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THE GUILFORDIAN
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gress, August 24, 1912.
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Nucleus for a Student Center
On January 30, the hut, under the direc
tion of the Recreational Leadership group,
was opened for the use of the student body
from G :30-7 :30 each week-day evening.
Students are able to participate in dancing,
discussions, bridge or in any form of re
laxation. The co-op has provided a food
counter. At last the students at Guilford
that the hut is for their personal use,
not just a sacred meeting house for the
"Y," International Relations Club, or
Young Friends. The hut is at last be
coming the center which was its original
purpose. We realize that the hut is not
ideal in many respects. The stigma of Guil
ford's chaperone system hangs over it, yet,
the spirit of fellowship is there. The hut
is on its way to becoming one of the most
popular buildings 011 campus.
An important aspect of college life is
discussion groups,, whether the subject is
world-shaking or idle gossip. Every college
needs some place where students are free
to gather. Larger colleges provide Union
buildings equipped with recreational facili
ties, lounges, soda shops, book stores, etc.
Smaller colleges have student rooms to suit
their needs. The Union centers at High
Point College, Duke, Carolina, and other
colleges are examples of successful student
unions. That phase of college life is inade
quately provided for Guilford students at
Clyde's.
At present we are campaigning for
$350,000 toward "A better college for a
better tomorrow." Here is an opportunity
for the realization of our much needed stu
dent center. The gym, when completed
should lie able to provide such needs. It
should include a soda fountain, tables,
dancing space and juke box, as well as a
book store and supply shop. It would be
ideal to have a reading lounge and dis
cussion center.
Mr. Malinowski and the Recreational
Leadership group have planted a seed—a
beginning of a larger student union center.
It's an old tradition at Grinnell College,
la., not to have a date for the Friday night
basketball game. "Basketball games are
not for dates; they are for crowds."
Half the voters in the United States
have not finished the eighth grade, yet it
is after the eighth grade that the study of
history, economies and civics is begun.
. • CAMPOS PERSONALITIES •
f - . by Stoctjec
i mortimer
i mortimer is In a foul mood victoria is not the
lady i once thought she was since she is asking
a soldier to the dunce instead of me i mortimer
fell over my third antenna when i saw glamor
girl martle robinson all dressed in a dress with
almost 110 top and long black gloves victoria
says she was a hit at the bowman grey med
school dance those boys know their anatomy
it was so chilly last week that the morons and
victoria had to use the protection of several
comforts and blankets in the open air vehicle
that jonathan calls a car it was a last fling to
the beautiful friendship of picnics friday night
movies and castleburgers snaki knight and little
willie harmon seem to think the walk from the
coop to mary hobbs is a lovers lane from all
observations victoria has been hinting that she
would like a sparkler like judy nelson just re
ceived from lefty rails cpl i and victoria are
planning to hide in marge hubers suitcase when
she leaves for gatlinhurg she is not going there
to work 011 her thesis even patty shoemaker is
handing out that old line as an excuse for a
week end trip to Washington they must think
that victoria and i are dumb but we are just
as smart as the next caterpillar i mortimer am
fairly shaking with excitement over the Wallace
chamber of commerce jesse jones tangle victoria
reads drew pearson to me at breakfast so that
i absent mindedly put salt in my coffee to the
delight of the sadist martin i mortimer am
hounded more and more by victoria to help
build a little house in the sofa in senior parlor
the latest attack was brought 011 by the invi
tation to joe webb and flo duttons wedding and
the wedding of shirley ware to tommie brunk
hurts brother fred don werntz and deedie bill
lock seem to have a mutual interest this is
free advertisement for the information bureau
of gnilford college konn kalni the junior dance
is suppose to lie a super hunt for the male
animal all is fair in love and securing men for
guilfords fairer sex victoria makes me furious
because she is always flirting with uniforms
and now that jimmy andrews is donning a coast
guard petty offleer snazzy outfit i will probably
have to date doty the doodle bug all the girls
think coach doak is as poor a referee as he is
good a coach at least he makes the game exciting
mr hire stood the social psy class 011 its ear
the other day they must become conditioned if
they wish to survive any constructive criticism
esther elbert the caterpillar wishes he could
convince ella the earthworm as fast as clint
seems to have convinced pinke.v i mortimer and
victoria are always down at the hut these days
victoria dances too much with bob beyer in my
opinion but then i can always find comfort in
playing poker with pa and 111 a or beating that
lousy player martin in gin rummy gerhard
seems to have lost interest in the library since
the new semester began dance much victoria and
max ray have a bet that the ainericans will beat
the russians to berlin of course her brother joe
is over there in the thick of it i guess that
gives her confidence i mortimer am trying vain
ly to persuade martie melellnn to lend me her
ear muffs i can only take so much wagner hel
mut tlie home ec girls got in lots of practice
when hump tried to play ferdinand in a china
shop miff said ps to bert levlne and all duke
law students if you cant get it at law get it
at equity
THE GUILFORDIAN
OPEN FORUM
Dear Editor:
To put my point bluntly, I'm responding to
John Sevier's article on "Peace-Time Conscrip
tion" in the December 10 issue of The Guil
fordian. lie hoped for "constructive discussion":
I merely offer discussion.
When considering "Peace-Time Conscription"
(to be referred to later as P.T.C.), I would
like to toss in a point or two which seem quite
worthy of consideration, but not yet brought
before the public in the proper relationship.
Whether or not we have P.T.C., there is more
than a problem of making ourselves secure
against aggression.
The goals we set before us during the first
decade or two after the war should help us de
cide the issue of P.T.C. Probably the two most
worthy ideals held before the American people
are rooted in the realms of Domestic Policy and
Foreign Policy. These desires are to create the
much-heralded "C 0,000,000 jobs" and the U. S.
to take its rightful place among the nations of
the world in creating Global Peace. Such are
our pertinent aims. Whether or not P.T.C.
would serve us in reaching our goals mentioned
above should be a broader way of treating the
issue than the attitude most of us hold toward
Conscription—making it a priority decision be
cause of the fear we have of the future. Our
goals are overshadowed by an abnormal desire
to obtain security. Security is an enjoyable
situation, especially when we have a sound do
mestic system and foreign policy; but building
up a security to protect us from all neighbors
doesn't protect us from ourselves.
The far-sighted views which some of the most
progressive members in Congress now have are
worthy of consideration. They hold that indus
try and agriculture will very likely keep Amer
ica humming for several years after the war.
If the integration of industry and agriculture
fail, the government stands ready to produce
capital and public works as supplements. The
proposed waterway development measures for
the semi-developed Midwest and Northwest seem
quite likely to come into being, and probably
will accomplish desirable results as did the
T.Y.A. Thus I wonder just how P.T.C. would
fit into our postwar period. With relief rolls
small and our standard of living rising (and
thus the physical fitness level rising for future
generations), I wonder just what we would gain
by having P.T.C. As far as Domestic Policy
goes, there doesn't seem to be any need for
P.T.C. By not adopting P.T.C. there would be
less chance of civil liberties being encroached
upon, which in reality means that we would lie
so much farther away from one of the worst
parts of totalitarianism and Fascism.
When thinking over the second goal most
Americans hold before them—to create a lasting
peace with I T . S. participation—l again ques
tion the feasibility of taking on P.T.C. The
President on two specific occasions—when he
and Churchill put forth the Atlantic Charter
and when he laid down the Four Freedoms—
came very close to portraying what was deep
down in the hearts of most Americans: and
believing what he said, many went forth in this
war to win, for all. such justices. Yet as the
war drags on they realize that the eventual
winning of the war will not necessarily win for
them tile true pence which was the idealistic
objective which enticed many of them into n
soldier's uniform. The.v realize that something
is lacking in militarism itself, just as Ilitler
realized his Inability to enforce his peace in
"Occupied Europe." The totalitarian method
of controlling the citizens of a nation by means
of conscription is not necessarily a path to
security. The majority of Americans at the
present don't approve of Imperialism, but with
millions of drafted men handy at the disposal
of the government, an aggressive war might
easily begin—or further, the Greeks, Indians, or
primitives peoples in the East Indies or Africa
or elsewhere might be prevented from ac
quiring self-government, all in our guise of
policing the world. Conscription in our democ
racy would not add hope to the frustrated Euro
peans and Asiatics who are looking forward to
the time when we can show them a new policy
that will bolster their trembling hopes. Con
scription is nothing new to those who have
known it for generations.
Within a foreign policy of "Good Neighbor
liness" there is 110 room for P.T.C. The trend
in North and South America to abide in friend
ship isn't a result of large standing armies, but
in mutual trust —trust in our economic and
political affairs. In this trust alone can a
"Good Neighbor" policy bring about our goal
of world peace —not the "liig Stick" policy
which would result from conscription. The
President, our government, and we Americans
have proven the abilities we have in developing
a "Good Neighbor" policy throughout the world,
February 10, 1945
Through the Looking Glass
By JOHN SEVIER
The Wallace Question
Cooperation between government and business
toward the preservation of the free enterprise
system, provision for sixty million post-war jobs
with equal access to them by all, regardless of
race, creed or color—this is the noble platform
upon which the candidacy of Henry Agar Wal
lace for the post of Secretary of Commerce rests.
These objects are a far cry from the anti-Semi
tism, Negro-hating, labor-baiting monopoly capi
talism advocated and practiced by a "holy alli
ance" of Southern-Tories and reactionary Ke
publicans.
The issue is not whether Wallace has suffi
cient executive and business experience to hold
the Commerce job, although the Department of
Agriculture under Wallaces' direction instituted
and assisted a huge lending program to enable
farmers, whose mortgages might have been fore
closed by the Jesse Jones interests, to hold
their farms. This lending program was prob
ably equal in dollars and cents value to the
HFC powers which the "holy alliance" prevent
ed Wallace from using in his new job. The
issue is whether Americans will have a free
enterprise and full employment after the war
and its corollary, whether small business will
be given a fair opportunity to compete in the
post-war market.
So, you can see that two opposing camps are
being up for a knock-down-drag-out light over
an issue far deeper than that of Henry Wallace
as Secretary of Commerce —the issue of monop
oly capitalism versus a properly regulated free
enterprise system.
On the other hand, you may have organized
labor's realization that a properly regulated free
enterprise system is essential to achieving full
employment, small business realization that this
system would give them a better share of the
post-war markets, and agriculture's realization
that this system will enable them to retain
their farms and to sell their crops at higher
prices. On the other hand you have the Wall
Street bankers and speculators, members of
international cartels, and real estate brokers —
all realizing that a "controlled" free enter prise
would mean they would lose their hold on the
economic life of the nation and the world. If
their plans were carried through they would
thrust upon America an industry-Wall Street
dictatorship seething with unemployment and
privations for the masses.
You can see there is no "middle way" in this
issue. You either stand for full employment
and prosperity for all through a controlled free
enterprise system, as exemplified by Ilenry Wal
lace, or you stand for reaction anil economic
collapse, as exemplified by Jesse Jones.
for we have a working example in the Americas.
Perhaps this whole problem of whether to or
whether not to adopt conscription in peace time
boils down to the desire we have for security.
We have the choice of enjoying security through
the better qualities of our civilization—moral,
social, and economic; or, we have the choice
of conscripting our youth—thus mobilizing a
formidable army which more tlmn likely would
result in one more grand armament race among
nations. Thelatter policy would be u super-
natural worship of our military machine which
has known 110 defeats, and is thus held as a
means to end war. Such rationalizing by mili
tarists has never been proven throughout the
ages.
This discussion lias been offered, emphasizing
our domestic and our international goals, to
show the lack of any need for P.T.C.: for I
believe, when deciding this issue, the choice of
P.T.C. should be listed with other choices we
have to make when deciding our future. I'.T.C.
should not held a priority position placed above
our Domestic and Foreign goals.
The many other arguments against I'.T.C.
I have not presented so far because it was my
objective to discuss the opinions stressed above;
but certainly, cost, infringement upon indi
vidual liberties, creation of our own military
caste, and the way we would "let down" demo
cratic forces in other parts of the world ore
quite worthy of consideration before we decide
on I'.T.C.
liItADXIIAW SNIPES.
"Insofar as those who purvey the news make
of their own beliefs a higher law than truth,
they are attacking the foundation!) of our con
stitutional system. There can be no higher law
in journalism than to tell the truth and shame
the devil." —Walter Ijippmann.
Highlands University students last year bor
rowed an average of 1 :•s.:! library books as com
pared with n national average of 12.