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Page Two. THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. CThe Hilllop ‘Plain Living and High Thinking’ Published by the Students of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina. 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. Subscription Rate Year $1.00 . Issue 5c MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS DISTRIBUTOR OF COLLEGIATE DIGEST THE HILLTOPPERS Editor-in-Chief John Foster West Managing Editor William R. Gabbert Associate Editors Maureen Bennett . Robbie Gold Stockton FACULTY ADVISORS Mildred Hardin Ramon DeShazo Eleanor B. Church Rachel Templeton CONTRIBUTORS Audrey V. Mundorf Mary Lillian Culpepper . Betty Lee Spainhour Jean Combs . Raymond Glenn . Marcus Gulley . Nancy Dover . Mary Frances Finch . Rebecca Horton Business Manager Bill Byrd Circulation Managers Jack Greene and Winfred Thompson Advertising Manager Kenneth E. Davis Volume XVI. November 22, 1941. Number 5. Lest We Forget- Youth today is rushing pell-mell towards we know not what. Iri seeking peace and happiness, we try everything that comes along; and in the end we have nothing but shadows, frag ments of reality, and illusions. We, the youth of today, ore the rulers of tomorrow. We must find ourselves truth and enduring reality. Without these our tomorrow will be but an empty dream, a hollow mockery of life, even as we find it today. In colleges over the country we are preparing ourselves for the time when we shajl take our place as the world's leaders. We study the history of the past, and we marvel at the crude civilization in which our forefathers existed. We ore amazed at the slow transportation and communication facilities that those of bygone years had to contend with. We pride our selves that we are living in an age of enlightenment, luxury, and ease, that we have reached the peak of civilization. Yet we forget the sacrifies that were made; the sweat and tears that were shed; the lives that were lost that we might live in lazy contentment, taking for granted that which was paid for in blood. We read with horror of the morality of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and we turn away in disgust at the lives of the rulers of old France and England. We swell with egotisrri at our high level of moral life, our philanthropical enterprises, and our magnificent religious institutions. Yet, as we prepare to control tomorrow, we should keep in mind that in spite of our knowledge, genius, accomplishments, and improvements, we are even today but imperfect humari beings with frailties, weaknesses, and sins, as were our fore fathers. W^e must profit by their errors; push toward greater achievements, using their accomplishments as the foundations for our endeavors; and ever strive, as did many of them, to walk in the upright way. Let us not be so wrapped up in our learning and puffed up at our achievements that we cannot remember our indebtedness to others. "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we forget; lest we forget." —H.L.A. Thanksgiving In America- Thonksgiving should be significant in the heart of every American today. We could have no more enviable heritage than that of being bom American citizens. For this we should be grateful. When our forefathers proclaimed a day to be set aside for Thanksgiving, they meant it to be a day on which thanks should be expressed to God for a prosperous year and for sufficient food. That was the sole purpose of the first Thanks giving. As we approach the Thanksgiving season today, however, we think of many things besides food for which to thank God. We "count our blessings" in the very broadest sense of the phrase. We thank God that we live in a free and united coun try. We thank Him for the fact that the doors of churches all over our country are wide open and that there are people yet who believe there is warmth and comfort within those doors. We would apply the same expression of gratitude for the little red schoolhouses scattered over the country and the Christian colleges and universities. We know that they do not stand for the purpose or intention of undermining our liberal beliefs, but they encourage the things that are noble and teach youth to stand on its own feet and demand its own terms. Someone has suggested that we give thanks for houses lived in and loved, for the silent ties between brother and sis ter, for work to be done and the strength to do it." What thanks would you offer? B.L.S. ts:.. Pepper & Salt By Williamson Divided against ourselves by the turbulent calls of duties and diversions, work, and health, we find in college life little time to loaf and invite the soul, as Whitman would say. We cannot find peace in the eddying backwaters of the hermit's cell. We do not want the apathetic stagnation which is the result of sneering at life. Peace for us must be the peace of a perfectly balanced motor purring contentedly in its case; it must be a dynamic balance between the forces which pull us back and forth. SILENCE What is silence but The laziness of agile muscles That have swung the pitch fork's rhythm, The peace of a red-oak leaf, The stillness of d fallen boulder Growing moss in the valley? N. F. FROM QUIET REPOSE The surge of the waves And the roar of the billows Reaohed by ears. Mangled were they with the screams As of one perishing. I clenched in terrible memories Of my youth, And Saturday baths. K. E. D. Recent Best Sellers Now In Library The Library has purchased a number of the recent best sellers" to provide the students of Mars Hill college with in- eresting and diverting read ing. The books are as follows: Strictly Personal by W. Somerset Maugham, which re lates the activities of one indi vidual—the author—during the first fifteen months of the war; Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer, foreign correspondent, which brings us the first un censored book about the pre sent world war; Watch On the Rhine by Lillian Heilman, one of Broadway's current hits; You Can't Do Business with Hitler by Douglas Miller, which tells of what a Nazi victory would mean to every Ameri can; The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin, America's best selling novel of the week and one that thousands of readers will never forget, especially because of the character. Father Francis Chisholm; An Island Patchwork by Eleanor Early, a charmingly illustrated book on Nantuoket; Practical Flying in War and Peace, by Albert H. Munday, a practical up-to-the - minute volume on aeronautics. Alumni Notes By Winfred Thompson This job is a crip sure 'nuff. All I have to do is just glean the pages for the doings and sayings of our alumni. Every body knows that wherever our alumni go, they rate pages of glowing description and flow ing terms, which descriptions of worthy deeds and flowing terms are promptly incorporat ed, credit conceded. F'rinstance there's Bruce Brown, Mars Hillion who trans ferred to Wake Forest (ever heard of it before?) and straightway made himself famous. During the past Legis lative Assembly, Bruce was elected Speaker of the House and thereafter presided over that assembly for the week. When he was here Bruce was Philomcrthian Anniversary de bater, commencement debater both years, B.T.U. director, and commencement president of the Philomathian Society. Then Mr. Huff taught him to make himself heard; so 'tis no wonder Wake likes him. And Mors Hill helped to make on author too. Well maybe, old Black and Gold did break the story first, but any- (Continued on Page 4) Ex Libris Montague By Jamet S. Dendy Berlin Diary In modern education a great deal of emphasis is placed upon making people aware of the many things which ore going on about them in the world. Perhaps never before hove people in all ports of the world been so aware of happenings as they are today. This awareness has been brought about by the radio, the newspaper, and the lecture hall. But it is of the utmost importance, especially at this time when people wont to be fooled and wont to be propa gandized, that our main sources of information be reliable and, inasmuch as is possible (for it can never be altogether), free from prejudice. When one begins to read a book review from one of the better book publications, such as The New York Times Book Review, in which such adjec tives as superb, best of the year, incomparable, informa tive, thrilling, and the like ore used, he may take special notice. Present-day book re viewers are decidedly critical and are not given to the use of unnecessary adjectives. Therefore, when your reviewer (Continued on Page 4) Brazil Is Not Alom We heard Brother Alle speak to us in chapel aboi our fine South America friends who devoted their tin and their energies to the Fof er's work; but have we pause to observe those with who: we associate who hove dec cated their lives with just c much zeal to His holy causs There are those among tl membership of the Ministeri Conference who are unselfish ministering to the people in tl vicinity of Mars Hill and those at a few quite dista points. Let us take notice ' their activities. At 10:30 each Sunday moi ing, Luther Copeland, one one fine C-II students, joume’ to Linville Falls to take chare of the Sunday School cmd wc ship service of the Linvil Falls Community Church. Li ville Falls is 50 miles fro ] Mors Hill, cmd Mr. Copelai j would be hard-pressed f ] transportation if it were n j for Mr. John Hodge, emoth ; consecrated student, w h t drives to Crossnore each Su ( day morning to preach oi i then goes on to White Pii 1 Church to help in the Sundc f School work of the aftemoo \ These churches are 53 mil (Continued on Page 6) f -*-> g Chapel Gems ii Mr. J. B. Hipps, a return* missionary from China, spo! in chapel on Monday, Nov. He gave interesting infonS tion concerning the Universi of Shanghai, with which 1 has had responsible conn^ tions since its early years. I spoke of the fortitude of l' Chinese students in the fo of the present conflict. The Volunteer Band was charge of the program I Tuesday, Nov. 9, with LuC Lawton, president, in chart and Carolyn Wilburn, Het Flint and Bill Farrar taki port. Warren Reddick cJ Frances Elam were presen* in on excellent musical P gram on Nov. 10, A full harvest of thou0^ was reaped from Mr. I Shazo's delightful talk I' week on "Words." In lead! up to his text he spoke on ^ different interpretation words. On B.S.U. Day this w* Ralph Rogers gave a unk testimonial and chalk talk. In on old Mars Hill traditl the pilgrim procession, P sisting of the B.S.U. Con* and members of the 3 Club, awakened the stud^ with Thanksgiving "caroli^ early Thursday morning. The council also took f in the chapel program, ^ the youngest pilgrims, HarP Brown and Spencer King,. making us especially ^ scious of Thanksgiving. As a special Thanksgi'f treat the Marshall Men's 0 gave several selections wl* were enjoyed very much. Preview of chapel highli' for next two weeks: Monday and Tuesday: ^ John Lawrence, State B.> Secretary. Thursday: Mr. A d * Clhildres, Pastor of the * Baptist Church of Marshall' D 'DuixiGH ’JFI •f' ! 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