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Saturday, April 2, 1927 THE TAR HEEL Page Threa The Driftwood Fire By Dave Carroll Spring has Sprung! During the past few days some of the columnist's, friends have been'per turbed by the gossip which has in ' volved his treatment of politics. At last we have discovered the. cause of the flurry; and we offer this sketch of our personal activities in the cam paign for free publication of political organizations. We trust that it will soothe the spirits of the faithful few who are interested in our attitude to ward all political parties. The Trouble , It seems that some big bad boys are stealing, about the campus with the ominous news that Dave Carroll is either angelically .honest or a grand rascal. It seems that he has failed to report the organized support of all candidates alike. Special : suspi cion is caused by his failure to ex pose the activities of Walter Kelley, candidate for the , presidency of the student body and the columnist s good friend and fraternity brother. So Important! . First of all, the writer must pause for a good raucous hee-haw. He has never been so bedecked with dignity in all his nie. imagine it: Jew Doys get to be so big a thing as an honest Abe or a grand rascal. Our heart is all aflutter with our newly acquired reputation either one of them. But ' from our heavenly or our diabolical eyes there is a copious precipitation of salty moisture. We weep; for in truth we are neither an angel nor a devil. Here is the brief of our adventurous campaign for political publicity. Explanation -Bledsoe Sometime ago we were told that Taylor Bledsoe was heading a politi cal ticket. After .waiting until our information (which was never sub' mitted in a formal.letter) seemed fair ly definite, we climbed the stairs of Strowd building and questioned Tay lor himself. He gladly furnished the desired information, which we im mediately published. Further details he was to reveal later, when they shonld be certain. Insomuch as he never-voluntarily presented these lat er, developments, and since no stu dent notified us that there had been further action by Bledsoe, we left him alone and turned to the other possible machine leaders. It seemed unfair to hound a political leader who .was willing to cooperate with the columnist when it was most like ly that others were., trying to dodge and leave Bledsoe as the only man with an announced ticket , Others Kelley Although no one dared to give us definite clues, it was also suspected that Walter Kelley would have a ma chine. When we intimated to Walter that he was being discussed as a probable leader of an organization, he! voluntarily declared that he was attempting, along with others, to form an open "party" with a definite plat- ' us the details of this movement for the next issue of the Tar Heel, be- meetings to draw up the said plat- lorm. Shortly afterwards hie informed the writer that his plan for a party had failed because the candidates whom he and his party-makers would have included in their group had already allied themselves with the Bledsoe lineup. As a consequence, Walter said, he would be running an abso lutely independent race with no or ganized support. This was the state of affairs some weeks ago. . And so this particular case drifted on. Much suspicion characterized the attitude of the campus. But no Car olina student decided to send us an unsigned charge or provide us with any sort of definite indictment. We deplored the fact so many students were quick to suspect candidates of organizing machines when they had. denied this and when these campus critics had not the backbone to write to us about the matter. And the writer's personal friendship for Wal ter Kelley forbade his questioning the truth of his statements just in order to pacify suspicious gossips who were naturally opposed to Kelley's candi dacy. ' ' ' And Crew This candidate had also been nam ed as a possible leader of a campus machine. So the writer inquired into Ilia atlisnnyf TmmaiKafallt Kof rtrO Tlftm- inations, Crew stated that he had no organized support whatsoever, but of fered readily to inform us of any later organization on his part. This he has never doner nor has he been charged with complicity in -any such group movement. So his word, the word of a strong friend, stands with the writer. The latest Information, just receiv ed from Windy himself, is to the ef fect that he has absolutely no organ ized support. ' And Jonas j Charlie Jonas has never been con nected in any way, so far as we know, with any form of organized back ing. Although he has been publicly endorsed as the logical man by Tay lor Bledsoe' s group, he has never even been, charged with, participation in any machine or proup organization. General Inactivity , - Thus politics drifted along. No in formation; no definite suspicious; no dutiful helpers in the campaign for free publicity. The writer was forc ed to leave the Hill last .Friday. He returned Tuesday afternoon at five thirty. During his stay at home, he majled in his contributions to the edi torial columns. He returned to find a maze of work which precluded his engagement in political investigations. He offered to the Tab Heel two arti cles which had been written for sev eral days. The humorous column which appeared in Thursday's Tab Heel was not suddenly written in order to exclude political news; that column had been ready for printing I for a week. During the Human Re lations Institute we showed it to two members of the faculty. Its publica tion at that time was considered un advisable for reasons which pertain to no student. It is enough to say that th writer's Phllimn nra a olvaafltf - - TTMU '1VUJ filled when the political news was nearu. , : , v ' Sudden News But at seven o'clock Wednesday evening, the columnist was called from a fraternity meeting by Jud Ashby, Luther Byrd, Walter Kelley, and Bed Ellison. : These men wished us to pub lish news concerning the organiza tion of a new political group of which they and others were members. The writer lound that all the candidates of this new organization were uncer tain of their willingness to sunnort its men as a whole; and when he found tnat the names of several avowed "indpendents" were included in the line-up, he told the men that rersonal verification would be required of each of these candidates who seemed to nave changed their minds so abrupt ly. We offered to run, as a feature story, any statement about the new organization without requiring this investigation. But the writer refus ed to include any uncertain names in his column, which he has always put before the campus as no speculation on politics, but the hard and tried truth. Countless offers failed to suit the men who wished to have their organization's activity published. Fi nally, the columnist suggested that he state, in a paragraph to be added to the usual column which was already sei m type, mat tnese men had lur nished information which would be published in the next Tab Heel. In the meantime, opportunity would be given us to determine the certainty of some of the members of the new organization. This short statement was to be made in order to defend this group from the attack of those who might say that it was a secret clique. At the permission of the man- aging editor, this last-minute state ment was made and added to the col umn already set in type at the print snop. . Grand Finale Although the campus has here a sketch of the principal events connect ed with the publicity end of the writ er's campaign for open politics (which is only one part of the great whole) , it is at perfect liberty to suspect the whole thing, lock, stock, and barrel. If must remember, however, that this summary is published only for the effect that it may have in clearing innocent candidates of vicious, whis pered charges. The writer is in no wise obligated to any student for his food, comfort, or happiness. Hence, he is only amused to find that, be .it villain or saint, he is a our one. The New Group .?. Such is the history of all the prog ress of publicity. We print the fol lowing at the request of these new organizers. The statement itself is written by L. N. Byrd, verified by all the candidates, and is absolutely complete and accurate. . i In accord with a policy of open pol itics and realizing the present needs of the campus, a group of candidates for student body and class offices have met and subscribed to a definite pol icy of campaign and office administra tion. P. U. Board Nominees The entire group is following a blanket policy of backing board or staff nominees for publication editor ships and the Publications Union Board. .The fact that the candidates thus ' nominated for the publication positions carry the endorsement of the men they have worked for two years and more was. the argument in their favor. No Pledged Support These candidates are backed by their friends, although the group it self has never pledged or bound any man to support a ticket unreservedly. To illustrate this policy of "no uni versal pledge": Galen Elliott is run ning for the presidency of the "Y" with the sanction of the group, while "Red" Ellison receives a similar sanc tion and endorsement for the presi dency of the rising junior class. How ever, Pi Kappa Phi, Ellison's frater nity, is backing Bobby Wilkins in op position to Elliott. 1 President of the Student Body: ! Walter Kelley. President of the Y. M. C. A. : . Galen Elliott. Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.: Phil Dawson. President of the Athletic Association: Billy Ferrell. Representative-at-Large on Athletic Association: Bill Sharpe. Debate Council: H. V. Chappell. Editor of the Tab Heel: Judson Ashby (Staff nominee). P. U. Board: ; Charlie Nelson. . Joe Bobbitt. Senior Class Officers: President: Charlie Lipscomb. Vice-President: Hoyt Pritchett Secretary: Buck Grice. Treasurer: "Swampy" Twiford. Council Representative: Jack Davis. Junior Class Officers : President: "Red". Ellison. Vice-President: "Soap" Sandlin. Secretary: Bill Wall. Student Councilman: "Buster" Manning. ' Sophomore Class Officers : President: J acK ward. Vice-President: Phil Jackson. Secretary: Jack Watson. .Treasurer: Flem Wiley. .Student Councilman: Bill Adams. INFURIATES THE MAGAZINE EDITOR March Issue of Literary Book Will Not Appear Until Early This Month. PRINTERS LOSE AD COPY AH Seniors That Haven't Been Meas ured for Senior Outfit DROP IN AT Jack Lipman's University Shop and po so tMiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiH (By Prometheus) Following the announcement from Christian and King's printers of the Carolina Maga zine, that the March issue was again delayed for another 'week, the harassed editor of that pub lication went into a comatose state early last week. Later reports from the bed side indicate that he will be able to survive the shock of seeing the March issue of his brain child' appear in April. The issue which was supposed to have appeared on the fifteenth of March was first delayed when the printer lost a complete set of ads, forcing the business staff to visit all the advertisers for a second time. Immediately after, the business staff entered into seclusion, hiding themselves from the uncontrolable wrath .of the editor which was prompted by his ever increasing animosity toward the staff and the print ers. ;. '; The last blow was the sudden announcement from , Durham that the printers had rup out of stock oh which to print the Magazine. The editor simultaneously suffered a relapse and after an attempted interview immediate ly before press time, a Tar Heel reporter learned that the editor of the Magazine had just come out of a series of hallucinatory fits. Attending physicians state that with a great deal of careful attention, he will prob ably be out again in several weeks. The student body probably would not have realized that the campus literary organ was again late, as it has been late several times this year, but the ' editor, sensitive and conscientious, real ized that he must at least at tempt to have it appear some where around the scheduled pub lication date. Thence, the edi tor, excepting the time that he has beeh confined to his quar ters, has been vainly attempt ing during the past three weeks to bring the Magazine out. It has been rumored that all typewriters, blue pencils, copy paper, and previous issues of the Magazine have been taken from the room of the patient. The sight of them, physicians state, provoke him to untold gyrations and epilectic spasms. One of the attending nurses made the re mark that she must 'make up' the bed and the editor fell back on his frothy pillow with a hol low groan. His temperature was taken and was found to be 106. Ice was immediately ap plied to his head and after sev eral hours he came out of his somnambulistic state. Student . Council's Gambling Penalties Sustained by h Vote CLOTSIES Our Representative MR. GIB COLLINS will be at the Carolina Smoke Shop Monday and Tuesday APRIL 4th AND 5th LUXEMBURG CLOTHES are made to your measure and tailored in our own , 'shops. .-'.!", ; Nat LUXENBERG ar Bro. J 7 Union Square, New York (Continued from page one) , ed over an action of the Council, and for a time indications were that the entire system of Stu dent Government "was in danger of collapsing. The matter re ceived more attention from the outside world and more space in the state papers than any of the many issues and occurences that have agitated the campus in re cent years. , The case was first brought to public attention when the men, through Julian Starr and H. A. Breard, their ' representatives, submitted a petition to Sydney Chappell, President of the Stu dent Body, for a mass meeting to consider their appeals from the suspensions. At the meet ing, held in Memorial Hall Marchi 12, a motion made by C. R. Jonas that a committee of 21 students, composed of three representatives from each class and graduate school, be appoint ed to review the evidence and in vestigate the Council's action in the case and report back to the student body was carried. The meetings of the committee covered a totalof almost sixty hours of time over a period of two weeks. The report of the committee appeared in the Tar Heel March 25. It upheld the action of , the Council in suspend ing the men, but censured it for using .coercive measures ,to se cure the names of the other ten men -implicated in the alleged series of huge poker games from the first three men brought up. In a mass meeting to consid er the report of the committee and to finally decide the mat ter in Memorial Hall last Mon day morning Brown submitted his motion to put the men on probation and rescind the Coun cil's suspensions. F. B- Aycock made his motion before Brown's PICKWICK THEATRE "Almost a Part of Carolina" SHOWS DAILY . SATURDAY, APRIL 2 .ftn . Matinee Only "'V"r Alex Francis, Lois Moran and 6:45, 8:30 Neil Hamilton in . "THE MUSIC MASTER" REGULAR Night Only ADMISSION Vera Reynolds in , , "CORPORAL KATE" 1U and Zoc ADMISSION for Both Shows 35c Candy, Popcorn, Cold MONDAY, APRIL 4 Drinks, and Gum on Pauline Starke and Antonio Moreno in Sale in Lobby. . "LOVE'S BLINDNESS" was seconded. The meeting was continued till Monday night when the alloted time expired with neither motion having been put to a vote. Much wrangling marked the night meeting in Gerrard Hall, but finally Aycock put across a motion for the ref erendum. Yesterday a rumor that the 3oard of Trustees had telegraph ed President Chase that they would suspend the men them" selves in case the Student Body voted to reverse the Council's decision, and 'do away with stu dent government at the Univer sity gained wide circulation on the campus. President Chase late yesterday afternoon declar ed that the rumor was entirely untrue. ,. It is said that the incident will result in radical changes in stu dent government. A govern mental convention is to be held later in the year to draw up a constitution and make changes in the present form of campus government. Frosh Team Practices (Continued from page two) four having a decided advantage merry battle, with none of the at this stage. A. L. Wright, Welborn Jack, and John Freder ick are candidates for the hot corner. Frederick was moved from the outfield to third base, and is showing up well. Coach Le'Grand states that he does not have a very good line on th outfield candidates as yet. 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