Triangular
Debate on
March 18
VOLUME XIII
H. EMERSON FOSDIC
MAY ATTEND YOUNG
FRIEND CONFERENCE
Arrangements , Committee Is
Planning an Interesting
Program
WILL BE 300 DELEGATES
Morning Program to be Devoted to
Communion and to Study of
America's Youth
The president of the All-Eastern
Young Friends Conference, Mr. Howard
Yarnell, has recently sent word to the
Guilford conference committee that it
is quite possible that Harry Emerson
Fosdick will accept an invitation to
visit Guilford College and to appear on
the conference program to be held at
Guilford, August 8-14. This announce
ment came as a great source of inspira
tion to the local committee, who along
with thousands of other Americans con
sider Dr. Fosdick the leading preacher
in the United States of America.
The committee on Arrangements and
Transportation, after consulting with
the business manager of Guilford Col
lege has announced that 300 delegates
can easily be taken care of and prepara
tion has already begun on a big scale.
The board and room fee for the seven
day conference will be ten dollars.
This does not include the registration
fee which is $2.50. This is a slight in
crease over the charge for last year's
Young Friends Conference but enough
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DR. PERISHO DISCUSSES
WAR DEBTS IN CHAPEL
Of the Thirteen Nations Owing Money
to the United States, Eleven Have
Been Settled
UNITED STATES GAINED NOTHING
The Inter-Allied War Debts was the
subject used by Dr. Elwood C. Perisho
in his chapel talk last Friday morning.
The American Congress has recently
discharged the National War Debt Com
mission which has been trying to make
a settlement of thirteen nations owing
money to the United States. Eleven
of these have been satisfactorily settled.
The plan by which these debts are to
bo paid covers a period of sixty-two
years. According to this plan Great
Britian will only pay 82 percent of the
total amount, or of the amount which
the commercial world would have paid.
France will pay only 44 percent of her
total amount and other nations are
getting off equally as easy.
From all nations we hear a number
of hard-hit criticisms against the greed
of America. Great Britian has even
gone so far as to call Uncle Sam—Uncle
Shylock.
Yet do these criticisms have any real
foundation? True, America entered the
war late, but after she did enter the
struggle, it cost her 1,184 million dollars
per month while it only cost Great
Britian (i(56 million and France 460 mil
lion per month.
The United States received no ma
terial benefits from the war. Great
Britian on the other hand, added
2,576,000 square miles to her territory
and 14 million people to her population.
France and Italy also received valuable
returns from the conflict. The money
loaned these nations by the United
States was borrowed directly from
American citizens. Is it right then,
that these debts should be cancelled,
that they should only be paid in part?
"Know the facts," said Dr. Perisho,
"then draw your conclusion."
Gy THE
GUILFORDIAN
Louise H, Osborne
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Miss Louise Osborne who for thirty
four years was the constant friend and
advisor of Guilford students.
The 1927 Quaker has been dedicated
to her as a partial recognition, on the
part of the students, of her years of
service to Guilford.
CLASS BASKETBALL
CAUSES EXCITEMENT
The Coming Into Prominence of
Girls' Athletics Arouses
Interclass Rivalry
SENIOR BOYS CHAMPIONS
Girls' athleties are again coming into
prominence 011 the campus, now that
we are in the midst of the girls' basket
ball tournament. A friendly inter-class
rivalry has sprung up, and each person
is interested in and boosting her team.
Six games have been played so far, the
Sophomore-Senior, Freshman - Junior,
Freshman - Sophomore, Junior-Sopho
more, and Freshman-Senior, in which
the underclassmen seem to be getting
the best of their "big sisters." Several
games are yet to be played before the
winners of the tournament can be de
termined.
The first two games of the season
were played Monday afternoon, the
28th. The Sophomores won over the
Seniors by a 40 to 13 score, and the
Freshmen defeated the Juniors 45 to
15. Both games were one sided, with
no exceptional playing on either side.
J. Mcßane was high scorer for the
Sophomores and Ray and P. Mcßane
scored highest for the Freshmen. The
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DRAMATIC COUNCIL IS
SELECTING SPRING PLAY
Try-outs to Begin Thursday or Friday.
Final Production April
Thirtieth
The Dramatic Council is busy select
ing the spring play. A number of
plays are being considered. Among
them are: "The Man Who Married a
Dumb Wife," "Rose of Plymouth
Town," "Grumpy," and others.
A definite conclusion is to be reached
by the first of the week. The try-outs
will begin Thursday or Friday, and the
final production will be the 30th of
April.
The council now consists of two new
members: Lena Farlow and Mildred
Kimrey who take the places of Lorena
Booker and Frances Osborne, Miss
Booker having left school at the close
of the first semester and Miss Osborne
resigned due to participation in too
many outside activities.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., MARCH 9, 1927
GURNEY COLLINS IS
WINNER OF ANNUAL
CONTEST OF WEBS
The Other Speakers Were Wil
mer Steel, Paul Swanson and
Paul Jassimedes
CHANDOS KIMREY SINGS
Saturday night, March 5, the Web
sterian Literary Soicety held its forty
second annual Oratorical Contest. The
orators showed preparation that was to
be commended and an ease of plat
form manner and clear thinking that
kept their audience keyed up through
the whole evening. Gurney Collins won
first place with his well delivered ora
tion, "Peace, an Evolutionary Ideal."
There was a wide variation in the
range of subjects treated. As is usual
in such contests Prison Reform, Peace
and Democracy were well brought up in
orations, while an unusual treatise on
Mother Love came in for its share of
praise.
Paul Swanson spoke on "Capital Pun
ishment," bringing in vividly the use
of the electric chair as an instrument
used in the death penalty.
Gurney Collins idealized Peace in an
oration on "Peace, An Evolutionary
Ideal." He spoke fluently on the at
tempts to make peace a reality in the
world.
Wilmer Steele's oration on "The
Queen of Today" treated Mother and
her love toward us as children and
all through life and her unfailing de
votion to her children.
Paul Jassimedes, "Education and
Government," was a finished product
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CHEM 1 STUDENTS PAY
VISIT TO ACID PLANT
Detailed Study Made of Entire Lead
Chamber Process of Making
Sulpheric Acid
FERTILIZER FACTORY INTERESTS
Last Tuesday and Friday all the stu
dents of the first year Chemistry De
partment visited the Sulphuric Acid and
Fertilizer plants in Greensboro.
The tour began in the furnace room
where the huge furnaces are fed three
hundred pounds of sulphur every two
hours, raising the mercury in the ther
mometers to fourteen hundred degrees.
From here the process was traced
through the entire plant, observing the
lead chambers, the cooling tanks, the
experiments for testing the strength of
the acid, the diluting apparatus, the
by-product and finally seeing the stor
age vats.
This trip was made much more inter
esting and beneficial by having the
week before seen how the vast amount
of sulphur used by such plants is ob
tained. Warnings about being careful
in the plant were unnecessary after
hearing the story of how one man
jumped into a tank of hot concentrated
acid and later they found only his
watch.
The class then visited the Fertilizer
factory. Here sulphuric acid is mixed
with rock to form the commercial fer
tilizer. The students also observed the
method of stamping and filling the
sacks. They were told that during the
busy season six hundred sacks are filled
per hour.
One was naturally impressed with the
number of hands employed in the
Fertilizer plant, and the lack of them in
the Sulphuric Acid plant, only four be
ing seen in the latter on the day of ob
I servation.
Quaker Is Dedicated to
Miss Louise H. Osborne
Quakerism Introduced
Into Quaker College
In chapel, Wednesday, March 2,
Dr. Binford presented to the stu
dent body the idea of devoting a
few of the chapel periods to silent
worship.
Although Guilford is primarily a
Quaker institution, many of the stu
dents have never experienced a
conservative, old-fashioned silent
meeting. "Would it not be good,"
Dr. Binford suggested, "to try to
realize during the few minutes of
chapel the benefits of quiet thought
and worship?"
He quoted from Whittier's Silent
Meeting,
"The world that time and sense
have known,
Falls off, and leaves God alone."
OPENINGDATEGLEE
CLUB FRIDAY NIGHT
Plays at Walkertown March 11,
at Vienna Following Night,
and at Ramseur
MANY OTHERS PLANNED
Friday evening, March 11, the Glee
Clul) and Orchestra will begin its sea
son for 1027, opening with a date at
Walkertown, The concerts will be
given more or less regularly throughout
the months of March and April.
The dates for the first two weeks
thus far arranged are as follows: Walk
ertown, March 11; Vienna School,
March 12, and Ramseur, March 17.
Other dates will be announced later.
The Guilford College Glee Club is
now the largest since its organization.
There are twenty-four men who will
sing in the chorus numbers. The
year's club not only has the largest
number of men of any in its history
but its reportoire is also the greatest.
In the regular concerts the chorus will
sing from sixteen to eighteen numbers.
These numbers are selected from the
old classic writers on down to arrange
ments by present members of the club.
To add to the attractiveness of the
program the committee is arranging for
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CODE OF ETHICS TOPIC
OF HAWORTff S ADDRESS
Almost Every Profession Except the
Newspaper Enterprise Has
Such Code
INFLUENTIAL ELEVATION NEEDED
"Whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even- so to
them," was the way Mr. Samuel
Haworth began his chapel talk Thurs
day morning March 3rd, illustrating the
fact that every profession should have
a code of ethics.
"There is a code of ethics for the
lawyer, the doctor, the engineer, the
teacher, the labor union, and the farm
er, but so far there has been none
worked out for the newspaper enter
prise. The reasons for the necessity of
a code for the newspapers are: they
are often incorrect regarding import
ant events, they exaggerate, and they
are unfair to persons who speak in
public or who are written about."
The speaker continued by saying th.it
recently an article appeared in one of
the leading newspapers of North Caro
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High Point and
Lenoir vs.
Guilford
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A TOKEN OF LOVE
She Is Now on a Year's Leave
of Absence After 34 Years' 1
Service to Guilford
ANNUAL IS PROGRESSING
Most of the Copy Has Been Sent in
and Slow Compiling Commences—Fin
al Subscription Drive Soon
"The 1927 Quaker" is being dedicated
to Miss Louise H. Osborne for hter
thirty-four years of faithful service to
Guilford College.
"Miss Louise," as she is known to> all
Guilfordians is taking a year's leave pf
absence from the college. She is
spending the greater part of her time
with relatives in Greensboro, Ind. i Tn
September or October she made a trip
to California to visit, a month with
friends and relatives in Los Angeles.
While on this trip she also visited near
Seattle, Wash. At the present writing
Miss Louise is in comparatively good
health and continues to write regularly
to many of her Guilford friends.
"The Quaker" has not died a natural
death. It is being prepared to enter
upon a long, everlasting life. Practical
ly all the copy with the exception of
spring athletics is in the hands of the
printers and engravers. The remainder
of the photographic work will be taken
the latter part of the week so that the
entire copy can be in by March 15.
The annual is expected to be one of
the most attractive annual reproduc
tions published by Guilfordians. With
its maroon and grey malloy bindings,
along with the attractive historic di
vision pages, fly-leaf pages, including
the unique general border the pub
lication will be particularly outstanding.
An extra order of twenty-live copies
has been made, making a total order
of 275 copies. An especial appeal to
the alumni to buy copies of the 1927
Quaker is being made.
PROF. TURNER SPEAKS
ON LIFE OF MASARYK
An Austrian Gate-keeper's Son and
Professor Becomes President of
Czecho-Slovakia
Prof. F. Hill Turner spoke on the
life of Masaryk in chapel here last Mon
day morning.
Masaryk was the son of a gate-keeper,
born on a large Austrian estate. He
was educated by priests and became a
professor at the University of Vienna.
Later he came to America. It was while
in America that he influenced President
Wilson more than any other one man.
While in Philadelphia he drew up a
Declaration of Independence for
Czecho-Slovakia which was signed with
the same pen used in signing the
American Declaration. Strange as it
may seem, Czecho-Slovakia was created
and established without any territory.
Later when territory was received
Masaryk was made President of this
country.
The constitution of Czecho-Slovakia
is one of the most perfect of its kind.
It is based on the idea that the strength
of the country lies in its peasant popu
lation, and it puts a limit on the amount
of land which can be owned by any in
dividual. Thus it is very democratic in
its make up.
For awhile there was some question
as to whether the country was coming
through or not, but time has shown
that it has been able to weather the
"after-war period" better than any
other.
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