THE TAR HEEL
OtfcW Orawa ml tba AUUtic Aaiatpn f Um
! Uaivanity of Nartk Carolina
;.' U.v.w,. Published WttUr , ' '
BOARD OF EDITORS
FORREST G. MILES Editor-in-Chief
ASSISTANTS
J. S. Terry
H. S. Everett
TV C. WOLFE.
...Managing Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
E. S. Ljndsey W. C. Eatok
J. H. Kerr, Jr. W. H. Hooker
A. I,. PuRRlNGTOM L. C BLYTHE
W. H. Andrews W. R. Berryhiix
H. G. West WV H. Bobbitt
C. R. Summer C. D. Beers
T. C. Leanard J. W. Foster
Miss Elizabeth Lay
J. S. MASSENBURG--. Butineti Manager
FRED MOORE ..Assistant Manager
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A La Mason
Once upon a time, with many
a fearful chill we left the puff
ing dinky line and rode up to
the Hill. There we met the en
terprising, salesmen of the
sophs and ran afoul of scores
and scores of grim and wizened
profs. The former sold us
tickets, to the campus and we
spent, many a scared simoleon,
for our radiator rent. The lat
ter when we gazed upon their
fierce begoggled, peepers . wa
shivered at the very thought
that they should be our keepers.
But now the end of the year
is here 'tis time that we take
stock to see that the knowledge
that we've picked up in college
is solid and firm like a rock.
For we'd have it known that our
head is not bone and that we
after knowledge have yearned,
with much retrospection for its
quite a collection, here are the .
things that we've learned:
"Fishes are weighed in their
scales, an elephant packs its
own trunk, but rates never tell
their own tales and one seldom
gets chink in a chunk. Sick
ducks never go to the quack;
a horse cannot plow its own
mane, a ship is not hurt by a
tack and a window never suffers
from pane. Dogs seldom wear
their own pants, which fact lay3
them open to scorn, no nephew
or neice fancies ants and a cow
never blows her own horn. A
cat cannot parse its own claws,
no porcupine nibs its own quill,
though orphan bears still have
their paws, a bird will not pay
its own bill."
-We are nearing the close of an ir
regular term two quarters. Our
work has been interrupted from time
to time, Junior Week, High School
Week, baseball, and other weeks that
have left some of us too weak for a
week's real work. And the week's
real work is immediately adjacent.
These breaks, however, were made
in filling certain engagements which
we every spring make with the young
people of the State. They enjoy their
visit to the Hill, and we look forward
to entertaining them when they ar
rive. At the same time, we have
these things to do in addition to our
regular work. Two more weeks that
are important, and we are on the
home stretch; to make good necessari
ly means hard, earnest work. Are
we going to let dreams of this Sum
mer s vacation keep us from doing
our duty? No! Then let us sow 6eed
now from which we shall be glad to
reap just before we depart for the
Ellysium fields of Summertime.
Yesterday's dream of being a col
lege man has already become) the
reality of today, and tomorrow will
see it in the discard. You've got to
step lively now and keep on stepping
if you don't want to get lost in the
crush around the pie-counter where
the delicacies of life fortune, suc
cess, and last but not least, a wife
and a "dip" await those who do not
"lie down on the last stretch.
The habit of just getting by is one
of the wor,st conditions that a college
fellow can get into. It is prompted
by the kind of mind that in after life
thinks that just anything is "good
-enough." The man who is content
to "just get by" will never get any
- where. Mediocrity is to be shunned
as would a pestilence. The fellow
who just "gets by" is always wonder
ing why So-and-So passed the course
nd himself "flunked."
A VERY SLOW CURTAIN
: This is the last current issue of the
Tar Heel. A feature issue will short
ly be issued for extensive circulation.
Now, all that remains for us is to ad
dress a few words of farewell to you
and to wish you Godspeed and good
luck in your summer's journey.
We will not recount the policies by
which we ' have administered your
paper this year.; Suffice to say that
we have at all times tried to Keep
before us the fundamental that we
were vour reDresentatives on your
Daoer. The columns of the Tar Hee!
have been open to any one of you at
any time for a free, frank expression
of opinion on topics of campus inter
est. We are glad to say that you
made good use of that opportunity.
Thus, it seems to us, we nave more
nearly approached our ideal of being
a truly representative couege paper,
At the time when trie normal acw
vifv nf nollece life was wholly chang
ed by the vigors of military life, the
Tar Heel alone, 01 an me owier cam
pus publications and organizations
was ante to carrv on. Given its great
es. onnortunitv for genuine service.
we are happy in pur belief that it
did not fail.
A newspaper whether a forty-two
page feature, or a small iour page
college publication may be a vital
thing. In its dry, crackling pages
mav be Dut the elements of life. If
this may be done, the paper, large or
small, is able to achieve.
We do not know if the Tar Heel did
this. We believe it did. It saw the
beginnings of the great, new govern
ment toward the greater Carolina
the movement that has steadily gain
ed in impetus and is even now sweep
ing us along with it. It saw the great
student spirit, back in the daric days
flicker but it knows the spirit never
died.
And so, the Tar Heel closes what
has been, perhaps, its most eventful
year. A word of thanks, expressed
nere, is tne least as can give me
loval errouD of editors that have re
mained steadfastly by their paper
amid the eddying currents of rapidly
changing conditions. . lhe close, clean
spirit of co-operation between all the
editors of the board is in the main,
the chief reason for the paper's pub
lication at a time when the publica
tions of other colleges, with a groan
of despair, gave up the ghost.
( Thus endeth the annals of the year.
But even now we look forward to the
beginning of the great new year
we who have gathered from the ends
of the state at this the treasured
focal point.
To those who will not return we
give the high sign of good Carolina
fellowship, believing in the ultimate
success of true, Carolina gentlemen.
lo those who will return Come!
let us achieve together! And so.
farewell!
LET US RUN AND NOT BE
UNEASY
"There is a tie in the affairs of
men which, taken at the flood, leads
on to fortune."
Ambition is the force which moves
every man who comes to college. We
are either ambitious to get a degree
ana rest on that, or we are ambitious
to learn so that our Dart in the
world's life may be recognized and
remembered. Ambition, like the
good, often dies young. How many
students of your high school have not
come with you into the University ?
Their reason is simple. When they
graduated they saw jobs ahead which
usually will never be more than jobs
and which presented to them possi
bilities of being independent possi
bilities of leisure and money. Even
though ambition exists to be the
world s greatest engineer, many a
man will allow himself to be drawn to
a side issue that will lead him to be
a clerk in a dry goods store for "$20
a week to start." and DerhaDs $29
a week to end with, 20 years hence.
mis same rule applies to the col-
ege graduate and the same nitfalls
and side tracks are open to him as
were open when he left high school.
More care is required by the collesre
graduate in avoiding such distraction
also, because more strenuous effort
will be made to procure the college
man as an employee than is made to
obtain the services of untrained men.
There are places galore for every
graduate oi a college. . Any man or
woman leavine this University could
be a traveling salesman, a manager
t)f store, a reporter, a secretary, a
teacner, or a government employee,
granting, of course, that a short peri
od of special training be obtained. But
consider the end of this beginning.
vvuere win you De years irom now ;
Perhaps at the head of a force of
salesmen; perhaps the owner of a
store; perhaps a sub-editor. Who
will know your name ? Who will point
out your work and you yourself as a
benefactor of mankind? What place
will your name occupy?
Mrvery one of us right now is head
ed for one great goal spurred on by
our one ambition. Every one of us
wants to do the world some service. J
Therefore, let us lay aside all en
cumbrance, look neither to the rieht
nor to the left and run the course set
before us. Four years at college is
but a short while. Four years, credi
table work, a degree, and we are out
in the world to battle with life's cur
rent, swift and strong. Our work
here done well, we are prepared for
any task, however difficult. It is a
fatal and deplorable tendency of a
few Freshmen and Sophomores to
drop out of the race either because
the year's work has not been very
satisfactory to themselves, or because
they have lost all interest in college
life, or think they have. We have
found that the average student finds
his Sophomore work easier and col
lege life more pleasant than is the
case in his Freshman year. And each
year after the first, the student be
comes more and more attached to the
University.
May we suggest that every Fresh
man, Sophomore, and Junior, when
the exams are over and he leaves the
University for the Summer's vaca
tion, leave here with his mind set up
on returning to Carolina next iai
and finish the work he has begun, ore
paring himself for the right kind of
citizenship for service to his ieliow
men nothing can keep a etermined
man from his ultimate goal. If it
is necessary for some of us to drop
down to the lowest rung of the ladder
and work our way up, let's do that
with a singlemindedness of purpose
with which we shall later speed on to
bur own set coal. If some of us
have wealth in our keeping, and our
ambition 'm our hearts, for our own
sakes let us not allow that wealth to
retard the race for the goal. No at
tractions by the-side of the road must
prevail.
LO! THE POOR PROFESSOR
The poor professor makes his en
trance in a doubly significant way at
the beginning of each new course. His
sanity comes in for discussion with
some and the more flippant tend to
discus the professor's appearance. No
one considers the protessor s salary
and therein lies the prosaic rub.
Risking damage to the conventional
film covering hnantial affairs, we in
tend to say a word on the maximum
wage of the college instructor ana
professor.
The Michigan Daily asserts that
during the last 11 years the protessor
has not received a raise in salary,
It goes further and states that nine-
tenths of the faculty are compelled
to do outside work m order to live.
The salary they do receive is pro
portionally one-hair oi tne unaer
sized remuneration which came to
them ten years ago. And still the
species persists. Isn't it wonderful?
The fact that American professors
are not known throughout the world
nor are ranked with the leading scho
lar of the age is the result of poverty.
Their grocery bills demand more at
tention than their research work
even approaches. They are not finan-
tially independent as are many of
their foreign contemporaries but,
even so, they are still not paid so
highly.
We suggest, in view of all this,
that somebody take heart and boost
the professor, his salary, and his com
munity standing. It is plain that he
is "in the service" for the betterment
of mankind and not himself. Lo!
the poor professor has been serving
all those years.
MARRIAGE AS COMPARED
TO WAR
Why are marriages and war so of
ten associated ? Because there is no
difference. A fellow meets a girl and
decides that she is the woman he
wants to battle through life with.
"He presents arms," "She falls in"
they talk it over and decide on an
engagement, at the licence bureau.
"They sign up." and the minister
"Swears them in." There are only a
few "Skirmishes" during the court
ship, the real fighting comes after the
marriage. That is when the man
thinks he is a "Colonel," but he is
only a nut. In Turkey a woman slams
her husband over here, vice versa.
The wife is usually a great rifler;
she rifles her husband's pockets every
night; she takes all his large money
and confines him to "quarters .
Whether he has offended her or not,
she has him on ''mess detail." She
makes all "counter-attacks" on the
department stores, and knows how to
charge." Bhe is his "commanding
officer" he is her "supply officer.
His most important position is that
of "paymaster." The most nerye
acking part of the battle comes after
the arrival of the "infantry," after
this he does most of his hiking" at
ght. lhe screech and scream of
shells in battle are' music, compared
with the racket that is now with him.
On entering the navy he can sign up
for the duration of war, but there is
no such clause as this in the marriage
contract. Which is the better tem
porary; warfare or permanent? God
help the married man!
ON TO BLUE RIDGE
There are six places in the United
States where the Y. M. C. A. holds a
conference for the college men. Some
of these have already been held while
the one in this district is going to be
held from June 13th to the twenty-
third. It would be fine for Carolina
to send" the greatest number of dele
gates this year. Just now Clemson
holds the record with twenty-six dele
gates. All the colleges are planning
to send more men this year than ever
oerore and Carolina, to win, will have
send more than Clemson ever
thought of. The University of Cali
fornia had ninety-nine delegates to
the Western convention in California.
This is one example of what a big
thing the convention is and the in
terest taken.
To atend the Blue Ridge Confer
ence is one of the very best things
that a man can do this Summer. Then
let as many men as possible make
their plans to go and help fill the
Carolina Cottage at Blue Ridge. By
going you will get the association of
the very pick of the South, and you
will meet some of the best men in the
country it is a big opportunity, and
if you can make plans for anything
at all, be sure to include the trip to
Blue Rige. ,
RESPONSIBILITY AND TONGUE
No man is fit to be entrusted with
responsibility until he has learned to
control his tongue. He must think be
fore he speaks; he must not allow
prejudice or excitement or anger to
influence what he is to say. He must
school .himself to say the thing, the
one thing, that is for the best inter
ests of the job he is doing, and no
more. When a man has learned this
he is ready to tackle almost anything
American Boy. "
The one lemish upon an otherwise
favorale report of the trustees of
the University of South Carolina was
their opinion concerning the condi
tion of the student's rooms. Poorly
kept and unsightly was the verdict
of our visitors to whom we showed
our campus with pride. Which
Brings us to teh question: Why can't
we keep our suroundings neat and
inviting? The lesson taught last lal
seems to have all too soon left us
Yet a little care by the occupants
of the rooms would work wonders
and create quarters which could
stand inspection from critical stran
gers. The ianitor mav be slovenly,
he has many rooms to clean daily;
but the cooperation of each student
is the only solution to the problem.
The authorities are negotiating to
secure a permanent health officer for
the university, the duties of whom
will be to keep the students in good
health by seeing that the living con
ditions are conducive to this end. The
students will be taught the whys and
wherefores of sanitation and whole
some living conditions.
Now is the accepted time to learn
the lesson of cleanliness. The man
who leaves without having paid at
tention to his surroundings while in
school will be inclined to overlook
such matters if he happens to get
J A A. i.1 A -1 1 I 1 1
into a town man aoes not mice priae
in its sanitary condition. No time
is better than the present for re
form. Let us finish the year right
and determine to be more careful in
these matters next year. The old
men must set the pace for the new
men who will be here for the first
time next term. W, H. H.
THE STUDENT AND HIS ROOM
When asked bv a member of nnr
faculty what criticism of an unfavor-
i . . . ...
aoie nature tney could make of the
university Plant as thev had seen it.
one member of the visiting committee
from the Palmetto state stated that.
there was one. This was a friendly
criticism oi the lack of orderliness
and neatness of certain rooms in t.Vie
dormitories which thev had seen. Af
ter a close observation of the equip
ment, conditions and life on the Hill,
the gentlement from South Carolina
said that the above was the onlv nn.
favorable criticism which they could
make of the University. When we
realize that this impression- could
have been good if some of us had
been a litle more careful, we are
forced to experience a feeling of
shame and regret for a duty undone.
We have complained of the inade
quate accomodations of the Univer
sity, and vet we have neo-WteH tne
chance to make good with what we
nave, it snouid awaken us to a sense
of obligation to think that against all
of the highly complimentary state
ments which were made hv our visi
tors there was only one unfavorable
criticism for which no one else but
we can be held resnonsihle nf
course, the rooms visited may have
been exceptionally bad in appearance,
ana we Diiieve they were. However,
there seems to be a tendency for
most of us to forget the valuable les
sons of barracks nolice whiVVi
taught us last falL AH of us want
to forget the many unpleasant con
nections which we had with Uncle
Sam's shave-tails, but there are rer.
tain invaluable matters which should
stick with us throughout life. One
of these Js the point of order and
neatness in our snrroundino-s no mat.
ter how humble and unostentatious
they may be. The condition and ap
pearance of our room is a mirror in
which is imaged the true character,
tastes, and mode of living of the man
who occupies it. Besides being a re
flection of the inner-man, the condi
tion of a room will be a stimulus or
a hindrance to study in so far as the
room is orderly or torn-up. If we
will only bear this in mind, future
visitors will have no chance to criti
cize unfavorably anything for which
we as students are directly responsi
ble. -C. T. Leonard.
KEEP OFF THE GRASS
Undoubtedly Carolina has a lot to
be proud of. The records of Caro
lina Alumni act a3 an inspiration to
us all. , We point with pride to the
results of the baseball season. We
can say that we send out our publica
tions throughout the state without a
sense of shame. Even Gooch's Em
porium of Things Eatable and Other
wise is an object of admiration. But,
seriously, what we are proud of, all
of us, all the time, is the campus.
None can deny that the stretch of
green from the South Building to the
street is "a thing of beauty." In
deed the beauty of our trees and grass
and walks is unsurpassable. Our
campus is artistically perfect, part
ly because of Mr. Pickard's intelli
gence and partly because of the Caro
lina spirit. When you come to think
of it, isn't it Carolina spirit that
tells you to waste three or four or
perhaps five seconds and a few cents
worth of shoe leather and walk
around the long path, the one that
was .made for you to walk on? Isn't
it your pride in the prettiest campus
m the South that keeps you from
cutting across?" One pair of shoes
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New Office Over Peoples Bank
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
W? B. SORRELL
Jeweler and Optometrist
CHAPEL HILL, N. c.
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214 E. Main St., Durham, N. C.
crossing from Pettigrew to Alumni
three times a day may do little harm
in itself. But isn't the wearer of
the shoes harmed his self respect, 1
mean? "Cutting across" spells poor
citizenship. What do you think.
II. D. S.
HIGH-GRADE
SHOES