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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
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- ASSISTANT EDITORS
Robert Hodges - J. D. McNairy
Joe Jones .B. C. Moore
J. C. Williams '''
CITY EDITORS ,
E. P. Yarborough K. C. Ramsay
Elbert Denning J. E. Dungan
SPORTS EDITOR
Henry L. Anderson
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS
Joe Eagles J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr.
REPORTERS
Howard Lee
Holmes Davis
Louis Brooks
. Frank Manheim
Mary M. Dunlap
Clyde Deitz
George Sheram
John Lathan
B. H. Whitton
George Stone
Charles Rose
Mary Price ' "
J. P. Tyson
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Peggy Lintner
E. C. Daniel
W. A. Shulenberger
G. E. French
Bernard J. Herkimer
Jack Riley
T. E. Marshall
George-Wilson
J. S. Weathers
Jack Bessen
Browning Roach Russell Williams
Sadler Hayes , Stanley Weinberg
Kemp Yarborough
Sunday, December 15, 1929
Big Business Turns Covetous
Eyes Upon The University
By insidious, almost' imper
ceptible influence big business,
which has come to dominate
practically every phase of Amer
ican life, has . extended its
tenacles to many of the coun-
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ing. Censorship of student pub
lications, suppression of "organ
izations encouraging liberal
thought, rigorous limitation of
research which ; might prove
detrimental to industrial inter
ests, removal oi iacuity mem
bers who exhibit an active in
terest in the economic, social and
political welfare of the nation
these have become common oc
currences since the disciples of
Mammon initiated their efforts
to bring the college campus un
der the sway of their oligarchal
despotism.
Fortunately the University
administration has been able to
preserve a comparative freedom
from the sinister and stifling in
fluence of the monied interests.
But ominous portents have ap-
, peared of late. Efforts' have
been. made by powerful outside
interests to compel the resigna
tions of at least .two of th& Uni
versity's mosiprdmment faculty
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which might . conceivably pro
duce results not exactly to the
liking of captains of industry
have been summarily and sus
piciously terminated. An im-
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with attempts to improve con
ditions! among the 'working
classes in this state was tentatively-,
scheduled to be held at
the University and abruptly
transferred to a neighboring
institution. Indications are that
the administration is attempting
to preserve a neutral attitude
among the faculty concerning
the industrial crisis through
which the state is passing ; this
course is manifestly impossible
to maintain for any length of
time. The professors here are
thinking individuals, Serious
minded-men for the most part.
They cannot fail to have decid
ed opinions upon the capital-
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be restrained from expressing
them. ;
According to an article in the
December 4 issue of The Out
look by Raymond F. Howe, a
former member of the Univer-i
sity of Pittsburgh faculty, that!
institution offers a classic ex-1
ample of the extent to which I
"big business" domination of
college and universities may be;
carried. In 1924 Chancellor
John Gabbert Bowman con
ceived the idealistic plan of
erecting a gigantic "Cathedral
of Learning" to epitomize the
spirit of the city as well as to
provide classrooms for the Uni
versity. Andrew W. Mellon,
Senator David A. Reed, the sec
retary of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Co., and the presidents of
the Carnegie Steel Co., the West-
inghouse Air Brake Co. and the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. were
among those appointed directors
of the campaign for the huge
structure. Most of these men
were already on the Board of
Trustees. The campaign was
successful ; most -of the contri
butions were large sums donated
by the corporations represented
upon the campaign committee
and the Board of Trustees. As
a result the business interests
practically gained control of the
University.
-The editor of the Pitt Weekly
was told by his Dean that he
would have to do one of three
things: go along with the ad
ministration 100 per cent, sub
mit to a strict censorship, or
resign. - The Pitt Panther was
suspended by faculty order.
Socialism was barred as a sub
ject for an intercollegiate de
bate, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes
was chased off the campus by
hirelings of the administration
when he attempted to speak
under the auspices of the Lib
eral Club, the Club was denied
the right to hear such men as
Louis Untermeyer and Arthur
Garfield Hayes at their meet
ings. Two student leaders of
the Liberal Club and one mem
ber of the faculty were sus
pended from the University.
Another faculty man of liberal
tendencies, was offered $500 not
to return the next fall. In
answering a civil action brought
by the American Civil Liberties
Union on behalf of the expelled
students, Chancellor Bowman
made the significant statement
through his attorneys that the
power of expulsion rests not
with him but with the Board of
Trustees.
It is to be hoped that the
administration here can prevent
the University of North Caro
from becoming the "Pitt of the
South." Huge contributions
from powerful corporations and
industrial. families should not be
encouraged by the new Alumni
Loyalty Fund or other agencies
or individuals, for dangers of
domination in such cases are
great. Even a man of such
strong character as President
Chase might be powerless to
avert the passing of control of
the University to a clique of
wealthy individuals, the mouth
piece of big business interests,
if a few large contributors are
allowed to finance the expansion
of the institution. Small con
tributions from the entire body
of alumni and friends of the
University, rather than immense
sums from a few, should be en
couraged to provide the funds
necessary to supplement state
appropriations. And may the
administration be successful in
its efforts to keep the University
out of the clutches of big busi
ness. Witch Burners
Busy Again
Much evil has been cloaked in
the garb of liberality. It is also
true that license for the mere
sake of "freedom" often de
generates into liceniousness. We
hold no brief, either, for those
who would discard all that
which is old on that ground
alone, for such a practice is
vicious, in addition to being
naive. But when centers of
higher education, and one in
particular which is enjoying
considerable respect in the
South, takes up a witch hunt,
with an alacrity and vengeance
which are astounding, where the
grand old states of Tennessee
and Arkansas have left off then
it is time for 'those left in posses
sion of their sanity and equilib
rium to strike out with all the
power an5 intensity ' they can
command at that hydra-headed
creature Intolerance.
Dr. John C -Dawson, presi
dent of Howard College, a Bap
tist institution, demanded and
received the resignation of Dr.
Horace Calvin Day, young pro
fessor of biology, who in ad
dressing a chapel group at the
college had the courage to say
"We should not give too literal
interpretation to. the Bible.
There are some people so igno
rant that they still believe that
Noah crowded' two of each
species of animals into the ark
during the flood. How could he
have gotten all $iose animals
into the ark? During my years
of biological experience I have
studied two kinds of whale and
found it impossible for either of
them to have swallowed a man
whole . and anyway no man
could live inside a whale. These
references seem illogical, but
God is logical."
The news story is its own
most powerful editorial. The
modern and logical view of the
Christian religion and the Bible
is that they are a religion and
book of great humanitarian
ideas and not controversable
words. The ecclesiastics who
spend their life times in argu
mentation over the number of
angels who can stand on a needle
point, and more specifically
justifying and proving the fact
that Jonah could have existed
within a whale, or. that, the ark
could have possibly held two of
each species, of animals, in thejr
narrow, petty inef f iency shut
themselves away from the views
of the founder of their religion
(with which they are so muph
concerned) witjh dogmas and
creeds; they enervate whatever
energy they have for good by a
practice of preaching and not
living. Emerson once said "I
can't hear what you say, because
of what you are and do."
No Christian need concern
himself with dogma and inter
pretations, but whether or not
his religion can be lived; if it
cannot then the religion should
be discarded for one which can.
Science has no quarrel with re
ligion, although it disagrees
with a literal interpretation of
the Bible. No scientist lives
who has not proved the exis
tence of Divine Law.
Howard College must bow her
head with the shame of bigotry,
and a sense of having failed
under stress to uphold the uni
versity tradition of open mind
edness and freedom of thought.
As for Dr. Day, he has the alT
ternative of accepting a post at
either Leland Stanford Univer
sity or the University of Indi
ana. Howard College loses a
courageous mind, and Dr. Day
grows in prestige among the re
maining liberal institutions.
J. E. D.
The National Scholarship
Average for the Fraternities
j According to figures issued by
the National Interfraternity
Council the national fraternity
scholastic average for the past
year was 69.969. The lowness
of this average was blamed upon
Columbia University, but the
dean of students there ridiculed
the idea that Columbia men
pulled the average down, as their
average was between C and B.
In the registrar's report is
sued here last year the average
of the fraternities was a little
better than a C, about the same
as Columbia's, and was a slight
bit higher than the average for
the , non-fraternity men. Cer
tainly Carolina's average did
not pull down the national fra
ternity average.
Among the majority of peo
ple the idea is prevalent that
fraternities tend to pull down
one's scholastic work; upon the
campus here, however, it is com
monly accepted that fraternities
have little to do with a man's
grade, one way or the other.
Perhaps the high rating of the
Carolina fraternities in scholar
ship is due to the fact that the
most intelligent students here
join fraternities.
For the ? national average to
fall below the passing mark is
a deplorable condition. Perhaps
some steps should be taken in
those universities where the
average is so very low to rem
edy conditions; certainly some
fraternities must be at a rock
bottom for the national average
to be pulled down. ;
We would suggest that each
university confronted with the
problem of low scholarship in
its fraternities establish, some
regulation whereby groups fall
ing below a certain level would
automatically be dissolved. For
a low national average reflects
discredit upon the large number
of fraternities that have high
scholarship and are doing some
thing to build up and maintain
scholarship. J. D. M.
With The Churches
BAPTIST
Eugene Olive, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday school.
11:00 a. m. Morning services.
Sermon, "Looking for the
Lord," Mr. Olive.
7 :00 p. m. Young people's
union. '
8:00 p. m. Pageant,' "Bethle
hem," directed by Mrs. Olive.
CHAPEL OF THE CROSS
A. S. Lawrence, Rector
8:00 a. m. Holy Communion.
10:00 a. m. Bible class, Dr. U.
T. Holmes.
11 :00 a. m. Morning services.
Sermon by rector.
4 :30 p. m. Last of the teas for
this quarter will be given in
the parish house.
7:00 p. m. Y. P. S. L.
8:00 pf m. Organ program.
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LUTHERAN
G. A. Metz, Pastor
10:00 a. m. Sunday school.
11 :00 a. m.- Morning services.
Services will be held in the
Y. M. C. A. building instead
of Gerrard hall.
METHODIST
C. E. Rozzelle, Pastor
9 :45 a. m. Sunday school. Bible
classes for upperclassmen and
freshmen.
11 :00 a. m. Morning services.
Sermon, "The Best Samari
tan," Mr. Rozzelle.
5:00 p. m. Afternoon services.
Sermon, "The Chemistry of
Character," Mr. Rozzelle.
7:00 p. m. Epworth League.
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PRESBYTERIAN
W. D. Moss, Pastor
9:45 a. in. Sunday school.
11:00 a. m. Morning services.
Sermon, "Thou Shalt Not
Muzzle the 'Ox When He
Treadeth Out Corn," jjr
Moss.
7 :45 p. m. Illustrated lecture
by Dr. W. E. Caldwell.
8:45 p. m. Young people's so
' cial hour.
UNITED CHURCH
B. J. Howard, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday school.
Grady Leonard, superinten
dent. 11:00 a. m. Morning services.
Sermon by the pastor.
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