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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., October 10, 1940 The Policy 01 Non-App .... m.nt GOLD BUG Air Raids Come To Campus While Sophs Josh Frosh ---- Famine, floods, eta-ife and Beglin, tion will take a turn for the worse. d~~~:~:d~~~:~~;!~~P~~~~s;~eE~:~~£~i~~~l~t:~I:~.g~~;:i:r~~~ • mfttler at Westminster Post Office, under the Act of March 3, 187!1. horsemen of the Apocalypse, have de- Rats please take heed that next week Here we are--exposed to knowledge again and most of SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR ecended on the unfortunate craniums the Rat Courts will be eztemtive and us liking it. Back to the routine of the dormitories, ten of the '40 freshmen. intensive in their jurisdictions. o'clock bells and French toast for br;akfast. Universally Member Something akin to the. Spanish In- The rumor has gone around that overheard in the post office traffic jam is the question J:\"ocia1ed Colle5iate PreIS quieition and vag-uely resembling this the mailbox was put on the ground "Did I ever go away?" At this point, summer seems a for Beglin's use-freshman primarily year's sophomore class has instigated seems a million years million years ago and Christmas Dumburcr of a Western Maryland version of the wit. ahead. Ah, learning! CbUe5ia!e Di5est ========== No Men's Lend !:i~:;rsc~~~t s:::;:itnt:t~~n:~;~o~~ Neil Eckenrode • luck in and Bill Hauff had beginner's EDITORIAL BOARD er sociological standing than thc un- 28 ON something a little out of their line. The time was a re- ... EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ,........... .....Henry c. Triesler, '41 touchable rats. Since September cent Thursday and the place was the Carroll Theatre to ASSOCIATE EDITOR _.. . .. Ruth Mansberger, '41 there have been inhibitions and exhi- THE MANAGING EDITOR .. . Isaac Rehert, '42 bitions staged by an unusually fcrtu- which the boys had repaired for diversion. The audience NEWS EDITOR _. . Jane Fraley, '42 nate combination of a sophomore RECORD • • • was almost entirely feminine but that didn't faze the two FEATURE EDlTDI.t __ __Lucie Leigh Barnes, '42 W.M.C. senior men till they discovered that the drawing SPORTS EDITOR __._William Robinson, '41 clUBS that can dish it out and a fresh. card was a Spry Cooking School. When the door prize man class that can take it. Phi Alpha Mu has pledged Phoebe Bob Johnson took to air raids like Gatchell of the class of '41. number was called Neil glanced at the card some nonen- National Advertising Service, Inc. Nemo to the whistle; Bob spends his tity had handed him at the door~he was horrified to find the tune of sugar, Spry, and baking the booty was his-to ColI~g. Pub/isbn's Repr~s""''''i,,. waking hours making up the third Charles Irwin '44, recently sang at powder. We wonder is Neil stayed for the recipe. person that is required before an ail' the wedding of Sue Irwin. his sister alarm can be shouted. Johnson's and former student at Western Mary- • In the last issue something was said here about the "Playmate," by the way, is too, too land, and Frank Cronin, of the Unl- "little sister" movement that seemed to have miscarried. BUSINESS STAFF Tane Takahashi, however, came through with the notices; BUSINESS MANAGER 0 ••••••••• Edward Weant, '41 Bonnie Baker. versity of Maryland. the delay was not of her doing and the "little sisters" ADVERTISING l'I1ANAGER ..... Werner Orrison, '43 Sophomore art invaded downtown have found big ones and vice versa. Hence the City Res- CIRCULATION MANAGERS····TI~;~LO::i~~eJ:~;:;y, '41 and caused riot, bedlam, and chaos The football game with Mount St. taurant is doing a heavy business in girls taking other through which atrongheart, Beglin Mary's on October 12 will bring Bet- strode his mightiest. The class of '44 ty Vroome, recently married to Ken- girls out to dinner. 'Tis a season of generosity. rivalled the Westminster eernival at neth Blessing, and the Rev. and Mrs. • The Fleagle and Hahn residence in McKinstry certain- Want.d --- More EIRei.nt the boxofflce when the frosh staged C. E. Read with two-month-old Patri- ly looks "gawjus" from the parking lot. Venetian blinds Book Store Service pole-kissing and climbing acts within cia Hart Read back to the Hill. seem in peculiar company there, to say the least, and by the window Arnold's sense must be tortured aesthetic the city limits. Incidentally this This editorial is offered as a friendly sugges- wasn't back campus. The wedding of Virginia Karow '39, illy.mination and decoration of his neighbors. McKinstry tion and does not intend to express disapproval or Even freshman love lif~ has been and Sterling Fowble of Westminster is the personality building of the campus. criticism. curtailed; all those freshman couples will take place on October 26 at High- • Miss Adkins has issued to the women boarding stu- At the beginning of the first semester and that "mushroomed" during those first land Methodist Church. In the wed- dents a questionnaire on the social activities of the school. again at the beginning of the second of each days have been divided into compo- ding party will be Martha Yokum '39 One of the questions in essence: What else could the school year, many students who have desired to nent parts. Sophomores are as long and Betty Brown '41. school do to promote added social opportunities on the purchase text books from the college book store distance operators with tJ.leir "Your campus? We hope the women won't forget that one of have been told that the books are not in stock, or the minutes is up."-"Skeeter" Hauff This week brought back Vir!,!,inia the greatest hues and cries in the last years has been for that the supply has recently been exhausted. llOWpays a higher price for his per- Bell and Harriet Smith-s-beth were a school-operated "dance floor-juke box-grille." There If takes several days to take orders for books son-to-persons. recently operated on for appendlcttls. is, in New York, a Danceteria and something of the same on sheets passed out in classrooms, and it takes Esquire would snort at the local vintage WOUldn't do badly here on the campus. several more days and sometimes weeks for or- sartorial splendor with inverted pock- The marriage of Martha Lee Robi- Beat The Mounts dered books to be shipped. Even after the books ets as well as pleats. "Rock" Rawlins nette ex-'43 and Frank Groves will • There is a pep meeting scheduled for tomorrow night. arrive, time is wasted in getting them into the saw a modest freshman with his turn- take place in Cumberland on Novem- On the eve of our first football game, this should be one hands of the buyers. about attire covered by a coat. "Hey ber 2. of the noisiest pep meetings of the year-c-org'anized noise All this delay naturally retards the individual -turn that coat inside out!" Did --except, perhaps, for the "Beat Maryland" one to come. student and also the class as a whole. Just at the Rock feel siily? The coat was a re- A shower was given for Marjery · The team has all kinds of chances this year and the cheer time when it is important to make a good start, versible. Heath ex-'43, last Saturday evening Uaders have trained as rigorously as the team. Sore many students find it impossible to do the assign- Upper-classmen are won d e r i n g in Baltimore. Among those present muscles go into cheer leading too-so let's come away ments. about further mutterings from the were Frances Ogden, Mary Louise with sore throats and hands. Prove the old spirit didn't Single copies of all text books are in the li- second-year mind. What is the nature Sehrt, and Peggy Wilson. Miss Heath go out with the coonskin coat! brary, but these are never placed on the shelves of the Rat Court? What is meant by will be married on October 12. • Bob Faw came in the office to tell us how sorry he was and, consequently, are not available. "delinquents are dealt with severe- about the little band that wasn't there that first Saturday To remedy this situation, may we suggest that ly?" When will P6'ltny Day be, and Miss Mary Louise Long and Miss night. Bob needn't be sorry. He furnished the occasion a little more investigation and study might help? are there going to be free samples? Jean Suetta Stover, former students and the excuse; the entertainment was furnished by a For instance, during the summer, could not some- Rat Chairman Beglin, short and to of Western Maryland, have enrolled bunch of kids just glad to be together again. And that one go over the schedule cards of the three upper the point, wishes to impress the rats for the fall term in the Washington was the point of the whole thing, wasn't it? Thanks, Bob. classes and make a record of the number of per- to the effect that "there will have to School for Secretaries, Washington, sons enrolled in each course? This would be a be some changes made or the init.ia- D. C. basis for ordering books before school starts. We admit this would mean extra work but it books were in stock, and there are over seventy . CAMPUS LEADERS would not result in a situation which happened fourteen mythology this year-when classical are seeing milk bottles, students • OHIO UNIVERSITY enrolled in the course. and 3500 students can see a lot of bottles, Dormitories Could not arrangements be made with the pub- During the last year he has become lishing houses for the returning of unbought Frankly, the interviewer is con- president of the Delta Pi Alpha fra- nnd Greek letter houses there have been forced by a new Ohio, City Council to serve all of the Athens, ordinance books? Then books could be overstocked, and the fused. Spent fifty minutes plying ternity and of the Men's Student Gcv- milk ~n individual half-pint bottles. Aesthetically speak- book store would not take a loss. Bob Faw with questions and came ing, the system is fine; but administratively it's a head- Finally, could not the library, temporarily at away baffled. ernment, Has deliberate plans for ache. Who's going to furnish the refrigerators necessary least, make available text books which are not in Bob says he is inconsistent, con- for some 10,000 bottles a day. Wonder if Athens milk stock? fused, and not very' well understood. companies give penny rebates on bottles? We think the students have a right to demand He tried to convey that he did 110th- • OHIO UNIVERSITY also hae snapshots of the tight- efficiency and better service from their book ing, thought not about tomorrow, took store. things as they came, and got along lui owners on each stud6'ltt activities book. Out there, if with nearly everyone. YO'!l have (l.n outstanding proboscis it is next to impossib16 to r.all your book "transfMable". No one else will claim But Bob is a campus leader and has For B.tt .. S.rvice been so since his high school days. tM book, and its identifying photo-Blant on the telt-tale Born in Library, Pa., approximately nose, as his own. For your information and for improved din- a score of years ago ... (coy about his • HOMES OF HIGHER LEARNING have the collect- ing hall service Miss Tweed has offered the fol- age). Went to Findley High School ing bug: Harvard fol' odd playing cards; University of lowing suggestions-your cooperation will be ap- Texas for hair from heads of famous men; Cornell, for preciated. Plea~e be on time. in Imperial, Pa., where he was liter- early fire fighting equipment; and University of Roches- leading light. Faw is ary and drama Meals are served: a good Scotch name, and like all good ter for phoney stocks and bonds. Does Western Maryland Daily Su?UJ.a,y Scou.hmen Bob is a Presbyterian. collect anything? Breakfast 7:16A.M. 7:46A,M. And his Scotch economy is carried • MANY COLLEGES throughout the country start the Lunch 11:60 15:30 over into his politics ... Bob's room yea". with a series of "parent days" to get families inter- 12:20 (Mon.) is plastered with WiIlkie. Bob got his e8t6d in. th,6ir offsprings' alma mater, and end the yeaor Dinner 6:00 p, M. 12:46 P. M. nickname partly from its resem- with. "brotll.er and sister" days to line up prospective stu· Doors will be closed: blance to his name and partly from dents of th.e near future. Gettysbuorg recently paid tribute Daily SuTtday his fondness for the "Foo" churacters to tM fathers with ruldresB68, banquet, and general good Breakfast 7:30 7:65 in the comics. fellowship. Such an occasion is like a reunion of old Lunch 12:05 5:40 Majors in math and minors in ath- clasamates, with BOns back at the old 8chool, get together 12:35 (Mon.) letics. Would like to'coach but hasn't Robert Faw to O'!lt-youth each other and belie the .,nyth of time. Dinner 6:10 12:50 the education qualifications for high reorganization of the SGA. Has a • SQUARE DANCING will stage a comeback this fall. After these times a CLOSED sign will be school teaching. He desires work in serious side but claims people take Students are looking forward with anticipation at the placed on the door and it is not to be ignored. All Recreation Supervision in which his him too seriously. University of NOlth Carolina to kicking their heels to the students and faculty are to observe this rule. love of sports can function. Has "I'm capricious." But Bob doesn't c:alling of the Perul J01UJS. Some other dances which will Your cooperation is solicited in this matter. played basketball and football for beat around the bush. He has ambi- become popular will be the Georgia Rang Tang, Bird in Breakfast-Walk into the dining room when the' years. Came to Western Maryland tions but we couldn't divine what Cage, and London Bridge. These students w:iIl be swing- Lunch doors are opened. Fill up all the ta- :!fter tbree -semesters at Blue Ridge. they were. He plays the trumpet but ing their partners to string ensembles during the fall. bles. Sit down. Eat your meal. Is called (good-naturedly) "mon- hasn't musical aspirations. This avalanche of square dancing will be the thing this Leave quietly. t:y-player Faw" because he y e II s Asked his future Rlans, he snorted winter, so you W.M.C.'s put on your old clothes and be Dinner- Take your assigned seat. After ev- as he plays. Without his glasses he "Dictator." Asked bis philosophy, ready when the wave hits. eryone is seated, Dean Free will tap can't see his hand before his face "Live and let live." The two don't • DR, H. C. BYRD of the University 01 Maryland haJJ the bell and ask the blessing. (t.he result of a bad case of mumps) jive. Interviewer hereby repairs to a1t1wuncm pla.ns for cOIUltl"!«Jtiqn of a football stadium tfJ Chairs may not be saved for late comers. but he catcb'es his share of balls. And read Journalism text for chapter on seat 25,000. Cooperate with your waiters. They are your when Bob sprawls his length on the interviewers. • SAM A. COGGINS of Nettleton, Miss., wanted to go friends and fellow classmen. It is difficult for basketball court, he usually carries Bob peered around the door sill as to college, so he peddled peanuts. Sam paid his $120 fees them to attend classes and serve you well. Be with him four-fifths of the opposing he left to go back to sleep. "Foo," he at Mississippi State with 2,400 nickels-the cashier considerate. quint. said. counted them-earned by selling goobers.