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The Guilfordian
Published weekly by the Zatasian,
Henry Clay, Pliilomathean, aiul 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.
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GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C.
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PARAGRAPHICS
One more chance for Victory!
Guilford hasn't two hundred
and fifty men to organize a
"Cheerio Club," but from all re
ports about two hundred and sixty
Guilford men and women will visit
Elon Thursday afternoon, provided
they can secure chaperones.
Dr. Samuel Johnson says, "I* be
lieve marriages would in general be
as happy and often more so if they
were all made by the Lord Chan
cellor, upon a due consideration of
the characters and circumstances,
without the parties having any
choice in the matter."
A successful movement: The
Rainy Day Club is organized by
women 30 years ago to agitate for
shorter skirts.
The Japanese government offi
cials report that kissing costs them
$125,000, even though it is officially
barred as immoral and unsanitary.
This might be called a negative cost
as the sum is expended in cutting
kissing scenes from motion pic
tures.
Surely no one can say he did not
believe both in revolution and evo
lution after seeing the boys' rooms
before and after Thanksgiving !
A few of the Guilford College or
ganizations would do well to buy
an Airedale. In London SSOO was
collected for a dispensary for sick
animals by an Airedale who trav
eled from door to door with a box
and a sign hung around his neck.
The College Advisory Commit
tee, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Hollowell, began a custom
last Tuesday evening when they
entertained the Senior class that
will probably mean a great deal to
the students of Guilford College.
It is very seldom that the faculty
and students come together at a
formal reception. The knowledge
obtained at such functions often
proves to be of more value than
merely to have a good time.
Working Through College
One of the greatest achievements
of the present day college and uni
versity is that they are educating
their students to he more and more
cosmopolitan. The great increase
in enrollment has brought to the
colleges a different class of hoys and
girls from the class which attend
ed only a few years ago. It has
been a comparatively short time
since our educational institutions
were attended only by the wealthier
class. Occasionally an ambitious
young man could be found willing
to brave the hardship of working
his way. but not without being con
sidered "not as good as 1" by his
fellow collegians and fellow citi
zens. But, fortunately for the
"Common People," better termed
by Lincoln as "the backbone of
the nation," the American people
are subject to change as to their
conception of what is noble and
worthy of praise. Consequently
many stories have been written
about boys working their way
through college and there is a cer
tain romantic appeal to the whole
situation of a boy who has more
ambition than money, to the extent
of working out a college education.
Today the son of the millionaire
and the son of the poorest farmer
sit side by side in English class
with no feelings of social inequal
ity. The boy whose father scarcely
speaks English and who is a day
laborer in the mill may be the lab
oratory partner of a boy whose
father is of tremendous importance
in the engineering world.
Yes, times have changed, for now
a young man practically must have
an education it' he expects to suc
ceed and to advance after he gets
in the business world.
In recent years, therefore, it has
become the thing to go to college
and with this trend there enters
each year a large number of boys
who are planning to work all or
part of their way through the in
stitution of their choice.
Those boys who work their way
may he classified in two groups:
first, those who must work and are
willing to do anything for the priv
ilege of coining to college and, sec
ond, those who are not compelled
to work but are willing to provided
they can "pick up" an easy job.
If it is absolutely necessary for
a boy to work his way through col
lege, it can. with few exceptions, be
done, provided the individual is
possessed with a fairly strong body
and a reasonably alert mental ca
pacity. However, there are several
good reasons why a boy should not
work his way through unless he ab
solutely must. In the first place,
when such a task is attempted the
work of two men is carried on the
shoulders of one. Second, unless a
boy is an unusual scholar it will he
necessary for him to reduce his
schedule of sleeping hours and to
subtract from his time for study
considerably, both of which may
prevent creditable and even pass
ing grades. Third, if a boy is suf
ficiently capable there are many
outside activities which he can
turn to that will prove more profit
able for application when entering
the business world. Fourth, if it
is not necessary for a boy to work
his way, by accepting a job he
might shatter someone's chances of
THE GUILFORDIAN
receiving an education who was
compelled to work.
Many men are willing to work
only on the condition that they get
the jobs of their choice. The fresh
man entering college must realize
before he goes that he will not be
able to get the best type of work,
for all the best places are taken by
upper classmen from the year be
fore. He must be willing to take
anything available and glad to get
it, and work up from the bottom
of the ladder.
Outside Activities
A question of no minute impor
tance is standing before a large per
cent of the student body at Guil
ford, namely, are the regular
courses beginning to interfere with
the extra-curricula ?
In consideration of this question
of our organizations the writer is
thoroughly convinced that there is
not a single college activity 011 the
campus which is not for the better
ment of students. But the real
question is, would there not he
more good done and benefit derived
by doing a limited amount of work
properly and thoroughly than by
hastily passing over an over-supply
of work without obtaining all that
there is to be obtained?
Historical records show that
those men and women whose names
are worthy of mention in history
owe their achieved greatness to
their always sincere conscientious
belief in thoroughness in all their
work. It is said that Pasteur, one
of the world's most famous sci
entists, a hero in chemistry, never
knew what it was to skim through
a book.
It is possible and quite probable
that even in the small student body
in the atmosphere of an over
amount of extra-curricula a num
ber of perfectly good students get
lost from their studies and soon
forget about them until the quar
terly or mid-term reports come out.
Then it is growing rather late to
try to cram a subject.
The real value of a college edu
cation lies not merely in the
amount of history ami the number
of rules, theorems, and laws which
one may memorize hut in the
mental training toward alertness
and a firm fixation to one's moral
life the habit of truth and thor
oughness. The regular courses of
study offered have been so selected
and arranged that they afford just
such necessary trailing.
IRA G. NEWLIN.
The word "peace" in French is
pronounced like "pay" in English,
hut otherwise the two seem unre
lated.—Detroit News.
"U. S. to insist on poison gas
ban.'' This refers of course to war
fare only. It will continue to be
used politically."— St. Louis Star.
Scott Parker,
Circulation Mgr. Quaker,
Guilford College, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find check for $2.00 as deposit on the
1927 QUAKER. The remainder of the price of $5.00 I
will pay on delivery.
Yours truly,
DR. OTT DEMONSTRATES
GALLOPING MOTH BALL
Delivers Principal Address Before Offi
cial Chemical Organization of Guil
ford College Wednesday Evening
Wednesday evening at the regular
meeting of the Guilford College Chem
istry Club Dr. Charles Ott, head of the
chemistry department, gave a lecture
on the "galloping" moth ball.
The speaker opened his talk by brief
ly enumerating the extensive use of the
mothball throughout the world. The
one and only great objection to the
ball is that it takes too many for one
wardrobe. In his lecture Dr. Ott dem
onstrated the recent scientific discovery
that if the common ordinary garden
specie of moth ball be given the proper
quality and quantity of drink, it takes
on a form of life in which it moves con
tinuously from place to place so long
as the desired liquid is present.
In this demonstration it was pointed
out how one galloping ball is able to
take the place of hundreds of the orig
inal dead type. Although this new dis
covery will greatly affect manufactur
ers and salesmen, it will decrease the
average moth ball expense of house
keepers to a very small sum. The liq
uids necessary are an acid solution of
water and a solution of sodium hydro
gen carbonate. Two other numbers on
the club program were the "Romance of
the Carbon Atom," by Everett Beamon,
and a "Biography of the Life of Pas
teur," by Ira Newlin.
THE FALL PLAY WILL BE A
HAIR-RAISING PRODUCTION
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pense caused by unexpected happen
ings. This play was the hit of Broad
way for a year and a half, and was
produced by Paramount Pictures a year
or two ago, taking the public by storm.
Reuben Bundy is the up-state New
York caretaker, and his wife, Annie
Wagoner, will create in the audience a
happy feeling that will be held through
out. When William Ilollowell Magee,
the hero, enacted by Stanley Moore,
comes 011 the stage with his baggage one
will find new cause for interest as he
tells his purpose for coming to Bald
pate—to work out his new story. He
wanted to find the "lonesomest spot on
earth," away from the noise of New
York and Broadway night life.
The story unfolds rapiclly from the
time that Magee is left alone in a large
barn-like structure, Baldpate Inn, on
toji of Baldpate Mountain. Graft, hid
den money, crooks, blackmailing, scan
dal, and hysterics will sound out the
evening's enjoyment.
Other members of the cast are:
Lou Max, ex-convict and murderer —
Robert Ayers.
Bland, ex-convict and crook —Milo
Hoots.
Jim Cargan, the crooked mayor of
Reuton —Walter Davis.
Thomas Ilayden, the president of the
electric railway company—Howard Can
non.
Peters, the hermit of Baldpate—lra
Newlin.
Mary Norton, newspaper woman —
Ruth Farlow.
Mrs. Rhodes, the charming widow-
Naomi Wyrick.
Myra Thornhill, the clever blackmail
er—Esther Reeee.
The Asquiwan chief of police—Ed
Moore.
Policeman—Floyd Pate.
Hal Bentley, the owner of Baldpate,
Leslie Murphy, will help to make the
evening one to be long remembered.
November 24,1926
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