THE TAR HELL
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University ot North Carolina
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FORREST MILES Editor-in-Chief
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PAR AG RAPIIICS
Lending money to the strongest
government on earth, at a good rate
of interest, is not charity. It's a
mighty fine financial opportunity.
Destructive criticism of Germany is
a heap better than amateur "con
structive" criticism of America.
Germany has proved itself abso
lutely suptr-efficient in one way. It
has secured the enmity of the whole
civilized world.
Spending money for luxuries to
day is pro-Germanism expressed in
cash terms.
One Hun offensive that failed: In
May the kaiser talked of "me and
Gott"; in June of "the Lord and I";
in September of "Almighty God."
When you refuse to recognize your
opponent s ability, you do yourself,
as well as him, an injustice.
There are not many comic papers
published in Germany now. But the
Beast's press agent's stories supply
the deficiency.
The longer the war lasts, the busier
the "retreat specialists" over here
will be trying to explain the German
Staff's explanations.
It's a wise man who cleans off his
desk and table ever so often, and
throws away things he will never need
again if he throws them where he
can retrieve them next week!
A WORD BEFORE PARTING
To you who go we would say a
word of farewell. Many of you are
those we have known here when things
were not as they are. Many of you
are new. men who see to-day a Caro
lina outwardly changed we say "out
wardly" because the pulsing, vibrant
heart of the old school still beats,
giving to you all something imperish
able a glorious, glowing idealism.
Remember, knights errant, you are the
sons of an alma mater whose history
is the pride . of all her sons. .
Go, then, sons of Carolina, with the
benediction of the old school. She will
be proud of you, whether as "soldier
and gentleman" or "officer and gen
tleman" for we know you will not fail
her.
Goodbye, good-luck, and we add
this last quite fervently God bless
you. .
"BREVITY IS THE SOUL"
The business of ou rcountry is to
win this war. That is the explana
tion of the new draft and all the
thousand and one activities that circle
around ordinary business. The
new draft is diverting the efforts of
thousands of men to this big job.
Business must go on, but under a
reduced pressure, and with a sav
ing everywhere of individual effort.
We must , learn to say in a hundred
words what the commercial traveler
formerly took five hundred to say;
to circularize on a -3x6 slip what we
used to spread over an 8 1-2x11 sheet.
And incidentally it will be good
for our vocabularies as well as our
sense of conversation, to do this very
thing. We are going to learn to
cut out the camouflage of verbiage
and not only "get down to brass
tacks", but to start there.
With every one doing so ,we will
grow accustomed to saying what we
have to say in crisp, crackly, clear
convincing English and to reading
what the other chap has to say, in
the same way.
ANOTHER LIBERTY LOAN
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
has announced that, no matter what
the results of the pending overtures
for peace may be, there will . be
another Liberty Loan. To use his ex
pression, "We are going to have to
finance peace for a while just as we
have to finance war."
There are over 2,000,000 United
States soldiers abroad. If we trans
port these men back to the United
States at the rate of 300,000 a month,
it will be over half a year before they
are all returned. Our army there
fore must be maintained, victualed,
and clothed for many months after
peace is an actuality.
The American people, therefore,
having supported the Liberty Loan
with a patriotism that future histo
rians will love to extol, will have an
opportunity to show the same pa
triotism in financing the just and
conclusive victorious peace whenever
it comes. .
Not for a moment, however, is the
Treasury acting on any assumption
that peace is to come soon. Until
peace is actually assured the atti
tude of the Treasury and the atti
tude of the whole United States Gov
ernment is for the most vigorous
prosecution of the war, and the motto
of force against Germany without
stint or limit will be acted up to until
peace is an absolute accomplished
fact. -
One more Liberty Loan, at least,
is certain. The fourth loan was popu
larly called the "Fighting Loan";
the next loan may be a fighting loan,
too, or it may be a peace loan. What
ever the conditions, the loan must be
prepared for and its success certain
and absolute. Begin now to prepare
to support it.
The owner of a Liberty bond is the
bond creditor of an honest debtor, and
one who is amply able to meet its
obligations the United States.
LETTER OF DANIELS
October 17, 1918.
Dear Mr. Mott:
Your plan to enlist the coope
tion of all the officers and men in
our various naval stations and on
our ships in American waters in the
United War Work Campiagn is in
keeping with the real American spirit
of the hour, and I wish most em
phatically to endorse it.
Anyone who has seen what I have
of the ' invaluable service rendered
by the Young Men's Christian . Asso
ciation, Young Women's Christion
Association, Catholic War Council,
the Jewish Welfare Board, the Ameri
can Library Association, the Salva
tion Army and the Camp Community
Service, must be proud of these mani
festations of unselfish interest of the
American people in our boys of our
large and ever growing Navy. I
would find it difficult to overstate
my sense of appreciation of what
their varied and practical ministry
to the body, mind and spirit of our
fighting forces means in the accom
plishment of the great purpose be
fore us in this war.
Your plan is such, as I am sure will
meet the hearty sympathy and co
operation of every one of our able
Commanding officers, and the 500,
000 splendid young men in the ser:
vice. Their interest will be height
ened, because all of us in the Navy
realize that this movement is on be
half of their shipmates on the other
side.
Sincerely yours,
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.
Dr John R. Mott,
Director General
United War Work Campaign.
347 Madison Ave., New York.
THE CHANGE
So gradual are many .changes that,
often, one is not aware that they
are taking place but when a radical
all embracing change such as has been
observed in "B" Company during the
past week, it is high time that goggle-eyed
alchemists and wizened as
trologers delve into the dusty papyrus
of the Pharoh's and find some invol
ved hieroglyphical definition for the
instricate psychological forces in
volved in the process.
At present no cause has yet been
assigned to this egnimatical affair
out it is ielt that it will soon be
solved and explained to the complete
satisfaction of all concerned.
One of the mots pronounced and
easily discernible signs of this re
markable change is seen in the fact
that five or six squads of the above
mentioned organization were seen
sweeping and raking the Campus the
other afternoo nwhile all the other
companies were enjoying a well
earned period of recreation. While
some people might attribute this
strange behavior . to thed elirium re
sulting from a very mild form of
"Flu", those better informed on the
subject, when approached regarding
the matter, merely shake their heads
in a knowine- wav as if thev would
were far more subtle and mysterious
reasons.
The most maligant form of this
new malady is seen in the case of
the young man who Was found roam
ing about the corridors of the South
Building in the small hours of the
morning, in his night clothes, and
murmuring in a sepulchera lvoice
the words: "Give your name to Ser
geant " His voice choked to an
inaudible murmer with suppressed
emption .was wont to trail off . into
nothingness at the end of this speech
and it was impossible to get the name
of the serbeant in this case.
It is also rumored that some of
the men at work on the campus were
heard to chant a wierd kind of rhyme
about being compelled to pursue that
task for the duration of the war.
While at quite a loss to account
for these wierd psycical incantations
and authorities on the subject agree
that there has been some powerful
force at work in order to produce
thes sumptoms which heretofore have
been confined to the pitifu victims
of the deadly "K. P." detail.
For the good of all concerned it is
to be hoped that the cause of these
occurrences will be found and re
moved and that then the men in the
company will be relieved oi the op
pression due to these psychological
phenomina and that all somnambul
istic inclinations of the victims will
be remidied.
GET BEHIND YOUR TEAM
Last Saturday you saw your foot
ball team a team Composed entirely
of men without varsity experience
go out on the field and outplay a
heavier team with six varsity men in
its lineup. You have a hard-fighting,
clean playing football team to rep
resent you and you know, by its Sat
urday record, that it will be a repre
sentation of which you can always feel
Sroud a true Carolina team that
ghts to the finish win or lose.
Therefore, do your part. Such a
team deserves your individual sup
port all the encouragement and loy
alty you can give it. Your support Sat
urday was good but it could have
been better. There's a game here
Saturday with Camp Greene". Get
out all of you and cheer not part
of the time but all the time. Get
behind your team.
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS
Once upon a time, there were some
college traditions, Timid; but they
were all shot to pitces before you
came on. You need have no fear of
innocently breaking any of the an
cient laws of the academic zone by
saying "How do you do?" to the
wrong person, or sitting on the wrong
bench, or wearing the wrong kind
of a hat. We aren't giving a hang
about such things, just now.
Act like a he-man, and use your
judgment; that's all. The best ac
count you can give of yourself, is to
keep smiling! If you are uncom
fortable, grin! If the serbeant jolts
your sensibilities, cheer! If the mili
tary proctor gets your goat, let him
have it; there are more goats to be
had. The college had gone to war
all of it lock, stock, and barrel!
Attend everything that looks like
a patriotis meeting. Give your old
duds to the Belgians. Save up your
cash for the United War Work Cam
paign fund. The college students led
the country, last year, in donations
to these movements now combined
for one big drive in November.
Until we can get into the fight, 'our
selves, let's do our best to brace up
the other fellows who are in it. Any
student who finishes this academic
year with money in his trousers, has
something wrong under his vest.
We used to chaff teh chap who was
tighter'n an old tire on a rusty rim;
him!" (He can understand that sen
tence, being patr Boche.)
So, don't be timid, Timid, about
anything but grouchiness and stingi
ness. The only offenses you can pos
sibly commit, this year, are soreness
and tightness.
Miss Roper Dies
As a result of pneumonia following
Influenza contracted while volunteerr
ing her services to the University In
firmary, Miss Bessie Roper, age 29,
formerly of Morganton, but for the
past six years of Asheville, died here
Tuesday night at 12 o'clock, Octo
ber 23. The young lady has been
special nurse to Mrs. Anne McDade,
an aunt of Captain Asaac E. Emer
son, of Baltimore.
When the epidemic began its rav
ages in the University, she felt it
her duty to go where she was most
needed. She made a sacrifice like
that of the soldier who dies for his
country. Three of her patients at
the Infirmary, whose recovery was at
one time in doubt, are now on the
convalescent list.
Besides her widowed mother, Mrs.
Cora Roper, of Asheville, among
other immediate relatives, the young
lady is survived by three sisters, Mrs.
Ed Clodfelter and Mrs. Benjamin, of
Asheville, and Mrs. E. Sid Berry, of
Morganton, and two brothers, James
Roper, in service in France, and Otis
Roper, of Asheville.
Marine Organization
Moved to Georgia Tech
First Lieutenant Boyd, U. S. M. C,
received orders Wednesday morning
to proceed with his command to the
Georgia School of Technology, At
lanta, Georgia. This move is to be
made is to be made not later than the
first of next week.
The Marine organization at Caro
lina has been unable to get its full
quota of men, due to inability of S.
A. T. C. men to secure transfers and
the movement of the unit to another
school is made for the reason.
At present there are only eight men
in the Carolina unit. These men will
proceed to Geogia Tech with Lieuten
ant Boyd.
Oh, we haven't learned formation for
a squad and a platoon
And we've yet to fix the difference in
a bayonet and batoon
And we know as much of S. O. L.
as someone in the moon.
But this is what they tell us, "Boy,
you'll find out soon!"
Then the Students Army Training
Corps will soon dispel the doubt,
Which lingers yet with Bloody Bill
just what the war's about
We'll show him all the difference in a
victory and a rout!
Oh, he thinks he isn't beaten but
he'll soon find out!
"Appease that conscience sub
scribe for the Tar Heel now!!"
JUST GOSSIP
Fables of Sultan Peikh A Bou No.
4: All Ye That Are Verdant:
Beware
Who is yon . fellow who sitteth so
dejectedly and who, ever and anon,
gr.ndeth his teeth and teareth his
hair ? For his actions are passing
My lord, thou seest a Sophomore,
yea, 'tis even so, a once mighty
Soph who mourneth the passing of
the Good Old Days when this curious
creature bedight a Freshman walked
in fear and trembling. Yea, in fear
and trembling of the Sophs who, per
chance, would threaten to march nim
around the campus clad exceeding
airy in a pickle barrel and a forced
smile, or compel him to sing the
"Wearing of the Green" and other
favored class songs. And now these
same Freshmen, once the Mightiest
phaticalyl to endorse ti.
of the Insignificant, do sneer openly
at the Sophs and receive their threats
of a shaven poll with cold disdain.
But the Sophs sweareth, by the great
Danfino oath, that the day of Reck
oning cometh. For the face of a
Freshman will ever be green in their
memory.
She (fondly) : "Dear, would you
die for me?"
He: "No. precious, mine is an un
dying love."
Desmond: "There's dirty work
ahead."
Esmond: "What's up?"
Desmond: "The battallion is going
to take a bath."
By observing the methods of pro
onuncing commands laid down here,
one may readily become almost as
unintelligible as most the military
graduates of Plattsburg. Experience
in the New York subway is invalu
able. Command: Pronounced:
Squads Right Squaw grighk ! !
Squads Left ......Haw! -wefflgk!!
Right front into line r
Glightjkl qwzxsyzz ogvhjkl ungk!
Left Turn ....Gweldj burnph
On Right into line
Punsk ri injonk wine!!
Forward march
Grownk wg mhhurk ! !
To the rear, March
To huh heuh-hark!
Company Halt
Klumfunty awwllwl.
Cheerful one (To rookie, on being
asked what the trenches are like
"If yer stands up yer gets sniped;
if yer moves yer gets shelled; and
if yer stands still yer gets court
martialed for frostbite.
Sentinel (On post): "Halt! Who's
there?"
Officer: "An officer of the Camp,
with family.
"Advance and be sterilized."
Private Blank of Blank Company:
(Showing -his disregard for dis
cilpine) "You can lead a horse to
water but you can't make him drink."
Old Timer: "No, but they can stick
old horsie's nose under the water and
let him use his own judgment."
. An. Irish soldier, after fighting
eight months on the Western front,
applied for a furlough. His request
was granted, and then it Wawned
upon him that he had no money to
take advantage of his holiday. He
wanted $100 to go to Paris. He was
at his wits end, there being no time
to be lost, when he recalled his old
mother's advice to apply to the good
Lord above him in time of trouble.
So he wrote and posted this letter:
Dear Lord: Here I am afther
fightin tin months in mud up to me
neck. The work is somewhat un
pleasant, but Ye'll be glad to hear
that I've killed fifty Germans. Now
I'm a little tired and have me fur
lough all right; but I have no money
left, having spint most of what I
had for prayer books. Ask Father
Tom McCarthy if Ye don't believe
me. So, Lord, I ask Ye in the name
of all the Saints for the small sum
of $100. Sure Ye'll niver miss it,
and if Ye sind me the money, I'll
niver forgit Ye in my rayers."
PAT CASEY.
In due course this appeal reached
the censor's Office, which happened
in this particular locality to be
housed in the Y. M. C. A quarters.
The letter was passed around and
aroused considerable attention and in
terest, as Casey was known . to be a
brave and cheerful fighter. Contri
butions were sought and finally the
sum of $50 was raised. This was
sent to the applicant, without com
ment, in a Y, M. C. A. envelope.' The
next day the following acknowledg
ment was received:
"Dear Lord: I've received your $50
as per application for furlough
money, and I thank Ye. May Yer
shadder niver grow less but I make
so bold as to 'give Ye a word of
warnin. Sind the next money by the
K. C.'s. Ye sint the last, hv Vm v
M.() C. A. and they nipped half of
it,
PAT CASEY.
At present companies "A" and "B"
have j allied themselves with the a
vowed intention of ' administering a
sound drubbing to "C" and "D" while
we feel justified in saying that the
feeling is reciprocated with interest.
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