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Page Two THE TAR HEEL Thursday, March Si, tI)C tSutt )ttl Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper Member of North Carolina Collegiate Jfress Association Published three times every week of , the college year, and is the official newspaper of the Publications un ion of the University of North Car olina. Chanel Hill. N. C bubscrip , tion price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out ol vwn, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Telephone 403. J. T. MADRY...V. :........,....Edttor F. F. Simon Business Mgr. Editorial Department Managing Editors i J. F. Ashbt ;.Tuesday Issue Byron White...... ......Thursday Issue L. H. McPHERSON.......Saturday Issue D. D. Carroll....... J. R. Bobbitt, Jr. .Assistant Editor ..Assignment Editor J. H. Anderson J. M. Block Walter Creech J. R. DeJoumette E. J. Evana D. S. Gardner Glen P. Holder John Marshall -H. L.' Merritt T. W. Johnson Staff ' W. P. PeTy J. P. Pretlow T. M. Reece D. T. Seiwell S.'B. Shephard, Jr, J. Shohan F. L. Smith W. S. Spearman Wm. H. Windley Henry Lay Business Department W. W. Neal, Jr. Asst. to Bus, Charles Brown . G. W. Ray......;....;. Mar. JCouectxon Mgr. Accountant Managers of Issues Tuesday Issue W. R. Hill Thursday Issue. James Styles Saturday Issue ..Edward Smith Advertising Department Kenneth R. Jones Advertising Mgr. Young M. Smith Asst. Adv. Mgr. M. W. Breman.. Local Adv. Mgr. William K. Wiley Ben Schwartz G. W. Bradham C. Oates McCullen J. H. Mebane Walter McConnell J. Shannon Edwin V, Durham M. Y. Feimster A. J. McNeill '- Circulation Department Henry C. Harper., Circulation Mgr. R. C. Mulder C. W. Colwell Douglas Boyce Filer of Issues Tom Raney W. W. Turner You ean purchase any article adver tised tn the Tab Heel with verfect safety because everything it adver tises is guaranteed to be as repre sented.. The Tab Heel solicits ad vertising from reputable concerns only. . :. . . Entered ' as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C. Thursday, March SI, 1927 J The small attendance at the mass meeting called Tuesday night to con sider the student committee's report was pretty ; conclusive evidence that the great majority of the students ap proved the report, and, being satisfied with what had been done, thought it useless to indulge in more discussion. But this apparent majority over looked one important fact; namely, that by staying away they ran the risk of having the report killed by the insurgent minority. i . ; Just remember that in .the referen dum tomorrow what you think won't count unless - you indicate . . ' your thought on the printed ballots. If you approve the committee report, say so in no uncertain terms at the polls. Let the final judgment be really repre sentative of the student body as a whole and not of the minority. Go to the polls tomorrow and say whether or not you will make the campus safe for student government EVERYBODY TO THE POLLS It is the duty of every single Car olina student to go to the polls to morrow and vote. You may be sure that those who are trying to get the student committee report rejeccted will be out in full force and rounding up every vote they can. There is plenty of reason to believe that the great majority of the students are in favor of the student committee report, but unless this majority votes tomor row the minority is likely to win. If you want to show the state that the student body has no confidence in self-government,,, if you want to broadcast to the world that this cam pus is a haven for the protection of gambling, then stay away from the polls tomorrow. ' that fact. There was no provision in the student government to JL orce President Chappell to call a meeting of the Student Body to consider this appeal, but Chappell apparently want ed to go the limit to show that the Student Council was open-minded and fair. So he called a meeting of the student body, and at this meeting the students, by an overwhelming vote, decided to place the case in the hands of a committee to be composed of three representatives each from the under graduate classes and graduate schools, the committee appointments to be made by the presidents of each class. What method more fair could anybody ask for? These men spent more than fifty hours investigating the case. They went thoroughly into every angle of the situation Their report approved the sentences of the council, even though it did not ap prove of "methods of compelling men to testify." The reDort of that committee should i have been given 100 percent endorse ment by the student body immediate ly. It is exceedingly lair ana logical. It simply says this: We are sorry to part company with you thirteen men, but you have been convicted of gambling and it is expressly stated in the catalog that students found sruiltv of such charcres are asked to withdraw from the University. Hence the Student Council was acting with in its jurisdiction in making the sus pensions. There are precedents galore to support this action. Not many vears aero a University track coach, and he was one of the best in the countrywas asked to withdraw a long with a number of students, as the result of such charges. So. regardless of what you think of the methods used to obtain the evi dence, these men have been found sruiltv on their own admissions. As for the methods to be used in obtain ing evidence in such cases that is for you to decide when your Consti tutional Convention meets this spring. Heretofore student councils have had no constitution, and hence they have set their own limitations. They have used whatever methods they have seen fit to use, and doubtless many of them have used the same methods employed by the present council. That the same hullyaboo that we now wit ness had not been enacted heretofore was due solely, in all probability, to the fact that the campus agitators of present-day fame were non-existent then. - - - J MAKE THIS CAMPUS SAFE FOR STUDENT GOVERNMENT University men who want to see student government survive the pres ent crisis will vote to support, , the recommendation of the student com , mittee when the case of the thirteen suspendd students is put before the student body in the form of a refer endum. The whole case reduces itself to a question of whether or hot you want this campus made safe for stu dent government. .... . i( The point is simply this: Will you as Carolina men have faith in any group of men you may select to ad minister the affairs of student govern ment? Apparently some of you even though you may represent the minority will. not. . Just because thirteen students, inspired and led bv two well known .remanent campus it "nrPflent. , m their D. L. McBeyde, Jr. Now if "you want to set up limita tions about your student council, say ing what it can and cannot do, you will be given every opportunity to do so when you set up a constitution this spring. - But until then let's be content to use what we have, and stand by the decisions of our properly constituted representatives who have had every opportunity to learn a vast deal more about the case than the student body as a whole. Before casting your ballot on this referendum, it is suggested that you make up your mind on the following points: (1). We are sorry that these men have to be suspended. We know full well how the folks back homa will feel about the matter, But is it not far better to let these men go rather than reject the student com mittee report and have the whole press of the state condemning us for approving gambling at the Univer sity., For the men have broken not only a University law but a state law as welL It is generally reported that the faculty and trustees will take, a hand in the case if the student body rejects the report or the committee. lhat would mean nothing less than the complete toppling of student gov ernment.' . ; : (2). , All the upperclassmen recall the hurtful publicity the University got when announcement went out that all dances would be suspended until Commencement on account of drink ing, jjo we want a repetition of that sort of publicity! If not, don't be foolish and tell the world that we are not willing to back a student council or 'student committee that endorces the rules in the case of men found guilty of gambling. ii. -. Will you make this camDus safe for student government? Your Stu dent Council, your duly delegated rep resentatives, passed on this case. Then you selected a student commit tee, virtually the same thine as an other council, which also passed on tne case. These men your repre sentativesstudied the case from facts gathered at first-hand. This you admittedly have not had the op portunity to do.- JJo-you presume to think then, for one moment,, that you are more capable of passinir judgment than they.' What Would you do then? iio on electing committee after com mittee and then rejecting report after report? It would seem so. .Do you want representative government or do you want ararchy? It would seem that some of you want the latter. (4). Have you ever stopped to con sider the personal animosity involv- ea in tms case r nave you ever stopped to think that this whole op position to the Student Council is based on the personal animosity of men woo nave oeen leaaers oi an anti- vnappeu crusaae an this year men who were not satisfied with last year's bitter political contest and. who have been reprimanded by the council this year? Have you stopped to consider that the men , who are leading the present fight against the council are the same men who sponsored that yel low sheet last fall The Faun and and who defended the Magazines story "Slaves"? It is a well recogniz ed fact that these men have been af ter Chappell's scalp all the year. They and a few others of their ilk apparently have seized upon every op portunity to keep the campus stirred up. - They have tried to students to an anti-Chappell crusade, apparently losing all sight of the fact that Chappell is only one of the eight members of, the Student Council, and apparently forgetting also that the action of the council in the suspen sion case was unanimous. We hard ly think that such men as Vest, Watt, Warren, McRae, Core, Rose or Hols houser would permit themselves to be dictated to by Chappell or any other member of the student body. In fact. i't, " kciloiu mey wouia not. Had only three or four men I vv suspended instead of thirteen, or hey been suspended in relays of 1 four at the time, nobody I would have objected. But here you had thirteen men who banded togeth er for mutual advantage and inspored by two campus Hell-raisers. Even though they were able to command only the support of their personal friends, you can readily see they could gather around them some hun Areft nr more svmnathizers. or enouch to maKe quire a mue uuiac (6). Have you , ever considered what the faculty or trustees would do with the case? From all that any body can hear, they would back the council and committee just about 100 percent. Our poor old student gov ernment may not be so bad after all I (7). Finally, the men who have been suspended should not take their lot over-seriously. True, they have broken the state law and the campus law, but, in the eyes of liberal folk, their offense is not regarded as a dis grace. Gambling not infrequently leads to suicides and thefts, but so far as anybody knows it hasn't taken on any such serious aspects in this in stitution. Let these men get con siderable consolation out of the fact that some of the most prominent men in the state today were not only sus pended but expelled from the Uni versity of North Carolina, and fre quently on charges more serious than gambling. Don't take your lot too seriously, then, fellows. We would say to you, however, that gambling is usually poor business and suggest that you seek more legitimate fields for your coin. .;'.:, COJiTROVERSY (By Holt McPherson) Although the Carolina campus has been seething with controversy throughout the year there remains a group here who are prone to take, no heed 'of ' the struggles being waged. Not only is the fact that we have such mental inertia lamentable, but it is a reflection on the character of the student body that there are men in our midst who prefer mental stagna tion to intellectual progress. The fact that we have controversy is positive evidence that we are intel lectually awake, for controversy is certain to arise wherever there are growing minds. Hegel's philosophy of contradiction' as the root of all life and movement is in a sense appli cable to most progress. However, his dialectical process fails to carry through in the present situation, for there are too many angles to our con troversies for them to ever be set tled by the mere synthesis of the the sis and antithesis. Nevertheless in accordance with his theory we have for a large part been able to develop our government, science, politics, re ligion, educational system, and prac tically every institution that we have 11 more or- fcss the result of in tellectual battles. Since the beginning of civilization conflicting schools have fiercely con tended with each other, and out of these struggles has come our intel lectual progress. When mankind is mentally awake he is militant, con tinually combatting false and out grown , ideas, . always seeking great er freedom from the bonds which limit his life and thought. Those ages in which he has been mentally aggressive are the - same ages in which learned and strong men have fought for ideas which conflicted with the then current opinion. The only ages of history that have been quiet have been dead ages. Controversy is a wholesome and ad vantageous thing when rival ideas and hypotheses are under consideration, and those people who fear controversy have a perverted idea of truth and right. There are many people who regard it as an evil influence an evidence of depravity. They fail to realize that it is. the. natural precur sor of intellectual advancement, and seek to thwart its unpleasant reali ties by scoffing at it, or running away from it. It is foolish for anyone to dispar age or fear controversy. Necessarily it cannot always be pleasant, however many an evil has been rectified by its employment. Those who treat it with contempt, and belittle it as a squab ble or wrangle arid a futile waste of time, have no high regard for truth. Because controversialists fall into ug ly moods,' sometimes causes it to' be branded as a malpractice, but Tinless a man can defend his position with out losing his temper, it is not be cause controversy is a bad thing but because his is an undisciplined spirit. The only logical reaction should be to accept it as vitally necessary to our discipline. . ' Merely stating the truth and con tending for it cannot be condemned, but it is the petty and unscrupulous manner m which it is carried on that makes it fall 1 into disrepute. If the sluggish minds of the men who pre fer mental tranquillity to intellectual progress should be aroused to action along constructive lines this student body would need not shudder at the pitfalls and quagmires that threaten the wholesome existence of our institutions. other is under the guidance of several campus leaders. Walter Kelley is running for presidency of the student body in the newest group. This could be said to be the writer's trial edi torial, as he is running independently for the Tab Heel editorship. And, as Dave says, "he who runs" is running thusly: . ',. . Presidency of the Student Body Walter Kelley. Senior Class Charlie Lipscomb, President. Hoyt Pritchett, Vice-President. Buck Grice, Secretary. Tar Heel Jud Ashby, Editor of the Tar Heel. Junior Class Red Ellison, President. Soapy Sandlin, Vice-President. Jack Davis, Student Council rep resentative, .v.. ' Y. M. C. A. Phil Dawson, Secretary. . Athletic Association Billy Ferrell, President. Bill Sharpe, Representative at large. Sophomore Class Jack Ward, President. Phil Jackson, Vice-president. Charles Perry, Secretary Bill Adams, Student Councilman. This group states that it is abso lutely not pledged to support each oth er. It is said that it should not be considered a ticket. ' Kenneth Jones is running independ ently for the Publications Union. The Other Group The other group headed by Taylor Bledsoe follows: ; ,: For President of the Student Body, Charlie Jonas. Charlie is not con nected with the group, has attended no meetings, and is under no obligations to any member of it. He is being supported as the logical candidate, says Taylor Bledsoe. : ' Y. M. C. A. ;';'" President, Nash Johnson. Secretary, Walter Spearman. Treasurer, J. W. Ray. , ... Tar Heel Editor, Holt McPherson. P. U. Board Walter Creech, Mutt Evans Bill Perry. Athletic Association President, Gus McPherson. Vice President, Ed. Butler! Representative at large, Schwartz. and Harry Debate Council Ralph Noe and Bryce Parker. Senior Class President, Ed Hudgins. Vice-President, Odell Sapp. Secretary, Mack Fowler. Treasurer, Aubrey Perkins. Student Council, Mac Covington. Junior Class President, Steve Furches. Vice-President, Buck Carr. ' Secretary, Henry Brown. Treasurer, Murray Borden. Student Council, Ty Crabtree. Sophomore Class President, Pat Patterson. Vice-President, Marion Alexander Secretary, John Thornton. Treasurer, D. L. Moore. Student Council, Sam McNeely "Thafs the ticket!" A welcome summons to the best thing any cigarette can give natural tobacco taste My POLITICS! (By Byron White) It will be interesting to the cam pus to know that there are now two political organizations on the campus. One, as Dave Carroll showed in his Driftwood Fire explained on March 22, is headed by Taylor Bledsoe. 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