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THE SANDSPUR
NO^JEMBER, 1951
THE SANDSPUR
Entered as second class matter iSeptember 27,1948, at the Post Office,
Maxton, North Carolina, under Act of Congress, August 24, 1912.
Published Monthly (9 times a year) by the Student Body of Presby
terian Junior College for the Alumni Association.
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION. ONE DOLLAR
CO-EDITOES Joe Elliott & Foster Edwards
BUSINESS iMAff^GBR Frank SpurriCT
A'DVBRJTIiSI!NG MAiNAGER Jimmy McCall
FEATURE EDITOR Anthony Baker
SPORTS EDITOR Frank EUerbe
\SSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Robert Atkinson
PHOTOGRAPHER Fred Fountain
CONTRIBOTOR Mrs. L. C. LaMotte
NEWS STAFF
Patsy Hamer, Cecil Wilkerson, Dick Waymaok, CharlesSweat
Bill Stephens, Bill Sizemore, Joe Linnens, Worth Dees, K. D. Futch
Harry Greene, Brantley Vann, Herbert Gibbs, Fred McDaniel
ADVISORS
Mr. John H. Crajbtree, Jr Mrs. Ann M. Rousseau
MEMBER ,
Southern Interscholastic Publication Association
EDITORIAL
Did you have a nice time at the
dance? We certainly hope you did,
because the only thing most of
you did was to bring forth your
most Honorable Presence, while
the few who worked so hard to
make it a nice dance were sitting
on the side lines too exhausted to
enjoy it themselves. Why should
the few always have to suffer for
the masses. This has not always
been true.
This, our country, the greatest
nation on earth, was founded on
cooperation. Sure there were a
few leaders who had to get the
ball rolling, but these men had
the people cacking them up. Oth
erwise, there would never have
been a Revolutionary War.
Cooperation is the main actor
in organization, and the coopera
tion here at PJC is lousy, so lousy
in act that several clubs might
as well be disorganized. You say,
there is nothing to do. Well, these
clubs and other activities have
been organized with the sfjecific
purpose of giving you something
to do. The Photography Club has
not been organized to make you
a professional photographer and
neither has the Radio Club been
organized to make you an expert
in the field of radio, or the Glee
Club organized to fit you for work
with the Metropolitan Opera
Company. These clubs were set
up to give you something to do,
something you, enjoy doing, and
last, but not least, something by
which you may accomplish things
for the glory of ttiis year’s stu
dent body. I
Many of us as college students
have been surrounded by luxury
most of, if not all of our lives.
We are beginning to take all these
things for granted. Everybody is
expecting something for nothing.
We eventually are going to have
to wake up to reality and work
for what we get. Why not begin
now and later it will not be such
a bitter pill to swallojv.
You may say “whats the use
of working to accomplish some
thing when it will not last. This
old world is declining slowly, but
surely.” We of today are the ones
who are going to have to stop this
decline.
Why not start now by improv
ing this school spirit of ours. Not
long ago I read a little article in
This Week Magazine, written by
Dorothy Van Doren.. It is re
printed here with the hope that
most of the student body will
profit from it, since it holds the
key to good school spirit.
“St. iFrancis of Assisi, hoeing
his garden, was asked what 'he
would do if he were suddenly to
learn that he was to die at sun
set that day. He said: ‘I would
finish hoeing my garden.’
"This seems to me an answer
to all the troubled young people
these days who are beginning life
no security for anyone, young or
old.
“We can’t be sure of anything,
these young people say, not now,
or next year or the year after
that. Why should we try to make
a life for ourselves, they ask?
Why should we go to classes or
take examinations or get married
or have children or try for a job?
Why paint a picture or write a
song or begin a novel?
“St. Francis put the answer in
a simple metaphor; Go on hoeing
your garden. The task is still here
—the house to build, the book
to write, the examination to pre
pare for. If the future looks dark,
so did it on the morning before
the first Christmas. And however
dark it seems today, however dark
it is, we shall meet life better if
we have fulfilled the present to
the best of our ability. Today is
still ours along with the obliga
tion to live it to the full.
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Raymond Dawson
Famous Last Words
“iBlood Bank” Darling: (just
before a test) Do you have your
pint of blood ready for me this
morning?
-Billy Myatt' I’m in Love.
Alfredo: Hey Sweet.
John B'urris: Foster I’m snow
ed, I’im> snowed.
Mrs. Rosseau: Now, Punky, Be
still. ,
Mrs. Haynes: Lets handle the
books carefully boys.
Pop: Flora Macdonald bound.
Guy Jr.; I’m better than you
Chuck.
(Lower; I’m home sick.
Dr. LaMotte; Now in conclusion.
Mr. Crabtree: Where is Finch?
Mrs. McCallum; Just listen to
that noise, it must be Frank El-
lerbe.
Mr. Dawson; Two reports for
Tuesday. You must have some
thing to .do.
Mr. Parker: This is 1,2',3,4,5,6,
7,i8;9,10, enlarger.
Mr. Reilly: I’ll do all I can to
help.
Mr. Welker; Someone tell me
how to gear up a mule.
Bobby Gillis: Why do the boys
call me “COWBOY”
(PjS. iDon’t the rest of the faculty
fret, you will get your chance to
appear in the gossip column next
month.
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Somebody ask Bethune why he
goes around painting handker
chiefs red.
FROM THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Moral Beings and Government
Kenneth M. Linder
'By the way, why hasn’t some
one discovered before now that
Jimmy and Emmet could sing?
Who is the Laurinburg girl who
has been sprinkling snow on Billy
Myatt?
It has been rumored that a
Laurinburg girl has fallen for
Charles Sweat. Why don’t you
in a world that appears to hold give her a chance, Charlie?
If man is a moral being—and
enough informed and scholarly
proponents of that thesis may be
marshalled from the sciences of
ethics and sociology to assume its
validity—then the finest form of
government under which men live
had best be characterized by free
dom for each individual, under
God.
One civilization, the youngest
in the world, and perhaps, at least
in many important aspects, the
greatest in the world, had its in
ception, its growth and early
flowering and fruitage, from the
sturdy rootstock of individual ini
tiative, planted firmly in the soil
of libe.rty. That civilization has
grown upon the North American
continent and is now geographi
cally comprehended in the Unit
ed States of America.
The original concept of the
American founding fathers was
that each individual had conferr
ed upon him certain unalienable
God-given rights; hence they were
not subject to human curtailment.
To put the idea another way: the
basic natural atom of human so
ciety is the individual human soul.
Today much is heard of the
communistic way of life against
the democratic way of life.
The communistic ideology is
Godless—frankly and avowedly
so. Truth, honor, morality—such
things have no absolute values;
instead the State or its iron-hand
ed autocrats formulate ever-shift
ing values for the unquestioning
obedience of—not citizens—but
servants. Those administering in
the name of the State have usurp
ed the functions of divinity and
impose thejr choices; they have
arrogated to themselves more than
the power of the God they deny,
because God made moral beings
and moral beings have the power
and responsibility if their own
choices. Thus the State, in mons
ter form, has become the center
the dictating hub of communis
tic society but its power may be
said to be centrifugal. There can
be no real cohesive spirit among
a people dominated by fear; they
are held together against the cen
trifugal forces of disintegration
only by the iron banding of ty
ranny.
Contrast now the true demo
cratic spirit of life wherein the '
individual soul is conceived as
beng integral to social progress.
Some sense of God and God-given
rights lie in the true center of each
life. Now there is an inherent co
hesion. There is no longer inter
nal conflict or friction because
the individual atoms tend to ar
range themselves in orderly pat
terns according to response to
what is absolute and moral. The
force is centripetal and hence
unifying rather than centrifugal
and disintergrating.
So it is of prime importance to
cherish the principles which have
demonstrated their workability in
the United States and among these
are the recognition of a God of
righteousness and truth, in Whom
are centered our concepts of a-
biding value; Who has conferred
upon us the dignity of free choice
and Whose good Spirit would have
us as moral individuals choose
each his voluntary service in an
orderly society. The evident trend
of the encroachment of govern
ment, whether by subtle, seeming
ly benevolent bounty, or socialistic
welfare planning, or abitary as
sumption of emergency powers
should be regarded with whole
some fear and intelligently re
sisted lest our soil of freedom be
so compasted that our roots of
individual initiative be made to
die.
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effect on upland or extra long
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