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Page Two THE GUILFORDIAN Published semi-monthly by the Student Body of Guilford College. MEMBER North Carolina Collegiate Press Association STAFF Dorothy Wolff Editor-in-Chief Pearl Kimrey Managing Editor Sinclair Williams Sports Editor Robert Carroll Associate Editor Frances Carter Associate Editor Lewis Rosenfelt Contributing Editor Miss Era N. Lasley Alumni Editor Mary E. Pittman Ass't Alumni Editor Miss Dorothy Gilbert Faculty Adviser Philip W. Furnas Faculty Adviser Reporters Frank Allen Nell McMullan Sara Davis George Greene Bera Brown John H. Williams David Parsons Leroy Miller Edith Cooke Julia Plummer Business Staff Wade Mackie Business Manager Robert Jamieson Ass't Business Mgr. Morgan Raiford Ass't Business Mgr. Edith Trivette Circulation Mgr. Carl Jones Ass't Circulation Mgr. Alice Conrad Ass't Circulation Mgr. Mary Linville Secretary Elizabeth Parker Secretary Duane McCracken Faculty Adviser Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. Subscription price $1.50 per year Entered at the post office in Guil ford College, N. C., as second-ciass mail matter. JUST GETTING TOGETHER In Quaker circles, Westtown Pre paratory School is symbolic of the quiet efficiency of scholarly achieve ment. To hear the students speak of their school is to see the representa tion of a true loyalty and respect for an alma mater. There seems to be an intangible something instilled that at taches one to the place so firmly that years do not lessen that attachment. Home-coming days are joyous with the friendliness between the students of a score of years ago and those not graduated. The atmosphere is a hospitable one, and no student ever feels a lack of welcome when he "goes back." This particular example is used only to show what we might have also. We both are founded on the principles of Quakerism. The same traditions guide administration. The same ideals of scholasticism are goals. Yet there is something we have miss ed. Our Alumni Association is a com paratively large one, but only a few are active members. Our student body exists on the campus, but few of them live for Guilford College. We seem to have missed that loyalty which keeps us in contact with the place where most of our standards of living are formed. We seem to for get that we are only a part of a big movement—yet remember that we are a part. We seem to lack that hospi tality for those who are our own—and so they don't come back. Few problems are unsoluable and few conditions are unchangeable, so we make this a plea for a get-together on things. We want the students and alumni closer to each other—and both closer to the college. Do help us get it! Trade With Our Advertisers ■ HALF -TONM- ACT ■ (nEiDMiriT| 'Hade With Our Advertisers f —— . BELK'S DEPARTMENT STORE The Home of Better Values Washington Square GREENSBORO, N. C. OPEN FORUM To the Editor Time! We all possess it! But how many of us utilize it in a profitable manner? I am certain that all of us want to make the very best use of our time. How shall we go about it? The Time Budget as prepared by a representative group of faculty and students, is a step forward in answer ing this question. For the past weeks there has been quite a bit of discussion concerning this budget. That's as it should be, for we want to understand clearly what it's all about before it is adopt ed. The plan is not a perfect one which will fit each student's need— one of that nature would be an im possibility. However, if the present budget is adopted many of the time problems on the campus will be solv ed. Them committee meetings and other necessary extra-curricular ac tivities will not interfere with study ing. Some have expressed the desire to change the free Wednesday afternoon to Monday morning in order that the week-end might be prolonged. I see no need of "putting off the evil day." I think the plan is not that Wednes day afternoon is to be a holiday, but a time for extra-curricular activities and for ourselves. W'e—faculty and students—must realize that the plan, as suggested, is not to be a hard and fast rule. I do think that this budget is a good one and if we adopt it, with possibly a few modifications, we shall have made a big step forward. Isabella Jinnette, '3l. Dear Editor: Do you realize how much the suc cess of next year depends on us? Do you realize that next year has to be a success if we want the things we have asked for to be carried out? Do you realize that it will take some one with personality, backbone, and bus iness initiative to put it across ? Do you realize that in the next few days we elect a person who is to share this responsibility and put this proposed program over ? We need one who will not do what he or she thinks best, but who will consider the point of view of the stu dent body, the faculty, the trustees, the future, and our Alma Mater. We need one who will be open to all sug gestions and who will, along with the student body, weigh things for their value. We, who are going to be here one, two, or three years should be vitally concerned over who is elected to these positions. Let's don't judge all the people by their sweet disposi tions. Let's consider the tact, the bus iness authority, the concern the per sons have for the students and the college, and their ability to put things across to all. We should be very careful as to all officers we elect for one person can't do it all alone. That person needs a strong group to work with, a group who will not be prejudiced or who are going to hold little things against you. Don't you want a gruop who will treat everyone alike and treat them as hu man beings? It is hard for a mother not to think that her baby is the pret tiest baby in town, so we sort of naturally feel our leaders are the "cutest" people on the campus, but still we should realize that maybe there is something better in the other person even if we don't especially like that person. Let's don't let too much of this personal influence fool us into something that will harm us as well as our college standards. When you go to vote, remember that this is a free country—you can vote as you please! If there is a per son put up for an office that you think would do better in another position, don't hesitate to scratch the ballot and put in the person whom you think best suited for the position. Don't let popularity be your guide. Let sound judgment, common sense, and deep consideration as to what that position needs, be your criteria. If you are not satisfied with the one running for office, and if you don't make an ef fort to change it, then, if things go wrong, you have no one to blame but yourself. I hope all the students will be seri ous about this thing, for it is a seri ous occasion. I believe we would do wrong by putting in officers next year who let people "pull the wool over their eyes." We don't want to put in people because they are easy-going— we want some one in who can stand the storm, and still treat us fairly, and at the same time, do what is right for all. Next year is going to be more than stormy if the right lead er doesn't get in. Experience is a dear teacher, and this year has shown us that it is true. We can't afford to lose any next year by learning, but we must profit now by our former mistakes. If we can get someone in office who will work, and pull and push; our program will have to be a THE GUILFORDIAN success, and our Christmas gift of 1932 will be a real student body who is capable of solving' its problems ALONE! I don't believe very many of us are proud enough, at present, to go out and brag on our Alma Mater; but if we will all work together to put in our strongest leaders, and then stand by them, and consider everyone, not just our own little selves, we will have something to be proud of. I'm hoping the students realize that the nominees DO NOT HAVE TO BE ELECTED! Anyone you feel should have the place, put his name in! The names are being posted ahead of time, so if you want anyone else to run, nominate them! You will nev er get what you want, unless you ask for it, and then you usually have to pay cash—and carry! Be Independent, broad-minded, do what you think best, and vote for the persons who will see that the proposed plan is carried out next year. Remember that after they are elected there is nothing you can do about it, but now is the moment to choose your leader and elect him. Really analyze the nominees, and don't O. Kay them just because they are nominated. Often a good man is never put up who should be. Maybe there is a good one left and no one has nominated him. Why don't you? I hope you are not bored with all this, but there is a need for consider ing this problem, and the future of Guilford depends on next year's of ficers! Are you concerned over what you have to live by the rest of your time here? Do you want to continue as it is at present? Do you want things definite, strong, fair, open, and moved by a student force? Then choose your leaders—And elect them! Sincerely, SOL LEVI. Quaker Material Ready For Press Special Photographic Work and Features Distinguish Year Book At last the copy for the Quaker has been sent in to the printer and the editorial staff is standing by, breath ing a sigh of relief, and waiting for the proofs. The books should be in the hands of the students a short time before the end of school. Were it not for the fact that the annual was included in the student budget it would have been next to impossible to print a Quaker this year. As it now stands almost the en tire source of revenue has been from this student fee, as discouraging bus iness conditions have cut advertisers lower than low. As a result, the annual this year will be small. It was not made small through any wish of the editors nor at the expense of excluding necessary material. The book will adequately cover the points of interest during the school year, but its contents will find pictures occupying the greater portion of the space. Two or three new ideas will make the coming Quaker entirely different from any of its predecessors. There will be a different arrangement of group photographs and the campus views will be presented in an entirely new way. To give any further information concerning the annual would only serve to do away with any suspense on the part of the students. If they will only not condemn this year's volume because of its brevity and will make an effort to judge it on the basis of merit, the work of the staff and of the Benson Printing com pany should provide them with a book which will be recognized as one that will serve was a good record for the school year. Suicide Is Subject Of Mr. Haworth On Wednesday, March 10, Mr. Samuel Haworth talked to the stu dents on suicide. "Considering the burdens some men carry and the great principles that others have stood and suffered for, why should not men today face the things they have created?" he asked. "Isn't it foolish and cowardly to slip away and leave the burden on someone else, perhaps his wife and children ?" Many magazines and newspapers are taking the attitude of excusing men for this. How much better would it be to live to old age and then meet death with calmness and serenity as in Bryan's "Thanatopsis ?"—sustain ed and soothed: By an unfaltering trust, approach they grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams." Claudius Antigonus Themistocles Deceased, Goes Into Moralization Of course I know that cats should never have concerns—least of all, should dead cats have them. But cer tain matters have been weighing heavily on my conscience, and a clean conscience is about the best thing you can have in cat-heaven, so this is a sort of clearing day. It isn't con ventional, I agree; but while I was an inhabitant of the campus, in both body and spirit, I lived strictly ac cording to all catty conventions and Quaker traditions, but now that I am become an angel cat, I do pretty much as I please. So if I choose not to do those things a respectable cat with the night attitude should—then that's my own affair. And I'm choos ing not to right now. "When spirits walk" makes a very picturesque beginning for a sermon, anl if I were going to preach, I would use that, but since I'm not, I'll use it anyway as the beginning for my con science cleaner. When I walked and decided to com municate with the material world, I had just finished seeing the crack ex hibition the little, (and big), Quak erettes staged last week. I had seen much evidence of their physical abil ity during all of my nine lives, but I was quite entranced over seeing it brought out as it was. Even I know that a cat with golden hair, blue eyes and a harp tucked under one paw would be a disturbing spectacle to the guests, so I quietly sat among the rafters and had a birds'-eye view of the entire exhibition. Naturally, the colors exposed hurt my eyes, since I've been accustomed only to golden streets and whipped cream. However, if blue insists on being so blue, there is still hope that rompers might demand being crim son and grey sometime. Anyway, I liked the stunts, and I had to admit that there was very little that even I FIVE FOREIGN STUDY SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE American Friends Service Com mittee Announces Qualifications MEN - WOMEN ELIGIBLE There are five scholarships for for eign study available for next year. These are made possible through the American Friends Service Committee. Four of these scholarships, called the Clement Biddle Fellowships, are for the amount of S6OO. These are available only to members of the So ciety of Friends. Students seeking them must be of high intellectual ability and academic standing, and must show that they will use the in formation received to promote inter national understanding and good will. These scholarships do not require that the student spend a full year. He may spend a few months in Geneva, traveling in Europe and in London. Another scholarship, called the Mary Campbell Foundation, is for in ternational studies in Europe. It is available for Friends and non-Friends and yields an income of SSOO. The Mary Williams Fellowship, producing SI,OOO, provides for the candidate to teach in the Friends' School, Ram Allah, Palestine, for the school year and to spend the remainder of the twelve months in travel and study. All of these scholarships are avail able for either men or women. Appli cations should be addressed to Amer ican Friends Service Committee, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and should be in by February 20. Louis Untermeyer Lectures N.C.C.W. Louis Untermeyer, one of Amer ica's very modern poets, was a re cent speaker at the North Carolina College for Women in their lecture course. With studied superficiality he charmed his audience by his clever presentation of his outer self, and the lightness of his moods. He read several selections of his own compo sition which gained depths of mean ing in his interpretations. "Caliban In the Coal Mines" and "Swimmers" were excellently given, and the surging beauty of "A Prayer" was ex quisite in the tones of its creator. Untermeyer also read some of his famous parodies, among which was his favorite—"A Parody On Eddie Guest." In the gloaming, oh my darling, When the g;as is dim and low, That your face is powder painted How am I, sweetheart, to know? could teach about climbing ropes. No one in my life time suggested that I was a rhythmic cat, but it doesn't take a critic to note that dancing might improve in beauty if the music were a guide as well as an accomplish ment. Maybe that is one reason the fel lows reacted so audibly to parts of the program. Being an angel, I feel that comments are superficial, but with another memory giving my con science fits, I better get it off my chest. Back in basketball season the student body was penalized a free goal shot for discourtesy to a visiting team. And even being a cat didn't re move all the funny feeling I had about that; 'cause, after all, it was the same crowd who pitched bricks at me, or fed me bits of bacon, and one gets a fondness for a group so saturated with the foolishness, kind ness, and geniality that college stu dents seem afflicted with. And be sides that, some personalities just antagonize anyway, but there are more ways of expression than a razzy. So I sat up there and chewed my claws, hoping that the fellows would not get playful enough to hurt feel ings. However my disposition always im proved after a carefully aimed whack with a broom, or a particularly vio lent "Scat!" Anyway, I got all ex cited about the poor old woman in the shoe and almost lost my balance dur ing the croquet game. All that sing ing and choo-chooing reminded me that I was going to be late for taps, so I took an extra grip on my harp and departed. The evening had been such a pleasant one that I even grin ned at the New Garden roof which had been the terror of my night life. And the great moral to this disser tation is always be conventional and maybe you'll be an immortal cat someday. DEAN MILNER SPEAKS ON LOYALTIES AT C. E' Leaders of Oxford Movement (iive Food, Air, Exercise As Spiritual Tonic Dean Milner spoke to the Chris tian Endeavor class Sunday night, March 15, 011 "Our Loyalties and Their Effect 011 Our Lives." He defined loyalties as ideals and standards of conduct. According to Josiah Rcyce, the famous Harvard philosopher, our ideals have a great influence on our lives and should be the centers of our spiritual existence. Mr. Royce has written a book on this subject in which he has centered his system of philosophy around loyalties. The leaders of the Oxford move ment have prescribed a spiritual tonic of food, air, and exercise. As food we should devote a few minutes of each day to thought of the reading of the Bible or some other book. Exercise might consist of a statement of our loyalties every morning and night, "call it prayer or what you will." Air, although the lightest of the three, is not the least important. We should keep our ideals at the front all the time and live by them as much as possible. SALESMEN WANTED We need men in North Carolina to sell our highly refined, distilled and filtered tractor and motor oils to the farm trade with credit ac commodation to Fall of 1931 with out note, interest or mortgage Liberal commission to salesmen with weekly advencements and full settlement the first of each month. Must have car. The Lennox Oil & Paint Co., Dept. Sales, Cleveland, Ohio. ALWA YS SERVE THE BEST PHONE 2-1125 I*' —"— "| J. M. Hendrix Company The Place to Buy SHOES All Sizes, Widths, Best Styles 223 S. Elm St. Greensboro, N. C. March 25, 1931 QuAKBR-QuiPa And now there is the one that Mas sey Tonge will use nothing but Car ter's Ink. Well, well, well! That "fortune-teller," "mind read er," or "what have you," that was in the Carolina Theater last week would be a great help to a student on an exam. Last week we meant to crack about the track team's nice new red silk panties, but forgot it. Anyway, with clothes like that, the team should all get callouses on their chests from breaking tapes. Now that the girls have gone to such trouble to build up a "Campus Bench Fund" we hope that the benches that are bought are put to proper use; or rather, that it will be possible to put them to proper use. Which reminds us; isn't there some possible way the boys could raise some money to buy more davenports for Men's Center? On Saturday and Sunday nites you can't buy a seat three minutes after dinner is over. If more davenports could be procured, after all available floor space is used up, the "Stacking Theory" might be used. Which also reminds us that we think a vote should be taken as to what kind of music the "Fairy God- Fathers" should tune in during date hours. We claim the title of the "Worlds Wcrst Tennis Player"—"Pop-eye" Van Noppen beat us three sets. "Brick" Gouger's a lover!!! If the same weather prevails Wed nesday for the Inter-Class Track Meet that has been in vogue for this week end, the races will have to be started from a diving board. Spring is here—Bob Jamieson is writing poetry—and SUCH poetry! Trade With Our Advertisers ELLIS, STONE & CO. "MERCHANDISE OF QUALITY" Ready-to-Wear, Millinery Shoes and Accessories * Patronize Those Who Patronize IJs + A THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK HIGH POINT. N. C. 4. —Patronize Those Who Patronize Us CAUL JONES Agent Fop SY K E C SHOE SHOP O 110 W. 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