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THE TWIG
January 28, 1943
The Twig
PubHshed by the Students of Meredith College
Raleigh, N. C.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Lytton Tinolby Editor
Kathryn Sutton Managing Editor
Fannie Mqhory FAiiMicit Associate Editor
Sub McNeely Associate Editor
Betsy McMillan Associate Editor
PRi9Cru,A Nance Feature Editor
Mabty JEFFRY8 Columnlst
Betsy Watson Cartoonist
Betty Knowles Music Editor
Dae St>:bt.e Buuwk Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Gloria Anderson Busiaess Manager
Doris Jean Leary Assistant Business Manager
Amy June Qarter Circulation Manager
Entered as second-class matter October 11. 1923, at
postofflce at Raleigh, N. 0., under Act of March 3,
1879.
It’s Up to You
“Cleric! Please wait on me! I can’t help it if I’m
not next. I have to meet someone in five minutes.”
^ “N’o, I didn’t bring my penny tax. I don’t see why
I’M supposed to bring one any\vay.”
“Can’t you make that ice eream cone any bigger?
What kind of a gyp joint is this any way?”
“My goodness! Such a mess! Look at those botfU's
and papers on the table. You’d think that the clerks
would get to work and clean the place up.”
These and many other such remarks are heard in
the Beehive, during, say, lunch hour.
ITow I’d like to ask you a few questions.
How many legs and hands does a clerk have any
how? Don’t you pay sales tax in every other store
in North Carolina? Where else in Raleigh can you
get any bigger or as big an ice cream cone? And last,
but not least, “Who put those bottles and papers on
the table?”
For the first time in several years we have a chance
to keep our Beehive clean and neat. With the new
flooring and paint, the Beehive can really look heat—
if the customers, that’s you {he students will help the
clerks clean up. It’s so easy to pick up your own
papers and put them in the trash cans, and to put your
bottle on the counter where the clerk can easily get it.
It really is; try it sometime. Think what an impro\-e-
ment it would be if each student Avould do her share,
that’s all, just her share.
Remember too, the clerks are only human, and can
only do what is humaiily possible. Here is just one
more suggestion. The Committee and the clerks try
to please the students in products, prices, and service,
so if you have any suggestions or criticisms, please tell
them to a clerk or to a member of the committee instead
of complaining to your next door neighbor.
The Beehive is the student’s store, operated by stu
dents for service to the students. Do your share in
making it a place of pride on our campus.
I Am a Day Student
During my first week as a day student at Jlerodith,
I arrived at school just in time for my classes, and
upon the sounding of the bell for dismissal was usually
the first one to begin putting on my coat. I hardly
knew anyone at scliool exccpt the day students, and
had no feeling of loyalty at all to the college.
Upon inquiry of a friend if I liked Meredith as Avell
as the college I formerly attended, I was surprised
that the love toward Meredith was vastly ditfcrent
from that feeling for the other college. I belonged to
the other school, but was only a day student at Mere
dith. I decided to change this. Other day students
had loved Meredith—why couldn’t I? I found that I
had a great deal of responsibility to the college and my
fellow classmates. To really aciiieve a 'balanced educa
tion, you have to be willing to contribute to the differ
ent organizations in time and interest. I became a
member of a few clubs and began to know other Mere
dith students outside the classrooms.
There are a great number of day students at Mere
dith and they can contribute new interest and new
ideas to the various organizations. Although it is true
that other interests claim a great deal of a day stu
dent’s time, yet a sense of loyally and a feeling of be
longing should caixse the day student at Meredith to
be willing to sacrifice—for instance—a date, and attend
the various meetings even if some of them are held at
night.
Transportation has created a very important prob
lem for a majority of the day students and this should
cause the day students who can attend the meetings to
take advantage of their opportunity and take an active
part in the school activities, trying in a small way to
make up for the absence of another day student who
found it impossible to attend.
Now when some one asks mo if I know a certain
student at Meredith, I at least have heard of her name
and can make an intelligent answer, some time even
venturing to say that she is a good friend of mine. I
have found that the resident students are more than
willing to welcome the day students to the organiza
tions and abolish the feeling of loneliness which often
stabs a day student, by a smile and a word of welcome.
I find that college life now means not only classes,
but also an opportunity to share experiences with new
friends. I feel that I am truly a college girl and Mere
dith becomes more and more important in my life.
This Isn’t Just a
Man’s War
(This statement, written by Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
Secretary of the Treasury, is addressed particularly to
college women).
Fundamentally, this is a young man’s war. But in
many important ways this is also a young woman’s
war—young women in uniform and young women in
overalls; young women in field and factory, in office
and hospital.
You as young college women have a definite part to
play in this crisis. For even in the classroom, today’s
Total War is not merely academic. It is actual.
Young women students, everywhere, arc keenly
aware of the facts of the war; they must also be alert
to the way in which those facts affect them as women
and as students. They must recognize the unpleasant
fact that a Totalitarian triumph would destroy their
very freedom to attend the college of their choice.
They have a tremendous stake in the war; for if we
were to lose it, they would lose their future, and youth
deeply deserves a future. They also have a service to
perform and they are performing it with their char
acteristic enthusiasm and determination. I know that,
for my own daughter, a college sophomore, tells me of
the many war services her classmates are rendering.
One thing you can all do is to buy War Bonds and
Stamps. Perhaps you cannot invest vast suras of
monej’. But you can invest an appropriate share of
all you receive or earn. And as you invest this money
you Avill also be investing your own sacrifice and self-
respect. In a practical and patriotic way, you will be
uniting scholarship and citizenship.
You will also be investing in the future. Youth has
always depended on the future. Today the future de
pends on Youth.
^£ire/y Personal
In
all'
really lias ’em on a
the answers, well she
the “ilars Hill bull sessions” of late, “love”
seems to load all discussions. Could be ’cause Dr.
[larris is j'equiring papers on such but we don’t
know—. At any rate, Sarah is trying to ''CW/-ate” it
with her Shakespeare class. “Frank-ly” Mary Mar
garet isn’t so “Green” on the subject either. (Or is
slie?) Eloise definitely needs help—sli,e can’t decide
whotlior ’tis “True Love” at State or whether she’ll
be in a “fickle” to consider Parris Island and South
gate. ’S’funny thing—(and nice too)—whether
“Farrar” near, Judy’s Johnny never fails ’ei' on Sun
days (twenty miles out of his ‘wav back,’ to make a
call). . . .?????
Just ask Richie what came “Rollin(s)” in Saturday
night.
Duck’s theme song for the week Jan. 10 through
Jan 17: “Everett night about this time” .... !!!!
Carolyn, alias “Miss I
string. Does she know
oughta! . . . III!
In the meantime we’d suggest that Eloise and Par
rott stop talking so much—especially over the ’phone'
to the “Y” on Sun. night,
Dot Shealy seems to like certain members of the
Kenyon family—namely one Thurman.
Bobbie Green, who M’as that cute Williams boy wo
saw you with last Saturday? We’d like to see “Jfo”
of him.
From all reports Mary Wilson seems to have made
quite a hit with a certain jimior from State.
Carolyn Kenyon seems to have quite an interest in
Duke, which is quite nice, but you shouldn’t lot State
down like that, should you?
Life seems to “Flowe” along rather nicely for Mitzi
Roddick these days.
Addie-bunk is really “Sunk,” which is, in our way of
thinking, the future tense of Sink.
Elwood'gave Cleo Glovor a cedar chest for Christmas
—nice going, eh what?
Incidentally, Fay Chandler, that is a lovely ruby
you’ve been wearing since Christmas.
Don’t ask Dot Winstead “Watts” the matter, be
cause from what we see there’s nothing the matter
with Jack.
Jo Hughes and Barbara Stevens seem to bo making
it a family affair—Warren and Tom are brothers.
Mighty cute ones at that!
Lois Swaim can have lots of music now, thanks to
Clifton’s gift of a turntable.
Some girls are about as changeable as this weather.
How about it?
You never can tell what a guy is like from one date,
but E. H. and V. B. have a pretty good idea. Not
exactly smitten—but could be.
Some like it hot
Some like it cold
Some like a fish
As a delicate dish
But we hear that
Van Boone prefers alligator!
Onrfoon by litUy TTat»on
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Collegiate Creams
The little Moron who called the
other little Moron at 3:00 in the
morning and asked if it were 1111?
Other little Moron said, “No, this is
11, 11.” The first little Moron told
the other that he was sorry to get
him up; and the other little Moron
said that.it was o.k. for he had to
ansM'er the phono anyway.
Femme’s Ltimenl
Army-Navy. What’ll I do?
Kaydet groy, or middie blue?
Life on the plain—life on the sen,
Tell me, which is tlie life for me?
Things like this makes one scream—
Guess I’ll get me a Marine!
—Log.
Oh the happy little Moron!!
Have you heard about:
The little Moron who thought
that a mushroom was a i)lacc to pitch
woo!
The little Aloron wlio wont to the
lumber yard to sec the draft board?
The little Moron who wcnt-diick
limiting, killed a duck, and then
thnnght ho had wasted shot because
the duck would have been killed in
the fall.
'I'lie little Moron who cut his arm
off HO that lie could wear a sleeveless
sweater.
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