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The Twig Published by the student body of Meredith Collese Editorial Staff CoRNELU HERRma Editor Lytton Tinoley Associate Editor Rachel Fultok Managing Editor Mattie Irene Baugh Managing Editor LoRRAiNB Chappell Managing Editor Kathryn Sutton Manaffing Editor Martha Anns Allen — t Columnist Elizabeth Miller —Sports Editor ViBOiNiA Greene Music Editor Beverly Anne Money Cartoonist Business Staff Elizabeth Coleman Business Manager Gertrude Hardison Circulation Manager Catherine Powell Nancy Johnston Entered os second-class matter October 11, 1923, at Post Office at Raleigb, N. C., under Act of March 3, 1879. “WE SAY ADIEU" Tlic time has come, the walrus said To talk of many things, Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax And cabbages and kings. The time has come, when this year's Twig is finished, and we can only look back to see what we have done, if anything. We have enjoyed working on your paper, and we hope that it has pleased you occasionally, and at least in part. We have attempted to please you in our news coverage, and in the features which we have included. Many of the things we have hoped to do, "have proved themselves •impossible, but perhaps some other year the Twig can have them. In the course of the year, the debt which had been hanging over the Twig has been paid in full, two hundred thirty seven dollars. This has necessitated certain economies, but we hope that you feel as wc do that it has been worth it. TIjc position of the press has changed some what in the last year. Our nation is at war, and with this war have come curtailments on our treasured freedom, and added responsibi lities in the realm of formulating public opin ion. The college paper is net free of this simply because of our isolation. We, too, have a part to play which will of necessity be come more important. But because condi tions arc changing, democracy is no less prec ious, and no less to be desired in the school community and in the nation at large. It must be guarded, and participated by every member of the group if it is to be successful, and to continue, Progress in democracy will by its very nature be slow, but it is our task to ste to it that there is progress. Before we say adieu, we would like to thank all those who have aided us by their cooperation and support this year, our ad vertisers who make our very existence possible, and specially our advisor who is so ever on the alert to give us every assistance in any difficulties in which we may become involved. And to the new statf, may we say that there is much to be done to make the Twig that paper-all Meredith would take pride in. In , this venture we wish them luck. Last spring we stated our platform in our first issue:."As we begin our term of offtce we promise to the students and alumnae of Mere- dith that we will do all within our power to be accurate in our reports, fair in our judg- ments, constructive in our criticisms, and mot. ivated by tlie highest and best interests of the student body and of the college as a whole, so that the Twig in a very true sense may be come vox popuii.” We make no comment upon our outcome, but simply say, “so mote it be,” and now ADIEU! Collegiate Creams As heads of organizations on campus this year are retiring, they have many interesting incidents to relate as part of their experience in the capacity of the leader of some organized Meredith group. Ellen Ann has a definite impression to carry with her of Little Theatre work, "My fondest memory of Little Theatre work is not con nected with the presidency especially, but goes back to the days before that when I was among those who labored far into the night on scenery for ‘Pride and Prejudice.' "I remember one night when we had worked hours and hours in the clamminess of the base ment, hammering on nails and fingers, mixing smelly glue, and getting paint-spattered from head to toe until we were ready to faint aw^y from sheer exhaustion. We realized that we had worked past light bell and were probably the only people awake on the campus—the basement was still and silent. Suddenly we heard footsteps, slow and deliberate, down the dark narrow tunnel—closer and closer— until there stood before us a figure that bec koned mysteriously for us to follow to the dark still kitchen. There, much to our amazement, we were handed cold pork chops, rolls and left-over pie, and no food ever tasted better! When I am a complacent alumnae with a substantial income, I shall make a gift to the college and dedicate it to that Benefactor of Woman-Kind, that Angel of Mercy, Mr. Grogan." As president of the senior class, Nancy Nuckols has her tales of woe, "Being a class president is certainly a privilege and a pleas ure and for the most part it's lots of fun. Once in a while, however, it has its draw backs. Take for instance those mornings I give up the last five minutes of sleep in order to run to the P. O. before breakfast for that extra special letter. One peep—the box con tains two fat pieces of mail and the trip has not been in vain. But what is pulled out but two pamphlets addressed to Class President, one containing the latest thing in caps and gowns and the other a list of plays for the class to sponsor. Then there are the phone calls which you're sure are the ones you've been waiting for, only to pick up the re ceiver and find it's the ‘ring man' who is indeed a nice person, but—well, you know the kind of let-down feeling that comes when you find out." We are well aware of the fact that the Oa)( Leaves is out and tag it as extra-special, but little do we realize some of the situations Martha was in before it came out. “Since the main part of the annual work is that •. of taking pictures, it is only natural that some of the most interesting and most trying ex periences of the editor should be connected with this phase of the work. By this time of the year I can look back and laugh at some of the things that were at the time soul- trying. For instance, imagine my disguest one night when I went to a girl's room to find out why she had not returned her proofs about three weeks before. Her reply was, ‘Why, dear, I was just standing here looking at them and wondering when you were coming for them'.'' Evelyn Hampton has put the International Relations Club on the map, so to speak, this year. In her capacity as president, she has covered quite a bit of territory attending con ventions of the organization and has many memories of them. “Being president of the I. R. C. this year has been fun! Of course it has been a great deal of work too so much that at times it seemed that the wisest pro cedure would be to stop going to school and be president of the club only. It is hard to say what has been the outstanding experience —there was the Assembly in Charlotte on In ternational Night, the banquet, and the South eastern Conference in Atlanta. I suppose the hour in Atlanta when the invitation for the Conference to meet in Raleigh next year was being made and voted on was on the most exciting single happening, not only for this year but for many years." The B. S. U, president, Elizabeth Tucker, thinks she got to know Meredith pretty well during a certain two weeks of this past year, “When introduced to the freshman class as 'Chaplain of our Camp’ at the beginning of the year, I had no idea that quarantine would soon make the phrasing a partial reality. The attempt to cooperate with other campus or ganizations in ironing out difficulties and pro viding u balanced life of work, play and in spiration for two weeks without outside help was a combination of trying, instructive, and enjoyable effort, to say the least. I’m sure I shall not forget the two weeks in which four hundred of us got better acquainted {Continued in column five) Personal Well, girls—this war situation is getting to be serious. If things get much worse. I'm afraid that our supply of men will be so limited that you girls will be forced to choose between "kiddies" and “grandpaps." In the mean time, "Suzy Snoops" will con tinue her vigil — keeping watch over the few men who still pre fer guard at Meredith rather than with Uncle Sam. When asked how many “ones" there are in a chromosome, Myrtie always insists that there is only one. Then 1 hear her softly sing “I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain't Good." • Mr. Grogan almost had a dat: in the parlor Saturday night, eh, Rosetta? The trio “Runt," Mary and Rivers, has suddenly become a lovely duet. After all, though when you're in the Navy, you do business with Uncle Sam. Poor Runt! ' Isn't it pathetic that Tulbert missed a good ole ball game the other day, bccause of the lab she couldn't persuade the teacher co have. Better luck next time, Johnny. Well girls—the funniest thing ever. Helen Royal is buying her clothes in the Panama Style. Dilly—I hear you are a regu’ lar “library fein." Too bad light cuts aren't “takable" up there. Bells and more bells! One would never know that Adelaide and Kemp used to sing “I Get Along Without You Very Well." All I can hear now is “You Taught Me To Love Again.” Personally, I don't get it—do you, Ven? What's all this gossip about Iris sharing her date Saturday night? Bill, nice work if you can do it! Well—you know the J.-Senior i? getting too close for comfort, and I hope everybody has a date If you don't—remember that you had better grab while grabbing is good. There seems to be a dearth of gossip. Maybe all of us are like the girl in the little gem we found floating around. "IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE" Night after night I sat home alone Without a single thing to do.... Sure, boys came—but soon were gone. And in the beginning—only a few. I knew something was wrong with me. But what it was—I couldn't tell... Perhaps I served the wrong brand of tea, Or over indulged in onions and kale. . . I “Listerined" my breath eacli night, And I "Luxed” all garments, too. My teetli should be a little bright. So "Colgates'’ was the thing to do. “Rhy Krisp" was my daily food, And “Lifebuoy" baths I had. ■‘Murine" to make my eyes shine . good— I went in for every fad. All this has finally put me wise. And I'm ready to aditJt— You can't buy chaflm as adver tised—■ fj You must be born^with it. . . F. [HEWETT Jack Gerber, head oF'Cblumbia^s shortwave listening station;esti.-- inates that'his stajF records 200,-.: 000 words datly'in ejeven fdreign, languages. Listening to that many words of propaganda from the Axis powers means that 90 to idO broadcasts are covered each day. About seventy of these prc^raitis are of fifteen minutes length. Mort' of the foreign broadcasts run froro five to ten minutes although there are but three of half-hour length. About 2fO Ediphone cylinders ate used daily to record this Axis pro-' paganda. These recordings are synopsized and analyzed for use by CBS news analysts and press serv ices. Behind these statistics lies a story of cunning and trickery eih- ployed by Berlin and Tokyo to at tract the attention of American listeners. For example, Tokyo now prefaces its evening propaganda shows with musical selections such as “Old Black Joe" or “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean." Having, caught tlie attention of listeners with these old favorites, the Japs start reciting names of American prisoners of war. The Nazis use a different brand of trickery to gain listeners. A favorite Berlin device for attract ing an audience is the singing of popular American tunes. After singing the first verse which is fa miliar. to -most Americans, the Nazis then sneak in a political par ody. Tricks like these keep the men\- bers of the listening post on their toes. Each new trick is noted down immediately by the staff and saved for reference and compari son. ■ On the staiF of Columbia’s short wave listening stations are employ ces able to translate not only Frencli, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian but also Arabic, Hungarian, Ukranian, Bui- garian and Afrikander. CBS translators arc also able to under stand numerous dialects of the pre. vious mentioned languages. In any tongue it's still propaganda and the listening post is ready to handle it. More Creams ilTi S'. ' \ -Beverly >^ne. Money;. Glenn Miller, airing his “Moonlight Serenade" from Hoi lywood dedicates each broadcast to saluting an American campus. Wednesday, April 29, he t^rew the spotlight on St. Bonaventure, New York; Thursday. April '30, Marquette University at Milwau kee'received his salute; and Friday. May 1, his honor spot was Con nccticut's Marot Junior College. Nelson Eddy, actor-singer of ra dio and screen, is the star of "The New Old Gold Show.” a series from Hollywood which had its premiere on Wednesday. April 29. Hedda Hopper, Columbia Net work's thrice-weekly radio eolum- ist^ has put on the auction block to aid War Bond Sales the base ball bat carried by her late hus band, De Wolf Hopper, during the several thousand times he re cited the famous poem, "Casey at the Bat.” The Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, under the direction of Howard Barlow, began its six teenth consecutive season Sunday, April 26. with a "Free French Program" on which Eugene List, now a private in the United States Array, was piano soloist. (Continued from Column Two) through an attempt to live under stress. Maybe we should "try it again sometime?. The girl, Cornelia, who you al ways see with her nose to the ground for news; has her own ideas about being an editor. “A great deal of ink has flowed out of my pen since I first began to use it, about this time last year. 1 have induged in much writing, and the tilings that can be said aren't importimt. In the, diversity of things that have happened, the mistakes that have .escaped my watchful eye, the scoops that weren't, and the old jokes we've told, it's been for you, because it't still, opinion to ‘the contrary, YOUR TWIG.’' The president of a Society is naturally the person who remem bers most about affairs connected with rushing. Ann Barrow says, "The !Jittle thing" which I will re member happened to me in connec tion with ‘Billy Astro.' I have always been very fond of him. since adopting him my freshman year. It had to be a case of real devotion, however, when Dr. Cooper asked me to have our pic tures made together. That was tlie first time I had ever held a goat in,my arms." Dickie was rather upset over an experience she had as president of the Education Club one night, “Mr. Edwin Gill. State Commis- sionei* of Paroles, was scheduled to talk to us on 'Crime in Relation to Education' at one of our,meet ings. Behold, when he got here, where was the Education Club— waiting patiently in the dining hall for the dormitories to be searched for some lost article. It was with a mingled feeling of amusement and embarrassment that I intro duced him to the girls that night." Radiel Lovelace would probably have screamed if anyone had men tioned the word, TRUCK, to her last week; let’s find out why. “Gee, one truck, two trucks; now wc only need six more. Let's see, we’ve called all the ti-ansport com panies, trucking companies and lumber companies, Whee. it's hot! Here’s a possibility—a fun eral Home. The number is 2-5056. ‘You say you have nothing but closed trucks? Well, I guess the juniors ancl seniors at Meredith, along with their dates, are hot quite ready for the .hearse. yet. Thanks, just the :8amej’ The.vls- !A« - , t _ ion.’ of wind,.. boys and girls in evening clothe at a banquet. Yes the Junior-Senior would have to be changed from an informal affair to a'formal ban quet.'' I The names Bep and Phi just naturally go together, but Bep thinks that anyone's name who has ever been a member just natur^ly goes with the name. Phi. "Since becoming president of the Phis, I have received numbers of letters from former Phis which have giv en me an unequalled challenge,- but better still are the letters which I have - recieved from new Phis which have furnished unbounded inspiration. There seems to be, something about the Phi Society ,which ‘gets in your bones’ and leaves an undying interest for the Society in the hearts of the mem bers." Frances Moore as president of the sophomores had a rather uniqiie experience one day — "The most unusual experience that I have had as president of the sophomore class was that of attending a luncheon meeting of the Civilian Defense Counsel Executive Committee. The main purpose of my attend ance, so far as I was concerned, was to give them a check on be half of our class which we decided could be put to a better use through them than in a party. After hearing the discussions con cerning the black-outs, the salvage, and the sesquicentennial, I realized that I was with a group of intel ligent. patriotic citizens who were doing a great service in organiz ing-the community. These work-" ers seemed to consider their work not only a duty but a pleasure." The Monogram Club has under taken a new projcct in which Vir ginia Lancaster as president has led the way. “The most significant in cident of my work with the Mon ogram Club this semester occured April 22. As Meredith's first don or to the Rex Hospital plasma bank. I gave 3-J pint of blood. Yes, I will have to admit that I was scared, but afterwards I re alized how silly it was to'fear some-f thing that proved so small and — • to me — less painful than a mos- ■ quito bite. There was nothing to their still white, uniforms and doctors • mfcle me , feel perfectly at ease ^18 incident. I suppose, affirms ■ the fact that we fear the un-' “j known. Realising the shortage of •« plasma not only in our vicinity, but al»..on, the Coast, proved an incentive to the-Monogram Clulf I) for an. ‘encouragement,drive’ on ^ the campus. This drive is, to fur/ •ther simulate , others to b?ro )f"a -picnic^ .from my ' • ■
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