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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published weekly by the Zatasian, Henry Clay, Philomathean, and Web sterian Literary Societies. Editorial Staff Byron A. llaworth .... Editor-in-Chief Joseph J. Cox Managing Editor Frances Osborne Associate Editor Ira G. Newlin Associate Editor Miss X. Era Lasley .... Alumni Editor George P. Wilson .... Faculty Adviser Reporters Marie Barnes Ruth Malpass Alice Hazard Edwin Rozell Reginald Marshall Alma llassel Sudie Cox Paul Reynolds Business Staff A. Scott Parker, Jr., Business Manager Thelma King Circulation Mgr. Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price $1.50 per year Entered at the post oflice in Guilford College, N. C., as second class mail matter. Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association. Required Exercise Exercise is essential to good health. Yet students are found on all campuses suffering from both physical and intellectual sickness because of too little exercise. For a number of years 50 hours lias been required of every Guil ford man who is physically able to go out for any type of athletics. But for some reason heretofore many liave managed to get by without taking any. After slyly evading the requirement they pat themselves 011 the back and feel and talk as though they had just closed a million-dollar deal. Several reasons and many ex cuses are offered when approached by a faculty adviser. "Too busy," is a general pleading for exemp tion, while others are just recover ing from a cold .or a severe sick ness of some kind. Nine times out of ten neglect of physical training is due to inex cusable inertia rather than any good, sound reason. It is much easier to 101 l around in one's room and play checkers, or some game with less activity, than it is to get out and take part in some good, wholesome, stimulating game. This former type of pastime often over works and tends to dull the mind instead of resting and sharpening it in preparation for study. It will not better' one's physical body in preparation for combatting cold and sickness. If no time has been wasted dur ing the day, an hour and a half spent in exercise between 4 and 6 o'clock is the afternoon will never be missed. If so, the student is working entirely too hard. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." If the time will not be missed then there is no excuse for not using it. With the various types of games irom which to choose and with the splendid system of coaching that has been introduced, athletics at Guilford College not only present a means of sport and amusement, hut it is educational as well. Every game is organized. The head coach has charge of football at present hut his assistants have ahly sys tematized basketball, volley ball, tennis and track. Every man plays when it is his time to play and stops when his time is np in order that the other fellow may take his turn. Men of Guilford, you have been challenged. Will you accept or re ject ? Gospel Team Developing from a movement started by the Ministerial group of Guilford College and receiving im petus from Lewis McFarhmd, the Guilford College Gospel team was 01 ganized. The members of this organiza tion, all of whom have dedicated their lives to some form of service to their Master, leave each Sunday in groups of fives to speak at dif ferent churches to which they are invited, and each Sunday the groups alternate. All the churches which they have visited have ex pressed themselves as being well impressed with this sincere group and say that much good has been done and is being done by them. It is becoming generally recog nized that the great storehouse of potential religious leadership is in the Christian college. The foreign missionary movement in America had its first impulse on a college campus. Four out of five of our present ministers and missionaries come from the Christian college. To take out of American life the elements put into it by higher edu cation under religious auspices would change the whole fiber of our social order. To the church the loss of its colleges would be ir reparable. Take them away and in 10 years the ministry would be depleted and the churches bank rupt of leadership. Guilford College is the child of religious aims. The motive lead ing in the minds of the founders was the motive to provide sound religious teaching and training for the youth. And to this day this motive is the mainspring of desire and action in Guilford College. Members of the Gospel team, you have before you a great work and responsibility, and the world is looking to your very type of organ ization for her leaders. Keep up the good work! PERISHO TALKS ABOUT THE COTTON SITUATION (Continued from Page One) time has a surplus of 9,000,000 hales of cotton. That is why the price has dropped to eight cents per pound, while the cost of production has rendered to the United States cotton farmers in 1026 a loss of approximately $800,000,- 000.00. The speaker here compared this loss to that rendered to Florida by the storm which is estimated at $106,000,000. As some of the suggested remedies for the situation l)r. Perisho mentioned the commission appointed by President Coolidge, also that a survey of European countries be made to see if more cotton can lie used. It was also suggested that the annual production be cut down 25 percent, and that the United States cot ton industries be urged to buy more cotton than they need and store it away. Another suggested remedy is that the hankers stand hack of the southern cot ton growers in such a way that they will not lie forced to sell their cotton at such low prices. In his concluding remarks the speak er emphasized the importance of every student keeping up with the cause of such problems as that of the cotton situation in order that wrong impres sions may not be formed. THE GUILFORDIAN ! OPEN FORUM j CHAPEL CONDUCT It is a generally accepted fact that sound learning and education come only through practice. A thorough knowl edge of one subject is a great benefit in that particular field, but of what v;ilue is it in a field altogether differ ent? That an efficient education is made up of not only a knowledge of several different studies but common sense and practice, is not a recent dis covery or conclusion. Students at Guilford, as well as those fit other "A" grade colleges, are sup posed to have had sufficient experience and training to qualify for a certifi ate of graduation from some high school. The question then arises why is the director of chapel singing placed in such an embarrassing position each morning by having to stand for live minutes in the midst of a shower of blushes before the student body can lie quieted enough to start singing? This is one of the big questions of the campus and is one which should be staring in the face of each and every student of Guilford College. As a remedy for this existing condi tion words seem to be in vain. Al though accidents occasionally happen, it was noticeable one morning that when the pianist struck a few chords on the piano the noise at once ceased. This incident merely suggests a possi ble solution to the problem. IRA G. NEWUN. Oakwood School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Dear Editor: I am indeed glad to hear that Guilford has won a game of football. However, judging from the echoes of the victory which have reached me through the columns of the Guilfordian one would think that Guilford had defeated Duke, Davidson, or Carolina. A cursory analysis of the issue of the Guilfordian dated October 27 shows that 40 per cent of the space not taken by ads is used to tell about the Guilford-Cataw ba game—its prologues and epilogues. Is this over-emphasizing the game? Moreover, 15 per cent of the same issue is devoted to a discussion of "pep," and the relationship of the stu dent body to the team. Are we ex pecting students to go to our games and yell enthusiastically in a made-to order fasihon? Are we judging stu dent support almost solely upon the basis of the amount of noise they make? Does an ideal athlete ever lay the blame for not winning upon the student body? It seems to me like no person would ever thoughtfully contend that every student should come out and yell fran tically throughout an athletic, contest. Further, the first duty of the athlete is to ask himself, Have I done all within my power in practice and other wise to make a good team? Too many times losing teams try to shift the re sponsibility to an impotent group. I want to say that I enjoy the Guil fordian. I always look forward to get ting it. With the best of good wishes to you personally, I am, Sincerely yours, J. CURTIS NEWLIN. (Mr. Newlin graduated from Guil ford in 1922. lie is now teaching; and is also coach of athletics at Oakwood school, I'oughkeepsie, New York.) Guilford In "Y" Drive Accepting the challenge of Greens boro in her Y. M. C. A. financial cam paign, the Guilford Y. M. C. A. under the leadership of Professor Cole has organized a local drive to help finance the beautiful new "Y" building which is liearing completion. Professor Cole called together five men, each to be captain of a team of five. These teams have already received pledges amounting to over S3O and prospects seem to be good for at least S7O more. ! ALUMNI NOTES { L j HERBERT C. PETTY PROMOTED Herbert C. Petty, '99, has been elected a vice president of the Crocker-Wheeler Electric Manufacturing Company. In the announcement of the election con tained in the Electrical "World, it was stated that Mr. Petty is considered "one of the best commercial engineers in the country. A broad background of ex perience in commercial and sales work, coupled with an extensive knowledge of engineering, which is an unusual com bination, eminently qualifies him for his new executive position." Mr. Petty is a North Carolinian by birth, and received his education at Guilford where he was awarded the Guilford scholarship to Haverford. He entered the senior class here in 1898, and received his M.A. degree in 1899. He played on the football team in 1898. He was associated with the General Electric Company at Lynn for three years. Prominent Electrician In December, 1902, he affiliated him self with the Crocker-Wheeler Com pany as a sales engineer in the sales department, and became successively assistant manager and then sales man ager. In 1922, he was elected secretary of the company, the duties of which office he will continue to perform. lie has been active for a number of years in the activities of the Electric Power Club, having served 011 the Board of Governors and as vice president, and has also been prominent in the Associa tion of Iron and Steel Electrical En gineers.—Haverford News 1905 The day following the recent opening of the New Juvenile and Domestic Re lations Court Building in Richmond, Virginia, the "News Leader" of Rich mond printed the following editorial which tells something of the growth of the work with which J. Iloge Ricks, 'OS, has been connected since April 2, 1912: "Very dubious and very doubtful were the beginnings of the court that yesterday dedicated at Twelfth and Clay its splendid new home. "The first step was when Justice Crutclifield decided to hear in chambers those cases involving little girls. The next was when the Juvenile Protective Association was formed, with Rev. James Buchanan, then secretary of the Associated Charities, as its probation officer. The third advance was when two tiny rooms in the northwest cor ner of the basement of the city hall were fitted up as a separate division of the police court. J. Hoge Ricks became clerk and chief probation officer of the court at that time, April 2, 1912, at a very small salary, which was council's first appropriation for the work. The whole venture was regarded with so much misgiving by nearly all of the police, and with so much open hostility by some, that it was deemed prudent to have three outsiders act as a 'steering committee'—in reality as advisers and unofficial jurors. "Imperceptibly the excellent work done by Iloge Ricks and the strong sup port that the court received from wel fare agencies silenced opposition. On January 1, IS)2(>, Mr. Hicks became judge of the court, which was established un der a special act of assembly. Moving to the old house at the northwest cor ner of Capitol and Governor, the court rid itself of the atmosphere of the po lice court and of everything that sav ored of police-court methods. It had early taken over the direction of the probation officers who handled cases of the non-support of wives and children, and soon it was given jurisdiction in all cases involving domestic relations, even though there were no children. Now, after ten years, the court is so well established that the council has voted it a building with ample room for the officers and witnesses, as well as for the detention of children. It is much the finest home that any court in Richmond has or ever has had, and it deserves to be. "The new juvenile court typifies a revolution in method. It represents, al- November 10, 1926 White Realty Company Realtors 321 y 2 S. Elm Street Phone 1022 Greensboro, N. C. National Mon.-Tues Nov. 15-16 Gene Stratton Porter's "LADDIE" Wed.-Thurs Nov. 17-18 "PRIVATE IZZY MURPHY" —with— George G esse 11 Vera Gordon Patsy liuth Miller Friday Night November 19 "EARL CARROLL'S VANITIES" Saturday November 20 "THE RUNAWAY EXPRESS" POMONA TERRA-COTTA COMPANY Manufacturers of Sewer and Drain Pipes and Other Clay Products Annual Capacity 3,000 Carloads POMONA, N. C. ■IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB = You will find a welcome at = = Guilford Friendly | | Cafeteria Guilford Hotel Building S GREENSBORO, N. C. El flmmMiiiiiiimiNiiiimiiimiiiiiiimiiiii so, the most distinctive ideal of contem porary civilization, the ideal of preven tion. Just as a clinic is held to diag nose tuberculosis in its incipieney and to give treatment before the malady is beyond control, so the court is estab lished to take those whose homes have broken down, those whose environment is bad, and those who have made their first missteps and to give them right guidance to save them from wrecked lives. The purpose of the court is not to punish, but to protect." After his graduation from Guilford College in 1905, Mr. Ricks studied law at Richmond College and the Univer sity of Virginia. He had been engaged in the practice of law only a short time when he was asked to become clerk and cliipf probation officer of the juvenile court. Musical Program Friday Friday morning a musical program was given in chapel l>,v Miss Edna Gray and Paul Reynolds. The first number 011 the program was a piano solo, "American Indian Dance," rendered by Miss Gray. Mr. Reynolds sang "Miss Kitty O'Toole," "To You," and "Just a Cottage Small." The best received number among these was "Just a Cot tage Small." "The time has come," says the Teco Echo, "when Women are 110 longer con sidered to be on a lower intellectual level than men. They are equal and above in many cases, and if men want to compete with them they neither taunt nor drag them about it, but calm ly go about their work, and let the men hustle to keep up."
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