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VOLUME XVI
Guilford College Mourns the
Tragic Death of Elmina Siler
FORMER GUILFORD
STUDENT MEETS A
SUDDEN DEATH
Deceased Was Young Woman
of Marked Popularity
Throughout Section.
WAS EXCELLENT STUDENT
Funeral Services Held at Level Cross
Church—Many Friends_ Attend;
Students Pay Tribute.
Early in the afternoon Saturday, Miss
Elmina Siler wet a violent deatli when
she was accidentally killed as she was
walking along the Friendly road. Hav
ing enrolled in X. C. C. W. for this
semester, she was on hor way home from
school when the fatality occurred.
Miss Siler had been a student here
until the beginning of the second
semester of her Junior year. Her ma
jor course was Home Economics and
her achievements show devoted and effi
cient study. Throughout her work in
the classroom the integrity of her char
acter is revealed. She worked hard,
consistently, and well. She gained the
respect of her classmates through her
sincere and cheerful attitude toward
life. Discouragements seemed only to
add to her determination to seek and
find the higher things in life. Her
spirit was one of serenity, and hard
ships left her unspoiled. Her earnest
ness in the things she did leaves the
memory of her living her life fully
and beneficially.
Elmina leaves a vacancy in the com
munity life as well as on tlio campus.
She was highly regarded by those who
knew her.
Funeral services were from the liomo
and Level Cross Church. Flower-bear
ers included classmates from Guilford
College and her intimate friends from
the community. In a last tribute of re
spect, the college students assembled
at the college gates and stood in si
lence as the procession passed.
"And when the sun in all his state,
Illumed the western skies,
She passed through glory's morning
gate,
And walked in Paradise."
TRIANGVLAR DEBATE
WILL BE HELD FRIDAY
The Quaker debating teams make
their seasonal debut Friday, March
7, in a trangular debate between
High Point, Lenoir-Rliyne and Guil
ford.
The query for debate is, "Re
solved, That the Nations of the
World Shall Disarm Totally Except
for Police Purposes."
The Guilford negative team, com
posed of Reach, Murphy and R.
Farlow, will go to Lenoir-Rliyne,
while the negative team of High
Point will debate the Guilford
affirmative team, which is composed
of .1. Harper, Blair, and Garner, at
Guilford.
Two of the three men on each
of the Guilford teams will debate,
while the third acts as substitute.
The teams have been under the
coaching of Dean Trueblood, who is
quite hopeful of the probable out
come. The teams have lots of prac
tice and a good knowledge of their
subjects.
Tt is up to the students to come
out and baek tliem up.
THE
GUILFORDIAN
Dr. Elbert Russell, of Duke University
Gives Address in Guilford Meeting House
Dr. Elbert Russell, head of the de
partment of religion at Duke University,
spoke last Sunday morning at the Guil
ford meeting house. Mr. Russell
opened his address by saying that it was
obvious from the text read that .Tesus
Christ was a constructive critic of his
own age and time and one who pointed
out the faults of contemporary institu
tions, customs and ways of life but only
in order that he might thus help to bet
ter them. The speaker then went on to
show that if .Tesus were here 011 earth
today he would stand as critic of our
time, also. Christ had a certain un
wavering standard of values by which
he measured all things; but each thing
as either absolutely right or else abso
lutely wrong. "There is," Mr. Russell
continued, "a law of moral relativity,"
and "Christ was the Einstein of the
spiritual world." Jesus tells us that al
though there are many good things in
life, there are also some better things,
and we need to have well graded values
to place first things first—the primary
things of character and the develop
BANQUET AT 0. HENRY
FOR WESTTOWN ALUMNI
Twenty-One Guilford Representatives
Enjoy Excellent Program for
Alumni of Westtown.
ADDRESS BY JOHN S. WALKER
A number of alumni of Westtown
School in Philadelphia were entertained
at a dinner given at the O. Henry hotel.
This was the first of a series of alumni
dinners, and was addressed by .Tones
L. Walker, principal, and Francis P.
Taylor, who is president of the West
town Alumni Association.
Richard llobbs, of Chapel Hill, was
toastmaster. James Walker spoke 011
"Westtown As It Is Today." He reviewed
briefly the new additions to the cam
pus, such as the New Meeting House,
a Home Economics Cottage and a new
Out-Door Theater, known as the Green
wood. This is Westtown's 130 th year.
There have been 14,">00 people as stu
dents there and from that number 4,500
arc living now. It is a "Quaker Melt
ing Pot" and is to preserve the elements
of Quakerism.
Francis P. Taylor spoke on "West
town As We Want to Make It." He said:
"It is a society instead of a denomina
tion." Westtown has a three-fold pur
pose: (1) Intensity of purpose, (2) Con
secration of purpose, (3) Sincerity of
purpise.
Other speakers were Alice Paige AVliite
of High Point, N. C.; J. Franklin Davis,
Dr. Lyndon Hobbs and Dr. Raymond
Riii ford, of Guilford College.
After the banquet a cinema reel of
Westtown life and of Alumni day last
May, attended by Mrs. Herbert Hoover,
were shown.
Westtown alumni in Guilford College
include Gurney Grantham and Dr. John
D. Williams, and those of Guuilford
county are Bertha M. R. Andrews, .T.
Franklin Davis, John Frazier, Philip
Furnas, David Ilodgton, Margaret Lev
ering, Waldo Mcßane, Raymond Mc-
Cracken, Albert Peele, Addie Smith,
French Smith, Rufus Smith, Leslie and
Frances White, Sarah White, Margaret
Warner, Edith Haines, Horace Regon.
Stanley Moore, Elizabeth Tomlinson, and
Gertrude Ilinshaw.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., MARCH 4, 1930
mcnt of the spiritual inner self must
come before all hindrances of secondary
value. "It is here," the speaker pointed
out, "that the Christian standard comes
in," showing us that the truly primary
and supreme thing is the kingdom of
God, which ,to us has come to mean the
inner man. So if Christ calls us to
self-denial and sacrifice, it is only
that we might learn to put the primary
things of the spiritual self first, and to
live a life of subordination of the lesser
to the supremacy of the greater.
"We, in America," says Dr. Russell,
have not learned this lesson of the deep
er profit to be gained from spiritual de
velopment than from material prosper
ity, and that a man's life does not con
sist in the abundance of things which
he possesses." Our civilization would
not stand .Tesus' scrutiny, for our stand
ard of values is warped and twisted out
of all similarity to that taught by
Christ. "The business of the church to
day is not so much to make people
Christians as it is to make a world in
which people can be Christians."
ELIZABETH MARSH
VISITS THE CAMPUS
Speaks in Chapel of the First
World Peace Conference
for Young People.
FRIENDS SERVICE SECY
Elizabeth Marsli, who is working with
tin' American Friends Service Commit
tee, was 011 the campus February 25 and
26. For four j'ears she has been the
Young Friends Secretary of the Five
Years' Meeting, which has its headquar
ters at Richmond, Ind. She is now mak
ing a tour of the country, visiting
Friends colleges and endeavoring to in
terest the students in home service work.
While she was on the campus, Miss
Marsh held conferences with a number
of students who showed a great deal
of interest. Some of the openings for
service which she had to offer were:
works in boys' and girls' camps, lumber
camps, Daily Vacation Bible Schools,
slums, and work with the sub-normal.
In addition to these, there were the pos
sible "peace tours," for which a car is
furnished and all expenses are paid.
In chapel Tuesday morning, Miss
Marsh spoke of two very vital problems
confronting the youth of today. First
tin' question of peace. In speaking of
this she told of the First World Youth
Peace Conference held in Holland last
year. At that conference, delegates
from many nations met and discussed
the "peace problem." Secondly, the in
dustrial problem, in which it was diffi
cult to find tin- party to blame.
The only remedy seemed to lie in
considering frankly and honestly the
matters at stake and arriving at some
fair compromise.
On Tuesday afternoon Misses Dorothy
Gilbert and Eva Miles entertained at a
delightful tea on West porch for Miss
Elizabeth Marsh and Mrs. Miles, who is
visiting lier parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Hole.
Miss Elizabeth Marsh who is Secretary
of Young Friends Missions was a visitor
on the campus last week.
GUILFORDIAN HAS
REAL BOARD PICNIC
Picnickers Choose the Hillside
Near College Pond for a
Camp Fire Supper.
MR. M'CRACKEN SPEAKS
The pioneering spirit of Quaker fore
fathers dominated the inclinations of
the Guilfordian board, and, on Wednes
day evening, they trekked down into
the college pasture—therein to picnic.
Choosing the familiar higway to the
college pand, the party, including mem
bers of the hoard and their preferred
guests, took off about 5 o'clock. Since
the mule and truck were both occupied,
the picknickers carried the eats along
in true pioneering style.
fups were juggled efficiently—prov
ing further that basketball training is
a blessing to the great American home.
Co-operation was trumps in transport
in the ham, pickles, and other accesso
ries. Even the huge pot of coffee was
conveyed with surprising ability. And
the rolls, together with faculty favor
ites, brought up the rear.
Gaily the group set out, and gaily
they arrived. But the way was not
without events. Enticing pools of mud
added to the scenery of the pasture,
which was just beginning to don its
coat for spring. And in the excitement
of the occasion, or perhaps it was in
a moment of artistic interpretation of
the weather conditions; anyway, a false
step was taken. And later Bobby was
discovered 011 his knees, for the very
first time, sacrificing his manly dignity
to the cause of keeping tan shoes tan.
Raising the flag over the chosen site
held an important position in the cere
monies of the evening. But during the
ceremony an almost-clean pair of white
overalls were ruined by Sonny's efforts
to plant the flag-pole in the middle of
the stream which flowed nearby.
The hilarity of the occasion increased
rapidly as preparations were made for
the camp-fire. Great logs were brought
in from the surrounding wood, and a
tree was even uprooted by a rising
young Samson for a contribution to
the burning material. Being always in
sistent that everything be done as it
should be, our editor selected a definite
pattern for the piling of wood for the
fire. He carefully worked out each de
tail and made a very systematic ar
rangement of stick placement. Finally
the task was complete, but lacking the
necessary skill in manipulating sticks
with the resultant sparks, he sought a
match; first in his own pockets ,then in
his own pockets again. The appeal was
| pathetically sincere, for Cox Hall—and
! matches—was far away. A search fol
lowed which had all the thrills of a
i treasure-hunt plus the knowledge that a
! grand razz would result if none of the
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"Clean Up Day" Transforms
Leafy Campus to Smooth Lawns
There is not a leaf or twig in sight
011 the Guilford campus now; for
Wednesday, February 26, Mr. Purdom
sent all the students and faculty scur
rying after them. At 8 o'clock the big
bell called everybody out to the front
of Founders Ilall. The knickered,
flocked, overalled, trousered, boys and
girls seized the brush-brooms and rakes
and went to work with a vengeance.
The swish and scrape of these cleaners
soon made leaf mountains here and
there; that is, when the wind didn't
blow the leaves away.
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MRS. A. M JOHNSON
MEETS JOINT Y'S
Importance of Religion in Life
of Students is Stressed
Most Effectively.
CHALLENGE TO STUDENTS
Mrs. Bessie Johnson, wife of A. M
Johnson, wealthy manufacturer and
head of the royan mills, Burlington,
N. spoke before a joint meeting of
the Christian Association in Memorial
Ilall, February 27. Mrs. Johnson is in
tensely interested in religious work, and
people everywhere are impressed by
her evangelistic type of appeal.
As a basis for her talk Mrs. Johnson
read the parable of the wise man who
liuilt his house upon a rock, and of the
foolish man who built his house upon
sand. She referred to these as biogra
phies. "God is a mathematician," she
said. Everything is created on a mathe
matical basis and His word is low. There
are two distinct classes of people—the
wholly saved, and the wholly unsaved.
The Bible appeals to the emotions in
stead of the reason.
The speaker continually referred to
the beauties of the desert and especially
in Southwestern United States, where
she has travelled extensively. The des
ert is a most desolate, and yet a most
wonderful place. It is there that God
manifests His three essentials—life, lovo
and light, most of all.
Tn conclusion, Mrs. Johnson said that
"a perishing world is waiting for young
people who are wholly given over to
Christ. The challenge is to them to take
up His cause. But their lives can be
built on nothing but Him, because any
other foundation is shifting sands."
DRAMATIC COUNCIL IS
CONSIDERING PLAYS
Mr. Furnas' Illness Has Delayed Plans
for Presentation of Spring-
College Play.
Although the members of the dra
matic* council have not as yet announced
the spring play, they have been think
ing seriously tlie past few weeks. Due
to Mr. Furnas' illness, the date of the
presentation has been changed until
after tlie spring holidays. The first reg
ular meeting of the council this semester
was held at Mr. Furnas' home last Tues~
day.
It has been a hard matter to select ft
play that will have as universal appeal
as "Captain Applejack." Of the plays
considered, "The Show-Off," by George
Keoly and, Bernard Shaw's "Candida"
and ou Never Can Tell" are consid
ered the best. At the present the mem
bers are considering the recent Broad
way successes, "Skidding," "Lilies of
the Field," "Laugh That Off" and "Co
quette." Public try-outs will be held
in the near future.
Guilford's annual clean-up day was
011. The students and faculty were fol
lowing a custom established many
years ago, when tlie trees that caused
its beginning were much younger. For
everyone who has been a student at
the college, this occasion remains one
of the fond memories of school days.
Freshmen had been anticipating good
times from accounts of former students
and upper-classmen; the rest knew just
how much fun the work of clean-up
day was from experience. So every
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