yMymity NewV;y— SCOT ADVERTISING REASONABLE $2.00 pcb-VLarin advance. VOL. XXXIX, MAXTON, N. C., FRIDAY APRIL 13th, 1923 t i Main Building Doing Service Now as Administration Ha’], Library, Music Department, Sewing Jlooms, Gymnasium and Dining Room. * '' ■1 Dormitory, ^ ADVANTAGES SITUATION section of the :»4,« ■as in and sweetness. high way just a little. “Why should you hide away this'grandeur from the * sight of men,” eagerly asked the stra ' nger of the owner. “That strip of woods should be cut away so the tra veling public may" be inspired by such a vision as your fields present. ' “That strip of woods to me,’ an swered the owner, “is worth ten thousand dollars. It shelters my trees from biting winds, and saves my crop from failture.” There is a very practical reason for prosperity or failure in business be it in manufacturing, commercial, religious or' educational life. Suc cesses do not “just happen.” If a school is to succeed it must be plant ed with thought as to its surround ings. Like the fruit tree, it must have a protected climate. ' a location where distractions do not harass the mind, nor opportunity for dissipation tempt the weak. Maxton offers these advantages in no small degree. We have a oitizensh’p . of the purest Scotch'and English type, as sober cul-! tured and God-fearing a people as the' State can afford. There is no dissi pating influences about President Greene has made a remark of which we are proud. He claims we haVe a “town whose atmosphere is best a dapted to tlie unfolding of the beau tiful flower of womanhood. Maxton is the typical college town,” he goes on “and only one who lacks vision, fVe is determined not to see the ' t'Uth Could fail to admit that fact.” Another advantage not to be over fookc.!. Fourteen passenger trains a dsv steam into our little town. In •rJo of twenty-four hours, students ■from almost anv point in North or South Carolina could reach our sta tion by rail. A tremendous territory lies open to be worked. South Caro lina does not possess a Junior Col lege at all. There are hundreds a W-hle from that State alone. Flora McDonald turns away students every year. If our College were ready to accommodate them, hundreds of girls could be. brought into Carolina any fall we cared to invite them. ADVANTAGES~OF STRONG LEADERSHIP Not only are fine surroundings and convenient transportation neces sary to the growth of a College, but there! must be—first—last—and all the time, efficient leadership. An in different leader can kill a College: nuicker than all other forces on thei face of the earth combined. There must be spiritual “pep” in a leader, that intelligent “pep”, born of conse crated energy, vision faith and un faltering belief in youth itself. In our leader we find lust those ouali tjes, coupled with th^t rare combina tion ,of mental and eoiritual ability that can bring out the best there is in those under his care. In our Pres ident. his capable sympathetic wife, and his corps of instrrfctors, we have as fine a body of workers as any College can boast, doing- the noblest service- in the noblest wav. on small remuneration at that. There is an Intimate personal ^interest felt in eve ry giri who comes to Carolina College and that fact should make a parent ponder deeply over choosing between the larger college, where the herd rSjrlpf'' rti li|ce 6arolina where personal asso ciation with the teaching body is such a shaping, influence. IT’S WORK AS'A v _ ■ _ JUNIOR COLLEGE The Junior College has\i the past few decaaes brought itself into great « /» i 1 .. — If eanrno fn ■fill ICrV ~ ,, -. favor, for the reason it seems to till a particular need. Now it appears a real necessity. There is a serious gap between the training in the ordinary high school and the large college. The teaching class, the methods of instruction, the standard of grading, is all differ ent. The Junior Coliege bridges this gap easily and naturally. To those who wish to teach or enter other fields of endeavor, they are fully ore cared to do so by the Junior Collee. , . Another advantage of such a col lege, if it is under-church supervis ion, is that there is a spiritual train ing offered which it is impossible to get in the larger college. .It is a necessity for these reasons: First:—It is the salvation of those iyho have lost out by the mass teach ing of the Craded School. Second:—It is the logical place for the graduate' of the non-credited high school. x, Third:—It is the best place for those who hope for only two years of college life, and want to teach. Fourth:—It is the, safe place for the young girl just finishing high school at the most critical age in her life, for here she has that close, care ful supervision that can be given on ly in the smaller college. Fifth:—It is the most economical place, for here they can get the first two years of college at one-half the cost. ■ v —-o —- * PLANTING FULL CROPS -o —*— An old mountaineer who was once jeered at for having half a crop of corni answered pfertly, “Didn’t plant but naif a crop. Isrirt that the reason for scanty re sults in so many of our endeavors? How much toil and digging do we put into start with? We reap as we sow, as vfre have strawed. so do we gather into barns. Back of every woman of today there are the im pulses the hopes, the aims that hdve been shaped somehow into the power she now is in, the fulfillment of God’s plan, or else (God forbid) , the hin drance of it. Are we going to sit un concernedly .by. putting our earning* into cars and houses and barns and let the most precious of all things, human possibilities, slip throup our fingers for want of a chance to devel op?’ Must human minds and hearts d^ift into ignorance and sin for lack of a chance? Christian education w’H ilo more to save the country than any other power on earth. Training our girls means planting true ideals in the men sfiid women of tomorrow Our girls are going to be teachers of the race. It is for us to say wheth er they wfll teach hate and sloth and vice or instill lessons of truth and virute and godliness. If we as chris tians are to participate in.the good things peace and Christian citizenship. Are must sacrifice, we must not think of self al^ne. As we put ini youth, tho^e things we may ou tline expect the race to attain. 1 tolont imn.. jyffl Jjiie jh»l3Hl9qE| HINDRANCES TO- GROWTH f 1 Carolina College is placed in it* proper setting and has the proper leadership. Why cannot it hope then in a few years to be sending out its; army of well trained women to stem' the tide of carelessness and ignoran ce and indifference to the laws of Gotland man. Just one thing stands in the way. There is not room, in the present Building, as you see it in the - picture, to accommodate -the girls. We need a dormitory. This obstacle is the stone against the door of progress. It must be rolled away before Carolina can mete out the greatest good ?o the greatest number. It is a fine thought to pon der this Easter season, when we are all trying to rise from “the stepping stones' of our dead selves to higher things/’ That dormitory cannot come by dreaming. Like all things worth while, it must come by work— by sacrifice—and then by work a gain. When the famous patriot Garabal r>i was trying to raise troops for the freedom of Italy, peasants flocked to nis standards crying, “What will you give us ? And we will follow you/’ The answer was, “I will give you long marches, heavy loads, hard fighting, rough living, privation, hard ship—death itself! But with it all, Liberty!” We did not ask Pres. Green what he would give us if we would join his ranks, as the Italian peasants did. But his assurance was just the same, “I will give you long marches, steady toil, privations—bat we will /each the goal! We the citizens of Max ton know there are “long marches” before the dormitory fund is raised, but make them we will. Will not the end justify the means? Of cour se it will, and we are going to put up such a fight for this cause as we have never done before. Not a sin gle human being in Maxton will shirk his or her part either. We want a dormitory that will accommodate 200 girls, and we will not be satis fied until it is completed. Catch the slogan “Finished by Fall” and we‘Jl go over the top with the movement. Every man, woman and child in a radius of fifty-miles must own at least one brick in that handsome building. It is YOUR investment in a finer country in wh’ch to live. The goal is a long way off, but getting nearer- EVERY day. Get into fhe ranks and help us pull for the cause “God’s big work is WELL DONR only when each of us does his little share WELL. be Somebody said that it couldn’t done. But Maxton with a chuckle replied: “Well, maybe it can’t, but we’re not the one v Who said so before he had tried.” So i they buckled right in'with a bit of a grin— They forgot affout self as they did it- h They started" to sing as they tackled the thing , m That couldn’t be done, and they it. —Margaret Stanton, High Sch