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ON GOLLLGU OMOANIZATIONS.
It aoems to me that every student
jit Meredith should be glad to take
part in any organization In her college,
by attending and showing her interest
in every way possible.
When we are asked to talce part on
aonie program in society, ,13. Y. P. U„
Y. W. C. A., or Y. W. A., we should
not be satisfied with doing less than
our best in preparation for the few
minutes which we arc to use. When
these opportunities for training and
experience come to iia, we should wel
come them. No one wishes to go to
any kind of meeting, when time is
so precious as It is here and listen to
some "sing-song" reading oC a para
graph or a half-prepared talk. Even
though the subject may bo interesting,
the program is made uninteresting and
less helpful and inspiring by such
careless work. Can’t we be a little
more conscientious in our work In
these organizatloiis? Let’s give our
very best to this, and the best will
come back to ua from our training
In organized work.
ON GIVING WIIAT HAYli
Listen, girls, have you ever been
asked to sing at the Y. W. C. A. service
and refused? Have you ever been
asked to play in soclcty or to take
part in a debate or to give a reading?
And did you-answer tins request with
"I can’t" nsually accompanied with an
excuse instead of a good reason?
You caii't imagine the state of
mind almost amounting to despair
when a girl has cnroriilly planned a
program and can get nobody to talco
part on it. ft really seems trngio.
You say you haven’t time. What
about tlie girl who plans these things?
Suppose all the leaders should fall
down on the job because they don't
have Lime Inr those tliUigs, Would
our college live? It would be dull in
deed, and you would wish ten times
over tliat you were at bome or else
where than hero.
I know tlioro are some girls at Merc-
flith who arc ahvsiys willing to do all
they can. How glad it uuikes one
feel when another iinfiwera “I’ll try'
to do this or that. And when a girl
says Hbe’ll try to do a thing, that
Ihing Is usually done and done well.
Another interesting thing about
these giris, who are always willing “to
try” and to give the best they have
is that they are tiie ones who really
are bualest. Yes, they could make up
.excuses and say they don't have time.
Hut they don’t do It. 'I’hoy are caus
ing real happiness for themselves and
I'or otliers when they are willing to
Herve.
Sometlmea those who have charge
hate to ask cGrtaIn girls to do certain
things becauae that thcso girls really
do have so much to do; as they never
refuse anything when they can pos-
.sibly help It. Yet when othera, who
are not so busy refuse, these willing
girls have to bo called upon.
(Jlrla, let’s all smile and say, ''I'll
try.”
resources of knowledge and virtue, of
friendship and heart treasure. Bui
when a man has treated his reason as
granary and stored it with food,
Ula memory as a gallery, and filled II
with pictures of a beautiful past, his
I'enaon and will as arniories, and stored
them with weapons against the day
of ijattle, then a sccond principle as
serts itself. Responsible for his own
growth and happiness, man ia made
equally responsible for the happiness
and welfare of those about him.
By so much aa he has secured hla
own personal enrichment, by that
much he Is bound to secure the en
richment and social advantage of his
fallows. To love one’s self at the
expense of one's fellows la for seltish-
neaa to become malignancy. To love
one's neighbors more than one's self
ia foolishness and self-destruction.
Whatever of value the individual
has, comes from fidelity to the first of
theae principles. SeiMovc working
toward reason makes a man a scholar;
working toward his imagination makes
him an artist and inventor: working
toward his gift of speech makes him
au orator; working with pride makes
him self-reliant and aelf-suIHcing. And
when the principle of love tor othevB
asserts itself, this love, worldng to
ward poverty, transforms man into
a philanthropist; working toward ini
quity makes man a reformor; work
ing towards freedom makes him a
patriot and a hero; working toward
God makes him a saint and a seer.
And man would fain (ind some
divine friend who will lead him unto
groat personal worth. As If to fulfill
man's deepest needs, Jesus Christ en
ters the earthly scenes. Ho comcs to
hasten man’s steps along that pathway
that leads from iittloneas unto largo-
ness. Before our achieving to vislou
the divine teacher seems like somt:
sacred liuahandman. His garden our
earth, good men and great earth's
richest fruit. He asks each youth to
Inve and to nmke the most of himself,
that later on ho may be bread lo the
hungry, niodicine to the wounded, and
shelter to the weak. Hu bids (tach
love his own reason, golting wisdom
with an eager passion. He bids eacli to
make the nui.st of I'riondship, to lovo
industry, to make the most of courage
and soK-rellance. He bids each lo
umnlatc and look up to .Icsus Chl’isL,
and lo move heaven and earth lo
achieve for himself a worthy maniiood.
f'cir thus only earUi ever be
moved back to heaven.
College iSetosi
Hannah Hohleu, of Wake Forest, was
the week-end guest of rrnucea How
ard.
Marysio Hondren and Mary Smith
spent the week-end with Ida Lowe.
Marion de Vlaniiiig, Elaine Goode,
Frances Cherry, Margaret Fleming,
Blanche Stokes, were dinner guests
of Mias Thelma .lohnaon at Dine Moon
Inn Satiirrtay evening.
We regret to learn that Grace Dark
has gone home on account of illness.
Rebecca Monroo has returned from
her home after a short illness.
Lucille Jones spent the week-end in
Red Oak,
Helen Atkinson
last week.
was at her home
Mary Thomas
in Cameron.
spent the week-end
Grace
Sunday
Francis spent
in Cameron.
Saturday and
Slumnae
The following interesting letter
canje a few weeks ago from Katie
Murray, one of the daughtera of '1‘J.
She also sent a lovely picture of her
self, ])olding an open Chinese parasol,
with the hills uf ancient China stretch
ing out 111 the distance:
Ch’ao Vang An, Western Hills,
Near Peking, China,
August 29, 1923,
Dkau Foi.kh at Homk;
Just a year ago I was on the way
to Seattle to get the President Jack
son for China. As I have been think
ing of the past year my heort is fnl!
of gratitude for the blessings Guil
has sent. “Lo, I am with you,” is in
deed true. There is the joy of feeling
that I have reached the field of labor
the Lord has for me; too, health has
been mine to a degree that some do
not enjoy their first year In a new cli
mate; another blessing has been
friends, new and old, who have added
joy and happiness. The older mis
sionaries have been helpful with
words of wisdom and advice. It has
boon a joy that I scarcely dared hope
for when I left of having an old Train
ing School friend, Mary Crawford, with
me the whole first year. The first nine
months there was the advantage of the
Language School, located in ancient
historic Peking, whore on Saturdays
we were free to.get glimpses of the
.sights and wonders of the capital of a
nation with the oldest civilization in
ihe world.
When Language School closcd the
(Irst of June a Scotch Pi’esbylerian
lassie and live of us new Southern
Uaplist representatives came to the
hills about seventeen miles from Pek
ing. where wo Htill tried to leach onr
Maude Honleaux spent the week-end j tongues lo behave as the Chinese do.
Lucy Knight
in italelgh.
spent the week-end
Mary Roberts Seawell was In Car
thage for the week-end.
Mary Askew also
ond in Carthago.
spent the week-
Iris Yelvlngton was the week-end
guest of Lucy Knight in Carey.
I.inda i-luasnll spunl
with Lucy Knight.
the week-end
Maude Orock was
;>ast week-Dud.
in Henderson the
ivith her parents.
•UAKIXG TJIlv SIO.S'l’ OF ^
ONE’S SELF
Two groat principles run through
all society. First comes the principle
of self-care and selMove. Each man
Is given charge of his own body and
life. By foresight he is to guard
against danger; by self-defenso he Is
to ward off attack; by fulfilling the
instincts lor food, for work and rest
ho IB to maintain the integrity of his
being. Upon each Individual rests the
solemn obligation to make the moat
possible of himaelf, and to store up
Ruth
li'ii'uds
Sherman
iu Cui'cy-
was the guoat >'f
Paulino I’atton altonded a wL-ddjiig
ill Clayton Sunday.
Janet Holomau, l‘etc-r 15oonc, Elma
and Thelma I*’lcelwtiod were gucsls of
rrion»ls in Raleigh last week.
Cirace Noiilhcry was
ihc jiast week-end.
in I-Icnderson
Frances Wliite and Catherine Shields
:m>lored to Scotland Xeck Saturday
.uth parents.
0\ 'I'MK NCARCrri’ (H’ HOOKS
How many, numy times have I, au
upperclassman, heard the disti’os^od
walla oil the rreshmoa and Soijhomores
becauae their Kngllsh lessons were
not prepared. What was the trouble?
It was a library asHignment and “I
tiould not got the book,” It seems as
tluiugh there is a good deal of library
reading to be done in several of our
courses, and the library books really
are scarce. The teachers know this
and try to take it into consideratiou.
Whilo the fault may lie with the stu
dents In a measure, still there are
some who really do try. Is It the
fault of the students that they can't
get the books? Is it tho fault of the
faculty tho work must be done? I
think the real trouble is that our li
brary needs to grow. I am suro all uf
us feel the need of this very thing
and that both the faculty and students
would welcome au liicreaaa In its cou-
tents.
In the meantime let’s do the best we
can with and take care of wiiat we
have.
ICiizuhuth Kiinzey spent the week-end
in Raleigh.
Frances Howard ami Lillian Kvans
ipeiit Sunday In Ualeigh,
Portia and Louise Aldcnnan, Hessic
'romlinaon were guests of Mozelle Las
siter at her home in Apex.
Fannie Mae Ange spent the week
end with IMary Sparrow.
Alice Klutz spent the week-end with
Mary Thomas in Cameron.
Susie Roams spent tho week-end at
her home in Mooresvllle.
Nedra Landford was with her father
in Uowdens, N. C,. last week-end.
Let me introduce you lo ouc party;
Mr. and Mrai. Jlashlairn, of Te.xas,
Joiui Young, Si-otlnml. Josephine Ward,
Texns, Mary C'rawfoni, Cleorgia, and 1.
We six with our teachers esLablislu'd
Cli’ao Yang An I.,angnage School wo
(-.•iHed It. Our loacher.s came at 7:".0
and we studied uiull 12:01) with hall'
nn iKuir iiitcrinisslon for redress and
chiipcl, which M'as led in Chinese by
line of tho Cliristian teachers. In the
lil'lenioons wi> review the morning
witrk. Last Wednesday wo wore de
lighted when examined on the summer
work by two of the Senior mission
aries to hear (hem say, “You will not
have to go home on account of not
getting the language if you keep nti
slud.ving hard." Tliere is one Senior
missionary who likes to tell new' ones
nut 10 get discojiragcd for the first
thirty years are the most dlfflcult in
laiigmige study!
The tongue is truly an unruly mem
ber and sometimes we do not say
just what we tiiink we are saying.
Ftir instance, the other day the boy
who does our laundry camo in and in a
hesitnnt, timid manner asked that wc
rail him Huai instead of Cliu fis usual.
We did not understand why the clianpe
until he said that his name was being
played on. Then wc knew that we
were the ones who had beon mis-
As soon as lie was
pronouncing
it.
Alma Dkkens vlalted friends in
Greensboro last week-end.
Martha Llvermon was in tlio city
Saturday and Sunday.
EFIRD’S
CAROLINA’S LARGEST CHAINI OF ONE-PRICE
DEPARTMENT STORES
WE APPRECIATE
YOUR PATRONAGE
WE SELL IT
FOR LESS
YOU ARE WELCOME AT ALL TIMES
out we turned to our friend, the die*
tlonary, to sec what words were pro
nounced something like Chu. We
found several, eltlier of which we
might have been calling him; lord,
pickle, wild hog, or a curse word.
Do you blame him for wanting us
to try something easier?
Tliis year wo have had the privi
lege of contact with some outstanding
native Christians which shows ua
what the message of Christ can do
for a heathen people. At the Ijan*
guage School we had lectures by
China’s famous Christian General
Feng Yu Hsiang, by Dr. Chin, a woman
doctor who is meaning much to her
people, and others whose messages
showed that their hearts had felt the
power of Jesus. This summer we havo
come to know’ Mrs. Kuo, who has a
school here in the hills for girls—a
woman of that cliild-llke faith of which
Christ spoke. One day Mrs. Kuo's
mother had sickiiess In the family and
dared to go to the strange foreiguer’a
house for help. The missionary gave
her mcdicino; went to sen the sick
child and helped In every way she
could. She asked that the little daugh
ter of tho family might he put in the
mission school, but this was in the
day when pupils had to be begged
and hired to come to school and the
mother did not readily consent. The
thought of her little girl in the hands
of foreigners w'ho pullod out children's
eyes a!)d made mcdicine was more than
she could suiiid. Finally, the mission
ary and the Chinese mother bccame
hotter friends, and the mother with
no little uneasiness in her heart con
sented for her child to go to the mis
sion school. Frequently and at un
expected hours she came to tho school
to seo how her little girl was, inquir
ing everything tho toaehers had done
and all that had happened since her
last visit.
In duo time she completed her course
and went back fo home a new creature
in Christ. Xow, she is a woman of
perhaps fifty years, a Christian of
raith serving her fellowmon in a noble
way. Hor influence for Christ is count
ing not only wifh her sludents but is
pennfrating her IdoUUrotis communily.
During a visit thore she took us lo
see the little f.lmpel whore with the
si'huol girls slxly or seventy of the
nolKhbors come on Sunrhiys to listen.
A few weeks ago 7>lrs.,Kuo invited our
household over lo dinner and near the
close of the meal she told this incident
which revoaled her simple fiiith. She
knew that we were lo leave here at
live o'clock and at four it was pour
ing rain with no hopes of our going.
She said Unit as was always her habit
of taking the little as well as big
riling?? to Cod' she went to her room
and prayed if It were His will (he
clouds might pass away. When she
came out of the room lil'ti'eu minutes
later the water was already dropping
more slowly off tho eaves; soon tho
clnnds were gone. 1 wish as she
talked yon might havo seen in her
face that implicit trust in God.
Tho contrast in the lives of theae
Christians and tlie great masses of the
people who know nothing of tho True
Light inspires one with zeal and eu-
thusiasm lor tho task. Because I
have spoken of these Cliristian men and
women do not get tho idea that China
Is Christian. Christianity has merely
tinged the largest country on the globe.
It Is estimated that eight out of ten
thousand Chinese are Christians. Ro-
niomberlng the population is four hun-
di-ed million you boo how many know
not tho Christ. Is it not a challenge?
Madge Daniels. '20, Kinston, N. 0.;
Evelyn Sentelle, '22, Helen Sentello,
'23. Tarboro, N. C.; Thelma Johnson,
'23, Clinton. N. C.; Glenn Ward, '20,
Smithfleld, N. C,; visited Meredith
during tho week-end.