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Page Two THE TWIG May, 7, 1988 THE TWIG STAFF F&4M0E8 Tatuu Editor Mart Janb Lindlf.t Builnest itanager Oaroltk CBiTcnBK Busines) Manager Business Staff VlBOIJflA SrEKB SaIWMI POPR Ruth McLean Minnie Annb PoBWEt Hblbn Oabvet Evrlyn Levinb OOROTHT LOWOSBUtLK ASSOCiatt EdUOV Mart Martin Asioclate Editor Bbttt Parker Uanaging Editor Katblgbn Midoett Managing Editor JceeiB CuRRiN Managing Editor Sadib Massey - ^..Cartoonist DoRornr Orgrnr - - - J'eature Editor iSVBLTN LA8StTEtI ; Tvpi»l Annie Lee Tarlton Tvpiit Mart Stewart Vdwinia Council Iris Rose Oiosoh 3eoB Dickenson Reporters Carolyn Andrews Nora Binder Jean Liohtfoot GEnALDiNE Tuttle TnERESA Wall Cora Burns Mart Foster EIRNE8T1NB HOBOOOD Saba Hudson EnUr«d ae ■ccond*claa8 matter October 11* 1023, at Post Ofllcc at Bal«Lsh, K. C.. 'and«r Act March 9, 1879. Acceptance for malllns at special rate of pgftase provided (or la Soetlon 1103, Act o( October 3, lOlT, authorized October 11, 1023. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE *1-60 With Regret Once again we are almost at the close of another school year. It is the time when those of us who will be left behind truly feel our loss at the leaving of the seniors. Especially will the new members of the staff miss those of the old as they depart. We know that we shall feel lost at first, but we shall endeavor to do our best and shall always have before us the remembrance of your fine spirit of work and cooperation as a guide. And now as we take over our work we wish to say that it is with regrets that we see you leave us, but with best wishes for the future. 0 To the Students We realize that we have a hard job ahead of us, but we are willing to do at least our best. The previous editor and her staff have set a very good example for us and we shall have to exert an extra effort in order to measure up to their work. It is with some misgivings that we assume the task of editing your newspaper, but we are eager to be of help to the students in any way toward building a better school. We know that the pleasure and advantages which shall come to us will repay us many times for any worries and troubles we may have in the coming year. Now any college paper is a voice of the students. With out you and your fullest cooperation, we are helpless. With you, we desire ti-uly to make this paper “the official organ of the student body of Meredith College.” Idle Minutes When I told Dot Lowdermllk th&t Kay had asked me to try to substU tnte tor her column this week, I thought she would go Into hyster lea. At first It sort of hurt my feel- tngB, but then after reflecting a minute on her sense of humor (she laughs at everything from Mary Martin's appetite to the Jokes Id her own column) I decided to let it go at that, and left her playing peel(-a-boo beliind a newspaper. Far be It from me to Iw anylwdy’s adviser, but let me advise all of you to go to the Ambassador thea* tre next week to see "Snow White and the .Seven Dwarfs.” If 1 can cause anyone to see It who has not already planned to. do So, I shall feel that I have done my Girl Scout 'dally good deed.” Thre Is a con fession coupled with that sugges tion, for I am one of those stubborn people who Iiad declared at the be ginning that I would not spend two hour^ of my valuable time looking at any such foolishness. But then after the papers i>egan to play It up and I'd had to read the entire story (to say nothing of cutting out a fifty-two piece wardrobe for Snow White, wlio In reality only had two dresses), to the little boy nest door during Easter, I decided tliat I had to see It. If I had not Been It I would always have to be on the defensive l>ecause people like Dot Lowdermllk would always be saying “What, you didn't see Snow White?” etc., etc. So I went, and people, I had the surprise of my life. “Sis" Bell and I enjoyed It so much that the people In front of us missed half the show, turning around to see whose children were being so rowdy. It’s really worth your time, bo don't miss It. Personally, 1 don’t like stories alMut Bpinsters, because they are usually very nice people — in fact, tliey are a lot nicer than people who publish Jokes about them, (t wouldn't be saying all this Just be cause I am one of the two single damsels left from a crowd o( fif teen wlio graduated from higi) school three .years ago.) But any way, the other day one lady asked a maiden lady what she would like most In a husband—brains, wealth, or appearance. The maiden lady snapped back, "Appearance, and the sooner the better!” Just like that. You know, a funny thing liap pened at the Student Convention last week. Mlrvlne told one 'Joke after anotiier and no one in the audience even smiled except the Meredith girls, and they' nearly died laughing. Don't tell Mlrvlne (Melvlne, 1 believe she calls her self), but Bill Stalnback made some crack about stooges; of course he was wrong because we can't help It If we are ticklish. The Traditional Daisy Chain By Hannau Lacod You Are the More Highly Endowed College students, you are the more highly endowed of the present generation. By being in an in.stitution of higher learning one has a better opportunity of making a success of life. The individ ual, if he avails himself of the opportunities at hand, can live a fuller, richer life. Almost anyone can exist, but the person who really lives is the one who expects to gain something from playing the game of Ife, and in view of that expectation puts something into the game. Opportunities surround us every day, but, all too often we let them casually slip away, seemingly not realizing that we will, in all probability, not have that opportunity again. One of the most obviously neglected opportunities of the college students here seems to be that of failing to attend the entertainments provided for by the college. Granting that the entertainments are fairly well attended there are still many who are losing fine chances of enriching their lives by the knowledge and experiences of others. Let us become just a little more keen to the values of such programs. And. then, juat being in school is an opportunity many people envy .students. It seems a little unfair when the more fortunate ones fail to make a “go” of .school work. To play a winning game in life requires long, untiring efforts on the part of the contestant. One must not expect SUCCCS.S ut one attempt.—From “The Teco Echo.” 'He who laughs best, lauglis last.” So Join in, freshmen, now It’s our turn! Tlie sophomores might have given us a thorough going- over on •'soph-day-oft,” but what we went through is a mere nothing In comparison to the inconvenience these old friends of ours are going to suffer. But please don't let me keep you In the dark. I'm talking about the Meredith Daisy Chain, of course! And to you who still don't know what it’s all about, a word or three of explanation. . . . A daisy chain is a long rope com pletely woven of daisies; hundreds, thousands, or even millions of them. The more daisies, the more chain, and. Incidentally, the more work tor the sopliomores. On class day, while freslunen, juniors, and sen iors are still enjoying sweet sleep, the suHer-morex have to get up In ihe wee hours of the morn (five o’clock, to be exact) and start plucking daisies and weaving them luto the chain. But this Is not the worst of It, more Is yet to come. For flvo or six weeks prior to class day, they have to be outside at 6:45 every morning except Sundays to pi'actise something about which I'll tell you later, If you don’t know what it Is already. Six forty-flve! The best hours of sleep spent in practising! What people don’t go through for the sake of traditions! For you see, daisy chains are traditional. They are an Important element In every womans’ college College wouldn’t be college, sopiio- mores wouldn't be sophomores, and class day wouldn't be class day without them. On class day quUe a ceremony Is held around this chain. The sen lore, in whose honor the whole pro gram Is given, march Into the grove and are seated. After which their little sisters, bearing the daisy chain on their shoulders and sing Ing all the while, march Into tbe gi'ove. Following the exercises, the sophomores, still carrying the daisy chain, procced to the steps of the Adnilnlstratlon Building and form the numeral forty with the daisy chain. (Here's where all the pi-ac- tising conies in.) They make very lovely picture standing there with their “bright and smiling" faces shining out, and their pretty white dresses fluttering in the breeze. Tiiey're oh, so tired! hut happy for the privilege of partaking In tlie daisy chain. Just as we fresh men will be next year. 66 An Old Pair of Shoes 99 By F'ltWl.V COLIIKRTSON Heaven Is Our Home Frank Knox, publisher of The Chicago Daily News, brought the glad news to the American Publishers’ Associa tion that motion picture producers hud promised to stop portraying newspapermen in an unfavorable or “untrue" light. And that, pre.siimably, is a great victory for the press. But suppose the motion picture producers in a simple request based upon reciprocity should ask the promise of the news papermen to regard movie actors only in a favorable light. Such a treaty of peace might sweeten and lengthen the days of news))apermen, movie actors and their bosses. But that it would serve any others is much to be doubted. Certainly when Mr. ICnox seeks a pretty portrayal of his craft he intimates that the craft can't lake it. And if newspapermen can’t take criticism or caricature or downright distortion of themselves they have become a thinner skinned breed than they used to be. It takes all kinds of newspapermen to get the news and make the papers, and whatever character a movie gives a figure of the craft it will fit somewhere. No sensible man believes that the depiction of a newspaperman in a movie as crook or bum is supposed to indicate that Colonel Knox and the thousands of other excellent gentlemen who >somehow got into this weird way of making a living are all crooks and bums. But when a publisher as prominent as Colonel Knox feels it necessary to get the movies to portray newspapermen in the sweetest way, somebody may wisely wonder if the whole works does not need such a histrionic whitewashing. The whole thing would be a silly business if it were not for the fact that what the publishers are getting is a form of censorship instigated by representatives of the press for the benefit of the press. And that is not silly. It is folly: The sad folly of a man loud about a free press but Mnd to the dangers of putting bonds on a free theatre.—From "The News and Obsei'ver." J "I burnt my gym shoes because they were so sissy.” At those words I pricked up my oars to hear what the slecpy-eyed hostess across the table was talking ai>out the Iranflre of the night be fore—’Wiien every senior was privi leged to destroy by conflagration the article (except It be flesh and blood or under the Jurlsdlctlou of the trustees) tiiat had been the bane of her existence tor four years at Meredith. Lust sununer when I tossed them out of my trunk, Dick (brother) took one look and let out his intol erable horse-laugh. "Oh, gosh, is that what college has done for you? What are they — anyhow?” He Hide-stepped to keep a certain black object from contacting his left ear und I decided that the sizzling of 1940 would have to be a little sis- sler. OPEN FORUM Dkah EniTOii; I've notleod quite a number of little blue and pink slips being left at many doors these days and I haven't heard any rejoicing over iho contents. A week campus doesn’t exactly appeal to any of us. Thla week we had a little Induce ment to Ko to chapel (not that I think Meredith girls need induce ment to go to chnpel) and everyone auemud well satlslled. Mr. Ceohegnn, from the Wachovia Bank, gave us an Interesting talk on banking (money talks you know). Ml-, and Mrs. Alden got more ap- l)lauso than I ever tiioiight live hundred Meredith girls could make. Knowing that there are to lie such programs in chnpel make it dan gerous to miss one. I'm for better chapel programs and less campus- Ing! Yours truly, Evelyn Lcvinb. I sat back and listened and agi'eed bellgerently. "Sissy, that's what tiiey are. Do you see how Mrs Sorrell ever picked up such toot gear." Mr. Greek (That'; In brackets In Webster's Collegiate dictlonory) says that ‘gymnas means naked. Yea, hare of all beauty and preposterous strings that had to he tied twice puckered toes and soles that would be cardboard If they didn't last aa long. Then across before niy eyes visions of Juicy black leather siz zllng in a red hot flre In the spring of 1940. Tliose gym shoes, those gym shoes have cost me enough trouble to deserve sulphur flames, 'with time out only for Intermittent visits to the frlgldalre. Embarrassing mo ments: To get to gym with your shoes on the wrong foot; or to dlS' cover tliat one shoe la your room mates; to walk through the library with their proclaiming In no hushed tones that they need oil. And speak ing of squeaking, whenever an un called for noise Is heard In the dead of the niglit Dolly turns over and says, "Now, what? Have we an in truder (for Instance, a mouse)? Is the radiator having convulsions? Or have your gym shoes merely Re dded they would be more comfor- tahle on the other side of the closet?” Ttiose are times when I smell brain leather again. But — maybe It la age and being more sot In my ways — I begin to dread tlie part ing period. If Dick doesn't find out what lovely pockets the leather would make tor sling shots, I think I will Just keep them to show my grand-daughters what Meredith was like when I was there. I have a hunch tliat 1940's bonllre won't go hungry without my contribution. THE MAY POLE By Jane Thompson - Hail, Aestivation! By Frcta Thompson It was one of those warm spring days when the sparrows were cut ting up In the Ivey outside the win dow and the rows of white Iris swayed gently and the freshmen were flitting about the gym like a flock of canaries. I threw myself on Dolly’s bed and stared vacantly at tbe clouds. "I am going to testlvate this sum mer.” "Oh, wliat!” Dolly pul down her novel and came to with a start. ”Aw, you know, hibernate In the sunshine, with a straw hat over my face, like a Georgia darky wlien the corn needs hoeing and the wat- termelona are almost ripe.” "You talk right foolish,” was the only reply, and volume one of Love Enough continued to be pre served. Dolly always dlacourages my more noble adventures. "But, my dear, you don't under stand.” I tried it again. "You see, {estivation was originally one of nature's greatest plaus. I am sure she designed it especially for the convenience of college students. It means that you can put your mind In cold storage along with your best mink coat and Woolwdrth mit tens and procced to enjoy the sum mer. Lots of people cestlvate after a fashion, only some Insects and a species of frog had sense enough to carry out the plan in full. That is why wiien Noah Webster defines aesllBOte he says that it is peculiar to entymologlcal beings. I guess he didn’t know anything about the frog, Now, this fi'og, he fills him self up with water " Somebody's book on the other bed slammed. “Enough said. I get the idea and will give the matter moi'e serlona consideration when 1 get through hibernating.” And a dooi' banged behind Dolly and Love is Enoiigh. I reached a long arm to the book case and pulled out a catalogue. Yep, there It was, Monday, May 30. Commencement — of astlvatlon. has not yet chosen its remaining olflcers and marshals. The members of the student Iwdy elected Anna Lee Johnson of Apex as college marshal. Thera were three nominees for this place, Lois Avant, Theresa Wall, and Thomas- ine Herring. The remaining elections will taka place soon. MRS. MAYES BEHRMAN SPEAKS ON MARRIAGE Mrs. Mayes Behrman of Greens- boi'o conducted a ser.ies of lectures on marriage as a vocation from April 19-23. She was here In con nection with the Vocational Em phasis Week. She spoke tour times, each time taking up a different phase of marriage. She lectured Informally and students asked ques tions and contributed to the dis cussion. She spoke of the necessity of compatibility, and also of the relation of religion to a happy mar riage. Siie also talked on the subjects of engagement, courtship, and mar* riage. CONTINUED ELECTIONS OF MINOR OFFICERS Teacher: "Now we And that X Is equal to zero." Student: "Whee! All that work for nothing.''—Ex. Continuing the annual elections, the student body has chosen the girls they thought capable of as suming the responsiiillity of the minor ofllces tor the year 1938-39, The remaining Student Qovern- ment members are as follows: Jane Washburn and Alleen Snow, House vice-presidents of Jones Hall; Mas- liie Morgan and Virginia Lee Wat son, Houae vice-presidents of Pair- cloth Hall; and Evelyn Lane and Edna Earle Coggins, House vice- presidents of Strlnglleld Hall. The following girls were chosen to serve on the B. S. U. Council: Blanche Johnson, Enlistment vice- pi'csldent; Jessie Currin, Social vice-president; Dorothy Devault, eci'etary; Helen Canady, treasurer; Theresa Wall, Poster chairman: Betty Brown McMlllau, reporter; Sara Cole, Music director; and Ju liette Martin, Day Student repre sentative; Frances Lanier Is to serve as president of the Y. W. A. tor the coming school year. Freida Culberson has been chosen as Ser vice Band president. Margaret Jane Childs, who served as assistant manager of the B.-HIve this year, has been given the managership tor the coming year. Mary Matthls Turner will serve as Denomina tional pi'esident in the Council. Ella Eddins has been elected as vice-president of the Athletic as sociatlon, She has been very active lu the sports ottered at Meredith tor the past two years. Ellen Mc Intyre and Juanita Stalnback, wiio have been outstanding In the col lego sports, have been elected as secretary and treasurer. Carolyn Crltcher was elected as business manager of Tun: Tmo with Nancy Dradsher as her ssslst- ant manager. Evelyn Mg.'shburn will serve as assistant editor of the paper, the managing editors being Sarah Hudson, Evelyn I.eviue, Cura Duma and Helen /onoa, June Thompson is to be ari editor. Iris Rose Olbaon' will serve as business manager of the . /Icom with Helen Canaday as her assist ant. Olive Hamdck was elected as ossistant oditof of the publication. Tliere are two editoi's from each of the three tolbwing classes; Senior, Betty Tiiomisaon and Dorothy By- rum; Junior, Nora Binder and Freida Culbertson; sophomore. Alice Chandler and Nina Lou Rus- tln. Katharine Kalmar, Dorothy Green, Virginia Speer and Carolyn Langston were elected as Art. Poetry, Book Review ond Exchange editors, respectively. The following have been elected to serve on the Oak Leaves staff; Photographic editors, Virginia Speers, Minnie Anna Foi-ney; as sociate editor, Carolyn Andrews; senior editor. Dot Reich; junior editor, Bebe Dickenson; sophomore editor, Betty Brown MacMillan. The assistant business managers are Catherine Scott and Sarah Hay- worth. A member of the Pitllaretian Literary society cast her ballot foi' the following girls as ofilcers of the society since no other nominations were made; Sarali Cole, vice-presi dent; Leette Smoak, secretary: Frances Spllman, treasurer. Blanche Johnson was elected by the members ot the society tor chief marshal. The senior marshal la Thomaaine Herring, and the junior marshal is Bebe Dickenson. The Aatrotekton LIterai'y society Defeat Isin't bitter It you don’t swallow It.—Reader's Digest. (Carolina Florists Incorporated 2806 Hillsboro Road Mrs. Patricia (Pat) Maupin Phone 3646 flowers.. for All Occasions Be assured of the finest Flowers at all times, properly designed and de livered promptly. ■» Open Sundays and Evenings GIRLS. 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