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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
The Hilltop
Plain Living and Lligh Thinking/
Published Semi-Monthly during the school year by the students of
Mars Hill College. Subscription pi’ice 50c per semester.
With Our Alumni
F
Entered at the Post Office, Mars Hill, N. C., as Second Class Matter,
February 20, 1926.
DOROTHY WALKER
ROM the Yosemite National
Park, California, comes the
news of the success of James Ash
White.
After leaving
STAFF
Editor _ Hubert Elliott
Associate Editor.
Managing Editor John Chapman
Alumni Editor —Dorothy Walker
Staff Artist Shermer
Business Manager. Randleman
I Mars Hill, Mr.
■ White received
. his“'A. B. and
■ also his B. A. at
, t h e Universitj-
; of Louis V i 11 e,
Ky., with his
Ph. B., Ph. M.,
J. Van Blurp
Circulation Assistants Eugene Brissie^ Al Bellinger
Fj.culty Adviser McLeod
Typists Julia Wingate, Helen Blackburn
Reporters Marian Sprinkle, Dorothy Walker
Eugene Brissie, Humphrey Jones
Al Bellinger, John Crisp,
VOL. XI
MARCH 20, 1937
NO. 1.0
Educutiofi, The Solution To The LIquov
Problem
Militant President John Knight and his 45 Mars Hill cohorts, who
form what is known as the Youth’s Temperance Council, are engaged
worthily in attacking the liquor problem, a problem that is a menace
to civilization.
That 200 students at Mars Hill have signed a pledge to abstain
and Ph. D. at the Seminary. Then
followed eight years as General
Secretary of the Baptist Young
eoplo s Union of America; two
years as President of the Col
orado Women s College; four years
as pastor of a Baptist Church in
Berkeley, Calif., and for eight
years he has been located in the
Yosemite National Park.
. While in Berkeley, Mr. White
did four years of graduate work
in Education, was elected to Phi
Delta Kappa, and has recently
been awarded a service key for
eight years of service to public
education. He has also a key for
Pi Gamma Mu in Social Sciences.
Some years ago, Mr. White re
ceived mention in “Who’s Who in
America”, and 1936 brought him
inclusion in the Clergy, and “Who’s
Who in American Education”.
His duty in the Park is to super
vise all religious activities within
Yesterday a
Tomorrow
^HESE sit-down strife T I
J- gotten to be a natio;
lately, like miniature golf
saw -puz
(Editor’s note: Aunt Minnie has
had a very unfortunate year. Fol
lowing a good start, she came down
with a severe attack of Dukeover-
carolina. Barely recovered she
skidded and fell while taking her
hath, thereby spraining her- eye
brow and being laid up for several
weeks. In succession she caught
the mumps and whooping cough I sitters, now sit-down strTkF “
T .i. ^ injured trouble isn’t new, howev^^k
a the Mars Hill-Lees McRae bas- | back in the 80’s we had af
goi
the
just goe^
that the!
cans as
are ovei
and nee
Every fej
they hit
demic of|
down,
was tree
then fla
one
Ger
an
ketball game when she was badly of sit-downers, only thej
trampled by a mob. Lastly, she called squatters. Thev w
caught the flu, and deciding that in those days. Sitting Bu‘
she was unable to continue at this thought of going on a
rate sent m her resignation to the he had it tvould have bee
Hilltop staff. Therefore it becomes stand-up variety. n
our painful duty to accept her res- ' ip„
I there was a rumor
ignation and end a long and glor-
day that several of the b
ious (?) journalistic career. With ,
this issue we turn this column over
to our good friend J. Van Blurp, investiga^®'
formerly with the Hog Waller Ob- .-j. tt„ ^
server.) J ^owever we did find thai, „
In seeking to carry on the work L/^4reJcr-^ ’
so nobly begun by our beloved with him. '^They claimed
Miss Meanwell, Aunt Minnie to so
many thousands, we wish to dis- °
We have made an
- , _ ' ^ the ISiational Park. Last year there.
trom the use of alcoholic beverages, and the statement by President were over 40-0,000 visitors, and ' all doubts as to our identity. I an il,
Knight, “It is our hope to have at least 400 students sign the total 55,000 were enlisted in I Unlike Aunt Minnie who kept her of these sit-down strj,
abstinence pledge before the end of the school year,” is encouraging services,
to even the most pessimistic who see ruin and damnation spreading
from the wholesale use of intoxicants.
Prom the U. S. S. Wyoming en-
rp, . . .,1 ^ , route Balboa, C. Z., we hear of
he council is, without doubt, advancing toward solution of the chaplain E. C. Andrews, Jr., giv-
hquor problem in the best manner: by education. Professors, such as; ^^e sermon for the Divine
our own scientific wit, Vernon E. Wood, are doing outstanding work ' ‘ ^ ‘ ^
1 ha
lard
3ked
e a
the
oks
in furnishing material that they have obtained from tireless research,
to societies such as Mr. Knight’s, thus adding valuably to the wide-.
spread educational movement in this country, that had its start just
prior to the World War.
The drink problem is complex, offering a challenge to the keen
est minds of our land. Our elders, who have failed to march forward
in so many cases during the past 20 years, are more or less in a “sit
down” strike on this question, leaving it up to youth to set the way.
Therefore, collegians, the supposedly pick of youth, have the task of
reviving education for temperance, showing the effects of alcohol
and discouraging its use.
According to Irving Fisher, economist at Yale University, the
average man does not even know how little he knows about how dan
gerous alcohol is. “He is generally sure,” says Mr. Fisher, “that al
cohol is a stimulant, that beer and light wines are healthful, that his
thirst for these is a natural one, and that most people can use them
without using them ‘in excess’—everyone of which is false and has
been proved false.”
If this IS true, and we certainly have no reason to doubt the
statement, what is to be done in this age of the swinging of daintily
slippered feet of American women at chronium bars, this fashionable
consumation of cocktails and “old fashioned’s” by our leading young
people, and this profitable big business, breweries!
There is only one answer. Society, and rightly so, is looking to
us, the youth of America, the majority of whom have seen the pro
hibition era, and know its influence, to meet the situation.
How? By education.
An educational approach is the only way, as we see it; and one
that is favored by all of our great leaders in this .movement.
So Mr. Knight, The Hilltop, who can be counted on as sympa
thetic with your cause, wishes to pass on to those 600 of our students
who are not members of your organization, those 400 who did not
sign your pledge, these suggestions from The International Student,
a magazine representing the Intercollegiate Association for Study of
the Alcohol Problem, with the hope that they will be taken seriously
by the administrative body of Mars Hill College, with the result that a
course in the study of the liquor problem, under a regular instructor.
Will be added to the credit courses now ofifered.
^ The editor states that, “A new educational approach under edu
cational leadership would include among other factors:
First, frank study of the whole question.
“Second, leadership in the formation of social customs.
“Third, systematic education.
“Fourth, a new type of community education and leadership on
the liquor problem.”
With such a program in progress throughout the colleges of this
country, with open-minded discussion paving the way. The Hilltop
agrees with The International Student statement: “Extended on a
large scale with open minded freedom, the service that such an ap-
proach may render toward the liquor problem of today knows no
Service January 10, 1937.
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Acting as Dietition for Stetson
University, Deland, Florida, is
Miss Helen Batson. She has charge
of both the main dining room and
the cafeteria. Miss Batson was pre
viously at Syracuse University.
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A man that has made a name
for himself in Western North Car
olina as a milliner is Carl Hood of
Asheville. Mr. Hood graduated
from the Mills Home in 1910 and
then came to Mars Hill College.
In 1916 he entered business in
Asheville -and has become one of
Western North Carolina’s leading
business men.
identity a secret and was known conclus^.^
only to her friends as a white hair- ^^othing manufacture
ed old lady with false teeth, and a The revival
long scraggly beard, we shall come Uvp pants suits s ^^^i
out in the open and publish our ^
picture (see above) to dispell all
doubt^. Indeed, many innocent per-
result of this campaign, -i ..
from the strike zones sb ^
pants with reinforced se|.j^g
sons were
accuj iiixny iiiii(jL.enL per-
accused falsely of being a new high in sal
We often heard the ob
eration condemn us as a
ter
Aunt Minnie. We are reminded of
a certain scion of the Carter Clan _
who approached Haynes Brown P^^^Uess sitters-on-the-*baclil sta
and threatened him with dire hap- and opine that w(;he ;
penings if he put anything about no good end. Mayss of
hiih in^Aunt Minnie’s Column. We right—for once. Ma'
happen to know that Haynes was ^®^®ration is still sitting
Stag Social Held
By Berean I Glass
The group captains of the Be
rean I Sunday School class were
hosts to its approximately eighty
members at a stag party on the
evening of Monday, March 8, in
the parlor of Brown Dormitory
Guests of honor were Harolc
O’Quinn, Wilson Glass, Mrs. Lane,
Dr. Moore, teacher of the class,
and Harold Robinson.
limit.
-H. A. E.
Bob Bellinger was the very ef
ficient master of ceremonies. In
cluded in his program was music
by Charles Reid’s Hungry Five
German Band; a -humorous read-
ing by Council Pennell; wit and
humor by Irvin Lucas and Mon
roe Johnson, performing guests;
a harmonica solo by Joe Smoak;
Bob Morgan’s famous “Cremation
of Sam McGee”; and a humorous
act by the master of ceremonies
himself.
Credit for the success of the
party must be given to Durwood
Murray, president of the class, and
to Billy Kellner, Cecil Aderholt,
Baxter Williams, W. R. Wagner,
David Shelton, Council Pennell,
Clarence Sinclair, Gene Alexander,
Robert Bellinger, and Oliver Sum
merlin, who took care of all the
arrangements. v-j
innocent; but there might be some
thing to it—^the Carter side, we
mean. Who knows what might be
found out in the kitchen?
Talking about kitchens — Mi*s.
Stoker invited the whole Mars Hill
Forensic Siquad to lunch ivhile
they were at Catawba — but
thought to ask how many there
were—it all happened over a phone
—she couldn’t take it. Well, not
all 15 at any rate. But what did
happen to the five that went?
They tell us it was really worth
the trip just to hear Goo-Goo Mor
gan ‘burn’ Sam McGee in the gym,
clad only in his pajamas. He really
pulled down the house they say.
He even kept most of the boys
-past the breakfast hour, and then
it became necessai’y to go to town
for food. A “Sanitary Cafe” was
chosen which proved to contain a
bar and an imposing array of bot
tles, .etc. Lieberman, it seems, un
able to resist it, made a very “bar-
flyic” figure as he stood there, one
foot on the brass rail, his elbow
crooked, his head thrown back, and
an empty glass in his hand, grape
fruit juice, we assure you.
Two telegrams were sent from
Sp,lisbury—^we wonder? Bi'own at
least kept it in the family by dat
ing a “distant” relative.
Who was in the car that Miss
Johnson, chaperon, insisted on
waving at?
The climax came when one de
bater heatedly accused tho other.
“You aren’t a debater,” he declar
ed. “You’re an oratoi'.”
Several boys were heard to mur
mur recently, “Georgia is as far
South as r want to go.” Why the
disillusionment in Florida. Did thq
debators have anything to do with
it? '
We’ll save Cotton ’tilLlater!
back of their necks, and hche 1
!r st
it t'V
for
get paid for it. We hate t
it, but it seems the older
tion was right—after all.
The trouble with our p4 Bt
the high standard of livi;‘e
they can enjoy. Too -manjfntir
go to colleges nowdays
me;
higl
what is wrong with our U^as
and
After a four year loaf undi
paternal payments the stA^d
still only half-baked, and fi“Ue]
business world too much f
In the good old days the
graduates could sit down, p
feet on their own desk, ai
to inherit dad’s business, if
business sense; nowdays th
it ai
ur
uate finds the seats all fill!
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the desk covered with the
those that beat him there. I
the line of waiters is so
[nes
ing
can’t .even get into the door|_^/°'
“move over.” Besides whalf ^
he inherit? Dad’s busine
days consists of a batch
U.’s and a bicycle—^this
ahead of the sheriff. The
shovel has been worn out
ditches, and what little s
ires,
Man
dads have is spent by the s
gas for the installment bu|
Things have come to a
pass when a college gradu)
to work. That shows how I
depression really was. For i
the wolf was afraid to
around our door, he km
would pull him in. Which
us back to our original point
are too many college gra
They clutter up the place,
nally have to go to work,
four years a man gets “sort
in his ways” and the collegl
uate requires his leisure,
the sit-down strikes.
We’re fer it!
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