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THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C.
Vanishing Benches
Favorite Mirage
‘Bell For Adano’
Too Realistic
Down in a little Georgia town called Easta-
nolle, a 30-year-old English teacher has been
fired for assigning his eighth grade students John
Hersey's "A Bell For Adano" as parallel read
ing.
The news item impressed us because one of
our children had been reading the some book
recently — and she's on eighth grader too. How
strange that a book so full of the moral lessons
most Americans should want their children to
learn should cause such consternation because
it also includes realistic World War II soldier
language.
John Hersey's novel concerns attempts by
American occupation forces to teach a small
Italian town called Adano about democracy. It
highlights, realistically for sure, some of the
same problems Americans run into all over the
world. But to call it obscene or objectionable
for eighth graders is almost laughable. If any
thing its theme is uniquely noble for our day.
It is about good and evil in government, and
for our money it introduces junior high school
students to these problems very well.
There are plenty of sorry, sordid books on the
market these days. Fully one-half published ore
a disgrace to the book industry. But we never
thought we would live to see the day when "A
Bell For Adano" merited even eighth grade cen
sorship. What farces ore perpetrated in its name.
—Greensboro Doily News
Job Well Done
Mors Hillions and especially the BSU coun
cil are to be congratulated for their efforts in
planning for and helping carry out the state
wide BSU leadership conference on our campus
last week. Associate State Secretary Boyce
Medlin expressed the consensus of the visitors,
"Being on a campus added much to the meeting
that we cannot get when we meet in a church
. . . some distance from a campus."
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
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Box 486-T. Mors Hill. N. C.
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Hill, N. C. Published 16 times dur
ing the college year.
PRESS
Volume XXXVn April 27. 19G3 Number 13
STAFF
Editorial Page Sally Osborne
Features Page Marietta Atkins
Sports Page Tom Halyburton
Contributors Walt Whittaker, Lewellyn Lovell
Advertising Manager Pat Miller
Proofreader Gerald Murdock
Distribution Ken Huneycutt, John Smith
Advisor Walter Smith
9orf Oh,Gort...l've an idea I'd
like to tell you about...
Greetings, ...tho' I don't think ^
Zeas. yoaVe gonna like it:
Speak?
Well.it's this: rather than the
hapnazard Zeus-worshlp we
now have,I'd like to see the
Religious meet more regularly
-and in specified places...
Well, the benches core gone again. They seem
to hove a mysterious way of appearing once a
year and then vanishing. 'Tis passing strange.
This has given rise to some unsightly scenes
aroimd the campus. Students hove actually
been seen lying on the lawns.
Now we hove nothing against benches. In
fact we kind of like them. They have a definite,
practical use, and we feel they should be
utilized.
Far be it from us to advocate a boycott —
how do you boycott for better benches? Besides,
such tactics ore more effective in trying to cor
rect problems nearer to our digestive tract. But
the springtime is a worm time and heat makes
people tired and tired people need somewhere
to rest. The benches offer an efficient and re
laxing solution. It sure would be nice if those
benches would pop up again.
—WNW
..Build Houses of Worship yjhat gave you
wherein those so inclmed notion I'd
could hold,oh,say wekty
prayer sessions... and disapprove?.,
hca*' My Word preached. I think it's a
aou DO ?
splendid
suggestion?
yes! 1 heartily approve
of regular meetings oP
the Religious? It will
keep them,Por an hour or
so each week, out oP
mischieP?
M,6. Blunkle, Mutterings of
(in which m.g. answers the student
poets with some masterpieces of his own)
When it comes to sinking ships
The call goes to the sailor
But who can sink a man
As quick as Elizabeth Taylor?
We’d all be Jewish.
(borrowed)
The Russians say we’re capita
lists ;
That Americans all eat pheasants.
But that’s not so for as we know
After taxes we’re all peasants.
We volunteer to fight
We volunteer to grapple
But heaven knows we don’t
Volunteer for chapel.
A poor boarder said
I know this is lent
Would you mind if I sacrificed
Paying my rent?
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it wasn’t for Christmas
He Smokes
In the office, in the parlor.
On the sidewalk, on the street.
In the face of the passers.
In the eyes of those he meets,
In the vestibule, the depot,
At the theatre or ball,
Ev’n at funerals and weddings.
And at Christmas time and all.
Signs may threaten, men may
warn him.
Babies cry and women coax;
But he caries not one iota;
For he calmly smokes and
smokes.
Oh, he cares not whom he
strangles.
Vexes, puts to flight, provokes.
And although they squirm and
fidget.
He just smokes and smokes and
smokes.
Not a place is sacred to him;
Churchyards, where the flowers
bloom.
Gardens, dives, in fact the world
is
Just one mighty smoking room.
And when once he quits this
mundane
Sphere, and takes his onward
flight
From the world he made a
hades—
Day he’s turned to murky
night;
When he’s reached his destina
tion.
Finds ’tis not a dream or hoax.
And the Judge deals out his sen
tence.
Then, I’ll wager that he smokes.
Oh, He’ll care then whom he has
vexed.
And their mercy he’ll invoke.
And although he squirms and
fidgets.
They’ll just let him smoke and
smoke.
—Purity Crusader
My poet’s mind is sober
And sober it is glib
Where would we be now
If man had kept his rib?
Don’t blame it on the devil
Or on the atheist;
Be a Good American
And blame it on the Communist.
Little Mars Hilla played on a
lyre
Using coal and wood for his fire.
But wood and coal did he stop
When he found a better use for
his Hilltop
If you ever should wish to sing
Or seek a dash of piety
Run to the nearest science build
ing
And join a school society.
We’re the mostest
We’re the bestest
But we won’t get off
Like Billie Sol Estes.
(all donations to the blunkle
poet’s aid society are welcome)
JleiienA.. . .
TO: Mr. Walton Whittaker
Hilltop Staff
Mr. Whittaker,
We of the Philomathian Liter
ary Society beg you to get the
facts! I have no quarrels with
your columns, squibs or whatnots,
but in the latest edition of the
Hilltop I noted that A Cry of
Freedom, written by Mr. John W.
Morrow, an ardent Philomathian,
was given as the Euthalian Liter
ary Society’s Anniversary play.
You can’t be serious! Please
speak to Mr. Blunkle about this
egregious blunkle and check the
records!
Very astoundedly yours,
Arlis Suttles
Communism Ontt HmHI
faHt
I think that I shall never see
A college as white as Mississippi.
Double your pleasure
Double your fun
Cut two classes
Instead of just one.
Listen my children and you shall
hear
Of all the things you can’t do
here.
The following editorial was writti
Student Directorate in Miami and
their newspaper. The Cuban Repo>'
editorial has been changed.
^L (1955-56) was
When the Cuban Communist inatic events in the
to crush and trample the rights lill. Some of those
the Cuban people, betraying ifeing . . . Thomas
noble, and just desires, and delwas heard in Edna
ereignty into foreign hands, the 1. . on records play-
still being fought, began. We hferus by his sister,
gle, in which the generous sacrifit Wheaton of Ashe-
of our countrymen have been at. Worth Daniels ...
ent, would bring to our ossistanc Raleigh News and
of this hemisphere, and especici former administra-
Stertes of America, whose closen«to FDR . . . ad-
and democratic principles, madet honor club meet-
Never did we ask any country,Ts own voice was
States, that foreign soldiers shoty on radio as far
beaches, or fields, defending ou(WNCA) and J. A.
meet death, ready to go into com! book. From These
dom, Cubans were enough. ’ut a further mes-
We asked then, and we ask
we consider that by defending Ctery Forge donated
we ore preserving the hemispherfdecorative pieces to
and effective support of the Unijicated library. “Let
the Latin American coimtries, wb^ht,’’ a pageant on
order to fight those who doily red MHC held forth in
military support from the So-vietaphitheatre with an
The answer has always beei^* of 300 to 400.
Cubans unassisted. To betray ‘ otherwise un-
leave unfulfilled the pledges. In'^ateers production
xmderground forces, which riskeJ’ actor won an
order to obtain justice for their character role in
always fighting unarmed. The'^^ Staunton, Va.,
port never come to our shores. ®*ock . . . Charles
And so, Alberto Muller who or^*'. of his role
of Freedom Fighters in the " p i Wilde’s
formed by students and peasants ® “ anta.
the Communist tyranny, never 1945-46) also mark-
much-needed military equipment^gs on a sedate old
who landed at the Boy of Pigs d Ministerial Confer-
disappointment, how the free -v^the fall to stop eve-
back on them, and left them unS until early spring
fenseless in Communist hands. too many re-
Always the guilty forlomness. i^utions. A minister-
was the answer to our efforts, to leaked up to Miss
sacrifice and the unconquered I’ ^ke English de-
Cuban people. But we thought, 1^ ^ Christmas party
could not expect support, our dU*^' Moore retired
tyrs and those imprisoned, was
struggle. We thought that we ®AL OP SPRINK-
mitted to continue fighting. Thdl^uderstorm of indig-
we be refused the right to die for ‘r House Girls” (pro-
We never thought that any by Miss Caroline
world would dare prohibit us fr^ women) down
reconquest the right to create cc 1 lawyer to get the
cording to the principles of our rr'' a surprisingly
earnest desire of our people. But^ one of the most
been a disappointing truth to our audacious practical
United States, instead of supp^*°” campus that, or
plouding the actions undertak«*^’^-
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fight and in that way guaranteed'
the Cuban Communist regime.
Never could we imagine that tb*
would order a general mobilizob*
defend the Cuban Communist ^
any attack from those who figb'
What a contrast with the suppd
given to its Cuban satellite, restf*
against it, providing it with
equipment financial aid, and
support
But we Cubans have outlined d f
imposed upon us a task. A hetf^-—
hazardous task; but it is the
take us to freedom. We are all ^
take it. No one, no nation in
will be able to restrain us from ^ ^ Your Mother's ]
necessary actions to obtain the l>^md Don't Fr.rr,»4 i -p i
fatherland. We Cubans claim tb« Tok
and with our sacrifice, win bd^'^Peciol
AND WE DEMAND THE WORLP
OUR RIGHT, because we ore fr®!
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ore sovereign and because we
principles; because we fight fh^GORSAGES
livers our sovereignty and heA ^
puppet. And we ore not ready '“i
ereignty lessened or deteriorated'
totors, nor by any country in the at
by the United States, because
puppets. We wont to see our
the flagposts of the crafts that ffjARS HI LI.
against the Communist tyranny ’ ^ ^
slaved our nation; so we see it
ereign too, in the flagpoles of
we hove reconquested our fre®^