PAGE TWO THE HILLTOP.UAKS HILL COLLEGE. MAESHILL. N. C. L VOL. No. 8 THREE Entered at the Postoffice, Mars Hill, N. C., as Second Class Matter, February 20, 1926. Member North Carolina Collegiate Prei* Aesociation. STAFF Faenlty Director- Editor. J. A. McLEOD CARL MEARES Manasinc Editor. -JAMES BALEY, JR. Speaking of Flu Speaking of flu (although no one has it) it might be well to recall Dr. Vann’s chapel talk the other day on the prevention of this disease. It would certainly do no harm to try the simple directions that are available, for often these will be sufficient to prevent one from having this disease. It is time for cooperation. We know that we can never do anything well unless we all cooperate. That is what we must do in this case. We must avoid the things that are said to perpetuate this disease. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is an old maxim that is hard to beat. If we would only really go to work and prevent this disease from gaining a hold on our campus, we should be in a position that would enable ns to gain much more from the year. Let’s all pull together and pre vent the flu from gaining a foothold here. The Nocturnal Vii MANAGERIAL Business Editor- Circulation Manager- Typist— DE FORREST HASTY -ELLEN ROYAL JONES -SEDALIAH PROPSTS DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Beligious- Athletica- Society. Alumni- Poetry— Exchange. FRANCES RICH -RAY BOWMAN -FRANK HUSKINS -BARTLETT HAGER -D. L. STEWART -SARAH BLACKWELL Reporters MADELINE MAY, JAMES CHERRY, WILLIAM CAPEL, PEARLE JUSTICE, THERON KING The Challenge In this day of wonderful industrial developmen in the country at large, but especially in the South, there comes the call for men who care and will equip themselves for positions of responsibility and trust. We need only to recall that many Northen manufacturers of cotton goods have in recent years moved all, or a part, of their plants to our Southern states; that the German manufacturers of synthetic silk have been able to pass our tariff walls that seemed almost insurmountable and are locating a fifty-three million dollar plant at Elizabethton, Tennessee; that the Enka people of Holland are building a ten-million-dollar rayon silk plant near Asheville; and that many millions of dollars will be paid annually to men and women who will operate the plants. All lines of business will be vigor ously stimulated by these vast enterprises, which will add materially to the many and varied enterprises for which this section of our country is already noted. The opportunities for healthful and profitable employment are numerous and will be greatly increased; so why not equip men and women for the best of these opportunities? Why not arrange to train them for leadership in these industries that are being located in our midst because of climate, pure water, and stable labor conditions? There is no reason why the clear- thinking, clean-living, sober young men of our Southern states should not be equally as efficient as those who come from New England and old England. Dr. Samuel Crowster in a recent article in the SATURDAY EVENING POST gives a write-up of Mr. Thomas A. Edison. This, the greatest of our citizens, who holds more than one thousand U. S. patents and whose brain and bands are giving employment to nearly two millions of people in enter prises worth approximately twenty billions of dollars says: “Prohibition laws are reasonably well enforced. I think we have about 60 per cent en forcement, which is rather higher than the enforcement of many laws. We can never expect a 100 per cent enforcement of the prohibition or any other laws. It should not be difficult to raise the enforcement to 80 per cent. In that case we should have a sober nation. We have a fairly sober nation today, so much so that the European nations which are not sober are be ginning to get very much worried. They already find that they cannot com pete with us and are taking steps to regulate the control and consumption of liquor. It is a serious problem in Great Britain. If we get an 80 per cent enforcement no country can compete with us in anything. In these days there are so many things to do that it is not necessary for an idle man to turn to drink. We are steadily developing to a point where drinking will not fit into any of our programs in or out of the shops.” The opportunities are ours; a new day is dawning, and if we will but be ready to accept the responsibilities and burdens in a thoughtful, serious manner, we can reach heights as yet undreamed of. The challenge is be fore us. DR. VANN. Entering the Home Stretch Any good horseman will tell you that the real worth of a race horse will eome to light, not when taking the first hurdle, but when he has cleared the last water jump and is entering the long, nerve-straining home stretch. It is the same with a good track man. The real winner of a distance run is not determined at the very outset of the race but in the last, long quarter mile, and it is the man with the most “grit” and stamina who comes out in front. We are approaching the home stretch of the first semester. Christmas was the last jump that we had to hurdle. We have come thus far in the school year and it remains to see what we can do with the remainder of it. Some of us have faltered perhaps but are still striving toward the goal that is now fairly in sight. It is now time to make a last desperate spurt to close the gap that stretches between us and victory. Just two weeks, two strides, that is all that remains for us to do. Two strides—have we the grit, energy, deter mination and stamina to pack into these two strides all the learning we have accumulated and pound across the line in the fore? As to those who are faltering, limping along, let them remember that it is only the finish that counts. So buck up; run your best; and if you fail, fail cleanly, fairly, and honestly. No one can look down on a man who lost while trying his best. Remember, two more strides and the race is won— or lost. It is for you to make it what you will. Which shall it be? What Will the Raising of the Endowment Mean? What will the raising of the endowment mean? It will mean that seventy- five thousand dollars must be raised in less than a year’s time. It will mean that every student will have to work hard; that every student will have to give; that every student will have to get others to work and give. As far as endowment is concerned it will mean that Mars Hill College will remain in the Southern Association of Junior Colleges for the next three years. Mars Hill will then have one hundred thousand dollars invested in a per manent endowment which will yield five thousand dollars each year in interest to spend on improving and running the institution; thus the college will have better equipment and will be able to do even better work. For when the college has more money to spend, it will be able to extend its courses, thus being able to draw more students in different fields of educa tion. It will make Mars Hill better and more widely known. It will make you proud to have been a student of Mars Hill College. Let’s raise it. Patronize Our Advertisers I am just wondering if there are any students who really appreciate the Hilltop. If there are, they should also appreciate those who advertise with us and trade with them, for they are the ones who make the Hlltiop and Laurel possible. For my part I am grrateful to our advertisers for their hearty support, and the firm that gets a dime of my money will be one who advertises in one of the two publications. I wish this were true with more of the students. Students, notice the advertisements in the Hilltop. Also, on the bulletin board are the names of those who are helping to support the Laurel. Trade with them when making a purchase, and mention the fact that you saw their ad in our publication. This will make the merchants feel that they arc getting value received and arc not simply making a contribution to a char- iatble cause. Then they will be more eager to continue advertising in our publications, and it will aid greatly in financing the two publications. Hilltop Approved by Asheville Merchants* Assn. Members of the Hilltop staff and many others have been striving for sev eral months to bring our paper up to the requirements of the Asheville Merchants Association. To be approved as an advertising medium by this association a paper must be published at least once a month the entire year and have paid-in subscriptions from 600 subscribers. The staff is very proud to announce that our paper has met all of these requirements and has been accepted by the Merchants’ Association. To be thus recognized is an honor, not only for our paper, but also for the college. Paragraphics We are sorry—yet we are glad. We are sorry that Miss Pierce is leaving us. We are glad that she can leave to get her Master’^ degree, and we are glad that such a capable substitute as Miss North could be procured. We are sure that the presence of Miss Pierce on our campus will be direfully missed, but we are equally certain that the presence of Miss North will be felt in all lines of work. Through the medium of the HILLTOP Mars Hill bids you farewell. Miss Pierce. And to you. Miss North, we say welcome. Did we win a g;ame? Well, I should smile! The basketball boys “did them selves proud” in their first game. Every man, even to the lowest substitute, deserves commendation. The game was, of course, not absolutely flawless; but it was a fine first appearance and gives promise of better things to come. Stronger opposition will be met, but a more perfect team will meet it. Mars Hill seldom has a poor basketball team, arid this year seems likely to prove no exception. Isn’t Mars Hill getting lively? What about a movie and a basketball game all on the same night? If that isn’t going some, and howl Several comments have been made to the effect that if this keeps up the supply of entertainment might be exhausted before the end of the year. Our opinion is “let ’er rip.” It certainly is good while it lasts. Not wishing to throw a damper on the above paragraphic or anything, but exams are just ahead. That kinda cools things down a bit or warms them up. What we do know will come out in the end, and not what we have pre tended to know. Fooling time is over. Now is the time of tho final reckon ing. About the only advice that can bo offered is, “Go to tho ant, thou slug gard, consider her ways, and be wise.” In other words, study as you never have before except at other crises like this one. One fellow has learned a lesson. He has taught that lesson to others. McCager F. Brown is the fellow, and college boys are the others. Brown, although not “bumming” was severely handled by strange men with whom he was riding. He had hired these strangers, and he paid the price. Take warning, young “bummer”, or your doom is sealed. This incident should at least discourage students who “bum.” I CANNOT PASS Examinations are my pests; I cannot pass. They make me to lie down in sleep less beds; They lead me into troubled waters; They torment my soul. They lead me into the paths of for getfulness in spite of fate; Yea, though I study all night to rid myself of thy presence, 0, Ignorance, thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me—not. Thou preparest no answers before me in the presence of my teachers. Thou fillest mine eyes with tears; My brain runneth empty. Surely ignorance and stupidity .shall follow me all the days of my life. And I shall dwell in the same grade forever. IT MUST BE TRUE What makes you sit alone and stare At wooded fields or empty air? What makes you sit before the fire And notice not a passerby? What makes you find and hold a book And never read, but only look? From your eyes You’re in love. Why do you never say a word. But act as though you never heard? Why do you never with us play. But only say, “Why, not today?” Why do you tramp the mountainside And to its soul your thoughts confide? From your actions You’re in love. MISS PIERCE GOES TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Miss Ella J. Pierce of the English department is leaving about the first of February for Columbia University where she is to finish work leading to a Master’s degree. It is with regret that the students learn Miss Pierce is to leave. She is loved by everyone, and she will be missed not only by the students in her classes but by all others. Miss North of Guilford College is to take her place. How is it that you never know A thing—^just wander to and fro? How is it that you want to bless Just anything you can caress? How is it that ’most all the time You seem to have some thought sub lime? From your ways You’re in love! —Chas. A. Maddry. Joe Webb: “I just had a date with the most tropical girl in Mars Hill.” Walter Chiles: “Boy, that’s noth ing. My dame might be compared to a red-headed bolshevik with scarlet fever in a crimson bathing suit, shovelling dynamite into a fiery fur nace in the stoke-hold of the battle ship Vesuvius on the Red Sea.” (Pearl Jattice) ’Twas the first night of tlj Year. Stillness prevailed overf tire third floor. The alanat ticked avi-ay each second inton —a past never to be lived ovi The night was cold, and mi kets were in evidence. Heat turned on, and light bulbs Suddenly, there was a sorif only one sound, but a series c • piercing the stillness in rooi Cry out for held? No; it a burglars with murder lurking minds. It seemed not only ^ but probable since the bulb h teriously disapiieared. The soi^ terror to the hearts of the gii mysteriously awakened by tUL Should they talk in audibloi No; if they were found to boL perhaps only a few minutes left to them. However, there few, very few words however 1 delivered amid gasps of brea were coming shortly and / What was—it? Where—is it^ a thief—under bed! Light—f Again the mysterious sou^ heard. Should they raise up ' try to discover the intruding; or person? Indeed not; as crouched down under the co\^^ their heads about the middle’ bed, the cover was ggasped side BO that nothing could coi’* the occupants of the bed. N ^ the air! Had they been di ■* they would have thought thi ’ crossing the equator—k—chi k~ch! Heads began to be P more tightly, breath became words ceased; and gprls we: ened to the point of hyste: After a while—it seemed F came the whisper, “What tin^® “Nearly time for rising think,” was the answer. 1 But darkness still prevail^ the earth. Intent ears were to every sound, and, if sphP' been gliding about, they wo** been heard—^k—ch! k—ch! on side of the room. Moments d ic ending silence followed. K- the window. In a few k—ch! under the bed. » Soon sil'* became interft the sound ceased. The girls i| I sleep, dreamed of bandits, pi ers, thieves; they dreamed a. captured and carried off. Bfo was not prolonged. It soemedit' would awake at the same fii “Where? Know what it wfci lence—k—ch! Blankets were Id over heads again and hearts! stopped beating. Such fria never been experienced. Willvi ing Bell ever ring? Tho long not endurable. But can it l| ■ The game tones of the bell d been heard for four long h came floating through the 4e But they could not get up. Tlk no light. What was to be doa^ few moments movements c^r heard, followed by steps in But what could be done? Si; “Gladys, hurry, open ourV, yelled a neighbor. A sleepy was heard. She was called agt the call was in vain. It waa ' time for breakfast and the dLj still closed and something ]>j room. !j. “Mary, please open our d«i(, “In a minute.” L The girls knew they were| “Who wants their door Mary called. Two voices ai^j. ‘30.' The door slowly opened should be ready to rush f the hall and to freedom b pareil, the family cat! Shoes! lows were hurled in quick suf until the poor thing ran to th«L floor and to safety? The cat ly knew that its life was in da the third floor and perhaps suited by threats made should it come back for anotht. The old saying is that whi' pens on the first day of the yfj happen all through the year; girls, some especially, seem that it would be a matter of f to get rid of all cats and bi|~ mouse traps if they are needeL^ nights, such as that one, awake and in fear is enough ^ nerx-ous prostration. |1 Floyd Williams (to Pcaik : tice): “Do you catch cold eaSn “Easily?” replied Pearle.^ trim my fingernails too closgl most catch pneumonia.’" i Williams: “How delicate are!” it