The Library,
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EDGAR WIND LECTURE
PHILLIPS HALL
FRIDAY 8:30 P.M.
NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE
OF WOMEN VOTERS
Convention Begins Today
VOLUME XXXV
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927
NUMBER 62
Council
s Action Will Un dergo Student Body Investigation Friday
Student Council Suspends Thirteen
Men On Wholesale Gambling Charges
THREE MEN TELL
ON THE REST OF
GUILTY STUDENTS
Human Relations Meeting
Draws Notable Speakers
Campus Sentiment is Said to Op
pose Council's Ethical Meth
ods in Securing Information.
EXPULSIONS ARE OF
3 UP TO 18 MONTHS
Suspended Men Will Appeal the
1 Council's Decision.
Feeling is running high on the
campus today following the sus
pending of thirteen men for
gambling by the Student Coun
cil. Many students express
strong sentiment against the ac
tion of the Council, stating that
they do not question the justice
of the suspensions, but the man
ner in which the Council secured
evidence against- the men. S.
G, Chappell, President of the
Student Body, refused to give a
Tar Heel reporter the names
of the suspended students.
Suspension of the men follow
ed the reporting to the Council
of a series of alleged huge poker
games that have been held in a
room in Manly Dormitory dur
ing the past month. Only three
men were apprehended. Accord
ing to one of the men, the Coun
cil suspended these three stu
dents "for failure to co-operate
with the council" in furnishing
the names of the other men in
volved. The suspension was
! made last Thursday.7 This man's
statement follows: "The coun
cil told us that we were suspend
ed from the University for the
rest of the college year. The
suspension was to go into effect
Saturday morning. If by then
we had turned in the names of
the other men the case would
be re-onened upon a basis of
poker playing."
. Unequal Suspensions
Friday morning the names of
all but three of the men were
'turned in to the council, with the
knowledge of the men them
selves. All of the men involved
were suspended from the Uni
versity for terms running from
three to eighteen months.
S. Q. Chappell stated yester
day that the Council did not
give the men the alternative of
furnishing the names of the
other students involved or expul
sion from the University.
President Chappell declared in
a recent Chapel address that it
takes a brave man to speak to
a man personally when he sees
him violating the honor system,
while a coward will tell a Coun
cil member about it and ask that
his name be withheld. -
It is known that several of the
men suspended have appealed to
the Council for a re-hearing of
-the case. ' .'
GERALD JOHNSON
PRAISES LOUIS
GRAVES' WEEKLY
Quarter-page Editorial About
Chapel Hill Paper is Printed in
Baltimore Evening Sun.
BOXING UNIFORMS
ARE DUE TODAY
H. C. Lay, Manager of Boxing,
has announced that all boxers
must turn in. their uniforms at
the Btadium this afternoon from
3 to 4 o'clock. If they are not
turned in at this time they will
be charged up against the man.'
In one of the most striking
and graceful tributes that has
ever been paid one newspaper
by another, Louis Graves' Chap
el Hill Weekly was the object
of an extremely lauditory edi
torial by Gerald Johnson in the
Baltimore Evening Sun.
The editorial, in part, is as
follows:
The Chapel Hill Weekly last week
celebrated its fourth birthday. It has
subscribers in Shanghai and. Ceylon,
. . . and ardent admirers in news
paper offices all over the country. Yet
Editor Graves has never been known
to practice any sort, of magic. One
rule of standard newspaper practice
he adheres to rigidly he , eschews
"fine writing." The Chapel Hill
Weekly is as sober as a Quaker meet
ing, and in that respect alone it is
at one with the better sort of news
papers everywhere. The rest of the
so-called rules of journalism simply
do not run in that office; but the out
come of this singuler practice is dam
aging only to the rules.
But it is neither its courage nor
its news value that has attracted to
the Chapel Hill Weekly the admiring
attention of newspaper people from
far away. Its elusive charm is due,
rather,' to the fact that it is the work
of a civilized man who is doing what
he likes best to do.
Louis Graves was born in the lit
tle village that houses the University
of North Carolina, the son of a mem
ber of the faculty who died when-the
boy was young. Steeped in the at
mosphere of the college town, he never
forgot it. It clung to him through
his days as a newspaper man in New
York and through hisyears as a free
lance. As an essayist he gained en
trance to the most ponderous and dig
nified of the monthlies, as well as to
the liberal weeklies. As a fictioneer
he attained the short-story writer's
Valhalla, the Saturday Evening Post.
But his real interests were bounded
by the crumbling field-stone walls that
inclose the campus at Chapel Hill,
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ACTORS PERFORM
TfflS SATURDAY
Summeral, Army Staff
Chief, Likely to Come
Outstanding Southern Cotton
Mill Manufacturers Will Lec
ture on South-Atlantic Indus
trial Progress and the Golden
Rule. ,.
Bob House, Secretary to Chase,
Urges All Students to At
tend the Seminar.
Revival of "Trista" and "The
Miser' Will Be Last Plays
of Winter Quarter.
Saturday evening, March 12
the Carolina Playmakers will
present a bill of old favorites
from their repertory. This plan
was followed with great success
on the tour of four states, Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina
and Georgia, from which they
have just returned. .
The bill to be presented will
include Trista and The Miser.
Since In Dixon's Kitchen was
revived on the last bill it will I
not be repeated. Instead, there
will be presented an exhibition
of old English Sword Dancing,
directed- by Miss Josephine
Sharkey.
Season ticket subscribers will
be able to get their tickets at
Sutton and Alderman's on Fri
day. Only one performance will
be given, Saturday, March 12.
fourteen specialists ; and
prominent speakers are on the
program for the first quadren
nial "Institute on Human Rela
tions," to be held at the Univer
sity March 20 -25, as indicated
by the preliminary : announce
ment issued by the Y. M. C. A.
Tuesday.
These leaders in the fields of
interracial relations, "interrace
relations, and the hunum ele
ment in industry, are men fresh
from college life, and their talks
and discussions at Carolina will
be directed toward bringing to
the student body a more
thorough understanding of these
three divisions of modern life..
It is planned to bring to the
University a number of experts
on the most important social
questions for a very extensive
program, similar to this one,
quadrennially, states the "Y'
announcement. It continues
"Jn addition to the occasional
prominent speaker, this special
week's study and discussion, un
der the leadership of a group of
prominent visitors will bring ex
ceptional opportunity to each
generation of students."
From communications this
week it appears probable that
several leaders will attend the
institute, other than those
speakers ' already on the pro
gram. Uharies -r. oummerai,
Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, has
been invited to speak on "Amer
ica's Defense Policy." Stewart
W. Cramer, North Carolina cot
ton manufacturer, Cramerton,
will speak on "The Human Ele
ment in Southern . Industrial
Progress." H. O. Fitzgerald,
president of the Fall River and
Danville Cotton Manufacturing
Company, has been invited to
speak on "The Golden Rule in
Industry." Ben E. Geer, Green
ville, S. C, said to be the most
prominent cotton manufacturer
in South darolina, will speak on
"Improving " Relations between
Employer and Employee."
Dr. Herbert A. Gibbons,!
Princeton, who returned Tues
day from Europe, will conduct
a series of lectures and discus
sions on international relations.
Dr. Gibbons is a globe trotter,
author, professor, and lecturer.
He has written twelve or more
books on national and inter
national relations, world peace,
war debts, the changing map of
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Phi Cancels Its
Regular Meeting
The regular meeting ' - of the
Phi Assembly was not held last
Tuesday night. It is the cus
torn to omit the session on the
week before examinations.
FOOTBALL GAME
SATURDAY TWIXT
OLD-NEW PLAYERS
Monogram and Non-Monogram
Men Will Clash on Emerson
Field at 3:30 P. M.
85 MEN WILL GET
INTO THE ACTION
Whisnant, McMurray, Supple,
and Other Ex-Stars to Play.
What is so rare as a footbal
game in March? And yet exact
ly that is going to happen on
Emerson field Saturday after
noon at 3:00 o'clock. This foot
ball contest scheduled to arouse
the campus only seven months
ahead of time, will be a battle
royal between the monogram
men and the non-monogram men
for a full, man-sized sixty min
utes with four officials, the
cheerios, admission fee of two
bits, and all the color and
glamor of a classic.
The students who will throng
Emerson field Saturday will get
an opportunity to again cast lov
ing, eyes on some of their old
football favorites, whom they
thought had passed forever from
che pictures when Virginia shov
ed Carolina back 3 to 0 Thanks
giving day. Ex-captain Whis
nant, Jay McMurray, and "Sup"
Supple are three athletes who
supposedly made their final bow
at Virginia. They all three will
get a chance to don Carolina
moleskins again in the last-
year's-regulars versus new-men
March classic.
Coach Collins has announced
that the game will be played un-
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Fuller Will Read
Congaree Sketches
CHASE
IN
WILL SPEAK
SOUTHERN PINES
President Harry W. Chase
will speak at Southern Pines on
the night of March 13. His sub
ject will be "Education and
Democracy."
Selections from Congaree
Sketches will be read this after
noon at 4:30 in Murphey 215
by Henry R. Fuller, of the Uni
versity Press, as the regular
Thursday reading of the Eng-
ish department.
Congaree Sketches is now be
ing printed by the University
Press, and the selections read
this afternoon will be from the
galley proofs. The sketches are
written by E. C. L. Adams, a re
tired physician of Columbia, S.
They are artistic and au
thentic sketches of negro life in
the big swamps of the Congaree,
many of the incidents being ac
tual experiences of Mr. Adams,
who has spent a great deal of
time among the negroes and in
the swamps.
Among others Mr. Fuller will
probably read "Ole Sister," a de
lightfully homorous sketch deal
ing with the negroes' character
istic conviction as to the anthro
pomorphic qualities of God,
Heaven, and Hell; and "Judge
Foolbird," an ironic and satiri
cal thrust at the negroes' posi
tion in the white man's court.
Of Congaree Sketches Paul
Green has written to the Press :
"The stories are distinctive, . . .
a fine addition to your list."
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S. G. CHAPPELL
President of the Student
Body, and head of the
Honor Council, whose
recent action in suspen
ding 13 men is cause of
much comment.
DI TABLES BILL
TO CENSURE THE
STUDENT COUNCIL
Bledsoe, Kennett, and McPher
son Support Council's Whole
sale Expulsive Measure.
In an executive meeting held
Tuesday night the Di Senate
elected officers for the spring
quarter and wound up the eve
ning by tabling a resolution Con
demning the "recent drastic ac
tion by the student council
The tabling of the : resolution,
which had been introduced by
Senator Milne, was in the nature
of a defeat of the measure.
Ail omcers tor the spring
quarter were elected with the
exception of the speaker, Byron
Glenn, who was elected some
time ago. The following men
were elected : Bill Neal, Speaker
pro-tem; Judah Shoham, Clerk;
Harry Weatherly, Assistant
Treasurer; H. W. McGalliard,
Sergeant-at-Arms.
After the formalities of the
election were over, Senator
Milne introduced the following
measure, Kesolved, that he Dia
lectic Senate go on record as
disapproving the recent drastic
action, of the Student Council
in introducing his measure,
Senator Milne commented that
it would e rather hard to dis
cuss it because the facts were
scarcely known by the campus
at large. He noted that "a stu
dent councilman had slipped out
on us," referring to Senator
Van Core, who took part in a
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BETABASKETEERS
WIN FROM GRIMES
Greek Letter Men Cap the Cam
pus Championship by 17-16
,) Score.
The Betas, winners of the fra
ternity intramural champion
ship in a nip and tuck game at
the Tin Can Monday night
which ended with the close score
of 17 to 16. This game rung
down the curtain on the 1927 in
tramural basketball season.
The intramural . basketball
season has been the best in the
history of this form of athletics
at the University, it is said.
Officials state that more inter
est has been taken in the cage
game this year than ever before
and some promising material for
the varsity quint has been de
veloped. The Beta aggregation has been
awarded a beautiful silver loving
cup for their victory over the
Grimes team Monday night.
Raper, Cook, and Zimmerman
were outstanding on the dormi
tory team and Watt, Cameron,
and Bowers played a stellar
game for the Betas.
CHAPPELL GRANTS
AN APPEAL TO
PETITION SIGNERS
Mass Meeting Friday, Morning
At 10:30 of All Students
To Consider the Coun
cils Maneuvers.
CHASE CONSENTS
TO OPEN FORUM
Student Body President Refuses
Starr and Breard's Request
for Mass Meeting but Grants
it When Indicted Men Sign
the Petition.
An appeal for a mass meeting
on behalf of the fourteen men
suspended for gambling Tuesday
night by the Student Council
has been granted by S. G. Chap
pell, president of the student
body. ,
The appeal asked that the
hour for this public investiga
tion of the case be set for chapel
period Friday morning and
President Chase and Dean Brad
shaw have agreed to extend the
time over the class period follow
ing if the plan meets with the
approval of Chappell.
The appeal was first presented
verbally by Julian Starr and H.
A. Breard acting for the men
under sentence but Chappell re
fused to grant the petition until
it was presented in writing and
signed by members of the ag
grieved party.
Mr, Chappell stated that he
could do nothing about the mat
ter until such a petition was pre
sented in written form as he did
not feel that h could call such
a meeting at the behest of two
disinterested persons.
Appeal Is Granted
The two men then prepared a
formal petition and had it sign
ed by five of the men under sen
tence, fulfilling the requirements
made by the President of the
Student Body, and presented it
to him. After some question
of the actual time of the meet
ing which will be set today,
President Chappell granted the
appeal.
Messrs. Starr and Breard said
in an interview that the purpose
of the meeting, as they saw it,
would not be to decide whether
the Student Body of the Uni
versity of North Carolina ap
proved of gambling or not, but
would be a meeting in which
every attempt would be made to
clarify the issue which i3 at
stake.
The real issue, they defined on
being questioned, was one which
involved an interpretation of the
honor system, and they ques
tioned the means by which in
formation leading to the suspen
sion of members of the student
body was obtained.
Last night's action by Presi
dent Chappell is the culmination
of strong sentiment among a
arge number of students for a
public hearing on behalf of the
suspended men. A petition which
wa3 circulated among a small
number of students yesterday is
held by the formulators, who de
clared that they would use it on
ly as a last resort, and that they
thought the matter was one for
student settlement. : '
It was said yesterday after
noon that the man who furnish
ed most of the names of the stu
dents involved was given a sus
pension taking effect next quarter.