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The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westtninster, Md., November 2, 1944 PAGE THREE College Dining Hall Two-Month Survey Of Town To Assume Monthly To Be Made By Reporters Air Of Dignity Thursday. November 2: WAA Freshman I party, Harvey Stone Park, 9-10 P. M. Students 5elclom Appea; Aware Of Community; French Club and Trumpeters both attempted this week to turn the col- Friday, November 3: Sixth War Loan Drive begins. Blanche Ward Economic, Social, Political Aspects Uncler Review Elephant Dance", 4: IRC "White November Saturday. lege dinner hour into a decorous and Gym, 8 P. M., 15 cents stag, 25 cents drag, refreshments for sale, decorative occasion, and were to the auction of "white elephants". The Gold Bug introducee the first-of a series of a1'tides on extent of co-ed's wearing hose and Sunday, November 5: "Fireside Fellowship" immediately after chapel, Westminste1' p,'ope,·. Many students have spent [our YCU1'Son the heels instead of anklets and saddles. McDaniel Lounge. Hill, and yet luure knownllittle of the surrounding "'Valley." These two organizations plan to Included in the eeriee 'Will be local defense industries, large have monthly dinners, the first club Monday, November 6: International Relations Club, panel discussion on commercial 01' indust1'ial concerns, community -probleme, and such l'IlcDaniel Lounge, 6:45 P. M. in Post-War "Germany Planning", confining invitation to club members, wednesday, November 8: Student Christian Association, Baker Chapel, institutions as the homes and social agencies in existence. and the second group planning to 6:45 P. M. We p1"Csent the West~inste1' Co-op. have the entire student body imme- Friday, November 10: Pep Raliy, immediately after dinner, Alumni Hall. Starting in 1939 with 11 families from Westminster and sur- diate the "Birthdays of the Month." rounding communities, the Westminster Co-op now has a member- The first of each of these dinners Satu~~a~: :;~e;~~., I;d c!~~!e s~~~~~l}~e~t~y~~.a~.ance, Blanche Ward ship of 250 families and serves a large part of Carroll county. was held .this week in the dining hall, Sunday, November 12: "Fireside Fellowship", after chapel, McDaniel This organization is an outgrowth and both were considered successful. Lounge. of a movement which started in the oci-atieatly, however. The movement It is the intention of the French small town of Rochdale, England, 100 is particularly strong in China, espe- Club according to Miss Mary Webb, wednesday, November 15: Student Dhrtatiau Association, Baker Chapel, years ago and has steadily spread cially since the war. 6:45 P. M. Recital, Professor DeLong, Levine Hali, 8 P. M. president and Dr. Kathryn Hilde- throughout the world. Membership in the Westminster co- bran, advisor, to have selected stu- In 1843 a group of mill workers and op is about equally divided between dents at their table to converse in weavers in Rochdale, anxious to cast farmers and townspeople. Shares in French throughout the entire meal, off the yoke of low wages and poor the co-op may be purchased for $5 and to capture the finesse of 01(1 ... B'f:b;,..e~ working conditions banded together and pay 3 per cent interest. France. to form a co-operative store. Other The Westminster- Co-op is a mem- The Trumpeters, local women's Perhaps you haven't given the matter much thought but then villages followed and SOO11 they had ber of the Eastern Co-operative honorary organization is sponsoring again, if you had, this problem wouldn't exist, the ineffectiveness set up their own factories and reeov- League and the .Eestern Co-operative its monthly affair in cooperation with of the voice of college students in America. When it comes right Dean L. Forrest Free and Mrs. Nina down to casting opinions on world affairs, all that is heard is a er~p!~e ::;e~:~~n::r~nd:l:~~~rShiP' ~~:~~~~:~:lCb°J:~ChTa~ed~~aeg~:h!~es~: Veale, director of women, who feel little wind from a bull session-an ill-blown wind at that! irrespective of rnce, nationality, po- (Cont. on page 4, col. 1) that such a tribute would mean more The reasons for this slight whisper litical views, or religion, and demo- to incividuals having birthdays than and no more are no doubt numerous. loose shirt tails and rolled up dunga- cratic control are two of the cardinal would a few feebly sung "Happy It may be that the students are too rees or to the more euphemistic- principles set down then and still re- ACP Clippings From Birthdays" at lunch. busy in the pursuit of knowledge, to jeans. tained by co-op's everywhere. Both groups are anxious to receive pause and express their reflections on All this adds up in the public eye to A third is the return of profits Other Campuses general student reaction to their en- the world about them-c-or may be it's one thing-these places of culture are into the hands of the members. With terprises, and the Gold Bug will act just- that they don't care! It's nice to but mere social functions run in a each purchase of groceries, a sales Lencllnformation as intermediary for the purpose. think that they are too busy. large scale factories of love and man- slip is given which the consumer Valparaiso, Ind. - (ACP) - The Letters need not be signed. They The main organ of outward expres- ufacturers of indolent ideas. How keeps. These slips are turned in signing of honor pledges, stating the should be addressed to Dr. K. Hilde- sion- on a campus is the college paper close this comes to being true., periodically and percentage divi- responsibilities and privileges of the bran or Miss Mary Webb'with regard -or weekly rag sheet in a good many· It may be noted that the students dends paid according to the amount honor system, was an addition to' the to French tables, or to Miss Ruth cases. The press, which has become so in foreign universities are not as of purchases made by the consumer procedure of registration this fall at Hausman, Miss Lillian Jackson, Miss sadly abused and debased; in which wholly engrossed in their orbits but member. Valparaiso University. Ruth Miles, Miss Helen Stoner, or are sought either choice bits of hu- in\ many cases let their sentiments in In 1937 Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Ririe- The pledge card which waa signed Miss Cltherine Waring. mor or campus gossip-c-or perhaps all matters of importance be known. hart of westminster visited, in con- by all students, reads: "I hereby People who were present at the some of the news about the campus They express opinions in the affairs nection with the Co-operative League pledge without mental reservation October birthday banquet table were: which everyone knows long before the of state. of the USA, 11 countries of Europe that all work which I shall submit Nan Austin, Jeanne Corkran, Kitty paper has gone to press. The Chinese students have done a and studied the co-op's which were tor credit to persons in authority at Waring, Ann Leete, Faye McDonald, 'On some rare occasions, when some great deal in instructing and influ- being operated successfully there. Valparaiso University shall be pre- Betty Burgee, Millie Soper, Jean publicity agent or new fad gets un- encing their people in regard to the Among the countries they toured pared with no more 'assistance than Anderson, Pat Barrett, Marion der way, a poll is run to choose the .Iapenese. It was they who sounded were England, the Scandinavian is authorized and in recognition of Whiteford, Anne Klein. favorite pjn up girl of the college or warning bells to the unlearned of countries, and Germany. It is inter- this pledge ask that I be granted the Dotty Bopst; Anne Seer-s, Delores university, and at such times, the pa- China. In many of the European esting to note that, since the war, privilege of taking all examinations Ewen, Lillian Lines, Mary Dodd, pers of large institutions burst out countries the students raised their co-ops in Germany have been liqui- lasting one hom- or more without Jeanne Berryman, Ann Cain. of the campus orbit and some Holly- voices and yes, even arms against dated or placed under government having a proctor in the room." Mary Jo Lyon, Jackie Kingsley, wood columnist banavolent.ly lets the what they, considered wrong. They control. In the other countries they Although summer semester stu- Margaret Tront, Anne Resto, Mary world in on the results. Great public- took the lead where others could not still function independently and dem- dents signed honor pledges the sys- Grove, Helen Lingenfelder, Kaye ity for the institutions of higher tread. They were enlightened. tem is being tl"ied with the entire Buckel, . Phyllis Houck, Anna Hess, learning. We persistently alIow our feelings student body for the first tjme. Clarabelle Blaney, Barbara Morris, While on the fad subject, and it is in the affairs of the day to go un- Freshmen Invited The Honor Council, which governs Joanne Garner, Shirley Hopkins, noticed; we dare not challenge the the functions of the honol' system Frances Newcombe. :~diit~!~i~~i~:al~:i~g,W:hen~~le~hea~t~~ outside world. There is much tcr be ToWAAParty consists of both faculty and student Harry Mattax, Wesley Selby, War- dent occasionally becomes a fashion done, but we have so little enthusiasm members. ren Bourguin, Dick Palmer, Bruce designet·, as the young ladies at Wel- fo)" doing it. A faint start was made King, Bob McColley, Rodney Austin. lesley recently have. Local papers in the recent campaign platforms set At Pavilion In the confines of the AWS loung'e November birthdays will be similar- obliged by taking pictures of these forth in this paper. Serious thought at University of Washington, there ly celebrated on Friday, November~7. lovelies in the effeminnte garb of given on a matter that may change Freshmen, as well as interestt!d is a small inoffensive brown door our whole futul'e--the start was upperclass women, will be guests of marked "Date Bureau." All a fellow Women's the AssociHtion Athletic World Student Service Fund Tells faint! tonight at a party to be held in Har- has to do is describe his dream gb.·l, There is a lot of verbage being ban_ how fussy or peculiar and no matter tered about on the peace .that will fol- vey Stone Park at 9 P. M., announced his desires may be, he'll have a chnnce Of Activities Sponsored In China low the WBr. Have we as yet heard of Ruth Hausman, organization presi- to meet her the following Friday. dent. opinion a unifled of Americau stu- dents on what it should be 1 01" a di- Talks by WAA managers on the First Campaign Launchecl With $500,000 As Goal; versified one? or indeed, one at all? various fall sports, group siuging, Teachers classes at North Texas State Collcge, Denton, were held Work In All Theatres Of War Is Plannecl On this we should, for action on this Hnd refreshments wiil be included, as 011 the second floor of a hardware matter will shape the world in which well as the awarding of class num- With a goal of $500,000 and a staff of eight traveling secre- we are going to live. Are we to sit erals for active participation ill store. taries, the 1944-45 campaign of the World Student Service Fund i~ly by, and be puppeteered into an hockey. Miss Marie Parker and MiSS Purdue university has revived an is well under way_ "Never have we faced such needs", reports the unsound destiny when we could help Roselda Todd, physical education in- old regulation calling for cash fines Fund's office in New York. "Our relief committees over-seas could make it sound. I'll concede that is an structors, will be present at the par- fot· persons who walk on the campus spend ten times as much as we can supply." casy way of doing it. ty. The following freshmen will l'e- grass. News from the China front is seri- There is a more pl'essing home ceive numerals: If a person waited in oile place on ous. Recent cables from Chungking itiated in liberated countries. A cable problem which should touch the fu- B. Armiger, K. Buckell, D. Cath- the earth for a total eclipse of the tell of the continuing advance of the just received in the W.S.S.F. office ture sociologists, if no one else-the ell, P. Chatterton, B. Dickson, 1\1. SUit to take place, he would stay Japanese armies in southwest China, t.ells of two staff members already in juvenile delinquency situation. It is Dodd, J. Duffy, D. Faulkner, M. Field- there fOl" 360 yeat·s,· says Dr. C. H. the destruction of universities which France, opening a rehabilitation home in everyone's home town, and if we er, S. Gordy, M. Grove, J. Hall, N. Cleminshaw of the University of had already' migrated four or five for 100 French students in the Sa- open our eyes to facts, we will ~ee Haskin. C. Harle, A. Hess, M Sonthern California. times, and the trek of thousands of voie mountains. A representative of it racing notoriously through thc cap- Hershfeld, B. Hoffman, B. Kcckler, Considerable permanent damage is students still farther west. Many the French student resistance move- ital. H. Kellam, H. Lingenfelter, ,8. Little, caused to stands of timber by the students were killed or captured in ment is already -working in the Ge- There are gold mines which beckon M. McKee, P. Nichols, M. Parris, J. antlers of deer, according to H. J. first attacks. One eye witness account neva office. Plans are being made for the young innocents to seek employ- Patterson, E. Rogers, D. Santini, G. Lutz and H. H. Chapman of t.he Yale says: "At midnight the Japanese the first student relief workers from ment there. "Grown ups", every bit Sause, H. Scott, 1\1. Segers, J. Sil- school of forestry. came when we were all asleep. In the overseas to go to Europe. of seventeen years old-predominant" cox, M. Shinham, H. Walker, D: Wild- To retrain business and profession- light of their torches they looked The program among prisoners of ly Lemale coming to the big Capitol er, M. Witter, H. Wymer. al men for supervisory positions in fierce and terrible. Our guide Mr. war keeps its pl'imary }Jlace in the City to make their fortunes, but more war industries Stanford University Beginning Chen asked them why they had come. European student rclief program. often to meet their fates-let us sit the WAA will Saturday, November of 4. is offering a training program in sponsor a series This angered them so that they brut- Despite disrupted communications in (Cont. on page 4, col. 2) weekly hikes. During the hiking management practices in war indus- ally stabbed him to death. None of us Germany, thousands of books go each season girls may earn points toward tries. dared to say a word. Then those rob.- month from Geneva to individual Dr. L. Richard Cipes, former in- bers began to open all our trunks and prisoners. This work must continue a gold "H". structor at the New York university took away the things which they long after V-E day, for the repatria- Illol.a ... Interclass hockey games, which college of dentistry, says there are liked. After their departure there was tion process will be slow. started Monday, will continue through several features of penicillin therapy much confusion, mourning for the in- The W.S.S.F. reports that its aid to If you know of anyone off November 10, with each game s.ched- which make it particularly applica- nocent dead, crying over lost proper- American students of Japanese an- campus who will desire a copy uled to start pl'omptly at 4:20 P. M. ble to dental use. . ty, hatred, revenge, fear all mingled cestry continues, with the work soon of the Uj45 A loha, please sub- Games yet to be played are as The "red water" which sometimes together." to enter its third year. mit his name and aGdress.. im- follows: discolors the ocean along the sea- The task of the. World Student "There is no doubt that American mediately to :Miss Catherine Tuesday, November. 7: Junior vs. coast is caused by millions of micr0- Service Fund's administering commit-. students. can raise $500,000 for the Ann Waring, Business Man- Freshman scopic plants, according to W. E. Al- tee in China is of course greatly in- relief of their fellow students who are ager. Wednesda.y, November 8: FI'eshman len, assistant professor of biology at creased as they face the emergency victims of war. They can raise more Oraering now will assul:e in- vs. Sophomore .... the University of California. needs of thousands. of students. than that if they set their minds to dividuals of copies; it may not Thursday,. November 9: Senior vs. The Worcester Polytechnic insti- From Europe comes news of the it," says President Meta Glass of be possible to fill later ~ubscrip- Junior tute News figures that war-busy stu- beginnings of the post-war program Sweet Briar College., President of the tions. Friday, November 10; Freshman "1'1" dents are working a 70.6-hour week all the first· I!tudent services are in- World Student Service Fund. - "S. Freshm.an "C" . under the a~celerated program.