January 15, 1938
QUEENS BLUES
Page 3
An Open Letter
To the Students of Queens:
It was my privilege last Sunday
night to hear a thrilling challenge
presented to the students of David
son by Dr. Frank W. Price of Nan
king Theological Seminary, Nanking,
China. It was a thought-provoking
address, timely in these days of “wars
and rumors of wars.” The gist of his
message was this:
“Japan is invading China. Japan
is carrying on the greatest territory-
snatching war that historj'^ has ever
recorded. Some say that America has
no part in this struggle. Why should
she allow her people to stay in China
courting war for themselves and for
us at home? China and Japan are
across the seas from us. Leave them
to fight their battles alone. America
must stay out of war!
But no, this is the view of the blind
pacifist seeing immediate peace and
nothing more. This is not a clear
eyed view of the situation. With
Japan and China at war, is it possible
for the rest of this close knit world
to stay at peace? And if it is pos
sible, is it the wisest thing? No!
America is giving aid, scrap iron, cot
ton, and food—to the Japanese con
tinually. She should also stay in
bleeding China, giving care to the
injured, giving new hope to the
frightened and broken families.
I have been accused of “mocking
pacifism” by expressing these senti
ments; me, a missionary laughing at
pacifism. That is not my purpose.
I am a pacifist but—I am in favor of
a new wide-eyed. Justice-seeking
pacifism, a pacifism which sees the
evil and strives for the remedy in
stead of merely closing its eyes and
muttering: “We must stay out of
war at any cost!”
Since its beginning, America has
been a pioneer nation. She has now
conquered all of her physical fron
tiers. But she must not stop at this.
There are spiritual frontiers where
America can be the leader, and chief
among these is the frontier of a
new type of international relation
ship. This frontier is one along which
statesmen and diplomats have been
groping for several years. The
League of Nations was a step in this
direction—a step which America
never accepted though it was pro
posed by one of her own presidents.
With the eager minds of the Ameri
can Youth focused upon this frontier
which is so sadly in need of develop
ment and upon the other frontiers
which present themselves daily, Amer
ica Could be truly called a pioneer
nation.
Young women of Queens (and here
I have paraphrased Dr. Price’s
Words) you can be the leaders in the
beginning of a world-wide movement
of this kind—and with God’s help,
you will succeed.
Depauw University’s
1-50 men students foot most of the
“date” bills, but despite those ex
pensive items, spend less in a year
than the 450 co-eds.
—Indiana Statesmen.
Found on freshman registration
card: Name of parents: Mamma and
Papa.
Patrick O’Shaughnessy Flynn, a
goat belonging to a sorority at the
University of Minnesota, is leaving
for his home in Grinnell, Iowa. It
isn’t because Patrick doesn’t like the
campus, but because his garage has
been rented to a car.
SORORITY ROW
Kappa Delta
Jane Wiley, entertained visitors at
her home in Charlotte during the
holidays.
Betty Purser visited friends in An
niston, Alabama, during Christmas.
Bonnie Cox was the guest of friends
in Marion during the holidays. While
there, she was the guest of honor at
a dinner party.
Martha Alexander visited Alice
Wright Murphy at her home in Salis
bury during the Christmas vacation.
Dot Muse was the guest of Helen
Douglas in Chesterfield, S. C., dur
ing the holidays.
Betsy Tingley was the holiday
guest of relatives and friends in
Fayetteville.
Alice Wright Murphy was oper
ated on for appendicitis at the Davis
Hospital in Statesville, Tuesday,
January 4.
Virginia Spoon spent the week-end
of J'anuary 9 in Greer, S. C., with
Frances Smith.
Olive Ci^oswell went to Atlanta
during the holidays for the Presby
terian Conference.
Dot Muse went to Statesville, Sat
urday, January 8, to see Alice Wright
Murphy, who is in the Statesville
hospital.
Mothers and fathers of the K. D.’s
were entertained at the K. D. house
at a feed. About 25 mothers and
fathers were present.
Alumnae of Kappa Delta attended
the Christmas feed on the night of
December 20. Presents for use
in the house were given. The pledges
presented the actives with a large
chair and matching footstool. Helen
Hatcher, pledge instructor, was given
a present by the pledges, and Jane
Wiley, president, was given one by
the entire active chapter.
Delegates Speak
What a joy it was to attend the
conference on World Missions in
Atlanta! As 1,400 young people
gathered from the various Southern
states, you should have heard the glad
cries of recognition of old conference
friends. It was a group of young
people united with one common pur
pose, that of Facing Our World To
day with the Living Christ, which is
our home and foreign mission and
home mission phase of the work for
young people of the church. A
thought from Dr. Elliott, pastor of
Druid Hill Presbyterian Church seems
to epitomize the whole conference—
“The missionary task is inevitable if
we have companionship with Christ.”
“Go ye therefore” is not a hint, a
cue or suggestion. It is a command.
It is our business to do the will of
God. Our earnest prayer should be
“Lord, what will thou have me to
do?”
And in the words of Mattie Bab
cock—^Dr. Sweets quotes — “We are
not here to play, to dream, to drift.
We have work to do.”
—Peggie Sloop.
To educate the church through
youth on world missions was the aim
of the youth convention in Atlanta.
Truly this aim was accomplished
through the 1400 young people who
attended the conference and who will
carry back to their churches and
schools the awakening knowledge of
missions gained at this meeting. Be
sides the great speakers, the fellow
ship with so many of the Christian
youth of our Southern states was
indeed a blessing.
—Mildred Lowraxce.
There are very few things that can
bring a group of nearly two thousand
young people together with such
eagerness and intentness of purpose
as was shown by tbe delegates at the
Atlanta conference. It was indeed
inspiring and challenging. North
Carolina had the largest number of
Chi Omega
Eleanor Alexander spent Sunday
in Gastonia, N. C.
Huldah McNinch is ill at her home
in Washington, D. C. She will not
return to Queens this semester.
Frances Stough spent the week-end
at her home in Cornelius.
Eleanor Robinson spent the week
end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Cook on Mecklenburg Avenue.
At the last feed before the Christ
mas holidays, gifts were exchanged,
and a lighted tree and other decora
tions were enjoyed.
Jean Ferguson has returned to
school after an extended absence. She
has been recuperating in Sanford
from injuries she received 'In,, two
automobile accidents before Christ
mas.
delegates at the conference and there
were more than a dozen girls from
Queens. The Atlanta people gra
ciously received us into their homes
and we made many friends while
there. However, it was the spirit
of the young people as they faced
the theme of the conference, *‘Our
Task—What Is It?” that made the
conference the success it was.
—ViHGiKiA Smith.
As a delegate from S.C.A. Cabinet
to the Presbyterian Youth Conven
tion on World Missions in Atlanta,
December 28-30, I can honestly say
that I have never experienced any
thing as wonderful and uplifting as
was this fellowship with Christian
youth of the South. The speakers,
chosen from the most outstanding
missionaries and ministers in America,
were truly inspired to give us the
best they had, and I feel certain that
each of the fourteen hundred young
people there returned home with an
increased feeling of responsibility
for both Foreign and Home Missions.
I only wish that every Queens-Chicora
student could have the privilege of
attending a meeting as large and as
vital to the nation as this one was.
I want to thank S.C.A. again for
this privilege and honor.
Sincerely,
—Lucille Gwaltxey.
The Supreme Egotist . . .
“I am not the happiest person in
the world, but I am next to the
happiest,” he murmured as he took
the sweet young thing into his arms.
—A quins.
Alpha Gamma Delta
Jo McDonald spent the Christmas
holidays in New York City. While
there she attended the Alpha Gamma
Delta Christmas party at Hunter
College, and was dinner guest of
Miss Louise Leonard, Grand Secre
tary of Alpha Gamma Delta. She
spent New Year’s day as the guest
of Kay and Virginia Duncan in
Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Mrs. Russel Wright, national in
spector of Alpha Gamma Delta will
arrive January 20 to spend three
days. Mrs. Wright is Dean of Wo
men at. the College of New York
City.
Among the sponsors at the Hamlet
Cotillion Club dances in Hamlet, De
cember 23, were Cornelia Truesdale,
Brooksie Folger, and Jessie Roee
Clark.
Cornelia Truesdale was the guest
of Virginia Cothran during the holi
days. While there she attended the
Citadel and Carolina dances.
Alice Timmons had Jane Davis as
her holiday guest at the home of her
parents in Florence, S. C.
During the holidays Edythe Brooks
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. G.
Stowe at their home in Belmont.
Annie Carr Powers spent Christ
mas in the home of Mrs. J. W. Baney
in Wallace.
Jebbie Clark spent New Year’s day
in Sanford as the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. McNair.
Brooksie Folger spent a few days
in Hamlet with Jebbie Clark, and
then went to Atlanta, Ga., for the
remainder of the holidays.
Alpha Delta Theta
During the Christmas holidays Sara
DuRant went to her home in New
ton, Iowa, for the first time this
year. Lib Porter visited Miriam
Teale for a few days. Frances Poole
was late in returning from the holi
days and had to spend a few days
in the infirmary on her return on
account of flu. We regret that Mar
jorie Poole was called to the home
of her grandparents in Union, S. C.,
this week due to the death of her
grandfather. Frances Ehrhardt went
home for the week-end last week.
Nearly everyone was present at the
feed Sunday night, including a few
of the alumni.
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From The Tower
By JAMES HODGES
“Re-reading Thomas Wolfe’s “Of
Time And The River” has made me
realize a great deal more the great
ness of the author. The fastidiously
squeamish may find fault with his
language but I cannot linger over
certain passages without having a
sob petal of flower of pain in my
throat and feel a spear-stinging ache
plunge through my heart. The hero,
Eugene Gant, possessed no penny’s
worth of feeling but all the coinage
of emotion’s mighty mint was stored
in his breast. “For what are we, my
brothers? We are a phantom flare
of grieved desire, the ghostling and
Phosphoric flicker of immortal time,
a brevity of days haunted by the
eternity of the earth. We are an un
speakable utterance, an insatiable
hunger, an unquenchable thirst. We
are a twist of passion, a moment’s
flame of love and ecstasy, a sinew
of bright blood and agony, a lost
cry, a music of pain and joy, a
haunting of brief, sharp hours, an
almost captured beauty, a demon’s
whisper of unbodied memory.” Who
can throb to the great thrill of life
like that? Not many of us.
Why forego suffering? The curse
of pain that God laid upon the backs
of the first parents can be a blessing.
Could Beethoven have wrought those
immortal melodies if he had been a
happy and contented man? Could a
man not possessing a tinge of mad
ness in his mind produce those mas
terpieces of morbidity that Poe did?
Could a “Cheer up! Be not glum,
boy!” type of fellow have shaped
that hunched and brooding statue
that the artistic world acclaims to
day as The Thinker? Could Pasteur
have been as beneficial to the med-
cine world if he had been a fireside
and pipe-loving old gentleman? No,
I tbink not, for without suffering
these men could have conceived noth
ing worthwhile. Pain is the first big
step in creative progress.
Man may be infinite in faculty and
much like a good but still there is
something admirable in animals.
Robinson Jeffers is not altogether
wrong. jWho has not gasped at the
beauty of the curved and lovely lines
of the Russian wolf hound? Who
has not marvelled at the dams and
canals constructed by beavers who
seemed to possess an almost human
knowledge of engineering’s intricate
problems. Can animals utter knife
like and unkind words? Do they
place two of their kind in a ring to
beat and pummel each other until
each wears “an unappetizing mask
of red gore?” Do they bend over test
tubes to concoct such weird blend
of hellish poisons, such liquids that
only the saints of Lucifer could brew
in order that they might scorn a
heritage of being a brother’s keeper?
At times, when I think of the in
grained meanness of man I want to
ascend, like Jeffers, my rock tower,
and watch, with applauding heart, the
aloof and splendid flight of hawks
and eagles.
—Toxoer Times.
A doctor in San Francisco has
been sued for the cost of his educa
tion by his parents who put things
on a business basis when he attained
manhood, mortgaged the home to
keep him in school, and kept strict
account of every cent they spent
on him.
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