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1 a .L.EiEIL ii 1111 Uj Volume XXIX Chapel Hill, Tuesday, May 10, 1921 No. 59 Ml EDITORIAL. THE REMAINING CANCER. Some of the student have become . impatient with us because we have talked of "open politics," but would not be specific enough to give them a definite working scheme upon which they could lay their hand in order to weigh it to compare it to present methods. We don't wonder that these men have become impa tient. We are glad they have. But to be able to fulfill their demands and give them - something specific would condemn the very virtue of our proposal would negate the strength of our whole contention for you can't change an organic situ ation over night with a mere pan acea. We are not interested in "open politics" for the sake of more politics. We are interested in "open politics" as it is opposed to present methods. If we could, we would wipe out of our life all of those prac tices that men choose to call "poli tics." And the sole end that we hope to gain by bringing this matter to the attention of the students all that we want by agitating "open politics" is that we may be able to make the same standard of honor prevail here that prevails in our other activities open and above board dealing. The ideal that we hold up on this campus is that of honor. Here at the University we accept a man's word as the truth, and make no attempt to go beyond his statement for fur ther demonstration. This is a fine standard unequaled on any other campus in the country, we believe. This standard should prevail; and it does prevail, until we come to the political side of our life. When a man goes on a quiz we have no fears but that he will be honest. We know he won't cheat. Why can't this same standard prevail in our political ac tivities. i """ It does not today. To say that it does it is to flatly refuse to recog nize the true situation. Instead of honor, it is distrust. On this sense men call each other "liar;" it is here that envy grows, fears abound, and men justify themselves in sinking to the use of every sort of a method in order to be able to compete with his opponent (in whom he has no confidence), and who, by the way, is lowering hia standards for the same purpose. There is no honor standard Here there is no mutual respect, nor confidence. We bad a demonstra tion of this a few days since. Such a condition as this is a great cancer eating right at the very heart of our system. It should be changed. It is at this situation that we are aiming, whether it be called "open politics," or "honor in politics?" It is this situation that no arbitrary scheme of conducting elections will remedy, and that is why we have re fused to give a definite plan. This campus is not built upon schemes, and devices, and panaceas, although they are good. It is beyond this stage it is on a spiritual level. And it is to this level that we would raise our political activities. Lying in a political campaign should be a shipping offense, just as much as cheating upon examinations. If we have no place for the latter, most assuredly we have no place for the former. And looked at from this stand point, it is easily understood why men are clamoring for a constitu tion. If we continue to give way to this lower standard here, it will ul timately pull us down and our only alternative will be to give up our present system, and adopt laws, rules and regulations for all of our life. . But this situation will not be. rem edied over night. It has taken us thirty years to build up the balance of our system. The greater part of our campus is anxious and willing to use the same standards in our political affairs. A few still thwart the will of the many. And if the many will take a determined stand on this question, the low-brow po litical will have to disappear. This is the only way to remedy the situ ation. No arbitrary scheme will be sufficient, although they will help. FRENCH CLUB HOLDS FIRST MEET OF TERM The French Club, after a' suspen sion of one quarter, met April 27 with Professors Hughes, Haronian and 14 students present. Discus sion for future regulations was post poned until the next meeting. Here after, the club will meet every al ternate Wednesday at 8:30 in one of Y. M. C. A. rooms. Professor Hughes will deliver a short address at the next meeting May 11. All French students are urged to avail themselves of the opportunity to be come conversant with the French language and customs, as the Uni versity provides no French conver sational courses. Announcements will be made at the next meeting as to eligibility requirements. Golden IN MEETINGS VOTE TO RECONSIDER Of Administration Forces Out-Generaled by Opponents to Senior Class Proposition Election STUDENT NOMINATIONS Aided and abetted by the elo quence of J. Y. Jordan, B. C. Brown, T. C. Taylor, D. L. Grant and J. H. Kerr, seniors and inter-collegiate de baters, out-generaled their class president in a pitched battle staged! in Memorial Hall last Friday morn ing, and pushed through, in the face of formidable opposition, a motion to reconsider the so-called senior class proposition, which has been the cause of so much, heated discussion recently. The mass meeting was a sequel to the stormy session in Gerrard Hall last Tuesday morning, when, in the absence of the president of the stu dent council, C. W. Phillips presided over a meeting called for the pur pose of nominating candidates for president of the student body, an office provided for by the law re cently voted on. The determined at titude displayed by Brown and Tay lor at this meeting, in demanding that the law be resubmitted, in a fairer way to the students, had aroused the interest of everybody and was largely responsible for the record-breaking crowd which poured into Memorial Hall at the ringing of the chapel bell to witness the out come of the struggle. President Berryhill acted as chair man of the meeting with Donnell Van Noppen acting as secretary. Be- foreproceeding ,-wiiii cne "business on nana iserrynm made a statement in regard to the validity of the elec tion recently held. He emphatically denied that the law, as passed on by the senior class, was different from the one submitted to the students for their approval. He declared that he considered the law still in force, that he had called the meeting for the purpose of entertaining nominations under that law," and until this was dis posed of nothing else would be in "c "" "" uciqich . nnpn fnr nnminat.mns. Thpse fol.J open lor nominations, inese ioi-J lowed thick and fast until almost every available man of the rising senior class had been nominated. Nominations were finally closed by unanimous vote of the house, after which decks were cleared for action and .thej real battle .began. In1 announcing" the meeting open for discussion, the chairman asked that no bolshevik demonstrations be attempted, and that parliamentary law be observed. B. C. Brown was the first to claim the floor, and the applause which greeted his appear ance showed that his position was favored by a great many present. He read a motion for reconsideration of the measure, stating as valid reasons for such reconsideration, that the is sue as suumineu uiu not aiiow uie ........ ... students to express their preference as to the qualifications for the newly 10 me quauiicauons lor tne newiy - ,. ... . , mi ated office; that the whole of theifacu sal.d. e yesterday 'Bob crea proposition as submitted was not voted on by the entire senior class; that many students voted for the bill as worded rather than kill the whole (Continued on Page Three) SCHOOL PRESENT THREE PLAYS "Spreading The News" and "The Three Wishes" Well Presented by High School Students. A program that would in no way have been a discredit to the Play makers was given by. the boys and girls of Chapel Hill High School last Friday night, in the high school audi torium. Two one-act folk plays were produced, one Irish and the other French. The little Irish comedy, "Spread ing the News," showed the confu sion caused by a deaf gossip who depended upon her own tongue and other people's ears. Estelle Lawson gave a ' splendid interpretation of this role, with Jeanette Whitefield equally good as the sharp-tongued wife of poor mistreated Bartley Fallon, "whose reputation yez have ruined entoirely wid yer crooked lies, and whose good name has been tram pled under the dirty feet of all of vez!" The dialect was indifferently rendered, but the costuming and make-up was excellent. m, 7- v ' Three Wishes" was .very prettily acted by Andrew Mcintosh, Carlene I TUrt In.vtilmw fnlrw tula rtf "Thft Rich, and Eric Merritt. The stage;""'"" j.o,ouu empi ? 'setting for this play was very rea-j of the corporation will be affecte listic. the cut. ' Fleece Tapping Democracy Pure and Last of a Series of Articles on Undergraduate Poblems and Plans of Government. A Discussion of The Carolina System. By TYRE C. The fact that we have here on this campus the last word in student self- government and have, so far as I know, the most perfectly worked out democratic system in 1 operation in any college of university size in the United States is the reason for this article. In it I shall take up in the order named the Genesis of, Theore tical Basis for, Reason for, Func tions, of and the Achievements of Student Self-government. 1 According to Mr. Frank Graham, writing in the pamphlet which was prepared for use at the undergradute conference, The beginnings of stu dent self-government lie back in the by-laws of the two literary societies adopted in 1795. Every student was a member of the societies and so came under this voluntary system of discipline. The main features of the system were student monitors, fines, and admonitions. . Trials were held every Munday evening. At this time too the trustees of the University gave the primary power, up to then residing in them, up to the president up the University. But in 1805, according to this same writer, the trustees again interfered, adopted laws of the strictest sort, and put the monitors on their oath to enforce them. General Davie, the founder, advised against a code of rules and after much argument both pro and con on both sides the by laws were revised. The students ;were thoroly angered however, and ' even this revision did" not jwnt many and determined protests f roni'' iing made and a number of students ac- e AnT PLAT PD T P CB it 111 I LLLI0LI1 1 UIM I IUIUI. ltlat judgment ot men on tnc. ..... . j i j i. . r- r-.-C-J Bobbitt, who declared that he Campus be Confined to Ability In chapel Wednesday mornir th T TJ1 J J. Liean crausnaw maue an earliest Fiopp0itunity to express Meir for fair and intelligent criticism t. the part of the students, with pajtionSi j,e invited any one in ticular: reference to the comhi 0 offer an amendment which spring elections. He advocated faigo on the ballot as an addi in the fundamental honesty of hpption. Several of these were man nature and asked that judgme an(j incorporated by Bobbitt of men on the campus be confined motion, which was carried by ability and not extended to Riotivicay unanimous vote of an His speech in substance was as fe that was showing consid lows: Impatience and a marked tend- "The question 'What is the diffioward disintegration. A com ence between the United States a.? was appointed to have charge Mexico?' was raised in my mind awing up, printing, distribut yesterday morning's performantd counting the ballots in the nApa in n .1 ti 1 1 1 1 1 1 I believe that it lection. After which, wnat was - . , a aircerence in metnoa 01 juagmec, a and criticism. A member of t"Pullv" Massenburg, "will go ilLC tuu uiiLitai lulu lauii tviucu. everything.' I did not agree wi$ him entirely. The primary purpc :Qentlenes8 Always Bsst. of a student should.be to learn eness ls fr inure successful In criticize persons and things in enieri irises limn violence; In- right way. The legitimate functi ', . not motives. f Don t express your opinion ao something you don't know anyth about. The first part of criticism collecting facts about a thing at fi f hand. Next ask what the thing I supposed to do. Third, know reason for failure; and, nine-ten of the time, you will find it due ignorance and not crookedness. G the man you are dealing with crt for as much squareness as you h yourself. The problem of commur life, of the simplest relationship J,1 tween two people, is a problem faith. As you go into the spi fcn,. . i -n nw ,i aVast eXDcHlSe OI COUntry tOWIames played since 1905. ingless word, you must have it yo"? sen, it is a jod to De done, not CJi remember that the men who concther the SafegUarO-S OI yOUr ft ' affairs on the campus are, fur . ; , . 1 .1 mentally, just as square as you .ip n ViiS land Of the midnig!,()8 . . STEEL CORPORATION TO CI ' wages on may i6. iionH aa our own standard New York, May 3. A reductioi about 20 per cent, in wages for y of OW hardening rOOHlS al0n913 labor, effective May 16, and an ec -r- c J914 able adjustment of other rates, PllTe Cream, PllTe Cane bUg915 eluding salaries, at the plants of i . . United States Steel Corporation, amS OI yOUT health. announced today by Elbert H. G . " chairman of the corporation's b. ... l. " , f, " f dlr"- estimated that , Undefiled Is Last Article On Government TAYLOR tually left the University. Members of the faculty were responsible for conduct in the dormitories and made nightly visits to each room. All this did not prevent the societies from holding their regular trials regard less and independent of any action by the faculty so that the students were in the peculiar situation of be ing liable to answer for an offense to two tribunals at the same time. Of course it should be understood that at this time membership in the societies was compulsory. . .. Finally in 1876, Dr. Battle, who was at the time president of the University, officially laid aside the by-laws and placed every student on his honor to act like a gentleman J Says Mr. Graham: "It was at this time that the practice of accepting I the unsupported, word of the 'stu dent was first adopted as was also the honor system in examinations. Offenders were tried by the class to which they belonged and all students were honor bound to report any of fense to this class council." In 1881 hazing was included by the societies in the forbidden things of their code and shortly after com pulsory membership in the societies was abolished. The old system was now thoroughly threadbare and out grown Ind the time ripe for the ush ering in of a new and radically differ ent system. It came much in the present day form; first, a council for discipline and later a greater coun cil for constructive action. This (Continued on Page Four) i the discussion finany percr ind the motion had been extri om the mass of parliamentary in which it had become in s put to a rising vote led by an overwhelming ma roblem what to do next was 1 1 ; alternative for every move, iposed a ballot which would all the different proposi- .norstelv thus eiv'ms the stu- " " ., . After reading four such 7 i nx , ... j mass meeting mai,, a-vm- , i , n j j.n ..j history," called it a day and .. ,,,.,,, II v frustrates Its while gentleness source- fails. Locke, Is As Pure Arctic Rem . , , ' ' - ISLS ill uic-isiiv v j ivgiv"" 1909 1910 1912 CREAM N0RTH CAR0S at 8s3 p. m DAN GRANT SPOKE ON COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS IN CHAPEL THURSDAY Makes Report on What He Heard at Students' Conference Con cerning College Publications. TRIBUTE TO PERSONNEL Report of the publications phase of the students' conference recently held at Massachusetts Tech, to which Carolina sent four delegates, was made in chapel Thursday morning by Editor Grant of The Tar Heel. He touched on various features of the conference and emphasized, as the most important lesson to be drawn from it, the need for harder work and more of it on Carolina publica tions. "The chief impression which the conference made upon me," said Grant, "was the outstanding differ ence between Southern slovenliness and Yankee industry." He also paid high tribute to the personnel of the assembly, saying that it was the most able group of men he had ever came in contact with. The conference, according to Grant's report, took up every form of student publication in turn, be ginning with the Freshman Bible This in every case was very much like our own, he said. The literary magazines were found to be widely different, but with very much the same problems to face everywhere. Most of them, like the Carolina Mag azine, have changed recently in the nature of their make up, taking on a more popular and more readable character. Yale, Harvard and Co lumbia still cling to the old type because they have, among their thou sands of students, enough men who write that sort of thing to keep them going. (The delegates from these universities had to confess, however, that ther magazines were found to "sustaining. Most of them fitorial boards which are com jorking machines. The editors at the bottom and work up h the machine and do not se- their offices through political ions. hiversity publicity took up about pours of the conference's time. I only fact of concern to Caro r Avhich 'developed in this discus f fifas that every university of the mas some sort of news bureau, 'jns of which news of local in s sent back home to the coun fwspapers. Grant stressed the Jtance of the county clubs do- (that kind of work here. om the comics and the annuals little was to be learned. With w exceptions, both seemed to be ucted about the same at all IM s. At rnnceton, tne senior gets out its own small annual, lendetitly financed and carrying dvertisements. le college newspapers of the h, like the literary magazines, ct a higher degree of efficiency lanagement, and more conscien ; work on the part of the staff, daily newspaper is the ideal, ceton has solved the problem of cing a daily paper in a small ge town through a national ad- sing bureau. Almost all the sue. 'ul college dailies have highly or- y.ea boards, a place upon which much coveted honor, and hard : is the only means by which it tamed. CAROLINA-WAKE FOREST Wake Forest and Carolina have ill ever since 1905. The majority nse, exciting, and real pitched ive stood tie at the end of the ninth; it took 15 innings to see le end of the struggle in 1919. Out of the total games played, rake Forest has won 9, Carolina 15. Below is a record of the Wake Forest. . . . 5 ........ ... 5 ........ (1) 3 (2) 2 ... Both games rained out. No game scheduled. (1) 0 (2) 2 ... 1J05 oii (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 0 1 8 1 0 4 6 (2) 0 ... (2) (2) (2) (2) (3) (3) No game scheduled. . . . 7 . (1) 8 (2) 0 . (1) 3 917 918 919 920 921 C(h 'TAPPING' FOR GOLDEN FLEECE GERRARD HALL WEDNESDAY EVENING It is Expected That About Ten Men , Will Be "Tapped" This Year. PROF. WILLIAMS TO SPEAK The Golden Fleece Tapping will be held in Gerrard Hall on Wednesday evening, May 11th, at 8:30, at which time those men who have been ac cepted into the order for the com ing year will be "tapped." The Fleece usually takes in from eight to ten men each year. This year it is expected that' the number "tapped" will be about ten. Of this number perhaps -the greater part will be taken from the rising senior class. Prof. H. H. Williams, of the De partment of Philosophy, will deliver the address of the evening, being in troduced by President Chase, who was last year takea into the Fleece as an honorary member. Tofcssor Williams is among the oldest cf the present members of the facilty in point of number Df year of service, and certainly from the standpoint of one interested in the life of the men on the campus, and in student affairs there are none that equal him. He was here prior to the founding of the Golden Fleece, was largely instrumental in its founding, and has ever kept a vigilant watch over its affairs since, and hence is especially prepared to speak at this occasion. Acceptance into the Golden Fleece is supposedly the highest honor that can come to a member of the Uni versity student body, at the hands of the students, and every year the election of men into its ranks is watched with the keenest sort of interest by the student body. Those constituting the present ac tive chapter are Daniel L. Grant, John H. Kerr, Jr., F. Carlyle Shop ard, John D. Shaw and William H. Bobbitt. ' Two members of the ac tive roll, Beemer C. Harrell, and John P. Washburn, are away from the Hill. Other members of tho Fleece on the Hill are Joe Burton Linker, Herman Baity, Oliver Rand, Merrill . Parker, Professor Frank P. Graham, Dean Francis F. Bradshaw, Ed Lindsey, Lenoir Chambers ,E. P.. Rankin, Charles T. Woolen, and others. CHAPEL HILL IS SCENE OF NEW BUILDING BOOM Chapel Hill is having the largest building boom that has yet been known to the town. Within the next year a new hotel, railroad station, about eight new houses, and several stores will be erected. Besides these private enterprises, . the University will conduct its building program, and have a special camp for the la borers employed. "Faculty Row" is to be enlarged to almost double its size to take care of the increased size of the faculty. New streets are to be laid out in the eastern and western part of town, and the sidewalks are to be resur faced. Within the last month a garage has been erected just this side of Carrboro, and three new houses are being built. Within the next year, it' is expected that the population) of Chapel Hill will be almost doubled. GAMES IN THE PAST. been hard fought rivals in base- of frames in the Dast have, been battles. Many of these carries Carolina. 11 6 (1) 5 (2) 4 (1) (1) (ii (1) (1) (1) 2 1 6 2 2 1 3 5 4 1 4 (2) (2) (2) 2 (2) 3 (2) 10 (2) 0 (3) (3) 10 3 (1) (1) (2) 8 1 i ! Hi
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