The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-06-24
THERE IS BUT ONE CORRECT THING FOR THE TRUSTEES
TO DO.

o. ms aprlcre II Is needless u review ene sa!a afS C. t "a % H ha
the Board of Trustees met at Jackson Wednesday, June 8, an'
Powers PeSan w W aniei Investigation io " WAS st cessiuded M 1ondsss of this weel
and Mr.: Powers was wholly and absolutely exonerated; o
during the investigation and reported the investigation for hi
disinterested I observer - NOBODY would charge '"i Fred sullens
with being any too charitable in considering any act OF Gov
Sullens will charge him with not speaking and writing plainly
in his h' 1a 0t s af Tgesd IaUm b eh rey yh0usd the entire II i ereceedi Sa1so and
gives Chancellor Powers a clean bill of health. We quote belo"
The result of the investigation of the Rogers-Power affair
was a complete exoneration of the Chancellor of the University
THE verdict of the board of trustees was unanimous, and it
will n" Meet atS w.fh ae eSFaaa w psD Dossi aRer vnder the circumstances, and
it is gratifying to know that the finding was without a dissent
Professor Roswell w. Rogers utterly failed to prove any of
the serious charges preferred by him against the head OF the
ION the contrary, he has left a grave doubt in the public
mind as to his own moral character.
There are excellent reasons to believe that he has been
guilty of the most serious offense with which he charged the
Chancenor-ilicit relations with women.
of the proceedings to cause any fair-minded man to believe that
Chancellor Powers is a man of loose moral character.
THE one solitary witness, a woman of ill-repute, introduced
to bolster up the charge of Professor Rogers, afterwards re-
pudiated her sworn evidence, inspired by fear that her life his
tory was about to be laid bare through witnesses summoned for
that purpose: .. .,, ~
sible opportunity to substantiate his charges.
AT no time during the proceedings was there a semblance of
"To the credit of Governor Russell, it must be said that he
was a fair presiding officer, and his rulings throughout were
Whatever doubt that may have existed in the minds of those
who attended the hearing resolved itself in favor of Chancellor
Powers before the defense offered a single witness in its own
behalf. He was virtually acquitted on the evidence offered by
the prosecution.
when the Chancellor went on the stand in his own behalf
and gave a candid, clean-cut and conclusive statement about the
whole matter, the last vestge OF doubt was dispelled. 1t was
app aTha b 6e all that af n he W ;*s tsll Mg, the W whole tt truth sndino Of tho
board of trustees. va" ''''' '' ""N" = 'e
The verdict of exoneration is in strict accordance with the
facts, but it cannot do full justice to the man who has been so
Chancellor Powers has been through an ordeal such as few
men are called upon to experience The acOuittal cannot wine
out the ne humiliation 1Iiatio he was called upon to bear: =,
many queer frame-ups and acts of bIack-mailkng in recent years,
but it has never produced an affair like this one"
a dissent from the Daily News editorial. ''S '~" "' 'S'''N
strict accordance with the facts, but it cannot do full justice to
the man who has been so cruelty naligned", there is but one
Monday to make selections of college heads and faculties for
another year, and that is reflect Chancellor Powers as the head
We do not believe that there is anybody who believes in a
there is any one who realizes more forcibly than we do the
damaging effect of the lechery and lbidnous conduct charged
We shall I be- glad t to s see pq the d e9sl WRen "a s th Me, wa a IS anf of i 6 6fd oSr
W I"D eons ur4w wit 1hq har rhS li in tba sg night the time recognition sgd on of those those
smiles IN the day time. One of the best things, in our mind, to
upon the part of men. The women have long had the whip in
t hana IN tn tins matter, but their innocence, their modesty and
vented their using it. The fact that the good women have al
lowed men to play fast and loose is, in our judgment, largely re-
sponsible for the multiplication of dissolute women. We talk
about our great probIems-and we have many of them-but
there IS none that transcends in Importance the social problem
OF t2 Pt thou
bt mere IS no mandate OF heaven Or statute written by man
mat holds that the innocent should be punished because of
these things. The voices of the great men who have been con-
hected with the University and who have made it's splendid his
tory and who have been gathered to their fathers, send back
the n message The University's record is too much like truth on
me rocks OF Gibraltar to require the sacrifice of any man in
order that its good name may be perpetuated with an unbroken
cardinal teachings of the University, hence it would not do for
the governing board of that institution to set at naught what the
University has stood for, what it has taught the thousands of
young men; all these years If the Chancellor is not guilty of
the charges preferred against him, and the verdict. the unani-
NOUS verdict, of that body says he is not, then in justice to them
selves, IN Justice to Chancellor Powers and in keepingswith the
honored traditions of the University, the trustees should vote to
keep him at the helm for another war No doubt this iu 4ho