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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md. Four Seniors Present COL I Second Speech Recital SNOOPINGS March 1110 Smith Hall Senior the "darling Volkart, Park, Baumgardner, l\1acVean, And BEST BET OF THE WEEK : II Dorm", seems to be definitely of in cir- Taylor Give Readings culation again. Once more the hearts Official student newspaper of Western Maryland College, published on Thurs- of McDaniel Hall women (1) will go day, semi-monthly during October, November, February, March, April, May, and monthly during September, December, and January, by the students of On Friday evening, March 11, the pit-o-pat when "Venus's" footsteps Western Maryland College, 'Westminster, Maryland. Entered as second-class second Senior Speech Recital of the resound through the Hall. But we'll matter at the Westminster Post Office, under the Act of March 3, 1879. year, sponsored by the Department wager none will pat as hard as his SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 A YEAR of Speech, was given in Smith Hall. own-through love for himself. N;Rli~~N~iAd:;;t;:i~A~S:rE~i~~:I;~. The program consisted of readings by The Levine Hall tailor's dummy, of the senior class. four members ColI.te P.bli.lrers R.~,eUNtM;u . 1937 Member 1938 Miss Mar-ie Park gave the first "GENE" CRONIN Alvan Moore, seems to be interesting 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YO"-K. N. Y. f'Is,ociafed CoUe6iafe Press reading, "The Passing of Chow- He can't seem to be able to decide himself of late in the affairs of one CMleA~O • BOHON • SAN FAA,.CI9CO Los ANGELES POA~L"'ND. SEATTLE Chow", by Elinor Rice. It concerned -so we decided for him. The chance hight, Jean Cairnes. the quarrels of a newly-married cou- of a lifetime!!! EDITORIAL STAFF ple over their pet dog, Chow-Chow. Barkdoll seems to be reasonably Editor-in-Chief ALFRED GOLDBERG, '38 successful in his competitive efforts Editor for this Issue VERONICA KOMPANEK Mr. Kenneth Baumgardner read Inasmuch as this is the last issue with the Navy. Mar:l' Anna Brown Associa.te Editors W. FRANK MALONE, '38, ANNE CHEW, '38, "Lijah", a negro dialect play, written in which the original (1) "Snooper" JAMES COLEMAN, '38 by Edgar U. Smith. will appear, it seems appropriate (A.B., 1940), seems to be paying Junior Associate Editors PAUL BURTIS, '40, EMELINE NEWMAN, '39 The third reading, taken from (pretty good language for a dirt col- some heed to his attentions. lI1ano.ging Editor ROBERT G. McKNIGHT, '38 Nmoe Editor. .. FRANK SHERRARD, '39 Shakespeare's "Much Ado About umn, eh??) that it should cover the It behooves us to call the attention Cryy Editor JANET MACVEAN, '38 ~~!~:;~:was given by Miss Janet campus as extensively as possible. of our reading public that "Cutie C01)Y Readers HELEN ARMSTRONG, '38, RUTH MANSBERGER, '41 Proof Editor . SUE PRICE, '40 Miss Dolly Taylor gave the last Thei-efur-c-c-t.ally-hu! ! Claude" Allgire (nee-Windy), is Proof Readers GRACE MACVEAN, '39, AARON SCHAEFFER, '39 still blowing around after-guess F'eatm'e Ed·itol·s.. .. VERONICA KOMPANEK, '40, EUGENE CRONIN, '38 re~ding, "The Dover Road" by A. A. The first item telleth of the Rever- who?!! MARY JANE HONEMAN, '3~ ~h~ne. The central theme of the read- end Ehrhardt's plea that his name be SPOTts EditoTs FRED COE, '38, MARJORIE MCKENNEY, '39 ~ng was the ~act that the Dover Road I not included herein. Plea ranted. Assistant Sp01·tS Ed·itors LAWRENCE STROW, '39, AARON SCHAEFFER, '39, The return to our campus of Wil- HAZEL GOMPF, '38 ~~os~n~~~;~g l~o~::~eSr::l~i:~~r~~e~ea~~ Next case. g liam Willoughby (A.B., 1938), has Exchange EdUor. . ELEANOR TAYLOR, '38 enlivened bull-sessions in McDaniel the country. McKnight has numbered his female and Blanche Ward Halls. Willie says BUSINESS STAFF Busi1!essll1anagel' JOSEPH OLEAIR, '39 acquaintances of the campus (yeo that he likes "stur-dy girls". Advert·ising Mall,(JueT... . EVERETT JONES, '40 Dr. D.O. Holmes To Speak onI;)! acquaintances). The tally has '38 Assi8tant Advertising Managers F~ED PLUMMER, '40, FRANK MATHER, now reached seven. That ad of his Miss Laura Breeden, the spitfire of Cil'eulatio)! illanagllrs ,.LESLIE STOKES, '40, HILDA BITTLE, '38 the dining hall-(she's called other Assistant Circulation ManaueT~ 1tIARY CLEMSON, '39, RUTH FIELDS, '40, At Meeting Of Faculty seems to be getting results. The Gold JAMES MERRITT, '40 Bug advertising columns are open to things by her dining hall playmates) Reporters contributing to this issue; Alvin Newton, '40; Helen Newman, '40; all interested parties. -is a woman of sophisticated tastes. Robert Elderdice, '38. President. Of Morgan College To Dis· Her charming personality, which is cuss Negro Education Tonight Unobtrusively (still using good considerably enhanced by her vitrio- (Jean the Worthy opinion; Model mQl~agement; Carrect new.s. In McDaniel Lourure language) combine seems to be drawing lic tongue, appears to be winning her Trader-Scott Lynn) each day. new admirers Her latest Dr. Dwight Oliver Holmes, Presi- closer together. Don't ask how close. swain is Mr. Sam Garrison. Laura dent of Morgan College, will address Farewell and Hail the Faculty Club at its regular meet- "Casanova on skates" Bill Cronin would like to know if Burtis works as as he walks-we fast would like to The Gold Bug Staff of 1938 with this issue bids farewell anti ing in McDaniel Hall Lounge at 8 doesn't seem to be making much I know if SHE works as fast as she also offers its best wishes to the new staff. o'clock this evening. Dr. Holmes will speak on negro education in the f~~~l;::sisi~o~:~? direction. Can it be ! talk;Continued on Page 4, Col. j) United States with special reference Honor to its progress in Maryland. be- The well-known negro educator In the late fall of this scho~l year, a student approached the came head of the Baltimore negro in- head of the men's student government with a suggestion that some- stitution last November. Before as- PASSING IN REVIEW thing be done about instituting an efficient honor system at West- suming his duties at Morgan, he was By ALFRED GOLDBERG ern Maryland. Mr. Ortenzi's reply was that he was "too busy" at Dean of the School of Education of that time to do anything about the matter. That reply, among Howard University in 'Washington, other things, precipitated the present furor concerning the con- centration of student leadership and officers in the hands of a few ~:Oll~·CO~:;lb!~OI~~;ve~:~:;. his Ph.D. is ~~: ~!~e~;'::n~~~~es~'e:t':!s~~~~·ste~ I va~~as~:l:~t~~~:IX, :~:: :ra~~:~h~~l;~ persons. The question of an honor system, however, was allowed Dr. Holmes was installed as Presl- I Germany. Whatever one's feelings on land and Russia may stand by. For to drop and has not since been mentioned. dent of Morgan College last Novom- the matter are, it certainly must be these nations, as with Czechoslovakia, Cheating does occur on the Hill. This fact cannot be denied. bel" 19 on the school's Founder's Day. said of Hitler that he struck at a most it will be a matter of now or never. Whether in the form of written «ribs, side glances, or pencil taps, Dr. Holmes was formerly a member opportune moment. They cannot submit to the demands there .is scarcely a class on the Hill in which illegal means are not of Baltimore's Beard of Education. France, with a new cabinet in the of Germany and Italy forever. Some- used by some member or members to achieve the desired grade. At that time he was in char-ge of all process of formation, could not have time there will come the snapping negro education in Maryland. point, and when that day comes, Herr acted effectively, even if it had wished However, it is not so much the fact that cheating occurs that to do so. England, committed to a Adolf and Signor Benito will start needs correction, but rather the fact that there can exist a student policy of placation towards the Pas- their journey hell-ward. attitude which condones such methods through a false sense of cist powers, had its hands full with It is fairly logical to assume that honor that forbids a student to inform on a classmate. I Mussolini. It may find that as a re- Germany may now hold off in its Some people are fundamentally dishonest because of environ- CAMPUS suit of Hitler's Coup, Italy will de· foreign affairs, for a period as long Stu- I ment. We feel that at Western Maryland we have eliminated that LEADERS mand more than it demanded origi- as one or two years. Two years type. We have not, however, eliminated the environment. nally. elapsed after the remilitarization of dents with an otherwise fine sense of honor are found to cheat- Therefore, with the knowledge that the Rhineland before Germany ven- simply because in self-defense it has become almost imperative in France and England would not be tured another bold international some classes. That is the answer to people who say, "I don't have able to act with any speed and dis- stroke. The annexation of Austria to cheat--cheating doesn't concern me at all." patch, Hitler decided that the moment may be sufficient of a sop to the minds When cheating in a class becomes general, the requirements was ripe. And once more, as on of the German people to keep them for passing necessarily become higher. The higher the require- March 7, 1936, Hitler won. occupied for another year or two. ments, the higher the penalty o~ the student who does not cheat. Czechoslovakia, it would seem, ;s When they begin to think of bettering A test tells a teacher not only how well the student understands the next goal of the Nazis. The their standard of living, then may the material, but also how well the teacher has presented it. A 3,000,000 Germans in Czechoslovaki!i, Hitler have to act. People cannot be teacher skims over a subject and tests his students on the ma- "REDS" BALISH many of them Nazis, feel that they fed and clothed and sheltered by bul- terial. Half the students read th~ir answers from a neatly written Our husky band of gridiron war- are about to be redeemed from their lets and rifles. slip of paper, and the teacher thinks he has done a pretty good l"iOI'S can boast of several of its memo bondage. If it weren't that Czecho- \Vhen it becomes necessary for him job-while perhaps none in the Iclass understands what it is all bers who are prominent on the camp- slovakia's chief industries are located to act again, it seems that Hitler will about. It is obviously costly-both to those who cheat and those us as well as the field, and not the in the western end of the country ad- probably turn his attention to Cze- who do not-since the time spent on the subject has been wasted. least of these is Harry Balish, more joining Germany, the Czechs might choslovakia. And it is here, on the It is, of course, impossible to expect the teachers to patrol the apl)l·O]lriatcly dubbed "Reds" or conceivably have ceded this portion stumbling block that Czechoslovakia classroom every minute of the period. Such a procedure only in- "Becthead" by his intimates. of the country along with the 3,000,- has always provided fOl' Germanic cites the student to be "smarter than the teacher" -grade school "Reds" has not attained his posi- 000 Germans of whom they would no imperialistic ambitions, that Nazi im- stuff, but still a standard attitude. A second method-the only ef~ tion of prominence by any flowing 01'- doubt like to rid themselves. Since perialism may come to its final rest- ... ficient and logical method-is to build up a student attitude which atOl',,' or political tactics but simply cession of this territory would mean ing ground. Nazi Germany will bring is absolutely against cheating in any form. In that system the only because he is "a swell guy". He is economic suicide, and therefore the about war eventually and the resuit honorable procedure for a student who finds another cheating univel'sally well-liked; to the fellows death of Czechoslovakia, the Czechs will eventually be-no morc Nazi Ger- would be to report him to the student government. It would be he is a man's man, but it is safe to cannot give it up. many. his duty to his fellow class members. The student government hazard a guess that. many a coed's In response to Germany's annexa- T V A would judge the case and administer penalties. First offense heal·t has been made to beat faster by tion of Austria, Czechoslovakia has The controversy raging about the would be one week's suspension from classes; second offense would the appl'oach of this tall, well·built announced that any attempted ag- heads of Dr. Arthnr E. Morgan, mean two weeks' suspension; and a third offense would mean ex- ~'OUllgman with the flaming hair and gressioll by Germany will be met by Chairman of the TVA Board, and pulsion from college. Of course, the penalties could be stiffened as the laughing brown eyes. force. The Czechs are generally men President Roosevelt, seems likely to soon as the student body realized that the student government Pel'haps his disposition is the secret of principle. They al'e one of Europe's reach the boiling point in the near fu- meant business. of "Reds'" popularity. An infectious most enlightened democracies, despite ture. Dr. l'IIorgan, embittered by the At least once previous to this occasion the Gold Bug has taken laugh, friendl~' smile and big-boy- the charges hurled at them by the attacks leveled at his administratioll, a straw vote on the student body opinion regarding an honor sys- who-won't-grow-up attitude are usu- Nazis. They could better stand a has lashed out fudously against his tem. Revealing its customary apathy, about one-third of the stu- ally in evidence. searching investigation than could attackers. His refusal to attend a dent body voted at that time---of course overwhelmingly in favor But "Red" has his serious side too. Germany. Therefore, it seems likely conference SUlllmoned by the Presi- of an honor system. That much achieved, however, the student President of his fraternity, he is an that Czechoslovakia, a nation of 15,- dent certainly has not enhanced his body patted itself on the back and sank back, at ease-and nothing athlete of the fU'st flight, and a com- 000,000 people, with a potent war position in the eyes of the pnblic. It more was accomplished. The Gold Bug does not at this time in- manding- figure on the drill field. machine, would rather fight for its may be necessary for the Senate to tend to take any such vote. It does, however, invite letters of ap- Harr~' is well rounded in his abilities. existence than submit ignominously to call for an investigation of the TVA proval or of condemnation on the subject. We realize that at This sketch would seem incomplete Hitler's demand. The Czechs fought in order to bring Dr. Morgan to heel. Western Maryland the important thing is not so much getting ex- without mentioning the Sultan-like for their independence for hundreds I·While he may persist in his refusal !)ressions of approval as it is to arouse interest in a project. We qualities of "Red" as anyone who has of years. Is it reasonable to suppose to come to the \Vhite House, he can- believe that everyone can easily realize the need for a revision of seen him in the midst of his harem that after less than twenty years ....f not very well refuse to come when the our present code of hOl101:,but action can come only after the stu- regards as an integral ]Jart of the I independence they will give it up , Senate calls, for he could be brought dent body has expressed its desire for such action. I without a strllggle~ i by force, if necessary.