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Page 2 THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. CThe Hilltop “Plain Living and High Thinking' A. C. P.'b Coiresjjondent Reports from Washington Published by the Students of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina. "Army Specialized Training Program" Colleges interested in getting ''contracts'' to train soldiers for technical duties are advised by the American Council of Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the Post- Education to take a thorough-going inventory of their physical office at Mars HUl North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. so-called "Army Specialized Training Pro- Issued semi-monthly during the college year. k / • j f • \ i.. ' gram is announced, that information may come m handy. Subscription Rate Year $1.00 Among other things, the government may want to know how many additional students could be housed on or near the MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS I campus, how many more than this number could be housed DISTRIBUTOR OF COLLEGIATE DIGEST | college's physically fit young men were STAFF I drafted, etc. L. Russell Jordan! It is under the "Army Specialized Training Program" that Managing Editor John Chandler a selected group of 18-19 year old draftees (and perhaps sol- Business Manager — J- P* Young | diers in other categories as well) will be sent to college for technical training. Details of the plan, long awaited by edu- FACULTY ADVISERS Rachel Templeton Ramon DeSbazo Mildred Hardin CONTRIBUTORS Wayne Richardson . Robbie Gold Stockton . Maureen Bennett Maureen Lovingood . Thelma Kidd . Rebecca Horton Virginia McCleney . Lucille Jenkins cators in Washington and elsewhere, ore still a secret among members of the Joint Army-Navy Personnel Board, charged with the responsibility of drawing up the plan. Food, Fiber & Colleges Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard has made it clear that we cannot possibly produce more food and fiber next Let’s Swap By Say What?j • ♦ I And now I sit me write. But not as much as * might. 3y This office being, 1 night, ‘““I Economizing on onthra —The Diamondj’ n 1 * ★ * ^ * 14 ir Dofiynitions ^ulk A Dead Atheist: SomelDioni dressed up and no bf , fit . Goblet: A sailor's chilo^^^j^gl Rigid Economy: A c, Scotchman. Hug: A roundabout ’ Eq| showing one's affecti -v^hif Mercy: What a Freyg@4 says when he [©s "Tanks, bud." iners Barn Dancing: CoiWilli) jittin'. 3. LiJ 'poir Bill Williams United Nations can use, even if America's 6 Advertising Laughiin I million farmers meet the record goals they are now setting S^rts^^Editor^V.r.t’.r. - Ed Parnell I themselves for next season. Typists - Huby Hudson and Haywood Wheeler Volume XVII. January 16, 1943. Going To Sunday School? Besides food demands of gigantic proportions, we face the necessity of building stockpiles for post-war feeding of ill- Number . | nourished Europeans and hunger-worn Asiatics. If these peo ples hear our promises of Freedom from Wont, they probably envision a global war against starvation. That vision must develop into something more than a mirage. No wartime job takes priority over food production. Womonpower One of three of the nation's largest aeronautical firms is at (Ed. Note: The follov/Q_ er was received from student of Mars Hill.) "Why weren't you at Sunday school?" This question seems to be sweeping the campus, after a heated discussion in chapel Tuesday morning. It seems that the majority of i , , , n boys demand a few reforms before they begin attending work on a womanpower plan what makes good sense. By Sunday school regularly. ''“y American Council of Education the firni sent questionnaires to college deans of women to discover whether The B.S.U. of our campus seem to have a huge problem co-eds would be interested in continuing their education for on their hands. But they need not worry as they'll never be a year as "engineering cadettes" on the company payroll— able to please everyone. But we, the majority of the students, then take a regular job with the firm, would like a few reasonable changes made. Altogether, the firm wants 1,000 women. They must have had two years of college, including some mathematics. Now First, please impress it upon the teachers not to preach, but company is getting in direct touch with the colleges, to teach us the lesson; or, better still, to give the class a pcnrt Notes On Nylons in the lesson. We believe this will make a program within f^©r© qj-© a few things co-eds might remember if they aren't our scope. already aware of them: Second, have a joint general assembly of boys and girls. '^eable stockings" include silk, nylon, mixtures of silk At our home churches we hove grown accustomed to this, and rayon, silk and nylon, nylon and rayon silk and cotton. The majority of us do not think it desirable to hove boys and and nylon and cotton Don t contribute other silk or nylon girls in the same Sunday school classes, but we would like | aamente^^. Do^y^expectjo^be for your contributions to have a joint assembly. it's strictly a proposition for patriots. . . . Hosiery collection depots ore set up at hosiery counters in retail stores Third, we think that the college administration should en-1 Stores will continue to sell the few new stocks of silk and dorse boys and girls attending church together. What more nylon hose that are left . . . And on the final point, Capital to could a parent wish to know than that on Sunday his son or Campus is cautious enough to quote the government: "Be daughter is at church. Naturally, some prefer not to date for | sure all salvaged hose are washed." —A.C.P. church, but some do and we think that we re being reason able in asking for this privilege. We go to classes together, we eat together, we go to entertainments together—so we see no reason why we can't attend church together. We realize that there are other minor changes being sug RAMBLING WITH ROBBIE I don't core to hear any more about . . . that White Christ mas I was dreaming of ... oh well, maybe next year . . . how gested; but we, the majority of the students, do not ask for j managed to miss my bus during the holidays . . . these. We understand that the boys will be given a chcmce nickname " " . . . those New Year's reso- in the near future to vote on the question of general assembly, j have already broken . We, the students, appreciate this privilege and we realize | that the granting of other privileges depends upon our taking Santa was this past year . . . certain exam material _l 1 i 1 I ITT r I ^ I how seriously this new privilege and responsibility. To Those Leaving For Service- the So- Mars Hill boys now in Bervice I con hardly wait until . . . exams ARE OVER ciety teas . . . I've learned my contest reading . . TT V, u f xu U • UrrTd Hill I Fd like to learn how to . . . cook, sew, and do all the things " kill ™Uirls should be able to do . . . "shoot bull" . . ., I don't like . . . snow balls filled with rocks . . . high heelec. shoes ... to think what my parents ore going to say when they get my semester grades . . . the sound of a clock tick ing will leave for military service. Besides the reserves who are being called for duty, there are others who are being called by their local selective service boards. Many others ore in doubt as to when they will be called. Mars Hill men hove always been outstanding wherever But I love . . . seeing everyone again ... all the new clothes they have gone. They distinguish themselves as students in Santa dished out . . . the new "hair do's" -that appearec, other schools, as teachers, lawyers, preachers, doctors, and during the holidays . . . hearing about all the new love as successful citizens in numerous other fields. The same affairs . . . qualities which make for success in any field also enter into I don't see how we would live without . . . the bulletin boarc, the making of a good soldier, sailor, or aviator. Such men and showcases . . . society spirit . . . those midnight feasts as those who are leaving Mars Hill for the armed services ... bull sessions until . . . are needed there, not only because of their mental and physi- Nothing, for me, will ever replace . . . the "D" list . . . study cal ability, but for the good moral and spiritual influence they hour . . . summertime . . . I'm reduced to flooding tears by some of our boys my high school days . the day before con spread in their contacts with other men. The going of these boys will leave a big gap in our student I ' body, both in the enrollment of the school and in the loss Py^'^ of their ability. Many organizations on the campus ore being , affected by their leaving. The HUltop is being hard hit by J^en ^ beheved rn Santa Claus losing several of its most faithful workers. Nothing bores me more than . . . studious people . . . people We shall soon bid farewell to these boys.who are leaving, who complain about everything . . . people who worry We make only one request of them: End it soon so that the dumb answers on exam papers (all right, so I do not know you con get back to school. —J.W.C. j all the answers) -The Lenoir Rl^^^ ill ndividual: One p i people. ns .. —The AppalaC (See LET'S SWAP—Fades 4 - .. ^ ► WAR DEPARTME^ New Orleans, Lci 3on - Dec. 12, Student Body and Editors of HiUtop, vlars Hill, N. C. Ha^ C.: H Jam, Smit Gentlemen: I have just received I Tf\ vember 28th copy of the and wish to send you fophy gratulations' for gettiils iu: such an attractive sheedUI'?©: ormation to former It is certainly a pape®! all of us should be pro^o^^ ^ As a loyal member^sl P old Eu Society before you kiddies were borni great pleasure in see^doi the society is still op^ doing business. It is o school worth fighti 1 and all of the societide Sp including the Nons an^r of make life well worth i's H for. We look back wiilief h pleasure to the days vkmd were active members standing in the good ‘ mori ciety. Noni Kindest regards to trible: Mrs. Moore. * e. 1 and Sincerely, j cab Reuben L. t*wher Major, C. E.but c Area Engine'e U 'la. h ^ Just A Thou^\^YiQ^ And so, my friend, if to fuss and fight, Go ahead ... It's your’^®sid But if I could make of^ ment, if I could m^^ -H® plea, '. It would be: God save In 1 ca, not me. ^ If I could make oii^I d tribution to quell this^s ori flame, Cl In the Book of Peace, Hown, America, not my nailHe i There will be some wMlity "He wants to be a her^r of c No, Lord, I love Amerihdinc Even dearly so. , an^ So go on; quibble, Mt p fight. fou c I love liberty: I'll H-se c what's right. JNDI —Elliott H. Don
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