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Page TWo The Twig Published by the student bodv of. Meredith College Editorial Staff Cornelia HERRma £dltor Lytton Tinclby Associate £ditor Rachel Fwlton Managing Editor Mattie Irene Baugh Managing Editor LoBRAiHE Chappell Manapinff Editor Kathryn Sutton Monapino Editor Martha Anne Allen Columnist Euzabeth MujLER Sports Editor ViROiNiA Greene Music Editor Beverly Anne Money Cortooniit Business Staff Euzabeth Coleman Business Manager Gertrude Hardison Circulofion Manager Catherine Powell Nancy Johnston Entered as second-class matter October 11, 1823, at Post Ollice at RaleiRh, N. C., under Act of March 3, 1879. “EDUCATION FOR DEATH” “Tell America that young Germany is in deadly earnest." Those words, shouted at me by the Nazi Minister of Education, take on more significance every day. Hitler's educational system is an even greater menace than his army or his Luft‘ waffe. If and when his present fighting force is beaten, then behind the military array we will see a younger army, even more fanatic than the soldiery. This army too must be vanquished before Hitlerism will be destroyed. But merely admitting this fact will avail little unless we are spurred to find the weak* nesscs in our own educational system; unless we search for the antidote to the poison that Hitler's schools and their graduates are pump' ing into the veins of the world. American education has always been an education for life. We have emphasized and encouraged a broad cultural basis, even for those who are to specialize in trades and pro' fessions, believing that knowledge of many things makes for more joy in living. Our methods are now being seriously challenged. Hitler's youth shouts that system is decadent; it points scornfully at our lack of enthusiasm, lack of discipline and seriousness. We do not teach devotion to a cause, it says. If we arc to combat the spirit of German youth with own spirit of democracy it will have to be a rejuvenated spirit, a spirit as iiery in its concentration as Naziism is in German schools. Hitler is making Nazis with every means at his disposal. We must consciously work to make democratic Americans. He is preparing boys to die as soldiers, girls to bear more soldiers. We give boys and girls free* dom and democracy and life, but we do not, as we should, train them to realize the bene fits of these gifts and the obligations which go with them. Hitler is making fanatics. We should make believers. Our democracy, our heritage of freedom, is worth getting a little excited about. When I hear American stu dents mumble the Oath of Allegiance to the American Flag as if it were a tiresome nursery rhyme, I ask myself if we have any spirit at all. “Let me die for Hitler," cried the Ger man boy. Our slogan must be, "Let me live for America!'*—Reader’s Digest Book Review of Gregor Ziemer's Education for Death. WE ARE AT WAR Day in and day out we are constantly reminded of the. brutal fact that we are at war. We arc aware that it already affects us in hundreds of ways and will affect us in countless ,more. Also we are constantly re minded that we must all do our part. Most of us arc willing to do what we should do, but it is difficult to determine just what our part is. If we were given some thing big, obvious, and. c.tciting we would all rush forth to do it, but the problem is not so simple. No specific tusk is laid out for us. There are no strict rules as to what we should and should not do, and yet we are expected to be busy in our nation’s behalf. What is our part? It is our part to do our daily tasks to the best of our ability. It is our part to keep ourselves physically fit. It is our part to question jlie sort of a world wc will live in after the war. It is our business to study as we have never studied before, for we can not know what will be demanded of us in the days ahead, but we can do our part—that is to be ready to face and to do whatever comes. That is our bit. FIFTH COLUMN While Congress worries about pensioning themselves ofF, Singapore falls and the Far Eastern situation bccomes more and more acute. Instead of immediately committing ha- Collegtate Creams Martha Ann Allbn This Fascinating Faculty of Ours As students, we fail to realize what busy . persons our faculty members are until we be gin inquiring into their doings; then we're amazed. It is little wonder that papers ai^n’t handed back graded as soon as we think they should be, for cur teachers live outside of Meredith as well as inside it. Take the Aldens for example: They have a full schedule of recitals and concerts through the Spring. On March 20, they are giving a joint recital with Miss Dorothy Phelps, and playing as one of their selections, “Partita,” by George Heiiiry. North Carolina, composcr who won first [jrize with this com- ^; position in the national contest of the Federa- . tion of Music Clubs last year. On April 16, * they are playing at the State Music Club Con vention in Charlotte, accompanied by Miss Phelps. Then too, they are planning con certs with the North Carolina Symphony Or- . chestra of which Mr. Alden is concert master, for the Spring. He is also music director of the Chamber Music Guild, made up of lead ing musicians from this part of the State. The Guild is working on three programs to be presented at the Raleigh Little Theater this Spring. Going from one sort of figure to another, our mathematically minded Dr. Canaday, re ports that he has recentlly had one more task removed from his shoulders, mainly that his thesis, “The Sum of the Divisors of a Poly nomial with Coefficient Modulus 2" was pub lished in the December issue of the Du^e Mathematical Journal. I have heard of pro- ' fessors who required all students majoring un der them to read their thesis. Wonder if that will be the case here? At present, Mr. Tyner is particularly in- tercsted in the Family Life Education Program for Raleigh. He is chairman of the Central Sponsoring Committee for that group. The purpose of this relatively new undertaking is a community program of education which tries to help individuals achieve more satisfy* ing home and family life. Mr. Tyner, especial ly urges his student teachers to take a part in programs offered by this group. That person whom you are likely to see bending a critical car when you speak' is prob ably none other than Miss Bailey, just won dering if you had a good voice for recording. She has been ‘plodding the pavement' in Ra* ^ leigh for quite awhile now trying to find a recording machine that met ALL the quali fications, and at last that decision has been reached and the order has been placed. Soon speech students will be making recordings of their voices to send out as applications for jobs—a personal interview by mail. Miss Bailey, is working on a paper, “Criterion for Selection for Interpretive Reading" for pub lication in the Quarterly JoumaJ of Speech. On campus, she is busy with the group which is entering the national extempore-discussion contest at Duke University. Mr. Charles DeWolf LaMond is tremb lingly awaiting a notice from the Selective Service Board saying that he either is, or is not temporarily deferred. He figures that if one woman can keep one man out, five hun dred girls should at least carry some weight with the Board. On being questioned about what he thought Meredith girls were going to do without him, he sadly admitted, “I just don’t know." As mentioned in connection with the Aldens, Miss Dorothy Phelps is preparing for her recital March 20. She is to be a judge at the capitol district contest of the State Fed eration Music Contest. On April 21, she is playing with the Raleigh Piano Ensemble. Mr. Charles gave a lecture Friday, March 6, at the Southeastern Art Association Con- vcntion on “Methods and 'Materials for Teaching Sculpture in Colleges" as the key note speech for the sculpture division. He is on the “Arts in Colleges" panel at the North Carolina Education Association Convention the last week in March. Also he is working on the Art Exhibition Committee for the Raleigh Sesquicentennial Celebration, April (Continued on Page Three) ri'kari in six weeks, the Japanese seem to be prolonging the process for yeard by consist ently advancing. With the Burma Road threatened seriously, the Chinese*and Dutch fight valiantly. The great Eastern leaders, Ghandi and Chiang Kai-Shek meet, and the English give way to the onthrust of the Jap anese. Australia is left open to attack and the situation assumes \P^dt Meredith girb old maids. One practice teachers had a .^u^ht who hb 'i an engagement ’ Archie certainly-f'seems to be taking the limelight' away froin Miriam's Philadeljjh^-Story. To whom it , may concern: Namely, those whb'ye been com plaining; Who ev^ heard iol a gossip column that'wasn't biased? After all, we label' (^rs as Dirt. Well, here goea~: '"’•fe lt's comforting luiow that .we'll' be dearly we're alumnae and cahl'dist glory on the Alma Mateh .;.itt,fnaku being just students easier-r.'to bw. Maybe one reaipii Sue Rod- ^well has renwed interest in dietetics (hospital7) vu'a doctor in New Orleans. -ilnd^uUy, he> writing a book. The Junior Class undoubtedly will go down in history for its casualness. But it-‘comes to a heck of a note a quorum cannot be reached, .particularly at a required class mnting to elect a class president. "But if at first you don't suceed, t^, try again. Mr. LaMond is wondering if. Mr. Dorsett will be able to hantUe us when he's gone'. How about it? Speaking' of vested interests did you hear the plugs The Ttvig gave the newspapers in Crime the other day? We see by the papers that the man who came to dinner is go* ing in the army, so Mr. La Mond will have company. Baker Wynn will be missed by ^ boys who saw him get up aiid walk on chairs. The Army is lucky to get him, we'd say, and 'so says Mrs. Wallace. * I Grace Kirtland seems to he in. dulging in a great deal of study of psychiatry. That was a cute convertible the Sigma Pi Alpha girls rode back from their initiation tn with the cute fraternity man. To keep two stringing or not to seems to be the question -with Lilboume. We konw somebody who knows someone who has four new tires. The court side has been getting more heat than the other side for a couple of days—it's wonderful. We'll have wonderful talcs to tell our grandchildren about the hardships we're suffering having ' to get up before dawn in the cold. Why, oh why docs eveiy or ganization that rates an inch or two of space think it has the duty of censorship? We think it’s nice of The Twig to give them publicity. Gleanings and the other ex« changes were all political this week and didn't furnish us. widi dirt. Maybe we should follow suit; after all, we're having elec tions too. Maybe we ^should rake up some dirty politi^ng. All the new pictures people are showing off. Shirley Butler’s sprouting a new one. Speaking of pictures, if you mean ^pictures of men, take a look at S^nghop and D. J.'s room. Some collection. Did a week’s camgus and no Bill make you awfully, awfully unhappy, Anabel? ! Bonnielee WhMe, we hope finds the State College Cafeteria one of the. niceist placM in town to eat her Sunday tunch. That man Dr. V^inMon cer-. ;NAzi:concentraU6h:cm^;;b;^ disturb soine pMpie^ house, Britim : author/- is . liyir^^ :|>rpof of rfiis fact., Captu^‘;iri:f| the fall of France, Mr, Wodeho^'^; has been'interned. ihi a .oMipeiur tion canip ever sinM. ' Mnt a new book, Mo^iey nV tu -S: Bani(, typical of Wodehouse whim-j sey. This is not a great book, or « even a b«t sdler, but it is deii^t-.i ful reading. The story of lady explorers, iiri' y: poverished lords, American gang- sters, tangled romances, and a vatK v> full of lMt diamonds is jumbled;inT^; the usual Wodehouse manner/.Of^j 'Course everything ends well always does in Mr. Wodehoxise'sA. books. We tnily recommend' thu for-an afternoon’s reading. lt^b|u^ been published as a serial in-TAis^ Saturday Evening Post and now-aia'-.} a book by Doubl^ay and Dcnroi'^^f Also 'we .would like to rwota'i’? mend two other books to you.-WeV: consider them two of the bat 'of » books of the past year. Read Jan - Valtin's Out of the >{«ght for a H “horrific'’ picture of Nazi Ger- : many, and read A. J. Cronin's The Keys of the Kingdom.'The latter volimw relates the history ofPathtt Chistwlm, a truly good man.. . 1'.^', f. In the environment of Gi«w> wich Village and Westchester County—sophisticated community that it is—Ann Miller DownM portrays the course of a marriage wrecked by the wife's ambition.,. Her excellent portrayal of a per haps distasteful subject—certainly one cannot class it as an e^pist subject—is Angels Fell, published in New York by Stokes. When Stephen Blyth first saw the girl he married she was stand ing behind a weatherbe'at'en fence on an Iowa farm/ her a'rm '^cir--- cling two bulky cabbages. She'had managed four years of college, helping her father on the farm in vacations. Apparently because Irene was golden-haired' and wistful-eyed, Stephen rescued her from the cabbages. He took her to New York and to the house where he and his uncle kept a book shop. Capable as she was beautiful, Irene settled into domestic life at once, but began to seek "the right kind of friends", friends ^that in time gave Stephen the business ad vancement she hoped for, which would take' him away from his books into something supposedly more lucrative.- She was continually taking stock, to see how far they had come up the social ladder, if the friends they had made would help them in the right direction. Sweetly, but with so deliberate strategy she asked for more and the way to becoming a campus legend with all his “cute ’: ;,aying8 and doings on class. They can regale you for hours on end with anecdotes about him. What’s this about the “Anti- Long-Shot" society that has been formed on the umpus? For’fur- ther detail see Vivian Tulburt or Eleanor Gibbs. By the way, Gibbs played a pretty good floor game at the Junior-Senior ^me Tuesday night. If you don't .be lieve it, look at her knees, elbows, and black eye. Cooky Williford's motto seems to be "Turn about is fair play,” How does it work. Tee? Let me ask you something. Net tie Lewis — do you enjoy going to Durhanv so much because of the new.choir director? One of the nicest surprise that’s been lately belongs to Vir« ginia Stafford. It all happened because Bill dropped in to.bee;hiv three weeks'earty, 'Qw)te frain . yirglpifi-^’IHc 1^- m 'to Ar^Lazy ;AI1 spring we have been criticiz ed by oiirselvu and by others be cause we have been takilng so little intent in the things that are going on on the ca'mpiis, that is if the campus elections are indicative of our general trends, Perhaps tUs criticism that we are not interested in false, shall we say that we are not sufficiently interested. This is more nearly true. We are interested but not interested enough to do anything about it, except to talk a little spine time when we are comfoitably %ttled down in a bull session-.'' -X-'*-'-'- • ■ - Why are we like this, for the malady has affected the entire stu dent body. It-is pur business to be interested in what is going on here at Meredith, and who are to be our leaders for next year. It is our business to know what is going on in the world around us. All too soon we are going to be out in it; and it isn't going to be too soft a cradle for our slumbers. We are here to learn what it is all about, at least in part,-that is if we aren't too disinterested. We are always saying that it would be fun to take long walks or for the gang to go out together, 'but we never do. Why? It requires too much ef fort. We haven't what it takes to overcome our natural inertia. But yqu wy we do study. Yes, we do, because if we didn't some thing might happen to disturb our repose, and so we study just enough. All this has been going on too long, and there is no time like the present to do something about it. Start getting ready for those tests six weeks ahead, and purely inci dently we might find something we were interested in, and really put out ^e effort. Read that book you have'been looking at longingly in the library. A change of ma terial will do you good. We do krfow how to read, you know. Do some thjnking.. We ought to have some opinions, and even convic tions.. Let's do something. Now we are LAZY! UNITY The multitude which does not; reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude, is tyranny.— Pascal. Individuals, >as nations, unji^ - harmoniously on the basis of jus*, tice, and this is acomplished when Klf is lost in love—or God's own ' plan of salvation. — Mary Baker Eddy. Our doctnne of equality and liberty and humanity comes from - our belief in the brodierhood of man, through the fatherhood of \ God.—Calvin Coolidge. - , Whoever in prayer can say, ‘Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.—Tryon Edwards. Jesus throws down' the divid ing prejudices of nationality, and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit, or rank. —Geikie. Useless Information The College of Idaho is located at Caldwell, Idaho. Kowloon Bay between Hong Kong and the mainland of China. The first cotton mill in the U. S. was built at North Beverly in Massachussetts in 1789. The "Magic Valley" is I'n the State of Texas. Tlie Rio Grande River flows through it. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific • Ex position was held at Seattle, Wash- .ington. in 1909, . . Balsam Cap is tlie highest eleva-: tion in New York State. It is in the Catskill Mountains and is J,*-;,- 700 feet'high. more—a house on the Sound, the “right” school for Her children, a party good enough for her friends, who naturally were of the right kind. She had no hesitancy about the dropping of friends who did not mewure up to what she required- though to dp liier justice,, she was a dutiful wife'and mother until the crisis, cai^e^^^. amlsition o'erleapt Sin' fell'the .angels” Her por-'! *'"••'"1 of Irene ^i$.4Qyirig alHe||tirely treatinent inherited breeding, cared but little ;, for the tilings that meant so much., to his wife, but yet struggled to give her what she wanted. With; the crash of '29, however, retrench-. ment was necessary, and Irene did ' ■ . not find herself able to give up the •: position she had created foi: her-, self. A divorce came, followed, .by ' ''I. a glittering second marriage. -. ' ■Unfortunately, Mrs, Downe#'ii'tfiV.- not so accomplished a writer
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