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Page 2. THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. ^rhe Hilltop Plain Living and High Thinking" 1 ublis ed by t e .i>tudents of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina. . Entered as s^cona-ciass matter February 20, 1926, at the Post- office at Mars liill, Forth Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Issued s mi-mo t ly during t ’e college year. Subscri, tio.i Re. Year $1.00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS DISTRIBUTOR OF COLLEGIATE DIGEST STAFF Editor L. Russell Jordan Managing Editor John Chandler Business Manager J. p. Young FACULTY ADVISERS Rachel Templeton Ramon DeShazo Mildred Hardin CONTRIBUTORS Ed Parnell . Grace Westmoreland . Joe Drennan . Ruth Swann Maureen Bennett . Thelma Kidd . Anne Johns . Nena Barr . Marcus Gulley . Maurine Lovingood Advertising Manager Bill Williams Circulation Manager Jerry Laughlin Typists Ruby Hudson . Hajrwood Wheeler Volume XVII. November 28, 1942. Number 5. Come, Ye Thankful People, Come 99 Once again the season has changed and autumn has given statge to winter. Still, though a year has passed, the world re mains bloody. This Thanksgiving finds America once more plunged into a struggle for those freedoms which our fore fathers left their homes and loved ones to obtain, those which they came to the wild and unknown America to establish and guarantee for their children. We, their children, are now con tinuing their fight for the freedom to worship God in our own way, to speak what we wish, to protect ourselves from fear and wont. We still believe in those high ideals of our Pilgrim fathers, and we ore now fighting to keep them high. Possibly some of us are beginning to wonder just what we have to be thankful for this year. Even in this darkest of wars, we Americans can see silver streaks for which to go to God's hou£*e and give thanks. Though the present and future are still a little dim, we still have many blessings for which we should be thankful. First of all, we should be thankful that we are, Americans and that we live in "the land of the free." We should be thank ful for the food, warm clothes, and co2y homes that we hove, naturally, we are thankful for these, because daily we can read about people starving and freezing to death in Europe. We can thank our Maker that we are not under the rule of a gutteral- toned dictator. Even when American youths are facing the battlefield they can be thankful for their parents and friends, for their schools and churches, and for the chance to prove their willingness to fight for the American way of life, the only way of life in which they believe. The Thanksgiving of 1942 shall not fall lacking. We Ameri cans realize our blessings and we shall give thanks for them. Our Thanksgiving prayer shall be: "God, our Father, we thank ■thee for America and the American way of life, for the birds and the trees, for our youth on the battleffront, for our grain and our cattle, for our homes and our parents. Dear Lord, we thank thee for life itself and we pray for thy guidance through another yearl Amenl" —^L.R.J. Alumni News All of our former Nonpareils and Euthalions cannot be with us in person for anniversary to night, but we are inspired by the thought that hundreds of them are with us in spirit. We mention below a limited num ber of that host who will be with us in spirit: Dr. Zeno Wall, a former Eu- thalion, is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shelby. He also holds the distinction of having been president of the Baptist State Convention. Flossie Marshbonks is at present superintendent of pub lic instruction in Raleigh. Miss Marshbanks was an outstand ing Nonpareil while at Mors Hill. Library Notes This Question Of Drinking- As our war effort is accelerated and loose living becomes more prevalent along with this increased effort, right thinking people are more and more attacking the ills that come about through the drinking of alcoholic beverages. The question is becoming more pregnant daily, as more and more of the evils of alcoholic liquors are recognized. The liquor manufacturers and dealers have done a first-class job of fooling the American people. Their alluring, colorful ad vertisements, their boisterous presentation of misleading half- truths, and their pretended interest in good government hove inveigled many into looking upon drinking os merely an inno cent pleasure. But the increasing obviousness of the great harm involved in drinkirig has made many think again. Now increasing numbers ore raising protesting voices against the unrestricted sale and consumption of this poisonous deceiver, and some of those in position to influence its control ore beginning to lend attentive ears to these pleas. And yet,^ even many of those who hold responsible govern ment^ positions indulge freely in drinking and openly support the liquor manufacturers in their devilish contentions. 'There seems to be a lack among our government officials of that moral stamina which was so characteristic of our forbears. Who is there now in our army who has fought for the suppression of drinking and vice among our soldiers as did General John J, Pershing? He did not wait for public opinion to force him to bar liquor from his men. He did it from a profound conviction on his own part. And who in our present navy has strived so valiantly for prohibition among our sailors as did North Caro lina's own Josephus Daniels in the first World War? He fought and won his fight in spite of opposition frorn strong government Dr. Irma He^^derson, a r>hv?i- cian in Asheville, was graduat ed from Mars Hill in 1929. She was president of the society in 1929. Gerald W. Johnson, of Thomasville, was a former Euthalian. Since his graduation from Mars Hill in 1908, Mr. Johnson has been outstanding in the field of journalism. At oresent he is editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun. He is also the author of many out standing books. His Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat?" is re cognized as one of the best : biographies of Presiden Roosevelt to date. Dr. Cora Corpening Komegcry _ is now a successful physician I at Virginia Beach, Virginia. Dr. j Corpening holds the distinction of being the first girl to enrol, in the science department of the University of North Caro lina. Many former Euthalions are now serving in the various branches of our country's serv ice. Dr. Franklin Wilkins is now a lieutenant with the medical corps of the U. S. navy. He was graduated from Mars Hill in 1933, Wake Forest in 1935, and has received both his M. D. degree and his M. A. degree in surgery from Temple Uni versity Medical college, Phila delphia. Albert Corpening, a captain in the medical detachment at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, was graduated from Mars Hill in 1920. Charles B. Summey, of Dal las, N. C., has recently left Camp Sutton to take a post in the finance detachment at Crossville Internment camp, near Crossville, Tennessee. "Chile" entered Mars Hill in 1936 and was graduated in 1939 from three departments— liberal arts, pre-medical, and pre-law. He was anniversary president of the Euthalions. Pvt. Herbert L. Sebren, of Asheville, a former Euthalian and a teacher at Mars Hill since 1939, is now in the air corps at Chanute Field, Ran- toul, Illinois. He is taking his link training at the present. We lave news that he is preparing Civilian Defense of the United States, by Col. R. Ernest Du- puy, G.S.C., and Lt. Hodding Carter, F.A., is one of the best pictures of our civilian defense that has been printed in words The authors say that this is not only a war of the armies and the navies but also one of the combined forces of the United States—that means you, and me, and our neighbors. No one is to be given the leisure to sit beneath a stately oak and sip a julip. We, of the United States, ore calling for an act of offensive warfare. If you are one of these for on act of offensive warfare. If you are one of these callers —and we all are—you should be one of the first to read this book, for it tells us that to have to hove such warfare the home- front must learn to protect itself. It not only tells us what we have to do, but it tells us now to do it. Nonpareil^ "On the home-front," say the authors, "our part in the defensive warfare is to protect our homes, factories, and our vital 'nerve centers' from the many disruptions—whether by bombing, sabotage, or by enemy propaganda." It is stated very truthfully in this volume that we ore kick ing about the job the soldiers are doing and clamoring for a better job. After reading further It was 4:10 and a hu fallen over the hall filklc earnest, crwe4 Nonparelc golden sunlight sT through the almost mo'® curtains and playing the walls cast its gleeful^-^ across the polished blaou which stood as on emU^ dignity, simplicity, oni VC servatism to all who ^ upon its striking outlinet' power Icry in that gavs silent amid its gracioi 1 roundings! What fine acters had raised it three decisive, ringing - had called former meet Nonpareils emd Euthalis order! Amid the eager f those around me I could imagine seeing the L smiles of Georgia Chc Mccurine Coley, or Lynr^j weather. an article on "K. P." for this publication—^we shall look for ward to receiving it. Several comparatively recen. Euthalians enre now in our country's service. Ralph Jin- nette, of Goldsboro, is an office worker at Ft. lackson. Jack Lucke, of Badin, is an air cadet at Lakeland, Florida. William Duckworth, of Asheville, is a a corporal technician at Ft. Jackson. Robert Brissie, a Eu thalian of last year, is taking ^sic training at Camp Wallace, Texas. Some Euthalions have left us in recent weeks to take up arms. Eddie Hinson and Elliott Skipper" Shearon are both ground crew members of the air force at Fort Bragg. Elliott Donnells and William Helder- man have not yet been as signed to definite posts. Maurine Coley, emniversary ^resident of Nonpareil la^t year, is an outstanding member of the junior class at U.N.C. This fall she has been elected to membership in the U.N.C. chap- er of Sigma Tau Delta, nation al writing fraternity, and also ■;o the Ploymakers. Mary Nell Hardin, a senior at Coker college, recently played the leading role in the .all production of the Queen Bess Players. She has also been chosen as one of the Coker representatives for the 1943 edition of Who's Who among College and University Stu dents. An inner, ever-bubblf. sire almost made me ^ ^ proclaim to everyone th ^ derful glories of Nonpea''^ its ideals. Looking arc^^ could see that such a j'®^ overflowing from the every dear Nonpareil . me. Each gay smile thrill with the exciteme solemnity of the momen'®^ is this hidden, inexpr^^ something in Nonpars makes everyone long yo some great deed for otJal do everything possible ior Nonpareil on top and tad high above the very hsto No early words couldiei bly be expressive enene bring this hidden atmto to the light; for it vBt ormed by one Nonporeirec but by the combining cfe, of all the Nonpareils of bu and former times. No fe' w could form the outs'the nucleus of Nonpareil, fo: a nucleus herself to a replc outer world. rrll- The silence was bro'°' all stood to honor th^^ dent and desk officers ff' mounted the desk, thr© , silhouettes against the*^^ sunlight. The figure center moved forward, ng the gavel with her les gave three firm raps oiv i The regular meeting ^ Nonpareil Literary SocK^ please come to orderr glorious NONPAREIL! in the book we find thJ also truthfully stated tL must find ourselves dt :he home-front what w0 he boys to do on the ka ^ of battle. We must leaf! ® our jobs as the soldiei^ .earn to do theirs. , quarters. The entire responsibility for the drink evil rests finally on the American public—the voters of America. When the voters of our country have learned to give principle. precedence over party and politics, then we shall have gone a great distance in the defeat of liquor and its associated evils. As college students most of us are not as yet of voting age. But this fact does not relieve us of all responsibility. On our own campus there is on organization to combat alcoholic beverages namely, the Youth Temperance Council. This year the work this group has been expanded. Each of us is free to join the group and to throw our influence into the fight. 'Other colleges are also expressing interest in this type of work. We P®®® them to follow. Let us arouse the minds ot the people of our land to the danger of . this deadly poison, ioo much time has already been lost! J. W C This book should be ily ng to all students at M^ \ •Dut it will interest esfod hose who are planning ctn hat will deal with ^^Det effort and with leadert ig some of the many At in communities. It covers^© phase of national defenwc the little red school j the factories with theifi ^ stacks belching smoke- It is a book written Ihe men who are authoribh this subject, and thetiou given to the public on .ative, detailed, . and . Ptpre ihe-minute,, report of '-ea defense ^in the United St
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