The news & observer., 1905-12-19
Greatly Pleased With Tar
Heel Society.
FOUL.ED BY REPORTER
Baltimore Newspaper Did Up the Gov
ernor When il Came TO Tell of the
Strenuous Way in Which He
Dealt With the HazerS at the
A. & M. College.

Governor Glenn was at his desk
again yesterday morning, having re-
turned from his trip to Baltimore,
where on Friday evening he spoke at
Il banquet given by the North Carolina
Society. of that city.
The occasion said the Governor was
a great success and he was surprised
to see the number of North Caroln-
ians who could be mustered and grati-
fled at the evidence of their prosperity
The society is i'm fiourishng condi-
ltion and the Governor was entertained
in magnificent style.
Asked as to the line of hiA speech
Governor Glenn said that as usual he
had just talked without any set ora
ton. He had talked about North
Carolina and her resources and the
crowd seemed to be both pleased and
surprised at what he had to tell.
Speaking jocularIy of his trips away
from the State, the Governor said that
he had so gotten in the habit Of talk
ing about North Carolina and what
the State has and is going TO have
that he had been dubbed the "statisti-
cal governor" He had discovered.
though, he went on that the statistics
which the people of the State have
lately come to be familiar with are the
source of much interest and even as
tonishment abroad. So that the statis-
tical speech is the one which he con-
siders does the most good
| AS to the Baltimore affair. Governor
Glenn could not say enough with re-
gard to the pleasure he had exper-
fenced in meeting and talking to loyal
and patriotic North Carolinians OF
Baltimore or of the elegance and good
taste of the annual banquet at which
he was the guest of honor.
Hazing News From Maryland.
During his trip. however, the Gov
ernor came in contact with a news
paper man who was more eager to
write story than to play the stenog-
rapher to what the Governor had to
say in the interview which he granted
the reporter. AS ii appeared in the
Baltimore News, Governor Glenn had
been having a very exciting time with
hazers of the A. and NJ. College, so
much so indeed that he had gone to
the college, given paternal advice and
promised a spanking, which came I'm
due course when his caution was dis
regarded Also it was mentioned I'm
the News that the A. and M. College
was North Carolina's University" and
altogether the article was of q strange
II dramatic color:
I1dZlbS Is CONdIuiCtt the NEWS
reports the Governor as saying and
/ believe in a fair square fight be-
tween man and man. / don't believe
in half a dozen big fellows jumping
on one man, big or little, and compell-
ing him to do things which no one
OF them could make him do unaided.
don't believe that the law of God
or man.. and the Governor emphati-
cally slapped his knee, requires me
IN stand I'm and ha ht1lI6uzad
Some months ago he said, we
had a caSe OF hazing In the Agricu-
turaI and Mechanical College at Raj
eigh-our State University. There had
been numerous cases, and some of
them aggravated. The trustees didn't
know what to do about 1t. They had
to act. They sent for me, and asked
me to talk to the boys. Although the
power Of punishment lay with them.
they wanted me to give the boys some
fatnerly advice. So / went TO the
school and talked to them. | said:
Now, boys. look at this thing reason
ably. You know it isn't right for you
to all pitch into one fellow. There's
nothing manly about IT, / kept on I'm
that strain. appealing to their sense OF
justice, but it all went over them like
water rolling OFF a ducks back, and
they kept on hazing.
The Governor stopped for mo-
ment
and then what hapened2"
"Why then the trustees decided
that there was no way to avoid the In
cvitable. and dismissed five of the
hazers In a bunch. ii was a bad thing
to have to do, but 1t was better than
dsorganzng your whole school and
making towards OF boys you We're try
ing TO raise into vigorous, honest man.
hood"
The above would be news to North
CaroIinians-if II were true. Explain
ing what he had really said, the Gov
ernor stated that he had IN substance
made the remarks attributed to him
on the general subject Of nazlng but
that the story OF any active interfer-
ence on his part with the management
Of the 4. and NJ College was purely
within the imagination Of the Bali~
more News reporter. As is we'll known,
the Governor teaches a Sunday school
class at the Presbyterian church here
and among his scholars are some OF
the students Of the A. ana NJ. College.
When the hazing incident came up
last fall. the Governor took occasion
in the Sunday-school TO make some
remarks about the practice and to ex-
press his dlsapproval What he said
was entirely informal and unofficial
and went no further than that. The
University, so far as IL known. has had
no trouble whatever with hazing this
nFs.