
are announced in the Tar Heel
for two consecutive issues. The
election is held. Every man votes
"by written ballot. These votes are
dropped in one of the four ballot
boxes placed at convenient points
on ihe campus.
. There is, no time wasted. The
voter can drop his ballot in the
box on 'the way to class. The de
tails will be announced in next
week's Tar Heel.
The thing for you to do now is
to "get behind this experiment and
make it a success. Look over the
nominees and acquaint yourself
with" "them. Two weeks will give
you ample time to form an opin
ion of those who are to represent
you in the Athletic Association.
ATHLETICS AND THE DRILL
Starting with next week the
military drill in the afternoon will
be condensed into three instead of
five days of each week. This is
a temporary arrangement however,
depending on' the spirit in which
those drilling take it.
The change is a compromise be
tween military training and ath
letics. For no other reason was
it agreed upon than to make ath
letics possible this year. If two
hundred or more men taking the
drill find it more desirable to loaf
these afternoons than to enter some'
hranch of athletics or otherwise
make use of their time we do not
predict a permanent retention of
the present arrangement, and those
concerned have no valid reason to
expect it.
J ust whether the football series
will be inter-class or inter-company
Las not been decided hut it is
certain there will be football. First
year varsity will be the major
sport until the end of the season
Thanksgiving day. .There is an
invitation for every new man and
old one. ,
Varsity basketball will be start
ed immediately and be the lead
ing game until early spring. Go
out for that.
If we want athletics here we
may have it, but whether or not
we have it throughout the year de
pends on how much we determine
to have it Tuesday, when the first
call for football and basketball
candidates is issued.
The spirit of the concession is
the thing we must grasp. It is our
duty to keep alive the athletic
spirit of Carolina, even though the
big sport has been set aside for a
season.
It is our privilege to show that
we have grasped that idea of do
ing things for the University as
well ,as ourselves. And now is the
time for the cooperation of every
man in some phase of college ath
letics. Are we going to take these play
days as loafing days or are we go
ing to respond in the same spirit
in which they were set apart for
this purpose ?
HEY, YOU
Every week the Tar Heel in
tends to print a calendar of things
to happen the next week. For -this
calendar to be complete in this de
partment the Tar Heel must have
the cooperation of the students and
the University in general. A
good way to make public county
club meetings, entertainments, or
lectures, on or off the campus, is
to' have it put in the "What's to
Happen and When" column.
Either tell Peter Wunsch or
any other member of the Tar Heel
board what it is and when it is to
happen or drop a notice of it in
the Tar Heel box that will be plac
ed in the Y. M. ;C. A. building.
CALL FOR CANDIDATES
'The call for candidates for inter-company
football will be issued
Tuesday morning in Chapel. j
Go out for the team and work.
Make it. the championship team.
The fact that there will be no
varsity football need not dampen
your enthusiasm . for the game.
Good company teams will help to
enliven the interest in ' militray
training here. .
Varsity basketball candidates
will also be called put at the first
of the week. Heretofore htis sport
has always been delayed until af
ter football. By getting an early
start the team should measure up
to and surpass those of former
seasons.
The success of athletics here
N ORRIS CANDIES
We carry the following assortment:
Assorted Chocolates with Select Centers, Chocolate
Cream Brazil Nuts, Chocolate Sirrens, Chocolate
Nuts and Fruits, Gold Box, Glace Fruits. We car
ry this assortment in any size package. Our can
dies are kept in refrigerator case are always fresh.
PATTERSON BROS. Druggists
INTEREST CENTERING
ON BASKETBALL TEAM
.; Football has been hooked from
the stage by the grim necessities
of war, but basketball will endea
vor to hold the boards for the com
ing months. A call for all candi
dates for the basketball team to
report at Gerrard Hall next .Tues
day at four o'clock in the after
noon has been issued. For the
first time in the history of the
sport at the University such a call
has been made before Christmas.
Coach Peacock urges that all men
who have had any basketball ex
perience to be out at the meeting
Tuesday. : .
Manager Kinlaw says that a
msot attractive schedule is being
arranged for the coming season.
Besides the usual games with state
colleges a northern trip is being
planned on which we will play.
Columbia University in New York
City, University of Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia, and the Navy at
Annapolis. Virginia will also pro
bably be played on the same trip
at Lynchburg. But the big game
from the student's standpoint,
Manager Kinlaw says, will be the
game in Raleigh with Virginia, oh
account of the fact that an excur
sion train will be run from Chapel
Hill.
Out of that memorable team
that beat Virginia for the first
time only two letter men have re
turned, Grandin and "Buzz" Ten
nent. On account of the failure
of Shepard, who was elected cap
tain last spring, to return to school
Tennent has been elected to pilot
this year's team. Captain Ten
nent says that the- prospects for a
good team are excellent, for six
men of last year's squad are back.
They are Gwynn, Cuthbertson, L.
Hodges, Poston, S. C. Perry and
II. Sawyer. Excellent new ma
terial is known to be in college.
Co-incident in connection with
the election of . Buzz Tennent as
captain is that he is succeeding his
brother, Baby Tennent, who head
ed the basketball team for two
years. What's in a name. There
seems to be a. Tennant in that
berth every year,
We begin to realize some of the
cares of the men at the front.
Where, oh where, are our leggings.
We are heartily in favor of re
painting the 'band's bass ' drum
with a little local color, and then
getting the school to chip in and
buy a big baton, or whatever is the
name of the- thing the drum-major
flourishes, for the leader of the
band. There are at least five hun
dred men in college who would be
willing to hold that modest posi
tion. POINTED OUT
"That's where I shine," said the
young. man, as he showed his blue
suit to the tailor. Cornell Widow.
this year depends on the spirit
with which every player on every
team goes into the game. Get out
your old suit and a new one and
let the coaches know you are here.
AUTUMN INITIATIONS
HELD BY FRATERNITIES
(Continued from Page 1)
Ed. Harshaw, of A. and E., and
Trinity Chapter of Pi Kappa
Alpha.
Alpha Tau of Sigma Chi initi
ated the following:
If. -Cowles Bristol, Statesville;
George Watts King, Charlotte ;
Brainard T. Whiting, Raleigh; S.
Hunter Reams Durham; Lawrence
M. Ingram, High Point ; Theo
dore W. Folsom, Swanannoah.
The visitors present for the initi
ation were: G. W. Tandy, Dur
ham ; 1ST. B. Broughton, Jr., Ra
leigh; Chas. C. Blades, Elizabeth
City; C. T. Fischer, Millersburg,
Ky. ; W. T. Whiteside, Jr., Mc
Kinney, Texas; J. E. Gilbreath,
Columbia, Tenn. ; W. 1ST. Evans,
West Plains, Mo. ; G. B. Daniel,
Littleton.
COUNTY CLUBS, NOTICE!
Thirteen counties applied to the
education of their children every,
dollar of their public school money
in 1915-16, without the loss of a
cent in commissions paid to any
body for handling the fund. And
we know how they did it.
In five counties the banks were
custodians of the fund without
charge. They were Forsyth, Jones
Moore, Northampton and Union.
In four counties, the county
treasurers are on a salary, not a
fee basis. They were Rutherford,
Gaston, Guilford and Wilkes.
In fie counties, the sheriffs acted
as ex-officia treasurers of the school
fund and received no extra com
missions therefor. They were
Avery, . Henderson, Pender and
Swain.
Nearly three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars was passed on to the
county school children in these
countieh without losing a cent in
extra commissions.
In 86 other counties, nearly
$57,000 of the public school fund
went into commissions alone.
County government is a big af
fair in the United States. Te year
before the World War began it
amounted to 385 million dollars, or
about a thir das much as the totad
expenses of th eGederal Govern
ment. And yet the average citizen
knows little or nothing about coun
ty finances, about the tax list and
the amazing inequities and delin
quencies it discloses' everywhere;
about what county revenues are
spent for, and whether they are
spent wisely or unwisely, efi'ective
dr wastefully.
The Annual County Balance
Sheets required by law and given
io the public in the county papers
year by year in North Carolina
"are commonly unbusinesslike and
meainingless.' Frequently the
County Financial Exhibits are no s
published at all, as in some 20
counties of the State in 1910. -University
News Letter. '
She "Isn't it strange that the
length of a man's arm is equal to
the circumference of a
waist." .
frlrTci
He "Let's get a . string and
see." Jester.
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Buzz "How old is that lamp ?"
Fuzz "Three years."
Buzz "Well, turn it out; it's
too young to smoke." Punch
Bowl.