The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-11
RADICALISM BREAKS OUT IN
ASHEVILLE NORMAL

The Lewis strike at ASneVllle Norman
College has ended as far as the students
and faculty are concerned with an agree
ment-which provides that in the future the
institation is to be run by the students and
not by the faculty. President Calfee and
those who have been directing the institu-
ton have been put in their places and the
public now knows who is running Ashe-
vile Normal.
However, the strike settlement reached
by the students and faculty is subject to
approyal by the Board of Trustees, with
Headquarters in New York City, and the
students graciously agreed to accept the
decision of the board as final. That may
prove to be horse of another color and
the Boards answer may be resounding
nay
The impression of an outsider with no
direct interest whatever in the institution,
is that if there is to be any guarantee OF
the future of the Asheville Normal some
straightforward and decisive action OF the
trustees must now be Forthcoming.
Asheville Normal has survived and has
been enabled to carry on its work because
of the support accorded the institution by
that branch of Presbyterianism commonly
spoken of i'm this section as the northern
PRESBYTERIAN church-that is, the Pres
byterian Church in the United States OF
America The institution is mission
school, at least to the extent that without
this UNCONVENTIONAL support and direction
it would have failed long ago and gone out
of existence. Therefore, it is to be pre-
sumed that the church and the people
Represented by the Board of Trustees)
responsible for the continued maintenance
of the institution, will have something to
say in regard to the strike settlement and
future control of the school.
As The Asheville Citizen points out,
Asheville Normal is not a public institution
in which the students have the rights OF
citizens and tax payers. 1t is private In
stitution and its educational work has been
made possible by the liberality of the great
Presbyterian denomination which has al
ways been known for its deep interest in
Christian education and its devotion to de-
nominational good works.
The school has been maintained because
the denomination believed it was doing {
great educational work for class of yount
women many of whom might otherwise b.
deprived of educational advantages; anC
this work is being done in section of the
country where there is impressive need fo
it, Therefore, the action of the SUDDEN
body in this strike merits condemnation b.
the public because of the method employ
ed and because of the evident lack of con
sideration for the interests of the institu
ton. The students, in an organized way
slapped their benefactor in the face; mani
Testing that worst of human faults, ingrati
tude.i ...
The method of procedure of the Norma
students-the communistic sit-down strik'
imported from Europe-iss reprehensible
but it plainly indicates that the studen
bodyiis affected by the prevailing, radical
ism of the day; and such radicalism shows
no consideration or respect for individuals
institutions >or fundamental principles o.
right, and justice.
In Michigan radicals seize the propert!
of business corporations in Violation of thu
laws of the country. A similar course i
followed in North Carolina in Selling al
educational institution to compel its execu
tives to conduct it according to the motions
of the students and not according to rul