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Page Two THE TWIG April 9,'1938 THE TWIG STAFF Prances Tatum Editor Mart Jake LtNDt.Ev Biwiiiess Manager Caboltn CuiTciiEn Aisistont Business Manager Business Staff ViiioiMA Speer Sabah Pope nuTit McLean Mi.vNie Anne Fobnsv Hki.kn Oabvf.y EvEf.Ytf Levine Dobotuv LowuunMiLK ilssoeJa« Editor Mabt Martin Assoclo^e Editor Betty Parker Managing Editor Kathleen MinoEtT Managing Editor Jessie Curbin Managing Editor Sadie Massey Cartoonist DOBOTHY Greene Feature Editor Evelyn Lassiteb Tvpist Annie Lee Tarlton Typist Reporters Mary Stewart CAiiot.YN Andrews Cora BtmKS ViBoiNiA Council Nora Binder Mary Posted Ibis Ross GiDSON Jean Liohtfoot Ernestine Hodqood Bebe DicicBNsoN Geraluine Tuttle Sara Hudson Theresa Wall Enlcred aa 9ccani]>c3iifl8 matter October 11. 1923i at Post Ofllcc at Ralelffh, K. C., nnder Aet of Mnreli 187t). AeeepUnce for mniJin; at special rat« of poatase provided for in Section 1103, Act of Octobor 3. 1017. ftulhorltcd October 11, 1023. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 EDITORS-IN-CHIEF m “IT WON’T BE LONG” By Sadib Massey KATHLEEN MIDQETT, Twio CATHERINE JOHNSON. Acorn man, is the hope against the new Caesars. And the danger grows less from their increasing power than from their mounting enthusiasm, indeed, less from the strange enthusi asm in the dictatorships than from that stranger lethargy among free men in free lands.—The Netvs and Observer. For the Last Time It is not without a feeling of regret from the old staff, accompanied by a certain feeling of relief, that we turn over the editing of this publication to the new publishers. We realize that we have not reached all the goals we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year, and we leave with the incoming staff the task of attaining the aims which they shall try to achieve. Although there have been many diffi culties encountered in the process of editing this new^spaper, we have received a great deal of pleasure in doing it. We believe that it has contributed immeasurably to our education. You have given us your cooperation, without which we could not have worked. By “you” we mean the students, faculty, advertisers, local papers, the Meredith News Bureau, the printers, and the business managers. The coordinated effort of the business managers is an indispensable factor in the publication of your newspaper. On the printer falls more responsibility than just the mere setting up of the type and “running off" the paper. Our printers, the Capital Printing Company, have proved efficient and untiring as co publishers with an inexperienced staff in the task of editing your college newspaper. 0 To the New Editor No work which is worth anything is easy, and any busi ness which you may choose and get worthwhile results will not be easy. Anyone who has edited a publication will grant that it is one of the hardest jobs to be had, but it has its compensations. As one editor to another I should like to pass along this advice given by a western newspaperman: “The college editor should make a slight distinction between himself and his job. The job is important; he is not. The editorship is as responsible a position, in its potential power to help or harm the college as the presidency of the college. “The editor, unless he is a child prodigy, must proceed thoughtfully and with due regard for the errors of his pre decessors if he is properly to fulfill that responsibility.”—The Daily Illinois. And with your last issue next year you may have a feel- *ing similar to that expressed in this little poem from our ex changes : “What have you done?” St. Peter asked, “That I should admit you here?” “I ran a paper,” the editor said, “At my college for one long year.” St. Peter pityingly shook his head And gravely touched the bell. “Come in. poor man, select a harp; “You’ve had your share of Hell.” Danger to the Democracies Dr. William f]. Dodd, former American ambassador to Germany, would have the United States, France and Russia declare war immeciiately on Germany, Italy and Japan “be fore they gain too much momentum to be stopped.” Not many people are quite as ready as Dr. Dodd to enter prompt ly upon .such a preventive war. But a great many would like to see a stop put to thi.s triangular aggression of the Fascist and feudal nations. It is not at all certain that such a war as Dr. Dodd proposes would, at its end, produce the peace and safety winch he wishes. Indeed, even if every thing proceeded according to Dr. Dodd's desires, at the end one aggre.ssive group might lie flung down and a new group set up to plague once more the peaceful in the world. War must always be the last and reluctantly made choice of sensible men. What the world needs is less an immediate war against the aggre.ssor.s than a demonstration of faith by the democracies (Russia is not one of them) that freedom and self-government are things worth preserving to the extent of dying for them. Indeed, the threat to the .safety of the so-called free nations comes less from the growing armaments of the so- called totalitarian States than from the lack of enthusiasm of free men in appreciation for their freedom. Wrong as the dictators seem to us to be, they have stirred enthusiasm. If the democracies are to resist their increasing encroach ment, men in them must show the world that there are things for which they are ready to fight and convince them selves that there are some things for which they are ready to die. Not immediate war but steady faith in that liberal ism, which means devotion to the liberties and dignities of Brain Polish A former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, himself a graduate of a great university, once said; “In the case of a large institution, more boys go through the college; while in a small college, more college goes through the boys.” The personal factor is the major element in every college education. “To rub a brain with other brains,” said a sage, “is the very best form of polish,” and the quality of this polish will depend upon the quality of the individuals with whom a student comes in contact. The type of man—professor or fellow student—with whom he will associate is a prime con sideration to every prospective student and his parents. —The Colby Alumnvs. Tawards Progressive Education The principle of democracy ia being cRvetuIIr evaluated in an fields today—in government, ia so ciety, and even In education. One of the fundamental elements In the concept of democi'acy ia that of mutual cooperation on an equal relationship between Uie giver and the taker, or the ruler and the ruled. In applying tho yardstick of democracy to the field of higher oducation, it is very evident that little has been done to adjust the unequal relationship existing be tween the faculty and the student and they continue In the compara tively filed positions of giver and taker or producer and consumer, while mntual cooperation is re duced to an infinitesimal point. If surface muQiCestatlona are to be believed, neither pai-ty is satisfied with the present state of affairs, since the faculty appear eager to cooperate with the student body on all possible occasions, and on the other hand, the student 'load' and the student ‘gripe’ are always with us. Only the most extravagant optimist woald maintain that the present cnrriculum and the exist ing activities are nil that could he desired, and certainly education has not yet entered tho valen of Utopia even at Rochester. Yet nothing la being done to create a moro democratic student-racuUy relationship or to make any of the proposed corrioulum changes that men so frequently reiterated. lu this connection an interesUng experiment is being conducted at New York University under the auspices of the Amorican Student Union. Both tho students and the faculty are cooperating In an In- iQOSfve luvesiigatlon of the curric ulum with the ultimate aim of re vising It on the basla of construc tive criticism. The first step !n this far-reaching Investigation was taken last week with the inaugu ration of a aeries of separate de partmental conterencea at which the faculty members of a depart ment joined in a dlscuaaion of the department’s ayllabus with majors, minors and all other interested stu dents. It Is hoped that these in formal discuaaions will elicit con- atructlve proposala which may form tlie basla for an adjustment of the cnniculum ia accordance with student needs. Existing courses may he replanned and new courses added, and teaching meth ods may he revised in order to allow for more student discussion or for original research. This stu- dent-faculty cooperation in the ra tional investigation of the curricu lum on the basis of need win be cari'led tlirough every department and has far-reaching Implications Cor the field of democratic educa tion. The plan has already been tried both at Harvard University and at Kansas State College with highly successful results. In appraising this plan of cur riculum revision'. Dean Irving Berg of New York University said that tlie prime purpose of a Liberal Arts collego la "to create an open mind and to stlmulftte precise thinking," Those are valuable assets for the future citizens of a democracy and. such a plan for student-faculty cooperation is cal culated to promote them. We want democracy in education today; we want a more equitable and con structive reiationalilp between stu dents and faculty; we want changes In the curricnlura. Why don't WQ atop 'griping' and Join other colleges in taking progressive action?—Tower Times. SPEED! SPEED! SPEED! By MISS NORMA nOSE The world moves fast! There la no doubt about the fact that tho youth of today has been called upon to meet the deniunda of rapid change and progress, Tho college student oC 1938 must he wide awake, alert, and quick in order to grasp what college and i.ho world has to offer. He must be ready and desirous to keep abreast even when such progreaa iiioaiiB work that la rapid, steady, and dinicult. Yet, thore la an other side to tho question, or more apeclllcally stated, thero Is a limit to tho rate of speed for which peo ple are adaiitod; there is a limit to the speed of mental, emotional, and physical activity. Once beyond that limit, once in the realm of excess speed, a person is apt to find failures or even wrecks of a worse kind than that suffered by him who failed to keep abreast. Speed coupled with facility, ncau- racy, and progreaa Is to he d^ sired, but speed which results In error or ruin rather than accu rate and perfect performance Is to be shunned. . Our own campus will furnish, I dare to suggest, verification for the statement. We have In our student body girls who have rushed headlong through the years dovoted to high school studies, giris who have entered college without the mature out look that IB expected of collega students, girls who are themselves not certain about tho relative im portance of tho dictorent phases of college llfo. They have, in their hasto. gathered the necessary facts and units Cor a high school di ploma, but they have failed to de- volop the power of reason. Judg ment, and evaluations which Is oaually important for auocessful college Ufa. They must pause now to catch up with themselves. This, you may plead, la a fault of the high school system, and in aome cases I gi'nnt that it is. Yet, what is responsible for the same mad rush to complete the college courseaT There is an increasing number of students who are seek ing to crowd Into three years the preacrlbed four year course. Is It £ the attitude of the pupils them selves that they must speed up nnd force their development that they must get their education? If so, then again I would say that the tempo has been set .too fast. It should be slower. The average student needs fcrar years and, I dare sny, requires four years to get the moat from the college course. Any speeding of the proc- eaa, in the majority of casea, tb- sults In a leaa perfect product, I would bring the question a bit closer to the average student. Very often from observation and experience I have bean forced to believe that college students are physically, mentally, and emotion ally rushing beyond the point of endurance. Thera are countless calls to outside activities, and there Is no doubt that these are of value. Yet, there Is again a limit to be set. One student must not engage In so many of these that the rush incurred by them leads into allp-shod and careless performances, nor must she at tempt to exert herself beyond the point of her physical endurance. Failure Is the inevitable result. There must be a rational and sane handling of the question. There muat be an undei'standlng of the purpose and aim of a col lege education. There must be au Intelligent decision concerning the tempo at which life may best be. lived. Declaiona and choicea must be such that there Is time to do what is to he done In the way In which it should ho done. The old plea "I don’t have time," falls in effectual when we are reminded that we have all the time there Is to have—twenty-four fuH hours each day. The aolutlon lies with the inlvidual, There muat be the rapid runs whero Angers fly swift ly over the keys; there must be the slow, strong choi'ds where fingers Unger long on tho keys; there must be rests whero fingera do not touch the keys at all; there must ho a prevailing tempo which the ai-tlst Is capable of maintain ing without undue strain, with ab solute accuracy, and with appre ciation and feeling. Then only Is the rendition such as we would have It bo, Newsdrama on Slum Problem (Continued from page 1) focua the plight of sixty million Americans forced to live In dwell ings below the minimum standards of decency. Reported of groat value by tile motropolitan critics and the school and college press, ", . . one-third of ft nation . , has been seen by moro than 10,000 Now York stu dents In tho first month of its run at the Adelphi Theatre, lligh school toachers have taken entire claaaos to see tho production, and student organizations have bought out the whole house for tlieatre parties. From outside Now York, such colleges as Smith and Mount Holy, oice are sending large groups of students on special field trips to- sea ", . . one-third of a nation , , ." Teachei's consider It so effective an educatlonol Instrument that tho Federal Theatre has prepared a study guide on housing based on material gathered by the projeot's research staff and related to the newsdrama. Dot’s Dashes I By Dot Lowdbrmilk It's a shame that so many of you glrla live down in this part of tlie state where tliere are no mountains or feuds. If we didn’t have feuds where I come from, there wouldn’t be any excitement except on Saturday night when evei'ybody goes to see the horse opera. When 1 was home last week-end the whole tomi was talk ing about the duel betiveen Alex ander Sliott and John S. Knott. Knott was shot, and Shott was not. Which means either that Shott was not shot and Knott was shot, or that the Knott Shott shot ^vns not Knott but Shott. In wblch case not Knott, but Shott, ^vtl8 shot. Some say that Shott sliot not. Which means either that the shot Shott shot was not shot, or that the shot Shott shot shot not Shott but Knott. Some say that Knott shot not, which means cither that Knott shot not shot, or that Knott shot not Shott but Knott shot him self. Others state that Shot was half- shot when he shot Knott, which Is to say that the Shott who sliot the shot which shot not Shott but Knott was a half-shot Shott. In brief. It is dlfllcult to deternvine who was shot and who was not. OS- whether the shot Shott shot shot Knott or not, or whetlior Knott shot Shott or shot not sliot at all. Which saema to leave every thing In a rather half-shot condi tion (It you believe all this, you're in the same conditiont) Dashas: “An apple a day will keep the doctor away" — guess that’s why Helen Hall, Blsle Berry Yates and u few othei's on the campus never eat apples ... It seems that a senior on third floor "A" has a hard time keeping two. doctors from showing up. at tho same time. And speaking of doc tors, Maxine Morgan makes it a point to sec her dentist at least twice a aomestor! It's no wonder that she has such pretty teeth. Think what they WOULD look like If Atlanta weren't so far away! And If you've novec seen snow around In April Just have a woi-d with that other Morgan girl. Car men, and she will tell you. all about it, maybe! . . . Bd Wyatt has been making frequent trips to Moredlth lately. I hear that he bus been helping Harry WUliama (I think "helplug" Is the cori'oct word to use thero.) Anyway, they all come over on the Little Excui'sion with Skipper Charlie every Thursday night . . . Saturday nttornoon a Freshnmn who Bits at my table asked "Where were you at lunch?" Then before 1 could toll her I was there she exclaimed; "Oh, you were there. I was the one who was uway!” . . . Reminds me of that old one about U)e man who asked another If he didn't see him In Atlantic City. Tho second man said, "No, I've never been to At lantic City.” Tho first replied, "Weil, I haven't either. It must have been two other fellows.” . . , If you haven’t seeu the last Stu dent which came out, hero Is a good one found therein: "Marriage Is an Institution. Marriage is love. Love is blind, thoreffore marriage Is an Institution for the blind.” ... I doubt If you could convlnco Caro lyn Porker or Kat Covington of tho(, tho', since both have recently acqulrod rings from S 0 M B- WHERE! Woolworth’s, I reckon! New BSU Council To Attend State Meeting^ Members of the new Baptist Stu dent Union Council, serving with Barbara Behrman, newly-elected pi'osident, will attend a state B. S. U. training school at tho Forest Avenue Baptist Cliurch in Greens boro, North Carolina, on April 23. The day’s lectures, forums, and dis cussions, under the direction of Caesar Herrin, new state president, will servo as a basis for their work next year. Such meetings are be ing held throughout the South dur ing that week us part of the soutli- wlde B. S. U. work. Plans aro now underway for an other Wake Forest-Meredlth social similar to the one held In the fall. Under the sponsorship of. the two Baptist Student Union councils the event which will again be held in the Wake Forest gymnasium, will probably take place in early May. MEREDITH BUS SCHEDULE ve.s Moi-cditb Ijesvcs Upt«mi 0:3G A.M. 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