Read SPORTSLANTS
by Jimmy Mann
VOLUME XXXV
Klub Kampus Kuties
Will Return Here on
April 23 With Show
Many New Features Will
Be Added to Show
On April 23, in the basement of
the Gymnasium, the Monogram
Club will once more bring to the
student of Guilford College the
K.K.K. (Klub Kampus Kuties). As
in previous years, students will be
given the opportunity to dance, eat,
and watch a most enjoyable floor
show. The Monogram Club has
been fortunate in being able to
secure T. J. and Company for the
musical end of the entertainment.
T. J. has been heard and acclaimed
throughout the whole of the I'. S..
there being no byway or crossroad
who has not heard and acclaimed
him.
On the entertainment side, the
club has been able to secure the
best acts in show business. A tour
ing company is to present a short
musical which had a successful run
on Broadway, in fact, no other
touring company has been run as
much as this one. There has also
been secured a guest pianist who
will render several old favorite and
several modern songs for the audi
ence. There will be surprising and
unusual acts, including "The Tumb
ling Tumble Weeds," and many
others too numerous to mention. All
of the entertainment will be topped
off with the most tremendous and
colorful chorus line ever to make
its appearance at Guilford College.
Guilford Student
Discusses Capital
The fear of Communism as the
World's greulest dungfr seems to
lie typical of Washington, according
to John A. Clark, Guilford Junior,
who spent three days in the national
capital recently us a member of the
Friends Political Seminar. Flour
additional Qull'fordians, Byron Bran
son, Billy Harris, Hayes Ratledge,
und Floyd Moore were members of
the North Carolina delegation which
s|)ent a busy week end studying
laws and law-makers.
Among the i>ersons most interest
ing to visiting Gnilfordians were
Senator Iloe.v, Representatives Dur
ham and Chatham, Dr. Kirk of the
Food and Agricultural Organization,
Dean W. S. Nelson of the School of
Iteligion, Howard University, James
Parker Wilson of the State depart
ment and Mr. Ernest Griffith, direc
tor of Legislative Service, Library
of Congress. The views of the latter
were seen by John Clark as most
representative of the type of think
ing UJKHI which our present govern
ment policy is founded.
Clark stated, "Griffith seems to
he (typical of the majority of men
in Washington. He is afraid of
communism, seeing communism as
the world's greatest danger today.
Griffith speaks with the authority
of a strong churchman and with the
righteous indignation of a more
militant Methodist when he says
that our great chance was muffed
by our failure to send enough mis
sionaries throughout the world to
block the communists. Although
there was not enough missionaries,
there were, according to Griffith,
enough atheistic communists to till
the void. Griffith contended that
pacifist action i.e., non-violent
resistance—is now in appropriate
both because it is too late for non
violence and nonviolence is not capa
ble of resisting communism any
way."
"Nonviolence works primarily in
dealing with Christian enemies
only," Griffith said when asked his
opinion to the utility of Gandhian
methods. He went on to say that
democracy itself may find it neces
sary to stoop to investigation of
potentially subversive individuals in
schools, government, and other pub
lic-interest organizations.
According to Clark, Mr. Griffith's
ideas would lack their astonishing
character were he but an ordinary
man on the street rather than a
supposedly objective reference libra
rian for our lawmakers.
The Quiffordicm =
GI T ILFORI) COLLEGE, N. C., APRIL 15, 1949
II H
I
Choir Extends Its Influence Far Beyond
Mississippi With a Successful Tour
"Choiritis" Present
A mongMany Students
Several members of the A
Cappella Choir, recently return
ed from it's annual tour, were
incaiMcitated last week by a
miniature epidemic of colds,
fevers, and influenza. Sudden
change of climate, lowered resis
tance. and general fatigue seem
ed to be responsible, according
to the college nurse.
Alumni Entertain
Seniors at Ragsdale
The executive committee of the
Alumni Association was at home last
Sunday at the Virginia Ragsdale
house to Guilford seniors. Presi
dent R. J. SI. Holihs presided at
the meeting.
President and Mrs. Hohbs and Dr.
and Mrs. Clyde A. Milner received
and Miss Era Lasiey, college regis
trar, registered the guests.
Among others present were George
C. Parker, Vice-President, Mrs. Boh
Jamieson, Mrs. Joe Cox and Miss
Mary Petty, who compose the house
committee.
The gathering was termed a suc
cess by all who attended. Many
of the guests were pleasantly sur
prised at the beauty of the alumni
House and its furnishings.
Brighter Side of Trip Is Given
In behind the Scenes Report
There is definitely a bright and
exciting side to our choir trip, so
lie re noes . . . Even no further away
than Gastonia, Ada Wayne became
an expense to "Busty." They had
gone up town to see the sights, and
when they had not ready to return,
Hust.v said, "Hon. where are you
staying." "I ... I ... I don't know
. . . but it has a big hedge in front
of it," said Ada. So they set out
in a taxi. Even in a small town of
Gastonia Rusty wound up with
.$7.20 less.
Between Gastonia and Murphy,
came some interesting data. We
inaugurated "rest stops," and as
we pulled off the road sit I.ake
Lure, everybody rushed over to Lake
Lure Inn only to find a sign reading,
"Not open until April 15th." The
president of the choir said, "Do
Guilford's A Cappella Choir return
ed April Si from its annual tour
which carried it 2.700 miles through
nine states. Port.v-six members of
the choral group were selected for
the concert tour highlighted L>y ;I|H
pearances before the National Con
vention of Federal Music Clubs in
Dallas, Tex. on March 30 and 31. Mr.
Charles C. Cnderwood, choir direc
tor and instructor in voice at Guil
ford, was in charge of the musical
organization which this year extend
ed its reputation beyond the Missis
sippi Hirer for the first time since
it began touring in 1930.
Singing in a mass chorus of 250
voices from 11 choral groups from
all over the I'nited States Guilford
represented North Carolina on the
night of March 30 in Dallas' gigantic
Fair I'ark Auditorium. The second
and important convention date was
the choir's performance for over
*I,OOO delegates at the "Bluebonnet"
Luncheon in the ballroom of the
Hotel Adolplius. A program selected
from the choir's repertoire of early
church music, modern anthems and
negro spirituals received generous
approval. An appreciation of Guil
ford's choir was expressed in the
applause which covered the entire
exit of it from the convention floor.
The singers thus carried out the
plans of the late Dr Weis under
whose direction they appeared be
fore North Carolina's Music Clubs
last year and received the invita
tion u> sing in Dallas .
Apiiearances on the route to Dal
las were made at Gastonia and
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yon think we can wait?" After eat
ing lunch in Asheville, we journey
ed on to Murphy.
In FayetteviUe, Tenn. we started
off with a hit: spaghetti dinner . . .
our director had his Mhare . . .three
plates. Mrs. Clara Ra Is tone, a for
mer Guilfordian of FayetteviUe,
was delighted to see us. The owner
of the Hotel Larkin threw a hie
party for the big group who stayed
there. He and one of our choir
members made a grand couple . . .
you guessed it: Sally Goodrich.
We hit Texas with n hang. Paris,
our destination, is about fifty miles
inside Texas. It's a nice town and
the people were very friendly. We
sang to a group of about 800 people
. . . The pastor is a graduate of
Wake Forest. .lean Smith was ask
ed by her hostess if the Quakers
believed in the Bible, and another
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Marshals Are Chosen
At Faculty Meeting
At the faculty meeting Mon
day night, the following were
chosen as college marshals for
I!C !)-.>: Hardy Carroll, Chief,
Hayes Ratledge, Thomas Goert
ner, John Haesloop, Margery
Anderson, Dorothy Kiser, Anne
Stafller, and Audrey Smith. The
students were selected on the
strength of various qualities,
with scholarship being consi
dered.
Hilfy Work Camp Will
Prove r Muy Interesanfe'
The selling sun is slowly trans
forming the countryside into golden
silhouettes as the small rugged train
makes its way over the distant hills,
dilatorily chugging its way toward
the little village of Gibara, located
well off the trodden path in north
ern Cuba, some twenty miles off
in fact.
Seated inside one of the three
cars which compose the "Forty-
Xiner," is a group of Guilford Col
lejre students, accompanied b.v Mr.
Hilt.v, Simnish instructor back at
the old "Quaker Pride." As the
party moves slowly by the unique
scenery, places of interest and
characteristics of the natives are
drawn to the attention of the party
by Mr. Hilt.v, who is well acquainted
with the country, lieing five years
a teacher in a Quaker school at
Holgiiim, Cuba.
These Guilford students will spend
seven weeks in Gihara, reconstruct
ing a (lining hall at a Young
Friend's camp. The dining hall will
be used for various things, such
as class rooms in the day school,
and recreation building for small
children.
During their first weeks in Gi
hara, the group will lie joined by
Mr. and Mrs. William Kiddle of
Karlham College, who later will
journey to Jamaica.
The camp will be set up on the
basis of all Young Friend's camps,
the self-help co-operative lisis.
Plans are to have a forty-hour-a
week working hours. There will be
occasional lectures on Spanish and
I-a tin American cultures and Social
Economic religion problems of Cuba,
also there are to lie frequent week
end tours of the surrounding places
of interest. During the last week
the entire camp will attend the
Young Friend's conference which is
ito be held on the site of the camp.
NUMBER 8
Purdom Returns to
Guilford From Oak
Ridge, Tenn., Meet
Pleased With Various
Incidents; Met With
Foreign Physicists
Dr. S. Garness Purdom, head of
the I'hysics department of Guil
ford College returned the 7th of
April from four weeks at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee. He participated in a
four weeks' study conducted by. the
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Stu
dies sponsored by 15 Southern Uni
versities and the Atomic Energy
Commission.
The study group was made up of
25 men and women from all over
the United States and live persons
from foreign countries; Belgium,
New Zealand, Spain and Norway.
Tliey experimented with artificial
radioactive isotopes with the aid of
the atomic pile, also called nuclear
reactor. The nuclear reactor at Oak
Itidge is the only one in the United
States. Elements, such as manga
nese or phosphorus, were put in the
reactor and bombarded with neu
trons, making, the elements radio
active. Then plants and animals
were subjected to the radioactive
elements and studies were made as
to the amounts of the elements the
plants or animals could absorb. The
measurements and results of these
experiments were hoped to throw
new light on disease cures.
Thirst for Fortune
(an End in Contest
The thirst for Fame and Fortune
—SI(K),(KK) worth—is so strong in
college writers that they have cata
pulted two small University towns
into the top ten sources of entries
in National Five Arts Award com
petition, according to a break-down
of the tirst 23,00) manuscripts and
inquiries made at Award headquar
ters, 715 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Iterkeley, California is second na
tionally, a 'position that can be attri
buted to the fact that it is the home
of the University of California. Stu
dents at the University of Vermont
have put Burlington in Tenth place.
Collegians stand the same chance
as the pros in this competition, since
the manuscripts will not carry the
author's name—just a number. The
current sensational success on
Broadway of "At War With the
Army," written by two ex-Gl's still
at Yale proves that you don't have
to kick around Times Square for
years before coming up with a hit.
Similarly, there have been smash
song hits written on the campus.
Remember "East of the Sun" from
the Triangle Show?
These awards are unique in that
they cover six writing fields: the
play, short story, short short story,
popular song, radio script and
movie synopsis. Cash awards total
fellowships $70,000, PUUS
the fact that Five Arts launches
careers by arranging for profes
sional publication and production.
The non-profit nature of Five Arts
has attracted the top names in each
field as judges: Play—Moss Hart,
Mike Todd, Arthur Hopkins and
Barrett H. Clark: Short Sory—Betty
Smith, .lames A. Micheiier ami Whit
Burnett; Popular Song Benny
Goodman, Duke Ellington and Vin
cent Lopez: Radio Script Arch
Oboler, Ed Byron (producer of Mr.
I). A.) and Erik Rarnauw (presi
dent of the Radio Writers Guild);
Movie Synopsis—Hal Wallis, Ana
tole Uitvak and Rouben Mamoulian.
Since the competition doesn't close
until July 1, why not write for
entry blanks and full information.
Friendly Corner Open
The Friendly Corner, former
popular meeting place of (Juil
ford students is now reopened,
after being closed since some
time in October. The Comer is
now under the new management
of three local businessmen, who
are former Guilford Students,
Ka.v Cuinmings, Charlie Staf
ford, and Brtv Stafford.