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THE TAB HEEL
DOHENY CAUSES
MEXICAN MIX-UP
DECLARES TAYLOR
Oil Magnate by Failing to Reg
ister His Property Is a Great
Danger in Present Con-
troversy. .
The public knows very little
of the facts about Mexico," Dr.
Alva Taylor, Executive Secre
tary of the Welfare and Social
Research Work of the' Christian
Church, said in chapel Tuesday
morning. "When they are made
known amity and mutual help-
, lulness" will take the place or
suspicion and controversy.
Dr. Taylor explained the oi
controversy that has raged be
tween the United States and
Mexican Departments of State
for the past several months. In
1909 the Mexican government
passed laws providing that pe
troleum deposits belonged to the
individual rather than the whole
nation, and oil rights were
granted to American companies
in perpetuity. These laws
were repealed in 1917, and oil
deposits were declared to belong
to the nation rather than to
the individual.
The Mexican government a-
grees that confiscation is never
legally or morally right, and it
has never yet applied this code
to a single investment made
prior to 1917. Mr. Kellogg, the
American Secretary of State, in
gists that the new; law;, is retro
active, and that under it the
Mexican government must con
fiscate American property. The
Mexican State Department says
that it will never confiscate prop
erty, and that the law will not
be applied retroactively. It has
never yet confiscated one dollar
or one acre of American proper
ty. , All of the American and.
other foreign oil companies in
Mexico have registered under the
new law and received new leases
except the Doheny. Companies,
which own 6 per cent of the oil
lands and 40 per cent of the out
put, lftese are the . interests
that are causing all the trouble.
Dr. Taylor, reiewpd the past
history of Mexico and - pointed
out that the great difference be
tween its past and that of the
United States, and the autocracy
of church and state that the
Mexican peons have had to over
come. -
"Let us apply just arbitration
to our differences with Mexico,
and approach them with an un
prejudiced mind;" he urged.
OPEN FORUM
Louis Graves Defends '07
It is my duty to exculpate the
Class of . 1907. Two or three
weeks ago, in commenting upon
certain financial data in Presi
dent Chase's annual report, I
expressed curiosity about the
"Class of 1907 Special Fund,"
which was down for a deficit of
$1,269. It happened that the
eye of one of my subscribers,
Holt Haywood, fell upon this
passage. He is the 1907 man who
represented the, class in giving
to the University an electric
timing system, and he wrote in
to ask why the deficit. The Uni
versity got the gift in fee sim
ple with no strings tied to it.
Later, as new class buildings
were erected, additions to the
aparatus became necessary, and
these were supplied out of the
University exchequer, while the
name of the fund remained un
changed. In the mysterious op
erations of modern book-keeping,
with money being transfer
red from one account to another,
when the end of the year came
this particular fund showed a
deficit It is what might be call
ed a "book-keeping fiction." Any
way, the Class of 1907 is square
with alma mater. Louis Graves
in the Chapel mil Weekly.
Editor of Tar Heel:
We hereby submit ' the following
rules of procedure subject to the ap
proval or condemnation of the faculty
or student body, or both. We reserve
the right to make any amendments
alterations, or omissions before its
final adoption.
Article I ,.
Section 1:. The student council
shall consist of eight members, chosen
from thfe student body with no
changes in the present election meth-ods.
Sortinn 2: The executive of this
council shall be designated the Presi
dent cf the student body, y
. Section 3: The seven other mem
bers of the council shall be designated
as associate .councillors.
Section 4: . The time of elections
shall be set by an election committee
appointed by the president of the stu
dent body. -Article
II
Section 1: The president of the
student body shall act in the capacity
of a judge in trials that come before
the council during his term of office.
Section 2: The president shall in
terpret the laws both, written and un
written, and impose the penalties af
ter conviction.
Section 3: The president of the
student body shall not serve in that
capacity more than one year.
Article III
Section 1: The associate councillors
shall act in the capacity of jurors in
trials that come before the student
council during their term of office.
Section 2:. The unanimous decision
of the seven jurors shall be necessary
for the conviction of any defendant.
The jurors shall come to a decision
after private discussion among them
selves, and shall render the verdict as
a unit, guilty or not guilty. ,
Section 3: The president of the
student, council must replace jurors
by men from the student ; body at
large when the defendant is a person
al friend of any member of the elect
ed jury. . The council shall have pow
er to enforce such appointments.
Section 4: The defendant shall be
allowed the space of forty-eight hours
to prepare himself , for trial after
notification of indictment.
bection 5: . The defendant in any
trial shall have the privilege of an
open or a closed trial at his own dis
cretion. .' . -
Article IV
Section 1: Both the council presi
dent and the defendant shall have the
privilege of employing as many as
and not more than two counsellors
The former shall prosecute the case
for the student body, and the latter
shall defend the student on trial.
Section 2: The counsellors shall
not be chosen outside the student
body.
Article V '
Section 1: Both the council and the
defendant shall have the privilege of
introducing witnesses.
Section 2:. Witnesses must be sum
moned and sworn in by the presiding
judge. -.
Section 3: The presiding judge
shall not refuse to summon a witness
upon the request of a defendant.
Section 4: It shall be considered
breach of the honor system for a
witness to refuse to appear when
summoned unless he be sick or other
wise unavoidably prevented from ap
pearing. Wilful absence shall be pun
ished at the discretion of the presid
ing judge after a fair and just trial.
Section '5: Coercion shall not be
used to extract evidence from any
witness. .
Article VI ;
Section 1: i The following acts
shall be known as breaches of the
honor system: '-. ".'
Part 1r. Cheating on tests or exami
nations. (The penalty for convic
tion shall be indefinite suspension
from the University of North Carolina.)
Part 2: Stealing from honor boxes
or stealing in any other way. (The
penalty for conviction shall not be
less than six month's suspension
from the University of North Car
olina.) Section 2: The following acts shall
be known as breaches of the civil
code: '
Part 1: Gambling: (The penalty
for conviction shall not be less than
strict probation for the space of
six months nor more than suspen
sion from the University for six
" months.) ':'. V';. ;
Part 2: Intoxication by strong drink.
(The penalty for conviction shall
not be less than strict probation
for the space of six months nor
more than suspension from the Uni-,
versity for six months.)
Section 3: For the first offense in
any of the breaches of either the
honor system qr the civil code with
the exception 0'; the breach of cheat-
ing, the penalty pon conviction shall
be left to the discretion of the presid
ing judge' so long as he does not ex
ceed the jhigher prescribed penalty.
For a second offense, the judge shall
not impose a penalty less than that
prescribed. "
Article VII
Section 1: No student shall " be
suspended at a time within ten days
before the end of a quarter, for the
past quarter. 1
Section 2: A student may be placed
upon strict probation at any4 time
within a quarter.
Article VIII
Section 1: These breaches of either
the honor system or the civil code not
mentioned herein shall be left to the
interpretation of th- student council,
(The penalties for conviction of any
of them shall be left to the discre
tion of the presiding judge.)
Article IX -
Section 1: These articles shall be
amended by a majority vote of the
student body. -:
Section 2: Any student of the Uni
versity may present through the stu
dent council an amendment ' and call
for a vote upon it. , "
This suggested system is not, di
rected toward the destruction of-ibe
honor system, but rather toward
strengthening it. It is admitted hat
there are many points not solved,' but
it is hoped that these suggested. re-
visions may lead to a more acceptable
administration of the honor system.
P. L. BAUMGARDNER
' IRVING BOBBINS
J. STACY GRANT
ROOM FOR RENT
FOR RENT: Single, room for
man on east edge of campus.
Apply to The Chapel Hill Week
ly, Telephone 220. Postoffice
box 288.
GREEN FEATURES
IN LAW REVIEW
Legal Magazine Shows Real
Merit in Recent Issue.
With the second, number of this
year's North Carolina Law Review
there - appears, probably, , the most
promising issue since the Law School
began the venture five years ago. The
last issue,, appearing in the fall, call
ed forth' considerable comment from
the newspapers and lawyers through
out the state. "The February Law
Review will doubtless be even more,
favorably received, since it contains
articles by -Charles Edward Clarke,
Professor of Law at Yale, E. Karl
McGinnis, Professor of Business Ad
ministration at the University of Tex
as, and an article of great clarity by
Dean-elect Leon Green of the Univer
sity's School of Law. In "The Path
of Law School Dvelopment" Dean
Green, who is now visiting profes
sor at Yale, reveals a genuine under
standing of the problems involved in
preparing law students for a more
able and a more broadminded- practice
; The ' result of the recently intro
duced student editorship is extremely
gratifying,, reports indicate.
35 Men Out for Tar Heel Staff
(Continued front P0 on)
Howell, Fayetteville; Oates Mc
Ciillen, Faison; Ernest Wijliams,
Greensboro; T. J. Gold, Jr., High
Point; Betram H. Brown, Tar
boro; R. C. Merritt, Jr., Wil
mington; F. L. Carr, Jr., Wil
son; H. C. Federal," Jr., -.Charlotte;
Alton C. Underwood, New
ton Grove ; Marion iAlexandej;,
Asheville; J. Q. Mitchell, Fair
mont; H. B. Parker, Monroe;
G. B. Coggins, Swannanoa; Leo
nard, Hole, Greensboro ; J. R.
Mclver, Sanford; , Lionel J.
Stander, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; J.
C. Wessell, Wilmington; D. E.
Livingston, Lakeland, Fla.; R.
L. Murphy, Salisbury Randolph
Martin Tarboro ; Charles A.
Carr, Norfolk, Va., Francis D.
Uzzell, Chapel Hill; The follow
ing men who have previously
done work on the publication are
also applying for places on the
board during the coming year:
Glenn P. Holder, Greensboro;
W. D. Perry, Elizabeth City; W.
W. Anderson, Greenwood, S. C.
Carolina-Duke Track Meet
To Be in Durham
(Continued from page on)
definitely decided, but among
the prospects may be mentioned:
100-yd. dash and the 220: Mcr
Ph'erson, Giersch, Gray, Harri
son, Graham, Grimes.
440 : Hackney, Sandlin, Barn-
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Low hurdles: Sandlin, Giersch
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: Pole vault : McFayden, Cow.
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Broad jump: Sandlin, Giersch,
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