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Entered at the Postoffice, Mars Hills, N. C., as second class Matter
February 20, 1926.
Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
STAFF
Faculty Director MR. CORPENING
Editor J- GLENN TRAVIS
Associate Editor MARY HAMBY
MANAGERIAL
Business Manager - GA^ MEARES
Advertising Manager EDWIN HAYNES
Circulation Manager LLOYD CAIRNES
Stenographer BESSIE LEIBY
DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS
Religious REBA LOWE
Athletics SAM MILLER
.socxety ED HARRELL
Alumni WADE BROWN
Clubs BARBARA FREEMAN
Jukes 0. JACK MURPHY
Poetry RAYMONIA GILLESPIE
Exchange ZELMA BENNETT
Community GLENN WHITT
REPORTERS
BONNIE CHANDLER ALICE ROY ALL JONES
R. E. WEAVER BILL LOGAN
But just in proportion as we are not satisfied with ourselves, not con
tented with our grades and influence do we strive to be better, to do
things better, to find a worthier course in life. This is the reason that
the end of an old year or a passed term brings a sense of relief in that
all shortcomings and failures are now to be left completely behind, while
the approach of a new year and another term suggests the hope of big
ger, better, finer things in the path which we are about to tread.
—^Adapted from the Sunday School Times.
“Let us give the new year nothing to keep which will not prove an
honor to God’s name and a blessing .to the world; nothing which we
.shall not be willing to learn of again when we stand before the great
vdiite throne.” —J. R. Miller, D. D.
“Whatever the past year may have meant to you, make it dead history.
But let the new year be a living issue. Witli a big, fresh sponge, drip
ping with the clear water of forgiveness, wipe clean the slate of your
heart. Enter the year with a kind thought for every one. You need not
kiss the hand that smote you, but grasp it in cordial good feeling, and
let the electricity of your own resolves find its connecting current—^which
very often exists where we think it not. Make the new year a -happy
one in your home; be bright of disposition; carry your cares easy; let
your heart be as sunshine, and your life will give warmth to all around
you. And thus will you and yours be happy.” —Ladies’ Home Journal.
“Sometimes I marvel at our capacity to resist the finest influences
that come to us.” —Mr. Moore.
“If your appreciation of finer things isn’t going to grow at Mars
Hill, you might as well quit.” —Mr. Moore.
“If you fail in the face of adversity, your strength is small.” —Mr.
.Moore.
‘You have done beautifully this year.” —Mr. Moore.
Science Club Stages
Election of Officers
On Monday night, the Science
Oluib found itself confronted with
the problem of electing officers. The
following were elected: President,
Vann R. Powell; Vice-president, Glenn
Freeman; secietary, Emma Hender
son; Treasurer, Robt. Barnes.
A little investigation ensued which
gave the initiating committee work to
do. Mr. Robert Barnes was imme
diately carried through the initiat
ing process. He is now getting along
nicely, and it is hoped that he will
.survive.
A motion was nrade and carried
that the program for the next time
be postponed on account of exami
nations.
With the new group of officers
the club is hoping to make great
progress during the spring semes
ter, However, the hearty cooperation
of all members is absolutely neces-
•sary. With everyone working togeth
er the club can be made a “howl
ing” success. Members, do your share!
Sunday School Study
Course For Next Year
Is Being Planned
It was learned at the Sunday
School Conference at Greenville, S.
C. that Mr. Perry Morgan, new Sun
day School Secretary for North Caro
lina, has already begun making ar
rangements for the Sunday School
Study Course next year. Mr. Morgan
has been arranging the B. Y. P. U
study Courses. This gives assurance
that the progam will be well planned
and a success from the start.
Miss E. Riddick Parker
Will Be Librarian
This Semester
While Miss Bowden is completing
the course for her degree in library
work at Colmbia, Miss E. Riddick
Parker will be librarian in the Col
lege. Miss Parker has had experience
in this field. The College is indeed
fortunate to have her here.
Some yea.s ..g,.- sa\* „evcr...
.iimuiea b^ys anu girls learning tn_
..Oaeni aances in a pavilion on Lie
_ acific Coast. Tnat uid nor inspiie
.3. Moie oiteii we nave seen as
.any and nioie boys and gnis as-
embled for religious instruction,
heir upturned faces are a unique
nspiiation. The greatest congrega
tions in the world are not composea
of men and women or war veterans
or congresses or conventions or any
other adult assembly. These are all
important gatherings in a well or
dered society. But, an assembly of
boys and girls—the citizenship of
tomorrow—is of paramount impor
tance.
That untutored child you pass on
tlio street; those tenement children
111 yonder distant city, whose clothes
are only rags, vVhose hair is mattea
with grim dirt, whose food is jus
enough to keep body and soul to
gether, whose only playground is a
few feet of narrow crowded side
walk; that lonely little girl of ten
der age scrubbing with her care-worn
mother at the wa^htub; the sons and
daughters of the rich, who know no
rags, who know no dirt, who know
no hunger, and who are given all
that they may choose to ask for;
see them line on line, rich and poor,
weak and strong, trained and un
trained, they are of every class, pro
fession and trade. They would en
circle the globe.
In this army of child life are the
farmers, the business men, the pro
fessors, the physicians, the lawyers,
the ministers, the politician.s, the
presidents, and the fathers and moth
ers—all marching on into the to
morrow. What an incentive! What an
inspiration!
Each life is of inestimable value
because of the heritage into
whic'n it was born. The heritage of
experience, knowledge, and progress
of past generations is the posses.sion
of every child. Disease may not
destroy Ms life, for in a few minutes
or hours at the most a physician
trained in a modern university can
be at his side. Although he be rear
ed in a farthest valley or on a dis
tant mountain side or barren plain,
he need not remain ignorant. A
little money will bring to his hovel
much bound knowledge and some
other father’s machine will cari-y
him closer to an institution of learn
ing. There the professor awaits his
coming. There he will find awaiting
his recognition heart beats and blood
stains written into the records of
past civilizations.
He comes into a modern world,
not an uninhabited plain. In h
civilization are great cities, beauti
ful homes with every convenience,
schools, colleges, and universities for
his education and personal culture,
parks for recreation, art galleries
whose walls are covered with the
masterpieces of the centuries, fac
tories in wMch he may work, auto
mobiles and airplanes for Ms travel,
great department stores in which hr
can buy anything that he desires,
hotels for Ms comfort, magnificent
churches for the culture of Ms soul—-
a rich beautiful civilization awaits
Mm, in the building of which he
had no part. A valuable addition in
deed to a valuable life.
Moreover, each life is valuable be
cause of its individual possibilities.
Each- life that has come into this
rich inheritance, left by forefathers,
has a distinct possibility that no
other life has. Yonder lies a book,
call it Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
or Milton’s Paradise Lost or Shakes
peare’s dramas or Emerson’s essays
Perhaps to-morrow one of these lit
tle ones may dream a new dream,
and pen a new vision that will catch
the imagination, and be read with
a new passion by the whole world.
In the words of Berton Braley: “The
greatest books have not yet been
written.”
Scientists have remade the civili
zations of our forefathers. To-day
Mars Hill, N. C. k,
every speed record made on land,
sea, and air is made to be broken
by another record more wonderful
than the first. Almost every week
a new discovery is brought forth.
And read the soul of man, as deaf
Now we read the eye?
The end is not yet. Valuable power.^
are still going to waste. Disease still
reaps its harvest of human life.
But yonder mountain boy may find
use for the powers now going to
waste, and he may discover cure.s
for humanity’s diseases that oui- gen
eration cannot find. Moreover, in the
history that is yet to be written
there may be an especial need of
an orator who has the genius and
power to sway even the governments
of the nations. It must be someone’s
child, for the greatest orations have
not yet been delivered.
Some time ago in Detroit I sat
in the Masonic hall which seats six
thousand or more people. The hall
is built after the style of an ancient
Roman amphitheatre. My seat was
in a distant row. With the excep
tion of the few seats behind me
and those nearest me on either side,
I could see that great‘mass of six
thousand people. The noted violinist,
Kreislei, was to play that evening. |
Master of Ms art and master in per
sonality. How he played! He chal
lenged, he inspired; our eyes became
wet with tears; he soothed, and only
each listener knew what visions
crowded in upon his soul in those
enchanted hours. He was applauded
again and again. The hour was late
when the concert closed.
Kreisler may play his violin, and
Pederewski his piano; but who knows
that yonder distant, ragged, tene
ment child does not pos.sess a sur
passing genius that will overshadow
these great artists, for the greatest
music has not yet been played; and,
God knows, the greatest sermons
have not yet been preached. These
possibilities may be in any
unknown to-day but known to-mor
row.
Life is also valuable because it
is life. I cannot tMnk of anytMng
that would be valuable if there were
no human life. Would gold be val
uable? Would the wheat, the forests,
the cattle, the flowers? Here values
cease. It is human life that makes
the diamond necklace valuable,, the
rubies and the pearls. There is no
beauty in the rose unless there are
human eyes to behold it. The Lily
of the Valley—the symbol of purity—
loses its fragrance without the ap^
predation of some soul. Through the
centuries human life has built a
dvilization that is can use. Othe.'
generations would not know how to
(use it. What God and man have
made is of no use without God and
progressive man. Therefore, life is
valuable because it is human life.
While we develop our inventions,
build mas.sive skyscrapers, magnifi
cent chmxhes and cathedrals, length
en our sitakes in commerce, supply
our homes with modern appliances,
clothe ourselves in costly apparel,
and tour the world for pleasure, do
not let us forget that after we have
fiMshed these great accomplishments
in art, in business, in building, and
in invention, there is a task which
is even greater and in our day more
difficult to perfoimi than any of
the.se accomplishments wMch I have
just mentioned. TMs task is our
valuation of life. The civilizations of
to-morrow will depend far more upon
the value which we place upon the
child life of our age than they will
depend upon the buildings, the books,
the business, the homes, and the
inventions which we leave here. Each
life is valuable.
Who knows if science may not
some
Alt to make thee new,— [
To mend the garments of thy f
when I
Thou hast worn them through^
—Albert E. Coer
For life is a mirror of king and si
‘Tis just what we are and do
Then give to the world the best
have.
And the best will come back to!
—Madeline Bridgl
?
James Buckham realized the value
of cMld life when he wrote these
lines on the “Child of To-day”:
“O child, had I thy lease of time!
Such unimagined tMngs
Are waiting for that soul of tMne
'To spread his untried wings!
Shalt thou not speak the stars, and
go on
Journeys through the sky?
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