VOLUME XXV EUROPEAN PLIGHT IS REVIEWED FROM STRATEGIC GENEVA Professor Studying in Switzer land Analyzes the Situation Involving That Country. EUROPE WANTS NO WAR Materialization of War Depends l'|ion Threat to Security of British or French Empires. It II A. I. NEW 1.1 X ] shall not attempt to discuss what may be termed the major issues in world polities of the past few days. These the American papers have put before you in as much detail as they have been brought to light. A full treatment of the two sides in an a priori study may he Kept in reserve for a long time to come. Xo one here iu (ieneva is posing as a prophet just now, so I shall stay away from pre dictions. One could hazard just one: a general war is not likely to envelop Europe until some power docs some thing that seriously threatens the se curity of the llrilisli or French Em pire. Even a direct clash between (Germany and Kussia would most likely be restricted to a two power suicide unless Japan should join the fray. One of the questions most frequent'.}' asked, these days, concerns the little countries. "Is there any small coun try in Europe whose territory and (Continued on Page Four) THREE SINGERS TO GIVE VOICE RECITALS IN MAY Mike (alley, Jonaleen Iloilgin and Annie Kvelyn Powell to Present Three Programs. WK1.1.-KNON N SONUS TO UK SI Mi Three voice recitals will be given by the Fine Arts .Music members in Memorial Hall auditorium during the month of May. On Friday, May •">, at 8 p. 111.. Miss Jonalecn Ilodgin will present her pro gram to the (Snilford student ami com munity audience. Assisted by Miss I'eggy Mostrom at the organ, .lonaleen will sing I lie following numbers: "An gels, Hver, Itright and Fair" by Han del ; "I cvot ion" by Scliuinan; "Ave Maria" by (iounod-ltacli; "Faith In Spring" by Schubert: au aria. "Pace, Pace, Mio Dio" by Verdi: "The Time for Making Song Has Come" by Rog ers: "Hindu Slumber Song" by Ware: "Let My Song Fi.l Your Heart" by Charles: and "The 1. it tie Damozel" by Xovello. (Continued on Page Two) Freshman Dance Proves to Be An Unusually Colorful Event Tin* fresh ma 11 class gave the slickest, sun vest, smoothest dance which has been given on the campus lor some time. Credit for the successful affair goes to the social conimitteemen Mur ray Osborne, Charlie I/ewis, .Mary Lou Stafford and their cohorts. l ion entering the ordinarily none too impressive (lining room at Mary Hobbs one was struck by the unusual ligh ing effect. The only sources of Ugh were four "baby spots" with purple gelatines over the lenses which wen focused 011 an enormous "42" 011 the ivall immediately opposite the en O/THE^) GUILFORDIAN Chapel Schedule Monday, April 17 Dr. Bobbins Wolleott Harstow, President Hart ford Foundation. Tuesday, April 18 Meeting for worship on the basis of silence in the 11 lit. Wednesday, April 13 —Program of folk, tap, and modern dancing, .Miss Met .'oil. Thursday, April 20 Class meet ings. Friday, April 21 —Piano program by Mrs. Eunice \V. Williams. Monday, ApriS 24 —Dr. E. Garness Purdom. Tuesday, April 25 Meeting for worship on the basis of silence in the llut. Wednesday, April 26. Dr. .lonel Seidinan, League for Industrial Democracy. Thursday, April 27 Class meet ings. Friday, April 28 Mr. Warner Lawson, pianist; Mr. Bernard Ma son. violinist. From A. and T. Col lege. "THE TAVERN" GOES TO CHARITY BENEFIT Guilford Dramatic Success To Be Given In High Point April 21. BUSINESS CLUB SPONSOR n Friday evening, April -1. at s:l" o'clock in the Junior llitrli School of High Point, lilt* Dramatic- Council will present the second performance of 1 corgi* M. Cohan's mystery melodrama. The 'l'uvtrn. Tile American liusiliess ("lull of lligh Point is s])nns(ii'iliu the presentation. Tin* elub is one of the most prominent eivie clubs of the city and this is their 12th annual fharit.v benefit. Hereto fore. tlie dull has sponsored well known artists and performers; this is the first time for them to undertake an amateur show. They extended the invitation to the Dramatic Council be cause of the many favorable reports of the play by the many friends of the Council, the confidence which they have in the ability of Itobert K. Mar sha.l as a director, and the enthusias tic reviews which the play received. In a recent review in the (Jreens boro Daily News. Mrs. Fritz Haley Sinimens, the stall' reviewer, says, "Since 'l'lli Inn rn produced by tlu 1 Cuill'ord college dramatic council, we have a new and more profound respect for (Jeorge M. Cohan, which, we sup pose, is a rather left handed compli ment for liobert Marshall, dramatic coach, and for the council. The play (Continued on Page Three) trance door, i'rodigal son, Milton An derson, whose vacation return to the campus caused considerable friendly envy among liis former classmates was monii ntarily shocked when he misread the "42" as the Nazi swastika. The purple light gave a ghoulish, 1 Macula effect mi first entering, but afterwards more of a sophisticated "deep purple" atmosphere. The atmosphere was one of swank slipper-elnhncss, broken only by frequent phonographic strikes -the thing just stopped before the piece was (Continued 011 Page Four) GUILFORD COLLEGE, X. C., APRIL 15, 1939 CHOIR RECEIVES INVITATION TO NEW YORK FAIR Federated Music Clubs Recom mended Guilford Choral Group to Management. FAVORABLE DATE SOUGHT Six Concerts Are Being Given by A Cappella Singers on Trip This Week-End. Tile (Suliford college A Cappella choir, recently returned from one of its most successful tours, has been in vited by the management of the New York World's fair to sing there this summer. The invitation, Dr. K. 11. F. Weis aunounceil, came from Hugh Koss who is tin' choral consultant of the World's fair. Mr. Ross, ill extending this op portunity, acted upon the recommenda tion of the Federated Music clubs. The choir, if arrangements are com pleted, would sing in the Temple of Music. The dates offered by Mr. lEoss are June 2!) and .".0. Dr. Weis, however, at the time of this writing, is nego tiating for a date nearer commence ment. Reasserting its Nomadic tendencies, the clioir has embarked for a week-end trip into the eastern part of our own state. Before they return tomorrow niirlil they will have sung six concerts before as many different audiences. Friday night the clioir sang at the ('lintiii Presbyterian Church. Satur dav morning the choir has been sig nallv honored by an invitation to sing before the influential Federated Mu sic clubs of North Carolina. This con cert wi 1 be held in the First I'rrshy tcWnii Church of Fayetteville. Satur day night the songsters will trek over to Bouie's Creek for a concert in the Campbell College Chapel. Coming back to Fayetteville Sunday morning, they will sing at the worship service of the First Methodist Church. Sunday afternoon there will lie a con cert in the Fayetteville First Baptist Church for a union of all churches of the city. A singular conceit will lie given Sunday night in the First .Meth odist Church of Sanford. In commenting on the vacation tour. I >r. Weis, director of the Choir, ex pressed bis satisfaction with the re sults. lie stated that it was the most successful trip ever taken by the choir. SENIOR CLASS WILL JOIN BUILDERS CLUB ((lie liinidred IVr Cent Membership in Cilib to ISe (lift of DepartiiiK Class. NEW TYPE OF GIFT ON CAMPI S For their gift lo the school the mem bers of the class of 111.'!!) have decided on one hundred per cent membership in the Second Century Builder's club, according to an announcement by I'resi d nt Albert Taylor. Tile class decided on this gift at the class meeting last Thursday morning. The Second Century Builder's club was organized in 1!t"7 for the purpose of raising money for the erection of a new g nmasium, and for other im provements on tiie campus. The sen ior e ass decided that more real good would be derived from the membership in (lie club of every senior than from a specific gilt to lie left by the class as has been the practice before this time. Last Reports Show three A Students Reports for the tirst quarter of (his semester show three students making all A's: Catherine Befttel, Klfriel I'ennekamp, anl Robert Register. Those making all A's but one are: Grace Beittel, Margaret Dingley, Mariaunu Dow. Kdward Hittleniau, Robert Homey. John I'erian, Margaret Jones, Charles Lewis, Wiliam Stednian, and Guy Thomas. Twenty students inside sill A's stml It's. In this group sire: Edward Corby, Wilbert Kdgerton, Armstead Estes, Elizabeth Flynn, Marie Grum breeht, Tobey Laitin, Frank Mas ters, Winfred Meiholim, Beatrice Merritt, Theodore Mills, Elizabeth Neeee, Colin Osborne, Murray Os borne, James Parker, Hamilton Price, Stokes Rawlins, Thornton Sparrow, Jennie Dixon Stout, Doris Wanstall, and Howard Vow. The following made all It's: Emily Cleaver, Winabel (iibbs, Merle Pickett', Frederick Binford, and William A. White, 111. MARSHALS FOR NEXT YEAR ARE SELECTED Beittel, Monsees, Morton, Mei bohm, Smith, and Mills Selected by Faculty. MEIBOHM NAMED CHIEF Facility members, at a meeting Mon thly niglit, April 10, named six mem bers of the sophomore class It) lill the coveted post of Junior marshals next year. Those selected arc (Jrace Heit lel, Ila/.cl Monsees, I'oily Morton, Win fred Meiholim, Teddy Mills, and Rob ert Smith. Winfred Meiholim will be chief marshal. The present marshals, who will re tire at the end of this scholastic year are Wilbert Kdgerton, chief-marshal: (iny Thomas. Ralph Denton, Mary (Jray 'oilnine. Victoria Stableford, and Mariaima Dow. I)H. MILNER SPEAKS AT HIGH POINT MEETING I>r. Clyde* A. Milner was the main speaker at I lie High Point liiirh school Life Adjustment Conference yesterday. .Mr. It. K. .M nisi in 11 tilso made an ad dress. In*. Milner addressed the high school assembly on "Von Can Make of Vonr Life What Von Will." Mr. Marshall spoke on "Dramatics As a Career." The conference is held annually to aid the students in determining their life work. Motives Behind the Choir Trip Were Not All Vocal "Tliml trip \v:is somme where!" no-1 cording to mosl of the yodellois who j whipped ii]i lo Massnelnisetts in a streamlined lius during vacation. To an innocent bystander, the tour would seem to lie 110 more than spring ing from a warm lied in the early morning, riding thousands of tiresome miles, then exuberantly giving forth | musical notes in some church or audi torium at eventide. The a priori thinker, however, instantly realizes that some instinctive urge draws these "youthful singers" to deposit sl." and a spring vacation—some urge other MMIiER 10 GUILFORD COLLEGE BECOMES TOWN BY ACT OF LEGISLATURE President Clyde A. Milner To Be Mayor of Newly Incorporated Town. ELECTION TO HE IN MAY Council Meeting Held Monday Night to Make Plans for Town Organization. Hy nu net of the North Carolina General Assembly last week the Town of Guilford College became an Incor porated town. This bill was passed by the General Assembly to renew the charter of which incorporated the town at that time hilt which has since expired. I'nder the articles of incorporation the city limits will include an area 2,(10(1 feet square with Founders Hall as the center. The sides of the city limits run with the campus. President Milner is mayor of the newly incorporated town. The Council men are President Kineritus ltinford, liusiness Manager Parsons and History Professor Xewlin. Other officers have been tentatively selected Imt as they have 110 duties as yet they have not been announced. (Continued 011 Page Three) DR. TAYLOR SPEAKS TO HONOR SOCIETY New Members Are Inluetel Into So. ciety at Meeting Held Last Night. KOI R NKW MKMBKKN JOIN CLl'lt Dr. (Jeorge Collin Taylor. Kenan pro fessor of Knglish at the I'niversity of North Carolina, last night spoke in (lie Student 11ut at a meeting of i lie (Juilford Scholarship Society on the subject, "The Need for the Itennissance Point of View in Our I'resent So-Called .Modern World." I>r. Taylor is a noted Shakespearian scholar and has recently made an en tirely new contribution to the field with the publication of an inler-linear edition of Shakespeare, lie is also the author of Itcht 'l'd Mou ld The meeting last night was held for the purpose of inducting the four newly elected members into the So ciety. Mariauna l>ow, ltalph Deaton. Guy Thomas and Wilbert lOdgerton were awarded certificates of memhershlp by the Society's president, Alvin Meibolim, who also iiresiled over the meeting and conducted the ritual. than I lull of expressing themselves in song. First, perhaps, eomes the* desire to i nivol nnl see new territory. Then there is the promise of meeting new people and even heeoming intimate friends with them. At Harvard, for instance, one unabashed lassie labor ionsly ( limited into John Harvard's ice covered bronze lop. "Very embarras sing," she admits. "We found out that the date 011 the statue is false, and that nobody knows what John Ilar (Continued on I'age Four)

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