Show T AN EXPLANATION TION Editorial Comment HE IE article headed Clever er Schemer Attempts to Swa Sway Students which appeared on the back page of last is issue issue issue is- is cs sue contained enough facts touched up with some opinion opinion opinion ion to give rise to considerable discussion and agitation from many angles The con comment ment has assumed every form some of it being extremely wild and irrelevant but most as asfar asfar asfar far as we can determine shows sane approval The editor has deemed it necessary to answer the several chief questions around which most of the near argument has centered and to clean up the general situation if possible It seems that most of the tle persons interested agree with the facts and the opinion but many manyI I are inquiring as to why the article was Avas not in the editorial column some are trying to read a big personal element into it and some ask i Had Iad the editor the moral right Some few have hav even expressed uncertainty uncertainty un un- certainty as to the thc identity of the thc author In In t the le first place it should be said that the article was do the student body some someI by the editor in a conscientious effort to I 1 good It did not appear in the editorial column because of mechanical cal restrictions and because it was completed late but chiefly because because because be be- cause it was largely a news article To spend time on that point is however aimless for it matters not where an article appears No Vo one e rc realizes li es l more lore 4 deeply than the editor that the student body paper has but one duty duty to to serve the student body to its best advantage The editor not only has the right but the duty to print all alJ material affecting i in l' l a pertinent way the interest and especially 1 the he welfare of the students The one controlling requirement is ish that h t it t be e aimed a at the he general student body good r Th The article article under discussion is aimed aim ed ell eer solely sole solely for student good It is an antt attempt tt r to bring to th the realization of I t the e students facts and opinions ns not personal and little but those of f several several sev eral fa faculty faulty members and many students stu stu- dents which they should know to act wisely It is is not nota not a personal tion It is not not nota a plea for any candid candidate candidate candi candi- d date te but a plea for the students to be sure to elect the best ma man It is a conscientious effort to introduce to the voters a horse dark candidate whose chief asset has been the fact I that he is comparatively unknown Itis It Itis i. i is is Ia a a sincere a attempt empt to emphasize that loyalty lh experience ability and nd work ork all arl a l' l proved should not be counted for n nothing thing If If l there e exists a possibility possibility of s some me students acting unwisely or spiting tl themselves because of lack of information information mation whose whose duty is it to inform t them if n not t the college papers paper's and who has a better right to inform I them than one posse possessed sed of or all the facts It is unfortunate that because because because be be- cause of circumstances among them the fact that the Chronicle editor nominated a man for the position some persons refuse to read the personal personal per per- interest phase out of the question ques ques- ques tion tion In nominating the man the explanation explanation explanation ex ex- was made that the nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion was chiefly a justification for talking over overt over t the e situ situation tio 1 and informing informing informing inform inform- ing the students If you will grant one just a fair amount of sense and loyalty you will agree that one does not openly oppose oppose oppose op op- op- op pose a friend for little and personal reasons Do not infer t that at the Chronicle is trying to nose into what some choose to call politics It is the Chronicles Chronicle's duty and fervent desire as previously manifested to kill university politics I They have no place And the fact that the candidate in question is the center of an out and out political movement furnishes one of the best grounds for opposition Persons generally find what they are looking for That rs is is why some found so many wild ideas in the theartice article artice under discussion The only thing which cannot be proved to satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction sat sat- is that the editor did not have any personal motive in it All he can say is that his only motive was to act in the interest of the stu stu- dents Strip the article of all take the facts only Then be square with yourselves See that the right man lands the position We Ve all have opportunities opportunities opportunities op op- op- op of proving our interest and our worth Get a man man for th the position who has done so a OTT ROl IN ROMNEY Y Edi Editor in Editor in Chief yi |