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THE TWIG
February 6, 1941
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Where’s Our School Spirit?
School spirit? I wish there were an
other term for that which most of us
don’t seem to have. But there it stands,
or rather, doesn’t stand. In all our
projects we sit down in the middle.
We step aside for others to take the
lead—and since we all step aside, we
get no where. Why, for example, don’t
we already have the logs for the cabin
out here? Are we really interested?
Yes, but we don’t want to crack the nut.
We want the goody. We don’t want to
work!
And a sad state of affairs this is.
And sadder it will be. When we
thought that the hut was a thing of
the immediate future, we schemed and
worked as well as could be expected of
us. But now since the cabin seems a
little further off, do we hear that buzz
of interest? Apparently not. We
have not enough forethought, foresight,
or what have you, to look forward to
the coming day. We want the hut now.
We can’t wait. We think only of the
present.
Well, then, there’s nothing to do ex
cept WORK! Share and share alike!
It might, you know, be worth the
trouble. And it would show some peo
ple that we can have “school spirit!”
What Are Grades?
What do marks mean to you? What
does a grade mean to all of us? Are we
willing to let our knowledge and our
ability to think be measured by such
more or less partial figures and letters?
Why do we let jealousy of grades wreck
not only our friendships but also our
very lives? Why?
We aim for a high mark, a passing
grade, often thrusting aside the pur-
po.sc of college life. We don’t bother to
make bosom friends, to broaden our
views of life, to be able to take an im
personal sland on any subject, to be
open-minded and unprejudiced, We
“spot” teachers, .study, and “push” for
grades. All is wrangling.
But all this distastefulness could be
removed. I’m sure, if a better and more
impartial system of grading were in
stalled in this college. A system that
would enable one to pass or fail—no
"in-betweens": a .system that would
cla.ssify the marks as very satisfactory,
satisfactory and unsatisfactory! And
why doesn’t this institution, showing
all the promise that it does, aspire to
the use of this modern advancement in
grading? Why?
Takes and Mistakes
By LVTTO.N Tl.Vtil.KY
+•
LOGIC
What is a double ptstunla?
Well, a petunia Is a flower Uke u begonin',
A begoDlu iB a meal like a sausatse;
A Bausogo unU battery Is a crime;
MoDkeys crime trees;
Trees a crowd;
A rooster crowed In tlie moroine and made a
noise;
A Dolse Is on your (ace like your eyes;
The eyes Is the opposite ot the oays;
A horse nays nnd hne a colt;
You got a colt and go to bed and wake up
io the mornlrf^ with double petunia.
—Johnnie Vlvando's page in The Baptist
Student.
"So you're a saleBman! What's your line?”
"Salt."
“I'm a salt seller, too."
"Shake."
—Bxehange.
WARNING!
Two white marks
Across the bill.
Two white marks—
And then a split.
Two skis Up-
Head In the snow,
Scramble up nnd off they go.
Two red cheeks—
They’re riding high.
Two more spills.
A blackened eye.
Two more falls—
A broken nose.
Two more falls
But OD he goes.
Two white sheets,
And then a head—
Those, who ski
Will land Id bed. \
They have devised a process ot making wool
out of milk whlcb must make the cow feel
sort of sheepish.
“You should work bard and get ahead."
"I've got a bead.”
She was only a taxi driver’s daughter but
you auto meter.
THE PERFECT MAN
There 1s .a man who never drinks nor smiles,
nor chews nor swears.
Who never gambles, never flirts,
Who shuns all awful snares-
He’s paralyzed.
—Afaftamian.
Roses are red,
Violets arc blue,
Dandelions are yellow,
Carnations are various other colors.
—Alabamian.
A young theologian named Fiddle
Refused to accept bis degree.
For, said he, "Ifs enough to be Fiddle
Without being Fiddle, D.D.”
—Jester.
A freshman informed Dr. Price on a Bible
quiz that Jesus was criticized because he as*
sociated with “Republicans and sinners”—
and that on the eve of election. (By the way,
when i* the next election???)
To the Frosh—
Don’t let sophomores scare you. After all,
a sophomore Is only a freshman who has paid
tuition twice.
—.Var/on College Journal.
He called his girl Geometry, she was so
plain and solid.
—.Uarion College Journal.
Fact: The Greeks are some fighters.
Comment by Mussolini: “1 came, I saw, I
concurred.”
—Alabamian.
A skeptical man was Bill Treeter
Who wouldn't believe his gas meter.
He pulled out a match,
And gave It a scratch,
“Good mornlDg," he suid to St. Peter,
—Old Maid Maga:ine.
AN ANCIENT DITTY
Ever heard it? Well If you haven't, you're
going to now:
"The horses run iiround, their feet are on tlie
ground
Oh, who will wind the clock when I’m away?
Away?
Go got the axe, there's a lly on baby’s chin.
A boy's best friend Is his mother. His mother.
Looking oui a window, a second story window
I slipped nnd spniincd iiiy eyebrow on the
imvenicni. The pavement.
Feed ibe liuliy garlic, so we'll And him In the
dark.
A hoy's host friend iB his mother, ills mother.
Lookin' ihroiiKh a knot bole. In pappy's wood-
on luK.
Why ilo they put the shore so near the ocean?
Tbo (luciin?
Go get the Listerine. Sister wants n beau.
A boy’s best trleml Is his mother. Ills mother.”
—Curoltnliin.
ROMANCE
“1 have drawn the curtains close
And from my easy chair
i Ktri-tcb my band towards you
,lii8t to feci that you tiro there.
I vow, us I view you sleeping
Life'H comforts shall he your lot
For I love you dearly, Flossie,
You're the best hound dog I've got.”
—Hummer Jammer.
TAIiLli TALK—
Tb(f technical name for snoring is Khect mu
sic,
Thcin there's the little duckling who was
terribly embarrnssud because his lirst pants
were down.
Making love In like making pie. All you
need is crust and a lot of apple sauce.
—Wiird'flelmunl Hyphen.
Teacher; Take one out of ten and what do
you have. Tommy?
Tommy: Pink toothbrush.
—Pointer.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Suzzy Snoop
Says...
We’ve had visitors in town this
past week—came all the way from
Syracuse to make a call on a South
ern Belle. Alice, you tell them
how to do It. Oee! He was cutel
But here's a balance in popula
tion. Some come and others go.
Now “Aggie" and "Eddie" have
gone to Davidson to dance with
Charlie and Joe to Will Bradley's
music. ■
Now when home town folks get
together there are good times to be
had by all. Haonab Ruth and
Christine are really making us be
lieve there Is more rhyme than
rhythm In that idea. It seems
that one of the fellows u$ed a Job
as an excuse to b« near Hannah
Ruth end the otber thought of
school and Christine.
Seems to me there is something
awfully attractive about Sundays
and church at Hayes-Barton.
There's something about a beautl*
(ul blonde tenor and a rosy-cbeek
brunette. But Laurie and Lila
Ruth are running the information
bureau on that score. Ask them.
Do any of you know wby our
little transfer. Ruby, likes Boon-
Iseley so well, I know that every
time I ace her tbere I see a “Dan
dy'’ red cub convertible outside.
There Is some connection, believe
me.
Have you heard what the Mere
dith girls can do to the Wake For
est Kappa Sigs? Quote—Take
them or leave them—Unquote. I
thought that was all over. Hazel,
especially since “Fortune” has been
knocking at your door.
Flo Hewitt likes literary stuff.
That stuff includes the young
Washington author and the book
he's writing. Wonder how much
he tells her about that when they
travel back and forth between here
and Washington?
Who was that pretty blonde with
two-inch eyelashes that called on
Phillips the other night. That gal
got more compliments on him than
the new dress she wore.
There's one girl In school (hat
makes a lasting impression. Ask
Mary Lois about the one she made
at Carolina and the swell results
she’s getting.
Gollee! I’d hate to think that
every letter I wrote to one "Cer
tain some one” had to be censored!
Poor Gretchen. She has to put up
with that as well as all the jokes
and stories about the. life ot a
sailor.
Hear that there are a couple of
sponsors for Wake Forest Mid
winters In our midst. Jane Allen
for Jim Early and Evelyn White
for Paul Bullock. Speaking of
Evelyn, have you heard about the
awful time she’s having keeping
her men straight. Well, It seems
that Paul has been pretty hard hit
by the compelltlon he has been get
ting lately.
Whan you get down to the "L’s"
In the alphabet you get down to
the girls who get more telephone
calls than a bird has feathers. Lena
nnd Leette ai-e the ones we have
on mind, I think It's State and
Carolina that do most of the
calling.
Suzanne likes uniforms and
music as well as the rest of us—
or maybe better. Hers is more
specillc—and settles down on the
Hickory hand whose music and
uniforms make her heart beat
faster.
Summer school romances don't
fade as quickly as you are often
inclined to think. 'Bob has re
turned to Betty from Annapolis.
Thnt romance Is in full bloom with
no possible chnnce of fading be
cause it’s held together with a pin.
1 hear Tuck is sick. Nancy, did
the m;in in chapel scare you when
he began to talk about sick people
liplng dangerous and scoundrels?
Well, I suppose no more news Is
good news to you girls who arc
holding your breath for fear that
I might tell on you. But there’s
always another edition of Tiiu
Twio and with it comes more
gossip,
Until (hen
1 remain your Little
SUZZY,
AMERICA’S CRIME
PROBLEM
lly Dh. AI.ICK B.^n.swKi.1, KK"rii
Probably next to the question o(
how to Hvold paying an Income (ax,
America’s greatest peace-time
worry Is the prevention of crime.
Aside from the worry thei'o seems
(0 be no close analogy in the two
problems. The payment of the tax
Is personal, hut tho prevention of
crime Is dissociated from the aver
age person's feeling. He rosts in
Ihe assurance that he Is neither u
criminal nor responsible for the
control or the prevention of crime.
There is no quarrel over the seri
ousness of the question; no denial
sa
By CATHEBtKB WtAT'T
1941
1891
that the United States pays an an
nual crime bill of around tl5,000,-
000,000, and no gainsaying the as
sertion that immediate action Is
necessary to control the monster.
The devotees, ot ego-centric'Amerl-
canism may be embarrassed by the
discovery that the number ot
people killed in the United States
Is greater than that of any other
country; that robberies are given
an even greater proportion than
the murders. Yet the complacency
ot many Americans is unshaken by
such (acts. They dissociate them
selves and tbelr companions from
responsibility; explain the un
favorable statistics by laying the
crimes to the larger number of
Negroes and immigrants in Amer
ica, and offer as a solution more
legislation to prevent crime.
Public-minded citizens may rea
son that this is a problem for tbe
specialists—the biologists, the psy
choanalysts, tbe psychiatrists, the
sociologists, etc.; that crime is
something more than an incidental
result ot the behavior of the social
group. The services ot these work
ers is Immeasurable in value, but
many of them will agree that some
criminals are made, not, born, and
that the coodltions of life around
the offenders have encouraged
their misconduct. The layman
cannot escape his share of respon
sibility for these conditions.
Estimates of the crimes com
mitted In the United States by
peoples of different races and dif
ferent nationalities as compared
with those by native-born whites
will not explain the high ratio In
America. In certain classes of
crime, Negroes and immigrants ap
pear to lead, but in other types
native whites are far in advance.
Undoubtedly, important factors
in making American crimes In
clude freedom from regimentation
ot American life as shown In the
absence of strict public discipline,
(he standard for social eminence,
the existence of out-moded enforce
ment machinery, and tbe irrespon
sibility ot American citizens.
The layman may logically reason
thnt the absence of strict regi
mentation ot American life by pub
lic agents, police, etc., will explain
the high percentage of American
crimes; that if officers of the law
appeared constantly among Ameri
can citizens, misdeeds might be
prevented. However, lovers of the
Informality of American life may
count such a price for sobriety nnd
order too great. They may argue
(hat any mother may keep her son
from getting Into trouble by keep
ing him Indoors, but thnt she can
not keep him continuously indoors
without his loss of freedom ot mind
nnd spirit and robustness of body.
It seems quite probable that the
standard of American social stand
ing mny be i contributing force to
American misbehavior. Any coun
try which has an aristocracy based
on material wealth offers greater
temptation to men to kill, rob, nnd
steal because by so doing they may
gain control of those properties
which are identified with social
standing. When the law enforce
ment machinery is inadequate tor
the apprehension oC the offenders
and when social consciousness is
apathetic In its opposition to the
offense, the criminal may not only
escape tbe tolls of the law, but may
return to a commanding i)osltlon
In the society which he has out-
wltte^l. Countries which have an
aristocracy based upon birth or
upon Intellectuality do not offer
such Incentives.
Students of American govern
ment have long recognized the in
effectiveness ot our law enforcing
machinery. When our ancestors
came to this country they wore
seeking (o escai>e from the rigid
control ot the Stuart monarchy.
Their unhappy oxperlonces under
that centralized authority led them
to place the task of law enforce
ment In the hands .of local offi
cials. Then the colonies were
changed into states, county sheriffs
and local policemen continued Ilo
SCHOOL
VACATIONS
By the American Youth
Commission
The commission, ot which Owen
D. Young is chairman and Floyd
W. Reeves is director', has been
studying school vaca|loos, among
other youth problems, for the last
five years.
This September the commission's
representatives asked that'summer-
vacation question ot a selected
group of young people ranging
from fourteen to nineteen years
old. They had been attending the
three junior work camps estab
lished by the Associated Junior
Work Camps, and had a brand new
idea ot wliat a summer vacation
could be like. They had spent two
straight months of their vacation
at work—and I mean work, sis to
eight hours .a day of good stiff
grind. And all but eight of the
fifty-eight ot them had never be
fore In their lives done a tap more
serious than occasional household
errands. They all said they had a
"swell time,” and meant it.
If you think they were fooling,
let me tell you these people not
only didn’t get a cent for their
work, but paid (126 apiece tor the
privilege of doing It, They hadn't
merely enjoyed an active healthful
vacation in the open air, tree from
boredom and full of novelty. They
had been taking a valuable course
In sociology first-hand. They had
learned something ot how “the
other half" lives and works. They
had rubbed elbows with poverty
for the first time. They had seen
something ot various fields of work,
and tried them out themselves. In
some Instances they had begun to
get an inkling for the first time ot
what kind of work they might
serve as enforcement officers of
the state laws as well as of local
ordinances. Consequently we have
a system though originated when
transportation was by ox carts and
horseback yet continuing when the
automobiles and the airplanes have
almost annihilated distance. When
the criminal makes his escape in
these modern conveyances the local
officer, limited to county lines, Is
certain to be out-distanced before
he can overtake tbe culprit. And
little is being done to assist the
officer. The incredibly small coun
ties ot the eastern coastal areas
bear testimony to the failure of
citizens to enlarge boundary lines
which would at least give the en
forcement officer a more even
chance In his race to capture the
criminal and at the same time re
duce tbe expenses occasioned by
the existence of numerous unneces
sary local governments. Politicians
argue that these local units keep
government In the hands of the
people. This Is true only so long
as the local units serve the needs
of the people. Tho Increasing num
ber of federal and state officials Is
an index to the failures oC the local
agencies. When local communities
tall to control tlieir own lives the
door Is opened tor the entrance of
a centralized authority, which the
American pioneers had sought to
escape.
Tho mulntonance of the ideals
of tbe founders of tho Amerlcim
republic Is the responsibility of
the citizens ot the republic. They
are responsible tor' sentiments
which prohibit or encourage crime.
The hoy or girl who broke u speed
law or out-witted u “cop" and was
nllowed to boast about it; tho rich
niuu who.stole large sums and es-
capud unpunished to return to
domlnnte the society which ho had
defrauded; the victims of poverty
who were denied the necessities of
life; the crushed spirits who found
no aid for a bettor life are tesli-
monies of the failures of "good'’
ultlzens to prevent America's greul
crime problem.
want to pick permanently tor them
selves.
One ot these camps was at Pine
Mountain Settlement School in the
Eastern Kentucky mountains,
among a fringe ot tbe western
“Bloody Harlan County” residents.
These people are ^parated from
the outside world by unbroken
ridges.
Here high schools hoys and girls
at the work camp can study rural
slums, with their housing and other
problems.
Pine Mountain Settlement School
Is a vocational high school for the
youth o( the region. As It depends
on private funds, donated labor is
boon. Thirty per cent of the pu
pils remain at the school part ot
the summer to "work out" tuition
costs. This is one reason why the
school is an ideal place for a work
camp. It gives two widely differ
ent high school groups a chance to
swap experiences and ideas.
The second work camp was nt
Andover, K. J., where the Hudson
Guild Neighborhood House runs a
farm as a recreational ground tor
under-privileged children, young
workers and needy families with
children. Many improvements were
needed at the farm, and provided:
plenty ot Jobs for the paying work:
campers. The setting gave tfaem^
contact with agricultural llte and
pursuits. And it is near enough tO'
Industrial areas to make explora
tory trips possible.
Camp Stepney, the third work
camp, was on a ramshackle farmr
In the Northern Connecticut hills,
taking New York slum children
for summer vacations. Here was
pinety of repair and construction
work for the work campers, along
with a taste ot rural life. And
again a variety ot industries lie
within easy roach for day trips.
The chances tor constructive
work at these camps stir the young
people's imagination.
The work camp promoters do not
claim a definite plan for vocational
guidance or training. But the
scheme does give the campers a
chance to explore the work field in
a variety of fundamental working
skills. Carpentry, plastering, con
crete work, masonry and farming
were all sampled by each boy and
girl In these work camps this- last
summer. It seemed to give them
all a now sense of being' worth
something In the world as they
worked to help others less lucky
than themselves.
The camps were In a measure
self-governing. Camp Steyney In
Connecticut was most successful
at it. The members called a “good
and weltai-e nieotlng" to establish
simple regulations for the camp's
operation. They divided the sum
mer’s program into five sections—
for social affairs, athletics, field
trips, log and executive responsi
bilities—and elected committees to
plan the nctlvHies of each. An
executive committee was made up
of the chairmen of the other com
mittees. serving with the staff as
uu advisory council.
At all three camps tho summer
workers got some experience In
the working of democratic govern
ment and In organizing social ac
tivities. In nil these various ways,
real social problems, real work and
real living are mado the major
elements ot the work camps.
At Pine Mountain the young camp
workers found violations of the
rights of free speech and assembly
and interference with labor’s right
to organize. They found hillside
land that would produce tor only
three years before the soil was
wuslioil away. They learned from
actual clinic work that many of
the diseases harassing the moun
tain people could be prevented by
propur diet and other simple neces
sities that these people did not
have. They found that only one
of evei-y ten children there ever
finished the eighth school grade.
From tho New Jersey camp, field
trips were made to the world-
—Continued on page 8.