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THE TAR HEEL
December 15, 1922
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VoL XXXI. Dec. 15, 1922 No. 22
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
The annual campaign for the sale of
Bed Cross Christmas seals has been
launched locally.
The average ;3rson does not have to
be canvassed to give to this noble cause.
It is with the spirit of Christmas that
he gives willingly and freely to an in
stitution that at this time of the year
does its best and finest work. It is sel
dom that a person canvassed neglects
this wonderful opportunity to help those
in need.
You will, perhaps, give many gifts
this Christmas season, some of them
very expensive and very beautiful, and
many of them appreciated so much, but
none of them will show a better and
truer Christmas spirit than the purchasj
of a dollar's worth of Bed Cross Christ
mas seals.
HERE'S TO THE SCRUBS
NOTE. This colnon is for the free exchange
of opinion among our readers. Use It if
you have anybody to kick or anything to
praise. All articles must be accompanied
by the name of the author; no anonymous
communications will be published.
WHERE CBEDIT IS DUE
To the Editor of the Tar Heel:
In the awarding of credit for the suc
cessful year that Carolina has just pass
ed through in athletics I am afraid that
the student body and alumui have great
ly overlooked one man who has played
a big part iu the building up of the
teams that have given us four cham
pionships in one year. That man is
Dr. Lawson, the man who looks after
the physical conditioning of the teams.
His job is no small one, as every man
on the football field will toll you. It
is a very inconspicuous one from the
grandstand,- for he never carries the
ball, but his work has a part in every
play that is run. "Doc" spends count
less hours on the field and in the gym
treating our injuries and looking after
our physical condition. Every man
who was on the football squad had
"cussed" his hot towels, alcohol rubs,
and castor oil, but we all thank him
for the condition that he kept us iu.
We know that our successful season was
largely due to the physical condition
of the squad. Only one man during
the entire season was kept out of an
important game on account of sickness
or injury. Randolph was out of the
A. and E. game on account of a "char
liehorse." This is a record that no
other team in this section can boast of.
After the Virginia game Coach Camp
bell said to Dr. Lawson, "If I had had
you to look after the conditioning of
my men, I would have had a 25 per
cent better team."
Dr. Lawson gets no salary for this
work; he does it simply because he
loves Carolina athletics and can't help
putting everything he has into the
game. He began it many years ago
when he became the best all-round ath
lete that ever wore the blue and white,
and he will keep it up as long as he
lives, because it is a part of him. Every
student, alumnus and friend of Caro
lina owes Dr. Lawson a vote of thanks
and appreciation for his loyal service.
We are all for you, "Doc."
GRADY PRITCHARD.
"Beneath the glamour of success,"
says Coach Bob Fetzer, "in athletics,
rs in all phases of life, there is always
a story of struggle and hard work."
He illustrates the statement with an
account of the splendid work of the
second string men on the Carolina foot
ball squad during the recent highly suc
cessful season.
There is something for us. We have
been singing the praises for victory in
glowing terms of that splendid outfit
of varsity material, and as is usually
the case, we almost entirely forgot
to give proper credit to the men that
made the varsity team what it was,
the scrubs. "No team is stronger than
Its scrubs." Those men that never get
in a game, but who stand the gaff and
stick with their betters during a sea
son in which they, themselves, get no
moss, are responsible, in no small meas
ure, for whatever degree of success the
team makes.
The Tar Heel congratulates the
scrubs.
DOCTOR CHASE HAS
AN ATTACK OF FLU
President Chase has been ill since
December 2 with influenza, but is up
now although unable to leave the house.
He returned from Raleigh last Friday
week and was to accompany Dr. T. J.
Wilson to New Orleans to attend the
Meeting of Registrars held there last
week, but was forced to go to bed on
Saturday and has not been out since.
C. A. Hibbard, associate professor in
the English department, was initiated
as an honorary member in Sigma Upsi
lon national literary fraternity laBt
Sunday night.
To the Kilitor of the Tar Heel:
In the news colunins of this issue will
be found an article touching on a re
form to be put into practice after
Christmas at Swain Hall. This pro
posed reform has two very real sides,
and I shall attempt to discuss both of
them.
I first heard of this coming change
from a student-waiter at Swain, who
was worrying a very great deal about
how he was going to make ends meet
if he had to pay one-third of his board
after Christmas. The idea of it went
against the grain at onc-e; it seemed
a contemptible and an unjust bit of
lair-splitting. The self-help waiters
who talked to me about it told me that
they put in at least as much as twenty
one hours a week at Swain Hall, for
wlicih they receive their board. They
said that they have to work like very
demons every minute of this twenty
one hours; and goodness knows they
do! Each man has to keep food sup
plied to eighteen voraciously hungry
students. After Christmas the idea is
that the food will be brought in on
carts instead of carried "a la main";
and the waiters will wait on two ta
bles, twenty men, instead of eighteen.
Thus the number of waiters needed will
be slightly lessened. However, the full
number of waiters is to be kept, work
ing slightly less titnw each than now,
and each is to pay one-third of his
board.
Now, the men who work at Swain
Hall are the most needy men on the
campus, and were selected on that
basis. One of them said to me: "If I
have to pay one-third of my board bill
after Christmas, I'll have to stop school
at the end of the winter quarter." And
he meant it. Of course he wouldn't
have to stop. Carolina self-help men
have a reputation for doing the impos
sible; but in the name of Heaven, why
should this extra burden be put on him,
and on the 50 other waiters at Swain
Hall? They have their budgets made
out for the year; this extra tax is go
ing to hurt, and hurt where the weak
spot is.
Swain Hall has the self-help waiters
by the dinner pail, and they can neither
do nor say anything. A student said
to me: "They treat us any way up
there. . . . That's my only way of
going to school, and I can 't afford to
be fired."
What o it if the men will do only
fourteen hours work a week, instead of
the present twenty-one? (And twenty
one is a conservative estimate, from
some of the statements I have heard.)
Sixty hours work a month fourteen
jiours a week is worth $22.50 worth
jf Swain Hall board.
This fall Swj.in Hall has been board
ing about 600 guests and fifty waiters,
taking in, in round numbers, say, $13,
000 a month. The food has been as
good as any boarder e'ould reasonably
wish. Why can't the same number of
men be boarded on the same amount of
money from now ont The Swain Hall
management says that it wants to im
prove the food and service and must
cut down on overhead expense. Anl
just here let's take up the manage
ment 's side of the ease.
Iu the first place, the managers of
Swain Hall are self-help men them
selves, and are thoroughly in sympa
thy with the waiters. They do not
wish to collect this extra board merely
because they can do it, but because they
are striving earnestly to improve Swain
Hall in every possible way. That 's tho
whole idea. But, I suggested, if food
and service is to improve, why tax the
waiters; why not the boarders, charg
ing, say, $22.75 for board instead of
$22.50. I argued that such a little
increase would mean hardly anything
to each boarder, but a tax of over $7
a month to the self-help men will work
a real hardship. Such an idea seemed
hardly fair to the managers; but they
put forward this counter-suggestion,
which seems feasible. They said:
"Why not let the men at the tables
pay for the better service and better
food they will get by giving 30 cents
a month each to the waiters. This need
not be considered a tip at all, but rath
er a payment for service, and it would
save the waiters a very real burden."
And that is a good idea. I sincerely
hope that; if the planned system does
go into effect, the boarders at Swain
Hall will take up this suggestion. 1,
for one, am going to board at Swain
Hall after Christmas, and I shall be
willing to do my share of this.
That 's the case on both sides. There
is justice in Swain Hall's action. The
managers are thoroughly in sympathy
with the waiters. Yet it is unbearably
hard on the men to have this tax sprung
on them iu the middlo of the vear. If
such a system had been put into prac
tice in the beginning, or if the man
agement would only hold off until next
fall, it would not be so bad.
I, for one and it seems that any man
with less than an iron heart in las body
would be willing to forego tho slight
improvement in food that such a sys
tem would mean. To give up, say, one
dish of apricots a week, or something
so, in order that fifty needy men might
be spared a real hardship! Of course
Carolina men would be willing to do
that! If they wouldn't then I'm asham
ed to be a Carolina man!
Yet, the management does not seem
inclined to revoke its decree. Ti.e
thing is still an inexorable yoke, await
ing the self-help, waiters. Swain Hall
is a students' boarding house, depend
ing on student good-will for its life.
Certainly, if student opinion expresses
itself against such drastie reforms at
this time, expresses itself through res
olutions, publications, organizations,
etc., it will be heeded.
To sum up then, Swain Hall waiters
are, after Christmas, to pay oue-thir.i
of their board iu order that the full
number now employed might be retain
ed. The money thus gained propor
tionally a tiny drop in a big bucket
will go to the improvement of food at
Swain Hall. This measure, then, will
be a hard one on the waiters; and of
little benefit to anyone. It cannot be
averted by waiters' protest; student
protest CAN make itself fell If the
decree DOES go into effect, the stu
dents can show their sympathy by pay
ing a fee for service to the waiters;
a fee of 30 cents each per month,
which will practically pay the differ
ence in the waiters' board.
This really is a serious proposition,
for it affects a large number of men.
(Let us hope that the Swain Hall man
agement can find some way out of this
severe injustice to the waiters, at this
time of the year, other than the firing
of some of the men they now have, or
the effecting of their plan to charge
the waiters for board. And if no way
out is found, let 's help the waiters with
30 cents a month. It is something, but
not very much to us to them it is sal
vation! J. O. BAILEY.
FRESHMAN DEBATING SOCIETY
SHOWS SURPRISING VIGOR
To the Editor of The Tar Heel:
Containing only forty men, the
Freshman Debating Society has, during
the past quarter virtually controlled
(Continued on page three)
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It is the warmth of the holiday spirit, which causes
human hearts to glow when temperatures are lowest.
Mother's cooking the family united Chrstmns
trees and crackling logs what would this world be
without them?
Li promoting the family good cheer the college
man's part is such that modesty often blinds him to it.
It would hardly occur to the glee club man to sing
over the songs of Alma Mater for the still Dearer
One at home.
Tho football man would scarcely suspect that his
younger brother is dying to have him drop-kick for
the "fellers".
The Prom leader would not presume to think that
among those sisters who have been waiting to share
l.:s agility at fox-trot may be his own sister.
And in general, college men would scorn to believe
that any conversational prowess they might possess on
Woks, professors or campus activities could possihly
Kiterest a certain Gentleman Who Foots the Bills.
But just try it, all of you. The welcome you get
will warm the cockles of your heart.
This suggestion, amid sighs as they look buck
across the years, is the best way a bunch of old grads
here know of wishing you "Merry Christmas".
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