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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western'Maryland College, Westminster, Md., January 15, 1;42 This Week's. -------------. What Can College Students Do Now? greed, extreme selfishness of almost every group Personality our society, discrimination within against citi- Plenty -II We're Willing zens because of race, creed, or color-these need • --------,----- • On the Campus The war and national defense has transformed all be brought to the surface and studied; and our home communities into bustling centers of plans and actions prepared for their alleviation. These are the cause of strife and ill-feeling in any activityr'and our return from Christmas vacation race riots of the last war, and the rise of the r in the class of 1901, he accepted a po- to the campus impresses upon us the artificiality society, and are all contributory to our present sition with United Railways ill Balti- of our set-up, and increases the tenseness and the condition; these are sores in our society which, in more, which lasted for sixteen years, emergencies like this one, fester into internal so- feeling of futility that has permeated the lives of with twenty-nine months time out for all of us. What is there to work for? why study? cial wars and prepare the way for greater illness- the World War. Although stationed what can we do now? are questions that should es. Witness the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and at the Baltimore Depot for twenty- and do confront many of us; and to find these three months, he spent the latter part in Camp period questions unanswerable will only increase the various-colored-shirts of Germany and Italy cul- of the construction which he worked Lee, Virginia, after tenseness and augment our longing to "get out of minating in fascism and war. this place" and enter some form of positive activ- For those of us who are naive enough to think for a year with a railroad company ity in which we can further our cause, whatever that the present holocaust is caused solely by the in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since Au- rise of Hitler, or Mussolini, or Stalin, there are gust, 1930, he has been at western it is. the writings of many prophets of the last decades .Maryland. Yet there are a great many things that we can who, before the rise of these individual men, fore- do now, that we should do now, that we must do e Jovial Personality now; because in the heat of immediate emer- cast the chain of events culminating in today's Behind the jewelry case in the gency, few people off a tranquil college campus struggle. book store, T. K. spends most of his will have the foresight to see beyond the present • Study Basis Of Just Peace time, either working ever a cluttered and prepare to serve in the future. Into our laps We can study the basis of a just and durable desk piled high with papers, 01' dic- falls this responsibility, and we must meet it lest peace, and do our best to prevent the repetition of tating to his secretary, or talking to the present struggle be in vain. .the disaster after the last war. the various students who drift in and Our curricular subjects are or can be related to • Study The War . these problems; and if the presentation of them out from time to time. On account First and foremost, we can study the war-its is so academic, so formal, so departmentalized Col. T. IL Harrison of his friendly spirit and jovial per- causes, where its seeds were sown, the philoso- that the professors can't br won't help us, we'll sonality, T. K. is universally well- phies of the various participants, the movements have to find the relationships for ourselves. What Main Street is to the shop- liked on the campus by both students that were everywhere going on to avert it, the For those of us who want action more positive ping center of westminster and what and faculty. His hobby has always failures of those movements, and why they than mere study, there are the town of Westmin- the seventh green is to playing golf, been, and still is, the promotion of failed. We must go beneath the surface, beneath ster, our home communities, and our own campus Colonel T. K. Harrison is to the busi- Western Maryland's interests. the superficial accounts of the movements of gov- to look at, to work on, from which to remove the ness managership of Western Mary- In addition to all his other duties, ernments as recorded in our history books. Here weaknesses. Negro discrimination, exploitation land College-in other words, the one Colonel Harrison has acted as Exec- , philosophy, science, religion, economics, psycholo- of labor, prejudices are existent all around us- important ingredient. utive Secretar-y of the Alumni Asso- gy-ali our subjects-play an important part. we can work to remove them now. ·.Indispensable ciation since 1924 and is also a re- Individualistic capitalism-its unscrupulous What we are fighting is not a man, not a group serve officer in the army, officially oppression of the "have-nota" by the "haves", its of men-but an idea! The way. to fight an evil As proof of his indispensableness to known as Lieutenant Colonel QMC- cutting across international borders in its inhu- idea is with a better one! We on our college W. M, C., T. K. (short for, of all Res. mane exploitations to advance its own ends, its campus can participate in that struggle now! We things, 'I'heophilus Kenoley) keeps on .Views On W:p struggle to maintain itself in the face of its cer- need not wait! his desk beneath a two-inch-thick lay- tain death-is certainly a major cause of our er of scattered papers, books etc., a As for the war 'situation, Colonel chaos today and should be analyzed and evaluated The SCA Assumes Leadership small rubber stamp bearing the title Hai-rison believes that "a spirit of emergency Manager" ~ service in this national by every thinking individual. "T. K. Harrison-Business seem long should permeate the student body and -two words which hardly • Study Alternatives To Capitalism In Studying Social Problems enough to encompass the total re- if no other opportunity for service Possible alternatives-socialism, fascism, coop- Attention is here called to the activity of our sponsibilities of book store, soda foun- presents itself, the least each one can erative movements, communism, decentralization own Student Christian Association which, upon tain, golf course, post office, pur- do is to take part in the 'buy defense of populatioif and production-these must be the recommendation of the National Assembly of chases, contracts, college bills, rents, stamp' campaign. In your spare carefully analyzed and criticized; for movements Student Christian Associations (which several taxes. , .. and so forth, ad infinitum. time, boost Western Maryland." toward one or several of these will certainly students of our college attended during the As far as the international situa- commence, we are warned, when the economic Christmas vacation), will sponsor and lead sev- .18 Years On Hill tion and the student body is concern- dislocation of the war will demand repairing. eral projects along the aforementioned lines in Born in 1881 in Charlotte Hall, ed, that's his opinion; hut, as far as Our own so-called "democracyv-c-better called the immediate and distant future. Foremost Maryland, Colonel Harrison has spent the bookstore, soda fountain, golf "our way of life"-needs careful scrutiny. Eco- among these activities will be the annual series of nearly eighteen years on the campus, course and all the rest are concerned, .---"-0,;;;" exploitation, the disenfranchisement of Study Groups on many of these problema. Here fu-st as a student and then as Busi- this is our's-"ln God and T. K. Har- 20,000,000 people in the country because of poll will be our opportunity to Investigate these is- ness Manager. After his graduation rison we trust." taxes or education requirements (which, econom- sues informally and under competent guidance. ic and social conditions being what they are, We hope the opportunity hereby extended will not I!How To Crash Broadway" many citizens cannot meet), dictated academic slip by because of our own indolence, prejudice, policies in state universities, machine politics, or laziness.. Library Stacks Prove Source Of Much ,(JJG ,(J!Jout ~----M~------, Interest To Roving Reporter If one were asked to name a gold mine on the Western Mary- .h~. J am the tremor finger touched a string and I was land campus, the immediate answer should be, "The stacks of the of a harp, Some reluctant born, library." Here, in a few metal stacks is the world's most interest- By Paul Alelyunas ing conglomeration of books. Spilling in a tremulous cascade of sound, "No more vacations!" a stentorian voice proclaimed. Diminishing, then e Prtcelesa Gems that Hubert is untrue to her, in or- "No more vacations!" sadly echoed the Squire. "Ah, how Dissolving into vapor, Let us take a look at a few of the der that the woman next door might well I remember the good old days when we had vacations. priceless gems which are harbored get Hubert. Oh, how J loved them. Paeking-" he thought; "oh, yes, iamatear .. there. Here are the 180's where a Plot 2: Grief over- death packing! I remember back in '39, the year of the big Wrought of Hell and promised of Heaven, religion student is doing research on Hubert learns that Beulah met her blizzard. There I was two hundred and fifty pounds of Suspended. the prophet Amos. And here now, in death ill a cattle stampede. freshman, and green in every ounce! But those were To be for all eternity the stacks a little further on, is an happy days 1" An opaline droplet. intriguing booklet, HOW YOUR Hubert is mangled in a corn shred- e Squlre In His Youth PLAY CAN CRASH BROADWAY. der while Beulah helplessly looks on, The Squire was young then. He didn't know what In this book are the thirty-six funda- powerless to prevent it. She col- cruelties life had in store. His whole-being laughed with I am a breath. mental plots for all plays. Here is a lapses. childlike contentment and joy. He had never known the Drawn out of an old wind, sample: Plot 3: Involuntary violations of the sadness, the despondency of mankind, the utter futility Parting a baby's wet lips, Characters: Love Code of man's life. For those were the days before he met Feathering a coil of dark hair, Beulah .the mother The entire family are drunk, and (guess who) Myrtle Schwartz. Now there was beauty !l Sighing quietly. Hubert __the father when they sober up, Beulah discovers But I'm getting ahead of my story. Edgar Hubert's brother that she has married her son Oswald. It is March 22, 1939, a Thursday evening, and eight I am the dull glow of fire. Bertha . the daughter 0." o'clock. The Squire is packing. Shall we drop in on him? Out of the darkness I leapt, Oswald the son When Oswald revives, he discovers "Oh, this is the way we pack our clothes!" Hovering like some grotesque wing, Plot 1: Mistaken Jealousy he has married his sister, Bertha. A pair of shoes flew across the room. Twisting against the shadows Hubert becomes violently jealous "Pack our clothes-" Bewitched. of Beulah because he thought he saw There has been a sex orgy. .Lyric Ends her kiss the banker at a clambake. When this is read, the book is put But the lyric ended abruptly as the Squire's eyes fell on I am the wind when he dies back on the shelf 01' smuggled into a large piece of sewn upholstery, a large, a very large, Alone. The woman next door tells Beulah (Cont. on page 4, col. 2) bag-like affair. (Thc Squire liked to refer to it as pants. But they weren't. Delicate point, you know.) Now this was an extraordinary pail' of "pants". For painted ."Fascinating Pants" THE GOLD BUG clearly on the leg was a sinewy male figure caught in the It is again March, HI3!). "Fascinating pail' of pants", act of deftly swallowing a sword. What tailor fantasy thought the Squire. "1 shall put them on! Now this is a was this? What dry goods mockery? pail' of pants!" The Squire proudly strutted. "They got Then the Squire realized- dignity!" Subscription Price $2.00 a Year • Scene Changes And then it happened. How little does man suspect The scene changes. It is December, 1938. A stout bour- that great moments are presaged by his simple homely Editor-in-chief . Isaac B. Rehert '42 geoisie woman decides to give her little boy a pair of actions! The Squire put his hand in his pocket. There Managing Editor .. ......:. Alvin H. Levin '43 trousers. One tailor after another turns her out of his he felt a small square of cardboard. It was a check for a ActJng News Editor __._.... . .Carolyn Schmidt '43 Mary News Editor Assistant Miller '43 shop with a sad, but definite: "Impossible!" Wearied of short beer! Feature Editor Eleanor Healy '43 her long search, and about to throw out the whole idea .A New Squire Sports Editor .... John Robinson '43 Joe Workman with the age-old cry of dismissal, "Out, harrow, alas, ye Fifteen minutes later, the new Squire, the man of the Assistant Editor Sports Editor . Mary Turnley '43 Proof '44 old idea!" a sudden thought struck her. She rushed to world, the sophisticate, the "Pipe-the-pants" Squire, saf Staff Photographer ..... _.._..__.__.._ _..__ _ Carl Webb '44 the phone. In a moment she was talking to one John in the Garden puffing on a very worldly cigarette and sip- Business iUanagers........ Betty Cormany, Werner Orrison '43 Ringling. (Long distance, of course.) ping a very flat short beer. A soft oriental perfumery Advertising Manager Betty Cormany '42 Mother: "Is it true you're going to get new tents for fell over the Squire. There was a slight tap on his shoul- Circulation I\Janager ........._.............. Thornton Wood '42 your circus next year?" der, and a shy liquid voice broke the stillness of the Gar- Contributors: Lillian Jackson '45, Virginia Waters '43, Lee Stiffler '45, Cart Bel.l '45, Carolyn Gable '43, Mary Spaulding '45, Anne Barrow '45, Richard J. Ringling: ",Yhy, yes, Madam." den haven. "Hello", it said. The Squire turned, and Patten '44' Reece Scott 44, Nelson Wolfsheimer '44, Arlie Mansberg er '44, Mother: "Well, may I purchase your old side-show there before him stood, in all her beauty, none other than Clarence McWilliams '43, Janet Baugher '45, Virginia Sweeney '42, Ann tent?" Myrtle Schwartz!! M. Rice '45, Mary Virginia Webb '45, Deloris V. Hartke '45, Agnes Dyson '45, Jeanne Williams '45, Ken Grove '44, Thelma. Morris '44, Connie Harris And so the Squire got a pail' of pants for Christmas. (Continued next week.) '42, Carolyn Weant '45, Helen Stoner '45, Jane Miles '45, Ruth Sartorio '43.