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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. Haworth .... Editor-in-Chief Joseph J. Cox Managing Editor Frances Osborne Associate Editor Ira G. Newlin Associate Editor Miss N. Era Lasley .... Alumni Editor George P. Wilson .... Faculty Adviser Reporters Marie Barnes Elizabeth Braswell Sarah Edgerton Edwin Rozell Gurney Collins Robert Atkinson Reginald Marshall Alma Hassel Sudie Cox Paul Reynolds Turner Moon Business Staff A. Scott Parker, Jr., Business Manager Alice Hazard Secretary Thelma King Circulation Mgr. Address all communications to THE GUIBFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price $1.50 per year Entered at the post office in Guilford College, N. C., as second class mail matter. Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association. PARAGRAPHICS Guilford has accomplished another feat that will, 110 doubt, go down in history. At least, she was the first to score in the new Greens boro stadium. The Technician force will take a day of rest. Professor Robertson's class in advanced Journalism has generously been granted the pleas ure of getting out one issue of the Technician a term. Prof. J. Franklin Davis has been nominated and elected by all chapel attendants as "official tail-puller." Woe unto all ye over-time speakers ! Duty: A pleasure which we try to make ourselves believe is hardship. A worth while discovery: It doesn't take much to prove a truth. It is only a lie that requires great argumentative ability. We frequently hear that someone is as ugly as a mud fence. Prob ably a good application in many cases, but who in this modern age can recall of having ever seen a mud fence? It is reported that a famous New York beauty has disappeared. Per haps she washed it off. Trouble seems to be an hallucina tion that affords a sweet satisfac tion to the possessor. And justice is a system of re venge where the State imitates the criminal. The annual "clean up" season is beginning now in Cox and Arch dale hall. Electric cords in many of the rooms are now sagging with freshly laundered socks, etc. And the dust and cobwebs have been shaken from the brooms which have been standing in the corner for the past year. 1 f the question is asked, "What is the big idea?" a broad smile creeps across the countenance of the inhabitant, then the reply, "Gosh! but Thanksgiving is a 'heck' of a lot of trouble to us boys over here!'' Government Or Mob Rule? In More's fantastic "Kingdom of Nowhere," the wonderful Utopia, all questions of labor, government, society and religion were settled by simple justice and common sense. I nfortunately, modern civilization has not yet developed such perfec tion and our greatest statesmen wi ite that a well organized gov ernment is essential for unity and harmony in every community and cilso for the settlement of our social problems. No one 011 the face of the state ment would deny that some kind of government is necessary. But action speaks louder than words, and there are those who by their deeds challenge this statement every day. They are willing to concede the doctrine to be good un til the government interferes with some of their own or their personal friends' whims and caprices, then suddenly their whole viewpoint changes. They are then willing for the whole structure of organized so ciety to be threatened with the loss of government in order that they as individuals may suffer no incon venience. An eccentric man once arranged guns in his smoke-house in such a way that when the would-be thief opened the door he would be shot. After explaining the scheme to a neighbor he was asked if he was not afraid of killing someone. He replied, "It will not be 1, they will be killing their own damn fool selves.'' There is an element of truth in his statement, although the writer doesn't approve of this method of bringing about justice. In greater or less offenses the same principle holds true. They who, with their eyes open, deliberately violate their own laws and the laws of their fel low men should do so with the full determination to take their medi cine like a true sport, if appre hended. The attempt by emotional out bursts or tantrums to influence a governor, judge, jury or other au thorities to surrender to the anti social member of society should meet with 110 success. Law should be impartially en forced. This is the crying need all over our land today. It should be the ideal of every magistrate and officer of the law; furthermore, it should be the ideal of every citizen, but to point out that we have not reached perfection, in obtaining the ideal, and to argue that for this rea son. this one or that one should be allowed to disregard the regulation without suffering the stipulated penalty reveals a very loose and puerile method of thinking. It may be added further that it is truly astonishing how mob psy chology dominates the minds of Americans today and how mob leaders defy certain stands taken by the official representatives of society, when they flatter them selves into believing they are cap able of running a community. And, strange to say, this spirit is not limited to the uneducated but is prevalent among college students who supposedly represent our best element. One wonders whether this fact itself is not a challenge of the efficacy and worth-whileness of our entire educational system. ►+* A secret has been defined as a thing we give others to keep for us. THE GUILFORDIAN University Gift Mr. Kenan's gift of $275,000 to the University of North Carolina strengthens one's belief that the outstanding American business man is without an equal in clear vision and enlightened liberality in public benefaction. Jt must have required patient study and pains taking investigation to convince the donor of the wisdom of this gift. Public benevolences are a form of investment for the benefit of others, though they sometimes raise difficult problems. It. is not surprising that the greatest institution quite naturally attracts the largest and most spec tacular gifts. Their very size and importance advertise them and their needs. There is perhaps no reason to doubt that the large bene factions accruing to them are wise ly laid out. In fact, there is re joicing in their good fortune, but at the same time one wishes that one might hear more often of substan tial endowments to the smaller col- leges. It has been truly said that the small college and not the great university is the backbone of high er education in the United States. It. is quite evident that the type of work done in the two types of in stitutions overlap but neither cov ers the field of the other. In the highly specialized studies, athletics and graduate work the small de nominational college cannot com pete with the large university; but in laying the foundation for a lib eral education, character building, human contacts and in fitting a stu dent for life rather than a job, the small college has 110 rival. What the small college lacks in building, extent of. campus and equipment it makes up in person nel. Its very smallness encourages individuality rather than the standardization of which we hear so much today. Human contacts are closer. One is not overwhelmed by the choice of course, complex so cial life and highly organized ad ministrations. Essentially a college is a group of teachers and learners. Where there is a teacher like Mark Hop kins on one end ot' the log and a pupil like James A. Garfield 011 the other there you have a college—the kernel of the institution of lea ru ing. Public benefactors who can give $275,000 to an institution of learn ing are perhaps very few. How ever. there are others who can give smaller donations and we hazard the opinion that if these men would make a careful study of the smaller colleges, availing themselves of ac curate information as to the qual ity of work being done, they could lay out their money just as shrewd ly and as beneficially as their big ger brothers. And the little college will be thankful for the gifts. "It's the same old South," says the Detroit News. " Josephus Dan iels lias written a long apology to a prominent citizen whom he had inadvertently called a Republi can.' ' — Greensboro News. We see by the paper that vaude ville will soon celebrate its 100 th birthday. It is said that many of the original jokes and hundreds of their children and grandchildren will attend the celebration. — Chi cago Daily News. College Debating League Saturday, November 20, repre sentatives from several colleges in the state will meet at Guilford to discuss and will probably organize an Intercollegiate Forensic League. The need for such an organiza tion as this becomes more and more apparent every day. At present each college has its debating coun cil which arranges the debates for the year. Before deciding defi nitely upon the time, rules and reg ulations, judges, and so forth for each debate, weeks of time are wasted and many unnecessary let ters are written. Such conditions as these are very unsatisfactory and constitute one of the chief reasons for intercol legiate debating taking a back seat. Athletic organizations have taken the American colleges by storm at the expense of forensic and literary j work, which is conceded to be more essential to the life of any college cr university than are athletics. Surely athletics fill a vital plaee. However, that is no reason why de bating should resign in order that athletics may reign. It is evident that debating and public speaking must become or ganized if they ever expect to re sume their popularity. It is not certain just what action the repre sentatives will take Saturday after noon, but it is fairly certain that debating in North Carolina col leges will be placed on an organized | basis. A committee will probably be appointed to draw up a number of queries from which the different colleges will make a selection. A method, no doubt, will be adopted for determining the time at which j the various colleges will meet in contest. i | I OPEN FORUM ! ! TO GUILFORDIANS After reading over the Guilfordian yesterday I felt a loneliness to be back at Guilford, for a little while. The spirit that pervaded the whole paper was a spirit of "doing something." Somehow there was a glamor about the paper that T did not feel when I was on the campus. J am glad indeed to hear that there is to be an annual this year. i ? J CANDY "OLEASANTS FRUITS T j -ILEASES j | Everything Good to Eat j L I >! | Belk's Dep't Store | | NEW FANCY LUMBERJACKS | * - or S Well-Dressed | College Men and Women >; | $2 95 ~ $ 4 95 i >: | Visit Us Often it: ; t: $ I BELK'S 1 November 17,1926 r feel that an annual will do much for Guilford. I am glad to hear of the work of the Gospel teams also. While I am not at Guilford any long er, I am still interested in her progress in every line and sincerely wish her j the greatest success in the work of this year. GENEVA HIGHFILL, '26. National Mon.-Tues Nov. 22-23 Corinne Griffith —in— "SYNCOPATING SUE" Wed. Night Nov. 24 GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES Thurs-Fri Nov. 25-26 Adolph Menjou —in— "ACE OF CADS" Saturday Nov. 27 Reginald Denny —in— "ROLLING HOME" MimimiMiiiiiiiiiiiririfimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimv You will find a welcome at | Guilford Friendly | | Cafeteria | Guilford Hotel Building S GREENSBORO, N. C. S iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ■ - -■ SHOES For All Occasions At Economy Prices 23 5 S. Elm St. Greensboro, N. C. I .■
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