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Page 2 THE TAR HEJtL Tuesday, February 0. jgg The - Leading Southern College Tri-Weekly ' :J . Newspaper Member of North Carolina Collegiati Press Association Published three times every week of the college year, and is the official news paper of the-Publications Union of the t University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices on first floor of New Building, Telephone 318-Red. ,; West Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C H. N. Parker Harold Seburn.... Editor ...Business Manager Editorial Department. . Managing Editors J. T. .Madry Tuesday Issue P. N. Olive i.. ..... Thursday Issue F. P. Eller . Saturday Issue C. W. Bazemcc Assistant Editor L. N. Byrd . .... Sport Editor J. O. Allison J. F. Aseby K. Barwick J. H. Bobbitt, Jr. II. P. Brandis O. 1). Carroll W. G. Cherry , Ben Eaton Eunice Ervin It. K. Fowler C. L. Keel, Jr. Staff J. B. Lewis R. R. Little E. R. McKethan, Jr, L. II. McPherson W. W. Neal, Jr. W. D. Perry W. P. Ragan ?. N. Robbins C. F. Roust S. B. Shepherd, Jr. A. B. White Business Department Sarah Boyd ' . Aest to Bus. Mgr. T. V. Moore Advertising Department Chas. A. Nelson .. Advertising Manager 'Byron Holmes, S, Linton Smith J. OrUezell, Jr. Circulation Department Marvin Fowler Circulation Manager Dick slagle . John Deaton Tom Kaney Reg Schmitt You can purchase any article adver tised in The Tar Heel with perfect safety because everything it adver tises is guaranteed to be as repre sented. The Tar Heel solicits adver tising from reputable concerns only. Tuesday, February 2, 1926 The "Buncombe Bill", so .na'inetl in honor of its chief local suppbrter who corfies from that famous locality, will be presented to the students in chapel this morning for a vote on whether it shall go to the student body in a general ballot Friday. According to "those who are in a position to know, the proposed change in the council is being pre sented to. the students purely as a political manoeuvre:- ... .;' '. combined offices of president and councilman meant overwork. That argument has been thoroughly ex ploded. Now the politicians set their sails at a different angle in the ef fort to catch a feeble breeze strong enough to blow them to the land of more offices. Ostensibly a measure for the im provement of student government here, we find it the off-spring of a vast political machine that certain campus politicians are attempting to crank and get going. Frame-ups come and frame-ups go, but this is the most ambitious frame up attempted since the coming of the present college generation. Instead of attempting to assure that 'only the men who deserve the jobs will get them, -the present frame-up is at tempting to. extend its sphere. Its main purpose is to insure its success, .manner or means of little consequence. in tneir ennort to duim an im pregnable frame-up, the politicians "need more offices to hand out. They desire more offices in order to ap pease the aspirations of more can didates. . If the measure passes the student body, it will be interesting to know the men that the politicians will put forth to fill the new jobs. Perhaps they have three strong men this year, but how about next year and the year after next? True it is that the council now has on its roster special representatives from the professional schools. They deserve credit for serving in such an altruistic spirit. But they are sup plementary to the council. ." Student Council as known by the student uuuy is maae up or sucn men as Fordham and Watt. "They are the leaders and on them rests the Coun cil's influence and power. Imagine the 1925-26 Council without these two men. - STILL WITH US . The Di and Phi are still with us Saturday night they' refused to cast aside their identity and voted to re main separate and distinct bodies. It is a pity that the members of the two bodies should have shown such a selfish spirit as was disclosed by the arguments that brought about the rejection of the bill. The active members of the two bodies, which fall far short of the hundred mark even when combined, expressed com plete satisfaction with themselves and gave vent to utterances of delight at the prospect of remaining small and weak. Their s is the spirit of exploitation- selfishly keeping the two bodies in a rut in order to reap what they see as personal benefit. - . We grant that the ego is natural ly the chief interest of "every one. But when about three score men seek to monopolize a feature of college life that should be accessible to over a hundred score, the selfishness has be come unwarranted. Of course, the student body would not be unani mously interested in activity of this nature, but if it was provided with an organization that could rest upon its virtue and merits, and not upon its traditions alone, interest could and would be much greater. ; The campus would at least have a reliable and recognized mouthpiece through which to speak. . The societies have fallen into such evil ways that it is really more ben eficial to Mr. University Student to spend his Saturday nights elsewhere. Students cannot be blamed for pass ing up the societies for the Pick. The societies have driven them to it. Perhaps Time, acting as a cure, will bring about a change from with in the societies and place them again on a respected footing. If Time fails then perhaps the student body will eventually erect an organization of its own and allow the two antiquated bodies to- perish fromlack of reason for existence." OPEN FORUM SAVILLE APPOINTED MEMBER . ENGINEERING COMMITTEE Professor Thorndike Seville has re cently been appointed a member of a committee of - American Engineering Council to report on Standard Methods for Rating Rivers for Power Purposes. American Engineering Council is the liason organization through which the principal engineering societies of the country act on joint interest. The com mittee in question is composed of noted hydraulic engineers from various parts of the country. W. S. Lee Chief Engineer of the Southern Power Company is the only other representative on the commit tee from North Carolina. " Great con fusion has arisen due to different bases used by the Government and other bodies in calculating water power re sources of rivers and regions. The com mittee is attempting to reconcile diver gent views, and to prepare a standard method which will, if universally adopted m this country. l lie Christian Endeavor and the Young Men's Class of the Presbyterian Church will entertain the co-eds and the young ladies ofthe towa .in the social rooms of the Presbyterian Church Fri day evening at eight o'clock. - -.At the first trump card of the pro ponents of a change was' that the Calendar Tuesday, February 2 8:30 P. M. Basketball game Carolina vs. Slate, Tin Can. 8:30 P. M. Freshman Friendship , Council, Y. M. C. A . 8:30 'P. M. "The' First Year,' Playmaker Theatre building. Wednesday, February 3 " '? 8:30 P. M. Girl's Basketball Game Chapel Hill Hi vs. San- ford. - 8:30 P. M. -Wrestling meet Car olina vs. P, Tin Can. Thursday, February 4 8:00 P. M. Lecture, Dr. P. M. tiiesy, Chief of the Research Division of E. R. Squibb & Sons, Pharmacy Building. Saturday, February 6 7:00 P. M. Phi and Di Societies, Phi and Di Halls. Sunday, February 1 . 4:00 P. M. Concert, Memorial Hall. . , 8:00 P. M. Sigma Upsilon meeting. The Editor: . - In view of the serious character of the discussion of a proposed change In the election of members of the student council, and to correct a misstatement made in a recent issuse of the Tar Heel, I should like to express my views re garding this proposal. Everyone admits that the student council, like other human agencies, makes mistakes and that classes are not as active as they should be; but to say the trouble lies-in the fact that one man doesn't have time to serve on the council and to properly head a class Is abso lutely untrue and upheld by those who have served in neither capacity. Con trary to the statement as given to the Tar Heel, I do not admit for a moment that work on the council has handicapped me in properly organixing and maintain ing a good spirit in the SenWr Class. Insofar as I can observe from experi ence and obsevation the failure of class presidents to be more active is a result of three things: a lack of finances, the absence of past records and other Infor mation to help them in organising and leading the class, and the possibility that the man elected Is incapable. The first handicap has been overcome by the change in class finances before Christmas;-the second wilUbe greatly helped I hope by a plan now being worked out of having meetings for the presidents at the first of each year to give them Infor mation and advice; and the third ele ment is present in all democratic units and is the fault of the voters when present It is sincerely hoped that these steps will improve class spirit and activities; and believed that the separ ation suggestion would have no bene- j flcial results. . '. - On the other, hand,' I feel that the proposed change would materially weak en the council in its efforts to uphold the honor system. As important as the work of the council is, I do not believe that election to that position alone would interest the best type of men, and' that the campus would find it difficult to se cure the men wanted. In the second place,' the council must have men. representatives of all the vari ous groups and with the different campus iewpoints to really reach decisions satis factory to the student body. In the third place, a council should be composed of the strongest men in school, men who have influence and supporters on the campus, and 'who can use their influence to support council decisions rather than to oppose them. The Presi dent of the Student Body and the class presidents are necessary to give this strength and support to the council, If those pushing this proposal are sin cere in their belief that it would bene fit student government and class spirit I feel that they are ill advised in these matters; and if they are proposing this for the mere reason of having more of fices to divide up In a campus political machine that is too large for these of fices now in existence. I am sure that the student body will see to it that they fail miserably. L. E. Watt to be SDenU it Is going to take much timeand energy to spend it wisely. That monogram man, who made Phi Beta Kappa, and still serves on the Council, k a irentlemen of consummate aDiiuy. There have been none who could ap proach him In the past, and are likely to be none in the future. But nis type is so rare that we cannot expect the rest of the councilmen to do as well as he. - ; If a man will lose his popularity by being on the council, which I do not con cede, I claim that it is a poor sort of councilman who is so afraid of tne un popularity which might fall to him on the council because he did ms amy. that you have to bribe him to sit on the council y making him president of his class at the same time. , '' Another important fact to be remem bered is that this plan will not change the council in any radical fashion, as it only affects three men out of eight on the council. The other five will still be elected by methods peculiar to them, and three of them are elected by the very plan we are advocating. We have no fears of defeat Friday if the students will just view the question from all angles, and make up their minds accordingly. . Tatlob Bledsoe AROUNA RIFLE CLUB HAS SEVENTY MEMBERS Outdoor Range Near Old Raleigh Rod Has Been Secured and Rifles Have Been Ordered. Feilow Students: . .J . The proposed change in 'the Student Council by which the presidents of the classes will no longer serve as council men, was originated in the head of one Bill Jenkins, a graduate student in po litical science, and in no way was inden fited with any political machine, as has been frequently charged, nor to my knowledge ever was The biggest reason why this plan should be adopted is to insure that bet ter men will sit on the council. There have been grave mistakes in the past, when class presidents were very popular, and wonderful executives, but not the kind of a " man who should sit on, the Council. And nothing can lower respect for the council more than the knowl edge of the student body that certain men are on it are either drinking on the council, or drank before they were elect ed. This feature enough to warrant the adoption of the plan. The argument advanced against this plan is that it will lessen the efficiency of the councilmen, as he will be out of touch with the student body. The'presi dents of the classes as such are among the most. Inactive men on the campus at the present time, by their own admission, and they also say that they feel isolated from the student body. . Thus this con dition would not be improved by con tinuing the present system. Our oppo nents can claim that this plan will lessen student co-operation when the presidents of the classes have' admitted that they are getting practically none. On the other hand the representatives from the professional schools say that they are not isolated from contact with the stu dents, and they are elected by the very plan'we advocate. Some folks do not advocate class spir it or cohesion. Then why pay any class dues? ; The presidents of the classes tell us that because they have had no money they have been able to do nothing, and they tell the truth. But with money The Carolina Rifle Club now has. 70 members. At the meeting of the club Tuesday night the membership was closed, and the club will lake in no new members for the rest sof the year unless vacancies occur or unless the govern ment sends a surplus of equipment At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the University, the new organization which made its debut on the campus this year for the first time was approved "and authorised, and is now a regular University organisation. The club has procured an outdoor range near the old Raleigh road east of Chapel Hill and now contemplates the building of an indoor range to be located somewhere on the campus. Work on the outdoor range will be started shortly by members of the club themselves and will be built according to instructions and plans of the war department The range has already been surveyed and would have been well under way had not the recent bad weather interfered. . Rifles will be furnished by the govern. ment and have already been ordered. The fact that only enough rifles will be sent to comply with the present needs and membership prevents any further addition of members. "A, list of members in the Carolina Rifle Club follows: F. F. Bradshaw, F. D. Bel!, F, M. Paughety, B. S. Colburn, Jr., J. A. Barnwell, A. A. Cory, R. W. Knox, R, H. Geddie, L. C Logie, F. V. Spence, J.' F. Oemenger, Haywood Parker, Jr. A. Supple, J. Graham, J. O. BelL Jr. J. N. Buck, S. W. Davis, Jr, W. H. Walter, Jr., W. M. Matheson, C. C. In man, A. Mitchell, H. Weil, R. K. Pat terson, R. J., Gasque, W. S. Bowen, C. M. Lear, J. N. Whitley, F. M. BelL A. G. Olmsted, B. H. Goodwin, W. J Bolen, T. W. Keller, T. J. Edwards, Miss L Holden, M. F. Wooten, Jr, P. Foster, N. L. Brewer, B. Pipkin, C. R. Shuford, H.-A. Breard, KrG. Dacy, T. N. Grice, A. R. Hollet, F. F. Simon, J. S. Styles, S. E. W. Kennev. IT IV Carroll, C O'H. Grimes, F. H. Mangum, C. A. Rambo, W. S. Malone, C C Wil son, O. G. Grimes, G. H. Holmes, Jr, M. Kellogg, Jr., H. Cantey, Jr., J. C. White, H. T. Thompson, J. M. Reece, F. Atkinson, J. M. Slaughter, J. S. Starr, jr, is. k. MacKethan, Jr, A. J. Wat kins, A. D. Moore, G. A. Giddings,"G. W. Rawls, J. A. Spruill, J. C. Brantley, E. J...Hardesty, Jr. The Melting Pet By C. W. B. Chapel Hill is blessed or curssed, as you will, with all sorts of weather. The place has a weather complex. ' And the weather is like the government always wrong. Summertime here we say stifling; in winter it is killing; In spring and fall we find fault with it for being neither one thing nor the other; and wish it would make up its mind. If 'per chance December or January . passes without snow, we indignantly demand to know what has become of our good old- lasmonea winters, ana talk as if we had been cheated out of something we had bought and paid for; and when It does snow" our opinions and expression yearn for fair weather and mild much milder than our " language about it meaning the snow. , We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself. If that cannot be arranged, we would rather do without it altogether. V But, waxing eloquent in juvenile en thusiasm, we look ahead, and pine for Spring, And oh, how dainty is Spring. Nature at sweet eighteen! When the lit tle hopeful leaves' peep out so fresh and green, so pure and' bright, like young lives pushing shyly out into the bustling world; when the . fruit-tree blossoms pink and white, like village maidens in their Sunday frocks, hide, each white cot tage in a cloud of fragile splendor; and the robin's . note upon thej " breeze is wafted through the woods! And farm ers shine up their plows! And unre strained souls rids box cars in quest of romance. And Ta Hesl reporters bust into verse! Wigue and Masque Initiates Nineteen Men The following men were Initiated Into Wigue and - Masque recentlyi "Bootie' Uzzell, of Greensboro. (Yes, By Gosh," 25, '26); Tom Rollins, of Ashe ville, (TiTes, By Gosh" '25, '26); Will Hicks, Oxford, ("Yes, By Gosh" '25, '26); John Trotter, Charlotte, ("Yes By Gosh" '26); P. Q. Cooper, ('Ye Gods" '24 and "Yes By Gosh" '25,' '26) ; "Saxy" DowelL Raleigh, ("Yes. Bv Gosh" '2(M , Julian Starr, JloA Hill, S. C. ("Ye Gods"f 2 and"Yes, By Gosh" '25, -26) , Bozo- Horton, Plymouth," ("Yes, By Gosh" '25, 26), Andy Mcintosh, Chapel Hill, (Yes, By Gosh" '25,' '26); Peddy Waddill, Henderson, ("Yes, By Gosh" '26) and Fred Kistler of Mori-ninn who was not present for the Initiation. but who will return from junior co-op work In a few weeks. A leave of absence from February l to September 1 has been granted to F. F. Bradshaw, dean of students. nean Bradshaw will spend the time In grad uate study at Columbia University. New York, whence he will return to' the Uni versity. , J Individualists and Impressionists the wits and critics of today, nobly fill a great, useful purpose. They merge the conventions of old thought with those of the new bourgeoisie, and crack their whip at the circling show, like the circus ring master, with no desire of really hitting anything.- But they are humanitarian, because they let' poetry alone;' rather they lambast the prose writers. Satire has a way of keeping poetry a trim lit tle servant of prose,-clothing her in the used garments rather than the real pow ers of housem is tress. And the satire of these impressionistic wits is tempered by human sympathy for the growers and producers of those mushrooms in our worldly pastures current American poems numerous, often racy enough, but small and ill-fed. The Literary Di gest prints some of them, but seldom di gests them. MENCKEN LAUDS THE UNIVERSITY in States That It Is the Best the South. tflVES GOOD REASONS Direct Reply Made to Student Askine ; for Opinion. An article by H. L. Menck e" appear- asWng him From New York, the melting pot of the world, there emanates folly, wisdom, styles and customs, and Mr. Mencken's America Mercury. Most of the sneers about hicks, yokels, Babbitts, backward regions, rubes and the great open spaces, at present in vogue in this coun try, originate in New York., But that same sneer shows the most abject lack of culture. They haven't time to think in New York; no time to smile or laugh and no time to weep. They work In the daytime and attend classes in the eve ning. They eat standing up, like miiles or plow-horses, gulp down their food with gallons of coffee, do their reading In smelly subways, incredibly filthy tram- cars, marry quickly, divorce in a hurry and get buried at a proportionate speed. The Four, Hundred. Cosmopolitanism. Efficiency. Production. America's Great est City. Skyscrapers. Manhattan. Ziegfield's. Bowery. Harlem. Hell. The article in the February American Mercury on "Baptists" is pungent with satire, erractic in conception, and ad mittedly unfair to the wjjole. Baptist faith. They are'all described as be longing to the Great Mediocrity, rustics, fundamentalists, literalists, hide-bound in orthodoxy, red-hot Prohibitionists, and disciples of the late W. J. Bryan. It must have given the author immense sat isfaction to unload such an article from his mind if he has one. Why do they pick on the Baptists? ' " Folly perhaps will save where creeds have failed. College students are afraid to think, or toprofess a creed. Pan Is not dead. As long as youth'icropes after the most elusive of all fireflies Romance, there is no need for creeds. There is training, in the gentle art of living in merely being on a college campus things that are putside and apart from books. I The Di and Phi, sidetracklnjr tradition and venerable history, are thinking of merging, consolidating. And maybe Is sue shares of stock at par. And appoint a president, treasurer, publicity man, secretary, and the other good Babbitt- endowed Institutions must have. We wait to hear the reaction, the protest, that will come from alumni as the proposal is broadcasted. The Di and Phi can and will live on and do things," catering to the ones worth catering to on the cam pus, if let alone, 1 allowed to remain as they have been for many long gen erations of Carolinar men. Consolida tion. Perish the thought. Mark Noble, son of Prof. M. C. S Kn. ble, who Is a member of the faculty of Davidson College, spent the week-end here with his father, and Sister, Miss Alice Noble. ...6 i., nic vreensooro ivews of Sunday January 24, praised the University 0f North Carolina as being the "best in th. South." F. L. Young, a graduate stu! dent here. Wnnm infLj iu t, ana wrote me ooiumore gentleman why he entertained such a view. From Mr. Mencken came the follow ing, prompt reply: "Your question Is very easily answered. Compare SOCIAL FORCES to any publication of any other Southern University. The diff,. ence is that between a genuine seeking for knowledge and mere bombastic oh. scurantism; That difference runs very deep: SOCIAL FORCES is but one sign of it. The cause of it I don't know t Chase responsible? I don't know. Is the state itself more Intelligent than its sis ters? I don't know. But this I rt know: that Chase is a competent and courageous man, and the State lets him survive. lhat combination is seldom met with in the South. It is seldom met with anywhere. 1 Sincerely yours, (Signed) H. L. MENCKEN. In discussing the letter Mr. Younu writes the Ta Heel: "On Sunday. Jan uary, 24th, the Greensboro Daily Newt carried one of Mr. H. L. Mencken's ar ticles. , In this he happened to state that the University of North Carolina is the best in. the South. This interested me as it did somebody on your staff and others. Accordingly I wrote him asking why he held that opinion. His reply is direct.' We. may be glad that such a generally caustic critic should find two such pre-eminent reasons why the Uni versity is considered so outstanding in the South. Probably his mention of the journal of "Social Forces" which as some of us know is published here, may lead a few of us to the reading and appre ciation of it. It's December issue was particularly good. Also, let us pay more attention to our great President" CAROLINA PROFESSOR TO ADDRESS WORKERS Prof. S.; H. Hobbs, of the sociology department, is leaving this afternoon for Atlanta, Gn, where he will address the Southern Association of Agricultural Workers on problems of rural taxation. - Representative, farm demonstration agents, and delegates from agricultural schools in sixteen Southern state will be present at the gathering, it is stated. Mr. Hobbs will bring them practical suggestions in rural taxation gathered from studies he has made in North Caro lina. . ; Last year Prof, Hobbs was president of one of the sections of the association, that was composed of rural economists and sociologists. RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO NEW YORK MEET Guy B. Johnson, research assistant in the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, let for New York Sunday afternoon to attend meetings of the Negro Business League and Research Conferences, to be held in that city this , week. (Mr. Johnson is especially interested in this work by virtue of the fact that he is at present conducting research here on the general topic of negro background and folk-lore studies. Local High School Honor Roll For Semester Is Large -. 1 Following is the honor roll for the Chapel Hill High School for the fall semester, which ended about a week ago: Eighth gradeHarry Bulce, Catherine Gtlark, Virginia Harrison, Margaret Mc- Iver, Eliza Taylor, and Alfred Hamil ton;' ninth grade Fred Koch, Isaac Manning, Mabel Blake, and Christine Pendergraft; tenth grade Odell Grif fin, George Hery, Ben Lane, John War ren, Mary Adams, and Elso Gralg; and eleventh' grade Ly da Eubanks, Esther Metzinthin, Kathyrn ' Morgan, Rosa Raney, and Katherine Walker. Afin -" m?t ... " ..BB ' DRY QingerzIk Standard the World Over for &ivem'Mve Years Cantrell &. Cochrane, Ltd. DUBLIN BELFAST NEW YORK E. &. J. Burke, Ltd. Sole Agents U. S. and Canada Long Island City, N. Y,
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