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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Ideal and Real
Spasmodically the old question
of Student Government conies into
prominence and is hashed in and
hashed out and hashed up until it
might be likened unto a breakfast
after a meat day.
Periodically some instance of
misdemeanor precipitates a penalty
on some student and the friends
of the same let out a howl about
things in general and certain Coun
cil members in particular.
Regularly the old charge of pen
alties given on technical grounds,
and not on the individual evils or
merits of a case, is made and in
most instances this condition can
not be denied.
Fundamentally the organization
under discussion was formed to de
cide with a more sympathetic
judgment the various student prob
lems, taking into consideration the
conditions, and convicting or ac
quitting accordingly.
Ideally it was an attempt to get
away from technical rulings that
gave a girl a faculty mark for rid
ing to town with a faculty member
of the opposite sex —since there was
no fundamental sin therein.
Actually these technicalities in
rules have been the tools used to im
pose various penalties that seem to
have been administered more for
personal gratification of a lust for
the whip hand than any attempt
to correct.
Eventually we are arriving at the
point that student government, in
its intended place is a government
of the students, by the students and
for the students. Whether or not
the present form in college is filling
all these ideals is a matter of some
dispute impossible to settle. Stu
dent Government in theory expects
any student to report another. Few
would do that unless the offence
was a serious one. That part of
the plan will never become the pop
ular custom of even a third of the
student body.
Consequently what Student Gov
ernment at Guilford needs is less
technicality and a more broad
minded motive in judging whether
or not an offence against necessary
LIBERTY HIGH PLAY
DELIGHTS AUDIENCE
"Making Daddy Behave" Pre
sented At Mem Hall Is
Well Received
COACHED BY* SKIN BURKE
"Making Daddy Behave," a farce
in three acts, was presented at Me
morial ball Saturday evening by the
Liberty High School Dramatic Club.
Otis Burke, who graduated from
Guilford last year and who is princi
pal of the Liberty High School, coached
the play, and was instrumental in
bringing it to Guilford.
The setting was laid in the home of
Luben Burgess, wealthy president of a
large lumber company in San Francis
co, California.
Air. Burgess has two daughters and
a mother-in-law with whom he is for
ever having some sort of domestic fray,
lie tries to force his older daughter
into marriage with the son of his for
mer business partner, whom neither
have ever seen, so as to bring both big
companies under his own name. lie
also tries to prevent the marriage of
his younger daughter to his young secre
tary, a bashful, nice young man who
"doesn't go out at night because the
Y. M. C. A. closes at 9 o'colck." Both
I daughters, however, are determined not
to do as he wishes, and find an able
defender in their flapper grandmother,
"only sixty," who intends marrying
Burgess' lawyer friend. She scores him
up by having printed a fake announce
ment of his engagement to a Los An
geles factory girl, with whom he has
been corresponding, and gives him a
few lessons in discipline.
The hero, who has been reared on
one of the Aleutian Islands and speaks
only Shakespearean English, falls in
love with, and marries, the older
daughter and afterwards turns out to
be the man desired by Burgess to hold
that position. Ilis attempt to adopt
modern slang furnishes quite a bit of
humor in the play.
GUILFORD DEBATING
TEAMS BOTH LOSE
(Continued from Page One)
would be profitable to both the United
States and Russia, and that it is only
right in principle for the United States
to recognize the Soviet government as
a means of furthering world peace.
Although the affirmative put forth
good argument, the negative side was
able to win the derisions of the judges
by proving that the Soviet government
has not the approval of the Russian
people, and that the Soviet government
does'not regard its international agree
ments.
Tbe judges for the evening were
Messrs. McKay and Painter, teachers at
the North Carolina College for Women,
and Mr. Richardson, from Greensboro.
Guilford's negative team composed of
Bryon Hawortli and Worth Mackie de
bated against High Point College at
High Point also on the night of March
17. They too lost the decision of the
judges.
rules is really a misdemeanor or a
situation the outcome of unavoid
able conditions, or to say the least,
conditions that had no bad result.
Probably that situation will de
velop later and when it does the
average student will be more apt
to co-operate with an organization
—of him, by him and for him. For
tunately or unfortunately as the
fact may seem, there are many
Council members who do not co
operate with the present organiza
tion. When the much-needed form
of government develops we will at
least have a united Council and a
then co-operating student body.
THE GUILFORDIAN
THRIFT TALK AT CLOSE
OF MISSIONS SCHOOL
Professor Cole Illustrates Benefits of
Thrift in Final Address Heard by
the Six Weeks Session
HE USES SLIDES TO ILLUSTRATE
At the final sessions of the School
of Missions, which was held last Sun
day evening, Professor Cole gave an
illustrated lecture 011 "Thrift." He
pointed out that money is a governing
force throughout our lives, that all of
11s have to handle money at one time
or another, and that the way in which
we handle it has great bearing 011 our
character.
Professor Cole's points were well
brought out by the use of slides 011 the
subject, which he had procured from
the Y. M. C. A. at Winston-Salem for
the evening. For instance, the um
brella of savings comes in quite handy
on a rainy day when heavy rains are
falling from clouds of old age, sickness,
and loss of property. Ten dollars de
posited in a bank at four per cent in
terest will have grown to $20.70 by the
end of 15 years.
Of course there are many enemies of
lirift, such as waste, extravagance,
alse values, loan sharks, and that ever-
present temptation to say "charge it."
The large tank into which income pours
in a steady stream has numerous small
leaks—sodas, sports, tobacco, chewing
gum, and the like. There is a differ-
ence in saving some of one's income and
"being a good fellow." Thrift is neces
sary to a person who would be prosper
ous, because the old hen. of prosperity
will not lay unless there is the nest
egg savings. Most people would like
to have homes of their own, but they
can never build so long as they throw
away their wages and earnings.
Thrift demands recreation, not
wreck-creation, therefore "Let every
man be master of his own time."
In the practice of thrift, make your
savings stay saved, have a definite ob
ject, and be systematic. Beware of un
safe boarding places, and put your
money where you can watch it instead
of putting it out of your reach. Mr.
Thrift spends his dollar thus: fifty i>er
cent goes for living expenses, twenty
per cent is put to his savings account,
ten per cent each to charity, education
and recreation.
"There is a feeling in the hearts of
a great many Christian people that
thrift is contrary to the principles of
Jesus," said Professor Cole, in closing."
Rut it is Christian teaching that we
should save, and one of the great ob
jects in the thrift program is saving
for the church and other benevolent in
stitutions."
PIANO DEPARTMENT TO
GIVE PROGRAM APRIL 2
(Continued from Page One)
An invitation is extended to the mu
sical public to hear the program at Guil
ford on April 2. The program follows:
1. Allegro can brio—Mrs. Raymond
Binford, Paul Reynolds, Virginia Saun
ders.
2. Marcia Funebre; Adayio assai—
Esther Reece, Ruth Yates, Catherine
Cox, Blanche Spencer.
3. Scherzo and Trio; Allegro vivace—
Catherine Cox, Paul Reynolds, Elizabeth
White, Myray Gamble.
4. Finale; Allegro molto—Paul Rey
nolds, Virginia Saunders, Esther Reece,
Catherine Cox.
NEGRO QUARTET IS TO
SING FRIDAY NIGHT
The Hampton Institute negro quartet
from Hampton, Va., is to appear in a
concert here Friday evening, the 25th.
This quartet of singers is making a
tour through this state in an attempt
to advertise the work which is being
done at the Institute at Hampton. They
were here once several years ago and
at that time were very enthusiastically
received. There will be no gate charges
but a silver offering will be taken to
help in paying their expenses.
MATH STUDENTS DEBATE
METRIC SYSTEM MERITS
Decide That United States Should Adopt
the Better System in Departmental
Meeting Wednesday Night
RECEPTION IS HELD AFTERWARD
Wednesday evening, the regular time
for departmental meetings, was fea
tured by the presentation of a program
by the department of mathematics, un
der the direction of Prof. Wilmer J.
I'ancoast.
The two-part program was based 011
the subject, "The Metric System." The
first number involved a discussion of
the origin, history, and meaning of the
metric system, by Myrtle Richardson.
The second part of the program was
a debate 011 the question: Resolved,
That the United States should adopt
the metric system.
The negative speakers, Mary Ellen
Lass iter, Glenn Boose, and Wilmer
Steele, in the spirit of real debating
enthusiasm based their arguments on
the added confusion for school chil
dren, the cost warrented, and the con
fusion which transition would involve.
The affirmative, represented by Eliza
beth Levering, Ira Xewlin, and Leslie
Murphy, won by a two to one vote, the
decision of the judges by establishing
the points that the metric system, due
to the simplicity, is better than our
present "jumble," that the profit would
be greater than the cost Involved, and
that world uniformity is desirable.
The presiding offiicers were Presi
dent Thomas I Indley and Secretary
Myrtle Richardson. The judges for
the debate were professors Eva Camp
bell, Milton Davis, and G. Herbert
Cole.
After the program the math students
were given a social in the Biology lab
oratory at which punch and cake were
served.
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CAST FOR THE SPRING
PLAY READY TO WORK
(Continued from Page One)
Mrs. Wolfe is the shrewdest of
shrewd Jews and Ruddock is a perfect
valet, but you can't write a description
of the play. You've got to hear
Grumpy fuss over his breakfast, see
Virginia tease him into doing anything
she wants him to and watch Susan tell
him the absolute truth, although it is
very embarrassing to her sometimes, to
really appreciate the story.
The following cast has been selected
and practice has already begun:
"Grumpy," Olin Sink.
Ernest Heron, Charles Coble.
Ruddock, Ira Newlin.
Jarvis, Stanley Moore.
Valentine Wolfe, Charles Roberson.
Dr. Maclaren, Arthur Mackie.
Keble, Raymond Coltrane.
Merriden, Howard Cannon.
Mrs. Dawson, Elizabeth Braswell.
Virginia, Lena Farlow.
Mrs. Maclaren, Ilannah Griffin.
Susan, Sallie Wilkins.
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