The Carolinian [October 13, 1923]

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VOLUME V. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1»23 NUMBER •**- 4
Campaign for Student
Relief in Europe Will
Be Started Next Week
Horrible Conditions in
Foreign Countries are
Responsible for Stand
Which American Stu-dents
are Taikng to Aid
in Relieving Conditions
Left by War.
CONRAD HOFFMAN TO SPEAK
CONRAD HOFFMAN IS
TO COME NEXT WEEK
H. Director of the Europ
Student Relief
Fund
la Director of Student Friendship
Work ud Know! Well the
Situation
KNOWS STUDENT LIFE WELL
la to Speak on Living and Working
Conditions of Foreign
Student*
Considering the favorable stand
which the students took at mass
meeting Wednesday night, in regard
to continuing to support the Friend-ship
Fund, it seems that the interest
which the Foreign Students and
other visitors to the N. C. C. W.
campus, last year, engendered in the
problems of Europeans Colleges and
Universities, is still running high.
Conrad Hoffman, whose headquar-ters
are at Geneva, Switzerland and
who has for some years past been
directing the Student Friendship
work, will be on the campus next
week. He will be able to give first
hand information which will be valu-able
in the campaign which the stu-dents
will begin next week to raise
funds. This campaign will be di-rected
by Julia Franck, chairman,
aided by a large committee.
Last summer six thousand stu-dents
in eighteen intercollegiate con-ferences
representing the largest
colleges and universities in the United
States, decided to affiliate themselves
with the Student Friendship fund for
the following winter. John R. Mott,
general secretary of the Internation-al
Committee of the Y. M. C. A. is
chairman of the work in the United
States.
The Student Friendship Fund
arose out of conditions resulting
from the World War.' The colleges
of forty nations since the war, have
contributed to it for the purpose of
alleviating the distress of the college
students whom war left practically
destitute.
Students in Europe are trying
to -continue their education when
'they are not able to supply even
physical needs, not to mention books.
It is an actual fact that 81,000
Russian students have only one meal
a day and that fifty to ninety per
cent of all students, varying with
countries of Eastern Europe, Russia,
and the Near East are actually below
the physical efficiency level There
are 14,000 refugee students who,
leaving their destroyed homes, are
continuing their studies in strange
lands, without homes and destitute.
Even the' professors receive such
meager salaries that they live below
the poverty line.
These students need aid, not only
for themselves, but to insure the
future of Europe. If Europe has
no educated class, the work of re-construction,
which is so definitely
needed, will be left to hands un-trained
and unfitted for the task.
Central and Eastern Europe has
lost fully one third of her skilled
technicians, doctors, engineers, ag-riculturalists,
etc. during and since
the war. The trained leadership
which must take their places must
come from today's students. It is
the part of America and of other
Conrad Hoffman, for three years
director of European Student Relief,
is expected to be at the college next
week. Mr. Hoffman is an Ameri-can
but has his headquarters at
Geneva, Switzerland. To these head-quarters
a student relief fund is
sent, which is raised by groups of
students of forty different countries.
This money is generally given by
students who actually sacrifice in
order to make a contribution. It is
used for students who endure all the
hardships of life—cold, hunger and
wretched living conditions, caused
by the recent war. The students of
wrecked Russia receive the greatest
benefit from this fund; also students
of Central Europe and the Near
East
Mr. Hoffman has been in the
midst of these student groups and is
familiar with the conditions. He
knows, perhaps, more of student life
than any body else in the world.
He is expected to speak at Chapel
next Tuesday and Wednesday on
some phase of the living and work-ing
conditions of foreign students.
It is hoped that other meetings can
be arranged for; if so, they will be
announced later.
CHAPEL CONDUCTED
BY MISS UNDERBILL
She Telia Intereatingly of Bryn
Mawr Summer School Hold for
Industrial Girla
'OUT-OF-STATERS' AT
COLLEGENUMEROUS
More Than Thirty Girla From State*
Oth.r than N. C. Have Cove
Hare
VIRGINIA IN THE LEAD
Fact That Standard of College Has
Been Raiaed Probably Bring*
Student*
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Prof. Hall Leads
Chapel Devotions
Professor Hall, of the English
Department, led the devotional ex-ercises
at chapel Wednesday. He
took the Lord's Prayer aa a text
He stressed the point that it was
a prayer of "we" and "our" and not
"I" and "me". He added, that since
the college motto is "Service," this
invocation might well be the college
prayer because it is one of "service.
After the regular exercise Mary
Collins Powell explained the manner
of exit from chapel which the stu-dent
body shall folfew the rest of
the year.
At Chapel on Monday and Thurs-day,
Miss Underhill of the English
faculty, told of the summer school
which was held at Bryn Wawr for
the working girls. She said that
about one hundred girls attended.
Christian organizations and Woman's
Clubs sent most of the girls, as the
expenses were over two hundred
dollars for the term.
The majority of the girls had
worked in clothing, candy and to-bacco
factories, thbugh there were
some who had worked in book bind-eries,
in Pullman cars. Others had
been telephone operators.
When the girls arrived, many had
flat feet, curvature of the spine, and
very poor postures, all of which de-fects
were caused by their work.
Often in factories the girls had to
work nine hours or more, after which
they were too tired tt\ take any in-terest
in exercises and 1 recreation.
The girls came from) twenty-eight
states, and half of them were of
American born parents. Of the
eighteen nationalities represented
there were Italians, Greeks, Poles,
Russians and Roumanians.
Even though thirty were born
abroad, they were typical American
college girls. They had bobbed hair,
wore gingham dresses or middies,
liked to sleep and were often late
to classes. Chewing gum was very
prevalent. They revelled in parties;
they had baby parties, tacky parties,
dances, and all kinds of .fun.
The majority of the girls were
older than the average student They
were usually from twenty-one to
thirty years of age. Several were
married. The majority of the girls
had to leave school when in about
the fifth grade in order to help
support their families. Others had
never been to school in America be-fore.
They were taught economics so
that they would understand their re-lation
to the wage-earning world.
The teacher tried to give the girls
a bigger and broader view of life
in order that they would be tolerant
of conditions, nationalities, and re-ligion-.
North Carolina College is no
longer limited to the education of
Tar Heels, but calls young women
from many other states, far and
near.
The college has grown in size,
progressed in the high standards of
learning, and broadened in its appeal.
It is now known and recognized
throughout the country aa an A-l
college for women. For these rea-sons
students are willing to leave
home states and are glad to enter
this college.
Even the distant state of Wash-ington
sends its representative.
Last year Dee Stewart of Tateoma
was here. This year sees another
citizen of that far-away state here.
She is Frances McKay.
Many of the students here who
are registered from this state have
recently become North Carolinians
while some of those registered from
other states are really "bred-in-the-bone"
Tar Heels,
Loula Woody, president of the
Student Government Association,
comes to us from Richmond, Va.,
though she has spent some six or
eight years in this state. Susie
Roberts, vice-president of'the Stu-dent
Government Aseocation, now
calls Columbia, S. C, home but she
originally hailed from North Caro-lina.
Of those who have recently made
North Carolina their home state is
Nancy Wright, editor-in-chief of the
annual who comes from Georgia.
Her preeent home is at Black Moun-tain.
Juanita Matthews, assignment
editor of the Carolinian, was or-iginally
from Clover, South Caro-lina.
She is now making her home
in Monroe.
Another of the out of state cele-brities
is Lena Smith, editor-in-chief
of the Carolinian, whose home is in
Mullins, South Carolina. Sam Davis
proof editor of the Carolinian, wee
originally a North Carolinian, but
now claims Washington, D. C, as her
home.
Not only the above mentioned stu-
CLASS OF RED AND
WHITE IS ORGANIZED
Lillian Johnson is to Head Class
During First Semester of
Initial Year
ALL OFFICERS CAPABLE
Real Work of Freshmen a* a Class
Will Begin at aa Early
Date
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Lillian Johnson, of Charlotte, was
elected President of the Freshman
Class at their first meeting of the
year, held Saturday in the auditor-ium.
The other officers elected were:
Mary Parker Fryer, Vice presidnt;
Margaret Whitlow, Secretary; Mar-tha
Jenkins, Treasurer; Margaret
Pray tor, Cheer Leader; and Jose-phine
Hege, Representative to Sen-ate.
Mary Belo Moore, President of
the Junior Class, presided at the
meeting until the temporary chair-man
was electd. Lillian Johnson held
this office until she was made presi-dent.
The girls who were chosen by their
class to hold these responsible posi-tions,
were, without exception, girls
who have been prominent in the
managing of their high school affairs.
Lillian Johnson, who was elected
president by a large majority,
was President of Student Govern-ment
as well as of the Senior Class
in Charoltte High School. Her ver-satility
is further evidenced by the
fact that she took an active part in
dramatics, and presided over the
Girl's Club Conference, which was
held "in Greensboro hut fall.
Mary Parker Fryer took an active
part in the affairs of the Wilmington
High School, which she attended.
Margaret Whitlow, secretary and
Margaret Praytor, cheer leader, are
both graduates of the Asheville High
School. Here Margaret Whitlow, was
editor of the "Hill Billy," published
by the school. Margaret Praytor was
an associate editor of the same pub-lication.
Martha Jenkins, of T a r b o r o,
showed ability for leadership in the
school which she attended there.
Josephine Hege, of Rosemary,
chosen to represent her class in Sen-ate,
was president of her class thru
high school.
With the next meeting of the
class, which will be held at the end
of this week, or the beginning of
next, the real work of the Freshmen,
as a class, will begin.
Vital Problems Concerning
Campus Life Are Discussed
at First Student Meeting
JOSEPHUS DANIELS IS
SPEAKER OCTOBER 5
In Founders Day Address Ho Toll*
of the Ideals and Accomplish-ments
of Chas. D. Mcirer
Honorable Josephus Daniels, Edi-tor
of the Raleigh News and Ob-server,
and ex-Secretary of the Navy
during the Wilson Administration,
delivered the Founders Day address,
October 5.
Mr. Daniels was a life-long friend
of Charles Duncan Mclver, founder
of North Carolina College. He spoke
of the great ideals of the "Immortal
Charles of North Carolina—Charles
D. Mclver and Charles B. Aycock.
They were the men who made North
Carolina College a possibility, labor-ing
until death, that North Carolina
might reach toward higher educa-tion."
He illustrated from the lives
of Mclver and Aycock how all great
achievements and institutions must
be born in the heart and soul of
great men and women before they
are actually concrete realities. Mclver
fought a persistent struggle in im-pressing
the people of North Caro-lina
of the great need for an ad-vance
in education of the daughters
of the State.
Mr. Daniels told of the life of
Charles Mclver as in relation to the
events of today. If Mclver were
living now, he would ge a great fac-tor
in securing world peace, which
is the greatest need of the world.
Mr. Daniels urged the girls to rise
to the need and do their part in
restoring the high position of Ameri-ca
from which she has been rapidly
falling.
In speaking of Charles Mclver and
Charles Aycock, Mr. Daniels called
GAMP SUPPER OF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
EUCITS PRAISE FROM N. C. C. STUDENTS
Dances by Lois Briggs, and by Nellie Irvin and
Susie Roberson Feature the Evening. Gypsies
and Camp Fires Add to Picturesqueness.
"Standing on the outside, looking
on the inside." That's what about
six hundred of us did last Saturday
night But we didn't stay out long.
The A. A. gypsy camp opened
its arm wide and received us, as
excited and fun-loving a crowd as
if we had been six hundred small
boys going to their first circus. After
all, what bunch of small boys, lively
as grasshoppers, can compare with
N. C. College girls who are out for a
good time? And what gypsies could
compare in picturesqueness and hos-pitality
with the Athletic Association
Cabinet members and their friends,
when all is said and done?
One counldn't have a poky time,
because there was no time in which
to be poky. Tweleve big camp fires
on a crisp October night are entirely
too inviting to be left to burn simply
for their beauty. Everyone of those
girls singled ont a camp fire and
before long each fire was almost
hidden by girls. Then the fun be-gan.
The gypsies thought it only fair
that they receive as well as gtve
entertainment Of course, music
was the result. Everyone knows how
N. C. C. W. girls can sing. Sweet
strains of "Carry Me Back to Old
Virginny," "Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot" and "Old Black Joe" filled
the woods, but a group of gypsy
judges decided to award the camp
fire group that sang our own "Skim-mering-
a-dink-dink" to the A. A.
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DR. TURNER SPEAKS
AT VESPER SERVICES
TYPES ELECTED
Students Vote Unanimously to Dedi-cate
"Pine Needles" to Mr.
Jackson
STAND FOR BETTER ORDER
Discusses Religion a* "A Basis of
International Kinship" and Vivid-ly
Pictures the "European at
Church."
or
Camps 1, 2, 8, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11 12 were given honorable mention
by the capable judges.
After a real gypsy supper, which
was served to the long line of girls,
Lois Briggs gave a beautiful gypsy
dance that was in keepigg with the
fire-lit woods and the gay gypsy
hearts. We learned then and there
that it takes only real heart music,
and not only a piano or a violin,
to help one to dance.
Then came the suitcase race. Cries
of "Come on, Miss Ketchin," "We're
betting on you, Miss Burr," arose
from all parts of the excited crowd,
as those two contestants hastily un-packed
the suitcase, put on the
clothes, took them off .and repacked
the suit cases. Miss Burr, due to
her long training in athletics, re-ceived
the prise for this.
The standing broad jump then
took place. Many notable athletes
among the faculty and students
joined in this inspiring contest By
virtue- of having the most big feet
the line headed by Susie Roberts
won. Everyone admitted, however,
that it was a close race. There was
only a few inches difference between
the lengths of feet
With a big singing meet the girls
left the fires and found their way
back to the college after a long-to-be
remembered visit to the gypsy camp,
which was made possible through
the untiring efforts of Ina Mae Le-
Roy, President of the A. A., and
her Cabinet
"Religigion as a connecting link"
"a basis of international kinship"
was the theme of Dr. Turner, Pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Greensboro, in his address to the
faculty and students at Vesper Sun-day
night. Dr. Turner, who has just
returned from Europe brought to
the student a vivid picture of the
European at church.
An intensely fervent religious
spirit pervades all worship. Euro-peans
sing as men who have "come
up out of great tribulation." He
said that it was an inspiration, in
itself, to hear them sing, and to see
the glow of enthusiasm as they sang
from the depths of a rich experience.
The first religious service which
Dr. Turner and his party attended
was in Amsterdan, Holland, a city
built on ninety islands and connec-ted
by four hundred bridges. After
unsucessful efforts to find a Baptist
Church, the party was directed to
a business house in the basement of
which about seevnty-five people were
worshipping. When the visitors had
been assured of a warm welcome,
thy succeeded in making a satisfac-tory
arrangement whereby both
Dutch and American could unite in
the service. And old sailor, who had
once been in America, volunteered
to assume the role of interpreter. He
translated the sermon to the Ameri-cans
and in turn translated the talks
of the various members of the Eng-lish
speaking party into Dutch. It
was in the singing, however, that the
two people of different languages,
ways, and customs found a common
bond of devotion.
Another interesting service was
a prayer meeting in Berlin. The
minister, who was young, capable,
enthusiatic, and devoted to his people
was supporting himself with a large
family on the princely salary of
eleven dollars a month.
"Food," he said, "at my house
consists of bread and soup."
Since he could not afford an
The first mass meeting of the year
took place in the auditorium Wed-nesday
night and was by far the
most enthusiastic of any ever held
here.
After the singing of the college
and class songs the business was
taken up and disposed of accord-ingly.
Many campus problems such
as, eating and talking in the library;
walking on the grass; spreading
scandal; strolling on Spring Garden
Street, and a stand was taken against
each.
The student body also discussed
the question of sending a represen-tative
to the Students Citizens Con-ference
which is to be held in Wash-ington
the 18th, 14th, and 15th of
this month. Miss Julia Ross, Presi-dent
of the International Relations
Club was chosen to represent this
college there.
The purpose of the meeting at
Washington is to discuss the prob-lems
of citizenship and students
from all parts of the United States
and Europe will be present.
Under the head of new business
the dedication of the Pine Needles
was discussed and out of apprecia-tion
and gratitude for Mr. W.
C. Jackson, Vice President of the
college it was decided to dedicate
the annual to him. Mr. Jackson
has been a member of the faculty
here for several years and during
this time he has been interested in
every phase of college activity. He
has shown in many ways his sym-pathy
and cooperation with the stu-dents.
The statistics for the Pine Needles
were also elected and in selecting
these girls were chosen to represent
Beauty, Wisdom, Culture, Charm,
Grace and Wit And in connection
with these types, a country was kept
in mind; for example; the American
girl was chosen for Beauty; the
English type, Culture; the French,
Charm; the Grecian, Wisdom; the
Indian, Grace; and the Irishman,
Wit. The girls selected were:
Beauty, Flora May Holliday; Cul-ture,
Gladys Sims; Charm, Nancy
Wright; Wisdom, Loula Woody;
Grace; Lila Jordan; and Wit, Fran-ces
Williams.
After the election of statistics it
was so late that it was necessary to
adjourn.
1924 PINE NEEDLES
TO BE BEST EVER
Staff is Busy Making Plan*—Casopus
is Attracted by Pin* Needle*
v Poster*
From all indications the college
annual,, Pine Needles, for 1928-24
is to be the best book ever published
at the college.
The staff s busy making plans and
carrying them out On' bulletin
boards, on 'the post office doors, and
in all conspicuous places about the
campus, one is attracted by posters
boosting Pine Needles, and urging
students to pay the budget so there
will be sufficient funds to make this
year's annual the beet yet.
That the staff was wisely chosen
has been proven by the work which
is being done, but the staff cannot
make the annual without the cooper-ation
of the students. There must be
enthusiasm on their part for a good
book, and this enthusiasm must be
shown by paying the budget and by
filling appointments with the photo-grapher.
If this is done, it is be-lieved
that this term's annual can
be made to excel any college annual
put out by a college of equal size
and standing.
All plans for Pine Needles have
been made and endorsed by printers
and engravers. Mr. B. M. Copper, of
Bush Kreb's Engraving Company,
was at the college last week, and he
was so pleased with the work which
the staff is doing that he has asked
that an article, containing the plan
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