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Page 2 QUEENS BLUES November 2, 1935 QUEENS Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association 1935 Member 1936 Plssocided Golle6iate Press Distributor of (x)[ie6iate Di6est Founded by the Class of 1922 Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Queens-Chicora College Subscription Rate: $2.60 the Collegiate Year STAFF Thorburn Lillard Editor-in-Chief Martha Pettewat Business Manager Aoxes Stout, M.A., Ph.D Faculty Advisor EDITORIAL Martha Ware Pitts ... Assistant Editor Margaret Anderson" Associate Editor Margaret Calder News Editor Heden Stroupe Feature Editor Adeline Kilgore Exchange Editor Mary Wilson Society Editor Henrietta Henderson Alumnae Editor Jean Orr- Assistant Alumnae Editor Dorothy Senn Sports Editor Mary Louise Davidson Day Student Editor Eleanor Carr Assistant Day Student Editor Mary Currie Copy Header Frances Query Proof Header BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Mary Louise Davidson Assistant Business Manager Elizabeth Maynard Advertising Manager IsABEi-JJE Anderson Circulation Manager Ellen Kinghorn Assistant Circulation Manager ADVERTISING STAFF Jean Kent Early, Louise Morris, Dorothy Senn, Isabelle Anderson, Jane Wiley, Josephine Hackney. Reporters lyura Coffey, Lillian Smith, Sue Mauldin, Lois Wilson, Eugenia Laffitte, Lois Thompson, Elizabeth Calder, Georgia Underwood, Martha Rayburn, Elizabeth Gammon Dear Editor: There is one person on this campus who deserves a rising vote of thanks from each of us, for she is a person who gladly goes the “extra mile” to give pleasure and fine things to others. I refer to Miss Edwards. She is always working for us, but last week was a shining example of her going that “extra mile.” The old students may or may not realize it, and I doubt if the fresh men are aware of it, but Miss Edwards is the person who alone is responsible for the appearance of the Kryl Symphony Band at Queens last week—the first time such a concert has ever been given at Queens spon sored by the college. Moreover, 75 percent of the tickets sold were sold through her efforts. And ninety-nine and forty-four hundredths percent of the worry was her’s. But the stu dents who went enjoyed the concert 100 percent, even though symphonies make them “nervous” and give them “headaches.” Facts are facts, they say, and ap parently are to be faced. Here’s something I would like to see Queens face. Miss Edwards placed a mile stone last week—and we all enjoyed it too. Why can’t we erect some more milestones and have more artists come here.^ It can be done with co-opera tion, and Queens students can co operate. Or can they? Why not start next year an Artist Fund with each student paying a nominal sum of $1.00, so we could have interesting people here with less work and worry for one person? And if opportunity knocks again this year, let’s pull open the door together. I should like to know the opinion of others on this subject. I wish they would use this column to ex press them. Meanwhile—let’s thank Miss Edwards and move towards an other milestone together. I am all for it. JUST SO MUCH INK Patronize Our Advertisers Each year the Executive Council collects from every student a budget fee of ten dollars, which is divided among the various organizations on the campus to take care of their expenses. However, this fee falls far short of meeting the demands that are made on the organizations. The organizations themselves, therefore, have the responsibility of providing the means for carrying on their work. The student of Queens receive in this way much more than they actually pay for. Of the ten dollar fee, the Queens Blues receives a percentage which does not even cover the cost of printing. The paper has in addition such incidental expenses as postage, extra pictures, office expenses, and conven tion fee to be met. Hence it would be an impossibility to publish this paper were it not for the advertisers. They are almost wholly responsible for the publication of the Blues, at least from a financial standpoint. A merchant who buys space in the paper naturally and rightfully expects to receive the college business. That is the unwritten agreement we make with him when he hands our advertising agent the copy for his advertisement. Every advertiser expects returns on the money which he spends in advertising. It is the business staff which gets those ads, but it is your responsibility, as students of Queens, to see that merchants are repaid in such a way that they will continue to value this, your paper, as an advertising medium. Read the advertisements in your paper. Patronize its advertisers. But What Has That To Do With Us? The collegiate world, in an effort to make its opinions known, staged an all-college peace demonstration on April 12 last. Students who, for nine months of the year, are theoretically tucked away in soft down and cotton, rose almost as a body and expressed whole-hearted opposition to war of any kind, for any cause, in any place. Some of the “rebellions” reached hloody and unruly proportions; some were peaceful hut forceful exhibitions; many were squelched in the making. These activities were good news copy for the college papers. Their aftermath were excellent subjects for personal comment by col lege editors throughout the States. The withdrawal by Mr. Wahlgreen of his daughter from the University of Chicago and his charge of com munism against President Hutchins echoed and re-echoed in the American collegiate press. The hack-boneless behavior of the administration of the University of Michigan after it had been accused of attempted “indoctrina tion of the youth” brought showers of collegiate condemnation. The suspension, early in May, of five Hunter College students for mixing in “Red affairs” closed the academic year in a stew of unrest, dissatisfaction, and suspicion. The students who conceived of the peace demonstration last spring and who carried it through to its various conclusions have graduated and left our world. Yet they are of value to us in that they pointed out the way we should come; they forced us to realize our position in the affairs of this changing world. By their example, we have been led to see that the time spent in college is not a period for marking time, for allowing others to make our plans, for idling generally. We are no longer a large mass of unimportant beings. This changed conception of the student is not peculiar to student minds. Our courses have been expanded to include practical study of current problems. We are taught the value of thinking for ourselves, of Charles Hanson Towne, the editor, in one of his recent broadcasts stress ed the importance of hobbies in a per son’s life. I suppose you are asking now: but why does he have to have a hobby, his business is one. Per haps it is. Reading is certainly one of the most popular of all hobbies and that is as it should be. But you try reading a hundred manuscripts a week and see how much fun you have. He has other hobbies for the same reasons you and I have them. He finds rest in change and enjoy ment in doing something he doesn’t have to do. My hobbies seem to have changed as I have changed schools but they have all fallen in the col lecting category. In grammar school it was small boxes, in junior high it was autographs, in high school it was McClelland Barclay’s illustra tions, and in college it has been anec dotes and dime novels. Margaret Duckett collects similes and four-line verses. Edith Gallent collects quire shaped bottles. Some people make a certain study their hobby. For ex ample Kitty Baker is an amateur anthropologist. Several of the fresh men have taken over Elsa Maxwell’s hobby—that of inventing interesting games to play. Perhaps we could start a hobby club. Let me know what your hobby is. If vou haven’t one, find one. Remember someone has said that you could tell what a man was by the way he spent his spare time. Don’t throw your’s away. You can have too much fun using it. Books recently enjoyed: Somerset Maugham’s Don Fernando. Clarence Day’s Life with Father. Margaret Fishback’s / Take It Back. John Tasker Howard’s Ethelbert N evm. Here are a couple of poems I hope you get as much fun out of reading as I did when I first heard them. 1 he first one came from Margaret Duckett’s collection and the second one was passed on by Mrs. Townend. I called George Bernard Shaw in rhyme The greatest playwright of his time. N ext day Shaw cabled “Incorrect. For HIS read ALL. Signed, Shaw. Collect.” I here was a notable family named Stein. One was Ep One was Gert One was Ein Ep’s statures were junk Gert’s verses were bunk And nobody understood Ein. A special whom we are proud to claim as one of our Freshmen. Blonde and blue eyes, acclaimed so soon as one of Queen’s Queens. Forgets the South Carolina brogue but never the Southern and Carolina charm. Dances holds the spot-light of entertain ment. Lover of the arts. And you know the art she loves most is dis tinctive as being the field where wo men surpass. Already she has been elected to aid Last Issue’s Student her class by her new and dashing ideas. So leadership is one of her subheads. We know not that she was born under a lucky star and yet we do know that she is going to the top in the field she has chosen. Charm . . . Personality . . . Power • • . Individuality . . . Intellect . . Determination . . . I,ooks and Youth • . . A most promising future lies ahead, we wish you success. was Rachel Hamilton ceasing to be unsuspecting, purposeless, unthinking individuals. As molders and co-mo ders of public opinion of tomorrow we are obligated to build un sane, stable attitudes toward the problems that confronf our citizenlrp We are faced with a world preparing for war. What is our stand.» —From The Agonistic, Agnes Scott College. Read Exchange Papers In The Blues Office Do you have friends in other colleges about whom you would like to hear the latest news? You can read that news in fhc » * are placed in the Blues office. '^'’ich “What fraternity did Frank pledge at Davidson s” “Wt, • . • for the Tiger Ball at Clemson this week-end n” “What is Fr '' f Winthrop and how is ‘Peanut’ getting along at slm*’ Y n""® answers to these and many other questions in k ^ TkeB^nUe iSalem College), A,oni.Uc (A.nerScotcotZTTh"" uin (Wmthrop College), The Tiner Johnson- CoIIege),r./^frror"(E;skl:), rH2r7w (State College), Ca^pue Comment The campus doesn’t get over one excitement before there is another coming up. Tuesday, before Thanks giving, is Stunt Night. lone Smith, Dot Senn, Jane Wiley, and Margaret Land are the inspirations for the acts Louise Holland, Eleanor Carr, Jean Carter, and Tempe Speegle are to see that every one does her share of fancy yelling. Dr. Kratz thought it would be a fine idea for the faculty to present a stunt until she found out the general public was invited. But she did say that maybe they would take a night off and give what they thought was funny in the actions of students. As most of you know, Miss Ed wards had to give her personal cheek for about $60 to Kryl. Several of the students who were unable to at tend or buy tickets last week have shown their loyalty to Miss Edwards by buying them this week. If you had to write a check for that amount you know how much you would ap preciate each fifty cents. I think the idea of an orchestra out here is plenty good. Mrs. Frank Smith offered the idea and Marie Wilkinson immediately acted on it. It is composed of some excellent tal ents. Some of them are; Sara Hun- sucker, Harriet Culp, Sara Eason, Helen Cumnock, Rachel Hamilton, and Virginia Cagle. Up until this year the Choral Club has been rather backward and any one W'ho could carry a tune could get in. But this year it is completely changed. It is quite an honor to be a member. The first program to be offered is a service of Christmas carols to be given just before the holidays. Frances Smith, Josephine Hackney, Marie Neikirk, Mary Mc- Master, Sudie Lowder, and Caroline Morris are a few of the members. Here’s another suggestion for the Gym Classes—have a reducing exer cise class. There are some us who could stand losing a little weight in certain spots. An hour steady, hard exercise a week would help a lot. I asked Miss Henderson about it the other day^ and she said she would be glad to help organize the class. Everyone who would like to join teil Miss Henderson about it. Queens’ Students, Win Extra Money Essays To Be Sent Through Townend’s Class Queens Students, here are some ways of making a bit of extra money. Why not try to win some of these prizes? Delinator Magazine: Buttrich Build ing, 161 Sixth Avenue, New York City, $5.00 for the best joke or anecdote you’ve heard. Wings: Send to Quatrain Contest Editor, 939 Woodycrest Avenue, New York City. $10.00 for best original four-lined poem. Send before December 1. Story Magazine: 432 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Send a story, original and short. Harper’s Magazine: College Essay Prize. Atlantic Monthly Magazine: 8 Arling ton Street, Boston, Mass. Money prize for best short essay. Send the essays for the last two magazines through Mrs. Townend’s English class. College students, notoriously drivers, are having a little caution instilled these days. The sensational Reader’s Digest article “—And Sud den Death”, which deals realistically with the horror of automobile crashes, is being widely reprinted in the col legiate press.
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