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Page Two The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md. :-: :-: ]utl'r-(!llll1l'giutl' ll1urtl'tt! An l,!fllu 14ikl' ]t I Offidal newspaper of Western Maryland Oollege, published on Thursday during A REVmW OF BOOKS, the academic year by the atudenta ot wester» Maryland College, Westminster, Nl'U1n PLAYS AND LIFE Maryland. Entered as seeond-elaaa matter at the Westminster Postof!ice. Subaeription I'dce, $2.00 & Year. MIt. MENCKEN CONVINCED. TIME·TABLES. Exams are here. I am very busy, "I am thorougbly convinced that too so I have turned this week's column A time-table is the ttrat thing a MANAGING STAFF many young Americans are now go- over to Quotation from "The World man asks for and the last tbing a. ing to college and that their presence ill Falseface" by George Jean Nathan. woman considers when contemplating Editcr-in-Uhief , , . , J, Paul Lambertson, '28 is greatly impeding the work of the a trip. No real woman ever claimed Managing Editor. , · Hubert R. Johnson, '28 colleges. Certainly it sbould be fIO!!- to know how to read one and no real Asst. Managing Editor. .Bamuel IT, Bryant, '28 stble to devtee Borne scheme to weed ON LIFE man ever admitted that he doesn't. out the unfit." For whlle a time-table saves the man Business Manager .. , ,. Earl B. Lippy, '29 Thus spoke Henry L. Mencken tu a "What interests me in life--Is the the erubarraesmeur of asking people things, its use by a woman would pre- Ass't Business Manager,. ."W, B. Sanders, Jr" '30 reporter for the Cornell Sun, in one sur-face of life; life's music and vent her baving a valid excuse for cnlbur Us charm and ease, its hum- Advertising Manager , , , , , , . , .. , ••. , , , , , , , Marvin D. Sterling, '30 of several interviews recently grant- or and its loveliness. The grea.t throwing herself on tue mercy of ed to college papers. Circulation Manager. · W. Edwin Warfield, '29 Mr. Mencken, we are told, "is OP- pl'oblems of the world-social, polit- strange but polite and ctnmea hand- ical, economic and theologlcal--clo some gentlemen. Asst, Circulation Managers · .{TIOYL. Robertson, '29 posed to the college for purposes of not concern me in the slightest, I A time-table, like marriage, ia one intellectual With Nathan education. J. A. Stach, '30 he holds that its greatest benefits are care not who writes the laws of a of thoaa things that should not be en- Art Editor., .. "Pete" Gomsak, '30 soctat." country so 10llg as I may listen to its tered into lightly, for It presents Sports Editor .Clarence IT. Bennett, '28 Of compulsorv mnttai-r training, songs." many difficulties. 'I'here is aome rea- the editor of the Mercur-y said: son to helieve that the railroads em- of Chinese to compile ploy a stair "The military Idea seems training REPOR'l'ORIAT ...S'l'AFF to me absurd. T see no reason why "Lire. as I see it, is for the fortun- them, for they are not infrequently all with Chinese its few-life ate News Editors the college student should be con- lanterns, and sudden lovely tunes and written up and uowu after the Orient- Dorothy L. Gilligan, '28 W. K. Barnes, '28 scripted and not the young man out- gay sadness. In so far as I have any al manner. On the other hand, the Bide." hieroglyphics calling attention to Assooiate Editors Aild of the lecture system: philosophy at all, it Is founded upon foot-notes suggest a strong Egyptian Ruth French, '28 Alvin Ali.JrigiJt, '28 "The American system, It seems to that theory. For the Nietzschean "Be Influence. Again their tendency to- 1 have no use, however. hard!" Evelyn E. Pusey, '28 Oscar L. Morris, '29 me, is better for Americans than the savoue to much of cannon, thong and It ward after-thought uetrave the hand Elizabeth H. Davis, '28 "Jap" W'cisuecl(, 30 Oxford system. It Is obviously more overly Intense purpose, For myself, 1 of some dear old lady. in eccord with the hablta of mind of These foot-notes, by the way, are R~]POR'I'ERS 0111'people." SUbstitute "Be indifferent." like a college edition of Shakeapeare 1L Gertrude Ranck, '28 Eugene C, Woodward, '28 And of fraternities: or Millon, much more important than Dorothy 1\fellott, '28 Ihu-vin M. Seitz, '29 "Regarding trateruittes, I know the text. A single asterisk or c1llcle N, n. Pennewell, '31 Casper P. Hurt, '29 nothing. It is commonly alleged that ON LOVE may make all the difference in the Elsie M. Held, '28 -Ileorge E. Salter, '29 they foster snobbery. But I see no "The enduring love is the love tbat world between a perfectly good train Margaret Martignonl, '29 Joseph L. Mathias, Jr., '29 obiectlon to snobbery per se; all ra- laughs. The man and woman who and one that runs on Snnday only. Mary A. Walzl, '29 Wilmer V. Bell, '30 tional men are snobs In some way or can laugh at their love who can kIss An insignificant little symbol over- Catherine K Read, '30 W. G. Eatoll, '30 another. That the fraternitles exalt with ~miles and embrace with chuck- looked may determine whether you Virginia C, 1\'ferrill, '3D 'Villiilln 1-1. BrolVll, '30 fifth-raters and oyerlook men of les, will Olltiast in mutual atfection will l'ide in a plain coach or find merit may be true, but the same ac- all the throat-lumping, cow-eyed yourself forced into a club car, along cllsation might be leveled against any couples of their acquaintance.' No- witb multi-millionaires and traveling Worthy opinion; Model management; Correct news, other human instltuUon," thing dies so quickly In the heart of salesmen, with bells all around that lIlr. Mencken urges <811who feel the woman M the love that has been only yonr little boy seems desirous ot the urge to write, first to obtain orchestrated by the man upon the ringing. !E-D-I-T-O-R-I- A -L steady employment. Until recently strings of the tear ducts. Nothing Time-tables aTe a great help except he suggested bootlegging, but the lives on so fresh and' ever green as that yoU are never quite certain strength of competition has led to the love wilh a funny-bone," whether the train you have selel1ted Life indeed must be measured by TNTELLECTVALIS,l[ L"D PRO· advocacy of laxi driving aud similar Ica"es in the mOl"llingor the after· thought and action and not by time. GUESS. occupatton..::'. - IltOOll,whether it is going or coming, -Sir John 1...l1bbock. "That woman who begins saying whether or not it will take your bag· f,~:CTUR.ES TRTU.M1'H. gage, whether or not It has something The present age is very proud of t a a man, "I don't think you love me to eat aboard, whether the I\ttle "r' its iutellpctual acbievement. It glor- Superiority of tbe lecture over the any more," and who reiterates if It is not doing Ule thing we like to do, class discussioll sy~tem is indicated from time to time Is already begiu- at the side means "fRst" or "stops at !;lutliking the thing we have to do, that ies in its ellligbtened views; it looks ning to fall out of love wltb 111m." a.1l flag stations," whetller the note makes \if," ble~l!I'll. l.Jack \'t1t~ntempt upou the nal'- ~~ ;;~:~~me~ ~;~~inQllB~w:t:~:' '"r" vitally concerns you or applies -Goethe. row, uns ntific, and prejudiced only to retired capitalists contemplnt- ideas wJ' :n had a much greater vogue professors in Teachers College, Co- ing a sojonra in Florida. in past years. It jeers at the old- lumbia University. Arter using the "It Is a sign of man's Inc011trover- Whoever may!;le the people who Don't let a few mistai!;es discourage fashioned people who ortell had e)(- two metboda on ident.lcal work, tests tlble idiocy that he will like any woo make time-tables tbey appeal' to ad- you; for mistakes are the commonest tremely unacient.ific views about re- indicated that the lItmlenls had learn- man who shows Sign of liking him." mit tbat tbey are only human, ror lectures, ed most fl'om pl'ofessorial things in the world. That Is wby, as lIgion, and wbose ideas were llar- rather than discusslop among teacb- they are careful to Inform you tbat someone has said, they put rubbers row at many points. And yet in they simply can't guarantee Ule in- , 011 the end of lead pencils. Try spite of !.he limitaUons of these "old- ers and students. A class in educa- "Men grow to lo"e the memory of formation they have set forth. tional J)s}"chology wa~ divided Into Women grow again! timers," in some resJ)ect tlley were tWO gl'OUPS,one of "\yhich used the their fil'st sweethearts. of tbelr Urat Baltimore Sun. to hate the memory superIor to us moderns. They lecture system, and the other dls- lovers." We are strongly in favor of t.he co- brought up families of well trained cllssion. The order Wlls reversed eds who take Home Economics. For, children, who were taught to be good during the second semester, and in WHY COOUDGF. GOES TO CUDA. consIdering lhe fact that women Citizens, to obey the laws, to respect eacIt case tests indicated greater ON AMERICA spent eighty-five per cent of the the moral standards of the commun- leal'ning from the lectures. The ex- It is unusual for a pl'esident of the territory money made in the world, the crown- ity. Tbe "old-timers" might have Ileriment obviOUSly proved the sup- "In 1775 the American people be- United States to leave our In each at and go to a foreign land. ing virtue of a woman could be no been narrow, but they did a g1"eut eriority of ihe lecture system in gan their great struggle for liberty. the few iustances where tbis oc- other tban economy. deal of fine work for Uleir cantin un· teachillg facts. but whether the dis- One hundred and forty-eight yeaTe curred, some great iBsue was at Ity. cussion system offered otber advant- later they arestiIJ at It." stake. In going to Cuba to attend the ages to Offllet its lesser learning fac- Some people of to-day have be- Pall-American Conference, PTesident Kow that exams are bere, let's come far superior to these "old-tim- \llty, was n::".::,::,"::;id:... __ "In Enrope. aristocracy Is founded Coolidge and his advisers have sucb play the game fairly and squarely. era" in mentfll breadth and intellect- LE~S A.nBITRATE. upon laud. In the United States, It an issue to meet. It_!J!_ke!LC!lur.ageto face an "E," but ual achievement. And yet, in sense is founded upon real estate. The countries to 1I1e South of UB rememher tbat a cheater is the low· Regulal' faculty-student conterenc- do not like us any too well, which Is est form of life to !;le found in any of moral responsibility, they seem in- e~ for diSCUSSionof facnlty legisla- partly onr fault and partly tbelrs. college group. It is belter to ta!] ferior to those upon whom tlley look !ion pertaining to students is sug- "A lover of strong liquor and rare They may inltate some move to re- with IlOnaI' tba.n to pass with dis· back with contempt. gested br the Coruell Sun to "promote wines, a gas Lothario with ever an grace. A man may be intellectually very greater understanding and insure eye for a pretty girl. white or black, strict by the United States in their broad and tolerant, but if he is not complete co-operation In Question a bellever in aristocracy and slavery, affairs. If sucil should be the caae, It will take all the subtlety or our diplo- sirhing lo make a better world mor- diroctly concerning the under-gradu- a hater of the mob, a gourmet, a "jr- The successful cheater raises him- ally, his breadth is a useless SOl"tof ate body." The Sun believes a 1"e- tuoso of Rabelalsianlsm and amour, matists and stateamen to smooth down self in the estimatioll of others: for thing. A river Illay be extremely presentative group of students meet- their l'uffled feelings, and work out tbey do not know bow he gets his ing wilh the faculty would do much the life Of the party. a good dancer, a some plan by which dIsorderly little results. But what can be bis esti- broad, but it may he so Shallow that lo remove mutual irritation. The pro- fellon of fillical taste ill clothes, republics can be made to behave like mate of bimfieIr, realizing as he does nothing deeper than a litlle flatboat nasal is noi new. Elsewhere It has an admirer of fine arts with no re- real countries. t.bat all o( his success is really an can navigate its waters. On tIJe been presented in stttden attempts to gards to its morals-You smile at tbe abominable fallure? It must be bard oLher hand, a river may be very nar- gain access to faculty meetings. These viciously satinal picture? I give King's Pharmacy for him to live with bimself. 1"OW,bul il may be so deep lhat lhe efforts generall~' have beel! fruitless, yOU its name. "The Fatber of His ocean steamahip can sail up its nal'- presumably on the gl'ound that the Count1"Y,Geol'ge ·Wasbington." l'OW channel and discharge the com- students al'e !lot sumciently mature The RexaU Store It is difficult to be always true to merce of the world upon its banks. to be of aJd to lhe administrators. 55 E. Main St., Westminster, Md. ourselves, to be always what we Wish H is much the same with people However, sOllle of tIle kindlier teach- In this day wheu physical condit- to be, what we feel we ought to be. Sometimes ihe most nanow ones will ers have let Il be known that the ion is so much emphasized, I think it As long as we feel that, as long as t.ake hold and work with all the ener- facuilies are not so mucll atraW of only fair that we flOOr unhealtby HAVE YOUR SHOES REPAIRED AT he allowed to have George creatures we do not sUl'render the ideal of our gy necessary to advance the cause 0' student immatu)·Uy as they are of the Jean Nathan defend us. So--- THE COLLEGE SHOP life, all is right. Our asplmtJons re- religion, philauthropy, am] citizen· !langeI' tilai ihe Inane character of SPECIAL PRICES FOR STUDENTS present the true nature at our soul ship. most faculty meetings Illay become too "Art is the child of III healtb. III much more than Onr everyday life. NalTowneSS Is nOLto be ellCOU!'ag generallY.::"'::.:".::W"::;, _ the wbole history of art, there is C. KROOP -Muller. negligible record of a completely 25 E. Muin St. ed, and ednclltion and a model'n ('OPEll..i,,\]CUS IN PITTSBURGH. sound and healthy man having pro- scientific point of view are extreme- duced a notable piece of work." "Tea.chers and prettchel's are the ly desirable. But the moet important A stone from I.he University of most closely watched and most crit- thing of all is to have high standard", Cracow, described by the Pitt Weekly Schuman!) had sypti1is. Lord Byron T. W. MATHER & SONS icized of all people. The teacber ia, of conduct and eiti~enship as "alma mater of CopernicuB," has was bom with a malformation of Westminster's Leading Store perhaps, mOI'e suspect.ed and mal- been promised for Ibe CommollS Room bolll feet. Heiue was a victim of treated than the pastor." This QUO· of the University of Pittsburgh's Ca- tuberclilosis. Stendley was insane tatlon is given, not to frighten our "And then the engine died and t.he thedral ot Learning. The University and Ibsen bad diabetls. Sir Joshua prOSPllClive teachers and preachers, plane started on a tailspin for earUI." will try to have symbols represent.a- Reynolds was deat. ft-nd so Nathsn but merely to give them a straight ''Didn't you lo~e your head'" Uve of the outatanding universitiea of could lead us au through Twain, Stevenson, Crane, Gothe, Villon, Mol· fact. Teachers and preachers must ''Not for a minule! When I saw tIle the world in the Commons Room, es- ARMY SHOES be able to face censure, to profit by plano start "10fall I ran for the near· pecially of roreign universities whoae iene, Mozart, Cenanter, Handel, Hun- eker, Romer, MiltOll, etc. An "even have studied at Pittsbnrgh. students j."" it off, it uu- est houae."-Yale Record, From "The New Student" Anthon'y Trollope 9lad gaUetones.." The shoes Huth.ori..,edfor thil R, O. T. C. it, it good, and to laugh