THE TAR HEEL, JANUARY 18, 1921.
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Vol. XXIX. Chape! Hill, N. C, Tuesday, January 18, 1921. No. 29.
ANOTHER MESSAGE
Patterson Brothers Drug Com
pany, and the Eubanks Drug Com
pany have voiced their conviction re
garding the needs of North Carolina
for more adequate educational facili
ties. They have no illusions about
the University of North Carolina
and its needs. No one has because
of superior familiarity with the con
ditions convinced them that a certain
situation prevails and that they, out
of patriotism, should spend some
money in trying to get this informa-1
lion across iu wie ouatc. xiic nuuic
present situation is . before their
eyes. , They have watched the Uni
versity, for years, and now so keenly
do they feel the need for immediate
relief that they have shouldered the
burden of the two advertisements
that the Tar Heel is running in an
effort to further disseminate this in
formation to the people of the State.
Patterson ran the one on Friday and
Eubanks the one today.
Competition or business advantage
did not prompt them to do this be
cause the two must inevitable divide
the drug business of Chapel Hill, and
they already get the major portion
of the fountain trade. No not busi
ness; but their devotion to a cause
expressed in a very definite - way.
They stand on the ground. They
know the situation, and the keenness
with which they realize the need for
redoubled financial suport of the Uni
versity has compelled them to further
the cause the cause is rapidly in
volving all the people of the State.
DOCTOR STEWART'S LECTURES
Dr. Stewart began with a fair size
audience and held it through all of
his lectures. Few lecturers here re
cently have been able to receive a
very large hearing. And so, in a
way his audiences here were his own
tribute. Some of those who heard
him were complimentary, some were
profuse in their expressions of ap
preciation while some few were
critical. All can find ample justifica
tion in the lectures delivered, and
the man delivering them for the sev
eral positions that have been taken.
One thing we will all have to agree
on: Doctor Stewart was certainly
an able speaker who was able to hold
his hearers from the first to the last
of his hour lectures, he was obvious
ly air able scholar with all the back
ground of the history of the develop
ment of the religious consciousness
of the human race; and with few
illusions about Christianity, its place,
its significance, its origin, and he
illustrated rationality about the Bible
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that we have heard have been able! Look at the bum in the ditch, per
to do who were in the position of a chance not a result of too frequent
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EDITORS
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clergyman of any of our present day
sects.
For awhile it looked as though he
were going to stand completely above
theology, but finally, it seems to us,
he gave way to it; and while we can
not agree entirely with all the things
he said, we are confident that we
make no mistake when we say that
he is one of the ablest lecturers, and
thinkers that have come here recent
ly, and through the work that he did
with those that came out to hear him
he amply justified the work of the
Boardg of Reious Education of
the Dioceses of North Carolina and
East Carolina through whose efforts
we had the privilege of hearing the
lectures of Doctor George Craig
Stewart.
SHOWER BATHS
There have come to the Tar Heel
continuously for the last several
months repeated expressions about
the bathing conditions at the Uni
versity, and numerous statements
have been handed us which we have
been unable to publish (some com
ing ananomously) because of dif
ferent reasons. As a result of this
insistent demand the Tar Heel has
conducted an investigation which is
reported elsewhere in this issue. Af
ter a scouting over the campus a re
porter turned this statement which
we publish.
We invite the attention of the Uni
versity officials to this matter. Un
questionably present equipments are
absolutely inadequate and while the
student body is willing to endure
everything it can until the University
is . physically able to provide amply
for its care, it feels that here at
least some temporary relief measures
should be taken. There are, for in
stance, other showers on the west
side of the gymnasium that are not in
use. And in addition those in the
large shower room are frequently j
out of working condition.
, But even though it is impossible
to provide additional showers now,
we see no reason why the hours for
hot water service cannot be lengthen
ed. This would greatly relieve the
present situation.
DISSERTATION ON FAILURE.
Men fail for the pleasure there is
in it. Oh. yes, there is pleasure in
it just the same as there is in bad
colds and lame ankles. Think of the
joy you have derived from those spe
cific ailments, joy resulting from the
trouble you can cause others, the
anxiety you can arouse, the lines of
worry you can bring to another's
face by some fearful ' groan or
wracking cough. Just so hag failure
imbibition, since that species is about
extinct, yet we still have a breed who
dwell figuratively at least in the
ditch. Look then at the ditch. See
him consoled by that soothing knowl
edge which mitigates these mundane
mishaps, the knowledge that had he
but kept the "straight and narrow"
he might have been an archbishop,
a barkeep, or whatnot, in short he
might have achieved the loftiest of
pedestals in this sublunary sphere.
That bum grew up as a romping boy,
a mischievous kid who bedeviled all
mankind and promised to become a
great man some day. Had he but
stayed at home and shunned the
"primrose paths of dalliance," wooed
and wedded the grocer's red-cheeked
daughter, then settled down to sim
ple village life, his doom would have
been sealed and he would have be
come a stereotyped man, a known
and trade marked quantity. He
would have been spoken of as "just
Eddie Bayes who married Nora
Beans, works at the postoffice, has
four children, an old red mare and
a shiny black suit which he unearths
only on special occasions weddings,
funerals and re-unions." .
But no, that bum had lofty ideals
He wanted to be more than just
somebody or other who married so
and so and does such and such. He
wanted to catch the human eye and
to hear people repeat the age old
slush about "what might have been"
as a next best bet to really being
somebody, latter policy having been
discarded on account of the fact that
it pre-supposes work in some form.
How it thrills him now to think what
he might have been, the dizzy heights
he might have attained, the queenly
woman he might have wedded. He
would have been a great man, a
prominent citizen, mayor of some
city, governor probably the allur
ing path of possibilities stretched out
before him ad infinitum. His name,
his repute would have gone the
rounds of the entire earth. All men
would have known him, revered him,
admired him, if
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his. He has no limits, no bounds; he
might have been anything great, any
thing noble, anything lofty. He is
not "just Eddie Bayes what married
Nora Beans" the grocer's red-cheeked
daughter, but a creature of il
limitable fields, a man of all climes,
lands and tongues,' a personage of
manifold possibilities. What a God's
blessing he never settled down, rusti
cated and become just so and -so.
He's just a bum, I grant, but think
what he might have been, think what
he might have been.
INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATES
.The action of the Di Society and
Phi Assembly at the Saturday night
sessions in urging that the Univer
sity" be responsible for the inter
collegiate debates which are carried
on in its name, is the recognition of
another thing that has been long
rooted here and has, because of the
change of the conditions, becomes
grossly unfair to the societies and
to the University. The two societies
have no more right to contract with
the University of Pennsylvania, or
any other University, for an inter
collegiate debate for "The University
of North Carolina" than any similar
sized group of men has to get to
gether and challenge the State Col
lege of A. and E. to a game of foot
ball, in the name of the University.
That's the unfairness of this dilapid
ated system for the University.
It's also unfair to the Societies.
Long since, these societies have
borne the entire expenses incident
to carrying out of an intercollegiate
forensic program while any man in
the University has been eligible to
a place on the teams whether he was
a member of the Societies or not.
This is not fair. If the societies must
! carry on the entire program, and be
i financially responsible for it, then
they should not challenge any
other institution to debate "The Uni
versity of North Carolina," but
should challenge them to debate the
"Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary
Societies."
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University, but many of the time
worn systems and practices of our
forefathers have been handed down
to us, to "sacred" to change, and we
have now come to the point where
they fetter and obstruct. These
should be changed to meet the chang
ed conditions to meet the present
day demands. This is a goodly illus
tration. Let's change and make it
right.
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WELCOME NEW CO-EDS
Peabody Building Scene of Dance,
Track Meet, Feed, Baseball
Game and Art Contest.
Sounds of hilarity issuing from
the co-ed room in Peabody building
Tfuesday night were occasioned by
the informal reception given by the
Carolina women students to the new
co-eds entering college this quarter.
The president, Miss Mary Cobb,
greeted the new girls in the name
of the Woman's Association and wel
comed them to the University.
The victrola was started and in
a dance in which . the old students
"led" introduction were completed.
Miss Beulah Martin then proposed a
ame of baseball which she umpired
with exceptional bravery. This game
was for a time a tie between the
blonds and the brunetts, the former
finally winning. The hit of the even
ing was a suit case race in which Miss
Kathryn Farra won the champion
ship, struggling into a skirt, sweater,
gloves and overshoes, in record break
ing time. Th3 Dean of Women was
much encouraged by the results of
this race. After refreshments served
by Miss Nell Pickard and her com
mittee, Miss Lucy Cobb tested the
intelligence and artistic ability of
those present in a drawing contest,
won by Miss Esther Cooper. At ten
o'clock the party adjourned with a
more unified organization for work
during the remainder of rho yetr
Dr. John G. Bowman, director of
the American College of Surgeons, i
has been chosen chancellor of the j
University of Pittsburgh, which du
ties he will assume January 1. Dr. i
Bowman is a graduate of the Uni-'
versity of Iowa. I
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REFORM AND FROG PONDS
Amidst a deluge of suggestions
and "movements" for our improve
ment as an institution, let us take
heed of the drainage system on the
campus, or rather the lack of any
such system. After a very slight
rain we must need paddle around or
;eek new routes and devise new de
tours ad infinitum, for we are al-.
ways finding that the place we wad
ed through yesterday will not per
mit fording today, and so it goes.
And when we really have rainy spells,
everal consecutive days, then indeed
our campus becomes a sorry spect
acle, an aquarium rather than a cam
pus. The writer is not a drainage
expert, but nevertheless, makes so
bold as to maintain that there is
ample room for improvement.
It is needless to cite the places
we know them and especially the
frog breeding grounds which are
kept, in season, around Swain Hall
and behind Smith building. After
a rainy spell this spot assumes a
decidedly sealike guise and the basso
of the bull-frogs may be heard ever
and anon.
You recall the story of a certain
great European city which loved the
beautiful and built for itself ex
quisite mansions and avenues of
wondrous beauty. The people there
lived only for the beautiful creations
of man ; they thought not of the dull,
insipid practicalities of life, but
amused themselves with polish and
finesse. Sewerage, drainage?
These were sordid, practical things
and they studied the fine phases of
life. Why should they study these
things when they might amuse them
selves with music and architecture
and many other charming allure
ments. One day these people woke
from their revelry to find themselves
in the grip of disease and to find
death lurking in every corner and
staring from every side. Just a neg
lected sewer system.
"While we are in no danger of a
plague the case holds and if not for
health and safety at present, then
for comfort and convenience sake
some method of ridding ourselves of
the se myriad lakes should be de
vised. New buildings are fine we
need them acutely, but the sur
roundings of these buildings are just
as important and if we neglect them
we shall live to rue our neglect.
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