See what the boys
In the back room will have
And tell them
Well die for the same.
Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC
VOLUME LII SW
Business and Circulation: 8641
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1944
Editorial: F-3141. Kern: F-S146. F-3147
NUMBER SW 32
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Student Council Submits Report
After Four Days Of Investigation
All political candidates and leaders were exonerated of charges pf over
expenditures in Tuesday's elections when the Student Council met Thursday
night. The ; meeting, which lasted well into Friday morning, was called to
further investigate charges because of dissatisfaction with prior decisions.
The only evidence of over expenditures was based on the amount of
literature circulated and some figures that a group composed of fCitty Flan
agan, Harrison Tenney, Clyde King, Charlie White and Frank' Cathey, saw
on a brown envelop in the printers office while the proprietors were not
present. -
Fancy Figures
Nobody, knew what the figures on the envelope stood for the council re
ported. The printers also told Miss Flanagan that Charlie Frank Benbow's
bill was $10, while later investigation proved that the correct bill amounted
to only $9. t '
The printers agreed to do the entire printing job for Benbow for $9. Ben
bow had 700 blotters printed at Hutchinson-Allgood in Winston for $3.50,
the cost of blotter material. These were his only expenditures and they come
within the limits set by the student legislature. The mix-up in figures came
because the printer agreed to $9 for the entire job, then placed arbitrary
figures on each class of printing done for Benbow, without reference to the
actual cost of that particular group of literature.
Customary Printers
Since the University Party had been patronizing Walker and Riddick
printers for the past seven years and because the job was accepted as one
job for the party and not for individual candidates, although Benbow had a
verbal contract for $9, the printing was done at a reduced rate.
The accused testified before the council that they had given original esti
mates as to the amount of campaign literature they wanted. However, before
the printing was actually done the candidates had reduced these orders suf
ficiently to make them fall within the limit imposed by the legislature bill.
This could explain" the discrepancy in figures.
Three Bus Rides
Three trips were made to Durham to see Walker and Riddick printers.
The first group consisting of Miss Flanagan and others returned with
one set of figures. The second time , Harvey Hamilton, ex-speaker of the
legislature, secured a notarized statement of University Party campaign
expenses. The Student Council after its first decision decided to go to Durham
for further evidence. The printers gave to that third group, Mary Lou Trus
low, Ott Burton and Bill Johnson, the figures that he submitted for the
notarized statement. i
Council Verdict
Much conflicting testimony was presented to the Council as to just how
much printing was done and the cost of said printing. The Council felt that
the most reliable evidence was that which the printer gave under oath. This,
corroborated by the testimony of the accused and the fact that no one had
any . direct evidence to the effect that' any of their candidates had exceeded
their expenditure limit, was looked upon by the council to warrant a con
clusion that the charges against the University Party candidates were un
founded. ;
The notarized statement reads as follows: "I, L. A. Riddick, of Durham,
North Carolina, do hereby certify that the following expenditures are a true
See COUNCIL, page 4
Charlie Benbow
Defeats White
With the counting of more than 1500
ballots cast in Tuesday's student elec
tion, Charlie Frank Benbow became
President of the Carolina Student body,
succeeding Turk Newsome who took
over when Denny Hammond was trans
ferred in February. ,
Benbow, University Party candidate,
was opposed in the race by Harvey
White of the United Party and final
tabulations showed that 924 votes were
cast for Benbow as compared to 520
for White, a victory margin of 404.
The election as a whole was a land
slide for the University Party, all posts
in the major group down to the cheer
leader being copped by that group.
Vance Wins
Charlie Vance won over Libba Wig
gins for the speaker of the legislature
by a larger margin than any other can
didate. Vance polled 1138 votes as
compared to Wiggins' 348. Vance took
all three precincts by sizable margins
with the largest coming from the V-12
voters at Swain Hall.
Of the 701 votes cast for the speak
er at Swain, 602 were for Vance and
only 99 for Wiggins. The coed vote of
220 to 144 was the closest.
W. , Horace Carter defeated Jimmy
Wallace for the editorship of the TAR
HEEL with 1105 votes against 391.
Carter took 615 out of 709 votes from
the NavyV-12 precinct, 248 out of
419 in the civilian vote at the YMCA
and 242 of the 358 coed ballots.
The race for the editorship of the
Carolina Mag was closer than that for
most positions with Shirley Hartzell
winning on the strength of the large
V-12 vote over Barbara Swift. Hart
zell counted 477 votes from the Navy
precinct as compared to Swift's 215, a
margin of 262. The entire balloting
showed 838 for Hartzell and 622 for
Swift or a difference of 216.
Swift counted 207 coed votes and
Hartzell only 155 and the YMCA vote
was 206 to 200 in Hartzell's favor.
The contest for the presidency of the
See ELECTION, page 4
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OFFICE CANDIDATE I PARTY SWAIN YMCA COED TOTAL
President BENBOW University 541 209 174 924
Student Body White United 178 220 192 520
Legislature VANCE - University 602 316 220 1138
Speaker Wiggins United 99 105 144 348
Tar Heel CARTER University 615 248 242 1105
Editor Wallace United 104 x 171 116 391
Editor HARTZELL University ' 477 206 155 838
Carolina Mag Swift United 215 200 ' 207 622
President RODGERS University 432 166 151 749
Athletic Association Davis United ' 290 246 ' 194 730
Vice-President LEE - University 457 308 191 956
Athletic Association Hooper United 243 89 133 465
Cheerleader PROCTOR United 343 248 181 772
" Latty University 366 162 170 698
MACKIE University 539 296 227 1062
Debate Council BERNARD United 278 224 194 696
- Young United 251 149 236 636
MARRETT . University 425 218 123 766
PU Board WOODHOUSE United . 322 198 176 696
. Kerr University 329, 164 169 662
:.;, .Bodge ?,.v;-gnited:-. 223 141 219 583
' FERGUSON University 170 Fountain United T25
LLOYD University 162 Forest United 121
Town Legislators LACKEY University 159 McLemore United 111
WRIGHT double endorsed 14f
TURN AGE United 133 Gockley University 92
FISHEL University 131 Crider United 68
Navy Legislators Elected
V-12
NROTC
Marine
Charlie Penick
E. F. Gaither
Gleason Allen
Winslow
Godwin
Joe Mallard
Ed Peters
F. G. Tucker
Twohey
Wade
Allen Tate
Edward Guy
Clayton Van Diver
Double Endorsed
Yackety Yack: Tyler Nourse
PU Board: Fred Flagler
CARTER
Late News
Dr. Frank J. Polgar, famed hyp
notist, will appear in Memorial Hall
Monday night at 8 o'clock under the
auspices of the Student Entertain
ment Committee, announced Dr. J. P.
Harland, chairman of the committee,
last night. Described as the "greatest
one man show in America," Dr. Pol
gar's program consists of exhibi
tions of telepathy, memory feats,
and the power of suggestion, with
the ever fascinating hypnosis ac
tually demonstrated with the peo
ple from the audience.
Admittance to the performance
will be by Student Entertainment
passbooks for the current quarter.
Vance Starts
As Speaker of
Legislature
Charlie Vance took over the gavel
of the student legislature Thursday
night after a lengthy explanation by
Mary Lou Truslow and Turk New
some of the events preceding and fol
lowing Tuesday's election.
Miss Truslow prefaced her report
by saying that if the amount of time
spent on elections were spent on the
jobs to which candidates were elected
Carolina would .have the best student
government in existence.'
Pending Problems
Chairman of the elections commit
tee Truslow posed the questions now
facing the elections committee: those
of late excuses, penalties, jurisdiction,
violations, late evidence and campaign
gifts.
The report presented at the open
meeting in Gerrard Hall Monday night
by Miss Truslow was merely a report,
she stated, based on evidence secured
by Kitty Flanagan. That evidence was
judged false at a joint meeting of the
student council and the elections com
mittee, in consideration of a notarized
statement secured by Harvey Hamil
ton. Authorized Action
To exonerate the accused candidates
of the University Party, Benbow,
Vance, Latty and Rodgers, the stu
See LEGISLATURE, page 4
An Edit:
CPU Meeting
Members of the Carolina Political
Union will meet Sunday, -at 8:30, in
the Grail Room of Graham Memorial.
The topic will be "United States Rela
tions with South America," with spec
ial attention toward Argentina.
"The Voice of the People has been said to be the Voice of God : and
however, generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true
in fact."
Out of the darkest hours of Friday morning, dark not only in relation
to the time element involved but in the precarious crisis and the resultant
final plea of the defendants of student government, comes a long awaited,
much fought over, greatly criticized report from the student council. You
who have not yet heard the official report may read it elsewhere on this
page. After reading it, many of you will still have your rumorized axes
to grind, many of you will refuse to accept this report, and many others
will continue to stir up resentment, viciousness and hate against yourselves
as well as against the student council and the men involved in the decision.
But a few of the more thinking of you will accept the council report, accept
it and back it to its limit.
The council has made mistakes in the last few days, as has every other
group and individual involved in any phase of the whole filthy mess. But
this report from the council did not come after another display of too
hasty judgment. These comparatively few words are the result of more
assiduous hours of real labor, sweat and not a few tears than most of you
can ever know.
It stands, or falls, as the' official report of YOUR student council. You
elected every member of that council, either directly or indirectly, and by
virtue of the fact that you considered these men qualified to fill these posi
tions for you and to you, your duty now is to back up their decision to
the fullest. The council's report was the final plea of the defendant of
student government. You are the jury. You are the only one in the world
who can make that decision a success. Without your backing, it remains
as "so many words on so much paper."
Charlie Benbow and Charlie Vance, as well as all the other officers
whom you elected Tuesday, are facing the hardest job in their individual
and collective careers. Most of them realize the momentous, and thankless,
task before them. Even with a unified student body behind them, which
they do not have, the task they are undertaking would be far from easy.
If you refuse to believe in them, to give them your fullest support, theirs
will be an impossible task. Without you they can accomplish nothing.
These "men go into their offices, knowing full well the manifold pitfalls
which lie before them. Months later, as they leave their offices to future
officers, they will have matured far more than they yet realize, they will
have worked long and hard with little credit and much criticism; it is not
credit they are after. They want to do their jobs to the best of their
abilities. As they grow into the full realizations of their jobs, they will
make their mistakes along the way, but they will labor hardest to avert
mistakes, to do their jobs. There isn't much glamour to one of the posi
tions after the fervor of elections die away. Most of it from now on is going
to be just plain old hard work, more sweat, and more work.
You will decide whether their efforts will be in vain. You will decide
whether what they believe in is worth the fight. The Voice of the People
is not the Voice of God; it can sometimes be the Voice of the' Devil
himself. K.H. '
Chapel Hill's
USO Center Is
Great Success
By Richard S. Bloch ,
Housed in the Old Methodist Church
Building the Community Recreation
Center of the Chapel Hill Recreation
Commission has brought wholesome en
tertainment to more than 115,000 per
sons since its opening in 1942.
Every week hundreds of students,
both Civilian and Military, file through
its doors to take advantage pf the
many recreational facilities and pro
grams which are offered.
Restful Hours
A few restful hours may be "Spent in
listening to popular records, playing
the piano, or just writing letters. For
those students who crave exercise the
center offers ping pong, horseshoes,
badminton, croquet and shuffleboard.
In the future the center plans to .build
outdoor ovens for weiner roasts and
a floodlighting system for night use of
outdoor activities.
Weekends and holidays bring re
freshments and entertainment to the
center furnished by the Senior Host
esses Committee under the direction
of Mrs. Ernest Mackie. This commit
tee is composed of representatives from
local civic, church and campus groups
which serve at the center on a regular
schedule.
A unique feature of the center is
See USO, page 4
University Club
The University . Club requests all
fraternities to turn in the names of
their representatives for next year if
thpv havp nnf. nlrparlv drn so. Notifi
cation should be sent to John Davis7
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Draftees Notice
Registrants who have been called
for pre-induction physical examina
tion by Local Board No. 1, Orange
County, Hillsboro, N. C, for April
26, 1944, should be at the Chapel Hill
bus station no later than 8:15 a.m
Wednesday, April 26. Mrs. Collins,
clerk of the Board, will attend to the
processing of papers at the Chapel
Hill bus station.
W. D. Perry, Director
Bureau of Military Information