Page 4 THE KlIGLE SUSPENSE Silly stirred the steaming pot of collard greens and at the same time looked out the kitchen window at Steve hewing the green peas patch by patch. His black infeetuous grin could even from his far away position be discerned. It .was kind and under standing, and he was strong of body and straight of limb with a backbone of iron and eyes as keen and as pro bing as shining points of red hot Siily loved Steve. Steve was Silly’s husband, and a better one couldn’t be found in all Carolina. He worked for Silly and the baby day and night. He was a farmer. He loved to farm. He loved the greeness of the vegetables, the sweet fresh smell of the earth and the fragrance of the young toma to plants. He dug deep here and dug deep there and watched spring forth green plants and then later on with his careful attention, food, food for his ^or. He marvelled at the baff ling phenomena of it all. Life to him was a complexity of moving events centering around the earth. He was only a small cog definitely set and reacting to an inner urge, his sur roundings and his immediate life, his wliole universe, the earth. After Silly had taken the collards from the fire she cut them up and placed great slabs of fat back meat on the top. Steve loved fat back meat and corn bread cooked on top of the stove with plenty of fresh butter milk. It was getting dark. Supper had lieoii ready for over an hour now, and vet, Stevi? had not come from the fields. Silly again went to tlie win dow and shading her brown eyes with one tiny rough hand while holding the now crying baby in her other arm she tried to see the long, brown little figure of Steve in the gathering gloom, but all she saw was Mary the cow sprawled at the fartlierest end of the barn chew'ing her long red ton gue. It was now really late. She lighted oU lamp i'fter turning tli^'wick up yory high Making. sure it ivouldn’t .smoke up the small room. fell t6;p»altlinjr aitti c•rn^^■LIlg the rouKh pine wood flnur,: J-'he then gnttiered her sewing togel’ er and conuiienced patching some babj aiiix)ns, only her mind seemed to be in a crooked channel. At last shg gave up and went to the kitchen door. It was dark and forbidding out there. Xo lights, no sounds of frogs iji the nearby creek that mingled with the dismal barking of Jlollie Steve’s old hound dog tied to the peg behind the smoko house. She called “Steve, oh Steve”. Only echo answered-her and she shut the door and went once more into the warmth of the cozy kitchen. Baby Jim had fallen asleep under the table. She tenderly i>ut him to bed anl went back to the window only she couldn’t see anything. It was inky black outside, no stars, no moon, only blackness. She was nervous, Steve had never stayed away that long be fore. She put more wood iu the stove and waited. She jnust be jiatient. She must pray. She must have faith. She visioned Steve dead or in terri ble danger. She remembered seeing two strange dark men passing the house about noon with dark bundles under their arms, llaybe he had been robbed, at the thought of this she cried out iu alarm, and then she saw it. The back door it was slowly opening, she sprang uji. How stupid slie had been to leave the .door ojjen. They were coming for her and baby Jim now. But she would not let them take her away. She would cry. She would holler as loud as she could, only what good would it do west of nowhere V and east of nobody. She m-ust pray; and pray she did. The door was al most wide open now, and then she saw his trouser leg, green denim, Steve. She flew to him. She hugged him to her. His bewhiskered face, she pressed close, his dirty earthen hands, his muddy feet dank with tiny patches of lanremoved earth on his heels. His sweaty body, sinewy tind strong. She strained all of him to her and was happy and uttered with her brown face uplifted and a wonder ful glow alight in her eyes with a filmy sheen of unshed tears a soul cry wiiich came from the depth of her entire being “Thank you Jesus.” TO THE EDITOR Dear Mr. Editor: I regret to say that many of us are forgetting ourselves. We are forget ting that every wrong thing we do reflects on that dear old kind-hearted mother. We are forgetting that “the hands that rocks the cradle rules the world. ’ ’ We are in the world—a part of the world—the world. We worship “the hands that rocks the cradle” but still we abuse it. Fellow students, aren’t we aU here to get an education—to show every one who w'e are J not only our dis tance friends but our ow'n dear school mates? We should be proud of North Carolia State College, in fact, I am proud of the buildings but after en tering the buildings. Frankly, I think it is a disgrace to the school and to ourselves when visitors enter our library and dining room. There is no reason to be given for a person to leave a chair from which he has risen standing twelve or thirteen inches from the table. It is proper for a person to replace a chair, or anything for that matter, where it was found. I do not think that the chairs are made of such heavy mater ial tliat they cannot be pushed by persons of supposedly good health. If you would visit the library after four thirty o’clock or the dining room after dinner really it would give one the idea that a disturbed bee nest ^Irove us all out. We should feel the rne way about the looks of the per- — nl property around our school as we do about our home. So let us all tliink fibont 'hat.tiring called home Irniiiinir H Tor chaagc. ~ " ■ —K ret low Campus Sunday School Begins Twenty-Fifth Yeai (Continued from page 1) included one Sunday per month to be devoted to song service, one Sunday to a class program, another Sunday to a selected speaker, and the last Sunday to the regular class recitation. Thus far, one speaker, Mr. C G O ’Kelly, has been presented; however, during the ensuing months innumer able spiritual treats are in store for our ■students. On the eighth of November a gene ral song service was held. The music was furnished by the Sunday School .Orchestra whose members serve volun tarily each Sunday. This service af forded an opportunity to each person present to serve God in song as well as in spirit. The program for the fifteenth of November will be con ducted by the members of the senior class, and in subsequent months each class will be given a similar chance. Under the direction of its sponsor and superintendent. Miss P. F. Newton, the N. C. College Sunday School is progressing gradually to a position yet unattained by any organization of its kind. LOFTIN’S BAKERY “We Satisfy Your Bakery Tastes” Phone J-3792 612 Fayetteville St. We Specialize in Special Orders OUR “GRADS” IN THE WORK WORLD Perusing the pages of the Bible, one will find these words, ‘ ‘ Be not afraid, only believe.” Not only has this precept of this illustrious book been greatly instilled in the hearts of the North Carolina College gradu ates, but has been the working prin ciple of their lives. In the jungle of Finance, there are no paths, and everyone is more or less lost most of the time, but there are a few products of this Institution who have spent a portion of their lives in the jungle and know the signs and its dangers, who are just as rich in the jungle of Finance as the soil from which they sprang. One of the most notable bankers of our race is Mr. E. L. McDougal, a graduate of North Carolina College, who is cashier of the Mechanic and Farmers Bank, of this city, one of the leading banks of its type in America. Another glorious opportunity which has been unfolded for a thinnker and a graduate of North Carolina Col lege is the Union Eeal-Estate busi ness of this city. The firm has Mr. H. M. Michaux as its leader. Mr. Mi- chaux is more than a real-estate man; he is also an applier of business effi ciency, and is connected with the Union Insurance Company of this eity. Mr. I. II. Smith of New Bern, Nortli Carolina has planted and culti vated a successful real-estate business of his own. He is a graduate of North Carolina College. As vou go from office to office iu the Home Office of the North Car- lina JIutual Life Insurance Company, you will find a large number of North Carolina College graduates. The Carolina Times, a leading Ne gro newspaper in this State, has for its editor Mr. L. E. Austin, a grad- u.ate of our college. Space should be given to consider the work of ]Mr. J. T. Taylor, who is a graduate of North Carolina Col lege, received.liis Master’s at Ohio State University, and is Dean of Men and an instructor in the Social Sci ences Pe]Kirtment at Nortfi Carolina North t':iio\iua College could not sto|) in its search for humanity by producing bankers, real-estate men, appHers of business efficiency, edu cational advisors, and men with Mas ter’s degrees; as a result, the school has produced professional men also. .\mong tliese we are proud to name such men as; .7. II. Hubbard (D. D. S.) of Durham; John Rice (D. D. S.) of Philadelphia; Royal .Alexander (M.D.) of East Orange, New Jersey. There is something greater and finer than a business education. It is what all nations have sought wise ly or imwisely. It is Religion. As a result. North Carolina College ac- cl.aims ^Tiss ^Minnie Lyons, who is propagating religion in Africa and Reverend Haroldo Nevers, a congre gational . minister at Wilmington, North Carolina. There are others who have leaned against the great door of opportunity, and have found that it opened; TO THE “GRADS” of NORTH CARO- I.TNA COI.T.EGE, SAMMY Go ’way from here boy an ’ let me be, Can’t you’ see I’se busy as can be; Cut day wood an’ make day fire. Else I’se sho’ gwiner skin you’ hide. Dere now, gwan and git it done. Can’t yo’ see de lowering ob de sun? Hurrv up dere yo’ rascle yo’ Dat ain’t all yo’s got to do. Milk de cow an’ feed de pigs; Here comes paw an ’ ole Tom Rigs; Wonuer w'hat he’s got to say. Mos’ likely, ’tise a pleasant day. Stop dat gapping boy, an’ grab de ax. Don’t cut all de wood dat’s fat, Leave it fo’ to kindle wid, Ilurd as fat wood is to git. Time I cooks, yo’s ready to eat, Specially if dere’s fat back meat; Lasses too, yo’ loves to sop, When de bread is good an’ hot. Dere now, go and git it done, Terreckly dere won’t be no sun. Hurry up and make de fire. I'c sun’s done mostly left de sky. FRENCH CLUB The “Cerlce Francais” entertained the students and faculty Tuesday night, October 27, with original skits in French, presented by the French classes. The first skit, given by class 51, I juniors, represented a classroom of a dumb (a very dumb) and mischievous class of young French students. The next skit was represented by class 31, second division of Sophomore class. In this skit, the Twentieth Century Club met and gave a pro gram of musical and dance selections. Class 101, Seniors, gave a glimpse of w'hat goes on inside of an exclusive French dress shop. In order to see who is the most pop lar candidate for president among the foreigners. Class 1, Freshmen, staged “Day at the Poll”. The skits were highly entertaining and were tremendously enjoyed by all. P. L. Seott R. H. PRICE I SELECTIVE I SHOE REPAIR ( I STUDENT’S FRIEND I 710 Fayetteville St. Meet Me At The BIG FOOTBALL GAME “CAROLINA CLASSIC” A. Sh T. vs. N. C. STATE MEMORIAL STADIUM Greensboro, N. C. THANKSGIVING DAY NOVEMBER 26,1936 2:00 P. M. COMPLIMENTS ! I Neighborhood Store GROCERIES, FRESH MEATS and VEGETABLES North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Durham, N. C. C. C. SPAULDING, President • • • DEPENDABLE • • • SAFE • • • SECURE “No Home Complete Without North Carolina Mutual Policies”

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