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Page 2 THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO, N. C. Friday, December 4, 1925. The Chowanian A college newspaper published fortnightly by the students of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C. throughout the entire week. It is a part of the game to keep the secret until the day of revelation, and all expressions that will na LUXE RfTAS The day of revelation will be the last day of school before de parting for home. On that eve ning all crushes will be brought face to face and join hands to march into the dining room in the procession. Everyone who wishes to avoid this all-pervading malady can only do it by leaving the fever laden atmosphere around Chowan vacant of their presence. You will have to get away if you don’t want this fever. Vaccination will be of no I avail. Absolutely nothing, no kind Subscription $1.00 a year of inoculation can be used to — produce immunity at that season. Entered as second class matter January 17, 1924 at the Post Of fice at Murfreesboro, North Caro lina, under Act of March 3, 1879 wherever we have applied the senators and in other ways bring- proper remedy, that is, wherever ing to public attention^ ^heir sup- we have instituted a strong court, port of the World Court proposi- We have abolished war between tion. turalfy flow from the generousl individuals, families, cities ,States The matter is slatedjgi' ome be- and feverishly affected souls'and now are abolishing it between fore the Senate on l»mber 17, must be kept strictly under cover! nations. and in order thm|tny^diyidual s as regards the giver. Before the institution of the. influence shall be i ro'" *- ■ ■ court was devised even individuals in favor of the cou settled their disputes as Cain and able that the effort f Abel settled their’s. When a dis- in the immedi:||^ut pute becomes acute and can not be _ The record settled diplomattically, there re-, is good. It alT main just two ways of settling it. thority than our Supreme Court One is to fight it out, in which acquired in the same space of SUCH IS THE FAITH OF MEN By A. B. CHAPIN STAFF MARGARET AMAN Editor-in-Chief BUSINESS STAFF BERYL SOUTER Business Manager THELMA DRAPER Advertising Manager FLORA MAE HOOD Circulation Manager ARLES ISENHOWER Assistant Circulation Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS EDNA M. HEDGEPETH Intercollegiate Editor WILLIE BLOUNT Departmental Editor LOUISE McDANIEL Religious Editor MARY RAYNOR Sports Editor ELSIE G. SEWELL Local Editor INEZ MATTHEWS Alumnae Editor DOROTHY LONG Joke Editor HAZEL griffin Social Editor AFTER THANKSGIVING COMES CHRISTMAS— One thing after another is life! Thanksgiving is over, and now hearts are expanding with joyous anticipation of Christmas. Christ mas almost! here! On Friday, De cember iw, we disperse for divers corners oi the earth A veryv^haqoy j^angement has ^^°.ay,s ^rom fore ChrWitias until Tuesday, Tuesday l|eing the day set down in the cat.ilog for the Christmas holidays to begin. CHOWAN STANDS UP AT “TESTING TIME’’— (By a Member of the Faculty) Every individual at sometimes faces a “testing time” in life. If that individual has the strength of purpose and character to meet and successfully stand the test, he is a stronger man afterward. If he is much of a man he can stand the test. There are few, if any, institu tions, that do not also face this “testing time.” If the i^astitution is built of the material^B high principles, if it has a solid tounda- tion and a courageous pilot, when the storms of the testing time blow against it, there might be a ripple in the waters of happiness «nd peace, but it can not sink the ship. Old Chowan has been braving the waters for 78 years. She has met the breakers as well as the “calm sea,” but she has moved onward, and she will move onward! Her prospects were n^ver so fair for clear sailing. We, as a faculty, believe in her. We believe in the men who direct her. We believe in the president who pilots her. We believe in the girls for whom she lives. We be lieve in the principles for which she stands. We recognize the great debt of gratitude the college and community owe Dr. C. P. Weaver, the man who for two years piloted the ship during its real crisis. W» appreciate his vision. We recognize his accomplishment. We respect ed him as a president. We love him as a friend. We shall “carry on” the work that he and his pre decessors have so gloriously begun. CRUSHING FEVER IS SOON TO BREAK OUT— The crushing fever will break out in a new rage soon when Pea nut Week starts. Artificial means will be worked along with the gen eral spirit of good will that the thoughts of approaching Christ mas holidays engenders. Each girl will be allowed to draw a peanut shell from a basket containing the name of a girl or teacher who will be her crush for the duration of Peanut Week, the last week of school before leaving for the holi days. All manifestations and demonstrations of an open nature ^rnust be smothered entirely, how ever, and she must impart all gifts and favors in a clandestine man ner. Each girl and member of the faculty is expected to become in fected with the crushing fever and to remain chronically affected APPLY THIS TEST TO YOUR EDUCATION— t to bear is desir- ild be made urt thus far as more au- case the stronger man wins irre- time. It is not necestjry to argue|^/ spective of the justice of his case, j the question of the League of The other way is to referee it, tions, to discuss its various efforts About a year ago a very promi nent lecturer of the country stand ing on the stage before an audi ence seated in Chowan College’s auditorium said find yourself and you have discovered the most won derful thing in the world. Rud- yard Kipling in his famous poem If” gives a list of conditions to serve as a human touchstone and at the last says if you can do all those things mentioned and “Fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds’s worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that is in it.” A professor of the University of Chicago has drawn up a list of questions for one to apply to one self, and if one can answer thesa questions in the affirmative that one is about as near perfect as is given a human on this earth. There are 14 of these questions. President Wilson did not have much more success in getting his Fourteen Points approved than Moses was able to secure the keep ing of the Ten Commandments. That, however, does not prevent others from presenting other four teen points. The professor of the University of Chicago, mentioned above, has been trying to frame some inter rogations by which any educated person may test the worth of his education. He affirms you are an educated person if you can an swer the following questions in the affirmative: “1. Has your education given sympathy with all good causes and made vou espouse them? _c„,=uv . .y-., •••'■■ aA-. ;-T-’'.”- Fric..y^S^f you^a nrotnei ~ • ^to the weafe? “4. Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? “5. Do you know what it is to be a friend to yourself? “6. Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight in the eye? “7. Do you see anything to love in a little child? “8. Will a lonely dog follow you in the street? “9. Can you be high-minded and happy in the meaner drudger ies of life? “10. Do you think washing dishes and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as piano playing or golf? “11. Can you look out into the world and see anything excepit dollars and cents? “12. Can you look into the mud puddle by the wayside and see anything in the mud puddle but mud? “13. Can you look into the sky at night and see beyond the stars? “14. Can your soul claim re lationship with the Creator?” that is to put it into the hands of to stop wars including its most|^ a disinterested third party who is recent one to stop the war between not so excited or prejudiced and Peace and Bulgaria. Nor is it who is more likely to make a just necessary to di.scuss the Locarno decision. That is the fundamental treaties. These are not the ques- idea of a court. ; tions before the Senate in Decem- This is a very simple invention Hughes plan. Under and a very old one and the fact that plan we can join the court that it has become so universal without committing ourselves to demonstrates that at heart man f"ythi>ig further and after we loves peace rather than war, that ^^ve done so we shall be in a bet- he prefers to let a judge decide ter position to judge how much rather than to resort to fighting, i further, if at alfr^e wish to go. The first court was the patriarch; The great necessity today is to who kept the peace within the:hack up the ^jj||jj4de;it in the great- family. The family was the first est step foi^ir^ toward peace “peace group.” But to keep peace | America has yet taken within the family was not enough. , U As population grew and families A. B. Yale, laqi crowded each other it was neces- Yale, sary to keep peace between the families in order that clusters of DO GREAT MINQS RUN IN families might live together in a;-ppjp; SAME*CHANNEL community or village. The justice of peace, or his equivalent in an cient civilization, was the second step in the institution of courts. But it was not enough to keep ths peace within a village. Inter village war was still possible, and in primitive regions, such as the Philippines before the United States entered, there was no peaceful method of settling dis putes between villages. The next step was to cluster the villages in to a state, as Massachusetts grew from its town meetings, and to in stitute State courts to keep the peace between communities. The next step was to cluster the States together into a nation and to set tle the disputes between the States by a Supreme Court. Our Supreme Court has settled 87 such disputes between our States, and without the Supreme Court our States would certainly more than once have been in war. Now the hour has struck for enlarging the peace group one stage further to jvolve the whole earth by setting a court between the nations clustering the nations into * Ijkue. f v->-~ --TO.; ^ wj' ill this gradual enlargement the peace group from the f^ily to the community, to the Jjpte, to the nation, to the world. "Wily the last step has not yet ]^en AMERICA’S ENTRANCE IN WORLD COURT A NECESSITY— (Courtesy of Yale Daily News) The political disputes over the World Court and the League of Nations have so confused the is sue by discussion of details that the fundamental reasons why America should join have been too often overlooked. Let us, then, go back to first principles. I believe that anyone who would forget the bitter politi cal discussion and would devote an hour’s honest thought to the subject would see that if America is to do anything to co-operate with other nations for world peace the least we can do is to join the World Court. There is much more we can do, but we can scarcely do anything less and participate at all in the world-wide effort to pre vent war. That ancient institution which we call a court is really the su preme and basic invention of all civilization. It is the only device which has been found to work to preveint war when quarrels became acute. Without it, civilization it self would soon disappear; in fact, it could never have existed. It is the court which everywhere has kept peace and this has been true in ever-widening circles. Even our humblest court is that of the “Justice of the Peace.” When people talk loosely, as they so often do, about its being impossible to abolish war, they are flying in the face of history. They overlooked the fact that we have already, in spots, abolished war. We have abolished war, in fact. (Margaret Aman, Class of ’27) When the streams of thought running from two minds are of the kind of fluid that will mingle, they do often meet and run in the same channel. Mutual interest and sympathy^^e the ingredients that make the streams capable of intermingling. / Such things have been happening ever since great minds have existed, no doubt, and before all minds evolved to great ness, it is quite safe to say that little minds ran in the same ditch. The same thoughts have occurred in the minds of two individuals simultaneously without any visible means of transference again and again till son^eone sat up and won dered at it. H(# then began to delve for some cause back of the strange and mysterious manifes tation. Thu^was the beginning of mental telepathy. Mental tele pathy is the linguistic tool invent ed to deal out to the public the ideas and conceptions arrived at The word “telepathy” was coined by F. ,W. H. Myers in 1882, and is derived from two Greek words, tele—meaning at a distance, and iaklinAr »■ -enomenon al old as man, with faculty yf the mind which has ubtless 'existed since the con scious activity of the mind began. We fe?^this, and believe it, and StATiOM SANTA CLAUS anmoumchjG- : HELLO BOY5 AND S-IRLS • MAME YOU all Been eoov CHILDREN THIS YEAR 9 I I fully taken and cannot be, uirfiH then try to ^nd a reason for our the United States co-operat!k. When the step is fully taken,j^vHten the whole world is organized fcr peace, when the World Court is as authoritative as our Supreme Court, we shall have abolished war as an institution wholly and forever. Each previous step of enlarging the peace group has left something outside ^nd, therefore, was incomplete. OccasionaJ^’ar was inevitable. But wll[^*«ij peace group involves the whole f. c * . new Uj earth there is nothing' left outside a^imulations of the age^^Wcall TOat progress. After ing of and the only war possible is civil war, which by the nature of the case seldom happens and is out lawed. Now at last we have a World Court with 47 adherents and lackr ing only the United States to give* it full prestige. Let us not telk about creating some su^tUute court and let us not pretend that the so-called “Old Tague 'Tribu nal” is a court. It is onlji^^ist of names on paper! There n3Ver was any other World Court than the Court of International Justice at The Hague, and the other na tions of the world woirid never even consider disbanding that court to please those few United States senators who talk^o ab surdly of creating somefhir their own. The situation, then, is that a World Court is a fundamental necessity and that there is only one World Court available. More over, unless or until AmericaJoins the League of Nations, there*s no practical way in sight for out joining the World Court except that which was worked out by Sec retary Hughes and approved by Presidents Harding anfl Coolidge as well as supported by the party platforms of both political parties. There is no excuse, therefore, for making any man who, like Senator Borah, talks about repudiating the party pledge and refusing to sup port President Coolidge is simply an obstructionist and nothing more. It is utterly impossible for them constructively to give us what we fundamentally need in any other way, but it is possible for Borah and others in the strategic position in the Senate to obstruct and thwart this most fundamental project. There is genuine danger that they will do so unless the practically unanimous approval of the United States becomes suffi ciently vocal. I believe the stu dents of our universities, many of whom are already voters and the rest of whom will soon become so, can assert a tremendous influence with the Senate especially by writ ing personal letters to their own belief, a thought to explain and then we say we have believed it because of that! This finding is one of the results of man’s eternal search for the truth. Groping in the darkness up the world’s altar stairs that jlope upward toward the truth, ^e has met many new and strange things ail along the way. These dis coveries have each helped to light up the way for other revelations, ,*her new Ujings. We look back the job has been done and pro nounced good, someone looks back upon it with admiration and»won- der. ,Such wonders should rrot be unnoted or forgotten to posterity. So he scratches his head and ruminates in his brain store for some suitable sign or symbol by which to designate the notablie deed or person, as the case may be. The name is given then as the crowning seal of approval. Such has beefi the order of crea tion. Scientific theories have been formulated out of the conscious ness of some phenomena working strange aiW inexplicable results considered well and valuable. The practice was there long before the theory had its birfi. Apples had been falling since Adam and Eve walked around in the Garden of Eden, and the force of gravity had been maintaining equililjrium of the universe all the time. It was not until late days, however, when Sir IsaaS||Bwton was privileged to strol^^Tound through an orchard in a leisurely and un obsessed state of mind that his theory of gravitation had its in ception. An ^order of events like this makes the coining of new words every year inevitable. Psycholo gists in recent years are finding it very convenient to designate any complicated ^d unexplainable manifestation oi human minds and emotions as a complex. Few scien tists have been able to christen their theories wi4l^ name as sug gestive as mental telepathy is of the nature of the subject it treats. Notwithstanding the marvelous success that has attended scien tists in their searched for the truth, there are many things that we can not understand yet. No one seems able to explain them by any means adaptable to man. Such things bring to our attention every day the fact that there are yet vast and unexplored regions. A limitless infinity is recognized duly by practically all psychologists, but only a few venture beyond the realm of the knowable into the ^uTOCASTfcn mystic. This field is left to the few mystically inclined who are catalogued under the list of oc cult scientists. Although they re frain from the precarious flights into the mystic, they do not ignore the truth that there are flights into the mystic, they do not ignore the truth that there are influences beyond human ken or vision that work upon the mind and its ac tivities. Thought transference without the aid of any visible and tangible accessories has been and can be attested by incidents in almost everyone’s life. Two persons often think at the same time and speak at the same time. It is true, how ever, that fortuitous chance ac counts for many of the telepathic often the definite result of un realized causes hidden and un noticed. The constant recurrence of in stances of two people being simi larly affected with the same thought at the same time without any recognizable connection leads to a belief in something beyond mere chance to explain such cases. A school teacher apparent ly healthy and normal was one day standing before her class deeply absorbed in the subject which she was teaching when suddenly she stopped still. Her face took on a startled expression, became pale, and for an instant she seemed list ening to some faint and far away sound. Then she swooned and fell limp and unconscious. At that very moment, it was later learned, that her brother, to whom she was most dearly attached, was smashed to death in a railroad accident. Numerous interesting experi ences could be recited by almost everyone. Mothers have strange presentments sometimes about a child who is separated from them. A mother came down to breakfast one morning announcing that her son, from whom she had not heard for the past few days, was, she knew, in a great trouble. Before breakfast was ended a telegram was received telling of the boy’s sudden death during the night. You have often met people in stores or on the street somewhere, and you say to each other; “Why, I was just thinking about you. Isn’t it strange that we met?” Any girl can recall times when she was a member of a group in a room en gaged in discussing some particu lar girl, and before long a head bobs in the door that silences the crowd immediately. “Talk about angels, and you will soon hear their wings flapping,” they all agree in expression of face if not of word. Why is it that frequent ly that every one on whom their minds were centered appears to put a cessation to the feast of gossip? Sometimes one who has not heard from nor thought of a friend for a long time instantane ously has an urge to write him. It later comes a li^t that that friend also had the same thought and sat down to write. The let ters cross in the mails. Now the cause of this mutual thouglt may be simple enough. It ma^ be a season of the year with some mu tual association, the time of some former trip together, or of an im portant meeting. The connecting lii^ may have been unconsciously r^fisbered in the mind, and the ap- precit^^^of the suggestion may have ^WjKned entirely subcon scious.^ wyptopsychism is the term which has been suggested to cover these hidden unobserved perceptions and memories, which, (Continued on Page 3) E. T. VINSON Motor Service To all points in and out of Murfreesboro T. R. BROWN Plumber and Electrician Electrical Work a Specialty Murfreesboro-, - - N. C. TRANSIT CORPORATION OF NORFOLK 114 W. Brambleton Ave. Telephone2428 SCHEDULE LEAVE Southbound A- M. P. M. 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