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Page Two THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Hilltop Family Album ^'Plain Living and High Tkinking*^ PubHshed by the Students of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the postoffice at Mars Hill North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Issued semi-monthly during the college year. Suh°crlntinn Rate: Year. $1; Issue, Sc. MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS DISTRIBUTOR OF COLLEGIATE DIGEST STAFF Editur-in-Chief Managing Editor. .-Grady Dover Lowell A. Shive Associate Editors— Dorothy Pearce and Mary Lee Ellington Society Editor Lynn Starkweather Sports Editor ... John Foster West Photography GeORGE Blake Eaculty Advisors .Mildred Hardin, Elise Rose Dons, and Ramon DeShazo CONTRIBUTORS Carol Bartling;, Margaret Duckworth, Betty Lee Spainhour Winfried Thompson, Thelma Baker, Robert Brissie, Stanley Smith, Wallace Brouse POETS’ CORNER "Poetry comes fine spun from a mmd at peace." Ovid—Trisitia. SONNET In pensive mood I look upon my hands. Big, blue-veined, tanned, and strong they are, Unadorned by decorative bands—• So plain, and all unblest by Talent's star. To create masterpieces of the plume My hands were not intended to aspire. Ah yes, it would be folly to presume Them able to disclose my soul's desire. To copy on a canvas God's great earth These awkward hands most surely have no turn; For rippling o'er the keys they have no worth To sound the melodies for which I yearn. One thing alone I find in them to laud— For tho they can't perform, they can applaud. Mary Nell Hardin. Tt :o nt s iq tl n Vf IV! .1C VALENTINE I looked at all the valentines. Wondering which to buy. Puzzled by the variety Each one caught my eye.- ar id lit. in Business Manager Circulation Manager.. Advertising Manager.. — — Richard Proctor —WiLMER Fisher and Billy Donnelly Vol. VX. February 8, 1941. Enhancing the Beauty of the Earth In the Bible we are told that "In the beginning God created ■the heavens and the earth," but we are all aware of the great transformation which has taken place on the earth since that time. Who is responsible for this transformation? Surely man has had an important part in intensifying and augmenting the natural beauty of the earth. Every man who has lived has either added to or detracted from the beauty of the earth. Every day someone by his conduct intensifies the loveliness of the earth, and every day someone else bv his misconduct with draws some of the grandeur of the world from the reach of his fellowmen. Every man has a place to fill on this earth. If he fills this place wisely and to the utmost of his ability, he will un questionably add to the beauty in the harmonious workings of such a complicated and involved mechanism as is human life on the earth. By properly filling his place in the scheme of living, each individual will augment the rich heritage of the new generation, and he will thus add to the beauty of the earth , he is forced to leave. The improvement of the earth is a daily process. All our daily actioris should contribute, directly or indirectly, to the beautification of our earthly dwelling place. This places upon the individual the responsibility of exercisinig extreme care in all his actions A slight indiscretion might cause the entire human race to suffer by decreasing the beauty of its property. Beautiful lives add beauty to their surroundings. If our lives are truly filled with the splendor of God, they will surely enharice the beauty of the part of the world in which we dwell. . A beautiful life lives forever; it becomes a part of the grandeur of the earth and uplifts the nature of countless thousands of lits posterity. Are you fashioning a life of such beauty that’you will be willing to leave it as a heriitage to those who follow you on this earth? Are you adding daily to the beauty of the glorious - dwellihg place of mankind? Will you resolve today to apply yourself more vigorously to the task of further beautifying the earth? ". . . . And departing, leaves behind you Footprints on the sands of time"? ' —W. H. On this page, children, we have one of our tutors when he was a scholar here. Wasn't he goodlooking? He sat in front Walter Harrelkon Clio, he being a Phi, in most of his classes. It just worked out like that. Now they are married and have a little Clio. But she makes him hang out the washing after lunch, and then he is so fatigued he has to drive his car across the road to his Bible class. Can you guess who he is? No. 9. Some were made of cellophane. Some of lacy stuff; Others boasted ribbon bows All were sweet enough! ar otl .e Verses were accordingly Some mushy, some just nice. Another factor entered, too— The ranging of the price. Oh, it was quite a problem! I was Puzzled more and more— But then I saw the very thing That I was looking for. n ternation Summary a I Those Who Follow- Mars Hill is proud of the leaders that she has produced 'in the past,-and she is equally proud of the leaders that she ■ is producing today. But what of all those people who aren't leaders although they work just as hard for the success of the things that ore right and good? Milton once said, "They also serve who only stand and wait." These words are just as true today as they were the day they were written. It takes : followers who are successful to make a successful leader. Last year the student body selected on editor for the school year book. The fact that this editor is very capable and has a very capable staff will not make the LAUREL a success. It is going to take the co-operation of ALL the students—yes, EVERYONE of them. When your time for service comes are you going to • "stand and wait"? That isn't what Milton said or meant. The time for service has arrived, and everyone is watching you to see the type of work and success that you produce. The success of the LAUREL depends upon you just as much as It does upon the editor—if it is a failure ore you going to accept your part of the responsibility? It isn't going to fail, for we are going to support it. Why? Because it is OUR annual. —G. D. (Washington)—February 5, 1940—On all sides comes de defense and denouncement of the President's Lend-Lease Bill for aid to Great Britain. Admin- tration leaders predict a mar gin of at least 100 votes in the House. The Isolationist Bloc in the House are opposing the bill with a sense of futility, and yet with a determination of un heard-of dogmatism. The bill is open for amendments this morning, closing a three-day debate on the matter. (Havana)—February 5, 1940 —Order has been restored in Cuba since President Fulgeni- cio Batista took over personal command of the army, navy, and national police forces. Army guards threw up sand bags at strategic points inside the presidential palace and mounted machine guns at the entrances. Batista announced that he had formally aocepted the resignations of Col. Angel A. Gonzalez, navy com- manderin-chief; Col. Jose E. Pedraza, chief of the army; and Col. Bernardo Garcia, former notional police chief. (London)—February 5, 1941 . . . Wendell Willkie, former GOP Presidential candidate, tours the British Isles daily in an effort to determine the actual military standing of the British Empire. Dining with the former queen of Holland, he questioned the empress on a possible rebuilding of Holland. Short jaunts to Ireland are on his record for the week. King Edward and Winston Churchill often are his companions if Multiple duties of office permit. It read: To the ONLY one I lov Oh, my search was done! I gave it to the clerk and said, "I'll take FIVE of this one." Dorothy Click. (From the Catawba College Pioneer). Helpful Hints'. Building a Room It's only a shanty—one o:' the college cottages—but it's "Paradise" to them. It is equip ped with Venetian blinds, port able radio, and more contrap tions than a new airplane. All this is in reference to the room of Quentin Harper and Jack and Wally Miller. If you haven't visited these fellows—you've no idea what you've missed. When you start up you might drop by and see Rains and Hale who room together on the first floor. If you want an education in one visit come on up and see this "Paradise Regained" (Par don us Mr. Milton) made from a room no one wanted to live in. You are always welcome! Creative Writing (Continued from page 1) the various employees of both the Citizen and the Times. We saw them getting the news "hot off the wire" by means of the Associated Press and the United Press machines. One of the students commented on the fact that he didn't see why we studied so hard to become writers when we had machines that could do it for us. Bitz by a Bookwor\^^ William J. Clarke, Jr. ,n The Good Old Day Honor Rolls Posted (Continued from page 1) working toward a liberal arts degree and hopes to work in the field of Christian education. Melvin Webb of Bakersville, a pre-med student, has forty- eight quality credits. After visiting the radio sta tion and safely surviving the Morgue, we entered the adjoin ing building where the actual printing took place. We ob served each step in the mak ing of a newspaper. The most ■interesting spectacle was that of seeing the presses actually at work. Then we were taken into the room in which the newspapers were assorted and prepared for delivery. Each of us , received a copy. Thus ended this Utopian type of class. By Da-vid L. Cohn: David L. Cohn, a native Greenville, Mississippi, b^!“ written one of the most recJ^^' able books of modem sod history your reviewer has red^ barring none. Humanizing hi®' tory is an art pursued by too few historians. y! Mr. Cohn, in his book "TP^ Good Old Days", gives us broad view of what our 00, cestors from 1905 to 1935 h|^’ a need of and bought. He us|® as reference one of the m^® reliable sources of the inf^^ motion required—Sears, Ro, . ouck catalogue. In his preface to this bocJy Sinclair Lewis writes, "By yo'®* eyebrow pencils, your encydO pedias, and your alarm clodj; shall ye be known." This stctf“‘ ment expresses exactly tlj reason for the writing of th^^ Dook: to know exactly -wbv those cf the past five decad^^' were like and the type of ni®u. chandizing needed to satis^ their wants. In what other coJi^'^ prehensive volume would the^^ facts be recorded other than ' S a mail-order catalogue? As ' fraction less than half of population live on farms, d tj backbone of any civilization the mail-order catalogue ^ ^ probably the best availad ° index to the tastes and hab!* ° of something like forty-sevd per cent of our people. In a charming and engagid r manner "The Good Old Doy^ ^ tells us what books were red® what length buggy whips w®n| used, what color underclotb®* ^ (Coritinued on page 3)
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