TWIGLETS
Two ■ ’ fi
^blished Di'Weekly as the Official Organ
of the Student Body of Meredith
College
Mae CAMPnELL......... Editor
Dobothy Merritt—Editor
Sallie CoUNaz.— .^..Associate Editor
Eliza Bniccs-... ^.^-Biuiness Manoger
Emily Miller Managing Editor
Mary Florence Cumuincs
Managing Editor
Nancye Viccbllio Managing Editor
Mary Lois Parker Asst. Bus. Mgr.
Cornelia Atkins Asst. Bus, Mgr,
REPORTERS
Jane Parker Mary Laura Vauciian
Louise Cobrell Mary Allen Lewis
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ELFXTIONS
“Some thcrofore cried one
tiling and some tinotlier, for the
whole asscmbla|Tc was confuscd,
and tlie more part knew not
wherefore they were come to
gether.” This excellently de
scribes the state of the Meredith
student body and any average
college group, wlien there arc
elections in progress. This week
the Student Government presi
dent for 1933-34 is the exciting
topic for discussion. After that
the B. S. U., publications, classes,
societies, and other organizations
will hold their respective places
in the limelight for a brief mo
ment of glory. We would like to
urge this year, as every other
year, that we as students not be
carried away by personal prej
udices—friendships or enmities
—not by the habit of following
the crowd, and not by the enthu
siastic excitement of the moment.
This sounds Utopian; but it is
not impossible, if our assembly
will give due considei'ation and
really know for wlmt purpose
they have come together. Is pop
ularity to be placed above real
ability.^ Are flattering election
speeciics by friends of tlie candi
dates to be allowed to influence
votes for a person who i.s not best
fitted for olfice.^ Any one has
supporters who can find nice
things to say. Are we going to
be led into confusion or arc m'c
going to be independent and
think for ourselves?
Mereditli faculty and student
body are grateful that tliey wore-
able to hoar Dr. S. J). Goixlon
during the week of deeper spirit
ual tliinking. Jlis calm and sim
ple manner of approach to his
subject impressed all those who
heard him.
Wc congratulate Mary Flor
ence Cummings and Isabel Mor
gan on becoming members of the
Kappa Nu Sigma Honor Society.
PERHAPS YOUVE HEARD
That Dr. Charles Austin
Beard, distinguished author and
historian was at Carolina past
week delivering the Weil lec
tures. He stated emphatically
that lie favors absolute, inde
pendence for the Philippines
and Porto Rico, pointing outj^
that thousands of Porto Ricans
have been pouring into the
United States only to find them
selves unemployed amid the
miseries of our great cities. “Im
perialism,” he added, “is up a
blind alley and doomed. Inter
national commercial rivalry will
not permit it.”
Zangara’s fate has been hang
ing in tlie balance along with
that of Mayor Cermack. Reads
a Nc7os and Observer para
graphic: “If Mr. Cermack dies,
Zangara’s sentence will be ma
terially shortened.” By these
tokens, then are we to under
stand that while Ccrmack was
the unfortunate victim of cir
cumstances, Zangara will be the
victim of a technicality.^ As
guilty as the would-be assassin
admittedly is, will the physical
resistance of the mayor increase
or lessen the degree of this
guilt?
That practically every Chi
nese university has requested
IJernard Shaw to make a speech
during his tour of the Far East.
Several days ago one of our lo
cal newspapers imparted the fol
lowing bit of information: “Yes
terday he (Shaw) addressed the
students of Hong Kong Uni
versity denouncing university
training and receiving an huge
ovation.” The Chinese students
reception seems to have provetl
Shaw’s point admirably. But
lest we speak in our haste—per
haps the noted dramatist would
liave received the “huge ova-
tioti” anyway.
The “Cotton Bill” recently
introduced in Congress and ad
vocated by Senator Bailey of
North Carolina has for its ob
ject the reduction by one-third
of the acreage of cotton to be
planted. Only those farmers who
reduce their acreage that
amount would reteive national
aid. To plant or not to plant—
it remains to be seen.
Salem College .students seem to
liave taken a great deal of inter
est in the recen t Ping Pong Tour
nament. The Salcviitc says of
tlie contest; “It was a contest
inter-mural, inter-faculty, inter-
vidual, inter-lectual, and intcr-
t'sling in other words an all round
perfect .success.”
Under the auspices of the
y. M. C. A. (!hi!i Meng of China,
nnw associate director of the
C hina Institute in America, de-
livoi-cd two udflres.ses at State
Collfgc last week.
I’he Sou til Carolina Press As
sociation recently awarded first
honor to the Winthrop Journal,
literary })ublication of Winthrop
College.
THE TWIG
A ccrtain alumna who is still
taking some work with us was
asked lost Sunday if she’d been
reading anything improving.
“No,” she replied and then added
as an aftertliought, “just the
Bible.” She reminds us of the
college student who, in filling out
an application blank, wrote after
the question to what denomina
tion she belonged “Baptist—and
Christian.”
Seeing all the pussy willows re
cently which thought spring had
comc reminded Mrs. Wallace of
the little girl who didn’t care to
go out and pick “cat tails” be
cause she had no cats.
And speaking of cats, we hear
that two children brought their
dog to a famous animal liospital
for treatment. He was described
as being “wboly and dirty, but
busy and waggish.” When the
Exchanges
The Lenoir-Rhyne debating
season opened on Monday, Febru
ary 27, W'hen the girls’ debating
team met the Winthrop team in
a dual debate on the question:
“Resolved, that the United States
should f\gree to the cancellation
of inter-allied war debts.” We
wish you luck, debaters!
Agnes Scott College celebrated
Founder’s Day on February 22,
with the usual banquet and dance.
A very attractive red, white and
blue color scheme was carried out,
and the seniors wore colonial cos
tumes.
I’he Old Gold and Black tells
us that at last a method has been
found of bringing faculty and
students to chapel; simply, have
Rudy Vallee to appear on the
program. Wake Forest was the
only college visited by Vallee
during his N. C. itinerary. He
was brought to the college by Dr.
Isbell, professor of chemistry and
director of the college band.
The Government Relief work-,
ers are busy on the Converse cam
pus. Plans have been made for
the construction of an amphi
theatre, which will be one of the
most beautiful spots on the cam
pus. A new front gate will be
begun as soon as the weather per
mits.
An early Coker College hand
book contained the following
“don’ts”:
“Don’t be overawed by the
Sophomores. They are only last
year’s Freshmen.”
“Don’t forget that education
is like the measles. Having been
to college doesn’t prove that
you’ve caught it, but only that
you’ve been exposed to it.
“Any student wishing to leave
the campus before two o’clock
must consult the president.
attendant asked what his trou
ble was, they told him, “he can’t
sleep.” And so even dogs have
insomnia!
We’d like to recommend this
little poem by Dorothy Parker
to a certain student of ours who
once wanted to order a book
called “Twenty-one Delightful
Ways of Committing Suicide”—
“Razors pain you;
Rivers arc damp;
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp;
Guns aren’t lawful;
.Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.”
And did you you see this piece
of philosophy in one of our pa
pers?
“Life is a horse
With a bridle and bit—
It will drive you
If you don’t drive it.”
At The Theatres
STATE THEATRE
“State Fair,” with Janet Gay-
nor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres,
Sally Eilers, Norman Foster,
Louise Dresser, Frank Craven
and Victor Jory portraying the
principal roles, comes to the
State Theatre on Monday for an
engagement of four days.
Based on the Literary Guild
prize novel by Phil Stong, a
newspaperman w’ho was born and
raised on a farm, the picture is
said to give a true and sympa
thetic insight into tlie characters
of the men and women who live
close to the soil.
A Talkai*toon and Sound News
complete this program.
PALACE THEATRE
Motion picture devotees who
are demanding the return of
screen musicals will find enough
music and dancing in the comedy,
“Hot Pepper,” to meet their de
sires. It is the attraction at the
Palace Theatre Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. This pic
ture depicts the latest adventures
of the immortal Quirt and
Flagg, the fighting and loving
Marines portrayed by Edmund
Lowe and Victor McLaglen.
“Doubling in the Quickest,”
Mack Sennett Comedy, and
Sound News completes the pro
gram.
There was a long, long trail
a’winding behind tliat far-flung
front in France.
And, in The Big Drive, great
est of all pictures of the World
War because of its very authen
ticity, which will play at the Pal
ace Theatre Thursday, Friday
and Saturday one realizes just
what that long, long trail could
mean.
“Babe O’ Mine,” Musical Act,
“Bosko’s Dizzy Date,” Cartoon,
and Sound News completes the
program.
March 4, 1933
Excerpts From Address
By Dr. W. L Poteol
From In Defense of BcholaraMp
delivered at Meredith College, Febru*
ary 3.
There has been a request that
Dr. Poteat’s entire address be
published in the Twig. This is
impossible on account of the lim
ited space of this paper. A few
quotations, however, which have
been taken from the address fol
low here:
“Acquaintance with the best is
scholarship, the fruit of it ripen
ing into refinement, elevation,
senstiveness, courage, and wis
dom is culture. This acquaint
ance with tlie best may be but a
speaking acquaintance, able
merely to recognize and locate
against any future need of ex
pansion. Or it may be ultimate
and free and happy. It may also
vary from field to field. But the
scholar may be at home in every
province of the intellectual realm,
certainly able to read its symbols
and interpret its significance.”
[ . . . “This is culture in process
and result.] It authenticates it
self by what you are, not by what
you have; by the way you feel,
not by what you know; by the
felloM'ships of your spirit, not by
the work of your hands. It is
inward wealth w’hich accountants
cannot inventory, which time, the
pilferer, cannot reach.”
“It dreadfully needs to be re
membered that what is new in our
civilization is in the externals of
it, the machinery of it. The
fundamental interests and needs
of human life remain the same.”
“However satisfying and
charming it may be, culture is
not an end in itself. The first
motive which ought to compel us
to study may be, as Montequieu
said, to augment tlie excellence
of our nature and to make an in
telligent being yet more intelli
gent, but it is not the last motive.
An enriched and trained intelli
gence, a moral sense enlightened
and discijjlined, refinement of
manners, tastes, and feelings,
generosity onto tolerance of
spirit, are the badges of culture
wherever they appear, and they
adorn any life. But culture is
not ornament. . , . Removable
beauty is not beauty. It is affec
tation. Culture is rather a cer
tain quality of the tissue of the
organism itself. It is not orna
ment, but equipment. And if
pure learning is to survive as one
of the purposes of universities,
as Mr, Bertrand Russell says, it
must be brought into the service
of the community as a whole, and
not merely provide refined de
lights for a few gentlemen of
leisure. A barren intellectualism
wants justification. And my
word to you women of capacity
and distinction in Meredith Col
lege must be Browning’s, himself
one of the scliohirs of tile time”
Know, not for knowing’s sake,
But to become a star to men
forever.
(This article was printed in
full in the Biblical Recorder^
February 15, 1933.)