FOUNDERS’
DAY’S
OVER;
LADIES AN’ GENT’MEN, JUS’ MAKE YO’SE’FS AT HOME!
The Chowanian
ALL ABOARD
FOR THE
CONFERENCE!
Vol. VI.
Four Pages
Murfreesboro, N. C., Tuesday, Octobsr 16, 1928
One Section
CONFERENCE WILL
CONVENE WITHIN
ONLY A FEW DAYS
College and Town Making
Preparations to Enter
tain Crowd
POSTER CONTES ^
INTERESTING FEATURE
List 'jf Speakers Include Of
ficials of Southern
Colleges
The date of the B. S. U.
Conference, October 19-21,
is drawing near. Chowan
College and the town of
Murfreesboro are looking
forward with pleasure to the
time when the delegates will
begin to arrive. They are
expected to begin arriving
Here on Friday.
Mr. Yancey C. Elliott, of
State College, will be assist
ed in registering the dele
gates by Ann Downey, who
is also in charge of the in
formation bureau.
One of the big features of the
conference will be a poster con
test. A booth will be reserved for
each college, and each college is
expected to bring posters. The
one which has the best poster dis
play will receive honorable men
tion. Mary Lou Jones is in charge
of the contest.
In case some of the delegates
have baggage to be checked, a
place will be provided for this
near the entrance. Helen Walker
Delegates will take their meals
in the college dining hall or at
boarding houses and cafes down
town. The meal hour will be an
excellent times for those who at
tend to get acquainted, for meal
times are an enjoyable feature of
any conference. Ruth Davenport
will sell the meal tickets.
The names of the speakers were
published in the last issue of the
CHOWANIAN, but, for the bene
fit of those who may not have
seen them, they are: Dr. Hight C.
Moore, of Nashville, Tenn.; Dr.
Harry Clark, Furman University,
Greenville, S. C.; Dr. Charles E.
Maddry, general secretary of the
Baptist State Convention; Dr. R.
T. Vann, former president of
Meredith College; Mr. Perry Mor
gan, of Raleigh; Rev. E. N. John
son, of Dunn, N. C.; Secretary
Frank H. Leavell, department of
student work. Southern Baptist
Convention; the student secre
taries in the State, and a large
number of students.
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Number 3
RACE PROBLEM IS
MOST SERIOUS ONE
SAYS DOCTOR CILL
Other Races Do Not Like Us,
and They Are Look
ing Ahead
THEY ARE RAPIDLY
ACCEPTING CHRIST
Chowan Delighted To Have
Dr. and Mrs. Gill, of
Foreign Board
Seniors Picnic At
Mineral Springs
Memory of Event Not Likely
To Be Effaced In
Long While
MISSIONARY LESSON
USED BY B. Y. P.
U.
Since Girls Would Be Home When
Res:ular Lesson Came, Lead
ers Change Order
On Wednesday evening, October
3, the B. Y. P. U. heI3 its regu
lar weekly service. Ruby Daniels. "‘r‘j
, • j X Il ’ibacks against something solid,
president, explained to the or-'
ganization that since our lessons
in the new quarterly did not be
gin until October 7 the group
leaders and presidents had decid
ed to use the Missionary lesson
which would come on December
30, while we were home for
Christmas. Roxie Flythe sang a
solo, “At Calvary,” and Kate
Mackie led in prayer.
Then the unions assembled in
their respective rooms to discuss
these subjects found in the Mis
sionary lesson.
(1) How Catholics defend
their faith.
(2) Scholarship and Religion.
(3) Faith of our Fathers.
The study of the suffering of
Balthasar Hubmaier and his wife
gave each girl a deeper apprecia
tion of our religious ideals because
if such noble people as these could
keep faith in spite of severest
proscution, then we are forced to
admit vidth Mr. Hubmaier that
Divine Truth is immortal. Al
though in the present it may be
arrested, scourged and crowned
with thorns, it will nevertheless
prove victorious and reign in
triumph for all eternity.
On Wednesday afternoon, Oc
tober 12, Miss Carroll effectively
satisfied the roaming spirit of the
seniors by taking them on a picnic
to Mineral Spring. The majority
of us chose a zigzag, woodsy path
and hiked to the appointed place,
arriving there with soaring spirits
and slightly damp feet, the latter
condition being due to an inno
cent looking mudhole. Our hostess
accompanied by several girls had
preceeded us to the spring and
built a lire whose crackling flames
welcomed us heartily. After the
last stragglers had arrived we
provided ourselves with sharpen
ed sticks, and gathered around the
fire to roast hot dogs, pigs-in-the-
blanket, marshmallows. Iced tea
was wisely provided to keep us
from choking while we tried to
talk and eat at the same time.
When it had grown dark enough
to make us feel safer with our
we
settled down around the fire to
munch salted peanuts and tell
ghost stories. Such hair-rising
tales were related that everybody
insisted on walking in front on
the way home.
When we left the spring it w;
unanimously voted to hike to the
Founders’ Day At The College
October 11 Attended By Fine
Body of Friends And Graduates
Students Attend
Woodland Fair
,~aci.lty Has Meeting To
Decide Whether Girls Will
Be Allowed To Go
RESOLUTIONS OF
RESPECT
I PRESIDENT CALLED
i AWAY ON BUSINESS
Whereas, the hand of God’s
providence has reached forth and
gathered to Himself the Reverend
Josiah Elliott, of Hertford, North
Carolina, for 30 years an honored
member of the Board of Trustees
jf Chowan Coliege, it. is fitting
that in appreciation of his work
we give this testimony of our
esteem and express our sincere
grief at his death:
Whereas, he was a minister of
rare spirit and nobility of char
acter and a great educator of
youth, among whom were 12 or
dained ministers and five women,
successful home builders, and
whereas at all times he proved a
loyal friend to the institution
praying regularly twice a day for
the work of the college; be it
Resolved, first, that we bow in
humble submission to His wi^l who
hath given and hath taken away;
Resolved, second, that the world
has been enriched by his life and
river. On the way everybody sum- that being dead he yet speaketh,
aSajloa joX jddns bj^xs ub pauoui
spirit and we waked the echoes
with songs and yells—in spite of
the injustice we had inflicted upon
our digestive organs. After every
body had dropped a romantic
pa^jBis 0M ‘J8AU am ojui }ii3nom
toward Chowan with mingled
feelings of regret and thankful
ness.
The picnic is ended but it is
doubtful as to whether its memory
will ever be effaced.
What say, girls? Fifteen rahs
for Miss Carroll!
FRESHMEN TO HAVE
A RAINY-DAY BOX
In a recent class meeting the
freshmen decided to have
“rainy-day” box. Each member
of the student body will be asked
to drop a penny in this box everv
Resolved, third, that Chowan
College suffers an irreparable loss
n the passing of this valued and
remarkable trustee and friend J
and
Resolved, fourth, that these
resolutions be printed in the
CHOWANIAN and well-known
papers of the State, and incor
porated in the minutes of the
’ollege.
Respectfully submitted,
EUNICE McDowell,
MINNIE W. CALDWELL,
BERTHA L. CARROLL,
Committee.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Edwards
spent several days away from the
college recently. Mr. Edwards
was attending to business for the
college. While gone they visited
W-l^ianisburg, Richmond, Norfolk
ind Poitjniouth.
President Edwards is called
a\ ay .^rom the col.ege often to do
work other than his regular rou
tine duties. He has already
preached sermons in a number of
the nearby churches. The people
of Pendleton had the opportunity
of hearing him September 16. He
preached in the new church in Au-
lander, September 23, and last
Sunday morning he preached in
the Meherrin Church.
Mr. Edwards expects to be i)
Farmville this week attending the
Roanoke Association.
DR. GAINS SPEAKING
On Tuesday night, October
9, great excitement prevailed
around Chowan College, for
Trustees of College Hold
Their Annual Meeting
In Morning
BASEBALL GAME IS
AFTERNOON FEATURE
AMATEUR NIGHT WILL
BE HELD OCTOBER
26
The annual celebration of Ama
teur Night will be held in the col
lege auditorium, October 26, at 8
o’clock. Have you prepared your
stunt? If you have not, it would
be better to begin now and not
put it off until the last minute.
Each class is expected tc give a
stunt, and any organization who
wishes may give one. Student;
who have original plays, stories,
songs and musical compositions
:cital That Evening Is Fol
lowed By Informal
Reception
j the faculty was having a meeting
■ which would decide the fate of
jthe girls concerning the Woodland
i^air. Ear^y the next morning,
one could hear many claps of glee
and glad exclamations. Yes! The
faculty had decided to allow the
iirls to attend the fair, and to |
otay out until 11:30 o’clock.
Consequently, on the three sue
The eightieth anniversary
of the founding of Chowan
College was an especially
enjoyable and gratifying oc
casion as celebrated on
October 11. The trustees
and an unusually large num-|
Chowan College was de
lighted to have as guests on
I October 5 and 6, Dr. and
I Mrs. Everette Gill, who are
j representing out Southern
Baptist Foreign M i s s i o n
Board in Europe. Dr. and
Mrs. Gill are visiting various
colleges with the purpose of
arousing virile interest in the
w’orld-wide missionary en-
i deavor. They will return to
Europe the first of next
year.
During his stay here. Dr.
Gill gave three intensely in
teresting, instructive, and
stimulating lectures. He im
pressed very forcibly upon
his audiences some truths
that are vital issues of to
day.
Dr. Gill says that the real
crisis in the world today is the
race problem—not just the race
crisis here in America, but the in
ternational race crisis. Of course
al^v^jynnH*>H ^
...ooii on dupecior Co all t^iie
other races, and with this pride
it has adopted policies for per
sonal gain irrespective of the feel
ings of the other races. “The
other races are learning rapidly,”
ays Dr. Gill, “and they are going
to get us, if things continue as
they are going.” Dr. Gill sayis
further that the other races do
not like us. First, because of
our superiority complex; second,
because of our militarism, and
third, because of our commercial
'.ndustrialism.
“The white race is the only race
that has adopted Christianity. The
other races are just beginning to
do so. If the white race fails
God and is batted out by the oth
er races, what has He to fall
back on?” These truths were
given in a very impressive man
ner by Dr. Gill before he pro
ceeded to present facts to sub
stantiate the statement that the
white race is potentially a de-
j creasing race. The more civilized
we become, the more urban we be
come; and the more urban we be-
, J f • 1 J * V I the greater the decrease in
general exodus of girls and teach- number of families. On the
ers, their smiling faces showing
their eagerness to take m all the
ber of former students and
friends visited the co’lege
during the day.
joys of the occasion.
Of the many attractions at the
fair, it is hard to decide which
were the most popular. In fact,
the Chowan folk seemed to divide
their attention equally among all
the amusements, not leaving out
che hot dog stands and pink
emonade booths.
The verse, “Backward, turn
backward. Oh Time, in thy flight,
and make me a child again just
for tonight,” surely must have
I been the motto for the Chowan
During the morning the students, for the merry-go-round
rainy day. The freshmen will
not object to its raining several
days in the week, provided it does
not do so Saturday and Sunday.
The funds will go to the fresh
man class.
trustees held their annual
meeting. At 3 o’clock in the
afternoon. Dr. F. P. Gaines,
president of Wake Forest
College, delivered a very im
pressive address. His topic
was: “The Problem of
Christian Education Today.”
“Everybody has his own philo
sophy of life/' he said, “the kind
are urged to give them. All stunts philosophy depending upon
should be reported to Miss Poe, , , , , • , # »
what he does in life.”
He called attention to the many
changes that have taken place re
to Mis
who is in charge of the program,
as socn as possible. Prizes ;;re to
be g'ven for the best stunts: One
to the class producing ths best
stunts, one for the best original
musical production, and one for
the best literary production, -.tory,
play, poem, essay, or what-not,
especially the what-not.
If you have words to say, pre
pare to say them now, or else for
ever after hold your peace.
and swings received their share of
the patronage.
Some even purchased big bright
balloons, which added buoyance
to their already buoyant spirits,
and color to their already colorful
appearances. And some folk are
already beginning to look forward
to next year’s fair.
THREE GIRLS ATTEND
WAKE FOREST GAME
Three of our girls, Kate Mackie,
Kathleen Johnson, and Jean Crad
dock, spent last week-end in Wake
cently in our life—social, indus- Forest. They say they wen o
trial and educational. He talked i attend the Wake Forest-P. C. foo-
at length on the great scientific ball game, but we feel that there
changes that our increasing knowl
edge has brought about. He de
plored the decline of literature
and our lack of deep thinking of
was more than a game in Wake
Forest which attracted them. A1
though they have not given a de
finate account of what they did
the beautiful poems of a century j while there, we have our own
(Continued on Page 4) lideas about that.
increasing. Practically all the
women of the non-white races
marry, and since the white race
has cleared up countries, making
possible better living conditions,
these women have learned to care
for their children. Thus the other
races are rapidly increasing their
population.
Dr. Gill says that the most
significant fact in, history—and
one of the mysteries of history—
is that Christianity did not spread
East. It came West. Europe be
came the second home of Chris
tianity—a glorious fact for Eu
rope, but a sad fact for Asia.
Christianity could have been un
derstood so easily by people of
the East. It is hard for us to un
derstand the language of the
Orient.
“Two thousand years with the
Gospel have left us as bloody as
the Romans were,” says Dr. Gill,
as he impressed the fact. “He
that taketh up the sword shall
perish by the sword.”
In view of the above facts,
there is every reason why we
Americans should be friendly with
European people. We are of the
same blood, the same civilization,
and the same religion.
In order to avert the great dis
aster that is otherwise sure to
come, it is, according to Dr. Gill,
our first great task to really
Christianize Europe, and America.
No country has ever been evan-
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