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THE TAR HEEL Official Organ of the Athletic Aatociation of the ; University or North Carolina Published Weekly ; BOARD OF EDITORS THOMAS WOLFE AditortoOhief ASSISTANTS W. H. ANDREWS, JR. H. G. WEST J H. KERR..... W. R. PERRYHILL .. ..Managing Editor Assignment Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS E. S. Lindsay ; H. S. EVKEETT ; O. D. Beers W. L. Blythb O. T. Leonard Ai L. PURRINOTON P. Hkttleman 0. R. SOMMKB M. H. Pattjueson ' J. P. Washburn R. B. Gwyhs H. D. Stbvkns W. E. Matthews BOARD OF MANAGERS N. G. GOODING .... Uurinett Manager ...... ASSISTANTS -" J. E. BANZET. JR. ' J. S. MASSENBURG L. V. MILTON To be entered as second-class matter at the postoflice at Chapel Hill, N. 0. Printed by Thb Skkman Peintbey, Inc., Durham, N. 0. SubscriptionlPrice, $2.00 Per Year. Payable in Advance or During the First Term Single Copies, S Cents EVERYBODY PLAYS THE GAME For the first time in Chapel Hill history the University becomes the host of the University of Virginia football team and that portion of the Virginia student body that may at tend. The new system of playing in alternation at Chapel Hill and Char lottesville is an expression of a strong current sentiment at both Universi ties that this great gridiron classic should have nothing about it that smacks of professionalism. Heretofore -the good people of Rich mond, Virginia, have been the hosts of each team. And who shall deny that the fine, old courtesy of those Old Dominion folks was extended not alone to their own husky warriors but also to their Tar Heel visitors? This Thanksgiving day at Chapel Hill, our University not only plays the Virginia University, but enter tains it. The fine spirit of sports manship that has always character ized the attitude of the two student bodies in the past should now, on our home grounds, be emphasized. We are the University student body. We are the University. We are the hosts of the Virginia team and students. We need no reminder of our duty on this occasion. The gentlemen from Virginia must carry away from Chap el Hill the memory of a visit that will be thoroughly delightful, whether their team wins or loses. They are our guests. - As a practical suggestion, we think it would be an excellent plan if the student body would meet the Char lot tesvill special (if there is one), and escort the visitors up to the Hill. It's not a mere matter of two foot ball teams meeting here Thanksgiving day. It is rather the meeting of two great Universities, located in states long known for the excellence of their hospitality. Team meets team and plays the game. Everybody play the game! A GREATER VICTORY For eleven years, between 1905 and 19016, the Carolina football team and the majority of the Carolina student body journey into Virginia on Thanks giving day and went down to a foot ball defeat before the Virginia team. Year after year we drained the bit ter cup of the dregs and year after year we came back smiling. .In our opinion if anything can help the high quality of sportsmanship on this cam pus it is the memory of those years when we cheered our fighting teams that always lost but were never beat. We lostbut we lost in the spirit of gentlemen. We accepted our defeats without a murmur, without an ex cu8e, and we took the medicine in :annual doses. ? - Then in 1916 we achieved a foot ball victory and another we found that in learning to lose we had also learned to win. The same fine spir it was manifest in 1916 that char . acterized the previous contests. And somehow that meant more than .a mere score that stood for victory or defeat. It published in blazing letters' the spirit of en institution that is never conquered, that accepts defeat or victory With the philosophy of clean sportsmanship. .- ! Next week we face the Virginia team again after a gridiron absence of three years.; Without a Handicap we face them. For ; we believe that our chances of victory are at least even. - But win or lose the spirit of the ITniversitv will ever be the same to ward its own team and toward the one it ODDOses. We have learned to win; we have learned to lose. And in these we have learned to lose. And in these we have found' a greater victory! THE LITERARY SOCIETIES ARE ALIVE! Elsewhere in this week's columns is found a resolution made at the last meeting of the Dialectic Literary So ciety in placing the stamp of disap proval on any act of rowdyismby stu dents atpublic meetings or entertain ments. The society thus lends the powerful force of its opinion to the editorial written twoweeksago on the same subject. ' .- The resolution is characteristic of the new attitude of the literary so cieties; it shows more plainly than words the increased vitality that is once more placing the. literary socie ties in the main current of campus life.'... ,v, . . . .:;,' - As bodies of opinion the societies realize that their part in campus life is not detached; that they must lend their active constructive efforts to the progression of sentiment on this cam pus. This resolution was accomplished in a few minutes but it represents the view of one of our most representative bodies connecting quickly with the swift movement. The management and the faculty are going to back track athletics this year to the greatest possible extent, and there will be the usual faithful squad of men who will work hard to put out a good team, and indeed this squad is larger and better than usual. But to put out a track team of the type that the University should put out it is going to require the support of the student body such as is given football, baseball, and other sports. The students should stick behind the track team in spirit just as they do the other teams. But they should not only do it in spirit, they should go out for the team. The size of a track squad is unlimited. Only twenty-two men can play football at one time, but several hundred men could take part m some kind of track athletics in the same field on the same afternoon. So when a call is made for track men we should have over a hundred report. Furthermore these men should be training now. We have the best cli mate in the world for track. The weather is very rarely severely cold and there should be a hundred men training on the cross country runs now, then when the call is made af ter, Christmas they would be in good condition, and could be gotten in much better condition for an early meet which it is expected will be arranged for about March ; 20. If this editorial is taken to heart and its advice followed, we can put out the champion track team of the South this year. We are going to have a good coach; that has been promised, and the rest is up to the students. STUDENT FORUM MANNERS AND ILL-MANNERS Manners and ill-manners. There is a distinction between the two. An in dividual is classified by his behavior; a community or an institution by the conduct of its citizens. The college community that as sembled in Gerrard Hall for a musi cal entertainment of a semi-classical nature. Without fu rther inspiration than the appearance of young ladies in evening dress a number of young men instigated applause of a quality that immediately classified them also the college, so far as strangers were concerned. Limp-back hymn books were wafted into the air from the bal cony and settled among the spectators in the lower pit. It was spectacular college men hurling hymn books, whistling, romping on the floor with their feet, engaging in boisterous laughter and other forms of applause which are in vogue at a "pep" meet ing. This at times when any ap plause would have been out of place. The house was dark except for the foot-lights. ; The vociferous apprecia tion was of such dimensions as to ap pear representative of the college community. . It was not. For the most part the audience was well bred and of good manners; The exceptions were these human landmarks repre senting ' their respective distances from the frontier of barbarism. These brethren showed no lack of manners they showed ill manners. Had they held their peace we might have been considered an unappreciative audi ence but not a rude audience. The misconduct, can be explained, as can almost every public .offense. Gerrard Hall is the home of "pep" meetings. Nothing less than a few blood curdling yells is considered in dicative of interest in anything tak ing place in this arena of anticipated victories. It is felt that every one must be "rough and ready" and will ing to "split Carolina" for any pur pose at any time when assembled here. ; Anything short of this is con sidered a mild form of applause. This attitude has created a tendency to ig nore the interpretation a stranger might place on our well mean appro bation. Pickwith gymnastics are out of place at such performance as Lyce um attractions and should be sup pressed. The varsity squad might corral these yearlings in some con venient place for instruction. This done the ,Y. M. C. A. or some otherly motherly' organization, could "give them Hell Carolina for past short comings and then a few selections on a Jew's harp or French harmonica by : way; of cultivating a taste for good music. Following this with a little drill work on getting in and out of the building, after a fashion becom ing to men rather than sheep, they should be qualified for another try out. It would be gratifying to see such an audience comport itself in keeping with the dignity of the Uni versity. RALPH WILLIAMS. BIBLE STUDY GROUPS Lot . and his family went to live in the south country. They took up their residence in Sodom. The town of Gomorrah was near by. It was a sort of a Winston-Salem or St. Paul Minneapolis .combination, with the ob jectionable features peculiar to Sod om and Gomorrah thrown in. These two towns had a hard name The people there had made money and were now going in for a good ime. It was a case of plain thmk- ingand high living, not unlike many an American urban situation. But lain thinkingand high livingare sui- 2;dal. You can t have your bread and , consume it and you can't have ur life and burn the candle at both nds. St. Paul was thinking of this condition when he gave the Christian nterpretation of the destruction of the cities o ftheplans: "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Sow barley and you reap barley. Sow nettles and you reap a crop of net tles. Sow a habit and that habit you reap. Sow luxury and loose liv ing and you reap a thunderstorm. The devotee of theVed light region or the saloon or late hours doesn't need to have the story of Sodom and Go morrah explained to him. He has had his Sodom and Gomorrah and when he reads that fragment of ancient pi ety he can interpret it Lot and his family finally got out. They did the heroic act of tearing themselves away from their environ ment. They struck out for the open country. The bible says God told them to go. What other explanation could you give? God is always talk ing to us. Every fine thing a man is moved to do that is God talking to him. - 1 The story has its climax in Lot's wife. Lot reached the open country. He threw off the incubus. As the great Apostle would say, he laid aside the weight that was besetting him. But poor Lot's wife! She just couldn't make it. She handled the situationwith success for a little while but at last she grew weary of well doing and turned back The habit had gotten its clutches into her life and as it is naively written of her, she was turned into a pillar of salt. In other words she became petrified. That's what happens to all that kind of people. She was like the youth who has had the haphazard, slovenly habit of never doing anything on time. He has been living in that pleasant but vicious Sodom a long while. One day the crisis comes. He sees that he can't succeed and be thus wayward in hi3 manner of life. So he decides to beat for the open country of regu larity. For a short time he keeps up the gait, gets up early, goes to bed early, applies himself diligently to his task. But it's too much for him and he turns back to his Sodom city of Go-As-You-Please. You see lots of those individuals the apostolic successors of Lot's wife petrified on the highway 'and a warning to the passers by. i(:: My friend, Jack,was smoking too many cigarettes ; I made a bargain with him that I would do thus and so if he would break loose from that So dom of enjoyment and strike for the open country of restraint. He started but not long afterwards turned back. Today he is a petrified object on the highway of life, shriveled, jaundiced, stoop-shouldered, ' without zest for any undertakings -A man ' establishes himself in his pleasant Sbdom of belief. He has his creed, within whose gardens he Walks and' is:; happy. The change ,coms. He finds the old environment' of the : ,...311-. W! i fcnrtrty Vnmfi (Elctla :ou rest the assurance of good service on our policy of GUARANTEED SATISFACTION PRITCHARD BRIGHT CO. mind beginning to break up. He feels the situation. He is heroic enough, let us say, to start, like Lot's wife, for the open territory of truth. But by and by he becomes bewildered with all the cross roads of truth and turns to view the city he has left. There he stands while the world moves on. A capitalist has been living in his happy Sodom of large profits where theworkmen have been doing as they have been told and everything has been lovely. ' Lately, however, the stroke of doom has come upon his city and he, on the way out into the open,has turned back in the hope of recovering wha thas been lost. That man today is like Lots wife, after she had become petrified on the plains. The other day a good man told the preacher that the young people of to day were going to the bad. t They haven't any reverence for law and custom," he said, and expressed the belief that unless the yoilng folk could be whipped into the old lines the hope of civilization was gone. That man is a petrified object on the highway of life. The happy Sodom of use and wont has been going to pieces. The youth aren't staying put as theyused to. What then? Turn them back? That would leave them like Lot's wife and the man who is pessimistic of their future or the fu ture of civilization. Let us help them out into the open territory of a finer use and wont. It's this way 0:ur life is two things; it's one part form and one part truth, goodness and beauty. Truth, goodness and beauty are permanent. The form changes. Lot's wife was a slave to form and she thought of the form permanent. When the form changed she couldn t accept the change. So she and her disciples lose out in this world of progress. Habit is adher ence to form. When that adherence becomes fixed you have slavery. The perfect life,as set forth in Jesus Christ, holds to truth and yet wel comes the change in the forms of truth; holds to the right and yet wel comesthe change in the custom; holds to what is fine and yet welcomes the finer expression of what is fine. It's the form only that changes. Truth, goodness and loveliness con tinue. Let us live in the spirit of the latter and we will aways travel in happy mood from our city of destruc tion into the open territory. "God fulfills Himself in many ways lest one good custom, even, should cor rupt the world. Discuss conservatism and radical ism; the present strike situation; the Bolshevist; the academic and prac tical in education; the relation of the church to progress; how save a man from the slavery of a habit? In other words, how civilize him? PHI ASSEMBLY VOTES j AGAINST OPEN DOORS ( Continued from Pajre 1) Denying that new speakers would benefit opened up the attack of the opposition. The whole stronghold of their argument, however, was the im practicability of the bill, and upon these grounds it was defeated. The regular election of officers de veloped much interest and many can didates were nominated. The election resulted as follows: J. P. Washburn of Lillinjrton, Speaker; C. I. Tavlor', of Pikeville, Speaker, pro-tern.; Phil lip Hettleman, of Goldsboro, Read ing Clerk; and Bryce Little, of Ral eurh, Reporting Clerkl. ' Th assembly will ' have a smoker tonight. '' ' 1 " 1 " Judgm ent In the selection of your Clothes need not neces sarily be based on tech nical knowledge of clothes making. "When you come to a store like good judgment. a You place your reliance for good quality and good , style upon the reputation of the . store or the makers of the clothes we handle. Attention Students! All Kinds of Pocket Cutlery, Razors Hones and Strops Shaving Brushes Paints and Oils Hardware To Satisfy You is Our Aim Qtfaliiy Goods . Chapel Hill Hardware Co. 'S HERE'S THE POINT-. YOU GET THE CO-OPERATIVE INTEREST OF EXPERIENCED FITTERS When you buy a suit of clothes from SLATER Make Yourself Known to Men Who Appreciate Your Acquaintance IN DURHAM ON MAIN EUBANKS DRUG COMPANY Prescription 'Druggists CHAPEL HILL. N. C. THEY HAVE A WAY Cutting it Correctly AT THE A. W. HORTON BARBER SHOP ON 1 . SLATER MAIN STREET DURHAM .
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