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THE TWIG ALUMNAE COLUMN OFFICERS Preeident: Bertha L. Carroll, '18, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C. Vice PresldeDt: Mrs. Eugone 1. Olive, ’13, Chapel Hill, N. C. Recording Secretary: Ruby Davis. '27, Morcdith College, Ralelgb, N. C- Commencomont Speaker: Mary O'Kelly, '26, 521 E. Joues St., Raleigh, N. C. Alternate Speaker: Laura Cox, ’C4, Kenansvllle, N. C. Alumnae Secretary: Mae Grimmer, '14, Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C. Kenanavllle, N. C. January 29, 1929. MT dear MlCREIlITIl FulESDS: Who knew furlough ■would be so great? Only those who have ex perienced it. I am sure. Since last June I have been enjoying the privilege of livlug In the good old U. S. A. The aummer months were spent with members of my family, while the fall months were passed in the Missionary Institute, New York. My thoughts go back to China. Wouldn’t you like to have been in our party consisting of a Chinese evange list, Bible woman, Mr. and Mrs. Fielder and me aa we weut on a visit to Hsueh Tien, one o£ our outstatlons? When we stepped off the train one ot Iho Christians was there with his ox cart to meet us and in about an hour we reached tiie chapel. As toreis'n women had never been to that village many ciima to see what kind of creatures we were. It was amusing to hear tho children, “Are they men or women?" We wore big shoes, skirts, and hats, while they were aceustomtd to see their mothers and sisters wear tiny shoes for bound feet, trousers, and no hats. The chapel was filled to overflowing with those who heard the Way of Life. Many of the Chinese slstei's learning that Mrs. Fielder and I were of their sex, lingered in the yard giving us an opportunity to speak personally of Jesus the Saviour. Ro- luctantly we loft this village for other work, yet joyous bocause some had heard the Gospel. Though I could write on and ou about visits and work among women In tho outstatlou I must tell you of the opportunities found ou returnlnK to Interior China about a year ago after being a refugee on the coast for several months. N'ow that the Nationallsia were really in control what opportuni ties would missionaries have? Those who have iicen there longest say they have nover seen in the province of Honan such readiness to hear the Gos pel. The wounded soldiers occupying our schools and residences begged for tracts and a book, as they called tho Pocket Testament. I know of some who read their Testaments through In a few days, This was encouraging when there had beon much anti-foreign and antl-Chrlstian propaganda. Ijjt me tell you of another instance whore efforts against Christianity turned out favorably. A Christian mother whose children were attending the government school said that the toacher told the pupils to burn Bibles, and to depend on Sun Yat Sen, tho founder of the revolution, as thair provider. What was the result? A dosiro to know the contents of tho Bible was aroused. In a short time the book-room keeper came In rejoic ing saying that non-Christian pupils from this same school were coming to get Bibles. Not only has anti-Christian propa- granda roused a desire to know move about Christ, but In the Province ol Honan Qonoral Peng’s order forbid ding the sale of idols has brought forth iDQuiry concerning th© true God. The Bible women and I waro visiting Mrs. Chang whoae gods the govwnment em ployee had recently destroyed told her of the one true God and Jesus who died for her, she kept interrupting with the question, "How do you wor ship Jesus?” This inquiry made our hearts rejoice and gladly did we con tinue to tell her of Him whom we must worship in spirit and in truth. I long that I shall not be delayed one day in getting back to the field that I may help to answer that question for many of these our sisters who are for bidden to worship idols and know not to whom to turn. Pray that now while the opportuni ties are so great, we as Southern Bap tists shall go forward redeeming the Lime. Christ is our victorious Cap tain. Trusting Christ shall enable each of us to have a share in answering the question of our Chinese sisters "How do you worship Jesus,” I am, Sincerely yours, Ka'hb Muiiuay, ’19. T WHA'J' IS MAXTIK HERBINO DOINGi {Continued from page two) Ing in the Institute on the industry phase: I had worked in industry in the North and the South and I had a master’s degree. The fact that I was a North Carolinian and was graduated from Meredith were no small con siderations in the case, as they wanted some one for this particular subject who had an essentially Southern, and preferably North Carolina, background. My first work was a study of the wel fare activities carried ou by mill cm- ployors in North Carolina—its history and present status. To collect the material for this I vlalted over three hundred mills, drove about in the vil lages, talked with mill executives, mill employees, welfare workers teachers and anybody I could talk to. (Incidentally I saw a lot of Meredith people on these jaunts, and many ot them made me and my faithful collie dog companion and protector welcome into their homes.) And then I had to write It up! Do you older grads re member how hard we had to work on a history paper for Mias Smith and how the thought of the term paper weighed upon us for the whole term? Well, it was llice writing about twenty or twenty-flve history papers, one right after the other! But it was Anally done and since then I have been working on a history of the textile Industry in the South. At present I am roughly up to the Civil War. You did not know thore was any textile industry in the South until recently? I am afraid my ideas on the subject were rather vague, but I have found that the carding and spinning of North Carolina women was a matter of Interest to th© Cabinet of Great Britain In colonial days: that to be a stock holder in a cotton mill marked one with a political stigma during Nullification days in South Carolina; that shortly after this it became a philanthropic undertaking to huild a cotton mill. The making of clothing seems always to have been a subject that had a vital bearing on political and social life as well as economic interests. And so this study of Industry, es pecially the textile Industry in the South can lead one ou to many phases of regional sociology. We plan to make other studies of the working mother, ot the psychology of the cot ton. mill complex, of labor turnover of the mill worker’s vs. tho agrlcul turoJ worker’s freedom and so on through a list that alternately thrllla me and makes me despair, for It will last long after the funds we have to work with have been exhausted. Since these articles by alumnae aro written for an undergraduate paper om sur© that, in big sisterly fashion we ought to point out a nice moral— to cite tho lessons well learned that hava helped us and tho lessons ill done Aa we that have made th© road harder. But there are so many things that might' be useful! 1 once made such a hit with a mill exccutivo because I recog nized the difference between net and gross Income Ihut he gave me one of the best interviews 1 hail In the year's work. But I need so to know mors economic theory and to understand corporation finance. I need all the little American histoiy I know’; I need to know more Southern history, and never, not even in this study of South ern industrial history, more urgently than when I was being quizzed by a remarkable professor visiting us from the University of Melbourne. My Fi'euch and my OernuLn are sufllcieut for me to understand the highly ac cented—but usually pcvfeot—English of visitors with those native tongues, but not sufficient for me to read the books in those langunges that are com ing out in my field. I'm glad my work on tho annual taught me the difference between zinc copper plates, but recently I and needed to know about the format of a book and the difforence betwoon linotype and monotype. I dissected earth worms in biology, but I wish I knew what makes ihom come out on the lawn on warm, wet spring morn- (Oonlinucd on page four) WEST SIDE SODA SHOP We Cater to Meredith Girls SULLIVAN’S KING OF SHOEMAKERS 124 S. Salisbury St. STATE “STUDENT'S FRIEND" Mon.-Tues.-Wtfd. 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