The Official Organ of the Students of The University of the South Vol. LXVIII, No. 16 ^etuanee, Cenneggec, jFebruargjytgjl. News Series Number 1,055 Independents Elect FACULTY ADOPTS RESOLUTION New Officers, Adopt First Constitution OPPOSING LOYALTY OATH BILL At the regular meeting of the as- TAYLOR MEASURE IS CONDEMNED sociation of Independent Men on Tues- 19 Gownsmen Installed ON BROAD GROUNDS BY 27-6 VOTE day, Feb. 6, the following officers were Ceremony elected: Thomas H. Whitcroft, Jr., In Mid-Year The faculty of the University of the South went on record last Wednesday, president; Robert B. Jewell, vice- the loyalty oath bill State installed in- Feb. 14, as opposing drawn up by Tennessee Senator president; George Y. Ballentine, secre- Nineteen students were Frank Taylor and all "similar sweeping legislation." A formal, six-point Order of Gownsmen by Dr. tary; and Horace W. Coleman, III, to the condemning the bill on practical, judicial, moral, and constitutional of Men, at the resolution treasurer. G. S. Bruton, Dean Thursday, Feb. grounds was adopted by a 27-6 vote. A constitution was unanimously ac- noon chapel service Bruton substituted for Dean Taylor's bill would require loyalty oaths and loyalty investigations of all cepted and men were selected to serve 15. Dr. public officials and employees in Tennessee, and of all private individuals and ill the time. chairmen of the committees pro- Baker, who was at as organizations licensed the state. members of the Order are W. by vided by the new constitution. Clifford New 1 The bill would provide punishment L. Cain, Stephen S. Chandler, Jr., V. Anderson was elected athletic Clark, W- of 20 years imprisonment and a fine chairman and Allan H. Swasey was Frank P. Clark, William R. James C. Fenhagen, of $20,000 against any individual cov- chosen to head the social committee. Philip Cummins, ered who is found to hold present II, Robert D. Fowler, Stuart F. Cast, Jonas White was elected to serve on Mb. Arthur Chitty Charles K. Horn, membership in the Communist party executive committee of the Order Jr., John W. Gibson, the defined sub- James D. Irwin, Stanley P. Lachman, or any other group as ol Gownsmen to replace Herbert A. bill would ev- Chitty Attends Public John G. Scott, Frederick S. Stradley, versive. The empower Phillips who graduated last semester. ery county grand jury to make loy- Thomas T. Tucker, Jr., Gordon E. George Y. Ballentine is the representa- Relations Conference alty investigations of any individuals Warden, Jr., Lawrence C. West, Kyle tive to the discipl ine committee and organizations suspected of any form Wheelus, Jr., Thomas H. Whitcroft, or Allan H. Swasey serves on the scho- Mr. Arthur Ben Chitty, Director ot Jr. of subversion. The bill further pro- lastic committee. Publio Relations for the University, the state attorney -general The Order of Gownsmen is the gov- vides that Mr. John Batson of the Biology and has just returned from Charleston, erning body of the students and by will have a special assistant to ad- Forestry departments was chosen to ",., where he attended the annual the its constitution undertakes to preserve minister law. serve as faculty advisor, subject to ting of District 5 of the American the ideals of Sewanee. Graduate stu- The following is the entire resolu- approval by the faculty of the Univer- College Public Relations Association. dents, theological students, and those tion adopted by the faculty of the sity. le meeting lasted three days, begin- students who have attained junior or University: ng on Thursday, Feb. 15, with The senior rating are eligible for member- The Faculty of the University of tadel acting as host. ship upon recommendation by the the South is opposed to the bill pro- Dr. Forty public relation officials from Cameron Named faculty. Mr. Brinley Rhys posed by State Senator Frank Taylor colleges and universities in South Ca- Nashville. This opposition was ex- The Order was established originally of ia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Summer Coordinator and a dissenting vote at in 1873 as external evidence the pressed without Tennessee attended the meeting. Panels of Sopherim Hears Rhys a of the University Faculty ties which bind Sewanee to Oxford meeting Dr. Benjamin F. Cameron, assistant amposed of public relations men and February 13. The Uni- and to the culture and traditions of on Tuesday, professor of chemistry at the Univer- college presidents discussed such top- On Modern Poetry England. versity of the South Faculty opposes sity, has been appointed coordinator as "What Administrators Desire $ this and similar sweeping legislation of summer activities on the Sewanee t College Public Relations Pro- Mr. Brinley Rhys of the English for the following reasons: campus, Dr. Boylston Green announced i." "Some Public Relations Media," Department of the University deliv- 1. Such bills do not eliminate Com- recently. Dr. Cameron will be coordi- and "Influencing Public Opinion." Accident Kills ered a lecture on modern poetry at a munism. F. B. I. Chief J. Edgar nator for the nine- week Cumberland r. Chitty was a member of a panel meeting of Sopherim literary Thurs- Hoover has declared that such bills Forest Festival, the five-week Gradu- which discussed the problem "How to day, Feb. 15. Allan Kelly, Jr. merely drive Communists underground ate School of Theology, and for all Reach the Various Publics of the Col- modern poetry must be Stating that and make them more difficult to con- conferences and conventions held on ege." The Mountain was shocked this approached in exactly the same man- trol . Both the philosophy of Com- the Mountain during the coming sum- The meeting concluded on Saturday, week at the news of the accidental poetry, he ner as every other type of munism and the philosophy of Fas- Feb. 17, with a trip to Fort Sumter death of Albert Allan Kelly, Jr.. of admitted that it is more difficult in cism are repugnant to the ideals of A Sewanee graduate in 1942, Dr. around Charleston. South Pittsburg, Tennessee. Kelly general than any other kind. He Christianity which the University of Cameron, a native of Meridian, Miss., was a graduate of Sewanee Military complexity is a natural re- said this the South seeks to reflect in its pro- was active on the campus as presi- Academy and last year was a mem- development. sult of poetic gram of education. dent of Kappa Alpha fraternity, head ber of the freshman class at the Uni- Sopherim To Consider The principal value of modern poet- 2. This bill not only seeks to out- proctor, chairman of the discipline versity. ry, he stated, is the communication law Communism, it makes member- committee of the Order of Gownsmen, Student Manuscripts The former student was at home on of an emotional experience or feeling. ship in "any subversive organization" and a member of ODK and Blue Key. leave from the This feeling is not necessarily cap- a treasonable crime, but it does not After Sopherim of Sigma Upsilon will again receiving his master of science Army last /$*&** Sunday able of being rendered into prose. sufficiently define a "subversive or- degree at the University of Cincinnati consider literary submissions of stu- when the accident He compared present-day poetry to ganization." Will the special assist- in 1944, he attended the U. S. Navy dents who are interested in Sopherim r^« occurred. 1 He was Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," which he ant to the Attorney General, who will Bomb membership, and all such submissions Disposal School on the campus 9fc *- ™ carrying a loaded said is "very modern." administer the law, have the power of American University in Washing- hould be given to any member of .45 caliber pistol to define the Republican party, or Mr. Rhys is the editorial assistant Ion and served on Okinawa and in he organization before March 1, 1951. in his belt. When Democratic party, or the Ameri- The Sewanee Review, edited by the her parts of the Pacific theatre as Submissions may be poetry, short sto- *r J \ of he reached down can Federation of Labor, or a Church, lieutenant ry, humor, critical essay, or any other -Jkj^W Mr. John J. E. Palmer. (j.g.). to withdraw the or a fraternal organization, as a "sub- His literary form. ^% The meeting was held at the home doctor's degree was received at l^W Mm versive organization," subject to $20,- the University of During the first meeting in March, of Lucas Myers, secretary of the or- Cincinnati in 1948. dently fired. The bullet struck Kelly 000 fine and 20 years imprisonment? Cameron, the former ea.h submission will be considered ganization. Ruth And- n the abdomen and he died before Is such power democratic, or is it of carefully by Sopherim, and the elec- -ss- Jackson, Miss., is also a doc- reaching the hospital. totalitarian? tor, having received her M.D. degree tion of new members will be based on The popular ex-student was initi- 3. Signing a pledge of loyalty to the e same institution. Mother of the literary merit of the applicant's ated into Kappa Sigma fraternity Debaters Attend State Federal and State Constitutions will not wo children, she is one of Sewanee's while a member of the Sewanee stu- increase loyalty to such Constitutions, three pediatricians. All newly elected members will be dent body. Tournament; Lachman nor will it reduce Communism or eligible for initiation into Sigma Up- other subversion. Subversives will silon, a national literary fraternity. Wins Impromptu Title sign it readily. Loyal citizens have The present membership of Sopherim Miss Barbara Tinnes no need to sign it. stands at 12 members, after the with- Alan Bell To Promote Sewanee's debate team finished 4.