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THE TAR HEEL
Thursday, December 8, 1927
W )t tar Heel
Leading Southern College Tei
) Weekly Newspaper
Member of North Carolina Collegiate
Press Association
Published three times every week of
the college year, and is the official
newspaper of the Publications
Union of the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub
scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00
out of town, for the college year.
Offices in the basement of ' Alumni
Building. .'; ,
J. F. Ashby. . ........ ....... ...........Editor
W .W. Neal, Jr. Business Mgr.
through the years past feels the ne
cessity of a place for winter and in
side sports of this University as never
before.
The Tin Can is. an improvised gym
nasium. But does it meet its full
need when it is almost out of reach
on a night and rendered unfavorable
by the condition of the weather?
If the Tin Can is to continue to be
the scenes of the major winter sport,
it should be made accessible by a
walk way. ..
D. D. Carroll Associate Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Managing - Editors
Tom W. Johnson '.....I.Tuesday Issue
judah SHOHAN nursaay issue
Joe R. Bobbitt, jR..........Saturday Issue
Walter Spearman.... Assistant Editor
Staff
Andy Anderson
J. H. Anderson
George Coggina
T. J. Gold
Calvin Graves
Glenn P. Holder
D. E. Livingston
Dick McGiohon
II. B. Parker
Harry J. Galland
James B. Dawson
W. H. Yarborough
oeorge ihrhart
B. B. Kendrick
F. G. McPherson
Oates McCullen
W. L. Marshall
John Mebane
' Louise Medley
J. Q. Mitchell
B. A. Marshall
J. C. Wessell
J. J. Parker
James Rogers
Tom Quickel
Mercer Blankenship
BUSINESS STAFF
M. R. Alexander Asst. to Bus. Mar
Moore Bryson Advertising Mgr.
Advertising Staff.
M. Y. Feimster . J. M. Henderson
Ed Durham R. A. Carpenter
Kobert U. iigh John Jamieson
Leonard Lewis
G. E. Hill Collection Manager
H. N. Patterson Asst. Collection Mgr.
Henry Harper Circulation Manager
Jiiarvin i? owier . Asst. Circulation Mgr.
Thursday, December 8, 1927
PARAGRAPHICS
Forty-five years ago Christmas
holidays were approaching.
"Cornell Discovers Calf Liver Cure
For Pernicious Anemia," headlines
favorite tri-weekly. We suspected all
along that these calves were worth
something.
And another thing about his win
ter; wool supersedes silk much to our
sorrow.
Well, we wish these murders were
all over since examinations must
come so soon. -
"Find Fourth Victim of Storm In
State," headlines a state daily. Mean
ing the storm or politics.
Add to latest news: Action taken to
suspend regulation concerning op
tional class attendance. .,
They say the President no longer
regards himself in the 1928 picture.
His announcement appears so late
-that we must appeal to Editor Alli
son and Bus. Mgr. Cone as to wheth
er we can get the announcement in
the 1928 announcements since the en
graving discount is at stake.
? "Executive's message Did Not Elec
trify Congress," runs the headline of
a state daily. Coolidge seems to need
more Pelmanism according to our lat
est bulletin.
Ready for fall term examinations?
' ' " -- ' - - -
CAN THE TIN CAN BE MADE
ACCESSIBLE?
The Tin Can, which sprawls and
squats in the midst of the "most no
torious sea of Saharian mud jn a fifty
mile radius is almost " -, inaccessble
to the student body of the University
of; North Carolina on a ' night like
that of last Saturday.
The Can is the scene of the basket
bail meets of the University and vis
iting teams. The desire for college
spirit must be met by witnessing the
game between the home team and the
visiting five. Granted, how can such
an exhibition be watched if the weath
er condition paralleled those of last
week? Imagine the poor spectator
plying his way through the mud and
mire to watch the Carolina quintet
in action; mud; sploches of browned
slime, and the cold, ' wet chocolate
cakes of turbid Chapel Hillian earth
meeting his expectant strides.
In the last three of four years th
. students have accepted the Tin Can
as the best the University has to of
fer in the way of a gymnasium. The
hue and cry' raised when the Wom
an's building contract was let, which
sapped the appropriation of the gym
building; is still reverberating in . dis
tant quarters. " Although a new and
uninformed student body misses the
facilities of a gymnasium but little
when it is unaccustomed to it, yet the
student body that has been here
OPEN FORUM
NEEDS FOR CONSTITUTION
Senate was elected say five from each
class, two from Law school and one
each, from each of the other profes
sional schools. The constitution pro
viding for two permanent committees
elected from this Senate the execu
tive and the judiciary, to perform the
major duties'as their names: indicate.
Would some such system as this
backed up by a simple constitution not
be more expedient' and -even simpler
than our present system?
, A constitution is a liraltation upon
officers and not upon tne individual
Rather it is a guarantee of the in
dividual perogative.
PUBLIUS
WHAT'S HAPPENING
i
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HIGHER EDUCATION SHOULD
STIPULATE PREPAREDNESS
Editor of Tar Heel:
If I may consider myself to be so
.,, , ... ,, , . , .'ground at tne meeting oi tne Alumni
pernntted I wull attempt to show j Assodation at Ch j Hm a .
E. B. Jeffries, Greensboro's ; combi
nation mayor, newspaper publisher
and University Alumnus, took strong
ground at the meeting of the Alumni
forth a few of the needs of a con--
stitutional convention.
Beginning with what now is his
tory, the student body has a censti
tutional convention coming to it by
virtue of its last year's request.
2 - w I
In showing why we should have a
constitutional convention it is neces
sary to know what a convention is.
Since, as everybody knows, the stu
dent body cannot draft a worthy con
stitution in mass meeting, it is nec
any. suggestion looking to a limita
tion of the student body. In fact,
he emphasized the public part of his
dual role by becoming positively elo
quent in the speaker sense
We must solve our problems of
the future by various types of minds
bent energetically on such problems.
and these can be obtained only by
I drawing from all, walks of life stu
dents to such an institution as this
OCCI.TTr n a .rvncHnfirmoi where in mingling together the East
mittee. Now it is a hard matter to meets West and North meets South,
I T Jl -1 ill i
get a body that is justly representa- wnere ine ricn meec tne Poor where
the self-help student mingles with the
sider so big a thing as it must tackle, spenatnmt, with the result that here
I have heard a plan that such a com- n ims state wiae campus we get
J..L r....n I.. .I.' ' la state wide noint of view, state widp
fessional schools and the four class- estimate of our common problems,"
es as such. Since a committee of ths he declared. The speaker scored the
kind must be truly representative, it "suggestion from certain sources that
snoum De comparatively large, pos- j ""7 cmuumwn uc uuulcu, uwi me
siblv as manv as twentv-fivp. Tf fivp tuition be raised so that the student
of these were elected by each of the may come nearer paying his instruc-
tion cost and thereby relieve the state
law school and one each for each of as a whole' of additional burdens of
the other professional schools. I have iaxa.uon' ine Past rfecord of the um-
heard another, suggestion that such vesity snows clearly that the state
committee should be elected from canifot afford to do this. This insti-
each dormitory quota. tution must always remain a place
Election from classes and schools 7 ! Pr .oy W1" bave a chance
appears to be the better proposal. AO an ucauon.
That some such committee should 11 orth Carolina is to be a great,
meet and consider is all that I con- free and mdependene state perf orm
tend. The student body is fullv com- in& its functions .to the' fullest extent
petent of deciding on the rest. ' as a commonwealfh, it must keep its
At the end of their deliberations university tree m the fullest mean-
the committee will submit its report. in2 of the word. The state will make
Surely this can be no harm, for the such Progress materially, socially and
student body is the judge whether or spiritually as it is led by its educa-
not it wants this particular constitu- tional institutions to do.
tion, the committee's product will On- One may grant -Mr. Jeffries' conten-
ly be a recommendation that may be tion that the University, so far as
either voted 'up" or "down" at the possible, should be free to the youth
pleasure of the campus. of the state. The matter of the cost
None can say with justincation that I of the education nrovided in pnmnar.
a convention will be either harmful ison with the amount of tuition paid
or unnecessary when they with the is one to be dealt with by privatelv
ballot of ", final decision decide unon I endowed institutions. nerhaDs. but it
the worth and necessity of the con- is not applicable to a state which has
stitution. I a University as a Dart and culmina-
The convention will merely change tion of a general system of public
the advocation of the abstract intr. I education. But these facts do not dr.
the advocation of the concrete which I away with the idea, proved every
is capable of receiving decision. year to the hilt in the character of
The average student with his lit- the Freshman class, of some saner
tie political concern will not and can- standard for the limitation nf stn.
not decide upon the general princi- dents to those who are capable of
pal and theory of a constitution, but absorbing and profiting by the facil
he can and will decide either one wav I ities the state affords at ever-increas-
.. . 1 .
or the other on a proposition set down mg expense per student
..ill 1
in black and white.
PUBLIUS.
MORE ABOUT IT
It is. in other words, a University
that the state is trying to operate.
and not a sublimated High School.
Whatever the trouble the inefficiency
of the high schools from which the
majority of. the students are gradu
ated, or something else- the fact is
that there is poured into Chanel Hill
every year a Freshman class of whom
Ignorance is the enemy of a con-
stitution for the student body. This
is said with no intentional sophisti
cal meaning. My reason for this con
tion is that the general definition of a thp mninrit wQ Qo
a constitution is wrongly construed. nn nH" fw nk;iu..
I find that the proposed constitution way of educational power of diges-
u all a ux tlon Tney get .n their own
by laws May I say here that noth- they hamper others, they represent a
mg could be further removed from the tremendous waste to the state in a
true conception of , a constitution than nartinlar in-v,,v,
a criminal code for the student body, absolute essential. The fault is not
nor couia anytnmg De more mexpe- Wri tt;; t.
rlip-nf- Tf irviTr.;ui 4-1... 4- - : ; I . . r
, , ..... " . in oLner; state institutions, it
xidi coue win De inserted m any thing is finp tn rwf- ns.
w ,o mC wmuus may aaopt. iz tmnfiAc -f i,; a 4-; t...
. j , - 4vvu avj. itiguci cuutauun. J3UL
tT g u proposed con- it is a different thing to suggest sav-
ouwxi nuum set, up a system 01 StU- liio-l,0T. An -e j
dent government that would be very X' .
- 1.. T4- -4. J,A. , . : & "' Ui t""OC BCCJklllg It, wno.
tit: "uu uouotea mat sucn know next t6 nothing as to what they
w M1U1C, uul its prooaomty iWant, and could have no hope of get
.0 Bi m. ine system tnat we ting it if they had any reasonable pro
4 . 7; .7 n, wue" consiaer- pulsion collegeward The Pvaleigh
- "i u"a', xxieit; is tne president, l imes
student council, central admirfistra
tion committee, and the activities
group. All this machinery with noth
ing to fall back on, with no descrip
tion o its functions and powers. It
Today
4:00 p.m. 215 MurpheyllalL Bull's
Head Reading. Mr. Willis Posey will
read from "Congaree Sketches."
Friday, December 9
8:00 p. m. Episcopal Parish House.
Meeting of Spanish Club. Mr. Jerry
Slade Will speak in Spanish on Mexi
co. Light refreshments will " be
served.' - .
8:30 p. m. Playmaker Theatre.
Presentation of "Ten Nights in a
Barroom" with scenery, songs, and
special features appropriate to the
period of the original production of
the play. .
fore coming to the University he re
ceived his prep-work at Horner Mili
tary School at Oxford, North Carolina.
STOLEN
STOLEN: One Elgin 7 jewel wrist
watch taken out of Room 10J G.
$10 reward. No questions asked.
ALUM! CHEMIST
RECEIVES HONOR
FROM EMPLOYERS
Jas. A. Struthers, With Hercules
Power Co., Recognized in I
' Company Organ. .
James A. Struthers, Assistant
Superintendent of the Hercules Power
Plant at Bacchus, Utah, is., honored
with an inside cover portrait in the
"Mixer," specialty journal of the
Hercules Power company. In the
November issue this whole page pic
ture of Mr. Struthers appears, accom
panied by another page write-up.
Leaving the University of North
Carolina in 1914 as a. graduated
chemical engineer, he went with the
Union Seed and Fertilizer company
of '"Atlanta," Ga., staying with them
only a few months. In September,
1915, he made a change in his work
and went with the Hercules Power
Company. They installed him at their
plant in Kenville, New Jersey, as
works" chemist. Mr. Struthers, or
"Strut" as he was known on the Uni
versity campus, continued his work
in his chosen profession at Kenvil.
For approximately one year he was
busy in the laboratory there. In
January, 1916, he was transferred to
the Acid Line Department as assis
tant supervisor. The World War
came on, and during these critical
years "Strut" contented himself with
his work at KenviL However, short
ly after the Armistice was signed he
was transferred to experimental
nitroglycerin work. . He remained
with the experimental nitroglycerin
department for only a few months,
to be returned to the Acid depart
ment with a new position as assis
tant supervisor. "Strut" stuck to
this position for several years. In
September, 1922, he was promoted to
the Dynamite Department, in which
he had charge of the dynamite' man
ufacture. This was his final promo
tion at the Kenvil Plant.
However, the Hercules people rec
ognized "Strut's" ability and" trans
f erred him to their Bacchus Plant in
Utah, where he was made assistant
superintendent. He is now filling
this position exceptionally well, ac
cording to the write-up that was given
him m the November "Mixer."
'Strut's" boyhood days were spent
in Wilmington, N. C. He is verv
proud of his birthplace and the Old
North . State. Although severa
states have claimed him as a resident
the state of the long-leaf pine and
the Land of the Sky. is his home. Be
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