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Page Two THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA "Plain Living and High Thinking Published by the Students of Mars Hill College. Mars Hill. N. C. Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the post office at , Mars Hill, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Issued semi-monthly during the college year. ADVICE TO FRESHMEN Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor.. Associate Editors— Subscription Rate: Year, $1; Issue, 5c. STAFF Grady Dover -Lowell A. Shive Society Editor. Sports Editor.. Photographer^. Lynx Starkweather and Mary Lee Ellington -Virginia Agee -John West -Billy West Faculty Advisors— Mildred Hardin, Elise Rose Dons, and Ramon DeSeiazo CONTRIBUTORS Eleanor Fokes, Winifred Thompson, Dot Pearce, Carol Bartling, Jerry Rogers, Sheila Gulley, John Farrar, Robert Brissie, C. C. Hope Wade Hendricks, Jack Spratt, Wilmer Fisher. Business Manager Richard C. Proctor Circulation Managers J. C. Jones and Wally Brouse Advertising Manager Paul W. Meyers Vol. XV. October 5, 1940. No. 2. Meeting the Challenge of Today How are we going to meet the challenge of the times? This is a very important question we con ask ourselves. We also ask, Is our world going mad?” Across the waters there are wars and rumors of wars." Communism versus Fascism—both are fighting our own government. What can we do about this? This remains to be seen. Among all the various "isms" how can we save the youth of today for an improved democracy? That is the challenge we must meet. There ore two things which stand high in the line of train ing: trained leadership and "followship." If we have qualities of leadership, we can accomplish things. We need just, honor able, alert leaders. We must teach leaders and followers alike to keep their balance in the world. It is up to the high schools as well as colleges to at least hold the youth of today. Our country is full of Communism today and it is up to us to teach a true democracy and not a false one. Dr. Cloud^ Smith tells us that personality is the building of a man. In Building a Personality," Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick tells us: "Primarily, democracy is the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people and that if we throw wide the doors of opportunity so that all boys and girls con bring out the best that is in them, we will get amazing re sults from unlikely sources." So attention to the development of personality is important. Shakespeare was the son of a bankrupt butler and a woman who could not write her name. Beethoven was the son of a con- sumpfi-^^ mother, herself the daughter of a cook, and a drunken fothen Schubert was the son of a peasant father and mother who had been in domestic service. Faraday, one of the great est scientific experimenters of all times, was born over a stable, his father an invalid blacksmith and his mother a common drudge. Such^ facts as these underlie democracy. Equality of rights and privileges is a basig factor in our form of govern ment. Let us as students of Mars Hilt College believe in a true democracy and live for it. We can meet the challenge by mak- mg the most of our opportunities now—developing strong bod ies, alert minds, and a fine sense of moral values. We can meet the challenge by facing it squarely and accepting res ponsibihty whether it be as leader or follower. R. B. For the benefit of you C-I's who ore in doubt as to what to do and what not to do, we have taken a concensus of op inion from those C-II's who were in your shoes last year. We hope this advice will be appreciated and put into prac tice. Gladys Turner: Be different; drop your book, not your handkerchief. Erma Morris: Don't fall in love with a C-II. Faustina Barnes: Don't fall in love period. Rebecca Gulley: Don't kid yourself into thinking you'll study. Alice Reed Smith: Don't pine; use your line. Carolyn Williams: Don't sit at the table with too many football boys; bread and water was my fare. Eleanor Fokes: Don't be afraid to be yourself. After all, how can we befuddled C-II's tell you freshmen apart if you all act alike? Dorothy Pearce: Don't. Gladys Rhinehqrdt: A wink in the hand is worth two shoves. Venita Penland: An apple a day (if not those green ones in front of Edna Moore) will keep the doctor away. Carol Bartling: The shortest distance between two dates is a good line. Omelia Robinson: Look, dar lings, those three light flashes are not those dreamed about S. O. S.'s to Brown and Mel rose dormitories, but are a sig nal from the housemother, which means "put it out." Gwen Potter: Instincts are all right for lower animals, but remember you are ladies and gentlemen. Lynn Starkweather: A date in the book is worth two at To Miss Claudia From the Class of '35 Miss Allen will probably not remember me, for there were then—five years ago — over five hundred of us chasing about the campus, some with serious purpose, some of us without. Whether she remem bers me is of no consequence, but neither I, nor any of those who ever talked or studied with Miss Claudia, will ever forget or cease to admire that heart which makes her so great in our friendships, that heart which did so much to endear her to us forever. Never one to upbraid us for pulling some stunt, but always one to praise and thus to guide so easily that we never rea lized then that it was her sug gestion or influence we were following. She taught us more manhood than German, more Christianity than verbal con jugation. ■ Behind her cheery "Good Morning" that always greeted us was, we know, a soul from which this early word brought good-will, good cheer, friend ship and love for every one of us. Miss Allen always "saw the good" in us, never even men tioned the bad—and there was plenty of mischief and devil try—so that long afterward we would suddenly stop and re member what she had said, how she had gone so far be yond our thoughts and reason ing to give us a path which could have been charted only by one of greater heart and | more noble soul. A HILLBILLY LOOKS AT WASHINGTON CECIL HILL Forensic Council Elects Officers Anticipation- Why get up? The days are rotating with a dogged mono tony and the calendar is merely repeating itself. November will come next—it is the usual procedure, tomorrow will be bunday—always 'after Saturday, and night must follow day. u is as inevitable as the rising and falling of a living pulse. Then why get up? Why vrake up and begin another day when there was one by exactly the same name last week? Why per- ferm the same trite duties that have claimed a part of every , years? Could it be habit alone that makes the indi vidual seek his routine tasks \rith fresh vigor as a new day approaches? The answer to these questions probably centers within one word—anticipation—that quality which lends ex citement to the least significant act. ^ tinge of expectancy as you rush to break- j r ? nieal may find you with a new and cher ished friendship. A smile from someone admired across the room may start the day with a song. Is there not a rising feel- ing of uncertainty as you leave a building on turning a cor- ner? Ahead may lie almost anything. The exciting possibilities OTe innumerable. Does not the almost stifled hope that some day that dream will be fulfilled help you through the mono tonous nioments? Always there is a secret longing, half rea- lizTO perhaps, cmd always there should be anticipation. If nothing were hoped for, nothing would remain to be lived fOT. The similitude or dissimilitude of days is a matter of atti tude. Look forward to nothing—reap boredom; anticipate joys re«¥> happiness.—S. G. , noon. Gwen Reed: Do your school work thoroughly; participate in religious and scholastic organ izations. If you know how to get around a rule, don't. Shirley ^Sanderlin: It is con sidered both impertinent and ill-mannered to use your room mate's toothbrush. Mary Nell Hardin: Beware of pie bed-makers. Christine Pope: Beware of strangling lines. One C-II gives her advice in the following poem: Come C-I's and you shall hear Of an event that happened only last year. I was going to the reception and was ready for my date All clean and in my evening dress—so he wouldn't have to wait. I was looking my best and all persnickulous When one C-II jived, "Why, your shoulderless dress is ridiculous." It wds not her words that made me sad. But because it was the only dress I had. Poor little me, not knowing what to do— I went back to my room and left that C-II. I was crying—then, suddenly, it dawned on me The Forensic Council elect ed C. C. Hope president at the first meeting of the 1940-41 ses sion. Mr. Frank Venters was elected secretary. Thirty-three students were present at this first meeting. The president announced that debate elimi nations would be held as soon as the national intercollegiate board submits the query for the colleges. Last year the Fo rensic club travelled over 2,- 000 miles on trips. News Flashes (Continued from page 1) Cal., in October. The great thrill was near at hand. Their goal was almost reached. At tempt after attempt they made —at length they saw Deanna Durbin. Not only did they see her, but they talked with her and had their picture taken with her. It must have been worth the trip, for, they declare enthusiastically, "She is the sweetest thing on earth." Who are they? None other than Jack and Wally Miller, two popular Mars Hill stu dents. Washington is yet in mourn ing for the loss of America's greatest Speaker of the House, the Hon. William A. Bank- head. Two weeks ago the square-jawed old veteran of the House .passed quietly away, perhaps as a result of the terrific strain heaped upon him during the past few weeks. In his seat we find former Leader of the Majority in the House, the Honorable Sam Rayburn of Texas. In the opinion of many Am ericans Bankhead shared most of the humiliation in the Demo cratic Convention. Regarding himself as a strong contender for the Vice-Presidency, he ap peared as the Keynoter of the day. Delegates from Alabama placed his name on the floor as the first nominee for the po sition. Though he sensed his defeat when the New Dealists nominated Henry A. Wallace as the choice of the President, the aged Representative fought courageously. Such on experi ence as this was quite com mon with Mr. Bankhead. "These things he hid in his heart, and America grieves the loss of one whose heart was so full. The recent embargo on all shipments of scrap iron to for eign countries except the Wes tern Hemisphere and Great Britain has resulted in the closer alliance of Japan with the Axis powers. Japan feared such a move as this years ago even in 1932 v/hen the State Department protested so vigor ously the invasion of Manchu ria. The declaration that Japan would join the war if any other outside nation, meaning the United States, intervenes has been long expected—especial ly since the fall of France. Now at last it seems that the greedy fingers of the Japanese will be able to grab French Indo- China. That she couldn't do that to me —see? So, I went to the party—you bet I did. But, my dainty shoulders be neath a cope I hid. Now, listen, C-II's—don't do as I and get in a mess, But get your evening apparel censored" before you dress. —^Lela Burgess. Washington awaits in sil ence but with a great deal of expectation the opening of the trial for former Premier Da- ladier and other high govern ment officials of France prior to the installation of the Petain regime. The trial is to be held in a peculiar fashion. Instead of following the usual proce dure, the court has decided to follow the old Roman low. In this instance the judges do not hear the trial, but search out all the evidence and strive to convince the jury that the vic tims ore guilty. We in America wonder just what the courts ore blaming the officials with. Could it be courage and valor and love for one's country? Only time will tell, and then the Nazi press will censor the report.
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