Arizona republican., 1917-01-30
?. \. 5. LAYERS
 REBEL; SCHOOL
 BOYS ARRESTED
'Taint no joking matter.

Faint no joking matter
 Prof R. Thane Cook of the high school says so.
 The Dirty Fifty" agree with the professor.
 Now if the board of education takes the same view there will be a big cut in the ranks of the seniors who line up for their sheepskin four months hence.
 Everybody connected with the high school. be he student or member of the faculty, was sore as a goat last night And it all happened thusly
 The freshies were on deck to begin the new semester. In their wake came a band of bandits according to the principal of the high, who with rude clippers, didst cut the locks of inexperienced youths Ye professor suspended the alleged ringleaders to the number of seven.
 When his edict had gone forth there was some furry around that school house some of the best of us" went on a sympathetic strike and motored right up to the spot boldly displaying placarus bearing such rude sentiments as The Dirty Fifty-JOin Now" and things like that Oh, it was awful. Really it was. The police had to be
 
 good families were detained at the office of Police Chief Brisbois at the city jail and all because they were the victims of habit They admit it frankly. Later a representative gath ering of students asked permission to make a statement in which they were willing 10 tell everything put their right names. Here it is. It has been customary for years to haze the fieshies. We did it in good faith. We clipped their hair but did them no per soual injury. The freshmen that came up to school the first of the year were disappointed because they were not hazed It was very little of the princi- pal to have the boys arrested and this is all We have to say"
 But E. Thane Cook says more than that by a good deal. ae says vehem- entity Hundreds l- senior nave been expelled"
 And there's more of the same kind
 The board of education ruled no hazing' and I am employed by the board to carry out it's Things. When the boys appeared dressed like ban dlts with clippers in their hands which they used they were sent home When they returned they were defying au- th0ritg.'
 %ANNbl NLilS lO liIt pIluC4ltdl the DOyS were trying to see how much they could do and get by with it. They did not recognize authority when they saw it and discipline must be maintained
 When MT. Cook was asked how long the boys were to be suspended, and if it would not be difficult for them to have to make up senior work, he said. If the faculty and board act together there will be no need for them to make up the work. 1 have an idea that the faculty is unanimous in that the boys instrumental in breaking the rules should be punished by expulsion
 Further Developments
 Still defying the authority of the school board and Principal R. Thane Cook, the senior class colors were placed on the high school flag pole last night. Just to make sure that the colors do not come down right away, the flag raisers amply creased the pole, with thick juicy lard. Then to make sure that Principal Cook does not for get that the flag is there, and that the pole is creased, a pail of the same substance was hung in his window.
 The boys who put up the flag and decorated Principal Cooks window were careful that no one identified them All pulled their caps down over their faces, and kept their backs care full- to the light.