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THE TAR HEEL Wbt Kbx feel Leading Southern College Tbi Weekly Newspaper Published three times every -week of the college year, and is the official newspaper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Walter Spearman ffditor W. W. Neal, Jr. .....Business Mgr J. . Bobbitt ......Associate Editor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT , Managing Editors John Mebane Tuesday Issue George Ehrhart Thursday Issue Glenn Holder : Saturday Issue Harry Galland Assistant Editor Will Yarborough Sports Editor Reporters II. T. Browne P. G. McPherson ' G. B. Coggins M. L. Medley W. C. Dunn Wm. Michalove J. C. Eagles J. Q. Mitchell"' , A. J. Fisher B. C. Moore R. W. Franklin K. C. Ramsay T.W.Johnson J. W. Ray J. P. Jones J. M. Rogers G. A. Kincaid y P. B. Ruffin . . D. E. Livingston W..A. Shelton O. McCunen Wi, W. Speight D. R. McGlohon D. L. Wood t BUSINESS STAFF . .: . M. R- Alexander , Asst. to Bus. Mgr. Moore Bryson ... Advertising Mgr. R. A. Carpenter ...... Asst. Adv. Mgr. Advertising Staff M. Y. Feimster J. M. Henderson Ed Durham R. A. Carpenter Robert O. High . John'Jemison Leonard Lewis G. E. Hilt....... ....Collection Manager H. N. Patterson..jlssi. Collection Mgr. B. Moore Parker Henry Harper Circulation Manager Clyde Mauney ' David McCain Gradon Pendergraf t Saturday May 12, 1928 A SWIMMING POOL In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to many things. That the old swimming hole is included in this list shown by the lamentation of Messrs. Browne and Potter in the Thursday's issue of the Tar Heel, where an open forum letter from these students calling for a Univer sity pool was printed. It is indeed distressing that this University does not enjoy the advan tages of proper swimming facilities. The oversized bathtub in the base ment of Bynum gymnasium, ! some times flattered by the name "swim ming pool," is quite inadequate. There are a number of students who do not even .know pf its existence not that they have missed anvthiner. TVio TTn lizes this need as keenly as do stu dents; but its? hands are effectively tied. It. costs money to build swim ming pools; and the purse strings to the North Carolina pocket-book are very jealously guarded by the legisla ture. An attempt was made at the 1924 session of the General Asesmbly to secure an appropriation for a new gymnasium (in which vvas to be in cluded a nnolK hut a XT f 7 w ui lui wv. jr was built instead. Architects' drawings for the pro posed gym include a swimming pool modern in every respect. The pool is to be constructed so that it will be in doors in winter, with warm water, and comparatively open during summer. Yet" it is doubtful whether the next lnM.h..A ...:n j jcgisiduiic win view .mis proposed ex penditure with favor. The only alter native source of funds, private dona tions, offers still less hope. -- The Tar Heel is behind the move for a new gymnasium, with its swim ming pool, but anticipates no imme diate action. J. R. B. Jr. Sixty-Eight Will Be Candidates for Post Graduate Degrees Dr. J. F. Royster, dean of the Graduate School, announced yester day that there would be 68 candidates for post graduate "degrees in June. Among this number," 15 of the men are candidates for the degree of Doc- i,. UA x uuKjavyuy , ior master 01 Arts; and 18 for Master of Science. Oral examinations will start on May 15 and will last until commence ment; however, the Masters have al ready stood their written examina tion, and the Doctors are taking theirs this week. In August the University will con fer another set of graduate degrees. aenry nine student .were elected to Phi Beta Kappa-last week at the University of .Michigan. i - i i , I- OPEN FORUM ! i 5 i i I I i u. , , ,, , , , - ANENT THE JOURNAL To The Editor of Tar Heel: The action of the Student Council in suppressing the YELLOW JOUR NAL before publication and without having even read any of the material which was to appear in it is ah act of censorship which would shame Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson or the Boston authorities or even the Ten nessee legislature. One would think that after having made such complete asses of themselves in attempting to exercise the functions of literary cen sors last year the council would Jhe more cautious, but apparently authori ty is too sweet. It should be too ap parent to need statement that any responsible group or person ' has the rigjit to issue any journal of opinion on a free campus, and that subsequent action should be taken only if state ments appearing in it were proved t i be untrue, libellous, or slanderous. Members of Sigma Upsilon have stat ed that they were willing to maintain that every statement in the journal as originally planned was true, that even some known to be true were deleted on the grounds of propriety, and that consequently they believed nothing in it to be libellous or 'slanderous. Mr. Hudgins stated that every ai ticle in the journal should be signed, in spite of the fact that no reputable paper in the country not even the Tar Heel publishes the signature of the writers of all its stories, and us ually the name of the editor is not published. He declared further that if any objection were taken iy anyone to any statement in the journal dis ciplmary action would probably be taken. I have not the patience to ex plain to any befuddled intellect the absurdity of such an ultimatum, but would like to call attention to the fact that your open forum columns testify to objections registered against state ments occurring in the conservative Tar Heel. . According to Mr. Hudgins the ac tion of the council was instigated by Dean Hibbard, Dean Bradshaw, Joe Bobbitt, and one or two others. Mr. Bradshaw is a known reactionary. I can testify that Mr. Hibbard is an ex cellent teacher, but since he was un fortunately made a dean he appears to have joined the extreme rear rank of the conservatives, as is exemplified in this affair, his letter anent the Buccaneer, and other similar inci dents. At any rate, the Student Coun cil was in no sense warranted in as suming that this small group repre sented campus or faculty sentiment, and even had they known positively that the majority of opinion corrobo rated their own there is, no justifica tion for their interference, with the freedom of the press until statements j have been published which are proved to be untrue, libellous, or slanderous. The whole affair is to be deplored, and it is to be regretted that Sigma Upsilon did not proceed to issue the journal in spite of threats. I believe the campus would not have supported the council in its tyrannical course Certainly the campus (including Mr. Hudgins, by his own statement) buys the YELLOW JOURNAL and reads it. Mr.-Hudgins declared that the case would go into the official records of the council and might be considered a precedent. Let us hope. not. PETERLOO ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS To Whom it May Concern: Does the Student Council represent the student body or does it carry out the dictates of certain high-ranking members of the faculty uch as Messrs. Hibbard, Bradshaw ai:d House. , THE YELLOW JOURNAL has been supressed. Such action was tak en through the efforts of the above mentioned faculty members by means of veiled and subtle hints. In full ;e cord with them was a small group f students whose hides were in danger and justly so. From such a lead the Student Coun cil called up the Yellow Journal staff Wednesday night. Proceeding on the assumption that the power was theirs, they virtually decreed that the Jour nal should not be published. The staff was warned that should the Journal come out, as it has heretofore, drastic action would be taken. Thus the wishes of a 'mere handful on the Carolina campus were carried out. This was done on the basis of mere rumor, and suspicion not evi dence. - How can the Council justify such action instigated by the faculty? Someone showed a striking lack of backbone. If these gentlemen of the faculty think that they have a right to cen sure student publications, either di rectly or indirectly, they sadly lack the principles of freedom and liberal ity of thought and expression for which this University has long been noted. On no grounds can such poli cies be defended. A FORMER COUNCILMAN AN ATTEMPTED DEFENSE To The Student Body: In consideration of the faet that this issue of the Tar Heel contains certain indictments of the position cf the Student Council in regard to the so-called suppression of the first YEL LOW JOURNAL, I feel that it is in cumbent upon me as chairman of the council to state its position on the matter. To state in a few words the events that led to the action taken by the council : I was approached by certain students on' the campus who officially reported to me that the YELLOW JOURNAL was to' appear and asked that the Student Council take some action on the matter. Soon after this, I was called to a" meeting of several faculty members and prominent uni versity officials. At this time the whole matter was laid before me and the suggestion made that something be done. I told this group that I would not consider arbitrarily order ing the members of Sigma Upsilon not to publish the sheet, but that I would request them to meet with the Council in order that the two groups together might discuss the matter, and to enable the Council to state its position to Sigma Upsilon. At this meeting the Council made the following statement to the group representing Sigma Upsilon : It was stated that the Council would prefer the YELLOW JOURNAL not to ap pear, but it was made clear that in no sense of the word was this an order. 2. The Council stated that it wished the Sigma Upsilon fraternity to fix the responsibility for the publication of the paper upon the students ac tually concerned, and that each article either be signed or in case this was not done that Sigma Upsilon agree to furnish the Council, upon Tequest, the names of the men responsible for any particular article. This was done solely to enable the Council to fix def inite responsibilityupon an individual rather than to have to take action against the whole of Sigma Upsilon, in event the Council considered some part of the JOURNAL of such nature that action would be warranted. This was done for the sole purpose of pro tecting Sigma Upsilon as a body. After the position of the council was made clear, the members of Sigma Upsilon retired, considered the mat ter, and of their own free will and ac cord agreed not to publish the JOUR NAL. Thus the Council did not sup press the JOURNAL. Also the Coun cil did not make the statement that drastic action or any other sort would be taken in the event of the publica tion of the JOURNAL. It stated that action would be taken only in case the Council considered the publication un- warrantedly insulting and injurious to personalities and in case it were unpardonably obscene and lewd. The open forum letter in this issue written by a former student council -man is to my mind very interesting because it displays such an utter ig norance of one phase of our student government oh the part of one who should be well versed in such matters. This particular individual denounces the council for the action they have taken on the grounds that it has no right to censor student publications. To the contrary, the Council has such a right, and it was definitely and firm ly established in the Carolina Maga zine case of the fall of 1926. The ac tion taken at that time was appealed to the faculty, and the special com mittee appointed to consider the case over-ruled the action of the Council, but in its report it stated emphatical ly that the Council did have the au thority to take action on the case. The decision was over-ruled on the grounds of an abuse of authority. The difference in that case and this is that the present Council has as yet taken no steps toward censorship. D. E. HUDGINS, Jr. President Student Body McNATT SPEAKS Editor of Tar Heel: I have read the Open Forum of the Tar Heel with much interest for the past week; and if we , did await a leader to start the criticism of the Bucaneer, surely he did not appear too soon. Due to my dumbness, I have been at Carolina for a number of years. When I first came here, fresh talk about the Tar Baby was sounded from the lips of Carolina students who were interested in seeing the student publi cations at Carolina rise to a high stan dard of literary value. (Does this mean that we can have no HUMOR? Surely it does not.) Soon the Boll Weevil appeared on the campus. And soon it went away, too. The reason for his was that it did notcome up to the standard that7 Carolina stu dents expected. , The English depart ment had nothing to do with its expulsion. The Buccaneer then came as from the fumes of unblemished thigh-pieces, pure yet full of humor and wit- Since that time the publication has fast f all eninto the, ruts of those comic maga zines which have been taken from us. Shall it continue to falsely represent the wit and humor of our campus? It may for a while, but it can't continue long and live. There was a time when I could turn to the pages of the Buc caneer and find the Bus Schedule or the telephone jnzmber of a local press ing club, but now all the space that was once occupied by decent humor is filled with undesirable thought and "non-Carolina"' ideals, and the local advertisements are replaced by "Yvrhat Shakespeare said about COCA COLA!" Now, Mr. Editor, I am not in favor of doing away with the Buccaneer, nor do I think that you should be bothered with publishing the comic section of our publications; but I do think that there has got to be a re birth of the true" Carolina spirit in the minds of those who have to do with publishing the Carolina Bucca neer, or it will suffer the fate of the Tar Bapy and the Boll Weevil. J. P. H. McNatt. PLANS COMPLETE FOR TWO SUMMER SCHOLASTIC TOURS Metzenthin Directs Central Eu ropean Tour; Number of Stu dents and Outsiders Enrolled In Paris Tour. At a meeting of the faculty com mittee on foreign study, held May 10, R. M. Grumman of the Extension Di vision announced that enrollments for the two University study tours to be conducted this summer have been com ing in satisfactorily and that both the Central European Tour and the Paris Residential Tour are now assured. Members of the Central European Tour will sail from New York June 30, aboard the S. S. Lituania. They will visit five different countries, spending, two weeks in Vienna and Munich. During their stay in Vienna they will be privileged to attend the world famous Music Festival, which this year will be. devoted largely to Schubert music in commemoration of his anniversary. Under the direction of Dr. E. C. Metzenthin courses in German, with college credit, will be offered. The party now numbers ten members. The Paris Residential Tour, under the directorship of Professor J. C. Ly)ns, is composed largely of North Carolinians. The following Univer sity students have enrolled for this tour: Frank Wilson, Jr., J. H. Moye, C. D. Blanton, M. D. Lassiter, Jr., Other members of the group include: J. W. Wheeler of Statesville ; Miss Maude Vinson of, Davidson; Miss Lina Pruden of Edenton; Miss Mary Oliver and Miss Bargaret Bryan of New Bern; Mrs. Kemp P. Battle of Ra leigh; Miss Mary Viginia MacLean of Washington; Miss Eliza Grimes of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Basil Manly.and Mrs. Dorsey Pender of Norfolk .Vir ginia; and Mrs. J. A. Williams 'of Boone. Members of the French party will sail from New York June 16 on the Estonia. Headquarters will be taken up in Paris, trips being made from that city to Versailles, Rheims, Fon tainebleau, Rouen, Caen and the Cha teaux country. Courses in French will be offered, with opportunity for special study at the Sorbonne. This group will return to New York Au gust 26. ! Hon. J. Will Pless Speaks at Forewell Banquet of Law Frat The Vance Inn Chapter of the Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity gave a farewell banquet at the "Coop" Wed nesday evening from 8:30 to 11. The guests of the chapter were Hon J. Will Pless, Jr., province president of the Phi Delta Phi and solicitor of the eighteenth district, Dean C. T. McCor mick, Dr. A. C. Mcintosh, and Albert Coates, all of the University Law School. The banquet was presided over by Charles McAnally, the newly elected president, who acted as toast master. . , The principal address of the eve ning was deliverel by Hon. J. W. Pless. His subject was' "The Purpose of a Law Fraternity." He stated that the fraternity should have a definite purpose and carry out a. definite pro gram. The initial address was fol lowed by short talks by Dr. Mcin tosh, who spoke on "Legal Ethics"; and by Dean McCormick, who spoke on "The Relation of the Law School to the 'Fraternity." Other short talks were given bv Charlie Jonas, Fred Parker and Frank Gummey, the retiring president. Eastern High School Championship to Be .. Decided Here Friday R E. Rankin, secretary of the State High School Athletic association, was in Salisbury Tuesday rJght where he presided over the second meeting of the faculty high school managers to arrange a schedule for the remaining baseball games to be played in the western high school championship se ries. The Eastern championship will be played off here next Friday, and the winners will meet the western champ ion in the finals at a later date. o swicic i neatr COMING WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY hTTLr return fimtha dipifis? I lag? Produced by MRS. WALLACE REID Richard Dix in TODAY "QUICKSANDS" Comedy "Spooky Money" SALARIED POSITION The largest company of its kind in the world will use a limited number of students on educational program this summer. $145.00 A Month Salary for Men Accepted For Details See: H. B. PARKER 18 STEELE THE THIRTEENTH Remember SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY PACKAGES '"Patterson-.. Sros. PHONE 5541 It's Mot Too Catch That Game Yet I Today's game in Greensboro is the'South's leading base ball classic and Carolina's most looked forward to battle. You certainly can't afford to miss it. Get up a party and travel the "U-Drive-It way." It's cheap, and better than the train. Come and figure with me. H H H 8 8 HENDERSON STREET JUST OFF MAIN ST. :.:..;'r...TIep,ii'one'N(.;3861' v I Little Arranges for I - Dental Courses Here M. G. Little, of the Extension Di vision, met the Executive Committee of the State Dental association in Ra leigh last night to make final ar rangements for the post-graduste den tal courses which the University Ex tension Division will launch within a few weeks. The courses proposed were approved at the meeting, and they will be open to dentists through out the state during the summer. The first president to draw a salary of $75,000 was Taft. IS MOTHER'S DAY Her with Late to 8 n & & 1QI K tt 8
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