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THE TWIG
December 14, 1945
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Thought for the day . . .
“Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men."
Luke 2 :14.
LetN Celebrate Christmas!
The Christmas angel can sing her song
of peace in peace this year, now that
actual war has ceased. A more respon
sive audience will be hers than ever
before—the whole wide world, hungry
for “Peace on earth; good will to men.”
Yet only in the way this audience re
sponds to the song in the actual celebra
tion of Christmas will its meaning come
true.
Too many tithes in the past, Christ
mas has lost its real meaning in the
gaiety of receiving presents, the tink
ling of sleigh bells, the sparkling of the
Christmas lights, the singing of carols
without meaning, and in the countless
festivities where the Christ Child could
never gain admittance.
We make the celebration of Christ
mas what it is, not by the actions of
the few weeks before, but by the things
we do from one Christmas to the next.
A person can not be changed on Christ
mas Eve to a peace-loving person if he
has not had peace in his heart before.
If Christmas this year is going to be
what most people think a celebration
is—just a big time, then there will be
no Christmas at all. Looking at the dic
tionary meanings of celebration, we find
the secret to Christmas. The first mean
ing given is to honor or observe. At
Christmas-time that is the real purpose,
to honor and observe Christ’s birthday
in our own hearts; to forget self and let
Christ be guest of honor. Another mean
ing is, to perform publicly and with ap
propriate rites. In this day, money is
flowing rather freely. Some people are
becoming spendthrifts while millions
are begging for bread. The Christmas
tree and gifts should not be done away
with; but they should be appropriate to
the conditions of today. Lavishness
should be abolished. Simplicity should
be the keynote.
Perhaps the most meaningful defini
tion of celebration is, to proclaim and
publish abroad. When the angel came
to the shepherds on that first Christmas,
he said, “Fear not, for behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy which
shall be to all people.” Therefore the
joy we receive at Christmas must be
spread to every nation. Unless we pro
claim Christ from the poorest servant
in America to the loneliest refugee,
there can never be “Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward men.”
A true Christmas celebration this
year will mean more toward the bring
ing of this lasting peace than the passing
of any bill in congress or the decision
coming from any conference. Let’s
rieally celebrate Christmas!
Student discussions in chapel are a
vital part of our Student Government,
if we are going to call ours a student
government. However, there is one
phase of this provision that hampers
more and freer discussions, i.e., the
presence of faculty and administrative
members in chapel on student days.
We have no desire to keep what goes
on in these student discussions a secret,
for that is where at least a part of our
failure lies now, but the very presence
of certain supervisors prevents true and
unrestrained statements by the students
regarding their views on the topic under
discussion. The views expressed by stu
dents in a critical or questioning spirit
will probably not be soon forgotten or
forgiven.
Is this the way it ought to be?
Name withheld.
Dear Editor:
We got absolutely nowhere this past
Thursday in chapel when talking about
the chapel programs. The same thing
happened in our hall meeting Friday
night, but I found out one thing—the
students do have control over the chapel
programs, so the hall proctor said. How
ever, whether anything will be done
about them or not is another story.
The students at Meredith do not ask
for a great many changes to be made.
I wonder why? It seems to me that the
reason for it is because so often what we
do request is considered “bad judg
ment,” or casually thrown aside with,
“They don’t know what they want.”
We sincerely enjoyed the program so
cleverly presented by Mrs. Freeman,
Friday. That’s what we need—some
thing alive, exciting and appealing. But
it isn’t necessary to go outside school
the few times we have guest speakers.
I know we enjoy—to a certain extent—
the few guest speakers we have had in
the past and we appreciate the effort
made to induce them to come, but why
not use some of our own talent? The
school spirit about which Meredith Col
lege knows absolutely nothing would
be greatly benefited if we would resort
to our own campus—look around us to
see and use the talent we have.
What a thrill it would be to listen
to Mr. Rembert talk on Modern Art. We
would submit to our primitive instinct
while Dr. F. G. Yeandle beat out some
boogie woogie on the piano. A voice re
cital by Miss Donley would enrapture
us; Dr. Cannady’s “Math Magic” would
fascinate us; we would be moved while
listening to an organ recital by Dr.
Cooper; spellbound by Dr. McCurdy’s
stirring poetry; bewitched by a modern
We students today are living in a
world unlike one ever faced by students
before. Therefore, we cannot settle our
problems by using former solutions as
an example. Of course, we can still
evaluate former solutions in construct
ing our own similar ones, but we must
face the fact that our age is literally dif
ferent from all others. We have to learn,
and learn fast, that problem the world
has tried for generations to overlook—
the problem of how to get along with our
neighbor, which now includes the world.
This sounds all high and mighty, away
off on the other side of the world, and
something we will never really be called
upon to practice, but it isn’t. You face
it everyday and ignore, or label it some
thing else.
It is easier glibly to agree with the
liberalist that we should all be brothers
than it is to be seen by your classmates
with someone “below” your social
scale. If her standards are lower than
yours, and if you believe yours are
right, is it harder for you to help her
bring her standard to yours than for you
to lower yourself to hers? And she
dance recital by Mrs. Rembert; de
lighted by a talk on Shakespeare’s life
and works by Dr. Harris; interested in
a history of jitterbug by Miss Peterson.
We would enjoy a recital by Mr. Stewart
Pratt at the piano and Miss Rosenburger
at the violin. Mr. Dorset! talking about
his work at the Mental Hygiene Clinic
and Miss Whitmer telling about her ex
periences in China, we should like.
And the movies Mr. Satterfield takes—
we hear so much about them and never
see them. Then too, we would appre
ciate our own Choir and Glee Club if
we ever heard them once awhile. And
why not programs by individual stu
dents.
These are only a few suggestions and
some of you may think these programs
vary too much. Jumping from a classi
cal program of music to one of boogie
woogie or from the life of Shakespeare
to the history of jitterbug, covers large
areas of taste, but the taste of the stu
dents varies. It is impossible to please
everybody at once we know, but it
would be a step toward the happiness
of all if we could be pleased, semi-
pleased, most of the time rather than
once in awhile.
Some of the teachers have told us
that we could have the kind of chapel
programs we want if we would demand
them. This is a demand for better chapel
programs.
Faithful Chapel Attender.
Happy Holiday Hopes
Evelyn Kocher: “I dare say that if I
plan to do much more than sleep late.
I’ll never do it.”
Ruth Summerlin: “Most of all, I plan
to be at HOME.”
Margaret Dover: “My husband is
home—need I say more?”
Mary Virginia Warren: “My plans for
Christmas are numerous, but among
them are sleep, eat, and enjoy being
home again.”
“Goat” Holcomb: “My plans for
Christmas include those old favorites
of sleeping and eating. Also, my plans
are going to be connected with that cer
tain guy in Winston-Salem.”
Martha Jones: “I’ll dream of July 4
1947.”
Margie Perry: “I want to lose those
ten pounds I’ve gained.”
Frances Simpson: “I’m going to have
a grand time waiting for Santa Claus.”
Kathleen Isbell: “I intend to ‘visit’
with my family.”
Mary G. Turner: “Are you kidding?
—eat! sleep! play!—eat! sleep! play.—
eat! etc., etc.!!!!!”
Charlotte Bowman: “Eat, sleep, and
practice piano, of course!”
Angelea Hatch: “No especially ex
citing plans in view for Christmas, but
gosh, I’m excited just the same.”
Meredith Liles: “Just plan to take
it easy.”
Ann Wallis: “My plans?—Hmmmm!”
Doris Harris: “Just thinking about
Santa is so exciting I forget all my
plans.”
Ruth Vande Kieft: “Enjoy Christmas,
write two term papers, and pray fever
ishly for snow.”
Eleanor Lockamy: “My plans? Good
ness, I can’t think of anything better
than being home!”
“Sunny” Bellamy: “ ‘I’ll be Home for
Christmas’ sounds heavenly—no kid
ding!”
Gloria Mayer: “Spend two days going
home and two days coming back, with
one long, joyful rest in between trains.”
Helen Wallis: “I plan to sleep half
the time and have as big a time as pos
sible the rest of the time.”
Joan Drake: “See Gene and have
fun.”
Vicky Manty : “I’m going home to
cover myself with snow for a long two
weeks’ nap.”
Evelyn Pitman: “I’m going back to
Virginia and let ‘other people’ wait on
me.”
Doris Moore: “I’m going to Elm City
and date Thomas—if he gets home.”
Becky Ballentine: “Eat and miss
Jack.”
Carolyn Lockamy: “Eat, sleep, and be
merry!”
Mary Bowen: “I plan to make up for
all (no, not lost) time!! (in every
way).”
Hazel Ellington: “I’m going to stay
at home most of the time and see the
folks, but most of all I’m going to dream
of a future Christmas and live over
another one past!”
Sue Jarvis: “I’m going to spend two
glorious weeks catching up on sleep and
gossip.”
Billie Hart: “Ah-ha! Who knows!”
Pollyanna Langston: “I’m going to
sleep until noon every morning to make
up for getting up at four a.m.”
Lib Farr: “I’m going to make my way
to Greenville, S. C., as soon as possible
and paint the town.
might have something you can use too,
if it is nothing more than a strengthen
ing of your own conviction. It is easier
to say we have religious freedom than
to say to someone of a different faith,
yes, your religion also has its points,
without harboring a slight feeling of ill
will. It is easier to say we should feed
the world than it is to continue ration
ing our helping of meat and sugar. It is
easier to say we need world law, than
it is to give up something our country
wants for the benefit of another. It is
easier to say that scientific research has
proved that individuals differ in every
thing, than it is not to expect the same
results from everyone.
It is these petty, everyday problems
that we cannot face tolerantly, and until
these prejudices are so forgotten that
we do not even think of them at all,
much less as problems, can we success
fully tackle the world problems.
We each have the problem before us
and we each know how far along the
line of tolerance we have progressed, so
first we need a personal solution, right?
It seems to me that this would come in
honestly trying to be open-minded and
objective in all our controversial con
tacts, and even with ourselves. One of
the main things college has shown me
is that so many of the things I thought
I knew were false. This was a shock
to me; and at first, I wouldn’t accept the
new idea, but I found that the professors
could prove their conceptions while
mine were only transmitted by the
winds. I didn’t have to give up every
thing though; many of my convictions
were true, but I did have to weigh
each one from every angle before I
could accept it or expect someone else
to. In the same way, we cannot con
demn anyone for his actions until we
understand the forces playing on him
that are responsible for those actions.
They are always there and would affect
us in much the same way were we in the
identical situation.
It is only with such open-minded,
tolerant people that this great world
problem can ever be tackled success
fully. With the exception of a few, the
older people of today are too steeped in
the drug of tradition and prejudice to
make any change in attitude at all. But
these few have faith in us and have left
the challenge with us. We cannot solve
the problem at once, but we can start
by developing tolerant attitudes and
actions ourselves, and by passing them
to our children and their children.
We know that it has at least dawned
upon the world that this is what it has
needed since its birth—the brotherhood
of man—but not until now, when the
world finds itself in the dangerous posi
tion of possible destruction, have we
dared face it, and much as we’d like to,
we can’t put it off any longer. It is the
biggest challenge ever presented a peo
ple and it is you to whom it is given.
Dare we let it pass?
EXCHANGING”
“Stand back of your lover, false
woman,” shouted the Scotchman as he
discovered his wife in the arms of
another man. “I’m going to shoot both
of you.” The Virginia Tech.
“A wedding limousine rolled up Fifth
Avenue a few weeks ago with a large
placard tied to the bumper. It read,
“Careless talk caused this!” Hornet.
“Smile that way again.”
She blushed and dimpled sweetly.
“Just as I thought—you look like a
chipmunk.” Rammer-Jammer.
Little Willie, dressed in sashes.
Fell in the fire and was burned to ashes.
By and by the room grew chilly
But no one wanted to poke poor Willie.
The Technique.
Would you say that a bachelor is a
man who won’t take “yes” for an
answer?
Birds do it.
Bees do it.
Bats do it.
Mama, can I take Flying lessons, too?
“If you talk about your troubles
And tell them o’er and o’er
The world will think you like ’em
And proceed to give you more ”
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