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Columns
February 5, 1963
M}aes Young
A^merica Care^
(Editor’s Note: This essay is by
Mike Brewer—a former student of
Louisburg College. Mike is now at
tending UNC.)
As I sat at my window the other
night and gazed up at the starlit
sky, I wondered, Does young
America care? Care! Care for what?
The stars and moon brought to
my mind the race and conquest for
space toward which man has turned
his utmost resources and strength.
This race—^not a universal one, but
one between two great powers,
Russia and America — should de
mand much care and thought from
each young individual in our great
land. Why is this so? Facts and re
ports of scientific achievement to
day clearly show that Russia not
only has the upper hand in space
technology, but is rapidly expand
ing her industrial program to take
over leadership in all fields. Why?
The reason is simple — young Rus
sians care! But what about young
Americans?
Today’s influence and signifi
cance on all great fields of science
and education are encouraged by
the numerous scholarships and
grants for bright students who would
seek higher learning. These pro
grams hasten to lead the young man
or woman interested in the arts,
sciences, humanities, and all other
fields to pursue his goals in life,
whether they be for self or man
kind. However, these young leaders-
to-be are but a chosen few, for
many — too many — brilUant
young minds are going to waste in
the “gutter of unconcern.” (These
youthful, would-be potential’s entire
motivations and desires are unbal
anced.) There is too much time
spent on things such as; Whose auto
will run the fastest? Who is the best
dancer? Who is the best ballplayer,
and what is his average? Who is
the best date? What is the coolest
joint in town? How soon can one
get there? Please don’t misunder-
FOUNDERS DAY
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could accommodate 90 per cent of
the state’s population.
Dr. Decker, whose headquarters
are located in Nashville, Tenn.,
came to his present position in 1959
from the presidency of Wyommg
Seminary, Kingston, Penn. Earlier,
he served in administrative and
teaching posts at Boston University
and Union College, Barbourville,
Kentucky. Dr. Decker has also held
pastorates in Conneticut and Mas
sachusetts.
After Dr. Decker’s address the
people were led outside to the new
walkways which were donated to
the College by Edward M. Bartho
lomew. In the past Bartholomew
has provided the College with the
recreation room in the basement of
the gymnasium, the backstop for
the base ball field, paved the three
tennis courts and installed fences
around them, and planted shrub
bery on the front campus. Accept
ing the walkways for the College
was Dr. Jonas E. Hickman.
Those in attendance then moved
to the construction sight of the
new Women’s Residence Hall for
Ground Breaking Ceremonies. The
Rev. Marquis W. Larence presided.
A scripture reading was given by
the Rev. William K. Quick. After
the Litany of Ground Breaking, the
act of Ground Breaking was per
formed. A Prayer of Thanksgiving
and Dedication was offered by the
Rev. Troy J. Barrett. The College
Chaplain, Rev. Kelly J. Wilson, Jr.,
then closed the morning program
with the benediction.
Everyone then moved to the cafe
teria for lunch and afterwards Dr.
Robbins led a group of Trustees,
and Alumni around the campus to
show what new improvements had
been made during the past year at
Louisburg.
stand me. The things mentioned
here do have their place in each
young American’s life, but today
such things are being carried too
far and are over emphasized.
What is the primary cause of this
irresponsibility and the carefree ways
of the American Youth? There are
many reasons, but one that con
stantly stands out is the forgetful
ness by the younger generation of
the basic concepts on which our
great land was founded: freedom,
truth and faith in one another and
religion. The first of these, freedom,
means that we fail to realize and
to take advantage of these concepts.
Secondly, truth and faith in one an
other, go hand in hand, and through
them we shall have everlasting unity
in ourselves, our fellowman and
God. Thirdly, indifference to re
ligion is the handicap that hits our
young society so hard; yet if this
one problem could be solved, all
other problems would automatically
produce an answer. So many young
people are confused and are grop
ing in the darkness of confusion
because they have not found God
and his principles. Billy Graham,
America’s foremost evangelist, said
sometime ago, “The American
Youth need spiritual revivement.”
At a time when nuclear warfare
threatens our land, Graham stated;
“All youths of today would do well
to memorize as many scriptures as
possible, for even under foreign
domination, when religious rights
could be taken away, each youth
would still possess a burning torch
of inspiration with his heart.”
From his neglect of the things
mentioned here, and many more
too numerous to report, it would
seem that the young American is
so concerned with his own “im
portant little world” that he does
not care what happens outside of
it. However, the tragic mistake he
is making is that it is so difficult
to read only his life after he re
turns from the journey through his
“World,” for he can then only pick
up the shattered pieces of his life
— destroyed by the events of a
fast moving world.
Our great freedom loving land
will possibly someday fall — as did
all the great powers and nations of
the world down through the cen
turies. Rome once “The Master of
the World”; Greece, ancient seat
of thinking and wisdom; Egypt,
“The Land of the Mighty Pha-
roahs”; and a modern-day Eng
land, who suffered a defeat at our
own hands — help to prove the
fact that no country is invincible.
America can be destroyed. It is an
alarming conclusion, but it is clearly
a logical one. It is therefore our
job as young Americans to take ad
vantage of our opportunities to use
our time more purposely and con
servatively, to have more faith in
ourselves, our associates, and most
of all, our God. Our doing these
things and even more may not stop
America’s future downfall, but it
will halt this disaster, so that we
shall have little fear of its hap
pening in our lifetime, and at the
same time, we shall be laying a firm
foundation of freedom, liberty, and
justice for our posterity and all men
who uphold the ideas and beliefs
upon which America was founded.
And now, I wonder, does young
America care?
Polio — Nation's Worst Crippler
“Forgive us our ignorance that
prevents our helping you to cUmb a
tree and swim a creek. Inspire us to
redouble our search for knowledge
to aid you.”
These are the words of a young
Alabama physician in writing of a
little boy whose life is a struggle
against the terrible disabilities in
flicted by a crippling disease. Dr.
Marion Sims knows all about this
kind of suffering. Like the young
ster, he is crippled by polio, totally
dependent upon artificial breathing
devices to keep him alive.
Dr. Sims speaks not only for him
self, but for the entire “team” of
scientists, physicians and lay work
ers who have dedicated themselves
Dick Bibler
And LMOC
People who follow a cartoon
series often wonder if they’re look
ing at a caricature of the artist him
self.
Dick Bibler, artist and originator
of “Little Man On Campus,” fea
turing buck-toothed, rumple-haired,
downtroden Worthal and the sadis
tic, student-hating Professor Snarf,
who has dedicated his life to making
students miserable, is no exception
to this curiosity on the part of
reader fans.
As a teacher at Monterey Penin
sula College in California and a
one-time student, Bibler has caught
actual facets of life in his portrayal
of sympathy-arousing Worthal.
Bibler drew his first cartoon and
received his first rejection slip at
the age of 12. He received his
B.F.A. at Kansas University in
1950. He received his B.A. at Colo
rado State College and his M.A. at
Stanford.
Worthal has had quite a face
lifting from the time he first ap
peared in 1947 in the University
Daily Kansan. Worthal began as a
composite of the most stupid char
acteristics of 14 Bibler-drawn faces.
At the time he had a tall, boxy,
head without a neck. His identify
ing characteristics, his hair, nose
and buck teeth, have not changed.
Worthal’s running battles with
the Big Men on Campus and with
Professor Snarf have just enough
reality in them to remind students
of their own experiences and
enough exaggeration to show that
college life is humorous.
It is Worthal’s job to step on peo
ple’s toes. Laughs alone prove his
value. Some people claim that
“Worthal’s greatest value lies in his
ability to give potential and actual
Snarfs a look at themselves as
others see them.” Professor Snarf
has to develop the ability to look
the other way on Worthal’s campus.
About 300 college papers use
“Little Man On Campus.” Most of
these are daily papers. Mexico City
College is the last added to the list.
That makes Mexico, Canada, and
the 50 states using LMOC.
Y. R. C. Speaks
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that the Republicans are creating a
solid foundation for the two-party
system throughout the South on
both the local and national level.
Remember . . . Talk, think, and act
Republican — with “VIGOR.”
to the conquest of crippling diseases.
He speaks for the March of Dimes
“team” that fought polio during the
terrible years when the disease
swept unchecked across the nation,
the team that finally smashed down
the barriers of ignorance and pro
duced the Salk vaccine.
Today, with paralytic polio rap
idly diminishing as a public health
problem, the March of Dimes team
is “redoubling the search for knowl
edge” to aid victims of other crip-
phng diseases. A big part of its job
is the work of rehabilitating the 25,-
000 polio victims who continue to
need assistance from National
Foundation chapters. But the knowl
edge and experience acquired in
the polio fight have enabled it to
take on other enormous problems
of disease that have defied solution
since the beginning of time.
The new targets are birth defects
and arthritis. Man’s ignorance of
these conditions has been so com
plete that their occurrence has been
accepted as an unavoidable tragedy.
The March of Dimes “team” proved
that polio could be controlled. And
it is determined to find causes and
cures and preventives for birth de
fects and arthritis, and to bring
modern medical care and treatment
to those already afflicted.
Using techniques developed
through 24 years of intensive ex
perience both with the immediate
problems of the disabled and the
long-range problems of scientific re
search, The National Foundation
has organized its forces on local and
nationwide levels. Supported by
contributions to the March of
Dimes, medical workers and chap
ter volunteers are teaming up to
create special treatment centers
where victims of birth defects and
arthritis receive total medical care
from teams of experts. Such cen
ters will concentrate on early diag
nosis, prevention of disability, re
habilitation and the expansion of
knowledge of all phases of treat
ment. Chapters in areas isolated
from large medical centers are join
ing forces in organizing local
Evaluation Clinics staffed by teams
of visiting medical specialists to help
the disabled on an outpatient basis.
At the same time, a wide net
work of Clinical Study Centers is
being established by the national of
fice of the March of Dimes organi
zation to do research as well as
* BIRTH DEFECTS
* ARTHRITIS
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focus intensive study upon patient
aid problems in each of the three
problem areas — birth defects, ar
thritis and polio. Here will be de
veloped the techniques and the
tools to eliminate the wastage of
human life through crippling. Phy
sicians, nurses and other specialists
will be trained to provide total care
for the individual patient. From
these centers will grow an ever-
increasing army of trained medical
personnel, capable of dealing with
the complex task of restoring the
disabled to useful living.
Meanwhile, other members of
the team are at work in the na
tion’s laboratories, probling the
mysterious world of microscopic
viruses and human cells, adding to
the mountain of new scientific
knowledge already accumulated in
the fight against polio, bringing
closer the day when arthritis and
birth defects will be listed among
the health problems which man has
learned to control.
“Forgive us our ignorance,” Dr.
Sims has said. He might have added
that medical science will not toler
ate that ignorance. The partnership
of the American people, the scien
tist and the physician is a formi
dable them. It has worked near
miracles in the past. And it will do
it again.
Birth defects each year in the
U. S. account for 15 times as many
deaths as whooping cough, measles,
diphtheria, scarlet fever and polio
combined, according to The Na
tional Foundation-March of Dimes.
Arthritis is one of the oldest
known ailments — it even afflicted
pre-historic animals. The 1962
March of Dimes helps make pos
sible mankind’s all-out efforts to
find its causes and provide care for
its victims.
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