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Pafe 4 HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD. AHOSKIE. N. C. Friday. October 30. 1925. The Chowanian pany her new relationship and oc cupations. A college newspaper published fortnightly by the students of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C. Subscription $1.00 a year Entered as second class matter January 17. 1924 at the Post Of fice at Murfreesboro, North Caro Una, under Act of March 3, 1879 STAFF MARGARET AMAN Editor-in-Chief BUSINESS STAFF BERYL SOUTER Business Manager THELMA DRAPER Advertising Manager FLORA MAE HOOD Circulation Manager ARLES ISENHOWER Assistant Circulation Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS EDNA M. HEDGEPETH Intercollegiate Editor WILLIE BLOUNT Departmental Editor LOUISE McDANIEL Religious Editor MARY RAYNOR Sports Editor ELSIE G. SEWELL Local Editor INEZ MATTHEWS Alumnae Editor DOROTHY LONG Joke Editor HAZEL GRIFFIN Social Editor “Suggestion is the tapping of hidden springs,” says a certain instructor at Chowan. By sugges tion we control our likes and dis likes; we build character, and form new habits. We lay aside the things that are hurtful to the up building of a strong and noble per sonality; ori on the other hand, ■^we take un Jo ourselves the traits or habits (iat will tear down a fine charac/er. The mind works though slfTgestion; the body is mind. A child may be told not to do a certain act, and the mere suggestion will bring the possi bility of doing this act to the mind; and hence, the doing of the forbidden thing. NEW CONDITIONS ARE FACING WOMEN Is the lady a vanishing type? This was a question raised by Dr. Liddell in a chapel talk recently. The passing of the type of old fashioned womanhood so much ad mired is an apprehension that is justified, in view of the changed position that woman is rapidly coming into. The opportunities that have been opened to her for education and careers in business, professions, and politics bear with them added responsibili!ty, Dr. Liddell stated. “The greatest thing to be thankful for today is to be born a woman,” she con tinued. “There is no question that now men must take a second place.” With apology for seeming to project an opinion that men are on the downward row, while women are stepping up to take the upper hand, she further as serted that the above is true be cause everything great in man’s capacity has already been done. There is no frontier land left for them to claim. It is true that there have been some women whose great achievements have won for their names immortality in historical records of honored ones, but they are a minority few as compared to the mighty and superior types of men, whose honored names are legion. The speaker made it clear that the field of accomplishment is yet before woman. She is just beginning to enter upon it active ly and aggressively. This new condition necessitates a change in her life. This is where the problem of retarding the van ishing of the lady type enters. Can the woman preserve her former charms and graces of womanliness in her new pursuits? In giving up the private life of the home for the public life in a career, the question as to whether some of that fineness of the bloom of wom anhood will be effaced from her personality, is a sententious one. “For all those things that a woman gives up she finds new in terests.” said Dr. Liddell. She showed how this follows in line HOW MANY REALLY USE THEIR BRAINS? Looking down the future line of descent, can it not be possible to see some species of the human race appearing minus that part of the constitution now used by a few as thinking property? Ac cording to some theory of evolu tion, nature has a way of eliminat ing dead wood from the human system by allowing parts to atrophy by continued disuse. How few people really think? Someone says that a person is thinking all the time that he has consciousness. This is a mistake. According to the definition of thinking given by psychologists, no one thinks all the time. Sure ly they are aware of something, awake and capable of responding to stimulus that may happen along, but a state of lethargy better de scribes the condition of the mind much of the time than to say it is engaged in thought. The so-called opinions boasted of by a great many people are only rubber stamped editions copied from somebody else’s pat tern. Such opinions, however, lend themselves quickly and easily to alteration. It takes only a whiff of wind laden with a reek ing rumor, false or confirmable, to stir a sensation that results in a turn of the mind as readily as a windmill. Students, as well as people in other walks of life, who engage in original thought and act with initiative do not have the easiest time of it. They have a rather lonely road to travel sometimes. Fidelity to one’s own opinion when it is opposed to the popular mass requires a streak of unfaltering courage. It is really deplorable to take account of how few of the stu dents reason things out for them selves rather than accept the thing that strikes them, which is too often a conclusion, not reached by calm judgment, but only a sensa tion aroused within the emotions by the excitement. Following the crowd is more complacent. One sheep jumps over the fence, an other follows, and so on the whole flock is lead blindly into some thing. That’s the easiest way. It is not always reprehensible, however, to be allied with the ma jority group. The question is, is it the right side? Will it get you there? If you can glide along in a soapy smooth groove and reach your goal, well and good. The trouble comes when a snag is refjchetK At some time, or you will come to the end of your nice slick aluminum lined road. Then you will have to decide what to do. Realizing your position, you attempt to manipulate the belt that throws the thinking machin ery into motion. Friction! It’s all rusty! How painful are the arduous efforts at thought, should one attempt to surmount the ob stacle instead of giving up en tirely, for there may come a com plete deadlock and disaster in the crisis. A few primary lessons in the art of thinking taken while in the plastic age, followed by occasional practice, make excellent prepara tion for that dangerous curve ahead. expression. The flowing river is expression, the retaining banks are repression. Each is necessary. There must be growth, expansion, development, and there must be guidance, control, discipline.” Speaking from the parents’ viewpoint, he emphasized the ef- accomplishment as any one of you in my vast audience. But as part of my experience, if I had been bom a girl, I should certainly want to be an American woman, with the opportunities of the world open to her, and never cease to be grateful. Oh! women of America, be womanly, and so leave WORLD COURT In 12 conferences held in vari ous parts of the country over the last two week-ends, students from ficacy of love and reason to avoid any clash of wills. “Never lay! your land better—than you found down a law for children withoutj'*-- open love and unimpassioned rea-| son as its manifested basis.” When COLLEGES STUDY there must be a refusal he sug gests that first one try to think of a substitute—“No denial with out a substitute” is a good maxim. “This does not dam up the river without outlet, leading to over-, * j i, . • flow but redirects the course of o^ college and uuiver- itniow ’’ course oil studied the World Court. Plans for campus investigation on After her education Is com-, the subject were set up and the pleted (and every girl should have'work is already under way in a just as much education in school,, number of schools. Approximate- college and professional school as ly 450 of ihe keenest student * ?i take and wisely use), she minds decided that the education- ■will be in the home as wife and al campaign which is being spon- mother, or in an occupation of ^ sored by the Council of Christian some kind outside the home as Associations during the fall some ten million of her sisters are, months is a worthy enterprise and engaging in and succeeding in every occupation known to man; or indeed, as a few exceptional modern women are able to do, motherhood and a career may be combined. Our daughter’s destiny we hope is to make her contribute in some worthy way to the world’s welfare. To do this she must have a strong body, a knowing mind, a pure heart, a good will, a clear that they wHl give their fullest co-operation. The speciaf World Court con ferences of the past week-end in eluded two Nebraska, one in Oklahoma City, one in Galesburg, 111., and one in Sioux Falls, S. D. An average of 50 students attend ed each of Whese regional and state gatherings and considered the World Court. During the lat onenPrter"‘‘ Part ;f''o7t;'ber and%hrfi‘rsi and on her 7=dom|j,aIf of November, between 35 50 similar conferences are planned in line with the accel STANDARD OF CONDUCT FOR THE MODERN GIRL Yes, we have no tropical edibles today, but we have the news papers and radio. If we can’t go to the barbecue we can read about it or hear about it over the wires that race in currents through the cosmos. To keep the public informed and attempt to mould its opinion rightly is a task worthwhile, which is a laudable justification for the existence of the press. Th^ radio, which has joined the con federacy of instruction, is proving a very significant educational in strument. Dr. Herman H. Horne, professor of history of education and the history of philosophy. New York University, who recently broad cast a series of four talks on a “Parent’s Philosophy of Life,” feels keen appreciation for radio service in bringing the modern university and the people of today into immediate contact “The radio is a source of fine entertain ment and recreation, a means of refining musical taste, another prophecy of universal knowledge, another herald of social progress and another tie that binds together the citizens of the American Re public and the nations of our little earth,” quoting from a printed edition of one of his four talks, the subject of which was “Stand ards for My Daughter.” Having three daughters himself (as well as one boy). Dr. Horne is well qualified to speak as one with authority concerning proper standards of conduct for a young girl to follow. When mother’s example and with the universal principle of! father’s counsel are right Dr. " ■ Horne says, there is just one prin ciple behind both: **Our daughter may do anything, everything, that truly enlarges and perfects her womanliness, her personality, her individuality. The emphasis is placed on expression, creative self- expression ; with only so much re pression as is necessary for right kindness.’ (Girls, you may find the ancient Hebrew standard for woman in the last chapter of the Book of Proverbs.) “Our society puts a premium on the attra,ctiveness, |winsomeness, grace, charm, beauty of women. Every woman wants to be as beautiful as nature and art allow This is natural and proper. So: one has said, ‘Woman is her own masterpiece.’ “The real question here is “What is most becoming to wom an?’ and ‘What will most enhance her riches of personality?’ “It is to be admitted, I think, that it is more difficult (I do not say impossible) to cultivate and retain the graces of womanliness in a public career than by the hearthstone. “Our daughters in high schools, co-educational colleges and busi ness are challenged by circum stances to remain womanly wom en. They meet the rough and tum ble of life and the bloom is so easily rubbed off. “To be specifi''- as I believe you want to be, a wo in-f ill proportij o so- illed ‘gen* the modern an from old resin? much easier for her to come down to man’s level than to lift man to hers; so much easier to interpret ‘this freedom’ (to borrow Hutch inson’s title) as man interprets it for himself than to maintain her full worth under novel modern circumstances. “The girl who smokes, or drinks, or swears, or tells vulgar stories, or permits the fellows to tell them to her, or dresses loudly, or uses cosmetics too conspicously, or dances too intimately, or puts sex forward or, allows personal liber ties, is really missing what she most wants, to be beautiful, to be attractive, to win the fullest re harm- itates erated interest-in international af fairs focusing 'on the opening of the Senate debate on December 17th. During the first two weeks of December, a national poll will be hy l^f'Nr-ir iStndrnt and -U»e-'t?ouncil 0/ Christian~As9«cia- tions’ World Court committee, which will be the culmination of weeks of study and discussion. In the poll, students will express their approval or disapproval of the en trance of the United States into the court. This intensive series of meet ings has grown out of the resolu tions passed at the recent annual meeting of the Council of Chris- tion Associations in which the stu dent leaders from campuses from all quarters of the country ex pressed the belief that the United States should enter the World Court at the afirliest possible date. This conviction resulted from a study of the skuation as it exists and was followjjfd by a plan where by students alji over the country have a .^ance to .^diicat^ obilize whatever thought may re- from the study done on local campuses and in conferences. The conviction that students should take a continuous interest in things international and that they should exert a vital force in shaping of policies led to the pur pose that the intensive education al campaign should be only the first step toward the continuous influence of an intelligent and ac tive student opinion on all mat ters of international concern. Raymond Fosdick, Ivy L. Lee, Irving Fisher, Manley Hudson and Ex-Governor Sweet, of Colorado, are among those interested in the stand the student movement has taken on the World Court issue, FOR A CALM AND PEACEFUL OCT. 31st By A. B. CHAPIN TRY HALLOWEtN SCAJ^FCRO • V i ,j •• A y ’lA \i ■' "n ■ V • 'V THATOi: READY To HOPcn/r ALO^/£ IntercoUegiate News A most deserving criticism. Loudspeaker. The truth of the matter is, however, that there was so much other material that the jokes were ruled out. We notice no dearth of jokes inside your pages. Your contributors must in deed be a lively bunch of fun lov ing youngsters. Be that as it may, we appreciate your suggestion and shall profit by it. Soccer is fast becoming a more and more popular game. It must be all right for a college game, since the North Carolina State College students have started an Inter-class Soccer League. What would you do with a challenge — A- - *■ - T. R. BROWN Plumber and Electrician Electrical Work a Specialty Murfreesboro, - - N. C. E. T. VINSON Motor Service To all points in and out of Murfreesboro TRANSIT CORPORATION OF NORFOLK 114 W. Brambleton Ave. TeIephone24283 LEAVE SCHEDULE Southbound A. M. t lecturing and supplying Men help in the regioj^l and worthy state cWrfe«»«4--rHe full-time compensation. For every loss these is a compensation. The last chapter of the Book of Proverbs read at the beginning of the de votional period gives the qualities of a virtuous woman which may well be applied to retain her old- time charm of virtue despite any adverse tendencies that accom- men will usually not fall in love with them; the business world, while somewhat indifferent, puts no premium on such qualities, and most significant of all, this girl is not maintaining the highest re spect for herself. “It is not a question, girls, of youi* having as much right, or as little, to do those things as the men have. It is a question of your finest womanliness, the enhancing of your grace and charm, the per fecting of your own personality. “Let me tell you what a mere man somewhat cynically wrote the other day in our university paper; ‘The trouble with the modern girl is that by the time she is old enough to know better, she knows everything!’ “Repress? Yes, in so far as re pression is a necessary condition of highest expression. Don’t get hardboiled, or even run the risk of doing so. Refinement, on or off the stage, is a girl’s biggest asset. “I have amused myself by ask ing the question, ‘What if you had been born a girl?’ A part of the answer is, ‘I should always help my parents in any way pos sible to the limits of my ability without contradicting the preced ing principles. I should try to find ‘sermons in stones, books in running brooks, and good in everything.’ By nature I should probably be a Martha, but I hope by grace a Mary. I should never cease to be grateful for being a woman and especiailly in these days of woman’s emancipation from all improper restrictions. “I should co-operate in all work making for better citizenship, and I should try to assist in the prepa ration of woman for the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. I should stand for eliminating the conditions of life that impoverish true womanhood and beautiful childhood. “And all these things I am sure I should find just as diflficult of speakers for the campaign include Kirby Page, Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan, chairman of the Women National World Court committee; Alden Alley, Frederick Snyder, J. Nevin Sayre and George Collins. Those who have observed the interest springing up immediately among students wherever World Court has been mentioned attrib ute it to the fact that this is the first great national issue that has presented itself since the presi dential election and that it car ries a more vital interest since the presidential election was a more or less foregone conclusion. Stu dent interest is increased by the fact that the outcome of the Sen ate debate may result in definite and far-ireaching action on the part of the United States Govern ment toward the assumption of greater international responsi bility.—The New Student. Bucky’s Ma Among those present at the World Series was the proud mother of the famous Bucky Harris, kid manager of the Washing:ton Set» ators. Guess who she rooted foB. The Beta Chapter (Georgia) of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Honor Society of the American College, will be installed at Agnes Scott sometime in February. Mem bers for this society are chosen primarily from the best scholars of the class, from the scholars among post-graduates, and lastly from alumnae prominent in let ters, science, education or political science. Norfolk, Fairfax Hotel 8:00 Winton, Winton Hotel 10:45 Murfreesboro, Sewell House 11:05 Conway, Filling Station 11:20 Jackson, Jackson Drug Store __11:35 P. M. Weldon, Terminal Hotel 12:05 Halifax, Roanoke Hotel 12:25 Whitakers, Whitakers Hotel 1:00 Arr. Rocky Mount, Ricks Hotel 1:30 P. M. 4:00 6:46 7:05 7:20 7:35 8:05 8:26 The point system is used in many colleges, and many others are thinking about adopting it. It is a plan to more equally dis tribute the prestige and burden of office upon the students. At Fur man College, S. C., the faculty has valued each student office at so many points, and limited the aspir ation of each student to 30 points. At the University of Minnesota a point system is being devised for the women. Ofliices are divided into their classes, and students will be limited to a certain number of offices in each class. The Wom en’s Council at Stanford proposes a similar point system.—"The New Student. Subscribe to the Chowanian. D. L. MYERS & CO. JEWELERS Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut Glass, Silverware, Etc. Repairing a Specialty. Phone B. S. Liverman Murfreesboro, N. C. TAXICAB To Conway $1.00 To Cofield $3.00 To Boykins $3.00 To Weldon $5.00 R. L. Fergusson Tuner for Chowan College Piano Tuner & Builder Pipe Organ Work Write me Repair Factory [425 Cokey Road Rocky Mount, N. C. Phone 829 W LEAVE NORTHBOUND A. M. 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