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THE GUILFORDIAN
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Much has been said through the
columns of the Guilfordian, this year,
in regard to courtesy. Most of the
emphasis placed upon this has been
in connection with athletics. But as
we approve of courtesy on the
athletic field, we wish to emphasize
that it is equally as important in
other phases of college life.
Not many people—and particularly
should this be true of college stu
dents—really intend to be discourte
ous. With most of them it is a
result of either a lack of knowledge
of the principles of courtesy, or care
lessness in applying them to daily
actions. But whether you have
thought of it or not, a student's
popularity is measured largely by the
way in which he observes these prin
ciples. The same is true of a college.
Nothing gives an institution a "black
eye" among other institutions, more
quickly than a continued practice of
discourtesy.
The writer has called attention,
once before in this column, to Guil
ford's reputation for appreciative
audiences, and it is worth repeating
that this reputation is one of the
most enviable ones that we as a
student body can possess. The sup
position that other institutions may
be less careful in regard to their
public meetings is no reason why we
should give less attention to our own
but rather a reason for guarding
even more zealously our present rec
ord.
If there ever was a time, and we
do not think there has been, when
public speakers or performers were
seriously handicapped by the failure
of a Guilford audience to comply
with the rules of good conduct, that
time has surely gone, for no one
can say that it exists in any more
than the mildest form today, and and
the encouraging part of it is, that
what little tendency there is toward
discourtesy is fast disappearing and
is noticeable in only a few cases.
When these few guilty ones shall
have learned about Guilford's reputa
tion for courtesy, we will then have
completed our requirements for a
perfect audience. What more com
mendable thing could be said of us
than this? What the public thinks
of us means more than we sometimes
think, and the public's impression of
us as cultured students is measured
largely by our conduct at public
meetings. There, while off our guard
we are weighed and measured by
visitors who know that good behavior
at public gatherings will come only
as a result of practice in everyday
actions.
It is in commendation for the Guil
ford student body, rather than in
criticism that this article is written;
rather with the hope that it may
serve in some way as another incen
tive to a continuation of the splendid
record made thus far. We must
never forget that our visitors are
due as much respect as we ourselves
are. We believe it never has been
said, and we hope it never will be
said of a Guilford College audience
that it fails to show a visiting dele
gation, courtesy equal to what they
have a right to expect from un-tu
tored high school students. May it
never be said of a Guilford student
body, that it stoops so low as to jeer
and laugh at chance and insignificant
mistakes that are made by any pub
lic speaker or performer; or that our
sense of sportsmanship and courtesy
is so poor that we detract from the
effectiveness of a program by creat
ing a continual disturbance.
COLLEGE MOVIE FEATURES
SENTIMENTAL TOMMY.
Truly it never rains but it pours.
The old proverb applies not only
to the weather of the past week but
to the college movie of last Sat
urday evening. Twelve reels for
twenty cents, and yet they talk of
the high cost of living.
The first two reels, informational
in character, were concerned with
the government tubercluosis test of
milk. The real feature of the eve
ning was a dramatization of Sir
James Barrie's story of Sentimental
Tommy, with Gareth Hughes and
May MacAvoy in the leeading roles.
But eight reels are a bit wearisome
even when played by a popular actor,
and Gareth Hughes seemed to fall
somewhat short of his usual stan
dard as a convincing actor. Indeed
one felt that the whole " play was
rather less successful than Barrie's
original story.
The last two reels however, Ed
gar's Hamlet, a Booth Tarkington
comedy based upon the doings of the
American small boy, was most de
lightful, sending the audience into
gales of laughter over episodes which
are almost universal experiences of
the average American child.
CHINA'S NEEDS
Intellectual. — Nearly sixty-five
million children are waiting for
schools. From ninety to ninety-six
per cent of China's population is
illiterate.
Physical. —The infant mortality
rate is between sixty-five ancl seventy
per cent. There is one hospital to
every three million people, a few
hundred doctors to four million.
Industrial. —China is still in the
Middle Ages industrially. Wages are
unbelievably low. The women silk
reelers in Shanghai, for example,
get from eight to eleven cents a day
for eleven hours' work. Of thou
sands of women and children em
ployed, thirty-five per cent are chil
dren under fourteen years of age.
Spiritual. —Out of China's millions,
from 300,000 to 400,000 only are
Protestant Christians.
THE GUILFORDIAN
INCREASING ELECTRIC LAMP
POWER
How Research Overcame Difficulties
And Makes Our L'ght More
Efficient
By Dr. Irving Langmuir
Since 1879, when Edison gave the
world the incandescent lamp, men
have been working to improve this
carbon filament vacuum light. A bet
ter filament was desired. Research
produced tungsten filaments, and the
name of a metal so rare as to be j
almost a curiosity became a house
hold word.
The use of tungsten as a filament j
did not solve all the lamp manufac- !
turers' problems, although some elec- !
trical men held that with the devel
opment of wrought tungsten lamp ;
development had gone its limit. A
further reduction in the consumption j
of current was still desired and bulb
blackening, which began as soon as
the current was turned on, impaired j
the lamp's lighting power. All sorts
of remedies were tried with little |
success.
Scientists in the research labora
tory at Schenectady undertook a num- j
ber of fundamental investigations j
and it was not until three-fourths J
of the preliminary work had been
done on a purely scientific basis that
the real commercial usefulness of |
the results became apparent.
Brittleness of the filament having
been overcome by the development of j
wrought tungsten, the necessity for
preventing bulb blackening still re
mained.
Investigations along the lines of;
better vacua in lamps showed it was j
impracticable to determine whetherj
variations in method or amount of
exhaustion caused improvement. So
studies were made along two lines:
1. The sources of gas within a lamp. !
2. The effects produced in lamps by
various gases.
Research showed that the smali
amounts of water vapor present in
the bulb greatly hastened blackening.
The vapor oxidized the tungsten,
freeing hydrogen in the atomic state.
The oxide went to the bulb and was
there reduced to metallic tungsten by
the active hydrogen, releasing the
oxygen which reunited with the hy
drogen to form water. Thus the vic
ious cycle recurred until the lamp's
life was ended.
Early experimenters, Edison among
them, had hade numerous trials of
a gas-filled bulb but in every case the
experimental gas-filled lamp was
decidedly inferior to the vacuum car
bon lamp then in use. However, ex
periments showed that if a tungsten
filament were heated close to its
melting point in a gas-filled bulb
entirely freed from water vapor, the
filament lasted much longer than
when heated in a vacuum, and the
heavier the gas used, the more the
evaporation of the metal was re
tarded. But the addition of the gas
to increase the life of the filament
meant an additional heat loss.
By using a large filament, or a coil
of small filament, the heat loss was
overcome by the higher temperature,
and better, whiter light was produced.
Thus, trough careful and ex
haustive research we have today a
lamp whose gleam far outshines the
rather feeble glow of the early in
candescent light, and the old lamp
is a thing of the past.
ELON COLLEGE NOTES
The Honorable A. Wayland Cooke
of Greensboro, N. C., gave a splendid
address here last Sunday evening in
the College auditorium on "THE
USEFUL CHRISTIAN". Mr. Cooke
came under the auspices of the Re
ligious Activities Organization of
Elon, as one of the State's most
prominent lawyers and Christian
leaders. Mr. Cooke received a hearty
welcome at Elon. His speech here
last evening proved to be forceful,
pleasing and inspiring.
Elon's collegiate baseball season
opens here March 27, in a game with
Lenoir College. A heavy schedule
has been completed, games having
been arranged with Washington and
Lee, V. P. 1., The University of
South Carolina and other important
Virginia and South Carolina Colleges
and Universities as well as "with
most of the principal colleges in
North Carolina.
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