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THE ROTUNDA, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28, 1931
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The annual enrollment of members i which the American Red Cross will launch on Armistice Day. November ill. this year signalizes the fiftieth i anniversary of the founding of that 1 organization. Anniversaries, particularly fiftieth anniversaries, whether of individuals or organizations, offer two temptations. One is to look back and the second is to look forward. The Red Cross, being at the half-way mark, so to speak, found that its ranks and •he roll of its leaders could produce those able to do both. , The views of Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell, are distinctly in point here, because not only has he looked forward, but he has , borne in mind how closely the future 'of all things now with us is allied with the forward- looking generation now in the country's educational institutions. After detailing the trials of the post-war period of reorganization. with which he was closely identified in his years of association with the Red Cross and which he likened lo the problems confronting it today, he told, not long ago, an audience of Red Cross leaders and representatives of all over the nation: T have to do. year in and year out, with American youth, and I hear a great many aspersions cast, particularly by the older generation, which never speaks the language of youth, upon the qualities of the present generation. Take my word for it, the present generation of youth is infinitely better than your and my generation. It is the best we have known. Tt is free from the misconceptions and prejudices and hyprocracies in which you and I were bred without protest on our part; and now there is a tendency to see clearly and, if we can inspire that group with this spirit which has mad«3 the Red Cross whta it is. there is no doubt as to the future. "I do not look for any great, new, dramatic development in the program of the Red Cross. I don't think it needs it. The superb readiness which has developed during these last ten years in the face of emergent catastrophe, the readiness to act, and not only the readiness to act, the abiltiy to act effectively—no one can doubt that in the face of national peril, should it arise, the Red Cross would be again the expression of a patriotic spirit which was the finest .thing that was aroused by the trial .through which we passed in 1917." Inasmuch as the Red Cross is asking a larger enrollment of members Continued on page four
ARCHERY EXHIBITION GIVEN BY MR. DEAN given on the athletic field here Thursday afternoon by Mr. Dean of Pinehurst, Ncrth Carolina. It was an excellent exhibition. Thore who saw Mr. Dean stand some distance from the target and hit the bull's eye every time were wondering why they could not do the same thing. With grace and ease tha arrow flew straigt to the mark. Robin Hood, indesd, seemed to be in the midst of people aa-nn. Mr. Dean showed some of the girls something of the art by instructing them, as they shot, in the way they should stand and how they should hold the bow and arrow.
Committee Have Completed Plans For the Circus
DANCING WILL BE A FEATURE
WILL VISIT 10 INSTITUTIONS
JUNIOR CHORAL CLUB TO PRESENT T ITT MANN
Burmley Brokenborough Judith Taylor Martha Putney These girls will work under the leadership of Winston Cobb, undergraduate representative
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The Junior Choral Club will present Major Charles Tittmann in a recital, Thursday evening, November 19. Associated with Major Tittmann will be the Farmville Silver Band and the Senior Choral Club. This recital promises to be one of unusual merit and interest thus far shown, and argues well for a capacity crowd. The Woman's Club both literary and music divisions and members of Farmville Silver Band are behind this recital and are creating interest in nearby towns. The program will following next week's Rotunda.
Freshman Commission this year.
SOUTHERN ENGLAND IS HOME OF EARLIEST MAN
Southern England was the home of the earliest known man and he lived about a million years ago. So Henry Fairfield Osborn of the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History confidently informed British scientists the other day. The "Heidelberg man" lived 920.000 years ago; the Ueauderthal man only 70,000 years ago; the Cromwaguon man 30,000 years ago and modern Nordic man came 12,000 years ago. Professor Osborn uses the \l)EHATE CLUB TRY-OUTS teeth of the elephants whose remains \ TO BE HELD OCT 29 are found associated with various : Try-outs for the Debate Club will early men as his best clue to their be held in the little auditorium on antiquity. The elephant he finds is Thursday. October 29 at 7 o'clock. man's oldest traveling companion. Anyone interested may try out. The ]subject for debate is: Resolved. "That • Graduating Sophomores Should Have CHAIRMAN FOR MAY DAY FESTIVAL IS SELECTEE .the Same Privileges as Seniors." Persons trying out are expected Lo preRuth Floyd has been selected as sent a well organized speech of 3 to ,5 minutes in length. Those not wish- chairman of the May Day festival to J ing to debate for try-out may orate be held this coming May. To her all or make a public speech. All who are ] interested in forensics are asked to suggestions and themes for May Day are to be submitted. try-out.
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Freshman Commis'n Elected Last Nisht
Helen Smith
"1 Noted English Lecturer to Speak at S.T.C
Classes and Organizations Will Be Represented By Stunts and Other Features
The committees for the college circus have spent this past week in planning out their particular sunts for the circus. November 7, 1931. This year some of the organizations will be classed together and give only one stunt: this will add much more action to the circus. The committees are concentrating on better stunts rather than more of them. The circus is one of the most important events that happens here at college. Alpha Kappa Gamma realizing that a circus is what everyone enjoys, has for years sponsored one here at S. T. C. The plan has been a successful one; this year every stuThe following girls were elected dent is expected to come and enjoy herself as everyone else has in the at a meeting of the Freshman Class past. Besides stunts, which will be given last night, from twenty-four nominby classes and organizations there will ations: be extra features. Food will be sold, side shows will line the gymnasium Garnet Hodges and there will be dancing for extra Mary Hood amusement. Saturday afternoon, November 7, Belle Lovelace there will be a grand parade up High Street. At this time, everyone will get Polly McMurdo a chance to look at all the animals Lois Barnes and circus people. Mildred Lipscomb Nell Weaver
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Junior Class Wins First Place for Sons* The two prizes awarded in Chapoi Saturday morning to the two cla having the peppiest and most original varsity song, consisted of two dollars and a half; the first prize, which went to the Junior Class, and one dollar, the second prize, which went to the Freshman Class. Mary Elizabeth Glidewell, the composer of the Junior class song, showed unusual originality in the composition of the winning song. The Freshman song showed that originality, pep, and school spirit are outstanding in the 1935 class. The green and whites carried the day but the Seniors and Sophomores also deserve credit for their worthy productions. Though lacking in the forcefulness of the winning songs, the red and white classes' songs were excellent. The song winning first prize is as follows: We're gonna win We're gonna win We're going over the top For blue and white We'll ever fight For dear old S. T. C. We're out to win We're bound to win We 11 fight with all our might Weil do our best—to win the rest For dear old S. T. C.
RUFFNER LITERARY SOCIETY ANNOUNCES FAMOUS SCULPTOR DIES NEW MEMBERS IN THE BERKSHIRES The Ruffner Literary Society announces the following new members: Estelle Williamson Marjorie O'Flaherty Mary Elizabeth Glidewell Addie Leigh Parker Helen Smith Rachel McDaniel Hazel Halloway Helen Ward Dorothy Nuckols
SURVEY FINDS ONLY TEN NATIONAL COLLEGES According to a survey made by C. R. Foster, assistant professor of education at Rutgers, and Paul F. Dyer, associate professor of education at Antioch, there are only ten colleges and universities in the United States which can truly be called national institutions, so far as the geographical distribution of their student body is concerned. Washingotn and Lee is among these. The other nine are Antioch Asbury, Sweet Briar, Wellesley, Georgetown, Smith, Yale, Dartmouth and Notre Dame.
C. Douglas Booth, well known English writer and lecturer, will speak at Slate Teachers College, October 28 in the Student Building Lounge, under i he auspices of the Pi Gamma Mu of the College. His topic will be. "British Foreign Policy". Professor J. Elliott Walmsley will preside at the meetin". Dr. Booth is well known in this country as well as Europe as an authority on international affairs. He has spent a number of years in the Near East and the Balkans collecting political and economic material for a new book. He is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in England, to whom he submits fortnightly reports on his findings, and before whom he often delivers lectures upon international questions. He has also spent some time in study at the Academy of International Law at The Hague. Among his articles is a paper on 'The Political Situation in Southeastern Europe." presented before the Institute, and published in the Journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. "Italy's Aegean Posessions" published in 1928, is also well known in the United States, as are his articles for the American Peace Society of Washington. D. C, published in "The Advocate of Peace." Mr. Booth was born in Canada and was educated at St. Andrews College, Toronto, and at Loyola University. During the war he held the rank of major in His Majesty's forces. He has devoted seven years to the study of Mediterranean and Balkan problems, and has resided or travelled in Morocco. Egypt, Rhodes, Patmos, Athens, and Gelgrade. His lecturing experience is varied and includes considerable political work for the National Liberal Party of England, work in the United | States for Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives while with H. M. forces during the war. and later experience lecturing in both England and the United States on international relations. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, under whose guidance 279 International Relations Clubs have been formed in as many Colleges and universities in the United States, is responsible for Mr. Booth's visit to Farmville. Miss Amy Hemingway Jones of the Carnegie Endowment, is National Executive • Continued on page 3)
Daniel Chester French, the sculptor who designed the Lincoln Memorial at Washington and other masterpieces, died at his home in the Berkshires in his eighty-second year. He was the dean of American sculptors and his work ranges from "The Minute Man" dedicated by resident Grant when the young sculptor was only 23, to an ideal marble figure "Andromeda" completed only a few weeks a 0, His work was typically American 1 III M 1 STEIIPIECES TO and specimens may be found in many BE ON EXHIBITION HERE cities and towns throughout the country. "Alma Mater" at Columbia Reproductions of works of artists University; Groups on the Custom of many generations will be on disHouse, St. Louis; A Lincoln figure al play at State Teachers College from Lincoln. Nebraska, to name a few. November 9th to the 13th. This collection consists of 750 masterpieces representing the French, SIGMA PI RHO Italian, Flemish. English, Dutch. ANNOUNCES MEMBERS Spanish, German and American Sigma Pi Rho announces the fol- schools of art. Most of these are the terpieces studied by the schools. lowing new members: Famous port rails, landscapes, marLucy Fitzgerald ines, and pastoral scenes in the colHattie Gilliam ors of the original canvases are on display. Saro James
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Do you know. Jane. I've got three tests, tomorrow'3 Seems like all the tests come at the same time which happens to be the week all the good shows hit Farmville. Here. I've got sociology tomorrow and Constance Bennett beckons the tempting finger. Did you see those gorgeous pictures of her coming up the hill? Why? Oh, you've got government to study? Gosh, I peeped at that this morning; it's tough as whit-leather. Oh. S. T. C. beefstake. but to get serious, hasn't Constance Bennett the most beauti, ful hands you ever saw? And those eyes! That's right. I am forgetting Joel McCrea. What a man! Don't you think tonight will be plenty of time to study, if I went to the show this afternoon? We could get dopes and things and keep awake. Come on let's go. Jane, wasn't that the best show you ever saw? You look like you've been on a three-day jag—your eyes are all shriveled up and your nose looks like ye proverbial rose! As for myself. I feel all torn to pieces. I can't eat any supper after the show. Gosh, have we got to study tonight. Three tests apiece. I don't believe I can even live after that movie! Wouldn't you love to see it again, Jane? Just look at that moon over the Student Building. I couldn't study now anyway. We could do lots better later, and besides after seeing it once maybe we won't cry so much this time. Come on, its time to go now. Jane, wake up, you've just got to study. Here is another dope for you. It's only two o'clock. How far have I gotten? I am on page ten now. Did you notice Joel McCrae's physique in that uniform? He's been reminding me of Joe all night. Here, you're sleepy, lend me your pen so I can write Joe. We'll get up early tomorrow. I've got to study!
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The attitude of American people The Rotunda invites letters of comment, criticism, and suggestions from towards law and the men employed its readers upon its manner of presenting an dtreating them. A letter, to receive consideration, must contain the name and address of the writer. by the government to enforce the law These will not be published if the writer objects to the publication. is one of many things that is giving our government cause for alarm, for All matters of business should be addressed to the Business Manager, and all other matter should come to the Editor-in-Chief. Complaints from it is the attitude of the people that subscribers as regards irregularities in the delivery of The Rotunda, will determines whether or not the law is kept. Laws are made for the probe appreciated. tection and greater comfort of the people whom they govern. The majority of people realize this fact; at the same time, they are too selfish to abide by them. We have only to look at the Eighteenth Amendment to realize this fact. On exactly the same general principle is this unfortunate attitude towards school regulations in our student body. We seem to forget that each rule made by either the Student Council or the Home Department was made only after careful deliberation and study of some problem. The new rule has always been the last possible solution called upon Entirely fitting, just before the opening of the varsity in working with these problems. Some hockey season, was the singing of new varsity songs in Chapel of us forget why rules such as signlast Saturday*. The Athletic Association, in sponsoring a contest ing up meal absentees, signing up to tor the lust song, took a forward step, since we have been sing- go down town, and not going into the Post Office and railroad station were ing- the same ones for years and years. made. Sometimes these girls not only Congratulations go to the Junior and Freshman classes, do not keep the rules themselves; (specially for the way in which they sang their songs. The com- they do worse: they laugh about their petitive spirit aroused in this "Blue and White" contest gave uselessness before Freshmen and en"Creen and White" a good send-off in the friendly rivalry that courage them to disregard the silly is to last throughout the year between them and "Red and rules! White." It is easy to see what the effect of this attitude of upperclassmen upon Now thai each class has a varsity song all its own, (and last Freshmen and new girls will be. To Saturday proved that they all know their songs well) we feel the Freshman all rules are rules. She sure that our varsity teams this year will not lack for enthusihas no way of knowing that one rule ast Ic support of till students. is more strictly kept than another. We suggest that the classes not forget their songs, since the Coming to this school, she is usually contest is over, but sing them at each class meeting, so that they prepared to accept and abide by all will still know them when varsity hockey and later, varsity bas- rules. Some of our new girls had not ket ball begins. It may be that the possession of each class of a been here a day before they were called "green" because they asked varsity song will start something*unique in cheering. Since, by winning the first prize, the Junior song is "the" where they might sign up to go down town; consequently, they went withvarsity song, it is given here, so that everyone can know it if out signing. Being thus influenced to She Chooses. And we feel sure that she will'choose. disrespect a minor rule, a Freshman can hardly be expected to respect a "We're gonna win, we're gonna win; major one. Sometimes by painful exWe're going o'er the top. perience in the Student Government For Blue and White we'll ever right— room and on the "campus bench" she For dear old S. T. C. learns that there are rules which We're out to win; we're bound to win; must be kept, even though she lias We'll tight with all our might. been told to disregard them. We'll do our best to win the test Who is responsible for this? UpFor dear old S. T. C." perclassmen, are we not guilty?
Varsity Songs: A Suggestion
Much Ado 'Bout Nothin' THE HARP
A knocker never wins and a winner never knocks. I have a heart of many strings But two are enough for me; One is for love and one for death: A doctor who runs a syndicated And what would the third one be? advice column in a paper says: "The way to keep ymnv: is to live with Before I learn another note young people." And the way to age I may forget and go, quickly is to try to keep up with So while my hand is light and sure them. I play on the strings I know. An astronomer says that the earth TO RE ATTAINED is now running a fraction of a second ahead of its schedule daily. But even at that we don't seem to be getting There is glory to be gained. There are great deeds to be done. any place. There are goals unattained, Waiting some courageous one. Another thing there is an overproduction of is depression talk, and There are inventions to be made. it's dirt cheap, too! There are new lands to discover. There are poems to be made, And old nations to recover. A famous authority r-ays that a vaM. E. White cation builds you up physically. But how it tears you down financially!
MY LOVE The modern beret is nothing but an old fashioned tarn o* shanter with I have loved— The driving rain, a French accent. The crimson sunset. The silvery moon. The trailing vines. THE NEW STUDENT The trees that According to observers of American Sway in the wind: campus life, student irresponsibility All these things has reached something of an end, I have loved, dear. and having achieved the vacuity of a But most of all— raccoon coat, a private auto, and I have loved you. "C". '35 weekly gin parties as the apogee of college education, now turns in the direction taken by the medieval stuTIME dent who was content with a hair shirt, bean soup an da plank for a I has been bed. It appears that throughout Ameri- Such a long. can colleges the student of the rah- Long time rah variety is rapidly disappearing Since and there comes to replace him the I saw you. boy or girl with an eye to personal Weeks, economics and to showing elders that Months. even an American collegiate can be Years. Time has lost thrifty. In the opinion of Richard P. Do- Its meaning. herty. this change in the American Just a long student is one of the benign effects of Stretch national economic depression. Col- Of waiting lege expenses have decreased very For you. little. If a boy or girl wishes to re- But. ah. my dear, main in acadamic halls he or she I must remember must now make certain sacrifices: That and instead of lamenting the old days "Time is the tick of the clock, of the twenties when college life was Not the beat of the heart." "C", "35 largely making whoopee and occasionally classes interrupting the SESQUICENTENMAL festivities by reluctant attendance upon lectures, this contemporary student has shed his coonskin coat, tcld Thousands vibrant with expectation his automobile, said no to the boot- Eagerly pressed forward legger and gotten a job somewhere Toward the last scene about the campus. Of the battle between a new This is good news it it is true. Nation and one old It is good news mainly because it re- With weighty experience. minds the older generation of the And after the battle ended truism that youth can be depended The spectacular parade of on to adapt itself readily to hard- Soldiers— ship and self-denial. It also recalls Marching—marching with an equally hoary observation that Never a miss-step. nothing is so destructive of educa- Finally, the halt of them all, tional processes than the possession And while spirited horses by students of more money than is Impatiently pawed the ground, necessary. The bugler Academic education in the United Sounded retreat. States has within the last decade had As the last rays of the too little asceticism. Of course, .such Sun lighted a word is still looked upon with sus- Our flag, picion by utilitarians and aesthetes It slowly descended, and alike, but wiser men than we have The strains of the "Star Spangled long known that the inner man someBanner" how thrives on exterior deprivation Thrilled every patriotic heart. M. von S., '32 so long as his mental life retain, Its enrichment. In the words of Havelock Ellis, whose expressed philosophy of OLD IRONSIDES life is at variance with his more inspired utterances, "asceticism is the antechamber of spiritual elevation." Through the black of a night If the American student is accept- While men and armies slept on. ing his deprco.ed economic condition Into the waters near Kecoughtan with a good will and turning ever so Glided the Constitution. slightly to the wealth of ideas lying The rays of approaching dawn within the smallset college library, Lit in its rosy glow parents ceai rest assured that even The stars and stripes of a flag fashionable self denial will have a That all Americans know. good effect. Who knows? It may even come about thai the college student Her sails and tow'ring cross-rig who knows something about Plato Were welcomed with many cheers will be more highly esteemed than From anxious women that prayed on one who owns a sport model roadster. shore And Plato is available even in times And the stricken pioneers. of economic depression. For she brought their victory The New Haven Connecticut, com- Cached in her iron sides mercial high school has inaugurated And 'tis to her we freemen owe the custom of planting memorial Thanks that liberty now abides. trees dedicated to teachers. M. von S., '32
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SOCIALS 4 Nancy Boykin spent the week-end n Emporia. •
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8. T. C. GIRLS ATTENDING CREDITORS LEND TO NOTED ENGLISHMAN TO PAY THEMSELVES LECTURE \T S. T.C. II.AMP DEN-SYDNEY OPENING DANCES American citizens have loaned to Nancy Burgwin. Ben Franklin Margaret Banks. Bill Young. Nedora Bair. Harry Brown Lois Barus, Georee Walters Helen Cover. John Grant Nancy DeBerry. J. H. Whitfleld Francos Dorin, Miles Cary Patty Ellison. George Bowers Margaret Eley. Rudy Young Elma Foster. L. Yowell Nancy Harrison, Allan Markham Honey Hamilton. Marion Hum! phries Ruth Hunt. Morris Hunt Mary Harrison. Billy Powell B Jones. Meredith Dortch Jenilee Knight. Joe Perry Virginia Lamb. Pinkie Smith Gloria Mann. Jack McCurdy Jean McClure, Norris Blake Ann McClure, Bucky Lewis Kitty Marchant. Billy Brown Vernie Oden, Randal Moore Frances Potts, Herbert Trotter, Jr. Frances Rawlings, Louis Miller Jane Royall, Al Gillespie Martha Sanders, Larus Reed Mary Shelton, Macon Reed Nancy St.Clair, Ed. Traynham Mar,ha Walters. Billy Shannon Helen Warren, Bankie Warren Dct Waynick, John Boyd Marietta Wilson, Peter Trent Mary Alice Young, Ran Bradley Catherine Cogbill, Lewis Smith Frances Dillon, Joe Lacy Thelma Walsh, Franklin Younger
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FRANCE HAS MOTOR CAR RUN ON RAILS Depressed railroad companies have only themselves to blame, say many Df their patrons. They haven't had a new idea since the days cf the horse car. But from France comes a promise of a new era in rail 'nm.sportation. For the latest in French motor cars is one which runs on rails. La Michcline. named for its inventor. Marcel Michelin Hire tycoon', is an autocar with rubber tires fitted to regulation steel rails, and is rapidly replacing interurban railroad trains in France. In addition to the extreme comfort and silence of the rubber tired locomotives, it is claimed that the speed and capacity may be considerably increased. Because of the greater adherence of the pneumatic tires to steel rails it is possible to make an average speed of 90 kilometers (60 miles) and hour. A special device arranged on each wheel prevents a flattening of the tire in case of a puncture, and a tire may be changed in three minutes, it is said. Another unusual advantage claimed for La Michcline is that it can slow up at cross roads. This || expected to eliminate the complicated system of signals now in use in •France. And like the toonerville trol|ley the autotrain can be operated by ione man.
'From Florida State College) Smartness and sophistication seem to be the primary aims in fashions on the Tallahassee canvuir. And anyone standing on the dining room arcade Sunday noon can vouschafe that the two S's have been attained to a remarkable degree. Tallahassee collegi-annas favor suits, perhaps for its practicality and its jaunt iness. Three piece knit suits. ■• I . ey suits, corduroy suits, suit of cotton, wool, and silk; all these are seen every day in the classroom. Suits are seen again for more carefree days, only this time of more luxurious cut and materials. The rough, attractive material known as "boucle" is one of the most popular both for suits and for coats. Fur is "le dernier eri" in trimming and how it does add to the appearance of o outfit and the appearance of one's allowance. Furs which are really "good" this on are fox, wolf, caracul, mink, Persian lamb and lapin, and it is hard to decide which is the most flattering. Leopard skin has been used on a number of this season's creations and is unanimously approved. Corduroy suits deserve more than passing notice. Many of them are in lumber jacket fashion with zipper fasterner and mannish skirt. Accessories play a leading role in this winter's fashions and make or mar many an outfit. Ascot scarfs are widely used in a variety of colors, designs, and shapes. They furnish that finishing touch as nothing else can. Gloves take on a different aspect with a noticeable flare in the cuffs. Stitching is favored on sport gauntlets of fabric while kid gloves show color contrast. Shoes are more sensible this year than ever before. One trudges up and down hill In flat-heeled oxfords. Medium heeled walkim; .shoes of kid or calf are seen trimmed in reptile and are suitable for classroom and street wear alike. Laced oxfords of sueed present a semi-dress appearance and have been well received. Slender heels Continued on page four • •:•
Germany one-third of that country's stupendous private debt of $3,500.000.000. a debt that exceeds by more than a billion dollars the amount Germany has paid in reparations. In addition, the United States together with other lnading powers, has loaned Germany hundreds of millions to forestall a threatened financial collapse. What has been done with this borrowed money? Why do Germans still bewail their country's plight? These facts and questions are set forth by Garet Garrett. noted economic writer, in a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Garrett writes that for six years international finance has been "pouring money into the German treasury, into German indusry, into German banks, saying: 'If the world expects Germany to pay reparations, it must lend her enormous sums to build up her internal economy.'" Now, Mr. Garrett shows, Germany is saying to her creditors: "If you expect to be paid you must go on lending us the money to pay you with. To save your investments you must save Germany first." "What is it Germany must be saved from?" the writer asks, and anwers himself, "First and always, from reparations." In brief, Germany uses a threatened repudiation of her private debts to obtain more loans and reparations concessions. Furthermore, according to Mr. Garet, she has used the same threat to prevent withdrawals of foreign deposits from her banks and at the same time has sent her money into foreign banks. When the German Chancellor in July was soliciting an international loan of $500,000,000. there was on deposit in foreign money centers a billion dollars of Germany money that could have benn called home. "The Germans did [not want their own money," the writer concludes. "They wanted the other people's money." "Helpless Germany" is now the world's second greatest industrial power, built up, Mr. Garrett shows, on borrowed money which she cannot repay—except with more borrowed money and through a lightened reparations burden. No wonder when she cries, "Save me" her creditors rush to her aid. The younger folk no longer trust The Emerson idea; When duty sternly says, "You must!" The youth replies, "Oh yeah?"
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Secretary of the International Relations Clubs. During his present tour Mr. Booth will discuss international relations in more than forty educational institutions in the South.
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As effective as any ever atten in Italy bv Mussolini has been clamp317 Main Street ed down by President H goncy unemployment comi all who would discuss unemployn i Farmville. Virginia. or the present economic .situation over the radio. This became apparent with the knowledge that United States Senator Robert F. Warmer of New York had been prevented from makinrr an address with a nation-wide spread o ODORLESS CLEANING the Columbia and National Broadcasting system touching on the unUnder New Manageemnt employment situation from a nonpolitical viewpoint. Inquiry developed the fact that W T. SMITH, Mgr. and Lessee both the Columbia Broadcast ii tern and the National Br Phone 355 system have adopted a policy of re-1 208 Third Street fusing to permit radio speeches by anyone on the subject of unempli ment unless the speech is appro by the committee of which Walter S. TRY A PAIR OF DEXDALE Gilford is chairman. It costs about the price of a gold Beautiful Silk Stockings From ball—sixty cents per day to keep the average child in school in the United States, according to figures compiled by William John Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of Education. THEY GIVE THE BEST WEAR
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Teacher: "If a group of sheep is a flock, and a group of cattle is a herd, what is the name of a group of camels?" * "City": "A carton."
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ARE VOU READY FOR THE CIRCUS? e you made your engagement for the circus? Have you heard of the many wild animals that will growl and perform numerous tricks before a breathless audience? If you haven't —well, you "Just ain't been out much" because a real circus with animals, snake charmers, side shows, and everything is coming. There is going to a big parade, too; the balI loon "man and all his many balloons ! wil1 b0 rigW atani to amuse the children. Don't know, but I have a sneaking idea that the country cousins are coming to town for that big day. You'll enjoy them! The circus is the best and funniest event of the .season and no one can aliord to miss It. If you do—what a miss! The parade will be Saturday afternoon. November 7. and the big old circus will be Saturday night! Be on time so you can get a good seat!
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Continued from page on* ONE DAY SERVICE for the coming year, it is revelant also to glv< a brief picture of the organComplete line Greeting Cards ization of the present. The most strikJust One Block From Campus U18 feature perhaps, is the fact that "A farmer contributed his mite to ^l|rU^ " ..IS:.re:. P°!1M .. °L* °* .e-mer5enc3( servic i program of year-round medical lore by pointing out that useful activities, both of which funcevery home should have one skunk to JOKES tions must continue without intcravert colds—perhaps on the principle YOU WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ii pt that one sniff a day would keep the it is. for example, now conducting doctor away."—Skull and Bones. drought relief In certain northwestern YOUR SHOES FIXED AT THE Medical College of Virginia. New Girl: "Do you really think I states, where, except for the magnican make your sorority?" tude of the general situation, its opOld Girl: "Oh. sure, we gotta have Mrs. Annie Fellows Johnston, auerations would rank as a major effort '■one to snub." thor of the "Little Colonel scries of of its career. The northwest drought widely popular children's books, is She called her husband Daisy be- project is only dwarfed by the I dead at her home near Louisville. Ky.. that the Red Cross is just eine. i home and some 110 Third Street at the age of 68. Though ill for 13 from a year in which, besides giving n't. DANCE TO VICTORY years, Mrs. Johnston had written drought relief in 2'A states, it extendsteadily until 1929. ed disaster aid in 52 calamities scatProf. "And n! when Is your ed- tered through 38 states. Freshmen, are you up on the latest I lly complete?" While carrying this burden of the steps? Or can the Juniors show you Scholarship hath its reward most Chorus: "After a Hampden-Sydney drought relief, the Red Cross contin- [something new? In fact the magnaeverywhere. It's quite tangible at dance." ued to maintain such normal services nimous Juniors will teach the entire Millsaps College. A student with an student body on November 14. Just the country required of both na- where, how, and why, will be a fu- average above ninety need only pay As the pardoned murderer said, as "Wi; NEED YOUR HEAD tional and local organizations. In the seventy-five dollars for his tuition, "No noose is good news." ture revelation. Watch and wait! TO RUN OUR BUSINESS" program of the Red Cross work, there which for those below this level, is are many points at which it has deAnd you'i • he ird about the Scot We Use the Frederick Method Meat, potatoes, eggs, fruit, chickens one hundred dollars. who w;i i girl a rush— veloped a mutually valuable associ- and vegetables will be accepted this Hair Cutting and Thinning: a o he took her home on the subway. ation with the educational world and year as tuition at Beloit College. Specialty Students at Westfield, Mass.. State those in it, students and faculties. Normal school a. ping the newThrough its Junior Red Cross orSign on Scotch field—"All punts ganization, numbering more than 7,A gallant professor at Sweet Briar ly completed Alumni gardens and BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOP musl be returned." while speeding down the road, notennis courts. These were made pos000.000 members of lower school ages, 323 Main Street it works in harmony with teachers ticed one of the Briarites drop her sible from gifts of the Alumni assoglove. He immediately slammed on Tony (to his wife): "I wish you and pupils. Certain of its instruction ation and were constructed during wouldn't knit at meal times. I can't courses are standard and given credit the brakes, recovered the article, and the summer. tell where my spaghetti leaves off and in a number of educational institu- presented it to its owner. I time in a crossing. Five crowded days thai sweater begins." tions, both intermediate and uniof love and adventure on an oceanversity rank; in other cases these greyhound. Danger always threatenCulpril (in traffic court): "Every- phases of Red Cross activity are made ing between the tinkle of wine glasses thing I do, I do fast." a part of the program more informthe flip of cards and reckless kisses. QUALITY—PRICE—SERVICE Judge: Try sixty days and see ally. Up the gangplank and into the swift, how fast you can do that." Then there is the international side luxurious cosmopolitan life on a great PROGRAM OCT. 27 TO NOV. of the Red Cross movement which liner—where men risk all for a thrill, Come in and (Jet Acquainted When a girl drops him a fellow is must, both at present and in the fu« for a million, for a woman's smile. usually broke. ture, hold interest for all Americans. A love story and mystery play you We Are Glad to Have You With Us At the close of the World War, in the TUES-—The American Legion will will long remember. Also screen Song Building Foreman: "Are you the course of peace-time adjustment, lady what's singing?" there was created the League of Red present "MOLLY'S IDEA", a musi- and Fox News. Farmville, Virginia NEXT MON.—INA CLAIRE in Soprano: Yes. I've been singing." Cross Societies, through American cal comedy with a large cast of local Building Foreman: "Might I ask leadership, and a sponsorship which talent. This production is said to be "REBOUND". Here is the smartest you not to hold the high notes so has continued in the post-war years. one of the best of its kind ever shown comedy-drama of the year with smart long?" The men have knocked off Through the League there has de- locally and a real treat is promised atmosphere, smart people and smart twice, thinking it was the noon veloped a growing international re- those attending. There will be a dialogue. "Just how long should a matinee at 3:30 P. M. and the eve- wife keep on forgiving?" These perwhistle." lationship in the Red Cross field. Ihus, today the Red Cross in ning performance will start promptly tinent questions are answered In this "It's been a trying day." said the rounding its first fifty years, is put- at 8 o'clock. Prices will be adults, 50c splendid picture that proves that a judge as he locked the courtroom. ting into practical etlecl that spirit at night and 35c at matinee. Children husband caught on the rebound is Is Headquarters for the Best like a rubber ball—in time he will of helpfulness at home and abroad 35c at night and 25c at matinee. SANDWICHES WED. & THURS.—GRETA GAR- stop bounding. Here's a fascinating At a wedding who generally gives in which it has its inception. entertainment that every woman BO and CLARK GABLE in "SUSAN the bride away?" —and— "The newspaper." NESS & SOPH I STIC AT/OX LENOX". Get ready for the supreme, should see—and no man should miss. exotic thrill of your picture-going Considered the best dressed woman DRINKS IN LATE FASHIONS days for here truly is gorgeous on stage or screen, Miss Claire will tip in the airplane they had thought CAMPUS AIMS AT SMART- Greta Garbo in the picture that will take away your breath when it comes —In— For a wedding was the proper spot make you forget all her previous tri- to clothes. Also Billy Howell Comedy A wheel within the darn thing broke FARMVILLE Continued from page three umphs. Here is a world-famous love and Paramount Souvenir. Just as the words the person spoke: NEXT TUES.—THE BRAT" With story with the flaming Garbo in the Diil this disturb them.' Not at all. are seen only for very dressy wear arms of that fascinating new leading SALLY O'NEIL supported by Frank 'i hi v' ot married in the fall! and the not of a neck-breaking man. Clark Gable. What a pair! And Albertson, Allen Dinehan and splenheight. what a powerful and moving story did cast. With a gay, whimsical huA motor cop's calling card reads— Formal clothes are the college girl's they enact for your interest and en- mor and a series of delightful sur"Give me a trial and I'll tee that delight and she takes to sheer velvet tertainment! Garbo's role surpasses prises scattered throughout the siory, you |.el one." unusually well. Satin and taiieta fol- anything she has yet done; first as a The Brat" easily wuis a place among QUALITY PRICK • SFPVIO: ITIMU low closely behind especially the latthe most enjoyable pictures of the farm girl, then a dancer and finally Autoist: "Pardon me. but haven't ter because of its adaptability to the as a lover of men, she portrays such year. It is taken Irom Maude FulI run across your face before?" gowns of the Empress Eugenie peri- variety of emotions as will sweep ton's play about the conceited author Irish peue.'.tria.i: "No. begorra. It od. you off your feet. "Susan Lenox" is and the girl of the slums he picks up my left leg you hit last tune." Puffed sleeves, leg o' mutton sleeves, proving a sensation in New York and as a heroine for his next novel, takes normal waistlines and all the rest of Sin- B ng i ■' ana 'story place" in the little touches which were worn other large cities. Note—This being a her home to his mother where she the i' dian language. Nellie says she by Eugenie are evident on our cam- high-priced percentage picture our shocks the entire household. There is contract stipulates we must charge a love story of course, and a happy thinks it sounds pretty hard in any pus as well. higher prices. Adults, 50c at nights ending. Also Paramount News and language. Color is most important in the and 35c at matinees. Children un- Comedy. Nelghbl r: ' Why la your car paint- winter's costumes. Black, and differ- der 12 years of age, 25c at nights and Daily matinees at 4 p. m. Evenings id red on one -side and blue on the ent .shades of reds, ranging from 20c at matinees. Also Bobby Jones in at 8 o'clock. wines to rusts, browns, greens, and "Trouble Shots." Admission (except Wed and Thurs. other?" Speedy: "Oh, It's ' N ■<' iport. You blues, are the best. Vivid splashes of FBI. & SAT.—TRANSATLANTIC" —Adults, 35c at nights and 25c at CLEANERS AND TAILORS should hear the Witnesses eontiadiet- coloring in plaid and striped effects with EDMUND LOWE, LOIS MORAN matinees. Children under 12 years of are used as contrast. i aril other." and a great cast. They lived a life- age, 15c to each show. Expert Cleaning, Repairing and The college girl makes a striking Remodeling of Ladies puture when she is arrayed to her Teacher: "Yea, Robert 'amo' is the satisfaction. Garments Latin word meaning '1 love'. Now, Special prices for cleaning and What word I Us opposite?" remodeling pupii "Reno." national Billion-Dollar Bank Pool Organized to Restore Confidence Main Street, Opposite Postoffice Friend: "1 hear you're going to Will be presented to the best model appearing in the Phone 98 marry Mr. dayboy. You're making a mistake, He n lead a double life." Within the last ten days, the leadOld M."d: "Well, if i dont marry ing bankers of the United States at bim, i u lead a Bingle Ufa and that's the request of President Hoover have to be held at the EACO THEATRE woi organised and financed—as if by WEDNESDAY NIGHT, November 4th magic a billion-dollar banking pool Katharine: "You say you're going to be called the National Credit CorpIn conjunction with the feature picture, "THE BEto marry B man who is a millionaire oration. Business men haii it as | LOVED BACHELOR" with Dorothy Jordan and Paul iu iv trying to persuade me great constructive move and bankers Lukas it is a io\e match? have surely showed their enthusiasm ii TAILORING Belle: tt I ■ ^ » *«■»'• i love for it by the speed and generosity of LIVING MODELS WILL DISPLAY Dresses from the their response. In less than three day., monej CLEANING after the plan was proposed, they had What were you doing in worked out the details, had applied AND PRESSING akeaay when it was raided?" for a charter, and had virtually guarFAKMVILLE, VA. i , | u.inith: "1 was making a bolt anteed twice the sum the Presidei. DANVILLE, VA. fox the door." had suggested. Farmville, Va.
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