The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-07
States Thrill Murders Not In.
dictment Of Modern College
Life
Less Drinking Among College
Boys Than Among Their
Parents, He Ayers
By ROBERT TALLEY

W0eIneT No COuSlO0TSO tuo CnFee
weeks blazing career Of banditry
and murder charged here to George
Harsh, 81, and Smiling Dick" Gal
logly, 10, an indictment Of modern
college life with respect to its in
fluence on youthful characters.
Moral Average High
"There could be q great many
more cases like that of Harsh and
Gallogly and still the average col
lege man would be better behaved
than the average man outside the
campus" Dr.. Jacobs said.
He fastened to explain that
neither Harsh nor Gallogly actually
was student at Oglethorpe at the
time they are alleged to have in
dulged in robbery and human
slaughter to satisfy q craving for
the only thrills that their wealth
couldn't buy.
Although Harsh had moved into a
college dormitory, he did not enroll
until Oct. Is, the day that he COM
mitted the second holdup murder to
which he has confessed. In an ex-
change of bullets with . drugstore
manager that very night Harsh was
wounded and went to q hospital. Be-
fore he had recovered sufficiently to
attend classes, police had arrested
him and he had confessed.
Gallogly Expelled
Gallogly enrolled Oct. 10, four
days after the first holdup murder,
and was expelled for drinking on
Oct. IL, three days before the Sec
ond murder.
"Thus," continued DR.. Jacobs,
zone Of these boys was never real
ly an Oglethorpe student and the
other was not Z student at the time
the murders were committed, and yet
they are being represented through
the land rs Oglethorpe students.
Last year, Gallogly did attend for .
short time but his conduct then was
admirable"
Insisting that they were individual
cases which could Be solved only by
individual study, DR.. Jacobs declined
to venture an opinion on why these
two wealthy scions Of aristocratic
southern families suddenly launched
upon a career of crime. But he did
make warm defense Of modern col
lege life in general.
Drink Less Than Parents
II believe the average college boy
Of today drinks less liquor and is
better behaved than those Of . gen
GRAFTON ago." DR.. Jacobs said, land
am sure that the average college boy
Of today drinks less liquor than his
parents.
I'VE have 500 students at Ogle-
thorpe and not more than six are
suspended by the dean each year, the
usual charge being drinking. Com
pare this with the average father
who has his highball and his cock
tail at his club and his liquor ct his
banquets. / venture to say that II
our chiefs Of police arrested every
father who drank, an overwhelming
percentage Of our male adult popula-
ton would be in Jail before morn
ing"
Suddenly DR.. Jacobs shot Z search
ing glance at his interviewer. "How
many Of your adult acquaintance
would refuse . drink Of liquor? :" he
asked.
Few Frown on Liquor
The writer thought for q full min
ute and recalled just one person.
"Your acquaintances are not ex.
ceptions. Most any man would make
about the same answer" DR.. Jacobs
replied quickly. "And yet, with 500
students and automatic suspension
from college as the penalty for
drinking, we suspend only about six
boys every year.
"The truth Of the matter is that
in Atlanta and every other city in
the United States today there is
moro drinking being done by par
ents than by college boys"
and social position, DR.. Jacobs
pointed out, bring notoriety to COL
lete boys who 60 wrong.
Not Typical Of Class
The public overlooks the fact
that these few individuals do not
represent the average college boy"
he said. "You cannot indict class
as whole any more accurately than
you can praise . class - . WHOLE"
The penalty Of automatic suspen-
sion for drinking was suggested by
the student body Of Cglethorpe, and
accepted by the faculty. At their
own suggestion, all students are
pledged to report any student seen
drinking on tho campus or else
where.
"Show me any group Of parents
who have moro respect Tor tie law
than these college boys! Yet the
boys have their fun; No have dances
in the dormitory every Saturday
night and never yet have ! seen 1
drunken boy there"
Proaident b Evolutiouist
DR.. Jacobs h unique among edu.
Gators. President Of : staunch
Presbyterian college that holds three
compulsory chapel meetings each
week and requires every student to
take bible study for three years un-
dor the tutslaee Of Z 70-year-old
former Presbyterian moderator, he Is
. pro-evolutionist. His book "The
New Science and the Old Religion"
has harnionissd geology and Genesis
IN such . WY that Il has won IN.
dorselnents from both scientists and
clergymen, among them being DR..
Henry Fairfield Osborn and Rev.
Harry Emerson Fosdick. L Il taught
ct 0glethorpe.
The old snuff house in the Hay.
market. London. With the sign Of
the Rasp and Crown. dates hack
more than 200 years.
A million tons Of coal are used
every year by the Gas, Light and
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