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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Weatmbutet, Md., October 15, 1942 I-Ad, 'We gee !Jt-I The Keg --- By Workman fHot Time' In -A~- Fred Bohn-Having Desert Where He Is Stationed • TELLS ALL - BY WALKER. A Story We Heard Which Makes Us Stop And Think In the past three years, the Armed Since his induction as a buck pri- Peasants as a group are incorporated, rhetorically, Forces of the United States have vate two 'months ago, Fred has risen into the single word "peasantry". This same terminology Something was told to us the other day which adopted many of the male student to the post of Corporal with much is applied to citizens, soldiera, and other aggregations. Of made us, in the rush of our continuous, hectic body of Western Maryland College, promise for further promotion. He course there are exceptions; as in the word for mature routine, pause for a moment and consider. We either through the Selective Service is, at present, with the 855th Battal- human beings. Here we must, in deference to delicacy, thought that we'd pass the story on to our read; ion of Aviation Engineers at Camp content ourselves with the stem in its simple plural form: ers, sans comment, for what it's worth. Young, Indio, California and is just Adults are much to be censured for their attitude to- It seems that, a week or so ago, a freshman, "hot as hell here in the 110 0 -temper- wards children .. and so on. Comprenez? (Fr. You male. suggested to three other members of the ature" according to his own explana- grab me?) student body, of various genders and classes, that tion. .To Be Censured the time from 7 :30 until 8 o'clock in the morning Fred was born the first of two boys As a matter of fact, they a;rQ to be censured. From its might be profitably spent in meditation or prayer on April 22, 1921 in Philadelphia, earliest infancy, your modern child is treated in such a in Baker Chapel. And so it was done. Pennsylvania. At the age of two, manner as to deprive him of any practical experience with the family moved Fred to Collings- which to face life. One of the members of the group was able to wood, New Jersey, where he was liv- Nor is firm discipline enough to condition him for the play the organ; thus the four students had a rig-ours of the future. The very fact that our time-hon- background of soft music for their self-initiated ing at the time of his adoption. ored maxim concerning' the sparing of the rod may be ap- half-hour of a closer relationship with the less On the Hill, Fred is well known plied to fish as well as children bears witness to its de- materialistic things in life. for his part in the Bohn-Kaplan En- terprises, Cleaning and Pressing, ficiency. No, I refer to a larger thing than mere stern- Then, wholly without formal publicity of any Soda stand, and Candy. During his ness; I refer to the intelligent-or, rather to the intelli- sort, the story of the small group quietly spread Sophomore year, the second of the gwl_handling of progeny. through the student body. In a few days, the three he spent bunking with Kaplan, You have beheld many times, I am sure, the nausiat- number of people who, without definite services he lived in that men's dormitory ing spectacle of a woman in apparent possession of all of any kind, paused in the rush of their daily ex- which is famed in song and story, her buttons, seated before a be-diapered individual of istence for a little while, had increased to twelve. McKnepp Hall. As for his football, meagre months, jabbering at him in a potpourri of gut- And then the group numbered eighteen. Daily Fred was an end in high school where teral sounds unintelligible to man-or beast. This in itself they grew in numbers, until now every morning he played under the guidance of our is bad enough; but when she begins to tickle him, the no less than thirty people gather, in Baker Corporal Fred Bohn mentor, Leroy Byham. However, on sight becomes unbearable. Chapel, where, with organ music softly, constant- A~e columnist workman relates here- coming to Western Maryland, Fred • Unusual Manner ly, furnishing a reflective background, they ap- with what has become of "Bones." was shifted to a "tackle post and it She does not tickle in the ordinary manner, and let it go proach closer to God and to themselves, was at this position that he was plac- at that. Instead, the procedure runs somewhat as fol- This was done, remember, with no publicity Act or by voluntary enlistment, On ed by the All Maryland team of 1941. fowa : The body and hand are drawn back simultaneously, save word-of-mouth. - August 17, 1942, the United States All of us on the Hill miss Fred, but with all the appearances of malice aforethought. Then As has been'mentioned before, we give you the Army drafted into khaki at Fort Dix, we know that he is doing his part in follows the dunge, which is checked scant fractions of an story for what it's worth. We think that, as a New Jersey a member of the class of the National Emergency and that no ineh from the infant's ample girth. This, in turn, is fol- very much alive monument to the never-ending 1943, a great fellow and an equally matter what the odds, Western Mary- lowed by the actual tickling operation, carried on to the influence of religion, at and away from home, it's great exponent of the vices of life, landers come out on top. Good luck, accompaniment of a phrase which, freely given, runs worth a lot. eating and sleeping, Frcderick W. Corporal, and may your stripes in- "Ah-bco-boo-boo." Bohn, Jr. The above device is only one of the many contrived by TimeOut To Pat Another Member adults for the stimulation of the child's mentality. • Youngsters Deceived Of The Gold Bug On The Back This Week's. • It has been said that he is a wise child who knows his own father. This observation no doubt refers to th~ per- A thought struck us rather sharply the other ceptional powers of the little one on Christmas Eve. afternoon as we were leafing through the file of Perspnality When Father marches forth in full Santa regalia, com7 past and forgotten issues of the Gold Bug. This plete with festoon-beard and oil-cloth boots, the average" thought consisted, roughly, of the following: • • On the Campus youngster plays the sucker every time. Now if the child • We think that the Gold Bug has consistently- had been allowed to accumulate even the smallest modi- for the past year and a half-had a darned good After being a housemother on the a friend." And "that thirty-day vis- cum of gray matter during his early years, this condition sports page. In fact, the page has been so con- Hill for nearly four years, Miss Ruth would not exist. Indeed, the whole Santa Claus legend sistently good that, we fear, we've been taking it Benson smilingly told us that "On it," she laughingly continued, "has would soon, as the saying goes, disappear. years!" for granted. the whole. it 'is a very pleasant job. stretched into nearly four in West- At this point, some of you may find yourselves wonder- For it was while visiting And so we think that it's about time to lean I enjoy nothing more than contact minster, that Miss Benson was en- ing vaguely just what great Truth I am trying to estab- over from our editorial perch and pat the back of with young people, and of course, I gaged as housemother of McDaniel lish by means of this disjointed harangue. Frankly, 1 wonder myself; I intended to write about peasants. the man who has been the brain behind the sports have a great deal of that in my work Hall. presentations under two newspaper administra- as a housemother. Moreover," contin- When asked how she likes McKin- tions-John Morgan 'Robinson, commonly known ued Miss Benso~, "the girls are very stry, Miss Benson remarked, "I love 'Heavy Daters' Hangout' as Nemo. cooperative and so easy to work it-to my surprise! The girls are Robinson, aided by a competent staff of writers with." unusually friendly and cooperative, headed by Nelson Wolfsheimer, has consci- .Answers Questions I and I feel that there are definite ad- Holloway (Jr.) Renovates entiously and enthusiastically turned out with Following these words of praise, vantages in having the freshmen to- each issue of the paper an alive, readable, inter- Miss Benson, then proceeded to an- here, to the utmost, and am already Model-A 'Paradise' Yes, I am enjoying it over gether. esting page of happenings in the world of sports, swer numerous questions about her His make-up is up to the minute; his stories cover life before she came to W.M.C. Al- planning a spring garden." In this a wide, timely range of events; and his editorial though born in Kansas, she can last sentence we have Miss Benson's What with government priorities limiting the avail- opinion is clear, concise, and to the point. hardly be caIled a native of that hobby-gardening, "Abov~ every- ability of horseless carriages, the "Lovers' winter Para- dise", consisting of a 1920 Model-A Ford owned and oper- It's seldom that we go out of our way to praise state, for she has lived in a great ated by one Fred G. Holloway, Jr., of W.M.C., is antici- another department of the paper; but we feel many different states. At one time, pating a goodly business for the year of 1942-43. The that it's only fair to mention, in passing, that, she taught grade school in Emporia, "Paradise", so-called, is parked opposite Alumni Hall and when it comes to sports, Nemo Robinson is a good Kansas, the hometown of William Al- is available, well ... available when back campus is man to have around. len White, the famed Sage of Em- not. poria. At that "time, however, Mr. Though to the unappreciative eye of the unschooled White was merely editor of the Em- freshman, "Heavy Dater's Hangout" may look anything por'w, Gazette, and was known only but a paradise, most any upper classman can attest to the THE GOLD BUG around that locality. Miss Ben- satisfactory facilities available there. and will probably After leaving Emporia, be only too glad to elucidate the following notice, a re- son went to Colorado Springs where plica of the one appearing on the door of the renovated she was assistant principal. Fol- "hangout": lowing this position she abandoned Lovers' Winter Paradise her teaching career in favor of Member Y.W.C.A. work. This work, in which REOPENED I4ssocialed CoUe6iale Pre" she engaged for twelve years, sent Renovations Completed Dinriburor of her to many different parts of the Due to its heavy business and its wear and tear on has found it necesaarry Collel'>iate Di6est country-Seattle, Niagara Falls, Tex- facilities, the management Daters' Hangout" during the to renovate the "Heavy as, and Massachusetts. Subscription Price $2.00 a Year e Years At Home past summer, New side curtains have- been secured and the aperture in the roof has been closed over to N;;i~~;iDAd;e;~:;S;~i;~Nin~ Benson spent several years at home insure its weather-proof qualities. (If enough con- FollowDg her Y.W.C.A. work, Miss are received, a radio and heater tributions will be Coll.g. P.."litber, R,pr~ .... IIII;". in Kansas, then after the death of Miss Ruth Benson installed at a later date). 420 MAOISON AVI<, NI