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The Hilltop, Mara Hill College, Mars Hill, N. C.
Entered at the Postoffice. Mars Hills, N. C. as second class Matter,
February 20, 1926.
Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
STAFF
Faculty Director ^
“ARE YOU TRUE?”
Christian, to your Cause be true
And come to Sunday-school!
For cltild and skeptic loci: to you
To set the Golden Rule.
TESTING THE
UBRARY
Does not your heart for others yearn.
To see them saved from sin?
The age.s have given to us a suc-
ces.sior, Oif principles ’that lead to
greater knowledge. Men, of course,
have to .study these principles and
tost them so as to get the resulting
;r goals. These results
Then bring them here, where the> j facto: c: .
learn ^ written in books s^o that others
^ i may proUt hy the knowledge of those
Who died for sinful men.
v,jitor J- GLENN TRAVIS
Associateidito; mary hamby
MANAGERIAL
Business Manager
' who have gained the re.sult. To keep
Some one with weak and weary tread | these books there mu.s be some m-
Upon Life’s rocky road, stitutmn nl. oed so as to :^tract and
Is feinting for that Living Bread- i se^-ve the most people. Tnis msti
The Ivord, the Spirit’s food.
Xd;^SirinrMlmger edwin haynes
Circulation Manager LLOYD CAIRNES
Stenographer - DESSIL LEIB^
DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS
Religious REBA LOWE
Athletics SAM MILLER
ED HARRELL
llumni WADE BROWN
Clubs BARBARA FREEMAN
Jokes ....1' 0- jack MURPHY
Poetry RAYMONIA GILLESPIE
Exchange - ZELMA BENNETT
Community - - GLENN WHITT
REPORTERS
BONNIE CHANDLER ALICE ROYALL JONES
R. E. WEAVER • BILI. LOGAN
How good it is, how true and sweet,
How pleasing to our Lord,
For children in His house to meet
And ponder on His word!
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!
The young ladies have requested of us the smaller courtesies of the
c£impus. ,
They have waited in the dining 'hall that we might not be hindered in
Gur rush to the outside.
They have stood by the gym door following basket ball game.s rather
than risk the possibility of being trodden under the foot of man.
But aside from the slight dip into sarcasm, we have only momentarily
forgotten; 'however, let’s start remembering today!
Down Sabbath-breakers’ trodden lane
Who turns his steps today?
O gently turn him back again
Into the narrow way.
—D. S
DO YOU NEED THE
SUNDAY
SCHOOL?
Why do we eat three times a day
and exercise our bodies regularly ?
What results from failure to do so?
A stunted and diseased body. Proper
care means robust health, usefulness,
and long life.
Why are we here in college study
ing hours each day preparing the
tution must have standard.? by which
it must always abide.
The following three point.s .should,
help us, in a little way, to cheek up
on our libraiy to see whether it i.s
functioning correctly or not:
First, there must be a sufficient
number of books with a range wide
; enough that the need of each per
son concerned can be filled.
Second, if the knowledge is .going
to be passed on to others, there
mu.st be enough patrons to keep
the books in circulation. The books
mu.st be taken care of.
Third, the building must be modern
in every detail, including: flou:
.space, shelves, offices, and desks.
Our library does not fulfill all o!
these I’equirements. It does not have
a sufficient supply' of books so that
the .students studying any subject
here would have a wide range to
select from.
Our library complies with th;
second requirement excepting th
And buttled deep, not rise aga
.\nd may I forget the crown
won.
While thinking still of others
Wife aching hands and Metxling
We dig and heap, lay stem
stone;
We bear the bufdeh and the he:
Of the long day, anil wish ‘t
done.
Not till the hours of light retut
All we have built do we tlivsceri
—^Matthew Arm
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Mars Hill, N. €.'
G. D. FREEMAN, Student,
SIGNS! SIGNS! SIGNS!
Much has been said about marring fee beauties of nature by commer
cial advertising. Some states have laws forbidding the placing of signs
along the highways; others limit the number of signs.
A sign is not a signal, but in one way a signal is a sign, meaningful,
sugge.stive of the thing just ahead. The railroads wotuld be handicapped
without a code of signals; the path of war would be comparitively easy
to follow, robbed of its silent code; the great cities would have to eifiploy
a of traffic cops without the system of light signals now used. Even
the American aborigines valued the use of signals; they, too, had a code.
ir signals have a very definite meaning to those concerned, just so;
the numberless signs have their corresponding meanings to the visitors
who chance to pass them. To gain the attention of these visitors, manu
facturing concerns Spend millions on the theory that “It pays to advertise.’
They must get results; otherwise, advertising would die a natural death.
To bring this theory closer home, do tourists remember Mars Hill?
Can a tourist tell when he reaches Mars Hill and why such a place exi.sts?
A negative answer must be given.
Last summer this writer and a group of friends were sitting beside fee
library. Presently a group of New York tourists rode by. They stopped
as something of intere.st attracted them and asked the name of fee vil
lage and the cause of so many large buildings in so remote a location.
Looking at the library they inquired if that happened to be fee jail. The
Editor of the Washington Outlook took a picture of the library. Not know
ing any details, he was forced to write the librarian to find out fee gen
eral situation before he could give a writs up.
The letters on the small sign-board beside the highway in fee gap at
Little Mountain are entirely too small and too closely written. Many tour-
i.sts mistake Mars Hill for Marshall. Why not construct a sign feat would
not only let the tourist know' the name of the place, but one feat would
be a fitting advertisement? Why not place an arch, a pillar or a mere
.suggestion of a sign that would indicate the place at the entrances to fee
boys dormitories? Why not engrave the name, “Mars Hill College,” in
white letters on the hiUside of fee school properi.y facing fee highway?
Why not advertise?
assigned lessons ? What can we ex
ipect at fee end of fee session if
we neglect faithful study? Undevel-i fact feat the patrons should take
oped, narrow minds, and dwarfe 'I care of the- books. We do not care
manhood and womanhood. Prope: | for our books as we should. We
study brings the development of
wholesome, vigorous, keen mind, eager
and ready for the challenging tasks
ahead.
mark them up trying to find hoy
many page.s more must be read. 'Thir
is one thing that must be overcome
if we want to preserve our books
...... + , Our building is modern concerning
So, is feer« not an infimtely great- , covering, chairs, and shelves
er need for fee development ““H ^he floor space .should be doubled,
and exercise are to the body, as; librarian
daily reading and application to ourj
studies are to fee mind, even so an j
prayer, and the reading of Go:’. ' !
Word to the SOUL. Failure here'
means a weak, selfish, undevelopo
character—A LITTLE SOUL. Whik I am questioning who shall be at
—W. B. Logan
HIS TASK IN
RURAL NORTH CAROLINA
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ALBERT H. CORPENING
practice in these Christian activitie.s
means spiritual' growth, strength o
character, the “abundant life here,
and 'hereafter, “eternal life.”
Just as cheerful companionship a!
meals stimulates and aids digestion,
and as group discussions disclose nev
ideas and establish, facts in the class
room, so the Sunday School afford.''
a wonderful opportunity for study
ing together the truths and beautie.
of God’s Word, enlightening on;
minds, strengthening our faith, and
consecrating our personalities.
As 1 think on these things, the
words of that great Christian leader
Paul, come to me: Forsake not the
assembling of yourselves together.
I am grateful, for the Sunday
School. Are you ? I need the Sunday
School. DO YOU?
“THE LOST POEM”
Working one day in fee rusitling,
breeze-tossed com.
Within my pondering mind a poem
was bom.
No pen and paper had I with me
then,
That I might write, and pass it or
to men.
My soul implored the phantom gruest
to stay,
But quickly as it came it fled away;
But oh, how sweet it was, and strong
and bright,
The whilst it stayed! Like some
celestial light
That flashes once from off a distant
shore,
A moment gleams, then fades to shine
no more.
And now through all the days an
years that flee
In vain I call the phantom back tc
me.
In vain implore 1
The poem that came to me
Will to my yearning soul be bom
Again no more!
—D. S.
THE WESTERN HILLS
The Western hills of Carolina
Hold in them beauty, yea, sublime;
They seem to 'beckon when you view
them.
And challenge life’s high upward
climb.
I oft find joy and inspiration.
As toward the hills I lift my gaze
And wonder if all other travelers
See them with hearts in joy ablaze.
Take not away the life you cannot
give:
For all things have an equal right
to live.
—Dryden
If in your hours of meditation
You yearn to have the heart made
new,
The sight of hills ■will lend yor
challenge
And strength and hoi>e will come
to you.
—^Nona Lee Ponder
One life;—a little gleam of Time
between two Eternities.
—Carlyle
his task when life’s journey shall '
have been finished? In the moun
tains of our South lives a people
with many undiscovered forces. Tal
ent is one of these forces. Roosevelt
said, “All qualities both bad and
good are intensified and actuated
in the life of the wilderness.” The
social salvation of the mountains
will not be won by putting its peo
ple forward as pawns to advance
others;: nor by using them as filling
to m£dte the highways of progress
more smooth, nor will compulsion
from without, however benevolent,
even be a substitute for self-direc
tion under the impulse of ideals vol
untarily accepted. Yet from these
great reservoirs of the hills are
coming fee prized workers of human
endeavor.
Furthermore, what is his task?
Is it to awaken youth from his
sleep? Is it to make rural North
Carolina predominant in leadership?
If so. w« are to hslp maka laadM.
The hungry world is yearning for
the imaginative faculties of man to
be awakened. Look beyond the im-
broken scene. Is there no objective
in Ufe calling us? Does no ambi
tion rise up within us and seek to
express itself through leadership?
The North Carolina of tomorrow will
suffer, will weaken, unless we, the
youth of today hear fee voice that
is urging us to choose a life of true
Christian leadership.
Picture the youth of rural North
Carolina as he existed years ago.
See him on his father’s farm, walk
ing with his father, talking about
what he exiiects to be. Then see him
in the bloom of young manhood as
he unbars the gates to future suc
cess. Directed by his vision, he fol
lows on and on.
“Let self be crucified and slain,
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For wedding anniversaries, \
birthdays; in fact, for all of
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Mars Hill, P*
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